Community leaders and police have met in Galliagh in Derry to tackle anti-social behaviour following trouble in the area over the weekend.

Proposals include an expansion of the council run community warden scheme and an awareness programme in schools.
Up to 40 youths poured petrol on the street and set it on fire to create a barricade in Leafair Gardens and Glencaw Park on Friday night.
When police arrived they were attacked by youths throwing bricks and bottles.
Two teenage boys, aged 14 and 16, were arrested during the trouble. They have since been released on police bail.
Stephen Deery, a resident of the Leafair estate, told BBC Radio Foyle that the area is being bombarded by drunken youths causing trouble.
"They must have had petrol in bottles that they were spraying around each other and setting each other alight - so they were jumping around then with their legs and arms on fire.
"It would then turn into stone throwing at each other and fighting which moved the whole way through the estate."
Mr Deery also said youths had set fire to his side of a neighbour's house.
"We've tried to go out ourselves and move them on but they don't pay no heed. The police have been down, they don't pay no heed. Councillors have been down but nothing seems to work.
"There's some people on the street who are just too scared to come out at night. I've already heard some people talk about leaving the area. It's crazy, it's out of control."
PSNI Chief Inspector Tony Callaghan said he was encouraged by the meeting on Monday afternoon which he said was about "collaborative decision making".
"We within the PSNI don't have all the answers and we need the other agencies to help us come to both immediate and long-term solutions to this," he added.
"A really thorny issue of young people behaving badly. Anti-social behaviour isn't an issue just in Galliagh, it isn't an issue just for Derry alone, it is throughout Northern Ireland, the island of Ireland and throughout the UK more widely."
He said for this week and next weekend there would be an early deployment of officers to give residents reassurance.
"I am hopeful that we get ahead of this, we do preventive work and we don't have the same issues arising this weekend, but I'm putting resources to this and I want to reassure people that we take the issues very seriously," he said.
In a statement Derry City and Strabane District Council said: "We will continue to work with the PSNI and local representatives to find a lasting resolution to the issue in Leafair and are currently considering a number of proposed approaches to the problem, including increasing the capacity of our CSW scheme."


Nearly one month on from that epic referendum result, I've been sounding out opinions in the part of Britain which voted more enthusiastically than anywhere else for the UK to leave the EU.

It was the ultimate example of what looks increasingly like a regional insurrection in defiance of majority opinion, and no little advice, from the nation's capital.
Almost 60% voted leave in the Midlands as a whole. In Stoke-on-Trent the figure was 10% higher even than that. So I wanted to know if Midlanders had stumbled into something they now regret.
The Izons Industrial Estate, near Oldbury in the Black Country, is home to a typical collection of small, predominantly metal-based, businesses.
When I visited it during the campaign, I struggled to find anyone who didn't want out of the EU. So I returned to Augus Engineering, which has been run for nearly half a century by three generations of the same family.
Far from regretting his decision to vote leave, the boss Steve Cartwright told me there was growing confidence in the area.
The lower pound was making their exports more competitive; the prospect of an eventual fall in interest rates was helpful; and the announcement of a Â£60m private sector investment in a major regeneration project in Wolverhampton's city centre, far from being stalled by Brexit, had gone ahead with a media flourish exactly as planned.
"Certainly none of the doom and gloom that had been predicted," he told me.
On closer examination, I find our region has something of a north-south divide. Among our more affluent areas, Cheltenham, The Cotswolds and Warwick voted to remain in the EU.
But they could not have saved the day, or the night, for David Cameron without big numbers in the major cities voting the same way. In the event, only Bristol did so.
Cosmopolitan Birmingham, Great Britain's biggest single electoral area, delivered arguably the greatest shock of all, finally shattering the Remainers' hopes.
But only by the narrowest of margins. Half a million people voted. Leave's majority was just over 2,000.
That's why I'm calling Birmingham the 50-50 city.
From Oldbury I drove to Digbeth, just a stone's throw south of the famous Birmingham skyline where the Impact Hub houses an impressive assortment of small businesses, most of which have a clear social purpose.
Iris Bertz is a one-woman business. And an EU migrant. German born, she places about 80 young apprentices from other European countries into local firms under an EU educational programme called Erasmus Plus.
"If there's an end to free movement, that would be the end of projects like this," she tells me, warning universities, colleges and employers alike had reason to fear any restrictions to the free flow of talented people.
There's an old truism in politics.
The electorate is always right. We are told the converse is equally true. The electorate is never wrong.
The thing about truisms is that there is often some truth in them.
The West Midlands has a long history of making things work. Just as the new prime minister wants Brexit to work.
But maintaining the optimism that's turned Digbeth into a hotspot for business start-ups could yet turn out to be the most challenging 'work in progress' of all.


It is just eight weeks since missionary midwife Maud Kells was shot by bandits outside her home in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The bullet hit her in the shoulder - she narrowly missed death or paralysis.
"I thought I was dying," said Ms Kells who is 75 years old. "I thought; 'I'm not ready to go Lord, I'm still in the middle of building this nursery.'"
It was a drama that could so easily have killed her.
"The bullet just missed my lung. It just missed a large blood vessel by a fraction of a centimetre. If it had hit that, I would have just died on the spot from severe haemorrhaging," she said.
"It came out, almost on my spinal cord. Another fraction of a centimetre and I would have been paralysed.
"It was a miracle - God saved my life."
But she survived and is recuperating in her Northern Ireland home.
Maud Kells has two homes - she spends about half of the year in her County Tyrone home of Cookstown.
But the rest of the time, she spends on the mission field in Mulita, to the north east of DRC. She has worked tirelessly to help the people there for 47 years. She works for the WEC International mission agency.
The night of the shooting began with a loud rapping late at night on the shutters at Ms Kells' bungalow and a man urging her to hurry as she was needed at the hospital.
When she got there, they were puzzled to see her and she realised it was a bogus call by people wanting to raid her home. She turned and went back.
"I had just gone through the gate of my compound when these two bandits came running. They were masked and wearing camouflage. They had a shotgun and pointed it at me," she said.
"I thought it was wood, I went to grab it and, as I did it, he pulled the trigger. There was a terrific noise and pain. He ran past me and out the gate. I could feel the blood trickling down my back. I stood and called for help. But everybody was too frightened, they had heard the shotgun.
"It was about seven minutes before they came and I collapsed on the mat into the house."
From there, the local chief came with security and police. Doctors were called.
It took time in a world where there are no mobile phones and few modern conveniences.
Ms Kells was eventually airlifted to Nyankunde hospital.
She arrived home in Northern Ireland last week but is still receiving daily treatment for the gunshot wound to her shoulder and a fractured rib.
"Everyone was very kind," she said.
Now, looking back on the shooting, she said: "What an honour to suffer with our Lord Jesus Christ."
When she first arrived on her mission in 1968, Ms Kells turned builder, working with local people and using brick making equipment left over by the Belgians to create a hospital in the Congo.
Between them, they built a maternity unit, an operating theatre, a surgical ward, later there was a primary school and office block. Work on the pre-school nursery has now begun.
Yes, the people are "too poor" and life is very tough, but she has not given up on her Congo home.
Maud Kells would like to return.
"I would love to go back to finish off that nursery we have started building and hand over the work properly to the church people," she said.
"I have no real bitterness, I just feel sorry for the guy (who shot me). I am sure he must have a terrible conscience and must have a lot of regret especially since he has been arrested and didn't get away with it.
"I just pray that through this experience, he will come to his senses and realise what a dreadful thing that he did do.
"All I can think of now of Mulita is the affection, care and help that the people have given me and I would have no apprehensions about going back."


Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes has praised Daryl Mitchell's contribution in securing a home semi-final in the One-Day Cup.

Former captain Mitchell hit 67 from 71 balls in a five-wicket win over Derbyshire on Tuesday, taking him past 3,000 runs in List A cricket.
"He has proved his worth as a fantastic one-day player," Rhodes told BBC Hereford and Worcester.
"He is very resilient and always pops up with performances."
Worcestershire finished top of the North Group and will play the winner of the South Group play-off in the last four on 16 or 17 June at New Road.
Mitchell, 33, was relived of his role as Worcestershire captain at the end of last season, after six years in the job and replaced by Joe Leach.
But he responded in fine style in the One-Day Cup, with both bat and ball, hitting half-centuries against Northamptonshire and Yorkshire and taking 3-38 against Durham on Sunday.
"He missed out at the start of the campaign and Moeen [Ali] was playing," Rhodes said.
"But since he's come back in he's had three scores of over 50 and also took wickets the other day. He's done a marvellous job."


A Leave campaigner has clashed with MPs as he likened "conventional wisdom" in favour of EU membership with that which fuelled Nazi appeasement in the 1930s.

