Rotherham United goalkeeper Adam Collin has completed his switch to Aberdeen on loan until the end of the season.

The 31-year-old comes in as a replacement for Danny Ward, who was recalled from his spell at Pittodrie by parent club Liverpool this week.
Collin, who joined Rotherham from Carlisle United in 2013, has played twice this season.
But he has not featured since August and recently found himself relegated to third choice.
Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes hopes to have Ward available to face Ross County in their Scottish Premiership game in Dingwall.
"We're still waiting for international clearance for Adam and I'll announce the team on Sunday morning," he said.
"We'd assurances from Liverpool that Danny could stay, but their circumstances changed, so we're delighted to get Adam on board."
Ward impressed during his spell with the Dons and, on his return to Anfield, was immediately handed a place on the bench for the game against Arsenal.
There had been suggestions that Aberdeen would consider recalling Danny Rogers from his loan with Falkirk and the Pittodrie outfit had also been linked with out-of-favour Rangers goalkeeper Cammy Bell.
"There was no approach for Cammy Bell, although I'm not saying his name wasn't mentioned," said McInnes.
New signing Collin began his career with Newcastle United and had loan spells with Oldham Athletic and Doncaster Rovers.
However, it was not until he joined Northern Premier League club Workington in 2004 that he made his senior debut.
McInnes would not comment on speculation linking Stuart Bannigan of Partick Thistle with a move to Aberdeen.
However, asked about the possibility of more signings during the January transfer window, McInnes admitted that injuries to Willo Flood and Ryan Jack had left his squad short in central midfield.
"We may be looking to bring one in and for nobody to go out," the manager added.
Meanwhile, McInnes also said any decision on the future of defender Paul Quinn will be made after Sunday's game with Ross County.
Quinn has been linked with a move back to the Dingwall club having joined the Dons from County in the summer.


Some clinicians' doubts about the need for four trauma centres in Scotland delayed their roll-out, the Scottish Parliament has been told.

Shona Robison said that when she took up her post as health secretary, there was a suggestion only two were needed.
But she said there was now a consensus for trauma centres to be in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The Conservatives have accused the government of a "complete failure of forward planning".
Look back on the ministerial statement on Holyrood Live.
Scottish Labour called for the health secretary to apologise, but Ms Robison refused to accept the criticism.
She said the £30m network could save around 40 lives a year.
In her ministerial statement, she said the project could also help many more people enjoy an improved quality of life.
The network was originally announced in 2014 and was supposed to open in 2016. But last week it emerged they would not be fully implemented until at least 2020.
However, Ms Robison said the centres in Aberdeen and Dundee could be operational within 12-18 months.
She added: "It was right to take the time to build that consensus rather than push ahead with a model that didn't have that clinical buy-in."
She said that the 6,000 people a year who experience trauma in Scotland already get "first rate" care in accident and emergency departments.
The new network would provide "optimal care" for around 1,100 of the most seriously injured, she added.


England finished with 10 men but maintained their unbeaten record in qualifying for the 2017 European U21 Championship with a draw against Switzerland in Thun.

Arsenal's Chuba Akpom scored the opener after the break when he slotted home after a dazzling run from Demarai Gray.
England looked in control before a Swiss counter-attack led to Florian Kamberi's equaliser.
Midfielder Jordon Ibe was sent off in injury time for his second yellow card.
The dismissal followed a delayed reaction from referee Daniel Siebert, who had not realised the Liverpool youngster - on as a first-half substitute - had already been booked in the 56th minute.
The result means Gareth Southgate's England keep their three-point lead at the top of Group Nine with three games remaining.
The nine group winners qualify automatically for next year's tournament in Poland, along with the four best runners-up.
England were 3-1 winners over the Swiss in the reverse fixture in November and should have taken three points this time around.
Debutant winger Gray caused the hosts plenty of problems in the first half, but Chelsea pair John Swift and Ruben Loftus-Cheek both failed to convert from his crosses.
Gray's good work was eventually rewarded when he pirouetted past two defenders and fed Hull loanee Akpom, who finished from close range.
Some last-ditch defending from Nico Elvedi denied Akpom a second and the Swiss, who had hit the bar in the first half, raced forward, with Kamberi finishing low into the bottom corner to equalise.
Switzerland now sit second in the group, one point ahead of Norway who have a game in hand.
England return to qualifying in September against Norway, before final group games in Kazakhstan and Bosnia-Herzegovina.


A number of fireworks and other missiles were thrown at police lines during disturbances in north Belfast on Tuesday evening.

The police moved in after a crowd of about 200 people gathered in the Denmark Street area at about 22:00 BST.
A police inspector suffered a hand injury during the disturbance, which lasted about an hour.
It was the third night of violence in the area which erupted as a result of tension surrounding a parades dispute.
Northern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness are expected to meet north Belfast assembly members and the local DUP MP, Nigel Dodds, on Wednesday afternoon.
By Mark SimpsonBBC Ireland Correspondent
The outbreak of violence is a stark reminder that parts of Belfast are still heavily divided.
The so-called peace walls - more than 40 of them - which keep Catholics and Protestants apart are a concrete monument to Northern Ireland's bitter history.
The spark for the trouble in north Belfast was a parades dispute.
This is no surprise.
The marching issue remains the biggest thorn in the side of the peace process.
The meeting is being described as a first step in their efforts to explore solutions to the parading problem in the area.
More than 60 police officers have been injured and seven hospitalised during three nights of disturbances.
A water cannon was moved into the street at 23:00 BST on Tuesday but was not used. A short time later, the crowd of loyalists dispersed and police began scaling down their operation.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Methodist Church in Ireland said it was "unacceptable" for the first minister to have kept silent on recent events in north Belfast.
"The only way he and his office can retain their credibility is if Mr Robinson issues a strong condemnation of all those who broke the law and broke the peace and puts in place measures to make community interaction and dialogue the norm," he said.
Earlier on Tuesday, a senior police officer challenged politicians to sort out the parades issue before someone was killed.
Assistant Chief Constable Will Kerr was speaking after a second night of violence - believed to be mainly loyalist - in north Belfast.
ACC Kerr said he feared someone would be killed unless the violence in the Carlisle Circus area stopped.
He said he did not believe the violence was officially sanctioned by any loyalist paramilitary groups, but he said members of these groups had been involved in the trouble.
He challenged politicians and community leaders to "sort this out, and sort it out now," ahead of a planned loyalist parade on 29 September marking the 100th anniversary of the Ulster Covenant signing.
Tensions have been running high in north Belfast since 12 July, when a loyalist band taking part in an annual Protestant Orange Order parade was filmed marching in a circle outside a Catholic church, playing what was perceived to be a sectarian song.
The band, the Young Conway Volunteers, maintained they were not playing the Famine Song, an anti-Catholic song judged racist by a court in Scotland, but Sloop John B, a Beach Boys song.
The Parades Commission, which makes determinations on contentious marches in Northern Ireland, barred the same band from passing the same church in a march on 25 August.
However, disturbances followed in the area after the band defied the restriction and others breached separate ones.
This latest trouble follows loyalist objections to a lack of restrictions placed by the Parades Commission on a republican parade nearby on Sunday.


With the birth of a child there is always that urge to grab a camera and capture every moment.

The days may seem to go on forever as you struggle to grab a moment's peace when your newborn is asleep, but we all know each phase of development only lasts a short while.
Whilst pregnant, photographer Amelia Shepherd turned the camera on herself and of course when her son Rico was born the lens was there to record his every move.
"The New Skin project developed alongside my own transformation into the 'new skin' of motherhood," says Shepherd. "As my son began to grow, move and interact in our home, I began to notice his little interventions within my domestic environment so I began to document these on medium format film. It was my way of recording and remembering these little stages."
Shepherd found that it was a way to document her new identity as a mother and finding the balance between that role and her work as an artist.
And that there were many funny moments as she chased her son across the floor with her camera while avoiding discarded toys.
"I think I now have the patience of a wildlife photographer and the reactions of the worlds best sports photographers," she says.
New Skin is part of the Brighton Photo Fringe and is on show at the Regency Town House throughout the month of October. Opening times are Thursday - Sunday 12-6.30pm. Exhibition preview on Friday 7 October 6-8.30pm.
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The UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia has started hearing closing statements, in what officials say is a crucial phase of the trial.

Nuon Chea, 87, and Khieu Samphan, 82, are charged with crimes against humanity for their roles in the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975-1979.
Spokesman Lars Olsen said this was "the final milestone" before the verdict, which is expected some time next year.
It is believed that up to two million people died under the Khmer Rouge.
Lawyers of "civil parties", which represent the plaintiffs, gave their initial statements on Wednesday.
One of the lawyers, Pich Ang, described the Khmer Rouge as "one of the most heinous regimes history has ever known".
"This is the final milestone before the verdict," Mr Olsen told the Agence-France Presse news agency. "It is the last chance to convince the judges about the case."
Both Nuon Chea, the regime's number two leader, and Khieu Samphan, its head of state, have said in the past that they believed they were acting in the best interests of the nation and had been unaware of the full extent of killings.
Two other people also faced charges along with Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan.
But Ieng Thirith, 80, formerly the social affairs minister, was released after the tribunal ruled that she was unfit to stand trial due to illness.
Her husband, former senior Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary, who served as the regime's foreign minister, died while on trial at the age of 87.
Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died in 1998.
The tribunal, established in 2006, has only sentenced one defendant so far. Chief jailer Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in running the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, where thousands of inmates were killed.
The tribunal has run into problems, including court workers going on strike over unpaid wages in September.
Rights groups and campaigners have criticised the pace of the trial and voiced fears that the age of its remaining two defendants may mean that justice is not served.


Southern Vipers will start their Women's Super League title defence against Western Storm, in a re-run of last year's inaugural final, at the Ageas Bowl on Thursday, 10 August.

