The drug is a purified form of cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive component of the cannabis plant.
The drug is being trialled in the US.
The trial is being funded by GW Pharmaceuticals.
The company said the drug was "the first and only FDA-approved treatment for two

Children with severe epilepsy could be helped by a new treatment derived from the cannabis plant.

Article: Sarah Sobka, a pupil at Sheffield High School, was selected by a panel of experts ahead of 2,000 other hopefuls.
Sarah presented her work at an event in Birmingham and said she was "really grateful to win the award, but it was a bit of shock".
She did the work during four weeks last year at the University of Sheffield's Department of Biomedical Science.
Working in a team, she helped examine a drug which is commonly used to treat women with Irritable Bowel Syndrome to see if it could be used on cystic fibrosis.
The incurable disease is one of the UK's most common life-threatening inherited diseases, affecting over 10,000 people, according to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.
It affects internal organs, especially the lungs and digestive system, by clogging them with thick sticky mucus, making it hard to breathe and digest food.
Ms Sobka said she had become "attached to cystic fibrosis" after her work placement and hoped to pursue a career in medicine and research.
"I was a small part in a really big paper," she said.
"But, every small step is important. The more we know the more help that gives us in synthesising new drugs.
"Every little bit of understanding helps."

Summary: A student has been named UK Young Scientist of the Year for research into new drugs for cystic fibrosis patients.
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Article: "Beach Bums" is the first UK project of its kind, teaming researchers with the action group Surfers Against Sewage.
Surfers are being asked to volunteer to provide rectal swabs to help scientists to find out the effects of marine pollution on human health.
Tests have shown water may contain antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Lead researcher Anne Leonard is from the European Centre for Environment and Human Health at Exeter University.
"We know that surfers regularly swallow lots more seawater than other beach users - around 170 ml per session, which is more than ten times that of sea swimmers," she said.
"We've already shown that this water may contain antibiotic-resistant bacteria but we have no idea how this might affect the microbes that live in our guts, or how it could impact upon health."
There are an increasing number of bacteria that have evolved to become immune to even the most powerful antibiotics.
The superbugs make common infections much harder to treat.
The threat is considered to be so serious that US President Obama recently launched a five-year action plan to reduce the use of antibiotics in treating humans and animals.
In the "Beach Bums" project, the swabs will give researchers an insight into the microbes which colonise surfers' guts.
By comparing these samples with others from people who don't regularly spend time in the sea, they will learn more about how superbugs in the environment can affect people.
According to Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), this is the first time that the surfing community has got so closely involved with a scientific study.
Andy Cummins from SAS said: "We have been laughing about swab parties going on around the country, but this is set against the background of a really important project.
"Whilst water quality has improved dramatically in the last 20 years, coastal waters can still be contaminated by sewage from both animals and humans, introducing billions of potentially harmful bacteria into the ocean environment.
"We will give this data to the scientists, to find...

Summary: Scientists are launching an investigation into antibiotic-resistant bacteria, known as "superbugs", by gathering data from surfers' rectums.
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Article: It measures the extent adults are affected by repetitive behaviours - a criteria used to diagnose the condition.
Currently diagnosis relies on parents, carers or teachers reporting behaviour, but the test will allow people to assess themselves at clinics.
It will now be trialled before it is rolled out in clinics across the UK.
The research, published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, focuses on how much people indulge in common habits and routines such as lining up objects, arranging them into patterns and fiddling obsessively with things to help clinicians diagnose them.
It found consistently higher scores for people with autism after it was trialled on 311 people.
Autism is found in more than one in 100 people.
Meleri Thomas of the National Autistic Society Cymru called the test "a useful new resource".
She said: "Although, as the researchers make clear, it's not a diagnostic tool in itself, it could help some adults explore whether they should seek a full diagnostic assessment."

Summary: A self-assessment test for autism has been developed by psychologists at Cardiff University.
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Article: The medicine does not contain the ingredient that produces the high associated with recreational cannabis.
The treatment, called Epidiolex, is based on one of the non-psychoactive components of the cannabis plant, CBD.
Early studies in the US have shown treatment with CBD may reduce the frequency and severity of seizures in children with severe forms of epilepsy.
The new trial marks the first time the treatment has been tested in the UK.
Patients are being enrolled for a trial of the treatment at Edinburgh University's Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre, based at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow and Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool are also driving the study.
There are further centres in the US, France and Poland.
Their initial focus will be on children with Dravet Syndrome, a rare but serious type of epilepsy that is difficult to treat. Some children will receive the treatment while others will receive a placebo.
In a further phase, researchers will also study the effect on children with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome.
Only children whose seizures cannot be controlled with existing medications will take part in the trial.
Dravet Syndrome usually takes hold in the first year of life. It causes seizures that are often prolonged, lasting longer than five minutes.
They then develop other seizure types. This has a significant impact on the child's development and can be fatal in some cases.
Epidiolex has been developed by the British biotechnology company GW Pharmaceuticals, which is sponsoring and funding the trial.
Dr Richard Chin, director of the Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre, said: "Many children with serious forms of epilepsy do not respond to the medications that we currently have available.
"We need new means of treating these conditions so that we can give back some quality of life to these children and their families."

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The chairman of Northampton Borough Council has apologised for the "unfortunate" way the authority's loan to Northampton Town was handled.
The loan was given to the club in 2013 to help fund the redevelopment of Sixfields Stadium.
The loan was given to the club for the re-development of the stadium

An MP says he "has to take some responsibility" over an unpaid £10.25m loan to a football club.

Article: Shadow chancellor John McDonnell told the BBC that over a five-year Parliament borrowing would only be allowed for investment.
Labour sources said it was aimed at regaining "economic credibility".
But the government said it was clear Labour had not learned its lesson.
Mr McDonnell said the deficit on "current spending" would be eliminated. Labour insisted that the new rule was not a commitment to spend more money than the present government.
Chancellor George Osborne has put in place rules saying that the government will create an overall budget surplus "in normal times".
Labour voted against the rule in Parliament, and Mr McDonnell said any future Labour government wanted to invest more than the Conservatives.
Which could mean more borrowing.
The Office for Budget Responsibility - the government's economic watchdog - will be given new powers to "whistle blow" when it believes that the "credibility rule" has been breached.
And under the Labour plans it will also report to Parliament rather than the Treasury.
"We know now from the world's central banks that the world economy is looking at stagnation, and there needs to be a new rule," Mr McDonnell told me.
"And we want people to have confidence in a Labour government. That means we are introducing a new fiscal credibility rule.
"First, that a Labour government will always balance day to day expenditure.
"Second, that we will only borrow for the long term, and that means for investment - investment in our infrastructure, in the homes that we need, the railways, the roads, the renewable energy.
"And in new technology to grow our economy.
"Third, debt will fall under a Labour government over a five year period.
"And then finally all this will be supervised independently by the Office [for] Budget Responsibility, reporting directly to Parliament.
"This is a new iron discipline for a Labour government," he said.
Labour Party sources have admitted to me that "economic credibility" is one of the key reasons why people did not support the party at the last election.
I...

Summary: Labour is to announce a new "fiscal credibility rule" which will oblige any future Labour government to balance "day-to-day" spending with the amount it raises in taxes.
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Article: A video appeared to show Jill Stein preparing to spray-paint a bulldozer.
She was protesting over the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is opposed by environmental and Native American groups who fear its impact.
"I approve this message," she is accused of writing on the blade of an earth-moving machine.
In a statement following the news of criminal charges, Mrs Stein said she hopes "the North Dakota authorities press charges against the real vandalism taking place at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation: the bulldozing of sacred burial sites and the unleashing of vicious attack dogs".
A judge has issued a warrant for her arrest but it is not known whether she intends to turn herself in.
She and her Green Party running mate Ajamu Baraka are charged with misdemeanour counts of criminal trespass and criminal mischief.
Since April over 3,000 people have been protesting about the pipeline. In recent days, private security forces have been using attack dogs to clear protesters.
Mrs Stein was also arrested during her 2012 campaign. She was protesting outside a debate to which she was not invited.
The 1,100 mile (1,770 km) crude oil pipeline passes close to Native American burial groups and is opposed by over 200 tribes.
A judge has temporarily forced the Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners to halt construction, and is due to decide on Friday whether to withdraw the company's building permits.

Summary: The Green Party candidate for president has been charged with criminal trespass after being accused of vandalism at an oil pipeline protest in North Dakota.
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Article: Four Costa Rican companies that have volunteered their help say they possess the skills to create a prosthesis for the injured bird.
They say they will use 3D printing to create the first prosthesis of this kind in the region.
In the US, prosthetic beaks have been created for an eagle and a penguin.
The male toucan, named Grecia after the area where it was found, was taken to an animal rescue centre in January.
Pictures of its mutilated beak caused outrage after they were circulated in Costa Rican newspapers and on social media.
A campaign to provide the bird with a prosthetic beak quickly raised thousands of dollars and a number of local companies offered their help.
Four of them, Elementos 3d, Ewa!corps, Publicidad Web and Grupo Sommerus, said on Tuesday that they were confident they could design a suitable prosthetic for Grecia and fit it.
Toucans use their beaks to eat and also to regulate their body temperature.
Veterinarian Carmen Soto, who looks after Grecia at the Zoo Ave rescue centre, said the toucan was recovering well and had even started eating on its own.
"The quantity he manages to eat on his own is very small, so we have to help him," she said.
Designer Nelson Martinez said the priority was to create a prosthesis which would help Grecia eat.
He told newspaper La Nacion that he and his team had been studying toucan beaks to come up with a suitable design for Grecia.
He said they were working on a model that would have "a fixed part and a moveable part so it can be cleaned or replaced as the toucan is still growing".
Ms Soto said Grecia's wound was scarring well and that within the month it would be possible to scan its stump.
This will be key to ensure the prosthesis fits Grecia and will also influence how it is fitted.
"We couldn't use any type of adhesive with chemical components as it could compromise the structure of the beak," Mr Martinez said.
The team is studying if it could be fixed with screws instead.
Ms Soto warned that the prosthesis would have to be both lightweight and...

