For more than 12 years, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been at the centre of Argentine politics.

First as the wife of late President Nestor Kirchner, who governed the country between 2003 and 2007, and then for the following eight years as president herself.
Barred by the constitution from running for a third consecutive term, her time in the Casa Rosada presidential palace is now coming to an end.
Presidential elections will be held on Sunday and polls suggest her most likely successor is Daniel Scioli, a football fanatic millionaire businessman with a fashionista wife.
With the backing of President Fernandez and her Front for Victory party, he is leading the polls by a wide margin.
But Mr Scioli is no newcomer to politics.
Since 2007, he has been the governor of Buenos Aires province, considered one of the most influential posts in Argentine politics.
Before that, he was vice-president in Nestor Kirchner's cabinet.
But Mr Scioli was not always the obvious choice for presidential candidate. For years, Front for Victory hardliners regarded him as a follower of free-market policies and criticised him for being too centre-right.
But being in charge of the largest electoral district in the country, complete with a vast public budget and huge media exposure, meant he became their chosen candidate even before the party's primaries were held.
Mr Scioli not only hopes to win in the first round, but to do so by the margin needed to stave off a second round.
If he wins, Argentina will have another leader from the Peronist tradition, the working-class political movement based on the legacy of former President Juan Domingo Peron.
Mr Scioli has been plotting his campaign strategy from his luxurious house in Buenos Aires province.
He says he wants to continue most of President Fernandez's most popular policies, such as the government's social programmes for Argentina's poor.
But he is also keen to rebuild relations with sectors with which Cristina Fernandez quarrelled, like litigating foreign debt holders, the agriculture sector and the United States.
Apart from politics, Mr Scioli has another passion.
Next to his house, he has built his own private indoor football pitch. There, he plays most weekends with his team mates from professional league La Nata Sporting Club.
He has invited some other football-mad Latin American politicians such as Evo Morales to the matches, and is not shy about praising his own footballing skills.
"Look the BBC have come to see me because Manchester United have expressed an interest in signing me up," he jokes in the locker rooms.
But coach Guillermo Freire puts him in his place: "You haven't won a match in ages, be a good team player and pay attention to my instructions."
Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri, 56, would also love to put Mr Scioli in his place.
Mr Macri is standing for Cambiemos (Let's Change), a coalition of anti-Peronist parties.
And while he is far behind Mr Scioli in the polls, he aims to get enough votes to trigger a second round of voting in November.
He hopes that by uniting all opposition votes behind him in the run-off, he will have a chance at the top job.
Mr Macri, has already succeeded in building an unlikely coalition consisting of the social-democratic Radical Civic Union, the liberal Civic Coalition and his own party, the centre-right Republican Proposal.
The son of one of Argentina's richest men, Mr Macri was already signing business deals aged 24 with US tycoon Donald Trump.
In 1991, he was kidnapped and kept captive for 12 days by a gang of corrupt policemen demanding millions in ransom.
Four years later, he became president of Boca Juniors Football Club and soon used his success at the club as a springboard for his political career.
He has recently tried to distance himself somewhat from his privileged upbringing, campaigning in Argentina's least developed areas.
In an attempt to win the votes of Argentina's poorest, he has devised an ambitious infrastructure plan and promised to further boost current welfare programmes.
But he has also said that swift and radical economic changes would have to be implemented to win back market confidence.


At least 132 children in Birmingham are suffering or are vulnerable to sexual exploitation, a report has revealed.

The findings were published after a year-long investigation by the city council's scrutiny committee.
The report said children in care or involved in gangs were among those most at risk of being exploited.
It acknowledged there was "serious child sexual exploitation" in Birmingham but said the "totality of the problem" was unclear.
Councillor Brigid Jones, cabinet member for children and young people, said the council was requesting ??123m over the next three years to improve its children's department, which has been rated inadequate since 2008.
She said the authority would work with police and schools to tackle child sex exploitation but said it was not solely the council's responsibility.
"It's all of society," she said.
"Particularly our approach to young women and how we treat them."
The report - called We Need to Get it Right - identified 83 children most at risk, three boys and 80 girls.
It found "good practice" in general, but said there were "a few cases where appropriate action had not been taken".
Figures in the report - based on information collected in September - "do not provide a complete picture of the extent of CSE in the city of Birmingham for various reasons", it said.
The council said it hoped it would act as a "wake-up call" to professionals and children, who "may not consider themselves victims".
"This will help increase understanding", the report said, "although given the hidden nature of this crime it will still not show the whole picture."
The report said West Midlands Police had told the council "every ward in the city has got risks and potential and every area has a story around CSE: victim, offender or location."
Committee members made 19 recommendations, which Ms Jones said had been wholly accepted by the council.
One of the recommendations included promoting online safety, particularly around smartphone tracking.
The council heard evidence "social apps" could be used to identify a potential victim's location and manufacture an "accidental" meeting with them.
There were also reports of perpetrators broadcasting messages over Bluetooth in busy public places in the hope of making contact with a potential target.
"By looking around and seeing who seems to be smiling about it and responding the groomer would tailor his responses and then maybe go and introduce themselves," it said.
In another case, the report said, a primary school boy was groomed via his Xbox by two would-be abusers who arranged to meet him in a hotel room.
His mother was able to alert police before the meeting took place, it said.
Last week, the city council became the first authority to use civil injunctions in a bid to block child sex exploitation.
Nine men were barred from approaching "any female under 18", with whom they were not personally associated.
The High Court injunctions came after social workers raised concerns about the welfare of a 17-year-old girl.
The council said it was working on a wider review of child sexual exploitation in Birmingham.
Bernie McNally, the former social services executive director at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, had been due to take over as executive director for children's services in Birmingham but she has withdrawn her interest.


An offshore wind farm with 35 turbines is set to be built off the coast of East Yorkshire next year.

Dong Energy confirmed construction would begin in the first half of 2014, and expected the site to be fully operational a year later.
The Westermost Rough wind farm will be located east of Hull in the North Sea, five miles (8km) off the coast.
The government granted planning consent in 2011 for up to 80 turbines on the site.
Henrik Poulson, chief executive of Dong Energy, said: "The size and location of the project is very well suited as the first large scale project with the new Siemens 6 MW turbine.
"The UK offshore wind market is the biggest in the world."
The company said it would supply enough energy to power 210,000 homes.
Components of the turbines could be built in Hull after plans for a Â£210m factory were given the go ahead last year.
Another offshore wind farm containing 73 turbines, the Humber Gateway, is also due to be built close to Westermost Rough.


A Japanese-style garden which was once described as the best of its kind in the west has been recognised as being of national importance.

Set in the grounds of Cowden Castle in Clackmannanshire, the garden was created by the early 20th Century explorer Ella Christie.
It is among the few surviving sites of its kind in the UK.
The garden has now been added to Historic Scotland's Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes.
Born in 1861, Ms Christie travelled widely in Asia and visited countries including India, Ceylon, Malaya, China, Japan and Borneo.
'High importance'
In the spring of 1907, inspired by the gardens of Kyoto and Tokyo, she created her own Japanese-style garden in the grounds of her home at Cowden, near Dollar.
The garden was designed and maintained by Japanese practitioners Taki Handa and Professor Jijo Suzuki.
Centred on a long artificial lake, the garden incorporated elements of three traditional Japanese garden forms: a pond and island garden, a stroll garden, and a tea-house garden.
During the 1930s the gardens were cared for by gardener Shinzaburo Matsuo, who lived and worked on the site until his death in 1937.
The garden was vandalised in the 1960s and none of the original built structures have survived, but many of its features still remain - including plantings and its symbolic stones.
Elizabeth McCrone, head of listing and designed landscapes said: "The story of Cowden is a fascinating one.
"It was once described as the best Japanese garden in the Western world and was visited by Queen Mary in the late 1930s.
"It is of outstanding importance for its value as a work of art and its historic value, and also of high importance for its horticultural, nature conservation and archaeological value."
Sara Stewart, the current owner of Cowden, said:  "While the gardens are not currently open to the public, we are considering a restoration programme and hope that we can welcome visitors back at some point in the future."


Wales claimed only their second ever win over South Africa with a display of guts and cool control in Cardiff.