The match will precede Hampshire v Glamorgan in the T20 Blast, the first of one of six double-headers.
The six Super League teams will take part in a round-robin T20 competition between 10 and 26 August.
The top three teams will then play at finals day on 1 September at Hove.
BBC radio will broadcast every round of the Women's Super League in an extension of last summer's coverage.
BBC Test Match Special producer Adam Mountford said: "This continues our commitment to covering the women's game which has recently included commentary on all of England's home fixtures plus coverage overseas during the tour to the West Indies last October, and the ICC Women's World T20 in India in March."
You will be able to keep up to date with the twists and turns of the whole tournament via BBC radio, online and the BBC Sport App, plus regular podcasts rounding up all the latest action.


Richard Jones has become the first ever magician to win Britain's Got Talent.

The army bandsman beat singer Wayne Woodward in the public vote during Saturday night's final.
Richard's winning performance told the story of Britain's oldest living magician, Fergus Anckorn, who was also a prisoner of war in World War Two.
"It's unbelievable. Thank you so much," he said. "It's an incredible feeling. I want to thank everyone here and everyone at home watching."
Richard gets Â£250,000 prize money and the chance to appear at the Royal Variety Performance.
Third place went to dance group Boogie Storm, a team of dancing Star Wars Stormtroopers.
The final had a special performance to mark BGT's 10th anniversary, which featured previous winners including Diversity, George Sampson and Ashleigh and Pudsey.


The Trump administration has granted a six-month extension to nearly 60,000 Haitians who were offered temporary protection in the US after a devastating earthquake in 2010.

The extension will allow them to remain in the US until January 2018.
But a DHS official said the agency was encouraging Haitians on the TPS scheme to "get their affairs in order".
Immigration advocates have protested against deportations, saying conditions in Haiti remain too dangerous.
The earthquake killed tens of thousands of Haitians and displaced more than one million, and the country has since been hit by a cholera epidemic.
DHS officials who briefed reporters on the decision said only conditions seen as caused by the earthquake were taken into account in analysing Haiti's readiness to accept the TPS residents back.
They said no decision had been made over whether the TPS status would be extended again in January 2018, but that the agency "highly encouraged all TPS recipients to handle their affairs as appropriate, including obtaining travel documents".
There are roughly 58,700 Haitians living in the US on the TPS scheme, many in a large Haitian community in Florida, as well as New York and Massachusetts.
They will be required to reapply for TPS status within 60 days of official notice from the DHS. No new Haitians will be allowed to join the scheme during the extension period.
"This is temporary status, it's not supposed to be permanent. It can't go on in perpetuity," an official said.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said in a statement: "This six-month extension should allow Haitian TPS recipients living in the United States time to attain travel documents and make other necessary arrangements for their ultimate departure from the United States, and should also provide the Haitian government with the time it needs to prepare for the future repatriation of all current TPS recipients."
The government has already sought to deport some Haitians who don't have TPS status, in line with part of a wider crackdown on illegal immigration.
According to internal emails passed to the Associated Press earlier this month, immigration officials sought crime data on Haitians on the TPS scheme, as well as information about whether they were seeking benefits.
The TPS scheme currently grants protections to nationals of 10 countries, including Sudan, Somalia, Syria, El Salvador, Nepal and Yemen.


A 10th person suspected of involvement in an attack on the St Petersburg metro earlier this month has been detained, Russian security officials say.

Akram Azimov is said to be the older brother of Abror Azimov, the suspected planner who was arrested on Monday.
The older Azimov is believed to have transferred funds used for the attack and set up links with international terrorist organisations.
The bombing killed 14 and injured more than 50 people.
Suicide bomber Akbarzhon Jalilov also died in the blast.
Both Azimov brothers are naturalised Russian citizens from Kyrgyzstan.
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The Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement that Akram Azimov, born in 1988, was detained in a village outside Moscow on Wednesday.
Video footage of the arrest released by the FSB and shown on the Tass news agency website appeared to show a grenade in his money belt.
The statement described him as the "older brother of the presumed organiser" Abror Azimov.
Officials previously said they believed Abror Azimov had trained Jalilov, a Kyrgyz-born Russian, ahead of the bombing.
However, speaking in a Moscow court on Tuesday, Mr Azimov said he "was involved, but not directly".
He denied reports by his lawyer that he had confessed to organising the attack.
The other eight people detained in connection with the attack - six in St Petersburg and two in Moscow - are also from Central Asia.


Reinstating four tracks between Bristol Parkway and Bristol Temple Meads is part of a £700m investment in the city's railway infrastructure.

Network Rail has announced 31 projects in the city over the next five years including the electrification of the line between Bristol and London.
Doubling the track has been described as "fundamental" to the expansion of services in and around Bristol.
It will also allow for extra high speed trains between Bristol and London.
New platforms
"Reinstating the four lines between Temple Meads and Parkway is the arterial route around which the rest of the Bristol growing railway is going to be hung," said Mike Gallop, Network Rail's Route Asset Director.
The new tracks will be built on Filton Bank, making it possible for local passenger services to use the line.
"It's a very significant first step but it is a first step," said Rob Dixon from the campaign group Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways.
"Without this investment there can be no improvements in local services - things like the reopening of the line to Portishead, the Henbury Loop, improvements on the Severn Beach line and from Weston to Yate - which all need extra capacity and without that they just couldn't run. So these changes are a first step to what we want and need to see."
Charlotte Leslie, Conservative MP for Bristol North West, has campaigned for the reopening of the Henbury Loop.
"The four-tracking of Filton Bank is the basic infrastructure which makes other things possible," said Ms Leslie.
"But what I'd like to see is more ambition in getting Henbury station and Henbury Loop and our network of rail around the city open faster because Bristol is growing and our transport infrastructure isn't keeping up."
The package also includes building new platforms at Bristol Parkway and upgrading Bristol Temple Meads station.


A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a woman who died two days before Christmas.

The 24-year-old from Leeds is being quizzed over the death of Daria Pionko, 21, who was found injured in the city on 23 December and died in hospital.
Police said a post-mortem examination found the Ms Pionko, who was Polish and a sex worker, died as a result of head and facial injuries.
A 38-year-old man arrested earlier has been released without charge.
West Yorkshire Police said Ms Pionko was found in Springwell Road in a managed area of the city where sex workers operate during set hours.
The managed area has been in operation since 2014.
It was introduced by the police, council and other agencies in an effort to reduce the impact of prostitution on residents and better engage with sex workers.


The albums in contention for the 2014 Barclaycard Mercury Prize, given to the best British or Irish record of the last 12 months, have been announced.

The acts making the shortlist include Blur's Damon Albarn, poet and rapper Kate Tempest, alt-R&B singer FKA Twigs and electro-funk duo Jungle.
Bombay Bicycle Club, Anna Calvi, GoGo Penguin, Polar Bear and Royal Blood are also up for the Â£20,000 prize.
Nick Mulvey, East India Youth and Young Fathers complete the 12-strong list.
James Blake was the winner of last year's award, while other recent winners have included Alt-J, PJ Harvey, The xx and Speech Debelle.
"It's really wonderful to be nominated for an award that is about music," said FKA Twigs, considered by one bookmaker to be joint favourite to win the prize on 29 October.
The prize is judged by a panel of 12 critics, DJs, musicians and other industry figures who often use the shortlist to champion left-field choices as well as more obvious contenders.
"One of the great things about the Mercury is there are always people you've not heard of," said Nick Blacka, bassist with Manchester-based jazz trio GoGo Penguin, following Wednesday's announcement.
Bookmaker Ladbrokes has Tempest and FKA Twigs as joint favourites to win the prize, followed by Jungle and chart-topping Brighton rock duo Royal Blood.
William Hill, meanwhile, places Albarn and Royal Blood as joint favourites.
Tempest, though, refused to contemplate her chances of victory. "If you allow yourself to have those thoughts, you'll just give yourself nightmares," she told the BBC News website.
"I don't see it as a competition," she continued. "It's more like a rising of comrades."
"It doesn't feel competitive," agreed FKA Twigs, aka 26-year-old Tahliah Bennett. "It feels like a celebration of people who care about what they do.
"For me, the achievement was getting out my debut album. Everything else is something I try to take in my stride."
Tempest, from Brockley in south London, is also a playwright and spoken word performer who won the prestigious Ted Hughes Award for poetry last year.
The 27-year-old was pictured on Twitter  celebrating a "joyous moment" with her band following the announcement.
Bombay Bicycle Club are nominated for their fourth album So Long, See You Tomorrow, which also made number one earlier this year.
Band member Jamie MacColl joked that the band, formed in 2005, had only been recognised because of their longevity and were receiving "the same kind of sympathy you feel for elderly people".
"I'd always set us aside from the kind of critically acclaimed bands who get nominated for the Mercury Prize," he continued. "It'll be great if we win, but I'm not expecting it."
Albarn is in the frame for his first solo record Everyday Robots. The 46-year-old was previously nominated for his work with Blur and Gorillaz, though the latter's nomination was withdrawn after they declared they did not want to win the prize.
Other acts to have been shortlisted previously include jazz group Polar Bear and singer-songwriter Anna Calvi, who made the final cut in 2005 and 2011 respectively.
Calvi, 33, joked that she had "already experienced losing" - to PJ Harvey - so would not be too disappointed if she was unsuccessful again.
"It's great to be acknowledged for what we do," said Polar Bear's Tom Herbert. "It's nice to get something back from all the work you put in.
"People who might not get to hear us will do so through the Mercury Prize. Hopefully it will bring new people to our music and help us make the next album."
Nick Mulvey, who is recognised for his first record as a solo artist, was previously nominated as a percussionist in Portico Quartet.
"It's been six years since I experienced this, which is enough time for me to forget what it's like," he told the BBC News website.
"I forgot how fun it was, and how intense. This is the best music that's come out this year, so I'm very flattered to be on the list."
Those sentiments were echoed by Edinburgh-based hip-hop trio Young Fathers, who said it was "a positive thing all round" to have made the shortlist.
"Our names now will be on people's lips and the album will travel a little more," remarked band member Kayus Bankole. "We won't be in the darkness anymore; we'll be in the light."
"I never thought making this album that it would ever come to this," said 23-year-old William Doyle, who released his debut album, Total Strife Forever, as East India Youth. "I never expected it in a million years.
"I've always wondered how being on this list affects debut artists, but at the moment I'm pretty cool about it. Whether I win or not, this whole thing is a massive bonus."
Simon Frith, chair of the judges, said the shortlist confirmed "that these are fascinating times for UK music".
"There are seven outstanding debut albums here, and five records by more established artists, all pursuing exciting new directions," he added.


