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A Russian nuclear submarine has caught fire in a shipyard but there were no weapons on board, according to Russian news agencies.
The 155m (508ft) 949 Antei was reportedly being repaired in Zvyozdochka shipyard in Russia's northern province of Arkhangelsk, when the blaze broke out.
The ship reportedly caught fire as welding works were being carried out, with rubber insulation catching fire.
A shipyard source told the Interfax news agency: "There is a fire on the submarine.
"We are fighting the fire now."
Smoke is seen above the shipyard as the submarine burns
The emergencies ministry has so far refused to comment.
The United Shipbuilding Corporation, which runs the shipyard, said the submarine's weapons and critical elements of its nuclear reactor had been taken out before the repairs started.
Spokesman Ilya Zhitomirsky said no one was injured.
A nuclear-powered submarine carrying atomic weapons was engulfed in flames in 2011, nearly leading to a nuclear disaster.
Dukes of Hazzard actor James Best, who played bumbling Sheriff Rosco P Coltrane in the hit show, has died aged 88.
Best passed away on Monday after a short battle with pneumonia.
He got his acting break during the Second World War when he joined a military theatrical company while stationed in Germany.
He appeared in films like One Way Street and on TV's Annie Oakley before landing the role of Boss Hogg's hapless and much-tormented sidekick in the Dukes of Hazzard.
Best was famous for his on-screen antics with Sorrell Booke
Tom Wopat, who starred as Luke Duke in the TV show, said: "The work he did with Sorrell Booke (Boss Hogg) probably defined our show as much as the car chases.
"He was a fine actor, director and mentor, and an even better friend. He will be greatly missed."
John Schneider, who played Bo Duke, said: "I learned more about acting in front of a camera from Jimmie Best in an afternoon than from anyone else in a year.
"When asked to cry on camera, he would say, 'Sure thing…which eye?' I'm forever thankful to have cut my teeth in the company of such a fine man."
After retiring from acting, Best taught at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
He is survived by his wife Angela, three children and three grandchildren.
Labour has claimed that almost 600 fewer GP surgeries are currently open during evenings and weekends compared to the last parliament.
Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham says coalition policies on health are forcing people to queue lengthy periods to access a GP, with many visiting accident and emergency instead.
The Conservatives dispute the claim, which comes one month before voters go to the polls, and insist out-of-hours access to doctors is being extended.
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Labour has launched a new campaign poster focussing on access to GPs
The row comes as it was revealed accident and emergency waiting times at hospitals in England are the longest they have been since records began in 2004.
New figures show just 91.8% of patients were seen within four hours in the three-month period to March, against a target of 95%.
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The statistics were seized on by Labour leader Ed Miliband, on the campaign trail lin Bristol, who said: "One of the reasons for that is it's got a lot harder to see a GP."
On GP opening, Mr Burnham said Labour introduced an extended hours scheme which in 2009 funded 77% of surgeries to open their doors on evenings and weekends.
He said the coalition has cut funding from £3.01 per patient to £1.90 per patient, meaning that by 2013/14 only 72% of surgeries were offering extended hours.
Labour says its figures were sourced from a parliamentary question and are up to date.
Mr Burnham said: "Today, across the country, people will face the frustration of joining a queue to see their GP - in some places the lines will go out of the surgery door.
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"After five years of David Cameron, patients at hundreds of surgeries can no longer get a GP appointment when they need one."
But Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Labour's figures are "wrong", and pointed to the Prime Minister's Challenge Fund as evidence the Conservatives have boosted access to GPs.
Mr Hunt said the scheme covered 1,100 practices and helped 7.5 million patients see GPs out of normal hours.
He said: "We are extending this scheme to cover over 1,400 additional practices, helping 10 million extra people by this time next year.
"The next Conservative government will deliver a truly seven-day NHS, putting right a problem which began with Labour's disastrous 2004 GP contract.
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"You can only have a strong NHS if you have a strong economy.
"Ed Miliband as prime minister - propped up by Alex Salmond and the SNP - would wreck the economy, risking the funding our NHS needs. Patients would pay the price."
