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The new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have decided not to go on honeymoon immediately and will spend the weekend in the UK before the duke returns to work next week.
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An anti-war protest in the city in 2010 led to a series of clashes between police and protesters Demonstrators have gathered in Brighton for an early May Day “street party and protest”.
Under the banner Brighton Mayday collective, about 50 people have gathered at the seafront near the West Pier, Sussex Police said.
Prior to the event, officers had called on the organisers to come forward and speak to them.
A similar May Day protest in the city two years ago led to a series of clashes between police and protesters.
The protesters announced the location at 1130 BST of the start of the protest on social networking sites.
In a press release, the organisers said the event brought together local groups including Brighton Anarchist Black Cross, Smash EDO, Squatter Networks of Brighton and Brighton Hunt Saboteurs.
It said May Day was a time to “stand up for workers’ rights and resist oppression”.
Sussex Police said the force could not advise which areas of the city to avoid but it did anticipate disruption.
On Thursday, Ch Supt Graham Bartlett said without contact with the protesters, policing the event would be harder.
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Ernesto Sabato headed the main commission that investigated killings in Argentina under military rule Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato has died at the age of 99 at his home near Buenos Aires, his wife has said.
The writer’s wife, Elvira Gonzalez Fraga, said he had had bronchitis.
He won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature, but he was also known for his criticism of military regimes in Latin America.
He headed the commission that investigated the killings of thousands of people under Argentina’s military rule in the 1970s and ’80s.
His works include The Tunnel (1948), On Heroes and Tombs (1961) and The Angel of Darkness (1974).
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Irish province Leinster, the 2009 champions, host defending champions Toulouse in the semi-finals of the Heineken Cup.
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Two people have been killed and 51 injured – eight of them seriously – in a crash which closed the M11 in both directions in Essex and Cambridgeshire.
The crash involving a coach and a lorry took place on the southbound carriageway in the early hours.
The casualties were taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow and Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.
The road has been closed between junctions eight and 10.
Diversions are in place via the A505, A10 and A120.
The A11 has also been closed southbound between the A505 and junction nine of the M11.
East of England Ambulance Service said 43 people had suffered minor injuries and eight had been seriously hurt.
The crash happened near junction nine for Saffron Walden and is causing long delays for people heading to Stansted Airport and the 2,000 Guineas race meeting at Newmarket.
Emergency services were called to the scene shortly before 0230 BST.
The lorry, which was carrying carrots, spilled its load on to the road and was left on its side on an embankment with the driver trapped.
The coach was upright on the hard shoulder of the motorway with severe damage to its side and rear and an elderly woman trapped on board.
Firefighters from Essex and Cambridgeshire attended the scene and teams used rescue equipment to free the lorry driver and the coach passenger.
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The election for the next Holyrood will take place on 5 May Scotland’s party leaders have entered the final weekend of their Holyrood election campaign.
The SNP put their five-year freeze council tax pledge at the centre of their campaign and former chancellor Alistair Darling joined Labour campaigners in Edinburgh.
The Scottish Tories were in Glasgow to highlight plans for a £200 pensioner household council tax discount.
Sir Menzies Campbell was to join the Lib Dem campaign trail in St Andrews.
With just five days to go before polling, Scotland’s main political parties were out in force in a bid to capture votes.
Party leader Alex Salmond, who was campaigning in Linlithgow and Falkirk East, said: “At a time of soaring fuel bills and Westminster’s VAT hike, the SNP’s council tax freeze for the whole of the next Parliament is vital for families the length and breadth of Scotland, as well as being massively popular.”
Elsewhere, Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray met voters at a brass band performance in Edinburgh.
He was to be joined on the campaign trail by former chancellor Alistair Darling.
Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell hit the campaign trail in St Andrews, where he is expected to meet student party activists.
In Glasgow, the deputy leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson will join top Liberal Democrat Glasgow regional list candidate Katy Gordon.
Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie was in Glasgow to discuss with voters her party’s plans to introduce a £200 pensioner household council tax discount, alongside the number one Glasgow list candidate Ruth Davidson.
Speaking on Buchanan Street in Glasgow, Ms Goldie said: “The council tax freeze has been a great help to families with their household bills, which is why it was only delivered with Scottish Conservative support.”
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France’s multi-ethnic football teams are a source of pride for many France’s Sports Minister, Chantal Jouanno, has asked the country’s football federation to clarify reports of a secret racial quota for trainees.
