A man has been charged with murder after a woman was found dead in a flat in Cambridge.
Police said the woman, who was in her 30s, was found in a flat in the city's West End on Monday.
The man, who was arrested on suspicion of murder, has been released on bail.

The husband of a dentist who was arrested over her death has said she "took her own life" as he told of his family's "devastating loss".

Article: Barbie was bitten on Monday night by Falco, a German shepherd, on a private lane, and was put down due to the extent of her injuries.
Falco's operational licence has been removed while the incident is investigated, Lincolnshire Police said.
The suspension was "normal practice" and was "not a pre-judgement of the circumstances", it said.
No action has been taken against Falco's handler Mick Judge, who the force said was "very upset" by the incident.
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Barbie's owner Charles Giermak described Monday's attack, near Fishtoft, Boston, as a "horrible sight".
He said the other dog came out of the darkness and shook three-year-old Barbie "like a rag doll".
Mr Giermak, who was out walking with Barbie and her daughter Candy, said: "There was no barking, no growling - nothing - it just attacked."
He said the attack could have been prevented if the police dog had been wearing a muzzle.

Summary: A police dog that fatally injured a Yorkshire terrier in an unprovoked attack has been suspended from duty.
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Article: The "Westerlund 2" cluster of stars is located about 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina.
Hubble was launched on Space Shuttle Discovery on 24 April, 1990.
Engineers expect the observatory to keep operating for at least another five years.
"Even the most optimistic person to whom you could have spoken back in 1990 couldn't have predicted the degree to which Hubble would rewrite our astrophysics and planetary science textbooks," commented Nasa Administrator Charlie Bolden.
"A quarter of a century later, Hubble has fundamentally changed our understanding of our Universe and our place in it."
Famously, a flaw was found in the telescope's primary mirror soon after launch that blurred its images.
A smart fix was then installed by spacewalking astronauts in 1993 that allowed its instruments to correct for the aberration in the reflecting surface.
Four further servicing missions later, Hubble is in rude health and technically a far more capable observatory than when it was first put in orbit.
No more repair visits by astronauts are planned, but the latest assessment of its likely longevity is very encouraging.
In the past, Hubble has suffered from degradation in its six gyroscopes - the spinning devices that allow it to point very precisely at objects on the sky.
However, the current batch has experienced just the one failure - in March, 2014.
"The instrumentation on Hubble has been getting better with time, in the sense that we've been able to calibrate it better and know more about how the observatory is working," said Ken Sembach, interim deputy director at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
"It's also worth noting that two of the instruments repaired on the last servicing mission - the Advanced Camera for Surveys, and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph - are both working five years hereafter the servicing mission, which is longer than they worked originally with their original electronics.
"And so we have great hope that these two instruments, along with the two that were...

Summary: The Hubble Space Telescope has celebrated its silver anniversary with a picture featuring a spectacular vista of young stars blazing across a dense cloud of gas and dust.
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Article: Dr Helen Nicoll, 53, was found dead at home in Frog End, Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, on Friday.
Her husband and partner in their dental practice, Stephen Nicoll, 53, was arrested on suspicion of murder before being released on Tuesday.
A post-mortem examination revealed Mrs Nicoll died from asphyxiation.
Mr Nicoll was released by police with no further action and his bail cancelled.
The couple had three children and worked together in their clinic in Hurst Park, Cambridge while Mr Nicoll also practises in London's Harley Street.
Mr Nicoll said in a statement: "These last few days have been the worst of my life.
"Nobody can understand the true loss that my children and I have experienced following the discovery that my wife Helen has taken her own life.
"I would ask everybody, particularly the media, to respect our privacy and allow us to come to terms with our devastating loss and to begin the grieving process as a family following this tragedy."
He added his family had "fully co-operated" with police and his wife's death had been referred to the coroner.
Mr Nicoll's solicitor Paul Oliver said: "The arrest of Mr Nicoll in the immediate aftermath of the death of his beloved wife and the consequential media interest in this tragic case compounded the distress caused to him and his family.
"The police have confirmed Mr Nicoll is not a suspect and he and his family now ask that their right to grieve in private be respected."

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The former England captain has been named as the new head coach of the Wales national rugby union team.
The former England captain has been named as the new head coach of the Wales national rugby union team.
The former England captain has been named as the new head coach of the Wales national rugby union team.
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Wales and Ospreys scrum-half Rhys Webb expects to be back in action sooner than expected following injury.

Article: The main risk factors for the disease are a lack of exercise, smoking, depression and poor education, it says.
Previous research from 2011 put the estimate at one in two cases, but this new study takes into account overlapping risk factors.
Alzheimer's Research UK said age was still the biggest risk factor.
Writing in The Lancet Neurology, the Cambridge team analysed population-based data to work out the main seven risk factors for Alzheimer's disease.
These are:
They worked out that a third of Alzheimer's cases could be linked to lifestyle factors that could be modified, such as lack of exercise and smoking.
The researchers then looked at how reducing these factors could affect the number of future Alzheimer's cases.
They found that by reducing each risk factor by 10%, nearly nine million cases of the disease could be prevented by 2050.
In the UK, a 10% reduction in risk factors would reduce cases by 8.8%, or 200,000, by 2050, they calculated.
Current estimates suggest that more than 106 million people worldwide will be living with Alzheimer's by 2050 - more than three times the number affected in 2010.
Prof Carol Brayne, from the Institute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge, said: "Although there is no single way to treat dementia, we may be able to take steps to reduce our risk of developing dementia at older ages.
"We know what many of these factors are, and that they are often linked.
"Simply tackling physical inactivity, for example, will reduce levels of obesity, hypertension and diabetes, and prevent some people from developing dementia.
"As well as being healthier in old age in general, it's a win-win situation."
Dr Simon Ridley, head of research at charity Alzheimer's Research UK, said there was still much to discover about the disease.
"While age is the biggest risk factor for most cases of Alzheimer's, there are a number of lifestyle and general health factors that could increase or decrease a person's chances of developing the disease.
"However, we still do not fully understand the...

Summary: One in three cases of Alzheimer's disease worldwide is preventable, according to research from the University of Cambridge.
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Article: The answer, as you probably guessed, involves debating the Wales Bill, with Monday's committee stage ending at 11:12pm.
The Lords don't, by tradition, have votes during committee stages. Instead, amendments are introduced, moved and debated before being withdrawn after peers have had the chance to find out if ministers might change their mind later during the legislative process - or whether there is such a groundswell of support to change the Bill that the government might be defeated.
Peers spent an hour of that time debating whether a referendum should be held before the Welsh Government gets the power to vary income tax rates.
The law, as it now stands, says there should be a plebiscite but the Wales Bill scraps that requirement, much to the annoyance of Welsh Labour grandees Lords Hain, Murphy and Kinnock.
The debate, perhaps inevitably, featured reflections, prompted by recent experience, on the recent nature of referendums. Lord Kinnock spoke of his own bruises and scars from the Brexit vote, but argued referendums were justifiable in a parliamentary democracy "when there is a proposal to change the way in which we are governed".
He argued that the proposal to give Wales tax-varying powers was made "in the absolutely certain and cynical knowledge that it would not be exercised" and that there "was and is no evident support among the public for the idea of income tax-raising or income tax-varying powers to be allocated to the Welsh Assembly".
Wales Office Minister Lord Bourne disagreed, telling peers: "I strongly and sincerely believe that if we were to have a referendum, it would be carried".
Former Labour MP Lord Howarth of Newport, suggested the Conservatives were "sliding away" from a clear manifesto commitment to only devolve tax powers after a referendum.
The Welsh Conservative manifesto referred to the issue in a passage on what politicians call "fair funding". It said:  "We will do this by putting in place a floor in the level of relative Welsh Government funding in the expectation that the...

Summary: What do members of the House of Lords get up to at eleven o'clock of an evening?
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Article: Webb has not played since suffering a serious foot injury in a World Cup warm-up with Italy in September.
The 27-year-old says he is close to a return, giving him time to get fit before the Six Nations in February.
"I'm back up and running now and going through a pre-season sort of stage at the moment. It's all coming along well," he said.
"I'm going to take each week as it comes now and see where I am then.
"It's been talked about [returning] at the beginning of February, but I did ask the physios if they could scrape a couple of weeks off that and they said 'yes'."
Wales begin their Six Nations campaign away to Ireland in Dublin on Sunday, 7 February.
Webb, capped 16 times by Wales, has renewed his national dual contract with Ospreys and the Welsh Rugby Union.
He turned down offers from elsewhere to stay at the region for whom he made his debut in 2007.
"It's my home region and I enjoy the club," Webb told BBC Wales' Scrum V Live.
"I want to put myself in the best possible position to play for my country and I'm not going to give that up that easy.
"Wales and the Ospreys came together and I'm happy to get it done."

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The X Factor will only end when the contestants get "boring", Simon Cowell has said.
"I don't think it's going to end," he told the Radio 1 Breakfast Show.
"I think it's going to end when the contestants get boring.
"I think it's going to end

A man who liked "highly offensive" Facebook messages about Islam had his shotgun licence revoked by police.