Speaking on Sky News, Home Secretary Theresa May also disputed the opposition figures and argued it was Labour which changed the GPs' contract in 2004 that meant doctors were no longer required to provide out-of-hours services.
She said: "I've not seen people queuing out of the door of a GP's surgery.
"It's a bit rich to make these sort of claims now when actually the change in the GPs' contract was made by a Labour government."
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The dispute comes a month before voters head to the ballot box and as the Prime Minister warns about the potential "disaster of an Ed Miliband government".
Mr Cameron has been on a four-country tour of the United Kingdom, with events being held in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The PM's campaign trail included a visit to the Belfast set of the hit Sky TV series Game of Thrones.
He said wanted to visit every part of the UK to underline the importance of the election, and highlight the Tories were the only party fielding candidates in every country.
Mr Cameron again refused to rule out further cutting the top rate of tax from 45p to 40p.
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Party leaders are criss-crossing the country with a month to go until polling day. David and Samantha Cameron started their day with breakfast at Scottish Widows' headquarters in Edinburgh
They then travelled to Belfast. Mr Cameron is aiming to visit England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales in one day
A survivor of a massacre of some 1,700 troops by IS forces in Tikrit last June has been talking of his escape as forensic teams begin exhuming the graves.
Iraqi soldier Ali explained how IS lulled him and fellow troops into believing they would be well treated.
"They told us they had no problem with us and promised us we would be sent to our families, they brought us cars and even gave us water to make us feel secure," he said.
"Once they put us in large cars, they managed to control us and brought us here and tied us up, and I still have a mark from my cuffs here."
He went on: "The fourth bullet was meant to kill me, but I was not hit.
"The fifth bullet was fired, killing the one who was next to me. Playing dead, I fell to the ground. I was covered by the blood of my colleagues and I rolled down into the valley."
A forensic team member writes on the body bag of a soldier's remains
Up to 12 suspected mass graves are now being exhumed.
"We dug up the first mass grave site today," said an Iraqi health official working with a forensic team sent in to Tikrit, outside the former US base camp of Camp Speicher.
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"Until now we found at least 20 bodies. Initial indications show indisputably that they were from the Speicher victims.
"It was a heartbreaking scene. We couldn't prevent ourselves from breaking down in tears. What savage barbarian could kill 1,700 persons in cold blood?" he asked.
The mass killing of the Shi'ite troops took place as the fighters fought their way across northern Iraq.
Their deaths came to symbolise early on the brutality of IS, as well as the group's hatred of the country's Shi'ite majority.
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Smoke billows during Iraqi military operation to retake Tikrit from Islamic State militants
Iraqi flags fly on outskirts of Tikrit as government forces move into the city
FA chairman Greg Dyke has returned a watch worth £16,000 he had been given as a gift during the World Cup, FIFA has announced.
Mr Dyke was given one of the limited edition Parmigiani watches by the Brazilian FA during a FIFA Congress meeting in Sao Paulo.
Sixty-five of the watches were handed out in goodie bags worth more than £1m collectively.
The FA boss initially refused to hand his back after the watches were recalled, having promised to donate it to the FA's official charity partner, Breast Cancer Care, so it could be sold at auction.
But with the prospect of being sanctioned if he did not return the timepiece, FIFA's ethics committee confirmed Mr Dyke had returned the watch and proceedings on the matter have now been closed.
A FIFA statement said: "Mr Greg Dyke has returned the CBF Parmigiani watch.
"As a consequence, the adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee has decided to close the proceedings in respect of a possible breach of the FIFA Code of Ethics."
Mr Dyke insisted he was not aware how much the gift was worth when he first received it and, once he was told, said he would allow it to be auctioned by Breast Cancer Care.
The charity is looking to raise £500,000 for their cause by next summer.
Press Association Sport reports that all of the watches will now be auctioned for a Brazilian charity and Mr Dyke will make a personal donation to Breast Cancer Care.
A 100-year-old man has killed his wife with an axe as she slept in their home, before killing himself with a knife, prosecutors say.
It is still not clear what sparked the murder-suicide at the weekend in Elmwood Park, New Jersey.
Michael Juskin had a "history of domestic issues" with his 88-year-old wife Rosalia, according to the prosecutor in the case.
