24 March 2014 Last updated at 23:53 GMT
A court in Egypt has sentenced 529 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to death.
They were convicted of charges including murdering a policeman and attacks on people and property.
Orla Guerin reports.
Defendants' relatives reacted with horror as the verdicts were announced
A court in Egypt has sentenced 528 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to death.
They were convicted of charges including murdering a policeman and attacks on people and property.
The group is among some 1,200 Muslim Brotherhood supporters on trial, including senior members.
Authorities have cracked down harshly on Islamists since Mr Morsi was removed by the military in July. Hundreds have been killed and thousands arrested.
They are expected to appeal.
The verdict now goes to Egypt's supreme religious authority, the Grand Mufti (a senior Islamic scholar), for approval or rejection.
Campaigners say that while death sentences are often handed down in Egypt, few have been carried out in recent years.
The final trial session will not be held until 28 April, so there is some time left before the sentence is confirmed and there will be time to appeal in that period, says the BBC's Orla Guerin in Cairo.
The Muslim Brotherhood has denounced death sentences and Washington expressed shock and concern.
In absentiaThe court in Minya, south of the capital, Cairo, issued its ruling after only two sessions in which the defendants' lawyers complained they had no chance to present their case.
Lawyers have accused the presiding judge of "veering away from all legal norms" and denying justice to the accused, our correspondent adds.
They were convicted, among other charges, of the murder of the deputy commander of the Matay district police station in Minya.
Some 147 suspects were in court for the trial - the others were convicted in absentia, reports say.
The court also acquitted 16 other defendants.
There was shock at the verdict, Orla Guerin reports
The attacks took place in August after security forces broke up two camps of pro-Morsi supporters in Cairo, killing hundreds of people.
Mr Morsi was ousted by the military last July following mass street protests against his government. He is facing four separate trials
There has since been a severe crackdown on his Muslim Brotherhood group, as well as on other activists seen as hostile to the military-backed interim government.
The Brotherhood has been declared a terrorist organisation and authorities have punished any public show of support for it.
A second group of 700 Morsi supporters is due to go on trial on Tuesday.
'Dictatorship'The Muslim Brotherhood's spokesman in London, Abdullah el-Haddad, told the BBC the sentences showed that Egypt was now a dictatorship.
"It may be just a threat message and there will be appeals to the court and the decision of the court will change, but this is the new Egypt after the coup. This is the new dictatorship that [army chief and defence minister Field Marshal] Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is trying to establish."
Mr Haddad said the Muslim Brotherhood's general guide Mohammed Badie was among those convicted, though other reports say Mr Badie is only due in court on Tuesday.
The US government also questioned how the defendants could have had a fair trial in just two court sessions - one of which was Monday's sentencing.
"It sort of defies logic," said Marie Harf, deputy US State Department spokeswoman, adding that Washington was "deeply concerned" and "shocked".
"Obviously the defendants can appeal, but it simply does not seem possible that a fair review of evidence and testimony consistent with international standards could be accomplished with over 529 defendants in a two-day trial," she said.
Defence counsel Mohamed Tousson claimed the judge rushed to sentencing after being angered by a lawyer's request for his recusal at Saturday's opening hearing.
"He got very angry, and adjourned the trial for sentencing," Mr Tousson said, adding "It's a huge violation of defendants' rights."
Egypt's foreign ministry defended the court's handling of the trial, saying the sentences had been "issued by an independent court after careful study of the case".
Marine Le Pen hailed an "exceptional vintage" for her National Front party The far-right National Front (FN) party has rattled the French political establishment by making significant gains in local elections.
President Francois Hollande's ruling Socialists lost ground overall, as turnout slumped to a record low of 61%.
The FN won a clear majority in Henin-Beaumont, a northern former coal-mining town. It did well in the south too.
PM Jean-Marc Ayrault has urged voters to back any candidate best placed to beat the FN in the second round.
The Socialists have now announced that they will join forces with the Greens and the Communist Party in an effort to block FN advances in the second round, AFP news agency reports. It will mean the three parties fielding combined electoral lists.
The FN, an anti-EU party demanding tough curbs on immigration, took the lead in Avignon, Perpignan, Beziers and Frejus in the south. It was also in second place in Marseille.
Results are still being counted and the second round of voting will take place next weekend.
Nationwide the opposition centre-right UMP and allies took 47%, the Socialist Party and its allies took 38% and the FN was on 5%.