Vote Leave's Dominic Cummings said the political and business establishment had been wrong not to stand up to Hitler then and were wrong again now.
The EU was "bad for Britain" and exit would save "tens of billions" a year.
But MPs accused him of distorting the facts and "casually dismissing" the concerns of business.
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Mr Cummings, a former aide to Michael Gove, gave evidence to the Commons Treasury Committee for three hours about the costs and benefits of remaining in the European Union - the latest senior figure to do so.
During often fractious exchanges with Conservative and Labour MPs, he accused the Bank of England of "scaremongering" over the impact of EU exit and said big business and a "corrupt" Brussels were joining forces to crush small, entrepreneurial businesses.
He defended Vote Leave's campaign slogan that leaving the EU would free up £350m a week to spend as the UK saw fit, arguing it was a conservative estimate which had been "rounded down".
The UK, he said, would enjoy a huge financial dividend by leaving. Pressed on what sums he was talking about, he said £20bn was a "good start".
Aside from reclaiming the UK's annual gross contribution to the EU's coffers - which according to the Treasury totalled £18.2bn in 2014-5 - he said billions in additional savings would accrue in terms of reduced energy costs and escaping what he said were the EU's "nightmarish" rules on procurement.
"There are huge amounts of ways in which the EU costs us money," he said. "At some point in the campaign we will be totting this all up and we will send you a copy of the full bill."
He acknowledged UK industries which get large subsidies from Brussels would need financial assistance in the aftermath of a UK exit but said the government would not want funding to "fall off a cliff edge" and suggested some EU programmes could continue on a permanent basis even after leaving.
"There is more than enough billions to go around to put an awful lot money into the NHS and protect science and protect agriculture and still have billions left over."
But Andrew Tyrie, the Conservative MP who chairs the committee, questioned Mr Cummings' figures, arguing the UK's budget rebate negotiated by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s - worth £4.8bn in 2014-5 - "never left the UK" and therefore was not available to spend.
Claims that there would be billions freed up for domestic spending "sounds like Aladdin's Cave to me".
"So we are going to put the whole of the £350m into the NHS and we are going to fund all these other things that you are keen on, science and all the other financial protection that you are going to provide to groups that now get their money from Brussels from another pot, as yet unspecified," he said.
During his evidence, Mr Cummings said the EU's internal market had been "bad for Britain" and ridiculed claims that three million British jobs were dependent on EU membership, saying the official whose research produced the figure in 1999 had since told him its use by pro-Europeans was "worse than Goebbels".
And, drawing a historical parallel, he said the fact the government, Whitehall and the City were all in favour of EU membership did not mean they were right.
"If you had asked this House, Whitehall and the City of London and the CBI in the 1930s what their policy was on the deterrence of Germany, you would also have had a very clear, almost unanimous conventional wisdom, conventional wisdom that turned out to be wrong."
"Conventional wisdoms that span all the elements of government and bureaucracies are very often wrong."
But Labour's Helen Goodman suggested his unwillingness to answer questions about the impact on British jobs and Vote Leave's source of funding flew in the face of his stated goal of boosting the powers of Parliament while Mr Tyrie said many of his claims sounded like "fantasy".
"You have accused the Bank of England and its Governor of scaremongering...you have described Treasury officials, I think, as charlatans squeezing snake oil from economic models and you have told us that Cabinet Office and No 10 officials are engaged in threatening behaviour with people with whom they deal all the time. These are truly extraordinary claims for the campaign director of Vote Leave to be making."
Mr Cummings was due to be joined by Matthew Elliott, the chief executive of Vote Leave and the leaders of the rival Leave.EU group - Arron Banks and Richard Tice - but they did not appear for personal reasons.


A former Lord Mayor of Leeds has admitted making and distributing indecent photographs of children.

Neil Taggart, who also served as a West Yorkshire Police Authority chairman and city councillor, pleaded guilty to eight child sex offences at Leeds Crown Court earlier.
The 65-year-old has been sacked from the Labour Party after he was suspended in October, a party spokesman said.
The crimes took place between 2007 and 2016, according to the Yorkshire Post.
Taggart, of Marlowe Court, Garforth, is due to be sentenced on 4 July.
In a statement, Labour said it had suspended him "as soon as the party became aware of the allegations he was facing".
"Following his guilty pleas today, he has been auto-excluded from the Labour Party, as being convicted of a serious criminal offence means he is no longer eligible to be a party member."
Leader of Leeds City Council, Judith Blake, said: "I condemn these despicable crimes in the strongest possible terms."
Taggart served as Lord Mayor in 2003. He was a Labour councillor for more than 30 years before being deselected by the party in October 2013 ahead of the 2014 election.


Lionel Messi has been urged to reconsider his international retirement by Argentina legend Diego Maradona and the country's president.

The forward, 29, quit after missing in a penalty shootout as Argentina were beaten by Chile in the Copa America - a fourth major final loss in nine years.
"Those saying he should quit don't want us to see what a disaster Argentinean football has become," Maradona told La Nacion newspaper.
"Messi must go on."
Maradona, who captained Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup and managed the team at the 2010 World Cup, added: "Messi has to stay because he will reach the 2018 World Cup in Russia in conditions to become world champion.
"The lads have to be supported more to help him take the team forward."
Messi said after Sunday's defeat that for him, the national team was "over" and that "it hurts not to be a champion".
Argentine President Mauricio Macri said he called Messi to tell him "how proud he feels of the national team's performance and asked him not to listen to the criticism".
He added he hopes to meet the player next week and convince him to return to the national team.
"The truth is that it's good fortune, a joy, a gift from God to have the best player in the world in a country like ours that is so football-crazy," added Macri.
Messi has won eight La Liga titles and four Champions Leagues with his club, Spanish side Barcelona.
But his only major international honour is Olympic gold at the 2008 Games.
Defeat on Sunday was the second time in two years Argentina have lost the Copa America final to Chile on penalties, while they were beaten 1-0 by Germany in the 2014 World Cup final.
Messi, who was been awarded the Ballon d'Or five times, was also on the losing side against Brazil in the 2007 Copa America final.
Argentina are already six games into their qualification campaign for the 2018 World Cup. They are third in the table, two points behind leaders Uruguay.
The top four teams progress to the finals in Russia, while the team finishing fifth qualifies for a two-legged play-off against the best team from Oceania.
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Lionel Messi's announcement that he is retiring from international football is dominating Argentine press and social media, and there is a national push to persuade the forward to stay.
The news has prompted a campaign across social media, urging the football star not to quit. Argentine President Mauricio Macri was one of millions to tweet using the hashtag #NoTeVayasLio [Don't Go Lio], one of many hashtags to have emerged following Messi's announcement.
Newspaper La Nacion says that the country's focus is firmly on convincing Messi to stay, rather than any disappointment caused by the team's defeat, in an article titled 'Clamour for Messi eclipses frustration'.
The paper also notes the overwhelming support for Messi on social media, in contrast to the "indifference" of the Argentine Football Association.
Clarin newspaper is also running several features on the story. Their front page includes the results of a poll on whether Messi should stay (76% say yes), an editorial by editor Ricardo Roa entitled 'Come back and forgive us, Leo', and speculation as to whether other national stars will follow suit and quit.
Osvaldo Pepe, writing for Clarin online, defends Messi's decision and says it "is not an act of cowardice, nor a dribble of confidence [...] but the dignified act of a person who is emotionally broken". Pepe adds that it does not matter if Messi retires now, for Argentina "will always be waiting" for his return.


Britain's largest rail franchise, Govia Thameslink (GTR) is facing more industrial action after station staff voted to strike.

The RMT union said a planned ticket office reorganisation would threaten 130 jobs, pay and safety.
GTR intends to close 34 station ticket offices and staff 49 others only at peak times on Southern, Thameslink and Great Northern.
Instead "station hosts" would assist passengers around stations.
The two sides are already in a long-running dispute over the role of train conductors on Southern.
The RMT said 70% of its members voted in favour of strike action and nearly 80% supported action short of a strike.  It has not yet announced any strike dates.
A GTR spokesman said only one in four (26.9%) voted for strike action with more than half of RMT station staff members ignoring the ballot.
He added: "While disappointed, we urge the union to stop this dispute and save our passengers and staff further pain by becoming part of the solution rather than the problem."
Stations listed for reduced ticket office hours include Chichester, Crawley, Dorking, Huntingdon, Hove, Lewes, Reigate, Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City and Worthing.
Ticket window closures include Alexandra Palace, Caterham, Cricklewood, Lancing, Purley and Sutton.


International judges have arrived in Belfast for the city's annual horticultural event this week.

Rose Week is taking place at Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park, with a host of competitions and children's activities to mark the occasion.
Thousands of visitors have already turned out to see the park's award-winning gardens.
This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the City of Belfast International Rose Garden.
The garden was established by Belfast City Council, in partnership with the Rose Society of Northern Ireland (RSNI).
On Thursday, judges from New Zealand, the United States and Norway will deliver their verdicts on this year's competing entries for the City of Belfast International Rose Trials.
With points awarded for flowering, fragrance, foliage, disease resistance and length of flowering period, the standard of entries is expected to be very high.
Brian McKinley, from Belfast City Council's parks and leisure services, said visitors return to the event every year because of the number of activities on offer.
"The success of the rose garden and Rose Week is down to the beautiful smell and fragrance that you get from the garden, and the array of colours that you see in the park," he said.
Belfast city councillor Gareth McKee said a plaque would be unveiled on Thursday to celebrate the rose garden's status as a "garden of merit".
"The garden is recognised by the World Federation of Rose Societies as a 'garden of merit' - meaning it is one of the best in the world," he said.


England took 19 wickets on the third day to beat West Indies by an innings and 209 runs in the day-night Test at Edgbaston.