Article: PC Simon Reynolds assaulted a 27-year-old man after the victim was arrested in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, in the early hours of 22 November, 2014.
He was found guilty of common assault after an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
Reynolds, 38, was sentenced at Swansea Magistrates' Court on Monday.
The inquiry into Reynolds' conduct came after a referral to the police watchdog by Dyfed-Powys Police in December 2014.
It related to the assault of a man arrested outside Bar Luna in the town centre.
He was taken to hospital for treatment to a cut on his forehead after the incident, the IPCC said.
As well as the sentence, suspended for one year, Reynolds was ordered to pay Â£500 in prosecution costs, Â£250 in compensation and an Â£80 victim surcharge.
The watchdog said its report into the conduct of Reynolds and another officer had been passed to Dyfed-Powys Police.

Summary: A Dyfed-Powys Police officer has been handed an eight-week suspended sentence for assaulting a man.
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Article: "At the moment there are still a lot of people who want to turn up," he told Grimmy on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show.
It's already been on the air for a decade, and with Simon returning to the judging line-up, it seems like there's still some life in The X Factor yet.
But what about in another 10 years? Or 20? Or more?
Simon seems to think it could go on indefinitely, so long as they keep finding great contestants.
So basically it's down to you. If you want The X Factor to remain on our screens for the rest of our lives, then keep turning up to those auditions.
And if you don't? Then send your boring mates.
"You've got to find great people and if they're all boring then it will run out of steam and then you may have to rest it and then bring it back," he said in his BBC interview.
So actually there's no way of stopping the juggernaut, a break is the most you're going to get.
Simon's also got a bigger pool of people to choose from, now that younger teenagers are allowed to audition.
"A lot of the really great kids now are 14, 15 years old and they probably know a lot more than the older contestants," he said.
"It's case by case. If they're really nervous or you've got some horrible stage mum pushing them on to the show, forget it.
"I would have done it. I would have been in a band in a shot."
In his interview with Nick Grimshaw, Simon also shared his critique of recent television series.
He and his girlfriend Lauren Silverman are fans of House of Cards, which surprised him to begin with.
"Normally when everyone tells me about how it is great, it's usually terrible, like those weirdo Game of Throne things, which I couldn't be bothered with," he said.
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Summary: The X Factor will only end when the contestants get "boring", Simon Cowell has said.
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Article: North Wales Police claimed Owen Jones, 52, of Caernarfon, Gwynedd, was not fit to hold a firearms certificate after officers looked at his profile.
Mr Jones, who had held a licence for more than 30 years, appealed against the decision and won.
Caernarfon Crown Court heard on Friday that he was not a cause for concern despite the posts.
The hearing was told a senior police officer regarded the posts as "highly offensive", prompting the licence to be revoked.
Judge Niclas Parry said Mr Jones was ignorant about the subject of the Muslim faith, but added: "None of those messages were created by the appellant.
"The appellant has liked certain messages that appeared on his Facebook profile. He has then effectively re-published the message."

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The UK's biggest insurer has said that motorists' premiums could be cut by an average of £60 a year by changing the system of whiplash claims.
"The UK's biggest insurer has said that motorists' premiums could be cut by an average of £60 a year by changing the system of whiplash

Shell is removing life-sized cardboard cutouts of a female employee from all of its Malaysian petrol stations after "distasteful" images appeared online.

Article: Here at Russia's Star City centre near Moscow, he and two fellow astronauts endured three hours in a Soyuz simulator this morning.
Dressed in spacesuits, the three men clambered into the tiny capsule for a rehearsal of the end of their mission.
This is when the crew uncouple from the ISS and descend back to Earth.
Just before the exercise began, I suggested to Tim Peake that he looked far more sombre than he had during a big media day in London last week when he seemed to enjoy fielding light-hearted questions.
"It is a serious business," he said, sitting on the steps leading to the spacecraft.
"There's a fun side to space and what we do and the educational programmes we run but when it comes to actually getting into a Soyuz rocket - and the operational tasks that we have to perform - you need to be focused and serious."
Asked about the greatest challenges during the simulation, he said: "The most difficult thing to deal with is multiple failures.
"If you have just one failure then you can work through it as a crew. But if you have several it's much harder to keep track of all the problems."
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Watching the process relayed by CCTV to the simulator control centre, all three of the astronauts looked busy and tense.
During the exercise, instructors created a series of pretend challenges including a leak in the spacesuit worn by US astronaut Tim Kopra, a slow leak of the capsule itself causing depressurisation - and at the same time a computer failure.
Emerging later, Tim Peake looked quite tired and slightly unsteady on his legs - a normal reaction after sitting hunched in such a confined space.
But he was pleased with the way the team had coped with the malfunctions that the instructors had faced them with - and was keen to emphasise how the training is a positive experience.
"I always feel more confident when I come out of the simulator - they throw these emergencies at you but we coped with them and we got back...

Summary: British astronaut Tim Peake is going through a gruelling round of final training before liftoff to the International Space Station next month.
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Article: Aviva has called for a new process that would force victims to put their claims directly to the insurer of the driver who caused the crash.
It suggests that the system would cut out middlemen who inflate the cost of claims.
However, one legal group said such a change would leave victims vulnerable.
"Putting the injured person entirely in the hands of the guilty party's insurer would create a profound conflict of interest," said the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
"Independent advice is key to preventing such a conflict and ensuring a fair outcome for the injured person."
Whiplash claims are a major factor behind the rapid rise in the price of motor cover. They account for 80% of injury claims, and most go through lawyers who have been charging sizeable fees, Aviva said.
Costs can rise even further as a result of referral fees paid by lawyers and claims management firms to breakdown firms, brokers and the insurers themselves - in exchange for providing information about accident victims.
Aviva suggested that all this accounted for £118 of a typical motor insurance premium.
The government has already given notice that it will ban referral fees and limit legal fees, but Aviva believes the cost could be cut further by putting a claim first to the "at fault" insurer.
The victims should then receive independent clinical advice and there should be a standard tariff of damages focused on care, rather than cash payments, according to Aviva.
Some 550,000 whiplash claims are made each year. Aviva estimates that up to 300,000 cases could be dealt with under its proposed system.
"Our primary concerns are that injured parties receive care and compensation as quickly as possible, and that all motorists benefit from a reduction in the excessive costs that have built up in claims over the past few years," said Dominic Clayden, claims director at Aviva.

Summary: The UK's biggest insurer has said that motorists' premiums could be cut by an average of £60 a year by changing the system of whiplash claims.
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Article: Pictures of men kissing the figure, holding her hand and touching her chest and crotch have gone viral on Facebook and other social media.
Malaysia is a Muslim-majority country which has seen religious conservatism on the rise in recent years.
Shell said the acts went against local culture and its own values.
The energy giant, which has more than 950 outlets in Malaysia, said it would not condone the "distasteful and suggestive acts", which it said were "disrespectful".
"We urge netizens and members of the public to refrain from sharing these images further", it added, criticising the "extreme behaviour" of the men,
The adverts featuring a 25-year-old female employee, dressed in a red T-shirt, black trousers and a black headscarf.
The woman told local paper The Star that she felt "humiliated" by the images.
"They may just be joking, but I feel humiliated because that is still myself although it is just an image," she said.
One man who posted a four-minute video on Facebook of himself kissing the cardboard cutout has reportedly apologised.
"I let excitement get the better of me," he told a Malaysian news outlet.

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A man has been charged with the murder of a grandmother who was beheaded in London.
The 25-year-old is also charged with assaulting a police officer.
The 25-year-old man was taken to the dock in the magistrates' court by four police officers, the BBC's Sophie Long said

Hundreds of photos of Bristol taken for a competition to show "24 Hours in Our City" are on show.

Article: Mr Sarkozy gained 64.5% of the vote, well ahead of his nearest rival Bruno Le Maire.
He was under pressure to win by a wide margin, and hoped to get more than 70% to keep his re-election hopes alive.
The UMP has struggled to be effective in opposition to Francois Hollande, despite the president's dismal ratings.
Mr Sarkozy, 59, won 85% of the vote when he was first elected party leader in 2004.
He served as president from 2007 and 2012 but left active politics after his defeat to Mr Hollande.
More than 150,000 party members - over 50% - voted in the election, despite the process being slowed down by a cyber attack.
Mr Le Maire, a former agriculture minister, received just less than 29.2% and a third candidate, MP Herve Mariton 6.3%.
Mr Sarkozy posted a message to supporters on his Facebook page (in French).
"I would like to thank all the UMP members who did me the honour of electing me leader of our political family," he said.
"Their mobilisation, at a level unequalled in the history of our movement, is the best response to two years of internal quarrels and divisions."
But a spokeswoman for Mr Hollande's Socialist Party said that the UMP's campaign had provided "nothing new for France".
"Mr Sarkozy's victory in the campaign for the UMP presidency is not the triumphal return that he was hoping for," Corinne Narassiguin said.
Florian Philippot, spokesman for the far-right National Front, described the result as an "utter failure" for Mr Sarkozy.
The UMP will choose its nominee for the 2017 presidential elections in two years, but correspondents say a lower than expected party vote for Mr Sarkozy could encourage other UMP leaders to stand against him.
Former prime ministers Alain Juppe and Francois Fillon are widely reported to want to be the UMP's candidate for president.
Mr Sarkozy is disliked by some French voters for his unusually high-profile private life, with critics branding his one-term tenure as the "bling-bling" presidency.
The 2012 leadership ballot - after Mr Sarkozy left office - degenerated into...

