The final episode of the world's longest running sitcom, Last Of The Summer Wine, will air on Sunday night.
The show, charting the exploits of pensioners growing old disgracefully, first aired in 1973 and has been a perennial favourite ever since.
Spawning much-loved characters such as Compo and Nora Batty, the affectionate series catapulted the picturesque West Yorkshire town of Holmfirth, where it is filmed, firmly into the spotlight.
Peter Sallis OBE, who appeared in the first episode, formed the backbone of the series as the ever-sensible Norman Clegg.
He was joined by a string of co-stars throughout the show's tenure but perhaps it is the late Bill Owen, who played the scruffy yet indomitable Compo, who is the most associated with the programme.
Other favourites were the reliably bad-tempered Nora Batty, played by Kathy Staff, and the equally fearsome Edie Pegden, played by Dame Thora Hird.
But on Sunday night the curtain will finally fall on the programme, which has boasted 295 episodes, and 31 series spanning 37 years.
Greg Christofi, who represents Holmfirth Central for Holme Valley Parish Council, said the town would miss the series but was more than prepared to cope in its absence.
Mr Christofi, whose favourite character is Compo, said: "The programme has been really good for us, it's brought a lot of attention to Holmfirth. We are proud of it.
"It has showcased our town and has been good for the local economy."
The final episode of the world's longest running sitcom, Last Of The Summer Wine, will air on Sunday night.
The show, charting the exploits of pensioners growing old disgracefully, first aired in 1973 and has been a perennial favourite ever since.
Spawning much-loved characters such as Compo and Nora Batty, the affectionate series catapulted the picturesque West Yorkshire town of Holmfirth, where it is filmed, firmly into the spotlight.
Peter Sallis OBE, who appeared in the first episode, formed the backbone of the series as the ever-sensible Norman Clegg.
He was joined by a string of co-stars throughout the show's tenure but perhaps it is the late Bill Owen, who played the scruffy yet indomitable Compo, who is the most associated with the programme.
Other favourites were the reliably bad-tempered Nora Batty, played by Kathy Staff, and the equally fearsome Edie Pegden, played by Dame Thora Hird.
But on Sunday night the curtain will finally fall on the programme, which has boasted 295 episodes, and 31 series spanning 37 years.
Greg Christofi, who represents Holmfirth Central for Holme Valley Parish Council, said the town would miss the series but was more than prepared to cope in its absence.
Mr Christofi, whose favourite character is Compo, said: "The programme has been really good for us, it's brought a lot of attention to Holmfirth. We are proud of it.
"It has showcased our town and has been good for the local economy."
Another England footballer won an injunction banning the reporting of allegations about his private life.
He became the third England international player in recent weeks to be granted a similar order preventing the media from publishing claims about their personal lives.
The gagging order was granted on Saturday by on-duty High Court judge Mr Justice Kenneth Parker.
None of the footballers can be named under the terms of the legal orders.
Concern has mounted about the use of injunctions to stop reporting of potentially embarrassing revelations.
There was outrage last year after an injunction granted to the Swiss multinational Trafigura appeared to restrict what MPs could say in Parliament.
Chelsea football captain John Terry was awarded an injunction - later repealed - preventing reporting of information about his alleged affair with Vanessa Perroncel, the former partner of his England team-mate Wayne Bridge.
The silence around counter-terrorism activities increases mistrust in the Government and helps fuel conspiracy theories which can tip people into extremism, a think-tank has said.
The Secret Services should become more transparent and the Government should even consider infiltrating online sites to cast doubt upon conspiracy theories, Demos said.
The warning comes after Michael Clarke, of the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) think-tank, said the UK had more to fear than any other western country from home-grown terrorists and the conditions were all there for a series of attacks to begin at any time.
Jamie Bartlett, who wrote the report for Demos, said: "Less-secret services could make Britain safer. The more open the Government is, the harder it is for extremist groups to make stories out of silence.
"Clearly, there are occasions when more transparency is not possible for reasons of national security, the safety of certain individuals, or resource constraints. But the degree to which conspiracy theories make up part of the extremist mind-set and world-view suggests it needs to be confronted.
"They destroy the trust that exists between the government and communities, which is the basis of effective counter-terrorism work. Careful moves to greater openness can reduce the traction these ideas have."
His report, the Power of Unreason, found the frequency of conspiracy theories within a wide variety of extremist groups "suggests that they play an important social and functional role within extremism itself".
"They hold extremist groups together and push them in a more extreme and sometimes violent direction," he said.