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West Indies, 44-1 overnight in reply to England's 514-8 declared, were bowled out for 168 and 137.
James Anderson took 3-34 in the first innings and Stuart Broad 3-34 in the second to move above Sir Ian Botham into second on the list of England's all-time leading Test wicket-takers.
England take the lead in the three-match series, and have named the same 13-man squad for the second Test beginning on Friday at Headingley.
That and the final match at Lord's will revert to traditional playing hours after this contest was held under lights to help England prepare for the Ashes.
While they have been given experience of playing with the pink ball, a poor West Indies side do not look likely to provide any sort of examination before the tour of Australia.
Off the field, the staging of the floodlit game can be seen as a success - the three days that have seen play were close to a sell-out - but the contest was not befitting of the historic occasion.
England captain Joe Root said before this match that it was an opportunity for some members of his top order to earn a place on the Ashes tour.
However, the home side batted only once, meaning Mark Stoneman and Tom Westley, who both made only eight, must wait for the second Test for another chance to impress.
Dawid Malan registered his highest Test score, but 65 is unlikely to be enough to guarantee his place on the plane.
As for West Indies, who have not won a Test in the UK for 17 years, their capitulation resulted in the Test being even more one-sided than was feared beforehand.
Although the cloudy sky made bowling conditions favourable, England often had to do little more than find a full length and wait for the visiting batsmen to miss, play across the line or edge the ball.
Eight West Indies batsmen were out twice on Saturday, and in all they scored 219 runs for the fall of those 19 wickets - the most they have lost on a single day of Test cricket.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan told BBC Test Match Special:"I really fear this series could be one of the saddest for Test cricket.
"Every time West Indies have arrived in England, they seem to have got worse and worse."
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Anderson took the only wicket on Friday and had a hand in each dismissal as West Indies lost 3-3 when play resumed on Saturday.
Kyle Hope fended a rising delivery to gully and Roston Chase played on either side of Kieran Powell being run out by Anderson's direct hit from mid-on.
West Indies were without the technique, application or patience to survive, so Jermaine Blackwood chanced his arm to hit an unbeaten 79 from 76 balls.
At the other end, Toby Roland-Jones' full length accounted for Shai Hope and Shane Dowrich, Moeen Ali had Jason Holder caught behind and Stuart Broad also went full to dismiss both Kemar Roach and Alzarri Joseph.
When Tom Westley produced another direct hit to run out Miguel Cummins - the batsman was not even close to making his ground - it typified the hopelessness of the West Indies' effort.
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With a lead of 346 and, after bowling 47 overs, England enforced the follow-on, with West Indies' only real goal to drag the match into a fourth day.
Instead, they lasted for just another 45.4 overs.
Kraigg Brathwaite, the sole West Indies player not to bat twice in the day, made 40 but, after he and Blackwood were removed, a three-day finish was inevitable.
Both fell to off-spinner Moeen, Brathwaite lbw on review and Blackwood stumped by some distance after an inexplicable charge down the track.
Broad, once more bowling full and straight, got to work on the lower order, at one point taking 3-4 in 11 balls to reach 384 Test wickets, one ahead of Botham.
Chase was lbw, Dowrich bowled and Holder caught at first slip for a golden duck.
Anderson returned to clatter an inswinger into the stumps of Roach before Roland-Jones had Joseph held by Ben Stokes at third slip to end the match under a night sky and to the soundtrack of a raucous Hollies Stand.
England bowler Stuart Broad on Test Match Special: "It's a special day. Ian Botham has been a hero of mine. I used to watch him play. He had a great influence on me.
"He gave me my Test cap in 2007 but six months before that I got a call up to the West Indies and he was there. He gave me advice, saying, 'You're in this position because you've performed for your county so just relax and don't put extra pressure on yourself'. That advice is something I've always tried to hold on to."
England captain Joe Root: "We were relentless on a wicket that did do a little bit. When you have the skill of Broad, Anderson and the other guys, it can be difficult for the opposition.
"It's important we rest up and stay fresh. We now have a bonus day off for the lads to put their feet up."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan: "England will be delighted. They would have been expected to win at the start of the week but probably not as comfortable as it has been."
West Indies captain Jason Holder: "I am not happy. We just weren't good enough. Being beaten in three days is disappointing.
"We need to turn it around. We have to spend next the few days recuperating and coming up with some new plans."
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A lifeboat station is back in service, four days after 25 volunteers resigned in protest against the sacking of a senior crew member.

The RNLI says six crew members have been brought in from the UK to staff the St Helier station in Jersey.
The charity said the decision to remove coxswain Andy Hibbs was made due to a "serious risk to its ability to run a safe and effective lifesaving service".
Mr Hibbs denies the claim he broke the volunteers' code of conduct.
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The St Helier station was unmanned for the weekend and members of the public attended a silent protest on Sunday.
The charity says the new crew members have come from various parts of the UK, and will remain until the dispute is resolved.


Malawi's government has invited bids for its 14-seat presidential jet, which is being sold off as part of cost-cutting measures.

The office of President Joyce Banda says the plane will be sold to the highest bidder.
Her predecessor, the late Bingu wa Mutharika, was strongly criticised for buying the jet five years ago at a cost of about $13.3m (Â£8.5m).
Donors cut aid to Malawi by $4.4 million after the purchase.
Mrs Banda has refused to travel in the jet since she took office last April, following Mr Mutharika's unexpected death.
She has said money from the sale of the Dassault Falcon 900EX would be used to provide basic services for Malawi's poor.
The notice said the jet was in "perfect flying condition" and can fly a range of 4,500 nautical miles (8,380 km) non-stop.
"The bids will be opened and offers read out in the presence of interested buyers or their representatives and any member of the general public on 20 February."
When Mr Mutharika purchased the jet, he said it would be "cheap to run".
However, the opposition and donors accused him of wasting money.
Malawi is one of the poorest countries in Africa.
It was hit by widespread protests over the rising cost of living towards the end of Mr Mutharika's rule.
Since taking over, Mrs Banda has taken several steps to improve relations with Western donors.


A woman is in a serious condition in hospital with arm and chest burns following a fire at a travellers site in Fife.

A 50-year-old was taken to Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy after a fire broke out in a chalet in Kelty at 10:50 on Monday.
She has now been transferred to St John's Hospital in Livingston.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said the cause of the blaze was still under investigation.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "Police Scotland and the Scottish fire and Rescue Service responded last night following a fire at a travellers site in Kelty.
"A 50-year-old woman was seriously injured.
"A joint investigation is currently underway to establish the full circumstances of the incident."


Australia's batting collapse on day two of the third Ashes Test was "pathetic" and "embarrassing", says former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott.

"They are novices at playing the moving ball," Boycott said on BBC Test Match Special. "It was an embarrassing day for Australia.
"Their batting was as pathetic as it was in the first innings."
Boycott said Australia captain Michael Clarke is "under the cosh" and "lucky to be averaging 18".
Clarke was caught at slip off Steven Finn for three and has just 94 runs in six innings in this series.
Boycott also criticised Australia's bowling, saying he was "amazed at how badly" Mitchell Starc had bowled.
Starc took nine wickets in the first two Tests of this series but was largely ineffective in taking 2-71 in England's innings at Edgbaston.
"He had no discipline or direction. It was wild and wayward and down the leg side," Boycott said.
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Boycott praised England's Steven Finn, who took 5-45, saying he "bowled some really good balls".
Finn told BBC Radio 5 live he was "in a good place".
He added: "There were lots of hurdles to overcome. Now I'm just running up and bowling, thinking about what the ball's doing. It took a while to unravel it all, but no-one goes through their career without going through ups and downs.
"I've had a down and this day is certainly an up. I'd rather think about today than the past. To do it in an Ashes Test means a whole lot more."
Finn also defended former England coach Ashley Giles, who was criticised on Twitter for having described Finn as "unselectable" in January 2014.
"I don't think it was meant in a derogatory way," Finn said. "He was talking about how I couldn't have been picked to go out there and do a job for England in a one-day international in that series."
Giles also defended his comments on 5 live, saying: "He was clearly in a bad place and the best thing to do was send him home. He actually was unselectable.
"No-one wanted Steve around more than me. He was one of our key performers but he was a shadow of his former self at that time."


Cardiff and Bristol are to work more closely to help compete for future investment, BBC Wales understands.

Cardiff council has confirmed it is in early talks with the mayor of Bristol to work together on projects, including renewable energy and transport.
Council leader Phil Bale said Cardiff would fall behind if it does not work with a major centre like Bristol.
He said both cities have to recognise they are in competition with other major centres in England.
Mr Bale stressed that by working together the two cities have a much better chance of lobbying the UK government for investment.
However, he denied that the council was turning its back on Welsh devolution or suggesting that developing an economic Cardiff city region covering south east Wales is out of date.
Mr Bale said he believes that different levels of governance are right for different things.
In regards to marketing and transport in Cardiff and Bristol, the councillor said the two cities need to lobby for investment to head west out of London.
"It's really important that we have those conversations (with Bristol) to see where they lead us, but also that we exploit opportunities like the Severn estuary, where there is clear shared opportunity to lobby the UK government."
Asked about the likelihood of there one day being a "super city region" combining Cardiff, Newport and Bristol, the councillor said the idea was a possibility.
"It's clearly early discussions but there's a real potential for us to explore that in more detail," he said.


Royal Bank of Scotland has moved closer to reaching a full settlement with the shareholder groups suing it over a 2008 issue of shares.

However, 13% of those who claimed £4bn, saying they were misled about the financial state of the bank, are still heading for court next month.
The bank announced it had agreed terms with a further 9% of all the claimants, taking the total to 87%.
The previous agreement was reached in December 2016.
The bank put aside £800m to settle the litigation and is understood to have paid a further £10m towards the legal costs for the latest agreement.
However, RBS emphasised that the settlements reached were "without any admission of liability".
They concern the rights issue in spring of 2008, months before the bank had to be bailed out. Then chief executive Fred Goodwin raised £12bn from shareholders, telling them the bank was sound.
The legal claim is that bank executives knew of the Royal Bank's weakness and misled shareholders.
The court case, due to start on 22 May, is scheduled to see Mr Goodwin on the stand on 8 June.
It is reckoned by Royal Bank that the court case could continue for three to five years. Its strategy has been to try to reach out-of-court settlements, removing uncertainty over the potential costs.
Chief executive Ross McEwan said: "We have been very clear that putting our legacy issues behind us is a priority so that we can focus on building the best bank for our customers, shareholders and employees.
"We are pleased to have reached this agreement. We will continue to explore the possibility of settlement with the remaining claimants but if we cannot settle on agreeable terms we will defend the claims at trial."
Royal Bank of Scotland is to publish its results for the first three months of 2017 on Friday morning.


A free-to-use font designed to help people with dyslexia read online content is gaining favour.

