Romania and Georgia should be given a chance to play in a revamped Six Nations, says outgoing World Rugby chairman Bernard Lapasset.

The Frenchman wants promotion and relegation to be introduced in the tournament - a suggestion backed by Romania's Welsh coach Lynn Howells.
"We need to change the format of the Six Nations championship," Lapasset told Le Figaro.
"This competition should open, either direct [promotion] or via a play-off."
A play-off would be between the team finishing bottom of the Six Nations and the winners of the second-tier European Nations Cup, which Georgia won this year.
Howells, whose Romania team lost in a play-off to the Georgians, supports Lapasset's idea.
"I think he's correct," said Howells, who was caretaker coach of Wales in 2001.
"Ninety percent of the implications that everybody is concerned about are finance. I think a play-off is probably the fair way to start it."
The Six Nations was established in 2000, when the Five Nations was expanded to include Italy.
Italy were whitewashed in this year's tournament - but Scotland, Wales and France have all finished bottom.
Lapasset, who will be replaced by England's Bill Beaumont as World Rugby chairman, said change was important to "give hopes for these teams".
Romania won one of their four World Cup pool games last year, and Howells believes his side can only progress if they face tier-one teams more often.
"Romania have been pretty consistent in getting to the World Cup and the only time we play against a tier-one nation is when we get there," he told BBC Radio Wales.
"The one thing you can see is that we are improving in the situation that we're in, but to take the next step we have to play consistently against these teams.
"The big problem is that these tier-one nations don't give you the opportunity to play against them."
Howells says World Rugby is attempting to ensure Romania and Georgia get the same opportunities to face tier-one nations as the likes of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.
Georgia will meet Scotland in November 2016 while Romania will face Italy in 2018.


Five men have been sentenced for bringing stun guns disguised as phones and torches back from Thailand.

Mark McPhee, 31, Christopher McPhee, 26, Edward O'Brien, 59, Jordan Hoey, 23 and Jonathan Doherty, 25, were found with the items at Glasgow Airport.
Some of the returning stag party also had a flick knife and batons.
All five men admitted importing banned items and were told to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work, except Jonathan Doherty who must carry out 250 hours.
After the items were discovered at Glasgow Airport, the case was passed to investigators from the National Crime Agency's Border Policing Command.
All five men later admitted importation offences at Paisley Sheriff Court.
John McGowan, head of the NCA's border investigation team in Scotland, said: "These men were foolish to think they could get away with bringing items like this into the UK.
"They aren't harmless souvenirs - they are dangerous weapons capable of causing serious harm.
"Bringing back these items isn't worth the risk. You can end up with something much more serious to remember your holiday by - a criminal conviction or even a jail sentence."


A decision on whether individuals and organisations will face criminal charges over the Hillsborough disaster will be announced next week.

The Crown Prosecution Service said it would reveal its decisions on 28 June.
Relatives of the 96 football fans who were fatally injured in the 1989 stadium disaster will be informed at a meeting at about 11:00 BST.
Jurors at the new inquests into the tragedy in Sheffield concluded the fans had been unlawfully killed.
In January, files of evidence relating to 23 suspects were referred to the CPS to decide whether charges should be brought.
Of these, 15 relate to the Operation Resolve investigation into the causes of the disaster at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.
The other eight relate to an Independent Police Complaints Commission probe into the conduct of both South Yorkshire Police and West Midlands Police in the days and weeks that followed the tragedy.
Relatives of the 96 have been invited to a private meeting in Warrington, where they will be informed of the decisions by Sue Hemming, head of the special crime and counter-terrorism division at the CPS.


Prisoners are set to be prevented from claiming legal aid to pursue complaints against the prison system, the government has announced.

Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said taxpayers' money was being used for "unnecessary legal cases" that could be dealt with by the prison service.
The Ministry of Justice will consult on the proposals which it said would mean 11,000 fewer cases and save £4m a year.
Prison campaigners said the plans were "profoundly unfair" and "negative".
Mr Grayling said: "I have been appalled that taxpayers pay millions of pounds every year supplying lawyers for prisoners to bring unnecessary legal cases.
"The vast majority of these types of complaint can and should be dealt with by the prison service's complaints system.
"After years spiralling out of control, the amount spent on legal aid for prisoners is being tackled.
"Legal aid must be preserved for those most in need and where a lawyer's services are genuinely needed."
The move would cover issues such as the category of prison or which section of a prison an inmate was being held in, and levels of visits and correspondence.
'Legitimate challenge'
Andrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said it was important that prisoners had access to the courts.
He said: "The government's proposals to further curtail legal aid for prisoners are profoundly unfair and will have negative consequences for society as a whole.
"An internal complaints system is no replacement for external scrutiny by the courts, while the already stretched prison ombudsman does not have the power to provide meaningful redress.
"Without prisoners being able to access legal aid, which has already been restricted to prevent frivolous claims, we may see a collapse in justice in the very place where it should be paramount - within prison walls."
Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: "While no-one would support vexatious use of the law, when it comes to people deprived of their liberty and held by the State you do need safeguards to ensure that our prison system is fair, decent and open to legitimate challenge."
The announcement comes after changes to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act came into effect on Monday in England and Wales.
This saw public funding removed from entire areas of civil law, including some family cases, as ministers bid to reduce the £2.2bn legal aid bill by £350m.
There are also government proposals to reduce legal aid costs in criminal cases.


More than 200 drivers a day were caught using a mobile at the wheel immediately after tougher penalties for the offence came into effect, figures show.

UK police caught almost 6,000 drivers using their devices while driving in the four weeks after 1 March.
The numbers were obtained by the Press Association under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.
In March, the penalty for using a phone while driving doubled to Â£200 and six penalty points.
Under the rules, new drivers caught using a phone within two years of passing their driving test will have their licence revoked altogether.
The high number of people breaking the law means the "key message still isn't sinking in", said Steve Gooding, director of motoring research charity The RAC Foundation.
"Driving is a safety-critical activity that requires our full attention. Hands need to be on the wheel and eyes looking out of the windscreen, not down at the phone screen," he added.
Road safety charity Brake called for the Â£200 fine to be "significantly increased" to deter offenders.
"Driver distraction is a growing menace and it's worrying that drivers don't seem to be getting the message," said Brake spokesman Jack Kushner.
AA president Edmund King said changing drivers' attitudes would take time:
"We know we can't change the attitudes and actions of all drivers overnight.
"We now have stricter penalties so need to continue with education campaigns (including driving schools) plus more police enforcement."
Details of incidents reported by police:
Pressure to prevent drivers using phones intensified last year in the wake of several high-profile cases as well as research indicating it was widespread.
In October, lorry driver Tomasz Kroker, who killed a mother and three children while distracted by his phone, was jailed for 10 years.
In 2015 - the latest year for which figures are available - 22 people were killed and 99 seriously injured in accidents where a driver was using their phone.


Glamorgan have signed South African batsman David Miller for a six-match stint in the T20 Blast tournament.

The 28-year-old joins the Welsh county as a second overseas player alongside T20 captain Jacques Rudolph, with his first game is set to be on Sunday, 23 July, against Essex in Cardiff.
Miller's final match is due to be against Surrey at The Oval on 4 August.
Welsh duo David Lloyd (side) and Kiran Carlson (leg) are both injured.
Miller has played 52 T20 internationals and 99 one-day internationals for South Africa and also featured in the T20 Blast for Durham and Yorkshire.
The left-hander has also played for the Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League and St Lucia Zouks in the Caribbean Premier League.
Miller has also played in the 2013 and 2017 Champions Trophy tournaments and was in the South African side who lost against England in Cardiff last month.
In 227 T20 matches, Miller has scored almost 5,000 runs at an average over 34 with a strike rate of 136.
"We are delighted to sign David. He is a fine batsman, with a wealth of experience in T20 cricket," said Glamorgan chief executive and director of cricket Hugh Morris.
"He is a match-winner and a finisher, proven to be one of the most destructive batsman in the game at both domestic and international level.
"Hopefully his signing will add depth to our batting and boost our prospects of replicating last season's form when we secured a home quarter-final in the knock-out stages."
Glamorgan have won two of their opening four T20 games in the South group ahead of their next game against Sussex Sharks on Friday, 21 July, at the SSE Swalec.
Lloyd and Carlson will miss this weekend's action. Carlson has been ruled out for around a month with a leg injury, while Lloyd is having a scan on a side problem.
Australian-born Nick Selman, who has only played one previous T20 Blast match, is the likely opening batsman replacement for Lloyd against Sussex.


