There is no rush to raise interest rates, a Federal Reserve board member has said a week before the US central bank announces its latest decision.

Economic weakness "counsels prudence", said Lael Brainard, a member of the Fed's Open Market Committee, which decides interest rates.
Her comments come after several Fed officials recently suggested a rate rise this month should be considered.
Ms Brainard has consistently voted against an increase.
Speaking in Chigaco, Ms Brainard said the risk that higher rates would damage a fragile US economy exceeded the risk that higher rates would increase inflation.
Her caution follows comments by Boston Fed chief Eric Rosengren on Friday that there was a case for higher rates.
Earlier on Monday, Dennis Lockhart, Atlanta Federal Reserve president, said he still believed that economic conditions justified considering a rate rise this month.
The Fed raised interest rates in December for the first time since 2006, but has held back from increasing them further amid concerns over persistently low inflation.
However, last month Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said the case for a hike "had strengthened".
The speculation over the Fed's next move comes amid a claim from Donald Trump that the US central bank was keeping interest rates low to boost the popularity of President Barack Obama.
The US Republican presidential candidate said Ms Yellen was "obviously political" and had created a "false" stock market by keeping rates low.
Economists and commentators were quick to dismiss his comments, with academic and commentator Paul Krugman tweeting: "In ordinary times this combo of ignorance and paranoia would be shocking. In this election, who'll even notice."
Rates are unlikely to rise until there is a new president, according to Mr Trump. When that happens, the stock market is likely to go "way down", he told CNBC.
"[Ms Yellen] is obviously political and she's doing what Obama wants her to do," Mr Trump said.
Responding to his comments, Minneapolis Federal Reserve president Neel Kashkari told CNBC that at Federal Reserve meetings "politics simply does not come up".
"We look at the economic data," he said.
When asked about political pressure on the Federal Reserve, Mr Lockhart said: "I don't see the world that way."
Earlier this month, Ms Yellen said the case for raising US interest rates had "strengthened".
Speaking at an annual meeting of central bankers, Ms Yellen was cautiously upbeat about the US economy.
She said economic growth and a stronger jobs market meant "the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has strengthened in recent months".
Mr Trump said that while low interest rates had been good for his property business, savers had been hit.
"The ones that did it right, they saved their money. They cut down on their mortgages... now they're getting practically zero interest on the money that they worked so hard for."


The British and Irish Lions ran riot in their first match on Australian soil with a nine-try victory over Western Force in Perth.

First-half scores from Jonny Sexton, Brian O'Driscoll and Tom Croft put the tourists 27-3 up, but they lost prop Cian Healy to a potential tour-ending injury.
"An under-strength Western Force tried their best and played with spirit, but they were hopelessly outclassed by the Lions. The tourists only led 10-0 approaching half-time but they scored 59 points in the last 48 minutes.
"Next up they play Queensland Reds in Brisbane on Saturday - that will be a much tougher test. But the Lions will be full of confidence."
The Irishman was taken off on a stretcher off after twisting his ankle minutes before the interval, although initial reports suggested it may only be sprained.
The Lions ran in six more tries on the resumption, with Leigh Halfpenny landing every conversion - many from the touchline - and two penalties in a magnificent goalkicking display that earned him 24 points.
If the Lions coaches will be disappointed to concede two tries, it was otherwise a highly impressive display of power and precision in the same city where they racked up 116 points on their last visit in 2001.
Healy's early departure completed an eventful outing for the Leinster prop, who was earlier the subject of a biting claim from Force scrum-half Brett Sheehan.
Sheehan pointed to his arm in the 18th minute, claiming he had been bitten after tangling with Healy following a tackle.  "I don't know if it was an accident or on purpose," Sheehan said at half-time. But the television match official ruled there was no evidence for his claim.
An early break from Tommy Bowe, bursting onto a short pass from Sexton, preceded a penalty that Halfpenny landed to open his account.
Sexton's scheming - a delicate cross-kick to George North almost led to an earlier try - was rewarded with the first score in the 11th minute.
The Lions stretched the Force defence from side to side, North initially making ground on the left, before Sexton delightfully dummied his way over. Halfpenny converted.
Two more chances quickly came and went, both after strong Lions scrums. Manu Tuilagi was held up short, before scrum-half Conor Murray made a solo dart for the line and lost the ball in contact.
After dominating the opening 20 minutes, the Lions were forced to twice defend line-outs close to their own line after Western Force broke out, and - to the hosts' credit - opted to kick penalties to touch rather than at goal.
But hooker James Hilterbrand, playing just his second game for the Force, was twice unable to find a straight throw when the hosts had an opportunity to challenge.
Sheehan did kick the Force's only points before the interval after Rory Best over-threw a line-out.
But after quick hands from Sean O'Brien, O'Driscoll released North and then took a return pass from the Wales wing to score his sixth try for the Lions, 12 years after his first in the same city.
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O'Brien and Alun Wyn Jones then put Tom Croft over in the left corner before Halfpenny nailed another superb touchline conversion to maintain his 100% record from the tee.
The second half was only a minute old when the outstanding Jamie Heaslip, who set the move in motion with one of several barnstorming runs, strolled over on the right after a beautiful long pass from Sexton.
The Force did hit back, number eight Richard Brown creeping over after a quick pick-and-go from captain Matt Hodgson.
But it did little to upset the Lions' rhythm. Mako Vunipola - on for Healy - finished powerfully in the right corner after another deft Sexton pass.
Bowe squeezed over in the same spot soon afterwards, after the Force lost centre Ed Stubbs to the sin-bin for killing the ball.
The Lions conceded a second try when replacement Lachlan McCaffrey stretched through Sexton's tackle, after O'Brien appeared to dive out of the line.
But they responded with the best try of the game, Sexton and Tuilagi combining superbly to put O'Driscoll away for his second.
Owen Farrell was on for barely a minute when he scored with his first touch, and there was still time for Croft to depart after smashing heads with Brown, Jones to be sin-binned and Geoff Parling to stretch over in a breathless finale.
Western Force:  Sam Christie, Dane Haylett-Petty, Ed Stubbs, Chris Tuatara-Morrison, Corey Brown; Sam Norton-Knight, Brett Sheehan; Salesi Manu, James Hilterbrand, Salesi Ma'afu, Toby Lynn, Phoenix Battye, Angus Cottrell, Matt Hodgson, Richard Brown.
Replacements: Hugh Roach (for Hilterbrand, 78), Sione Kolo (for Ma'afu, 49), Tim Metcher (for Manu, 77), Ben Matwijow (for Lynn, 65), Lachlan McCaffrey (for Cottrell, 52), Alby Mathewson (for Sheehan, 71), Nick Haining (for Brown, 61), Junior Rasolea (for Haylett-Petty, 71).
Yellow card: Stubbs (57-67)
Lions: Leigh Halfpenny, Tommy Bowe, Brian O'Driscoll (capt), Manu Tuilagi, George North; Jonny Sexton, Conor Murray; Cian Healy, Rory Best, Dan Cole, Alun Wyn Jones, Ian Evans, Tom Croft, Sean O'Brien, Jamie Heaslip.
Replacements: Tom Youngs (for Best, 59), Mako Vunipola (for Healy, 37), Matt Stevens (for Cole, 68), Geoff Parling (for Evans, 59), Toby Faletau (for Croft, 71), Ben Youngs (for Murray, 66), Owen Farrell (for Sexton, 66), Sean Maitland (for Bowe, 76).
Yellow card: AW Jones (71-81)
Referee: Glen Jackson (NZ)
Attendance: 35,103


A new superbug that is resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics has entered UK hospitals, experts warn.

They say bacteria that make an enzyme called NDM-1 have travelled back with NHS patients who went abroad to countries like India and Pakistan for treatments such as cosmetic surgery.
Although there have only been about 50 cases identified in the UK so far, scientists fear it will go global.
Tight surveillance and new drugs are needed says Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Q&A: NDM-1 superbugs
NDM-1 can exist inside different bacteria, like E.coli, and it makes them resistant to one of the most powerful groups of antibiotics - carbapenems.
These are generally reserved for use in emergencies and to combat hard-to-treat infections caused by other multi-resistant bacteria.
And experts fear NDM-1 could now jump to other strains of bacteria that are already resistant to many other antibiotics.
Ultimately, this could produce dangerous infections that would spread rapidly from person to person and be almost impossible to treat.
At least one of the NDM-1 infections the researchers analysed was resistant to all known antibiotics.
Similar infections have been seen in the US, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands and international researchers say that NDM-1 could become a major global health problem.
Infections have already been passed from patient to patient in UK hospitals.
The way to stop NDM-1, say researchers, is to rapidly identify and isolate any hospital patients who are infected.
Normal infection control measures, such as disinfecting hospital equipment and doctors and nurses washing their hands with antibacterial soap, can stop the spread.
And currently, most of the bacteria carrying NDM-1 have been treatable using a combination of different antibiotics.
By Geeta PandeyBBC News, Delhi
The Indian health ministry and the medical fraternity are yet to see the Lancet report but doctors in India say they are not surprised by the discovery of the new superbug.
"There is little drug control in India and an irrational use of antibiotics," Delhi-based Dr Arti Vashisth told the BBC.
Doctors say common antibiotics have become ineffective in India partly because people can buy them over the counter and indulge in self-medication. They also take small doses and discontinue treatment.
Gastroenterologist Vishnu Chandra Agarwal says in the past year he has come across many patients with E.coli infections who have not responded to regular antibiotics.
"In about a dozen cases, I have used a chemical - furadantin - to treat my patients. And it has worked. It makes them horribly nauseous, but it works," he says.
But the potential of NDM-1 to become endemic worldwide is  "clear and frightening", say the researchers in The Lancet infectious diseases paper.
The research was carried out by experts at Cardiff University, the Health Protection Agency and international colleagues.
Dr David Livermore, one of the researchers and who works for the UK's Health Protection Agency (HPA), said: "There have been a number of small clusters within the UK, but far and away the greater number of cases appear to be associated with travel and hospital treatment in the Indian subcontinent.
"This type of resistance has become quite widespread there.
"The fear would be that it gets into a strain of bacteria that is very good at being transmitted between patients."
He said the threat was a serious global public health problem as there are few suitable new antibiotics in development and none that are effective against NDM-1.
The Department of Health has already put out an alert on the issue, he said.
"We issue these alerts very sparingly when we see new and disturbing resistance."
The National Resistance Alert came in 2009 after the HPA noted an increasing number of cases - some fatal - emerging in the UK.
The Lancet study looked back at some of the NDM-1 cases referred to the HPA up to 2009 from hospitals scattered across the UK.
At least 17 of the 37 patients they studied had a history of travelling to India or Pakistan within the past year, and 14 of them had been admitted to a hospital in these countries - many for cosmetic surgery.
For some of the patients the infection was mild, while others were seriously ill, and some with blood poisoning.
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "We are working with the HPA on this issue.
"Hospitals need to ensure they continue to provide good infection control to prevent any spread, consider whether patients have recently been treated abroad and send samples to HPA for testing.
"So far there has only been a small number of cases in UK hospital patients. The HPA is continuing to monitor the situation and we are investigating ways of encouraging the development of new antibiotics with our European colleagues."
The Welsh Assembly Government said it would be "fully considering" the report.
"The NHS in Wales is used to dealing with multi-resistant bacteria using standard microbiological approaches, and would deal with any new bacteria in a similar way," said a spokesperson.