Summary: Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been elected head of the opposition UMP, in what is being seen as the start of a new bid for the presidency.
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Article: Nicholas Salvador, of Gilda Avenue, Enfield, is accused of killing Palmira Silva, 82, who was found in a garden in Edmonton, north London, on Thursday.
The 25-year-old is also charged with assaulting a police officer.
A post-mortem examination on Saturday found Ms Silva died from stab wounds to the heart and aorta. She was found decapitated, it is understood.
Mr Salvador was remanded in custody during a hearing at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court and is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Tuesday.
The defendant was taken to the dock in the magistrates' court by four police officers, the BBC's Sophie Long said.
She said one officer had to confirm Mr Salvador's name to the court as he would not answer.
Police found Ms Silva's body behind a property, in Nightingale Road, after being called to the area following reports an animal had been attacked.
Officers evacuated nearby homes before the suspect was Tasered.
Neighbours described Ms Silva as a "lovely lady" and said she was an Italian widow who ran a cafe in Church Street, near Edmonton Green station.

Summary: A man accused of the murder of a grandmother who was beheaded in London has been remanded in custody.
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Article: The images were all taken from midday-to-midday on 16 and 17 April and the contest was  open to anyone with a camera or a mobile phone.
The overall winner was Paolo Ferla who took "Electric Bristol" - a picture of the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
Megan Witty, from 24 Hours In Bristol, said the judges had had "an incredibly tough job" picking a winner.
The competition involves entrants being "randomly allocated" one hour of the day or night in which they must take at least one photograph.
Mr Ferla, from Bath, said he was "delighted" to have won.
He said he used a 10 second self-timer and then ran into the shot.
"Ten seconds is not very long so it took quite a few attempts - when we got there the sky was still quite bright, so we sat there for nearly 20 minutes waiting for the sky to get darker.
"It's a beautiful bridge and as soon as the sun sets on it and the sky gets darker and the electric lights come on - it just comes to life. "
Ms Witty said the six judges "didn't always agree" and one said it had been "heartbreaking" for some not to win. She said about 75% were taken on cameras and about 25% on mobile phones.
The exhibition is at the Harbourside Arts Centre near Millennium Square and runs until the middle of June.

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The BBC's John Simpson reports on the life of the late Pope John Paul II.
Article: The BBC's John Simpson reports on the life of the late Pope John Paul II.
The BBC's John Simpson reports on the life of the late Pope John Paul II.
The BBC's John Simpson reports on the

A mine, which has been made popular again by the recent BBC series Poldark, is to get a "facelift".

Article: Col Tahir Mahmood said troops acted on information that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was hiding criminals.
Schools and businesses across the city closed down amid fears of a backlash.
The MQM, which has urged a national protest, has long been accused of using violence and intimidation to control Karachi - claims it denies.
At various times in its 30-year history, the MQM has been part of the national governing coalition.
But leader Altaf Hussain lives in self-imposed exile in London, where he is being investigated over money-laundering allegations.
And its control of Karachi is increasingly being challenged by ethnic gangs, says the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad.
The MQM operates from the modest residence of party chief Altaf Hussain, and its adjoining buildings. The complex, known as Nine-Zero, has narrow, heavily guarded lanes that served as Mr Hussain's base until he went into exile.
For die-hard loyalists, many of whom were seen weeping after the raid, the sanctity of the neighbourhood has been violated. For critics of the party, however, Nine-Zero remains a no-go area from where the MQM has used the fear of guns and bullets to control this city of 20 million.
In the past, security forces have regarded the MQM as a force capable of turning Karachi into a war zone. But over the years things have changed.
Having spent more than a decade in government, the MQM is seen as weaker and somewhat directionless today. Its leader is under pressure from the British authorities as he faces a series of allegations, including money-laundering. He is also said to be suffering from health problems.
On the ground in Karachi, the MQM's muscle may be intact but it is believed that the army is managing to persuade the party to move away from its violent past.
After Wednesday's early morning raid, supporters and activists gathered outside the MQM headquarters and party leaders called for a nationwide strike.
Speaking to Pakistan's Geo News, senior MQM figure Farooq Sattar said the operation was "inappropriate and...

Summary: Security forces have raided the Karachi headquarters of Pakistan's fourth biggest political party, detaining "hardcore criminals" and seizing arms.
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Article: Karol Wojtyla's election as Pope in 1978 stunned the Catholic world. Not one expert had tipped the 58-year-old bishop of Krakow for the top job.
His stand against Poland's Communist regime had brought him respect. But he was not part of the Vatican "in-crowd" and, above all, he was the first non-Italian pope in more than 450 years.
He went on to become one of the most familiar faces in the world. His papal odyssey covered more than 120 countries and he earned himself the reputation of an international fighter for freedom.
But, to his critics, John Paul II was the arch-conservative - an autocrat whose pronouncements on abortion, contraception and women's rights have had an effect on millions of lives.
The youngest Pope of the 20th Century was born near Krakow, Poland, in 1920. As a young man he excelled at sports, including soccer and skiing. He also had a great love for the theatre and, at one time, seriously considered becoming an actor.
World War II and the Nazi occupation saw Karol Wojtyla working as a labourer. He studied theology from 1942 and was forced into hiding in 1944 following a crackdown on religious teaching.
Continuing his studies after the war, he was ordained a priest in 1946. Rapid promotion followed, and by 1964 he was archbishop of Krakow. Three years later he was a cardinal.
Throughout, he had continued his theological studies and was often seen in Rome, but no more so than dozens of other cardinals from distant and obscure dioceses.
How does someone become a saint?
"The Year of the Three Popes" came in 1978. Pope Paul VI died at the age of 80. His successor, elected in a single day, took the name John Paul in memory of his two predecessors. Thirty-three days later he, too, was dead.
Once again the College of Cardinals conducted the centuries-old ritual of a papal election in the Sistine Chapel. After two days of deliberation, Karol Wojtyla became the next successor to St Peter.
Taking the name John Paul II, the new pontiff signalled a new era in Catholic affairs. He was dynamic and...

Summary: John Paul II, who died at the age of 84 in April 2005, was declared a saint in 2014 alongside Pope John XXIII at a ceremony in the Vatican.
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Article: Machinery that used to be "the heart" of Poldark Mine is to be restored by Cornwall College engineering students.
The tin mine, which is open to the public, is one of the oldest industrial structures in the UK, its owner said.
It is believed that the renovation project on the mine at Wendron near Helston could take several years to complete.
David Edwards, who bought it last year, said the machinery on site "has suffered after 14 years of little or no investment" but that the recent BBC television series has prompted the need for it to be rejuvenated.
"Poldark definitely had an impact for us, it brought more people in buying bookmarks and taking a tour of the mine," he said.
"The challenge now is to restore the machinery we have on display and get it back in order so that it is more interesting to the public.
"This has been a place of industry since the 1400s, one of the oldest industrial structures in the UK, so keeping it going is vital for Cornwall's heritage."
Luke Bazeley, an engineering lecturer at Cornwall College, said: "We always try to give the students work experience and this is the perfect live project to work on - they've loved visiting the site and finding out more about Cornwall's heritage."
He added the students will need to do some research to find replacement parts for the machinery.

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A Danish newspaper has reported that a former employee of the credit card company Nets was also convicted.
The newspaper, Aftenposten, said that the former employee, Peter Bo Henriksen, was convicted of selling information between 2008 and 2012 that detailed the location of major public figures including Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen

Four Danish journalists have been found guilty of paying for credit card information to track politicians, celebrities and royal family members.

Article: The structure was one of the entries for the "edible masterpieces" challenge at Norwich Castle.
Its creator, Alison Newbery, 28, said she had been inspired by artist Perry's building in Wrabness, Essex.
"It took me about 14 hours to make, which was longer than I thought. But I did take a break to watch the Great British Bake Off final," she said.
The challenge was started by charity Art Fund, which supports museums and galleries across the country.
Miss Newbery, who works as an administration and finance officer at Norwich Castle, said she and her colleagues had been inspired by the BBC One baking series, which finished this week.
Norfolk Museum's head of service acted as the competition's own Mary Berry and declared Miss Newbery's biscuit creation the winner.
The BBC has contacted Perry to see what he made of the cake, but he is yet to respond.
Miss Newbery said she had grown up in north Essex, near the site of Perry's art work, and thought it would be the easiest of his creations to try to render in biscuit form.
Organisers said a "big favourite" was an edible version of Norwich Castle, which included cake at the bottom and top, and contained 16 eggs.
Another baker made a model of Kings Lynn town hall out of marzipan, while someone else created a cake covered in sugar work brooches, inspired by Norfolk finds in the museum's collection.
Miss Newbery said all the money raised during the bake sale would go to Art Fund and the museum.
She said the competition had left all the participants feeling "very happy and slightly high on sugar".

