's teacher pay is below average.
The report also says that the UK's teacher training system is "not fit for purpose".
It says that the UK's teacher training system is "not fit for purpose"
The report says that the UK's teacher training system is "not fit for

Teachers in England and Scotland have more teaching hours and bigger primary classes than in most other developed countries, according to an OECD annual education report.

Article: As one of the most influential writers of the 20th Century, George Orwell's impact is still felt decades after his death.
Big Brother, the ominous leader of Oceania in his chilling dystopian novel 1984, is mentioned frequently whenever CCTV or surveillance is on the agenda, while the concept of Room 101 has become a shorthand for people's pet hates and biggest fears.
But Orwell's influence is not restricted to debates about the security state, as a trip to a local pub can show.
On 9 February, 1946, Orwell wrote an article for the Evening Standard warmly describing his favourite pub, the Moon Under Water, a small backstreet establishment with no music, china pots with creamy stout and that crucial ingredient: a welcoming atmosphere.
The Moon Under Water may itself have been a fiction, a composite of Orwell's favourite London pubs, but its importance as a symbol of the friendly local lives on.
DJ Taylor, who has written an acclaimed biography of the author, said the essay shows Orwell's love of the pub as a traditional institution.
"The whole question about Orwell and pubs is very interesting," he said.
"It was a symbol of working class life that he tended to sentimentalise."
What constitutes the perfect pub was the topic of Orwell's last essay for the Evening Standard, with previous articles covering other aspects of typical British life, such as how to make a good cup of tea.
And, despite never existing, Moon Under Water left a sizeable legacy.
Seventy years on the essay's criteria for the perfect pub - which includes old-fashioned Victorian decorations, a snack counter, barmaids who know their customers and a garden - are still cited by ale aficionados looking for the ideal spot for a pint.
And landlords running a new breed of pub say Orwell's rules are key to a revival in real ale drinking in the UK.
The micropub does what it says on the label: it's a small pub, often only one room, and it focuses on providing good beer, a good atmosphere and a quiet, friendly place for people to talk, perhaps while...

Summary: Seventy years after George Orwell published an essay on what makes the perfect pub, BBC News examines how the author's views are influencing the micropub movement.
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Article: This was the year when 5,650 farmers killed themselves in the country.
So the number of suicides by housewives was about four times those by farmers. They also comprised 47% of the total female victims.
Yet the high number of homemakers killing themselves doesn't make front page news in the way farmer suicides do, year after year.
In fact, more than 20,000 housewives have been killing themselves in India every year since 1997, the earliest year for which we have information compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau based on occupation of the victim. In 2009, the grim statistic peaked at 25,092 deaths.
Forget raw numbers.
The rate of housewives taking their lives - more than 11 per 100,000 people - has been consistently higher than India's overall suicide rate since 1997. It dropped to 9.3 in 2014, yet suicide rate for housewives was more than twice those for farmers that year.
Suicide rates of housewives vary from state to state.
In 2011, for example, their rates - more than 20 per 100,000 people - were higher in states like Maharashtra, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, West Bengal and Gujarat. Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar showed lower suicide rates.
Peter Mayer, who teaches politics at the University of Adelaide and has spent much time studying the sociology of suicide in India, wonders why suicide rates of housewives in India is so high, and why it gets so little attention in the  media.
After all, as Mr Mayer says, research in western societies suggests that "marriage confers protection from suicide to married women".
Therefore, married people are less likely to kill themselves - studies have found suicide rates for married people in the US and Australia, for example, are lower than others in the same age group.
India, clearly, is an outlier.
Nearly 70% of people who took their lives in 2001, for example, were married - 70.6% of the men and 67% of the women.
A study published in the medical journal The Lancet in 2012 found that the suicide rate in...

Summary: More than 20,000 housewives took their lives in India in 2014.
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Article: UN investigators say the payments by Soma Oil & Gas amount in some cases to "acts that undermine Somali public institutions through corruption".
The Serious Fraud Office has launched an investigation into the allegations.
The firm, which is chaired by former Conservative Party leader Michael Howard, denies any wrongdoing.
The report details payments totalling $490,000 (Â£315,000) from Soma Oil & Gas to the Somali Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, beginning in June 2014.
The money was part of a "capacity building programme" which was ostensibly intended to cover the salaries of a small number of experts, including geologists and geoscientists.
In reality though, the United Nations investigators say the scheme appears to have been used to "fund systematic payoffs to senior ministerial officials", some of whom were "instrumental in both securing the company's initial contract, and negotiating subsequent agreements".
One recipient of money under the scheme was Dr Farah Abdi Hassan, the director general of the ministry. He received $36,000 (Â£23,000) over a period of 12 months - about three times his Somali government salary, which investigators say he continued to draw.
The report claims that Mr Hassan suggested in emails that Soma's contractual agreements with the government - both past and prospective - could be subject to review if financial "assistance" was not forthcoming.
In one email, dated 27 March 2014, he writes: "If the Soma questions the assistance [to] the ministry then so many things goes [sic] to review, while the parliament is asking to ratify the SOA agreement."
"SOA" refers to the seismic option agreement, the deal signed in August 2013, which grants the company exclusive rights to conduct an offshore seismic survey, and then bid for up to 12 oil and gas blocks.
Another email, written on 17 April 2014 to two of Soma's directors, appears to suggest that signing off on the capacity building programme - referred to as an "amendment" - could protect the Soma deal from official...

Summary: A British oil company paid hundreds of thousands of dollars which went to senior Somali civil servants, according to a UN report seen by the BBC.
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Article: The think tank says teachers' pay has declined in real terms.
The report also shows students in public higher education institutions in England pay the highest tuition fees.
But the OECD says high fees are accompanied by the highest levels of student support.
The Education at a Glance report compares the costs and characteristics of education systems in industrialised countries, from early years through to university.
How UK education compares:
It highlights that many countries face a challenge to recruit teachers - particularly when on average a primary school teacher earns 22% less than someone with similar qualifications.
"These uncompetitive salaries will make it harder to attract the best candidates to the teaching profession," says the report.
In England, head teachers have warned of a worsening teacher shortage, with recruitment targets being missed for several years running.
Teachers' unions have complained that an excessive workload is deterring people from staying in teaching - and the OECD's report shows how teachers in the UK compare with their classroom counterparts.
It shows that primary classes are bigger than average. For state schools in the UK - not broken down into devolved administrations - there were 27 pupils per class, compared with an OECD average of 21 pupils per class.
In secondary schools, teachers spent an unusually high proportion of their working days in the classroom, rather than preparing lessons or training.
In secondary schools in England, teachers taught for about 100 hours more than the average for OECD countries per year. In Scotland, the proportion of time spent teaching was even higher, more than 200 hours above average.
The report also shows that teachers' pay in England has had an above-average decline in real terms, between 2005 and 2013.
Despite the recession, countries such as Poland, Germany, the United States and Australia had increased teachers' pay in real terms.
But in England, based on an analysis of secondary school teachers, pay had fallen, with only...

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A new report has found that the UK's seaside towns are suffering from a lack of investment.
The report, from the think tank the Bevan Foundation, said the UK's seaside towns are suffering from a lack of investment.
It said: "The UK's seaside towns are suffering from a lack

An animal rights group is calling for the Skegness mascot, the Jolly Fisherman, to be replaced with a fish.

Article: Many readers wrote to Gwen asking for advice about a friend or family member who is transitioning.
Here Gwen, from Pennsylvania, addresses some questions from BBC website readers.
"There are going to be a lot of people out there who might hate her for who she is, but tell her that she has plenty of people in her life who are going to love her much more than any amount of hate she could receive.
"My personal rule is: Just don't read the comments. If you're going to read any comments people make, don't bother responding. They usually have their minds made up and no amount of arguing is going to make them apologise."
"The best advice is to just listen to what they have to say and try not to make it a big deal.
"When I was starting to transition, all I wanted was for life to feel 'normal' again.
"I didn't really want to talk about transitioning too much, but it was nice to have friends who just listened to me on the days where it was especially hard and told me they loved me anyway."
"The best thing would be to address someone by what it looks like they're going for. If this customer comes in every day in a dress and make-up, I would assume they wanted to be greeted as 'Ms'.
"It's always best to go by what you see and then, if they correct you, just go by what they'd rather be called instead.
"Maybe this person isn't comfortable being called 'Ms' yet, but that's something only they could know."
"I don't tell people until they need to know. I've found that letting people get to know me as everything I am first, aside from my trans status, helps them see me as someone other than a token trans friend after I disclose, if I ever choose to.
"If I'm not going to be having a sexual relationship with someone, they really don't need to know because it's not relevant.
"For jobs, it has to come up when listing former names on applications. But I don't treat it like a big deal and they follow suit.
"A lot of my colleagues still don't know that I'm trans, although my manager does and was really supportive."
"My biggest advice...