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Leigh Halfpenny kicked all of Wales' points, converting four of his five penalty kicks before going off injured.
South Africa were limited to two Pat Lambie penalties as Wales largely contained the Springboks attacking threat.
The tourists had a late five-metre scrum but the Wales pack disrupted the set-piece to seal a famous win.
Perhaps of more concern, however, was the injury to captain Jean de Villiers, who was carried off having dislocated his kneecap.
Much of the build-up to the match featured Wales coach Warren Gatland fielding questions about whether he was under pressure because of losses this series to Australia and New Zealand, taking his record to just one win in 27 matches against the southern hemisphere big three.
This win, to add to Wales' previous victory over South Africa in 1999 - also at the Millennium Stadium - provided a perfect riposte and kick-starts their build-up to next year's World Cup in England.
Opposite number Heyneke Meyer had not been under quite the same scrutiny, although their 29-15 defeat by Ireland in their opening tour game had raised some questions that were answered in subsequent wins over England and Italy.
Both sides were missing players because of injuries and recalls to clubs, as this match took place outside World Rugby's official international window.
With George North concussed, Liam Williams stepped into the vacant Wales wing slot, given the opportunity to redeem himself after conceding the last-gasp penalty try that denied them victory in June's second Test in Nelspruit.
Gatland had also suffered a run of injuries among his loose-head props, while Paul James had to depart back to Bath, but he could still call on British and Irish Lion Gethin Jenkins to fill the number one shirt.
Hooker Richard Hibbard had also been recalled to Gloucester, while South Africa had to change their entire back three with wing Bryan Habana and full-back Johan Goosen returning to France and JP Pietersen departing for Japan.
Wales full-back Halfpenny and Springboks fly-half Lambie exchanged early penalties, with Halfpenny unfortunate to hit the outside of the post with a later effort.
Space for the backs to work in was at a premium in a hotly contested first half, with both sides up quickly with some typically fierce defence.
Wales' best moments came from chips ahead to turn the Springboks, the tactic enjoying particular success down the left wing.
Twice Williams came close to collecting the bouncing ball to plunge over the try line, but each time Lwazi Mvovo was there a split-second before, covering across to snuff out the danger.
South Africa almost broke the deadlock when Eben Etzebeth surged through the midfield, but he knocked on as the lock was scythed down by Halfpenny's thumping tackle on the 22-yard line.
Lambie missed a long-range penalty that would have sent the Boks into the changing rooms with a narrow half-time lead, leaving the match delicately poised at the halfway stage.
Halfpenny and Lambie again exchanged early penalties after the restart, with the Springbok stand-off showing his range by slotting from the halfway line.
Wales enjoyed the best period of the game after that, keeping the ball in hand to pressurise the visitors into conceding two more penalties that Halfpenny converted.
Through all of this, the Wales half-back partnership of Rhys Webb and Dan Biggar shone, using possession wisely and keeping a level of control that South Africa found hard to wrest away.
Meyer used his bench early, making four changes including putting Handre Pollard on at fly-half in place of Lambie.
But the Springboks coach was forced into another change soon when captain De Villiers was carried off, replaced by Damian de Allende.
South Africa suffered a further blow when Cornal Hendricks was sin-binned for taking out Halfpenny in the air.
The Wales 15 was clearly shaken by the collision and left the field soon after, with Scott Williams coming on and Liam Williams switching to his preferred full-back position.
Spurred on by their man advantage, Wales laid siege to the Springboks line but met furious resistance as first Jamie Roberts and then Scott Baldwin were stopped just short.
In the closing minutes, South Africa earned a five-metre scrum that threatened to undo all Wales' hard work and deliver another gut-wrenching late loss to a southern hemisphere side.
But the Wales pack rose to the challenge, making a mess of South Africa's platform and allowing the ball to be cleared upfield.
Wales kept their heads and kept the Springboks at bay for the final few moments to seal a well-deserved, and long overdue, win.
Wales: Halfpenny (Scott Williams 67), Cuthbert, Jonathan Davies, Roberts, Liam Williams, Biggar, Webb, Jenkins, Baldwin, Lee, Ball, Alun Wyn Jones, Lydiate, Warburton, Faletau.
Replacements (not used): Emyr Phillips, Jarvis, Rhodri Jones, Charteris, King, Mike Phillips, Priestland.
South Africa: Le Roux, Hendricks, Serfontein, De Villiers, Mvovo, Lambie (Hougaard 58), Reinach, Mtawarira (Nyakane 54), Bismarck du Plessis (Strauss 58), Oosthuizen (Redelinghuys 70), Etzebeth (De Jager 69), Matfield, Coetzee, Mohoje (Carr 54), Vermeulen.
Replacements (not used): Pollard, De Allende.
Att: 58,235
Ref: John Lacey (Ireland).


The results of a serious case review due to be revealed next month after the murder of a 21-month-old toddler have been put back "by several months".

Kathryn Smith, 23, was jailed for life for the murder of daughter Ayeeshia Jane Smith.
Her then partner, Matthew Rigby, was jailed for three-and-a-half years for causing or allowing Ayeeshia's death.
Ayeeshia had been known to social services at Derbyshire County Council all her life.
Ayeeshia collapsed at the couple's home in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, in May 2014.
Birmingham Crown Court heard she had suffered a heart injury usually seen in people who have fallen off buildings or been in a car crash.
Chris Cook, chair of the Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board, said it had become clear the presentation of the review's findings was "going to take longer than we expected".
"I understand the need for answers as this has been an extremely distressing case but it is important we give it the time it deserves to ensure the final report is as robust and fully informed as possible," he said.


The amount of time it takes for autism to be diagnosed should be monitored by NHS England, the National Autistic Society (NAS) says.

The charity says delays between being referred to an autism specialist and diagnosis are "unacceptably long" and putting "families into crisis".
A report by Public Health England has shown there is a huge disparity in waiting times across England.
NHS England says it is committed to reducing waiting times.
The NAS says it can take on average over two years for children and adults to get a diagnosis, if the time it can take to get a referral from a GP is considered.
Jane Harris, director of external affairs at the NAS, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme the situation had to change.
"At the moment people are waiting months - if not years - for a first appointment. If they're adults that might mean losing their job, if they're children they might be excluded from school. It can be really difficult.
"You can know that there's something wrong but not what. At least when you know, there's then a coping mechanism to deal with it, people know where to get support."
The Public Health England report, published last month, showed that some people in the South West of England were waiting as long as 95 weeks between a referral to an autism specialist and a diagnosis.
The wait was as long as 90 weeks in South East and 84 weeks in Yorkshire and Humber.
The median wait across England was 13 weeks. The national guidelines from NICE say the wait between referral and diagnosis should not exceed three months.
The NAS says an increase in autism awareness has led to more referrals, meaning there are huge delays in the system.
But it says the real issue stems from a lack of monitoring. The reasons for the delays could differ in each region and without monitoring of waiting times, it is hard to know why there are backlogs, and what is needed to fix the problem.
Ms Harris added: "The NHS needs to look at autism in the way it looks at other treatments - there's a waiting time for conditions from depression to hip operations."
An NHS England spokesman said: "Diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders should of course happen as soon as possible, but is often complex and involves many different professionals and agencies.
"This is an issue we take very seriously and we have committed to working with local areas to identify and overcome the reasons behind long waiting times. We'll continue to work with NAS and others to make sure people with autism can get the help they need, when they need it".
A Department of Health spokeswoman said:  "The guidelines on autism make it crystal clear that families should wait no more than three months to start diagnosis. Every bit of the NHS should be adhering to these guidelines and NHS England is working with local areas to make sure these waiting times are cut."
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:15 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.


Throughout the World Cup, a television advertisement has featured Brendon McCullum telling his country to "dream big, New Zealand".

As the crowds streamed towards the stadium known as the Cake Tin on a gloriously sunny Saturday afternoon, it seemed like the message of the Black Caps captain was getting through.
By the time they drifted away into the Wellington night, having seen the Martin Guptill-inspired Kiwis destroy West Indies to earn a place in the semi-finals, the dream was fast becoming a reality.
Guptill's unbeaten 237 was the highest score in a World Cup match, the second biggest in one-day internationals and the fourth best in all List A cricket.
He broke his own record for the highest score by a New Zealander, becoming only the second man to hit a World Cup double ton and the fifth to do so in all ODIs.
McCullum called it the "the greatest ODI innings I've seen live", former New Zealand captain Jeremy Coney said that Guptill "dazzled", while former India batsman Rahul Dravid described it as "incredible".
It was a New Zealand performance befitting the excitement in a country where the World Cup feels like a bigger deal than across the Tasman Sea in Australia.
Whereas Australia has struggled to fill its vast grounds, New Zealand has matched size of venue to magnitude of match to be rewarded with capacity crowds and lively atmospheres.
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And while Australia's larger cities have few reminders that the World Cup is in the area, New Zealand's smaller towns are plastered with paraphernalia.
In a rugby-obsessed nation, cricket is on the television in takeaways and hotel lobbies. Shop windows are given over to cricket-themed displays, while Black Caps flags flutter on the forecourts of a used-car dealerships.
In Dunedin, the city of McCullum's birth, the road leading to its University Oval has been renamed 'Brendon McCullum Drive'.
As for Guptill, he already appears to be living the dream - but it is one that was almost over before it began.
At the age of 13, he was involved in a forklift accident that caused him to lose three toes. As the aspiring cricketer recovered in hospital, his father arranged for former New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming to pay him a visit.
"Back then I didn't think I would ever play for New Zealand," said Guptill, sensitively nicknamed 'Two Toes'. "I'm lucky enough to represent my country and I'm loving this moment."
Some 15 years later, a merciless assault on the West Indies bowling etched the tall right-hander into New Zealand cricket and World Cup folklore.
Not that the early signs were good. He needed the good fortune of Marlon Samuels dropping a straightforward shin-high chance at square leg in the first over and had to weather the storm of losing more illustrious partners McCullum and Kane Williamson.
However, with the confidence of a century in his last innings against Bangladesh, Guptill built by driving pacemen down the ground and cutting the spinners through the off side.
As he approached 200, the crowd began chanting his name.
When the double century came, the roar was so loud it was as if the whole of New Zealand was celebrating, Guptill's helmet-off, double-armed celebration providing perhaps the moment of the World Cup so far.
In the same Andre Russell over, another boundary took Guptill past Chris Gayle's World Cup best of 215.
Gayle, whose record stood for only 25 days, congratulated Guptill between overs, offering a handshake and telling him "welcome to the club".
Then came the shot that the innings will be best remembered for - Russell forgetting to use the pitch, Guptill swinging to leg, white leather becoming a dot in the sky and landing on the roof of the stand.
Guptill removed his glove and held two fingers to Craig McMillan, telling his batting coach that he had now managed more hits on to the roof of the Cake Tin. As a couple of figures in black walked around the top of the stadium in an effort to find the ball, the word "roof" trended on Twitter.
The crowd continued to shout his name as he strode off at the end of the innings and remained vocal when he reappeared to be interviewed on television.
"I'm incredibly proud of what happened today," said Guptill. "It's pretty cool to hear the whole stadium chanting your name - I've never had anything like that before."
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There were more reasons for noise as the Black Caps sprinted towards victory: Trent Boult taking four wickets to become the tournament's most successful bowler, Daniel Vettori urging his 36-year-old, injury-ravaged body into a Michael Jordan-style leap for a one-handed catch on the third-man boundary.
The Black Caps have rewarded the nation's enthusiasm with seven successive wins in this tournament and the real sense that their seventh World Cup semi-final against South Africa in Auckland on Tuesday could finally produce a place in the final - and even the trophy.
"That would make the nation throb with pride," said Coney. "Success and being in the spotlight doesn't usually sit well. Our style is to be a bit more humble. Talking ourselves up isn't really the New Zealand way."
Maybe, though, the New Zealand way is about to change - especially if a country with a population smaller than that of Yorkshire were to hold both the cricket and rugby union World Cups at the same time.
"Wouldn't that be nice?" suggested Coney, with typical Kiwi understatement.
Perhaps it really is time to dream big, New Zealand.
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Festival-goers are being invited to have a go on what is claimed to be the world's largest bouncy castle.