Third forceThere was some consolation for the Socialists in Paris, where their candidate for mayor, Anne Hidalgo, may still beat her conservative rival Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet. That contest looks set to be very tight.
The FN vote was proportionately high, as its candidates ran in just 600 out of some 36,000 constituencies, Reuters news agency reports.
The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says the FN will have little chance of gaining control of town halls in the second round. But he says it is a big advance for them and an expression of growing exasperation with the traditional parties of right and left.
The FN is widely expected to do well in the European Parliament elections in late May - and opinion polls suggest the Eurosceptic party is on course to come top.
It was the first major electoral test for President Hollande, who is deeply unpopular after nearly two years in power.
The ballot is to choose councillors and mayors in more than 36,000 villages, towns and cities.
The FN took 50.26% of the vote in Henin-Beaumont, which has historically voted for the left.
In some 200 places FN candidates have won through to the second round.
Marine Le Pen, FN leader since 2011, hailed the results, saying her party had "arrived as a major independent force - a political force at both national and local level".
Many people who voted for President Hollande two years ago chose to abstain, which has meant losses for the Socialists, our correspondent notes, and in many important towns they will struggle in the second round to hold off challenges from the UMP.
Maria Corina Machado is in Peru for a seminar at writer Mario Vargas Llosa's foundation Venezuela has stripped a leading opposition congresswoman of her mandate after she spoke before the Organisation of American States (OAS) last week.
Maria Corina Machado had been invited by Panama to give her account of the recent wave of unrest in Venezuela.
But Venezuela's authorities say she "acted as a Panamanian official" by accepting the invitation.
The decision means Ms Machado will lose her parliamentary immunity and could be prosecuted for "inciting violence".
More than 30 people have died since mid-February in demonstrations against high inflation, food shortages and violence levels.
Venezuela's National Assembly's president, Diosdado Cabello, said the congresswoman had contravened the constitution.
He said she was introduced at the OAS meeting in Washington DC as an "alternate ambassador" to Panama.
"Maybe the Panamanian government will now name her permanent ambassador," he added.
'Former congresswoman'Arriving in Peru's capital, Lima, for a seminar at an institution presided by the 2010 Nobel Prize winning author Mario Vargas Llosa, Ms Machado accused Mr Cabello of running a "dictatorship in the National Assembly".
She wrote later on Twitter: "Mr Cabello: I am a Congresswoman at the National Assembly so long as the people of Venezuela wants it."
She also said she was prepared to deal with the consequences of her actions.
"If the price that I must pay for having gone to the OAS so that the voice of the Venezuelan people could be heard is that I'm being persecuted today, in what they're doing to me now, I will pay for it one and a million times."
On Saturday, President Nicolas Maduro had already referred to the opposition politician as "former congresswoman".
Ms Machado has been openly demanding the resignation of Mr Maduro since the start of the recent protests.
The government accuses "right-wing fascists" of inciting the unrest as part of a plot to overthrow the government.
President Maduro says the United States is behind the demonstrations, but the US says it is being used as a scapegoat for Venezuela's internal problems.
More than 460 people have been injured in the protests.
The authorities say they are investigating at least 60 cases of human rights abuses.
The street protests were started by disgruntled students, but quickly became a near-daily feature in opposition strongholds around Caracas and in other cities of Venezuela.
There is no known cure or vaccine for Ebola Tests on the suspected cases of deadly Ebola virus in Guinea's capital Conakry are negative, health officials say.
On Sunday, United Nations officials said that the virus had spread to the capital, a port city of up to two million, from remote forests in the south, where some 61 people have died.
The government has sent out text messages, urging people to stay calm and wash their hands with soap.
Ebola is spread by close contact and kills between 25% and 90% of victims.
There is no known cure or vaccine.
Symptoms include internal and external bleeding, diarrhoea and vomiting.
There are fears that Ebola could spread quickly in the bustling city of Conakry Neighbouring countries such as Liberia, Senegal and Sierra Leone are said to be on high alert in case the disease spreads.
Five people are already reported to have died in Liberia after crossing from southern Guinea for treatment, Liberia's Health Minister Walter Gwenigale told journalists.
However, it is not clear whether they had Ebola.
The BBC's Jonathan Jonathan Paye-Layleh in Liberia says the country's health facilities are closer and more accessible to Guineans living on the border than those in big Guinean cities.