A further inquiry into the problems of EU payments to Scottish farmers is "not sensible" because a probe of "Rolls Royce" standards is already under way, Holyrood's rural affairs minister said.

Fergus Ewing was updating MSPs on issues encountered by a new Scottish government computer payments system.
Almost 500 farm businesses in Scotland are still waiting for their Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies.
However, 17,634 businesses had been given what they were owed.
Holyrood's Rural Affairs committee heard that 473 businesses had not received any EU payment and 230 had received a partial payment.
MSPs also learned that farmers had not been left out of pocket because all those who had encountered problems getting their money had been offered loans.
The latest figures were made public during an evidence session to the committee by Mr Ewing and government officials.
The minister made clear it would be up to parliament to decide if an independent inquiry was needed, but he believed at this time it was not "sensible or prudent" to conduct one now.
Problems with the Â£178m computer system have caused delays to many claimants who were due to receive their money by the end of June.
Under CAP, about Â£4.6bn in European and Scottish government funding will be paid out between 2015 and 2020.
The money is mainly given to improve agricultural productivity and to ensure farmers have a reliable income.
The CAP Futures programme in Scotland was meant to make the rural payment process more efficient.
EU officials have given the Scottish government until 15 October for the payments to be made.
Mr Ewing emphasised that 99% of farmers had been given money, either through the awarding of the payment, or a loan from the Scottish government.
He said: "Getting this sorted in full is my top priority - a huge amount of work has gone into that and I personally won't be satisfied until every farmer has received payment of their due in total."
An Audit Scotland report earlier this year said there had been "serious cost and operational issues" associated with the payments.
Mr Ewing was asked by committee member Rhoda Grant whether an independent inquiry would take place.
The minister said: "The priority for us and for farmers is to resolve the remaining difficulties with the IT system and to restore the operation of the system to a proper footing and anything that detracts from that process, taking senior officials away from focusing on that, would I think be counter productive and would certainly be most unwelcome."
He admitted that lessons needed to be learned.
Mr Ewing went on: "Of course we have had the benefit of a very thorough series of inquiries by the auditor general - we have had a Rolls-Royce inquiry already and it has looked specifically at this, and moreover members will recall that in this report it goes into the difficulties.
"It already has conducted a forensic inquiry into these difficulties - that process continues.
"I believe there has been an appropriate inquiry - it is not over, the work is continuing, and we are appropriately being subjected to scrutiny today, that is the purpose of today.
"Questions have been asked and answered and further information will be provided."


Scotland's care homes are facing growing staff shortages, according to a survey of care providers.

Figures released by Scottish Care suggest three quarters of homes (77%) have vacancies.
Almost nine in 10 (89%) of care at home and housing support services had positions lying empty.
The Scottish government said it was committed to raising the status of carers and developing new models of care provision.
Scottish Care, which represents independent care providers, said staffing problems were contributing to hospital bed blocking.
The survey consulted 250 care services looking after 250,000 older people.
A quarter of care homes surveyed found it more difficult to recruit care staff this year while 64% found it as difficult as the previous year.
The survey, carried out in January and February this year, found more than one in five (22%) of staff leave each year on average and 44% of the homes rely on recruiting support workers from the European Union.
The position for care at home services was similarly bleak, with 90% of organisations reporting difficulty filling support worker vacancies.
More than half (58%) said recruitment is harder this year than last and only 3% said it was easier.
A third of staff leave annually and around one in 10 of all staff are from the European Union.
Scottish Care chief executive Dr Donald Macaskill said the "worrying" results had been worsening since 2015 and were leaving gaps in care and increasing delayed discharge from hospitals.
He said: "The recruitment and retention crisis facing the care sector makes the planning and delivery of reliable, high quality and sustainable care very difficult for care providers.
"However, it also means that individuals in receipt of services have their choices compromised, whether that is in terms of who they want to deliver their care and when, or whether they even receive a care service at all.
"We know that the lack of staff is directly impacting on services' ability to support people most in need, including those who are ready to be discharged from hospitals.
"Providers are regularly having to turn down care packages because they simply do not have the staff to deliver this care."
He said the introduction of the Scottish Living Wage of Â£8.45 per hour for care workers last October was a first step by the Scottish government but more needed to be done.
He added: "The social care workforce must be seen as a key national and local political priority. We can see no other profession which is so critical to the lives and wellbeing of so many, but which is so under-recognised and under-valued.
"If this doesn't change, the future of care provision looks very bleak indeed."
Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "Raising the status of social care as a profession, and attracting and retaining the right people, is key to delivering quality care.
"That is why we have taken action to protect care services, including paying the Living Wage to adult care workers, boosting the income of up to 40,000 people.
"In the coming year there will be almost half a billion pounds of NHS investment in social care and integration, underlining that we are treating this as a key priority.
"We are also working with Cosla [local government organisation] and care providers to deliver major reforms to adult social care, which will consider workforce issues and new models of care and support."


France's parliament has backed a proposal to fight prostitution by making payment for sex a crime punishable by fines and prison.

The National Assembly approved by a show of hands a cross-party, non-binding resolution which is due to be followed by a bill.
Six-month prison sentences and fines of 3,000 euros (Â£2,580; $4,000) are envisaged for clients of prostitutes.
Some campaigners reject the bill, advocating prostitutes' rights instead.
Around 20,000 people are believed to be working as prostitutes in France.
France has been committed to abolishing the practice in principle since 1960.
The resolution said the country should seek "a society without prostitution" and that sex work "should in no case be designated as a professional activity".
It urged abolition at a time when "prostitution seems to be becoming routine in Europe".
In 1999, the Swedish government brought in similar legislation to criminalise the buying of sex, while decriminalising its sale.
Under existing French laws on prostitution, summed up by French Roman Catholic newspaper La Croix
Guy Geoffroy, an MP from the ruling UMP party who sits on the commission, said France's political parties had reached a consensus on the issue because it was a matter of "republican ethics".
Nine out of 10 prostitutes were victims of trafficking, he said.
"From now on prostitution is regarded from the point of view of violence against women and that has become unacceptable for everyone," Mr Geoffroy added.
Yves Charpenel, head of the Fondation Scelles group which fights human trafficking and also advocates criminalisation, said it was unclear whether the bill would eventually be adopted.
"There is no consensus yet on this subject," he said, according to AFP news agency.
"Will the deputies who vote for the abolitionist resolution then vote for its concrete application? More than ever, it is necessary to clarify the French position."
Another advocate of criminalisation, a French-led men's initiative known as ZeroMacho which was inspired by the historian and feminist Florence Montreynaud, has published a manifesto against prostitution, gathering some 200 signatures across EU states.
ZeroMacho member Jean-Sebastien Mallet told French women's website Terrafemina that it wanted to speak for "the vast majority of men - hitherto silent - who do not use prostitutes".
However, France's sex workers' trade union, Strass, called a rally outside parliament to oppose the proposed bill.
Several dozen prostitutes and supporters gathered under placards reading "Sex Work is Work" and "Prostitution - No Repression - No Punishment - Rights!"
Punishing clients would "deprive prostitutes of work that provides them with a living, give clients more power over them and push prostitutes to turn to intermediaries to be able to work", said Sarah-Marie Maffesoli, a lawyer for Strass.
In a letter to MPs, it and other groups accused politicians of treating prostitutes as "marginals whose voice does not deserve to be heard".
Strass draws a clear distinction between consensual prostitution and sexual trafficking.
A man at the demonstration who described himself as a "client of sex-workers" said he was "against enslavement".
"If I thought that the prostitutes I know were being enslaved, I would no longer be a client," he told Reuters news agency.


A "significant" use of weapons by inmates of a prison for teenage boys has been discovered by inspectors.

Some 35 weapons were found in a search at Cookham Wood, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) said.
In the six months before the inspection, 169 acts of violence were recorded, compared to 130 at the previous inspection.
The National Offender Management Service said staff were getting extra training.
Some 103 acts of violence were recorded as assaults and 66 as fights between boys.
Inspectors warned violence at the young offenders institution, near Rochester in Kent, was "high and rising".
Cookham Wood, which holds sentenced and remanded boys aged from 15 to 18, was operating on a restricted regime at the time of inspection due to staff shortages.
Inspectors watched more than a dozen videos of incidents which revealed the use of weapons, attacks on individuals by multiple assailants and "reckless" behaviour by boys, including kicking and head stamping.
Serious injuries following fights and assaults were not uncommon, the inspectors said.
Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said it was "a new low".
"Cuts have pushed the prison system to breaking point", she said.
Chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick said: "We inspected Cookham Wood at a tough and challenging time.
"A new governor had recently been appointed and there had been significant loss of staff, not all of whom had been replaced."
Mr Hardwick said there was evidence of improvement since the inspection and "every reason for optimism".
"However, risks remain and the need to recruit suitable new staff is fundamental to the future success of the prison," he said.
Michael Spurr, chief executive officer of the National Offender Management Service, said: "The governor is actively tackling violence within the prison.
"Staff are being provided with additional training in behaviour management and all serious incidents are being referred to the police."


There was a rise in the number of store closures in Scotland in the first half of this year, according to new research.

