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Strathclyde Police is investigating a suspicious package which has been found at Celtic Park.
BBC Scotland understands that the package was discovered at the club’s stadium on Thursday morning.
The incident follows the arrest of two men by police probing parcel bombs sent to manager Neil Lennon, two high-profile fans and a republican group.
Lennon was also the target of an assault during his side’s 3-0 win over Hearts and Tyncastle on Wednesday.
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US actor John C Reilly (l) appears in Ramsay’s film with Swinton (r)
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Critics have heaped praise on We Need to Talk about Kevin, the only British title in contention for the main award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Variety said it was “an exquisitely realised adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s best-selling novel”, while Screen Daily called it “compulsively powerful”.
Lynne Ramsay’s film stars Tilda Swinton as a mother coming to terms with her son’s part in a high school massacre.
Scottish director Ramsay told reporters it was a “a psychological horror film”.
“There’s no violence in this film,” the 41-year-old said at a press conference on Thursday. “You only see the aftermath.
“Every Hollywood movie is more violent than this.”
Swinton, 50, said the film’s “nightmare scenario” was “not that far from the everyday experience of being a parent”.
“It’s a bloody business, having a family,” said the actress, the mother of teenage twins.
“It’s certainly a very bloody business being a parent, and it’s a really bloody business being a child.”
The Hollywood Reporter said the British actress “gives a tour-de-force performance” in Ramsay’s “coolly cerebral” drama.
According to critic Kirk Honeycutt, though, it was “a film to think about and debate over but not one to embrace”.
The 64th Cannes Film Festival began on Wednesday on the French Riviera and continues until 22 May.
We Need to Talk about Kevin – which was partly financed by BBC Films and the now defunct UK Film Council – is one of 20 titles competing for the prestigious Palme d’Or award.
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Carwyn Jones was sworn in by a judge as First Minister
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Carwyn Jones has been sworn in as Wales’s first minister and will start picking a cabinet.
Labour will govern alone, despite falling just short of a majority in last week’s Welsh assembly election.
With half the seats in Cardiff Bay, Mr Jones has pledged to seek common ground with other parties.
He took the oath of office on Thursday at the Welsh assembly government’s headquarters in central Cardiff, saying he had an “ambitious programme”.
Mr Jones’s appointment was rubber stamped by the Queen after he was nominated unopposed by AMs at their first post-election plenary session on Wednesday.
He offered an olive branch to his opponents, saying he was “fully aware of the arithmetic” facing him in the Senedd chamber.
After his appointment was confirmed by the Queen on Thursday, he said: “I am honoured to serve the people of Wales as first minister and begin our ambitious programme to create a fairer, more prosperous country in these challenging times.
“I will shortly be announcing my cabinet team that will help deliver our vision for the people of Wales.”
As Crown ministers, his ministers will also be formally appointed by the Queen before being sworn into office.
Mr Jones first took the reins in December 2009 at the head of a coalition with Plaid Cymru.
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Tiger Woods pulls out of the Players Championship midway through his first round with a recurrence of his knee and Achilles tendon injuries.
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Dr Besigye sought medical treatment in Kenya after being injured when he was arrested during a protest
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Uganda is facing a potential political showdown after opposition leader Kizza Besigye returned to the country on the day President Yoweri Museveni is due to be sworn in for a fourth term.
Security is tight, especially on the 40km (25 mile) road between the capital, Kampala, and Entebbe airport.
Dr Besigye sought medical treatment in Kenya after being injured when he was arrested over anti-government protests.
He is a former ally of Mr Museveni, who has been in power since 1986.
Dr Besigye left Uganda, but returned in 2005 with the introduction of multi-party politics.
The BBC’s Will Ross in Uganda says huge numbers of opposition supporters have surrounded Dr Besigye’s convoy, which is moving slowly towards Kampala, with the opposition leader and his wife waving to the crowds from an open-top car.
Our correspondent says the convoy is moving so slowly that it might not have reached the capital by the time visiting dignitaries, including several African heads of state, want to head the other way to the airport after Mr Museveni’s inauguration.
This opposition show of force is exactly what the government had been hoping to avoid on the day Mr Museveni is sworn in, our reporter says.
There are concerns that the police could use violence to disperse Dr Besigye’s supporters.
On Tuesday, they sprayed pink paint to disperse demonstrators in Kampala and at least nine people have been killed in recent weeks, according to Human Rights Watch.
Dr Besigye had been due to return on Wednesday, but says he was prevented from doing so – this was denied by Uganda’s authorities.