Summary: A shortbread version of Grayson Perry's "A House for Essex" has been named the winner of a baking competition.
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Article: Kimberley Taylor, from Blackburn, told BBC News she had joined Kurdish forces known as the YPJ in March last year.
The 27-year-old, who is on the front line in Raqqa, said fighting IS was for "democracy and freedom from extremism".
She is the first known woman from the UK to successfully travel to Syria to join the fight against IS.
Despite fighting in a war zone, she said: "I really don't want to scare my family."
Anti-IS forces have been trying to recapture Raqqa since it became the group's de facto capital in 2014.
Ms Taylor, a former maths student at the University of Liverpool, said she had spent 11 months learning Kurdish and studying regional politics, weaponry and battlefield tactics at the Kurdish Women's Protection Units' (YPJ) dedicated military academy.
"Everyone here sees the YPJ as leaders of the revolution, they're women that we can't compare with anything in the world," she said.
By Emma Vardy, the BBC correspondent who interviewed Ms Taylor
For Kimmie Taylor, joining the Kurdish women is about much more than picking up a gun.
She sees the YPJ female fighters as a beacon of hope for the world.
Strong female comrades, battling for freedom, democracy, and equality, in the midst of a terribly troubled region where women have been raped, kidnapped and held as sex slaves.
It is easy to see how one can be inspired. This is a revolution, she tells me.
As I interviewed her, she spoke in Kurdish to her comrades. She has clearly earned their trust and respect.
She is now trying to shine a spotlight on their struggle.
Ms Taylor, who is also known as Kimmie and by the name Zilan Dilmar, said she went the front line with the YPJ in October.
Like their male counterparts in the affiliated YPG, the YPJ has women who fight on the front line.
"The [women] are young, 18, 19, 20, they're taking on this power which seems uncontrollable," she said.
Although willing to risk her life for the cause, she said: "I don't want to die. I have too much work to do."
"It's a necessary thing," she added. "This is for the...

Summary: A British woman who has travelled to Syria to fight so-called Islamic State has said she is willing to die in the battle against the militant group.
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Article: An employee of the credit card company Nets was also convicted.
Leaks provided by IT expert Peter Bo Henriksen to the Se og Hor weekly magazine enabled it to report a series of royal family and celebrity stories, to the bafflement of its rivals.
The case has attracted huge public interest in Denmark.
Judge Mette Lyster Knudsen sentenced Mr Henriksen - who used to work for Nets - to 18 months in jail for selling information between 2008 and 2012 that detailed the location of major public figures including Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and actor Mads Mikkelsen.
Former Se og Hor editor Henrik Qvortrup was also sentenced to 18 months in jail, of which 12 were converted into 200 hours' community service.
Three other Se og Hor journalists were given suspended sentences, while another was acquitted.
All have since left the weekly, which has one of the biggest circulations in Denmark.
Among the stories reported by the magazine were details about the honeymoon of Prince Joachim and his wife in Canada in 2008, after it bought information about their itinerary from Nets.
The media group that owns the magazine was fined $1.52m (Â£1.22m) last year for wrongfully monitoring more than 120 celebrities. Two former senior staff members were given suspended sentences.
One of the celebrities who fell victim to the magazine, Rene Dif of the Danish-Norwegian music group Aqua, criticised the sentences on Thursday. "These short sentences shows how ridiculous the Danish justice system is," he told Danish TV.
The four journalists have said they are considering an appeal against the verdict.

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The US has said it will not be able to withdraw its troops from Syria until the Islamic State group is defeated.
The US has said it will not be able to withdraw its troops from Syria until the Islamic State group is defeated.
The US has said it will not be able to withdraw its troops from Syria until

Turkey's military has denied that it mistakenly told Russian warplanes to bomb a building in Syria on Thursday, killing three Turkish soldiers.

Article: Neil Hamilton said that with Brexit achieved, UKIP's aim now was to inform the Welsh electorate of its domestic policies.
And he denied the party had outlived its purpose, following the vote to leave the European Union.
His comments come despite UKIPs loss in Stoke-on-Trent Central's by-election on Friday.
The party had hoped to capitalise on voters' leanings towards Brexit - the area voted strongly to leave the EU in June - but Labour held its seat.
UKIP was founded in 1991 with the sole aim of getting the UK out of the EU.
But Mr Hamilton defended the role of his party post-Brexit while speaking to Sunday Politics Wales.
"In the last 20 years, UKIP has become an essential, particularly in Wales, part of the domestic political scene and we now have to refocus our attention upon other issues," he said.
"We have serious work now in order to show people we do have other policies which can benefit them in their daily lives."
With six assembly members, UKIP are hoping to establish a further foot-hold in Wales in the up-coming local elections.
"Carywn Jones doesn't hold a majority in the assembly, he can only do so with the combination of other parties," Mr Hamilton said.
"We are an important voice in Wales, we got the best part of 15% of the vote in the assembly election last year and all the current opinion polls show that we would actually do better in Wales today than we did last May."

Summary: UKIP has become an "essential voice" in Welsh politics, the party's leader in the assembly has insisted.
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Article: A restored print of Sleigh Bells (1928) will have its world premiere at the BFI in London in next month.
The BFI says the re-discovery of the "long-lost" six-minute film in its archive is a "joyful treat".
Other Oswald films survive but Sleigh Bells has been unseen since its original release.
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was invented by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for Universal in 1927 before they went on to create Mickey Mouse.
The only surviving print of Sleigh Bells was preserved in the BFI National Archive and was "re-discovered" by a researcher browsing its online catalogue.
The restoration work was carried out by Walt Disney Animation Studios and the new print will be shown at BFI Southbank on 12 December as part of a programme of Disney Christmas shorts.
"What a joyful treat to discover a long-lost Walt Disney film in the BFI National Archive and to be able to show Sleigh Bells to a whole new audience 87 years after it was made," said Robin Baker, head curator at the BFI National Archive.
"The restoration of this film will introduce many audiences to Disney's work in the silent period - it clearly demonstrates the vitality and imagination of his animation at a key point in his early career."
Andrew Millstein, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, which oversaw the restoration, said the Oswald shorts were an important part of Disney history.
"We have been working with film archives and private collectors all around the world to research the missing titles."

Summary: A cartoon featuring the first Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, is to be screened for the first time in 87 years.
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Article: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters the pilots were "guided by co-ordinates" from "Turkish partners".
"There should not have been Turkish troops at those co-ordinates," he said.
But the Turkish military insisted the troops had been at the building for 10 days and that Russia had been advised of their position on Wednesday.
The two countries, which support opposing sides in Syria's almost six-year civil war, are working together to drive the Islamic State group from its last stronghold in Aleppo province.
Turkish-backed rebel fighters have been besieging al-Bab from the north since December, while Russian-backed government forces are advancing from the south.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was quick to call his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to offer condolences after Thursday's air strike, which also wounded 11 Turkish soldiers.
On Friday morning, Mr Putin's spokesman told reporters in Moscow that the causes of the incident were "clear".
"Unfortunately, when carrying out strikes against terrorists, our military were guided by co-ordinates that had been handed over by Turkish partners," Mr Peskov said.
Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister, Numan Kurtulmus, meanwhile said the air strike was still being investigated.
"According to initial information we received, it is a total accident," he was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency. "But how it happened and how the co-ordination was miscalculated will be clarified."
The Turkish military subsequently issued its statement challenging Mr Peskov's account and stressing that the soldiers' position had been communicated the previous day to both officers at Russia's Hmeymim airbase in Syria and the Russian military attache in Ankara.
The air strike came as rebel fighters clashed with pro-government forces near al-Bab for the first time since coming within firing distance of each other.
Russia had to intervene to prevent further fighting at a village south-west of the town again on Friday, according to the Reuters news agency.
Both...

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The police watchdog has said it will not investigate the police over the death of a man who died in police custody.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it would not investigate the death of a man who died in police custody.
The IPCC said it would not investigate the death of a man who

Members of an alleged nationwide prostitution ring which forced trafficked women to work in brothels have been charged, said police.

Article: West Yorkshire Police referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) following claims made by fire survivor Martin Fletcher.
Fifty-six people died and more than 250 others were injured at the Valley Parade stadium in May of 1985.
The IPCC said it would not investigate the force over the claims.
For live updates and more stories from across Yorkshire
IPCC deputy chair Sarah Green said: "The fire at Bradford City's Valley Parade Stadium in 1985 was a horrific tragedy that many of us can recall, resulting in the death of 56 people. Mr Fletcher, the complainant, suffered significant loss and trauma himself.
"My decision not to conduct an investigation was not taken lightly; it comes as a result of detailed consideration of both Mr Fletcher's concerns about the role of the police and documents obtained from West Yorkshire Police, as well as evidence which is publicly available."
She said that "with hindsight" it was possible to "identify things the police could have done differently" but there was "no indication any individual officer may have breached the professional standards applicable at the time".
She added: "Significant learning was rightly identified at the time of the disaster, and formed part of the evolution towards the modern-day approach to policing large events."
The IPCC said it had made a recommendation to the force that it should consider making more of its records relating to its original investigation into the causes of the fire publicly available.
Mr Fletcher, who was 12 at the time of the blaze, escaped from the stand at Valley Parade, but his father, uncle, grandfather and younger brother all died.
The Popplewell inquiry, held three weeks after the disaster, ruled that the fire was started by a spectator dropping a cigarette or a lighted match which ignited rubbish that had accumulated under an old timber stand.
Russ Foster, Assistant Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, said: "Despite the passage of time, the terrible events of 11 May 1985 will never be forgotten...

