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Robert Ellerby, 44, "blasted" Scott Watmuff when he turned up at the couple's marital home.
Watmuff had refused to remove the intimate shot of Ellerby's wife Rubbina, uploaded shortly before the confrontation, a court heard.
Ellerby, who admitted a firearms offence and causing actual bodily harm, was jailed for 27 months.
Teesside Crown Court heard how Watmuff and Mrs Ellerby had rented a flat together after starting an affair.
After he ended the relationship, the court heard, Mrs Ellerby returned to her marital home and Watmuff demanded she repay half of the deposit.
Robert Galley, prosecuting, said Watmuff posted an intimate photo of Mrs Ellerby online before going to the house and would not remove it, despite pleas to do so.
Watmuff, who had been drinking, smashed a window of his ex-lover's car and banged heavily on the door of the house, bruising his hand.
Ellerby, of Chapel Lane in Sawdon, Scarborough, opened the window of an attic room and fired his shotgun into the ground, close to the back of Watmuff's right leg.
The court heard how Ellerby had leaned out of the window and "blasted" Watmuff, who was jailed last month for a revenge porn offence.
Judge Stephen Ashurt said there was no justification for the shooting.
"Breakdowns of relationships usually do create tensions but they can never be resolved by threatening another with, let alone discharging, a loaded weapon because of the obvious risks," he said.
"Even if Scott Watmuff was an unsavoury character, you were not justified in shooting at or towards him."
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A man who shot his wife's lover, who had posted a "revenge porn" photograph of her on Facebook, has been jailed.
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The Australia Day public holiday marks the arrival of Britain's First Fleet on 26 January 1788.
Celebrations are held around the country, but many Indigenous Australians refer to it as "invasion day".
Fremantle council said it would hold a "culturally inclusive alternative" on 28 January instead.
The celebrations would include citizenship ceremonies that have previously happened on Australia Day.
"We were never trying to say to people they couldn't do anything or shouldn't do anything on Australia Day," Fremantle mayor Brad Pettitt told the West Australian newspaper.
"That's for other people to judge. We're simply offering what I think is a really good alternative."
However, prominent Aboriginal elder and former Western Australian of the Year, Robert Isaacs, criticised the city's decision.
"That's not in the spirit of the Australia way," he told the ABC, adding the decision did not "stand up" with him.
He said the council "should not be playing around with white politics and black politics".
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A Western Australian port city will delay celebrating Australia's national day after consulting with Aboriginal elders.
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In May, Indian food safety authorities banned the production and sale of the product after claims they contained dangerously high levels of lead.
That ban was later overturned in the Bombay High Court in August.
As well as lost sales, the impact of the scare saw Nestle cut its global growth forecast for 2015.
Sales had tumbled after laboratory tests in India revealed high lead levels in some packets of the hugely popular product.
The instant noodles arrived in India in 1983 and can be found in corner shops across the country.
Multi-national Nestle is the world's largest packaged food company.
It has 80% of India's instant noodles market, and has destroyed 400 million packets of Maggi products.
The company had said in a statement earlier this month that fresh tests, mandated by an Indian court, found the noodles to be safe, with levels of lead well below permissible limits.
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Swiss consumer giant Nestle has said it plans to resume sales in its Maggi noodles in November, after a food scare saw them taken off shelves.
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A 47-year-old man was treated at the scene, a bedsit on Compton Road, just after 20:30 BST on Monday, but was pronounced dead by ambulance staff.
Police said his family had been informed.
A 40-year-old woman from Chapel Ash and two men aged 44 and 51 from Chapel Ash and Heath Town are currently being questioned by officers.
Forensics experts are investigating the property and a post mortem examination is expected to be carried out in the coming days.
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Three people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed in Wolverhampton.
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The Russian, who started the day six shots off the lead, found the water six times on the par-five first hole at the Diamond Country Club in Atzenbrugg.
Englishman Chris Gane also managed 17 on one hole at Gleneagles in 2003.
Philippe Porquier heads the European list with 20 at the 1978 French Open.
However, the Frenchman will have to doff his hat in the direction of American Ray Ainsley and the "Silver Scot" Tommy Armour, who both took 23 shots on a single hole on the American tour circuit.
Armour, who won three majors, managed the unwanted feat at the 1927 Shawnee Open, while Ainsley suffered his nightmare at the 1938 US Open.
Pavlov completed the front nine in 53, 17-over, after adding three bogeys and a double bogey to his card.
Two birdies helped restrict the damage on the back nine to 37 and an eventual completed round of 90, 18-over-par.
He was not alone in struggling - Austrian Benjamin Weilguni shot 89 after taking nine on the first.
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Many of us have had bad days on the golf course, but spare a thought for Andrey Pavlov who scored a nightmare 17 on one hole at the Austria Open - the second worst in European Tour history.
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Spokesperson Merepeka Raukawa-Tait said Brown should talk to Maori youth about his reform since his conviction.
Brown is barred from visiting New Zealand because of his 2009 conviction for assaulting his then-girlfriend Rihanna.
His visa application to perform in Australia is also expected to be denied.
New Zealand National MP Judith Collins has spoken out against him, saying he is not welcome in New Zealand.
"We've got enough wife-beaters in this country," she said.
Brown would need to apply for a special visa to perform his planned concerts in New Zealand in December.
Ms Raukawa-Tait said in a press release on Thursday: "No-one supports Chris Brown's past domestic violence history but it's about going forward and sadly we still have major problems with Maori in this area."
"We believe having done the crime and done the time he should be able to enter the country," she was quoted as saying by the Stuff.co.nz news portal.
Another woman in the group, Dame Tariana Turia, former co-leader of the Maori Party, said she would support Brown's visa application as young people in the community were more likely to listen to him than their elders, Stuff said.
The issue of race was also mentioned during the press conference in Auckland - something other commentators have also written about.
The women asked why white musicians with similar violent histories were permitted to perform in New Zealand, citing Eminem and Ozzy Osbourne, according to Stuff.
Brown later posted on Twitter: "Nothing more amazing than strong women. Thank you to Dame Tariana Turia and everyone who showed their support in NZ."
Britain and Canada have previously refused to give Chris Brown visas.
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Maori women leaders have said they support a bid by US singer Chris Brown to perform in New Zealand.
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A man - named locally as Erdogan Guzel - died at the scene, and a woman remains in hospital with serious injuries.
Police believe the pair were not the intended targets of the attack on 10 July.
Officers arrested six people at Gatwick Airport and another three at an address in Hornsey, north London.
The Met said three males and three females, aged between 16 and 61, were arrested on suspicion of either murder or conspiracy to murder.
Three men were also arrested at an address in Hornsey, north London, aged 23, 26 and 55, on suspicion of murder.
The three females have been released on bail and the others remain in custody.
Det Ch Insp Tim Duffield said: "What is clear is that two innocent bystanders have been caught up in a violent dispute between other persons."
He said he believed "there are people out there who know who is responsible for this terrible crime" and called on them to come forward.
Det Ch Insp Duffield gave an assurance that measures could be taken to protect anyone concerned about contacting the police.
Police were called at about 17:45 BST on 10 July to reports of a shooting on Lordship Lane, Wood Green, north London.
The 42-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. The Met has not formally identified him, but his next of kin have been informed.
The 51-year-old woman remains in hospital in a critical, but stable, condition.
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Detectives investigating a fatal shooting in north London have arrested nine people.
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Somerset had resumed on 157-5, but Kyle Abbott (4-49) and Gareth Berg (2-8) helped bowl the hosts out for 197.
The visitors' 35-run lead was quickly wiped out as opener Michael Carberry (51) and all-rounder Berg (49) led Hants to a second-innings score of 293, spinner Dom Bess taking 7-117.
Marcus Trescothick and Dean Elgar guided Somerset to 39-0 at stumps.
Somerset's grip on the game slackened throughout the morning session as no lower-order batsman passed 20.
Abbott forced an early breakthrough to remove Lewis Gregory, caught by James Vince, and his combination with Berg threaded by Liam Dawson's spin had the Taunton club struggling.
Bess continued his promise for Somerset with the ball, taking his match tally to 10, including the important scalps of Carberry, Dawson (33) and Berg.
Hopes of an early breakthrough for Hampshire in Somerset's chase were thwarted as openers Trescothick and Elgar stood firm to set up a fascinating third day.
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Hampshire set Somerset 259 to win after a second day of wickets tumbling at Taunton in the County Championship.
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The 37-year-old is one of five acts to be honoured for their achievements in art, music, theatre, technology and business at the ceremony.
R&B star Usher, whose hits include Yeah and Confessions, will receive the music award for his two-decade career.
Phylicia Rashad, best known in the UK as The Cosby Show's Clair Huxtable, is to receive the theatrical arts award.
Her credits on Broadway and in regional theatre include August: Osage County, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Medea and Raisin in the Sun, for which she won a Tony Award.
Director of the National Museum of African Art, Dr Johnnetta Betsch Cole, will pick up the education award.
John W Thompson, who replaced Bill Gates as chairman of Microsoft earlier this year, will be honoured with the technology and business award.
West, who among the acts being rumoured as a headliner for next year's Glastonbury Festival, is one of the most successful rappers of his generation.
His sonically adventurous, genre-defying albums have generated hits like Gold Digger, Stronger and Black Skinhead, while his innovative live performances have incorporated ballet, Margiela masks and striking production design from Britain's Es Devlin.
The performer's notoriously spiky interviews and awards show interventions have also made headlines around the world.
The BET Awards were established in 2001 to honour African Americans and other minorities working in multiple disciplines.
Past honourees include Dr Maya Angelou, who received the literary arts award in 2012 and Whitney Houston, who received the entertainers award in 2010.
The 2015 Honours, presented by Wayne Brady, will take place at the Warner Theatre in Washington on 24 January and will be shown on the BET channel on 23 February.
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US rapper Kanye West will receive the visionary award at the Black Entertainment Television (BET) honours.
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The details are contained in the 2010 accounts of William Ewart Properties.
It saw its net asset value decline from £211m in 2009 to £105m in 2010.
The firm also made an operating loss of £4.5m and said that economic conditions "continue to be challenging."
The directors state that the business, which has a portfolio of shopping centres and offices, "continues to be cash generative," and is continuing to service its loans "in all respects".
They say they are also actively exploring "opportunities to refinance or repay borrowings" and have been able to do so in a number of instances since the year end.
That is thought to refer to the sale of a shopping centre above London's Victoria Station for almost £92m in September 2011.
The company's assets include shop units on Donegall Place in Belfast city centre, shopping centres in England, Scotland and Wales and a large portfolio in Germany.
The accounts also state that some bank loans have been "transferred to another provider" though it is not clear who this is.
A subsidiary company WEP Gyle, which controls the Gyle shopping centre in Edinburgh, also states that its loans of £245m have been transferred to another provider.
The loan was originally advanced by the former Anglo Irish Bank.
William Ewart is part of a wider group which is controlled by a company called Brunswick No1 - it has not yet reported its 2010 results.
The business is owned by Frank Boyd and Andrew Creighton who are considered to be two of Northern Ireland's wealthiest people.
Earlier this year Mr Boyd's family business, Killultagh Estates, reported a loss for 2010 of £22m and confirmed that some of its bank borrowings have been moved into the Irish government's National Asset Management Agency (Nama).
