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Jeremy Corbyn and Angela Rayner speak in Blackpool as Johnson prepares to chair Cobra meeting on floods

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Corbyn says there was a time when being a further education lecturer was a good job. Now he meets many of them on zero-hours contracts, with multiple jobs. They are stressed, he says. He says they come into teaching because they love the job, but many leave because of the stress. There is something going badly wrong, he says.

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Q: Does Labour still support HS2, even though it would now reportedly cost APS88bn? (See 9.53am.)

Corbyn says he does not know how accurate this report. Labouras priority would be investment in rail and bus infrastructure north of Birmingham.

Assassination attempts target political leader in Syria and kill commander in Gaza

Israel has launched airstrikes in Gaza and Syria against two senior figures from the militant group Islamic Jihad in rare targeted assassination attempts that immediately prompted retaliatory rocket fire from Gaza.

Baha Abu al-Ata, a 42-year-old Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander, and his wife were killed in their home in Gaza City, the Iran-backed group said in a statement. Two other people, believed to be their children, were wounded.

Friends pay tribute to ex-MP, 79, who represented Holborn and St Pancras for 36 years

Frank Dobson, the Labour former health secretary, has died at the age of 79 after being ill for several months.

The politician, who represented Holborn and St Pancras for 36 years, retired from politics four years ago.

Sardinian beach La Pelosa attracts thousands of visitors, threatening its ecosystem

Visitors will soon have to pay to enjoy one of Sardiniaas most beautiful beaches as local authorities try to mitigate the damage done by overcrowding.

La Pelosa, a white sandy beach in Stintino, north-west Sardinia, has been described as a slice of heaven, attracting thousands of visitors each summer. However, environmental studies have warned that excessive numbers of beachgoers are threatening the beachas ecosystem, prompting Antonio Diana, the mayor of Stintino, to introduce entry tickets and set a cap on visitor numbers to 1,500 a day from next summer.

Deputy editor to become FTas first female editor after almost year-long recruitment process

The Financial Times has appointed its first female editor, announcing that Roula Khalaf will replace Lionel Barber at the top of the business newspaper.

Khalaf has served as deputy editor since 2016, with the newspaper emphasising her role in leading its foreign reporting and her work on increasing newsroom diversity and attracting more female readers.

Riot police fire teargas and demonstrators throw petrol bombs as city is paralysed for second day

Police in Hong Kong have accused protesters of bringing the city to the abrink of total collapsea and urged residents not to support them as demonstrations paralysed the city for a second day in a row.

Riot police fired teargas on anti-government demonstrators gathered in Hong Kongas central business district and several universities on Tuesday. Protesters built street barricades, set fires and threw petrol bombs, chairs and other objects at police during another day of strikes demanding greater democracy in the Chinese territory.

Turkey begins deporting some of the 1,200 foreign jihadis in its custody

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip ErdoAan, has issued a thinly veiled threat that Turkey could release jailed Islamic State fighters and send them to Europe, a day after the country began its controversial policy of deporting foreign jihadis in its custody.

aYou should revise your stance toward Turkey, which at the moment holds so many Isis members in prison and at the same time controls those in Syria,a ErdoAan told European countries in remarks to reporters in Ankara on Tuesday.

Lawyers lambast treatment of victims and say abuck has to stop with Cardinal Nicholsa

Lawyers acting for child abuse survivors have called for the resignation of Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the highest-ranking Catholic cleric in England and Wales, saying the church has treated survivors with disdain.

In a letter to the Catholic weekly, The Tablet, the lawyers say Nichols, who is the archbishop of Westminster and was formerly the archbishop of Birmingham, acannot credibly lead the Catholic church on these issues in the futurea.

Army expected to be deployed to help fight more than 100 fires in countryas east

More than 100 fires are raging across eastern Australia, dozens of them running out of control, but the country has so far escaped its predicted acatastrophica fire day without further loss of life.

