Hendry said over the two legs that Scotland rather than England deserved to qualify for the Euro 2000 finals.
“I don’t think (the best side has gone through) but that’s football for you, isn’t it? If you score more goals than the opposition, that’s the reason you go through,” Hendry said.
We played much better but people will not take that on board.
“It couldn’t have been any closer. We knew exactly what we were going to try and do but what we didn’t manage to achieve was to get the second goal.”
Striker Billy Dodds, who looked far more dangerous than in the first-leg, was as inconsolable as most Scottish players and fans.
“Everybody knows how we feel,” said the Dundee United striker.
We lost two bad goals at home and it is so hard to take. We took the game to them but it is so disappointing to lose. It is typical Scottish luck.”
England skipper Alan Shearer paid tribute to the Scots.
“Scotland were wounded after Saturday. They’ve come here and put in a magnificent performance.
“They made it difficult for us from the start. They gave us one hell of a fight.
“We can do well in the finals. We’ve sneaked in through the back door to get there but we’re there and we’re confident in our own ability.”
Scotland supporters heading home from London say they did not know whether to laugh or cry after their team’s 1-0 victory over England.
Many a tartan-clad fan has admitted doing both after their team was denied a place in the Euro 2000 finals because of England’s 2-0 victory in the first leg.
After the game Scottish supporters stayed behind in the stadium to cheer their team and tears were seen in the eyes of even the burliest fans.
Loyal Scotland followers, gathering at Euston station to catch northbound trains, say they out sang the England supporters.
“The atmosphere was electric,” one fan told the BBC.
It was also a night of mixed emotions for England fans.
This was only the second Wembley defeat for England in any major qualifying competition. Immediately after the final whistle, England fans in central London poured out of West End pubs and headed for Trafalgar Square.
The flag of St George was hoisted but by midnight most fans had gone home.
The second leg has been described by fans and police as a largely peaceful and friendly affair.
There was some isolated trouble, with 56 supporters injured and 39 arrested in central London.
The Metropolitan Police had adopted a policy of “zero tolerance” towards hooliganism and they say it seems to have paid off.
“The number of arrests was comparatively small,” said a spokesman.
Almost three out of four UK households now watch digital television, according to media watchdog Ofcom.
Quarterly figures show that 73.3% of households watch digital services on their main TV set, a rise by around 800,000 over the last three months.
Around 18.5 million have digital TV installed, with increasing numbers watching on second or third sets.
The figures also show that 9.3 million households now have digital terrestrial television, such as Freeview.
More households (7 million) watch digital terrestrial TV than traditional analogue TV (6.4 million) on their main set, according to Ofcom’s report.
Between late 2007 and 2012, the analogue TV signal will be switched off in the UK. Aled Jones – Higher, Amici Forever – The Opera Band, Bryn Terfel – Bryn, Denise Leigh/Jane Gilchrist – Operatunity, Dominic Miller – Shapes, Hayley Westenra – Pure, Lesley Garrett – So Deep Is The Night, Luciano Pavarotti – Ti Adoro, Ludovico Einaudi – Echoes ¬ The Collection, Myleene Klass – Moving On
Bryn Terfel’s popular Faenol music festival is going back in time this weekend.
One of the highlights of this year’s show, held near Caernarfon, north Wales, is a revival of a 1970s Welsh rock opera with the original cast.
And opera star Terfel is encouraging festival-goers to turn up in full 1970s gear for Nia Ben Aur, which was first performed 30 years ago.
“I’d even like people to dress up in 70s clothing!” said Terfel.
Jazz performers Jamie Cullum and Jools Holland were the other big attractions of the weekend.
Holland and best-selling singer and pianist Cullum headlined on the Saturday night, with more than 8,000 tickets sold already.
“Jamie Cullum is having a wonderful time, with his album going double platinum before Christmas,” said Terfel.
I met him before the Proms in London and hinted that I’d like him at my festival.
“And it’s come true, which isn’t easy because he’s very busy and this will be his 10th successive concert.”
