World Trade Center Reopens 13 Years On

By Sky News US Team

Thirteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attack, the resurrected World Trade Center is again opening for business.

Publishing company Conde Nast will start moving on Monday into One World Trade Center, a 104-storey skyscraper that dominates the Manhattan skyline.

Only about 170 of his company's 3,400 employees are moving in now. Still, the opening marks an emotional milestone for both New Yorkers and the nation.

"The New York City skyline is whole again, as One World Trade Center takes its place in Lower Manhattan," said Patrick Foye, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey that owns both the building and the World Trade Center site.

The skyscraper - at 1,776ft (541m), the US tallest building - is the centrepiece of the site where the Twin Towers once stood.

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1. Gallery: One World Trade Center Reaches Full Height

   The 1,776ft-tall One World Trade Center towers above buildings in lower Manhattan.

2. It is topped with a 400ft silver spire, which was hoisted from the ground...

3. ... and carefully attached by construction workers.

4. Ironworkers cheered as the final piece of the spire was placed on top of the skyscraper.

5. Some took photographs to mark the occasion ...

6. ... while others signed their names and initials on steel girders.

7. One World Trade Center is the tallest structure in the US and offers great views across New York City.

8. Its height is a nod to the date the US gained independence - July 4, 1776.

9. The spire which now tops the tower will serve as a giant broadcast antenna.

10. One World Trade Center opens its doors on November 3, 2014.

More than 2,700 people died on 11 September 2001, buried under smoking mounds of fiery debris.

The building's eight-year construction came after years of political, financial and legal infighting that threatened to derail the project. It cost $3.9bn (£2.4bn)

But lower Manhattan has prospered in recent years. Today, about 60,000 more residents now live there - three times more than before 9/11.

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1. Gallery: Protest At Ground Zero

   Relatives of unidentified 9/11 victims are angry at plans to keep the remains in an underground repository at the National September 11 Memorial Museum.

2. The remains returned to the World Trade Center site in a solemn procession.

3. A police motorcade accompanied the transfer on a foggy morning.

4. Firefighters stood saluting the vehicles as they arrived at the site.

5. Some protesters wore black bands over their mouths. They demand a say, and insist the remains should be stored in an above-ground monument.

6. About 41% of those who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks have not been identified.

7. In many cases the remains amount to just fragments of bone.

8. The death toll stemming from the attacks at the World Trade Center stands at 2,753.

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Lynda Bellingham Funeral: TV Stars Say Goodbye

Britain's television stars have said goodbye to the late actress Lynda Bellingham at her funeral in Somerset.

The 66-year-old's Loose Women co-hosts Coleen Nolan, Jane McDonald, Andrea McLean and Kate Thornton were among the hundreds of people who attended the service at St Bartholomew's Church in Crewkerne.

Christopher Biggins, wearing a bright pink suit and pale shirt, was accompanied by his partner, Neil Sinclair.

Asked about his suit, Biggins replied: "She (Lynda) would like this, put a smile on her face."

Christopher Biggins said his suit would make Bellingham smile

More than 100 members of the public lined the path outside the church to pay their respects.

Bellingham asked for a lively send-off, so her husband, Michael Pattemore, lined up a string of acts to make the funeral a Royal Variety-style celebration of the much-loved actress's life.

Video: Bellingham Wanted A Celebration

Her friend, former Archdeacon of London Peter Delaney MBE, led the service at the church, which holds 300 guests.

Julia Sawalha, Coronation Street's Helen Worth, Robert Lindsay, Giles Brandreth and Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes were also among the attendees.

Bellingham's screen husband from the Oxo adverts, Michael Redfern was seen arriving at the church.

