Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has said its senior executive Patrick Liu is in police custody over corruption allegations related to his previous job with internet company Tencent.

Tencent confirmed that up to six former employees were under investigation in an ongoing anti-graft probe.
China's biggest social network said an "internal investigation" brought to light bribery allegations.
Several executives have been implicated in China's corruption crackdown.
The government has been on a drive to reform the economy, the world's second largest, by clamping down on corruption in major institutions and businesses for the past two years.
Tencent has not identified the former employees, but said that "the police have been notified" and they were awaiting further information.
Alibaba confirmed to the Reuters news agency that Mr Lui was detained but the case was "related to his time at Tencent and has nothing to do with Alibaba".
Mr Liu left Tencent for competitor Alibaba in 2013 to become the president of its digital entertainment unit.
Tencent is behind China's popular messaging app, WeChat. It also owns China's largest music streaming service by subscribers and its online gaming business has been compared to that of Nintendo's and Sony's gaming units.
Alibaba also has a large stake in Weibo, a social media site similar to Twitter as well as Chinese online video providers similar to YouTube.
China's anti-corruption crackdown has targeted both government officials as well as company executives with many being taken into custody.
Among recent high-profile cases in the past year were China's ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang and the former China head of pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline Mark Reilly.


Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho expects Luke Shaw to have a "big injury" after the defender had to be substituted in the draw with Swansea.

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Shaw, who was criticised by Mourinho earlier this month, left the field after nine minutes with an injury to his left leg.
United, who meet Celta Vigo in the Europa League semi-finals on Thursday, also lost fellow defender Eric Bailly.
Marcos Rojo, Phil Jones and Chris Smalling are already sidelined.
"I think Luke Shaw's must be a big injury, because to leave the pitch after nine minutes, I am expecting a very big injury," said Mourinho.
"At the moment, we can walk from the bed to the toilet and break a leg."
Neither Jones [toe] nor Smalling [knee] have played for United since 19 March, but midfielder Juan Mata did return to the bench after it was thought he would be out for the remainder of the season following groin surgery.
"I prefer not to speak about Phil Jones and Chris Smalling," added former Chelsea boss Mourinho. "I prefer to speak about Juan Mata giving everything to be available. I am grateful for that."
As a result of their run to the Europa League semi-finals and the need for some Premier League games to be rearranged, United have played nine games in April, with the potential for another seven by 24 May.
"We are tired and exhausted," said Mourinho. "This is the ninth match of April, it is not human. We have a squad of 22 that is reduced to 13 or 14 players."
The 1-1 draw with Swansea left United fifth in the Premier League and a point off the top four with Champions League qualification also possible by winning the Europa League.
In a passionate explanation to reporters, Mourinho said that a potential Europa League final could be played in "disastrous" circumstances and that he may be forced to play his club's under-23 side against Crystal Palace on the last day of the Premier League season.
"Imagine if we were also in the FA Cup semi-final," he said. "We would have had a game against Burnley that would have to be played later.
"When? After the FA Cup final? In June? In next pre-season? In the end, it was a blessing that we didn't make the cup semis.
"You are punished because you are doing well. If we beat Celta, we have the final. The final is on the Wednesday after we have played Crystal Palace on the Sunday and Southampton the Wednesday before that.
"Maybe  I can bring Nicky Butt and his under-23 team to play Palace. Hopefully they don't need the points to stay in the division, because it would be very bad if we play with the under-23s. It's difficult."


A confidential whistleblowing line for NHS staff in Scotland has been extended for a year.

The Alert Line is designed to provide independent support for anyone wanting to raise concerns about practices within the health service.
The Scottish government will also introduce a new Whistleblowing Officer to scrutinise the handling of cases.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said she wanted staff to be able to "speak up without fear".
Ms Robison added: "I have always been clear that health boards must ensure that it is safe and acceptable for staff to speak up about any concerns they may have, particularly in relation to patient safety.
"We will continue to work with the NHS across Scotland to ensure an open and transparent reporting culture where all staff have the confidence to speak up."
The National Confidential Alert Line will be extended for one year from 1 August 2016 to 31 July 2017.
The phoneline, 0800 008 6112, will pass any concerns raised by employees on to the employer or the relevant regulatory organisation for investigation.


One of two lions that escaped from an enclosure in Leipzig zoo in Germany has been shot dead after attempts to use a tranquilliser failed.

The male lions, Majo and Motshegetsi, broke out of their enclosure and leapt over a moat at 08:40 (06:40 GMT) on Thursday, before the zoo opened.
They were discovered in undergrowth in a terrified state.
Although one of the lions was ushered back to its enclosure, the other remained agitated and had to be shot.
"This is a very, very sad ending, which I really would not have wished for," zoo director Joerg Junhold told reporters. "But in this case personal safety had to take priority."
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The two animals, known as Etosha lions after an area of Namibia, arrived at Leipzig zoo only last month from the Swiss city of Basel.
After the lions were found only a short distance from their enclosure, around 40 zookeepers surrounded them with vehicles in an attempt to usher them back.
They succeeded in returning one of the animals three hours later with the aid of a fence, but the other lion became agitated as they tried to tranquillise it.
Local media said Majo had survived, but Motshegetsi had been killed.
The enclosure had been at the zoo for 15 years, the director said. They had never had problems before but would now review security.
Crowds built up at the entrance to the zoo, but it was largely was closed on Thursday because of the lions' escape.
The last time lions escaped from their enclosure in Leipzig zoo was in 1913, prompting a widespread hunt that ended with all six lions being killed, the Leipziger Volkszeitung reported.


A mental health trust has pledged to improve after it was criticised at an inquest over "gross failures" before a prisoner killed himself in prison.

Richard Walsh, 43, was awaiting trial accused of attempting to murder two schoolboys in Hampshire when he was found hanged in his cell.
An inquest jury found he should have been detained in hospital rather than held in Belmarsh Prison.
Southern Health NHS Trust said it would ensure better "sharing of information".
On 27 September a verdict of suicide, contributed to by neglect, was recorded at the inquest into Mr Walsh's death.
Mr Walsh was held at Waterlooville police station following the stabbing of two boys, aged 12 and 13, in Southleigh Road in Havant on 26 June last year.
Southwark Coroner's Court heard he was "saying strange things", became "delusional", was "obsessed with a woman police officer", and hid under a blanket when questioned.
He was assessed by two independent psychiatrists and a mental health professional approved by Hampshire County Council, but was not sectioned.
The inquest jury said there had been "gross failures of medical care" as they failed to interrogate the custody record and the custody officer and did not speak to Mr Walsh's family or GP.
"Had they done, then Mr Walsh would have been detained in a hospital.
"It is more likely than not... that if Mr Walsh had been detained in a hospital... he would not have killed himself," the jury found.
Mr Walsh was found hanged on 19 July 2015, the day before he was due to appear at Portsmouth Crown Court.
Following the ruling, Southern Health's medical director Dr Lesley Stevens said: "We fully accept the jury's findings and are acting quickly to improve assessments and communication between health organisations and the criminal justice system."
The trust said it would delay assessments of detainees if custody logs were not available and would implement "clear and robust processes" for sharing information between clinical teams in the custody and prison services.
A Prison Service spokesman said it had already taken action following a Prisons and Probation Ombudsman investigation.
"We will now carefully consider the inquest findings to help ensure such incidents are not repeated," he said.
Hampshire County Council said it would "carefully consider the full findings".


Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali died at the age of 74, decades after developing the degenerative brain disease Parkinson's.

Parkinson's happens when nerve cells are lost in the brain.
It attacks a very specific part of the brain - a small region called the substantia nigra, which plays an important role in movement, muscle control and balance.
Shortly after Ali's retirement from boxing in 1981, rumours began circulating about his health.
His speech had become slurred, he shuffled and he was often drowsy - recognisable signs of the disease.
The symptoms of Parkinson's are usually mild at first, but progress.
Ali continued to make public appearances, despite his deteriorating health.
Towards the end of his life, he had visible tremors and looked increasingly frail.
Although his brain disease did not kill him - Ali died following complications linked to a chest infection - it was arguably one of his greatest challenges.
Doctors still do not know why people develop Parkinson's disease.
A combination of genetic and environmental factors are probably responsible.
In Ali's case, his choice of profession may have been important.
Despite winning most of his fights, as a boxer Ali took repeated blows to the head.
After his famous 15 round "Thrilla in Manila" fight against Joe Frazier he reportedly told his trainers: "Man, this is the closest I've ever been to dying."
Some medical experts believe there could be something called pugilistic Parkinson's - Parkinson's caused by chronic traumatic brain injury.
But it's still not clear that this is the case.
Indeed "punch drunk syndrome" - brain damage linked to repeated head trauma and concussion - is now called chronic traumatic encephalopathy instead, in recognition of the fact that it's not a disease confined to boxers.
Michael Stewart and Kieran Whoriskey are both living with early onset Parkinson's disease.
Michael, a father-of-two, was 39 when he was told. Kieran was diagnosed at just 26.
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Kieran describes the disease as "like a twelve-round boxing fight with Mike Tyson. You don't stay down".
"I was like a shadow of my former self because I was a confident fellow and it just strips it day by day," he added.
He said when he finally admitted his condition the "support I got was amazing, the weight lifted from my shoulders".
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Diagnosing Parkinson's and its cause can be tricky because there is no single conclusive test.
Doctors look at a person's symptoms and brain scans to offer their best prognosis.
Although there is no cure for Parkinson's disease, there are treatments available that can lessen the symptoms and help patients maintain their quality of life.
Physiotherapy can help with the muscle stiffness and walking problems. Speech and language therapy can help with swallowing difficulties.
Drugs like levodopa can help with many of the symptoms of Parkinson's, but with prolonged use they can cause unwanted side effects, including uncontrolled jerking movements.
Scientists are working hard to find a cure and better treatments, spurred on by the support of high profile campaigners, such as the actor Michael J Fox, seeking to raise the profile of the disease.
While he was alive, Muhammad Ali helped set up a Parkinson's research centre that bears his name.
Dr Holly Shill, director of the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center, paid tribute to Ali, saying: "I have watched him face the disease with grace and humour, and he has inspired countless patients to do the same.
"We have lost a great warrior in the battle of Parkinson's, but hope continues for a better tomorrow."