Summary: A transgender woman who let people ask her questions about her life on an internet forum was inundated with even more when the BBC reported on her story.
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Article: The Bevan Foundation said eight new taxes would help make Wales "greener, healthier and better off".
The Welsh Government and Plaid Cymru welcomed the report.
But UKIP said the taxes would make Wales "more miserable" and the Conservatives said the report "smacks of nanny statism".
Under the Wales Act 2014, the Welsh Government has the power to establish new taxes in devolved areas.
The taxes proposed by the think tank are:
Bevan Foundation director Victoria Winckler said the sunbed tax would need to be "fairly substantial" to deter people.
She said: "We think taxes are actually really important. We've got used to talking about taxes as if they're a bad thing.
"But actually taxes pay for all the good things we have."
Cabinet secretary for finance Mark Drakeford said: "The power to introduce new Welsh taxes could be used to improve the lives and wellbeing of people across the country.
"This is a very helpful report and raises awareness of these new powers."
UKIP assembly group leader Neil Hamilton said: "The Bevan Foundation wants to make Wales a more miserable place by taxing the people's pleasures."
He added: "Mark Drakeford's refusal to rule out these killjoy taxes shows the danger of giving tax-raising powers to a Welsh Labour government, as the Tory government in London proposes in the Wales Bill now going through Parliament.
"Wales should be given the referendum on tax-raising powers we were promised before giving Labour the power to tax us out of existence."
Welsh Conservative economy spokesman Russell George said: "The report, while well-intentioned, smacks of nanny statism and will serve only to discourage entrepreneurs, boost the black market economy and create another unnecessary layer of bureaucracy."
He added: "Arbitrary taxes will do nothing but leave the people of Wales worse off at a time when gross disposable income already lags behind the rest of the UK."
The Bevan Foundation's research was funded by a grant from the anti-poverty charity the Joseph Rowntree Trust.
Plaid Cymru's shadow cabinet...

Summary: Charges on sunbed use and take-away food packaging are among a number of taxes the Welsh Government should introduce, according to a think tank.
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Article: First Milk, one of the UK's largest dairy farmer co-operatives, announced in June many farmers would be paid 1p less per litre from the start of July.
National Farmers Union (NFU) Cymru say the move is a "nightmare" for farmers, leaving prices below the cost of production in many instances.
First Milk said it had to "factor in" lower commodity prices.
Last Wednesday, Paisley-based First Milk announced the cut alongside news that its chairman, Sir Jim Paice, would stand down. It also confirmed a loss of about Â£22m for 2014-2015.
Sir Jim said commodity markets were continuing to decline and, despite his "regret", this had to be reflected in lower milk prices.
NFU Cymru chairman Stephen James said the price per litre for some had dipped from to 32p a year ago to 16.6p this month.
He said: "It's a bit of a nightmare for us in the milk industry at the moment.
"We're down to half and it's not sustainable, we can't manage at that sort of price.
"First Milk have to get their act together and get this price up from here sooner rather than later."

Summary: A cut to the price of milk may make production unsustainable for many Welsh farmers, a union has warned.
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Article: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) wants the mascot to be replaced with a modern animal-friendly version.
The group has suggested a fish with the slogan Skegness - A Happy Plaice.
The mayor of Skegness said all suggestions were welcome but said he did not think there would be much support for Jolly to be axed.
The original Jolly Fisherman poster was commissioned by the Great Northern Railway to encourage visitors to take the train on their seaside breaks to Skegness.
The poster featured the slogan "Skegness is so bracing".
It was commissioned in 1908 for 12 guineas and has became synonymous with the Lincolnshire resort.
However, Dawn Carr, of Peta, said Jolly "evokes images of cruelty to animals".
"Fish being tricked into impaling themselves in the mouth, animals being pulled out of the ocean in giant nets where they are so crushed together the pressure pushes their stomachs out through their mouths and their eyes pop out."
"This is what the Jolly Fisherman represents," she said.
She said Peta's suggestion would give the resort an opportunity to rebrand itself as a progressive holiday destination.
"One where the mutilation and killing of sea animals is not being celebrated."
Skegness's mayor, Carl Macey, said the Jolly Fisherman was loved by adults and children alike.
He said: "Animal cruelty is something we don't want to be portrayed for, but I don't feel Jolly has ever come across in that manner.
"He is just accepted as happy and friendly and he does such a wonderful job for Skegness.
"It [Peta's suggestion] will go before council, but if it isn't broken we won't try and fix it."

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The government has announced a new £1.5bn fund to help local authorities pay for new schools.
The fund will be available to councils to help them pay for new schools, and will be available to all councils, not just those in the most deprived areas.
The government said the fund would be available to

Any move to close a sports centre would be a "declaration of war" on the local community, a councillor has warned.

Article: There was plenty of talk from the leader and his supporters ahead of the result of "coming together" after a second bruising campaign.
He even provided proof on BBC TV that he was growing a diminutive olive tree outside his office - the presumed purpose of which is to break off a branch and proffer it to his internal opponents.
But some of the MPs who voted for a motion of no confidence in him believe that those around the leader will only sue for peace on their terms.
Jeremy Corbyn - with a strong interest in the politics of the Middle East - will be familiar with the speech of the late PLO leader Yasser Arafaf to the UN general assembly in 1974 when he said he came bearing an olive branch in one hand and a freedom fighter's gun in the other.
Arafat beseeched the UN "don't let the olive branch fall from my hand".
One former frontbencher welcomed Jeremy Corbyn's pledge to "wipe the slate clean" following his re-election but said that if he continued to criticise the leadership then he fully expected them to "unleash the dogs of war".
And he is not the only one expecting to be mauled.
He believes Momentum - the group set up by veteran leftwinger Jon Lansman - is likely to pursue a strategy of deselection of anti-Corbyn MPs.
"Jeremy will stay above it all, of course, adopting his 'see no evil' approach. He will say it's just a matter of local Labour parties taking individual democratic decisions. The boundary changes will unlock the whole process."
Of course, motivated by loyalty to their party - or in some cases by personal ambition - some of the 172 MPs who voted for no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn at the start of the summer will - as the sun sets on Owen Smith's challenge - sue for peace and signal their willingness to serve on the frontbench.
But just how many will do so depends on what decision Labour's ruling national executive comes to on holding elections to the shadow cabinet - discussions were set to resume within hours of the leadership election result.
If MPs were to be permitted to elect most of the...

Summary: So Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as Labour's leader with a larger mandate than a year ago.
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Article: Sarah Brennan, 36, from Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, gave birth to Eryn in September.
She was born seven weeks premature, weighing 3lb 11oz (1.7kg).
Mrs Brennan and her husband Mark have thanked the special care baby unit (SCBU) at Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, where Eryn spent three weeks.
The couple had just been placed on the IVF waiting list when they found out Mrs Brennan was pregnant.
But her waters broke in her 29th week of pregnancy and she spent two weeks being closely monitored in Singleton Hospital, Swansea.
She returned home but had an emergency Caesarean on 30 September at Princess of Wales Hospital as the baby was in a breech position.
Mrs Brennan, who works as a project manager at RAF St Athan, said: "Although Eryn was born nearly two months early she is a right little bouncer now.
"You would never think she was a premature baby."
Mrs Brennan's employer has donated Â£500 to the SCBU.

Summary: A woman who gave birth to a baby girl after suffering 10 miscarriages is preparing to celebrate her child's first birthday.
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Article: Patrick McLoughlin told the Commons the new projected cost of £42.6bn, up from £33bn, included "contingency" money.
He said the final cost could be lower than the new estimate, but said revising the figure was "right".
Several MPs criticised the High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill in a debate, but a bid to quash it was defeated by 325 to 37 votes.
The new high-speed railway line is intended to link London to Birmingham by 2026, with branches to Manchester and Leeds, via Sheffield, planned by 2032.
The first phase budget is now £21.4bn, with £21.2bn for phase two. These figures include a contingency fund of £14.4bn across the scheme.
Mr McLoughlin said contingency money was built into the London Olympics budget but the cost ended up "below the price that had been set by the government".
"While I expect the final costs to be lower than those I have just outlined... this is the right way to plan the project," he told MPs.
He also said the new budget took account of "design and environmental changes to improve the scheme", including alterations to the route such as a tunnel under the M6 near Birmingham.
By Richard WestcottBBC transport correspondent
How much will HS2 actually cost? Well, your guess is as good as mine.
The government has now put a new "ceiling" price on the completed project that is almost £10bn more than the previous "ceiling" price we had all been using.
The Department for Transport tells me they don't actually plan to spend £42.6bn - it just includes a huge contingency fund in case of problems.
The thing is, as anyone who has ever built an extension on their house will tell you, if you tell someone they've got a certain amount of money to spend, they tend to spend it, or even more.
So has the DfT made a rod for its own back by floating a bigger figure?
The headlines will probably now start calling HS2 a £43bn project (if you round it up).
In a few years time, will we all just assume that's the new price?
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Mr McLoughlin said scrapping HS2 would be the "easiest thing in...

Summary: The proposed budget for the HS2 railway has risen by nearly £10bn to more than £40bn, the transport minister has said.
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Article: Meden Sports Centre in Warsop, Nottinghamshire, has faced ongoing maintenance issues with a temporary closures and Â£500,000 spent on repairs.
Mansfield District Council has said it is "unsustainable" and has launched a consultation on its future.
However, Warsop Parish Council said it was "essential" to the area and it would fight to keep it open.
The centre, which dates from the 1960s, was closed for six months in 2014 after an inspection identified fire safety concerns.
Officials have said renovation or rebuilding costs could cost between Â£1m to Â£8m.
Andrew Tristram, district council portfolio holder for the environment, said: "The council has undergone a review of leisure services at Meden Sports Centre and concluded that the current operating model is not sustainable for the future.
"There are increasing uncertainties about the running costs and capital investment due to the condition of the building".
However, parish council chairman Andy Wetton said: "The centre is essential to the area but this administration seems hell-bent on closing it.
"There was money available to replace it but this has been spent on other things.
"Any attempt to close it would be a declaration of war on Warsop and we would fight it hard."
The district council said no changes would be made before April 2018.

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has been hit by a cyber attack, the government has said.
The NHS has been hit by a cyber attack, the government has said.
The attack, which has been described as "highly sophisticated", has affected the NHS' IT systems, the Department of Health

Samsung's second recall of its Galaxy Note 7 handsets is an unprecedented disaster for the company and the wider mobile phone sector.