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1. Gallery: Actress And Presenter Lynda Bellingham Dies

   Bellingham rehearsing a scene for one of the classic Oxo TV adverts in 1987

2. The long-running ads featuring the squabbling family made Bellingham a familiar face to millions

3. Pictured with on-screen husband Michael Redfern.

4. The pair rehearsing for another Oxo advert in 1999

5. Bellingham married three times - her first husband was film producer Greg Smith (left), who she married in 1975

6. Taking to the floor: She appeared in Strictly Come Dancing in 2009

7. Pictured with Strictly co-stars (left-right) Laila Rouass, Natalie Cassidy and Zoe Lucker

8. Appearing in a photo to promote her role in the stage production of Calendar Girls

9. Bellingham meeting the Queen at the ITV 50th Anniversary celebration alongside Nicholas Parsons and Harry Hill

10. Bellingham was also part of the panel on Loose Women. She is pictured here in 2010 with fellow presenters Carol McGiffin, Denise Welch, Kate Thornton, Leslie Garrett and Andrea McLean

11. With husband Michael Pattemore in April 2013 at the Laurence Olivier Awards in London

12. The actress was made an OBE in March 2014 after a 40-year acting career which saw her appear in shows such as All Creatures Great And Small, Faith In The Future, and The Bill

Fireworks were set off in the cemetery after the service.

The actress died of cancer in a London hospital last month after the star said she planned to end life-extending chemotherapy treatment.

Bellingham had said she wanted to spend one last Christmas with her family after the disease spread to her lungs and liver.

Video: Lynda Bellingham: 'Oxo Mum' Dies

A memorial service will be held in London in February.

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Teacher's 'Savage' Killer Must Serve 20 Years

A teenager who murdered Leeds school teacher Ann Maguire in front of other pupils showed no emotion as he was handed a minimum of 20 years in jail.

Will Cornick, now 16, had a "deep-seated and irrational hatred" for his Spanish teacher at Corpus Christi College in Leeds.

Ahead of the killing in April, he had also planned to murder two other teachers, including one who was pregnant.

Cornick had previously accepted responsibility for unlawful killing but this morning issued a formal guilty plea to the murder charge at Leeds Crown Court.

Cornick killed his teacher, Mrs Maguire

Two months before the murder, Cornick sent a message on Facebook which said of Mrs Maguire: "The one absolute f****** bitch that deserves more than death, more than pain and more than anything that we can understand."

He even showed some other pupils the 21cm knife he planned to attack Mrs Maguire with on the day of the murder but "many did not take him seriously", the court heard.

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1. Gallery: Tributes To Leeds Teacher After Her Death In April

   Pupils, staff and members of the public paid tribute to Spanish teacher Ann Maguire, 61, who was fatally stabbed at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds.

2. This message reads: 'R.I.P Mrs Maguire. A wonderful teacher and lady! You will be dearly missed.'

3. 'Miss Maguire. Such happy memories of you as my teacher and head of year in year 11. I am so pleased I got to be head girl during the time you wear head of year 11.'

4. 'Mrs Maguire. Such a tragedy and so sad to lose you. You taught me more than 20 years ago. You taught my children too. You will be missed by many and more.'

5. 'Mrs Maguire. Thank you for everything you did for me, I'll never forget it! You were a true inspiration among the whole of the school community! I hope one day I touch as many hearts as you did.'

6. 'Your presence we will miss, your memories we will treasure, Mrs Maguire we love you and will think of you forever. All my love to you, your family and friends.'

7. 'Mrs Maguire you were a wonderful teacher, you will be sadly missed. Lots of love.'

9. 'Mrs Maguire, RIP. A lovely woman, always had a smile and was a wonderful teacher. A pleasure to have known you.'

Prosecutor Paul Greaney QC said the teenager stabbed Mrs Maguire seven times in the neck and back as she leaned over a desk to look at another pupil's work. 

When she tried to run away, he chased her.

Another teacher, Susan Francis, saw Mrs Maguire running down a corridor, saying: "He's stabbed me in the neck", with Cornick pursuing her.

The female teacher pushed her colleague into a room and then blocked the door to prevent the boy getting in.