BBC boss Tony Hall has said he wants to create a Netflix-style service for BBC radio content.

Speaking to the Voice of the Viewer and Listener lobby group, Lord Hall said the BBC needed to do more with its "world-class" audio content.
Citing the BBC's domestic on-demand iPlayer service for video, he said he wanted a similar platform for radio but aimed at audiences outside the UK.
However, he gave no detail as to how or when such a service would begin.
Lord Hall said the online on-demand video service Netflix had cited the BBC as its inspiration with the success of the corporation's iPlayer.
Netflix, a commercial subscription service also available via TV sets, has had success with dramas such as House of Cards, Orange is the New Black and The Crown.
"With our world-class content, we could use our current output and the richness of our archive to create a Netflix of the spoken word," said Lord Hall.
Explaining his thinking, he said: "One of my goals in the years ahead is to strengthen and expand those areas in which we really lead the way globally.
"News, natural history and drama, yes. But also education, science and the arts. And audio."
He said Britain offered some of best radio in the world and, alongside the BBC's World Service output, there was more significant potential to offer more content around the world.
"One of the big challenges I have set my teams is just that: to enhance our global audio offer. The BBC makes the best radio in the world. It is one of our crown jewels, and we have an extraordinary wealth of audio riches at our disposal.
"It's one of the things that will help the BBC carry the full weight of Britain's culture and values, knowledge and know-how to the world in the years ahead. And say something really important about modern Britain."
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A 150-year-old antique wedding dress lost after a dry cleaners went bust has been located.

Tess Newall, of Morham, East Lothian, spoke of being "distraught" after discovering the dress, which belonged to her great-great grandmother, was missing.
It followed the closure of Kleen Cleaners in St Mary Street, Edinburgh.
She posted an update on social media saying the dress was found "in a crumpled heap" at the closed shop.
The 29-year-old who married Alfred Newall, 30, in East Lothian, in June, told the BBC she was "absolutely over the moon" at the discovery, and said the last 24 hours had been "surreal".
The dress was sent to be dry cleaned in September and the shop shut in October.
The business is now being dealt with under Scottish bankruptcy law in a process known as sequestration.
A post by Mrs Newall, about the loss of her dress, was shared more than 200,000 times on social media.
She told the BBC News Channel: "My parents received a phone call this afternoon from the landlord of the property where the dry cleaners is, whose nephew had read about the dress.
"He really searched and he found a pile of old lace which he realised was what he thought was the dress.
"My parents went straight there and were just overjoyed and couldn't believe it was the dress, not cleaned, and still with its ticket."
Mrs Newall said a representative from sequestrators Wylie & Bisset was also at the dry cleaners shop on Saturday and insisted that for "procedural reasons" the dress had to go back to his office in Glasgow.
She added: "This is unbelievable and my mum was beside herself, but they have assured us that it will be delivered safely back to us on Monday.
"It's going to be apparently driven from Edinburgh to my mum and dad's house."
The 29-year-old said she still planned to have the dress cleaned, but probably at a lace specialist in London.
She added: "Somewhere where we can't let it out of our sight."


Zimbabwe FA chairman Phillip Chiyangwa has escalated his war of words with the Confederation of African Football (Caf) by threatening legal action against both its president and secretary general.

Chiyangwa is unhappy that a birthday party he hosted in Harare on 23 February has become a matter to be discussed by Caf's Executive Committee next week.
Caf had warned Chiywanga that hosting the gathering would be seen as "an attempt to destabilise" the body.
"They shouldn't dare me with silly innuendos - making nefarious allegations," Chiyangwa told BBC Sport. "My legal team is preparing to go into battle against President Issa Hayatou and Secretary General Hicham El Amrani."
"If necessary following any deliberations that are prejudicial to my interests and standing, I will be taking legal recourse to the extent that Hayatou and El Amrani will be held personally liable for defamation."
The Executive Committee meets in Ethiopia on Tuesday 14 March, two days ahead of a presidential election which pits Hayatou against his sole challenger Ahmad, who is head of Madagascar's FA.
Chiyangwa is campaign manager for the bid by Ahmad (who uses only one name) to unseat the Cameroonian, who is the longest-serving president in Caf history after assuming office in 1988.
This conflict of interest provides the backdrop for the recent exchanges between the two parties.
Chiyangwa claims his party last month was both to celebrate his election as president of the southern African football region Cosafa in December as well as his birthday in early February.
However, he was advised on 11 February that the event would breach Caf guidelines since it would include not only presidents of Cosafa member associations but also those outside the region.
"The president of Caf, Issa Hayatou, directs me to send you this," began the letter written by Morocco's El Amrani.
"While it would be acceptable to convene a meeting of the leaders of your zonal union, convening a meeting with representatives of many member associations outside Cosafa zone is deemed to represent an attempt to destabilise Caf."
Chiyangwa says the meeting was two-fold.
On 23 February, he hosted a party that was ultimately attended by seven FA presidents from the Cosafa zone as well as five others from across the continent (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria).
Fifa President Gianni Infantino was also in attendance.
On the day of the party, Caf contested Chiyangwa's claim that the gathering was an 'informal' meeting.
The Cairo-based organisation queried why Chiyangwa used a personal letterhead to invite the Zambian FA president to a celebration of both his Cosafa election and birthday, yet a Cosafa letterhead was used to invite Mali's FA president to just a celebration of his election.
In view of the different letterheads used and the established work visit of the Fifa President, it does not seem that it is an 'informal' meeting," Caf wrote on 23 February.
"For your information, this matter will be tabled on the agenda of the upcoming meeting of the Caf Executive Committee."
Chiyangwa says these were draft letters.
On 24 February, the day after the party, Infantino met with both Zimbabwe football officials and the country's sports minister - whereupon a development programme for the country's football was among the matters discussed.
"The debate on what the purpose of the meeting was intended to achieve is now moot as the reality of what eventually transpired bears full testimony to the veracity of my actions," says Chiyangwa.
Next week's election is seen as the tightest that Hayatou has faced.
During his three decades in charge, the 70-year-old has been challenged only twice and he registered landslide victories on both occasions.
In 2000, he beat off the challenge from Angola's Armando Machado (by 47 votes to 4) before also heavily defeating Ismail Bhamjee of Botswana four years later (46-6).
Whoever wins the 16 March election will win a four-year term as president of Caf, which is also celebrating the 60th anniversary of its founding next week.


Chris Brown's probation for assaulting Rihanna has ended after more than six years.

The Judge in his case said Brown had completed all his requirements and officially closed the case.
After the hearing, Brown tweeted: "IM OFF PROBATION!!!!!!!! Thank the Lord!!!!!!"
Brown pleaded guilty to attacking Rihanna just hours before the Grammy Awards in 2009.
Since then he was won 3 Grammys.
Brown and his lawyer hugged in the courtroom and again in a courthouse lift.
The singer has been under supervision by court and probation officials since mid-2009 and initially avoided problems with the case.
However since 2013 he has struggled to complete his community service and had his probation revoked after he performed a show in Northern California without
permission.
His lawyer Mark Geragos said: "I couldn't be more delighted."
He also said his client was making good progress. "He is in a spot right now and a place right now that I couldn't be prouder of him."
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London's economy has shown resilience in the face of the tremors unleashed by the banking crash and the recession.