The organisers of Common People commissioned the inflatable structure for the event on Southampton Common on Saturday and Sunday.
The castle, measuring 23.8m by 20.7m by 12.8m, is taller than the Great Wall of China and can be used by 100 people.
It will also appear at the organisers' other festivals - Bestival on the Isle of Wight and Camp Bestival in Dorset.
Festival organiser Rob da Bank said: "We do love breaking a record and this is one of our funnest builds so far."
There is currently no record for the world's biggest bouncy castle.
Guinness World Records is yet to verify the record.
Common People, now in its second year, features Duran Duran, Primal Scream, Craig David and Public Enemy.
For the first time, a simultaneous event is also being held in South Parks, Oxford.
The current record for a bouncy castle was set in 1997 by Dana Caspersen and William Forsythe, the festival said.
The castle, measuring 19m by 19m by 12m, took six hours to erect at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London.


A village cricket side scored 40 runs from the final over of a league match to secure the most unlikely of victories.

Needing 35 to win from the last six deliveries of their game against Swinbrook, Dorchester-on-Thames CC looked down and out in the Oxfordshire Cricket Association match.
Hosts Swinbrook had posted 240 from their 45 overs in the Division Four encounter.
With an over to go in Dorchester's reply, the visitors were on 206-7, with 54-year-old Steve McComb on strike against bowler Mihai Cucos.
The over began with a no-ball which was dispatched for six.
Ball two also went for six, effectively giving Dorchester 13 runs from one legitimate delivery.
Cucos responded with a yorker, from which McComb was unable to score.
Ball four (the third legitimate delivery) went for four and was then followed by another no-ball which also flew to the boundary for four.
The next two balls were flayed for six, leaving the scores level with one delivery to come.
Swinbrook brought the field in, but McComb advanced down the pitch to hit his fifth six of the over, winning the game and bringing up his own century.
"It was an amazing end to the game," said McComb, who has played for Dorchester for 20 years.
"240 is a tough target to chase in our league and we never looked ahead of the rate.
"I had nothing to lose in the final over and the boundaries weren't huge, so I knew there was a slim chance.
"I've had an arthritic ankle for many years and I can't run very well between the wickets, as the lads constantly remind me, so I either try to score a boundary or hop for a single!
"When they brought the field in for the final ball I knew if I got bat on ball we'd be OK."
Fellow Dorchester batsman Richard Sharman, who was scoring at the time, added: "I got so excited the scorebook's a bit of a mess, but it was a pleasure to watch."


The new faces in Wales' Six Nations squad "can put the heat on" established stars and win caps in the tournament, says scrum-half Rhys Webb.

Webb highlighted Leicester fly-half Owen Williams and Wasps open-side flanker Thomas Young, who are among seven uncapped players in the squad.
"It's great these new boys have been called into the squad," said Webb.
"The likes of Owen Williams and Thomas Young have been playing exceptionally well."
The seven uncapped players in the Wales squad are Ospreys flanker Olly Cracknell, Newport Gwent Dragons wing Ashton Hewitt, Ospreys lock Rory Thornton, Williams, Scarlets wing Steffan Evans, Scarlets scrum-half Aled Davies and Young.
Thornton and Davies have previously been involved in Wales squads.
"It's great for them to be named in the squad and they can put the heat on the boys that finished the jerseys off last," Webb told Scrum V Radio.
Williams, who joins Gloucester for 2017-18, is challenging Webb's Ospreys team-mates Dan Biggar and Sam Davies for the Wales fly-half spot.
Cardiff Blues' Sam Warburton and Justin Tipuric of Ospreys stand in Young's way in the battle for the number seven jersey, while Gloucester's Ross Moriarty has also played there.
Webb will continue his bid for full fitness before Wales face Italy in Rome on Sunday, 5 February as Ospreys host Bristol in the Anglo-Welsh Cup on Saturday.
The 28-year-old, who has 23 Wales caps, scored on his return from an ankle injury in the 26-21 European Challenge Cup win at Newcastle last weekend.
On Saturday, Webb will play in his hometown of Bridgend as Ospreys opted to play at the Brewery Field rather than their usual Liberty Stadium venue.
"I know I've been out of the game for 12 weeks, but I know what I'm capable of doing," said Webb.
"I'm feeling fit and ready and glad they've released me back this weekend to get some more minutes under my belt.
"And I'll be ready then if I'm named in the squad for next weekend [against Italy]."


A paralysed woman wearing a "bionic" suit has completed the Great North Run, five days after she started it.

Claire Lomas, from Leicestershire, was paralysed from the chest down in a riding accident in 2007.
She began the half marathon, which runs from Newcastle to South Shields, on Wednesday and crossed the finish line at about 10:00 BST.
The 36-year-old, who is 16 weeks pregnant, said she was "over the moon" to finish the run.
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She broke her neck, back and ribs and punctured a lung when her horse threw her off as she took part in the Osberton Horse Trials in Nottinghamshire.
Mrs Lomas has no feeling below her chest and used a ReWalk robotic exoskeleton, which relies on motion sensors to help her move and lift her legs to walk the route.
Speaking to BBC Women's Hour before the Great North Run she said even standing in the suit was challenging.
"It's taken some learning. It's not just physical work, it's the concentration with every step," she said.
"It doesn't just walk for me. I have to use the parts that aren't paralysed to make it walk."
She walked about three miles a day with the help of her husband Dan and was met at the finish line by her five-year-old daughter Maisie.
She said she had struggled to train because of morning sickness which meant there were times when she did not think she would make it to the start.
Other problems were caused by the heat, hills on the course and injuries caused by straps on her suit.
"I had quite a lot of morning sickness. I didn't have the lead up I wanted, but I really did not want to lose this opportunity," she said.
In 2012, Mrs Lomas completed the London Marathon in last place, inspiring many people with her courage and determination.


The shape of your glass is probably the last thing on your mind when you are down the pub.

However, researchers at the University of Bristol believe the shape of beer glasses affects the speed people drink.
Their study, published in the journal PLoS ONE, suggests people drink more quickly out of curved glasses than straight ones.
They argue that the curvy glassware makes pacing yourself a much greater challenge.
A group of 159 men and women were filmed drinking either soft drinks or beer as part of the study. The glasses all contained around half a pint of liquid, but some of the glasses were straight while others were very curved.
There was no difference in the drinking time for soft drinks. People drinking from both straight and curved glasses finished after around seven minutes.
However, for the beer drinkers there was a large difference between the two groups. While it took around seven minutes for people drinking from a curved glass to polish off their half pint, it took 11 minutes for those drinking from a straight glass.
The report said: "Drinking time is slowed by almost 60% when an alcoholic beverage is presented in a straight glass compared with a curved glass."
The researchers thought that curvy glasses made it harder to pace drinking because judging how much was in the glass became more difficult owing to its curved shape.
The group of drinkers was shown a variety of pictures of partially-filled beer glasses and asked to say whether they were more or less than half full.
The team said people were more likely to get the answer wrong when assessing the amount of liquid in curved glasses.
The lead researcher Dr Angela Attwood told the BBC: "They are unable to judge how quickly they are drinking so cannot pace themselves."
She suggested that people were not concerned about pacing themselves with soft drinks, which could explain why glass shape had no effect on them.
However, the study looked only at the time taken to finish one drink in a laboratory setting. So it is not certain what happens on an evening out if multiple drinks are consumed.
She said altering the glasses used in pubs could "nudge" people to drink more healthily by "giving control back".
The shape of a glass has already been shown to affect how much alcohol people pour. A study in 2005 showed people were more likely to pour extra alcohol into short, wide glasses than tall, narrow ones.


Ariana Grande's One Last Time has reached number two in the Official Singles Chart after it was re-released as a charity single.

The track, originally released in 2014, achieved 2.9 million streams and 61,000 downloads.
Most proceeds from the song will go to the We Love Manchester fund for the victims of the Manchester Arena attack.
Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber's Despacito held onto the top spot for a fifth week.
Grande's One Love Manchester concert last weekend was attended by 50,000 music fans and watched by millions worldwide.
Liam Gallagher, who also performed at the event, saw his solo single Wall of Glass enter the chart at number 21.
Oasis' classic song Don't Look Back In Anger - which Coldplay's Chris Martin performed with Grande at the gig - reached number 25. It is the first first time it has been in the top 40 since May 1996.
In the album chart, Ed Sheeran's Divide returned to the top spot overtaking the 50th anniversary reissue of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Roger Waters landed at number three with his fourth solo album Is This The Life We Really Want. Dua Lipa's eponymous debut entered at number five.
Grande's Dangerous Woman climbed 18 places to 11.
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Bayern Munich benefitted from a historic video replay decision as they opened the Bundesliga season with a win against Bayer Leverkusen at a rain-soaked Allianz Arena.