Article: The GM Health and Social Care Partnership Board said the move would make 24/7 urgent primary care provision easier for patients to access.
The additional access will revolve around neighbourhood hubs and "clusters" where weekend and evening appointments will be available.
The board said it hopes the plans will reduce pressure on hospital A&E units.
The investment will also provide patients access to a range of other health and social care services such as diagnostics, blood tests and X-rays as well as supporting nursing and residential homes.
Partnership chairman Lord Peter Smith said: "This £41m investment will ensure that our GPs across Greater Manchester are supported to provide high quality care now and in the future.
"Putting primary care back at the heart of our local communities is absolutely the right thing to do and shows how devolution can make gains for patients' right across Greater Manchester."
The plans do not mean that every GP practice in the region will have extra opening hours.
Instead it is envisaged patients having enhanced access at the neighbourhood level through "clusters" of practices working together, supported by a designated hub serving around 50,000 patients.
Dr David Wrigley, a Lancashire GP and BMA Council Deputy Chair, said: "It is good to hear about some new investment into general practice but I am concerned seven-day routine working is being rolled out when GPs struggle to provide a good five-day service, Monday to Friday, due to the years of under investment.
"We are short of thousands of GPs across the country and this new seven-day plan will seek to stretch my colleagues even more thinly across the week."
The board, which took control of the region's £6bn health and social care budget in 2016, was told 2,500 patients who could be treated elsewhere are dealt with every day in A&E units across the region.
The plan will build on some schemes already in operation in Greater Manchester, such as in Bury.
Bury has had full extended GP access in place since January 2015 with...

Summary: A £41m plan to give everyone in Greater Manchester seven-day GP access has been approved.
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Article: The State Department has released satellite images of the facility which it said was used to hide evidence.
Rights groups say thousands of inmates have been tortured and hanged at the military prison outside of Damascus.
Syria has not responded to the latest claims but it has in the past strongly denied any abuse at the jail.
In February, Amnesty International said that mass hangings had taken place every week at the jail between 2011 and 2015.
The government at that time dismissed Amnesty's claims as "baseless" and "devoid of truth", pointing out that all executions in Syria followed due process.
More allegations of abuse at Saydnaya resurfaced on Monday.
"Credible sources have believed that many of the bodies have been disposed in mass graves," Acting Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Stuart Jones told reporters.
Thousands hanged at Saydnaya prison, Amnesty says
'How I was tortured in a Syrian jail'
"We now believe that the Syrian regime has installed a crematorium in the Saydnaya prison complex which could dispose of detainees' remains with little evidence," he said.
Evidence of the crematorium hiding or disguising mass murders at the prison will be presented to the international community, Mr Jones said.
He said that newly de-classified documentation "underscore the depths to which the Syrian regime has gone, with the continuing support of its allies, Russia and Iran".
"The facts we're presenting today are based on reporting from international and local non-governmental organisations, press reporting and also intelligence community assessments."
Mr Jones said the Syrian government had modified a building within the Saydnaya complex "to support" the suspected crematorium.
"Although the regime's many atrocities are well documented, we believe that the building of a crematorium is an effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place in Saydnaya prison," he said.
According to Amnesty's report in February, which was based on the testimony of witnesses, it was estimated that between 5,000...

Summary: The Syrian government has constructed a crematorium at a military prison to dispose of the remains of thousands of murdered prisoners, the US has alleged.
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Article: The 10% pay rise has been approved despite Downing Street and a succession of MPs saying it was "not appropriate".
IPSA chairman Sir Ian Kennedy said that MPs' pay had been a "toxic" issue "which had been ducked for decades".
He said the pay rise would not cost any money because it was being combined with cuts to expenses, pension and severance payments for MPs.
The independent watchdog, set up to bring in and run a new expenses and pay system for MPs after the expenses scandal of 2009, says in future MPs' pay would rise in line with average rises in the public sector.
Analysis: By BBC political correspondent Iain Watson
The pay rise for MPs is something which is seen to be perhaps not entirely politically sensible at the moment. Still in an age of austerity, still paying down the deficit, restrictions on public sector pay.
But that said, it's an independent body, IPSA, that's doing it. Their assessment is that MPs are underpaid but that they had far too many generous allowances.
So what they've decided to do is have a series of reforms that don't cost the taxpayer a penny more. So for example, MPs will have a restructured pension scheme and lose some of their expenses, such as for evening meals.
IPSA says this is a very sensible package, but it comes at not a very sensible time if you're an MP, because it looks as though you're getting more than 10% while your constituents are probably having their pay restrained.
That was a change from its earlier suggestion that their pay would be linked to average earnings, which is likely to be higher over the next five years.
The measure being used by IPSA has also been negative in the past as a result of job cuts - and the watchdog's report stated: "If these data show that public sector earnings have in fact fallen, then MPs' pay will be cut too."
A number of MPs - including Education Secretary Nicky Morgan - have said they would give the money to charity, while Labour leadership contenders Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall have said they would forgo the...

Summary: MPs' salaries will rise from £67,060 to £74,000, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has announced.
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Article: There have been huge battery-related recalls before - Nokia had to ask consumers to send back 46 million batteries in 2007 because of overheating fears, but because they were removable it did not mean a well-reviewed flagship had to be scrapped.
"Stop using your device, back up your data and switch it off," the Samsung told Note 7 owners the day after it confirmed it had shut down its assembly lines following a spate of fires.
A compensation scheme is being put in place - users will be offered the choice of either getting all their money back or swapping the phablet for an older, smaller-screened Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge phone plus a partial refund.
But several questions remain unanswered.
When Samsung instituted the initial recall last month, it pointed to a "battery cell issue" being the cause.
A report sent by the company to regulators was more specific, saying a production fault had caused some of the batteries to be slightly larger than intended, which had put pressure on them when they were fitted inside phones, according to a leak reported by Bloomberg.
The issue was blamed on the components' manufacturer - Samsung SDI  - and was supposed to have been fixed by putting  batteries made by another company, ATL, in the replacements.
Now that several of that second batch of phones have overheated too, it is unclear whether the original problem was misdiagnosed.
According to the New York Times, Samsung's engineers were never able to get the phones to explode when they tried to recreate the fault.
"We are working with relevant regulatory bodies to investigate the recently reported cases involving the Galaxy Note 7," was the only comment a Samsung spokesman was willing to make on the matter.
Samsung has yet to reveal exactly how many Note 7s it made before pulling the plug on Tuesday.
On 2 September, the South Korean company said 2.5 million devices were subject to its initial recall.
On 27 September, it added that more than 60% of the Note 7s that had been sold in South Korea and the US had been replaced with new...

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A motorcyclist has been jailed for a fatal crash in Wales.
A man has been jailed for a fatal crash in Wales.
A motorcyclist has been jailed for a fatal crash in Wales.
Andreas Werner, 46, of Leipzig, failed to spot the motorcyclist as he turned

A German holidaymaker has been fined Â£1,000 after causing a crash which killed a motorcyclist in Conwy county.

Article: Paul Croft, 19, died in hospital in March 2005, a week after being attacked in an alleyway in Pendlebury, Salford.
Greater Manchester Police's Cold Case Unit reopened an investigation into his death in 2015.
Paul O'Neill, 35, of Broomhall Road in Pendlebury, was remanded into custody by Manchester magistrates.
A 28-year-old man from Swinton was charged with Mr Croft's murder in November.

Summary: A cold case investigation into the death of a teenager who was beaten with a baseball bat has led to a second man being charged with his murder.
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Article: Angus Carpenter, 62, has played the Scottish instrument in Liverpool city centre for more than 30 years, usually dressed in kilt and piper's regalia.
Liverpool Crown Court heard he gave the impression he was collecting for charity three times in 2015.
He denied three charges of fraud and told the court he was busking.
Sgt Chris Gaynor told the court Mr Carpenter was spotted by police on three occasions in 2015, each time giving the impression he was collecting cash for charity.
On one occasion his collecting bucket was adorned with stickers resembling the Help for Heroes logo and the other two with a Hillsborough Justice Campaign banner draped on his bagpipes.
Passers-by would have assumed he was collecting on behalf of those organisations, the court heard.
Mr Carpenter said he has piped for charity in the past but on these occasions he was busking.
The court heard Kenneth Derbyshire, chairman of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, said he had given Mr Carpenter permission to design and display a banner featuring the eternal flame and the word justice.
But he said he had made it clear to Mr Carpenter he was not use it to collect funds for the charity.
Mr Carpenter told the court the banner was a tribute to the victims not an attempt to deceive anyone.
He told the court he was a busker who made money from performing on the streets and he never intended to give the impression he was raising money for charity.
On occasions when he did fundraise, he said, he always insisted that representatives from the relevant charities collected the cash.
The trial continues.

Summary: A bagpiping busker used a Hillsborough charity banner to dupe big-hearted Scousers into handing over money, a court has heard.
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Article: The co-payment scheme would have required doctors to decide whether or not to charge patients an extra A$5 ($4.1, Â£2.6) for a visit.
Health Minister Susan Ley said on Tuesday that the idea had been dropped because of a lack of support.
Critics of the policy said it shifted the burden of financing healthcare to doctors and patients.
The proposed scheme had been heavily criticised by medical professionals.
It replaced a previous and equally unpopular plan in December to charge patients a A$7 fee to see a GP.
How does Australian Medicare work now?
Under the updated version of the scheme, doctors would have seen their Medicare rebates for some patients cut by A$5, with doctors given the option to pass that cost on to the patient.
The government claimed the scheme would save A$3.5bn over five years but critics said the cost to patients would rise.
Professor Heather Yeatman, president of the Public Health Association of Australia, said in December that GPs were "being forced to do the dirty work of the government".
Ms Leys said it was clear the proposal for a co-payment did "not have broad support and will not proceed".
"We recognise that we cannot introduce reforms to build a strong, sustainable Medicare without the support from the public and the parliament."
She said she would be consulting on short, medium and long-term policy options to ensure the government could continue to support high quality care and treatment.
Australian Medical Association President Dr Brian Owler welcomed the move, telling the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the policy was "never one which was going to improve general practice or make the healthcare system more sustainable".