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One of Northern Ireland's largest property firms has written down the value of its assets by more than £100m to recognise the effects of the property crash.
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Senator Francis Le Gresley said he had spent the past two years putting the details of the legislation together.
The minister said it would prohibit any racial discrimination including in work, recruitment, education and clubs.
He added that there would be a public consultation into laws covering gender equality later in the year.
Dr Elena Moran from the Community Relations Trust, a group that promotes and campaigns for equality, says progress must continue.
"I wouldn't like them to rush it to the extent that it is all inter-connected," she said.
"There will be a burden on employers and they need to think hard about whether the package as a whole, in terms of unfair dismissal and other burdens, can be lightened."
Senator Le Gresley stressed that, despite a decade of delays, he had only had about two years to work on the legislation.
He said: "The law stands on its own, each characteristic is added by way of regulation, it is straight forward going forward to add other areas to the law.
"This doesn't just apply to discrimination in the workplace, it applies to eating out, clubs, every aspect of discrimination in Jersey."
Malcolm Ferey from the Citizen's Advice Bureau says it is long overdue.
"We do expect that, in the future, people will come to us with discrimination problems and ask how they can be resolved.
"It is a good story, a positive day for Jersey that we finally get to move forward with a discrimination law."
Mr Ferry added: "When I speak to my colleagues in the UK they are astonished we don't have this kind of law in Jersey."
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More than 13 years after work started on a discrimination law, Jersey's social security minister says it will be in place by September.
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The 31-year-old was released from his contract with National Rugby League (NRL) side New Zealand Warriors in order to join the Super League club.
Vatuvei has scored 152 tries in 226 appearances for the Warriors and is rated one of the world's top wingers.
"Manu is a winner and has experience of high-pressure, big-game situations," Red Devils head coach Ian Watson said.
"He will be able to bring that experience into our existing playing group, which will be a massive benefit for our young squad.
"Just the fact a player of Manu's stature and experience wants to come over and play for Salford shows how far we have come as a team and as a club."
Meanwhile, Salford have banned a supporter for life after an incident involving referee James Child at the end of their defeat by Leeds Rhinos on Sunday.
A club statement said: "Seeing your team lose a game is not a justifiable reason to attempt to intimidate a match official or opponent.
"It is time that attitudes in stands and on terraces change and as a club, we will now strive to be at the forefront of ensuring that that level of respect becomes the norm."
A text number, which fans can anonymously use if they feel "intimidated or uncomfortable", will be introduced for the club's next home game.
The Rugby Football League said it was reviewing the incident.
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Salford Red Devils have signed powerful New Zealand winger Manu Vatuvei on a deal until the end of the 2018 season.
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Merseyside Police were called to reports of a collision between a Hyundai car and a scrambler bike at the junction of Belle Vale Road and Lee Vale Road at 19:10 BST on Thursday.
The rider was taken to Aintree University Hospital but was pronounced dead a short time later.
The Hyundai driver was uninjured and assisted with inquiries, police said.
Officers are appealing for witnesses. Belle Vale Road was closed between Beresford Road and Halewood Road for several hours following the crash.
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A scrambler bike rider has died after being seriously injured in a crash in Belle Vale, south Liverpool.
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Keegan, 32, has been with Doncaster since 2011 and made 145 appearances, although only 10 this season.
Gary McSheffrey, Aaron Taylor-Sinclair, Joe Pugh and Joey McCormick are also leaving on a free this summer.
Ross Etheridge, Cedric Evina, Mitchell Lund, Harry Middleton and Andy Williams have been made available for transfer.
Meanwhile, Conor Grant has returned to parent club Everton after his loan expired, and Rovers say they will not pursue a permanent move at this time.
Second-year scholars Lloyd Henderson, Josh Barker and Matthew Gains have left the club.
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Paul Keegan heads a list of five players released by Doncaster Rovers, who have placed a further five on the transfer list.
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The tower was opened in 1965 by then Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the restaurant opened the following year.
The tower was closed to the public in 1971, with the restaurant shutting in 1980.
BT will hold a ballot for members of the public to eat at the restaurant while overlooking London's skyline.
Gavin Patterson, BT Group chief executive, said: "I'm delighted we're able to re-open the restaurant to the public.
"The BT Tower was a unique feat of engineering when it was first built and it remains an important and much-loved building today."
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The revolving restaurant at the top of the BT Tower in central London is to open to the public for two weeks to mark the building's golden anniversary.
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The device, which was hidden in a suitcase as part of a dog training exercise, contained 230g of plastic explosives, a police statement read.
The suitcase was given to a woman travelling through the airport on Tuesday afternoon after her bag was damaged during a flight, it said.
After discovering the training device, she took it to a police station.
Police officers evacuated the building as a safety precaution and traced the explosives back to the Australian Federal Police (AFP).
Federal police said that the device - hidden in an unclaimed suitcase during a training exercise on 14 August - was not live.
"The AFP takes this error seriously and the canine instructor who inadvertently left this device behind has been identified and will be the subject of a formal Professional Standards Investigation," Federal Police Sydney Airport Commander Wayne Buchhorn said.
"Although the travelling public was not in danger at any time, we regularly review our processes in this area, and we will do again in the light of this incident."
He also thanked the woman, her family and New South Wales police "for their assistance".
Sydney Airport is the only major airport serving Sydney and is the busiest in Australia. It welcomes up to 37 million passengers a year.
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Australian police have apologised after leaving a device containing explosives in a bag at Sydney Airport for a month.
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Protests claiming black people aren't treated as fairly as white people have sprung up across the US.
Newsround's Ricky travelled to cities all over the USA to find out how the recent protests in the country have been affecting children's lives.
Growing Up Black in America also looks at the impact that Barack Obama, the country's first black president, has had on children and their hopes and dreams for the future.
This programme was first broadcast on 2 June 2015.
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The issue of how black people are treated in the United States has been big news over the last year.
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The financial situation at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust and City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has deteriorated, Monitor said.
A "credible plan" to improve must be formulated, it said.
City Hospitals Sunderland Trust said all areas were facing challenges. Gateshead Health Trust said it had seen "unprecedented demand" this winter.
"Like many other NHS organisations across the country Gateshead is facing an increasingly challenging financial landscape," Gateshead chief executive Ian Renwick said.
"The local healthcare system is coming under increasing strain."
Sunderland trust chief executive Ken Bremner said: "Our current financial position and the challenges facing us and others across the NHS are difficult, but these are something that have been, and will continue to be, a major focus within the organisation."
Monitor regional director Paul Chandler said it wanted to make sure the trusts continued to provide high quality care while managing finances effectively.
"We have launched this investigation to understand why the trusts' finances have deteriorated and find out what needs to be done to fix them," he said.
Attention from Monitor has been triggered by trusts' quarterly financial reports predicting an overspend.
Monitor has also announced investigations at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Scrutiny elsewhere in the country was likely as other trusts' quarterly figures were published, a spokesman said.
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The health regulator has launched an investigation into the finances of two Tyne and Wear hospital trusts.
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The 29-year-old, whose previous deal was due to run out this summer, joined the Toffees in 2012 and has scored 39 goals in 171 appearances.
Everton made the announcement before their final home Premier League game of the season against Watford on Friday.
"I want to win a trophy here - this is the best club for me," the Belgium international said. "We are heading in the right direction."
Mirallas has scored four times in 33 league appearances this season and has made more than 30 appearances in each of his five seasons at Goodison Park.
"We have an amazing manager, an amazing team and amazing fans," he added.
"This is an exciting time for the club. I hope we sign some top players to fight for the Champions League places next season."
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Everton forward Kevin Mirallas has signed a new three-year contract.
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Citizens Advice said that travellers who did not buy a "bolt-on" - allowing for a set amount of data use - could see higher bills.
The other option was simply for holidaymakers to turn off data roaming on their devices while travelling.
The charity is calling for a price cap to ensure nobody is caught out.
Among the cases it has seen are military personnel being billed for thousands of pounds by their mobile operator while deployed abroad, as well as holidaymakers facing high charges after using maps, uploading photos or downloading albums.
In June, it was announced that data roaming charges would be abolished within the European Union by June 2017. The ban will be preceded by a 14-month interim period, in which companies can still add surcharges - but at a reduced rate.
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Holidaymakers travelling outside the EU risk paying mobile bills up to 80 times higher than they need to, owing to roaming charges, a charity has warned.
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The Paris St-Germain striker has won a record 10th Guldbollen (Golden Ball), the award given to the best male footballer in his home country.
It is the ninth year in a row that Ibrahimovic has lifted the award.
He won it for the first time in 2005, and has won it every year since former Arsenal midfielder Fredrik Ljungberg triumphed in 2006.
No other player has won the award more than twice.
This year Ibrahimovic won a historic French domestic treble, reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League and became PSG's all-time record scorer.
Since his first Guldbollen win, Ibrahimovic has played for Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, AC Milan and PSG, commanding transfer fees of £150m.
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He may not have the Ballon d'Ors of Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, but at least Zlatan Ibrahimovic can console himself with being, beyond doubt, the best player in Sweden.
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The unnamed woman in her 50s had been helping the apparently sick cat.
Ten days later she died of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS), which is carried by ticks.
With no tick bite detected, doctors assume the illness could have been contracted via the cat.
"No reports on animal-to-human transmission cases have been made so far," a Japanese health ministry official told the AFP news agency.
"It's still not confirmed the virus came from the cat, but it's possible that it is the first case," the official added.
SFTS is a relatively new infectious disease emerging in China, Korea and Japan.
The virus is said to have fatality rates of up to 30% and is especially severe in people over 50.
According to Japanese media, SFTS first occurred in the country in 2013.
Japan's health ministry said last year's death was still a rare case but warned people to be careful when in contact with animals in poor physical condition.
Globally, tick bites are widely associated with transmitting Lyme disease which can lead to severe illness and death if left untreated.
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A Japanese woman died last year of a tick-borne disease after being bitten by a stray cat, Japan's health ministry says, in what could be the first such mammal-to-human transmission.
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A bus transporting workers collided with a lorry carrying construction materials in the Zakhir district of the oasis city of al-Ain.
According to GulfNews.com, most of the workers were cleaners of Indian, Bangladeshi or Pakistani origin.
Millions of foreign workers, mostly from South Asia, live in the UAE.
The accident took place on the Old Truck Road during morning rush hour.
The lorry ended up on top of the bus, Gen Hussein al-Harithi, director of Abu Dhabi traffic police told state news agency WAM.
He said the lorry had overturned when its brakes failed and that there had not been a safe distance between the two vehicles.
"Twenty-two people were dead at the scene," he said. "There were 24 others injured, and their injuries ranged from minor and moderate to serious."
The lorry was reported to be carrying either gravel or sand.
The per-capita death toll on UAE roads is among the highest in the world, according to the World Health Organization.
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At least 22 Asian workers have been killed and 24 injured in a road accident in the United Arab Emirates, police say.
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Children from St Ives School, Cornwall, were uninjured in the crash on the A30 near Penzance at about 12:00 GMT.
Witness John Mackie said children were climbing out of the 62-seater coach owned by Williams Travel on to the grass verge.
The A30 was closed in both directions between Newtown Roundabout and Crowlas Cross while the coach was recovered.
For more on the coach crash and other news
The coach was travelling towards Penzance and swerved across the wrong side of the road before going up the verge.