Two leading brain injury experts have strongly criticised football for not taking head injuries seriously enough.

Dr Willie Stewart, who has advised rugby union on dealing with concussion, believes football authorities are still paying lip service to the matter.
Stewart said he was "depressed, disappointed and dismayed" by recent incidents involving footballers.
Dr Robert Cantu added governing body Fifa was "light years behind" rugby union with its handling of the issue.
The Rugby Football Union (RFU), Premiership Rugby and the Rugby Players' Association (RPA) last month announced major changes to the way concussion is managed in the professional game.
Stewart and Cantu were speaking at the International Rugby Board's World Rugby Conference in London, where they took part in a panel discussion about the sport's response to the problem of serious head trauma.
"I don't see much progress happening in football," said Stewart, a Glasgow-based neuropathologist.
"And it could learn a lot from how other sports have changed their protocols to better look after their players."
Their comments come after two serious incidents at this year's World Cup in Brazil.
Uruguay's Alvaro Pereira was knocked out in their group game against England, and Germany's Christoph Kramer sustained a head injury in the final against Argentina. Both players were allowed to continue playing despite suffering concussion.
This was followed last month by the apparent failure to implement the Football Association's strengthened concussion guidelines when Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was injured in a collision with Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez.
Rugby union has been praised by experts for responding to criticism of its own practices around concussion, and is now believed to be safer as a result.
The pitch-side assessments of head injuries have been doubled in length to give doctors more time to spot symptoms, players have been educated on the risks of ignoring those symptoms and all potential concussion victims are now assessed after the game and again 36 hours later.
American neurologist Cantu, who is the National Football League's senior advisor on head, neck and spine injuries, as well as advising a number of individual basketball, ice hockey and NFL teams, said he was "personally disappointed" at the speed at which football was getting to grips with the issue.
An authority on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), the degenerative brain disease that was once referred to as "punch drunk" syndrome, Cantu believes football will be forced to act if the recent class-action lawsuit launched by a group of young American players and their parents in California gathers momentum.
According to Cantu and Stewart, further impetus for change should come from the campaign led by Jeff Astle's family for more research into CTE and footballers. The former England and West Bromwich Albion forward died of CTE in 2002, aged just 59.


The Conservatives have pledged to take Wales on a "new path", as they launched their assembly election campaign.

Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said Wales needed "real change" after "17 years of Labour failure".
The Tories have already promised not to cut NHS spending, to cap the cost of elderly care and to increase the amount of free childcare for working parents.
Currently the largest opposition party in Cardiff Bay, the Conservatives have 14 of the 60 seats in the Senedd.
At the 2015 general election, the party took seats such as Gower and the Vale of Clwyd from Labour and Brecon and Radnorshire from the Liberal Democrats.
"From protecting the NHS budget, to creating more jobs by backing small businesses and improving infrastructure and delivering excellence in education, we stand ready to take Wales on a new path," Mr Davies said.
"Our pledges to put a weekly cap on costs and protect Â£100,000 of assets for those in residential care and our commitment to treble free childcare further demonstrate how Welsh Conservatives are ready to secure real change and deliver opportunities for all people in Wales.
"Welsh voters have a clear choice between the same old ideas that simply aren't working with Jeremy Corbyn's Labour or changing to a better future with the Welsh Conservatives."
With Labour holding exactly half the seats in the Senedd, only one seat needs to change hands at May's election for the balance of power to shift to the other parties, Mr Davies added.


In the atmosphere, the seas and around the poles, climate change is reaching disturbing new levels across the Earth.

That's according to a detailed global analysis from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
It says that 2016 was not only the warmest year on record, but it saw atmospheric CO2 rise to a new high, while Arctic sea ice recorded a new winter low.
The "extreme and unusual" conditions have continued in 2017, it says.
Reports earlier this year from major scientific bodies - including the UK's Met Office, Nasa and NOAA - indicated that 2016 was the warmest year on record.
The WMO's State of the Global Climate 2016 report builds on this research with information from 80 national weather services to provide a deeper and more complete picture of the year's climate data.
Compared with the 1961-1990 reference period, 2016 was 0.83 degrees C warmer than the average. It was around 1.1C above the pre-industrial period, and at 0.06C just a fraction warmer than the previous warmest year record in 2015.
"This increase in global temperature is consistent with other changes occurring in the climate system," said WMO Secretary-General, Petteri Taalas.
"Globally averaged sea-surface temperatures were also the warmest on record, global sea-levels continued to rise, and Arctic sea-ice extent was well below average for most of the year," he said.
Not all the world warmed at equal speed in 2016.
In the Arctic, temperatures were about 3 degrees C above the 1961-1990 average.  In Svalbard, the Norwegian island high in the Arctic circle, the yearly average was 6.5 degrees above the long-term mark.
The report says that temperatures in 2016 were "substantially influenced" by the El Niño weather phenomenon, contributing 0.1 to 0.2 degrees on top of the longer-term warming driven by emissions of CO2.
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However, El Niño also had an influence on the levels of the gas in the atmosphere.
"The CO2 rise in 2016 was the fastest on record - 3.4ppm (parts per million) per year - because the El Niño weakened the tropical carbon sink and gave the ongoing CO2 rise an extra kick on top of the effect of human emissions," said Prof Richard Betts from the Met Office Hadley Centre.
"As a result, 2016 became the first year in which CO2 measurements at Mauna Loa remained above 400ppm all year round."
The report states that extreme weather events in 2016 included severe droughts in southern and eastern Africa, and in Central America. Hurricane Matthew in the North Atlantic was one of the most damaging weather-related disasters, leaving hundreds of dead and swathes of destruction across Haiti.
The WMO says that the "extreme and unusual" climate and weather trends have continued into 2017. At least three times this winter, the Arctic experienced the equivalent of a heatwave, as powerful Atlantic storms drove warm, moist air into the region.
Changes in the Arctic and the melting of sea-ice are also leading to a shift in atmospheric circulation patterns impacting other parts of the world. This is causing unusual heat in some areas - In the US, over 11,000 warm temperature records were broken in early 2017.
"Even without a strong El Niño in 2017, we are seeing other remarkable changes across the planet that are challenging the limits of our understanding of the climate system. We are now in truly uncharted territory," said David Carlson, World Climate Research Programme Director at the WMO.
In the face of all this information, climate researchers around the world are irked by the attitude of the Trump government in Washington.
The new administration has rolled back some of the global warming measures taken by President Obama, while the newly appointed head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, denied that CO2 was a primary contributor to warming.
"The WMO's statement on the 2016 climate leaves no room for doubt.  The much-hyped warming hiatus is over - and the 'missing' heat energy didn't go missing at all.  Instead, that heat went into the ocean, and we got much of it back again last year," said Dr Phil Williamson, from the University of East Anglia.
"Human-driven climate change is now an empirically verifiable fact, combining year-to-year variability with the consequences of our release of extra greenhouse gases.  Those who dispute that link are not sceptics, but anti-science deniers."
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The US dentist who sparked an international outcry after killing a lion in Zimbabwe will not be prosecuted because he had obtained the legal authority to hunt, officials say.

Walter Palmer admitted to killing Cecil the lion in July but has always denied that he acted illegally.
Zimbabwe's Environment Minister Oppah Muchinguri said he could not be charged as all his "papers were in order".
Mrs Muchinguri said Zimbabwe would now review how it issues hunting licences.
The environment minister had previously called for Mr Palmer to be extradited and face prosecution. However, it appears that Mr Palmer broke no laws when he killed the lion using a bow and arrow.
"We approached the police and then the Prosecutor General, and it turned out that [Walter] Palmer came to Zimbabwe because all the papers were in order," Mrs Muchinguru said.
Meanwhile the trial against Mr Palmer's Zimbabwean guide, Theo Bronkhurst, is due to continue on Thursday.
Mr Bronkhurst denies the charge of "failing to prevent an illegal hunt".
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After his name was revealed by the press, Mr Palmer's dentistry practice and home were targeted by protesters. He has now returned to work after a two-month break.
The 55-year-old is believed to have paid $50,000 (Â£32,000) to hunt the lion in Zimbabwe's largest game reserve.
Speaking publicly for the first time about the incident last month, he told the Associated Press and Minneapolis Star Tribune that if he had known who the animal was he would not have killed it.
"If I had known this lion had a name and was important to the country or a study obviously I wouldn't have taken it," Mr Palmer said. "Nobody in our hunting party knew before or after the name of this lion."
Mr Palmer also revealed that his wife and daughter had faced intimidation.
"They've been threatened in the social media, and againâ€¦ I don't understand that level of humanity to come after people not involved at all," he said.
An avid hunter who had previously visited Zimbabwe four times, Mr Palmer did not rule out returning to the country,
"I don't know about the future," he said.
"Zimbabwe has been a wonderful country for me to hunt in, and I have always followed the laws."


Britain's Jade Jones and Bianca Walkden won gold medals at the World Grand Prix Final in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Olympic champion Jones beat Egypt's Hedaya Malak 7-0 in the final of the -57kg category just days after the Welsh fighter said she was open to a future switch to mixed martial arts.
Rio bronze medallist Walkden beat Zheng Shuyin of China for the +67kg title.
"It's extra special when we both win titles because we push each other so hard," said Jones.
The pair live together, and Jones said they would "celebrate" after their joint success.
"After winning the Olympics I felt so much more relaxed coming into this tournament," said Jones, who also won gold at London 2012.
"People don't realise how hard it is to come back from an Olympics and fight again. It can be an anti-climax so I'm really pleased to get gold because I couldn't do that after London."
Earlier, Briton Rachelle Booth was beaten by South Korea's Lee Ah-reum in the -62kg bronze-medal match.