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1. Gallery: School Community Mourns Teacher - April 2014

   Schoolchildren arrive at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Neville Road, Leeds, a day after a teacher was stabbed to death.

2. A school staff member grieves outside the school gates.

3. Flowers and a picture of Mrs Maguire, who taught Spanish.

4. People comfort each other outside the school.

5. Monsignor Paul Fisher conducts a mass at Corpus Christi Catholic Church for people to pray and pay their respects to Mrs Maguire. Click through for more images...

The teacher said that as Mrs Maguire lay injured she spoke about her children and the fact that she was loved.

A paramedic who tried to save her said later that the stab wounds were the worst he had ever seen.

Meanwhile, Cornick went back to the classroom and sat down "as if nothing had happened", Mr Greaney said

Mr Greaney said that Cornick's parents are "decent and responsible" and at a loss to understand what has happened but that the boy was currently "highly dangerous and has psychopathic elements to his personality".

Video: Ann Maguire's Family Pay Tribute

"That his anger and hatred in fact became focused upon a person as decent and loved as Ann Maguire only makes this more tragic," he added.

Mrs Maguire's husband Don said the "callous cruelty" of the murder "defied comprehension".

"Now all dreams have gone forever - the centre of our lives is missing." Her daughter Kerry said the murder "has stripped me of my key support in life: my mummy," he said.

The judge said the boy showed a "total and chilling lack of remorse", adding that the teenager's pride in what he did and lack of remorse was "truly grotesque".

Video: Teacher's Sister: Ann Embraced Life

He said that the public killing would leave many "traumatised forever" and showed a level of violence which was "savage and cowardly".

But he paid tribute to the boy's parents, who sat in court, and to the "calm dignity" of Mrs Maguire's family.

Outside court, Mrs Maguire's family paid tribute to those who had supported them during "this terrible nightmare".

After the sentencing, the judge lifted an order banning Cornick's identification.

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'Insane Psychopath' British Banker In Court

A British investment banker charged with the murder of two women in Hong Kong has been remanded in custody.

Banker Rurik Jutting, 29, was arrested after the women's bodies were discovered at an apartment in Hong Kong's Wan Chai district.

During his appearance he wore black trousers and a black T-shirt. He was remanded in custody and will return to court on 10 November.

Mr Jutting had recently quit his job with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and reportedly left an out of office email message urging correspondents to contact someone "who is not an insane psychopath".

The bodies of Sumarti Ningsih (L) and Jesse Lorena were found in the flat

The message, which has not been verified by the bank, read: "I am out of the office. Indefinitely. For urgent enquiries, or indeed any enquiries, please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath.

"For escalation, please contact God, though suspect the devil will have custody (Last line only really worked if I had followed through)."

Video: Victims' Friend Talks To Sky News

Last Monday he posted a Facebook photo of his balcony in the high-rise J Residence, which has a gym, clubhouse and rooftop pool, and said he was starting a "new journey".

He wrote: "Stepping down from the ledge. Burden lifted; new journey begins. Scared and anxious but also excited. The first step is always the hardest."

Officers arrived at the 31st floor flat early on Saturday after receiving a call from the suspect.

They discovered the body of Jesse Lorena, 30, lying naked in the living room with knife wounds to her neck and backside.

Police also found a small amount of cocaine and a 12-inch knife in the flat.

Assistant Commander Wan Siu-hung told reporters: "We believe the death was caused by a sharp object which cut the throat of the deceased.

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1. Gallery: Banker Charged Over Hong Kong Killings: The Victims

   Jesse Lorena was found in the living room with wounds to her neck and buttock

2. Police believe Sumarti Ningsih died on 27 October. Her body was found in a suitcase

3. Jesse Lorena was well-known in Hong Kong's Wanchai district

4. A friend said Ms Lorena worked expat bars to build a better life in her native Indonesia

5. Away from her life in Hong Kong, Ms Lorena wears a traditional headscarf in Facebook photos

"This led to copious bleeding. When the police found her, she was lying in the living room. The room was messy."