St Ives School said all of the children, aged between 11 and 16, were "safe and well".
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A coach carrying 30 schoolchildren to a swimming gala veered across a main road and crashed through a hedge.
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Chevron reported third-quarter profits of $1.28bn, and while that was down from $2.04bn last year as a result of lower oil prices, cost cutting meant the results were ahead of forecasts.
The Dow Jones fell 7 points to 18,161.9 despite Chevron rising almost 4%.
The wider S&P 500 shed 6.6 points to 2,126.4.
The tech-focused Nasdaq ended the day down almost 26 points at 5,190.5.
Shares in online retail giant Amazon ended down 5.1% after the company said profits in the fourth quarter were set to be much lower than expected because of increased investment.
Amazon forecast operating profit of between zero and $1.25bn in the quarter, compared with analysts' expectations of $1.62bn.
Tyre maker Goodyear suffered an 8.7% slide in its shares after reporting a 8.1% fall in third-quarter revenues to $3.85bn and cutting its full-year profit forecast.
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(Close): Better-than-expected results from oil giant Chevron failed to keep the Dow Jones in positive territory.
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Consultants Jones Lang LaSalle has been asked by Cardiff council to review its 561 non-operational buildings.
They include shops, pubs, clubs, hotels and industrial workshops.
The report says the council should sell 261 properties but keep its bigger commercial properties - with tenants including Marks and Spencer, Boots and Tesco.
The authority's leader, Phil Bale, said: "We need to look at everything we do and also all the assets we own to make sure we deliver as much income as possible."
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Hundreds of properties owned by Wales' biggest council could be sold off to raise up to £10m.
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Stuart Craig was given the cue, and a case, at the Snooker Legends show in Plymouth after he partnered with the ex-world champion in a doubles game.
It was signed by O'Sullivan and fellow snooker stars Ray Reardon, John Virgo, Jimmy White, and referee Michaela Tabb.
But it was stolen from him when he was walking in the city the next day.
The cue, won on Saturday night, was taken from Mr Craig on 23 August when he was walking from his mother's house after showing her his prize.
He told police he was approached by a stranger on Ferrers Road in the St Budeaux area at about 17:40 BST, and the cue was snatched after a short conversation.
The man demanded £20 for its return but fled towards St Budeaux Square after Mr Craig handed over the cash.
Det Con Rob Gordon, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said: "We are appealing for witnesses, but would also like to hear from anyone locally who has been offered the chance to purchase this unique cue and case.
"It has been signed by a number of snooker legends and is a unique piece of sporting memorabilia; we are desperate to reunite Stuart with his prize."
The man who stole the cue was white, 5ft 8ins (1.73m) tall, of slim build and wearing dark glasses and a hoodie, police said.
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A competition winner was mugged for his prize snooker cue - just a day after he used it to play in an exhibition match alongside Ronnie O'Sullivan.
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The Burundi-born 22-year-old made his senior debut for Coventry in August 2011 at the age of 17 and joined the Magpies a year later.
But he made just three league starts in four years with Newcastle and returned to the Sky Blues on loan last season.
"I'm sure he can rediscover the form that made him so popular in his first spell," said manager Tony Mowbray.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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Coventry City have re-signed midfielder Gael Bigirimana from Newcastle on a deal until the end of the season.
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Samia Shahid, 28, from Bradford, died in Pakistan in July. Her father and first husband have been held in connection with her death.
Her mother, Imtiaz BiBi, and sister, Madiha Shahid have been declared proclaimed offenders in Pakistan.
A judge issued arrest warrants when they did not appear in court earlier.
Declaring the women proclaimed offenders means the police believe they were involved in Ms Shahid's death and wish to question them.
Both her father and first husband appeared at the court hearing in Jhelum, in the northern Punjab province, where the case was adjourned until 11 November.
Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel is accused of her murder while her father Chaudhry Muhammad Shahid is being held as a suspected accessory.
Neither have been formally charged but their lawyers have previously argued there is no evidence against them.
The men's legal team asked the court to wait for the High Court in Lahore to decide on a petition lodged by Ms Shahid's second husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazim, for the case to be moved from Jhelum.
The High Court is expected to rule on that petition on 24 November but the judge in Jhelum said the court would continue to pursue the matter as no order to stay proceedings had been received.
Ms Shahid, a beautician, married Mr Kazim in Leeds in 2014 and the couple moved to Dubai.
Mr Kazim has claimed his wife, who died while visiting relatives in Pakistan, was killed because her family disapproved of their marriage.
Initially it was claimed she had died of a heart attack but a post-mortem examination confirmed she had been strangled.
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Arrest warrants have been issued for the mother and sister of a woman believed to have been the victim of a so-called "honour killing".
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It comes after the trust was scrutinised by MPs following the "preventable" death of an 18-year-old.
In 2013, Connor Sparrowhawk drowned in a bath after suffering an epileptic fit in Oxford.
Suella Fernandes, an MP for Hampshire, said a debate will be held at the end of the month.
Trust chief executive Katrina Percy, addressed MPs at a meeting of the Hampshire All-Party Parliamentary Group on Tuesday.
Speaking after the meeting Ms Suella, Conservative MP for Fareham, said: "Whilst I appreciate Katrina Percy's willingness to answer our questions, I told her that I still have serious concerns about the failings in the trust's governance which have now been highlighted by two investigations.
"The CQC's warning notice is a serious matter, and time is running out for the trust to demonstrate that it has the right leadership to make the changes required."
After an inspection in January, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found there were "longstanding risks to patients" and investigations into deaths "were not good enough."
Scrutiny of the trust was sparked by the death of Connor at Slade House in Oxford, in 2013.
A report commissioned by NHS England showed that of 722 unexpected deaths at Southern Health over four years, only 272 had been investigated.
Ms Percy has previously apologised for the issues that came to light following several inspections by government watchdogs.
A debate is due to be held after the publication of the full report from the CQC, expected at the end of the month.
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The "continuing concerns" over governance at Southern Health NHS Trust will be debated in parliament, it has been announced.
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Most of its original cast will return for next year's eight-episode revival.
It becomes one of a slate of TV series being revived, including Will & Grace, Twin Peaks, The X Files, 24, Prison Break and The Gilmore Girls.
Roseanne aired for nine seasons in the late 1980s and through the 1990s.
Original cast members Roseanne Barr (Roseanne), John Goodman (Dan), Sara Gilbert (Darlene), Laurie Metcalf (Jackie), Michael Fishman (D.J.) and Lecy Goranson (Becky) have all been confirmed.
But Johnny Galecki, who played David, is busy with his role as Dr Leonard Hofstadter in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
Roseanne depicted a normal American family, the Conners, led by Roseanne in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.
The sitcom won many awards and its final episode drew nearly 17 million viewers when it aired in 1997.
"The Conners' joys and struggles are as relevant and hilarious today as they were then, and there's really no one better to comment on our modern America than Roseanne," ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey wrote in a statement.
On Twitter, though, opinions were divided.
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The US sitcom Roseanne is set for a revival, ABC network bosses have confirmed after competing with Netflix to restart the show two decades after it ended.
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Van Vuuren, 24, signed a short-term deal with the Tigers this season and has since made three appearances.
The former Stade Francais front-rower also has Super Rugby experience with the Cheetahs and Kings.
"This is a great opportunity for me to compete for a place in a team that is really going places," Van Vuuren said.
"I've had a taste of English rugby recently and I'm looking forward to playing in one of the toughest leagues in rugby."
Bath head coach Mike Ford added: "He is a robust, talented player, with a lot of potential to continue improving as a player, and we're looking forward to helping him do that."
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Bath have signed South African hooker Michael van Vuuren from fellow Premiership side Leicester Tigers for the 2016-17 season.
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The striker scored after 4, 61 and 85 minutes to inspire Dortmund to win 4-0 on the night - and 4-1 on aggregate.
He made amends for spurning a host of chances in Lisbon, including a missed penalty.
"After the first leg, I was very sad and really unsatisfied with my performance," the 27-year-old the official club website.
"I made a lot of mistakes throughout that match. So I wanted to show my team-mates today that I'm capable of much more.
"I'm very happy that we won and that we made it through. Tonight was absolutely fantastic."
After Dortmund reached the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time since 2014, coach Thomas Tuchel joked about Aubameyang's performance in the first leg.
"After we had fielded Aubameyang's twin in Lisbon, we were happy to have him back for tonight's game," he told reporters.
The striker now has seven goals from seven games in this season's competition.
The hat-trick could hardly have come at a better time after Aubameyang irritated club officials on Saturday when sporting a Nike 'swoosh' logo in his hair during the 6-2 victory over Bayer Leverkusen.
The athletics brand's rival Puma is a shareholder in Dortmund, so prompting club officials to say they would be talking to the 2015 African Footballer of the Year about the matter.
One of those was sporting director Michael Zorc, who adopted a different tone when talking about Aubameyang's heroics at the Westfalenstadion on Wednesday.
"I said to 'Auba' after the first leg: 'You'll decide the second leg' - and that's exactly what happened," Zorc beamed.
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Borussia Dortmund's Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang said Wednesday's Champions League hat-trick against Benfica was inspired by his poor performance in the first leg in Portugal.
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The State Darwin Museum in Moscow is honouring the North Yorkshire vet and author whose real name was Alf Wight.
His books and the TV series about his veterinary work continue to be popular in Russia where he also has a fan club.
Staff at the World of James Herriot Museum in Thirsk have travelled to meet Russian museum officials and fans.
Live updates and more from Yorkshire
The James Herriot books were loosely based on Mr Wight's own experiences as a young vet working in rural North Yorkshire.
His first book, If Only They Could Talk, was published in 1970 and despite a small initial print run of 3,000 went on to be published in 26 languages.
The long-running BBC series All Creatures Great and Small and several feature films followed.
But Mr Wight, who had first arrived in Thirsk in 1939, remained a vet and considered himself a part-time author. He died in 1995.
A real visit by Mr Wight to Russia accompanying a boatload of sheep in 1961 was fictionalised in one of his books.
Rosie Page, the author's daughter, said: "Dad knew how popular he was all over the world before he died but still these new things are happening. It's an amazing legacy he's left."
Ian Ashton of the Herriot museum said: "We are extremely honoured that this exhibition has been staged and delighted to have been invited to visit."
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The work of the vet James Herriot, as featured in the TV series All Creatures Great and Small, is being celebrated in a new exhibition - in Russia.
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Despite a water temperature of 16C, more than 2,500 people entered the races in Loch Lomond being held throughout the day.
Events started at 09:00 with the half-mile swim and finished at 15:30 with the 5km race.
Now in its third year, the Great Scottish Swim allows swimmers of all ages and abilities to take part.
The event also hosted the national one-mile open water championship race as part of the elite competition, which saw some of the world's best open water swimmers compete against Scotland's top home-grown talent.
The Great Scottish Swim said the men's race was "extremely competitive" with 2014 Commonwealth Champion Ross Murdoch, from nearby Balloch, and Commonwealth silver medallist and World Champion Robbie Renwick taking part.
The race was won by Christian Riechert in a time of 18:05:06.
The women's race featured the two-time national US 10km champion, Christine Jennings, alongside Team GB's Keri-Anne Payne, a two-time World Champion and Olympic Silver medallist.