Summary: Australia's government has scrapped plans for a widely criticised medical payment scheme.
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Article: Hospital radiographer Aidan McNicholl, 36, died following the collision on the A5 at Cerrigydrudion on Sunday.
Andreas Werner, 46, of Leipzig, failed to spot the motorcyclist as he turned his VW Transporter right causing the fatal crash.
The father-of-four pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving at Llandudno Magistrates' Court.
He was fined Â£1,000 and also banned from driving in the UK for two years.
Prosecutor Sarah Marsh told the court the victim's family saw no value in Werner, who was staying in a cottage with his family near Bala, being sent to jail.
She said: "They accept it was a momentary lapse and nothing will bring him back."
Craig Hutchinson, defending, said Werner was remorseful and could offer no explanation for the crash.

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The UK's first ever spacewalk has been completed by a British astronaut.
The spacewalk was carried out by Tim Peake, who is the first British astronaut to have flown in space.
The mission was part of a six-month mission to the International Space Station.
The spacewalk was

Lakes that have been forming near Mount Everest could threaten settlements downstream if they overflow.

Article: The ambitious plans for the revamp includes demolishing many of the existing buildings on The Kingsway.
They also include a large raised public square bridging Oystermouth Road, linking the city centre to the marina.
The plans will go before Swansea council for approval on 20 January.
If the council gives the proposals the go-ahead, developers would need to be found with the aim of of work starting in 2016.
Part of the plans also include selling off the civic centre on the seafront to help fund the plans.
Council leader Rob Stewart told the South Wales Evening Post the plan was to build something with a "Swansea flavour" rather than just copying developments in other cities.
He said: "The regeneration of the city centre is a key priority not just for the council but for the people of Swansea as a whole.
"A new, vibrant Swansea city centre is of benefit not just to the residents and businesses of Swansea, but to people across the Swansea Bay City Region.
"We want to develop a thriving, vibrant and viable city centre. We don't want to copy from elsewhere but we do want to learn from successful development elsewhere.
"Our new city centre needs to be unique and retain a special Swansea identity and character that is not found anywhere else."

Summary: A proposed redevelopment of Swansea city centre could see the construction of a "business district" and a major shopping, leisure, cinema, office and housing complex.
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Article: The demonstration involved Racetrack memory - a system which stores information as magnetic patterns on tiny wires.
IBM said the technology promised faster data access speeds than were possible using hard drives or flash disks.
However it faces a challenge from other next-generation memory technologies being explored by other companies.
The team - based in New York, California and Taiwan - has been working on the process since 2008.
The prototype chip consists of 256 Racetrack cells.
Each cell consisted of a single magnetic nanowire, 60-240 nanometres wide and 15-20 nanometres thick. A nanometre is a billionth of a metre.
Electric pulses are applied to the wires creating "domain walls" with "regions" between them.
These regions pass over a magnetic read/write head which faces them in one direction or another, representing the 0s and 1s of computer data.
The small magnetic regions can be "raced" at speed along the wires - giving the technique its name.
Advocates of Racetrack claim it could potentially read and write data hundreds of thousands of times faster than is possible on commercial hard disks.
That would put access speeds at roughly the rate offered by DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) chips. These are already used in current PCs to run programs, but "forget" data as soon as the computers' power supplies are switched off.
"This breakthrough could lead to a new type of data-centric computing that allows massive amounts of stored information to be accessed in less than a billionth of a second," said a statement from IBM.
The scientists noted that the circuitry involved was created using IBM's standard microchip-making technologies, highlighting its potential as a realistic replacement to existing memory storage techniques.
Racetrack may also prove more durable. IBM aims to create a device that can be wiped and rewritten millions of times. By contrast many flash memory drives can become unreliable after any single bit has endured about 100,000 writes.
However, the researchers acknowledge that more work...

Summary: Details of the first real-world test of a new memory chip technology have been revealed by IBM scientists.
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Article: Leader Nick Clegg said the party's candidate Mike Thornton had pulled off a "stunning victory" which had been secured "against the odds".
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said its best-ever performance in a Westminster poll showed it had "connected with voters".
David Cameron said the Tories would recover from a "disappointing" result.
The by-election was called after former Lib Dem cabinet minister Chris Huhne resigned as an MP following an admission he had perverted the course of justice over driving licence points.
But the party, which has held Eastleigh since another by-election in 1994, won despite a fall in its share of the vote of more than 14 percentage points since the 2010 general election.
Nick Robinson: Disbelief, despair, concern
UKIP candidate Diane James got 11,571 votes, on a 19.3% swing from the Lib Dems.
Conservative Maria Hutchings won 10,559 votes, representing a 14 percentage points fall in her share of the vote since the general election, when she came second to Mr Huhne.
Labour's John O'Farrell was fourth with 4,088 votes.
Lib Dem Mr Thornton, who has been a parish and borough councillor since 2007, said: "The people of Eastleigh recognise that the Liberal Democrats have always had a superb record of delivery, we've always listened to what people want, and we always make sure that we do a good job."
By Robin  BrantBBC News political correspondent
What does this result mean?
At a victory celebration in the constituency, Mr Clegg said the party had won in the "most exceptionally difficult circumstances" - given the manner of Huhne's departure and allegations surrounding the party's former chief executive Lord Rennard.
"We held our nerve. We stood our ground... We overcame the odds with a stunning victory," he said, adding that the result proved the Lib Dems "can be a party of government and still win".
UKIP's Nigel Farage said the surge in support for his party was not a "freak result" but a continuation of a trend which had seen it rise in the national polls.
"We have really connected with...

Summary: The Liberal Democrats have won the Eastleigh by-election, with the UK Independence Party pushing the Conservatives into third place.
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Article: Ponds on the surface of the Khumbu glacier in the Himalayas have expanded and joined together to form larger bodies of water.
Climbers need to cross the glacier, including the treacherous Khumbu Icefall, to climb the mighty peak.
The accelerated meltdown of glaciers in the region is causing concern against a backdrop of rising global temperatures.
Scientists say the warning is the first of its kind for Khumbu, although other glaciers in the Himalayas have seen an increase in the number of lakes formed.
Such newly formed glacial lakes can overflow causing flooding, and with it loss of life and damage downstream.
This is the first scientific team to visit the region after the devastating earthquake last April.
"A decade or so ago, there were individual ponds on the Khumbu glacier but in the past five years or so they have begun to get larger and join up," said Ann Rowan, who led the field study team from the universities of Sheffield and Leeds.
Dr Rowan's team has been studying the behaviour of debris-covered glaciers, focusing on Khumbu.
"Particularly, on the left hand side of the lower reaches of the glacier, there is a series of about seven or eight large ponds that are now starting to link and form a big chain," she told the BBC.
"There is water flowing from the upper part of the glacier through the series of these ponds and that is going to encourage them to join up.
"At present, the glacier appears to be disintegrating, and may form a few large and potentially hazardous lakes on the glacier surface."
Dr Rowan's team has studied satellite images of the Khumbu glacier dating back 15 years and has also conducted three ground surveys since 2009.
The scientists found that parts of the lower region of the debris-covered glacier have been shrinking because of loss of ice underneath. This has allowed the formation and expansion of water bodies.
The study says measurements for the past 15 years show that the surface of the debris-covered glacier has been declining at the rate of two metres per year.
Unlike the...

Summary:


will be holding a national day of mourning on Thursday.
The Tunisian government has announced that it will be holding a national day of mourning on Thursday.
The Tunisian government has

Nineteen people, including 17 foreign tourists, have been killed in a gun attack on the Bardo museum in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, the PM says.

Article: Analysis of data on vehicle accidents showed that drivers aged 70 are involved in 3-4 times fewer accidents than 17-21 year old men.
By observing older drivers, the study found that most mistakes made occurred on right turns and overtaking.
Young men are more likely to be involved in incidents resulting from driving too fast and losing control.
The research findings were outlined at the British Science Festival in Swansea.
Charles Musselwhite, associate professor of gerontology at Swansea University's Centre for Innovative Ageing, found that dangerous driving is not generally an issue for older people.
While the elderly are more likely to be involved in an accident than the safest-driving cohort in their 40s, they are less likely than very young drivers to be involved in accidents.
Older drivers tended to make mistakes when they felt under pressure from other road users, the study found.
The most accident-prone age group, by a substantial margin, is young men. Indeed, 17 to 21 year-olds are three to four times more likely to have an accident than 70 year-olds.
There is an increase in accidents among the over-75 age group, which Prof Musselwhite puts down to increasing physical frailty.
Older and younger drivers are also involved in different types of accident. While young men are more likely to be involved in single vehicle incidents, usually caused by speeding and losing control, older people tend to have smaller impact collisions.
Older women are more likely to have small accidents when doing tight manoeuvres. Older people are also more likely to be involved in accidents involving other older drivers, suggesting they make similar errors.
However, Prof Musselwhite said that older drivers compensate for their declining powers by driving more carefully, slowing down, leaving larger gaps, and choosing better weather and quieter times to go out in the car.
He also noted that this may change as people work and live longer.
Road safety concerns have prompted discussion about re-testing older drivers, but such...