Summary: A toucan in Costa Rica which lost the upper part of its beak after being attacked by youths looks set to be fitted with a prosthetic replacement.
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Article: David Mackintosh was the leader of Northampton Borough Council when the authority authorised the loan to Northampton Town in 2013.
The money has never been paid and the council is in the process of trying to get it back.
Mr Mackintosh said "due diligence was carried out" before the loan was granted.
The Conservative MP for Northampton South said he felt "angry, frustrated and upset" about the ongoing financial problems at the Cobblers.
The club currently faces a winding-up petition from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) over £166,000. This is due to be heard on 16 November.
The £10.25m loan was originally given to the club for the re-development of its Sixfields stadium.
Mr Mackintosh said all decisions over the loan were taken at the borough council's cabinet and followed "a lot of work" by officers.
He said safeguards were put in place and were now being deployed by the council to recover the money.
Mr Mackintosh said: "Clearly as leader I have to take some responsibility for what happened.
"It is very frustrating because at the same time there are other things that haven't happened at the club.
"There are serious questions to be answered."
Club chairman David Cardoza previously told the BBC he expected the loan issue to be resolved by the end of last month.

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The new £1 coin will be introduced in 2014.
The new £1 coin will be introduced in 2014.
The new £1 coin will be introduced in 2014.
The new £1 coin will be introduced in 2014.
The new £1 coin will be introduced in 2014.
The new £1

The new 12-sided £1 coin will enter circulation on 28 March, the government has said.

Article: Scientists at the Cambridge-based British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have been shipping back samples from the Antarctic Peninsula for 35 years, but with limited space in their own chilled laboratories the best option for halting the melting process is a cold storage warehouse.
Here, samples share space with groceries destined for supermarket freezers.
The warehouse on an industrial estate in Bourne, Lincolnshire, marks the end of a journey that begins about 15,000km (9,300 miles) away.
BAS scientists drill up to 1,000m (3,300ft) deep into the Antarctic ice, recovering cores - cylindrical samples of ice - some of which fell as snow more than 150,000 years ago.
These are packed in polythene tubes in insulated boxes, and stored in underground caverns cut into the ice before being flown to Rothera or Halley, two BAS Antarctic research stations accessible by ship.
Here they are kept in refrigerated containers at about -22C (-7.5F).
They are sent back to the UK in April on the final ship to sail before the winter weather sets in and makes access impossible.
The RRS Ernest Shackleton brings them back, usually docking at Immingham, in North East Lincolnshire.
The refrigerated container then travels by lorry to the cold storage warehouse in Bourne.
About 550 boxes the size of tea chests, containing about 4,000m (13,000ft) of ice cores, are currently stored with frozen food there.
Samples are regularly sent from there to BAS's Cambridge laboratories.
"Each one metre-long, 10cm diameter core is measured electronically to count the number of annual layers in the ice to date it, and also to see how much snow falls each year," said BAS's ice-coring chemist Dr Robert Mulvaney.
"This helps us understand how the climate has been changing over the whole region in the last 100 years."
The cores, collected mainly from the Antarctic Peninsula, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and in Dronning Maud Land, can help show scientists "how the local climate responds to the global change in climate", Dr Mulvaney said.
"We are recording the...

Summary: How does Antarctic ice destined for vital climate research end up in a massive fridge in Lincolnshire - next to bags of frozen peas and oven chips?
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Article: James Ibori is in prison for fraud and money-laundering linked to his time as the governor of Nigeria's Delta state.
The Crown Prosecution Service says it has intelligence which "supports the assertion" a Met officer was paid for information. He denies wrongdoing.
The CPS previously denied claims it had not handed over all key evidence.
James Ibori, a former governor of one of Nigeria's oil-producing states, was jailed in 2012 for 13 years for laundering millions in the UK through the purchase of property, a fleet of armoured Range Rovers and a £120,000 Bentley.
The conviction of Ibori was the prize for a government anti-corruption campaign initiated by the Department for International Development (DfID) 10 years ago.
Det Sgt John McDonald, who is accused of receiving payment in return for providing information about the case, headed the police investigation. He has always denied any wrongdoing.
Det Sgt McDonald has been removed from the National Crime Agency's International Corruption Unit, where he had been on secondment. He has returned to the Met, where a review of his status has begun.
The CPS has also replaced the prosecution team involved in ongoing cases connected to the Ibori affair, although it stressed the lawyers still retained its full confidence.
James Ibori: How a thief almost became Nigeria's president
Since Ibori's conviction, defence lawyers have claimed the CPS "wilfully misled" judges about the existence of evidence that Det Sgt McDonald took money in return for information about the case.
If that was to be accepted, Ibori's legal team would seek to have their client's conviction overturned by the Court of Appeal on the basis that there had been abuse of the process.
At a hearing on Thursday, Ibori's lawyer, Ivan Krolic, said prosecutors had consistently and deliberately manipulated the system.
"Our argument is that the whole process is infected," he told Southwark Crown Court.
The CPS has now issued a statement confirming that a review is under way into aspects of the Ibori case.
"The CPS...

Summary: A police officer has been removed from a UK anti-corruption unit after claims he was paid for information about a case against a Nigerian politician.
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Article: The building society - the UK's second biggest mortgage lender - said that 38% of properties were sold to cash buyers.
It said that low interest rates had encouraged investment in bricks and mortar, while mortgage lending had been squeezed in recent years by the banks.
It also said that UK house prices in May were 4.6% higher than a year ago.
This was a slowdown from the 5.2% annual rate of increase recorded in April.
Nationwide said this marked a resumption of a "gradual downward trend" in annual price growth which had begun last summer.
However, prices in May were up 0.3% compared with April, taking the average price of a property to Â£195,166.
The proportion of cash transactions - without the need for a mortgage - leapt in the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis, based on Nationwide's own data.
Tighter credit conditions and unemployment drove the increase at this time, according to Robert Gardner, chief economist at the Nationwide. These elements would not have had the same effect on cash transactions.
Last year, the average proportion of cash buyers was 36%, which then moved up to the new record level of 38% in the first quarter of this year.
Figures published by the Bank of England suggests that the peak is unlikely to be extended, owing to a pick-up in mortgage lending. The number of mortgage approvals for house purchases rose to a 14-month high in April, Bank data showed on Tuesday.
"I suspect [the proportion] will fall throughout the year as lenders and borrowers adjust to, and become more familiar with, the new lending rules," said Alex Gosling, chief executive of online estate agents HouseSimple.com.
"This realignment of buyers with lenders may well be evident in the strong mortgage approvals data issued this week by the Bank of England."
The actual number of cash buyers, rather than the proportion, has risen slightly since 2008, but has still not reached the peak seen during the housing boom of 2007.
The highest proportion of cash buyers - nearly 50% - was in the North East of England,...

Summary: Nearly four out of 10 homes were sold without the need for a mortgage in the first quarter of the year - a record high, the Nationwide has said.
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Article: The round £1 will be legal tender alongside the new, more-secure coin until 15 October.
The public are being urged to use their current £1 coins or bank them before they lose their legal tender status.
The government estimates around a third of the £1.3 billion worth of coins stored in piggy banks or saving jars around the UK are the current £1 style.
Some of those returned by the public will be melted down and used to make the 12-sided version.
The new style was announced in the 2014 budget and has been billed by the Royal Mint as "the most secure coin in the world".
Its introduction will come as a new set of coin designs are also brought into circulation, celebrating the achievements of Jane Austen and Sir Isaac Newton.
The Royal Mint said the new designs have a "strong pioneering theme" and will start appearing this spring.
A Jane Austen £2 coin will celebrate the author 200 years after her death, while another £2 version will remember the Royal Flying Corps.
A 50p coin will mark the achievements of mathematician Sir Isaac Newton, a one-time Master of the Royal Mint.
Dr Kevin Clancy, director of the Royal Mint Museum, said: "This is a particularly significant year in Royal Mint history as we welcome in the new 12-sided £1 coin, with its innovative security features.
"This year we also mark the achievements of Jane Austen, Sir Isaac Newton and the Royal Flying Corps - all pioneers in their own field."

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The IAAF has suspended Russia from athletics for two years and stripped the country of the right to host the World Championships in Moscow in 2018.
The IAAF has also banned the Russian track team from the World Championships in London in 2018.
The IAAF has also banned the Russian track team from the World Championships in

Russian coaches who "do not understand how to work without doping" should "retire" says the country's deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko.

Article: Mr Pig had a large tumour on his face and was seized by RSPCA officers, who said he had been suffering "in a huge amount of pain".
Bob Skinner, of Corfe Mullen, Dorset, said his 20-year-old kunekune "was old but wasn't ready to be put down".
Mr Skinner, who was found to be in breach of animal welfare laws, has complained to Dorset Trading Standards.
The RSPCA took Mr Skinner to court after he failed to seek veterinary treatment for Mr Pig.
In a statement the charity said: "We have received a complaint regarding our investigations and are currently looking in to the matter."
The RSPCA has previously defended its decision to put the pig down, which it said had "been suffering significantly for three to four weeks".
Mr Skinner said: "Mr Pig was taken and put down for no apparent reason other than he had an ulcer on his face. I'm not quite sure where it went wrong."
He described Mr Pig as his "only companion", adding: "He made my days."
In a statement, Dorset Trading Standards - which gave the RSPCA permission to put Mr Pig down - said: "The vet certified that the animal was being caused suffering.
"Using our powers under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, we permitted the RSPCA to seize the animal for further checks.
"The following day, an RSPCA vet requested that the pig be put down."
The RSPCA said it had arranged to return Mr Pig's body to Mr Skinner.