Ms Jennings beat Ms Payne by less than half a second to take first place.
Alex Jackson, Great Swim series event director, said: "It's great to see the appetite for open water swimming increasing, the trend for taking on longer more challenging swims shows no sign of slowing down, over 250 people will take on the 5k challenge on Saturday.
"The opportunity to swim in such an iconic location continues to resonate with our swimmers not just in Scotland but around the UK, many are travelling up to enjoy a fantastic weekend in Scotland."
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Thousands of swimmers have been taking part in Scotland's biggest open water swimming event.
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Elliott manoeuvred to force out the previous management and change the way Alliance Trust is run.
Having achieved an improvement in its valuation, the Elliott team has decided to sell up.
Alliance Trust has been seeking to boost its valuation by buying back shares as they come on the market.
It is now proposing to shareholders that it should buy back all of Elliott's 20% stake.
It brings to an end a long-running saga of boardroom battles, which saw off the former chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox and chairwoman Karin Forseke.
With Elliott's nominees on the board, Lord Smith of Kelvin was made chairman and carried out a review of the way it invests.
Alliance Trust moved its focus to investment almost entirely in equities, getting out of fixed income bonds, and moving its focus away from stocks with an environmental and social emphasis.
It recently moved its funds from its in-house team to eight outsourced fund managers.
A statement from the board said that buying out Elliott's share would let it progress "against the backdrop of a share register that is settled and supportive for the longer term".
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The investor fund that forced major changes to Dundee-based investment firm Alliance Trust is selling its 20% share to the company.
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John Lyall fell backwards into the water at Pembroke's Mill Pond on 16 April.
Two passers-by tried to help but the 56-year-old, of Pembroke Dock, could not be resuscitated.
On Thursday, Coroner Mark Layton said Mr Lyall died by drowning, at a hearing in Milford Haven.
Wayne Anthony Young, 52, of Pembroke, died at the pond on New Year's Day and the body of 18-year-old Robert Mansfield, also of Pembroke, was found there on 27 July.
Inquests into their deaths are yet to take place.
Pembroke Council has rejected calls for safety netting to be erected at the pond, with Pembrokeshire Council backing that decision after saying such structures would be impractical.
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The death of a man at a Pembrokeshire pond where two others have died this year was accidental, a coroner has found.
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Guy Hedger, 61, was killed in the early hours of 30 April in Ashley, near Ringwood.
The charity Crimestoppers has put up the reward for information that leads to the recovery of the firearm used and jewellery stolen during the incident.
Three men appeared in court in May accused of Mr Hedger's murder.
Mr Hedger was shot with a shotgun after intruders broke into his home. He was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at hospital.
The weapon has not been recovered.
Roger Critchell, director of operations for Crimestoppers, said: "This incident has seen an innocent man lose his life in the one place he should feel safe and secure, his home.
"The weapon reportedly used is still out there and I am asking local people to give anonymous information to our charity that leads to its recovery. Your identity will never be revealed, because we never ask who you are."
Mr Hedger's husband Simon-Pierre Hedger-Cooper also appealed for the return of watches and jewellery taken at the time.
"Many of the items taken from our home hold great sentimental value and are very important to me.
"Those of particular importance are our diamond wedding rings, an emerald and diamond ring and a diamond Cartier watch, which were anniversary presents, and a black onyx ring, which was given to me by my mother."
Kevin Downton, 40, of Winterborne Stickland, near Blandford, Jason Baccus, 41, and Scott Keeping, 44, both of Verney Close, Bournemouth, are due at Winchester Crown Court on 26 July to enter pleas.
A 45-year-old-man from Poole, and a 39-year-old Bournemouth man were arrested in May on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary and released under investigation.
A 40-year-old woman previously arrested has also been released under investigation.
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A £10,000 reward is being offered for information about the death of a businessman who was shot at his home in Dorset.
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The bodies, recovered from the Irish Sea, have yet to be formally identified, but are believed to be those of two men - aged 35 and 46 - who went missing on Saturday.
They had been driving a speedboat from Port Logan, possibly to Stranraer.
Police Scotland said officers were trying to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident.
Helicopters, coastguard rescue teams and several lifeboats had been involved in the operation to find the missing speedboat off the Mull of Galloway.
Rescue teams in Wales and Northern Ireland also took part in the search.
A report was received at 18:15 BST on Saturday that two speedboat drivers had failed to return having set off at 09:00.
Police Scotland said the men had launched the speedboat for a leisure trip.
Two helicopters and lifeboats searched the water overnight on Saturday, following the boat's known and projected movements.
About 10 teams had been involved in the search and returned to the water on Sunday.
A coastguard spokeswoman described the search as "extensive".
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The bodies of two men have been found following a rescue operation launched off the Dumfries and Galloway coast.
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Emily Platt, from Bispham, will leave Blackpool's Montgomery High School with an unblemished record, racking up a total of 2,280 school days.
The 16-year-old, who spent her primary years at Westcliff Academy, has recently completed her GCSEs.
"I'm not special," she said. "I just wake up and go out to school every day. I've done it all my life."
"There are some days that are a bit harder when you have to force your way out of bed but once I'm there you just wake up," she added.
The student has a keen passion for graphics and music and hopes to be able to study A-Levels in the subjects at a local sixth-form college.
Tim Burns, from Montgomery High School, said Emily was "an absolute inspiration".
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A girl from Blackpool has been congratulated for not missing a single day of her 12 years at school.
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Gary Weir, 24, was fatally injured near Shettleston Juniors ground in Shettleston Road in the early hours of Sunday 7 August.
Police said five men, three aged 20, one aged 21 and a 19-year-old, had been arrested.
They are expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Wednesday.
Three other young men were injured in the same incident which happened as a 21st birthday celebration was taking place at a nearby social club.
The other injured men were treated in hospital but later released.
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Five men have been arrested in connection with the death of a man who was found stabbed outside a football ground in Glasgow.
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Adele won big, with four prizes including best British female artist and best album.
Here's the full list of winners and nominees:
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On Wednesday night, the year's best music acts from the UK and beyond gathered at the O2 Arena in London, for the Brit Awards.
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The Welsh Labour leader has been speaking in Chicago on his US business tour.
He said it was crucial for the party to "get its act together" once the contest between Owen Smith and Jeremy Corbyn was over.
Mr Jones said UK Labour was currently failing to provide "effective opposition" to the UK government.
He said he did not want to see "weeks and months of animosity" when the new UK Labour leader is announced later this month.
The Pontypridd MP and Labour leadership contender, Owen Smith, said if he wins he would campaign for a new referendum on EU membership, while his opponent Jeremy Corbyn is against this.
Carwyn Jones told the audience in Chicago he also opposed a new EU referendum.
Another vote, he said, would been seen as "an attempt by the establishment to overturn democracy".
Mr Jones has previously said he will not publicly back either of the leadership candidates.
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First Minister Carwyn Jones says Labour is undergoing a "great deal of division that will take some time to repair".
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Celtic beat Aberdeen 7-0, with Suzanne Mulvey scoring a hat-trick in the second round's only all-top flight tie.
Last season's runners-up Hibernian put 11 past Boroughmuir and Jeanfield Swifts routed Ross County 18-0.
Rangers, Dundee United, Dunfermline, Stirling University, Hearts, Renfrew, Glasgow Girls and Granite City also enjoyed comfortable victories.
Spartans and Forfar Farmington progressed after their games went to extra-time, while Raith Rovers edged out Dee Ladies.
Experienced Scotland striker Ross scored the first of her nine goals for Premier League leaders City after two minutes.
It was 10-0 when East Kilbride lost goalkeeper Amy Hiddleton to injury, with an outfield player putting on the gloves and letting in another five before the half time interval.
Ross, who has 122 international caps, completed her scoring with the 25th goal of the day, with Sarah Crilly finishing off the rout for a hat-trick.
Erin Cuthbert and Brogan Hay also grabbed three goals apiece.
While City are experienced Champions League campaigners, this is East Kilbride's debut season in Division Two Central, where they have won once in eight games.
The victory is not a record for Scotland's dominant women's team; that came in 2010 with a 29-0 success against Kilmarnock.
Scottish Women's Cup, second round:
Dundee United 8-0 Stenhousemuir
Hearts 3-0 St Roch's
Stirling University 10-0 Westerlands
Buchan 3-5 Forfar Farmington (AET)
Celtic 7-0 Aberdeen
Dee Ladies 3-4 Raith Rovers
Dunfermline Athletic 7-0 Dumbarton United
Glasgow City 26-0 East Kilbride
Hibernian 11-0 Boroughmuir Thistle
Hutchison Vale 5-0 Edinburgh Caledonia
Jeanfield Swifts 18-0 Ross County
Motherwell 1-4 Glasgow Girls
Rangers Ladies 7-0 East Fife
Spartans 0-0 Hamilton Academical (4-3 pens)
Renfrew 5-0 Queens Park
Dee Vale 1-5 Granite City
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Glasgow City skipper Leanne Ross scored nine as the Scottish Women's Cup holders thrashed East Kilbride 26-0.
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The area at Pen Y Bryn will be turned into commercial space and flats and work is expected to take nine months.
A former chapel on Chester Road in Wrexham will also be redeveloped for residential use.
One driver had a near-miss when the building crashed moments after they drove past it in January 2015.
Councillor Neil Rogers said the work - costing more than £500,000 - showed the "confidence that developers and landlords have in the town".
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The site of a derelict building which collapsed into a road in Wrexham is to be redeveloped.
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The eastbound carriageway between junction 27 (St Asaph) and junction 27A (St Asaph / Pont Dafydd) has been closed.
Congestion has been reported back to junction 26 (St Asaph Business Park).
Police are directing traffic.
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A section of the A55 in Denbighshire has been closed after a tractor overturned.
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Thomas, 22, scored nine goals in 34 appearances this season as Pools suffered relegation from League Two.
Blades boss Chris Wilder told the club website: "Nathan is someone we have tracked for a long time and is a talented young player."
Meanwhile, midfielder Jay O'Shea has rejected Sheffield United's contract offer and left the club.
The 28-year-old joined the Blades on loan until the end of the season in January from Chesterfield and helped them to the League One title.
He scored three goals in 10 appearances for the Bramall Lane side.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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Sheffield United have signed Hartlepool midfielder Nathan Thomas for an undisclosed fee on a three-year deal.
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Since 2006 all passengers departing from Newquay airport aged 16 and over have had to pay the charge.
Airline Ryanair said the "significant fee" was a reason for pulling its flights from Newquay in 2011.
Ryanair agreed to return to the airport after Cornwall Council confirmed in September it would scrap the fee.
Malcolm Bell, head of Visit Cornwall, has said scrapping the "disliked" fee will be good for tourism.
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An unpopular £5 airport development fee has ended, following criticism from airlines and tourism bodies.
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It is the second time Pilgrims boss Derek Adams has signed the 29-year-old, having brought him in at Ross County.
Miller has spent all of his career north of the border, also playing for St Johnstone, Ayr Utd and Livingston.
He is a fourth summer signing for the League Two club, after Yann Songo'o, Connor Smith and Ryan Donaldson.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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Plymouth Argyle have signed right-back Gary Miller after he turned down a new contract with Scottish Premiership club Partick Thistle earlier this month.
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Moyes' comments came following the Black Cats' home draw against Burnley in the Premier League.