Eight hours later, at about noon on Saturday, police widened the forensic examination of the apartment and made the second discovery.

The body of the second woman, named in a court document as Sumarti Ningsih, 25, was found in a brown suitcase on the apartment's balcony with the feet hanging out.

A police source quoted by the South China Morning Post said: "She was nearly decapitated and her hands and legs had been bound with ropes.

"She was naked and wrapped in a towel before being stuffed into the suitcase. Her passport was found at the scene."

She too had wounds to the neck. Police say she died on 27 October.

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1. Gallery: Suitcase Murder: Briton Appears In Hong Kong Court

   Rurik Jutting recently left his banking job. Pic: Facebook

2. Police have been searching the flat where the women's bodies were found

3. One of the bodies was found hiden in a suitcase on the balcony

4. Assistant Commander Wan Siu-hung said both victims had injuries to the neck

Police sources have told local media they believe the women were Indonesian and worked in the sex industry.

Mr Jutting studied history and law at Cambridge University and was a member of the prestigious rowing club and the history society, which is called Clio.

He had worked for Merrill Lynch from 2010 until only a couple of days ago, spending three years at their offices in London before moving to Hong Kong in July last year. Prior to that he worked at Barclays in London.

The neighbourhood of Wan Chai is effectively Hong Kong's red light district. A large number of women from southeast Asia spend time in the district's many bars and clubs.

A Foreign Office spokesman confirmed a British national had been arrested in Hong Kong, although did not specify the nature of the crime.

"We are in touch with the local police and stand ready to provide consular assistance," she said.

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Brittany Maynard, Terminally Ill Woman, Dies

By Sky News US Team

A terminally ill woman whose right-to-die campaigning rekindled a debate across America has ended her own life.

Brittany Maynard, 29, on Saturday swallowed lethal drugs made available under Oregon's doctor-assisted suicide law.

She "passed peacefully in her bed surrounded by close family and loved ones", said the advocacy group Compassion & Choices.

Ms Maynard was diagnosed with brain cancer on New Year's Day of this year and was later told she had six months to live.

She said she planned to take prescribed medication to die when her pain became unbearable.

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1. Gallery: Brittany Maynard: Life In Pictures

   Brittany Maynard as a child with her mother Debbie

2. Ms Maynard met Dan Diaz in April 2007

3. The couple married in September 2012

4. Ms Maynard was diagnosed in January with a glioblastoma brain tumour. She began campaigning for the right to die

5. Before dying, Maynard tried to live life as fully as she could. Last month she went to the Grand Canyon with her family

6. With her mother Debbie at the Grand Canyon, which had been on Ms Maynard's 'bucket list'

7. Her husband supported her decision and the couple moved to Oregon to take advantage of the state's doctor-assisted suicide law

8. Ms Maynard ended her life on 1 November

She and her husband moved from the San Francisco Bay area to Oregon this year to take advantage of the state's law that allows terminally ill residents to end their lives with the assistance of a physician.

She told journalists she planned to die on 1 November, shortly after her husband's birthday, but reserved the right to move the date forward or push it back. Days ago, she said she wanted to delay taking her life.

Sean Crowley, a spokesman for Compassion & Choices, said Ms Maynard "suffered increasingly frequent and longer seizures, severe head and neck pain, and stroke-like symptoms".

"As symptoms grew more severe, she chose to abbreviate the dying process by taking the aid-in-dying medication she had received months ago," he said.

Video: Dying Woman Delays Assisted Death

Ms Maynard had two degrees and an adventuresome spirit during her short life.

She taught at orphanages in Nepal and also spent time in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Costa Rica. She climbed Kilimanjaro a month before marrying Dan Diaz in September 2012.

Before dying, Ms Maynard tried to live life as fully as she could. She and her husband took a trip to the Grand Canyon last month - fulfilling a wish on Ms Maynard's "bucket list".