At least 170 houses have been razed, but no lives were lost on Tuesday, predicted by fire chiefs to be the most dangerous bushfire conditions the country had ever seen.

aC/ Injury visible during Englandas training session on Tuesday
aC/ Sterling also training despite being left out of next match

Joe Gomez had a scratch beneath his right eye when taking part in Englandas open training on Tuesday as a result of the altercation with Raheem Sterling.

The Manchester City forward was also involved in the session, despite being dropped by Gareth Southgate for Thursdayas Euro 2020 qualifier with Montenegro at Wembley because of the incident.

Universities have a legal obligation to encourage voter registration. This has prompted an angry reaction in some areas

When Carrie Paechter, a professor at Nottingham Trent University, tweeted two weeks ago that students could register to vote at both their home and term-time addresses, she didnat anticipate the tirade of anger it would unleash. She was reported to the police and the Electoral Commission, and someone wrote to her vice-chancellor calling for her to be disciplined.

Prof Paechter, who is director of Nottingham Centre for Children, Young People and Families, posted what she thought was an innocuous tweet on a Thursday evening. By Sunday she had blocked 568 people on Twitter who were furiously accusing her of encouraging students to break the law and vote twice. She insists she had no such intention, and simply wanted to ensure students didnat miss out on voting in the general election, because they didnat know their rights.

Find out whoas ahead in the opinion polls as Boris Johnson seeks to turn his lead into a working parliamentary majority. We compile daily updates from all the main polling firms and track the trends

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North-east campaign pitted people against politicians and pledged cash for NHS

A video unearthed by the Guardian from the North East Says No (Nesno) campaign in the north-east referendum of 2004 reveals how Dominic Cummings successfully deployed strategies reminiscent of Vote Leaveas 2016 playbook.

The advert from the aforgotten referenduma not only pits the people against politicians but also pledges to pump millions into the NHS that would otherwise be used to run political institutions.

Hamid Farahi Alamdari 1962-2018: He was a charmer who spoke seven languages and claimed he had nearly worked with Stephen Hawking a but somehow Hamid ended up living in a Tesco car park and dying alone

Hamid Farahi Alamdari was full of stories. When he was living out of his car in a Tesco car park in Harlow, Essex, he told anyone who would listen about his exciting past as an avionics engineer, Iranian war veteran and physicist. Then there was his piA"ce de rA(c)sistance: the time he was shortlisted to be Stephen Hawkingas assistant. aI took it all with a pinch of salt at first because he was telling me all these stories and I could tell he was a drinker,a says account manager Adam Protheroe. aHe could have been anybody. He could have told me that he was the king of Iran and I wouldnat have known any better.a

Protheroe became close friends with Hamid in 2017. aIad seen him around and he was living in a Peugeot 206 that was parked up just around the corner. I came back a couple of days later with a bag full of clothes and bits and pieces and socks. My wife cooked him a nice meal and I took it down to him in a little box and started talking to him from there.a

Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By Laura Spinney

In its first issue of 2010, the scientific journal Nature looked forward to a dazzling decade of progress. By 2020, experimental devices connected to the internet would deduce our search queries by directly monitoring our brain signals. Crops would exist that doubled their biomass in three hours. Humanity would be well on the way to ending its dependency on fossil fuels.

A few weeks later, a letter in the same journal cast a shadow over this bright future. It warned that all these advances could be derailed by mounting political instability, which was due to peak in the US and western Europe around 2020. Human societies go through predictable periods of growth, the letter explained, during which the population increases and prosperity rises. Then come equally predictable periods of decline. These asecular cyclesa last two or three centuries and culminate in widespread unrest a from worker uprisings to revolution.

The id Software founder talks about secret rooms, the value of guns and what the controversial genre has lost since the 1990s

aGive us more guns!a is a common battle-cry among players of first-person shooters, the videogame industryas bloodiest genre. Doom co-creator John Romero has a rather different opinion.

aI would rather have fewer things with more meaning, than a million things you donat identify with,a he says, sitting in a Berlin bar mocked up to resemble a 1920s Chicago speakeasy. aI would rather spend more time with a gun and make sure the gunas design is really deep a that thereas a lot of cool stuff you learn about it.a

Tales of wicked stepmothers may be common in storybooks, but they are often a far cry from reality. Despite the potential challenges with step-parenting, many children develop close bonds with their mum or dadas new partner. The actor Dakota Johnson, now 30, is still on great terms with her stepfather, Antonio Banderas, who divorced her mother, Melanie Griffith, in 2014. At the Hollywood Film awards this month, the Spanish actor revealed just how close they still are. aShe calls me Papi, and I love that, you have no idea.a The Fifty Shades of Grey star described her childhood growing up with him as athe most fun a kid could havea.