The Scot was asked by Sparks if the presence of Sunderland's owner Ellis Short had put extra pressure on him.
Moyes, who resigned as Sunderland boss in May, subsequently expressed "deep regret" for his comment.
Moyes responded to Sparks' question about Short's presence by saying "no", but after the interview added she "might get a slap even though you're a woman" and told her to be "careful" next time she visited.
Both Moyes and Sparks were laughing during the exchange and the former Everton and Manchester United manager later apologised to Sparks, who did not make a complaint.
Speaking at a news conference on 3 April after the incident came to light, he said: "It was in the heat of the moment. I deeply regret the comments I made.
"That's certainly not the person I am. I've accepted the mistake. I spoke to the BBC reporter, who accepted my apology."
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Former Sunderland manager David Moyes has been fined £30,000 by the FA after telling BBC reporter Vicki Sparks she might "get a slap" in March.
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The activists forced the suspension of proceedings for 40 minutes on Wednesday.
Security guards used hand sanitiser to remove six protesters who glued their hands to railing in the public gallery.
The government believes its tough policy of offshore detention for asylum seekers prevents deaths at sea.
The policy is also supported by the opposition Labor Party.
A group called the Whistleblowers Activists and Citizens Alliance claimed responsibility for the protest.
In heated scenes, demonstrators shouted the detention policy was "separating families" and "killing innocent people".
"We are here today because you have become world leaders in cruelty," the protesters said.
Both major parties condemned the interruption.
"On behalf of the government, I would like to apologise to the rest of the members of the public who came to Canberra today to watch the parliament," said Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten thanked security staff for their handling of the demonstration.
"The reason why the Labor Party stayed in here today is because we will never give in to those who wish to shut down this parliament," he said.
"This is the exact opposite of democracy."
However, Greens MP Adam Bandt praised the protesters for their actions.
"Question Time brought to a halt as peaceful protesters hold MPs to account demanding gov #CloseTheCamps. Brave. Powerful. Proud," he wrote on Twitter.
Last month, the Australian government rejected a human rights report comparing its asylum seeker camp on the Pacific island of Nauru to an open-air prison.
The protest on Wednesday comes two weeks after Australia and the US reached a resettlement deal for asylum seekers held in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
Read more: Australia asylum: Why is it controversial?
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About 30 people demonstrating against the Australian government's treatment of asylum seekers have disrupted parliament in Canberra.
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The crowd at the city's war memorial included former PoW Len Gibson, who was captured at Singapore and forced to work on the Burma Death Railway.
A commemoration was also held at the Burma Star Memorial at St Thomas' Church in Newcastle.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh led a remembrance service in London.
Mr Gibson, 95, said it was "nice to see these people still remember".
"It was such a horrendous time that it's in my memory - every day there's something occurs that reminds me of those times," he said.
"They [their Japanese captors] treated us as slaves.
"If we didn't work hard they'd beat us with sticks.
"We'd wouldn't have minded working hard if they'd fed us, but they starved us."
The memorial's organiser, Sunderland Armed Forces Network chairman Graham Hall, said it was important people continued to remember.
"If nothing else it's a reminder of the inhumanity we keep on perpetrating our fellow mankind," he said.
Sunderland had the highest proportion of veterans of any city in the country at over 26,500, he added.
"I doubt whether there's many families that haven't been affected by service life in one shape or another."
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Prayers have been said and wreaths laid at a service in Sunderland to mark the 70th anniversary of VJ Day, the end of the war with Japan and World War Two.
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The incident happened in High Street, Gorseinon, Swansea on Friday at about 16:15 GMT.
A 55-year-old man died when a BMW hit traffic lights and they fell on him.
He has been named as Gerald Macey, and was described as a "fun loving character" who dedicated his life to his children and grandson.
A 21-year-old driver of a BMW was arrested and has since been released on police bail pending further enquiries.
Mr Macey's family said in a statement: "Gerald was a much loved and cherished husband, father, bampy, son, brother, brother-in-law and uncle.
"Nobody ever had a bad word to say about him. He was a fun-loving character, always busy and 'on the go'.
"Since losing his wife, Jackie, 12 years ago, Gerald dedicated his life to his children Melanie and Sean, and grandson."
Mr Macey, from Gorseinion, was retired having worked in the construction and coal-mining industries.
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after a man was killed by falling traffic lights.
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Jay Z bought Tidal three years ago and his wife Beyonce and other artists own equity in the company.
Aiming to challenge larger rivals such as Spotify, Tidal offers artists on its platform more control over their music.
Sprint, which is owned by Japan's Softbank, will pay an estimated $200m (£162m) for a 33% stake in the company.
The deal means that Jay Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, will make a return on the initial $56m investment he made when he bought Tidal from Norway's Aspiro in 2015.
Other artists including Madonna, Rihanna, Daft Punk, Kanye West and Jay Z's wife Beyonce are part owners of the service, giving Tidal a star-studded board of directors. It is reported that they will remain part of the company.
The investment could help bolster Tidal in its battle to win ground from Spotify and Apple, which dominate the fast-growing music streaming industry.
Sprint's decision to invest is a sign the mobile operator wants to provide its customers with more content in a highly competitive market. As a result of the deal, Sprint customers would have access to exclusive Tidal content.
Tidal has a 42 million song catalogue and is available in 52 countries, but is currently much less widely used than services from Spotify and Apple.
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The American rapper Jay Z is selling a stake in his Tidal music streaming business to the telecoms company, Sprint.
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The 34-year-old moved to Wire in 2002 from Wakefield and has made 374 appearances over his 14-year stay.
The ex-England international, has won three Challenge Cups and reached two Grand Finals with the Wolves and will stay for the 2017 season.
"I am really excited. I am glad that we've got it sorted out pretty quickly," he told the club website.
"I have been a part of this club for such a long time and I would like it to go on a little bit longer yet.
"There's still one thing I haven't won at this club so hopefully we can get that done."
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Warrington Wolves second-row Ben Westwood has signed a new one-year contract with the Super League leaders.
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Relatives said Simon Gorecki, 47, was "warm, bright and loving" and had "optimism, even where there was little to be found".
His body and that of Natasha Sadler, 40, were found at Dickens Avenue on 29 March.
Foster Christian, 53, also of Dickens Avenue, is due at Maidstone Crown Court on 5 April, charged with their murder.
Mr Gorecki's family said he was "infectiously fun to be with" and added: "He leaves behind so many who loved him, and of course his children who will miss him more than any of us can bear.
"As a family, our task is to now celebrate his life, and to support each other as we try to come to terms with the loss of his life."
Kent Police said post-mortem results were provisional and would not be released.
Last Friday officers charged Naomi Toro, 35, of Keyworth Mews in Canterbury, with assisting an offender.
Another woman, aged 18, who had been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice, was released on bail until 3 May.
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A family has paid tribute to a man who was one of two people found dead at a house in Canterbury.
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Bryan Lewis Jones's timber frame "eco" building, The Shed, rotates 360 degrees to follow the sun throughout the day in its woodland setting in St Asaph.
It squares up against three finalists, including a shed on wheels, in the competition's unique category.
Also nominated in the historical category is the Carmarthenshire shed used by writer Dylan Thomas.
It stands on stilts above the estuary in Laugharne and has been furnished to re-create the interior as it would have been when Thomas was there.
The public picked finalists in eight categories, including budget and unexpected, from 2,825 entries.
The overall winner will be selected on the Channel 4 TV series, Amazing Spaces Shed of the Year, starting on Friday.
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A "unique" rotating shed in Denbighshire is a finalist in the annual Shed of the Year awards.
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Six crews were called to an industrial estate on St Asaph Avenue, Kinmel Bay, at about 17:45 BST on Tuesday.
North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the fire was now under control.
A spokesman added: "Crews will remain at the scene for some time tackling any hotspots and damping down".
The road remains closed at Denbigh Circle, Clwyd Park and St Asaph Avenue until further notice.
A North Wales Police spokesman said they were likely to be closed until Wednesday morning.
Crews from Rhyl, Prestatyn, Colwyn Bay and Abergele were sent to tackle the blaze.
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People have been allowed to return to their homes after being evacuated due to a large fire at a commercial garage in Conwy county.
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The vote in favour - by 46 out of 81 MPs - paves the way for Montenegro to join Nato late next month.
All but two of Nato's 28 members have ratified the accord.
Russia long regarded Montenegro and neighbouring Serbia as allies. It has now banned Montenegrin wine and said it might move to defend Russian interests.
The Russian foreign ministry said Montenegro's leadership and its Western backers had "ignored the voice of reason and conscience".
"We reserve the right to take steps aimed at defending our interests and national security."
Montenegro's Prime Minister, Dusko Markovic, dismissed Russia's wine import ban as politically motivated. Russia cited sanitary concerns.
A fifth of all wine exports go to Russia, and the ban will have a significant impact on sales.
"It is clear that the decision is in the context of Nato membership," Mr Markovic said.
Montenegro, home to about 633,000 people, was granted a membership action plan by Nato in 2009.
A decade earlier, Montenegro and Serbia were bombed by Nato planes in a three-month campaign during the Kosovo war.
Nato membership remains highly controversial in Montenegro, which broke away from Serbia after the collapse of Yugoslavia, becoming independent in 2006.
Earlier this month Montenegro charged 14 people, including two Russians, with plotting to overthrow the government last October.
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Montenegro's parliament has ratified the country's accession to Nato, despite strong domestic opposition and Russian disapproval.
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Police Scotland said it was made aware of concerns about the chimney, at 105 Byres Road, above the Countrywide estate agents shop, at about 09:30.
Byres Road was shut between Lawrence Street and White Street and the flats below and estate agents evacuated.
Glasgow City Council said building control officers were attending and the chimney would be taken down.
A council spokesman said: "Byres Road is completely closed at the moment due to a dangerous chimneyhead at 105 Byres Road - the chimneyhead had partially collapsed.
"The residents of the top two floors and the estate agents on the ground floor have been evacuated.
"The council's building control team will continue to assess the situation. What's remaining of the chimneyhead will be taken down by contractors as soon as possible, and this is likely to be completed tomorrow."
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One of the busiest roads in Glasgow's west end has been closed to traffic amid concerns about an unsafe chimney.
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Pole Kwiatkowski, a former world champion, showed his strength in the last 200 metres to beat Slovakia's Sagan for the 16th win of his career.
The pair, along with French rider Julian Alaphilippe, had broken away with six kilometres remaining.
Ben Swift, who finished on the podium twice in the past three years, was the best-placed Briton in 17th.
Kwiatkowski's victory was a first in the race for Team Sky and only their second in a 'Monument', the name given to cycling's big five annual one-day races.
It comes amid an ongoing UK Anti-Doping investigation into allegations of wrongdoing by Team Sky, who deny the claims.
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Team Sky rider Michal Kwiatkowski beat world champion Peter Sagan in a sprint finish to win the Milan-San Remo.
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A fine Sam Saunders strike gave the Bees a deserved interval lead, and although they failed to press home their dominance, it looked likely to secure a second consecutive league win.
But Carayol's 18-yard shot levelled the scores with six minutes remaining.
And although chances came at both ends in a frantic finale, neither team had the composure to take them.
The Bees, who had lost four in a row before Saturday's victory at Preston, will rue their inability to take their opportunities before the break.