Summary: A man prosecuted for failing to look after his pig has lodged a complaint against the RSPCA for putting it down.
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Article: Dionne Russell, from Radford, was issued with the penalty on Thursday after using the Central Six retail park on 14 May.
Miss Russell, who spent 40 minutes shopping at the site, said the charge was a "cheek".
G24, which runs the car park, declined to comment.
Miss Russell told the Coventry Telegraph she had gone to Hobbycraft at about 14:45 BST and had spent 40 minutes shopping before returning to her car.
On trying to exit the site, she said she hit a bottleneck caused by the Friargate roadworks and could not leave until 18:10.
She said: "I was quite annoyed that, having completely wasted two hours of my life in a queue, the company had the cheek to send out the notice.
"Surely they should have somebody on site to tell the parking people that the road was gridlocked."
She said she would be "interested" to know if anybody else had been charged.
Miss Russell was sent images of her car entering and leaving the site which has a three-hour maximum time limit.
"The photo of me leaving the site had cars behind me and in front of me because it was a stationary queue," she said.
She added she would be contesting the penalty.

Summary: A woman who says she was stuck in a two-hour queue to exit a Coventry car park has been issued with a £70 charge for overstaying the time limit.
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Article: It was entitled the 10 Immutable Laws Of Security.
Fifteen years is a long time in cybersecurity, so it seemed like a good time to revisit these "laws" and put them in the a context you might encounter this Christmas - a time when there's often a spike in attacks.
Observing them could prevent a festive season you'd rather forget.
Most hacks begin this way - you receive an email, or SMS, you visit a link and are given a convincing reason why you have to install something.
Or, you receive an email with a document attached, open it and it installs the malware for you.
Think twice, click once.
If something is unexpected don't trust it: delete it.
Be careful where you buy that Christmas present from or you may get more than you bargained.
Even reputable manufacturers have been found to install elements into an operating system that cause major security headaches.
If at all possible, buy devices that give you the necessary data - original keys and software - to reinstall the operating system.
A fresh install is the only way you can be certain of what you're getting.
It's a pain but it's worth it.
Most people are completely unaware of how vulnerable their machines are to uploading malicious software simply by allowing someone to plug in a USB stick.
Even if your computer is powered off, a hacker might be able to boot off a USB stick and install malware or add hidden elements.
Unless you want to superglue shut all of the physical connections on your device - not recommended - just do not give anyone "alone time" with you precious machine.
And, if at all possible, encrypt your hard drive so it is more secure when powered off.
With over a billion active websites in the world, hackers don't just target individuals' machines.
They can upload code in unexpected ways.
We have seen major brands breached as they didn't prevent hackers injecting code into web forms. We have seen malware being passed onto visitors via embedded adverts.
Website developers typically don't think like hackers. They design their sites to be helpful...

Summary: In 2000, Scott Culp wrote a terrific essay on computer security.
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Article: Russia was suspended by governing body the IAAF for state-sponsored doping in November 2015, a ban extended on Monday to cover the 2017 World Championships.
Mutko, who was criticised by the IAAF on Monday, accepted "there were many abuses and breaches" but says "colossal work has been done" over the last year.
Russia expects to be back by November.
A return to competition will require the reinstatement of the national drug-testing agency, which remains suspended over various allegations of covering up doping.
Mutko - who assumed his role in October - has been outspoken since the McLaren report alleged there had been a state-backed Russian doping programme. In January he said female doping results can be distorted if athletes have had sex in the days leading up to a test.
But on Monday he said: "Athletes broke the rules and many coaches don't understand how to work without doping and it's high time for them to retire."
Russia will miss the World Championships which begin on 4 August in London, but some athletes from the country could compete in London under a neutral banner.
The IAAF is so far considering 35 applications from athletes, who could be included if they can show a record of independent drug-testing by agencies other than the suspended national body.
Russian track federation vice president Andrei Silnov said he was against the inclusion of neutral athletes in principle but also questioned if the country's problems were as bad as the IAAF outlined.
"It's all being solved, slowly but surely. We're doing what we need to do," Silnov said. `"They say we have a culture of doping. What culture of doping?"

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The Peanuts Movie is a new film about the comic strip Peanuts.
The film is based on the comic strip Peanuts, which was created by Charles Schulz.
The film is directed by Josh Cooley and stars Michael J Fox, Jennifer Coolidge, and Albert Brooks.
The film is based on

Charles Schulz's characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy have been talking about the secret of their strong friendships.

Article: Livestock faeces has entered a burn that runs near the farm at Knocknagael and down through housing developments in Inverness.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has been working with farm staff to resolve the problem.
The housing developments close to the burn include Culduthel Mains and Holm Dell.
A notice has appeared on a footbridge over the burn warning people to avoid the stream's water.
The sign advises people to wash hands and any clothing that does come into contact with the water with soap and warm water.
A spokesman for Sepa said: "Sepa received notification on Friday 5 August of a pollution issue in a burn which runs through Inverness.
"Sepa's investigations since then have identified that the problem originates from Knocknagael Stud Farm.
"We are in contact with all relevant partner organisations. We are working with the Scottish government to prevent any further escape of run-off."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "Action has been taken to address and prevent any further issue with the waste management system at the Knocknagael Bull Stud Farm.
"The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) is content with our approach."
The bull stud rents out its animals to crofters and farmers.
Knocknagael and adjoining Balrobert form the Scottish government's bull stud.

Summary: A Scottish government-owned bull stud farm is at the centre of a pollution incident.
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Article: Minimum standards will be introduced later this year to weed out incompetent psychologists and other experts, the justice department said.
The courts will also be told to use fewer experts to save time and money.
The system has so far escaped scrutiny due to the secrecy surrounding family courts, critics say.
Lib Dem MP John Hemming, who campaigns for family law reform, said he "welcomed" the move.
He described the current lack of oversight of experts who were often responsible for life-changing decisions as an "absolute scandal".
Speaking in a Westminster Hall debate on Thursday, the Birmingham Yardley MP claimed some psychologists provided contradictory opinions depending on who was paying for their services or reached a verdict on whether someone was a fit parent without interviewing them.
"The idea that psychologists can come to conclusions about people and their merits as parents without even seeing them is an absurdity," he told MPs.
Justice Minister Jonathan Djanogly, responding for the government, said minimum standards would be introduced as part of wider reform of the family court system aimed at improving fairness and efficiency, including greater use of mediation.
"Expert evidence will continue to be important in some cases to ensure a fair and complete process," the justice minister told MPs, but he said the government was "working to ensure it is of high quality and that it is delivered promptly".
"The main elements will be to raise the threshold for a court to permit an expert to be instructed, where expert witness evidence must be necessary rather than reasonably required."
He said family courts had to be more conscious about the cost and time delays and urged them to "exercise better control on the questions put to the expert".
He added: "We recognise also that minimum standards are necessary for expert witnesses in the family courts and so we are working with the department of health, health regulators and the family justice council to establish minimum standards that judges should expect...

Summary: Fewer decisions about the care of children will be made on the advice of poorly qualified experts in the family courts under government plans.
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Article: The Liberal Democrats lost two seats, as well as its group leader, while Labour lost one of its four seats and UKIP lost its only one.
Turnout for the county-wide vote was nearly 40%, the council confirmed.
Meanwhile, Labour won two of the three controversial new parish councils in Swindon.
Election 2017: Full results from across England
The Conservatives gained seven seats to hold more than two-thirds of the Wiltshire Council chamber, while the Lib Dems now hold 20, Independents seven and Labour three.
Lib Dem opposition leader Glenis Ansell lost her seat in Calne North to the Tories, but her party did have the satisfaction of winning Melksham Central from UKIP.
Gavin Grant, the Lib Dem councillor for Malmesbury, said it was "desperately sad" to lose Glenis Ansell, but added: "It's very noticeable in areas that voted Remain in last year's referendum we are performing extremely strongly and are well placed to challenge Brexiteer Conservatives."
Baroness Jane Scott, the current Conservative council leader, said the Tories had "started to make inroads into the market towns".
"I've been a councillor for over 20 years and those market towns for a long, long time were dominated by the Liberal Democrats," she said.
"We're just beginning now to really change that, quite considerably, and that's quite important because we don't want a spilt county - rural and urban - we want a totally united county."
In Swindon, Labour won two of three new parish councils created to save borough council funds.
Labour took majorities in the North Central and South Central councils, with the Conservatives winning in West Swindon.
The creation of parish councils was controversial as the Conservative-run borough council created them to transfer the cost of services such as grass cutting and street cleaning.
Critics said the changes were not wanted and would result in council taxpayers paying more.

Summary: The Conservative Party has increased its majority at Wiltshire Council, securing 68 out of 98 seats.
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Article: 22 December 2015 Last updated at 09:18 GMT
They're all back on the big screen again in The Peanuts Movie.
The characters have been revived for their first feature film in 35 years, by the creator Charles Schulz's son and grandson.
Other familiar characters are also back including Charlie Brown's friend the Little Red-Haired Girl, and Snoopy's nemesis the Red Baron.
Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock and Lucy all spoke to entertainment reporter Genevieve Hassan.

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The programme has been told that the NSA has been able to

The clash between Apple and the FBI over whether the company should provide access to encrypted data on a locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers highlights debates about privacy and data security which have raged for decades.