Many indicators have started flashing positive, but there are underlying issues - not least around earnings and skills - which cast a shadow of doubt.
With major job losses avoided and wages suppressed, it's been an unusual path back from economic upheaval.
But it remains questionable whether the signs of recovery have come soon enough - or are sufficiently substantial - to convince the capital's electorate.
Unemployment - at 6.2% - is the lowest for eight years in London and the gap has narrowed between the capital and the rest of the UK - where it stands at 5.7%.
The increase in what London produced - its output growth - exceeded the rate of progress across the UK.
As Prof Tony Travers from the London School of Economics indicates, London scores more than 70% above the UK average on measure of Gross Domestic Product (what we produce and what wealth that creates but under 30% on the measure of Gross Domestic Household Income - our spending power.
More evidence, he says, that London is not just leading the recovery but continuing to provide the tax receipts to help alleviate the recessionary impact in other regions.
Joblessness among under-25s fell by a fifth last year alone having flat lined in previous years. But was this in part down to a cohort of graduates finally lowering expectations and taking whatever they could get?
Working age inactivity generally came down, as did the number of people claiming benefits and those not in education employment and training. Mayor Boris Johnson claimed the pool was drying up and demand for apprenticeships thereby fading. Others disputed the claim.
But the headline indicators masked other significant trends, like the surge in people going it alone, many involuntarily. Self-employment over the four years to 2014 rose by 24%, compared to a rise of 6% in the overall number of employees.
Part-time work also increased but, according to official figures, zero hours employment was not so prevalent in London - accounting for a lower proportion of the workforce than elsewhere in the country.
While national statistics have recently suggested a brightening of household incomes and an increasing propensity to spend, no London-focused figures are available. Some, though, highlight the pressures on people's pockets from the excessive costs of housing, transport and childcare in the capital.
And no doubting the impact of depressed earnings these past few years. The median full-time weekly wage in London rose from £642 in 2010 to £660 in 2014. If it had kept pace with inflation, it should have been £720 a week.
In effect, by 2014 Londoners had seen their wages fall in real terms by £60 a week, or more than £3,000 a year.
And yet the jobs and the work remained - albeit with hours reduced, bonuses extinguished, overtime crushed and many pushed into contract or freelance relationships.
The most recent indications are that earnings are rallying - in real terms - buoyed by the continuing fall in inflation
Jonathan Cribb from the Institute for Fiscal Studies says the nature of the high employment / low wages bounce back from recession is unusual and not easily explained.
"It is not totally clear why earnings have been hit particularly hard in London. These earnings falls come alongside particularly strong employment growth.
"It seems that the main reason for lower earnings is the very poor productivity performance; workers are less productive and are therefore paid less. Some of this may be due to lower investment from firms which means that workers are working with less capital than we would have expected pre-crisis.
"There have been suggestions that there has been increased 'labour supply', meaning more people want to work now, and that this depresses wages. Some, but not all, of this is due to reforms such as those encouraging lone parents into work and increasing the state pension age which leads to delayed retirement."
Robert Harbron from the Centre for Economic and Business Research said companies had endeavoured to hold on to employees.
"What we saw since the financial crisis was that businesses didn't necessarily want to lose their staff as they had done in previous recessions because it's so much harder to gain them back once you have lost those skills.
"Instead they downgraded the number of hours workers had on their contracts, or maybe out-sourced them into self-employment contracts.
"Their pay came down, so the financial crisis has still definitely had a real impact on the standard of living of the median household worker."


German Cup holders Bayern Munich beat Augsburg in a Bavarian derby to reach the last 16.

Philipp Lahm put Bayern ahead in the second minute and Julian Green headed his first goal for the club.
Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer saved a Koo Ja-cheol penalty, with Thomas Muller, who set up Green's goal, then blazing a spot-kick over for the hosts.
Ji Dong-won gave Augsburg hope with a great finish before David Alaba struck from a tight angle in stoppage time.
Bayern defender Holger Badstuber made his first appearance since February following injury.


The death of a seven-year-old girl who starved to death could have been prevented, a report has found.

Khyra Ishaq was mistreated by her mother and her partner at a house in Handsworth, Birmingham, and weighed just 2st 9lb (16.5kg) when found.
The Serious Case Review into her death found there were a catalogue of missed opportunities by professional agencies.
It also said better assessments and more effective communication could have stopped her death in 2008.
Birmingham Safeguarding Children Board (BSCB)'s 180 page Serious Case Review is the first of its kind to be published in full.
Some professionals "lost sight" of their responsibilities to protect Khyra, who succumbed to an infection after months of starvation and cruelty, and instead focused on the rights of the girl's mother and her partner, the review found.
It pointed to a severe lack of communication between her school, social workers and other agencies dating back to March 2006.
The review found social workers did not listen to school staff members' concerns about Khyra, and contact by two worried members of the public was not acted on.
Tony Howell, head of children's services, said the report found two fundamental failings that occur through a huge range of services.
"One is the inability on occasion for them to follow their own procedures so they don't complete the task that needs to be done," he said.
The second one is communication between departments and agencies, he said.
"I think one of the issues that we have to be honest about (is that) all the agencies and indeed the safeguarding board's view is that we did fail Khyra in this case," he said.
"We will do everything we can to see our safeguarding procedures are better in future," he added.
Education Secretary Michael Gove said: "It is beyond anyone's comprehension that a child could die under such tragic circumstances.
"Today's serious case review confirms that all the agencies in Birmingham failed to protect this vulnerable child."
The seven-year-old's mother Angela Gordon, 35, and her partner Junaid Abuhamza, 31, were jailed earlier this year after they admitted Khyra's manslaughter.
Khyra and five other children in the couple's care were deprived of food and prevented from entering the fully-stocked kitchen by a bolt on the door.
Khyra was taken out of school by Gordon in December 2007 and concerns were raised about home education in the report.
Mr Gove said local authorities needed to develop "positive relationships" with their home-educating community.
"Clearly lessons need to be learned by the tragic events in this case, and I will consider the letter I expect to receive from Birmingham shortly, to see what changes need to be made to the existing arrangements, and reply in due course."
Birmingham City Council confirmed three staff directly involved in the Khyra Ishaq case have been removed from front-line duties and said it had "already acted" on most of the report's recommendations.
Hilary Thompson,  BSCB chairwoman, said: "The serious case review concludes that although the scale of the abuse inflicted would have been hard to predict, Khyra's death was preventable.
"The report identifies missed opportunities, highlighting that better assessment and information-sharing by key organisations could have resulted in a different outcome."
It said three incidents in March 2006 were not progressed "either by failures of paperwork to reach the correct departments, failure to follow safeguarding procedures, or to conduct thorough checks prior to case closure".
The report also highlighted a "major safeguarding flaw" within home education legislation in relation to her death.
It said: "The situation is particularly advantageous for parents who may wish to conceal abuse."
Alison Holt, BBC Social Affairs Correspondent
The death of Khyra Ishaq was truly shocking.
There had been concerns raised by teachers after her mother pulled her out of school, but despite visits from police and social workers no-one put together the whole picture of what was happening to her.
Today's report reveals there was a major breakdown in communication, with different agencies holding different pieces of information that weren't put together.
It is also the first serious case review that is published in full.
This was a promise made in opposition by the Conservatives and the change was announced soon after the coalition was formed.
Usually only executive summaries are published and there have been complaints that in the past some of these have been carefully sanitised.
A complaint made by Gordon against a social worker who visited their Handsworth home "generated a reluctance" to complete an assessment, the BSCB said.
It continued: "Whilst a number of agencies and individuals sought to deliver effective services to the child... there were others who lost sight of the child and focused instead upon the rights of the adults, the adults' behaviours and the potential impact for themselves as professionals."
School medical staff were criticised for not adequately addressing concerns by school staff.
The report made 18 recommendations for specific action across groups including the city council, the safeguarding board, West Midlands Police and the city's primary care trusts.
A further 53 areas for improvement were identified.
Recommendations included that school height and weight checks should be properly recorded and that social care must review its screening process.
Mr Howell said children's social care had undergone a major review and the management team had been strengthened.
Les Lawrence, cabinet member for children, young people and families, said the council re-affirmed its commitment to "create a children's social care service that better protects our young people from those who would harm them".
"Let this be Khyra's legacy," he added.
A joint health statement from the city's primary health trusts said they had made good progress at implementing recommendations made by the report.
Meanwhile, West Midlands Police said one of the recommendations directly related to the force and this had been addressed.
"Over the course of the last 12 months a new public protection department has been created," a spokesman said.
Gordon was sentenced to 15 years and Abuhamza was jailed indefinitely for the public's protection, with a minimum term of seven-and-a-half years.
They have been given the go-ahead to appeal against their sentences.


It is what is known as car crash television and it has been widely shared on social media.