They may present a contrast to the evil step-parent stereotype we see depicted in movies, but they certainly arenat alone. Since divorcing her husband six years ago, Frances Rose has maintained a close friendship with his daughter, Louise. aI first met her in 2003 when she and her siblings were very young,a she says. aHer mum handled the breakup extremely well with a lot of maturity, which made it easier to get to know her children.a

Recording on the fly on her iPhone, the Chicago musician quit a high-end job to embrace free jazz and confront the racism that still thrives in the US

For young black girls from deprived parts of Chicago looking to play the clarinet, there arenat too many role models. aIad never even heard of the clarinet before. It didnat look cool. Iad seen saxophones, but this looked weird,a says Angel Bat Dawid, who was told she could play one in her school band. aI went to the library to work out what it sounded like, and everything I could find was Benny Goodman. I was like: damn, this corny-looking instrument with this corny-looking white dude.a

Thirty years later, Bat Dawid has hauled the clarinet out of corny white dude territory and hurled it into the cosmos. She appears at this monthas London jazz festival and her debut album The Oracle is one of the yearas best releases in any genre, where swelling vocals, warm organ chords and lilting and freaked-out clarinet lines combine in a profoundly affecting whole. It was recorded on the voice notes app of her iPhone, and takes its name from her own nickname, a character in the Matrix: aA powerful black woman, and when everyone is acting crazy, sheas chilling in her kitchen and dropping so much wisdom. I aspire to be a woman such as that.a

Adding a screen for the time transforms the Echo Dot into the best bedroom smart speaker

Amazon has a new twist on its popular cut-price Echo Dot smart speaker, now setting its sights squarely on your beleaguered bedside alarm clock with a new LED display embedded in the side.

The Echo Dot with Clock is one of those true Ronseal products - it says what it does on the tin. It is literally the same as the excellent third-generation Echo Dot, but is only available in white and has a white LED display showing the time peeking through the fabric side.

Video game adaptation seeks to quell furore generated by initial trailer which disappointed fans

A new trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie has been released, after the filmas director assured fans of the game that the character would be redesigned after a tide of criticism greeted the first release.

The initial trailer was released in April, featuring star Jim Carrey as Dr Eggman alongside the CGI-animated hedgehog, but was met with considerable derision. The Guardianas Keith Stuart described it as aa 200mph slap in the facea and said the central character aresembles a cheap knock-off Sonic toy your child might win at a fairground stand and then be terrified ofa. The characteras human-style teeth drew particular flak on social media.

Experiment gets teachers and primary pupils to look at life through agender equality lensa

A class of 10-year-olds are sitting on the carpet looking at their teacher with open mouths. Their faces say: outrage.

Their teacher, Rosemary OaBrien, has put up a statement on the board a a real one, by the Football Association in 1921. Football is aquite unsuitable for femalesa, it says. Across the classroom, pupils are voicing their disagreement.

The NHS is one of the major battleground issues of the general election as parties debate the future of healthcare in the UK. Sarah Boseley and Denis Campbell discuss the extent of private company involvement in the NHS. Plus: Dan Collyns on the downfall of Evo Morales in Bolivia

When British voters are asked about their political priorities, healthcare and the state of the NHS are always at the top of the list. The upcoming election is no different and the parties are desperate to present themselves as having the best offer. The Conservatives are pledging money for new hospitals while Labour is promising to row back on the rising trend of privatisation within the health service. The opposition also points to a potential US trade deal that could put the price the NHS pays for medicines on the table.

Joining Anushka Asthana to disentangle it all are the Guardianas health policy editor, Denis Campbell, and health editor, Sarah Boseley.