Summary: New research from Swansea University challenges the idea that older people are dangerous drivers.
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Article: On the wall behind his counter, a sign announces that besides the real - Brazil's legal tender - he accepts the "bem", an alternative currency from a local community development bank, Banco Bem.
The bank was founded in 2005 by an association of seamstresses who decided to lend their profits to a group of furniture makers so that they too could start their own collective.
There are some 100 similar microfinance banks in Brazil, as well as many barter initiatives that also involve social currencies. The banks' aim is to promote the principles of a "solidarity-based economy" which, in their view, is fairer and more sustainable than the dominant capitalist model.
Their clients can pay with colourful bills called, for example, palm-trees (palmas), chestnuts (castanhas), sunflowers (girassois), and kisses (beijos).
Even Cidade de Deus, the Rio de Janeiro's favela made famous through Fernando Meirelles's film City of God, has its own money, the CDD.
Like Cidade de Deus, Sao Benedito used to be extremely violent and drug trafficking was rife. But like several Rio slums, it has now been heavily occupied by the police and local people say they feel much safer.
Sao Benedito residents also say life has improved in recent years thanks to the social policies of the governments of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his successor, Dilma Rousseff - and thanks to local projects like Banco Bem.
"Through Banco Bem, they started to encourage me, to help me, to support me," Mr Rodrigues da Silva, a former bricklayer, said.
He has taken out two loans from the bank, the first one to build his shop and the second one to enlarge it.
"Trade has grown a lot recently. Many more people are coming to spend their money here and a lot of them are paying with bens," he added, with a big smile.
Banco Bem was inspired by Banco Palmas, Brazil's first community bank founded 15 years ago in the north-eastern city of Fortaleza.
"The goal of having a social currency is to encourage people to use that money within their community and...

Summary: Shopkeeper Heraldo Rodrigues da Silva, 55, owns a small store in Sao Benedito, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Vitoria, the capital of the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo.
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Article: The manifesto pledges to launch fast 5G mobile networks in every country within the European Union by 2020.
However, it also says current net neutrality regulations could hamper innovation and cause "significant uncertainties".
The signatories include BT, Nokia, Orange, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom.
The concept of net neutrality refers to all internet data traffic being treated equally, with no content provider able to gain an advantage over another.
Campaigners believe it is the best way to enable free and open competition on the internet.
"The EU and member states must reconcile the need for open internet with pragmatic rules that foster innovation," the 5G manifesto says.
"The telecom industry warns that the current net neutrality guidelines, as put forward by BEREC [the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications], create significant uncertainties around 5G return on investment.
"Investments are therefore likely to be delayed unless regulators take a positive stance on innovation and stick to it."
The document also outlines the businesses' commitment to launching 5G in a minimum of one city per EU country by 2020.
5G is the fifth generation of mobile networks, and is likely to be significantly faster than the currently available 3G and 4G.
In October 2015, the European Parliament voted against amendments backed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Netflix and Reddit designed to safeguard net neutrality, creating an unequal internet campaigners fear could stifle future innovation.
"Telecom companies cannot blackmail Europe into weakening net neutrality in exchange for investment in 5G networks, and it is disappointing that the European Commission appear to have endorsed their manifesto," said Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group.
"True innovation is not about protecting the vested interests of large telcos.
"BEREC need to publish net neutrality guidelines that will protect the free and open internet for small businesses and consumers as well."
One analyst told the BBC the telecom...

Summary: Some of the world's largest telecoms companies have signed a 5G manifesto, aimed at driving forward the deployment of next-generation mobile networks.
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Article: Those killed included citizens from Japan, Italy, Colombia, Australia, France, Poland and Spain, PM Habib Essid said.
Two Tunisians, one a police officer, were also killed, he said.
Security forces killed two gunmen and were searching the surrounding area for accomplices, Mr Essid added.
At the time of the attack, deputies in the neighbouring parliamentary building were discussing anti-terrorism legislation. Parliament was evacuated.
Following the attack, Mr Essid said: "It is a critical moment in our history, and a defining moment for our future.
"We have not established the identity of the two terrorists... Reports are not final, these two terrorists could have been assisted by two or three other operatives."
Security operations were "still under way", he added.
According to Prime Minister Essid, 19 people were killed, although some of the countries involved have different totals:
Earlier reports said that a total of 20 tourists had died, with at least 22 tourists and two Tunisians injured. Other reports suggest up to 50 could have been hurt.
Italian, Polish, South African, French and Japanese tourists were among the injured, Mosaique FM radio reported.
Parliament held an extraordinary session on Wednesday evening.
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said: "We are in a war against terrorism... we will fight them without mercy."
Analysis: BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner
Sadly, this attack did not come out of the blue.
While Tunisia has been spared the catastrophic levels of violence that have plagued other Arab Spring countries like Syria, Yemen and Libya, the country has still suffered from occasional but deadly attacks carried out by Islamist extremists.
In 2013, 22 people were killed. This included a suicide bomber who attacked a beach resort in Sousse. Last year 45 people were killed and already this year the death toll has reached 23, with Wednesday's museum raid following an attack on a mountain checkpoint in February that killed 4 police officers.
In all cases the perpetrators are believed...

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The woman was a passenger in the car, which was travelling from the city centre to the city's northern suburbs.
The driver, a man in his 50s, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
The woman's family have been informed.
The driver of the car, a man in

An 85-year-old woman has died after the car she was in crashed into a wall in Barnsley.

Article: The company plans to use the gas as a raw material for its chemicals plants, including Grangemouth in Stirlingshire.
Grangemouth is currently running at a loss, but Ineos believes shale gas will transform the economics of the plant.
Shale gas extraction is promoted as an important potential energy source, but has sparked opposition from environmental groups.
Ineos chairman Jim Ratcliffe said he wanted his company "to become the biggest player in the UK shale gas industry".
The firm added that "substantial further investment would follow if the company moved to development and production".
Shale gas is extracted through a technique known as fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, in which water and chemicals are pumped into shale rock at high pressure.
Numerous anti-fracking groups have formed and protests have been staged at several sites over fears of earthquakes, water pollution and environmental damage.
Ineos is currently building Europe's largest shale gas import facility to feed its petrochemicals plant at Grangemouth - but it wants to produce home-grown shale gas as well.
In recent months it has been buying up rights to explore across hundreds of square miles of the Midland Valley around the Stirlingshire site.
Ineos is also thought to have applied for further licences as part of the government's ongoing onshore licensing round.
The company outlined plans on Thursday to invest $1bn (£640m) in UK exploration.
"I believe shale gas could revolutionise UK manufacturing and I know Ineos has the resources to make it happen, the skills to extract the gas safely and the vision to realise that everyone must share in the rewards," said Mr Ratcliffe.
BBC industry correspondent John Moylan said the move will be seen as a significant vote of confidence in the sector, and will position Ineos as one of the major players in the emerging industry.
But, he added, it will also put Ineos in the sights of protesters who believe shale gas and fracking are dangerous and harmful to the environment.
A spokesman for Greenpeace UK...

Summary: Chemicals giant Ineos has announced plans to invest up to £640m in shale gas exploration in the UK.
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Article: They have published the results of a trial involving 600 women from Glasgow in the British Medical Journal.
More than 20% of the women offered vouchers stopped smoking, compared with 9% given normal NHS support alone.
The Royal College of Midwives said incentivising healthy behaviours using money was "not ideal" - and expensive.
Women taking part in the trial had breath tests - as well as providing saliva and urine samples - to check whether they were smoking. Blood samples were monitored too.
In the randomised controlled trial, the researchers assigned the women into two groups of around 300.
All were from the area covered by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, which has large pockets of deprivation.
The control group were offered a face-to-face appointment with a smoking cessation adviser, as well as four follow-up phone calls and free nicotine replacement therapy for 10 weeks.
The financial incentive group received that standard support - as well as £50 in their first appointment, £50 if a breath test later suggested they had stopped smoking, and then a further £100 after another 12 weeks.
The final £200 voucher was given if another breath test at 34-38 weeks in pregnancy confirmed there was no carbon monoxide exhaled.
After a year, 15% of women who received the vouchers had managed to stay off cigarettes, compared with 4% in the control group.
The women used the vouchers at High Street stores such as Iceland, Argos and Mothercare.
The researchers from Glasgow and Stirling universities say providing the vouchers is cost-effective for the NHS, because smoking in pregnancy raises the risk of miscarriage and stillbirth.
But schemes using financial incentives to promote healthy behaviour have been criticised as "bribery" - and this remains a controversial area of research.
The authors say in the BMJ: "This study provides substantial evidence of a promising and potentially cost-effective new intervention to add to health service support.
"Smoking during pregnancy remains a major health problem, resulting in the...

Summary: Offering shopping vouchers worth a total of £400 to pregnant smokers makes them more likely to quit the habit, say researchers.
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Article: That is a stark improvement on the 3% found in Ramon Armando Rodriguez's 1957 encyclopaedia of Venezuela.
Yesterday's encyclopaedias were a product of their time, and the "gender gap", a form of systemic bias, was rarely addressed.
But this is the 21st century, and Wikipedia, the encyclopaedia of our time, also struggles with it.
There are 295 different language Wikipedias. Each has gender-equity issues in two forms: the people who write articles, and the content which they produce.
As it happened:Women take over Wikipedia
"We've decided to team up with Wikipedia because, like the BBC World Service, they're a non-profit organization with a global and multilingual reach... As we've discovered during all our 100 Women seasons, there are so many untold stories all over the world about inspiring women both past and present. The edit-a-thon is aimed at capturing more of those stories for posterity. This is all part of a wider discussion about women's experiences online."
Fiona Crack: 100 Women editor
Read more from Fiona
Ranked as one of the 100 most popular websites, Wikipedia's objective is to provide the sum of all human knowledge to everyone on the planet. How can we honour our mission when fewer than 16% of the people who edit Wikipedia are women?
Researchers have tried to sort out the reasons for this - lack of time, lack of confidence, and negative reactions to critical feedback, are among the answers. Some editors of Wikipedia stop taking part if they encounter harassment or trolling, while others bicker to no end. For some women, this is enough to deter them from even starting.
In 2011, Sue Gardner, then Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), described nine reasons women don't edit Wikipedia. Though she set a goal of increasing women contributors to 25% by 2015, it appears the goal was not reached.
If we were to compile a list of every notable person who has lived on planet Earth since the beginning of time, and we were to agree that "notability" could only be established through the use of...