Senior federation members are said to have secretly approved limiting the number of black and Arab trainees to 30% from the age of 12-13.
The federation has denied having such a policy.
“Discrimination has no place in sport, whether it’s in the stands or in the training academies,” Ms Jouanno said.
She promised to uphold guarantees of equal opportunities in sport.
Race became a sensitive issue in French football again after the dire performance of the national team at last year’s World Cup in South Africa.
Controversial accusations circled in some quarters that the team, which had six black players, had mutinied in South Africa because of race.
The South Africa experience was in sharp contrast to 1998, when France fell head over heels in love with its multi-ethnic World Cup-winning team of “Blacks, Blancs, Beurs” – blacks, whites and Arabs.
The French investigative website Mediapart broke the story about a supposed secret quota on Thursday.
Quoting “scandalised” sources within the French Football Federation (FFF), it said the alleged directive from its National Technical Direction (DTN) had already been sent out to training academies.
Mediapart alleged that senior FFF members including national coach Laurent Blanc had approved the quota.
“The objective declared within the DTN, but undisclosable to the general public, is to limit – by filtering them right from the age of 12-13 – the number of French players of African and North African kind,” the website said.
“A genuine segregation applied to football.”
Commenting on the allegations, the sports minister said: “I take note of the French Football Federation’s denial about the existence of such a policy and I invite it to very quickly shed light on the allegations in the article”.
Philippe Tournon, media officer for the French national team, said Laurent Blanc was outraged by the allegation.
“[He] categorically denies that he could have supported selections based on ethnicity or skin colour,” Mr Tournon said.
“It goes against his philosophy.”
Since he took over from Raymond Domenech after the World Cup, Blanc has often raised the problem of players with dual nationality, who benefit from French training academies before choosing to play for another country, the Associated Press news agency reports.
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The duke and duchess leaving Buckingham palace after the wedding Prince William is delaying his honeymoon to return to his duties as an RAF search and rescue helicopter pilot on Anglesey.
The prince and his bride, the Duchess of Cambridge, left Buckingham Palace by helicopter on Saturday morning.
But it was later revealed they will spend the weekend privately in the UK before he returns to his search and rescue job at RAF Valley.
Their future honeymoon will be overseas, it has been confirmed.
Over 2.600 people turned out to see the couple’s Westminster Abbey wedding on a giant TV screen at the Mona showground a few miles from the RAF airbase on the island.
Because the prince’s fellow crew members were attending the ceremony a relief crew flew a search and rescue helicopter over the cheering crowd as part of the event.
Details of the prince’s work patterns are never made public but the official royal wedding website confirmed the couple – who were given the titles Duke and Duchess of Cambridge by the Queen on their marriage – have “chosen not to depart for a honeymoon immediately”.
The statement added: “The duke will return to work as a search and rescue pilot next week.”
Earlier this month Prince William spoke of his work as an RAF rescue helicopter pilot, to coincide with his grandmother, The Queen’s, visit to his base at Valley.
International media interest in the island where the royal couple have set up their first home together has intensified since news of their engagement late last year.
The prince’s posting to RAF Valley is set to last another two years.
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Officials said the suspects had spent time in an al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan One of the three men held in Germany on Friday on suspicion of planning a bomb attack had received orders from al-Qaeda, prosecutors have said.
A senior al-Qaeda figure on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border gave the order last year. Prosecutors said the target had not yet been chosen.
The three suspects were arrested in the cities of Duesseldorf and Bochum after allegedly buying bomb-making chemicals.
They had been under surveillance for several months.
Deputy federal prosecutor Rainer Griesbaum named the three suspects as Abdeladim K, a 29-year-old from Morocco; Jamil S, a 31-year-old German-Moroccan; and Amid C, a 19-year-old German-Iranian.
He said Abdeladim K had been in regular contact with a senior al-Qaeda member who was on the Afghan-Pakistan border.
Mr Griesbaum said the trio had planned to set off a shrapnel-laden bomb in a crowd, but the plot was “still in the experimental phase”.
Joerg Ziercke, president of the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA), said there had been seven or eight people in the cell.
He said the group’s ringleader, Abdeladim K, had been in the country illegally since November last year.
Mr Griesbaum said he had spent time in an al-Qaeda training camp in the Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, close to the Afghan border.
Der Spiegel reported that the German secret service was aided by the CIA and Moroccan authorities in a three-month operation.
German intelligence intercepted phone calls and e-mails from one of the suspects.