The defending champions, who are bidding for a sixth successive title, were given a second-half penalty after referee Tobias Stieler consulted the video assistant referee (VAR) system which has been introduced to the German top flight.
The official was unsure Robert Lewandowski had been fouled but, after going to the video referees based in Cologne, he awarded a spot-kick and the Poland striker converted for 3-0.
Bayern took an early lead when centre-back Niklas Sule headed in Sebastian Rudy's inswinging free-kick as the two summer arrivals from Hoffenheim combined.
Corentin Tolisso, another new signing from French side Lyon, doubled the lead with a close-range header after the visitors failed to deal with a corner.
After a heavy thunderstorm led to the second half being delayed by about 15 minutes, Lewandowski confidently converted low into the corner when Charles Aranguiz pulled back the Bayern player by his shoulder.
The away side, who flirted with relegation last season before finishing 12th, reduced the deficit when Admir Mehmedi lashed in a 20-yard drive.
But it was not enough to stop Carlo Ancelotti's side, who were missing a host of key players through injury, extending their unbeaten home run to a 23rd league match.
Bayern have won 18 and drawn five since losing to Mainz in March 2016.
Match ends, FC Bayern München 3, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1.
Second Half ends, FC Bayern München 3, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1.
Hand ball by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München).
Attempt saved. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Robert Lewandowski.
Attempt blocked. Karim Bellarabi (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Kampl.
Attempt missed. Julian Brandt (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Kevin Kampl (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Julian Brandt.
Corner,  Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Conceded by Corentin Tolisso.
Corner,  Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Conceded by Sebastian Rudy.
Hand ball by Admir Mehmedi (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Foul by Jonathan Tah (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Arjen Robben following a fast break.
Attempt blocked. Kingsley Coman (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Rafinha.
Julian Brandt (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rafinha (FC Bayern München).
Attempt missed. Wendell (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Julian Brandt.
Admir Mehmedi (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kingsley Coman (FC Bayern München).
Attempt missed. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Robert Lewandowski tries a through ball, but Kingsley Coman is caught offside.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Kingsley Coman replaces Franck Ribéry.
Offside, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Dominik Kohr tries a through ball, but Karim Bellarabi is caught offside.
Corner,  Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Conceded by Niklas Süle.
Attempt missed. Dominik Kohr (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Admir Mehmedi with a cross following a set piece situation.
Dominik Kohr (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Rafinha (FC Bayern München).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) because of an injury.
Foul by Karim Bellarabi (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  FC Bayern München. Conceded by Wendell.
Foul by Kevin Volland (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Rafinha (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Sebastian Rudy tries a through ball, but Arjen Robben is caught offside.
Goal!  FC Bayern München 3, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1. Admir Mehmedi (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Julian Brandt.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Arturo Vidal tries a through ball, but Robert Lewandowski is caught offside.
Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Aleksandar Dragovic (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München).


The life of computer pioneer Alan Turing has been commemorated in a special edition of Monopoly.

The board's London landmarks, and its Community and Chance cards, have been swapped for places and events important in Turing's life.
Players can move their pieces from his birthplace in Maida Vale to Hut 8 at Bletchley Park.
Search giant Google has bought 1,000 of the sets and donated them to Bletchley Park to help raise funds.
The board of the special edition is based on a hand-drawn variant of Monopoly created by William Newman in 1950. William was the son of scientist Max Newman who was a key figure in Turing's life.
The hand-drawn version was thought to have been lost but was rediscovered in 2011 and donated to the Bletchley Park museum soon after.
"Bringing this board to life has been one of the most exciting and unique projects we've been involved with here," said Iain Standen, head of the Bletchley Park Trust.
The special board has Bletchley Park, the wartime centre of the Allied code-cracking effort, taking the place of Mayfair, swaps houses and hotels for huts and blocks and has Turing's face on all the banknotes.
The commemorative edition also includes a facsimile of William Newman's hand-drawn board. Google has helped with the production of the board by buying up the  copies of the game. Funds raised by the sale of the game at Bletchley Park will aid the heritage site's reconstruction project.


A Scottish couple made an unusual bit of British military history when the wife handed over command of an Army unit to her husband.

Lt Col Gill Wilkinson was commanding officer of 154 (Scottish) Regiment Royal Logistic, based in Dunfermline.
She handed over to her husband, Lt Col Alan Wilkinson, last month.
The exchange makes the pair, who married in 1998, the highest ranking couple to follow each other in a command role.
Gill, 45, originally from Northern Ireland, was in the Army from the mid-90s but left when her two children were born.
She re-enlisted in the Army reserve in 2003 and took command of the regiment in 2014.
Husband Alan, 46, who was also in the Army before joining the Army Reserve, took on the role of main carer for their children when Gill became CO (commanding officer).
Gill told BBC Scotland: "It almost feels like I handed over the children to him two-and-a-half years before taking command and this feels very similar.
"You do feel a responsibility for a regiment. It is quite a parental role. Your soldiers are like your family.
"Normally when a commanding officer leaves command they don't look back at the regiment, they leave the next CO to carry on.
"Obviously I'm trying to do that but I can keep an eye out and ask how people are getting on and satisfy that parental bit."
Alan, originally from the Borders, met Gill at Dundee University before joining the Army.
He joined the reserves in 2009.
Alan said taking over from his wife was no different to any new job.
He said: "We have worked closely together throughout our career in the Army. I was in the fortunate position of being able to speak to Gill in the months before about it so it only took about four days to handover. It was fine."
Gill, who will now work with the Army Reserve part-time, said opportunities for women were "getting wider".
She said: "When I joined the Royal Logistic Corps it was because it offered, as far as I was concerned, the greatest opportunity to do the same job as men were doing.
"It is still majority male but the regiment I was commanding was about a quarter to a third female."
"I think ever since I joined the Army it has been increasing with more and more opportunities opening up.
"But we are really at the final bastion now where women are moving into combat roles."
Alan says his wife has offered him advice on his new role.
He says: "Some is good, some I listen to but I do make my own assessment."


In his first appearance since last week's coup attempt, Burundi's President Nkurunziza focused on the threat he said his country faced from Islamist militant group al-Shabab - a statement that took many by surprise.

Many had been expecting the embattled leader to talk about the political unrest which had brought him tantalizingly close to losing his grip on power in the central African nation.
There were also questions about whether the presidential elections would go ahead as scheduled in June. Other than that, questions were being asked about whether the coup attempt had shaken Mr Nkurunziza's resolve to pursue his controversial third-term bid.
But instead of addressing these burning issues, Mr Nkurunziza chose to announce to the media that his country was facing a terror threat from al-Shabab.
The group itself was surprised  - its spokesperson said Mr Nkurunziza's remarks were "dumb-founding".
A number of Ugandans I talked to about Mr Nkurunziza's remarks drew parallels with what happened in their own country in 2006 when parliament, on the instigation of President Yoweri Museveni, amended the constitution and lifted the two-term limit on the presidency.
And all indications are that he is now set to run for fifth term.
Until then, Mr Museveni had been credited for bringing peace and stability to his country.
In fact, the Clinton administration described him as part of a "new breed" of African leaders.
But like Mr Nkurunziza, Mr Museveni's decision to lift the two-term limit on the presidency came at a great cost to his image - both locally and internationally.
Former US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson said at the time that "many observers see Museveni's efforts to amend the constitution as a re-run of a common problem that afflicts many African leaders - an unwillingness to follow constitutional norms and give up power".
Several donors including the UK, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden cancelled millions of dollars of aid to Uganda, saying not enough had been done to return the country to democratic multiparty rule.
Mr Museveni surprised many by unilaterally deploying Ugandan troops to Somalia to prop up the transitional federal government, which was battling Islamist insurgents who later metamorphosed into al-Shabab.
Many analysts saw Mr Museveni's move as an attempt to win back the Western support he had lost on account of his decision to scrap presidential term limits.
The US had for a long time wanted to see Somalia pacified to prevent it from becoming a terror breeding ground for al-Qaeda.
Through his military excursion into Somalia, Mr Museveni effectively played what has variously been referred to as the "anti-terror" card to make himself indispensable to the West - especially the US and the UK.
Uganda's government maintains that the decision to go into Somalia was done in order to prevent the conflict from spilling over into neighbouring countries, as well as to show that African countries can solve African problems.
After the embarrassing 1993 "Black Hawk Down" incident, the US preferred to advance its objectives through proxies, and it is easy to see why Washington found it difficult to resist a strategic anti-terror alliance with Mr Museveni, who had already put Ugandan boots on Somalia's blood-thirsty ground.
Criticisms of Mr Museveni's "unwillingness to follow constitutional norms and give up power" not only faded into irrelevance, he was now referred to by the same US government as a "strong ally in the fight against terror".
Several African countries, including Kenya and Burundi, have since joined the "war on terror" under the African Union mission in Somalia.
Therefore, on paper, Mr Nkurunziza may have genuine concerns about a possible terror threat to his country.  However, the curious timing of his remarks about a possible terror threat is suspicious - especially when one juxtaposes it against Mr Museveni's 2006 "military charm offensive" to win back Western support after he came in for severe criticism for scrapping presidential term limits.
Is Burundi's President Nkurunziza using the al-Shabab threat to deflect attention from his domestic political woes?
This is the question on the lips of many socio-political commentators and analysts - and the jury is still out.


Wakefield Trinity produced a strong display to brush aside Super League's bottom side Widnes Vikings in Magic Weekend's opening game in Newcastle.

Scott Grix crossed either side of Reece Lyne's try to give Wakefield a 16-0 half-time lead at St James' Park.
Ben Jones-Bishop touched down twice after the break, while Matty Ashurst also scored as Wakefield dominated.
Ryan Ince and Hep Cahill scored consolation tries for Widnes, who gave a debut to Rangi Chase.
The 31-year-old half-back joined Widnes until the end of the season on Monday after being told he did not feature in Castleford's plans for the rest of 2017.
But the former England playmaker was unable to make a serious impact in his first match - and was at fault for the sixth Trinity try, throwing a wayward pass to allow Ashurst a free run under the posts.
Vikings remain bottom of the table having won just two of their 14 matches in Super League this season.
Wakefield, who are also in the Challenge Cup quarter-finals, move above Wigan to fifth in the table.
Widnes Vikings: Hanbury, Ince, Chamberlain, Runciman, Johnson, Johnstone, Chase, Buchanan, Heremaia, Dudson, Houston, Wilde, Cahill.
Replacements: O'Carroll, White, Gerrard, Manuokafoa.
Wakefield Trinity: Grix, Jones-Bishop, Lyne, Arundel, Caton-Brown, Miller, Finn, England, Wood, Fifita, Ashurst, Kirmond, Arona.
Replacements: B. Tupou, Huby, Hirst, Batchelor.
Referee: Chris Kendall (RFL)


Romanian third seed Simona Halep sealed her place in the French Open fourth round with a 6-0 7-5 win over Russia's Daria Kasatkina.