Article: The rocky planet, Kepler 186f, is close to the size of Earth and has the potential to hold liquid water, which is critical for life, the team says.
Nestled in the Milky Way, it is part of a five-planet system that orbits around a cool dwarf star.
It was spotted by the Kepler telescope, which has found nearly 1,000 new worlds since its launch in 2009.
"This is the smallest planet we've found so far in the habitable zone," said Prof Stephen Kane, an astrophysicist from San Francisco State University, US.
Kepler 186f is about 500 light-years away from the Earth.
The researchers estimate that is a little bigger than our planet, with a radius that is about 10% larger than ours.
Because of its size, the team believes it is a rocky planet.
Prof Kane explained: "There seems to be a transition that occurs at about 1.5 times the Earth's radius, such that if the planet is larger, then it starts to develop a very substantial atmosphere very similar to what we see in the gas giant planets in our own Solar System.
"And so anything less than 1.5 is probably more like a rocky planet that we are familiar with."
Kepler 186f travels around a small and cool star. Of the five planets in the system, its orbit is furthest out and lasts about 130 days.
The team believes that it has the potential to hold water because with this orbital path it does not journey too close to its star for the liquid to boil away or so far out that it would freeze. Scientists call this region the "habitable zone".
Prof Kane said: "Even though it is orbiting a star which is very different from our Sun, the planet itself - both in terms of size and the amount of energy it is receiving from its star - is the most similar planet to our Earth that we've yet discovered.
"That is great news in terms of looking for planets which might actually be similar to the Earth, especially as the kind of star it does orbit - which is a very small star - are amongst the most common in the galaxy.
"And if all of these very common small stars have lots of terrestrial-sized...

Summary: The most Earth-like planet yet has been discovered, scientists report in the journal Science.
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Article: Club director Easdale met last week with Rizvi, who is wanted by Interpol, and Malaysian Datuk Faizoull Bin Ahmad.
Bin Ahmad has since been quoted by a Malaysian news agency denying any relationship with Rizvi.
That prompted a Rangers fans group to repeat its call for the other directors to remove Easdale from the football club board.
The Union of Fans, a coalition of Rangers supporters groups, has stated its opposition to Rizvi having any involvement at Ibrox. He has previously been associated with the former chief executive Charles Green and the former commercial director Imran Ahmad.
Rizvi attended the meeting in Glasgow last week with Easdale, Bin Ahmad and two of the Malaysian businessmen's associates. A Malaysian news agency has since quoted Bin Ahmad as denying that Rizvi was part of his entourage.
Rizvi's role in proceedings raised controversy as he is wanted in Indonesia over a conviction in absentia for banking crimes, leading Rangers to issue a statement that said he was an advisor to Ahmad.
Ahmad was also quoted as saying that his associate, understood to be Azman bin Ismail, was interested in buying the club. Ahmad and Bin Ismail were pictured in Glasgow last week, having had lunch with Easdale and Rizvi.
The source added that Easdale remains hopeful of attracting external investment to Ibrox.
Bin Ahmad is chairman of Malaysian Super League side Felda United and an Ibrox spokesman insisted that the purpose of his visit was to investigate a potential youth and community tie-up with the Scottish Championship club.
The Malaysian news agency report quotes Bin Ahmad as saying: "I have no idea who Rafat Rizvi is."
Easdale claimed in an interview last year that he had not had any business dealings with Rizvi.
The Union of Fans have called for the Rangers International Football Club directors to act against Sandy Easdale, who is a shareholder and chairman of the football club board but is not a member of the plc board, of which his brother, James, is a non-executive director.
"The Union of Fans has...

Summary: A source close to Sandy Easdale has told BBC Scotland that Rafat Rizvi has been introducing investors to Rangers.
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Article: Scientists sequenced genomes from 10 skeletons unearthed in eastern England and dating from the Iron Age through to the Anglo-Saxon period.
Many of the Anglo-Saxon samples appeared closer to modern Dutch and Danish people than the Iron Age Britons did.
The results appear in Nature Communications journal.
According to historical accounts and archaeology, the Anglo-Saxons migrated to Britain from continental Europe from the 5th Century AD. They brought with them a new culture, social structure and language.
Genetic studies have tackled the question of Anglo-Saxon ancestry before, but sometimes gave conflicting results.
Confounding factors included the close genetic affinities of people in North-West Europe and the scarcity of ancient DNA from indigenous Britons and the Germanic-speaking migrants.
Dr Stephan Schiffels of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany sequenced genomes of human remains from Hinxton, Saffron Walden, Linton and Oakington - all of which are near Cambridge.
The burials fall into three different age categories: Iron Age, early Anglo-Saxon and Middle Anglo-Saxon.
Contrary to narratives suggesting large-scale displacement of the Britons by Anglo-Saxon invaders, the researchers found evidence of intermarriage in the earliest phase of settlement.
In order to disentangle the Anglo-Saxon signal from the indigenous British genetic background, the researchers looked at many rare mutations across the whole genome.
"We found that these rare mutations were the key to studying historical samples. We could compare our ancient samples with modern samples in an improved way," Dr Schiffels told BBC News.
"We could look at these in a very large sample of modern Europeans. For example, we studied low frequency mutations that must have occurred in the ancestors of the Dutch over the last few thousand years.
"We found that these mutations were shared with the Anglo-Saxon immigrants at a factor of two more than they are with the indigenous Celtic people. These rare mutations are...

Summary: The present-day English owe about a third of their ancestry to the Anglo-Saxons, according to a new study.
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Article: Cryptography was once controlled by the state and deployed only for military and diplomatic ends. But in the 1970s, cryptographer Whitfield Diffie devised a system which took encryption keys away from the state and marked the start of the so-called "Crypto Wars".
Whitfield Diffie and three other experts spoke to the BBC World Service Inquiry programme about the tensions at the heart of the spat between Apple and the FBI.
In 1975, cryptographer Whitfield Diffie devised "public key cryptography", which revolutionised encryption.
"The basic techniques we used until public key cryptography come from around 1500 in the western world, and were known from about 800 in the Middle East.
"They are basically arithmetic. Not ordinary integer arithmetic, but something like clock arithmetic - it's 11 o'clock and you wait three hours and you get 2 o'clock - and table lookups. What's the 5th element in the table? What's the 20th element?
"The trouble is you can't do them very well without some kind of mechanical computation. A human being can't do enough of those calculations to produce a secure system without making too many mistakes.
"Before what we did, you could not have supported cryptography outside a fairly integrated organisation. If you look at the US Department of Defense, it's very large, but very centralised; everybody knows the chain of command.
"They can have a trusted entity run by the National Security Agency (NSA) to manage the keys [used by the military and government]. If you were in the military, and it was part of your assignment to talk to somebody securely in another part of the military, they would supply you with a key, and every morning you come out and put one in your teletype machine or phone or whatever.
"But the internet is not just meant for friends to talk to friends, it's for everybody to talk to everybody. Until you have public key cryptography you have no way of arranging the keys on demand at a moment's notice for these secure communications.
"That's what browsers do with websites all the...

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The government has said it will not be changing the rules on purdah.
The committee will publish its report on 22 July.
The committee will publish its interim report in the next few days.
The committee will publish its final report in the next few weeks.
The committee will publish its interim report in

Plans to relax so-called "purdah rules" on government announcements in the run-up to the EU referendum are to be the subject of a quickfire inquiry by MPs.

Article: The idea of "biodiversity offsetting" is controversial, with some campaigners dubbing it a "licence to trash".
It means developers planning to build houses in environmentally sensitive areas would be allowed to go ahead if they could offset damage by paying for conservation activities elsewhere.
The environment department Defra has published a green paper on the scheme.
"Offsetting is an exciting opportunity to look at how we can improve the environment as well as grow the economy," said environment secretary Owen Paterson.
Commenting on the consultation, which will conclude on 7 November, he said: "We want to hear from developer and wildlife groups alike on how we can simplify the existing planning process while enhancing our natural environment.
"There is no reason why wildlife and development can't flourish side by side."
In England, six pilot areas were selected in 2012 for two year trials of a voluntary approach to offsetting through the planning system.
In March this year, a report from the government's Ecosystems Markets Task Force recommended that the offsetting scheme should be rolled out nationwide as a matter of priority.
Offsetting, it said, would "revolutionise conservation in England by delivering restoration, creation and long term management on in excess of 300,000 hectares of habitat over 20 years".
Similar schemes have been up and running for many years in other parts of the world. But environmental groups have highlighted problems with the idea.
The Woodland Trust has campaigned against the inclusion of ancient woodlands in any offsetting scheme and it rejects the suggestion that the future of these habitats should rest on the proposed economic benefit of a given development.
The Trust's chief executive Sue Holden said she welcomed the fact this green paper recognised the "irreplaceable" nature of these woodlands. But she added: "We need to see a more robust use of planning law to support this, ensuring that irreplaceable habitats are treated as such.
"Offsetting should only ever be a last...

Summary: The UK government has outlined its proposals on compensating for the loss of biodiversity through development.
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Article: That figure is the recommendation of the panel that was tasked with setting MLAs' expenses and salaries.
After the assembly election, the UUP and SDLP said they would not go into the executive and went into opposition.
Now the Independent Financial Review Panel (IFRP) has written to assembly speaker Robin Newton saying pay must reflect the reality of opposition.
At present MLAs are paid £49,000 a year, whilst ministers below the level of first and deputy first ministers are on £87,000.
The review panel recommends opposition leaders, who are entitled to a seat in the executive but who do not take one, should get £68,000.
The panel, whose term of office ended last week, also recommends opposition leaders should get support staff.
Panel member Alan McQuillan told the BBC: "Our responsibility was to look at expenses and salaries payable to people and to make sure they were fair in comparison to the jobs they did."
He added: "They were quite clearly new jobs. They had additional responsibilities.
"We thought it would be fair to pitch them somewhere between the salary of a Minister and an ordinary MLA. So we thought they needed more salary but we also felt to do their job effectively they needed additional expenses."
The panel's proposals have received a cold response from the political parties.
On Tuesday, the UUP said they were sceptical of the need for an increased salary for opposition leaders. A spokeswoman told the BBC they wanted extra resources for support and research.
A DUP spokesman said: "Provision for opposition research funding has already been made.  The question of further funding is a matter for the parties in the assembly but we are not persuaded of the need to fund specific opposition posts where there is little additional responsibility."
A Sinn Féin representative said: "The proposal for increases in salaries and resources for opposition leaders, as mooted by former members of the IFRP, is not included in the Fresh Start Agreement".
The SDLP declined to comment.
The letter to Assembly speaker...