Working with Compassion & Choices, Ms Maynard used her story to speak out for the right of terminally ill people like herself to end their lives on their own terms.

Video: Dying Woman's Right-To-Die Campaign

But some criticised her choice.

Opponents of assisted suicide say some people who are ill, especially among the elderly, might be unduly influenced by people close to them to end their lives and that other ways exist to ease the suffering of the terminally ill.

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Facebook Killers: The Six Types Revealed

By Tom Cheshire, Technology Correspondent

Researchers have identified six ways in which Facebook tends to be used in murder cases.

They described the most frequent type as "reactor", where the perpetrator of a killing reacts to information posted on Facebook by attacking the victim offline. This accounted for 27% of all murder cases involving Facebook.

In 2008, for example, Wayne Forrester killed his wife Emma in Croydon, after reading Facebook posts claiming they had split up and that she wanted to meet other men.

The next most frequent category is "informer", which accounts for 22.9% of cases. Here, perpetrators used Facebook to tell their friend network about homicidal intentions or a murder they committed.

Last year, Colorado man Merrick McKoy stole his two-year-old daughter from his ex-partner.

He posted photographs and messages on the site, including the post: "I told u I can't live without u lol u thought I was joking now me n Mia out this b****." He later shot his daughter, then himself.

The next most common category was "antagonist", where hostile exchanges on the social networking site led to fatal face-to-face confrontations, accounting for 16.7%.

The other three types identified by the researchers are "fantasist", where murderers used Facebook to indulge in fantasises, "predator", where criminals created a fake profile to lure victims to their death, and "imposter", where perpetrators impersonated someone else on Facebook - either the victim, to maintain the illusion that they were alive, or another person, to gain access to the victim's Facebook profile.

However, the researchers concluded that the term "Facebook murder" was not a meaningful one, and could be harmful in understanding the complex and varied nature of killing.

They wrote: "The cases we identified were not collectively unique or unusual when compared with general trends and characteristics - certainly not to a degree that would necessitate the introduction of a new category of homicide or justify a broad label like Facebook Murder."

Video: June: Unease At Facebook Experiment

The researchers - Elizabeth Yardley and David Wilson of Birmingham City University - examined 1,000 reports of "Facebook murder" globally, based on media accounts of convictions for  offences including murder, manslaughter and culpable homicide.

They also found that Facebook murders, compared with general murder trends, tend to disproportionately affect younger people, that women are over-represented as victims, that there was a higher proportion of murder-suicides, and that those involved came from a broader socio-economic range.

The researchers did not study any other social networks.

They also said that the appearance of Facebook in cases was "not particularly surprising" because "a close social relationship between victim and perpetrator is a well-established characteristic of this type of crime and such relationships are increasingly likely to be displayed and performed on (social networking sites)."

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Virgin Galactic Descend System Deployed Early

The investigation into the fatal Virgin Galactic spaceship crash has found one of the pilots deployed the "feathering" function too early.

Camera footage from inside SpaceShipTwo revealed that the key safety feature which helps the craft descend was unlocked by the co-pilot.

But the head of America's National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Christopher Hart, stressed he was not saying this had been the cause of the disaster and that the investigation was still in its earliest stages.

Michael Alsbury, 39, was killed in Friday's crash

Mr Hart said the "feathering" function - which involves the rotation of the tail boom - should have been deployed when the vehicle was travelling about 1.4 times the speed of sound. 

But the feather began rotating when the vehicle was travelling at Mach 1.0.

Video: 'Feathering' - How Galactic Slows

"Normal launch procedures are that after the release, the ignition of the rocket, and acceleration, the feathering devices are not to be moved," he said.

"The lock/unlock lever is not to be moved into the unlock position until the acceleration is up to Mach 1.4. Instead, as I indicated, that occurred at approximately Mach 1.0."

Mr Hart also said the craft's fuel tanks and engine had been recovered intact, indicating there was no explosion.