Halep, 25, is viewed as one of the favourites after winning the Madrid Open and reaching the Rome Open final.
Ninth seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland was stunned 6-2 6-1 by French world number 43 Alize Cornet.
In the men's draw, Swiss third seed Stan Wawrinka beat Fabio Fognini 7-6 (7-2) 6-0 6-2 to reach the last 16.
Halep to meet Suarez Navarro in last 16
Halep initially threatened to cruise past Kasatkina as she won the opening set in 30 minutes, only for the 20-year-old Russian to fight back in the second.
Trailing 3-1, Kasatkina won the next four games to move 5-3 ahead before Halep regained control to progress on her fourth match point.
"I played really well at the beginning," Halep said.
"She was coming back really strongly and I think my energy went a bit down. She's a really tough opponent."
Carla Suarez Navarro, the Spanish 21st seed, set up a meeting with Halep with a 6-4 6-4 win over 14th seed Elena Vesnina of Russia.
Former Wimbledon finalist Radwanska, 28, failed to win any of her seven service games as Cornet ensured there will be a French woman in the quarter-finals for the first time since Marion Bartoli in 2011.
Cornet, 27, meets compatriot Caroline Garcia for a place in the last eight.
Garcia needed more than two and a half hours to win 6-4 4-6 9-7 against Taiwanese Hsieh Su-wei, who beat British number one Johanna Konta in the first round.
Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki resumed her match against 18-year-old American Catherine Bellis after rain stopped play on Friday night, the Dane going to complete a 6-2 2-6 6-3 win.
Wawrinka, 32, is yet to drop a set at Roland Garros this year as he looks to emulate his 2015 triumph.
The Swiss third seed looked in danger of doing that in the opening set against Fognini, but the Italian 28th seed failed to serve out and then lost a one-sided tie-break.
Fognini, 30, had won two of his three matches against top-five opponents this year, beating then fourth-ranked Kei Nishikori in Miami and world number one Andy Murray in Rome.
But he capitulated after losing the first set to Wawrinka, failing to take a game in the second as he served up five double faults and produced several wayward forehands.
Fognini saved two match points at 5-2 in the third, before the Swiss fired down an unreturnable serve on the third.
"It was a very good first set and I was a bit hesitant, but after that I relaxed," Wawrinka said.
"I am playing very well at the moment but we all know how that can go in a Grand Slam. Each game gets more difficult."
Croatian seventh seed Marin Cilic eased to a 6-1 6-3 6-3 victory over Spain's Feliciano Lopez.


A huge grass moustache has been added to the UK's largest chalk hill figure.

The Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset is sporting facial "hair" in support of Movember, which raises awareness of prostate and testicular cancer.
The National Trust's Rob Rhodes said: "It's all a bit of fun to highlight an important subject so we were happy to give our support and join in the fun."
He said the moustache would remain for one day, and that there would be no damage to the giant.
"I am sure the giant would approve," he added.
The 180ft (55m) tall giant's new moustache is 36ft (11m) by 9ft (2.7m).
A spokesman at British Seed Houses, which grew the whiskers, said it gave him a "rakish" appearance.
Local folklore describes the club-wielding figure, which dates back to at least 1694, as a symbol of spirituality and fertility.
The giant attracted attention in the summer of 2007 when a temporary chalk figure of Homer Simpson was drawn next to it, to promote The Simpsons Movie.
Money is raised for Movember during November each year by men growing moustaches to support health programmes that combat prostate and testicular cancer, and mental health challenges.


Senator Ian Gorst has been elected as Jersey's new chief minister with 27 votes in Jersey's first open ballot.

He beat Senator Sir Philip Bailhache by three votes, making him Jersey's third chief minister, taking over from Terry le Sueur.
The two candidates each spoke for 10 minutes to try and convince members to vote for them.
Each candidate then took questions from States members for 40 minutes while the other candidate was out of the chamber.
There were a range of questions on everything from mains drains to the historical abuse inquiry.
Both candidates were asked who they would nominate as their treasury minister and Senator Gorst said he would nominate either Senator Ian Le Marquand or Deputy John le Fondre as treasury minister but would not confirm until Thursday.
The States will return on Thursday to choose ministers and a committee chairmen.
BBC Jersey's political reporter Chris Rayner said: "For the first time we have had an election which gives the successful candidate a public mandate.
"The first chief minister, former Senator Frank Walker, was half way through his six-year term when he became chief minister. The same for Senator Terry le Sueur."


Proposals to build more pylons in Cumbria are going on public show.

The lines would connect a proposed nuclear power station at Moorside, near Sellafield, to the electricity network.
National Grid wants to install large pylons along a corridor from Carlisle to Moorside, then down to the Furness Peninsula and under Morecambe Bay to emerge near Heysham, Lancashire.
Campaigners are concerned about the impact on the scenery and want cables routed offshore or underground.
Friends of the Lake District said: "The pylons are the height of Nelson's Column and would be a dreadful addition to a national park currently engaged in a bid to win World Heritage Status.
"This is not a case of preventing infrastructure development going ahead.
"There is an opportunity for everybody to benefit if we can persuade government and National Grid that they can achieve the connection of the power station without compromising the natural beauty of the Lake District."
National Grid said: "This design will change and evolve in the coming months as we take into account different environmental and land-use issues that will influence where a new connection can be built.
"We're working with landowners, councils and specialist groups to get more information about land-use issues that will inform the design of our proposals.
"In addition to this ongoing dialogue, we're continuing to engage with local communities and individuals in the coming months."
A series of public events has begun, starting in Egremont, with the final one on 29 October in Heysham.


The bodies of the victims of the EgyptAir plane which crashed in the Mediterranean in May are being returned to their families, officials say.

Bodies of the 10 crew members were handed over on Saturday, they said. Passengers would follow next week.
Investigators say traces of explosives have been found on the victims and a criminal investigation will be held.
Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo plunged into the sea on 19 May killing all 66 people on board.
EgyptAir flight MS804: What we know
Among those who died were 40 Egyptians and 15 French nationals.
France has voiced concern about the delay in returning the bodies of its nationals.
French investigators have complained about co-operation with their Egyptian counterparts.
The Paris prosecutor opened a manslaughter investigation into the crash in June.
In September, French newspaper Le Figaro reported that French investigators had found trace levels of the explosive material TNT on debris of the plane, but had been prevented from examining it further.
Egyptian officials denied obstructing French inquiries.
The cause of the crash remains unclear. No distress call was made beforehand but the cockpit voice recorder revealed the pilots had fought to put out a fire.
Automated electronic messages sent out by the plane showed smoke detectors going off in a toilet and in the avionics area below the cockpit, minutes before the plane vanished.
Recovered wreckage showed signs of damage caused by high temperature and there was soot on the jet's front section.
Although there were fears that an act of terrorism might have brought the plane down, no group has said it targeted the plane.
The crash came seven months after a Russian passenger plane was brought down by a bomb over Egypt's Sinai peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.
An Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State group said it was behind that attack. However, there was no such claim following the crash in May.
The EgyptAir plane had taken off from Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport where security has been tight since the jihadist attacks of November 2015.
Analysts say that in the two days before the crash, the plane had travelled to Egypt, Tunisia and Eritrea, leaving open the possibility that a bomb could have been planted before its arrival in Paris.


A former director of the Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras has been sentenced to twelve years in prison, as part of a huge investigation into bribery and corruption.

Jorge Zelada, who ran Petrobras's international division, was convicted of money-laundering and corruption.
Another Petrobras manager, Eduardo Costa Musa, and two others were also jailed.
The men were paid millions of dollars in bribes by a Petrobras contractor.
The investigation also found that Jorge Zelada had transferred huge amounts of money offshore into bank accounts he owned in China.
Mr Zelada was arrested in July and has been held in a prison in the city of Curitiba in southern Brazil.
He was accused along with Mr Musa of accepting a $30m (Â£20bn) bribe to favour a contract in 2009 with the company Vantage Drilling Corporation.
The contract was to freight a drill ship, Titanium Explorer, to Petrobras.
Mr Zelada's lawyer says he will appeal against his client's sentence.
More than 100 people have now been arrested in the two-year investigation, including politicians and former top executives at Petrobras, and some of the country's biggest construction firms.
The scandal has rocked Brazil's governing Workers' Party, with top politicians accused of taking bribes.
But President Dilma Rousseff, who chaired Petrobras when much of the corruption is believed to have taken place, has been cleared of involvement.
Petrobras' investments alone represent 2% of Brazil's gross national product, and its downturn has harmed a national economy struggling as a result of low commodity prices.
The corruption scandal has cost Petrobras over $16bn, including $2bn that went straight to corrupt executives and firms.


Great Britain reached Monday's Olympic gymnastics men's team final with an impressive display in qualification.

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They were fifth overall with 2012 champions China compiling the best overall score followed by USA, Russia and Japan.
Britons Nile Wilson and Max Whitlock qualified for the individual all-around final.
French gymnast Samir Ait Said suffer a horrific leg break after landing badly on the vault during qualifying.
Ukraine's Oleg Vernyayev, who missed out on a medal four years ago when his team came fourth, was the leading all-around qualifier, with London gold medallist Kohei Uchimura of Japan second.
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Whitlock, who won two bronze medals in 2012, also qualified for the floor and pommel finals. Team-mate Kristian Thomas made the floor final, Louis Smith is in the pommel final and Wilson will be in the high bar final.
Wilson, the highest-placed Briton in the all-around qualification having come fifth, said: "I'm loving every second of it and that's what I focus on, enjoying myself.
"Today, all I was focusing on was my gymnastics and what I could do and what I could control.
"I had to go out there and do six routines. I had a couple of little wobbles but, all in all, very consistent and clean and come out with a great score and a couple of big scores on a couple of big apparatus."