OpenDyslexic's characters have been given "heavy-weighted bottoms" to prevent them from flipping and swapping around in the minds of their readers.
A recent update to the popular app Instapaper has adopted the text format as an option for its users.
The font has also been built into a word processor, an ebook reader and has been installed on school computers.
The project was created by Abelardo Gonzalez, a New Hampshire-based mobile app designer, who released his designs onto the web at the end of last year.
"I had seen similar fonts, but at the time they were completely unaffordable and so impractical as far as costs go," he told the BBC.
"I figured there's other people who would like the same thing but had the same issues, and so I thought I'd make an open source one that everyone could contribute to and help out with.
"The response has been great: I've had people emailing saying this is the first time they could read text without it looking wiggly or has helped other symptoms of dyslexia."
The 28-year-old released OpenWeb - a free web browser based on the font - on Apple's iOS app store earlier this year.
He then used online adverts to publicise his invention on a series of related sites.
Several developers who heard about the innovation subsequently jumped on board, including the creator of Dox on Box, an e-reader for iPads; and the makers of Wordsmith, a stylised word processor for Mac computers.
Users have also installed the font onto Android devices, allowing it to be used across a range of software, and the jailbreak community has also enabled adapted iOS devices to install it to permit similar functionality on Apple's mobile devices .
However, the inclusion of the font in Instapaper last week is perhaps the clearest sign yet that it is going mainstream.
The program - which allows users to save versions of webpages so that they can be read offline - has about two million registered accounts.
The app's developer Marco Arment said he had first looked for a dyslexia-optimised font two years ago, but had failed to find one until he discovered OpenDyslexic.
"Given what Instapaper does - capture any web page and present it in a consistent, adjustable, customer-controlled environment - it's a natural fit for bringing improved accessibility and legibility to anyone who needs it," he wrote on his blog.
Mr Gonzalez said he had also been contacted by The Kildonan School - which specialises in teaching children with dyslexia - to tell him it had started testing the font with its pupils.
He added that he had also heard from other teachers in the US and UK who were using the product in a less formal capacity.
Although he is happy to see the font spread organically, Mr Gonzalez said he was also trying to encourage some of the major tech firms to support it.
"Sony and Amazon have said they would consider it for their e-readers," he said.
"Google is also hopefully going to publish a version to its web fonts directory which would make it really easy to integrate it onto websites without administrators having to upload it to their servers."
According to the British Dyslexia Association (BDA), about 4% of the UK's population has a severe form of the disability. The campaign group welcomed the innovation's spread.
"As a dyslexic, I find this font very easy to read and reduces the effects of visual stress that I experience," said Arran Smith, the group's project officer.
"I especially like the spacing between letters, as it is even and regular, which is also recommended within the BDA Style Guide."
There has not been a scientific study to support whether OpenDyslexic works. However, a study by the University of Twente into a similar font - Dyslexie - suggested that it did help decrease some specific types reading errors, but did not improve reading speed.
However, the paper acknowledged further research was needed.


Police are continuing to investigate links between the deaths of a woman and her two children at a house near Leeds and the discovery of a man's body in north Wales.

The mother, named locally as Geraldine Newman, and her daughter and son were found on Tuesday in Allerton Bywater.
The body of a man, named in reports as Ms Newman's estranged partner Paul, was found on cliffs on Anglesey.
West Yorkshire Police said it believed the discoveries are linked.
The identities of the victims have not been confirmed by the force.
Det Ch Insp Warren Stevenson said: "Post-mortem examinations will take place today to establish the causes of the deaths of the victims who were found at a house in Beeston Way, Allerton Bywater, yesterday morning.
"We are also continuing to liaise with North Wales Police to confirm the identity of the man who was found dead on cliffs at South Stack, Anglesey."
The bodies of Ms Newman and her 11-year-old daughter and six-year-old son, named as Shannon and Shane, were found at their home in Beeston Way shortly before 12:00 GMT.
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Ms Newman, a branch manager for Wilko, was found downstairs while the two children were discovered upstairs.
However, Mr Stevenson said they had died in "suspicious circumstances" and a murder inquiry has been launched.
A spokesman for Wilko, where Ms Newman is said to have worked for 23 years, said she was a "loyal and enormously respected member of the team".
The retailer said: "This is tragic news and has devastated everyone who worked with Geraldine, as well as impacting team members across the company.
"Our heartfelt thoughts and condolences are with her family, friends and colleagues at this very difficult time and everything is being done to support those team members who are affected by this tragic news."
Police have not said if a vehicle was recovered from near to where the man's body was discovered.
South Stack is a rocky island, famous for its lighthouse and seabirds that roost in its 120ft (36m) high cliffs. It is about 160 miles from Allerton Bywater.


A knife attacker has been found guilty of the attempted murder of a woman in her own home in the Borders.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Ian McGregor, 30, stabbed his 57-year-old victim more than 40 times.
He had denied attempting to murder her in her Kelso home on 25 October last year.
However, a jury unanimously convicted him of the offence and also attempting to defeat the ends of justice. He will be sentenced next month.
McGregor, described as a prisoner in Edinburgh, launched his assault on Elspeth Burns as she lay in bed after suffering from a migraine.
He had been at her house earlier in the day and returned, entering through an unlocked door, before trying to murder her.
The court heard his victim woke up as McGregor was stabbing her.
She told the court that she had said to him: "What are you doing? Get off me, get off me."
After the attack she got up but collapsed and shouted for help.
She was taken to hospital and was found to have wounds to her head, neck, back and chest.
A doctor described her injuries as extremely serious. She was found to have a punctured lung and an injury near her carotid artery.
McGregor had denied attempting to murder her by repeatedly stabbing her on the head and body to her severe injury, permanent disfigurement and to the danger of her life.
He told the court he had been at his brother's home at the time when the attack occurred.
However, a jury unanimously convicted him and also found him guilty of attempting to defeat the ends of justice.
The judge, Lord Summers, called for a background report on him ahead of sentencing next month and he was detained in custody.


England defender Casey Stoney has signed for Women's Super League One club Liverpool Ladies.

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The 34-year-old left Arsenal Ladies at the end of the 2016 season, bringing an end to her second spell at the club.
The former England captain, who had previously played for the Gunners between 1999 and 2002, has also had spells at Charlton and Chelsea Ladies.
"Casey is an experienced international defender with over 120 caps for England," manager Scott Rogers said.
"Her reading of the game and ability on the ball is fantastic so I have no doubt that she will prove to be a great signing for us."
Stoney added: "This is a great move for me joining a fantastic club and I am really excited for the new season."
The WSL is moving to a winter schedule from September 2017, but first the clubs will play a shortened Spring Series from February to June 2017, alongside the Women's FA Cup.


Cambridge United have rejected four bids for midfielder Luke Berry, says U's chief executive Jez George.

The 24-year-old, in his second U's spell after one season at Barnsley in 2014-15, scored 22 goals in 52 games for the League Two side last season.
Hibernian boss Neil Lennon has said a "deal fell through" to sign Berry.
"The facts are at no point did we agree a fee at any football club for Luke Berry and that we turned down four bids for Luke Berry," said George.
"We haven't accepted a bid, we don't want to accept a bid and we've got no need or desire to sell Luke.
"But if the situation arises that it's the right deal and opportunity for Luke, and the right deal for the club, then I can't rule it out ever happening. At the moment it's not our intention."
Berry came through the youth ranks at Cambridge and has since made 237 appearances in all competitions, scoring 59 times.
"Our intention is always that we won't sell to a club in our league," George told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
"We want to keep our best players, but if the perfect opportunity arises for them and we can secure the right deal for the club, we have to be bigger than just looking at our immediate intentions because we'll never get a player willing to join us in the future."


Creative companies are becoming increasingly important to the UK's future economic success and should be at the heart of the government's new industrial strategy, a trade body says.

The Creative Industries Federation says film-making, music, advertising and video games are all big export earners but are often overlooked by ministers.
It says enterprise zones, tax breaks and access to finance could help firms.
The business secretary says he was committed to a "deal" with the sector.
The role of the UK's creative industries, which also includes theatre, architecture, broadcasting, fashion, museums, and galleries was recognised when the government unveiled its industrial strategy Green Paper in January for boosting the post-Brexit economy.
The Creative Industries Federation says ministers need to "overhaul" their approach.
The federation has unveiled a blueprint of policy recommendations for the creative industries which it says is "the fastest growing sector of the UK economy".
It said the creative economy supports 2.9m jobs, a rise of 5.1% between 2014 and 2015.
Brexit means it is now "even more crucial" for the sector "to deliver more jobs, trade and exports", it adds.
The federation's chief executive, John Kampfner, said: "There has been a tendency to dismiss the creative industries as something lightweight while claiming the glory of billions of pounds in trade that comes from hits such as War Horse, Sherlock and Slumdog Millionaire."
He said the government should recognise that creative industries "will be as important to future economic success as traditional industries, such as cars or oil and gas".
Among its other recommendations are campaigns to increase diversity in employment in the sector and advice for start-ups on exporting.
Business Secretary Greg Clark said creative industries contributed nearly Â£90bn to the economy in 2015.
He said TV producer Sir Peter Bazalgette is carrying out an independent review of how the sector "can help drive prosperity across the country by developing new technologies, capitalising on intellectual property rights and encouraging creativity from people of all ages and backgrounds".
He added: "Through our industrial strategy I want to ensure we build on this sector's strengths, which is why we have committed to an early sector deal for the industry in our green paper."


A charity has identified "high risk factors" at Pembrokeshire ponds where three people died in 2015.