They were arrested when investigators heard the three were planning a test after buying chemicals which could be used to make a bomb, police said.
Islamists in Germany have been associated with several attacks.
9/11 ring-leader Mohammed Atta had worshipped in a mosque in Hamburg.
So far, though, there has been no big attack in Germany itself.
In 2006 homemade bombs were placed on trains in Cologne but failed to explode.
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Mohammed al-Mursi insisted the new party would not be theocratic Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has set up a new party to contest up to half the seats in a parliamentary election scheduled for September.
The head of the Freedom and Justice Party says it will be a civil, not a theocratic, group.
The election follows the removal of President Hosni Mubarak in February after a popular revolt.
The Muslim Brotherhood ran candidates as independents in previous elections, to circumvent a ban on the group.
It has sought to allay fears of an Islamist parliamentary majority, and said it would be willing to co-operate with secular parties.
Mohammed al-Mursi, the head of the new Freedom and Justice Party, told reporters in Cairo: “It is not an Islamist party in the old understanding, it is not theocratic.”
Egypt’s constitution bans parties based on religion, class or regionalism.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge travelled down the Mall after leaving Westminster Abbey More than 24 million viewers in the UK watched Friday’s royal wedding on the BBC and ITV, with the BBC coverage of the ceremony seen by 18.7m, according to early estimates.
US television figures are due to be released later today.
Police estimate a million people lined the procession route from the abbey to the palace following the wedding.
The estimated figures for the BBC and ITV put the wedding in the top 10 of programmes ever watched.
Although more people watched the 1966 World Cup Final and Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997.
Those watching the other terrestrial channels – BBC Two, Channel 4 and Five – made up only 0.6% of the television audience as the wedding service began.
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Police expect to make a “significant number” of further arrests in the coming weeks Three people are due to appear in court after trouble broke out at an “street party” in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow.
About 6,000 people gathered for the unofficial event, which coincided with the royal wedding on Friday.
Strathclyde Police said there were 22 arrests for culpable and reckless conduct and for breach of the peace. Eleven officers were injured.
Chief Constable Stephen House said the scenes at the park were “nothing short of a disgrace”.
He added: “On a day when the whole country was bathed in sunshine and united in celebration a group of drunken louts brought violence to our city and shame to our country.
“My officers faced a level of abuse which is simply not on.
Police moved in to the park to break up the party “The sight of a police officer with blood streaming from his head is totally unacceptable.”
He renewed calls for politicians to tackle the country’s relationship with alcohol, saying that the “time for talk has passed”.
Three men – aged 21, 30 and 46 – are expected to appear in court later.
A further 14 men and three women have been released on bail and two minors have been referred to the children’s reporter.
Police said more than 100 officers had attended the incident.
One of the injured officers was taken to hospital with a head injury but released after treatment.
The force added they expected to make a “significant number” of further arrests in the coming weeks.
An inquiry team has been set up to study CCTV footage and continue investigations into the event.
Ch Supt Bernard Higgins said most of those who attended the park had been intent on enjoying the celebrations.
But he added: “Later on as a significant number continued to consume alcohol and the atmosphere changed with fights breaking out between those remaining in the park.
“Eleven officers were injured and in the face of severe provocation I am extremely proud of their professionalism and bravery.
“This kind of behaviour is simply not acceptable and has brought shame on the great city of Glasgow.”
The party at the popular park, in the west of the city, was organised on Facebook by two teenagers after Prime Minister David Cameron warned authorities “not to interfere” with street party plans on the royal wedding day.
Glasgow City Council had urged people not to attend what it described as an “unsafe and unofficial” party.
However, organisers of the event set up a sound system with DJs and thousands danced and drank in the sunshine.
Police vans have had their windows smashed The Facebook page said the Kelvingrove Street Party would run from 1100 BST until 2100 BST but organisers said they planned to stop at 1700 BST and police moved in to break up the crowd shortly after.
Officers on horseback were brought in after police were pelted with bottles.
About 2,000 people remained in the park for a number of hours despite the police advice to leave.
Eyewitnesses described “chaotic” scenes and sporadic fighting.
Facebook page creators JJ Gardner & Robbie Seath wrote before the event: “Remember: its a public park and we’ll be doing our best to help everyone enjoy themselves in a safe environment, so take it easy, help us keep the rubbish under control and remember that there will be other folk in the park who aren’t quite as Royalist/Party mad as ourselves.
“We’ve got no right to spoil their day, it is a public place after all. The council and police are aware of the situation.”