Cross-border trade is huge between the two countries, which share some cultural and linguistic ties, he adds.
Mr Gwenigale confirmed tests were being carried out on those who had died.
He also urged people to avoid close contact with people, such as shaking hands and kissing.
Guinea is also currently grappling with epidemics of measles, cholera and meningitis.
It is said to be the first time Ebola has struck Guinea, with recent outbreaks thousands of miles away, in Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo.
There have been 87 cases so far, with 61 deaths, according to Guinea's health ministry.
After two people died from a haemorrhagic fever in Conakry, samples were sent to the Pasteur Institute in neighbouring Senegal for testing.
WHO spokesman Collins Boakye-Agyemang told the BBC these had shown that the victims had not been infected with Ebola. It is not known what killed them.
Outbreaks of Ebola occur primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests, the World Health Organization says.
Private Cheryl James's father Des believes a new inquest would allow the grieving process "to really end"
The father of a soldier who died at Deepcut barracks 18 years ago hopes the decision to allow him to seek a new inquest will bring "closure".
The attorney general is allowing the family of Pte Cheryl James's family to ask the High Court for a new inquest.
Pte James, 18, was found dead at the barracks in Surrey in 1995 and an inquest recorded an open verdict.
Her father Des, from Llanymynech, Powys, said a new inquest would allow the grieving process "to really end".
Pte James, who grew up in Llangollen in Denbighshire, was found dead from a single gunshot wound in November 1995.
She was one of four soldiers who died at the barracks between 1995 and 2002, sparking allegations of bullying and abuse.
Pte Sean Benton, 20, from Hastings, East Sussex, was found dead with gunshot wounds in June 1995, also from gunshot wounds.
In September 2001, 17-year-old Pte Geoff Gray, from Seaham, Co Durham, was found with two gunshot wounds to his head, and six months later, Pte James Collinson, from Perth, also 17, was found with a single gunshot wound upwards through his chin.
A suicide verdict was recorded on Pte Benton, with open verdicts recorded on the other three soldiers.
A Surrey Police investigation was launched into the deaths in 2002, following pressure from the families who rejected suggestions the soldiers had committed suicide and called for a public inquiry.
Sexual harassmentLater, a report by the Adult Learning Inspectorate, commissioned by the armed forces minister, called for substantial reforms in the training of new recruits.
A later investigation by deputy high court judge Nicholas Blake QC called for an independent ombudsman for the armed forces, but rejected the families' calls for a public inquiry.
Mr James and his wife Doreen believe their daughter suffered sexual harassment and bullying and said her death was treated as suicide, despite evidence to the contrary.
Mr James called for a public inquiry, and the case was taken up by campaign group Liberty who helped the family obtain statements, documents and photographs which it is claimed were not properly examined in the original inquest.
Mr James believes he may have to wait years for answers Mr James said it had been a "pretty emotional day" when he was told he could apply for a new inquest.
"We have always been very, very confident that this day would come.
"The more we learned about Cheryl's case and her death, the more we were sure that this has not been properly investigated and, of course, there should have been a public inquiry."
He said the announcement was a "huge milestone," adding: "In a way it's a vindication. My daughter's not had justice before and finally we have a pretty important character in the legal system who has agreed with us and made a line in the sand."
He now hopes to be granted a new inquest in front of a jury, which, he says would be equivalent to "the inquiry that we've long felt was overdue".
Describing the grief of the past 18 years, Mr James said: "Everybody says that when they lose someone 'there isn't a day I don't think of them'.
'Wonderful step'"When you lose a child it's even more intense and I'm sure that other families who've lost children would testify to that.
"I can, hand on heart, absolutely without a shadow of a doubt say that there hasn't a day gone by, but I do think that if we could bring some closure to this then the grieving process would really end and you could draw a line."
He said the length of time taken to reach this stage made him "intensely angry", but said the "frustration of the process has long gone".
He added: "I think that the government of the UK over many years - Mr Blair's government, Mr Brown's government, the coalition - I think at some stage they're all going to have to hang their heads in shame on this, because if four kids who sign up to defend this country, and in the middle of their basic training... they're shot and killed... if that doesn't justify a public inquiry, quite honestly I don't know what does."
Mr James said receiving permission to apply for a new inquest was a "wonderful step", but added: "I'm not so foolish as to believe we're anywhere near the end.
