'Sometimes We Have to Fight the NRA': Trump Meets with State Governors, Touts Gun Reform

President Donald Trump hosted state governors at the White House Monday to generate ideas on how to stop gun violence in the nation's schools. 

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California Could Become First State to Force Universities to Provide Abortion Pill

Abortion advocates in California want campus health centers to provide abortion pills to students. No other state requires campus health centers to offer abortion services and very few health centers provide them.

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UK weather: Warning for commuters as further heavy snow hits UK

Disruption is expected across roads and public transport, and hundreds of schools remain closed.

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EU to publish first draft of Brexit treaty

It is expected to say Northern Ireland may have to follow EU single market rules to avoid a hard border.

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Toys R Us and Maplin face collapse with 5,500 jobs at risk

The two chains are understood to have put administrators on standby after failing to secure sale deals.

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'Bucket list' killer Jemma Lilley gets 28 years for murder

Briton Jemma Lilley garrotted, stabbed and buried Aaron Pajich at her home in Australia.

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Vandal destroys Washington DC traffic camera

Police believe these could be the people who attacked 11 traffic cameras in one day in Washington DC.

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Most UK cannabis 'super strength skunk'

High-potency cannabis now makes up 94% of the UK market, samples seized by the police suggest.

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N Korea 'providing materials to Syria chemical weapons factories'

Pyongyang has been sending equipment to the country, a UN report finds.

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BBC charity sacked six over sexual misconduct

International development charity BBC Media Action reveals six people were dismissed over 10 years.

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Oxfam: What's gone wrong with the foreign aid sector?

After Oxfam's handling of a sex scandal in Haiti, the foreign aid sector faces tough questions.

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Satisfaction with GP services at record low

And overall public happiness with the NHS falls to its lowest level since 2011, a survey finds.

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Worker died in fall at 'lethal' Qatar World Cup stadium

Zachary Cox fell to his death while working at a stadium that will host the 2022 World Cup.

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Trump son-in-law's security clearance downgraded

President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser will no longer receive top-level briefings.

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Newspaper headlines: 'Snow storm chaos' and prospect of hard Irish border raised

Winter weather sweeps across the UK and Boris Johnson raises the prospect of a hard border in Ireland after Brexit.

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News Daily: Big freeze worsens and Brexit legal draft published

Your morning briefing for 28 February 2018.

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Skins: The TV show with an A-list alumni

How one hit E4 show of the 2000's has produced the Oscar nominees of today.

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Meet the woman teaching others how to fight off sex attackers

Emily Moser was beaten up in an attempted rape. Now she teaches women self-defence.

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi visual effects revealed

Click meets Ben Morris of the Oscar nominated visual effects team behind Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

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The app that helps feeds kids

Marie Farmer came up with the idea during her maternity leave, and it has now led to her quitting her job.

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Homeless students: Finding shelter outside the classroom

One in five students in Los Angeles face housing insecurity - so where are they living?

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UK weather: Snowy scenes across the UK

Bitterly cold weather and heavy snow sweep in from the east, causing disruption and delight.

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UK weather: How to stay fashionable in the freeze

London College of Fashion students and staff tell us how they look cool in the cold.

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Boris Johnson's Irish border remarks lampooned

The foreign secretary is ridiculed for comparing the border to London's congestion charge zone.

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Nando's confirms it uses McCain chips

The chicken chain confirms it uses frozen chips - but says they're not the ones sold in shops.

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Is there a problem with unregistered schools?

Inspectors say there are more than 350 unregistered schools but they have few powers to investigate.

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Blackburn: The town that fails to elect Asian women

Areas with a similar demographic have managed it, so why hasn't Blackburn?

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Superorganism interview: 'We're a non-stop pop production house'

At home with Superorganism - the eight-piece pop group who made a hit single before they'd even met.

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Oscars 2018: What's up for best foreign language film?

What you need to know about the five movies competing for the best foreign language film Oscar.

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Beast from the East: How the weather got a Hollywood makeover

No longer is it enough to simple refer to the weather as "winter". So what's changed?