Summary: Did you know that as of 27 November 2016, only 16.72% of the English language Wikipedia's biographies were about women?
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Article: Three other people in the grey Ford Mondeo, an 82-year-old woman, a 77-year-old woman and a 67-year-old man, were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
The crash happened at 23:00 GMT on Wednesday on Sheffield Road at Hoyland Common.
The 85-year-old was taken to hospital where she later died.

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The High Court has granted anonymity to the two boys who were convicted of the Edlington attack.
The judge said the boys had been "at serious risk of attack" and that the "vast majority" of the victims had been "sickened and traumatised".
The judge said the boys had been "

Two brothers who tortured two other children in South Yorkshire have been granted lifelong anonymity.

Article: Scots hip-hop act Hector Bizerk took to Twitter recently to voice frustration about the situation.
Fellow performer Leopold Aleksander has contacted the BBC to say he has suffered similar problems.
Festival director Graham Main said outstanding payments should be made this week.
Hector Bizerk performed at the Spiegeltent venue but complained late last month that their payment was two months overdue - a situation which has now been resolved.
However, strongman Leopold Aleksander - who was part of the Le Haggis show, a centrepiece event which ran throughout the Big Burns Supper - has encountered similar problems.
He told the BBC Scotland news website earlier this week that he was still awaiting payment and said other artists from the show were in the same position.
He added that he had been frustrated by claims earlier this month that the situation would be tackled "immediately".
He said festival organisers should be "ashamed of themselves".
"I'm in contact with other artists from the show and they're in the same situation too," he said.
"They constantly say things like 'payment has been processed today' and 'the payment will be triggered'.
"The money never arrives and they just keep avoiding calls and not replying to emails."
The performer said that regardless of what happened with his payment he wanted to highlight the situation "as widely as possible" so others would not end up in the same position.
Mark Kydd, who also performed at the festival, voiced some concerns on Twitter.
He said he had been told he would get paid this week.
"Based on this experience, I certainly would have to think long and hard about whether I'd be willing to participate in Big Burns Supper again," he added.
Mr Main said: "We very much regret the inconvenience that has been caused to certain performers as we are hugely grateful to them for their work and their support.
"Outstanding payments are being made this week. Indeed, some have already gone out."
The fourth edition of the Big Burns Supper ran over nine days from 23 to 31...

Summary: The Big Burns Supper festival has encountered fresh complaints about the time it has taken to pay some of the acts at this year's event.
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Article: It has been redeveloped to be more spacious and now boasts a new artists' garden and better visitor facilities.
A previously unseen painting by LS Lowry and a ceramic figure by Grayson Perry are among the new exhibits.
Tourists are being charged a £7.50 entrance fee after the body that runs the gallery had its council subsidy cut by 60%. Entrance fees were scrapped in 2002.
A decision on whether people living in York should also be required to pay has been delayed until later in the year.
The gallery, which reopened at 10:00 BST, includes a new Centre of Ceramic Art featuring an installation by Claire Twomey of 10,000 ceramic bowls piled in towering columns and Grayson Perry's figure Melanie.
Three oil paintings by Lowry - Clifford's Tower,  Wilson's Terrace and the previously unseen A View of York (From Tang Hall Bridge) - that were commissioned by the gallery in 1952 are being shown together for the first time.
Other notable works by 20th Century artists, including David Hockney, are also on display, along with the gallery's collection of Italian old masters.
York Art Gallery is one of four attractions run by York Museums Trust, which has seen its subsidy from City of York Council fall from £1.5m in 2012 to £600,000 this year.

Summary: York Art Gallery has reopened to the public after an £8m revamp.
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Article: He said the move would mean 360,000 firms offering on-the-job training.
The Business Secretary said companies would be offered exemptions from National Insurance and apprenticeship grants as extra incentives.
The other main parties have already made pledges to create more apprenticeships for young people.
Labour says it would guarantee apprenticeships for every school leaver in England who "gets the grades" by 2020, while the Conservatives have promised three million new apprentices under a Tory government.
David Cameron said earlier this month the coalition government had created 2.2 million apprenticeships since 2010.
Main pledges
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
Mr Cable said: "The world is changing at an accelerated rate and we need to equip our young people with the skills they need for the future, to ensure they can compete in a global marketplace, in ever- changing technologies and the digital economy.
"That is why the Liberal Democrats will double the number of employers providing apprenticeships over the next five years and create more apprenticeship starts per year than Germany.
"To achieve these objectives requires significant investment in skills by both government and the private sector. As we grow our economy, the Liberal Democrats believe we must enhance adult skills training and our further education colleges."

Summary: The Lib Dems would double the number of employers offering apprenticeships to young people if the party wins its way back into government, Vince Cable says.
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Article: The boys, then aged 10 and 11, lured their victims to a ravine and carried out a "sadistic" attack in Edlington, near Doncaster, in 2009.
They were sentenced to five years' detention in 2010 and granted anonymity until the age of 18.
The High Court has now given them lifelong anonymity on the grounds they would be "at serious risk of attack".
Live updates on this story and others from South Yorkshire
The boys were released earlier this year after a decision by the Parole Board, but lawyers sought an injunction to extend their anonymity as one of the boys approached his 18th birthday.
The brothers claimed that to identify them would breach various sections of the Human Rights Act.
The High Court ruling places them alongside only four other individuals who have lifelong anonymity orders in place:
The brothers' victims, aged nine and 11, were throttled, hit with bricks, made to eat nettles, stripped and forced to sexually abuse each other in the attack.
A sink was dropped on the older boy's head, and the younger boy had a sharp stick rammed into his arm and cigarettes pushed into the wound.
Parts of the attack were recorded on a mobile phone.
The brothers had moved to Edlington just three weeks before the attack to live with foster parents.
Sentencing them at Sheffield Crown Court, Judge Justice Keith said they had committed the "prolonged, sadistic" crimes for no other reason than they got "a real kick out of hurting and humiliating" their victims.

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The Indian government has announced a new law to protect women from sexual violence.
The new law, which will come into force in April, will make it illegal to "intentionally cause or permit" sexual violence against women.
It will also make it a criminal offence to "knowingly" allow a woman to be

A court in the Indian capital has formally charged a driver of the Uber web-based taxi firm with the rape and kidnapping of a passenger last month.

Article: After 270 council election results, the anti-immigration party won two seats but with a net loss of 11 councillors.
The BNP lost all five of its seats in Stoke-on-Trent, where it launched its election campaign in England, and one of its two councillors in Burnley.
BNP candidates finished ahead of Liberal Democrats in four seats in the Welsh Assembly, but failed to win any.
Before the vote, party leader Nick Griffin said he was confident a candidate would reach the 7% needed to gain a seat, but none reached the threshold.
In Stoke-on-Trent the wards previously held by the BNP were all subject to boundary changes, and due to those changes there were 16 fewer seats available.
The party, which had two MEPs elected in 2009, lost almost half its council seats in last year's local elections, losing all 12 of its seats on east London's Barking and Dagenham Council.
As well as elections in England, the BNP also fielded 32 candidates for the Scottish parliament and candidates for the assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland.
However, the party had to rein back on its campaign spending with debts of more than Â£500,000, which it has said it expects to pay off by the end of the year.
The BNP has been hit by internal divisions and was facing doubts over its future after costly court cases brought against it including one by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
The party has said it will not be incurring any more debts as a result of Thursday's elections.
The BNP contested 338 seats in the 2010 general election and lost its deposit in 266 of them.

Summary: The British National Party has lost many of the seats it held on local councils in England.
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Article: They say that fossilised traces of the 540-million-year-old creature are "exquisitely well preserved".
The microscopic sea animal is the earliest known step on the evolutionary path that led to fish and - eventually - to humans.
Details of the discovery from central China appear in Nature journal.
The research team says that Saccorhytus is the most primitive example of a category of animals called "deuterostomes" which are common ancestors of a broad range of species, including vertebrates (backboned animals).
Saccorhytus was about a millimetre in size, and is thought to have lived between grains of sand on the sea bed.
The researchers were unable to find any evidence that the animal had an anus, which suggests that it consumed food and excreted from the same orifice.
The study was carried out by an international team of researchers, from the UK, China and Germany. Among them was Prof Simon Conway Morris, from the University of Cambridge.
He told BBC News: "To the naked eye, the fossils we studied look like tiny black grains, but under the microscope the level of detail was jaw-dropping.
"We think that as an early deuterostome this may represent the primitive beginnings of a very diverse range of species, including ourselves. All deuterostomes had a common ancestor, and we think that is what we are looking at here."
Degan Shu, from Northwest University in Xi'An, Shaanxi Province, where the fossils were found, said: "Saccorhytus now gives us remarkable insights into the very first stages of the evolution of a group that led to the fish, and ultimately, to us."
Until now, the deuterostome groups discovered were from between 510 to 520 million years ago. These had already begun to diversify into not just the vertebrates, the group to which we and our ancestors belong and animals such as starfish and sea urchins.
Because they looked so different from one another, it was difficult for the scientists to determine what an earlier, common ancestor might have looked like.
The study suggests that its body was...