The minister for agriculture says there is no engineering solution to flooding in County Fermanagh.

At least 20 roads in the county have been closed in the wake of Storm Desmond at the weekend.
Michelle O'Neill said the problem is one that the local community "will have to deal with time and time again".
Further flooding is possible as heavy rain continues to raise water levels at Upper Lough Erne, the Rivers Agency has warned.
The minister rebutted criticism that it has taken her five days to visit the county and review the damage.
"I think people would prefer to see that the work is done rather than me coming down to get my picture taken," she said.
"For me, the priority has been to ensure that my agencies played their role and the Rivers Agency have done tremendous work on the ground.
"After any big flooding incident, you have a review of the situation and I'm sure that Transport NI will have a look at what has failed in the last week and what can be done in the future.
"One of the things the task force in 2009 highlighted was that there isn't an engineering solution to the problem in the lough.
"It's going to be a long-running problem. It's going to be here forever and a day, so what we need to do is make sure we tackle the issues when we can with things like raising roads and pumping stations."
Mrs O'Neill said she could understand the frustration of the local community.
"They have a right to be frustrated - I would be frustrated if I faced the challenges that some of the people in rural Fermanagh face.
"But to put it in context, over 110mm of water fell in one day in Fermanagh. That's the monthly average in one day. So that shows why there are significant problems this week.
She commended staff who had been "working around the clock" to ensure roads could be opened so that the community had access to vital services.
"I think everybody understands the nature of the lough and the problems it poses for the people of Fermanagh," she said.
"But I think what's important is that all the agencies work together and that has very much been evident this week."


The number of civilian deaths and injuries in Afghanistan rose by 22% in 2014, the United Nations says.

A total of 3,699 Afghans killed and 6,849 injured made 2014 the deadliest year since the UN began keeping records in 2009.
For the first time more people were killed in battles between the Taliban and government forces than by roadside bombs, the figures show.
Foreign troops formally ended their combat role last December.
Fighting between government forces and the Taliban accounted for just over a third of civilian casualties, while roadside bombs were responsible for 28% of civilian deaths and injuries, UN Special Representative Nicholas Haysom said, presenting the latest figures in Kabul.
Intensified ground fighting is also reflected in the latest figures published by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
In 2014, the Red Cross transported 37% more wounded combatants from the battlefield to health centres, while it more than doubled its recovery of bodies.
Suicide attacks accounted for 15% and assassinations by the Taliban for 11% of civilian casualties, according to the UN figures.
In December alone, the UN recorded over 500 civilian deaths as the Taliban, who were ousted from by a US-led coalition in 2001, launched a wave of attacks as foreign troops pulled out.
The Taliban have in the past denied that they are responsible for the majority of civilian casualties, describing the UN as biased.
The UN figures also show the highest recorded losses for the Afghan army and police with nearly 5,000 killed in 2014.
An increase in civilian casualties due to intensified ground fighting between government forces and the Taliban was first flagged up when the UN published its figures for the first half of 2014 in July.
Since it began recording civilian casualties in 2009, the UN has recorded almost 18,000 deaths and almost 30,000 injuries.


Two men have been arrested in connection with historical abuse allegations at a school in Essex.

The men, aged 65 and 79, were held amid reports of child abuse at Elmbridge Boarding School in Ongar in the 1980s and 1990s.
A civil compensation case is under way after 30 people came forward to say they were abused at the school in Ongar and Oxley Park school in Colchester.
The arrested men have been bailed pending further inquiries.
Essex Police said officers would be speaking to the solicitors involved in the civil compensation case, to see if they have any information which could assist them.
The alleged abuse at the two independent schools, which have since closed, is said to have have taken place between 1974 and 1998.
Solicitor Katherine Yates, of Andrew Grove Solicitors, said the civil legal action would be taken against the organisations which ran or owned the schools.
"The claim is for compensation," she said. "However, I do have some clients who are not interested in the money. They see it as "blood money" and they just want their abuse acknowledged - finally - so that they can move on in their lives."
Two statements from some of the 36 alleged victims have been shown to the BBC.
The first described being abused by two teachers at Oxley Parker and, on one occasion, raped.
"The pain was agonising," the alleged victim said. "There was no one I could tell. I had no family or friends nearby to turn to."
The second described a teacher who supplied boys with drink and let them watch pornography.
"I was in his bedroom one day because he said I should go and lie down," the alleged victim said. "He came and sat down on the end of the bed and started stroking my legs. I was terrified."
Essex Police said allegations into abuse at Oxley Parker school had previously been investigated and a former teacher was convicted of sexual abuse and jailed for 10 years in the mid 1990s
The force said there was currently no active police investigation into the school.


The house in the Netherlands in which exotic dancer and WWI spy Mata Hari was born has been destroyed in a fire.

One person was killed by the fire on Saturday evening as it engulfed several buildings in Leeuwarden, about 140km (87 miles) north of Amsterdam.
Local media said the victim was thought to be a 24-year-old man who had lived in a flat in the buildings.
Mata Hari was born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle in August 1876, to a shopkeeper and a Javanese mother.
In the early 1900s she left her husband and travelled to Paris where she found fame as an exotic dancer. Her work brought her into contact with many high society society figures.
But she was arrested by France during WWI, accused of being a spy for Germany.
She was executed by firing squad in 1917 after a short trial, though her guilt has long been disputed.
Several films have been made about Mata Hari's life, most famously in 1931 where she was played by Greta Garbo.
NOS TV said dozens of people had had to abandon their homes in the town centre building because of the fire, which started in one of the shops.
Fifteen homes and businesses were affected, said the channel, five of which were totally destroyed.


Negotiations between Argentina and its creditors should be resumed urgently, US judge Thomas Griesa has said.

Investors holding Argentine bonds and lawyers for the government attended a hearing in New York for the first time since Argentina defied an order to pay.
"Nothing that has happened this week has removed the necessity of working out a settlement," the judge said.
The bond-holders, which Argentina calls "vulture funds," are demanding a full payout of $1.3bn (Â£766m).
The bonds were bought by hedge funds NML and Aurelius Capital Management for a fraction of their face value in the aftermath of Argentina's economic collapse in 2001.
The South American nation defaulted on its debts at the time.
It has since renegotiated its debts with 92% of the creditors who agreed to settle for one-third of they were originally owed.
However, the hedge funds bought up a large chunk of the remaining distressed debt at low prices, and demand to be paid the full face value of their holding.
On Wednesday Argentina refused to pay.
The government had expected their dispute to go all the way to the US Supreme Court, which would have bought the country more time.
In June, the Supreme Court declined to hear Argentina's appeal against the decision of a lower court that made it liable for the money.
Mr Griesa ordered Argentina to pay the hedge funds and blocked any payments to other creditors.
"The only sensible way" to solve the crisis, Mr Griesa said, "is to go forward on the path that has been started".
Argentina has accused Mr Griesa and the court-appointed mediator, Daniel Pollack, of being biased in favour of the funds.
Argentina denies it is in default. It says it has the money to pay the vast majority of its creditors and has not done so only due to the court's ruling.
"To say we are in default is a huge stupidity," said Economy Minister Axel Kicillof on Thursday.
"Judge Griesa took the side of the vulture funds throughout the negotiations. As I mentioned before, the negotiating table was tilted towards them," he told journalists.
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner addressed the nation on Thursday night to defend its decision not to sign an agreement that would harm her country's interests.
She later addressed supporters at the presidential palace, the Casa Rosada.
"It would have been easier for me to sign it, but I wouldn't be able to sleep and I wouldn't like to go down in history like that," said Ms Fernandez.
She is in the final year of her second term in office and is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term.
Mr Griesa urged Argentina to focus on a solution for the problem.
"Let's cool down with ideas of mistrust. What can be trusted are facts. What can be trusted are proposals. This is not a personality contest," he said.
Argentina fears that a deal with the investment funds would have an impact on the deals signed between 2005 and 2010.
The bond-holders who agreed to settle for a third of what they were owed might be entitled to be paid in full.
In that case Argentina would not be able to honour its commitments.


Johnston Press has announced plans to cut a "significant" number of journalists from its Scottish weekly titles, following a strategic review.

The publisher said it was changing its editorial structure to address challenges faced by the print industry.
It cited audiences migrating to digital platforms and "industry giants" like Google and Facebook changing the way people read their news.
Johnston Press did not say how many jobs could be lost.
But the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) said 25 posts were under threat at 24 out of 28 Scottish weekly titles.
In a statement, the Edinburgh-based publisher said: "The pace of change in the media industry is showing no signs of abating, as we continue to face the challenges posed by our audiences migrating to digital platforms, and industry giants like Google and Facebook changing the way people read their news.
"We have seen over the past year at least, a number of newspapers closing or being put up for sale as publishers struggle to confront the challenges."
It added: "This restructure is designed to ensure our news brands are able to continue to serve their communities - as their only source of trusted local news.
"However, it does mean that there will be a significant reduction in the number of editorial roles.
"We are working closely with the NUJ in Scotland, and will continue to do so, in order to ensure we can achieve the best outcome for affected staff within the new structure."
NUJ Scottish organiser Paul Holleran said: "Members were shocked at the scale of proposed job losses and are now aware of the long-term precarious position of 24 Johnston Press Scottish titles.
"So far the management team have worked closely with the union in providing relevant information, maximising consultation and responding positively to initial negotiations.
"We have been told that their plans will put these titles into profitability.
"From our point of view we want to save all the titles, protect the journalists who will continue to work on these papers and get the best possible deal for those members who choose to leave the business.
"They have agreed a sensible timeframe for consultation and negotiation and I am hopeful agreement can be reached as soon as is practicable."
According to the NUJ, the four titles which are not facing job cuts are the Falkirk Herald, Fife Free Press, Southern Reporter and Stornoway Gazette. The union added that they had been identified as "prime" titles which would be given extra support to target potential growth.


Ben Affleck has won the top film honour from the Directors Guild of America for his Iran hostage drama, Argo.