Teenager Liam Scroggie opening his A-level results live on Good Morning Britain got bad news, missing out on the grades he needed to get into his choice of university.
It was certainly uncomfortable viewing and the sort of moment I have always dreaded presiding over.
My heart went out to him.
As the BBC's Scottish education correspondent, I've sometimes faced criticism - occasionally from teachers and sometimes from other individuals - for filming young people getting their exam results or putting them live on air at such a nerve-racking moment.
Sometimes the concern expressed is for the wellbeing of the youngster.
And sometimes it is founded in a belief that all news outlets focus purely on the achievements of high-achieving pupils in leafy suburbs while ignoring the majority.
Sometimes the concern is that we are implying that a school's performance is being judged by the exam results in isolation.
These are all very important and legitimate points to make.
But I often wonder if the people who have made these points to me have actually seen or heard what we do on Reporting Scotland or Good Morning Scotland year after year, as they are all issues we are well aware of.
Or are they basing their view on an impression that "the media" all works together in one way?
Covering the exam results poses some stylistic challenges as well as editorial and ethical ones.
It is an important day in the news diary and one of the most important days in the lives of the youngsters.
It is worth making the point that most people who get their Higher results are normally old enough to get married, join the army or vote in Scottish elections. But there are important ethical and editorial questions.
In Scotland, youngsters receive their results privately at home - by the post, by e-mail or by text.
So getting a group of youngsters together to get their results in public involves a degree of artifice and this should always be acknowledged on air.
Generally we focus our coverage on one particular school and in recent years the schools we have picked would not have come close to the top of any newspaper league table.
Indeed BBC Scotland actively avoids using schools in affluent suburbs on results day and attempts to ensure a broad range of youngsters are featured - not just confident students from middle-class families who grew up with a family expectation that a place at a top university was all but inevitable.
It could legitimately be argued that this is unfair on youngsters who have worked very hard for brilliant marks but in news terms the reason for doing this is simple: exam results day offers an opportunity to discuss what the Scottish government would see as a defining mission, closing the attainment gap between youngsters from relatively rich and poor backgrounds.
For example, we may pick a school where a teacher can discuss the challenges the school has faced or how a growing number of their pupils are now achieving at least one Higher.
The other reason for attempting to include a wide range of students is that this helps demonstrate how results day in Scotland is now meant to showcase how achievement takes a number of forms.
Five As in Highers or good Advanced Highers are only one, very specific measure of achievement.
"I got a B in my English," exclaimed one joyful youngster in my television package on results day this year.
Her joy was infectious and for her a B was a real achievement to be proud of.
The context of the coverage is one thing - what about the ethics of putting young people live on air at such a key moment.
The welfare of young people is important to the BBC generally. We would not seek to upset or humiliate a child in any of our work.
As I said, we make special arrangements with schools and the SQA so some youngsters can get their results live.
We take all reasonable steps to minimise the likelihood of a young person being left distressed if they get "poor" results live.
Generally we pick a school in June - sometimes this will be a school which we have already established a relationship with.
The school will invite a group of youngsters along to specially receive their results - only a few will be expected to actually get their results live.
We also encourage the school to let the youngsters bring along parents to watch and offer support.
Schools have advance notice of the results and on the day, shortly before we go on air, the head will ask some of the youngsters if they'd like to open their results live.
The head knows these young people will get good news - results at least as good as the ones they had been hoping for.
The others act as an audience, offering their friends encouragement.
Because such a large number of young people are invited along, there is no implication that the others are set for disappointing news - indeed sometimes the youngsters who turn out to have got the "best" results are too shy or nervous to go on air.
It's a matter of who might have a good story to tell or who might feel personally comfortable going on air.
Then, of course, there is the question of the narrative in our finished piece.
This needs to reflect how the exam results are viewed in Scotland and how they are not seen in isolation as a measure of a school's performance.
We also need to reflect how disappointing results are not the end of the road and not the devastating blow they may seem at the time to someone who failed to meet their conditional university.
This seems to have been the case with Liam Scroggie, who despite his TV humiliation has been accepted by Hull University.
All news is ultimately about both storytelling people in some way - their experience, their views, their life story.
As one of my most distinguished colleagues has said before: "The most important quality a good journalist has is empathy".
Coldly reading out statistics in a studio would do no favours to the young people who have something to celebrate - especially when some of those who might ask me about our results coverage would also be the first to express concern that young people often only make the news if they are in trouble.


More research into stroke prevention is "urgently needed" in Wales despite improvements, a charity has said.

British Heart Foundation (BHF) Cymru said 66,000 people in Wales still lived with the effects of stroke but also highlighted a 22% cut in death rates from 2010-2015.
It came as a new Welsh stroke research network was announced.
The Welsh Government said "good progress" was being made on stroke care.
BHF Cymru said the reduction in fatal strokes in Wales demonstrated the advances already made but also estimated 13 people per day still suffered a stroke in Wales.
Prof Nilesh Samani, medical director at BHF, said: "There are 66,000 people living in Wales with the cruel and debilitating after-effects of this devastating disease.
"Although some exciting new developments have been made in stroke treatment, the options at our disposal for treating stroke patients are still far too limited.
"We urgently need to fund more research to better understand the causes of strokes so that we can prevent them occurring and develop new treatments for all types of stroke in order to save more lives."
The charity said research was "fundamental" to potential new treatments for the two types of stroke - ischaemic and haemorrhagic.
It welcomed the announcement that a Cross-Wales Stroke Research and Innovation Network would be created. It will be hosted by Cardiff Metropolitan University.
The network will include members of Wales' Stroke Implementation Group (SIG), which was developed to deliver the Welsh Government's five-year strategy on stroke.
Prof Philip James, associate dean for research at the School of Health Sciences at the university, helped to create it.
He said: "Our aim is to create and sustain a collaborative, robust research infrastructure in Wales and help facilitate world-leading research and innovation in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of stroke, thus saving lives and ultimately reducing the debilitating impact on stroke patients."
The network will be launched in the autumn.
Ana Palazon, director for the Stroke Association in Wales, said investing funds into "world-class research" was key to reducing the condition's "devastating impact".
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said: "More people are surviving strokes, with 22% fewer deaths from strokes since 2010, and staff skills and expertise is continually improving.
"To support these ongoing improvements a Stroke Implementation Group was formed in 2013 to provide national leadership and support for the delivery of effective person-centred stroke care in Wales."


Star Wars fans have been given a sneak peek of Han Solo in the next movie - The Force Awakens.

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The trailer was shown at an official fan convention in California and has also been released online.
Han Solo the space smuggler, played by Harrison Ford, last appeared in a Star Wars film more than 30 years ago when Return of the Jedi was released.
The Force Awakens is set for release on 18 December and is the first in a new series of Star Wars films.


An environmentalist who lost a court case challenging the route of a major road scheme close to landscape made famous by poet Seamus Heaney has lodged an appeal against the ruling.

Chris Murphy had gone to court to contest the route of the A6 dual carriageway at Toomebridge.
A High Court judge ruled in March that work could proceed on a section of the Â£160m new road that skirts Lough Beg.
Mr Murphy said it was an area of "enormous cultural heritage".
Last week, it was announced that major construction work on the A6 would begin within weeks.
However, only minor work will take place along the contested section as Mr Murphy had previously indicated that he intended to challenge the decision.
In his initial challenge, Mr Murphy had claimed that the proper environmental checks had not been done and the decision to proceed had been based on out-of-date surveys.
But lawyers for the Department for Infrastructure had argued that the assessments were based on accurate and regularly-updated information.
They said the chosen route did not cut through the protected wetland.
The judge found the appropriate assessments had been carried out and the decision to proceed with the road had been rational and lawful.
Announcing that he had lodged his appeal on Tuesday, Mr Murphy said: "I am not 'anti-road' as some recent comments have portrayed me, I support dualling of the A6 and smoother travel between Belfast and the north west.
"What I cannot support is the destruction of internationally important wetlands and an area of enormous cultural heritage.
"The area that would be impacted is a designated Special Protection Area due to its ecological value. It is the most important site in Ireland for the Whooper Swan and many other rare species of wildlife.
"In terms of history and heritage, the government's chosen route would impact significantly on a landscape made famous by Seamus Heaney. This should be an area to conserve and promote, not bulldoze and destroy."
Lough Beg is an important habitat for birds, including migratory swans, and has international protection.


A hi-tech investigation of William Shakespeare's grave has concluded his skull was probably stolen.

The discovery gives credence to a news report in 1879, later dismissed as fiction, that trophy hunters took the skull from his shallow grave in 1794.
A team used a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) scan to look through the grave at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford in the first archaeological probe of the site.
It allowed investigators to see below ground without disturbing the grave.
Archaeologist Kevin Colls of Staffordshire University, who carried out the project with leading geophysicist Erica Utsi, concluded: "We have Shakespeare's burial with an odd disturbance at the head end and we have a story that suggests that at some point in history someone's come in and taken the skull of Shakespeare.
"It's very, very convincing to me that his skull isn't at Holy Trinity at all."
The investigation was carried out to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
The documentary Secret History: Shakespeare's Tomb will be shown on Channel 4 on Saturday 26 March at 20:00 BST.
The playwright's final resting place has long been the subject of argument among historians and archaeologists, because it is too short for an adult burial.
It also carries no name, only the chilling curse: "Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones."
Investigators went to another church, St Leonard's, in Beoley, Worcestershire, where legend has it a mysterious skull in a sealed crypt is that of Shakespeare's.
A forensic anthropological analysis revealed it to belong to an unknown woman who was in her 70s when she died.
Mr Colls said: "It was a great honour to be the first researcher to be given permission to undertake non-invasive archaeological investigations at the grave of William Shakespeare.
"With projects such as this, you never really know what you might find, and of course there are so many contradictory myths and legends about the tomb of the Bard.
"The amazing project team, using state-of-the-art equipment, has produced astonishing results which are much better than I dared hoped for, and these results will undoubtedly spark discussion, scholarly debate and controversial theories for years to come. Even now, thinking of the findings sends shivers down my spine."
The Rev Patrick Taylor, of Holy Trinity, said he was "not convinced that there is sufficient evidence to conclude that his skull has been taken".
"We intend to continue to respect the sanctity of his grave, in accordance with Shakespeare's wishes, and not allow it to be disturbed.
"We shall have to live with the mystery of not knowing fully what lies beneath the stone."


Three employees of the Russian postal service claim that it was hit by this month's Wannacry global ransomware attack and is still experiencing problems, according to Reuters.

The trio claim some of the computers at the state-owned Russian Post are still down, but the service says none of them was infected by the worm.
It just says that some terminals were switched off as a precaution.
The Interior Ministry and state railway were affected by the cyber-attack.
A worker at a branch in Moscow told Reuters: "The head guys rang... and said we had to turn off the terminals immediately. They said this extortion virus had infected them.
"They rang again and said we could turn them back on. We did that but you can see they still don't work."
Initially it was thought that the systems most affected by WannaCry were those running Windows XP - which Microsoft stopped supporting in 2014 - although some security experts now think it was the newer Windows 7 system that was hit hardest.
The worm started spreading in mid-May and has so far infected 300,000 computers around the world - 20% of which are believed to have been in Russia.
The malware quickly spread across 150 countries, taking over files before demanding $300 (Â£230) to restore them. It is not thought that many ransoms were paid with the majority of users restoring systems via back-ups.
Russia President Vladimir Putin rushed to deny his country had any part to play in the attack.
Investigators suggest that the criminal authors of the attack are likely to have used a hacking tool built by the US National Security Agency and leaked online in April.
Some experts now point the finger at a hacking group known as Lazarus, which the FBI has previously linked with the North Korean regime.
Others think it could have been put together by far less experienced hackers.
Prof Alan Woodward, a computer scientist from Surrey University, wrote in his blog: "It may have been some group of script kiddies who tried to cobble together the WannaCry payload with the Eternalblue worm and ended up with something far more virulent than they ever imagined."


