Everton have confirmed Steve Round as their new assistant manager after several days of negotiations between the Toffees and his former club Newcastle.

A near-total ban on abortions has been signed into law in South Dakota, a measure the governor called a “direct frontal assault” on the US Supreme Court decision to legalise the procedure 33 years ago.

South Dakota’s governor today signed into law a bill banning nearly all abortions, in a move aimed at challenging the 1973 US Supreme Court decision that legalised abortion across the US.