Samsung has suspended a software update that upgraded UK-based Galaxy S3 owners to version 4.3 of the Android operating system - also known as Jelly Bean.

The download first became available about a fortnight ago, but subsequently some users began complaining of numerous problems.
These included faster than normal battery drain, some apps refusing to work and alarms failing to trigger.
The firm said it was now investigating the matter.
"We are committed to providing customers with the best possible mobile experience, and will ensure to resume the upgrading service at the earliest possibility," it added in a statement.
Several users posted messages on Samsung's UK Facebook page to complain that the firm had taken this long to act.
"Samsung keep telling us that they will let us know as soon as they find a fix, but in the meantime I am left with a phone that is next to useless," wrote one owner, Dylan Barlow, to the BBC.
The Galaxy S3 was first released in May 2012 running Android 4.0. Although it was later updated to 4.1, users were never offered the 4.2 upgrade - making the latest release the first for the handset since the start of the year.
The SamMobile news blog noted that one of the reasons for the firm to have released the upgrade at this point would have been to allow the phone to be compatible with its new Galaxy Gear smartwatch.
Another site, Android Police, has also revealed that the US network AT&T has pulled the 4.3 update for subscribers who own the newer S4 handsets, but has not yet released a statement.
This is not the first time such upgrades have caused issues,
In February, Vodafone UK and 3 Austria recommended iPhone 4S owners delayed an upgrade to Apple's iOS 6.1 operating system after complaints that some handsets were having problems making calls and connecting to the internet.
Days later the US firm released a new version of the software that fixed the problems.


A man who tweeted asking for someone to "Jo Cox" an MP has been given a suspended jail sentence.

Michael McAlpine, 25, from Bethnal Green, London, posted the comment about the Conservative MP for Broxtowe, Anna Soubry, last December.
He was sentenced at Westminster Magistrates' Court to 10 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months, for sending offensive messages.
Last June, Labour MP Jo Cox was shot dead - a week before the EU referendum.
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The Nottinghamshire MP took screenshots of the tweets and reported the messages to police.
The court heard McAlpine tried to cover his tracks by deleting his Twitter account and tweets.
He was arrested on 3 December 2016 and charged on 23 May.
McAlpine pleaded guilty to two counts of sending a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing nature.
He was also sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay Â£500 to Ms Soubry in compensation and costs of Â£150.
After the sentencing, Ms Soubry tweeted she would donate the money to the Jo Cox Foundation.
She thanked the Metropolitan Police and Far Right Watch for their "support & excellent work in bringing Michael McAlpine to justice".
In April, John Wombell, 58, from West Drayton, London, who called Ms Soubry's office and said she should be "Jo Cox'd" was jailed for eight weeks.


Cornish Pirates coach Alan Paver says the club are benefitting from managing to keep most of the side that featured in the Championship last season.

The Pirates beat Bedford in their opening game before salvaging a 31-31 draw at Ealing last week.
"We were very lucky to retain a lot of the same players as last year, even though the squad size has shrunk a tiny bit," Paver told BBC Radio Cornwall.
"The fact we've trained the same guys meant that we're all on the same page."
The Pirates go into Sunday's trip to Nottingham in fifth place in the fledgling league table, one point and one spot above their hosts.
"They're full of grit and full of determination and hungry to learn, to progress and to do the best they can for this club," added Paver of his side.
"Straight away I know they're a determined bunch, and I think you can't go wrong with that quality."


Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Sepp Blatter, the head of the world football body Fifa.

The Swiss allege that Mr Blatter signed a contract that was unfavourable to Fifa and had made a "disloyal payment" to the head of the European football association (Uefa) Michel Platini.
Here's a look at some key questions surrounding the case.
Yes. Fifa has been dogged by allegations of corruption for years, and there have even been successful prosecutions against its executives. However, Sepp Blatter has always remained above the fray, though he has looked an increasingly isolated figure since the arrest of key lieutenants in May.
Indeed, these arrests forced him to announce that planned to step down as Fifa president. It is noticeable that since the corruption scandal broke, he has not been visiting countries that have an extradition treaty with the US.
They are, along with a separate Swiss investigation.
Switzerland actually arrested seven Fifa officials for the FBI in May, after they were indicted with corruption. The US then revealed indictments for seven others, making it a total of 14 people charged with racketeering in relation to football.
Hours after these arrests, the Swiss opened their own criminal investigation into Fifa. One Fifa vice-president, Jeffrey Webb, has already been extradited to the US and charged with corruption.
This is the big question, which in all likelihood will be tied to the sale of TV rights for the World Cup and other tournaments. Essentially, Fifa owns the rights for the tournament as whole, but hands them to individual regional associations to sell.
The associations then keep the profits. The implication is that Mr Blatter allegedly sold the rights for less than their market value in order to win favour with the Caribbean and North American football association (Concacaf).
The deal that the Swiss authorities have highlighted involves a 2005 contract between Fifa and Concacaf. Its head at the time was Jack Warner, who is now awaiting extradition to the US on corruption charges relating to the sale of TV rights.
Mr Warner was famously close to Mr Blatter and was well known as one of world football's leading powerbrokers. Two of Mr Warner's sons have already pleaded guilty to corruption and are cooperating with the FBI.
Earlier, this month the Swiss broadcaster SRF uncovered a 2005 contract between Fifa and Concacaf for the sale of the rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups for $600,000 (£395,269; €537,080). Concacaf's president Jack Warner then reportedly sub-licensed the rights to his own company before selling them for about $18m in 2007 - a tidy profit.
It is unclear whether this is the deal that the Swiss authorities are referring to, but it does seem to show that Fifa had grossly undervalued its own TV rights. By anyone's calculation, this would be an "unfavourable" deal for the company.
Michel Platini, the head of the European federation UEFA, is expected to succeed Mr Blatter in February. It is not clear if he is in legal jeopardy. The Swiss say they have questioned him and that he received a payment of 2m Swiss francs (£1.3m, €1.8m, $2m) from Mr Blatter. Although the payment was not made until 2011, the Swiss say it relates to work between 1999-2002. Mr Platini first became a senior member of Fifa in 2002. Because this payment is one of the charges against the Fifa president, it is unclear where it leaves his European counterpart.
The tournament has been dogged by corruption allegations but nothing has ever been proved. Mr Blatter supported the Qatari bid and even helped move its date from summer to winter. The announcement of a criminal investigation against the Fifa president could increase pressure for the host country to be changed.


The UN's failure to confront insurgents who seized a strategic city in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday has raised questions about its largest and costliest peacekeeping mission.

The blue helmets gave up the battle for Goma in the eastern part of the country without firing a shot, standing aside as M23 rebels - widely believed to be backed by Rwanda - overran the frontier city of up to one million people.
For the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, it was "absurd" that the UN troops had allowed the rebels to parade past them. He urged that the mandate of the more than 17,000-strong force be reviewed.
The DR Congo peacekeepers - known by their acronym Monusco - are authorised to use force to protect civilians and support Congolese army operations against rebel groups and militias competing for control of mineral wealth in the lawless east of the country.
They have been criticised before for failing to respond adequately to atrocities against civilians committed by the rebels, notably a mass rape near one of their bases in 2010.
In their defence the UN emphasises that despite the relatively large size of the mission, troops are spread thinly over a vast and difficult terrain - 6,700 are deployed in North Kivu province where Goma is located, 1,500 in the city itself.
When it came to the rebel advance, the peacekeepers did back the army with attack helicopters, but the soldiers disappeared as M23 reached the city.
The peacekeepers "cannot substitute" for the national army, said UN spokesman Eduardo del Buey, and in any case did not want to trigger gun battles in an urban area.
"It's impossible for Monusco to defend Goma single-handedly," agrees Congo analyst Jason Stearns.
"If the army crumbles it's difficult to do anything but assert a presence in the streets, to go and protect civilians when there are reports of abuse, but it's impossible to hold the town."
A senior UN official said that the Monusco patrols around Goma continued and were not being harassed by the rebels. He said the UN was still able to operate helicopters - but not fixed wing aircraft - at the airport because it controls the runway and air traffic.
But it is working in a vacuum, with the civilian authorities, police and army having fled Goma, and will have to find a way to co-exist with M23 if the rebels continue to dominate the city.
More broadly, Monusco is dealing with a weak state, still struggling with the effects of nearly 10 years of internal conflict that dragged in DR Congo's neighbours. After the war ended in 2003 the UN played a key role in shepherding the country to elections in 2006, but since then, says Mr Stearns, it hasn't had a political role.
"The UN tends to be less successful with a purely military strategy that is not within the framework of a political strategy," he said.
"I tell diplomats that the focus should not be on creating a better mission doing something almost impossible, but on re-politicising the mission, making it a political player. Right now it's the worst of both worlds, which makes it a target when things go wrong."
Perhaps the biggest complication is evidence that DR Congo's neighbours are still interfering.
The senior UN official said the Peacekeeping Department is looking at the possibility of Monusco using drones to step up its monitoring of the border shared with Rwanda and Uganda, although "monitoring and securing the border are very different things".
The flow of weapons into the country has greatly increased the military abilities of M23, as has external tactical advice and apparent troop reinforcements.
The Security Council expressed deep concern about such foreign support in a resolution adopted on Tuesday night, but it did not name and shame Uganda and especially Rwanda as the culprits, as did its panel of experts in a recent report.
Both countries have strongly denied the allegations and UN officials and diplomats say a political solution involving them is the only way to end the violence in eastern DR Congo.
But the United Nations Director of Human Rights Watch, Philippe Bolopion, questioned "the Security Council's failure to expose Rwanda for its well documented support to a murderous movement wreaking havoc amongst the civilian population of Goma and at times attacking UN peacekeepers".
If there is a clear UN failure in DR Congo, he said, this is it.


Still confused about who to vote for in the Welsh Assembly election?