The win would normally be an indicator of Oscar success as the Directors Guild recipient nearly always goes on to claim the same prize at Hollywood's biggest night.
But Affleck missed out on an Oscar directing nomination.
"I don't think that this makes me a real director, but I think it means I'm on my way," said Affleck of the win.
In Argo, set amidst the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, Affleck also plays the lead role of a CIA agent entrusted with extracting six Americans from the country after the US embassy was stormed.
While Affleck was overlooked by the Academy for his directing role, the film has dominated other awards since the Oscar nominations, winning best director and best film at the Golden Globes and at the Critics Choice Awards.
Last weekend, Argo was victorious at both the Producers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild awards, leaving Steven Spielberg's Civil War-era epic Lincoln in its wake.
Many of the film professionals who vote in guild awards also cast ballots for the Oscars, so recognition from the DGA further seals Argo's status as best-picture front-runner at the Oscars on 24 February.
Only six times in the DGA's history has the winner failed to take the Oscar for best director.
This will be the seventh, as Affleck missed out on an Academy nomination, along with several other key favourites, including fellow Directors Guild contenders Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty and Tom Hooper for Les Miserables.
Backstage at the DGA ceremony on Saturday, Affleck said he had nothing but respect for the Academy, adding that "you're not entitled to anything."
"I'm thrilled and honoured that the Academy nominated me as a producer of the movie," he said.
"I know our movie, we're a little bit underdog and a little bit the little engine that could, and you take me out of it maybe helps ... it's just about that picture. I feel like it's OK, I'm really lucky, I'm in a good place."
Among the other DGA winners were Searching for Sugar Man director Malik Bendjelloul, who won the guild's documentary award for his study of the obscure singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriquez.
The film also is nominated for best documentary at the Oscars.
Lena Dunham won the TV comedy directing prize for Girls, about the lives of a group of girls in their 20s, while Rian Johnson won in the drama series series category for Breaking Bad.
Milos Forman, who directed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, was honoured with a lifetime-achievement award.
The 65th Annual DGA Awards, hosted by Kelsey Grammer, were held at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles.


A Craigavon man has been jailed after he admitted making 16 hoax bomb calls on seven separate occasions.

Keiron Lavery, 20, from Meadowbrook in the Tullygally area, made the calls between May 2013 and January this year.
He also admitted two counts of placing an article with intent to cause a bomb hoax in the Craigavon areas.
He was sentenced to 34 months, half of which will be served in prison and half on supervised licence upon his release.
Belfast Crown Court was told Lavery had asked to be moved from Hydebank Young Offenders Centre to the dissident republican wing of Maghaberry Prison after he was attacked in his cell by three inmates.
Passing sentence, a judge said the cost of policing Lavery's offending amounted to almost Â£30,000.
He said due to the threat posed to police officers by dissident republicans, he could not dismiss the hoax calls as "pranks", especially given Lavery's interests in dissident republican activity.
However, he told Lavery: "It is clear you are a suggestible person and you may not have had the ability to resist suggestions made to you by other more sinister elements."


The summer transfer window has closed in England and Scotland, but clubs can sign free agents, so long as they were without a club at the transfer deadline.

Signings confirmed in May,June,July and August can be found on the relevant pages, while you can see who each club has released on our dedicated page.
For all the latest rumours check out the gossip page and, for all the manager ins and outs, see our list of current bosses.
Junior Morias [St Albans - Peterborough] Undisclosed*
Oscar [Chelsea - Shanghai SIPG] About £60m*
*Deals to go through once January transfer window opens
Jermaine Grandison [Unattached - Colchester]
Dan Sweeney [Maidstone - Barnet] Undisclosed*
*Deal to go through on 1 January
Zavon Hines [Unattached - Southend]
Lukas Jutkiewicz [Burnley - Birmingham] £1m*
*Deal to go through on 3 January
Andy Boyle [Dundalk - Preston] Free*
Daryl Horgan [Dundalk - Preston] Free*
*Deals will go through on 1 January.
Rhys Sharpe [Unattached - Swindon]
Alexander McQueen [Unattached - Carlisle]
Kevin Wright [Unattached - Carlisle]
Abdoulaye Meite [Unattached - Newport]
Tom Barkhuizen [Morecambe - Preston] Compensation*
*Deals will go through on 1 January.
Jack Jebb [Unattached - Newport]
Josh O'Hanlon [Unattached - Newport]
Godswill Ekpolo [Unattached - Fleetwood]
Michael Collins [Unattached - Leyton Orient]
Jamal Lowe [Hampton & Richmond - Portsmouth] Undisclosed*
*Deal will go through in January.
Peter Odemwingie [Unattached - Rotherham]
Ryan Taylor [Unattached - Port Vale]
Derek Asamoah [Unattached - Carlisle]
Ishmael Miller [Unattached - Bury]
Kieran Richardson [Unattached - Cardiff]
Sol Bamba [Unattached - Cardiff]
Marouane Chamakh [Unattached - Cardiff]
Junior Hoilett [Unattached - Cardiff]
Alex Cooper [Unattached - Cheltenham]
Lloyd Doyley [Unattached - Colchester]
Chris Herd [Unattached - Gillingham]
Frank Nouble [Unattached - Gillingham]
Gary Taylor-Fletcher [Unattached - Accrington]
Marc-Antoine Fortune [Unattached - Southend]
Stephane Sessegnon [Unattached - Montpellier]
Reece Brown [Unattached - Sheffield United]
Omari Patrick [Unattached - Barnsley]
Wes Brown [Unattached - Blackburn]
Jens Janse [Unattached - Leyton Orient]
Zan Benedicic [Unattached - Leyton Orient]
Oscar Gobern [Unattached - Mansfield]
Thorsten Stuckmann [Unattached - Partick Thistle]
Lee Lucas [Unattached - Motherwell]
Reuben Reid [Unattached - Exeter]
Dean Cox [Unattached - Crawley] Free*
*Cannot play for Crawley until 2 January 2017
Nathan Tyson [Unattached - Kilmarnock]
Mathieu Flamini [Unattached - Crystal Palace]
Nicklas Bendtner [Unattached - Nottingham Forest]
Mika [Boavista - Sunderland] Undisclosed
Joel Ekstrand [Unattached - Bristol City]
Urby Emanuelson [Unattached - Sheffield Wednesday]
Dexter Blackstock [Unattached - Rotherham]
Victor Anichebe [Unattached - Sunderland]
Brian Murphy [Unattached - Cardiff]
Chris Robertson [Unattached - AFC Wimbledon]
The page covers signings by Premier League, Championship and Scottish Premiership clubs, along with selected deals from overseas and the Scottish Championship.


A Hollywood A-lister has agreed to become the honorary president of a small Anglesey football club.

Naomi Watts said she was "very excited" to take on the role for Glantraeth FC, based in Malltraeth, which has a population of 400 people.
The English-born star of Mulholland Drive and King Kong spent time as a child on her grandparents' farm nearby.
Glantraeth FC play in the third tier Welsh Alliance football league division one and get crowds of 40 people.
After former president Sir George Meyrick stood down last August, secretary Stan Strickland suggested Ms Watts as a replacement.
He sent a letter to her agent who is based on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, and received a positive response on Monday night.
Mr Strickland said: "She spent three years of her childhood here and attended school in Llangefni before becoming a major film star.
"I just thought 'if you don't ask, you don't get'.
"She has now got her publicist involved, so we could end up in the New York Times."
Mr Strickland is expecting further correspondence with Ms Watts about her involvement over the coming days, but said her name will appear on the website, letterheads and match day programmes, while she will be provided with annual performance updates.


Labour has topped the list of general election campaign donations for the second week in a row, with more than £1m given to the party.

The total sum is more than double Labour's nearest rival, the Conservatives.
The Tories received £492,512 in 17 individual contributions.
In total, almost £1.7m in donations to four registered political parties were reported to the Electoral Commission between 6 April and 12 April.
All parties standing candidates at the election are required by law to report any donations or loans over £7,500.
The Labour total came from seven cash donations, with trade union Unison being Labour's biggest donor with £311,875.
In all, the party received £1,109,946.
The Liberal Democrats received a total of £50,000, made up of three donations; while UKIP received a total of £8,000 in the second week of the election period.
UKIP was also late to report £63,000-worth of donations and the Electoral Commission says it is in correspondence with the party to establish why this happened.
During the second week of the 2010 election campaign the Conservatives had received donations worth £2,221,341, while Labour had been given £1,490,000.
The Lib Dems received £120,000 in the same period and the SNP total was £10,000.


A congressman who threatened to throw a reporter off a balcony after President Barack Obama's State of the Union address has apologised for his actions.

New York Representative Michael Grimm said he would "break" a cable news journalist who brought up an investigation into his campaign funds.
Mr Grimm said his behaviour toward NY1's Michael Scotto was "wrong".
"I shouldn't have allowed my emotions to get the better of me and lose my cool," he said.
After cutting Tuesday night's interview short, the congressman told Scotto: "You ever do that to me again I'll throw you off this [expletive] balcony."
When Scotto said he had a valid question, Mr Grimm replied: "No, no, you're not man enough, you're not man enough. I'll break you in half. Like a boy."
NY1 political director Bob Hardt had demanded an apology from the politician.
The Staten Island Republican initially said he was "extremely annoyed" with Scotto and doubted he was the "first member of Congress to tell off a reporter".
Later on Wednesday, Mr Grimm said in a statement that his apology to Scotto had been "graciously accepted".
The FBI earlier this month charged an associate of the congressman with bypassing federal campaign laws to funnel contributions to his political committee.


The coach of Slovenia's league leaders has been banned for the final seven games of the season for racially abusing one of his own players.