Summary: The police watchdog has said it has found "no indication" of potential misconduct by police officers during the 1985 Bradford City fire disaster.
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Article: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says the scope for offering this treatment should be widened to save more lives.
Death rates have been decreasing in recent years, but cardiovascular disease remains the leading UK killer.
It claims about 180,000 lives a year.
Currently, doctors are meant to offer statin tablets to the estimated seven million people who have a 20% chance of developing cardiovascular disease over 10 years, based on risk factors such as their age, sex, whether they smoke and what they weigh.
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NICE is now suggesting that people with as low as a one in 10 or 10% risk should be offered statins.
Doctors will need to "make a judgement" about the risks to people who have a less than 10% risk of developing cardiovascular disease and advise them appropriately, say the draft guidelines.
The NHS currently spends about Â£450m a year on statins. If the draft recommendations go ahead, this bill will increase substantially, although the drugs have become significantly cheaper over the years.
It is not clear precisely how many more people would be eligible for statin therapy than now, but NICE says it could be many hundreds of thousands or millions.
Prof Peter Weissberg, of the British Heart Foundation, said the guidelines did need updating and agreed that more people stood to benefit from taking statins.
Cardiovascular disease develops when fatty substances build up in the arteries and narrow them, which can lead to heart attacks and stroke.
Too much cholesterol in the blood can lead to these fatty deposits. Statin drugs work by lowering cholesterol.
Eating a healthy diet, doing regular exercise and keeping slim will also help lower cholesterol.
Like all medicines, statins have potential side-effects.
They have been linked to muscle, liver and kidney problems, but only in a very small number of cases.
Prof Simon Maxwell, of the British Pharmacological Society, said: "Patients should be helped to make a truly informed decision about the benefits and risks of taking long-term...

Summary: Millions more people should be put on cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to protect them against heart attacks and strokes, according to draft guidelines for the NHS in England.
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Article: Eight people were arrested after raids on homes in the Midlands and south of England in September 2014.
Warwickshire Police believe Chinese and Malaysian women were being brought into the UK to be exploited.
Some of the eight have been charged with running brothels while others face charges relating to money laundering.
They have all been bailed to appear before Leamington Spa Magistrates' Court on 2 December.
The ring was discovered after a property in Nuneaton was investigated, said police.
Two homes in Nottingham were raided, two in Warwickshire, and one each in Reading, Slough, Wolverhampton, Torquay and Finchley, in London.

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The company, best known for its smartphone chips, wants to reduce spending by $1.4bn, partly through a 15% cut in its workforce.
The US-based company also delivered its third profit warning of the year.
For the past quarter, the company said its net income fell by 47% with

Qualcomm has said it aims to cut costs and jobs and might restructure itself as it delivers a fresh profit warning in the face of rising competition.

Article: The figure is 1,000 higher than last year's target for apprenticeship starts.
The statistics have been released ahead of Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2017.
During the week, employers will be encouraged to take on young people and consider a work-based learning route into employment.
They include new foundation apprenticeships where young people can start training at school, and graduate level apprenticeships where employees can use work-based learning opportunities at degree level.
Employability and Training Minister Jamie Hepburn said he believed more apprenticeship programmes would provide the chance for a record number of young people to work, learn and earn.
He said: "Apprenticeships support young people into sustainable careers, reduce youth unemployment and help meet Scotland's skill requirements.
"Since this government came into office in 2007, over 200,000 modern apprenticeship starts have been delivered.
"Scotland currently has the second lowest youth unemployment in Europe and our world-class work-based learning system is a factor in this.
"By significantly boosting the number of apprentice places on offer, we are reinforcing our commitment to provide accessible education opportunities which will support our learners and the wider economy."
Damien Yeates, chief executive of Skills Development Scotland, which organises Scottish Apprenticeship Week, said: "Apprenticeships are designed by employers for employers and provide the talent they want for the growth they need to develop their workforce.
"Business and industry continue to invest in apprenticeships, even in challenging economic times, which is a testament to the value they see in work-based learning."

Summary: Up to 27,000 young people will benefit from apprenticeship employment opportunities this year, according to the Scottish government.
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Article: The Ministry of Defence revealed the name, to coincide with Trafalgar Day, for the first vessel of the £31bn project to replace existing submarines.
The MoD said nine Navy vessels had previously been named Dreadnought.
Perhaps the most famous was HMS Dreadnought, commissioned in 1906, which transformed naval warfare.
The name became used at the time to describe a new era of warship design.
Other Dreadnoughts included one that sailed with Sir Francis Drake to battle the Spanish Armada in 1588, and another that was present with Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Britain's first nuclear-powered submarine, launched 56 years ago, also shared the name.
Critics of the project to renew the UK's Trident nuclear weapons system believe the enormous investment could be better spent elsewhere.
But Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: "Every day our ballistic missile submarines are used to deter the most extreme threats to Britain's security.
"We cannot know what dangers we might face in the 2030s, 2040s and 2050s, so we are building the new Dreadnought class.
"Along with increasing the defence budget to buy new ships, more planes, and armoured vehicles, this commitment shows we will never gamble with our security."
Dreadnought will be the lead boat of the four new submarines, as well as the class name for the whole fleet.
The MoD, which received approval for the name from the Queen, said the next three boats would also be given names with "historical resonance".
But there are still groups fighting against the project who have said the bill will run much higher than predicted.
Dave Webb, chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, said: "Replacing and running Trident is set to cost a staggering £205bn.
"The government dishonestly states Trident will cost between £31bn and £41bn, but that's only the cost of manufacturing four submarines.
"Hundreds of billions for a nuclear weapons system that does nothing to address the real and serious security threats we face - like terrorism and...

Summary: The first of four new UK submarines to carry Trident nuclear missiles will be named Dreadnought, a decision inspired by famous ships from the past.
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Article: The company, best known for its smartphone chips, wants to reduce spending by $1.4bn (Â£900m), partly through a 15% cut in its workforce.
The US-based firm also delivered its third profit warning of the year.
Qualcomm had been under pressure from major shareholders to make changes in light of rising competition from Asia.
The cost-cutting efforts announced on Wednesday will include culling around 4,500 full-time jobs.
Qualcomm also said it may break itself up.
Shareholder Jana Partners had been pressuring the firm to separate the chip business from the more profitable patent-licensing business.
The company makes chips used in smartphones and tablets, especially the Snapdragon processor found in many mid- and high-end Android devices.
But it has faced increasing competition from Asian manufacturers like Taiwan's MediaTek or smaller Chinese chipmakers.
Smartphone giant Samsung plans to increasingly use its own processors for its future devices rather than going for the Snapdragon chip.
Qualcomm shares fell more than 20% over the past year and dropped further in Wednesday's after hour trading.
In a weak revenue forecast, the company had to give its third profit warning of the year.
For the past quarter, the company said its net income fell by 47% with revenue down by 14%, both numbers coming in below expectations.

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The man who was found guilty of murdering a woman in a Rhyl hotel room in 2011 has been jailed for life.
The court heard how the man, who was aged in his 20s, had been drinking with friends in the hotel bar when he became aggressive towards the woman.
The court heard how the man

Ten men who revealed the identity of the woman involved in footballer Ched Evans' rape trial have been cautioned.

Article: It would succeed the current system based in Reading, UK.
Member states of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) made the indicative decision to relocate the facility on Wednesday.
Detailed negotiations will now be held with Italian authorities. The intention is to confirm the choice in June.
That is the date of the next full Council meeting of the ECMWF.
The bid from Italy's Emilia-Romagna Region to erect a new €50m (£43m) building on the site of an old tobacco factory was regarded as the leading contender, according to an evaluation panel.
A proposal from Finland is back-up should the legal, financial and technical discussions over the next few months suddenly fall over.
The ECMWF is an independent intergovernmental organisation supported by 22 full member states from Europe, with another 12 co-operating nations.
Its supercomputer system ingests weather observations to run models that construct forecasts out to 15 days ahead.
These forecasts are then shared with the member national meteorological agencies, such as Meteo France and the UK's Met Office.
The ECMWF's HQ has been sited at Shinfield Park on the outskirts of Reading since the organisation's set-up four decades ago.
Its first supercomputer, a CRAY-1A, was installed in 1978. The machines have been regularly updated, but the existing Reading buildings are not considered capable of meeting the technical requirements of the next device.
The dual CRAY-XC40 system currently running the numerical models will therefore be the last supercomputing to be done at Shinfield Park.
"It has been clear for a while now that the current data centre facility does not offer the required flexibility for future growth and changes in high-performance computing technology," ECMWF's Director-General Florence Rabier said in a statement.
"As laid out in our 2025 Strategy launched last September, we believe that continuing to improve weather predictions relies heavily on our ability to support our science with proportionate computing power....

Summary: The next-generation supercomputer that will drive Europe’s medium-range weather forecasts looks set to be housed in Bologna, Italy, from 2020.
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Article: The event in Maguindanao, in Mindanao, was attended by President Benigno Aquino who hailed it as an important step forward.
Seventy-five weapons will be deactivated as a gesture of MILF's commitment to peace.
In 2012, the government and MILF agreed to a framework for a peace accord.
About 145 of the estimated 10,000 members of the MILF's armed faction, the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces, will be integrated into mainstream society.
"As I look at the faces of each of our 145 brothers here this morning, I see 145 stories of struggle, of pain, of hopelessness and even of death. Yet I also see 145 stories of hope and faith that indeed peace is near and that all the sacrifices have been worth it," MILF lead negotiator Murad Ebrahim said, in quotes carried by the AP news agency.
The government will provide a cash handout of 25,000 Philippine peso ($555; Â£355) to each of the combatants to be used for education, training and livelihood, The Philippine Star newspaper said.
It comes as a law implementing a peace deal between the government and MILF has attracted only lukewarm support in congress.
Dozens of police commandos were killed in clashes with the rebels earlier this this year.
President Aquino said that the number of weapons handed over on Tuesday was significant, AP reported.
"We are not talking of just one or a couple or a dozen firearms. These are high-powered firearms, modern and have not aged. These arms can deal and have dealt extreme suffering," he said at the ceremony.
The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process posted pictures of the weapons on Twitter.
The weapons will be held and decommissioned by an independent body.
"For the sake of peace, for the sake of having real peace in Mindanao and for the sake of the need for normalisation [of] the lives of the people including the combatants, we have to undertake decommissioning and put them [arms] beyond use," he said, The Star reported.
The 2012 framework for a peace deal came after 17 years of negotiations.
The Philippines government...