A report was commissioned by the Carmarthenshire Water Safety Partnership on behalf of the family of Robert Mansfield who drowned in Pembroke's Mill Ponds.
Robert John Lyall, 57 and Wayne Anthony Young, 52, died in separate incidents.
Pembrokeshire council is responsible for the ponds and assessed them as low risk.
Dr Cliff Nelson from the Royal Lifesaving Society visited the Castle and Mill ponds in November and marked "not acceptable" high risks, including the water's temperature and depth, slipping and falling.
The potential outcomes he listed were drowning, hypothermia, limb injury from slips, trips and falls, and illness through water-borne pollution.
The report said risk of falling into the water around the ponds is "generally low" but there were a number of "pinch points" on the castle side where the path runs close to the river bank edge.
The assessment also found uneven surfaces that could lead to a fall into the water.
Dr Nelson said improvements to the path needed to be made and that railings should be considered.
He also identified a need for improved lighting and the regular maintenance of public rescue equipment.
At Mr Mansfield's inquest, the coroner Mark Layton raised concerns about Pembrokeshire council's risk assessment of the ponds.
"Given the number of deaths there is a real need to consider fencing, warning notices and lighting," he said.
Mr Mansfield's auntie, Sue Mansfield, said the family had been frustrated when the inquest was told the ponds were deemed low risk by the council.
"There is a very real risk there. We just want to make sure it is made safe so no-one else has to go through what we have," she said.
"Now we have had this report I hope the council will want to work with it - so far they have been quite welcoming of it."
A Pembrokeshire council spokesman said the council had "always taken these matters very seriously."
He said they had "previously undertaken a review of the walkway around the castle. The public footpath is inspected regularly and is considered to meet the intervention levels set for maintenance purposes."
"Nevertheless, in dialogue with the Carmarthenshire Water Safety Partnership last summer, we acknowledged they may well wish to undertake an independent review and noted that we would be happy to review such a study."
The spokesman said that the council was "saddened to learn of the incidents on the ponds" and, following Mr Mansfield's inquest, it said it would review safety.
It also replaced flotation devices which had been removed and erected signs at various points advising against swimming.
The spokesman added: "There is already lighting on the footpath below the castle and the installations were considered generally adequate."
Carmarthenshire Water Safety Partnership was set up in memory of Cameron Comey who fell into the Towy River in Carmarthen two years ago and has not been found.
Adam Whitehouse, chairman of the partnership, said the work they had done with the Mansfield family "in memory of Robert has been very emotional but rewarding."
He now hopes to continue working with Pembrokeshire council to make the improvements identified in the report.
Mr Whitehouse added: "Despite two out of the three fatalities at pond in 2015 being alcohol related, runners and walkers generally are one of the highest risk categories in recent figures, accounting for a third of all UK drowning fatalities."


A new rule has come into force for train passengers travelling with their bicycles on some Great Western Railway (GWR) services.

The rail firm has said those travelling between the west and London on high speed trains must reserve a space by 18:00 BST the day before travelling.
Previously, cyclists could only board with a bike during off-peak hours. This is being extended to all services.
The firm has said the change brings it in line with other operators in the UK.
The new regulations have prompted some criticism from passengers.
Exeter Cycling Campaign tweeted: "Very disappointing @GWRUK only taking bikes on high speed trains if booked 2hrs in advance, even if there's a space."
Trains to and from London will have six dedicated bicycle storage spaces on board, but those with a folding bike do not need to make a reservation, the company said.
Dan Paines, from GWR, said: "It's getting more and more of a problem as more and more people bring their bikes on.
"It's much more popular than it was, even two or three years ago.
"What we're seeing is that people with bikes and tickets, turning up and finding that there's no space on that train, having to buy another ticket or pay a little bit more to get on the next one."


Before anybody had even asked him a question Phil Mickelson said that he "felt like crying" having missed out, by a millimetre, on holing a putt that would have given him a history-making round of 62 - the first ever in major championship golf.

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Many have tried and all have failed. Few have failed by such a miniscule distance as Mickelson. Everybody thought that putt on Troon's 18th green was in. Everybody thought they were in on an 'I was there' moment. Mickelson thought he had done what the golfing immortals could never do.
Sixty-two. The magic - and still elusive - number.
He was smiling but he was hurting. Four birdies on the front nine, four on the back nine and a cigarette paper away from a fifth - and a record that would surely have lasted the ages.
"It's obvious why nobody has ever shot 62 in a major," he said. "There's a curse, because that ball should have been in. If there wasn't a curse that ball would have been in and I would have had a 62. I didn't believe (in the golf Gods) but I do now.
"That putt on 18 was a chance to do something historical. I knew it and with a foot to go I thought I had done it. I saw that ball rolling right in the centre. I went to go get it. I had that surge of adrenaline that I had just shot 62 and then I had the heartbreak that I didn't. It was 'Wow, that stings'. This ball was hunting right in the centre of the hole and didn't go. Unfortunately the curse hit me hard."
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The curse? Is there something in that? Mickelson would not be alone in thinking it because he is not alone in walking off the 18th green of a major championship having missed his chance to rewrite the history books.
Mickelson joined the group of golfers who signed for a 63 at a major championship, but trooped off the 18th hole feeling that some kind of other worldly force was working against them.
We go back to 1977 when Mark Hayes missed a six-footer for 62 at the Open at Turnberry. Onwards to 1980 and Jack Nicklaus missing a three-footer for 62 in the first round of the US Open at Baltusrol, later saying that he "totally choked". When did Nicklaus ever choke?
In 1984, Gary Player had 12ft for a 62 at the USPGA at Shoal Creek. He missed. In 1986, Nick Price had 30ft for birdie, and 62, at Augusta, his ball circling the hole and staying above ground. Later, Price was to say that he felt like Augusta's co-founder Bobby Jones' hand "came up and popped it out".
The same year of 1986, at Turnberry, Greg Norman's three putts from shy of 30ft denied him history. Norman had three bogeys on his card and a whole pile of regret about an opportunity lost.
Tiger Woods has known this angst, too. In the 2007 USPGA he lipped-out for 62, his sense of injustice so cruel that he said that his score had to go down as a 62 and a half.
Most recently, in 2013, Jason Dufner had a chance. He had 10ft for a birdie on 18 at the USPGA at Oak Hill and left it short. Dufner walked off the green with a demeanour of a man in shock.
Isao Aoki, Vijay Singh, Rory McIlroy - one generation to the next, all united by the look they had at the holy grail only for it to be snatched away from them.
Twenty-eight rounds of 63 have been recorded in major golf, beginning with Johnny Miller at the US Open at Oakmont in 1973. That number doesn't acknowledge the players who have had a little glimpse of the 62 nirvana and ended up not even making 63.
The forgotten ones.
Jordan Spieth is among this group. At Augusta last year, he was eight-under after 14 holes when standing on the tee of the par-five 15th - a birdie hole, the easiest on the golf course. He took six and finished on 64.
People forget what an opportunity he had. Spieth has not forgotten, though. You can be sure of that.
Mickelson will not forget this in a hurry either. The fact that he is leading the Open by three shots brought him minimal consolation.
"The putt was outside the hole by a few inches, breaking left in the middle of the putt and then straight the last bit. Well, it was supposed to be straight the last bit.
"This one is going to stay with me for a while. Lots of guys have shot 63 but nobody has shot 62. That would have been something special."
The history man - almost.
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Seven new species of tiny frogs have been discovered on seven different mountains in Brazil.

The tiny frogs are part of the Brachycephalus species and all of them grow no bigger than 1cm long, even the adults.
Some of them also have brightly coloured poisonous skin, to help ward off any predators who would turn them into a meal.
The brighter their skin, the more deadly they are.
The researchers who found the frogs often had trouble trying to find them.
Professor Marcio Pie, one of the researchers who discovered the frogs said: "You can hear them singing and there's probably hundreds of them, but you simply can't catch them! Because once you get closer, just from the vibration in the ground, they keep silent for, say, 20 minutes or half an hour. And then you have to go through the leaf litter very carefully with your hands."
The frogs like to live in the cool cloud-forests of the mountains in the south of Brazil, and tend to spend their lives there.
The valleys at the bottom of the mountains tend to be much warmer, meaning the different species of frogs all live on their separate mountains like islands, without ever meeting.
Scientists think there are more unique species in this area, per square kilometre, than the Amazon rainforest.
The researchers who discovered the new species say they think they have already found four more new species of frog, and have more expeditions planned on different mountains.


Japan's biggest car manufacturer, Toyota, has raised its full-year profit forecast by 12.4%, citing a weaker yen and cost cutting efforts.

It has also raised its sales forecast for its key market of North America, where it has been enjoying a strong performance.
The firm said net profit may reach as much as 2tn Japanese yen ($17.5bn; Â£10.96bn) for the year to March 2015.
The carmaker's earlier forecast was for a net profit of 1.78tn yen.
Toyota's executive vice president, Nobuyori Kodaira, said the firm had also raised its forecasts for operating profit and revenue for the period.
"We are revising our operating income forecast upwards by 200bn yen to 2.5tn yen," he said.
He said this reflected the progress made on marketing and in reducing costs, and also the change in foreign exchange rates.
Toyota also reported results for the six months to September, with net profit up 12.6% to 1.12tn yen.
The carmaker said its vehicle sales for the period had fallen in Asia, including in Japan, but had increased in North America and Europe.
The net profit figure includes profits made with the firm's joint venture partners in China: China FAW Group and Guangzhou Automobile Group.
The Japanese firm said its vehicle sales in North America had come to 1,395,105, up from 97,061 a year ago, but that in Japan, vehicle sales had decreased by 70,977 to 1,030,229.
The news follows results from Toyota's rival Nissan, which reported on Tuesday a 25% increase in half-year profits.
Like Toyota, Nissan said strong sales in its key market of North America had helped to offset weaker demand in some other markets.
Japan's firms, especially those relying on exports, have benefited from the weakness in the yen, which helps bring down the cost of Japanese goods sold abroad.
Japan's central bank, Bank of Japan, announced last week that it would expand its monetary stimulus measures, a move which has seen the yen weaken to a near seven-year low.
The weaker yen has also helped big manufacturers such as Toyota and Nissan offset slower sales in Japan, where a sales tax rise earlier this year dented consumer activity.
Toyota's positive full-year forecast comes despite a recall of 1.75 million vehicles worldwide over faulty brake installations and fuel component issues.
The latest brake defect was found in some models of Toyota's Crown Majesta, as well as the Noah and Voxy models produced between June 2007 and 2012.


Scientists have shown that the Earth's surface became enriched with precious metals by impacting meteorites.