He told reporters the fuel tanks and engine showed no signs of "burn through" or of being breached.

Video: Branson On 'Irresponsible Innuendo'

"The engine burn was normal up until the extension of the feathers," Mr Hart told reporters.

Nearly all the important parts of the vessel had been recovered and had been taken to a hangar for examination.

SpaceShipTwo crashed into California's Mojave Desert during its 35th test flight shortly after being released at high altitude from its mothership WhiteKnightTwo.

Virgin boss Richard Branson said the NTSB were doing "an incredibly thorough investigation" and that "irresponsible innuendo" in some sections of the media over the cause of the crash had been "hurtful".

Video: NTSB News Conference

Speaking exclusively to Sky News from his Virgin Islands retreat Necker, he said: "It was incredibly hurtful to the 400 engineers who had worked so gallantly at Virgin Galactic and all the engineers who worked on the manufacture of the spaceship.

"If the press had looked at the photographs they would have seen full fuel tanks and engine intact on the ground.

"Yet they were talking about a massive explosion and of people ejecting out of the plane; we do not have (ejector) seats. The British press at its worst, to be honest."

Virgin Galactic had been aiming to become the first commercial "spaceline" by beginning tourist flights to the edge of space next year.

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1. Gallery: Virgin Galactic Crash Wreckage

   Investigators examine the wreckage of the Virgin Galactic spacecraft which crashed in the Mojave Desert. They claim it could take a year to determine the cause of the accident

2. The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) team is expected to spend the next week at the crash site in California

3. The ship broke up in mid-air during a test flight on Friday. One of the pilots was killed and the other injured

5. The team has already completed its first full day of the investigation

6. Officials say they are expected to trawl through "extensive data" - which is why the full investigation could take about 12 months or so

8. The craft's debris was spread over an area measuring five miles from end to end

11. Police secured the crash site in the Mojave Desert amid fears that some of the debris could be explosive

13. The spacecraft was on its first test flight for nine months when it crashed near the town of Bakersfield

Mr Branson emphasised that the crash occurred during a test flight and that Virgin would not take tourists into space unless it was safe.

"I once said if we had an accident... once we had started carrying passengers in the early days, it would be very difficult to recover from that," he said.

"I think that hopefully this is slightly different, in that we had test pilots testing the spacecraft, in extreme situations, to make sure it was safe for passengers."

::  Virgin Galactic Crash: What We Know So Far

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Ann Maguire's Killer Named As Will Cornick

The teenager who fatally stabbed teacher Ann Maguire in a school classroom can now be named as Will Cornick.

The killer was 15 years old when he attacked the 61-year-old woman, as she taught a class at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds in April.

Cornick, now aged 16, has admitted murder and the judge at Leeds Crown Court Mr Justice Coulson lifted an order banning his identification.

He was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 20 years and was warned he may never be released from prison.

The judge found his pride and lack of remorse over his actions "truly grotesque" and Mrs Maguire's widower Don said the killing was a "monumental act of cowardice and evil".

Ann Maguire and her killer Will Cornick

Cornick was described by a psychiatrist as having a "gross lack of empathy for his victim and a degree of callousness rarely seen in clinical practice".

Those who were present when the popular teacher lay dying after fleeing the attacker said she spoke about her children and the fact she was loved.

Video: Teacher's Sister: Ann Embraced Life

At the same time, he calmly sat down at a computer and told fellow pupils: "I stabbed her. Pity she didn't die."

Other students had heard him warn that he was going to attack the Spanish teacher with a knife, but did not take him seriously.

Even when he brandished the 21cm (9in) blade and winked at one classmate, those present may have been mindful of his earlier warning that he would "kill them" if they told.

One schoolboy who witnessed the attack said he remembered sitting "in absolute panic and shock" as the killer repeatedly stabbed Mrs Maguire in the neck and back - even punching her at one point.