Figures gathered by the Local Data Company for PwC showed 203 outlets shut down - while 116 opened.
In the first half of 2015, there were 140 store closures, while 95 opened for business.
Falkirk was the only town or city in Scotland which saw more shops opening than closing in the first half of 2016.
The margin was tight, however, with four stores opening and three closing.
Edinburgh saw a highest net change, with the loss of 46 outlets, compared with the same period last year.
PwC said many of the closures in the capital had resulted from companies merging branches and closing two units to move into a larger outlet.
Men's clothing shops, banks and mobile phone stores were among the biggest high street casualties.
Car dealers, cafes and tobacco and e-cigarette shops were the big risers.
By the end of June, 3,114 stores were in business in Scotland - 87 fewer than in January.
The Scottish net change of -2.7% was the highest in UK, which recorded an average of -0.8%.
Lindsay Gardiner, from PwC in Scotland, said: "While Falkirk may buck the trend - as has happened previously - it is still very tight for the local economy, making a case of cautious celebration for the area.
"As this data covers the first half of 2016, the full ramifications of the EU referendum vote are not realised but we have seen hints of challenges - like foreign exchange rates, living wage pressures and business rate increases - in certain parts of the Scottish retail sector as costs challenges begin to materialise.
"These can be managed provided revenue is maintained - so consumer spending will be crucial in the coming months."


The new £430m Brunel building at Bristol's Southmead Hospital in now fully operational.

North Bristol NHS Trust said more than 500 patients, some critically ill, were moved from old buildings at Southmead and Frenchay hospitals.
Trust chairwoman Andrea Young, admitted the building had some "teething problems" which led to a number of operations being rescheduled.
These continued on Wednesday morning after fire alarms activated.
The alarms prompted a partial evacuation of public areas for more than 30 minutes but no inpatients were affected.
Avon Fire and Rescue Service confirmed one fire engine was sent to the site from the nearby Southmead station to assess the situation.
It is believed the alarm was activated by smoke from a toaster.
Ms Young said the hospital was working with contractors to adjust the sensitivity of the sensors.
Last week 180 operations were rescheduled.
The trust said this was because adjustments had to be made to a "high-tech air flow system" that helps to eliminate infection risks.
Ms Young said the hospital's theatre capacity was now "getting back on track".
"All emergency and urgent work did go ahead, along with some routine operations," she said.
"I'd like to offer sincere apologies to those affected and assure them that their operation will be rebooked as quickly as possible."
The accident and emergency department was among the first department to move in on 19 May.
So far this week Southmead has treated 15 "major trauma cases" including seven transferred from other hospitals in the area.


A subsidiary of train maker China South Rail has bought a UK manufacturer of ocean engineering products, Specialist Machine Developments (SMD).

Zhuzhou CSR Times Electric has paid £130m for the Wallsend-based firm.
SMD will remain independent in its business operations, and day-to-day functions will still be controlled by its original management team.
CSR president Liu Hualong said it would help SMD expand its operations and unlock further global opportunities.
The Tyneside firm makes remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) and advanced submarine engineering machines, including for underwater mining.
It exports to 30 countries. A Chinese subsidiary of SMD will be set up to develop its presence in the maritime market in that country.
Five years ago Zhuzhou CSR Times Electric introduced its strategy of the "globalisation of business", designed to develop international expansion and a diversification of its operations beyond high-speed rail.
The purchase also fits into China's broader strategy to acquire foreign technology and market access.


Welsh Conservative sources have told BBC Wales they are targeting between six and nine seats in the general election, on top of the 11 won in 2015.

Labour is focusing on three targets as well as aiming to hold its 25 seats.
Plaid Cymru is targeting six seats - including a push against Labour in the south Wales valleys - to add to the three it won last time.
The Lib Dems, who won a single seat in 2015, have their strongest hopes in three other seats they previously held.
Despite downplaying expectations publicly, senior Welsh Tories agree with the results of recent polls suggesting that they are set to make big gains next month.
It is also a significant rise in expectations from the 2015 general election when the Conservatives had three Welsh targets; Gower, Vale of Clwyd, and Brecon and Radnorshire, which were all captured.
The known Tory target seats this time are Bridgend and Wrexham. The other gains that are considered possible are Newport West, Newport East, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cardiff West, Delyn, Alyn and Deeside, and Clwyd South.
Extra campaigning resources to support the candidates will be directed to official target seats over the next month, including help from neighbouring constituencies that are considered safe.
In 2015 the Conservatives had their best general election result in Wales in more than 30 years.
If they made as many as nine gains they would have more MPs in Wales than Labour for the first time in more than a century.
The main focus for Labour is on holding the 25 existing seats it won last time, rather than making gains.
But it insists there are serious campaigns underway in Gower, the Vale of Clwyd and Cardiff North, where the Conservatives have small majorities.
Party sources have also indicated that members in historically safe seats are "upping their game" in keeping with the challenge from other parties.
Plaid Cymru is targeting six seats, on top of the three it already holds.
They are Ceredigion, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent, Rhondda, Ynys Mon and Llanelli.
It already holds Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Arfon, and Dwyfor Meirionnydd.
Plaid believes there is a weak Labour vote in its heartland areas in the south Wales valleys which it will target by approaching them with localised campaigning as if they were a series of by-elections.
The Liberal Democrats hold Ceredigion, and are targeting Cardiff Central, Montgomeryshire and Brecon and Radnorshire, all seats they have previously held.
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National chain store Wilko has been fined £2.2m after a worker was crushed and left paralysed.

Corisande Collins, 23, was pinned under a metal cage of paint while working at a store in Leicester in 2013.
Ms Collins, who was working part-time while studying for a degree, now uses a wheelchair. Her family confirmed they will now be seeking compensation.
Leicester Crown Court heard the company admitted failing to ensure the health and safety of its employees.
Ms Collins, from Glenfield, had just completed the first year of a degree at Northampton University and had taken work at the Beaumont Shopping Centre branch.
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She was pulling a roll cage overloaded with 230kg (507lb) of paint out of a lift when it toppled on her, the court heard.
The prosecution described it as a "high culpability case" as there was no risk assessment for the lift or the use of the roll cages, as well as "inadequate training and supervision".
Health and safety inspectors said they were "shocked" by practices at the store, adding "the systems were unsafe".
In a statement the company said it accepted the ruling and would not appeal.
It said: "The greater penalty for all of us is knowing that on this occasion we let one of our team members down.
"We are truly sorry that this incident happened and for the impact it has had on Corisande, her family and those around them, which the judge today recognised they have faced as a family and with great fortitude."
Ms Collins has said the injuries would not stop her achieving what she wanted in life.
Her lawyer, Linda Millband, said: "It's obviously been very difficult because [Corisande] was extremely young when this happened.
"But I think they feel that the end of the criminal case will help her in her rehabilitation."


Nigeria's friendly with Burkina Faso on Monday in London has been called off after several Burkina Faso players failed to gain visas to enter the UK.

According to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) "seven players in the Burkinabe contingent failed to secure entry visas into the United Kingdom".
The match was scheduled as part of Nigeria's build-up for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against South Africa in June and the World Cup qualifier against Cameroon later in the year.
"The match in question is called off due to no fault of either the organisers or the Nigeria Football Federation. We will announce further plans for the Super Eagles' preparation for these two important qualifying campaigns in due course," top NFF official Chris Green said.
The Super Eagles drew 1-1 with Senegal on Thursday night after Kelechi Iheanacho's late penalty cancelled out Moussa Sow's opening goal at the Hive, home of English fourth tier side Barnet.
The NFF say they are "extremely disappointed" the match on Monday has been called off but insist that the "objectives of satisfying the technical team's desire of squaring up against tough, physical African opposition and fostering team bonding and organisation were achieved".
"There is no British Embassy in Ouagadougou, and officials of the Federation Burkinabe de Football had been shuttling between Accra and Ouagadougou for visa processing," the NFF explained in a statement.
"FBF (Burkina Faso Football Federation) sources said the Embassy in Accra told them last week to proceed to Morocco (where The Stallions played the Atlas Lions on Friday) and that the visas would be issued there.
"However, the applications were still pending at the British Embassy in Morocco as at close of work on Friday, the last working day before match day in London.
"The Burkinabe Football Federation - on Friday 24 March 2017 by 7pm UK time - telephoned the match organisers [Eurodata] to say some of their players and officials were unable to secure entry visas into the United Kingdom and therefore would not be able to honour the match."
Three-time African champions Nigeria have failed to qualify for the last two editions of the Africa Cup of Nations.
But under new manager Gernot Rohr, who took charge in August, the Super Eagles got off to a flying start in their 2018 World Cup qualifiers, recording a 2-1 win in Zambia and a 3-1 victory at home against Algeria.
Nigeria's six points, coupled with some surprising results in the other games, leaves them with an early four-point lead in their 2018 World Cup qualifying group ahead of Cameroon and Zambia.
Burkina Faso finished third at the recent Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and lost 2-0 to Morocco in Friday's friendly.


UKIP's ex-chairman in Wales has left the party, saying it is "unravelling".