But the motive for the attack remains under investigation, prosecutor John Molinelli said. Nobody else was believed to be in the home when the attack occurred.
According to local news reports, the bodies were found by a relative, possibly a son, who alerted police.
Reports also said Juskin had been suffering from dementia.
Neighbours told The Record newspaper that they often saw the couple out and about - Juskin walking a dog and his wife tending to her garden - but said they kept to themselves.
"They were always together, putzing around outside," said Barbara Szczecina, who lives down the block.
She added the wife "used to be in her garden all the time".
Two West Yorkshire teenagers are believed to have travelled to Syria, counter-terrorism police have confirmed.
The boys, both 17 and from Dewsbury, were last seen by their families on 31 March.
They are believed to have flown from Manchester airport to Dalaman in Turkey on the same day, police say.
West Yorkshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Mark Milsom said: "We are extremely concerned for the safety of these two boys and would urge anyone with information to come forward and speak to us.
"Our priority is for their safe return; their families are gravely worried about them and want them home.
"Syria is an extremely dangerous place and the public will be aware of the dangers these boys may face.
"The choice of returning home from Syria is often taken away from those that come under the control of Islamic State, leaving their families in the UK devastated and with very few options to secure their safe return."
He urged anyone who is worried about someone they know travelling to Syria to get in touch with authorities.
Kadiza Sultana, Shamima Begum and Amira Abase are thought to be in Raqqa
"This is not about criminalising people. It is about preventing tragedies by offering support to communities, families, young and vulnerable people," he said.
Kirklees Council chief executive Adrian Lythgo said: "We are deeply concerned for these young people and will continue to work in close partnership with the Counter Terrorism Unit, West Yorkshire Police, our communities and schools to prevent and eradicate any threats and concerns."
UK security services believe around 600 Britons have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join militant groups, while around half are thought to have returned to the UK.
They include three teenage girls from East London, who are now thought to be in the Syrian city of Raqqa, an Islamic State stronghold.
Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana were last seen on CCTV at a bus station in Istanbul on 17 February.
Last week, nine Britons were arrested allegedly trying to cross into Syria from Turkey illegally.
Anyone with information is urged to call police on 101 or the confidential Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321.
Germany owes Greece more than £203bn in war payments - including more than £7bn for a forced loan taken by Nazi occupation forces - a junior finance minister in Athens has claimed.
Dimitris Mardas told parliament: "According to our calculations, the debt linked to German reparations is 278.7bn euros, including 10.3bn for the so-called 'forced loan'."
He said the figures had been compiled by Greece's state general accounting office.
Greece's radical government, which came to power in January, said German war reparations were a "moral issue" that must still be resolved.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made this argument to German Chancellor Angela Merkel during his visit to Berlin in March.
Mr Tsipras made Greece's case to Ms Merkel during a visit last month
His justice minister said he was prepared to activate a 15-year-old Greek Supreme Court ruling that authorised the seizure of German assets in Greece to pay for wartime atrocities.
But many experts say the dispute has effectively reached a judicial stalemate after a related adjudication between Germany and Italy by the International Court of Justice in 2012.
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Athens has become a Mecca for street artists as anger grows over the impact of Greece's bailout deal with Europe
Wall paintings have sprung up all over the city reflecting the general frustration at rising unemployment and falling living standards
Tony Blair has warned David Cameron's promise of an EU referendum is an "unacceptable gamble" with Britain's future.
The former Labour prime minister also told Sky News the current party leader Ed Miliband had his "100%" support, and said he had showed "real leadership" in resisting calls to back an in/out vote.
Speaking in his former constituency of Sedgefield, Mr Blair claimed the PM did not believe the UK should quit Europe, but had committed to a referendum in 2017 as a "sop" to the right wing of his party and UKIP.
But he warned the vote would be a "huge distraction", risking economic chaos and threatening the UK's national interest.
It would also put EU "exit" on the agenda for the first time.
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And he had sharp words for UKIP, arguing its brand of nationalism as "ugly".
In his speech Mr Blair said: "I believe passionately that leaving Europe would leave Britain diminished in the world, do significant damage to our economy and, less obviously but just as important to our future, would go against the very qualities and ambitions that mark us out still as a great global nation.