"We've passed a pretty serious hurdle - one which, quite frankly, I often wondered if we ever would pass it... but tomorrow we start again and let's get on to the next one.
"I think there's still a few years but it's a great sign and it's a great start."
24 March 2014 Last updated at 15:45 GMT
Actress Emma Watson talks about her upcoming film Noah which also stars Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly.
The 23-year-old portrays Noah's adopted daughter Ila.
Several Middle Eastern countries have announced plans to ban the film.
According to Juma Al-Leem, from the UAE's National Media Centre, "there are scenes that contradict Islam and the Bible".
In May, Watson graduates from Brown University in the US, she talked about being excited about graduating and how she juggles her acting career.
Footage courtesy of Paramount.
Arsenal's Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Kieran Gibbs have both been cleared after Gibbs was mistakenly sent off in Saturday's 6-0 defeat at Chelsea.
A Football Association panel decided that referee Andre Marriner not only dismissed the wrong player, but that Oxlade-Chamberlain's goal-line handball did not deserve a red card.
Neither player will serve any ban following the incident.
Marriner will referee Southampton's home game with Newcastle on Saturday.
Refereeing officials felt that the 43-year-old, who apologised for mixing up the players' identities, should be given the chance to get over his mistake immediately, rather than being stood down for the weekend.
All four officials who were involved at Stamford Bridge will officiate in matches this weekend.
Arsenal claimed that not only was Gibbs sent off by mistake after Oxlade-Chamberlain deliberately blocked the ball with his hand, but that Oxlade-Chamberlain's offence had not prevented either a goal or a goal-scoring opportunity because Eden Hazard's shot was going wide.
The sport's rules, drawn up by world governing body Fifa, state that while a player should be booked for deliberately handling the ball, a red card should only be shown for "the unacceptable and unfair intervention that prevented a goal being scored".
They make no mention of a player's intent when handling the ball.
On the matter of mistaken identity, the Professional Game Match Officials Limited, which is responsible for training officials, said after the game that such cases were "very rare".
"While this was a difficult decision, Andre is disappointed that he failed to identify the correct player," it stated.
"He expressed his disappointment to Arsenal when he was made aware of the issue."
Uefa spokesperson Pedro Pinto said the error highlighted the need for additional goal-line officials.
He tweeted: "With an additional assistant referee on the end line, referee would not have got that sending off wrong. Technology is not the answer - more eyeballs are the answer."
24 March 2014 Last updated at 11:37 GMT
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Adam Fleming headed to the West Midlands to hear how voter segmentation divides people into six categories today.
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Angela Dowling recruited Matthew Duffy (centre) and Stephen Schofield (right) for the killing by making false allegations against Alan Easton A widow and her son's friend have been found guilty of killing her new fiance after realising he had "blown" £40,000 he inherited from his father.
Angela Dowling, 48, and Matthew Duffy, 23, from South Yorkshire, murdered Alan Easton weeks after Dowling's husband died and the engagement was announced.
Mr Easton was beaten, stabbed and buried on farmland in Everton, Nottinghamshire, on 2 February 2013.
Dowling's lodger and long-term lover Stephen Schofield, 33, admitted murder.
They will all be sentenced on 2 May.
A fourth man, Mark Bingham, 50, from Sheffield, was found not guilty.
False claims about daughterSchofield, who had an affair with Dowling over five years, had been a lodger at the Dowling family home in Windmill Avenue in Conisborough, South Yorkshire.
During the trial at Nottingham Crown Court the jury heard Dowling had attended her husband's funeral on 15 January, following his death from cancer.
A week later she announced her engagement to family friend Mr Easton, from Dunbartonshire, Scotland, and he moved in.
Ian Unsworth, prosecuting, said Mr Easton had inherited £40,000 from his father but had "blown it" quickly.
He said the relationship with Dowling turned sour days later when she realised he no longer had the money.
She then falsely alleged to Schofield and Duffy, her son's friend, that her fiance had acted inappropriately towards her teenage daughter and asked for their help to plan his death.
The court heard Alan Easton had moved from Scotland to be with Dowling On the night of the attack, 1 February, the group claimed they were taking Mr Easton out for a meal to celebrate the engagement.
'Ugly twist'Dowling drove them to a country lane in Nottinghamshire and waited in the car as Duffy and Schofield beat Mr Easton, stabbed him nine times, cut his throat and buried him in a shallow grave.