Chris Smart, appointed acting chairman of UKIP's Wales committee last summer, has said he wants to rejoin the Conservatives.
He raised questions about the strength of the party's operation as it approaches May's local elections.
UKIP assembly group leader Neil Hamilton said he had some sympathy with Mr Smart's frustration but denied the party was unravelling.
Mr Hamilton said people might have thought "we were making a film called Carry on UKIP last year", but he hoped to see the party making "rapid strides forward" under new leader Paul Nuttall.
"I have got a bit of sympathy with him [Mr Smart], but in Wales we are moving forward," Mr Hamilton said.
He said he hoped Mr Smart would rejoin UKIP.
Former Tory assembly candidate Mr Smart had been chairman of UKIP's Bridgend branch since defecting in 2013.
He told BBC Wales he was disappointed the party had failed to resolve the row about its former Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who doubles up as an independent AM and a UKIP MEP.
He was also disappointed by UKIP donor Arron Banks's feud with the party's only MP, Douglas Carswell.
The party is "unravelling, I would suggest", Mr Smart said.
He said UKIP had no full-time officers in Wales, with local elections less than two months away.
"I can't see it [the election campaign] getting off the ground to be honest," he said.
"From the experience I have had in our branch when I talk to people about being councillors there I don't find much enthusiasm for that," he added.
UKIP won two seats at the last council elections in 2012 but has lost them both - one councillor died while another left the party in a row over assembly candidate selection.
Mr Smart's announcement came on the day Mr Carswell opened a new party office in Pontypool.
Mr Carswell denied claims he had lobbied against a knighthood for ex-party leader Nigel Farage.
"I didn't express a view at all," he said.
UKIP chairman Paul Oakden said UKIP would undergo a restructuring, including changes in Wales, and also appoint a Welsh local election campaign co-ordinator this weekend.
UKIP does not formally exist as a separate party in Wales and does not have a Welsh leader.
Mr Hamilton leads the six-strong UKIP group in the assembly.
"We're going through this process of reorganising nationally and that includes Wales - it won't be left behind," Mr Oakden said.
"Paul Nuttall has some very clear ideas about how the party will be restructured.
"That's going to involve me meeting with people in Wales to discuss structures and so on."


Tata Steel workers are in "complete shock" about the company's plan to sell the UK steel business.

Much of Tata's 15,000-strong workforce across the country faces an uncertain future as a result of the decision.
The company said it could not give an "open-ended" commitment to keep the UK plants open while a buyer was sought.
Worker Scott Garden said: "The fact all that could be taken away from us is a massive shock to everyone that supplies steel."
Mr Garden is employed at the Corby plant, where work has included making steel tubes for the Wembley Arch, London Eye and the Olympic Stadium.
He said: "We're all in complete shock, we've all got families. We want to come here to work, we want to produce steel, we want to make money."
Prime Minister David Cameron said the government was "doing everything it can" to save thousands of steel jobs - but warned there were "no guarantees of success".
Koushik Chatterjee, a group executive director of Tata Steel, told the BBC the company wanted to move quickly to secure a sale.
Conservative Corby MP Tom Pursglove said the steel industry was "fundamental to ensuring our national security".
"You never know what the future holds and it is unacceptable to rely upon the prospect of importing steel during any period of national crisis or emergency," he said.
"I believe that all options must be on the table and nothing should be ruled out - for example, if a short period of public ownership of these Tata plants is required, in order to facilitate a buyer stepping in, then this should be strongly considered.
"We simply cannot afford to lose our steel industry."
Rotherham council leader Chris Read said help was now needed either from a private firm or the government.
"Our best hope is that another private company comes in and buys the plants in Rotherham. If that doesn't happen and the government does refuse to step in, I think the future does look potentially bleak."
He said about 400 companies in the wider Sheffield city region were in the Tata supply chain.
"You are looking at thousands of jobs potentially being affected. It has a huge impact on the staff who work at Tata and their families but it is also one of those key iconic Rotherham industries," he said.
Rotherham convenience store owner Vinny Singh said his business would lose about Â£2,000 a week if the plant next door shuts.
"We open especially for them at five in the morning because of the night shift and the day shift turnover. We wouldn't open at that time otherwise. They're in and out of the shop for fags and newspapers constantly. It will have an impact on us that's for sure."
John Healey, Labour MP for Wentworth and Dearne, whose constituency covers the Rotherham plant, said: "This is a plant, together with Stocksbridge, that makes some of the best engineering steel anywhere in the world.
"For the last few years it has broken even or made a profit so it is a real goer.
"What we need is a long-term commitment from a long-term investor and if Tata won't do that here in South Yorkshire we have to find another buyer."
Angela Smith, Labour MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, said: "Without a steel industry there I think the town would quite rapidly decline and potentially die. I can't imagine the future for Stocksbridge without that steel plant."
The plants in Wednesbury and Wednesfield in the West Midlands say there is no risk to jobs.
P&O Ferrymasters, which offers freight management solutions to Tata Steel, said: "From employees' perspective, it's very much business as usual. What's new is that we are looking for a new investor in the UK business."
The chairman of Britain's Energy Coast Business Cluster Ivan Baldwin told BBC Cumbria jobs there may have some protection, because the Workington site is a design and manufacturing base, rather than a steel production site.


Ipswich Town boss Mick McCarthy had no regrets about packing his team with youngsters despite their EFL Cup second-round defeat by Crystal Palace.

McCarthy claimed before the game that he only had eight fit first-teamers.
And the average age of the 10 outfield players who started the 2-1 loss against Palace was under 20.
"They played like men. If they get one game or 150 games in Ipswich Town's first team, that one is going to leave a lasting memory with them," he said.
Ipswich went into the game after starting the season with five successive victories and they are one of two sides in the Championship with a 100% record.
But former Millwall, Sunderland and Wolves boss McCarthy made 11 changes at Selhurst Park against Premier League opposition.
"They'd have seen my team and thought 'if we don't beat this mob we're in trouble', but as soon as you start thinking that, it puts that seed of doubt in your head and you've got that fear factor and I think we contributed to making it that way by the way we played," he told BBC Radio Suffolk..
"I told them before the game: 'Leave yourself proud of your performance. If your mum and dad are here, let them be proud of it. Don't miss an opportunity to perform well'.
"I think there are players there who could come in and play (in the Championship). I'm not saying they are going to play 40 games (this season) but if we need a bit of help - we haven't got a big squad - they've all given me a bit of comfort and confidence that I've got a bit of back-up."


Police searching for a man suspected of killing his six-year-old sister, his mother and her partner have recovered a weapon from the crime scene.

Police are continuing to search for 21-year-old Jed Allen who they want to question in connection with the deaths.
The bodies of Janet Jordon, 48, her six-year-old daughter Derrin and Philip Howard, 44, were found at their home in Didcot, Oxfordshire, on Saturday.
CCTV footage of Mr Allen at Oxford railway station has also been released.
The footage shows him in WH Smith store on Saturday shortly before 18:00 BST.
He was wearing a red or maroon shirt, a dark jacket with a distinctive flash on the zip, a hooded top, blue jeans and dark shoes.
Det Supt Chris Ward, of Thames Valley Police, said: "If anybody knows where he is and is deliberately harbouring him, that is a very serious offence.
"If that is the case they need to contact us as soon as possible."
Mr Allen, who has a distinctive black spider tattoo on his left hand, is described as white, about 6ft (1.8m) tall and stocky.
Thames Valley Police confirmed he was known to the force and has warned the public not to approach him, although he is not considered dangerous to the wider community.
Mr Ward added: "We are conducting a number of searches to try and locate the suspect. These will continue today and extra officers and national resources have been deployed in order to assist us with that.
"We have recovered a weapon from within the crime scene but our search for the suspect continues today."
More than 100 officers - some of them armed - have been taking part in searches, which involved closing Oxford University Parks where Mr Allen used to work as a groundsman. The park has since reopened.
Police said the presence of armed police was "purely for the safety of the searching officers".
Didcot town councillor Margaret Davies described Mr Allen as calm and normal.
She said: "He's worked for a couple of years for Didcot Town Council and has been calm, has been working in the parks and has been fine. Studying at Abingdon and Witney College - a normal person."
John Myers, head teacher of All Saint's Primary School in Didcot, where Derrin was a pupil, described her as "a beautiful, happy, gentle, little girl, just a lovely, gentle, little soul... with lots of friends".
Ladygrove Community Centre, next door to the school, is opening its doors to allow staff, children and families to pay tribute to the little girl.


Fleetwood Town manager Uwe Rosler expects discussions with the club about his contract this summer.

The 48-year-old former Manchester City striker led the Cod Army to the League One play-offs this season, only to then lose to Bradford City.
Rosler joined Fleetwood at the start of the season on a two-year deal and has been linked with a move to Norwich.
"It is a clear message, I have one year more on my contract and I'm sure the club will talk to me," he said.
"Then we see what happens. I'm planning and you can ask [technical director] Gretar Steinsson that we've already been planning and putting things in place.
"The last two weeks I've been so focused on the play-offs but now I'll take two days off and then we'll send the players on holiday."


Rarely has a pope been more popular with the people.