Summary: The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebel group in the Philippines has handed over its first batch of weapons as part of a peace process.
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Article: The Chesterfield striker was cleared of rape at a retrial in 2016. He had been charged with attacking the woman in a hotel room in Rhyl, Denbighshire.
Following the retrial, North Wales Police investigated after the woman's name was revealed on social media.
Anyone who reports being a victim of a sex offence is guaranteed lifelong anonymity.
North Wales Police's temporary Supt Jason Devonport said the publishing of her name was a "serious" offence.
The men, aged between 16 and 23, were from the Sheffield, Derbyshire and Birmingham areas.
All were cautioned after admitting publishing the name of the woman - who has lifelong anonymity under the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 - after the retrial verdict.
Supt Devonport said: "This type of offence is fortunately rare, however, I'd like to emphasise all police forces take offences of this nature very seriously.
"We will vigorously pursue and prosecute those who don't respect victims' anonymity."
In November 2012 - following the initial trial - nine people were made to pay compensation to the woman after they admitted naming her on Twitter and Facebook.
Mr Evans, 28, was originally found guilty of rape at Caernarfon Crown Court in 2012, but that conviction was quashed in April 2016. A retrial jury found him not guilty of the offence six months later.
The Chesterfield striker had been charged with attacking her at a hotel on 30 May 2011.
He was found not guilty of the same charge, after a retrial at Cardiff Crown Court, in October 2016.
Mr Evans' former club Sheffield United announced this week it was to re-sign him.

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The UK's top court has ruled that the government's controversial "stop and search" powers are lawful.
The ruling means that police can stop and search people without a warrant.
The ruling was made by the Court of Appeal in London.
The government had argued that the stop and search powers were necessary to tackle

Bottles of a popular gin have been recalled across Canada after a batch was found to contain nearly twice the amount of advertised alcohol.

Article: Paul Costa, from Falkirk,  produced and supplied the drug from more than 100 plants grown at the Emotion Karting centre in Ayr between 2013 and 2015.
The 35-year-old was caught after police raided the site and found high powered lamps and other "gardening equipment".
He was convicted following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow and will be sentenced next months.
The court heard that the large crop of cannabis plants had a value of up to Â£100,000.
Costa had denied being responsible - despite police finding numerous cannabis related web searches on his computers.
Police also found his fingerprints in the area where the drugs were and his DNA on a juice can.
When they searched his computer, they also discovered a number of YouTube videos had been watched - including "how to properly dry cannabis".
A leaflet for a hydroponics company was also seized.
He claimed it was him who found the farm and was in the process of trying to catch the culprit when detectives raided the complex.
However, jurors rejected that and convicted him of producing and supplying the drug between February 2013 and February 2015.
The court heard Costa was effectively "second in command" at Emotion. His boss Manoj Deo had also faced the same allegations, but prosecutors dropped the accusations during the trial.

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

Summary: One of the most difficult problems Justice Secretary Michael Gove faces in 2016 is the sentencing of offenders.
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Article: Officials said the 1.14 litre bottles of Bombay Sapphire London Dry Gin should have had 40% alcohol content by volume when the actual figure was 77%.
They said the problem had been traced back to the production line.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said no illnesses associated with the gin had been reported.
Drinks giant Bacardi, which distributes Bombay Sapphire, said the affected batch was believed to have only been sold in Canada.
The province of Ontario was the first to remove the gin from stores before a nationwide recall was issued.
"One batch was bottled before correct dilution to achieve the stated 40% alcohol content by volume," the Ontario Liquor Control Board said in a statement
"As a result, the affected batch has alcohol content by volume of 77%."
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said the recalled gin should be thrown out or returned to the shop where it was bought.
It is the second time this year that Canada has had to recall a brand of liquor because the alcohol content was too high.
In March, bottles of Georgian Bay vodka were pulled from the shelves after inspectors found a batch with an alcohol content of 81% instead of the advertised 40%.

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The Premier League has announced a new deal with Sky Sports, which will see the broadcaster pay £1.5bn for the rights to broadcast the top-flight club competition.
The deal, which will run until 2023, will see Sky pay £1.5bn for the rights to broadcast the Premier League,

Leading flat jockey Ryan Moore has been advised to take "complete rest" as he recovers from a hip injury.

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The Price of Football, the biggest study of its kind in Europe, looked at prices at 223 clubs.
More than two thirds of ticket prices across the UK have been either cut or frozen for the 2016-17 season.
However, an away ticket in the Championship can now be more expensive than for a Premier League match.
This is because top-flight clubs have capped prices for visiting fans at £30.
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Malcolm Clarke, chairman of the Football Supporters' Federation, said: "On their current £8.3bn deal, the Premier League could afford to let every single fan in free for every game and still have as much money as they had under the previous deal.
"That gives you an idea of the scale of the amount of money they have got."
The Premier League said in a statement: "Clubs are listening to their fans and working hard to make sure that Premier League football is accessible as well as competitive and compelling."
The study also found replica shirt prices have increased year-on-year and half of top-flight clubs put up the price of their junior shirts.
For the first time, we asked clubs for the percentage of male and female season-ticket holders. In the Premier League, 14 clubs responded, with Southampton revealing one in five of their season-ticket holders are women, while at Liverpool the figure is 11%.
Other findings include:
With the bumper 2016-2019 Premier League TV rights deal coming into effect - which includes £5bn for domestic rights and another £3bn globally - top-flight clubs will each benefit by a minimum of £100m.
In this year's study, we contacted 223 clubs across 23 leagues in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the continent.
We have analysed ticket prices in six categories - cheapest matchday, dearest matchday, cheapest away ticket, dearest away ticket, cheapest and dearest season tickets - as well as teas, pies, programmes and junior and adult shirt prices.
The rate of inflation over the past year, as measured by the Consumer...

Summary: The cost of attending Premier League football has come down in the first season of a record £8bn global TV rights deal, a BBC study has found.
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Article: Members of Braintree's Dolphin Women's Institute (WI) have stitched some of the town's best-known landmarks including the church and museum.
Each model is about 45cm (18in) tall and was created using a polystyrene or cardboard core with knitting sewn on.
It took nine knitters seven months to complete the seven miniature buildings which will be displayed at the town's museum next month.
The group's vice-president, Elaine Pye, said the project was inspired by a similar one a relative had been involved in knitting in Hertfordshire.
"They knitted their own cottages, but we couldn't really do that so chose some of the town's beautiful iconic buildings," she said.
Mrs Pye put together the polystyrene structures and each knitter got to work, returning after two weeks with their latest knitted piece of church spire or pub frontage.
After much gluing, sewing and additional knitted embellishments, the town finally took shape, brought together with mini woollen market stalls.
The group created models of the town hall, church, Swan pub, library, museum, shopping centre and even the railway station complete with knitted train.
"It really brought everyone together and the response has been amazing," Mrs Pye said.
"So much so that they want to do more, so we think we might knit the Public Gardens next."

Summary: Nimble-fingered knitters have created a woolly version of an Essex town.
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Article: The three-time champion jockey, 32, has not put a timescale on his return to the saddle.
"I'm not going to rush it," he said. "I want to be 100% for all the major races in the autumn."
Moore looks set to miss York's four-day Ebor Festival, one of the biggest fixtures on the flat-racing calendar, which begins on 17 August.
The major autumn races include the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, British Champions Day, the Breeders' Cup and the Melbourne Cup.
The lay-off will damage his chances of winning the jockeys' championship for a fourth time.
Moore, the number one rider for Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien, is second with 57 winners this year, two behind Silvestre de Sousa.
He finished as top rider at the recent Goodwood Festival with eight victories.
"I have been a bit sore for the last couple of weeks and been advised by a specialist that complete rest is the best option," he added.
"I'm going to play it by ear, but hope to be back soon."
Moore was sidelined for two months last year with a neck injury.
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The number of applications for Irish passports from people living in Northern Ireland has almost doubled since the UK voted to leave the European Union.
There have been 21,549 Irish passport applications from people in Northern Ireland since July, compared 10,959 in the same period last year.
In Great Britain, the trend has

An arson attack on the site of the new Museum of Free Derry shows "total disrespect" for victims, a Bloody Sunday relative has said.