The next day Dowling claimed Mr Easton had returned to Scotland following an argument and told her family he "wouldn't be coming back".
She then traded in her £70 engagement ring and some of Mr Easton's possessions for £100.
During the defence, lawyers said Dowling had appeared "really happy" about her new engagement and could have had no motive to kill him.
They said Duffy, of Sussex Street, Doncaster, also had no motive as he had only met Mr Easton days before his death.
The jury of eight men and four women returned a majority guilty verdict after three days of deliberation.
Det Insp Leigh Sanders, from Nottinghamshire Police, said Mr Easton had moved to South Yorkshire to start a new chapter in his life when it took "an ugly twist" and ended in an "extremely violent murder".
He added: "Under the instruction of Dowling, who had significantly tarnished Mr Easton's reputation, Schofield acted as a jealous lover and along with Duffy subjected him to a brutal attack.
"Their actions were reprehensible, whatever their motives."
24 March 2014 Last updated at 15:22 GMT
Deep sea mining could provide the UK economy with a "great deal" of mineral resources and wealth, a marine biologist has claimed.
The idea comes as government leaders, marine biologists and mining experts prepare to discuss how the process can become a commercial reality.
Minerals found in the sea bed include copper and rare earth minerals which are in great demand for their use in smartphones and other gadgets.
Marine biologist Dr Jon Copley told BBC Radio 5 live's Morning Reports: "The copper there and zinc could be worth £150 billion pounds and that's just the vents we know about."
Neil Warnock has rejected the chance to take over as Nottingham Forest manager.
After sacking Billy Davies, the Reds had been in talks with Warnock, 65, and the former Leeds United boss was expected to be appointed on Monday.
But BBC Radio 5 live correspondent Pat Murphy said: "He was the hot favourite. He met the owner and chairman but did not feel it was quite right for him."
Owner and chairman Fawaz Al Hasawi told BBC East Midlands Today that Warnock was one of a number of candidates.
Murphy added: "I understand Neil turned it down. He is 65, based down in Cornwall, and it would take quite a bit to lever him up out of that. It is not quite right for him so he will pass. That is a big surprise."
Academy manager Gary Brazil will be in charge for Tuesday's Championship game against Charlton.
And Al Hasawi has called for "patience" from fans before appointing the club's new boss.
Al Hasawi, who has lifted all bans on media at the club, said in a statement on the Forest website: "I am aware many people expect me to announce a new manager imminently.
"However I must stress the need for patience as I make the important decision of who takes the reins at this crucial stage of the season."
Davies, 49, was appointed Reds boss for a second time in February 2013, but was fired in the wake of Saturday's 5-0 defeat against rivals Derby County.
The result left Forest a place and two points outside the Championship play-offs after an eight-game winless run following the victory over Huddersfield Town.
Al Hasawi, who has appointed Forest's two-time European Cup winning captain John McGovern as a club ambassador, told BBC East Midlands Today: "We contacted many managers but we want to choose the right one. All of them are great managers and I respect them but I should talk about the right manager.
"Billy Davies is a good manager and he did well since we started the season, but things didn't work. Sometimes even if you have a good manager it doesn't work. I respect him and wish him all the best.
"The last eight games hurt. We spent lots of money this season and we expected to be top of the league. I was really disappointed."
The Kuwait Al Hasawi family bought the club in July 2012 and have had already had four permanent managers.
Steve Cotterill was sacked within days of the Al Hasawis taking over, and Sean O'Driscoll and Alex McLeish have also come and gone before Davies' 13-month reign.
The Freight Transport Association is concerned about the transportation and delivery of supplies during Games time Organisers of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow have been criticised for a lack of information about transport planning for the event.
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) represents businesses, delivery companies and supermarkets chains.
It has said there could be major consequences if a Games Route Network is not outlined urgently.
Glasgow 2014 said it had met with operators and would provide as much information as possible at every stage.
The Commonwealth Games will be staged in Glasgow over 11 days in July and August.
The opening ceremony takes place at Celtic Park on 23 July.
The logistics of getting thousands of athletes and spectators around the city during Games time will see special transport lanes put in place, temporary road closures and diversions.
Essential suppliesThe FTA said the information about travel disruption was well behind where it should be at this stage.
The freight organisation said if the issue was not addressed urgently it would have major consequences when it came to delivering essential food, drink and supplies to Games venues, and also to residents and businesses in the city.