The Earth's crust and mantle has considerably more gold than expected from favoured models of planetary formation.
A study from the University of Bristol looked at some of the oldest rocks on Earth, demonstrating that gold was delivered by meteorites long after their formation.
Their results are published in Nature.
While the Earth was forming, iron sank to the centre of the planet, forming the core.
Any precious metals in the planetary mix would have gone with this iron and concentrated in the core, leaving the mantle devoid of elements such as gold, platinum, and osmium.
But this is not what we observe. In fact, the silicate mantle has up to 1,000 times more gold than anticipated.
Several reasons for this enrichment were proposed in the past, including delivery by meteorites, although until now it has not been possible to prove.
By measuring isotopes in rocks that are nearly four billion years old from Greenland, the team has managed to date the gold delivery, and to relate it to an event known as the "terminal bombardment".
Earth formed by a snowball-effect known as accretion 4.55 billion years ago. The iron core with its accompanying mixture of precious metals formed very soon after that, within just a few million years.
A final impact of a Mars sized body with the Earth formed the Moon and finalised our planet's formation. By this time all gold would be locked up in the core.
A final burst of meteorite impacts around 3.9 billion years ago is known as the "terminal bombardment" and caused the cratering that we still see on the Moon.
It was during this last impact event that the gold which we can access in the crust was delivered.
"The proportions of gold and other precious metals are difficult to measure because they concentrate into nuggets, and we need to analyse a lot of rocks to get meaningful data." said lead researcher Dr Matthias Willbold.
They have therefore developed a way of telling this remarkable story of gold's extraterrestrial origin using a completely different element - tungsten.
Tungsten acts very similarly to precious metals like gold, but importantly it comes in different forms, or isotopes.The team have looked at the proportions of the different isotopes in modern rocks and in the most ancient rocks in Greenland.
They found a small but significant difference in the proportions, indicating that the modern rocks had received a dose of tungsten, and therefore also gold, from meteorites.
The Greenland rocks showed no such enrichment, giving a date to the input of gold.  This date corresponds to the time of the terminal bombardment around 3.9 billion years ago.
During this time, the Earth would have been hit with 20 billion billion tonnes of asteroid material, although "it is not clear whether this would have come in the form of many small impacts, or just two or three mega-impacts", Dr Willbold said.
The research group at the University of Bristol are the first to successfully make such high-quality measurements of tungsten in ancient rocks, but so far have only analysed samples from Greenland.
"We hope to find more," said Dr Willbold, "and look at a time sequence for one billion years after the Greenland rocks, to see how the tungsten anomaly develops."


No Heretic beat Nakeeta in a photo finish to win the Chester Cup in his first Flat race for 972 days.

Jockey Jamie Spencer got the 11-1 chance up to win by a short head for trainer Nicky Henderson.
Henderson is more used to training horses over the jumps and No Heretic had his first run since September 2013 when third in a hurdle race last month.
His injuries have included one suffered jumping a fox in winning at Leicester in 2011, entailing a year off.
"Then he did a tendon and needed nearly 1,000 days off. We thought we'd persevere as he's got a lovely pedigree and it's paid off," said Alex Cole, racing manager to owners Jim and Fitri Hay.
Henderson, indicating the horse may run in the Ascot Stakes at Royal Ascot next month, said: "He was a wounded soldier but it is great to see him come back."
Earlier, the 8-15 favourite Somehow eventually prevailed, coming through late to win the Cheshire Oaks, under jockey Ryan Moore for trainer Aidan O'Brien.


Goalkeeper Darryl Flahavan has left Crawley Town after the League Two club withdrew the offer of a new contract.

The 37-year-old former Southend and Bournemouth player made 14 appearances for the Reds after joining the West Sussex club in October.
"We are now looking for another goalkeeper to compete with Callum Preston for the position," Crawley boss Mark Yates told the club website.
"We hope to have someone by Saturday, when we play Yeovil."
Yates continued: "Darryl has been extremely professional during his time here and we wish him all the best for the future."


A ban on sales of older models of Apple's iPad and iPhone in the US has been overturned by the Obama administration.

In June, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that Apple infringed a patent of rival Samsung.
President Barack Obama's trade representative has now vetoed that decision because of its "effect on competitive conditions in the US economy".
Such a veto is a relatively rare event.
The patent related to 3G wireless technology and the ability to transmit multiple services correctly and at the same time. The ITC ordered a halt on all imports and sales on AT&T-sold models of the iPhone 4, iPhone 3, iPhone 3GS as well as the iPad 3G and iPad 2 3G. Some of those devices are no longer on sale in the US.
Such patents are called "standard essential patents" and they cover technology that must be used to comply with standards set by the industry as a whole.
Import-ban orders from the ITC are subject to review by Mr Obama, and he had 60 days to veto the decision.
His trade representative, Michael Froman, said that the administration was concerned about the use of essential patents in litigation.
Apple welcomed the news and applauded Mr Obama "for standing up for innovation". It added: "Samsung was wrong to abuse the patent system in this way."
Korea's Samsung responded: "The ITC's decision correctly recognised that Samsung has been negotiating in good faith and that Apple remains unwilling to take a licence."
Apple and Samsung are in the midst of a global patent war. Last year, a court ruled that Samsung owed Apple $1bn in damages for infringing Apple patents, an award that was later slashed to $598.9m.
An appeal in that case is due to be heard soon.


Frenchman Thomas Voeckler clinched overall victory in the Tour de Yorkshire by winning the third and final stage at Scarborough.

The Direct Energie rider took advantage of a lapse in concentration from Team Sky's Nicolas Roche to beat the Irishman in a sprint finish.
Roche was also second in the overall standings, six seconds behind Voeckler.
Bury's Adam Yates (Orica) was Britain's highest finisher, as he was third in the stage and fourth overall.
Sunday's final stage, a 198km route from Middlesbrough to Scarborough, contained six categorised climbs.
Team Sky set a punishing pace in wet and gruelling conditions after taking it on at half distance and with 44km to go they had five riders at the head of the leading group.
Roche attacked on the ascent at Harwood Dale and took with them Voeckler, Yates, Anthony Turgis (Cofidis) and Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL).
It was Voeckler who clung on the to back of Roche as the Team Sky sprinter attacked again in the descent into Scarborough.
Voeckler, who finished third last year after missing out in a sprint finish, used that experience to employ some cat and mouse tactics, as he tracked Roche along the resort's seafront in front of huge crowds on the town's famous grass banks.
Roche suffered a momentary lapse in concentration, causing him to look the wrong way as Voeckler flew past him with the finishing line in sight to leave his rival in his wake.
Voeckler told ITV4: "It wasn't just with the strength in my legs that I used, but also my head.
"It was difficult to follow the attack of Team Sky at the climbs, so I decided on a little more patience.
"Then I knew to launch the sprint at 300 metres. Although it was early, with the wind at my back, it was not so bad."
And in a tribute to the Yorkshire public that came out in huge numbers despite persistent drizzle, he added: "I feel like this is home because the crowd were shouting my name."
The Tour de Yorkshire is a legacy of the county's hosting of 2014 Tour de France's Grand Depart. More than two million people are estimated to have lined the three-day route.


Long relegated to the dusty corners of history, mead - the drink of kings and Vikings - is making a comeback in the US.

But what's brewing in this new crop of commercial meaderies - as they are known - is lot more refined from the drink that once decorated tables across medieval Europe.
"Do we have any mead makers or home brewers in the group?" asks Ben Alexander, eying a crowd of a dozen or so people who have come to his Maine Meade Works, in Portland, on a rainy Friday for a tour.
When no-one raises their hand, Mr Alexander launches into the full spiel.
"If you guys want to come around, I'll show you how this thing works," he says, gesturing to two ceiling-high columns of stainless steel filled with something resembling a mushy golden porridge.
"We mix up honey and water over there and we pump it through a hot water bath at 160 degrees [71C] in a stainless steel coil here. Each one produces about 50 to 75 gallons [227-340 litres] of mead a day," explains Mr Alexander.
It's fair to say he is obsessed with mead.
"It's the quintessential local beverage - you can go anywhere in the world and find honey to make mead, and I think that's unique among alcoholic beverages," he gushes.
After being introduced to the drink by a home brewer, Mr Alexander thought there were profits to be had in a commercial meadery. He founded Maine Mead Works in 2008, pouring his savings and money from friends and family into the business.
His business has since grown, along with the popularity of mead in the US.
It's now a seven-person operation that manufactures more than 7,500 cases a year, shipping them as far away as China.
Mr Alexander is not the only one to have caught on to the commercial potential of mead.
Vicky Rowe, the owner of mead information website GotMead, says interest in the product in the US has exploded in the past decade.
"We went from 30-40 meaderies making mead to somewhere in the vicinity of 250 in the last 10 years," she says.
"I like to say that everything old is new again - people come back to what was good once."
Even visitors to Mr Alexander's meadery agree.
Tour participant Dirk Heseman admitted that while Maine Mead Works was the first meadery he'd actually visited, he has noticed that mead "is becoming more and more available - similar to cider".
Just this year, commercial meaderies in the US have banded together to form an industry group, the American Mead Makers Association, to better share information and encourage growth in the industry.
But there's a lot of work that needs to be done to improve the image of a drink long associated with Renaissance fairs and medieval re-enactments.
"I think our number one challenge as an industry is awareness of what mead is," says Mr Alexander.
"You ask 10 people in a room if they've ever heard of mead, and two of them might say, 'yes', and only one of them has had a very positive experience."
The mead of the past was often sweet, and didn't appeal to many drinkers who were just looking for something good to pair with food. But mead has since changed.
"People don't realise that just because it has honey in it, [mead] doesn't need to be sweet," says Ms Rowe, citing the proliferation of not only dry meads but also meads flavoured with fruits, herbs, and spicy peppers.
Yet hampering efforts towards building mead awareness is also the name mead itself.
Technically, mead is classified as wine by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, which regulates alcohol sales and labelling in the US.
This means that mead has to be labelled as "honey wine", which doesn't help combat people's perception of the drink as being as cloyingly sweet.
"How do people recognise it as mead if you can't say the word?" says Ms Rowe.
Ironically, the alcoholic beverage that most credit with the resurgence of the mead business is beer.
The craft brewing movement, which was recently singled out in a report by the Atlanta Federal Reserve as a source of job growth, inspired many home brewers to expand their repertoire.
"I was a home brewer, and at first I liked mead because I had never had it," says Brad Dahlhofer of B Nektar meadery in Detroit, Michigan.
"Every home brewer has the same dream of, 'Hey what if I could sell this? Wouldn't that be great?'" he says.
After he spent months making batch after batch of mead, perfecting his recipe, he realised that mead was "kind of an untouched category", and that no-one, at least back in 2008, was really doing it commercially.
So when he and his wife, Kerri, were both laid off of their jobs in Detroit's car industry during the recession, they decided to take the plunge.
Now, B Nektar is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, US meadery, shipping 1,100 cases a week across the country.
But for Mr Dahlhofer and his fellow mead enthusiasts, that's just the beginning.
"If you look at craft beer 25 years ago, they had 1% of the total beer market, and now they have 8%," says Maine Mead's Mr Alexander.
"So we've got a long way to go, but I feel like it's got the opportunity because of the diversity of the beverage.
"You've got a canvas with very few limits."