Weare now well into the aphoney wara period of the election a where on the surface all seems calm. Parliament has been prorogued, there have been a few early jabs, and a consensus is already beginning to emerge about how everything will play out online.

Related: Ex-Johnson aide behind banned Facebook ad worked on fake grassroots campaign

One of the BBCas stated core values as outlined in its mission is, aGreat things happen when we work together.a In fact, itas central to its mission and purpose as a public broadcaster.

It should follow then, I suppose, that when it doesnat work together as a corporation great things wonat happen. Thatas certainly one conclusion Iave drawn from spending a few days watching the employment tribunal brought by my friend Samira Ahmed. Sheas suing the BBC for nearly APS700,000 in lost earnings over a claim of unequal pay.

After watching Ant & Decas DNA Journey on ITV, I can confidently say that one thing it failed to do for me a and which genetics could definitively answer a is clarify which one is Ant and which one is Dec. Alas, this mystery remains unsolved.

Aside from that, the documentary is entertaining enough. In the first episode, Ant and Dec travel around, talking to genealogists and distant relatives who have been identified by having similar bits of DNA to them a like Who Do You Think You Are? but with bonus genetics. We are introduced to Dixie Carter, who is described as a agenetic cousina to Dec, though I couldnat tell precisely what relation she is. The two shared an ancestor from around 150 years ago, and her presence provides light relief as she is a Texan wrestling promoter.

Urgent investment in social care is essential to address the reasons why people are locked away in inpatient units

People with a learning disability face inequalities in all aspects of their lives, and access to good quality health and social care is no exception.

Many people may think asylums are a thing of the past, but 2,250 people with a learning disability and/or autism continue to be locked away in inpatient units across the country, where they are at increased risk of abuse and neglect.

I canat help but wonder what the social care equivalent of the well-worn NHS general election photo op would be. Instead of health secretaries putting on scrubs and a party leader looking sympathetic next to a patientas bedside, perhaps Boris Johnson would like to wait with a paraplegic as she soils herself in her front room because she has no assistant to help her get to the toilet.

This is not so much a public policy issue as a full-blown humanitarian crisis

Europe is in talks with Myanmar to increase seafood imports. It cannot ignore the widespread slavery within the industry

While forced labour and slavery in the fishing industry in Thailand and other parts of the world have been brought to light in recent years, the fishing industry in Myanmar has received less attention.

This is because fish caught there is mostly sold to local markets, but this may be about to change. Myanmaras seafood businesses are increasingly seeking export markets, including the EU. And unless the EU responds to the clear evidence of widespread slavery and brutal conditions in Myanmaras fishing industry, Europe could face another slavery scandal.

An offhand statement got me reported to officials. The ensuing process didnat seem designed to keep anyone safe

At 13, I was suspended from middle school for a week because school administrators were worried I might start shooting people.

Itas a story that often surprises and amuses friends now - my violent side is limited to hitting people on the roller derby track.

On my official UN visit to Norway in September, I found inspiring examples of leadership on climate change. I encountered a nearly emissions-free electricity system, the highest share of zero-emission vehicle sales in the world (almost half of all new cars sold are fully electric), and billions of dollars being invested in a Green Climate Fund that provides support to developing countries, as well as a burgeoning Climate and Forest Initiative.

However, Norway continues to explore for oil and gas at a time when the International Energy Agency and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that meeting the vital 1.5C target in the Paris agreement requires that the majority of existing fossil fuel reserves cannot be burned.

Our cartoonist looks at footballas dignified, private reflection over the annual weekend of remembrance

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Englandas manager has handled the Raheem Sterling incident well but cynics might argue it was an easy step for this fixture

Gareth Southgate and England have just dealt with a modern problem in a pleasingly modern way. Over the course of 999 previous internationals it stretches credulity to imagine nothing like the contretemps between Raheem Sterling and Joe Gomez has been seen before, but the vast majority of England get-togethers took place in eras when it was perfectly possible and reasonable to hush things up and keep any small-scale disturbances in house.