Article: Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr he said an independent Scotland would have to apply for membership and get the approval of all current member states.
Scotland's Finance Minister described his comments as "pretty preposterous".
John Swinney said Mr Barroso's view was based on a false comparison.
The referendum on Scottish independence will be held on 18 September, with voters being asked the Yes/No question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"
In his interview with Andrew Marr, Mr Barroso said: "In case there is a new country, a new state, coming out of a current member state it will have to apply."
He said it was important that "accession to the European Union will have to be approved by all other member states of the European Union."
He went on: "Of course it will be extremely difficult to get the approval of all the other member states to have a new member coming from one member state."
Mr Barroso cited the example of the Spanish not recognising Kosovo.
He said: "We have seen Spain has been opposing even the recognition of Kosovo, for instance. So it is to some extent a similar case because it's a new country and so I believe it's going to be extremely difficult, if not impossible, a new member state coming out of our countries getting the agreement of the others."
However, Mr Barroso made clear that it was up to the people of Scotland to decide their future, and he said he did not want to interfere in that process.
In its White Paper on independence, launched in November, the Scottish government said the country would look to gain membership through Article 48 of the Treaty of the European Union.
It said such a move could be achieved within 18 months of a "Yes" vote.
'Agreed process'
Speaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics programme, Mr Swinney said: "I think President Barroso's remarks are pretty preposterous.
"He's set out his position linking and comparing Scotland to the situation in Kosovo.
"Scotland has been a member of the EU for 40 years - we're already part of the European Union."
Mr...

Summary: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said it would be "extremely difficult, if not impossible" for an independent Scotland to join the European Union.
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Article: New figures from the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs show that between July and September the number of GB applications rose by 96%.
There were 3,431 applications in September 2015, compared to 7,518 in September 2016.
Year-on-year applications from Northern Ireland have also risen since the vote.
They have increased by two-thirds in the three months since the Brexit decision.
In terms of numbers, there have been 15,757 applications from people in Northern Ireland since July, compared 9,401 in the same period last year.
The Northern Ireland-only figures show demand was strongest at the end of the summer:
In Great Britain, the trend has been upwards over the past three months:
There have been 21,549 Irish passport applications from people in Great Britain since July, compared 10,959 in the same period last year.

Summary: The number of applications for Irish passports from people living in Great Britain has almost doubled since the UK voted to leave the European Union.
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Article: A fire was started when the building was broken into sometime between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.
The museum is located in the Bogside, close to where some of the 14 victims of Bloody Sunday were killed in 1972.
John Kelly, whose brother, Michael, was killed said the damage to the building could have been a lot worse.
"I looked at it and thought: "Good God, if that had really caught fire, we could have had an explosion".
A Â£2.4m reconstruction of the Glenfada Park museum began in 2015 and is now close to completion.
Mr Kelly has been working on the project for the past 10 years.
"It shows total disrespect for my brother and all those who died during Bloody Sunday and all the others who lost their lives in that period of time, total disrespect for our family members and their memory," he said.
"The police told me there was a fire and it was in the back store, that's where we have the gas mains and electronic equipment as well.
"The building is next door to people's houses and everyone could have been affected by it. It didn't travel any further, thank God, and we still have an intact building," Mr Kelly added.
Building site foreman Dermott McGrotty said they have now improved security at the site.
"They had to climb over an eight foot fence to get in, so overnight security has now been arranged and we're making sure the doors are well secured."
The Northern Ireland Fire Service is treating the fire as deliberate. The police have appealed for information.

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A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a man in Liverpool.
Police said the man, aged in his 20s, was arrested on suspicion of murder.
He was taken to a police station in the city and is being questioned.
Police said the man was known to the victim and was known

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of murder over the shooting of a man at a meat market.

Article: They found the encryption system used in many car immobilisers can be cracked, potentially letting a thief steal the car.
Vehicles made by 26 separate car firms including Volkswagen, Porsche and Honda use the "weak" security system.
The researchers first released their findings two years ago but legal action prevented publication.
Security researchers Roel Verdult, Flavio Garcia, and Baris Ege from Radboud University in Holland investigated the encryption system used by the Megamos immobiliser.
This stops a car engine being started if the correct radio chip in a key fob is not close by.
These systems can be fooled with boosters that amplify the signal on the corresponding chip but the researchers took a different approach that tackled the data passing between car keys and the Megamos system.
Eavesdropping on the exchange of data between the car key and crypto system a couple of times gave the trio useful hints about which secret key was being used to scramble the data.
This helped them find which cryptographic key was being used in about 30 minutes. Some car makers were using very weak secret keys that could be found in just a few minutes using a laptop.
In a paper describing their work, the three researchers said it was "trivial" to accomplish the attack on the immobiliser system. The research was completed three years ago but legal action by Volkswagen and French defence group Thales initially prevented publication. The restrictions on publication have now been lifted after the paper was edited.
The BBC has contacted Megamos for a comment but the company has not yet responded.
Fixing the flaws in the cryptographic system overseeing the data exchange will be hard as it involves replacing radio chips in car key fobs and the corresponding hardware in affected vehicles.
The team said it had been talking to car makers about its findings, and measures had been taken to prevent some of the attacks working.
The paper comes after several other security researchers revealed ways to take over in-car computer systems....

Summary: Anti-theft devices found on millions of cars are vulnerable to a "trivial" attack, say security researchers.
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Article: Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant has imposed a moratorium on underground coal gasification (UCG).
Mr Sargeant said this forms part of a "precautionary approach" towards the development of unconventional oil and gas resources, which includes a temporary ban on fracking.
Any council not proposing to refuse an application must refer it to ministers.
Mr Sargeant said: "The direction has been issued to require that any planning application connected to the gasification of coal must be referred to Welsh ministers where local planning authorities are minded to approve them."
It applies to any onshore application registered on or after 25 March and Mr Sargeant said it was to "avoid any ambiguity".
A study by Duke University in the US suggested synthetic natural gas emits seven times more greenhouse gases than natural gas and almost twice as much carbon as a coal plant.

Summary: A ban on chemically transforming underground coal into synthetic natural gas has been imposed.
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Article: Thomas Baker, known as Tommy, was found badly injured at Stanley Meat Market in the Old Swan area of Liverpool on 27 January.
The 44-year-old, from Everton, had been shot in the head and chest. He died later in hospital.
The three Liverpool men arrested - two aged 29 and the other 32 - remain in police custody for questioning.
Merseyside Police said Mr Baker had left Phoenix Gym at the market shortly before he was shot while getting into his car.
Detectives believe those involved in the shooting had been waiting outside the gym for about an hour.
Det Ch Insp Bev Hyland said officers were still searching for a silver VW polo, which "left the scene at speed" and travelled along a number of roads including Balmoral Road, Molyneux Road and Queens Road.
She added that a number of people captured on CCTV near the meat market had yet to come forward and while "they may not think what they saw would be of any significance, they could have information which is key to our inquiries".

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The UK's largest ever arts festival is to be held in Hull.
The Hull 2017 Culture Company said the event would be the biggest ever in the city.
The company, which is backed by the city council, said it had raised £18m to stage the festival.
It said it had raised £10

Hull City of Culture 2017 has raised £32m to produce the year-long festival, according to the charity set up to deliver it.

Article: Nissan's NSC-2015 is only a prototype, but its name suggests the carmaker aims to have it on the market by 2015.
Many car companies have been working on autonomous technology, with a number of driverless cars unveiled in recent months.
But one analyst warned that the mass use of such cars was a long way off.
The NSC-2015 is a modified version of Nissan's Leaf model.
It relies on sensors, cameras, computers and 4G communication technology for wireless links to navigate, and robotics to turn the steering wheel, change gears and brake.
When demonstrated at Ceatec, the car drove itself at about 3mph (5km/h) in a straight line forward and in reverse, and was able to turn.
It was shown that the car could recognise road markings and was able to stop at a crossing.
A Nissan representative also controlled the car from the outside, making it drive towards him as he pressed some buttons on his phone.
"After the driver exits the NSC-2015, it starts to park itself automatically, following the instructions given by smartphone," the company said.
"The vehicle looks for a vacant parking space while identifying its surroundings; once it detects an open parking space automated parking begins.
"The driver can also use smartphone commands to make the NSC-2015 vehicle leave the parking space and return to the place where he or she is.
"While parked, the car's security camera system automatically works with a camera installed in the vehicle. If the system detects suspicious behaviour, the driver is alerted automatically by a report to his or her smartphone."
However, Tooru Futami, engineering director at electronics engineering development division at Nissan, told Forbes that the car was not yet able to self-drive down the street or park itself in any space.
He said the demo version could only self-park in an area equipped with sensors and restricted to other robotic cars to avoid the risk of collision.
Several car manufacturers and other companies such as Google have recently demonstrated driverless vehicles and three US states -...

Summary: An electric car that is able to park itself and come to the driver when "called" has been unveiled at the Ceatec 2012 show in Tokyo.
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Article: The Scottish Salmon Producers' Organisation (SSPO) said more than 160,000 tonnes were produced for more than 65 countries in 2014.
The USA remained the top export destination, with sales growing to almost £215m.
It was followed by France, which saw sales grow by 55% in volume to reach £110m.
Exports to China reached almost £65m, with an extra 40% in volume last year.
SSPO chief executive Scott Landsburgh said: "We are delighted with the reception Scottish salmon receives at home and abroad, and these latest figures prove how demand continues to go from strength to strength.
"We use the strictest production standards to produce the highest quality salmon which is why Scottish salmon was awarded 'best farmed salmon in the world' by an independent poll of international seafood buyers for the second consecutive time last year.
"This accolade is a testament to our dedicated salmon farmers and is obviously great news for rural communities where we farm and the wider Scottish economy, which continues to benefit from jobs, significant capital investment and ongoing community support provided by our industry."
The figures were released as Scotland's salmon farmers headed out to the Seafood Global Expo, the world's largest seafood exhibition, in Brussels.
Scottish Sea Farms, The Scottish Salmon Company, Marine Harvest Scotland, Cooke Aquaculture Scotland, Wester Ross Salmon, Loch Duart Salmon and Scottish Quality Salmon are all attending the seafood show, which runs until Thursday.