Summary: Leaders of the opposition at Stormont should receive a salary of £68,000 and should get support staff.
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Article: Helen Carmichael is a councillor for Highland Council's Aird and Loch Ness ward.
The earliest reference to a provost of Inverness was a "provost junor" in the 1400s.
In another first for the historic position, Ms Carmichael is also leader of the council's Inverness and Area district.
It had previously been a separate post but has been merged with the role of provost.

Summary: A woman has been elected provost of Inverness for the first time in the 600-year history of the civic role.
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Article: The Public Administration Committee said it would seek written evidence and publish an interim report before the summer recess later this month.
Eurosceptic Tories fear the rules are being amended to allow the government to campaign openly to stay in the EU.
But ministers say it is needed to allow them to continue their work.
The committee, headed by Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin, said the purdah probe would form the first part of a wide-ranging inquiry into the EU Referendum Bill, the proposed law that will authorise a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU by the end of 2017.
Mr Jenkin said he and his colleagues wanted to know why the government was planning to partially "disapply" the existing rules on government announcements in the four weeks leading up to the referendum.
The inquiry will focus on the existing rules, as set out in the 2000 Political Parties and Referendum Act, the government's case for amending them, how ministers plan to go about it and the impact it will have on the impartiality of the civil service.
In a vote on the issue last month, 27 Conservative MPs rebelled against their party, urging ministers to reinstate the full purdah period although the government won the vote after Labour abstained.
The government has said the existing rules would potentially prevent ministers from attending EU meetings and making decisions with a European dimension. They have insisted they will address MPs' concerns about this and other matters - such as the funding available to different sides and the length of the campaign itself - as the bill makes its way through the Commons.
The committee will publish its report on 22 July.

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The app is available for free on the App Store and Google Play.
The app is available for free on the App Store and Google Play.
The app is available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Danish, Swedish

The British teenager who sold his news summary app to Yahoo for millions is facing a major life choice as he weighs education and business opportunities.

Article: Japan has apologised and will pay 1bn yen ($8.3m, Â£5.6m) - the amount South Korea asked for - to fund victims.
The issue has been the key cause for strained ties. South Korea has demanded stronger apologies and compensation.
Only 46 former "comfort women" are still alive in South Korea.
The announcement came after Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida met his counterpart Yun Byung-se in Seoul, following moves to speed up talks.
Later Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe phoned South Korean President Park Geun-hye to repeat an apology already offered by Mr Kishida.
"Japan and South Korea are now entering a new era," Mr Abe told reporters afterwards. "We should not drag this problem into the next generation."
Ms Park issued a separate statement, saying a deal had been urgently needed - given the advanced age of most of the victims.
"Nine died this year alone," she said. "I hope the mental pains of the elderly comfort women will be eased."
It is estimated that up to 200,000 women were forced to be sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during WW2, many of them Korean. Other women came from China, the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan.
Read more: 'Comfort women' - a painful legacy
After the meeting in Seoul, Mr Kishida called the agreement "epoch-making".
"Prime Minister Abe expresses anew his most sincere apologies and remorse to all the women who underwent immeasurable and painful experiences and suffered incurable physical and psychological wounds as comfort women," Mr Kishida told reporters.
The wording of the deal does not explicitly state that the "comfort women" will receive direct compensation, but states that the fund will provide "support" and bankroll "projects for recovering the honour and dignity and healing the psychological wounds".
Some former "comfort women", such as Lee Yong-soo, have taken issue with this.
The 88-year-old told the BBC: "I wonder whether the talks took place with the victims really in mind. We're not after the money. If the Japanese committed their sins, they should offer direct...

Summary: Japan and South Korea have agreed to settle the issue of "comfort women" forced to work in Japanese brothels during World War Two, in their first such deal since 1965.
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Article: He is one of seven Milton Keynes drivers found to have criminal convictions in a council investigation.
The inquiry came after a convicted rapist had both his private hire and Hackney Carriage licences revoked last week.
Council leader Peter Marland said the authority would take action when it had the "full facts".
A council spokesman said the issue was its "highest priority" and it was preparing to interview all drivers it had concerns about.
The driver convicted of four sexual assaults, including rape, had been issued with a private hire vehicle licence in September 2011, despite councillors knowing of his convictions.
He was granted a Hackney Carriage licence last March.
Both licences were revoked last week after a member of the public raised concerns about him.
The council said it had begun a detailed review of licence holders, which found seven other drivers gave "cause for concern".
Labour leader Mr Marland told BBC Three Counties Radio: "At the moment we are doing all the background checks.
"One of those [seven] drivers has handed in his plates and we will take immediate action against the other six as we find out more detail."
Mr Marland could not give a time scale but said it would be "as soon as we possibly can".
"I think our cabs are safe, the vast majority of taxi drivers in Milton Keynes are good, law abiding people," he said.
Liberal Democrat mayor Subhan Shafiq stepped down after he was found to have personally vouched for the convicted rapist, describing the man as being of "good current character".
The chairman and vice-chairman of the licensing committee, Gladstone McKenzie and Stuart Burke, have also resigned.

Summary: A taxi driver convicted of a sexual offence has not had his taxi licence taken away, a council has said.
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Article: The work will see a 1,000 space park-and-ride at Elmbridge Court, road capacity improvements on the A40 and more frequent bus services.
However it does not include a railway station, which was originally looked at in 2005 but has since been dropped.
The measures are part of £854m worth of government investment in 21 transport schemes across England.
A spokesman for the Conservative-run Gloucestershire County Council said the work would make travel between the two destinations quicker and easier.
"The Elmbridge scheme will greatly improve transport for cars, buses and cyclists by making congestion-busting improvements to the road.
"It's simply about making things better at one of the busiest and most difficult junctions in the county.
We're delighted that this scheme has been accepted and that we are in line to receive almost [£14.1m out of £16.5m] the entire cost of the scheme.
"Costs over and above government funding would be met primarily from developer contributions," he added.
In September, Gloucestershire County Council had submitted its "best and final bid" for the Elmbridge Transport Scheme to the Department for Transport (DfT).
This was a revised version of plans originally put forward in March 2010.
The current bid includes:
It is hoped the work would be completed by 2015.

Summary: Funding has been approved for transport improvements and a new park-and-ride between Cheltenham and Gloucester.
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Article: Nick D'Aloisio told the BBC he was currently deciding between working full-time for the California-based company or going to university.
The 18-year-old has just released an iPad edition of Yahoo's News Digest, for which he acts as project manager.
He is also developing an Apple Watch version, among other projects.
"For the lightweight news consumption that we have, [News] Digest is absolutely suited for this device," he said.
"Because of the summarisation element to this app, it just inherently makes sense when you have a constrained screen.
"We've been thinking about designing the concept of taking Digest to wearables for a while now, and we're going to jump at the opportunity."
The app's icon briefly features during the Watch promotional video on Apple's site.
Mr D'Aloisio said his team had already begun work on the software before the launch event, but had been kept "in the dark" about how the device functioned.
He added that he also intended to bring the app to Android Wear smartwatches.
News Digest has already been downloaded to about 1.3 million iPhones and 623,000 Android handsets, according to analytics provider Xyo.
Yahoo would not confirm those numbers, but said that it believed:
Mr D'Aloisio was only 16 years old when he secured a $250,000 (Â£154,000) investment in his software from Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing.
He subsequently launched the app Summly as a standalone news-summarisation product, but it was only a few months before Yahoo acquired the technology and his services, in a deal reported to be worth Â£20m.
Since then he has headed up a team of about a dozen software engineers and designers to create and run News Digest, at the same time as sitting his A-level exams.
Yahoo's app delivers two daily briefings of eight to nine stories, which are assembled by algorithms using text, images and videos sourced from online providers including:
Once the user has clicked through all the material, a graphic tells them they are "done".
"It's been very intense because I'm accountable and in charge...

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A new study has found that a mutation in a gene called NR5A1 is responsible for a rare condition which causes infertility.
The study, published in the journal Human Molecular Genetics, is the first to identify a single gene that is responsible for a rare condition which causes infertility.
The condition is called male factor

A faulty gene could help explain some cases of unexplained male infertility, according to research.

Article: You might think that they would want to boast about it, but in this case it's secret and you're not meant to know.
Since 2011 the Secret Intelligence Service, otherwise known as MI6, has cut its carbon dioxide emissions and shifted from being in the worst category for energy efficiency to rating better than would be typical for its kind of building.
This is disclosed in the organisation's official Display Energy Certificate, which I reveal here. Until recently this document was publicly available on the internet, despite this being contrary to the relevant regulations, but it has now been removed.
The certificate states the address for the MI6 headquarters at Vauxhall Cross in central London. It gives "GCB" as the occupier of the building. This stands for Government Communications Bureau, which is sometimes used as a cover name for MI6.
The document shows that since 2011 the building's energy rating has improved from 166, a very low score which would put it in the least efficient grouping, to a much better 88. Carbon dioxide emissions have fallen by around 10%, but it doesn't use any renewable sources of energy.
This change has been achieved in a building which must doubtless contain complex arrays of sophisticated electronic equipment.
Public buildings are required to display energy performance certificates with details of their energy efficiency, in line with a European Union directive. Generally the certificates should also be published on the website of the non-domestic energy performance register, to maximise transparency and enable public scrutiny.
However some buildings are meant to be excluded from this public register. This includes those belonging to the security agencies (as well as prisons, and those used by the armed forces and the royal family).
The GCB/MI6 certificate was however available on the register until recently to anyone who searched for it using the building's postcode. After I discovered this, saved a copy and sought a comment from the service on its impressive improvements in...