These days that is not so easy, and before social media could have a field day with speculation and jigsaw identification England fronted up and laid the matter to rest. Southgateas statement that emotions from the Liverpool v Manchester City game on Sunday were still too raw was rational and understandable, and subsequently Sterling issued an apology and accepted his share of the blame.

The New Zealand all-rounder had no time for posturing or histrionics, but stood alone as a master of the seameras craft

These days, everything has to be arranged and everything has to be ranked, particularly in sport. This is not all bad a in different times, Justin Langer might never have taught us the importance of aelite professionalism, elite learning, elite mateship and elite humilitya a but for that, there is a quid pro quo. Naturally, much of the blame for this moral slippage lies with the Indian Premier League, as a result of whose draft enemies become friends and post-match patter turns into performative clichA(c). Whatever happened to good, honest, old-fashioned aloofness?

Richard Hadlee a star of New Zealand-England series past a epitomised such virtue, solely consumed by hitting the red thing with the wooden thing and chucking the red thing at the wooden things. When an expert such as Gordon Greenidge proclaims your belligerence, you know youare on to something.

Like Brexit, whatever sensible arguments are made for VAR, they are swamped by the damage it has caused and we need time to reflect on what kind of football we want to see

Three minutes and 47 seconds is a long time in football. An awful lot can happen. Twenty years ago in the Nou Camp it was long enough to enable Manchester United to recover from a position of defeat at the end of 90 minutes against Bayern Munich and, with the German clubas ribbons already on the trophy, to use added time first to draw level and then to win the Champions League final. Those three minutes contained as much drama and emotion as some entire seasons.

At Tottenham Hotspuras new stadium on Saturday three minutes and 47 seconds was the length of time in which no football took place at all. On the hour, two minutes after Son Heung-min had put the home side ahead, Sheffield United celebrated an equaliser when David McGoldrick applied the finish to Enda Stevensa cross from the left. But then the referee, Graham Scott, passed the decision over to the VAR room at Stockley Park. Twenty-two players stood around waiting as, 20 miles away in west London, it took almost four minutes of deliberation to conclude that John Lundstram had been offside by the length of his big toe when he received the ball on the right wing before sending in a cross that was half-cleared to John Fleck, who fed the ball to Stevens before it was turned across to McGoldrick.

• WRU statement reveals Davies requires knee surgery
• Shoulder operation leaves Rhys Patchell a doubt for Six Nations

Jonathan Davies and Rhys Patchell both need surgery after sustaining injuries at the Rugby World Cup and face lengthy spells on the sidelines.

The Welsh Rugby Union announced the news in a statement, with Davies set to be out for more than six months because of a left knee injury suffered against Fiji.

• Initiative sets two-pronged target over next decade
• Chase Carey: aWe hope to make a positive impacta

Formula One has announced ambitious plans to have a net-zero carbon footprint by 2030, and have all grands prix using sustainable products by 2025.

The globe-travelling sport, which next season will feature a record 22 races, and with proposals to have 25 per year at some stage in the next decade, naturally has a significant impact when it comes to carbon emissions. But following a 12-month project, F1 a in conjunction with the governing body, the FIA, the teams, promoters and other stakeholders a is convinced it can deliver on its stated aims over the coming years.

• England finish day one on 283 for three v New Zealand XI
• aI donat really fear too many people now,a says Sibley

Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley could scarcely have wished to make a better first impression on their first day for England, compiling promising centuries such that their captain, Joe Root, spent a good chunk of it waiting in the pavilion.

Englandas plan in Test cricket under their new head coach, Chris Silverwood, sees Root back at No 4 and it is hoped that a top three reinforced by the obdurate Sibley can stop a or at least significantly reduce a his early arrivals at the crease.

Brian Hughes is top-priced at 2-1 to become the National Hunt champion jockey and end the rule of McCoy and Johnson

It is almost a quarter of a century since National Huntas champion jockey was someone other than Tony McCoy or Richard Johnson. In truth, itas pretty much that long since anyone else was even a credible contender, as Johnson was the only rival within hailing distance in most of the 20 seasons in which McCoy had an iron grip on the title.