Demos recommended that "Government agents or their allies should openly infiltrate the internet sites or spaces to plant doubts about conspiracy theories, introducing alternative information".
But it added that there was a limit to what the Government could do and "civil society must play a more proactive role in confronting conspiracy theories".
A paraglider died after falling 150ft near cliffs, the Coastguard said.
Emergency services were alerted just after 5pm on Saturday when a leisure boat user witnessed the paraglider crash close to a golf course at Staddon Heights, near Plymouth, Devon.
Brixham Coastguard, plus Plymouth and Yealm Coastguard rescue teams responded alongside a land and air ambulance.
A Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokesman said: "When the individual was finally located it was discovered that he was beyond assistance and was pronounced dead on arrival."
A Devon and Cornwall Police spokesman said officers are investigating the circumstances surrounding the accident.
The overall tax burden will have to remain at its current level for five years, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has suggested.
In an interview with The Observer, the Liberal Democrat appeared to dismiss the prospect of net tax cuts before the next general election, planned for 2015.
"I think the tax burden is necessary as a significant contribution to getting the country's finances in order," he said.
"So it will have to stay at that level for quite some time."
Asked whether a reduction in the overall tax burden was possible once the country's books were in order, he added: "You are asking me to take decisions for five years down the line now and I am not going to do that."
Mr Alexander, Chancellor George Osborne's deputy, said he wanted to "rebalance" the tax system, however, so that people on lower incomes pay less tax as an incentive for them to find and stay in work.
That suggests that higher earners would have little respite from tax to look forward to until 2015.
"The plan we set out is to rebalance the tax system," Mr Alexander said.
"We need the tax revenues from the taxes we are putting up to help us reduce the deficit."
His comments will disappoint those hoping that massive cuts across Whitehall to deal with the £155 billion deficit will create the conditions for tax cuts within a few years.
More than a dozen men are in custody after a controversial city centre demonstration by far-right group the English Defence League.
The 13 were arrested by police for offences of public order and violence during Saturday's protest in Bradford, West Yorkshire, which was attended by fewer than 1,000 EDL supporters.
Some threw bottles, cans, stones and three smoke bombs at opponents gathered nearby. Nearly 100 supporters of the far-right group climbed over a temporary 8ft barricade - aimed at keeping them inside the city's Urban Gardens - to get on to neighbouring waste ground from where they threw missiles at police.
As the skirmishes were breaking out, nearly 300 people gathered for an alternative event hosted by Unite Against Fascism/We Are Bradford about half a mile away at the Crown Court Plaza.
A West Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said of the 13 arrests, eight were from Bradford and the others from Wakefield, Leeds, Wolverhampton, Walsall and Birmingham.
In the days before the rally, Bradford community leaders called for calm fearing demonstrations could provoke a violent reaction to rival the 2001 Bradford riots, where 191 people were given sentences totalling more than 510 years.
Initially the EDL intended to march in Bradford with a planned protest by Unite Against Fascism on the same day. A high-profile campaign was started to stop the EDL march and a 10,000-signature petition opposing it was handed to the Home Office. Home Secretary Theresa May was asked to authorise the ban by Bradford Council.
It came after West Yorkshire Police's Chief Constable, Sir Norman Bettison, wrote to the council requesting an order to prohibit any public processions over the August Bank Holiday weekend.
In a joint statement police and the Bradford Council praised local people for remaining calm during a difficult day when tensions could have risen.
Ch Supt Alison Rose, Bradford South divisional commander, and council leader Ian Greenwood said: "Although there has been some disruption to the city centre, we are returning to normality and people of Bradford are now able to continue their lives. The police has worked effectively to handle the situation and to respond quickly to the events as they unfolded. The mood of the city in general has been one of calm and local people have co-operated and supported the police by behaving sensibly or staying away. We have done a lot of work with the local community in the build-up to these events and we would like to thank those who helped to plan for and managed the protests. The numbers of English Defence League supporters in Bradford were less than they claimed. Unite Against Fascism has also had a similar presence in the city."
Hundreds of thousands of revellers will descend on the capital over the next two days for Europe's biggest street festival - the Notting Hill Carnival.
Dancers wearing vibrant costumes will parade along the packed three-and-a-half-mile route in west London from 9am on Sunday to the sounds of traditional steel drums.
The lines of colourful floats will be accompanied by more than 40 static sound systems and scores of Caribbean food stalls.
