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Gerry adams announces hes standing down as president of the party. In sport, england are into the Rugby League World cup semi finals in the last few minutes theyve beaten Papua New Guinea by 36 6 in melbourne. Philip as the weather. Good morning. There is a fine, and for some frosty start to sunday. A decent day in prospect for many parts of the british isles, but there is a change on the way. I will have all of the details in a few minutes. First, our main story, police in dorset say they believe theyve found the body of missing teenager, gaia pope. The 19 year old had not been seen for 11 days. Specialist search teams made the discovery on saturday close to a coastal path near swanage. Her family have said they are absolutely devastated. She is. Im not go going to say was, and i never will. She is the absolute light of my life. So beautiful, so emotionally wise and in ....
In memory of those who have lost their lives while serving in the armed forces. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. A british woman charged with drug smuggling in egypt has been ordered to stand trial in a criminal court. Laura plummer, who is 33 and from hull, was detained in the red sea resort of hughada last month. Police claim she was carrying nearly 300 tablets of the painkiller, tramadol. The drug is illegal in egypt but available on prescription in the uk. Earlier i spoke to our correspondent, orla guerin, whos following the case. This is certainly a setback for laura, family and her legal team. This is certainly a setback for laura, family and her legalteam. M is not the outcome they would have been open court today. Just hours ago we were in court here in hughada we re ago we were in court here in hughada were expecting a hearing. Her legal tea m were expecting a hearing. Her legal team before that was guardedly optimistic, hoping she might be granted bail because they sai ....
Friendly. Even the name of this capital means a boat of love. Until recently, tonga was best known for its rugby player. And the care his matic queen, an International Celebrity in the 1950s for her ever present smile. But theres big trouble in this poll tunisian paradise and the trouble is an explosion of diabetes and other known communicable diseases. Today this nation of just over 100,000 people also known as the Friendly Island has a new moniker. Tonga tops the scales as the most obese country on earth. 90 of the Adult Population is either overweight or obese. Now the government is fighting back. That the hospital, scores of pash ent patients have come to the specialize the diabetes clinic. They have they have deadly type 2 diabetes, a disease triggered by their obesity. Among the patients is this 72yearo ....
The outside world. And. Im charles stratford. Development army saving mothers and babies lives. Im raul, latest from the Rugby World Cup as japan beat the two time world champions some south africa. South africa. We begin with yet more confusion and bickering between eu states about how to handle a growing refugee crisis. More than 14,000 have entered croatia in the past few days and the government says it cant cope so its sending refugees back to the border with hungary, prompting a bitter response with hungary claiming croatia breaks international law. Many in the middle east are left to fend for themselves sleeping in railway stations and on road sides. After hungary closed its border to serbia, north to slovenia. Germany the biggest economy, their asylum will be assessed. Lawrence lee on the slovenia hungary border. Overnight thia the croatian government put the refugees out, another closed border. For majd, a simple explanat ....
Biggest cases, we have a stellar panel. [inaudible] and david cole, he is another law professor at georgetown. And the left side of the court the last time did a lot of winning. That happened only on the two mementos cases involving samesex marriage and the availability of subsidies on the federal health care exchange, but in almost every big case decided last term. Justice kennedy was the justice that usually joined this side of the court in those cases and the chief justice and even Justice Thomas occasionally have provided the victory. And with Justice Kennedy key vote in most cases. And the thing is how big will this be. And a fair number of big cases, the court is going to have a choice between broad and narrow grounds for decision. And this is determined by which path the court chooses to take in those cases and we have on our agenda 10 cases that they are likely to he ....