The FTA has called for full details of transport plans to be made available before its annual conference on 13 May, when it said delegates would expect answers.
Chris MacRae, the FTA's head of policy for Scotland, said: "It is vital to prepare well ahead.
"At the equivalent stage ahead of the Olympics in 2012, the Games Route Network (GRN) was known in detail and the Freight Working Group had met several times.
"For Glasgow the GRN is still only a map without any published detail on actual restrictions, times or postcodes released and the Freight Working Group only met for the first time on 11 March. We also still have no information on the venue security restrictions, which were becoming known by this stage for the Olympics."
Glasgow 2104 said it was working "positively and collaboratively" with the city council, police, the Chamber of Commerce, Transport Scotland and other partners to ensure residents and businesses were "informed, prepared and ready for the Games".
A spokesman added: "We will be providing as much information as we can at every stage of the process to aid businesses in their planning to ensure a successful Games for everyone.
"An information event for key business groups and representatives stakeholders, including a number of freight and logistics organisations, took place in February. The Freight Transport Association, along with the Road Haulage Association were in attendance.
"Glasgow 2014 holds regular discussions with freight organisations and a specific freight forum has been established in association with the FTA, which was held earlier this month. We are also attending the FTA annual meeting in May and will work closely with them from now until the Games to help with their planning."
Hospitals should cremate or bury aborted foetuses rather than incinerating them, the medical director of the NHS in England says.
The move by Prof Sir Bruce Keogh comes after it emerged that some hospitals have been burning foetuses as clinical waste.
Channel 4 Dispatches programme says 10 NHS trusts have been burning remains alongside rubbish.
It claims two more disposed of bodies in incinerators used to heat hospitals.
Health minister Dr Dan Poulter said this practice was "totally unacceptable".
"That is why I have asked Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS medical director, to write to all NHS hospital trusts, to make it clear that it must stop now.
"The chief medical officer has also written to the Human Tissue Authority to ask them to make sure that there is clear guidance on this issue.
"While the vast majority of hospitals are acting in the appropriate way, that must be the case for all hospitals and the Human Tissue Authority has now been asked to ensure that it acts on this issue without delay."
'Disappointed'The HTA has a code of practice for the disposal of human tissue, which includes foetal remains, that hospitals should follow.
It says women who have had an abortion or miscarriage should be informed that there are different options available - burial, cremation and incineration.
It says disposal via incineration should be handled as "sensitive" and therefore should not be done alongside the burning of waste.
In his letter, Prof Keogh says he believes it would be better not to use incineration at all.
"While it is acknowledged that incineration is not illegal across the UK, existing professional guidance makes clear that the practice is inappropriate.
"I share the view that incineration of fetal remains is inappropriate practice and that other methods offer more dignity in these sensitive situations."
The Dispatches programme claims some women were not told that their aborted foetus would be incinerated as waste.
Professor Sir Mike Richards, chief inspector of hospitals, from the Care Quality Commission, said: "I am disappointed trusts may not be informing or consulting women and their families. This breaches our standard on respecting and involving people who use services and I'm keen for Dispatches to share their evidence with us.
"We scrutinise information of concern and can inspect unannounced, if required."
Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, said the practice of incinerating pre-24 week foetuses is unacceptable and that whenever possible, cremation should be used instead.
A spokesperson said: "Research has shown that the stage the pregnancy has reached when the baby dies is not an accurate predictor of the length and depth of the grief the parents will experience.
"Foetus is not a term that parents use or that should be used with them. From the day the pregnancy is confirmed they are expecting a baby.
"The death of a baby at any stage of pregnancy is a major bereavement with life long consequences.
"The care that parents receive cannot lessen their pain, but poor and insensitive care can and does make matters worse both in the short and the long term."
In 2011, 189,931 abortions were carried out in England and Wales, mostly on the NHS.
Jimmy Tarbuck was arrested in April last year Comedian Jimmy Tarbuck has been released without charge after his arrest over allegations of child sex abuse dating back to the 1970s.
North Yorkshire Police said the 74-year-old was arrested in April last year after information was passed to them by Metropolitan Police officers
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed six allegations had been made by six separate individuals.
However, it said it had advised police no further action should be taken.
Mr Tarbuck had been arrested in Kingston-upon-Thames on 26 April and released on bail.
The CPS said a file of evidence, prepared by North Yorkshire Police, had been handed to them in November.