For many, the bank holiday celebrations will be the climax of months of rehearsals, planning and preparation, with children's day taking place today ahead of the adults' parade.
London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "This weekend London will be filled with visitors from across the world eager to have some fun at the ultimate free street party.
"Our legendary Notting Hill Carnival highlights the richness of Caribbean culture and is the perfect summer celebration. As a former Ladbroke Grove resident, I feel a particular affinity to the pulsating steel pans and colourful floats as simply nothing rivals the spirit and energy of carnival. The event showcases the immense contribution that Caribbean Londoners have made and continue to make to life in the capital."
A massive £6 million policing operation will swing into gear during the two days to protect up to a million expected carnival visitors.
All entrances will have search points in a bid to prevent weapons being carried on to the streets, while specialist spotters watch out for known criminals. British Transport Police officers will patrol the Tube and rail system, with mobile metal detection arches being used at some stations.
Teams of officers will target pickpockets who have blighted previous carnivals and dog owners have been told to leave animals at home.
More than 350 medical staff from the London Ambulance Service and St John Ambulance will be on duty on both days.
David and Ed Miliband today dismissed suggestions that their rivalry for the Labour leadership would damage their family.
The two frontrunners in the race to succeed Gordon Brown each insisted that their brotherly bond would outlast the contest - despite heightened tensions between the pair in recent days.
David Miliband again refused to say, however, whether he would be prepared to serve under Ed Miliband if the younger brother were to be crowned leader at the start of next month's Labour conference. Asked whether he would, shadow foreign secretary David Miliband told the Sunday Mirror: "I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics."
Ed Miliband, by contrast, said he would "definitely" serve under his elder brother in a separate interview with the same paper. The shadow energy secretary added: "Our family is solid and our family will still be sitting down for the Sunday roast whatever the outcome."
David Miliband said: "Family is more important than politics. We're both absolutely clear about that. Nothing is going to break up our family. We're a really tight-knit group."
Meanwhile, fellow leadership contenders Ed Balls and Andy Burnham expressed frustration that the contest was being portrayed in its final stages as a duel between the two brothers.
Mr Balls insisted in a letter to party members that the election was not a "two-horse race" between the Miliband brothers. The shadow education secretary said Labour should not be forced to choose between "going with our hearts or our heads" - as the choice between Ed and David Miliband has been described.
Mr Balls claimed he was capable of not only standing up for Labour members but also winning over the wider electorate to get the party back into power.
His missive comes days before voting finally begins. After months of debate and hustings, ballot papers will be sent out next week.
Mr Burnham, the shadow health secretary, said: "There is a real danger for Labour that the frontrunners are beginning to make this race look like a battle between old and new Labour. That suits the media, but not the Labour Party. Party members want us to move beyond all that stale old debate."
Relief efforts to help millions of people caught up in Pakistan's flood crisis are being stepped up amid calls for immediate reconstruction work to begin.
Oxfam has warned of devastating long-term consequences if billions of pounds were not diverted towards rebuilding schools, hospitals, roads and bridged in badly hit areas.
The aid organisation said that Pakistan did not have the "luxury" of waiting for the emergency phase to be over before concentrating on reconstruction.
British efforts in the region are being increased as public money continues to pour in, charities have said.
The British Red Cross said that one month into the crisis, the organisation had managed to reached more than than 400,000 people with desperately needed aid as a result of donations.
Sir Nicholas Young, chief executive of the British Red Cross, said: "The delivery of aid to those in need is increasing all the time. The Red Cross Red Crescent movement alone has reached hundreds of thousands of people with desperately needed help - including food, water, shelter and medical care - and those numbers are going up by the thousand each and every day."
Government relief operations are likewise continuing.
On Saturday, the Royal Air Force announced it was flying in aid for more than 3,000 families left stranded by the devastating floods in Pakistan.
The British Government has now committed £64 million to help people in Pakistan affected by the floods.
It comes as Oxfam urged that the international community and the Pakistan authorities begin to focus on rebuilding the country.
The BBC is too big and "almost unmanageable", its former chairman, Michael Grade has said.
He told an audience at the Edinburgh International Television Festival the BBC should also share some of the licence fee with Channel 4.
Mr Grade said: "The real issue in the modern world is how big should the BBC be?
"Does it need all those digital channels, does it need all those radio stations, does it need to occupy all the territory that it does?".
He said it was up to licence fee payers, through the mechanism of the BBC Trust, to decide what services it stopped providing adding: "The BBC has to contract. It's just too big. It's almost unmanageable."
