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The traditional exchange of gifts between the US and UK leaders has not always run smoothly - with leather jackets and trench coats among the notable rejections.

But some are gifts that keep on giving, with Queen Victoria's 1880 present - the Oval Office's Resolute desk - used by President Donald Trump on his first day in the White House.

Theresa May is to present the US president with a traditional Scottish cup of friendship, while First Lady Melania Trump is due to receive a hamper of produce from the prime minister's country residence, Chequers.

But judging by previous gifts, what can the PM expect in return?

Most presents held by UK government departments include works of art, watches, wine and jewellery.

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The man expected to be Donald Trump's new ambassador to the European Union, Ted Malloch, says the new presidency is a chance for the UK and US to "celebrate and renew" their relationship. 

He has harsher words for other European countries, saying France, Germany and Luxembourg are "simply going to have to pay more", with no free ride on the American defence budget.

Steve Rosenberg looks at how relations between the two politicians could bring Russia in from the diplomatic cold.

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The resignation of shadow cabinet member Jo Stevens is a "significant blow" to Jeremy Corbyn's attempts to unite Labour on Article 50, BBC political correspondent Carole Walker has said.

Ms Stevens is the first member of Mr Corbyn's top team to quit over the issue. 

She follows shadow education minister Tulip Siddiq who resigned on Thursday, while two whips - who are responsible for party discipline - have indicated they will also rebel, risking being sacked.

Carole says in Ms Stevens's letter to the Labour leader, she says she's a passionate European, but believes leaving the EU is "a terrible mistake".

She insists she does not wish to cause any difficulty for Mr Corbyn, but says her vote against Article 50 will "be the most important vote I will ever cast as an MP".

Our correspondent says the resignations underline the huge problems Mr Corbyn and his party have.

By Jack Evans, BBC political research unit

Jo Stevens's departure is the first shadow cabinet resignation since July last year when Jeremy Corbyn faced an exodus from his front bench following the EU Referendum vote.

Mr Corbyn will now be looking for his fourth shadow Welsh secretary since he became Labour leader in September 2015.

This is the 23rd shadow cabinet resignation of Mr Corbyn's time as leader of the Labour Party and the 25th shadow cabinet departure - two were sacked. 

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By Jack Evans, BBC political research unit

After the news that Jo Stevens has resigned from the shadow cabinet, Jeremy Corbyn will be looking for his fourth shadow Welsh secretary. 

Ms Stevens was elected as the MP for Cardiff Central back in 2015, beating the Lib Dems into second place.

Her seat remains a Labour-Liberal Democrat marginal and analysis suggests 70% of her seat voted to remain in the European Union.

Ms Stevens has been active in the Labour Party for almost 30 years and supported both Andy Burnham and Owen Smith for the party leadership in recent elections.

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Theresa May paid her respects to the military dead of the US at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington DC on Friday.

The UK prime minister laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at the Virginia military cemetery, which holds the remains of unidentified US troops from the First and Second World Wars, as well as the Korean war. 

Dressed in black, Mrs May was greeted by troops representing all military units based in Washington, led by Major General Bradley Becker, commander of Joint Force Headquarters for the national capital region.

A cannon was fired 19 times as the prime minister's convoy arrived at the cemetery and made its way to the memorial, which stands on a small hill looking down over serried ranks of gravestones to the monuments of Washington a few miles away across the Potomac River. 

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Shadow Welsh secretary Jo Stevens has resigned from the shadow cabinet in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's decision to force Labour MPs to back the Article 50 Brexit Bill.  

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According to The Guardian, external, a week into Donald Trump’s presidency, arts and music policy advocates are still largely at a loss as to what to expect from his administration.

“The general feeling is that we are moving into unknown territory,” said Robert Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts, external, an organisation that coordinates with local and statewide agencies to increase accessibility to the arts, during an interview in late November.

“It’s changing before our eyes, so we don’t really know. We are in a mode of either assessing opportunity or assessing danger,” he told the newspaper.

In a recent statement, Mr Lynch referred to last week’s report that Mr Trump’s administration is considering proposing legislation that eliminates the National Endowment for the Arts, external (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities “disturbing but not unexpected”.

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Donald Trump promised that he would deliver big things for the American people from the moment he came into office. 

Mr Trump's first seven days in office have seen a flurry of executive orders, a war declared by his team on the mainstream media, some of the largest protests ever held in the United States, and the coining of a term - "alternative facts" - that could come to define the White House under his tenure.

The BBC website has published more than 200 stories and videos about or relating to President Trump since inauguration day.

Get a full run-down of his first week here

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Theresa May's speech to Republicans on Thursday was an attempt to move Donald Trump away from the radical agenda he has adopted, according to one of Tony Blair's former speech writers.

Sir Lawrence Freedman, emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London, helped to draft Mr Blair's speech to the US in 1999 at the height of the Kosovo crisis.

"I think the most important feature of her speech was not about intervention, it was about trying to find some way by going through the Republican party to try to move the president from the rather radical agenda he seems to have adopted," Sir Lawrence told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.

"That's not an activist intervention of the sort of [Bill] Clinton and [George] Bush, but will have an enormous effect on the rest of the world - that's challenging free trade, challenging Nato, cosying up to [Vladimir] Putin."

Sir Lawrence says Mrs May risks being "seen as getting too close to somebody who the rest of Europe thinks is beyond the pale".

And having set out the position she holds on issues such as Russia, Iran and Nato, the risk is the president will ignore them, he said.

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Theresa May is visiting Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier - ahead of her talks with US President Donald Trump.