On his arrival in Entebbe, Dr Besigye told the BBC that he would not be attending the inauguration of a “fraudulent president”.
Security has been tight in Kampala all week
Dr Besigye says he was cheated in February’s election, although he mustered only half as many votes as Mr Museveni.
The opposition has since been involved in “walk-to-work” protests over the rises in the cost of food and fuel.
John Nagenda, a senior media adviser to President Museveni, told the BBC Network Africa programme that Dr Besigye is trying “to win on the street what he didn’t win with the ballot box”.
The government accuses Dr Besigye of trying to organise an Egypt-style uprising. He has been arrested four times.
The two used to be close allies, with Dr Besigye serving as Mr Museveni’s personal physician when they were fighting President Milton Obote’s government in the early 1980s.
Dr Besigye had a role in government when Mr Museveni took power, but they fell out about 10 years ago.
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Shares in Supergroup, the company behind the Superdry fashion brand, have slumped 18% after a slowdown in its sales growth.
Supergroup said total sales – which include those of its two other labels, 77Breed and SurfCo California – rose 61% to £66m in the quarter to 1 May.
This compares with sales growth of 87% seen in the preceding three months.
Supergroup said it had not been quick enough releasing its summer ranges to take advantage of the warm April.
Its chief executive Julian Dunkerton said: “We had too many hoods and jackets out and not enough flip flops and espadrilles.”
He added the slowdown in sales was merely a blip, and that the firm was now looking at entering the Chinese market.
“That’s the big prize without a doubt,” said Mr Dunkerton.
“We don’t want to do anything that isn’t a spectacular deal and a spectacular deal will come.”
Supergroup owns both its own stores, and sells its clothing wholesale to other retailers.
It was founded in 1985, and today owns 71 outlets, with operations in 36 different countries.
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Lord Prescott and three others who believe the News of the World hacked their phones apply to the High Court again for a judicial review into the police inquiry.
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Supporters of Pakistan ex-PM Nawaz Sharif in Abbottabad denounced the US government
US Attorney General Eric Holder has said that the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s hideout, in which the al-Qaeda leader was killed, was “not an assassination”.
Mr Holder told the BBC the operation was a “kill or capture mission” and that Bin Laden’s surrender would have been accepted if offered.
The protection of the Navy Seals who carried out the raid was “uppermost in our minds”, he added.
Bin Laden was shot dead on 2 May in the complex in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The raid has had a mixed reaction in Pakistan, and on Thursday several hundred supporters of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif rallied in Abbottabad shouting anti-US slogans.
The marchers shouted “Go, America Go”, “Down with [US President Barack] Obama” and “Down with [Pakistani President Asif Ali] Zardari”, and waved the green flags of Mr Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N party.
Mr Sharif has called for a full judicial inquiry into the raid.
Mr Holder said the special forces had acted “in an appropriate way” in the absence of any clear indication Bin Laden had been going to surrender.
“If the possibility had existed, if there was the possibility of a feasible surrender, that would have occurred,” he said.
“But their protection, that is the protection of the force that went into that compound, was I think uppermost in our minds.”
The attorney general reiterated that the operation was legal, saying that international law allows the targeting of enemy commanders.
“I actually think that the dotting of the i’s and the crossing of the t’s is what separates the United States, the United Kingdom, our allies, from those who we are fighting,” he said.
“We do respect the rule of law, there are appropriate ways in which we conduct ourselves and expect our people to conduct themselves, and I think those Navy Seals conducted themselves in a way that’s consistent with American, [and] British values.”
The interview with Mr Holder comes a day after a statement by Bin Laden’s family questioning why he was not captured alive.
His sons criticised the US for carrying out his “arbitrary killing”.
The UN has also raised concerns.
Special rapporteurs Christof Heyns and Martin Scheinin said in a statement that deadly force was permissible in exceptional cases as a last resort.
“However, the norm should be that terrorists be dealt with as criminals, through legal processes of arrest, trial and judicially decided punishment,” they added.
Members of US Congress are being shown photos of Bin Laden just after his death, which the US government has so far refused to publish.
Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, who saw them on Tuesday, described them as “pretty gruesome”.
Meanwhile, documents seized during the raid suggested Bin Laden had a hand in every recent major al-Qaeda threat, US officials have said.
In the latest of a series of media briefings, unnamed US security and and intelligence officials said the documents showed that Bin Laden had calculated how many Americans would have to die before the US withdrew from the Middle East.
He also encouraged his followers to attack cities such as Los Angeles, as well as New York.
Intelligence agents are continuing to analyse the documents – said to be stored on around 100 flash drives and five computers.
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