No-one likes being mistaken for someone else - especially if that someone else has been their sworn rival for more than a century.

So when Guns N' Roses' announcer yelled "Sydney" just before they walked on stage in Melbourne, the band were met with a chorus of boos.
And to make matters worse, the veteran rockers weren't even on time.
Luckily, it seems they made up for it with a rousing concert - and a swiftly issued apology on social media.
"Melbourne!" the band - which had just completed two nights in Sydney - posted on Twitter.
"Accidentally after 30 years McBob made an error, we're truly sorry. Thank you for coming out tonight!"
Luckily, guitar technician McBob, who has been introducing the group on stages around the world during their Not In This Lifetime tour, was quickly forgiven by fans for his momentary slip up.
One follower replied to the post with: "One mistake every 30 years... Reasonable."
Turns out, Guns N' Roses aren't the only ones to get a little confused on their exact location.
Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's two largest cities, have had a long-running rivalry dating back to gripes over trade during colonial times.
Today they feud over which is the better city, with grudges mainly played out on sports pitches.


It was the last televised debate for the main six parties in Wales - and a lively audience at Cardiff's Sherman Theatre saw sparks fly as leaders clashed on the economy, health and the welfare system.

Chaired by Huw Edwards, Friday's BBC Wales Report special saw Welsh Labour's Owen Smith and Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood exchange blunt views on where they stand if there is a hung parliament after the ballot boxes close next Thursday evening.
Mr Smith wanted to know whether Plaid would let a "Tory government in by the back door" - Ms Wood accused Labour of "taking people for granted".
The issue of the so-called bedroom tax and welfare system changes saw the Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb and his Labour shadow Mr Smith verbally spar.
Mr Crabb accused his Labour counterpart of leading Welsh Labour MPs to vote against measures aimed at cutting the economic deficit.
Mr Smith said he was happy to have voted against welfare cuts - and would lead his MPs to vote the same way again.
The NHS might be a devolved issue in Wales - but that did not stop questions on the health service for the party leaders.
UKIP Wales' Nathan Gill told the audience that in Wales, Labour had made a "pig's ear" of the NHS.
There was no escaping the issue of welfare cuts in the debate, and that put the Lib Dem-Tory coalition at Westminster in the spotlight.
Welsh Lib Dem party leader Kirsty Williams said introducing a cap on benefits was a "tough decision" - but one she said was fair.
For the Green's Pippa Bartolotti, a key message was how austerity is being felt by women in Wales.
She said they were bearing a disproportionate burden at home - and in work.
But with the last television debate now done and dusted, all the parties are focusing on a final push across the bank holiday weekend, with the last few days counting down to Thursday's vote.


A council's bid to recoup an unpaid £10.22m football stadium loan has "not had any success", it has emerged.

Northampton Borough Council lent the money to Northampton Town FC but work on the Sixfields Stadium stalled and the club has since been taken over.
The council initially wrote off the loan before setting aside £950,000 to try and recover the money.
However, a report by auditors KPMG has now revealed most of the £950,000 has now been spent.
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The report said: "From the £950,000 authorised, the authority has spent or committed a large proportion to date.
"Despite this, the authority has not had any success in recovering the lost monies."
The council has refused to say exactly how much of the £950,000 has been spent so far, citing "commercial sensitivity".
The council is yet to state whether it intends to continue pursing the lost loan money.
A PricewaterhouseCoopers audit report published last year found a number of issues with the approval and handing over of the loan money.
It claimed that, due to "political and management pressure", the loan was not properly checked.
Northampton Town was given the £10.2m to redevelop Sixfields stadium three years ago, with much of it being passed to a company called 1st Land Ltd.
The company is now in liquidation while the work on Sixfields was not completed.
A police inquiry is examining the handling of the loan.


New Sheffield Wednesday signing Fernando Forestieri will become a "very important" player for the club, boss Carlos Carvalhal has predicted.

Attacking midfielder Forestieri, 25, joined the Owls in a deal worth £3m from Watford in August after a potential move to Leeds fell through.
"It wasn't easy to bring him in but he has quality and I'm very happy," Carvalhal told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"He will become a very important player for us."
Forestieri, who represented Italy at youth levels, helped Watford win promotion to the Premier League last season but did not feature in a top-flight game before his move to Hillsborough.
The Owls are 15th in the Championship but Carvalhal believes Forestieri will boost his side's attacking threat.
"Since the beginning of the season we have missed a player in the second line of midfield playing near the striker," added Carvalhal.
"But Forestieri will give us more quality in attack because we now have a connection between midfield and attack."


A £7.5m scheme to protect an area devastated by floods almost four years ago is set to get underway.

Margaret Hughes, 91, died and 400 homes were overrun by water when the River Elwy burst its banks in St Asaph, Denbighshire in November 2012.
Work to protect the city from future flooding starts on 10 October.
A drop-in session on Wednesday outlines plans which include removing the Spring Gardens Bridge and replacing it with a higher and wider structure.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) hopes this will improve flow capacity downstream and reduce flood water levels in the city.
The first phase will cost around £3m and is being funded by the Welsh Government with work scheduled to finish in May 2017.
The second phase  - set to start in January 2017 - will see flood defences raised and improved in the city and at other locations.
Planning permission and funding for the second phase are yet to be finalised.
NRW's Tim Jones said: "Building a flood risk scheme of this scale involves a vast amount of preparatory work - from modelling the flood risk, finding options for a scheme, deciding on a preferred option, working on detailed design and securing all permissions and funding.
"This takes time but we are delighted to be in a position to start building now.
"While we can't always prevent flooding from happening, we believe we have a robust scheme for St Asaph that will significantly reduce the risk and provide effective, long-term peace of mind for people in the city."
NRW estimates the entire scheme will be completed within 12 to 18 months. Until then, short-term measures to reduce flood risk will continue on the River Elwy.
Councillor Denise Hodgkinson said: "It's very welcome. People who were flooded still can't sleep at night when it rains.
" Unfortunately it's taken a long time to raise the funds and put the right permissions and plans in place. Hopefully they will get it right first time."


Australia's economy grew at a better-than-expected 0.9% in the first quarter of 2015, compared to the previous quarter, boosted by mining together with financial and insurance services.

Forecasts were for quarterly growth of between 0.5% and 0.7%.
Official statistics also showed that household consumption expenditure boosted the quarterly growth numbers.
But economist Shane Oliver told the BBC the numbers were "well below potential".
On an annual basis the economy expanded 2.3%, beating expectations for 2.1%.
Economic growth in the March quarter of 2014 was 2.9%.
"The March quarter GDP [gross domestic product] growth was far better than feared just a few days ago," said Mr Oliver, who is chief economist with AMP Capital in Sydney.
"However, Australia is still not out of the woods, as annual growth at 2.3% is well below potential, and a full 0.8% percentage points of the 0.9% growth came from higher inventories and trade."
He said domestic demand remained "very weak with consumer spending and home construction only just offsetting the ongoing slump in mining investment".
"So the Australian economy has not crashed - as many had feared would happen after the end of the mining boom - but it is continuing to grow at a sub par pace," he added.
Australia's economy has been adjusting to a post mining-boom landscape. It saw its economy grow 0.5% in the October to December 2014 period from the quarter before, when growth was 0.4%.
On Tuesday, the country's central bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), did not cut its lending rates further to help boost the economy, despite pressure from businesses to do so.
The decision saw Australian stocks fall 1.72% as investors saw little hope of a further cut in the near future.
However, Evan Lucas from IG Markets in Melbourne said "the collapse of [Australian stocks] on the back of the RBA not having an explicit easing bias... was a bit of an overreaction".
In May, the RBA cut its benchmark lending rate by 25 basis points to an all-time low of 2%.
Rising property prices in Australia's biggest city, Sydney, a strong currency and a drop in iron ore prices were among the reasons for the cut.
The May rate cut was the second this year, following a previous 25 basis point cut in February and followed similar action from central banks in China, Canada, Singapore, Korea and India.
A rising Australian dollar had also been cause for concern, particularly for Australia's big mining and energy exporters.
Mr Oliver said more help would likely to be required "in the form of an even lower Australian dollar - and to ensure this happens the RBA may yet still have to cut interest rates further into record low territory."


Dundee and Kilmarnock took a point apiece from their Scottish Premiership meeting at Dens Park.