A survey of Pope Francis's standing around the globe shows that he is seen positively by well over half the world. Some 54% say their opinion of him is favourable and just 12% see him unfavourably.
That means that his overall rating in the WIN Gallup International poll, or net score, this Easter is 41% (with rounding taken into account) - higher than any secular world leader.
US President Barack Obama topped a similar poll of political leaders by the same company. He was seen favourably by 59% but unfavourably by 29%, giving him a net score of only 30%.
Last weekend, Pope Francis joined Instagram with a photo of himself at prayer, adding to the followers he already enjoys on Twitter (8.9 million at time of writing).
Three years into his papacy, Francis has enjoyed enormous goodwill and positive PR around the globe, winning hearts and minds not just among Roman Catholics (85% have a favourable opinion of him), but also from other religions and non-religious people. He is regarded favourably by:
However, the one constituency that was not polled in this survey, but whose results would have made for interesting reading, was the Curia itself, the Vatican bureaucracy in Rome that Pope Francis promised to shake up at the start of his papacy.
Within the Curia, the Pope has polarised opinion, much as he has done between more conservative and liberal Catholics, even though he has not changed Catholic teaching and remains a staunch and vocal opponent of abortion, recently terming it a crime and "an absolute evil".
While his focus on mercy and interpreting the gospel with compassion have been welcomed by many, not all of Pope Francis's reforms are proving so popular and some are encountering stiff internal resistance. Any honeymoon period within the Curia for this pope is long since over.
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Outside the Curia, some - especially those on the more liberal side of the Church - say that more substantial and concrete progress will be needed in Francis's fourth year in office on the main challenges facing this papacy if there is truly to be a "Francis Revolution".
They cite the four most pressing issues as:
Pope Francis began his reforms by assembling a special commission of cardinals to advise him (the "C9"), a kind of papal cabinet, and is gradually pushing through the restructuring of parts of the Curia.
One of his first reforms was to the Vatican's own communications departments and more structural reforms or mergers of departments ("dicasteries") are due this year.
So far, such structural reform at the Vatican has remained incremental, although the clean-up under Cardinal George Pell of Vatican finances and the Vatican Bank is perhaps the most advanced of those changes, with Pope Francis recently setting new financial and accounting guidelines for the department that creates saints.
This pope has made very clear his dislike of clericalism and his wish for a "healthy decentralisation" of the Church is an idea that sends shivers down the spine of many within the Curia and the wider faithful.
His push for more power to go to the peripheries is far from popular with those who currently wield it, but is also feared by many Catholics who believe that greater devolution is a road down which the Church should not go, lest it dilute or break up its universal message and sow confusion among the faithful.
For others, dealing with the horrific legacy of child sex abuse is also proceeding too slowly.
Pope Francis has termed sexual abuse "an ugly crime" and has set up a commission to fight it, although the recent departure of Peter Saunders, one of only two survivors of such abuse on the commission, cast doubt on how effective it can be.
Mr Saunders and others believe that the Vatican is still not doing nearly enough to root out current child abuse by clerics or deal swiftly and transparently with perpetrators.
Likewise the Synod of Bishops, which was convened to discuss the family, raised hopes among more socially liberal Catholics that real changes might be afoot.
Those hopes centre on a change in the Church's attitude towards the divorced and remarried being allowed to take communion again, as many in Germany and elsewhere wish, and in a more welcoming attitude towards gay Catholics - although same sex marriage was pushed firmly off the agenda.
The papal exhortation - or what Pope Francis thinks should happen next as a result of those Synods - is due to be released any day now. Whatever the Pope says in it is likely to be claimed by both sides as a victory.
Yet some fear that its conclusions may risk further dividing a Church that is increasingly riven by internal disagreement over the direction that its own structure and hierarchy needs to take, even as well over half the globe cheers on this pope of extraordinary personal popularity.


Yorkshire Carnegie took control of their Championship play-off semi-final with a first-leg win at Ealing.

Two tries from Jonah Holmes put Yorkshire ahead, before Alex Davies crossed against his former club to give the visitors a 24-3 lead at the break.
Will Harries and Curtis Wilson scores brought Ealing, who finished third behind second-placed Yorkshire in the table, back into the match at 27-16.
But Ryan Burrows' try gave Yorkshire an 18-point first-leg advantage.
Should they overturn the deficit and go on to win the final, Ealing, as well as fellow play-off side Doncaster, have said they would not accept promotion to the Premiership.
Doncaster face London Irish, who finished top of the Championship, in the first leg of the other play-off semi-final on Sunday.


Manchester United produced a lacklustre display as their Europa League campaign began in defeat at Feyenoord.

Jose Mourinho made eight changes from the team beaten by Manchester City and an Anthony Martial shot going wide was their only first-half chance.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic came on for the visitors and headed wide as he failed to turn around his side's fortunes.
Instead, Nicolai Jorgensen, who was offside, crossed for Tonny Vilhena to drive in Feyenoord's late winner.
Ibrahimovic went close to an equaliser with a drilled free-kick but it was saved at the second attempt by former Liverpool keeper Brad Jones.
The defeat means United have lost four successive European away games for the first time.
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Paul Pogba, who re-joined United in a world-record £89m move from Juventus in August, had his lack of discipline and positioning heavily criticised by ex-Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher following Saturday's derby defeat by City.
If playing alongside Ander Herrera and Morgan Schniederlin in midfield against Feyenoord was supposed to allow him freedom to display his attacking skills, Pogba failed to take the opportunity to do so.
The France international was a peripheral figure in the first half as he epitomised a lack of urgency and intensity from the visitors.
Pogba pushed further up the pitch after the break and, despite looking a little more threatening as he attempted two long-range shots which went comfortably off target, he could not find the quality to help find a way through the Dutch side's defence.
England forward Wayne Rooney has played behind United's main striker so far this season but was rested for this trip.
United boss Jose Mourinho claimed he had other "solutions" for the role but the poor performance of his supporting cast of players can have done little to persuade him of the strength of his other options.
The midfield trio of Herrera, Schneiderlin and Pogba, along with wingers Anthony Martial and Juan Mata, left Marcus Rashford too isolated.
Rashford, who burst on to the scene with two goals in a 5-1 Europa League win over FC Midtjylland on his Manchester United debut in February, struggled as he made his first start of the campaign.
He was replaced by Ibrahimovic, who was part of a triple substitution after 63 minutes which also introduced Memphis Depay and Ashley Young, and the Swede gave the attack more of a threat but United still did not look like scoring.
Asked if the players who came in failed to take their chance, Mourinho said: "I don't want to go in that direction. I don't want to personalise. Obviously, some played better than others. It was the first game for some."
On his selection for this coming Sunday's Premier League trip to Watford, the manager added: "We go back to a normal team without so many changes."
Eredivise leaders Feyenoord came into the game in good form, having won their opening five league games, scoring 15 and conceding twice in the process.
Managed by former Arsenal and Barcelona left-back Giovanni van Bronckhorst, their team included former Liverpool players Dirk Kuyt, who scored a hat-trick against United in 2011 in his time at Anfield, and Jones.
Keeper Jones had a much quieter evening than he might have expected and the Dutch side could have taken the lead in the first half when Jens Toornstra blazed high when he had time and space to shoot.
They defended with purpose to nullify United's limited threat and were rewarded with Vilhena's goal, even though Jorgensen was clearly offside when he supplied the cross.
Feyenoord manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst:  "In the second half you saw that Manchester United want to win with the tempo and the three substitutions, you sensed that they want to leave here with the win.
"At the right moment we scored the goal - a fantastic goal on the counter-attack.
"After that the spirit came in the team and the determination to be there for the last 15 minutes. We fought hard to get the result and after 90 minutes we did."
Manchester United are in Premier League action on Sunday, when they travel to Watford for a 12:00 BST kick-off. Feyenoord face a trip to PSV Eindhoven in a top-of-the-table Eredivisie match.
Match ends, Feyenoord 1, Manchester United 0.
Second Half ends, Feyenoord 1, Manchester United 0.
Attempt blocked. Eric Bailly (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Memphis Depay with a cross.
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Terence Kongolo.
Attempt blocked. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Feyenoord. Bart Nieuwkoop replaces Rick Karsdorp.
Marcos Rojo (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dirk Kuyt (Feyenoord).
Attempt missed. Marcos Rojo (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Memphis Depay (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Rick Karsdorp (Feyenoord).
Attempt missed. Ashley Young (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a set piece situation.
Attempt blocked. Chris Smalling (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Ander Herrera (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Nicolai Jørgensen (Feyenoord).
Morgan Schneiderlin (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nicolai Jørgensen (Feyenoord).
Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Terence Kongolo (Feyenoord).
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Dirk Kuyt.
Attempt blocked. Memphis Depay (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ashley Young with a cross.
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Tonny Vilhena.
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Attempt saved. Marcos Rojo (Manchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul Pogba.
Goal!  Feyenoord 1, Manchester United 0. Tonny Vilhena (Feyenoord) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nicolai Jørgensen.
Attempt missed. Memphis Depay (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Ashley Young.
Attempt blocked. Memphis Depay (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Pogba.
Attempt missed. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) header from very close range is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Ashley Young with a cross following a set piece situation.
Ashley Young (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
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Attempt blocked. Nicolai Jørgensen (Feyenoord) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jens Toornstra.
Foul by Paul Pogba (Manchester United).
Rick Karsdorp (Feyenoord) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Paul Pogba (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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A homeless man has been found guilty of murdering a woman who was grabbed as she walked to work in west London.

Vadims Ruskuls, 25, killed Pardeep Kaur during a violent sex attack and hid her body in undergrowth near Harlington Bridge, which crosses the M4, in October last year.
Ms Kaur's body was found nearly a week after she was reported missing.
Ruskuls and his mother were thought be sleeping rough beneath the bridge when he killed the hotel housekeeper.
During the trial at Old Bailey, the jury was shown CCTV of Ruskuls following his 30-year-old victim as she approached the bridge in Hayes.
They then disappeared from view for 25 minutes before Ruskuls appeared again, dragging Ms Kaur's partially-clothed body.
The prosecution said Ms Kaur had scratched Ruskuls' face in attempt to flee but her screams were drowned out by the traffic.
Her body was dumped on waste ground known as a "bleak spot" and used by rough sleepers, drunks and drug addicts, the court heard.
Ruskuls was caught after a local police constable recognised the figure in CCTV footage as a man he had spoken to the day after Mrs Kaur's disappearance.
Following his arrest, Ruskuls' DNA matched samples taken from Ms Kaur's ankle, sock and the left cup of her bra with a probability of "one in a billion", jurors were told.
Jurors were told Ms Kaur had come to live in Britain in 2011 with her husband, Rachpal Singh.
The pair worked six days a week to send money to their five-year-old daughter, who lived with her grandparents in India.
When Ms Kaur was reported missing, police initially suspected her husband as he lied about seeing her that morning when he had yet to return from a night shift.
The court heard he had feared officers would discover he was working without a permit, but after he told the truth the investigation quickly moved on.
The defendant, who denied murder, refused to make any comment in police interviews and declined to give evidence in court.
In a victim impact statement, Ms Kaur's husband said: "I wonder why it happened to lovely Pardeep and why Vadims Ruskuls killed her.
"This will always be a mystery to me.
"The circumstances of Pardeep's death will always haunt me because Vadims Ruskuls has not given an explanation."
Judge Richard Marks QC adjourned sentencing until Wednesday.


Former X Factor winner Alexandra Burke is joining The Bodyguard musical in the West End to play the role made famous by Whitney Houston in the 1992 film.