Olimpija Ljubljana boss Marko Nikolic has been widely reported as calling Blessing Eleke a "black idiot" after he felt the Nigerian, 20, spent too long celebrating an equaliser.
The club initially refused to suspend the Serb, but the Slovenian FA intervened "because of clear racism".
Olimpija are two points clear.
The game against Zavrc ended 1-1 thanks to Eleke's first home goal for Olimpija following his January move from league rivals Gorica.
Nikolic said he made "an emotional reaction" as Eleke's celebration meant there was less time for a winner against and "never intended to offend the player racially".
He added: "I spoke to Eleke and he said he understood my reaction because emotional outbursts of this kind can happen.
"I apologise for my reaction generated solely by the rush to score the winning goal after getting a 92nd-minute equaliser and I thank the team for not judging my act as racist."
Olimpija president Milan Mandaric, the former Leicester and Portsmouth owner, had defended Nikolic, saying: "We have come to the conclusion that the coach did not target the player's race."


The National Trust has revealed a plan to generate half of its power from renewable sources by 2020.

The trust already has 150 individual renewables schemes, but the new document projects how fossil fuel will be reduced across its properties.
It aspires to set an example to others by integrating renewable energy into sensitive landscapes.
The organisation has been criticised for its chairman's vociferous campaign against wind power.
This is considered as the renewable source with most potential in the UK.
Under its new plan, the trust's main renewables by 2020 will be hydro (27%) and biomass (21%); augmented by heat pumps (1%) and solar (0.5%).
Grid electricity will supply 26% of its power, gas 15% and LPG 6%. Oil - currently a major cost and carbon source for the trust's rural properties - will be reduced to just 3%.
There are also plans to cut energy consumption by 20%. Wind power will play no part, because the trust's historic landscapes are deemed too sensitive.
Patrick Begg, rural enterprise director for the trust, which aims to preserve historic buildings and land for the enjoyment of the public, told BBC News: "We've put all our effort to make the big leap in generating renewable energy from all our properties. Our new programme will get us to (50% of energy) by 2020."
The subsidised renewables will save the organisation money, he said, producing an expected return on capital of 10% - much better than traditional investments.
Morden Hall Park, in south-west London, already boasts an array of renewables, including a wood-fired boiler, different sorts of solar panels and what is claimed to be the UK's most energy-efficient historic building, the Stable Yard.
The new showpiece, behind the old water wheel and Snuff Mill, is an Archimedes screw reclining in the River Wandle, lazily generating power for the visitor centre (the Archimedes screw was originally designed as an irrigation pump. Its modern adaptation allows power to be generated from a low head of water).
The biggest unexpected bonus to the trust overall has come from biomass burning for heating. The organisation owns 25,000 hectares of woodland and Mr Begg acknowledged initial fears that wildlife would be harmed if the woods were managed more intensively for fuel.
"We were very pleased to see that the opposite has been the case," he said. "Managing woods more intensively, including coppicing, has actually increased biodiversity."
The trust's efforts overall have been applauded - but with reservations. It is a major land-holder, but if all the improvements go to plan will still be generating the tiniest fraction of the UK's renewable energy.
What is more, its chairman Simon Jenkins has used his influential newspaper columns to fuel opposition to wind energy, which is the most readily available large-scale renewable energy source in the UK.
This has been highly controversial with some environmentalists accusing him of setting back the cause of renewable energy in a desire to preserve the landscape in aspic.
Mr Begg said: "Simon has some very strong opinions about wind, which he's free to express. The Trust has been perfectly clear - we're not anti-wind, we're anti-wind in the wrong place, badly designed."
He said the Trust, an organisation loved by Britain's middle classes, had no misgivings about receiving electricity subsidies from poor people struggling to pay their bills. The subsidy system, he said, was designed to tackle climate change and the Trust wished to play its part.
The majority of the trust's estate was free to enter, he said There were no plans to open the other properties free of charge to people in fuel poverty.
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Caithness' civic leader Gail Ross has called for increased ambulance cover for the Far North.

Two vehicles are available to Wick and Thurso and surrounding communities.
But the ambulances and the crews have been involved in taking pregnant women to hospital in Inverness following a baby's death earlier this year.
The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) said the situation had put "additional pressure" on the division, but it was handling it.
SNP councillor Ms Ross told BBC Alba she hoped the service would "beef up" its ambulance provision in the Far North.
SAS said making transfers of expectant mothers from Caithness General in Wick to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness had put "a little bit of pressure on to the division".
A spokesman added that it was not a busy area for call outs and ambulances were brought in from other areas if necessary.
In October, NHS Highland said the baby's death in Caithness earlier this year was "potentially avoidable" if there had been "more timely and immediate access" to advanced support in Inverness.
NHS Highland said an initial review of the incident had found no failings in the care provided by individual staff.
But it added that "a number of issues concerning the current arrangements and protocols for neonatal paediatric risk assessment and support" needed to be reviewed "to ensure the safety of both mothers and newborn babies in the future".
More women and their babies have since been transferred from the unit at Caithness General to Raigmore pre-birth, during labour, birth and in the post-natal period, the health board said.


Probably not, it doesn't exist, but that didn't stop Poland's foreign minister claiming to have had a productive meeting with its officials this week.
Witold Waszczykowski told reporters he met with various nations for Poland's bid to join the UN security council, "such as Belize or San Escobar".
Mr Waszczykowski has been roundly mocked on Twitter, the one place San Escobar does now exist, flag and all.
He said that he had had meetings with officials from nearly 20 countries, including some Caribbean nations "for the first time in the history of our diplomacy. For example with countries such as Belize or San Escobar".
He put the slip down to tiredness. "Unfortunately after 22 hours in planes and several connecting flights you can make a slip of the tongue," he said.
He said he had in mind Saint Kitts and Nevis, a two-island Caribbean country known in Spanish as San Cristobal y Nieves.
Twitter users responded in customary style, creating an official account and a flag for the island nation.
One tweet said that San Escobar "fully supports Poland's candidacy to the Security Council".
Another designed some currency, but added: "It's funny until you realise your only allies left are Belarus, Hungary and an imaginary nation state."


Somerset captain Chris Rogers says he has "no regrets" about his declaration against Middlesex on Wednesday, despite losing the match by two wickets.

Set 302 to win from 46 overs at Taunton, Middlesex completed a dramatic run chase with two balls remaining.
"If we were serious about winning the title, we want to win games. You can't just keep playing for draws and expect to be up there," he told BBC Somerset.
"We are here to provide entertainment. We came up short but gave everything."
Defeat left Somerset sixth in the County Championship Division One table with 96 points, 45 behind league leaders Middlesex.
Centuries from Marcus Trescothick and Peter Trego had given Somerset a healthy lead in their second innings, having trailed by 145 runs after both sides had completed their first innings.
Somerset took eight wickets as Middlesex chased their target on Wednesday, but a six from wicketkeeper John Simpson in the final over won the match.
"Hindsight is a wonderful thing," former Australia Test opener Rogers added. "We're here to play a game, play to win.
"How are the young guys here, who have a lot of potential and can go quite far, going to learn if they don't put themselves in those situations?
"It would have been lovely to win it. But we played a good brand of cricket. No regrets. We tried our hardest out there and we weren't far off."


The mighty Cassini probe has made many great discoveries at Saturn, but none top its extraordinary revelations at Enceladus.

What the plutonium-powered satellite has seen at this 500km-wide, ice-crusted moon is simply astounding.
Cassini has pictured huge jets of water vapour and other materials spewing from cracks at its south pole.
It's quite a spectacle, and it's unique in the Solar System, according to Carolyn Porco, who runs the camera system on the big spacecraft.
"It became a joke on our team that we had found the Enceladus Interplanetary Geyser Park, and that future generations may go there just for vacation," she tells me in a Discovery programme all about Enceladus which goes out on the BBC World Service on Monday.
But researchers are not laughing when they say this little world is among the best places to search for life beyond Earth.
The plumbing for the jets leads to a vast body of water that may be 30-40km deep in places. And Cassini's instruments have been able to show, by flying through and sampling the emissions, that the conditions and - importantly - the chemistry in this subterranean ocean could support microbial life.
There are strong indications that the water is interacting with rock at the ocean bed, to produce the sort of nutrient cocktail on which simple bugs could dine.
Chris McKay is an astrobiologist with Nasa: "I've been interested in the search for life in the Solar System for decades and I'm still flabbergasted by what we're seeing on Enceladus. It's such a small world so far from Earth, putting out such a wealth of organics and water and indications of habitability - it's astounding, and the samples are right there, free for the taking."
But as capable as Cassini is, its 1980s/90s technology cannot definitely prove the case for microbes under the icy surface of Enceladus.
For that we'd need a different kind of satellite with specialised sensors.
Cassini will make one final close flyby of the moon next week to acquire a last batch of detailed surface pictures.
It will then move across the Saturnian system to prepare for some end-of-mission observations of the ringed planet itself.
So, we're about to bid farewell to Enceladus, and of course that's prompted people to start talking up how we might return one day with far more capable instrumentation.
Jonathan Lunine is an interdisciplinary scientist on the Cassini mission at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He has a concept for a future spacecraft he calls the Enceladus Life Finder (ELF).
This would be a smaller probe than the goliath currently orbiting Saturn, but what it would give up in size (and cost) it would more than compensate for with sophistication.
Its instruments would be dedicated to the very specific job of analysing the contents of the jets for any chemistry associated with biology.
"With very powerful mass spectrometers, we would be able to detect amino acids and identify them," he says.
"We would be able to detect fatty acids found in the membranes of bacterial cells; and their cousins, the so-called isoprenoids, which are in the membranes of the cells of archaea, those microbes that exist in extreme environments on the Earth.
"We'd also be able to count their carbon numbers to see if they've got the pattern of life.  And then finally we'd be able to measure the isotopes for all the carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, to see whether the chemistry is like that which occurs on Earth, where organisms prefer the lighter isotopes as they process this material through their systems."
The ELF concept was submitted to a recent Nasa competition to find a future planetary mission, but was not selected. One of the issues for any kind of venture like this is the availability of energy so far from the Sun (the distance to the Saturnian system is 1.4 billion km).
Cassini relies on its "nuclear battery" for all its electrical needs.  Such power units are expensive and currently in very short supply.
One could go with solar panels but it would be challenging: the strength of the sunlight near Enceladus is about a hundredth of what it is at Earth.
Nonetheless, the case to go back to the bright white moon of Saturn is so compelling that a way will surely be found, because not only is Enceladus one of the best places to search for extra-terrestrial life - it is also the easiest. Unlike on Mars, or on Europa (Jupiter's bigger version of Enceladus), there is no requirement to land and drill to gather samples for analysis. At Enceladus, those samples are continually being pumped into space via the south polar jets.
Peter Tsou calls them "low-flying fruit" and he has a concept for bringing them back to Earth for even more detailed assessment in the world's best-equipped laboratories.
His Life Investigation For Enceladus (LIFE) mission would look a little like Nasa's Stardust endeavour, which returned particles in 2006 from the vicinity of a comet.
Tsou used an array of silicon dioxide foam, called aerogel, to snatch the samples as the Stardust probe flew through the ice object's gas and dust shroud.
"With Stardust, I flew aerogel in 2x4x3cm cubes. I had 132 of them. I discovered that, wow, even with one or two cubes, it was more than enough to go around," he recalls.
"So, no, we do not need a lot. However, the challenge is that because the samples are small and we're talking about life, any Earth contamination will ruin the samples, because then we'd find, 'Oh yeah! It's like my saliva!'. We'd have to be very meticulous to separate [the samples] from Earth contamination."
Tsou reckons a sample-return mission to Enceladus could take 14 years, from launch to having some moon material in an Earth lab.
"If we discover life on a place like Enceladus it's obviously going to be something simple like microbial life," observes Porco.
"Of course, if we discovered lobsters that would be fascinating; who knows? Maybe," she chortles. "But we're setting our sights on something simple; just evidence for microbial life.
"That would be a paradigm shift. What kind of life is out there? Is it like Earth life; is it not? Is it based on DNA; is it not? It would be a major discovery, probably the greatest scientific discovery we could make. We have to go back."
And Lunine's wider perspective is this: "This is a place that we can go [to] where, if we find the signs of life, we can be very, very sure it's life that had a second origin.
"But it will also allow us, I think, to turn attention to the galaxy beyond, and realise that if life can start twice, or three times or four times in our own Solar System - how many habitable planets in the galaxy must have life today?"
Enceladus: A second genesis of life? is broadcast on Monday 14 December, as part of "Space Week" on the BBC World Service.  The programme is presented by Jonathan Amos and produced by Andrew Luck-Baker.