Faissal El Bakhtaoui struck his first Dundee goal following a pass from Dark Blues debutant Tom Hateley.
However, an overhead kick by Souleymane Coulibaly brought Killie level before the break.
The hosts finished with 10 men after Kevin Gomis was dismissed for a foul on Charlee Adams, who was taken off on a stretcher.
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The home side began in great style and, after a period of persistent pressure, eventually broke through the Killie rearguard.
Hateley, having joined as a free agent on Monday, swung in a free-kick from the right-hand side that was not cleared and summer signing El Bakhtaoui hammered the ball into the roof of the net from the edge of the six-yard box.
Paul McGowan was pulling all the strings for Dundee and along with Cammy Kerr set up a chance for Mark O'Hara, who missed by inches as Dundee chased a second.
Kilmarnock slowly began to ease their way into the game and Kris Boyd, who decided to play following the death of his younger brother this week, had a couple of half-chances off target before the Rugby Park side equalised in stunning fashion.
There appeared to be little danger as Luke Hendrie floated in a deep cross but Coulibaly thought otherwise and his acrobatic kick ended up in the opposite corner of the net with goalkeeper Scott Bain rooted to his line.
That goal proved decisive, as did a magnificent double save from Jamie MacDonald to deny Dundee striker Craig Wighton.
With eight minutes left the home side were reduced to 10 men.
Defender Gomis was shown a straight red card by referee Don Robertson after a horrific challenge on Killie substitute Adams, who was replaced by George Green.
Despite being a man down it was Dundee who almost secured a winner when El Bakhtaoui flashed a shot from the edge of the box inches over the crossbar.
Dundee manager Paul Hartley: "It was two points dropped this afternoon. Frustration is the word I am looking for. We didn't pass the ball as well in the second half. We weren't clinical enough in the final third.
"I felt El Bakhtaoui was good and was a threat all day. Hateley had a sound debut.
"I think it's a late challenge [by Gomis on Adams] to be honest with you. Now we will be a centre-half down for next week and possibly Darren O'Dea will be out also."
Kilmarnock manager Lee Clark: "Possibly [a draw] could have been the correct result but I'm a little bit disappointed. We had numerous opportunities and scored an unbelievable goal from Coulibaly. I just felt we didn't quite push on in the second half.
"I left it [the decision to play] up to Kris. He is an experienced man and an experienced footballer. It's been a horrendous week. My toughest week as a football manager to deal with this situation.
"We can only support him and his family. He is a local boy from Kilmarnock. He showed great courage. We had a little talk before the game and in a tribute to Kris and his family we get a positive result. Unfortunately we couldn't get three points but it's the mark of the man he wanted to play today."
Match ends, Dundee 1, Kilmarnock 1.
Second Half ends, Dundee 1, Kilmarnock 1.
Foul by Yordi Teijsse (Dundee).
Adam Frizzell (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Nick Ross (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock).
Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Julen Etxabeguren Leanizbarrutia (Dundee).
Attempt missed. Yordi Teijsse (Dundee) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
George Green (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card.
Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George Green (Kilmarnock).
Paul McGowan (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George Green (Kilmarnock).
Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee).
George Green (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee).
George Green (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Mark O'Hara (Dundee) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Scott Boyd (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play.
Yordi Teijsse (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott Boyd (Kilmarnock).
Substitution, Kilmarnock. George Green replaces Charlee Adams because of an injury.
Kevin Gomis (Dundee) is shown the red card.
Charlee Adams (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Dangerous play by Kevin Gomis (Dundee).
Attempt blocked. Yordi Teijsse (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner,  Kilmarnock. Conceded by Kevin Holt.
Foul by Kevin Holt (Dundee).
Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cameron Kerr (Dundee).
Charlee Adams (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Dundee. Rory Loy replaces Tom Hateley.
Substitution, Dundee. Yordi Teijsse replaces Craig Wighton.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Charlee Adams replaces Dean Hawkshaw.
Corner,  Kilmarnock. Conceded by Julen Etxabeguren Leanizbarrutia.
Attempt blocked. Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner,  Kilmarnock. Conceded by Kevin Holt.


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Recovering the bodies of the victims of the Didcot power station collapse is a "very complex operation" that will take "many, many weeks", police have said.

One person died and five were injured at the decommissioned power station on 23 February. Three are still missing.
Assistant Chief Constable Scott Chilton added that the victims' families had returned home after visiting the site.
A four-minute silence was held at demolition firm Coleman and Company's sites across the UK.
A spokesperson said it was "a sign of respect to our men, their families, friends and work colleagues".
Npower said it still did not know how the collapse happened and would not speculate.
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Thames Valley Police said the site remained "highly unstable" but that emergency services were continuing to work closely together to establish the best way to recover the bodies.
ACC Chilton said: "It is now one week since this major incident occurred.
"I know that this makes it particularly difficult for the families involved, as they await the recovery of their loved ones. Our priority remains to return them to their families and we continue to support the families as needed."
Chief fire officer Dave Etheridge said: "I believe the emergency service teams working on site are the best in the world and know they are using their experience and expertise to the limits."
Will Hancock, chief executive of South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, said: "I would like to thank the many SCAS staff who attended the incident at Didcot A Power Station last week and who triaged and treated over 50 casualties, before taking five people to hospital.
"Our Hazardous Area Response Team has remained on site since the collapse and we continue to provide support to the recovery teams carrying out their difficult task."
In a statement Coleman and Company said: "It is now one week since this terrible accident and I would like to express our deep sorrow at this heartbreaking time for our colleagues, and their families and friends.
"Nothing can prepare you for, nor are there words to express, our devastation at the events of the last week.
"All our hearts go out to the family and friends of those who have died and are still, tragically, missing.
"At this time, our over-riding priority is to support those families affected by this terrible incident."
It described the scene as an "unprecedented and hugely-challenging environment".
Part of the decommissioned Didcot A plant collapsed a week ago as it was being prepared for demolition.
One person, named as Michael Collings, is confirmed to have died. The cause of the collapse is unknown.
Five others injured in the incident been discharged from John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and are expected to make a full recovery, the company said.
A search operation involving sniffer dogs, listening devices and a thermal imaging drone continues as rescuers try to locate the missing workers.


The Isle of Man's Darryl Hill came within one frame of a memorable victory over five-time world snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Hill led 2-0 and 4-3 before eventually losing 5-4 to O'Sullivan in the German Masters qualifiers played in Barnsley.
Wednesday's match was O'Sullivan's first since losing Sunday's UK Championship final in York.
The 20-year-old world number 91 said taking O'Sullivan to a decider is a "great step forward" in his career.
For the past 12 months the Isle of Man's only professional player has been battling with an inflammatory bowel disease called ulcerative colitis.
He admits his battle has been "extremely difficult".
Symptoms can include diarrhoea, pain, anaemia, fatigue and sometimes inflammation of the joints, skin, liver and eyes.
"All I was thinking before I went on was to just get a frame and not disgrace myself but I took the first and felt good from there.
"It was a great feeling after having a difficult few months and even last week I was advised not to travel to this."
Born in Leeds, Hill has lived on the Isle of Man since he was six and turned professional after winning the European under-21 title whilst representing the island.
He continued: "At 2-0 up I was starting to fancy the job and it helped that I was just enjoying every minute of it.
"I knew Ronnie wouldn't be geared up the same as for the UK final but as the match progressed it was becoming more serious.
"Even though I only lost 5-4 looking back I am a little disappointed I didn't finish the job as it was a good chance to beat Ronnie."
Hill's next match will be against English Open winner Liang Wenbo at the Scottish open.


The government should rethink its Brexit strategy, following last week's election, according to the engineering industry organisation, the EEF.

It said without a more pro-business stance, the resulting political instability may force more firms to alter their plans "away from the UK".
The EEF is the latest business organisation to call for a rethink of the government's Brexit plans.
It wants access to the single market to be at the heart of Brexit negotiations.
The EEF said even before the election firms were already altering or thinking about changing their business plans because of the Brexit vote.
Terry Scuoler, EEF chief executive, said the government had already "wasted a year" and needed to "move away from its previous rhetoric and start repairing relations with EU partners".
For the EEF that meant putting access to the single market and staying in a customs union at the centre of the government's negotiations and involving business groups in the talks over trade.
It is also calling for a "suitable" transition period to be "firmly back on the table" as part of the Brexit talks.
On Monday Carolyn Fairbairn, director-general of the CBI, called for the government to "reset" Brexit negotiations, which are due to start next week.
Meanwhile, the uncertainty caused by the general election has led business confidence to sink "through the floor", according to the Institute of Directors.
A snap poll of 700 members of the lobby group found a "dramatic drop" in confidence following the hung parliament.
The main priority for the new government should be striking a new trade deal with the European Union, according to the IoD.
Business groups such as the CBI and EEF believe the election result has weakened the hand of those wanting a "hard Brexit", which would involve leaving not just the EU but also the single market, customs union and escaping the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
They favour a deal that would give British business much the same access to the rest of the EU as they enjoy now and seem to be freshly emboldened to press their case.


The EU is set to begin maritime patrols in the Mediterranean on Saturday in a new operation to help Italy stem the flow of migrants from North Africa.

Italy is ending its bigger "Mare Nostrum" operation off Libya. It began in 2013 after more than 300 migrants drowned off an Italian island.
Operation Triton, based in Italian waters, will have only one-third the budget of Mare Nostrum.
This year has seen a surge of migrants risking their lives to reach Italy.
Triton's more limited resources may make it harder for the EU to rescue migrants in distress in international waters, some experts warn.
The Secretary General of the European Council on Refugees, Michael Diedring, said it was "deplorable" for the EU to prioritise coastal border controls over search and rescue missions.
Triton, run by the EU border agency Frontex, will have six ships, four planes and one helicopter at its disposal, and a staff of 65. The European Commission says 21 EU member states have pledged to participate.
"Mare Nostrum was conceived as a limited, emergency operation after the Lampedusa [island] tragedy, and it went on longer than expected," Italy's Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said on Friday. "Today we can say Italy did its duty."
At least 3,000 migrants have drowned trying to reach Europe this year. Italy has rescued about 150,000 in its Mare Nostrum operation.
Triton's monthly budget will be 2.9m euros (Â£2.3m; $3.7m), whereas Italy spent 9.5m a month on Mare Nostrum, Mr Alfano said.
The Commission says any increase in Triton's budget next year will require the approval of the European Parliament and EU governments.
Triton will operate from the isle of Lampedusa and Porto Empedocle, on the Sicilian coast.
With fewer ships there is a risk that Triton will take longer to reach migrants far out to sea, the BBC's James Reynolds reports from Rome.
The Commission says Italy must continue fulfilling its international obligations to rescue people in danger at sea, meaning "continued substantial efforts using national means".
The UK has opted out of migrant rescues in the Mediterranean, saying such operations could encourage more people to risk dangerous voyages to Europe.


A Belfast man stole £30,000 from his mother that was for family funeral costs, a court has heard.