Mr Grade, who has served as BBC chairman, BBC1 controller and boss of Channel 4, said both channels should compete for a share of the licence fee.
He said: "That would sharpen up the BBC's value for money instincts and secure Channel 4 and would create a measure of competition in the public service broadcasting sector."
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt warned the BBC needed more "discipline" and its director-general has warned of massive job cuts to come.
Mr Hunt said he could not rule out a reduction in the licence fee and warned that the BBC has to "live on the same planet as everyone else".
The corporation has come under fire in recent years for the large sums of licence fee money paid to its stars and top managers.
The Test match between England and Pakistan has resumed under a cloud of controversy following allegations that some of the tourists were involved in match-fixing.
Mazhar Majeed, a 35-year-old agent, was arrested on Saturday night and four Pakistani players gave statements to the police over claims about the Lord's Test.
Pakistan's captain Salman Butt, bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif and wicket keeper Kamran Akmal were all questioned by officers from Scotland Yard, team manager Yawar Saeed confirmed.
The allegations centre on the timing of no balls delivered during the Test match.
Undercover reporters from the News of the World allegedly paid a middleman £150,000 and in return were told exact details relating to play during the following day.
The paper said it was able to buy its way into a match-fixing ring by posing as Far Eastern businessmen.
Pakistani batsman Umar Akmal and Azhar Ali were greeted my muted applause as they walked to the crease for the start of play this morning.
The pressure on the Pakistan team was obviously taking its toll as the team refused the opportunity to warm up before the resumption of play.
Scotland Yard said it arrested a man in relation to the newspaper's investigation.
A force spokesman said: "Following information received from the News of the World we have today (Saturday August 28) arrested a 35-year-old man on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers."
Bank of England deputy governor Charles Bean has hinted at a conference of central bankers that further quantitative easing may be required to sustain economic recovery.
Mr Bean told delegates at the US Federal Reserve's annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, that policymakers had prevented a financial market collapse but further action might be required.
At the same event, US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke set out "unconventional" policy options to boost the US economy.
Presenting a report to the conference on Saturday, Mr Bean said: "The deleveraging process is incomplete, the recovery remains fragile and a considerable margin of spare capacity is yet to be worked off.
"Further policy action may yet be necessary to keep the recovery on track."
But he added that "normal times will surely return in due course".
The Bank of England's monetary policy committee, of which Mr Bean is a member, has been split over the need for further economic support as Chancellor George Osborne's belt-tightening budget comes into force.
Earlier in the month, Bank of England governor Mervyn King warned growth will be weaker than previously forecast.
Last month, the Bank of England held its asset purchase programme - also known as quantitative easing - at £200 billion, and kept interest rates at a record low of 0.5%.
In his speech to the conference, Mr Bernanke raised the prospect of another purchase of securities by the Fed in order to drive down rates on mortgages and other debt.
England's cricket series victory over Pakistan has been marred by allegations that their opponents were involved in match-fixing.
Mazhar Majeed, a cricket agent, is in custody and four Pakistan players, including captain Salman Butt, have given statements to police over claims surrounding the Lord's Test.
The allegations centre on the timing of "no balls" delivered during the game.
Pakistan team manager Yawar Saeed said bowlers Mohammad Aamer, Mohammad Asif and wicket keeper Kamran Akmal were the other players questioned by police.
Butt, Asif and Aamer had their mobile phones confiscated by police as part of the investigation, he added.
The claims caused shockwaves across the sporting world, with pressure mounting on the Pakistan Cricket Board to act following this, the latest in a string of match-fixing allegations to dog the team since the 1990s.
Players and fans were united in their anger, with Lord MacLaurin, former chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, calling for any players guilty of "spot fixing" to be banned for life.
Undercover reporters from the News of the World allegedly paid a middleman £150,000 and in return were told exact details relating to play during the following day.
The paper said it was able to buy its way into a match-fixing ring by posing as Far Eastern businessmen. The reporting team claims it was told exactly when three no balls would be bowled during the current Test.
Struggling with the pressure, the Pakistan team unusually refused the chance to warm up on the famous Lord's pitch prior to the start of play on the final day of the Test. England made short work of their opponents when Pakistan finally emerged from the dressing room, winning the series 3-1 as the tourists slumped to an innings defeat.
The Prime Minister cradles and smiles at his new daughter in the latest images to be released of Florence Rose Endellion.
The pictures are from a series taken this weekend, the first of David and Samantha Cameron's five-day-old daughter, by Press Association photographer Stefan Rousseau.