France is still in shock after the deadly shootings in Paris which left 17 people dead.

But there has been another shocking death toll in recent days with reports of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people massacred by Boko Haram.
Even there the Paris deaths got more press than those in Nigeria, said media analyst Ethan Zuckerman.
He pointed out that Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan expressed sympathy to the French but said nothing about Baga.
Newsbeat looks at the numbers.
Muhammad Abba Gava, a spokesman for a defence group that fights Boko Haram, said they gave up on trying to count all the bodies.
"No-one could attend to the corpses and even the seriously injured ones who may have died by now," he said.
Nigeria has since said the number of people who lost their lives was no more than 150, with the defence ministry claiming it included "many of the terrorists" who had attacked the town.
Nigeria has been known to underestimate death tolls to downplay the threat of Boko Haram.
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The war in Syria has lasted for five years so far and claimed the lives of more than 300,000 people.

The fighting between the forces of President Bashar al-Assad and rebels has forced more than 11 million people from their homes.
Of these, about 2.7 million are now living in Turkey. Three of these people told us which of their personal possessions they grabbed before fleeing the violence.
They receive help from the charity International Medical Corps - which first spoke to them as part of their Things We Carry project, funded through humanitarian aid from the European Union.
Five-year-old Nizar and his family left their home near Homs two years ago, after it was blown up in an air raid.
"The bombers came and destroyed our house," he said. "They shot fire, and destroyed my toys. They didn't leave a single piece of them.
"When the plane was coming and bombing I was scared. But I was younger then."
However, when he and his family ran for their lives, Nizar managed to take along his beloved Spiderman outfit.
"I took the Spiderman costume and I put it in the bag, and I left. We all left."
Nizar says that he feels "strong" when he wears his outfit.
"My dad gave me the costume, so I could be a fighter and go fight [President Assad]."
Kawther Jahwani lived in a village in the Homs countryside. She fled her home in 2013, crossing into Turkey with a son and a daughter.
But another of her sons is missing, arrested by government soldiers who claimed he was fighting with the Al-Nusra Front, which is opposed to President Assad.
"I don't know where he is now. I left my home and came to Turkey," she said. "It's been so hard."
When Kawther packed a few things for her journey, she made sure she brought her coffee pots, because she "loves coffee a lot".
"My grandfather and uncles and husband loved it too. I took this coffee pot everywhere. If I went to a picnic, everywhere.
"It stays with me all the time."
Kawther was in her house, drinking coffee with about 20 people who were gathered there because she had a basement, when an air strike hit the area.
When she left soon afterwards, she made sure she packed up her coffee equipment securely, for the long journey ahead.
"I love coffee. Even if I died, I'd drink coffee. I like it more than food, more than anything. If it's morning or night, I'll still drink coffee."
Leila, 22, left her home in Kobani with her family two years ago. She has a passion for fashion and designed her own clothes.
When the family finally decided to flee the fighting in the city, Leila knew which of her possessions she should save.
"I have a lot of clothes and I was packing them all. But the moment we decided to leave, my father was calling us to the car quickly.
"So I took some of my fashion books. They came to my mind, that I had to save them, because all my ideas are there, which I've had since I was a kid.
"I had many books, around 20, full of fashion and designs. But I only took a few, and some of my clothes."
"The problem for me is that when I go back to designing, I go back to the past, because right now I'm not doing much design. I'm working now and helping my family, and can't focus more on my fashion designs, like I did before.
"When I hold my books I remember how I was painting clothes and designing, and it makes me feel like I go back in time to when I was making those designs.
"It makes me feel happy and sad at the same time."
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Scientists in Switzerland are developing a form of robot that resembles origami.

18 November 2015 Last updated at 08:33 GMT
They hope the design will make them cheaper and more versatile.
The robots are a combination of multiple, foldable joints and the aim is to help make a more flexible form of robot.
This means that unlike other robots, "robogamis" do not need to be built with a clear function in mind.
BBC Click's Vieri Capretta spoke to Jamie Paik, the Director of the Reconfigurable Robotics Laboratory in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Derry City's nine-match unbeaten run and 100% record at the Brandywell this season was ended in comprehensive fashion by Sligo Rovers.

Sligo missed a series of early chances before Raffaele Cretaro celebrated his 450th game for the club by heading them into the lead on 27 minutes.
Derry improved after the break as Barry McNamee and Ronan Curtis went close.
However, after John Russell hit the Derry woodwork Jimmy Keohane made the game safe with a 69th-minute goal.
With leaders Dundalk winning 2-0 at Bohemians, Derry are now five points off the pace and the Candystripes drop to third after Cork City edged a 1-0 home win over St Patrick's Athletic.
Derry could have few complaints about Friday's result.
The Candystripes went into the game as favourites after comfortably beating Sligo in the EA Sports Cup 10 days ago, but Dave Robertson's side were a completely different proposition in this contest.
Cretaro tormented the Derry defence - in particularl young central defender Patrick McClean - from the off and the Candystripes had plenty of warnings before the veteran did put the visitors ahead.
Liam Martin squandered an early Sligo chance as he fired straight at Gerard Doherty from close range before Mick Leahy headed wide.
Doherty denied Cretaro in the 24th minute but the striker made no mistake three minutes later as he nodded a Craig Roddan free-kick to the net.
Derry did improve in the third quarter but failed to make a couple of openings count as McNamee dragged a chance wide and Curtis then fired wide from a tight angle.
However, the clearer cut chances were still being created by Sligo as Martin hit the woodwork on 65 before Keohane's first goal for Sligo sealed the away win on 69.
Sligo's second win of the campaign moves them up to eighth in the table.


A man thought to be one of the first UK Muslims to have a same-sex marriage said his husband had been his "guardian angel" after years of bullying.

Jahed Choudhury, 24, said he met Sean Rogan in 2015 while crying on a bench in Darlaston, West Midlands, shortly after he had been treated in hospital following an overdose.
"It was outside Asda of all places," he said. "He came up to me and asked if I was OK. I thought he was my guardian angel.
"I had been crying privately to myself, although I was screaming inside."
The meeting followed many difficult years for Mr Choudhury, who said he had been ostracised by many in the Muslim community for being gay.
Mr Choudhury, who first told his story to the Express and Star, said he was also bullied at school, including on "his first day" there.
"I knew I was gay at about six or seven, but I was taught it was wrong so I just kept it hidden," he said.
He said at senior school bullying included name calling and having rubbish bins emptied on him.
"I did anything to try and change how I felt," he said. "I prayed, I read the Koran and went to pilgrimage."
He went abroad for several years, changed his circle of friends, took medication and had Muslim teachers pray for him.
"I thought it was wrong and was being told Satan had got to me," he said.
However, he said he could not escape his feelings and suffered mental health problems as a result.
Mr Choudhury, who has been helped by family members, especially his mother, "came out" in 2012 and said that led to the most difficult period in his life.
"But when I came out of hospital I had started to think 'enough is enough'," he said.
Meeting Mr Rogan, who is very positive and confident, helped Mr Choudhury accept his sexuality.
"Every time I feel down he says to me 'don't feel bad' and says a lot of people feel the same as me."
After their first chat, Mr Rogan "took me to the cinema to cheer me up," he said.
The couple were married at Walsall Register Office last month. This was followed by a party and honeymoon.
Mr Choudhury said he believed people could be both gay and Muslim.
"My religion will never change," he said. "God's in my heart".
"My mother tells me 'God made you like this - you have love for God'."
Mr Choudhury has been open about his sexuality on the internet and set up a YouTube channel where his "Coming Out Story" received more than 5,000 views.
He said people had been "mostly supportive", although he had received some death threats on social media.
However, he said he wanted to tell his story to help others in the same situation.
"I just want to help them and would be happy if I could stop one person going through what I went through," he said.