Christopher Joseph Boyle, 59, from Fitzroy Avenue was placed on probation for two years.
He admitted stealing the money which he then spent on drink and gambling.
A defence lawyer said his client suffered from a range of mental health issues including schizophrenia.
The prosecution said that in April 2013, Catherine Boyle told her five children she had saved £38,000, that she had placed under the stairs of the home she shared with her son, Christopher.
He said Mrs Boyle had "saved this money up over a significant number of years".
After she revealed the amount and whereabouts of the money to her five children, the siblings agreed it should be stored at her house and would be used for "funeral expenses for the older generation when the time came".
In November 2014, Mrs Boyle raised the prospect of covering funeral expenses with her eldest child Christopher - and it was at his stage that he told her there was only about £8,000 of the £38,000 left.
When challenged, Boyle admitted he had spent the money on alcohol and gambling.
He also told a family member he would bet £500 or £1,000 on a horse race, adding he was "addicted to drink and betting".
The theft was reported to police, and when he was arrested and interviewed, Boyle made no comment.
The prosecution also revealed that since his arrest, Boyle has spent a total of five months on remand.
A defence lawyer reiterated his client's claim that he was addicted to both gambling and alcohol, saying Boyle was sorry for what he did - especially given that he had stolen from his own mother.
The lawyer also said that while the theft has meant Boyle is isolated both socially and from his family, there may be the potential for a reconciliation.


Oscar hopefuls Lucas Hedges and Ruth Negga are among the five actors in contention for the Rising Star prize at this year's Bafta Film Awards.

Hedges, 20, and Negga, 34, are tipped to receive Oscar nominations later this month for their roles in Manchester by the Sea and Loving respectively.
Laia Costa, Tom Holland and Anya Taylor-Joy are also on the shortlist.
Holland, who made his debut last year as superhero Spider-Man, said it was a "huge honour" to be nominated.
"I have to say thank you to Bafta for recognising my work," said the 20-year-old, who will be seen later this year in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Costa, the Spanish star of German film Victoria, said she felt "honoured to be considered in this company".
Released in the UK last year, Victoria told the story of a young woman caught up in a bank heist in one single, uninterrupted take.
Hedges, who plays a young man who loses his father in Manchester by the Sea, said it was "really exciting to be recognised".
"I've always been enamoured with English culture and have dreamed of living in England, so this nomination is particularly meaningful for me," the US actor continued.
Negga, who was born in Ethiopia and raised in Ireland, said it was "so surreal to be recognised for doing something I love".
Loving, which premiered at last year's Cannes Film Festival, sees her play a woman who faces jail for flouting interracial marriage laws in 1950s America.
Taylor-Joy, seen last year in horror film The Witch, said she could not "put into words how it feels to be in the company of such talent, past and present".
The 20-year-old, Miami-born actress will be seen later this month in Split, the latest film from The Sixth Sense director M Night Shyamalan.
Sponsored by mobile phone company EE and decided by a public vote, the Rising Star award has been presented at the Baftas since 2006.
According to Bafta, the award "honours a young actor or actress who has demonstrated exceptional talent and ambition and has begun to capture the imagination of the British public".
Previous recipients include James McAvoy, Noel Clarke and Star Wars actor John Boyega, who took home the prize from last year's ceremony.
The 2017 Bafta Film Awards will be held at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 12 February.
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Watford manager Quique Sanchez Flores will leave the club after their final match of the season on Sunday.

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The Spaniard, 51, was appointed in June 2015 following the club's promotion to the Premier League.
The Hornets are 13th in the Premier League, but have won just two of their past 11 top-flight games.
"The club and me don't have the same point of view about the season," said Sanchez, who also guided Watford to the FA Cup semi-finals.
"We don't have the necessary conditions to activate the clause to renew my contract so I will leave Watford as a consequence.
"I felt completely happy with this year and I have enjoyed this experience."
Former Real Madrid and Valencia player Sanchez will leave after Sunderland visit Vicarage Road on Sunday.
"We would like to thank Quique," said a club statement.
"He and the team achieved the target set at the start of the season of staying in the Premier League for a second year.
"Quique leaves with all our best wishes for the future and the knowledge he is always welcome at Vicarage Road."
The Hornets said last month they would only discuss Sanchez's future at the end of the season.
The club are now looking for their seventh full-time manager since being taken over by the Pozzo family in June 2012.
The Pozzo family also own Italian club Udinese and Spanish side Granada.
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic called the decision "sick" and "crazy".
He added:  "I'm sorry for Quique. It's completely wrong, they've had a fantastic season."
Geoff Doyle, BBC Three Counties Radio sports editor
"Expect tears at Vicarage Road on Sunday as Quique Sanchez Flores waves goodbye to Watford fans. Let's be clear, Flores does not want to leave. It was the owners and board who made the decision.
"Supporters are divided, but the majority agree with the split. They are delighted to be playing Premier League football again next season thanks to Watford's form up to Christmas.
"As stupid as it sounds, Flores may have done too well in the first five months of the season and expectation was cranked up. Results in the new year have been worrying and so has their defensive style of play.
"It is hard not to feel that the job he had done up to that point had been more than good enough. But football is all about the here and now. For a lot of Watford fans, the damage has been done.


Malaysian authorities say a boat carrying at least 70 people has capsized off the country's west coast.

The capsizing took place early on Thursday near the town of Sabak Bernam in Selangor state.
Malaysian maritime officials said 14 people, 13 women and one man, were confirmed dead. At least 15 others have been rescued.
The passengers onboard were believed to be Indonesian migrants, the authorities said.
The local head of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, Mohamad Aliyas Hamdan, told AFP: "We are not sure if the migrants were attempting to land in Malaysia or trying to leave Malaysia illegally."
Thousands of Indonesians work illegally in plantations and other industries in Malaysia. They often risk dangerous sea journeys to return home.
Officials said they have deployed ships and an aeroplane to search for survivors.
Earlier reports had suggested up to 100 could have been on the boat.
In June 2014 two overloaded boats carrying Indonesian migrants capsized in the same area, killing at least 15 people at that time.
South East Asia saw a migrant crisis earlier this year when Thai police clamped down on human traffickers. This prompted thousands of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar, and who were heading for Malaysia and Indonesia, to attempt dangerous crossings in rickety boats.
A number of mass graves have also been discovered in southern Thailand and northern Malaysia in camps where the migrants were being held by the traffickers.


Scientists in America are working on a new super-powerful telescope that they hope will give far better pictures of space than can be taken now.

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The team at the University of Colorado Boulder say the new telescope, named Aragoscope, could take images 1,000 times sharper than those from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Webster Cash, one of the scientists developing it, spoke to Newsround. Check out what he had to say about the ambitious project...


Too many teenagers and young adults are dying of some types of cancer, a Europe-wide report warns.

Their survival rates for cancers such as leukaemia are much lower than in younger children, says a report in the Lancet Oncology.
The researchers suggest differences in tumours, delays in diagnosis and treatment and a lack of clinical trials for that age group are to blame.
Cancer Research UK said it was crucial to find out what was going wrong.
The study analysed data from 27 countries on nearly 57,000 childhood cancers and 312,000 cancers in teenagers and young adults.
Overall, five-year survival rates were higher in teenagers and young adults at 82% compared with 79% in children.
But those better prospects were largely driven by the older age-group getting cancers with a better prognosis.
The overall rate concealed areas of concern where survival was "significantly worse" for eight cancers commonly found in both age groups.
The five-year survival rates for:
Dr Annalisa Trama, from The National Institute of Cancer in Milan, Italy said: "The good news is that the number of children, adolescents and young adults surviving for at least five years after diagnosis has risen steadily over time in Europe.
"However, we found that adolescents and young adults still tend to die earlier than children for several cancers common to these age groups, particularly blood cancers."
Dr Alan Worsley, from Cancer Research UK, said: "While it's great news that the number of children, teenagers and young adults surviving cancer continues to improve, it's also clear that for some cancers, survival in different age groups is improving faster than in others.
"We need to find out whether adolescents are faring worse because of how their cancer is managed in the clinic or whether it's because the underlying biology is fundamentally different at these ages.
"Answering these questions is a big part of the reason why we've launched the Cancer Research UK Kids and Teens campaign."


Preparations are under way in Guinea to start unprecedented clinical trials to try to find a cure for Ebola.