But could April 2020 be the month when a new name finally emerges? The betting markets seem to think so. Brian Hughes was a 7-2 chance for the title on Monday morning but less than 24 hours later a and after both had registered a single winner on the Monday cards a he is top-priced at 2-1. That is, on the face of it, some shift in such a short space of time when the season is seven months old and has five more to run.

Relatives say they cannot afford return of bodies, but do not wish to accept ashes

The families of the 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex last month are facing financial difficulties over repatriating the bodies of their relatives.

Bui Huy Cuong, the deputy chairman of Can Loc districtas peopleas committee in Ha Tinh province, where 10 of the victims are from, said local officials visited families and encouraged them to receive ashes instead of bodies, but athere was unofficial and incorrect information online saying that the British government will cover all costs [of bringing the bodies back to Vietnam]a, leading to confusion.

Number of people in work across Britain has fallen by the most since 2015

• Latest: Young people and part-time workers hit
• UK employment down by 58,000 in last quarter
• Biggest drop in employment since 2015
  
• The key charts
• Wage growth slows to 3.6%

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Over in Germany, economic confidence has bounced back from its recent slump - an encouraging signal.

The ZEW Instituteas sentiment index has come in at -1, up from -23.5 in October. Although still in negative territory, it suggests investors are less gloomy.

aHope is growing that the political and economic environment will improve in the near future.a

Finally some good news from Germany as the ZEW economic sentiment index jumped in November. However, economists' expectations say little about actual GDP-growth. The more relevant "current conditions" increased only marginally, but at least it did not drop further #macrobond pic.twitter.com/5B3EUGMwEn

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UK jobs reaction summary: generally negative
'No sharp downturn'
'showing more signs of strain'
'labour demand is holding up better than the headline job numbers suggest.'
'paint a worrying picture'
'starting to sag'

Ghostly remains of aMaid of Harlecha occasionally visible in the sand

The skeletal remains of an American fighter plane that crashed during the second world war off the Welsh coast, and occasionally emerge ghost-like from the seabed, have been given protected status.

Welsh government officials say the resting place of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, nicknamed the Maid of Harlech, is the first military aircraft crash site in the UK to be protected for its historic and archaeological interest.

The former Speaker and MP is set to reveal his thoughts on David Cameron and Boris Johnson in his book, released next February

Two weeks after stepping down as Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow has announced that he will publish his memoirs in February next year.

Titled Unspeakable, the book was acquired by Weidenfeld & Nicolson after significant interest from publishers. The Guardian understands that the deal was acomfortablya into six figures.

Ewan Fisher became ill at 16 with aa catastrophic respiratory illnessa

A British teenager who took up e-cigarettes to stop smoking at the age of 16 has urged others not to start vaping.

Ewan Fisher, 19, was put on life support after suffering serious respiratory failure which doctors have linked to vaping.

A&E admissions highest in deprived areas of England as bronchiolitis drives increase

Emergency hospital admissions for children with pneumonia have risen by more than 50% in England over the past decade, figures suggest, with admission rates highest in more deprived areas.

According to NHS Digital data analysed by the charities Unicef and Save the Children, between April 2018 and March 2019 there were 56,210 emergency admissions in England for pneumonia in those aged 18 or younger, using a definition that included a type of lower respiratory tract infection called bronchiolitis. In contrast, there were 36,862 such admissions between April 2008 and March 2009.

TV campaign tells story based around the first Sainsburyas store, which opened in 1869

Sainsburyas has given Father Christmas a Dickensian origin story in a festive advert that aims to remind viewers of its 150-year history at the heart of the British high street.

The TV campaign, which launches on Tuesday during ITVas Emmerdale and then goes online, tells a Christmas story based around the first Sainsburyas store, which opened in 1869.

Former president says it hurts to leave afor political reasonsa as foreign minister confirms he has left for Mexico

Boliviaas former president Evo Morales has boarded a plane bound for Mexico where he has been granted asylum, the Mexican foreign minister has announced.

Earlier on Monday evening Morales tweeted a farewell after his resignation in the wake of a disputed election, saying that he would be take up the offer of asylum in Mexico but would soon areturn with greater strength and energya.