Dean Smith's side played with confidence and quality as they controlled possession during a stylish first-half performance in the teeming rain at Griffin Park.
Josh McEachran was the game's outstanding player, dictating the pace from the centre of the pitch along with John Swift and the ever-dangerous Alan Judge.
But it was Saunders who made the difference, racing from the halfway line and using superb decoy runs from Lasse Vibe and Alan Judge to full effect before beating keeper Marco Silvestri with a powerful low strike.
Mirco Antenucci, on as an early substitute for the injured Chris Wood, almost levelled within two minutes when his long-range effort was kept out by a brilliant save by David Button.
But the Bees remained the more dangerous side with Judge twice going close to doubling the lead with decent strikes.
An uncharacteristic McEachran error almost presented the visitors with an equaliser, but Souleymane Doukara sent his shot just wide of the post.
But the away side's endeavour was rewarded when Carayol netted from the edge of the box.
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Substitute Mustapha Carayol's late goal earned Leeds a point after an improved second-half display against Brentford.
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Cumbria children's services was rated "inadequate" three times in four years.
Ofsted inspectors criticised leadership and found "serious failures" in the way children in care were looked after.
Children and families minister Edward Timpson told the council he was satisfied it was "taking reasonable steps to address remaining weaknesses".
However, he warned that if improvement did "not continue at pace" he would need to consider whether the council could be allowed to continue to control the unit.
Labour council leader Stewart Young said there was "more work to do but we're definitely going in the right direction".
"We were disappointed with the most recent inspection but an awful lot of work has gone in over the last 12-18 months," he said.
Last year the Department for Education (DfE) appointed an advisor to help make improvements.
The authority was warned that, if sufficient progress was not made, an external body could end up running the department.
Mr Young said it was "never the case" that children were at risk.
He said a former director of public health had said "he couldn't put his hand on his heart" to say children were safe but "didn't say that children were unsafe".
The county council is currently carrying out serious case reviews after the death of 13-month-old Poppi Worthington from Barrow.
It was criticised by a family court judge for failing to follow national and local guidelines over the death of such a young child.
Mr Timpson said the impact of the reviews on the nature of intervention required by the council would be considered.
The children's services unit will be re-inspected in six month's time.
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A county council can continue to run a children's services department judged "inadequate" for years, government inspectors have decided.
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Police said the 30-year-old woman was found in a lane between Seagate and Murraygate at about 13:00 on Wednesday.
She was taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee by ambulance but did not survive.
Officers said inquiries were ongoing, but confirmed there were no apparent suspicious circumstances. A full report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.
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A woman found lying unconscious on a road in Dundee has died, police have said.
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Four men have so far been charged with murdering Aqib Mazhar, who was stabbed in Russell Road, Forest Fields, on 1 June.
The latest man to be arrested is aged 24 and is in police custody while detectives question him.
Three of the men arrested have been bailed pending further enquiries.
The men charged with murder are Mohamud Alasow, 18, of Hamilton Road, Nottingham; Junaid Farrukh, 21, of Heathermead Close, Oakwood, Derby; Qamran Ahmed, 21, Staindale Drive, Aspley and Mohammed Quasim, 24, of Staindale Drive, Aspley.
They are due to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on 22 August.
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Police have arrested a ninth person on suspicion of murdering a 21-year-old man who was stabbed to death in Nottingham.
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The trunk road drops from 150m (492ft) to 20m (65ft) as it enters a valley at the braes in Caithness.
There have been accusations from business leaders and politicians that the problem with this section of the A9 was being "ignored".
The government said the project would progress "in the next few months".
Following a public local inquiry, ministers have given the green light for the improvements.
Transport Minister Humza Yousaf said: "We remain committed to delivering the much-needed improvements to the A9 at Berriedale Braes where the natural geography makes a challenging road alignment, particularly for HGVs and other long vehicles.
"Once the scheme is approved under the statutory procedures, a timetable for construction can be determined as soon as suitable funding becomes available."
Caithness, Sutherland and Ross SNP MSP Gail Ross said: "I am delighted that the Scottish government has addressed the issue with urgency. It is another important step on the way solving the issue of that particular part of the road.
"Vital time was lost during the public local inquiry and I now hope that there can be smooth sailing during the procurement process."
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The Scottish government has said it is pushing ahead with planned improvements to a challenging hairpin bend on the A9 at Berriedale Braes.
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Solicitors acting for Smech Properties Limited, which owns the Longcross Estate, have served papers on Runnymede Council.
Crest Nicholson was granted permission for the "village" on a site in Longcross, near Chertsey, in July.
Smech Properties is owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum.
Sheikh Mohammed is also vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates.
Smech Properties is applying for a judicial review relating to the process the council followed in granting planning permission for the former Defence Evaluation and Research Agency site.
A council spokesman said the authority was currently drafting and submitting its summary grounds of defence.
Mario Leo, the council's corporate head of governance and assets, said: "This judicial review has been brought on a number of technical legal grounds relating to the process the council followed in making its decision to grant planning permission.
"It is the view of the council that it has fully complied with its legal obligations and it will defend this claim vigorously."
A spokeswoman from Allen & Overy solicitors, who are acting on behalf of Smech Properties, said she could not comment because the case was ongoing.
Correction 4 October: This story has been amended to correct Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum's UAE title.
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A company owned by the ruler of Dubai is challenging a decision to approve plans for more than 100 new homes in Surrey.
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Des destinees de l'ame (Destinies of the Soul) has been housed at Houghton Library since the 1930s.
Writer Arsene Houssaye is said to have given the book to his friend, Dr Ludovic Bouland, in the mid-1880s.
Dr Bouland then reportedly bound the book with skin from the body of an unclaimed female patient who had died of natural causes.
"The analytical data, taken together with the provenance of Des destinees de l'ame, make it very unlikely that the source could be other than human," Bill Lane, the director of the Harvard Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Resource Laboratory, told the Houghton Library Blog.
The practice of binding books in human skin - termed anthropodermic bibliopegy - has been reported since as early as the 16th Century.
Numerous 19th Century accounts exist of the bodies of executed criminals being donated to science, their skins later given to bookbinders.
Located within Des destinees de l'ame is a note written by Dr Bouland, stating no ornament had been stamped on the cover to "preserve its elegance".
"I had kept this piece of human skin taken from the back of a woman," he wrote. "A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering."
The book, said to be a meditation on the soul and life after death, is believed to be the only one bound in human skin at Harvard.
Comparable tests undertaken on books at the university's law and medical school libraries revealed books bound in sheepskin.
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Ben Chudley, 28, used a running app to track his progress around the city's streets before posting the route on Facebook.
When he posted it on Tuesday evening, his girlfriend Olivia Abdul saw it and accepted his proposal.
Mr Chudley, who has also drawn dinosaurs and cartoon characters in the same way, said the idea was "very me".
He explained he had run about 15 miles (24km) in total, but had the GPS tracking turned on to spell out the lettering over 5.7 miles (9km).
Mr Chudley told his girlfriend he was going out for a run before posting the map on Facebook and returning, with flowers and a ring, to hear her response.
He admitted posting it publically "could have been very embarrassing if she had said no".
Mr Chudley started a Facebook group of similar 'drawings' after noticing that one of his routes "looked a bit rude".
In the past he has attempted a seahorse, dinosaur and Spongebob Squarepants but said Portsmouth's regular street layout made lettering more straightforward.
He added making a wrong turn half way through a run can be "heart breaking" as it means having to start the tracking again.
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A Portsmouth runner has proposed to his girlfriend by spelling out "Will You Marry Me" using a GPS tracking app.
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Butt scored 135 runs and Asif returned bowling figures of 2-22, both for Water and Power Development Authority in Pakistan's domestic one-day tournament.
Butt, 31, and Asif, 33, were exiled from the sport, along with bowler Mohammad Amir, after Pakistan bowled no-balls to order at Lord's.
"It's a sort of rebirth," said Butt.
"I will do my best to perform and return to Pakistan team."
The duo finished on the winning side, with Water and Power Development Authority beating Federally Administered Tribal Areas by 141 runs.
Amir, 18 at the time of the offence, was recalled by Pakistan earlier in January.
Although his ban - like Butt and Asif's - was originally from all forms of cricket for five years, Amir was cleared to play domestic cricket in January 2015 and is part of the Pakistan tour of New Zealand which begins with a Twenty20 match on Friday.
Pakistan head coach Waqar Younis has said there would be no reason to deny Butt and Asif their international comebacks if their form justifies selection.
After their series against New Zealand, Pakistan will play four Tests, five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 international on a tour of England that begins in June.
Batsman Umar Akmal will miss the first meeting with the Kiwis after he breached tournament rules by wearing two, rather than one, sponsorship logo in the final of Pakistan's domestic Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.
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The 33-year-old spinner has not played a first-team match since April.
"He's got a few issues he needs to sort out himself before he's available," Grayson told BBC Essex.
"We're trying to help Monty along with the Professional Cricketers' Association to get him back to playing some cricket."
He added: "It's just a week-by-week thing and we'll see where we're at in two or three weeks with him."
Panesar, who has 50 Test caps and said in April that he still had England ambitions, has featured in three second-team games for Essex since his last Championship game.
He joined Essex in 2013, having been released by former club Sussex after urinating on a nightclub bouncer in Brighton.
Panesar was dropped before a County Championship game with Glamorgan last year for a "timekeeping" error, and Grayson says Essex have been working hard with Panesar to help him.
"It's not through a lack of trying on our behalf. He's been managed well by us, at some stage the truth will come out," he said.
"Anyone that plays county cricket, particularly those that play at Essex, we care about them and want to be getting them to play at the best of their ability.
"It's a delicate situation at the moment, we're trying to keep it in house and help Monty the best way we can."
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Monty Panesar is unavailable for selection because of off-field "issues", says Essex head coach Paul Grayson.
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The S&P closed 0.16% lower at 2,085.22, marking the ninth day of losses and its worst run since December 1980.
Markets in the US, Asia and Europe have fallen as polls showed the gap between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton narrowing.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 0.23% to 17,888,
While the tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped 0.24% to 5,046.37.
Stocks were largely unmoved by new jobs data which showed that US businesses added 161,000 jobs in October, slightly below forecasts. The unemployment rate dropped to 4.9% from 5%.
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The S&P 500 index recorded its longest losing streak in 35 years on Friday as US stocks closed down amid investor jitters ahead of next week's election.
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He tested positive last week and died late on Monday at a treatment centre near the capital, Monrovia, Francis Kateh, the chief medical officer, said.
His father and brother are being treated for Ebola at the centre.
Liberia has seen more than 10,000 Ebola cases and more than 4,000 deaths since the West Africa outbreak began in 2013.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has twice declared Liberia to be Ebola-free, once in May and again in September.
The teenage boy's mother and two other siblings have also been admitted to the treatment centre to be monitored, health ministry spokesman Sorbor George said.
He told the BBC that eight healthcare workers "who are at high risk because they came in direct contact with the boy" were also under surveillance.
The BBC's Jonathan Paye-Layleh in Monrovia says nearly 160 people are now being monitored since the new cases were confirmed last week.
Radio and television stations have resumed broadcasting Ebola awareness messages, he says.
Civil society groups have also stepped up a campaign to get volunteers to be vaccinated against the disease in a joint US-Liberia Ebola trial, our reporter says.