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Winter Olympics: Is window for US-N Korea peace closing?

A small window for diplomacy emerged during the "peace Olympics" in Pyeongchang, but it's closing fast.

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UPDATE 7-Australian Sheffield Shield Scoreboard

Feb 28 (OPTA) - Scoreboard at close of play on the fourth day of between South Australia and Queensland on Wednesday at Adelaide, Australia Queensland win by 118 runs Queensland 1st innings Lachlan Pfeffer b Daniel Worrall 15 Matthew Renshaw c Alex Carey b Nick Winter 112 Marnus Labuschagne b Joe Mennie 3 Charlie Hemphrey c Jake Lehmann b Joe Mennie 9 Sam Heazlett b Nick W

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Sheffield Shield Standings

Feb 28 (OPTA) - Standings of the Sheffield Shield on Wednesday P W L T BBat BBowl Ded PTS Queensland 8 4 1 3 6.34 7.00 0 40.34 Victoria 8 2 1 5 8.11 7.00 0 32.11 Tasmania 8 3 3 2 3.74 7.70 0 31.44 New South Wales 8 3 3 2 4.89 5.90 0 30.79 Western Australia 8 2 4 2 6.53 6.90 0 27.43 South Australia 8 2 4 2 6.76 6.40 0 27.16 Note: Ded-Deductions; BBat-Batting bonus;

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Cricket-Spinners could hold key to victory, says South Africa's Elgar

DURBAN, Feb 27 (Reuters) - South Africa's opening batsman Dean Elgar believes the spinners could prove decisive in their home series against Australia, which been hyped as potentially a blood-curdling battle between the two teams' pace attacks.

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Cricket-Australia's Hazlewood keen to keep the wood on Amla

Feb 27 (Reuters) - Australia paceman Josh Hazlewood is keen to continue holding the upper hand over South Africa batsman Hashim Amla when the sides begin their four-test series in Durban on Thursday.

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Afghanistan's Ghani offers talks with Taliban 'without preconditions'

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani offered recognition of the Taliban as a legitimate political group on Wednesday as part of a proposed political process that he said could lead to talks aimed at ending more than 16 years of war.

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Thousands of Rohingya flee 'no man's land' after resettlement talks

DHAKA/YANGON (Reuters) - Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled a strip of land on the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh after the two countries met to discuss resettling them, an official and a community leader said.

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Papua New Guinea officials say whole villages flattened by deadly quake

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Whole villages were flattened and water sources spoiled by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 20 people, residents said on Wednesday as rescuers struggled to reach the hardest-hit areas in Papua New Guinea's remote, mountainous highlands.

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China's military flexes muscles for domestic objective - more funding

BEIJING (Reuters) - With stealth jets entering service, leaked pictures of new high-tech naval artillery and proud reports of manoeuvres that "dare to shine the sword," China's armed forces are putting on a show of power as they lobby for greater defence spending.

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Exclusive - North Korean leaders used Brazilian passports to apply for Western visas: sources

LONDON (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his late father Kim Jong Il used fraudulently obtained Brazilian passports to apply for visas to visit Western countries in the 1990s, five senior Western European security sources told Reuters.

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U.S.-Russian crew returns from space station - NASA TV

(Reuters) - A capsule carrying two U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut from the International Space Station landed in snowy Kazakhstan on Wednesday after a five-and-a-half month mission, a NASA TV live broadcast showed.

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Saudi crown prince says corruption purge supports budget - Washington Post

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince said the kingdom's anti-corruption crackdown was needed to meet budget targets, comparing the purge to chemotherapy in an interview with the Washington Post published on Wednesday.

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South Korea presidential adviser says U.S.-South Korea drills to start early April - Yonhap

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea and the United States will start in early April a joint military exercise postponed until after the Winter Olympics and Paralympics, a South Korean presidential security adviser said according to Yonhap news agency.

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Jerusalem's Church of Holy Sepulchre reopens after protest

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, revered as the site of Jesus's crucifixion and burial, reopened on Wednesday after Israel backtracked on Tuesday from a tax plan and draft property legislation that triggered a three-day protest.

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