Summary: Now here's a public service which seems to have a very good record of improving the energy efficiency of its headquarters over the past two years.
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Article: Twelve of the 27 committee chairmen have already been elected unopposed.
But MPs standing for the remaining positions faced a secret ballot of colleagues on Wednesday, with the outcome to be announced on the floor of the Commons at 10:30 BST.
The roles have been divided up between the political parties based on the results of the general election.
Chairmen are elected using an "alternative vote" system, under which MPs rank their favourites in order of preference, with the first to get more than 50% of votes going through.
Some, like Public Accounts and Backbench Business, are reserved to the Opposition, but the rest are parcelled out in proportion to the parties' strength.
With the Conservatives now running a majority government, they take on the chairmanship of the Justice Committee, previously held by Lib Dem veteran Sir Alan Beith.
Meanwhile, the SNP - which is now the third largest party in the Commons - has been handed the Scottish Affairs and Energy and Climate Change.
Committee chairmen receive extra pay on top of their MP's salaries for doing the job.
Here is the list of the committee chairmen who have been re-elected unopposed:

Summary: Results of the elections for House of Commons select committee chairmen are to be announced shortly.
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Article: Australian players linked arms as a sign of respect before Thursday's World Cup qualifying match at Adelaide Oval.
Saudi players took up field positions and some continued to stretch.
Football officials said they had been told in advance that the "tradition was not in keeping with Saudi culture". An Australian MP called it "disgraceful".
Football's world body Fifa says the Saudi team will not face sanctions. It said it had reviewed what had happened and judged that there were "no grounds to take disciplinary action".
Eight people were killed and 48 injured on Saturday when three men drove into pedestrians on London Bridge, before abandoning the vehicle and stabbing people in the surrounding area.
Two Australians, Kirsty Boden and Sara Zelenak, were among the eight victims of the terror attack.
Australian football officials said the Saudi team had agreed a minute's silence could be held.
But officials were "further advised by Saudi team officials that this tradition was not in keeping with Saudi culture and they would move to their side of the field and respect our custom whilst taking their own positions on the field", a statement from Football Federation Australia said.
During the silence, as the Australian team lined up, most Saudi players dispersed to take up their positions on the pitch. Number 7 Salman Al Faraj, appeared to stand still. Two other players are also pictured standing with their hands behind their back.
The Saudi Arabian Football Federation made an "unreserved" apology on Friday.
"The players did not intend any disrespect to the memories of the victims or to cause upset to their families, friends or any individual affected by the atrocity," it said in a statement.
"The Saudi Arabian Football Federation condemns all acts of terrorism and extremism and extends its sincerest condolences to the families of all the victims and to the government and people of the United Kingdom."
The observance of moments of silence has been for years a subject of religious disagreement between moderate Muslim...

Summary: Saudi football chiefs have apologised after their national team elected not to take part in a minute's silence for victims of the London Bridge attack.
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Article: Mutations of the NR5A1 gene were found in a small percentage of infertile men, reports the American Journal of Human Genetics.
Scientists from the Pasteur Institute in France and University College London said it could help doctors investigating men with the condition.
A UK expert said he hoped that further gene defects could be found.
In the majority of cases, doctors can find no cause for male infertility, despite it accounting for up to half of cases in which couples have difficulty conceiving.
Male infertility appears to be more common within certain families, and this leads scientists to believe that there may be a genetic root for some cases, but only a handful of gene mutations which might be responsible have actually been found.
The latest research looks at a gene already known to be involved in sexual development in both men and women - defects in NR5A1 have been linked to physical defects in the development of the testicles or ovaries.
Their findings suggest that, even where there is no physical evidence of a problem, defects in the gene may be hampering the ability to make sperm.
They looked at the gene in 315 apparently healthy men who had an unexplained inability to produce sperm.
From this group, they found mutations in the gene in just seven, and closer examination revealed the men had altered levels of sex hormones and, in one case, mild abnormalities in the cellular structure of the testicles.
The research authors, from the UCL Institute of Child Health in London and the Institut Pasteur in Paris, said: "We conclude that approximately 4% of men with otherwise unexplained failure to produce sperm carry mutations in the NR5A1 gene."
Although the find would affect only a small proportion of infertile men, other specialists believe that other similar discoveries could help build up a clearer picture of the origins of the condition.
Dr Allan Pacey, a senior lecturer in andrology at the University of Sheffield, said that there was still "embarrassingly little" known about the genetics behind male...

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The company is to cut more than 10,000 jobs.
The company is to cut more than 10,000 jobs.
The company is to cut more than 10,000 jobs.
The company is to cut more than 10,000 jobs.
The company is to cut more than 10,000 jobs.

Hewlett-Packard says it will cut another 25,000-30,000 jobs, or 10% of its workforce, as it plans to split the company in two.

Article: The £200m scheme will give Northern Ireland greater access to generating capacity in the Republic.
Approval was granted in December 2016 but was challenged by the North East Pylon Pressure Campaign.
The judge said there was "no lawful reason" to overturn the planning permission.
The Utility Regulator has said the scheme is needed to ensure security of supply, particularly as some older power stations in Northern Ireland are due to be decommissioned.
The scheme will involve connecting the two power grids via 138km of overhead lines between Moy in County Tyrone and County Meath.
The Planning Appeals Commission (PAC) held a public inquiry into the northern element of the the project in February.
The PAC is due to make a recommendation later this year.
The Northern Ireland section is being overseen by System Operator for Northern Ireland (SONI).
Robin McCormick of SONI welcomed the court decision and said the inter-connector was needed to address security of supply problems facing Northern Ireland.
"This decision is encouraging and means our colleagues in EirGrid can now engage with landowners in the project area in the south," he said.
Angela McGowan, CBI Northern Ireland Regional director, said it was a welcome development but stressed that "urgent clarity" on the northern section of the project was needed.
"We would encourage the Planning Appeals Commission and the Department for Infrastructure to reach a positive decision on the planning application as soon as possible," she said.

Summary: The High Court in Dublin has upheld planning approval for the southern element of the north-south electricity interconnector.
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Article: The barrister said draft reforms to the UK's EU membership might "do the job politically" but would do little to curb the "muscle-flexing" of EU Courts.
Without action, a "new generation of EU rights would bed down", she argued
Mr Johnson is under pressure to say whether he will back EU exit or not.
The Mayor of London and Conservative MP has said he will wait until the final text of the proposed changes to the UK's membership, brokered by European Council president Donald Tusk, is agreed before deciding which way to campaign in a future referendum.
He has said David Cameron is making the "best of a bad job" in his negotiations and pressed the prime minister to set out how any agreement will re-assert the UK's national sovereignty and guarantee the primacy of Parliament and British courts, amid speculation a law could be passed to put this beyond doubt.
In an article for a human rights blog, Ms Wheeler - who recently became a QC - said the draft package of reforms negotiated by Mr Cameron, including enhanced powers for national Parliaments to group together to block EU legislation, "raised more questions than they answered".
"The reach of the Court of Justice of the European Union has extended to the point where the status quo is untenable," she wrote.
"Aside from eroding national sovereignty, which it does, the current situation also undermines legal certainty, which in turn undermines good governance. To limit the still-growing reach of EU law, it is not enough to use "red cards" to stem the flow of EU legislation.
"Reform is needed to address the EU legal order, in particular the jurisdictional muscle-flexing of the Court in Luxembourg. The Tusk proposals do not do this. In fact they duck the issue entirely, leaving the way clear for a whole new generation of EU right to bed down."
A string of recent legal rulings, she argued, demonstrated that the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which was given legal force by the 2007 EU Lisbon Treaty was being used to "fashion new rights" rather than merely reaffirm those...

Summary: Marina Wheeler, who is married to Boris Johnson, has entered the debate about the UK's future in the EU, urging the government to assert its opposition to the "growing reach" of EU laws.
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Article: A report into HMP Moorland said almost half of all prisoners claimed it was easy to get drugs compared to 28% at the last inspection.
Inspectors said the availability of new psychoactive substances (NPS) was undermining recent progress.
Prison bosses said more work needed to be done to tackle the problem.
The report follows an unannounced inspection of the prison, near Hatfield Woodhouse, in February.
It found the number of violent incidents, fights and assaults had increased since the last inspection in 2012 and levels were also higher than at similar prisons.
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Peter Clarke, Chief Inspector of Prisons, said: "There are real opportunities at Moorland to make progress, but the issues of NPS... have such a negative impact on prisoners' experiences.
"In particular, there is a real opportunity to make progress in embracing the prison's new role as a resettlement prison, and in delivering treatment programmes for sex offenders."
Responding to the report, Michael Spurr, Chief Executive of the National Offender Management Service, said: I am pleased that the inspector has highlighted the real progress being made at Moorland in purposeful activity as well as successfully introducing and managing sex offenders."
He said: "We are not complacent about safety and there is clearly more work to do to address levels of violence and tackle increasing availability of NPS at the prison."
A spokesperson for the Howard League for Penal Reform said: "The report uncovers a number of problems, not least the reality that one-in-three prisoners has nothing to do during the working day.
"People turn to drugs when faced with idleness and despair."