London Irish scrum-half Darren Allinson is hoping to stake his claim for a regular place when the Exiles begin their European Challenge Cup campaign.

Welshman Allinson, 27, has yet to appear for Irish this season after the opening four rounds of the Premiership.
"I'm dying to get out on that field. It's a chance for a few of us who've not had much game-time to put our hands up," he told BBC Radio Berkshire.
Irish begin their Challenge Cup group at home against Agen on Saturday.
"If I get the nod to play, I'll be very much looking forward to it," Allinson said.
Tom Coventry's side, who have lost all their Premiership games so far, will also play Grenoble and Edinburgh in pool five.
Allinson, who has found himself behind Brendan McKibbin and Scott Steele in the competition for the number nine shirt, is looking forward to the challenge of facing European clubs.
"You get to go to France and teams like Agen and Grenoble are going to be really tough to face at home," he added.
"It's just a question of what sort of side they send over to play us. You know what French teams are like, you can't predict them, they're so unpredictable."


Thousands of troops and outside police officers have been deployed to the US city of Baltimore, following violent protests linked to the death of a black man fatally injured in police custody.

A week-long curfew has been announced. Schools and many businesses are closed.
On Monday, hundreds of people set fires, looted stores and confronted police across the city.
City officials have been criticised for not responding more aggressively.
US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that the riots have unfairly overshadowed the peaceful protests about police use of force.
"There is no excuse for the kind of violence we saw yesterday," Mr. Obama said. "They are not protesters. They are not making a statement. They are stealing."
Volunteers and city workers began cleaning up affected areas on Tuesday morning. Smoke still rose from buildings set alight the night before.
Officials said about 200 people were arrested and more than 100 cars were set on fire on Monday. Fifteen buildings were destroyed.
African-American Freddie Gray, 25, died on 19 April after suffering injuries to his spinal cord and spending a week in a coma. The US justice department is investigating exactly where and when his spinal injuries were sustained.
Officials have suspended six police officers who were involved in the case.
Monday's clashes began hours after Mr Gray's funeral.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said it was very clear there was a difference between the "peaceful protests of those who seek justice" and the "thugs who want to incite violence".
National Guard commander Linda Singh said that up to 5,000 troops could be put on the streets.
"We will be out in massive force," she said, adding that armoured vehicles would be used, but the city would not be under martial law.
Extra police officers are also being drafted in from the Mid-Atlantic region.
Earlier, President Barack Obama said his administration would provide whatever assistance was needed.
Some looted and ransacked the city. Others waited for the chaos to subside - then started to rebuild.
Joseph Adeola stayed even after his store, Best Care Pharmacy, was robbed. He has invested in the neighbourhood and in the country, too. His family is from Nigeria, and he has tried to make a new life here.
Then the riots started. Looters and rioters ransacked sections of the city. Fifteen police officers were injured, and a state of emergency was declared.
National Guard officers are watching over some of the streets. They stand in a line near the harbour, chatting amongst themselves in the bright morning light.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan issued an executive order to "protect the lives and property of citizens being impacted by this public emergency".
He said calling in the National Guard was a "last resort" and that he had "not made this decision lightly".
Capt Eric Kowalczyk of Baltimore Police said the 15 officers were wounded by thrown objects including bricks and bottles. Two remain in hospital.
Police made at least 27 arrests on Monday.
A fire broke out at a newly constructed community building near a church in the east of the city.
Kevin Harris, a spokesman for the mayor, said the fire was at the Mary Harvin Transformation Centre, described online as a community-based organisation that supports young people and families.
Freddie Gray's death is the latest in a string of high-profile cases where black men have died after contact with the police.
Nationwide protests followed the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, last year.
The violence is an escalation of earlier protests. There were 34 arrests as peaceful demonstrations by about 1,200 people outside Baltimore's City Hall on Saturday afternoon got out of control.
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Mishal Husain, who hosts BBC Radio 4's Today programme and television news bulletins, has won broadcaster of the year at the London Press Club Awards.

Husain was nominated alongside two BBC colleagues - global health reporter Tulip Mazumdar and social affairs correspondent Alison Holt - as well as Matt Frei from Channel 4 News.
BBC director of news James Harding said all three honours were "much deserved".
The Daily Mirror and The Mail on Sunday won the newspaper of the year awards.
The London Press Club hands out the accolades every year, primarily to print journalists.
Husain was the winner of the evening's only broadcast award.
She joined Today in 2013 after 15 years with BBC World News.
She has also presented the BBC's News at Ten, Newsnight and Breakfast, and was part of the BBC's Olympics team in 2012.
Husain has reported from locations around the world including Pakistan following the deaths of Osama bin Laden and Benazir Bhutto, Cairo during the Egyptian revolution and China during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
"It's wonderful and much deserved," said the BBC's Harding of Husain's honour and the other BBC nominations.
Judges said the Daily Mirror beat the Daily Mail and The Times to win daily newspaper of the year for "regaining its passion and authority" with "a series of important scoops and vigorous campaigns".
The Mail on Sunday kept hold of its Sunday newspaper of the year crown, beating The Independent on Sunday and The Sunday Times.
The Sunday Times insight team won scoop of the year for its Fifa expose, while The Sun's Ally Ross won reviewer of the year.
Lord Lloyd-Webber was handed the Londoner of the year award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to West End theatre.
See the London Press Club website for all the winners.


Many head teachers in England will refuse to make all pupils study five traditional GCSE subjects, a director of a prominent education body has said.

Bill Watkin, operational director of the school support and training body SSAT, said many heads felt the EBacc was not appropriate for all youngsters.
It comes as Education Secretary Nicky Morgan confirmed pupils would have to study the EBacc from September.
She said the move would ensure pupils received a rigorous academic education.
From September, all pupils starting secondary school will have to study English, a language, maths, science and history or geography at GCSE, in the EBacc.
Those schools that do not have 100% of pupils studying this set of subjects as part of their GCSE courses will not be able to obtain Ofsted's top rating of "outstanding".
The government said the wraparound qualification had been introduced to ensure pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds were not deterred from studying academic subjects.
A Department for Education spokeswoman said: "As part of our commitment to delivering real social justice, we are determined to ensure that every child who is able studies the core academic subjects that will set them up for later life and help them reach their potential.
"We will work with the sector to make sure there are enough teachers with the right skills and knowledge to allow pupils to study EBacc subjects at GCSE.
"Teaching remains a popular career and we provide bursaries for those training to teach many of the EBacc subjects."
The proportion of pupils entered into the EBacc has almost doubled in recent years, rising from 22% in 2010 to 39% in 2014.
But Mr Watkin said: "The risk is that pupils who can't access some of these subjects will become disaffected and disenfranchised.
"It may cause some pupils to do less well in their exams."
He said a recent snapshot survey of members had been inundated with school leaders saying they would rather lose their top rating than adopt a one-size-fits-all approach.
Mr Watkin said there were also serious consequences for school staffing, with dramatic changes needed in about half of schools.
The likelihood was that the arts, technology, physical education and religious studies would be lost to accommodate compulsory history and geography, he said.
His views were echoed by Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, who said: "We do believe in a broad academic grounding for everybody, but I believe the EBacc is too rigid.
"There are some schools that are very concerned that this rigidity will not meet the needs of their students.
"Therefore, they will offer a broad academic grounding, but they will not offer these specific subjects, even if that means they would lose their outstanding grading."
NUT general secretary Christine Blower said: "A bad idea has suddenly become much worse. Parents, like teachers, want a broad and balanced curriculum for their children.
"It is the responsibility of government to translate that aspiration into a curriculum that reflects the many demands that are made on the school, and that can involve and engage all learners."


Dundalk clinched a third successive League of Ireland Premier Division title after beating Bohemians 2-1 in Sunday night's game at Oriel Park.

The win moved Dundalk seven points clear of Cork City with two games left.
Andy Boyle put Dundalk ahead on 15 minutes and while Mark Quigley levelled from a controversial penalty on 29, Brian Gartland headed the winner on 62.
Dundalk will secure a second straight double if they beat Cork in the FAI Cup Final on 6 November.
Stephen Kenny's side are also competing in the group stage of the Europa League having narrowly missed out on qualifying for the Champions League group stage.
Dundalk were beaten 2-1 in Dublin by Zenit St Petersburg in their most recent European game on Thursday night but remain in contention for a place in the next round.


Jonathan Davies returns to partner fellow Wales international Scott Williams in Scarlets' midfield in their European Champions Cup Pool 3 opener against Sale.