Summary: Exports of Scottish salmon grew by £50m last year to reach £500m for the first time, according to industry figures.
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Article: The Hull 2017 Culture Company said fundraising had exceeded its public target of £18m, raised with investment from 61 partners.
The full programme of events is to be announced next week.
Martin Green, of Hull 2017, said the money was "a massive vote of confidence" in the city.
The chief executive and director of Hull 2017 said Hull was a "great city" and "the northern powerhouse argument was a good one".
Mr Green admitted his personal target for funding had been about £30m.
He was the man behind the London 2012 Olympic ceremonies, oversaw the torch relays ahead of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012 and was the executive producer of the Tour de France's opening ceremony in Leeds.
About £22m will be spent on cultural events and another portion of the money will support events after 2017, the charity said.
More than 2,000 people have already signed up to volunteer during the year and 60,000 school students will take part in some way.

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The new pledge is a "clear statement of our core values for all our members to commit to".
The new pledge is a "clear statement of our core values for all our members to commit to".
The new pledge is a "clear statement of our core values for all our members to commit to".
The

From September, girls joining the Brownies and Guides in the UK, will no longer have to pledge their devotion to God.

Article: It predicted that growth would pick up to 1.7% next year, from 1.5% this year.
However, the IMF warned that the region was still "vulnerable to shocks".
This could tip the block into "prolonged stagnation," the fund said in its latest assessment of the region.
It cited uncertainty arising from the situation in Greece as a potential trigger for such a shock, saying that further volatility from the situation could not be ruled out.
Greece is currently negotiating its third bailout with creditors.
"Several factors cloud the outlook for growth over the next five years," said the IMF's Mahmood Pradhan.
"These include high unemployment, especially among the youth; large corporate debt; and rising non-performing loans in the banking system.
"A moderate shock to confidence - whether from lower expected future growth or heightened geopolitical tensions - could tip the block into prolonged stagnation," he said,
Inflation would remain near zero in 2015 and rise to 1.1% in 2016, the IMF predicted.
Earlier this year, the ECB launched a â‚¬60bn-a-month asset-buying programme in an attempt to stimulate the economy and avoid deflation.
The IMF praised the plan, saying it had boosted confidence and improved financial conditions, and suggested that it should remain in place until September 2016, if not longer.
The message from the IMF is that the eurozone has more work to do. And it is not just the obvious calls for reform of the structure of the eurozone and for further work from the countries that have struggled.
There is a call for Germany to do more - not screaming out from the headlines of the report it must be said, but it is there.
The IMF refers to countries with what it calls excessive current account surpluses - which means international trade in goods and services and some financial flows.
It says they should invest more in infrastructure and, less directly, it suggests that they should boost demand.  The report names Germany and the Netherlands as countries where these surpluses are continuing to grow.
These...

Summary: The outlook for the eurozone has improved, says the International Monetary Fund (IMF), thanks to a falling oil price, a weaker euro and action taken by the European Central Bank (ECB).
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Article: The pileated gibbon was born several weeks prematurely, and there were fears that it would not survive.
The zoo began the breeding programme in 2001 and staff are "cautiously optimistic" they have achieved their first success with the rare primate.
Pileated gibbons are classed as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
More on the pileated gibbon, and other Devon and Cornwall news
The baby gibbon's parents are both nine years old, with its mother Shukdi born at Zoo d'Anson in France.
Curator of Mammals Neil Bemment said: "This is Paignton Zoo's first surviving pileated gibbon baby - I'm really pleased.
"As we have been trying to breed this species for 15 years, but alas our previous female was not a good mother."

Summary: A rare type of gibbon has been born at Paignton Zoo - after 15 years of trying.
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Article: Girlguiding UK found they needed a new vow that includes non-religious members and those who follow other faiths.
It has been replaced with a new promise to "be true to myself and develop my beliefs".
The new oath drops the reference to God for the first time since Guides began in 1910.
Brownies and Guides currently vow to "to love my God, to serve my Queen and my country".
I promise that I will do my best
To be true to myself and develop my beliefs
To serve the Queen and my community
To help other people
and
To keep the Guide (Brownie) law
The consultation about the vow was carried out earlier this year and involved nearly 44,000 Girlguiding UK members and non-members.
Chief Guide Gill Slocombe said: "Guiding believes in having one promise that is a clear statement of our core values for all our members to commit to. We hope that our new promise will allow all girls - of all faiths and none - to understand and feel proud of their commitment."

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The BBC has commissioned a new series of Hancock's Half Hour, which will be broadcast in November.
The new series will be written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson and will be broadcast in November.
The new series will be the first to be written by the pair since the show's original run in the 1950

A study that claims humans reached the Americas 130,000 years ago - much earlier than previously suggested - has run into controversy.

Article: The letters are intended to confirm the accuracy of HMRC's records for the 2.6 million taxpayers who live in Scotland and who will pay the new rate.
Recipients will not need to take any action if the address details HMRC holds for them are correct.
The Scottish Rate of Income Tax comes into effect on 6 April next year.
It will be paid by UK taxpayers who live in Scotland, regardless of where they work, with the rate to be announced by the Scottish government in its draft budget on 16 December.
Those paying the new rate will see their tax code prefixed by an 'S' and their income tax will continue to be collected from pay and pensions in the same way as it is now.
The new system was a recommendation of the Calman Commission and has been devolved under the Scotland Act 2012 along with powers over stamp duty and landfill tax
It will see the UK income tax rate being reduced by 10p in the pound across all bands in Scotland, with the Scottish Parliament then setting its own rate, which could be lower, higher or exactly the same as the rest of the UK.
The first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has already hinted that her government is likely to keep the Scottish rate at the same level as the rest of the UK as any tax rises or cuts would need to be applied across all tax bands.
The Scottish Parliament is to receive greater powers over income tax under the new Scotland Bill proposals which are still going through the UK Parliament and which are expected to come into force in 2018.
The Scotland Bill will hand Holyrood control over income tax rates and bands, which would give the Scottish government greater flexibility to introduce a higher rate of income tax for high earners if it wished to do so.

Summary: Taxpayers in Scotland are to receive a letter from HM Revenue and Customs this week as part of preparations for the new Scottish Rate of Income Tax.
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Article: The series - starring Tony Hancock and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson - featured 103 episodes but 20 of the audio recordings are missing.
Five of the those scripts - chosen by Galton and Simpson - will now be re-recorded in front of a live audience.
They will air in November to celebrate Galton and Simpson's 60th anniversary.
The five episodes will feature Kevin R McNally, who appeared in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, as Hancock.
Other characters will be played by W1A and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa actor Simon Greenall, Hugo and Hot Fuzz star Kevin Eldon and Sherlock actor Robin Sebastian.
Recording begins at the BBC Radio Theatre in London on Tuesday.
Hancock's Half Hour was an immediate critical and ratings success.
In 1956, Hancock's Half Hour was made into a TV series and both versions alternated until 1959.
The TV show remained faithful to the radio series, although only Sid James was retained from the cast.
The radio show wound down in 1959, while on television, Hancock was becoming concerned at the increasing popularity of his co-star James.
James played the man-on-the-street foil to Hancock's pompous character, with viewers often siding with James.
As a result, Hancock decided that following the 1960 series, James was to be dropped and the show would continue without him, re-titled simply Hancock.

Summary: Five missing episodes from classic 1950s radio series Hancock's Half Hour are to be re-recorded and aired on BBC Radio 4 later this year.
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Article: Humans are thought to have arrived in the New World no earlier than 25,000 years ago, so the find would push back the first evidence of settlement by more than 100,000 years.
The conclusions rest on analysis of animal bones and tools from California.
But many experts contacted by the BBC said they doubted the claims.
Thomas Deméré, Steven Holen and colleagues examined material from the Cerutti Mastodon site near San Diego. The site was originally uncovered in 1992, during highway construction work. Possible stone tools were discovered alongside the smashed up remains of a mastodon (Mammut americanum)- an extinct relative of mammoths and living elephants.
The researchers behind the latest study were unable to carry out radiocarbon dating on the remains, so they used a technique called uranium-thorium dating on several bone fragments, coming up with a date of 130,000 years.
The team members found that some of the bones and teeth bore a characteristic breakage pattern known as spiral fracturing, considered to occur when the bone is fresh. Additionally, some of the bones showed typical signs of being smashed with hard objects.
Rocks found alongside the mastodon remains show signs of wear and being struck against other surfaces, the researchers say. They conclude that these represent hammerstones and anvils - two types of stone tool used by prehistoric cultures around the world.
Dr Deméré, curator of palaeontology at the San Diego Natural History Museum, said the totality of evidence at the site had led team members to the conclusion that "humans were processing [working on or breaking up] mastodon limb bones using hammerstones and anvils and that the processing occurred at the site of burial 130,000 years ago".
Dr Steve Holen, co-director of the Center for American Paleolithic Research in South Dakota, commented: "We have conducted two experiments breaking elephant bones with large rock hammers and anvils. We produced exactly the same kind of fracture patterns as we found on the Cerutti mastodon limb bones."
He...

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