Burke, who replaces Beverley Knight in June, said it was "a dream come true" to land the "iconic" part of troubled superstar Rachel Marron.
The film, which co-starred Kevin Costner in the title role, gave Houston one of the biggest-selling singles of all time with I Will Always Love You.
Burke beat JLS to win 2008's X Factor.
"I am a massive Whitney Houston fan so to be given the opportunity to play a role made famous by her every night will be a real privilege," said Burke.
The Bodyguard musical, directed by Thea Sharrock, is set to run at London's Adelphi Theatre until the end of August where it has been since 2012.
Burke added: "I start rehearsals very soon with my fellow cast mates and the brilliant creative team and, with a little trepidation, I am looking forward to our first performance in June."
Burke was mentored to X Factor success by Cheryl Cole and has since released two albums.
Her debut winner's single - a cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah - sold more than a million copies in the UK.
As well as the cover of Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You, the musical features renditions of several other classic Houston tracks, including So Emotional, One Moment in Time and I Wanna Dance With Somebody.


Manager Chris Coleman says Wales will be the underdogs when they face Belgium in the quarter-finals of the European Championships in Lille on Friday.

Belgium, second in the Fifa world rankings, secured their place in the last eight with a 4-0 win over Hungary.
They played Wales both in 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016 qualifying and have not won any of their last three meetings.
"People will expect Belgium to win," Coleman said.
"They had some criticism coming into the tournament and they lost the first game.
"But if you have a squad with that quality then any team you play against, apart from maybe two of three, Belgium are favourites."
Tottenham's Toby Alderweireld headed Belgium ahead against Hungary and Michu Batshuayi made it 2-0 when he tapped in.
Eden Hazard of Chelsea scored a superb goal in the 80th minute before Yannick Carrasco fired in the fourth in stoppage time in Toulouse.
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Coleman's side finished Group B runners-up to Belgium in Euro 2016 qualification.
They held Marc Wilmot's side to a 0-0 draw in Brussels in November 2014 before Gareth Bale's goal secured a 1-0 win at Cardiff City Stadium in June 2015.
"We have dealt with it before and we will be up against it," Coleman added.
"We have had to face that quality as they are a top team. We will be the underdogs, but we won't be fearing Belgium.
"When teams go for us and play open, we can do a lot of damage."
Wales secured their spot in the Euro 2016 quarter-finals as Gareth McAuley's own goal gave them a 1-0 victory over Northern Ireland in a tense last-16 encounter.
Belgium's victory over  Hungary in the last-16 came after they finished second in Group D behind Italy, a side they lost 2-0 to in their opening game.
But back-to-back wins over the Republic of Ireland and Sweden secured Belgium's place in the knockout stages.
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Defender James Chester, one of Wales' stand out players at Euro 2016, says the pressure will be on Belgium.
"We've played a lot against Belgium recently and fared quite well," West Bromwich Albion's Chester said.
"The pressure would be on them massively. I don't think we've felt too much pressure.
"We're here to enjoy ourselves and show what Welsh football is about and I think we're doing that."
Former Wales captain Kevin Ratcliffe, part of BBC Wales' commentary team in France, believes Belgium would rather play anyone else but Wales.
"They've got to be a little bit wary of us because their record against us is not too good in the last year or two," Ratcliffe said.
"I know they've got some top quality players playing in the Premier League but it doesn't frighten me whatsoever because of what we've done to them in the past."


After the political shocks and aftershocks comes a lull.

The new government is starting to prepare the ground for the real battles that lie ahead.
It is what lies behind the visit by Theresa May to Europe's two most powerful countries, France and Germany.
Over dinner with Angela Merkel in Berlin on Wednesday, there will be no negotiations about Brexit.
The German chancellor has ruled that out until the UK formally triggers the withdrawal process.
And, in any event, the UK does not yet know what it wants or what model it favours.
These meetings are about setting the tone, establishing personal relations for the difficult times that will surely come.
Theresa May will want to appear confident that she can manage the challenge of making Brexit a success.
In its first week in office, the government has been on a mission to reassure the international community that Britain remains open for business.
You can sense the nervousness, however.
Every piece of news that can be branded as "good" is seized on:
All the public statements are geared towards reassuring allies that Britain will remain outward-looking and a global player.
The prime minister will meet a German chancellor who will have a huge influence on the outcome of Britain's future.
Angela Merkel's instincts are to be cautious.
While some in Germany are impatient for Britain to start its negotiations quickly and for the EU to move on without Britain, Angela Merkel will be unemotional.
Where possible and without compromising the EU's basic values, she will seek a deal that is least disruptive to the EU.
She will be clear that the EU and Germany have interests:
She will also know that sitting beside her at dinner is a new leader grappling with two seemingly incompatible goals:
The meeting with the French president will be more problematic.
Francois Hollande wants the UK to pay a price for leaving the EU.
His instinct is partly driven by the need to undermine support for Marine Le Pen, who wants to hold a similar referendum in France.
The French have also been openly lobbying UK banks and financial companies to relocate inside the eurozone and in particular to Paris.
It has been a long-standing French interest to weaken the City of London.
Even so, he will want the increasingly close defence relationship with the UK to continue.
It may prove helpful that the UK referendum vote appears to be deterring voters elsewhere in Europe from following the same path.
Support for the EU in some other countries has actually surged.
In Denmark, the percentage of voters demanding a referendum has dropped from 40.7% to 32%.
Italy had been turning increasingly eurosceptic, but now two-thirds of voters want to remain in the EU.
Support for a right-wing eurosceptic party in Germany has also fallen.
This pattern, if it continues, might just embolden Europe's leaders to feel less under siege and more open to conducting a constructive relationship with the UK.
And the view in Paris is that the British economy will pay the price for Brexit.
Almost certainly, after this round of talks there will be a pause.
Britain has voted to leave the EU, but there is no agreed plan for what deal it will seek.
There won't be for months.
That is why it is unlikely that Article 50 will be triggered before 2017.
It is not clear whether the government will make a priority of staying in the single market.
Could it accept operating under rules it had no say in?
Will the City and financial services retain their EU "passport", allowing them to operate throughout the EU?
What will uncertainty do to investment decisions?
Will consumers continue spending?
How severe will be the slowing of the British economy?
Can withdrawal and a new trade agreement be negotiated in the two-year window allowed for under Article 50?
Who will negotiate all these trade deals when Britain hasn't negotiated such a deal in 40 years?
The future is littered with complex questions.
The new British government understands that the years ahead will be much easier if the divorce is amicable.
And that is why these early meetings in Berlin and Paris are important.
It is also the case that EU has its own problems.
There is an Italian banking crisis that, if not resolved, carries great risks for the eurozone.
There are elections next year in France and Germany.
The EU has to demonstrate it can ratify an EU-Canada trade deal that has been more than seven years in the making.
The free trade deal between the EU and the USA is in difficulty.
It will encourage some in the UK to believe that, despite all the sound and fury, there is a mutual interest in reaching an accommodation.


Veteran British cartoonist Gerald Scarfe has caused controversy after a recent drawing for the Sunday Times led to accusations of anti-Semitism and an apology from Rupert Murdoch.

Yet this is far from the first time his distinctive style of political satire - a fixture of national newspapers and magazines for decades - has been the subject of intense debate.
Renowned for his vivid, often cruel caricatures and pointed, sometimes contentious commentary, Scarfe rarely pulls punches when it comes to depicting public figures and the political class.
An early sketch of his depicting Winston Churchill in his last days as an MP was spiked by The Times, who feared his depiction of the age-ravaged former prime minister would upset Churchill's wife.
In one famous illustration, published at the time of the 1963 Profumo affair, he imagined a naked Harold MacMillan sitting on a chair in a pose made famous by the model Christine Keeler.
And in 1974 he marked the resignation of disgraced president Richard Nixon with a drawing that had him wiping his rear with the American flag.
Born in 1936 in St John's Wood in north London, Scarfe's childhood asthma led to long periods in bed that enabled him to indulge his passion for drawing.
After studying at St Martin's College of Art he got his first break with Punch, going on to work for Private Eye, the Daily Mail and Time magazine.
In 1967 he began a long association with the Sunday Times as its political cartoonist. He has also worked for The New Yorker magazine for more than 20 years.
Some of his most striking imagery was reserved for Margaret Thatcher, variously depicted during her premiership as a battleaxe, a blind automaton and a bloody-fanged pterodactyl.
"I could always draw her as something acerbic [and] cutting, like an axe or a knife," he told BBC News in 2008. "It's great fun transmogrifying [politicians] into other objects.
"The best drawings are those which are fired by anger."
Outside of his newspaper work, Scarfe is perhaps best known for the illustrations for Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall and the 1982 feature film it inspired.
Millions also know his work from the opening titles of Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister and from Disney's 1997 animated feature Hercules.
Scarfe was made a CBE in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours and has exhibited his work around the world.
He has three children with the actress Jane Asher, whom he met in 1971 and married 10 years later.


The conflict in Iraq is often framed as a struggle between Shias and Sunnis and Arabs and Kurds - but the country is home to a number of minority groups who find themselves caught in the violence and in political bargains beyond their control.