She fled and he pursued her, before a female staff member helped her into a workroom and blocked the door.

Video: Police Welcome Sentence For Teen

It was clear to the witnesses that the teenager was pleased with what he had done - the boy even said "good times" to horrified pupils as he returned to the classroom.

The boy chatted to them "as if nothing had happened", telling them: "Everything I've done is fine and dandy."

He remained remorseless as he underwent psychiatric assessment in the wake of the brutal killing.

He discussed having planned the murder for years in advance, saying "The killing was always on my mind since year eight, the thought of homicide, murdering her."

The teenager had even taken a bottle of Jack Daniels into school on the day of the murder with the intention of "celebrating" his actions.

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1. Gallery: School Community Mourns Teacher - April 2014

   Schoolchildren arrive at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Neville Road, Leeds, a day after a teacher was stabbed to death.

2. A school staff member grieves outside the school gates.

3. Flowers and a picture of Mrs Maguire, who taught Spanish.

4. People comfort each other outside the school.

5. Monsignor Paul Fisher conducts a mass at Corpus Christi Catholic Church for people to pray and pay their respects to Mrs Maguire. Click through for more images...

"I wasn't in shock, I was happy," he later told a psychiatrist.

"I had a sense of pride. I still do."

As the court heard, the fact the boy's family life "was marked by love and support" made his actions all the more "inexplicable".

Prosecuting barrister Paul Greaney QC said: "The murder was committed in public in front of many young people. The damage to those children remains to be seen but it is not difficult to imagine.

"The court would be entitled to conclude that the defendant derived pleasure from the public nature of the killing.

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1. Gallery: Tributes To Leeds Teacher After Her Death In April

   Pupils, staff and members of the public paid tribute to Spanish teacher Ann Maguire, 61, who was fatally stabbed at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds.

2. This message reads: 'R.I.P Mrs Maguire. A wonderful teacher and lady! You will be dearly missed.'

3. 'Miss Maguire. Such happy memories of you as my teacher and head of year in year 11. I am so pleased I got to be head girl during the time you wear head of year 11.'

4. 'Mrs Maguire. Such a tragedy and so sad to lose you. You taught me more than 20 years ago. You taught my children too. You will be missed by many and more.'

5. 'Mrs Maguire. Thank you for everything you did for me, I'll never forget it! You were a true inspiration among the whole of the school community! I hope one day I touch as many hearts as you did.'

6. 'Your presence we will miss, your memories we will treasure, Mrs Maguire we love you and will think of you forever. All my love to you, your family and friends.'

7. 'Mrs Maguire you were a wonderful teacher, you will be sadly missed. Lots of love.'

9. 'Mrs Maguire, RIP. A lovely woman, always had a smile and was a wonderful teacher. A pleasure to have known you.'

"The prosecution does not accept that this defendant's psychiatric make-up affords any mitigation."

And the teenager's state of mind would also appear to make little difference to the many people who loved and admired Ann Maguire, including her husband, Don.

"I can no longer be a dad, I need Ann," he said, in a statement read out to the court.

"Facing the world is very difficult, days are difficult, special days are especially so. There will be no closure, no end. Present and future are but words."

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Merkel Warns Cameron On EU Immigration: Reports

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is reported to have made clear she will withdraw her support for Britain's continued EU membership if David Cameron insists on pushing through curbs on immigration.

News weekly Der Spiegel quoted government sources as saying Ms Merkel fears the UK is approaching "the point of no return" and is becoming worried for the first time that a British exit is a real possibility.

In response to the report, Downing Street said Mr Cameron remained determined to address the issue of immigration in renegotiating Britain's EU membership.

Chancellor George Osborne also said the Conservatives would "make sure Britain gets a fair deal".

Ms Merkel is reported to have told the PM on the sidelines of an EU summit last month that his efforts to limit immigration undermined core principles of bloc.