Wales lock Jake Ball is also back along with Scotland back-rower John Barclay.
It is only the second time this season for Davies to partner Williams in Scarlets' midfield.
Former Wales and Scarlets scrum-half Mike Phillips returns to west Wales with Sale, as does lock Jonathan Mills.
The Sharks make three changes with a first start of the season for full-back Mike Haley, and Dan Mugford coming in at fly-half and Ross Harrison at prop.
Sale lie seventh in the English Premiership with two wins in six games while Scarlets are also seventh in the Pro12 with three wins in their six matches.
Holders Saracens travel to deposed champions Toulon earlier in the day in the same group.
Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac: "What is clear is we're in a very tough pool, but having said that, the majority of them are pretty tough.
"I think it's a good thing from a players' point of view, if I was a player out there I'd want to pit myself against some of the best.
"We'll be going out giving it everything we've got to get a result.
"We'll worry about the other games when they come along. The home games are must wins if you want to get out of the pool."
Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond: " We're probably two or three points behind where I thought we would be at the break.
"We worked hard for the whole of last year to qualify and it is a fantastic group I think. We are up and down at a team at the minute and we need to get some consistency.
"I think I've been there five times as a player and coach and lost five times, it is a difficult place to go as they are a massive club.
"It will be a big test for us as I think we're about equal as teams."
Scarlets: Liam Williams; DTH van der Merwe, Jonathan Davies, Scott Williams, Steff Evans; Rhys Patchell, Gareth Davies; Wyn Jones, Ken Owens (capt), Samson Lee, Jake Ball, David Bulbring, Aaron Shingler, James Davies, John Barclay.
Replacements: Ryan Elias, Luke Garrett, Werner Kruger, Lewis Rawlins, Will Boyde, Jonathan Evans, Dan Jones, Hadleigh Parkes.
Sale Sharks: Mike Haley; Byron McGuigan, Will Addison, Sam James, Paolo Odogwu; Dan Mugford, Mike Phillips; Ross Harrison, Neil Briggs, Brian Mujati, Bryn Evans, Jonathan Mills, Cameron Neild, David Seymour, Josh Beaumont (capt).
Replacements: James Flynn, Halani Aulika, Andrei Ostrikov, Magnus Lund, Tom Curry, James Mitchell, Sam Bedlow, Nev Edwards.
Referee: Romain Poite (France)
Assistant referees: Pierre Brousset (France), Mathieu Noirot (France)
TMO: Eric Gauzins (France)
Citing commissioner: Peter Ferguson (Ireland)
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A tradesman caught on camera urinating into a coffee cup while working in someone's home has dropped out of running for Canada's parliament.

Jerry Bance had been competing as a Conservative in a Toronto district but a party spokesman said on Monday that he is "no longer a candidate".
Broadcaster CBC used hidden cameras in 2012 to video Mr Bance as he attended to a leaky sink as a repairman.
In a statement he said he was "deeply regretful" over the incident.
But opposition politicians wasted no time trying to capitalise.
"He must be someone who is adept at [Prime Minister] Stephen Harper's trickle-down theory of economics,'' said New Democrat leader Tom Mulcair.
Mr Bance was filmed during an episode of CBC-TV's investigative series Marketplace, which was aiming to expose and confront workmen overcharging for simple repairs.
With the homeowner in the next room, he is seen relieving himself in a mug before dumping its contents into the sink and rinsing it out.
Canadians go to the polls on 19 October, with Mr Harper's governing Conservative Party seeking re-election.
Last week, the country recorded its second consecutive quarter of economic contraction and officially entered a recession.


A 21-year-old badminton player has become India's latest hope for an Olympic medal at the Rio 2016 games, after a shock win against the world number two.

PV Sindhu upset China's Wang Yihan in the women's singles quarter final on Tuesday.
Wang, 28, was favoured to win having won silver at the 2012 London Olympics.
Many on social media praised her achievement and voiced their hope for her to win a medal.
Sindhu beat Wang 22-20, 21-19 in a 54-minute match. The Indian athlete will go up against Japanese player Nozomi Okuhara in the semi-finals on Thursday.
Indians on Twitter rallied around Sindhu, saying she had brought pride to her country.
"This girl is on fire!!!!! 2 straight sets! Come on Sindhu!" said Tapsee Pannu.
"Woke up to the great news of PV Sindhu winning. You make us proud," said another user.
"India medal hopes are alive again with this win," another commented.
"India is behind you", a user added.
Born on 5 July 1995, Sindhu started playing badminton when she was eight years old.
The athlete says her parents, both former volleyball players, motivated her to chase her dreams.
She has been training under former international player P Gopichand, who also coached former world number one Saina Nehwal until 2014.
Nehwal was India's top medal contender in Rio but she suffered a shock defeat against Maria Ulitina of Ukraine on Sunday.
But Sindhu has kept India's medal hopes alive.
"She never gives up and that's her best quality," Gopichand says.
Sindhu reached the semi-finals of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014.  She reached the final of the Denmark Open in 2015 but lost to China's Li Xuerui.
She defeated Scotland's Kristy Gilmour earlier in 2016 to win the Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold title.


A detective has been cleared of stealing £30,000 seized from a safe during a raid in Swansea.

Det Con Christopher Evans, 38, from Llangennech, had always denied taking the cash in Penlan in April 2011.
Recorder of Cardiff Eleri Rees directed the jury to find Mr Evans not guilty of two charges.
The case against ex-Det Sgt Stephen Phillips, 47, of Swansea, and Det Con Michael Stokes, 35, from Glynneath, continues. They deny the charges.
Mr Phillips is accused of two thefts, while Mr Stokes denies three charges.
After Mr Evans was acquitted, the jury at Cardiff Crown Court heard the final prosecution evidence against Mr Phillips.
The jury was told that Mr Phillips was dismissed from South Wales Police after admitting stealing cash in a separate incident.
It followed an "integrity test", in which the former officer was filmed during a staged scenario.
He was seen taking £240 from a coat and £10 from a bedside cabinet.
It was also claimed Mr Phillips stole £8,100 in cash from a police evidence storage room, which was said to be the money seized from from a safe during a raid at a house in Swansea in 2011.
The trial continues.


China's first aircraft carrier has set off to the Western Pacific, the navy says, describing the departure as part of routine exercises.

It is the first time the Liaoning has been deployed to "distant sea waters", state media report.
Details of the location, route or duration of the drill have not been given.
The exercise comes amid renewed tension over self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing sees as a breakaway province.
"A Chinese navy formation, including the aircraft carrier Liaoning, headed towards the West Pacific on Saturday for scheduled blue-water training," Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported, quoting navy spokesperson Liang Yang.
Taiwan's defence ministry said it had been monitoring the drills closely as the Liaoning went through the Miyako Strait, a body of water between the Japanese islands of Miyako and Okinawa, heading into the Pacific, Reuters news agency reported.
Japan's defence ministry said it spotted the Liaoning as part of a fleet of eight Chinese warships that included destroyers and frigates, in the central part of the East China Sea.
It said there was no incursion into Japanese waters.
China announced the Liaoning was ready to engage in combat in November, marking a milestone for a navy that has invested heavily in its ability to project power around the region.
But China is still years away from perfecting carrier operations similar to those the United States has practiced for decades, according to Reuters.
Earlier this month, the Liaoning conducted live-fire drills for the first time in the Bohai Sea, near the Korean peninsula.
China's increasing military presence, in the South China Sea in particular, where it has territorial disputes with several neighbours, has fuelled concern.
The Western Pacific exercise comes amid new tension over Taiwan, following US President-elect Donald Trump's telephone call with the island's president that upset China.


The former owners of a care home, where a worker was fatally crushed in a lift, have been fined £60,000.

Joan Daws, 64, was pinned to the wall of the lift by a weighing chair at The Laleham care home in Herne Bay, Kent in October 2013.
KCRH Limited ran the home and admitted health and safety failings before Canterbury magistrates in February.
Fining the firm, Judge James O'Mahony said at times justice fell short as no amount of money could bring her back.
He said the court was "not a perfect place for justice in such cases".
"If I were to impose a fine of millions it would not bring her back and I am profoundly sorry for the family," he told Canterbury Crown Court earlier.
The care home has changed ownership since the death of Mrs Daws.
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She became trapped in the lift while moving a chair used to weigh patients.
In 2015 an inquest jury found her death could have been avoided if a lift safety sensor had been in place at the time.
The inquest was told Mrs Daws screamed as the equipment became caught and the lift descended through the floors.
The court heard the lift had been installed in 1972 and KCRH chose not to install a safety sensor offered by the lift servicing company in April 2002 that would have halted the lift in the event of a problem.
Judge O'Mahony said the state of the lift was "a long-standing and systemic failure of duty of care" towards the staff and any lift users on the part of KCRH.
Speaking after the hearing earlier, Mrs Daws' family said the pain of her death remained with them every day.
Her daughter, Amanda Fuller, said: "Nothing will bring my mum back.
"Their negligence caused her death and I hope that pains them every day."
Her son, Simon Daws, added: "It's deeply upsetting to realise that the opportunities were there to stop this accident happening."


Strictly Come Dancing's Aliona Vilani has announced she is leaving Strictly Come Dancing three days after winning the glitterball trophy with Jay McGuiness.

She made the announcement on social media saying she had gone into the most recent series having decided it would be her last one.
She said this year's series had been her "best Strictly experience ever".
This series win was not her first.
She also won in 2011 with McFly's Harry Judd.
Aliona's been on the show for seven years.
Her previous partners include Rav Wilding, Matt Baker, Tony Jacklin and Gregg Wallace.
She had to pull out of the 2013 series after fracturing her ankle in training in rehearsals with dance partner Johnny Ball.
Vilani started ballroom dancing in Russia at the age of 11 and went on to study at the Broadway Dance Center in New York.
She moved to Los Angeles in 2006.
The professional dancers on the show are booked on a series by series contract, meaning no dancers are yet signed up for the 2016 series.
Ola Jordan, another Strictly dancer, has also  ruled herself out of future series too.
Jay and Aliona are taking part in the Strictly Come Dancing live tour which starts on 22 January in Birmingham.