There is just over a week to go before polls open across Wales.
All of the parties have published their manifestos - plans for what they'd do if they took control of the Senedd, or even suggesting what they might like to get from a deal with a rival party.
You can also see where parties stand on different issues here, but below we summarise the different manifestos and what the big stories were when they were launched.
How long is the manifesto? Plaid Cymru's manifesto, which has English and Welsh in the same document, runs to 192 pages.
What did Plaid Cymru call it? The party said it was the "most ambitious programme for government" since the start of devolution.
What are some of the biggest policy promises? They are:
What was the big story? Plaid Cymru has gone further than other parties in saying where they would make savings to fund their pledges - particularly in the health service.
Plaid Cymru says it would "re-direct" more than £1bn of the Welsh Government's £15bn budget through ending some schemes and finding savings elsewhere.
The most controversial part of this was a plan to have an efficiency review of the NHS aimed at finding £300m in annual efficiencies.
Have they done their sums? Plaid Cymru published costings of its policies and also commissioned two academics, Prof Brian Morgan and Prof Gerry Holtham, to assess the programme.
They said the "overall income projections and the estimated costings" seemed to be "reasonable". But they warned the "greatest uncertainty" concerned Plaid's efficiency savings.
"It is certainly the case raising these sums from efficiency gains is not going to be easy or painless," they said.
What's the most unusual thing in it? Plaid Cymru has vowed to ban Styrofoam from all shops.
You can read more here.
How long is the manifesto? Both the English and Welsh versions are 57 pages long.
What did the Conservatives call it? The "most ambitious blueprint for change ever delivered in Wales".
What are some of the biggest policy promises? They are:
Have they done their sums? The Conservatives say they have, and that the manifesto is costed.
But there is little detail on what policies cost within the document itself.
What was the big story? It is the lack of costings which proved to be the most interesting part of the manifesto.
The document did not even spell out what the Tories would cut income tax by, despite the party previously saying it would aim to cut the basic rate of income tax in Wales by 2p in the pound if they win the assembly election.
There were some figures given on the day. Scrapping the tuition fee grant would save £256m - £75m of which would be spent on a planned rent rebate for students.
What's the most unusual thing in it? The Conservatives said they'd make the use of CCTV in slaughterhouses mandatory.
You can read more here.
What did Welsh Labour call their manifesto? A "plan for prosperity" that will "get the country moving".
What are some of the biggest policy promises? They are:
Have they done their sums? Welsh Labour insisted that its manifesto was costed.
But like the Tories and UKIP, there was sparse information given on how the policies will be afforded.
What was the big story? Apart from the lack of costings, Labour made significant omissions on some of their big government policies.
The manifesto did not state explicitly which route the government wanted to build for the M4 relief road - despite the government currently consulting on the six lane motorway option over the Gwent Levels.
It also did not say how many councils a Welsh Labour government would want following mergers. That, again, is despite a consultation asking if people approved of a plan for eight or nine.
The omissions raised eyebrows and suggested it was a manifesto fit for coalition building - none of the other parties are wholly in line with the government on either of those issues.
What's the most unusual thing about it? It is the shortest printed manifesto of the lot - at just 24 pages in English, although more information is available online.
You can read more here.
How long is it? The Welsh Liberal Democrat's document is one of the longest manifestos of the parties, at 104 pages for the English version alone.
What did the Welsh Lib Dems call their manifesto? Kirsty Williams, Welsh party leader, said: "This is a manifesto that will deliver a Wales that works for you."
What are some of the biggest policy promises? They are:
Have they done their sums? The Lib Dems provided a heap of costings at the back of their manifesto, suggest their pledges would cost £182m from the revenue budget in 2017/18 alone, and that they could find £218m in savings in the same year.
What was the big story? The Lib Dem manifesto offered a huge wealth of policies, but the focus by the party was on a rather small group of plans.
And they're the kind of policies that could be slipped into a deal with a governing party - the kind of deals that the Lib Dems had been making during the last assembly term.
What's the most unusual thing in it? The party has taken the nomenclature of Thatcher's 'Right-to-Buy' policy and run with it. It says the party would "empower communities to take initiative over their local services and assets" through several policies, entitled a 'Right to Bid', a 'Right to Challenge', a 'Right to Build', a 'Right to Reclaim Land' and a 'Right to Contest'.
You can find more detail on the manifesto here.
How long is the manifesto? The UKIP manifesto runs to 48 pages.
What did UKIP call it? The title of the manifesto is "Raising the Dragon".
What are some of the biggest policy promises? They are:
What was the big story? It was what UKIP would do with the assembly - allowing politicians from other places to contribute to its work.
The party acknowledges that there is insufficient scrutiny in the Welsh Assembly, but does not support increasing the number of AMs.
So instead, the party says it would allow MPs - excluded from most England-only matters - to use their resulting free time to help the Cardiff Bay legislature. Councillors could also be involved in the process.
Is the cost of all this in the manifesto? Policies are largely not costed in the UKIP manifesto.
What's the most unusual thing in it? UKIP says it would axe what they say the £73m Welsh Government budget for climate change projects.
It is the only party that had taken such a stance. The manifesto says UKIP questions "whether such spending will have any material impact on the climate".
You can see more detail on the manifesto here.
No party says it will continue with the tuition fee grants system - where students get more than £5,000 to pay for tutition fees - as it stands. But the parties diverge on what will replace it.
Both the Lib Dems and the Tories say they'll help pay for rent costs, and Plaid Cymru said it will pay off £18,000 debt if graduates return to Wales to work.
Meanwhile UKIP says it would replace the tuition fee grant with loans for Welsh students choosing to study in England. Fees would end for Welsh students that study science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine subjects in Wales.
Labour's manifesto suggested tuition fee policies will be decided after the election.
The party said there will be a "better package of student support than that on offer in England based on the recommendations of the Diamond review".
Most parties, apart from UKIP, promise some kind of action on business rates. Labour promises a cut for all small firms that would reduce business rate bills to zero for half of eligible firms.
The Conservatives say they will abolish business rates for all small firms with a rateable value of up to £12,000, and provide tapered relief up to £15,000.
Meanwhile Plaid Cymru also promises to boost small firms by cutting business rates.
On the other hand, the Lib Dems promise "a relief fund" for new occupants of empty premises and to remove plant and machinery from the rateable value of premises.
No party has tied themselves to building the black route of the M4, and all of the parties have suggested support for the South Wales Metro plan to upgrade the existing transport network.


Lewis Hamilton says he "doesn't care" who Mercedes pick as his team-mate next year following Nico Rosberg's decision to retire from Formula 1.

The German announced his retirement on Friday, five days after clinching his first world title ahead of Hamilton.
Hamilton said: "It doesn't matter who they put alongside me. I'll race them. I'm here to race. The focus is on next year and hoping for a better season."
Hamilton added that Rosberg's decision was "not a surprise" to him.
"This is the first time he has won in 18 years [of racing together]," Hamilton said.
"He has a family he wants to focus on and F1 takes so much from you.
"It is definitely going to be strange and it will be sad to not have him in the team next year."
Hamilton said he wanted Mercedes to pick someone who would work hard for the team.
"I've never needed a team-mate to be able to push me," he said. "The better the driver, the better it is for me when I finish ahead of them.
"You need someone with good values coming in and representing the team in a positive way, good work ethic and consistency, obviously, so we can those win constructors' championships.
"So, in terms of challenging for constructors' titles, which is obviously the team's first goal, we need to make sure we have someone equally as consistent as what we had before."
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But beyond that, he said, he would make no major requests of team boss Toto Wolff, but would offer his opinion if it was requested.
"If they want to talk to me, they can talk to me about it," Hamilton said.
"It should be someone who has to work well in the team. There will be stronger characters and less strong characters - and some drivers who take alternative routes in order to deal with competition.
"There will be good and bad ones out there, for sure - I would be more than happy to help with that analysis.
"I just always asked to have equal rights. As long we're treated fairly, it doesn't really matter who is alongside you.
"Of course, we've got great team bosses who I'm sure will choose the right people to be representing the brand."
He added: "I'm interested to see who would want to be my team-mate - and respect anyone that would want to."


England will face world champions Germany in a friendly at Dortmund's Westfalenstadion in 2017.

The two sides meet on 22 March, a year after the Three Lions came from two goals down to win 3-2 in Berlin.
The fixture comes four days before England's 2018 World Cup qualifier against Lithuania at Wembley.
England also have friendly matches lined up at home against Spain in November and away to Euro 2016 runners-up France in June 2017.
Gareth Southgate is two games into his four-match interim spell in charge, with a World Cup qualifier against Scotland at Wembley on 11 November and a home friendly against Spain four days later to come.
The trip to Germany could be the first match for a new manager.


Discussions on the future of Ford's Bridgend plant are due to take place on Friday, BBC Wales understands.

Unite union general secretary Len McCluskey is due to meet with the company's executives over growing concerns the plant will not be financially viable in three years.
The site, which employs about 1,850 people, will stop making the Jaguar and Ford Sigma engines in 2019.
Ford will cut production of new petrol engines and investment at the plant.
The American car firm said it did not plan job losses and still had a "substantial commitment" to the factory.
Unite union said it was "deeply concerning".


When people in their 50s stay on in the workforce, it creates more, not fewer, jobs for younger people - according to a government-backed report.