“This year, we’ve veered off the road,” he added of the jazz theme, alongside the classical and Welsh rock line-up.
“I have to bring something new every year, hence we’re having a big band, jazz and blues evening.”
The Gala Opera Night on Sunday will again feature more young talent, with tenor Joseph Calleja appearing with Terfel, as well as 17-year-old violinist Chloe Hanslip.
Bass baritone Terfel said that for the fifth year of the festival on the Faenol estate he has responded to requests to bring in giant screens to show performers close-up.
“It’s wonderful to wear an entrepreneur’s hat for a change – it’s something different from what I do for the rest of the year.
“It’s something I wanted to do for the location – and the artists that have come here have enjoyed it and return for holidays.”
Mr Griffin accused the protesters of “attacking the rights of millions of people to listen to what I’ve got to say and listen to me being called to account by other politicians”.
But Weyman Bennett from Unite Against Fascism accused the BBC of “rolling out the red carpet” to Mr Griffin and said his appearance on the flagship discussion programme “will lead to the growth of a fascist party” and promote violence against ethnic minorities.
About 25 people managed to get through the gates and run towards the BBC building when security guards opened them to let in a car. A few minutes later they were led, dragged or carried back outside.
There were also protests outside BBC buildings in Bristol, Liverpool, Nottingham, Glasgow and Belfast.
Earlier on Thursday, BBC director general Mark Thompson said it was up to the government to ban the BNP from the airwaves if it felt Mr Griffin should not be allowed to take part in Question Time.
Welsh Secretary Peter Hain, who had tried to stop the broadcast, said: “The BBC should be ashamed of single-handedly doing a racist, fascist party the biggest favour in its grubby history.”
But Prime Minister Gordon Brown said it was a matter for the corporation and he did not want to interfere with it, while Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw said that most of the cabinet did not share Mr Hain’s view.
BBC Deputy Director General Mark Byford said it had been “appropriate” to invite Mr Griffin to appear given the support the BNP received in the last European elections when it gained its first Euro MPs.
He said: “He was scrutinised and challenged along with the other panellists heavily by the audience, that was right in our view.
“It would have been quite wrong for the BBC to have said ‘yes, you are allowed to stand in elections, yes you have a level of support that now meets the threshold but the BBC doesn’t think that you should be on’.
“We have no views on the politics or the political leaders what we do hold absolutely dear is that due impartiality is a value we uphold and that’s why Mr Griffin was on tonight.”
But his references to Britain’s “indigenous people” prompted other members of the panel to challenge him to say he meant white people.
Mr Griffin said the colour was “irrelevant” and said Mr Straw would not dare go to New Zealand and tell a Maori he was not “indigenous”. “We are the aborigines here,” he claimed.
But he was accused of making up facts. He was also challenged by several black and Asian members of the audience.
One man asked Mr Griffin: “Where do you want me to go? I love this country, I’m part of this country.”
Following the programme, Mr Griffin told BBC News too much of the programme had been a a beat up Nick Griffin programme instead of Question Time”.
He added that of the 25 or so allegations made against him in the programme – he was only allowed to answer four or five of them and that was “grossly unfair”.
While the programme was being recorded the anti-BNP protest continued, with the whole west London BBC building “locked down” for more than an hour and the road outside closed.
The Metropolitan Police say six protesters were arrested and three police officers injured in the protests.
The spacecraft Nasa is developing to replace the shuttle has passed a critical milestone.
The Orion capsule, which is intended to carry at least four astronauts into Earth orbit and beyond, has completed its preliminary design review, or PDR.
The review is an essential engineering assessment that certifies the concept is fit for purpose.
The completion of the PDR paves the way for the US space agency to start to build the capsule for flight.
“This is the successful culmination of all of the design trade studies and activities to date,” said Mark Geyer, manager of the Orion Project Office at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
“As a project, a programme and an agency, we are reviewing the design maturity, strategy and plans for Nasa’s next human spacecraft and agreeing that this is the architecture we are going to build.”