Summary: Researchers have discovered the earliest known ancestor of humans - along with a vast range of other species.
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Article: The researcher said other details had also been taken that would let attackers pinpoint where the equipment was being used, making more targeted hacks possible.
Pen Test Partners' Ken Munro wants thousands of routers to be replaced.
But TalkTalk said it had not seen evidence to confirm the thefts.
"As is widely known, the Mirai worm is affecting many ISPs [internet service providers] around the world and it has affected a small number of TalkTalk customers," a spokeswoman said.
"We continue to take steps to review any potential impacts and have deployed a variety of solutions to ensure customers' routers remain safe.
"We have also employed additional network-level controls to further protect our customers."
The BBC revealed last week that TalkTalk's D-Link DSL-3780 routers had been struck by malware causing connectivity issues for those customers using the model.
The firm subsequently published advice online telling affected users to reset the equipment - which forced it to install an update to protect itself against the attack - and then "use the wireless network name and password on the back of the router" to get back online.
Security researcher Mr Munro obtained one of the affected routers to study the attack.
He said his "honeypot" router was hit by the variant of Mirai, which is now being referred to as TR-06FAIL.
But in addition to the connectivity issue, Mr Munro detected that a follow-up attack involving the same malware caused the device to disclose its wi-fi password and Service Set Identifier (SSID) code.
An SSID code can be used to reveal where a machine is located via online tools such as Wigle.
As a consequence, he said, even after subscribers had restarted their routers they could remain at risk if they continued using the same password as before.
"Most consumers never change the wi-fi keys written on the back of their router, so the fix didn't actually fix the problem," Mr Munro explained.
"Once an attacker has got the wi-fi key, if they go near to the house they can get nearly everything from...

Summary: TalkTalk customers' wi-fi passwords have been stolen following a malware attack that blocked their internet access last week, an expert has warned.
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Article: Shiv Kumar Yadav has also been charged with "criminal intimidation" of the 26-year-old woman, reports said.
The victim had used the Uber smartphone app to book a taxi home but said she was taken to a secluded area and raped.
Delhi later banned Uber and several other web-based taxi firms for failing to carry out adequate driver checks.
Although the driver has not yet given a statement in public, police say he has confessed to the crime. They say he has also been identified by the victim.
Rape and the issue of sexual violence against Indian women have been in the spotlight in recent years ever since a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was gang-raped and murdered in Delhi in December 2012.
The crime prompted global outrage and a tightening of the laws on sexual violence, but correspondents say they have failed to act as a deterrent.
Earlier this month, five men were arrested in Calcutta for kidnapping and repeatedly raping a Japanese student.
And in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, two policemen were arrested for allegedly abducting and raping a teenager.

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The UK's biggest postal service is facing a £1bn bill to cover the cost of the Brexit vote.
The Mail on Sunday has reported that the cost of the Brexit vote is now being passed on to the UK taxpayer.
The Mail on Sunday has reported that the cost of the Brexit vote is now being passed

Royal Mail shares have fallen after the company reported lower profits and increased its target for cost savings.

Article: A civil society group found FGM to be common among Muslims in mountain villages in Dagestan. Girls' genitals were cut in primitive homes.
Regional Muslim leader Ismail Berdiyev suggested all women should undergo FGM but later withdrew the remark.
But a senior Orthodox Christian priest, Vsevolod Chaplin, had backed him.
In a Facebook post (in Russian), Archpriest Chaplin expressed "my sympathies for the mufti, and I hope he doesn't retreat from his position because of the howls and hysterics which will start now".
"We Orthodox Christians have different traditions - but that never stopped us respecting the traditions of neighbouring peoples," he wrote.
He said FGM was not necessary for Orthodox Christian women "because they're not promiscuous anyway". But he approved of the mufti's statement that God had created "woman so that she could give birth and bring up children".
"Feminism is a 20th-Century lie," he added.
Mr Berdiyev, the mufti of the North Caucasus, had said earlier that FGM was practised in some villages in Dagestan and that it was necessary to curb women's sexuality.
"It would be very good if this were applied to all women," the Islamic cleric said, adding, "It doesn't stop women giving birth and there would be less debauchery."
Speaking later to Russian media, he said his "joke" had been "twisted" by journalists to make it look like he advocated FGM.
Some Facebook users lambasted the priest's position on FGM. Arik Elman said "you don't have to sympathise with Islam in order to know that FGM is not a commonly accepted part of Muslim tradition, but has regional, tribal roots".
Igor Tetyuev said it was "not the role of a celibate monk" to "discuss women's bodies, childbirth and children".
Irina Gubernatorova said "burning heretics at the stake and drowning witches in sacks were also ancient and glorious Christian traditions - shall we go back to them?"
In its report (in Russian), the Russian Justice Initiative (RJI) said it had interviewed many women in Dagestan and discovered that FGM was widespread...

Summary: A report on female genital mutilation (FGM) in the North Caucasus has sparked a fierce debate in Russia, with some clerics defending the practice.
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Article: Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national of Moroccan descent, grew up in Molenbeek, a district of Brussels known for its many Arab immigrants and blighted by high unemployment.
The 28-year-old was an associate of attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, who is on the run and whose brother Brahim blew himself up in Paris on 13 November.
Brahim died in the Comptoir Voltaire bar, without killing others, while at least six other jihadists carried out deadly suicide attacks elsewhere. They are all believed to have been recruited by the Islamic State militant group (IS).
Abaaoud had been implicated in four out of six foiled attacks since this spring in France and sentenced to 20 years in prison in absentia, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
He added that all the thwarted plots had the same modus operandi, saying the "planning from abroad of a violent act by jihadists (was) from European countries, trained in the use of weapons and then sent to our territory to carry out the attacks".
An international arrest warrant was also issued for Abaaoud, Mr Cazeneuve said.
Abaaoud - alias Abu Umar al-Baljiki - is believed to have joined IS in early 2013.
Who were the Paris attackers?
The Belgian connection
There was confusion about his whereabouts prior to his death, with IS claiming he was in Syria.
The group may have lied about his location to divert attention from him following the Charlie Hebdo attacks and the Verviers raid.
Jihadists often mislead intelligence agencies about the whereabouts of their militants, invoking the concept that "war is deception".
But his presence in France raises big questions about security failings in France and the 28-member European Union.
"No information from European countries he could have passed through before arriving in France was communicated to us," Mr Cazeneuve said.
He added that it was only on 16 November - three days after the attacks - that "intelligence services of a country outside Europe indicated they had knowledge of his presence in Greece," he said, without saying...

Summary: French investigators believe Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the jihadist killed in a police raid on Wednesday, organised last week's Paris attacks which killed at least 129 people.
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Article: Ian Murray wants to see Yvette Cooper replace Ed Miliband.
But he said if Mr Corbyn triumphed he would take on the shadow Scottish secretary role.
Voting in the election, being fought by Ms Cooper, Mr Corbyn, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall has closed and the winner will be announced on Saturday.
Mr Murray told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that he had made clear in the past that he would "think about serving in a Corbyn shadow cabinet".
He said: "But I think anyone who asks me to serve as shadow Scottish secretary, I'll be accepting of that because we need a Scottish voice in that shadow cabinet. We need to work with the leadership."
Mr Murray added: "I would serve under Jeremy Cobryn's leadership if I'm asked to do so."
The contest has been plagued by internal rows over Labour's direction and concerns that non-party supporters have tried to influence the outcome.
The Labour leadership election was sparked by Mr Miliband's resignation following the party's poor performance at the general election.
The surprise emergence of left-winger Mr Corbyn, a last-minute addition to the race, has led to warnings from his rivals and senior Labour figures, including former prime minister Tony Blair, against a lurch to the left.
The party is also in the process of choosing a new deputy leader, with the result of the ballot also to be unveiled at the leadership conference on Saturday.

Summary: Scotland's only Labour MP has said he would serve in the shadow cabinet of left-winger Jeremy Corbyn if he were to win the leadership of the UK party.
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Article: Its shares slid 7.6% to their lowest level since March, and the company was the biggest faller on the FTSE 100, the UK's main share index.
Operating profit before transformation costs for the six months to 25 September fell 5% to £320m from £342m.
Royal Mail is now seeking cost savings of £600m a year, up from a previous target of £500m.
Royal Mail reported a 1% rise in revenue to £4.6bn for the half year to 25 September, but analysts said this was lower than forecast.
The trend of fewer letters being sent through the post continued, with total letter revenues falling by 3%, although parcel revenues grew by 3%.
"The fall in the volume of letters and an 8% dip in marketing mail after the Brexit vote in June is causing concern about what can be assumed going forward," said David Kerstens, equity analyst at Jefferies.
He added that pension costs were set to rise sharply and that cost savings would be very hard to achieve without sacrificing quality of service.
Moya Greene, Royal Mail's chief executive. said the Christmas period would be crucial for the full-year results.
"Extensive planning, which began in the spring, will help us to manage our busiest time," she said. "This includes the recruitment of over 19,000 temporary staff and opening nine temporary parcel sort centres."
Also on Thursday, Royal Mail competitor UK Mail - which is being bought by Deutsche Post - said half-year revenues had fallen to £230m from £237m a year earlier, although pre-tax profits rose to £5.8m from £2.2m.

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The company has said it will not be able to release results for the first half of the year.
It has said it will be able to release results for the second half of the year.
The company has said it will be able to release results for the second half of the year.
The company has said

Volkswagen says it will not release its results nor hold its shareholders' meeting on time, as it needs more time to work out its accounts as a result of last year's emissions crisis.