Mrs Cameron and the baby, both said to be doing well, left hospital on Friday and the family are continuing their holiday in Cornwall. It is not clear when they will return to London.
Before Tuesday's surprise early birth Mr Cameron had been expected to return to work after the weekend, but he could now take some additional time off as paternity leave.
The Camerons evaded waiting photographers as they left the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro on Friday, exiting its maternity wing by a back door before being driven away in a people carrier with blacked-out windows.
The baby, born weighing 6lb 1oz, was due next month, but caught the family by surprise while they were on holiday in Cornwall.
Speaking outside the hospital on Tuesday, Mr Cameron described her as an "unbelievably beautiful girl".
Her middle name, Endellion, refers to the village of St Endellion on the north Cornish coast, near where the Camerons were staying.
Christine Rashleigh, director of nursing, midwifery and allied health professions at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, said the length of Mrs Cameron's stay - three nights - was "perfectly normal" after a Caesarean section.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Friday that that he would "just carry on holding the fort" until Mr Cameron returned to work.
Planning rules which councils claim have forced them to develop traveller sites on open countryside are to be torn up, it has been announced.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles is to revoke the "planning circulars" issued by the former Labour government which set out strict requirements for town halls on the provision of land for gypsies.
He is also looking at ways of increasing local authority powers to tackle unauthorised encampments, which are a source of major community tensions in some areas.
At the same time, however, councils are to be offered financial incentives for developing authorised sites where possible.
As the Government seeks to enhance the provision of traveller sites, they will be included in a new homes bonus scheme under which councils will be paid for properties they allow to be built in their area.
Travellers on official sites are also to be given the same rights and responsibilities as residents of other mobile home sites so that they have greater protection against eviction.
Mr Pickles said: "Unauthorised developments have created tensions between travellers and the settled population. We want to redress the balance and put fairness back into communities.
"Like the rest of the population, the majority of travellers are law-abiding citizens and they should have the same chance of having a safe place to live and bring up their children.
"These changes will put travellers who play by the rules on an equal footing. But at the same time, we will not sit back and allow people to bypass the planning rules that everyone else has to abide by.
"That's why we will strengthen the powers that councils have to enforce against breaches of planning rules and tackle the abuse of the planning system."
David Miliband has called for Labour to "reach out" to new donors after being threatened that unions may withdraw their funding for the party if the next leader does not abandon the pursuit of middle class voters.
GMB general secretary Paul Kenny warned this weekend that the unions would not tolerate a continuation of the Blairite centre-ground approach and the neglect of grassroots Labour concerns.
The cash-strapped Labour Party has become almost entirely reliant on the unions to stay afloat and the GMB has given more than £14 million to Labour since 2001.
But Mr Miliband, seen as the frontrunner to replace Gordon Brown as Labour leader next month, gave no ground to the unions and indicated he would be seeking donations from a much wider base. "We need millions of people to give small amounts and we also need to reach out, to sort out the financial mess of the Labour Party, to make sure that we've got large donations as well," he told a news channel.
Emphasising that he had no intention of playing up to the unions, he added that he had "an agenda that speaks to the country".
His comments come as the choice between he and his younger brother, shadow energy secretary Ed Miliband, is increasingly dominating the Labour leadership debate.
The GMB is urging its members to vote for Ed Miliband, who has emphasised the need for Labour to re-engage with its core voters. Asked whether the GMB would withdraw funding for Labour if Ed Miliband did not win, Mr Kenny said: "If the new leader offers us more of the same, many unions - including our own - would have to consider where we are at."
In an interview with The Times, he added: "The fundamental difference between Ed and his brother is that when David said 'Let's reach out to the middle classes' he made the same mistake as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Labour can't function without its grassroots."
Meanwhile, fellow leadership contenders Ed Balls and Andy Burnham expressed frustration that the contest was being portrayed in its final stages as a duel between the two brothers. Mr Balls, the shadow education secretary said Labour should not be forced to choose between "going with our hearts or our heads" - as the choice between Ed and David Miliband has been described.
Mr Burnham, the shadow health secretary, said: "There is a real danger for Labour that the frontrunners are beginning to make this race look like a battle between old and new Labour. That suits the media, but not the Labour Party. Party members want us to move beyond all that stale old debate."
Tony Blair will this week submit to an hour-long interrogation by the BBC's Andrew Marr as he promotes his highly-anticipated autobiography.