On Monday, Liberia said the US had agreed to send two experts to the country to help investigate the sequence of the outbreaks.
Liberia recorded its first Ebola case in March last year and analysts believe the latest cases are a serious set-back for the country.
Sierra Leone was declared free of Ebola on 7 November.
More than 11,000 people have died of the disease since December 2013, the vast majority of them in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
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A 15-year-old boy has died of Ebola in Liberia less than three months after the country was declared free of the virus, officials have told the BBC.
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In a regulatory filing, Hanjin said it would look for letters of intent from buyers by the end of the month.
The company applied for receivership in August after creditors had pulled their support for the heavily indebted firm.
Hanjin Shipping is 6tn won ($5.4bn, £4.1bn) in debt and the asset sale will be used to pay back creditors.
The Korean court overseeing the company's receivership process approved the auction of its major assets, including its Asia-US route network.
According to the Reuters news agency, the spokesman for the Seoul Central District Court said the deadline for binding bids was expected to be 7 November.
Aside from several container ships, the sale will also include the company's subsidiaries handling the Asia-US cargo operations.
Hanjin's bankruptcy is the largest to hit the shipping industry and affected global supply chains.
The company has since been granted legal protection preventing its ships from seizure in various ports including South Korea, the United States and Japan.
Before the bankruptcy, Hanjin was the world's seventh-largest container line and had been unprofitable for four of the past five years.
The global economic downturn in recent years has affected profits across the cargo shipping industry.
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Shares in Hanjin Shipping surged by as much as 25% after the indebted firm announced that it was beginning the process to sell its US assets.
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Eric Garcetti recorded an R&B-style number, complete with music video, in an attempt to soften the news that the 101 freeway will shut for 40 hours.
As factual as it is funky, depending on your tastes, the song contains lots of useful information about the closure.
The freeway is being closed while the city demolishes the 6th Street Bridge.
Backed by the local Theodore Roosevelt High School Jazz Band, Mr Garcetti sings: "See we're bringing down the 6th Street Bridge, making way for something new and the demolition will cause delays.
"But sometimes, just sometimes, you have to get your hands dirty to build something beautiful.
"So on Friday night the 101 Freeway east of downtown will take a break for 40 hours of R&R ... and R&B."
The music was an original score written and performed by the band, according to the LA Times.
The 84-year-old 6th Street Bridge is being torn down because of deterioration in the concrete, the Times said.
The work is expected to take nine months and a replacement bridge is planned for completion in late 2019.
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The mayor of Los Angeles has come up with novel way of warning residents about a major traffic closure this weekend: singing a slow jam.
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The challenge was brought by Elizabeth Morrison.
Her son Michael, his partner Evelyn Baird and their child Michelle were among 10 people killed in the IRA attack.
A judge has refused permission for a judicial review of the scheme.
It resulted in more than 180 republican paramilitary suspects being sent letters assuring them they were not wanted by police and would not be arrested.
The judge said he was dismissing the legal action because the government had stated publicly that the letters did not mean those who received them could not be prosecuted, and that the scheme is now abolished.
During the hearing, a lawyer for the PSNI told the court there was no evidence to support a claim that a Shankill bomb suspect had received one of the letters.
Mrs Morrison's legal challenge centred on a press report that one of the bomb suspects who fled across the Irish border was among nearly 200 republicans in receipt of a secret letter stating he was not wanted by police.
The On the Runs scheme provoked outrage after County Donegal man John Downey's trial on charges linked to the 1982 London Hyde Park bombing collapsed in February 2014.
He had been mistakenly sent a government letter saying he was not wanted for questioning by police.
The full scale of the administrative scheme involving other republican paramilitary suspects then emerged.
Police were said to believe 95 of those people who received letters could be linked to nearly 300 murders.
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A woman who lost three members of her family in the 1993 Shankill Road bomb atrocity in Belfast has failed in a legal bid to challenge the government's On the Runs scheme.
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The island hosts the tournament this year, having won it when it was last played in Malaysia in 2014.
Jersey went on to be relegated from World Cricket League Division Four later in 2014.
"What we're thinking about is getting up to World League Four and that's our sole focus," MacRae told BBC Jersey.
"It's exciting times now that we've got a settled squad with a lot of young players and a big tournament at home."
The island's last tournament was the ICC World Twenty20 qualifying tournament, where the island finished second-from-bottom of their group.
But MacRae feels the experience of playing against the best non-Test-playing nations will stand his side in good stead.
"We've got the potential to move forward through the divisions," he said.
"Because of the nature of the tournament cricket that we play, we don't like to look too far ahead. We think we've got a strong squad going into Division Five - we want to win that tournament and move to Division Four.
"Division Three is a possibility. We played against sides in Division One during the T20 tournament in Ireland last summer and held our own, so the difference in standard isn't necessarily the only factor, timing's a big issue as well in terms of having your full squad at tournaments."
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Jersey coach Neil MacRae says his players are focused on winning promotion from World Cricket League Division Five in May.
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Chicago-based Gates took first prize for his installation which he says challenges the dominance of Christian ideology in the western world.
He said: "Winning this award is my validation that this new body of work has a place in the world."
The artist told BBC Wales' arts and media correspondent Huw Thomas about his plan to share his winnings.
Gates' work includes a bull sculpture said to deter bad spirits and protect crops in Africa and a goat which refers to a supposed American masonic initiation ceremony.
First Minister Carwyn Jones presented Gates with his prize at the National Museum Cardiff on Thursday night for his installation, A Complicated Relationship between Heaven and Earth, or When We Believe.
Describing his winning work, Gates said it "contemplates how objects have been used as signifiers of power and perhaps reopens them to be real instruments for accessing belief".
Held every two years, Artes Mundi was founded in 2002 by Welsh artist William Wilkins and supports contemporary visual artists from around the world who are still gaining international recognition.
Gates' winning work and other shortlisted works are on display at National Museum Cardiff and Chapter arts centre as well Ffotogallery, Penarth.
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Artes Mundi winner Theaster Gates says he will share his £40,000 prize with the nine other shortlisted artists.
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The 22-year-old has made six appearances in all competitions for the League One side this term.
Long, who made his first-team debut in April 2013, is a graduate of the U's academy.
"He can play in a few positions and is improving all the time," Oxford head coach Michael Appleton said.
"He has had to be a bit patient but he will get his chance at some stage and we know he will take it with both hands when that happens."
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Oxford United defender Sam Long has signed a new one-year contract with his hometown club.
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Mark Sampson's side begin their campaign in the Netherlands with a group match against Scotland on Wednesday.
But how much do you know about the Lionesses?
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England are among the favourites to win the Women's European Championship, having finished third at the World Cup two years ago.
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Tom Prydie scored a crucial try with five minutes remaining at Eugene Cross Park to level the scores, then held his nerve to kick the winning conversion.
Saints seemed set for the win after two George Pisi tries, one from James Wilson, plus Will Hooley's kicking.
But Aled Brew and Cory Hill crossed for Dragons before Prydie sealed victory.
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Newport Gwent Dragons marked their first visit to play at Ebbw Vale by beating English champions Northampton Saints 27-25 in a pre-season game.
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The 23-year-old centre-back, who has previously had spells with Gillingham and Brighton, scored one goal in 11 appearances in WSL 2 in 2016.
"It is a dream of mine to join a pro club so to be here is an amazing feeling," she told the club website.
"I have worked my way through the ranks and am delighted to have done enough to earn a contract with Chelsea."
Chelsea have not disclosed the length of Cooper's contract.
The Blues begin the WSL Spring Series against Manchester City on 23 April.
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Women's Super League One side Chelsea Ladies have signed defender Deanna Cooper from London Bees.
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Donnelly, 26, has agreed a two-year contract after scored 13 goals in 86 appearances for Dale.
Brezovan, 34, spent the beginning of this season with Portsmouth on a short-term deal but has now signed for a season with Rovers.
Meanwhile, defender Matt Hill has also earned a one-year deal, having played five games on non-contract terms.
"George is a fast, powerful striker who will run behind defences and cause them a lot of problems," manager Rob Edwards told the Rovers club website.
"He gives us an option we haven't currently got in the squad.
Edwards added: "I'm delighted to bring Peter to the club. He's an experienced keeper who has played at Championship and League One level and it gives us good competition for places."
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Tranmere have signed Rochdale striker George Donnelly for an undisclosed fee along with goalkeeper Peter Brezovan.
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The Scarlets head coach was responding to questions over reports linking Williams with a move to Ospreys.
"Liam is one of our favourite sons here at the Scarlets and we'd like to see him here for a number of years to come," said Pivac.
"I know the WRU would love to see him stay in Wales and together we'll be working to achieve that."
Pivac says Williams is "keen to stick around" and doubts he would join Scarlets' closest rivals.
"Look, anything's possible, isn't it. But no, I wouldn't think that would be the case," said the New Zealander.
Scarlets are one of three teams without a Pro12 point going into the fourth round at the weekend.
Title-holders Connacht are also without a win and are one place below the Welsh region in 11th, with Treviso last, before the Welsh and Irish teams meet in Llanelli on Saturday.
"Connacht is our focus now and we need to get that first win, which I think could break the shackles and things open up nicely for us," said Pivac.
"I'm sure in both camps it's a must-win game because nobody wants to be nought from four and sitting at the bottom of the table.
"It's a long way up from that position."
Wales prop Samson Lee is over his shoulder problem but a virus means he will miss the game against Connacht and is likely to return at Treviso on Saturday, 1 October.
"Lee's been cleared of that shoulder. He's as strong as he was pre the injury, if not stronger," added Pivac.
"He's done a lot of live scrummaging with us now and ticked all those boxes.
"He's just picked up a bit of a virus so we'll likely leave him until next week."
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The collision, involving a white BMW car and a VW transporter van, happened on the B4547 at Pentir at about 12:45 BST.
It is believed an item fell from the roof of the VW and hit the BMW which was travelling in the opposite direction.
The VW was travelling from the Groeslon Ty Mawr roundabout towards Felinheli.
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A woman from Anglesey has died following a two-vehicle crash near Bangor in Gwynedd.
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The Democratic Unionist Party leader said she was presented with new medical evidence on the issue by Sinn Féin Health Minister Michelle O'Neill.
Mrs Foster said the decision was backed by science.
She said: "It has never been about equality or morality, it was about the safety of people receiving the blood."
Speaking to BBC News NI, Mrs Foster said: "Michelle came with the new evidence to us and I was quite happy to endorse the decision she suggested.
"In fact, if Simon Hamilton had had the chance to deal with it before the election he would have."
Ms Foster said the decision had been agreed by the whole executive.
"We indicated that we want to get on with the job of governing. I hope this week has shown that we are confident in our decisions."
Ms O'Neill, who was appointed health minister in May, announced on Thursday that she would lift the lifetime ban on gay men donating blood.
It will be replaced by a one-year deferral period - where gay and bisexual men will be able to donate blood one year after their last sexual contact with another man.
The move brings Northern Ireland into line with the rest of the UK.
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Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster has backed the lifting of a lifetime ban on gay men donating blood.
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In one of the images, she's seen just about to dive into a pool with her father, King George VI.
In the other, she's looking at a bird that is perched on her arm.
The photos were released ahead of a gala show to mark her 90th birthday.