The medical charity Medicines Sans Frontieres will host the studies in three of its Ebola treatment centres in West Africa from next month.
One of the trials involves using blood donated by Ebola survivors to treat sick patients.
There are no clinically proven vaccines or treatments for the virus that has killed more than 5,400 people.
Trying to find a cure in the midst of the worst ever Ebola outbreak is a major challenge.
But scientists say this could be the best chance they have.
At the moment, medics can only treat the symptoms of Ebola, giving people pain relief and keeping patients hydrated in the hope they will be strong enough to fight the virus off themselves.
The blood of survivors contains antibodies that have successfully destroyed the disease.
The theory is that using their blood to treat infected people will help boost patients' immune systems, giving them a better chance of survival.
But such procedures could prove controversial in communities where some still do not believe the virus exists.
"We would like to be as transparent as possible," said Xavier Trompette, MSF field co-ordinator for Guinea's capital, Conakry.
"We will also communicate in the media to inform the people about what is going on here. Just to avoid people thinking we are making some experimentation on people.
"We will do (the blood donation and transfusions) with the approval of each patient," Mr Trompette added.
Survivors can face a great deal of stigma from their communities after recovering from the virus.
But a group of them have got together in Conakry to help recovering patients and educate people about Ebola.
Some of them also plan on giving blood in these convalescent blood therapy trials.
Fanta Camara, 25, caught the virus from her cousin back in March when the outbreak was first declared.
"Other patients were dying all around me," she said.
"I was sure it was only a matter of time before my time came, too. I even asked a man at the hospital to tell my mother not to cry too much when I die - because it is the will of God."
But Ms Camara pulled through, and she said she was now ready to help other patients.
"If donating my blood will save others from dying then it will be an honour to do it.
"There's always the question of our culture, but given that this Ebola outbreak is an emergency, I think we can put cultural issues aside."
Another major challenge will be doing these trials safely in countries with decimated health systems.
Researchers from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, are working alongside the National Blood Transfusion Centre in Conakry to plan how the trials will work.
Donated blood will have to be screened for blood-borne viruses such as HIV and hepatitis. All of this requires more expertise, equipment and medics.
Dr Jules Konundoung became infected with Ebola while caring for a patient. He noticed his symptoms early and made a speedy recovery.
"I think this therapy has a chance of slowing down the outbreak," he said.
"As a medical doctor I know what antibodies are and what they can do to remove strange objects in our systems.
"The only problem is that people would need to be educated on this just to make them feel at ease and confidant about donating their blood."
The World Health Organization (WHO) agreed to the investigation on the use of these kinds of experimental treatments back in September.
"At this point in timeâ€¦ we do not have real tools to treat Ebola. This could be an opportunity to get them," Dr Jean-Marie Dangoutold, WHO country director in Guinea, told the BBC.
He said it was important to get the community on board with the trials, but said that would not be too difficult.
"The population here is mainly Muslim, and Islam doesn't ban blood transfusions - so it's something doable here in Guinea."
Blood treatments have been used in a handful of Ebola cases before and have shown some promise, but this is the first time they will be tested on a larger scale.
It is unclear how effective this one will prove to be, but it offers some possible hope of finally finding a cure.
"I think the blood therapy will give a good result. But we must not be too reliant of this one possible cure," said Ms Camara.
"People must also be educated so they understand how to avoid getting Ebola in the first place.
"Finding a cure and educating people about the virus - must go together to stop this outbreak."


A British exit from the European Union would have "very serious consequences" for the island of Ireland, particularly Northern Ireland, a report has found.

It warned trade, energy prices, foreign direct investment, migration and cross-border travel would all be negatively affected by a so-called 'Brexit'.
The UK is to hold a referendum on its EU membership before the end of 2017.
The report was compiled by a Republic of Ireland think-tank, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
One of the authors, Dr Edgar Morgenroth, said the potential drop in Irish exports to the UK could cost up to 3bn euros  (Â£2.1 bn) every year.
"Given that there seems to be a bigger reliance on the Irish market for Northern Ireland businesses, any trade impediment would obviously hurt Northern Ireland more," he said.
Quoting data from the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, the ESRI report said the Republic of Ireland accounted for up to 38% of services exports from Northern Ireland, making it a "very important destination".
It also predicted consequences for the all-Ireland electricity market.
It said this cross-border interconnection was "particularly important for Northern Ireland which relies on electricity imports from [the Republic of] Ireland to make up for insufficient local electricity generation capacity".
It warned that if the UK was to leave the EU, the interconnection would leave the Republic "vulnerable" to any problems in the British electricity market.
It said this could affect the future development of cross-border energy projects and suggested that the Republic of Ireland could reduce its risk by interconnecting with remaining EU partners, "most probably to France".
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland, and the ERSI said it would be a "worryingly regressive step" if passport controls were imposed along this border.
It said there was a "temptation to believe that any agreement on a UK exit would guarantee continued free movement between Ireland and the UK".
The ESRI said a special arrangement would "protect progress on an enormously sensitive political issue".
However, it added there "does not appear to be any certainty on this point".
The report also said that one possible effect of a Brexit would be the diversion of EU migrants to the Republic of Ireland "that would otherwise have gone to the UK".
It said migrants from central and eastern Europe, eager to improve their English, may be "willing to move to Ireland if the UK is removed as a potential destination".


Saudi-led coalition jets have bombed Houthi rebels in Yemen's third city of Taiz, hours after announcing the end of a military campaign against them.

The strikes followed the fall of the base outside Taiz of an army unit loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
Fighting was also reported in the second city of Aden, Lahj's provincial capital Huta, and the town of Daleh.
On Tuesday, Riyadh declared its month-long campaign, which sought to restore the president, had achieved its goals.
But it warned that it would continue to take action against the Houthis as needed.
More work "needs to be done" in Yemen, US White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told CNN, while emphasising the need for a negotiated solution.
On Wednesday the Houthi rebels asked for the coalition action to end and for UN-sponsored peace talks.
The UN says at least 944 people have been killed and 3,487 injured in air strikes, fighting on the ground and attacks by jihadist militants in Yemen since 19 March.
Rebel fighters took control of the headquarters of the 35th Armoured Brigade on the northern outskirts of Taiz early on Wednesday.
An army officer told the AFP news agency that dozens of people were killed or wounded in the heavy fighting, and that shortly after the takeover coalition aircraft targeted rebel forces inside the base.
They also bombed a gathering of rebels and allied military personnel loyal to ousted former President Ali Abdullah Saleh near the city's central prison, he added.
The 35th Brigade is loyal to President Hadi, who fled the country March as the Houthis and their allies advanced on Aden in March.
Also on Wednesday, Yemeni officials said a strike from what is believed to have been a US drone killed seven al-Qaeda fighters in the east.
Correspondents say that Al Qaeda appears to have taken advantage of the current chaos in Yemen to consolidate its presence in the southeast.
It was not surprising when the Saudis said that they had resumed air strikes against Houthi fighters in Taiz.
Negotiations are under way to try to find a way to stop the fighting in Yemen. But the Houthis have fought hard to reach their dominant position in Yemen, and will not give up easily.
On 14 April, the UN Security Council passed a resolution that made clear demands on the Houthis. Among other things it calls on them to give up their weapons and the territory they have seized, which includes Yemen's capital, Sanaa.
The Saudis say that they are trying to get the Houthis to comply with as much of the resolution as possible. But if and when an agreement is brokered, the chances are that it will be hard to make it stick.
Saudis halt air campaign with goals unfulfilled
The president took refuge in the southern port city of Aden after the rebels took full control of the capital Sanaa and placed him under house arrest.
Saudi diplomatic sources told BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen, who is in Jeddah, that the air strikes had resumed because the Houthis "broke a promise" in Taiz.
The Saudis and their coalition partners reserved the right to use air power again when they announced the end of "Operation Decisive Storm" on Tuesday.
A new, more limited campaign, "Operation Restoring Hope", would focus on preventing the rebels from "targeting civilians or changing realities on the ground" and finding a political solution the conflict, spokesman Brig Gen Assiri said.
The Saudi diplomatic sources said an agreement was being finalised with the Houthis.
In an apparent gesture of goodwill on Wednesday, the Houthis released Defence Minister Mahmoud al-Subaih, the brother of President Hadi and a military commander, rebel and tribal sources said. The three men had been held for nearly a month.
Former President Saleh has also urged all sides to "return to dialogue to solve and treat all the issues".
Iran, which denies providing military assistance to the rebels, described the Saudi decision as a positive development and called for peace talks.
But Pro-Hadi militiamen in southern Yemen declared they would continue fighting the rebels until they had driven them out of the region.


Munster head coach Anthony Foley died after a heart condition caused fluid to build up in his lungs, a French coroner has said.

The condition, acute pulmonary oedema, was caused by "a heart rhythm disorder", post-mortem tests revealed.
Foley, 42, died on Saturday night at the hotel in Paris where Munster were staying before Sunday's scheduled game against Racing 92.
His funeral will be held in Killaloe, County Clare, on Friday at 12:00 BST.
Foley's body will be flown to Shannon Airport on Wednesday before being taken to the family home.
Funeral mass will take place at St Flannan's Church, with burial afterwards at Relig Nua Cemetery.
The death of the former Ireland forward could "be linked to a cardiac problem", a spokeswoman for the Nanterre public prosecutor said on Tuesday.
Other toxicological analysis is under way, with results due in the coming weeks.
Pulmonary oedema means excess fluid collects in numerous air sacks in the lungs, making it difficult to breathe.
Foley's body was found in his room at 12:40 on Sunday by a member of hotel staff and a Munster player.
The European Champions Cup game was postponed.
Foley won 62 Ireland caps and made 201 appearances in the back row for Munster, leading them to their first European Cup triumph in 2006.


Panel shows such as QI and Mock the Week will no longer have all-male line-ups, the BBC's director of TV has said.

"We're not going to have panel shows on any more with no women on them," Danny Cohen told the Observer. "You can't do that. It's not acceptable."
His comments come two months after the BBC Trust was reported to have told executives there was "no excuse" for not having more female panellists.
Mr Cohen also said the BBC needed to get more older women on screen.
"We're getting better," he told the Observer, citing the example of historian Mary Beard. "But we need to get better."
In the past, comedy panel shows like QI, Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You have been criticised for their male-dominated line-ups.
The Observer said all the regular comedians on the most recent series of Mock the Week were men and only five of the 38 guest panellists were women.
A BBC spokesman said some panel shows that had been recorded but not yet been broadcast may feature all-male teams, but that all those filmed in the future would include at least one female participant.
"There may be very rare occasions where shows that were already recorded - or whose panels were already booked ahead of the order - still have all-male line-ups, but hopefully the change should really become apparent," the spokesman said.
The move follows criticism from Victoria Wood, who has criticised such "testosterone-fuelled" shows, and Jo Brand, who said she no longer considered appearing on Mock The Week.
In 2012, writer Caitlin Moran said she had been asked to appear on "all the big panel shows" but turned them down because "I refuse to be the token woman".
"I think that's a boys' game that works for boys," she said. "It's not like they built it to screw women over, it's just that boys built it so they made it to work for boys. If I go on there as a token woman, it's not going to work for me," she said.