Summary: Inspectors are warning the availability of so-called legal highs at a South Yorkshire prison is "severely threatening" the stability of the jail.
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Article: It follows 55,000 job cuts announced earlier this year.
The losses will come in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), which is splitting from the printer and PC business.
The company says the cuts will save $2.7bn (Â£1.76bn) in annual costs, although the plan will cost $2.7bn to carry out.
At a meeting for Wall Street analysts, chairman and chief executive Meg Whitman said: "We've done a significant amount of work over the past few years to take costs out and simplify processes and these final actions will eliminate the need for any future corporate restructuring."
The new structure proposed by Ms Whitman sees HP Enterprise focusing primarily on businesses and government agencies, and the PC and printing divisions on the consumer market.
The company currently has more than 300,000 employees.
"The number is sadly larger than some people might have expected, but I think it's a reflection of how much trouble HP has been having with its services," said Charles King, analyst at the Silicon Valley IT consulting firm Pund-IT.
"I'm frankly not sure if HP is finished with the layoffs."
The company will not say where the cuts will fall, but part of the plan involves changing the nature of the workforce.
The proportion of workers in what HPE calls "low-cost locations" is expected to rise from around 42% now to 60% by 2018.
The tech company has struggled over the last decade to keep up with changing demands as customers move away from desktop computers.
However, Hewlett-Packard is still one of the world's largest technology companies, with revenues this year expected to top $50bn.
The company famously started life in a Palo Alto garage in California in 1939 and grew to be the guiding light of what became known as Silicon Valley.
Its fortunes started to decline with a series of expensive and much criticised acquisitions including Compaq for $25bn in 2002, consultants EDS for $14bn in 2008 and Autonomy for $11bn in 2011.
In 2012 it lost its position as the world's leading supplier of PCs to Lenovo.
The share price peaked at...

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The first episode of the fifth series of Game of Thrones was shown on Sky Atlantic in the UK on Wednesday night.
The first episode of the fifth series of Game of Thrones was shown on Sky Atlantic in the UK on Wednesday night.
The first episode of the fifth series of Game of Thrones was shown on Sky Atlantic

A woman who acted as a legal analyst for the media during the Oscar Pistorius trial has appeared in court charged with fraud.

Article: Hull City Council, which brought the action, said the chain should provide sanitary facilities if food and drink are consumed on the premises.
Newcastle City Council, Greggs' home town authority, opposed the move.
An earlier ruling in Greggs favour said outlets serving simple takeaway food did not need toilet facilities.
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Hull City Council took legal action after Newcastle City Council issued guidance relating to toilet provision in food outlets.
The guidance, approved by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills' Better Regulation Delivery Office, argued bathroom provision at food outlets should be based on a predominant trade test.
Officials said, that if "takeaway trade was predominant" food and drink would not "normally" be sold for consumption on the premises, and outlet owners should therefore not be required to provide toilet facilities.
Hull City Council said that approach could not be right, as such an interpretation gave the two Greggs' bakeries in Hull an "unlawful and unfair" commercial advantage.
In his ruling at a hearing in Leeds on Tuesday, Mr Justice Kerr said Hull council's claim was "well-founded" and the advice given by Newcastle council "flawed".
He said he would quash the Better Regulation Delivery Office's decision to approve Newcastle council's guidance.
The judge added: "It is obvious that if a person sits down in a Greggs outlet at the seats provided and proceeds to eat a pasty and a fizzy drink just purchased at the counter for that purpose, that is a normal use of the premises.
"The fact that most customers take away their purchases and those who stay do not normally stay long, does not change that."
A Department for Business, Innovation & Skills spokesman said: "We have lodged an appeal."
Responding to the latest ruling, a Greggs spokesperson said: "This is the first time the statutory Primary Authority scheme as set up in 2008 has been challenged in the courts.
"Until this matter has been finally determined by...

Summary: Greggs could be forced to provide toilets in all its stores that have customer seating following a High Court ruling.
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Article: Robo Brain is designed to acquire a vast range of skills and knowledge from publicly available information sources such as YouTube.
The information it learns can then be accessed by robots around the world, helping them to perform everyday tasks.
A similar project is already being developed in Europe.
RoboEarth, described as a world wide web for robots, was demonstrated by researchers at Eindhoven University in the Netherlands in January.
Like Robo Brain, it aims to become a global repository for information that can be accessed by other robots.
But unlike RoboEarth, Robo Brain is able to build up its own understanding from the information it gets from the internet, rather than being programmed by humans.
The project is the result of a collaboration between the US universities of Cornell, Brown, Stanford and California, and has support from companies including Google and Microsoft.
Robo Brain began digesting information from the internet last month.
The researchers say it is sifting through about a billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals.
A website for the project has been set up, detailing some of the knowledge it has acquired.
This includes the ability to recognise chairs, and understand how items such as microwaves and umbrellas are used.
The researchers say Robo Brain is not just capable of recognising objects, but of understanding how they are used, as well as more complex concepts - including human language and behaviour.
For example, it can recognise objects such as mugs, and understand what a mug is used for and how it is carried.
It is also able to recognise when someone is watching television, and knows not to get in the way.
Ashutosh Saxena, of Cornell University, one of the researchers behind the project, said the idea was to create a huge repository of information that robots could call on to perform tasks around the house or at work.
"If a robot encounters a situation it hasn't seen before, it can query Robo Brain in the cloud," he...

Summary: A super-intelligent robotic "brain" that can learn new skills by browsing millions of web pages has been developed by US researchers.
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Article: An invited few also got to see the first episode, but we know you don't like spoilers so we won't utter a word about it.
All we will say is that the battle to rule Westeros is still going strong and no-one is giving up.
But who really should be King or Queen of the seven kingdoms and sit on the Iron Throne?
We decided to ask the cast at the premiere and you'll be surprised that they didn't all say their own characters.
WARNING: There are spoilers if you haven't seen the first four series.
"Me, obviously," she said - and she was being serious.
"I just think she has been through the most and she knows how to play the game as well."
Sophie's character Sansa has lost her mother, father and brother and doesn't know where the other members of her family are. She is now under the watchful eye of Lord Baelish.
"Sansa is not naive any more. She has been in one end and out the other. She is experienced now, she knows it, she knows the politics. I just think she would be great."
Despite Tommen being the reigning King of Westeros, after his nasty older brother Joffrey died in series four, he didn't pick himself.
"I think Jaime Lannister because I love his character," he said, maybe because he is his character's father.
"In the early seasons, as an audience member you are sort of iffy about him.
"As the show has gone on, season three and season four, you realise he is actually a really good guy and I think he would make a pretty good king."
Liam did say his character to start with before going with the only logical answer.
"Look, Stannis should be on it, if you went to any lawyer they would tell you Stannis should be on the throne," he said,
"That is what we are aiming for and I feel good about that."
Stannis Baratheon does have one of the best claims to the throne, but would he make a good king?
Hannah Murray's character Gilly seems an unlikely contender, or is she?
"I was talking to the director the other day," she told Newsbeat on the red carpet.
"I said, 'I am the least likely person to sit on the throne' and he said,...

Summary: The world premiere of the fifth series of Game of Thrones took place on Wednesday night at the Tower of London.
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Article: Brenda Wardle - who denies the charges - is accused of pretending to be a practising attorney and offering to represent a convicted murderer.
She appeared at Port Elizabeth Commercial Crimes Court on Monday, South African media report.
She featured as an expert on the BBC during the 2014 Pistorius trial.
Ms Wardle, 56, also boasts of appearing on Sky News, Fox News and a number of South African broadcasters on her social media profiles.
She has published a book called To Kill A Fragile Rose: The State's Case Against Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius.
According to local media, these allegations date back to 2009, when she offered to represent a convicted murderer.
The family accuse her of charging around 500,000 rand (£28,600; $36,800) for her services over the next four years.
Ms Wardle will represent herself, against the advice of the magistrate, The Herald reports.
She was refused bail after failing to arrive at court on several occasions, IOL News said.
Ms Wardle will next appear in court on 27 July.

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A new study has found that the number of people who have a heart attack is higher in the morning.
The study, published in the journal Circulation, found that the risk of a heart attack is highest in the morning, and that the risk is highest for women.
The study looked at the records of more

A mother was suffering from "forgotten baby syndrome" when her young son died in a hot car, an Australian inquest has heard.

Article: John Radcliffe left the bulk of his fortune to charitable causes on his death 300 years ago in 1714.
This funded the Radcliffe Camera, which was Britain's first circular library, the Radcliffe Observatory and the Radcliffe Infirmary.
Remembering Radcliffe: 300 years of science and philanthropy is at the Bodleian Library until March.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for people to learn more about this remarkable physician and philanthropist," said librarian Richard Ovenden.
"John Radcliffe's legacy lives on today - not only in Oxford's stunning buildings but through his legacy's investment in scientific research and its support for UK heritage and crafts and classical music performance and composition through the Radcliffe Trust."
The exhibition, which is free to attend, includes engravings, watercolours and architectural drawings.
Highlights include a 3D scale model of the Radcliffe Camera from 1735, rare and first edition books from the first collection of books housed in the Radcliffe Camera and items from Radcliffe's medical career.
"The exhibition explains how an 18th Century doctor became one of Oxford's greatest benefactors," said curator Stephen Hebron.
"Visitors can discover the story behind one of Oxford's most famous buildings, the Radcliffe Camera, including its origins, its design, how it was built, and its role as a university library."

