It is Grizzly Bear vocalist Ed Droste's birthday, and the crowd break into a haphazard round of 'Happy Birthday'. This should please the Brooklyn four-piece - they publicly moaned that an audience in Newcastle was too quiet last week.

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Giant avalanches on an icy moon of Saturn may provide clues about devastating landslides on Earth, say scientists.

Three British climbers among those mourned after last week's disaster in the French Alps

Two friends from same Yorkshire village killed in alpine disaster that no one had predicted

The mountaineering world has led tributes to one of the UK's most respected climbers after he was killed alongside two other Britons in a devastating avalanche.

Nine climbers - including three Britons - have been killed after an avalanche hit the Mont Blanc range in the French Alps

Avalanches are a hazard of mountaineering, whatever the time of year.

This is a factfile of some of the most deadly incidents in history:

There is a campaign under way to rescue the reputation of Enoch Powell, whose centenary it is today. In the Daily Mail, Powell's biographer, Simon Heffer, calls him "a man of conspicuous moral greatness". To Peter Oborne, in The Daily Telegraph, he was "a man of extraordinary integrity". The former MP Paul Goodman, on ConservativeHome, hails Powell, as "the finest political writer of my lifetime". Even Iain Duncan Smith joined in to praise him for battling against the UK's membership of the EU.

Ben Ainslie, just as part of lining himself up for a fifth Olympic medal and a fourth consecutive gold, is in unstoppable form at the world championship regatta being staged for the Finn singlehanders in Falmouth.

Police said the death toll has reached 17 from weekend flash flooding in western Nepal. Another 47 people are missing and presumed dead.

Many still missing as 80ft of snow smashes army base on Siachen Glacier near Indian border

An avalanche at a French ski resort has been captured on camera.