The family of a farmer missing for two months have said they have been "overwhelmed" by offers of help to bring in their harvest.

Andrew Green, 33, was last seen driving away from Yew Tree Farm in Chorley, Shropshire, on 22 June.
Since appealing for him to come home, his parents Edward and Julie, have received offers via social media to help harvest their remaining 60 acres.
The couple said they would gratefully accept, once the weather improves.
Mrs Green told BBC News: "I can't believe it. I've been reading them out to Edward. He is overwhelmed with the offers. I don't think he could believe it."
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Mr Green, 58, had recently been working from about 07:00 until 02:00 BST to harvest his farm that his son worked on and about 100 acres of land through contract harvesting.
The couple said they had received messages of help and support from locals as well as people from as far away as Australia.
Mr Green, who had been going through the breakdown of a relationship, was last seen by his partner after putting his two young daughters to bed.
His father said he saw him put a rope in his car earlier that day, but thought nothing of it at the time.
His vehicle was later found abandoned nearby with his phone and work keys inside.
"He's got no money, no passport," Mrs Green said.
"He's just got a rope and a photo of his children."
She said not knowing his whereabouts was terrible and the distraught couple were "trying to keep it together".
"We really miss him and just want him to come home," she said.
Hundreds of people helped the family and police search 2,000 acres of nearby woodland and farmland after he disappeared.
West Mercia Police has appealed for information in trying to trace him and said officers are working with the National Crime Agency and the Missing Persons Bureau.


Chinese conglomerate HNA has overtaken Blackrock to become Deutsche Bank's biggest shareholder after increasing its stake in the firm to nearly 10%.

HNA became a major shareholder in Europe's largest investment bank after acquiring a 4.8% stake in March.
Its financial unit, HNA Capital, reportedly has ambitions of becoming a global investment bank.
Deutsche Bank has been looking to raise funds after incurring major losses due to legal probes and misconduct charges.
Earlier this year, the German lender abandoned plans to sell its Postbank unit and sold 8bn euros ($8.8bn) of shares instead.
HNA, which is privately run by billionaire Chen Feng, has been on a major acquisition spree in recent years.
The Chinese group owns stakes in a range of companies including Hainan airlines, hotel operator Hilton Worldwide and Singapore-listed logistics firm CWT.


While Russian cruise missiles were flying over Iran towards targets in Syria on Wednesday, Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was delivering a strongly worded speech ruling out the need for further political dialogue with the US.

"Talking to the US will not hold any benefits for us," he told an audience of Revolutionary Guards. "On the contrary, it will be extremely detrimental."
It may not be a complete coincidence that the Ayatollah was addressing members of the Guards, the very same organisation now believed to be playing a key role in planning and supporting Russia's Syrian intervention.
To young Iranians buoyed up by the nuclear deal and already looking forward to the prospect of their country opening up to the West, the Ayatollah's remarks came as a blow.
But in the context of President Putin's latest moves, they seem less surprising.
Russia joining the war in Syria is a major boost to Iran's involvement in Syria.
It also adds weight to Iran's position as a key power in the Middle East.
For much of the past 15 months, there have been repeated sightings of the powerful Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani apparently shuttling between Damascus, Baghdad and Tehran.
It is now established that he has been playing a key role in setting up and supporting the Shia militia groups battling so-called Islamic State (IS) fighters in Iraq.
The recapture of the city of Tikrit from IS after a year of occupation marked a successful example of joint military action involving the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the mainly Shia militias and the Iraqi army.
In Syria too, Iranian support for the army and militia groups, including Tehran's ally Hezbollah, seems to be an open secret.
The Iranian media regularly report funerals of Revolutionary Guards commanders killed in Syria as well as Iraq.
And this summer's flood of refugees and migrants into Europe has included many young Afghan Hazaras, who have described to BBC Persian how they were recruited by Iran into special Shia militia brigades and sent to the front line in Syria.
Their stories back up claims widely reported and pictured on social media this year.
In July, Gen Soleimani apparently resurfaced in Russia where reports - neither confirmed nor denied by Tehran and Moscow - said he was beginning to put in place the plans that led to this week's Russian offensive.
Born: 11 March 1957
Since 1998 he has been commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force, reporting directly to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Has emerged from a lifetime in the shadows directing covert operations abroad to achieve almost celebrity status in Iran.
Since 2012 he has helped bolster the Syrian government, a key Iranian ally, during the Syrian civil war.
Also assisted in the command of combined Iraqi government and Shia militia forces that advanced against so-called Islamic State.
Visited Moscow in July to discuss possible Russian military intervention in Syria.
Gen Qasem Soleimani: Iranâ€™s rising star
There has been no official comment from Tehran so far on the Russian operation.
But the tone of Iranian media reporting about it has been overwhelmingly positive, with much stress on the fact that it is happening as part of a joint coalition against IS, along with Iran, Iraq and Syria.
Russia's intervention means Iran is no longer the only foreign state to have militarily intervened in support of Bashar Assad.
It can now claim to be part of a major new military alliance with a former world superpower as an ally.
From the Iranian perspective, Russian intervention opens up a new possibility to challenge the US-dominated world order - something Iran's hardliners have dreamed of for decades.
But they are not the only ones celebrating Russia's intervention.
According to Ahmad Naqibzadeh, a professor of international relations at Tehran University, it's a development that also suits moderate politicians.
For them, he explains, Russia's decision to back Bashar Assad and attack all the groups opposing him means it's more likely all sides in the Syrian conflict will eventually have to come to the table - without pre-conditions - to find a political solution to the conflict.
"Convincing the West to stop insisting on the removal of Bashar Assad from power would be a victory for Iranian foreign policy and would then facilitate the normalisation of ties between Iran and the West," he told the BBC.
According to Mr Naqibzadeh, key policymakers around Iran's President Rouhani are also hoping the Russian campaign might actually bring the US and Iran closer together.
In a bid to persuade Iran not to throw everything behind Russia, they think the US could adopt a more conciliatory policy, he explains, and this would give Iran the opportunity the moderates are looking for to break out of the current isolation.
Judging by Ayatollah Khamenei's latest remarks, rapprochement with the US is the last thing on his mind.
An Iranian academic close to President Rouhani, and speaking to the BBC on condition of anonymity, says the idea of normalising ties between Iran and the US is something that deeply worries the Ayatollah.
"He believes the Americans are waiting for an 'Iran without Khamenei' in order to take Iran completely into their camp," the academic said.
The Ayatollah is the ultimate decision-maker in Iran's foreign policy, and he has made clear that he sees the US as an eternal enemy.
But the irony is not lost on many observers both inside and outside the country, that in order to combat one old enemy, the US, and to rescue his Syrian ally, Mr Khamenei is now turning to Russia, a country with which Iran shares a much longer history of adversity.
In the coming months, Iranians will be watching to see if the Ayatollah's gamble pays off, or whether Mr Putin's entry into the fray will draw Iran and its allies even deeper into the Syrian quagmire.


Asian markets were mixed despite a slew of economic data from Japan which indicated that the world's third largest economy was picking up.

Japan's core inflation picked up for the first time in 10 months in March, giving relief to the central bank which has been trying to beat deflation.
Core inflation, which excludes fresh food prices, rose 2.2% from a year ago, the first increase since May 2014.
The Nikkei index closed up 11.62 points at 19,531.63.
Other data showed that the country's unemployment rate fell to 3.4% in March from 3.5% in February.
Household spending rose 2.4% in March from the month before, but compared with a year earlier it was down by nearly 11%.
A manufacturing survey suggested that factory activity contracted in April for the first time in almost a year as domestic orders and output fell.
The Markit/JMMA final Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to a seasonally adjusted 49.9 in April, compared with a preliminary reading of 49.7 and 50.3 in March.
The index fell below the 50 threshold that separates contraction from expansion for the first time since May last year.
Japan emerged from a recession in the fourth quarter of last year, but grew at a slower-than-expected pace.
The country's markets will now be closed until 6 May for Golden Week holidays.
Trading in the rest of Asian markets was thinner than usual with Hong Kong, Shanghai and South Korean markets closed for Labour Day holidays.
Investors seemed to ignore manufacturing data from China that showed factory activity in the Asian giant steadied in April.
The official PMI was at 50.1 in April, the same level as in March and above expectations of a reading of 50.
Factory activity had contracted in the first two months of the year.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed up 0.4% at 5,814.4.
Figures from property consultant CoreLogic RP Data showed home prices across Australia's capital cities rose further in April, climbing by 0.8% after a 1.4% increase in March.


17 September 2015 Last updated at 12:58 BST
You programme where you want to go and this driverless pod will take you there.
It's being trialled in Milton Keynes.
It can carry two passengers and travel at 15 miles an hour.
The Lutz Pathfinder pod, is electric-powered.
It has 19 sensors, cameras, radar and a remote sensing technology that measures distance by lighting up a target with a laser and examining the reflected light.
During the trial, three pods will drive themselves on the pavements and through the pedestrian area  of the city.
If successful, a fleet of 40 vehicles will be rolled out.
These vehicles will be able to talk to each other. They will be connected to a smart phone app that will let people hail them.


Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs has unveiled a tribute to the war poet Wilfred Owen at the former hospital where he was treated for shell shock.