The US space agency is scheduled to retire its space shuttles next year, and has begun the development of a new human space launch “architecture” called Constellation.
The architecture calls for two new rockets: the Ares 1 to launch crew, and a new heavy-lift rocket known as Ares 5 that could put into orbit the equipment needed by an Orion capsule to travel to the Moon and beyond.
However, all the systems are under review by a top-level panel led by former Lockheed Martin chairman and chief executive Norm Augustine. President Barack Obama has asked the panel to assess different options for getting US astronauts into space.
Some commentators expect the Ares development plans to be modified or even cancelled.
Orion is scheduled to enter service no earlier than March 2015.
International human rights groups have long called for a uniform and global legal system for dealing with war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Apart from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, established in May 1993, an international tribunal was established in Arusha, Tanzania, for cases resulting from the atrocities carried out in Rwanda in 1994.
Another is trying former Liberian President Charles Taylor over war crimes committed during the civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
Although these represent significant further steps in bringing those accused of war crimes to justice, they are, like Nuremberg and Tokyo, committed to dealing with war crimes in specific conflicts.
In July 2008, Surinam became the 107th country to join the International Criminal Court, set up in 2002 as a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for crimes against humanity.
The United States has refused to sign the treaty, arguing the court could be used to pursue politically motivated prosecutions. Other major powers including Russia, China and India have also refused.
The question of whether international courts of this kind are political – as defendants like Slobodan Milosevic argued – hangs over all international legal institutions.
In a sense it is true that the tribunals are political since the international political will to establish and fund them has to exist before they can get to work.
Critics of international courts often argue that international justice can only be truly legitimate when all war crimes, committed by any county, come under the jurisdiction of a single international court.
Whoever fills the post will have almost unlimited authority to spend the $700bn allocated by Congress to help avert a financial meltdown.
Among the top contenders for the job of secretary of the Treasury are Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, and Paul Volker.
Larry Summers was treasury secretary under President Clinton and more recently president of Harvard University. He is known for his outspoken views which have sometimes landed him in trouble, but his international experience would be a plus in dealing with a global crisis
Paul Volker would be a less partisan choice. He was chairman of the Federal Reserve in the l980s, he clashed with Ronald Reagan and his supply-side economics philosophy of tax cuts.
Timothy Geithner is the head of the New York branch of Federal Reserve, which has been deeply involved in the recent series of financial bail-outs. He is also a former Clinton administration treasury official.
If President-elect Obama wanted to reach into Wall Street, the traditional place to find treasury secretaries, he might call on New Jersey governor and former senator, Jon Corzine. Mr Corzine was a former boss of Goldman Sachs, like his successor Hank Paulson, the current treasury secretary.
Francois Fillon, a key ally of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has been appointed the country’s new prime minister in a ceremony in Paris.
Mr Fillon, 53, a moderate conservative senator, helped direct Mr Sarkozy’s successful election campaign.
He is expected to play a leading role in the president’s plans to reform France’s employment and welfare laws.
Mr Sarkozy, who succeeded Jacques Chirac on Wednesday, is due to name the rest of his government on Friday.
He has promised to halve the number of government ministers to 15, and has said about half will be women.
The outgoing prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, who resigned from the post on Tuesday, received his successor and formally handed over power in a ceremony on Thursday morning.
In line with tradition, the Republican Guard was deployed in ceremonial uniform and Mr Fillon arrived via a red carpet laid out across the courtyard at the prime minister’s official residence, the Matignon.
During the ceremony the new prime minister said: “I will listen to everyone because a France in motion needs everyone.”
Afterwards Mr de Villepin emerged from the Matignon, wished Mr Fillon good luck and said: “He has all the necessary qualities to succeed in the service of our country.”
Mr Fillon served as social affairs minister between 2002 to 2004, pushing through a major overhaul of the country’s pension system in the midst of large street protests.
He has also served in several other government posts for the UMP party, but lost his