Keeping older people at work can also boost wages for younger employees, argues Ros Altmann, the government-appointed champion for older workers.
Her report suggests that extending working lives would add Â£55bn a year to the UK economy.
If everyone worked one year longer, it would add 1% to annual GDP, she says.
"Academic and historical evidence shows that, far from damaging job prospects, keeping more older people in work is associated with rising employment and wages for younger people," said Dr Altmann, a former adviser to 10 Downing Street.
If older people keep working, the theory goes, they have more money to spend, and that boosts the economy, creating more jobs for everyone.
Conversely, if older people stop work, there is less money in the economy, so fewer jobs.
The idea is well-known to economists as the "lump of labour fallacy" - the false belief that the number of jobs in an economy is fixed.
If the number of over-50s leaving the workforce continues at its present rate, the UK could suffer serious labour and skill shortages, says Dr Altmann.
By 2022 there will be 700,000 fewer people aged 16 to 49 in the UK - and immigration will not be able to make up for that loss, she argues.
Her report - A New Vision for Older Workers: Retain, Retrain, Recruit - also claims that there is "significant ageism" in the workplace, with staff facing barriers to promotion and training.
Older women in particular face barriers to remaining at work.
She called on the government to:
Dr Altmann has also called on the media to use new images for old people.
She said there should be more older presenters on television, especially female presenters.
She specifically appealed to newspapers and websites to stop using road signs showing stooped-over people, when writing about those over 50.
She added that the government should also abandon the signs, as they feed in to negative subliminal perceptions of old age.


Videos posted online appear to show Tesla's new self-drive mode causing some cars to drive dangerously.

One appears to show a car suddenly trying to swerve off the road after exiting the motorway in Portland, USA.
Another appears to show a Model S Tesla swerving towards an oncoming vehicle.
Autopilot takes over driving functions such as steering and changing lane.
But Tesla said: "The driver cannot abdicate responsibility for driving."
Autopilot was released as a software update, with a note stating it was suitable only for motorway driving.
The two videos showing cars swerving took place away from the motorway lanes.
Tesla said: "The latest autopilot release is a hands-on experience to give drivers more confidence behind the wheel, increase their safety on the road and make motorway driving more enjoyable."
At the time of its release, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk said autopilot was still in test mode.
"The software is very new. We're being especially cautious at this early stage, so we're advising drivers to keep their hands on the wheel just in case," he said.
Another Miami driver said his car was driving at 75mph (120km/h) in a 60mph zone, resulting in it being pulled over by the Florida Highway Patrol. He posted pictures of the speeding tickets he had been issued.
Tesla told the BBC it was the driver had set the speed limit to 75mph, because autopilot does not set the speed limit. It also said speeding drivers were warned that they were breaking the limit.


Austria's far-right Freedom Party presidential candidate Norbert Hofer and his rival, Green-backed Alexander Van der Bellen, are holding final rallies ahead of a run-off vote.

Mr Hofer, 45, won last month's first round but failed to avoid the run-off.
If he wins on Sunday, Mr Hofer could become the EU's first far-right head of state, although Austria's president plays a largely ceremonial role.
On Thursday, the two rivals traded accusations during a TV debate.
Mr Van der Bellen, 72, accused Mr Hofer of wanting to dismiss any government that did not suit him.
He was referring to the fact that, despite limited powers, the president can sack governments and also swears in chancellors.
Mr Hofer countered that Mr Van der Bellen was the one who had refused to swear in a Freedom Party chancellor if the party won at the next general election in 2018.
However, the debate was said to be less feisty than last Sunday's TV encounter, described by some commentators as a slugfest.
In the first round of voting, Mr Hofer secured 35% of the votes, while Mr Van der Bellen, polled 21%.
For the first time since World War Two, the candidates from Austria's two main parties - the Social Democrats and the People's Party - did not make it to the run-off.
Both parties have governed Austria for decades - either alone or in coalition.
This is a big shake-up in Austrian politics, as the country has had a president from the centre-left or centre-right since 1945.
The victory in the first round of the far-right candidate reflects widespread discontent with the status quo, as well as concerns about immigration and the economy, correspondents say.
Support for the Social Democrats and the People's Party has been falling in recent years.
In the last general election in 2013, the two parties won just enough votes to govern in a "grand coalition".
Incumbent President Heinz Fischer, 77, cannot run again after two terms in office.


The gang rape of a 16-year-old girl has caused outrage in Somalia after pictures and a video of the incident began circulating on social media.

Campaigners have set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to help the girl and her family have had to flee their home "for fear of being ostracised".
She remains in hospital a month after the rape by six teenage boys took place in Galdogob, near the Ethiopian border.
The area commissioner told the BBC the rapists would be brought to justice.
District Commissioner Ayanle Farah Mohamed said the girl was being treated by doctors in Puntland province and the authorities were "very much saddened by the incident".
Activists on social media are pushing for the rapists to be properly punished.
Some have spoken out against the Somali traditional practice of "heer", which often deals with rape cases. Under the tradition, clan elders can intervene to organise for compensation to be paid, which means perpetrators can escape jail.
The heer system "shouldn't be an option for serious offences like rape", one woman tweeted.
Survivors of rape and their families are sometimes shunned by their community and the victim is often considered unmarriageable.
Somali Faces, an online platform set up to share stories of Somali people from around the world, is behind the GoFundMe page published on Monday.
It said "social media has been ablaze with fury after horrifying pictures" emerged of the brutal rape.
The group said that it although it was not a charity it had decided to raise funds after receiving "numerous messages from around the world asking whether Somali Faces can help the victim and her family".
It has already raised Â£4,475 ($5,516) of a Â£5,000 goal.


Mae ymdrechion S4C i gyrraedd cynulleidfaoedd newydd yn llwyddo, meddai'r sianel, wrth i'w adroddiad blynyddol gael ei gyhoeddi.

Daw hynny er gwaethaf gostyngiad yng nghyfanswm y nifer sy'n gwylio rhaglenni ar wefan y sianel neu'r BBC iPlayer.
Yn ôl yr adroddiad, mae nifer y sesiynau gwylio ar S4C Arlein a'r iPlayer wedi gostwng i 7.6 miliwn yn 2016/17.
8.4 miliwn oedd wedi gwylio yn 2015/16.
Roedd gostyngiad yn nifer y gwylwyr i'r sianel ledled y DU i 9.1 miliwn, o'i gymharu â 9.9 miliwn yn ystod yr un cyfnod y llynedd.
Ond roedd S4C wedi llwyddo i ddenu 18 miliwn o sesiynau gwylio i gynnwys y sianel ar y cyfryngau cymdeithasol megis Facebook, Twitter a YouTube. Does dim data cyfatebol ar gyfer 2015/16.
Wrth ysgrifennu yn yr adroddiad, dywedodd y prif weithredwr Ian Jones fod S4C wedi "pasio" rhai o'r canlyniadau gorau gafodd eu nodi llynedd, ond roedd angen dod o hyd i esboniad am y gostyngiad yn y gwylwyr ar wefannau S4C a'r BBC.
Ysgrifennodd Ian Jones: "Mae 'na un mesurydd sydd yn codi cwestiynau, ac yn galw am ragor o ddadansoddi - sef y cwymp yn y niferoedd sy'n gwylio cynnwys S4C ar y BBC iPlayer.
"Mi fydd angen i waith barhau ar hynny, ond mae mantais ein presenoldeb ar yr iPlayer yn glir o hyd."
Roedd cynnydd yn nifer yr ailddarllediadau ar S4C, gyda 63% o'r amserlen yn cyfateb i raglenni sydd wedi'u dangos yn barod.
Mae'r ffigwr yma yn uwch na'r 57% o ailddarllediadau gafodd ei gofrestru yn 2015/16 - ffigwr roedd Ian Jones wedi'i feirniadu llynedd fel un oedd "llawer yn rhy uchel".
Dyw adolygiad annibynnol o waith S4C ddim wedi cychwyn eto, a does neb eto wedi'i benodi i arwain yr adolygiad, oedd i fod i ddechrau derbyn tystiolaeth yn gynnar yn 2017.
Fis Hydref bydd Ian Jones yn gadael ei swydd, gyda'r gwas sifil Owen Evans yn cymryd yr awenau.
Wrth ymateb i'r adroddiad dywedodd cadeirydd y sianel, Huw Jones: "Dwi'n meddwl bod 'na arwyddion da iawn yn yr adroddiad yma ynglŷn â'n hymateb ni i un o'r prif heriau sydd yn wynebu pob darlledwr, sef sut mae darlledu gwasanaeth cyflawn, cyfoethog, traddodiadol, ac ar yr un pryd, mynd i'r afael â'r heriau o ddarparu yr hyn mae pobl ifanc yn gynyddol ei angen, sef deunydd ar bob llwyfan newydd sydd ar gael.
"Be 'da ni'n ei weld yn yr adroddiad yma ydy cynnydd trawiadol yn y defnydd sy'n cael ei wneud o bethau fel Facebook Live, YouTube a phlatfformau digidol eraill.
"Ar yr un pryd, mae 'na gynnydd wedi bod yn nifer y siaradwyr Cymraeg yng Nghymru sy'n defnyddio'r gwasanaeth yn wythnosol."


Denmark has pledged more funds for family planning in developing nations, saying this could also help "limit the migration pressure on Europe".

The Minister for Development Co-operation, Ulla Tornaes, said Copenhagen would contribute 91m kroner (Â£11m; $14m) for the programme.
She said unwanted pregnancies had "enormous" human and social costs in the world's poorest nations.
But she added that limiting Africa's population growth was also important.
Speaking at a conference in London on Tuesday, Ms Tornaes said 225 million women in the world's poorest countries do not currently have access to family planning.
"Unwanted pregnancies have enormous human costs in developing countries - from very young women who must give up their basic education, maternal mortality."
The minister said this "also has large social costs, where many countries' development step is limited by high population growth".
She then referred specifically to Africa, saying that curtailing the continent's population growth by increasing access to contraception and family planning was an important foreign and security policy priority for the Danish government.
"If the population growth in Africa continues as now, the African population will double from 1.2 billion people to 2.5 billion people by 2050," Ms Tornaes said.
"Part of the solution to reducing migratory pressures on Europe is to reduce the very high population growth in many African countries."
Denmark, like a number of other EU nations, has in recent years been under pressure to deal with a rising number of asylum seekers and immigrants arriving in Europe.
However, asylum applications dropped dramatically in the country in 2016, compared with 2015.
The government said October that 5,500 applications were received until 30 October, compared with 21,000 in 2015.
In January 2016, the Danish parliament backed a controversial proposal to confiscate asylum seekers' valuables to pay for their upkeep - a move criticised by the UN.