"Think of the chaos produced by the possibility never mind the reality of Britain quitting Europe.
"Jobs that are secure suddenly insecure; investment decisions postponed or cancelled; a pall of unpredictability hanging over the British economy."
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He added: "And the oddest thing of all about David Cameron's position? The PM doesn't really believe we should leave Europe; not even the Europe as it is today.
"This was a concession to party, a manoeuvre to access some of the UKIP vote, a sop to the rampant anti-Europe feeling of parts of the media.
"This issue, touching as it does the country's future, is too important to be traded like this."
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In a broadside against UKIP, Mr Blair said: "National pride is a great thing. Nationalism, as a political cause in the hands of parties like UKIP, is almost always ugly and, despite being wrapped in the garb on high-sounding phrases, can never disguise its essentially mean spirit."
And praising Mr Miliband's stance, Mr Blair said: "Labour and its leader took a brave decision when they decided not to yield to pressure but instead to make the principled and intelligent case for Britain in Europe.
"In doing so, in my view, they showed they understand Britain's future and its destiny better than those prepared to trade policy for political advantage.
"That is one very good reason, amongst many others, for voting Labour on May 7."
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Speaking at an event in Bristol, Mr Miliband referred to Mr Blair's speech on Europe and said it was a "fundamental issue" for business.
"I believe our future lies inside not outside the EU," he said.
But Mr Cameron said: "Tony Blair doesn't want to trust the people, doesn't think the people should have a say.
"Instead of what Tony Blair did, which was give away more money to Europe, I have safeguarded our rebate and actually cut the European budget."
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Meanwhile, UKIP leader Nigel Farage jokingly thanked Mr Blair for reopening the debate on EU membership.
Asked after his speech about his relationship with the Labour leader, Mr Blair told Sky News: "I support him 100% to lead our party to victory at the election."
However, he went on to point out there had "always been disagreement" within Labour hinting at behind-the-scenes differences over the direction Mr Miliband was taking the party in.
Mr Blair was an ally of David Miliband, who lost to his brother in the 2010 leadership battle.
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Party leaders are criss-crossing the country with a month to go until polling day. David and Samantha Cameron started their day with breakfast at Scottish Widows' headquarters in Edinburgh
They then travelled to Belfast. Mr Cameron is aiming to visit England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales in one day
Scotland Yard has begun an investigation after safety deposit boxes in a central London vault were raided over the Easter weekend.
A statement from the Metropolitan Police said heavy cutting equipment had been used to get into a vault at the premises in Hatton Garden.
Officers from the Flying Squad are currently at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit as the investigation continues.
Up to 300 safety deposit boxes at the premises are thought to have been broken into. The suspects are believed to have used a lift shaft to gain access to the vault.
The raid took place in the heart of London's jewellery quarter
Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said: "I'm told that there are 600 boxes on the premises, 300 of which have been raided.
"The suspects have had perhaps several days (over Easter weekend) in which to get in. One report I'm told suggested that they used a lift shaft at some stage to get into the centre, which must be pretty heavily protected.
"It's probably going to be some days before we get an idea of exactly how much has been stolen or what indeed has been stolen."
The area is known as London's jewellery quarter.
Safety deposit boxes at the premises are mainly used by jewellers in Hatton Garden to store jewellery and loose diamonds in packets.
Lewis Malka, a diamond jewellery expert who works on Hatton Garden, tweeted: "Quiet day in the office and then I found out one of my client's antique bracelets was stolen in the Hatton Garden robbery."
Mr Malka said the haul was likely to be worth "hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds".
He said: "Most of the people who have got safety deposits there are people in the trade.
"I know for a fact that some of my work colleagues have got boxes down there and we are talking about hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds in goods."
In 2003, cash and valuables worth an estimated £1.5m were stolen after a suspect emptied safety deposit boxes at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Co while posing as a customer.
In July 1987, the Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Centre was hit by one of the largest robberies in history. Two armed robbers asked to rent a safe deposit box and produced hand guns after they were shown to the vault before making off with an estimated £60m hoard.
Valerio Viccei was arrested as he returned to England to ship his Ferrari Testarrosa to Latin America. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