Article: Hedley McCarthy has been leader of Blaenau Gwent council since May 2012 and leader of the Labour group for eight years.
He said the council is having to make more "stringent reductions" than they did under ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
Mr McCarthy will continue to serve as a ward councillor for Llanhilleth.
"To have to make cuts on the scale that we're having to do in local government is horrendous - horrific," he said.
"This has been the most difficult and challenging time in the history of local government - worse than the Thatcher years - and I am weary of the cuts imposed by the Conservative government," he said.
"I do not believe I am necessarily the right person to lead Blaenau Gwent into the Welsh assembly election next May, given that I have serious concerns about the way the so-called local government reorganisation has been handled, or for that matter even share the definition of the word local."
Mr McCarthy will be replaced by his deputy, Stephen Thomas, from Wednesday.

Summary: The leader of a south Wales council has quit after enduring what he calls "horrific" Tory government cuts.
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Article: The proposals also include the formation a two-tier structure of Test cricket, with those three nations immune from relegation.
Fica "are extremely concerned about the future of international cricket," said executive chairman Paul Marsh.
The plans will be discussed at an International Cricket Council (ICC) executive board meeting next week.
The proposals, drafted by the ICC's Finance & Commercial Affairs (F&CA) committee and leaked to the media last week, suggest the formation of a four-man executive committee, on which the boards of England, India and Australia would be guaranteed a place. The other position would be selected by the three boards annually.
The Future Tours Programme, which guarantees regular fixtures between all full ICC members over a cycle, would be abandoned in favour of bilateral agreements.
"This proposal is designed to vest control of the game in the three boards of India, Australia and England," added Marsh.
"It is not in the best interests of the global game and we have real fears that it will only serve to strengthen the 'big three' countries whilst the rest are left to wither on the vine."
Cricket South Africa (CSA) and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have also spoken out against the plans.
CSA, whose national side are currently ranked as the number one Test nation in the world, called on the ICC to withdraw the 'fundamentally flawed' initiative, arguing that it breached the ICC constitution.
"These proposals should first be referred to the relevant ICC committees or sub‐committees for proper consideration and to make recommendations to the ICC board," CSA president Chris Nenzani wrote in a letter to ICC president Alan Isaac.
1. South Africa
2. India
3. Australia
4. England
5. Pakistan
6. Sri Lanka
7. West Indies
8. New Zealand
9. Zimbabwe
10. Bangladesh
"Although there is nothing to prevent a review of the ICC funding model or finances, the proposal self-evidently is inextricably tied up with a fundamental restructuring of the ICC, which has far‐reaching constitutional...

Summary: The international players' union (Fica) opposes plans to give England, India and Australia more control of cricket.
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Article: Many schools were evacuated as a precaution, meaning some GCSE, A-level and Higher exams had to be abandoned.
The BBC News website answers some of the key questions on the issue.
Yes. There is a procedure for schools to follow in the event of an emergency such as a fire or bomb alert during public examinations.
This is set out by the Joint Council for Qualifications, which represent the seven largest UK exam providers.
Exam invigilators are advised to stop candidates from writing, collect the attendance register (in order to ensure all candidates are present) and evacuate the examination room.
Students should be told to leave all question papers and scripts in the exam room and must leave the exam hall in silence.
Staff must make sure that the candidates are supervised as closely as possible while they are out of the exam hall, to make sure there is no discussion about the examination.
Invigilators should make a note of the time of the interruption and how long it lasted and allow the candidates the full working time set for the examination.
The guidance says if there are only a few candidates, schools should consider the possibility of taking the candidates (with question papers and scripts) to another place to finish the examination.
Schools have to make a full report of the incident and of the action taken and send this to the relevant exam board.
Students whose public exams were disrupted can rest assured that the situation will be fed back to the examiners. Schools will document how the exams were affected and send this to the exam boards. The boards will make any adjustments as they see fit, on a case-by-case basis.
A spokeswoman for the AQA exam board said: "We need to look at each case on an individual basis because there are a range of ways in which students might have been affected - they might have taken all, part or none of the exam, or been affected by the incident in different ways.
"Once we know the full circumstances from the schools, we can decide on the best course of action. In the...

Summary: Hundreds of pupils across the UK have faced disruption to exams following a spate of hoax calls.
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Article: The company was due to release results on 10 March and hold its shareholders' meeting towards the end of April.
It has not said by how much these events will be delayed.
It says results will be about the same as in 2014, although the cost of the crisis will eat into those.
It said it was working on "valuation calculations".
Sales in VW-branded cars dipped last year after the scandal - which affected 11 million cars - came to light in September. Deliveries fell 5.3% in October, 2.4% in November and 7.9% in December compared with those months in 2014.
It was its first drop in VW-branded sales in 11 years as the company continues to cope with the emissions scandal.
VW has promised it will have a fix in the coming weeks for the millions of US cars with defeat devices that disguised emission levels in diesel cars.
Sales of VW-brand cars fell 4.8% in 2015 to 5.82 million cars from 6.12 million a year earlier.
The US Environmental Protection Agency is suing the company over what it says were 600,000 affected vehicles and a US law firm is conducting an investigation into who made the decisions to cheat.
Volkswagen says it is sticking to its plan to publish the findings of its investigation into the scandal in the second half of April.
Results from Porsche, which is owned by Volkswagen, are also being delayed.

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A fire broke out in a fume cupboard on Tuesday at a school in north-west London.
The fire broke out in a fume cupboard on the first floor of the school in Cathays Park, near Harrow, at around 10.30am.
The fire was put out by firefighters using

Parts of Cardiff University's main building will remain closed on Wednesday after a fire.

Article: The British Polio Fellowship (BFP) said only 7% of people in the UK were aware of "post polio syndrome".
Symptoms include chronic fatigue, muscle weakness, joint pain and breathing problems.
Up to 12,000 people in Wales could be affected, more than 60 years after the first polio vaccine was developed.
Coral Williams, 71, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, is a volunteer with the charity and was contracted polio when she was three.
She was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome in 1984 after chronic pain in her legs forced her to give up work.
"There are people out there, not only people but doctors as well, who are not finding out about people who have had polio and what they're suffering now is the late effect of polio," she said.
Her daughter, Angela Locke, BFP's chairwoman in Wales, said raising awareness among families and doctors could improve outcomes for sufferers as they receive appropriate treatment more quickly.

Summary: Thousands of people who had polio when they were younger should be aware of developing further health problems, a charity has warned.
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Article: Masayoshi Son made the comments to the media as the Japanese technology giant reported a 50% rise in quarterly operating profit.
It is the first time the group has said it is interested in Uber.
Softbank has already invested in Asian ride-sharing firms Grab and Didi Chuxing.
Mr Son, who founded the company in 1981, described the US as "the most important market".
"We are interested in discussing with Uber. We are also interested in discussing with Lyft," he said, but added that he hadn't decided "which way" to go.
"Whether we decide to partner and invest into Uber or Lyft, I don't know what would be the end result," he said.
"We are definitely very much interested in the US market."
Softbank has already shown an appetite for ride-sharing and backs China's Didi Chuxing.
Last month, the company joined with Didi Chuxing to pour $2bn (Â£1.5bn) into Grab, South East Asia's most popular ride-hailing firm.
As an early investor in Alibaba, Mr Son has a reputation for spotting potentially transformative industries and trends.
In 2016, Softbank partnered with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund to launch a technology fund worth as much as $100bn.
The company also has stakes in a number of British technology firms including virtual reality firm Improbable.

Summary: Softbank's chief executive has said he is considering investing in Uber or Lyft, as the company eyes a move into the US ride-sharing market.
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Article: In England, surveys measuring typical drinking habits account for only around 60% of alcohol sold, the medical journal BMC Medicine report said.
Report author Dr Mark Bellis said this was because many studies do not include drinking on special occasions.
More than 6,000 people in England were interviewed for the study.
Accounting for special occasion drinking added more than 120 million UK units of alcohol - equivalent to about 12 million bottles of wine - to the population's alcohol consumption in England every week, it found.
The results could have important implications for public health, researchers said.
"Nationally, we underestimate how much we drink - and as individuals we can turn a blind eye to our heavier drinking periods when we calculate personal consumption," said lead scientist Dr Bellis, from Liverpool John Moores University.
"For many people, though, these sessions add substantial amounts of alcohol to their annual consumption and inevitably increase their risks of developing alcohol-related ill health."
The equivalent of more than three-quarters of a bottle of wine (or about three pints of beer) per drinker every week goes unaccounted for, he said.
The survey measured a medium glass of 12.5% ABV wine as 2.2 UK units, and a 440ml can of 4.5% ABV beer as 2 UK units, but the amount of alcohol units in drinks varies depending on their size and strength. The NHS has a guide to calculating alcohol units.
Researchers conducted telephone interviews with 6,085 randomly-selected members of the public aged 16 and over in England.
Participants were asked about normal drinking patterns and those outside their usual circumstances, such as summer holidays, bank holidays, and weddings.
Most categories of drinkers, based on age groups and levels of typical consumption, reported increased consumption during holidays or special occasions.
The biggest increase was seen in 25 to 35-year-olds, who had the highest level of typical consumption.
People in this drinking category drank an extra 18 units (144g) of...

Summary: The amount of alcohol people in England drink has been underestimated by the equivalent of 12 million bottles of wine a week, according to new research.
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Article: The building at Cathays Park was evacuated, with all staff and students told to leave, after a blaze broke out in a fume cupboard on Tuesday.
The main building will remain shut on Tuesday with access to most areas reopened on Wednesday.
But two chemistry labs on the first floor and the restaurant will be shut until further notice.

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