Summary: The legacy of a physician who gave Oxford some of its landmark buildings is being explored in a new exhibition.
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Article: Children at Forthill Primary in Broughty Ferry took part in drafting the 17-clause contract with staff.
It came in response to "issues" during football games which have been "carried into" teaching time.
Clauses include promising not to foul tackle other players, not to gloat, and promising to keep up school work.
Pupils breaking the contract will face temporary football bans.
Other clauses in the contract include agreeing to use "supportive and encouraging language" and not to "elbow or shoulder charge".
A Dundee City Council spokesman said: "The letter has been issued by the primary to families following a number of issues that have occurred this school year during break and lunchtime football games.
"These then, at times, have been carried into the general playground or into teaching time.
"Children were directly involved with staff in suggesting the contents of the agreement.
"Any parent with concerns about this should contact the school to discuss these."

Summary: Pupils at a Dundee primary school have been asked to sign a fair play contract if they want to play football at break times.
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Article: The invention, created by Prof David Lentink's research team, measures the force produced by every wing flap.
The device, described in the Royal Society journal Interface, will enable researchers to carry out tests of miniature drones, to assess more precisely their flight performance.
It has also answered a physics riddle.
This question, Prof Lentink explained, is whether a container or a truck carrying birds changes in weight when the birds inside were flying.
It was investigated in an episode of the US television show MythBusters; the presenters weighed a trailer while birds flew inside it, and concluded that it was no different to when the birds were still.
This new device, however, is so precise, that it shows that this is not quite right; the weight of the container would actually change as the birds flapped their wings.
The Stanford team explained that measurements taken from a single bird showed that hovering created "double the lift during the downstroke [of the wings] so that the birds did not have to lift their weight during the upstroke".
"So, the weight of a truck containing just a few flying birds will fluctuate in time; only the lift of an incoherent flock of birds could cancel out [this change]," Prof Lentink summarised.
He and his colleagues tested their new device by recording the tiny forces from a single bird flying inside the specially designed chamber.
For their demonstration, the scientists trained two Pacific parrotlets (named Gaga and Ray) to fly from one perch to another inside the device.
The birds would receive a food reward "and we get its aerodynamic forces in return", explained Prof Lentink.
"The method is extremely fast and precise, which helps us measure the forces animals and drones generate to manoeuvre."
By measuring these forces so accurately, Prof Lentink explained, researchers will be able to fine-tune miniature drones as they fly freely inside the chamber.

Summary: Scientists at Stanford University in the US have developed a super-sensitive device that can measure the weight of a bird in flight.
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Article: Noah Zunde, who was 22 months old, succumbed to heatstroke after being left in the car for seven hours.
His mother, Romy Zunde, had mistakenly believed she dropped Noah at childcare, the Coroners Court of Victoria heard.
Ms Zunde was sleep-deprived, stressed and dealing with a change in routine before the tragedy, the court was told.
Police did not lay charges. A coronial lawyer recommended that Ms Zunde should not be held criminally responsible.
The inquest into the death in the Victorian town of Kyneton in 2015 is investigating ways to prevent similar incidents.
A psychologist told the inquest he believed Ms Zunde suffered a memory lapse called "forgotten baby syndrome".
"If you are capable of forgetting to post a letter, you are capable of forgetting to take your baby out of the car," said Matthew Mundy, an associate professor at Monash University.
"Your memory is limited, it's limited in the number of things you can remember at any given time, and it's limited in the amount of time you can remember a thing for.
"Your brain at the neural level doesn't discriminate between [posting] a letter, a baby or remembering to pick up your mobile phone".
In his opinion the lapse could happen to anyone, he said.
Noah is one of five children within 10 years who have died in Victoria after being left inside a vehicle.
The court was told sensors installed in some cars in the United States alerted parents to the presence of children.
Coroner Sara Hinchey will hand down her findings at a later date.

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The government has announced that it will be introducing a new minimum wage for London.
The living wage is a voluntary rate of pay that is set by the Living Wage Foundation.
It is calculated by taking the basic cost of living in a city and then adding a percentage to this to reflect the cost of living.

The London living wage is to rise from £9.15 an hour to £9.40, the Living Wage Foundation campaign group has said.

Article: Akhtar Javeed, 56, from West Ham, was gunned down outside his warehouse in Digbeth, Birmingham on 3 February.
The 18-year-old was arrested in Derby on Thursday night and is in police custody.
A silver Renault Megane has also been seized and is being examined. Police had been looking for a similar car seen in the area at the time.
On the day of the shooting two masked men in a silver Renault Megane entered Direct Source 3 Ltd on Rea Street South, police have said.
Five staff members were handcuffed with cable ties and it appeared Mr Javeed was shot while fighting off the attackers.
He was found outside his business premises with a "major neck wound" and pronounced dead in hospital.
The robbers escaped empty-handed in the Renault Megane and turned on to McDonald Street, without their vehicle lights on, detectives said.
Det Ch Insp Martin Slevin of West Midlands Police said investigations into the Mr Javeed's death are continuing.
"We are still appealing for anyone who saw a silver Renault Megane in or around that time to get in touch," he said.
Detectives are also keen to speak to two people - a worker pushing a bike and a private hire taxi driver - also seen in the area at the time.

Summary: An 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a man shot and killed during a raid at his warehouse.
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Article: The CMA report recommended that price comparison websites should no longer be obliged to show deals on which they do not earn a commission.
Consumers would therefore be unable to see some of the cheapest deals available.
The CMA report was released on June 24, the day of the EU referendum result.
Angus MacNeil, the chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Committee (ECCC) said the CMA's recommendation would mean that price comparison sites would become advertising sites.
"This will lead to further consumer distrust of the whole edifice around energy," he said.
Luke Watson, the boss of a smaller supplier, GB Energy, joined in the criticism.
"To be really honest, I am quite staggered at that particular course of action."
Six small suppliers previously wrote to the energy secretary, Amber Rudd, to express their concern about the plans.
In response, Roger Witcomb, chair of the CMA's energy market investigation panel, said the job of price comparison sites was to provide better deals for customers.
He said they should do that by negotiating with energy suppliers, as currently happens in other markets.
"What we're doing is putting energy back where motor insurance and home insurance and broadband deals already are," he told MPs.
He said that Citizens Advice already runs a website which compares all the energy deals available.
"We only need one of those," he said.
In February 2015 a report by MPs on the ECCC criticised price comparison sites for "hiding" the cheapest deals. It said consumers who had been misled as a result should receive compensation.
The CMA report found that 70% of domestic customers using the big six suppliers were on expensive default variable tariffs.
As a result it said that such consumers could save Â£300 a year by switching. Overall consumers were paying Â£1.4bn more than they should be, a figure downgraded from the CMA's previous estimate of Â£1.7bn.
It recommended that:
Martin Cave, a member of the CMA's energy panel, told the MPs that the inquiry should have recommended that fuel bills...

Summary: A two-year inquiry into the energy market by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been accused of "turning the clock back" by MPs.
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Article: The decision comes after the assembly swore in the three opposition members, who had been suspended by the court.
The court said the ruling applied to all acts that have been taken or will be taken by the current assembly.
The move is likely to escalate the political turmoil gripping the crisis-hit country.
Four lawmakers were barred by the Supreme Court - three from the opposition and one allied with the government - after the Socialist Party alleged irregularities during last month's vote for a new congress.
The opposition claimed the the ruling was designed to strip it of a so-called "super-majority" in the assembly and swore in the three barred members. The supermajority gives the opposition extra powers such as removing judges from the top court.
That prompted the court to retaliate by declaring the assembly's decisions void. It said in a statement: "Decisions taken or to be taken by the National Assembly while these citizens are incorporated will be absolutely null."
The four legislators are all from the rural and sparsely populated southwestern state of Amazonas.
"The logical, sane and democratic step is for the National Assembly's leadership to revoke the swearing-in of these lawmakers," said the Socialist Party deputy leader and former National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello.
"If the National Assembly is in contempt, nobody is going to recognize it," he said.
The legislature was to sit on Tuesday, and the opposition bloc was planning to table an amnesty law for jailed activists, and government legislators intended to propose a declaration of "national emergency" over the economic crisis.
Venezuela's Supreme Court has almost always ruled in favour of the government during the last 17 years of socialist rule under President Nicolas Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez.

Summary: Venezuela's Supreme Court has ruled all actions of the opposition-held National Assembly are void until three banned members are removed from office.
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Article: While its recommended nationwide pay rate goes up from £7.85 an hour to £8.25 - an increase of 40p - in London the suggested rise is only 25p.
Next year, when the government brings in a compulsory National Living Wage across the United Kingdom, there will be no separate rate for London.
The living wage is calculated according to the basic cost of living.
The capital's voluntary living wage - which is not legally enforceable - is assessed by the Living Wage Foundation and economists at the Greater London Authority.
Mayor Boris Johnson's office estimates 724 employers in London have now signed up.
Those employers now have six months to implement the new pay level.
National minimum wage: The current mandatory minimum is £6.70 per hour for people aged 21 and over, and £5.30 for those aged 18 to 20
National Living Wage: This will be mandatory from April 2016 for workers aged 25 and above. It will initially be set at £7.20 an hour and is intended to exceed £9 an hour by 2020
London living wage: A voluntary higher rate of the living wage in the capital, which will rise from £9.15 to £9.40 an hour. There are currently no plans to make this scheme mandatory
Mr Johnson said the move would help "pay the people who work hardest on lowest incomes decently".
While he is a prominent supporter of the voluntary London living wage, he has resisted calls to make it mandatory, saying small businesses "would struggle with wage rigidity".
Labour's mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan called in-work poverty "a shameful blight on our city", adding: "Neither the government nor the mayor are doing enough to turn things round."
The Green Party highlighted disparity between the new recommended rate in London and the national minimum wage for Londoners aged 18 to 20, currently £5.30 an hour.
Assembly Member Baroness Jones said: "The mayor should be making the case for raising the minimum wage in London to a living wage, especially for young Londoners."

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