Owen was sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, where he met  fellow war poet Siegfried Sassoon in August 1917.
The site is now part of Edinburgh Napier University's Craiglockhart campus.
The university already has a permanent exhibition to mark war poets' work.
Earlier a Caithness flagstone bearing a quote from the poet "My subject is war and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity" was unveiled by Isaacs, who is in Scotland with Theatre of War company, which produces ancient Greek tragedies for service members, veterans and their families.
Owen was killed in the final week of World War One, shot by German machine guns as British forces unsuccessfully tried to bridge a canal in northern France.
Isaacs, who plays Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, said: "This flagstone and its quotation will remind everyone who sees it that though the poets to emerge from the Great War have come to represent something culturally significant and revered, their inspiration was what all wars still provide; tragedy, terror and death. These were dispatches from the front line."
The flagstone was donated to the university by Glen-Art, a military charity supporting former members of the armed forces.
It lies outside the old main entrance to the building as a permanent memorial to Owen and all those affected by the First World War and other conflicts.
Catherine Walker, curator of the university's War Poets Collection, said: "It is a unique gift, which is a fitting tribute to all who have been affected by war, not only those officers treated at Craiglockhart War Hospital."
Fiona MacDonald, founder and director of Glen-Art and a trustee of the Wilfred Owen Association, said: "We are delighted to be able to donate this beautiful stone as the first of many events and activities commemorating the centenary of the time Wilfred Owen spent at Craiglockhart, where he met Siegfried Sassoon."


A spate of drug-related deaths has prompted a warning about contaminated heroin in Yorkshire and Teesside.

Four people died in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, on Friday, with two men dying the following day in Leeds and Normanton in West Yorkshire.
Recent testing on recovered drugs found traces of the strong prescription painkiller fentanyl.
Police said it was too early to connect the deaths to fentanyl, but warned drug users to be "extremely cautious".
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In March, a warning was issued by Cleveland Police after six recent deaths connected to a batch of low grade heroin in Stockton-upon-Tees.
An "unusually high" number of deaths connected to drug use in Hull was reported in February, but none confirmed as of yet where fentanyl has been present.
The painkiller, which hit the headlines after it was linked to the death of US singer Prince, is considered to be 50 times more potent than heroin according to America's Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
Fentanyl is an extremely strong painkiller, prescribed for severe chronic pain, or breakthrough pain which does not respond to regular painkillers.
It is an opioid painkiller which means it works by mimicking the body's natural painkillers, called endorphins, which block pain messages to the brain.
The risk of harm is higher if the wrong dose or strength is used.
Typical symptoms of a fentanyl overdose include slow and difficult breathing, nausea and vomiting, dizziness and increased blood pressure.
Det Supt Nick Wallen, of West Yorkshire Police, said: "We are however urging those people who regularly use Class A drugs and particularly those who purchase their drugs via street suppliers to be extremely cautious in relation to what they are taking.
"Anyone experiencing any unusual symptoms after taking drugs should seek immediate medical attention."


Uganda's parliament has adjourned without debating a controversial bill which includes the death penalty for some homosexual acts.

It had been reported that a vote could be held on Friday.
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill has been condemned by Western leaders and human rights groups, some of whom are celebrating victory.
The bill, first introduced in 2009, could still be brought up when the new parliament meets later this year.
Uganda is a largely conservative society and many people condemn homosexuality both as un-African and un-Christian.
But in recent years, some gay rights groups have been set up in the country.
Homosexual acts are already illegal in Uganda but the bill would increase the penalty for those convicted to life in prison.
Those found guilty of "aggravated homosexuality" - defined as when one of the participants is a minor, HIV-positive, disabled or a "serial offender" - would face the death penalty.
Anyone failing to report to the authorities a person they knew to be homosexual would also be liable to prosecution.
Internet campaign group Avaaz said the bill's lack of progress was a "victory for all Ugandans and people across the world who value human rights".
"We must now ensure this heinous bill can never return to parliament again," said Avaaz campaign director Alice Jay.
Maria Burnett, of Human Rights Watch, said it would still be a very long fight to stop the Ugandan legislation as "the issue has not gone away".
"The international pressure over the last year and a half has been very important to show that Uganda cannot act in isolation from the international community," she said.
US President Barack Obama has condemned the bill and donors have urged Uganda's government to ensure the measures never become law.
But David Bahati, the MP who introduced the private member's bill, said he would try to reintroduce it when the next parliament convened after February's elections, and said it had achieved his goal of sparking debate.
"We have made important steps in raising the issue and that will continue," he was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
In January, David Kato, a campaigner who led condemnation of the bill, was murdered not long after suing a paper that outed him as gay. Police denied the killing was because of his sexuality.
Three months before the murder, Uganda's Rolling Stone newspaper had published the photographs of several people it said were gay, with the headline "Hang them".


Text by Luiz Felipe Silva, photographs by Fellipe Abreu.

"Our land is our spirit," says one of the spiritual and political leaders of the Cinta Larga.
"An indigenous person without land is an indigenous person without soul," he says about the challenges facing this indigenous group in Brazil.
The group lives in the Roosevelt Indigenous Area between the states of Rondonia and Mato Grosso.
The area contains what could be the world's most abundant diamond deposit and it is these riches which are a threat to the traditional way of life of the Cinta Larga.
Under Brazilian law, no mining whatsoever should be carried out in the indigenous territory and yet illegal diamond mining has been taking place here since 1999.
An area measuring 10km by 2km (6.2 miles by 1.2 miles) in size and another adjacent area called Grota do Sossego have already been deforested for mining.
Indigenous rights activists warn that the extent of deforestation could be much greater and amount to as much as 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres).
One of the artisanal mines in the area is Lajes.
An estimated 100m reais ($31.4m; Â£25.7m) worth of diamonds is currently being extracted from it annually - all of it mined illegally. Geologists from Brazil's Geological Survey calculate that it has the potential to produce more than six times that amount.
They think the mine could yield one million carats of diamonds per year, worth more than $200m.
And Lajes is not the only site with potential riches. A mining company report suggests that the area could have as many as 14 sites of kimberlite, the rocks known to sometimes contain diamonds.
If the estimates were to be confirmed, it would make Roosevelt Indigenous Reserve the world's largest diamond deposit.
The Cinta Larga say that if it was down to them, there would be no illegal mining on their land.
"The problem is the government does not help us in any way and we are in dire need of a lot of things," a leader who preferred not to give his name explains.
"We don't have any medication or transport and there are no opportunities for us here,."
Those involved in the illegal mining have brought some services to the indigenous community to try to buy the trust of the Cinta Larga and convince them to allow the mining to go ahead on the Cinta Larga's land, he adds.
The riches of the land on which the Cinta Larga live have historically brought them misfortune. Before diamonds were discovered, rubber prospectors killed many of them for their land.
In the most infamous incident, in 1963, dynamite was thrown from a small plane on to a Cinta Larga village on the orders of a rubber plantation owner. The village was wiped out in what became known as the Massacre of the 11th Parallel.
Reginaldo Trindade, who officially defends the interests of the Cinta Larga on behalf of the attorney general's office, says that "the risk of a new genocide is the highest since then" because of the current conflict between the Cinta Larga and the illegal diamond prospectors.
The indigenous group, which once numbered more than 5,000, had dwindled to just 1,758 in the latest census taken in 2012.
The Cinta Larga say that they have to resort to diamond mining and trafficking to survive. The group receives some aid from the Brazilian state but they say it is not nearly enough. In 2014, the Cinta Larga received just under 105,000 reais ($33,000; Â£27,000), which amounted to about 58 reais ($18; Â£15) per person.
But the diamond mine has attracted outsiders to the area and with them have come other dangers. Bruno Lima e Silva, a former regional co-ordinator for Brazil's indigenous agency, Funai, says that the Cinta Larga "are the worst affected by the entry of drugs, alcohol, prostitution and violence" which the diamond mining has brought with it.
As the diamonds extracted at Roosevelt are mined illegally, getting them out of the area further attracts smugglers.
The Cinta Larga say the only solution they can see is for the ban on mining in Roosevelt to be lifted, so the stones can be extracted legally.
That way, they could exploit the riches below their land without coming into conflict with the authorities and without attracting the criminal elements currently involved in smuggling the diamonds.
"We want the mine to be legalised," says chief Marcelo Cinta Larga.


A conference of independence activists aimed at preparing Scotland for another referendum is being held in Glasgow.

The Scottish Independence Convention is hosting the "Build" meeting at the Radisson hotel in the city.
MPs and MSPs from the SNP and the Scottish Greens will join activists and academics in speaking at the event.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has ruled out an independence vote in 2017, with opposition parties calling for it to be taken off the table altogether.
The Scottish Independence Convention (SIC) was active in campaigning during the 2014 referendum and held a "reassembly" as part of events to mark the second anniversary of that vote.
Tickets for the "Build: strategy - policy - movement" event have sold out, but it will also be streamed online.
Cabinet secretary Angela Constance will open the event, alongside actress and SIC convener Elaine C Smith and Scottish Greens co-convener Maggie Chapman.
Ms Smith said the independence movement "needs to start chatting again".
She said: "To win another independence referendum, we'll need everyone to come together and bring their own skills and knowledge.
"There's lots to get done and 2017 is going to be a very important year. So it should begin with a proper get-together of everyone in the independence movement to plan a way forward."
SNP MP Tommy Sheppard added: "Everyone needs to look with fresh eyes and open minds about what options are now available to us to build a better Scotland.
"We can never have too many ideas and I hope this conference will focus minds on practical strategies for the year ahead."
There will also be discussion of the independence white paper project set up by think tank Common Weal.
The first draft of the paper drawn up by the group charts the possible process of independence, including proposals for a new Scottish currency and a referendum on a written constitution and EU membership as part of a three-year transition.
It also includes "very rough" estimates of the economics of an independent Scotland, suggesting that there would be an Â£18.8bn one-off cost of setting up the institutions of a new state and that the country would run an Â£8.8bn deficit in its first year.
Nicola Sturgeon has commissioned research of her own via a national survey and a "growth commission" headed by former MSP Andrew Wilson.
She has ruled out holding a referendum in 2017, but has insisted she is "not bluffing" about holding one over Brexit. Her predecessor Alex Salmond has predicted a referendum in Autumn 2018.
The Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems all oppose independence, and want a second referendum taken off the table altogether.
Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson has accused Ms Sturgeon of "leaving Scotland in limbo", saying she should "ditch her draft referendum bill" and "move on from constitutional navel-gazing".
And Labour's Kezia Dugdale backs a federal UK with a "new Act of Union" to "safeguard our family of nations for generations to come".