The former prime minister will be out of the country for the book's publication on Wednesday, having been invited to a White House dinner by President Barack Obama in his role as Middle East peace envoy.
But before he flies out to the US, Mr Blair is to be interviewed by Marr, the broadcaster and former political journalist, for a special programme to be aired on BBC2 on Wednesday evening.
The grilling is billed by the BBC as the ex-PM's "first major political interview" since 2007, when he left Number 10.
Combined with the publication of his book, A Journey, it is likely to put Labour's 13 years in power under fresh scrutiny as the party's members prepare to choose their new leader.
Ballot papers in the contest to succeed Gordon Brown, who quit after May's general election, will start dropping on doormats the same day.
Mr Blair's memoirs have been shrouded in secrecy ahead of publication day.
He and publisher Random House have resisted the prospect of selling serialisation rights to a national newspaper and there have been no authoritative leaks of the book's contents.
However, Mr Blair is widely expected to seek to justify the invasion of Iraq and his closeness with former US president George W Bush - the two aspects of his premiership for which he attracted most criticism.
Besides Iraq, the book will also be pored over by political observers for new details about his often fraught relationship with Mr Brown, his chancellor and successor as premier.
Labour peer Andrew McIntosh has died after a battle with cancer, relatives have said.
The 77-year-old politician, who served as a whip and a culture spokesman in the Lords, was given a life peerage in 1983 as Baron McIntosh of Haringey.
His son Philip said: "He was the most honest and considerate socialist politician of his generation and will be greatly missed."
Lord McIntosh, who lived in Highgate, north London, was leader of the Labour group which won control of the Greater London Council in 1981.
But the day after victory he was ousted, with Ken Livingstone voted leader in his place.
His son said funeral arrangements were being made for a humanist ceremony on September 8.
Lord McIntosh, who was married to social researcher Naomi Sargant, had two sons and a stepson.
More than 100,000 heavily pregnant women face the risk of infection and disease in the aftermath of the flooding in Pakistan, Save the Children has warned.
The aid agency said at least half a million expectant mothers had been affected by the floods, with tens of thousands of newborn babies and women in potential danger in the coming months.
It added many expectant mothers would be forced to give birth in temporary shelters or tents, with no access to clean water or healthcare.
Matt Wingate of Save the Children said: "We know that mums are already giving birth in the flimsiest of shelters, only metres from dirty floodwater.
"This presents appalling risks in terms of disease and infection, and ultimately poses a serious threat to the lives of mums and their newborn babies."
Before this disaster, the country already had a high infant mortality rate, with one in 20 babies dying before they were a month old.
Mr Wingate added: "We're going all-out to reach as many people as possible. We've established fixed and mobile health clinics and are treating hundreds of people every day, including pregnant women and new mothers."
The charity's aid workers have assisted pregnant women, carrying them across swollen rivers to safety, and delivered life-saving care to women giving birth in risky situations.
It said it had so far reached more than 160,000 people through emergency medical care and distribution of food, tents, shelter kits, hygiene kits and other supplies.
An expedition surveying the wreck of the Titanic is showing off some crisp images of the world's most famous shipwreck.
But officials from Expedition Titanic said in a statement they are now headed back to Newfoundland because high seas and winds brought on by hurricane Danielle are preventing researchers from carrying out their work.
The team of scientists have been using a pair of robots to take thousands of photographs and hours of video of the wreck, which lies roughly 2.5 miles below the surface.
The hi-resolution images include shots of the ship's bow, clearly showing the railing and anchors.
The expedition left Newfoundland earlier this month to the spot in the Atlantic where the ship struck an iceberg in 1912 and sank. More than 1,500 passengers and crew perished on the ship's maiden voyage.
Scientist are using imaging technology and sonar devices that never have been used before on the Titanic wreck. They are probing nearly a century of sediment in the debris field to seek a full inventory of the ship's artefacts.
The expedition is a partnership between RMS Titanic Inc, which has exclusive salvage rights to the wreck, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. The expedition will not collect artefacts but is scheduled to probe a 2-by-3-mile debris field where hundreds of thousands of artefacts remain scattered.
Expedition officials say they intend to return to finish their work after a delay of a few days.
Since oceanographer Robert Ballard and an international team discovered the Titanic in 1985, most of the expeditions have either been to photograph the wreck or gather thousands of artefacts, such as fine china, shoes and ship fittings.
Titanic director James Cameron has also led teams to the wreck to record the bow and the stern, which separated during the sinking and now lie one-third of a mile apart.