A spokesperson said: "This file of evidence included six allegations made by six separate complainants.
"All the complaints have been reviewed in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors and the CPS legal guidance on rape and sexual offences.
"We have determined that there is insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction in relation to all complaints and have advised North Yorkshire Police that no further action should be taken."
Mark Urban Diplomatic and defence editor, Newsnight We overdo the talk of turning points and milestones in covering summits, but, when it comes to the G7 at The Hague, it's very hard to see it in any other terms.
Events in Ukraine have profoundly changed Western perceptions towards Russia and it's very hard to envisage any rapid return to business as usual.
Arriving in the Netherlands for this summit, President Barack Obama said the US and Europe were united in imposing sanctions that would bring "significant consequences to the Russian economy".
Michael McFaul, the former US ambassador in Moscow, wrote on Monday morning that President Putin "embraces confrontation with the West… [and] has made a strategic pivot".
A Ukrainian soldier stands guard near a tank position close to the Russian border Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, added on Twitter that Mr McFaul's gloomy prognosis was understating the problem since the Russian president was "building on deeply conservative orthodox ideas".
When the people responsible for good East-West relations are saying this, you know that this is no flash in the pan.
So is this Cold War Two or a lesser realignment in world politics?
Much depends on Russian actions during the coming days: an invasion of eastern Ukraine would likely trigger a full-scale trade war, but consolidation of the hold on Crimea, with continued covert support to militant Russian groups in Donetsk or Kharkiv, would pose a trickier dilemma to Western policymakers.
Climate of tensionHowever, since the Kremlin is not only unlikely to reverse its stance in Crimea but is also now brandishing the possibility of intervention in support of Russians in Moldova or the Baltic republics (members of Nato after all), it is evident that the new climate of tension is not going to be soothed rapidly and may get far worse.
Up to now the public perception of European dependence on Russian trade has led many to assume that meaningful sanctions or a real realignment are unlikely.
But those who hold that view may be under-estimating the degree to which European leaders are already agreeing (so far in private) to harsher measures and the extent to which they feel guilty at not having acted more effectively years ago.
A mural in Moscow depicts the Crimea peninsula and declares "Together Forever" The "targeted measures" enacted so far by the US and EU simply penalise some of Mr Putin's friends and political allies. The Level 3 sanctions already agreed in principle by EU leaders last week target certain Russian enterprises and would take us into genuine trade war territory.
Last week also, the European Commission pledged to step up work to reduce energy dependence on Russia. And it is in this area that European leaders have shown their resentment at having been taken in by Mr Putin before and allowed things to return to normal.
The interruption of Russian gas supplies in 2006 and the 2008 war with Georgia were events that prompted previous pledges to lessen energy dependence.
But back then many privately blamed Georgia for provoking the Russian military and couldn't wait to get back into business with a booming BRIC economy.
Merkel's stanceThere is a seriousness now about reducing Russian gas imports further, buttressing Ukraine's ability to do the same, and agreeing further measures in advance of the next Russian move, not after it.
As the Swedish prime minister told Newsnight earlier this month, a trade war will hurt Russia more than it will hurt the EU.
Russia accounts for 7% of European exports, but those coming the other way represent 21% of Russia's trade.
Nobody personifies this sense of wanting to avoid getting taken in again by the Kremlin more than Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel. While it is true that German trade remains highly significant in her calculations, her political stance has become noticeably harsher in recent days.
How far all this will go, even without further Russian military action against Ukraine or Moldova, remains unclear.
The G7 talks are on the sidelines of a long-planned summit on nuclear threats If the EU's project to reduce its dependence on Russian energy bears fruit, it is possible that the recent growth in trade across the old iron curtain will be reversed.
Other debates will take place among the G7 leaders, in the corridors of the Berlaymont, headquarters of the European Commission, and at Nato: to what extent are previously planned diplomatic engagements with Mr Putin now toxic? How can partnership with Ukraine be strengthened? And does the long slide in European defence spending need to be checked?
Some of these answers are becoming clearer. There will be no G8 summit in Sochi, there could be further steps against President Putin's inner circle, and increased deployments of Nato forces to the Baltic republic will be maintained.
But many uncertainties remain, including, at the most dramatic level, whether further Russian military action might lead to large-scale sanctions, US troop cuts in Europe being reversed, and a new diplomatic ice age.