Video: 'We Will Fight For UK's Interest'

"Should Cameron persist (in this plan), Chancellor Angela Merkel would abandon her efforts to keep Britain in the EU," the sources were quoted as telling the magazine.

"With that a point of no return would be reached," they said, adding: "That would be it then."

There was no suggestion in the Der Spiegel report that Germany would itself push Britain towards the exit.

Ms Merkel has said she strongly backs continued British membership, but not at any price.

Video: Johnson Reacts To Merkel Comments

No member state has ever left the 28-nation bloc, although there is a legal mechanism for a country to do so if it chooses. Other member states cannot force a country out.

The Prime Minister wants to renegotiate the terms of Britain's membership ahead of the Conservatives' promised referendum by the end of 2017.

He is under pressure to tighten the UK's immigration controls to counter the growing popularity of UKIP.

Mr Cameron will be aware of the need to calm Tory jitters ahead of this month's crunch by-election in Rochester and Strood, where the party is desperate to prevent a second seat falling to UKIP.

Video: Closer Look At Immigration Figures

The Sunday Times reported he was drawing up plans to ban migrants who do not have a jobs and deport those who are unable to support themselves after three months in the country.

A German government spokesman said the general principle of freedom of movement in the EU is not negotiable, but added there is a strong interest in the two countries discussing how to tackle abuse of that freedom.

Downing Street described the report of Ms Merkel's warning as "speculation", but said Mr Cameron would press ahead with renegotiating changes to EU immigration.

"The Prime Minister's view on this hasn't changed," a Number 10 spokeswoman said.

Video: EU Demand: What Are PM's Options?

"He was clear before the European Council that he recognises the British public have got concerns about the impact of EU migration here in the UK, and he is going to address these as part of the renegotiation."

Reacting to the reported remarks, Mr Osborne said: "We will fight for Britain's interest, we will make sure that Britain gets a fair deal in Europe and then make sure the British people have the final say in a referendum."

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Theresa May Tells Abuse Victims: I'm Sorry

Theresa May has apologised to victims of historical child sex abuse after losing a second chair of an official inquiry.

The Home Secretary faced MPs to explain how she would proceed after Fiona Woolf resigned on Friday because of her links to Lord Brittan, who is accused of failing to act on abuse allegations while home secretary in the 1980s.

Mrs Woolf's predecessor, Baroness Butler-Sloss, stood down in similar circumstances in July.

Fiona Woolf, Theresa May, Lord Brittan and Lady Butler-Sloss

The minister said she would meet victims next week before deciding on a new chairman - and would establish a liaison group.

Mrs May told MPs: "Almost four months after I announced my intention to establish a panel inquiry it is obviously very disappointing that we do not yet have a panel chairman and for that I want to tell survivors that I am sorry.

Video: Victims 'Relieved' As Woolf Quits

"I know that, perhaps because of the identity of your abusers or the way you were treated when you needed help, many of you have lost trust in the authorities.

"I know some of you have questioned the legitimacy of this process. I understand that. I am listening and to you I say this: I am as determined as you are to get to the truth.

"We have a once in a generation opportunity to do something that is hugely important.

"Together we can expose what has gone wrong in the past, we can prevent it from going wrong in the future.

"We can make sure people who thought they were beyond the reach of the law face justice."

The Home Secretary said the inquiry panel would continue to meet without a replacement chairman - starting next Wednesday.

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Mrs May admitted that it "will not be straightforward to find a chairman" for the inquiry who has "both the expertise to do this hugely important work and has had no contact at all with an institution or an individual about whom people have concerns".

But she added: "I still believe it is possible to find somebody who is suitably qualified and can win the confidence of survivors."

Significantly, the minister also revealed that a separate report by NSPCC chief Peter Wanless would be made public next week.

Mr Wanless has examined how the Home Office in the 1980s dealt with - and potentially failed to act on - a dossier on abuse.

The report and inquiry are looking into abuse and cover ups by politicians and other senior figures between the 1970s and 1990s.

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