The celebration will be held at Windsor Castle on Sunday and will feature celebrities like Gary Barlow and Kylie Minogue.
Nine hundred horses will also take part in the birthday celebrations.
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Two new photos have been released of the Queen as a young princess, ahead of her 90th birthday celebrations.
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Crouser, 23, threw 22.52m with his fifth throw to break East German Ulf Timmermann's record of 22.47m set in Seoul in 1988.
Joe Kovacs, the 2015 world champion, made it a USA one-two with a best throw of 21.78m, as New Zealand's Tomas Walsh took bronze with 21.36m.
Poland's Tomasz Majewski, who won gold in 2012, finished sixth with 20.72m.
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Ryan Crouser broke a 28-year Olympic record to win gold for the United States in the men's shot put final.
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The daughter of Seamus Gormley, the 86-year-old man who was tied to a chair in a care home, has described his ordeal as "torture".
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Plans include turning the St David's Shopping Centre site into a retail and cafe area with a boutique cinema, with an arena nearby.
A report has warned it may be hard to attract a department store in the current market.
But Swansea Council approved the outline plans on Tuesday.
Martin Nicholls, Director of Place at Swansea Council, said the approval of the plans was a "major step forward" for the regeneration of the city centre.
He said: "This approval means we can now especially push on with our plans for the site that's south of Oystermouth Road, which will form the first phase of the overall development."
The scheme will need planning permission once plans are finalised, with work hoped to start on the southern site by summer 2018.
Student housing has been scrapped as part of the scheme and an ice rink has also been mooted.
The plan is to create new shops, a cinema, offices and housing on the St David's site, which has already been partly demolished.
On the other side of Oystermouth Road, a 3,500-seat arena would go on the existing car park next to the LC leisure centre, along with a 13-storey residential block or hotel.
A footbridge would link the two sites and both would have multi-storey parking.
The area has been identified as the "highest priority for redevelopment in the city centre".
While the project has been largely welcomed, Tesco, Swansea Market traders and the leisure centre have raised concerns over road safety, fears of becoming isolated and loss of light, respectively.
The second phase involves demolishing the civic centre and creating a city beach which would also include an aquarium and digital science centre.
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Russell Findlay, 41, is believed to have had liquid thrown in his face at his home at about 08:45.
He was treated at the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Police said later that a 55-year-old man had been arrested. He is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Thursday.
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A man has been arrested after an investigative journalist with the Scottish Sun was attacked in the west end of Glasgow.
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Kromtech - the Germany-based firm behind MacKeeper - has acknowledged that its customers' names, internet addresses and login credentials were among the data exposed.
However, it said that users' payment details were "never at risk".
The firm believes the details were accessed only by the security expert who alerted it to the problem.
"The privacy and security of our clients' information remains our top priority and from the moment we were aware of the access, we immediately took several proactive steps to identify and correct the issue," it said in a statement.
"We want to offer a special 'thank you' to security researcher Chris Vickery for identifying the security breach attempt so that we could stop it before anyone was harmed."
Mr Vickery told security blogger Brian Krebs that he had discovered 21 gigabytes of MacKeeper user data "after spending a few bored moments searching for database servers" that were not password-protected. He was able to do this by using Shodan, a search engine for internet-connected devices.
Mr Krebs reported that Kromtech initially said that 13 million customers' details had been exposed.
That figure was removed from the firm's statement - a spokesman for Kromtech told the BBC it had included both "active and non-active" users.
MacKeeper is widely promoted on the web - including in prominent adverts on Ookla's Speedtest site - as a way to "clean" and "protect" Macintosh computers in order to help them run faster.
However, critics have claimed that the software can cause computers to slow down and crash, and can be problematic to remove.
"There are no ways that the program itself can harm or de-stabilise the system as described by some sources," the Kromtech spokesman said.
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Users of a popular utility designed to "optimise" Apple Mac computers have had their details leaked online.
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Passengers were evacuated as the aircraft was preparing to depart from Manchester Airport at about 11:00 BST, causing a 40-minute delay.
An investigation by the Romanian airline Carpatair found it was not smoke but steam that had been released from the air conditioning system.
City play Steaua Bucharest on Tuesday.
A spokesman for Manchester Airport said: "It appears that there was a smell of smoke in the cabin after (the passengers) boarded."
However, the charter airline's president Nicolae Petrov said: "The crew decided to disembark passengers because steam was released into the passenger cabin.
"After the necessary checks, it was established that it was caused by condensation accumulated in the air conditioning ducts system on the long previous flight."
There were no players on board the plane.
The passengers were taken to the departure lounge while the fire service carried out checks.
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A plane carrying Manchester City staff and media to a Champions League match has been evacuated after reports smoke was seen in the cabin.
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Johnson forced the play-off by sinking a 17-foot putt at the final hole, with both men finishing on 13 under par.
The world number one's ball caught the edge of the hole and did a half-circle around the lip before toppling in.
"I feel the game's back in form like it was leading into he Masters," he said.
"I'm swinging really well, got a lot of control over the golf ball and I'm feeling really good.
"Getting a win here gives me a lot of confidence going into next week and the rest of the play-offs."
The tournament was the first of four lucrative PGA Tour FedEx play-offs and it was Johnson's first win since missing the first major of the season at Augusta in April after falling downstairs.
He carded a closing four-under-par round of 66 at Glen Oaks Country Club, New York, while Spieth - who had led by three shots overnight - shot a 69.
Spieth's two birdies in the first five holes had seen him lead Johnson by five shots, before a double-bogey at the sixth hole after finding the water.
That left him three shots clear - and four holes later the pair were tied.
At the first play-off hole, Johnson knocked his approach to three feet and holed the birdie putt after Spieth had missed from distance.
The pair finished four strokes clear of Spain's Jon Rahm and Venezuela's Jhonattan Vegas.
"I didn't lose this tournament. He won it," Spieth said.
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World number one Dustin Johnson clawed back a five-shot deficit before beating fellow American Jordan Spieth at the first sudden-death hole to win the Northern Trust Open.
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It's the first time the Lions have beaten the All Blacks since 1993, and the first time the All Blacks have been defeated on home soil in eight years.
The Lions gained a one-man advantage 55 minutes in, when New Zealand's Sonny Bill Williams was sent off with a red card for a shoulder charge.
He's the first All Blacks player to be sent off in a test match in 50 years.
Even after losing a player, the All Blacks dominated the start of the second half, until the British and Irish side managed to make the most of their opportunity, and pull ahead for an historic win.
Lions captain Sam Warburton complimented the All Blacks, saying "Credit to New Zealand, to play for so long with 14 men, they did extremely well".
The Lions have only won one series in New Zealand ever, and not since 1971.
They'll be hoping to making it two at the series decider in Auckland on Saturday.
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The British and Irish Lions beat New Zealand's All Blacks 21-24 in Wellington.
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Developers intend to site the large turbine structures close to Mr Trump's golfing development on the Aberdeenshire coast.
The US businessman has taken on the Scottish government, which approved the plan.
Mr Trump began his challenge to the decision to grant planning permission more than two years ago.
He was furious when the Scottish government approved plans for the renewable energy development within sight of his multi-million pound golf development on the Menie Estate in the north-east of Scotland.
He said the 11 turbines would spoil the view.
Mr Trump made a series of legal challenges in the Scottish courts and has now taken the fight to the UK's Supreme Court in London.
He has argued that planning consent for the wind farm was so imprecise as to make it legally invalid.
Following Mr Trump's earlier unsuccessful actions in the Scottish courts, the Scottish government said its decision-making process had been vindicated and that the "painstaking work" of Marine Scotland staff who advised it was both fair and reasonable.
The Supreme Court judges are expected to deliver their verdict later.
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Donald Trump's challenge to a planned offshore wind farm is being heard at the UK's Supreme Court.
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The firm has been told that its assets would be seized in case it failed to pay the tax.
Vodafone has been fighting Indian tax authorities since its 2007 takeover of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa's Indian mobile unit for $11bn.
The company has said that it doesn't owe any taxes in India because the transaction was conducted offshore.
Correspondents say that the income tax department's notice to Vodafone has again raked up the controversial retrospective taxation.
India's top court ruled in favour of Vodafone in 2012, but the government changed laws later that year to allow firms to be taxed retrospectively.
The move was heavily criticised by investors at the time.
But since coming to power in May 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley have repeatedly assured foreign investors of a stable tax regime.
In a strongly worded statement, Vodafone said India had promised that tax disputes "would be resolved through existing judicial process".
"In a week when Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi is promoting a tax-friendly environment for foreign investors [through Make in India week] - this seems a complete disconnect between government and the tax department," it said.
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India's tax department has sent a renewed tax notice of $2.1bn (£1.4bn) to telecom giant Vodafone.
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The 24-year-old has scored 14 goals in 25 league appearances for the Championship side this season.
"There have been offers from clubs for him but we said all along he has a value to us," Smith said.
"We want to keep him at the club if we can, unless the valuation is met by any clubs looking at him."
Hogan has scored 21 goals in 35 appearances since joining the Bees in the summer of 2014, having suffered a serious knee injury which kept him sidelined for 19 months soon after his arrival from Rochdale.
Premier League side West Ham are reported to have submitted several bids for Hogan in January.
Hogan missed Saturday's FA Cup win over non-league Eastleigh with a glute problem but Smith says he is fit to return for Saturday's game against promotion-chasing Newcastle.
"I'll see how he is on Friday morning as there has been a lot of speculation," Smith said. "He is a driven person and you can see that from his demeanour on the pitch.
"I fully expect him to want the opportunity to go and score a hat-trick against Newcastle and show people who may question his credentials for the Premier League that he can do it."
With Hogan contributing more than 40% of Brentford's 32 league goals this season, Smith says he would have to bolster his front line if the striker leaves the west London club.
"We have been looking, just in case anything did happen," Smith said. "We have a number of different options but the January window is a funny time and it becomes very difficult.
"There are options we will pursue if anything happens."
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Brentford striker Scott Hogan will remain at Griffin Park unless his transfer valuation is met, head coach Dean Smith has told BBC Radio London.
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The station, which will serve the town centre, is part of an £11.5m project funded by the Welsh government.
Delivered by Network Rail, it features a new station building, 150m platform to fit up to six carriages, a car park, a waiting shelter and bicycle storage.
The 07:38 BST Cardiff Central to Ebbw Vale Town was the first train to arrive at 08:41 BST.
The station is located on the Ebbw Vale to Cardiff line and will be served by the existing hourly service.
Transport Minister Edwina Hart said: "The Ebbw Vale railway line is very popular, with some 300,000 journeys annually.
"Together with our investment in the track, the new Ebbw Vale Town station will improve access to jobs and services for more people along this busy route."
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The first train is pulling into the newly reopened Ebbw Vale town train station on Sunday.
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15 December 2016 Last updated at 14:35 GMT
The book about a family who leave their house in search of a bear has been popular with children for more than 20 years!
Now it's getting made into an animation for a whole new generation to enjoy this Christmas.
Martin went along to check it out with a few of you guys to find out what you thought.
So will it be as enjoyable as the book, or will Michael Rosen have to "bear" some criticism from our reviewers?!
Pictures of We're Going on a Bear Hunt from Channel 4.
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You may have read We're Going on a Bear Hunt, or maybe someone read it to you when you were younger...
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