Daughter of passenger Chandrika Sharma shows family photo The relatives of passengers on board the missing Malaysian Airlines plane have been told the plane crashed in the ocean, with no survivors. So how hard is it to mourn a missing person?
When flight MH370 went missing, Prahlad Shirsath travelled from his home in North Korea to Beijing and then on to Malaysia as he searched for news of his wife's whereabouts.
Kranti Shirsath, a former chemistry professor and mother of two, was travelling to see her husband who worked at a non-profit organisation in Pyongyang.
When there was no news and the days passed, Shirsath's family called him back to his home country of India, where they could endure the uncertainty together.
This is called an "ambiguous loss", says Pauline Boss, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, who treats people undergoing this unique kind of bereavement. There is no physical proof of death - no body - so people cling to the hope that the missing are still alive.
"People can't begin mourning when there is ambiguous loss - they're frozen," says Boss. "Frequently, society thinks they should be mourning but, in fact, they are stuck in limbo between thinking their loved one might come back and thinking they might not."
This is a kind of suffering that freezes their grief, says the professor, author of Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief.
The latest news that the plane probably crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, with no survivors, is unlikely to release them from this limbo, she says. "There is no closure even if they find definitely that the plane is in the ocean. They still have no body to bury. It will always be ambiguous until remains are found or DNA evidence."
People need to see evidence before they are assured that the death has occurred, says Professor Boss, and without that, grief is frozen and complicated. A more clear-cut death is undoubtedly painful but funeral rituals can take place where there is a body, and family and friends come together to re-affirm that the person has died.
In the absence of a confirmed explanation for what happened, relatives imagine their own outcomes. Before the latest news, Kranti's family, including her 16-year-old son, were inclined towards the one that offered most hope - that the plane was hijacked, a scenario in which it was more likely that Kranti was alive.
Banner with messages for missing passengers "We don't really have the strength to entertain the possibility of any bad news at the moment," says Satish Shirsath, Prahlad's younger brother, speaking a few days ago. He was the one who booked Kranti's tickets online.
"I also feel that maybe if I had chosen another route - maybe if I had booked my sister-in-law from Pune instead of Bombay, then to Delhi and Beijing - perhaps it would have been different," he says.
When there is no knowledge of what happened, there is no one to attribute responsibility to, so blaming oneself is typical, says Boss. The first thing she tells families in therapy is that it is not their fault.
Damien Nettles, 11, five years before he disappeared Catastrophic events like 9/11 and the Asian tsunami left many relatives and friends waiting in vain for definitive news, but this kind of loss can also happen when someone walks out the door and never comes back.
Valerie Nettles - whose son Damien went missing 17 years ago in the Isle of Wight when aged 16 - has learned to compartmentalise the pain.
She says she lives with one step in two different worlds - one in an "abyss of not knowing" and the other in the practicality of everyday life.
"I always thought that if something happened to my child, I would die - but you don't," she says.
She remembers a vivid dream about her son, in which she saw him across a motorway with her husband and younger son.
"I was elated they had found him, but then I woke up," she says.
Dreams about loved ones are common for people whose relatives are missing. Sometimes, people even dream the ends of the incomplete stories of the missing person - that they are either dead and at peace or happy somewhere far away. Some cultures attach a lot of significance to these dreams, says Boss, and it helps people to cope better with the ambiguity.
Ambiguous loss is less difficult to negotiate if you live in a culture - for example, where religions such as Hinduism and Islam are dominant - that tend to "accept the fate that a higher power has delivered," Boss says.
"The more 'mastery-oriented' people are, the harder time they seem to have. Because you can't manage it, you can't master it, you have to live with not knowing and that is very hard for most of us to do."
Relatives of MH370 passengers were distraught at the latest news Telling someone who has a missing relative to simply begin the mourning process is not helpful, she adds, because you cannot push those who are suffering in this way to accept any one scenario.
"My first question to the family is - what does this mean to you? And you get the answer and you can build on that," she says.
Nettles is closely following the developments of the missing airplane from Texas, where she now lives. Having every detail played out so publicly must be a "rollercoaster" for the passengers' loved ones, she says.
"It tears you apart - all the 'what-ifs' and 'maybes'." Nettles still wrestles with having decided to relax Damien's curfew deadline the night he disappeared in 1996.
Seventeen years on she has tried to move on for her family but she says she is "limping through life".
"I'm still hoping for something - I don't know what," she says.
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