Council workers said they cleared up a “sea of dirt” after discovering a litter-strewn park on their rounds on Saturday morning.
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Mr Mugabe (left) arrived at Rome’s Fiumicino airport with his wife Grace Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has arrived in Rome for the beatification of the late Pope John Paul II.
An EU travel ban forbids him from visiting member states but the Vatican, where the ceremony will take place, is a sovereign state and not in the EU.
Mr Mugabe, a Roman Catholic, has been allowed to transit through Italy.
Despite the travel ban, Mr Mugabe went to Rome for the funeral of John Paul II in 2005 and for UN food agency conferences in 2008 and 2009.
The sanction on Mr Mugabe was imposed in 2002 over human rights abuses.
Italy’s foreign ministry said it had requested an exemption from the EU travel ban for Mr Mugabe.
A Vatican spokesman said Mr Mugabe had not been personally invited but as the head of a state with which the Vatican has relations he was entitled to attend.
In all, 22 world leaders will be in Rome to celebrate the beatification of the Polish-born Pope.
A Vatican spokesman said 87 international delegations had so far indicated they would be attending Sunday’s solemn ceremony in St Peter’s Square.
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims – including up to a quarter of a million from Poland alone – are expected to cram the square.
Workers removed Pope John Paul II’s coffin on Friday On Friday, John Paul II – who is buried in three coffins – was exhumed from his tomb in the Vatican Grottoes.
He is to be reburied on Monday in the chapel of St Sebastian in St Peter’s Basilica after the beatification ceremony.
Beatification, or declaring a person “blessed”, is the necessary prelude to full sainthood.
For this to happen, the Vatican must declare the person to have performed a miracle.
In John Paul’s case, a 49-year-old French nun, Sister Marie Simon-Pierre Normand, said she and her fellow nuns prayed for the intercession of the pope after his death to cure her from Parkinson’s Disease.
Her sudden cure had no logical medical explanation and she later resumed her work as a maternity nurse, the Vatican says.
There have been reports that Sister Marie has fallen ill again since her recovery and that her diagnosis with Parkinson’s Disease may have been incorrect.
If the late Pope is declared to have performed another miracle he will be eligible for canonisation as a saint.
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Teachers say they will have to work longer for less money Head teachers say they are likely to vote for a ballot on whether to strike over plans to change their pensions, at their annual conference in Brighton.
The National Association of Head Teachers, which has members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, says heads “feel betrayed” by plans to curb public sector pensions.
Heads could lose an average of £100,000 from their overall pensions, it says.
Ministers are urging unions not to rush decisions on industrial action.
The government is in talks with the unions and says it aims to announce firm proposals for all public sector pensions in the autumn.
From next April, teachers and other public sector workers are being asked to pay higher contributions to their pensions.
The Hutton review into public sector pensions recommended most employees should switch from “final salary” pension schemes to those based on a “career average”.
They should also retire at 65, in line with changes to the state pension, he said.
Heads and teachers say this will mean they will work longer – for less money.
Russell Hobby, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) says heads feel angry and betrayed.
Many see the pension scheme as a reward for their accepting lower pay than than they might have earned in the private sector, he said.
“They rightly see the proposals as an attack on the fair rewards from a lifetime of public service, ” he said.
“We are seeing a loss of about £100,000 from an average head teachers’ pension. That feels like a real betrayal to the profession.”
The union will vote on Sunday on whether to hold a ballot for industrial action up to and including a strike. Mr Hobby says a “yes” vote is “very likely”.
If the motion is passed by the conference, it is likely the union will ballot – and take any action – in the autumn.
But schools could be affected by strikes over pensions before then. Two classroom teachers’ unions voted for similar action at their annual conferences recently and they may ballot this term.
The NAHT is strongest in primary schools – where it says it represents 85% of heads in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
It says it represents 40% of secondary heads.
The government is in talks with the unions and says it will announce firm proposals for all public sector pensions in the autumn.
It aims to set out “general principles” for changes to teachers’ pensions in England and Wales by the end of June. Teachers’ pensions in Scotland and Northern Ireland are decided by the national administrations.
Schools minister Nick Gibb recently told a teachers’ conference that public service pensions should remain a gold standard – but that rising costs and greater life expectancy meant reform was needed. The government is urging teachers – and head teachers – not to rush their decisions.
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John Higgins wins six out of eight frames in the penultimate session to lead Mark Williams 13-11 ahead of the final session of their Crucible semi-final.
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