Pepper spray used against protesters blocking motorway between France and Spain

French police have used batons and pepper spray to clear Catalan independence activists who have been blocking the motorway between France and Spain in the hope of bringing the Spanish government to the negotiating table.

Gendarmes moved in on hundreds of protesters gathered around La Jonquera crossing early on Tuesday as officers from the Catalan regional force, the Mossos daEsquadra, ordered the demonstrators to remove their vehicles and leave the area.

Accusations levelled by Valeria Gontareva against Ihor Kolomoiskiy provide test for Ukraineas new president

It is possible that when a car drove into Valeria Gontareva at a pedestrian crossing in Knightsbridge, central London, in late August it was merely an accident.

But soon after, while Gontareva was recovering in hospital, her sonas car was set on fire back home in Kyiv. A few days after that, her family home in the Ukrainian capital was also burned down. For Gontareva there is no doubt that the attacks are part of a disturbing pattern.

Afghan president Ghani hopes move will help secure release of American and Australian

Afghanistanas president says he has ordered the release of three Taliban fighters in an effort to persuade the insurgent group to free a kidnapped American and Australian professor.

Timothy Weekes, an English teacher from Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, and Kevin King, from Pennsylvania, were abducted three years ago from outside American University of Afghanistan in Kabul by fighters in military uniform.

Laura Cooper said Office of Management and Budget directed freeze against judgment of defense and state department officials

• Trump faces key test as impeachment hearings loom a live

The Pentagon raised concerns over the US governmentas hold-up of military aid to Ukraine, which a national security official saw as aessentiala, according to a congressional hearing transcript released on Monday.

The testimony of Laura Cooper, deputy assistant secretary of defense, released following a previous closed-door session, is the latest piece in the jigsaw of the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, which begins televised hearings on Wednesday.

UK backpacker died from pressure to neck as police interview reveals suspect initially claimed he said goodbye to her in Auckland city centre

Grace Millane died from prolonged pressure to the neck, which took place during sex, a forensic pathologist has told a jury in Auckland, as it emerged the suspect initially told police he had parted ways with the British backpacker at 8pm before staying out drinking alone.

Dr Simon Stables told the high court injuries like Millaneas were extremely uncommon worldwide. aFrom my point of view it is incredibly rare, I have never heard of another case a| in New Zealand.a

Former US president aresting comfortablea ahead of procedure on Tuesday, spokeswoman says

The former US president Jimmy Carter was admitted to a hospital on Monday evening for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain, caused by bleeding due to his recent falls, his spokeswoman said.

The procedure is scheduled for Tuesday morning at Emory University hospital, Deanna Congileo said in a statement.

Max Vredenburgh says he put letter in bottle in north of Boston in 2010 a and got a response from G Dubois, who found it in October

A Massachusetts college student has received a response to a message he threw into the ocean when he was 10 years old.

Suffolk University sophomore Max Vredenburgh said he put the letter into a glass wine bottle that he threw into the water at Long Beach, in the picturesque old fishing town of Rockport, north of Boston, in August 2010.

The number of women accessing family planning services is increasing, but population growth is hampering efforts to reach 2020 goal

More women and girls in low income countries are using family planning than ever before, but global efforts to widen access to contraception are still falling well behind targets, according to a report.

One year away from a global deadline to widen access to modern forms of family planning, such services are accessible to less than half of the women that policy makers hoped to reach.

President of Greece hails anew chapter of decisive importancea as ties are deepened a but Europe and US wary of Beijingas agenda

A landmark visit to Greece by Chinaas president Xi Jinping has cemented what both countries are calling a anew eraa in bilateral ties amid western concern over Beijingas growing global assertiveness.

Athens rolled out the red carpet for Xi as the centre-right government sought to capitalise on Greeceas burgeoning role as Chinaas agatewaya to Europe.

Televised hearings allow Democrats to put the case against Trump to the public but also gives Republicans a chance to muddy waters

The opening phase of the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump has required investigators to methodically depose witnesses behind the closed doors of a secure facility in the Capitol basement.