Christians, Turkmen, Yazidis, Shabak, Sabian Mandaeans, Bahais, Kakais and Faili Kurds have lived in Iraq for a very long time - some for centuries, others for thousands of years.
Many of them, particularly Christians, Yazidis, Shabak and Turkemen, live in Nineveh, a culturally rich province 250 miles (400km) north-west of Baghdad. The area known as the Nineveh Plain, north-east of the province, is inhabited mostly by these minority groups.
Since the US-led invasion of 2003, Nineveh has been racked by two parallel conflicts - between the central government and extremist Islamist groups, and the central government and the autonomous Kurdish region.
Persecuted under the Ottomans, Saddam Hussein's Baathists and nowadays by jihadists, and facing prejudice and intolerance, some of the smaller minority groups, such as the Shabak and Yazidis, have led a life of secrecy.
This in turn has given rise to misconceptions and suspicions about them, and led to further persecutions.
With the takeover of Mosul, Nineveh's capital, on 10 June by the Islamic State (formerly known as Isis), the minorities in the city fled en masse to the villages in the Nineveh Plain or further north to Kurdish cities. Many of them took up arms alongside the Kurdish forces.
Since then, there has been a steady flow of reports of attacks carried out by the Islamists against minority groups and destruction of their places of worship. The Islamic State itself has posted pictures of dozens of historic and religious sites in Nineveh that it demolished, under the pretext that reverence of such sites is heretical.
Iraq's Christians are of diverse ethnicities and denominations, but the majority are Chaldo-Assyrians who have lived in the region for thousands of years.
Their numbers have fallen from around 1.5 million in 2003 to 350,000-450,000. In Nineveh, they live mainly in the villages of Nineveh Plain, which include the Christian-dominant districts of Al-Hamdaniya (with its famous town of Qaraqosh) and Tel Kef.
One of the most devastating attacks targeting Iraqi Christians happened in 2010 when jihadists stormed a church in Baghdad during Sunday mass killing 52 people.
The Kurdish-speaking Yazidis are an ancient religious minority group that live in northern Iraq, particularly in the Nineveh Plain. A highly secretive group, their origins are subject of ongoing debates, although many consider them to be ethnic Kurds.
Their religion incorporates elements of many faiths, including Zoroastrian. As a result of some of their beliefs and the mystery surrounding their religion, many Muslims and non-Muslims have come to see Yazidis as devil worshippers.
This has led to violent attacks by Islamist groups who consider them infidels. In August 2007 jihadists attacked Yazidi villages in Nineveh, killing between 400 and 700 people.
There are estimated to be around 500,000 Yazidis today, most of them living in the Nineveh Plain in territories disputed between Arabs and Kurds.
A minority group with its distinct language and customs, Shabaks are mostly Shia Muslims and a minority are Sunnis.
It is thought that today there are about 250,000-400,000 Shabaks, almost all in Nineveh.
Some Sunni extremists accuse the predominantly Shia Shabak of being an apostate offshoot of Islam, giving way to violent attacks against them.
Located in areas of disputed ownership between Kurdish and Arab Iraq, the Shabaks have often faced persecution as well as pressure to assimilate by both Arabs and Kurds.
The Turkmen are the third largest ethnic group in Iraq, after the Arabs and Kurds, estimated to number between half a million and 2.5 million.
They are mostly Muslim, roughly divided between the Sunni and Shia traditions. A minority are Catholics.
Turkmen have their own language and customs. They live mainly along the line between the Arab and Kurdish regions - in the provinces of Nineveh (mostly in Tal Afar), Kirkuk, Salaheddin and Diyala, but also in other parts of the country.
Often caught up in the power struggles between the Kurdish region and the central government and under Kurdish and Arab pressure to assimilate, they have also been the target of attacks by jihadists.
Following the Islamic State's takeover of Tal Afar in Nineveh, most of the town's 250,000 population fled to the Kurdish region.
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Pakistan produced an incredible display to thrash fierce rivals India and win the Champions Trophy at The Oval.

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Fakhar Zaman hit a spectacular century to propel Pakistan to 338-4 in the scorching south London sunshine.
Mohammad Amir then tore through the India top order to help reduce the defending champions to 54-5.
India eventually limped to 158, Pakistan winning by 180 runs to take their first global 50-over title since 1992.
That Pakistan lifted the trophy was surprising enough - at eighth in the world they began as the lowest-ranked team in the tournament - but it is the way they demolished the strong favourites will live long in the memory.
Firstly Fakhar flayed the ball all around the The Oval, a maiden century coming in his fourth ODI after Pakistan were invited to bat.
And then Amir, in the same city in which he committed the spot-fixing offences that led to a five-year ban, found precious movement to destroy the vaunted India batting line-up.
The rest of the Pakistan attack were irresistible, backed up by excellent fielding, all in front of a vibrant, raucous and enthusiastic capacity crowd.
A quarter-of-a-century ago, Pakistan came from the brink of elimination to win the World Cup, inspired by captain Imran Khan telling them to "fight like cornered tigers".
Here, they recovered from a humbling defeat by India in their opening game with similar tenacity.
Fakhar was installed at the top of the order, man of the tournament Hasan Ali fronted a talented pace attack and energetic captain Sarfraz Ahmed marshalled a team that grew in confidence and momentum.
World number ones South Africa were beaten in the rain before Pakistan edged past Sri Lanka to reach the last four. England, the much-fancied hosts, were brushed aside in Cardiff before the an incredible performance in the final - their biggest margin of victory over India in an ODI.
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Though Fakhar had illuminated The Oval, there was a suspicion that Pakistan's total was within reach of India's stellar batting. That was until Amir got to work.
Rohit Sharma was pinned lbw by the third ball of the innings, only for Azhar Ali to spill a straightforward first-slip chance off India captain and master run-chaser Virat Kohli.
However, from the very next ball, Kohli was squared up and athletically held at point by Shadab Khan, before Shikhar Dhawan edged behind.
After Yuvraj Singh was given lbw on review to leg-spinner Shadab and MS Dhoni holed out off the pace of Hasan, the contest was as good as done.
Hardik Pandya's six-hitting in a 43-ball 76 always seemed likely to be in vain. It was not long after he was run out that last man Jasprit Bumrah flapped at Hasan - and the Pakistan celebrations begun.
India, favouring a chase, gave up the chance to bat first on a run-filled surface and were made to pay by left-hander Fakhar.
He was reprieved on three, caught behind off a Bumrah no-ball, and went on to carve, slice and belt his way to a 92-ball century.
Fakhar shared an opening stand of 128 with Azhar Ali and, after a mix-up that saw Azhar run out, sprang to life. At one point, he took 32 runs in the space of eight legal deliveries.
When Fakhar miscued the impressive Bhuvneshwar Kumar to a back-tracking Ravindra Jadeja at point, India pulled themselves back into contention.
Mohammad Hafeez made an unbeaten 57 from 37 balls and Babar Azam 46 from 52, but India's canny death bowling seemed to have kept them in contention.
As it turned out, Pakistan had far too many for them.
Former England captain Alec Stewart on Test Match Special: "That was brilliant from Pakistan's point of view - their bowling was high quality.
"Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis are two of the all-time greats but Amir is showing he has the same potential."
Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed: "After the India match when we lost in the group stage, I told my boys the tournament hadn't finished yet.
"Credit goes to my boys. Fakhar is a great impact player, he played like a champion batsman. Amir bowled brilliantly but all my bowlers bowled really well. We have a young team and credit to my boys."
Pakistan legend Wasim Akram on Twitter: "Wow, wow, wow - unbelievable performance by team green. It feels like deja vu after winning the 1992 World Cup. I am over the moon."
Former Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq on Twitter: "Congratulations to the Pakistan team and the whole country for such a great win. Boys, you made us happy and proud. Up and above from here!"
India captain Virat Kohli: "Pakistan had a good performance, I congratulate them. They deserve to win. They need victories like these. Things weren't happening for them and then they win a tournament."


Leicester Tigers recovered from a 10-point deficit at Welford Road to beat Newcastle, who dropped to the bottom of the Premiership table.

The sides were level at 10-10 at half-time after Nili Latu bundled over for Newcastle and Telusa Veainu brought Leicester back on terms.
Peter Betham wriggled through after a missed tackle to give Tigers the lead.
Leicester denied Newcastle a losing bonus point when Laurence Pearce crossed after Betham's fine offload.
Victory lifted Leicester to third before Harlequins' meeting with Gloucester on Sunday, while a dramatic late win for London Irish against Northampton saw Newcastle slip to the bottom.
Dean Richards' side, without a win this season, made the early running and were rewarded through Latu finishing off a five-metre line out from the catch-and-drive and Craig Willis kicking the extras.
Leicester tight-head Fraser Balmain was sin-binned for a dangerous tackle, but Newcastle's own indiscipline saw them reduced to 13 men at one stage in the opening 40 minutes.
Belisario Agulla and Mark Wilson went to the sin bin within the space of a minute for a dangerous tackle and failing to release respectively.
Leicester fly-half Freddie Burns chipped away at the deficit before Veainu ran through in the corner after having an earlier effort disallowed.
Mathew Tait also had a try ruled out against his former club as he failed to ground the ball, but Betham put Tigers ahead for the first time after Newcastle's defence was stretched.
The Australian then turned provider to make victory safe for Richard Cockerill's men when number eight Pearce crossed for Leicester's third try.
Leicester boss Richard Cockerill: "I'll take the four points but we were pretty ordinary, we were inaccurate and created lots of opportunities but Newcastle came and fought hard and made us work very hard for it.
"Newcastle were good and their set-piece was excellent and they worked hard, but if you're inaccurate and you let the official in and you don't control it yourself then you get what you get."
Newcastle director of rugby Dean Richards: "If we can have a little bit more patience in attack and we didn't have that today... the first 20 minutes we showed that patience and that shape and it caused them problems and as soon as we lost that patience, our game went to pot a little bit and we had to defend long periods.
"When we did get the ball, we tended to lose it within two to three phases.
"I thought our pack was outstanding but again it comes down to that little bit of accuracy but I thought we defended really well.
"We're not even a third of the way through the season yet but as we have in the last few seasons we tend to come out and surprise people towards the end of the season and we'll start to get the wins that we want."
Leicester: Tait; Veainu, Betham, Smith, Goneva; Burns, B. Youngs; Mulipola, H. Thacker, Balmain, Barrow, Slater, Croft, McCaffrey, Pearce.
Replacements: T. Youngs, Aguero, Cole, De Chaves, Fonua, Harrison, Bell, Bai.
Newcastle: Hammersley; A. Tait, Agulla, C. Harris, Watson; Willis, M. Young; Vickers, McGuigan, Welsh, M. Wilson, Robinson, Hogg, Welch, Latu.
Replacements: Lawson, Rogers, Vea, Botha, Clever, Takulua, Catterick, Socino.
Referee: Tim Wigglesworth
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