Fresh claims of phone hacking by the now defunct News of the World newspaper can be heard in court, a High Court judge has ruled.

The allegations relate to the tabloid's former features team and cover a wider period of time than in previous cases.
Hacking claims against the features team were previously restricted to between January 2005 and August 2006.
The ruling, by Mr Justice Mann, could open the way for 60 new claims against publishers News Group Newspapers (NGN).
The claimants include a number of soap stars and other celebrities.
Claims against the features team have until now been restricted to the period between January 2005 and August 2006, which is when journalist and convicted phone hacker Dan Evans has admitted hacking phones for the paper.
The High Court judge - Mr Justice Mann - is also due to rule next month on related claims of hacking involving the Sun newspaper.
NGN - publishers of the former News of the World and the Sun - has already paid out millions of pounds to around 600 phone-hacking victims and apologised for hacking at the News of the World between 1999 and 2006.
It has always denied there was any phone hacking at the Sun.
By legal affairs correspondent, Clive Coleman
Just when it was thought that the phone-hacking scandal was coming to a close today's ruling - and another one expected in three weeks' time - has opened a "new front".
In the related claims, a new group of phone-hacking victims are claiming that journalists at the Sun newspaper hacked voicemail messages for stories.
It is the first time that claims for hacking have been made against the Sun - the sister paper for the News of the World, which was closed in 2011 as the phone hacking scandal took off.
At least five claimants say that stories appeared in the Sun as a direct result of illegal voice mail interception.
The number of claims could increase to 16 pending a court ruling on whether claims against the Sun are allowed to proceed.
News Group Newspapers has always denied hacking at the Sun.
At a court hearing on 13 January, it was revealed that former chief executive of the British Olympic Association, Simon Clegg, claimed stories appeared in the News of the World and the Sun as a direct result of voicemail interception.
Court documents seen by the BBC show Mr Clegg has so far identified 11 stories that appeared from 2002 onwards.
At the time, the BOA was lobbying the government to make a bid for the 2012 London Olympics.
Lawyers for NGN are attempting to have Mr Clegg's claim against the Sun struck out.
Mr Clegg was first notified by London's Metropolitan Police that he was a victim of phone hacking in 2014.
However, two years' earlier, Mr Clegg had approached the Met himself because he suspected that his mobile phone voicemails had been hacked.
Lawyers for the Sun say stories about Mr Clegg - along with details about the campaign to launch a formal bid to host the Olympics - were gathered through legitimate means and not as a result of phone hacking.
Mr Justice Mann - the judge in charge of the civil phone-hacking claims - is expected to rule on whether claims against the Sun can go ahead next month.


Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson will not have his contract renewed after an "unprovoked physical attack" on a producer, the BBC's director general has confirmed.

Here is a round-up of reaction to the BBC's decision, along with a statement from director general Tony Hall.
"This has been a difficult time for the team and also obviously for the individuals concerned.
"What we know is that the producer Oisin Tymon was indeed attacked by Jeremy Clarkson and he was then subjected to sustained to verbal abuse of the sort that no one should have to endure.
"We all know that Jeremy is a huge talent and has made an extraordinary contribution to the BBC. I've always been a great fan of his work on Top Gear. I also believe that his voice and voices like his have a really important place in the BBC. But not at any price.
"Physical violence accompanied by prolonged verbal abuse has, in my view, crossed a line and that's why with regret I have decided we will not be renewing Jeremy's contract.
"People love Top Gear, I love Top Gear. Our priority now is to look to the future and how we can bring it back in great shape in 2016 and yes, of course, it will be different.
"I also want to make sure that Oisin is properly looked after.
"But I just want to end by saying to Jeremy a very big thank you for nearly 25 years of remarkable programming on Top Gear and to wish him the very, very best for the future."
"I don't really have anything to say about it. It's a tragedy. I'm sorry that what ought to have been a small incident sorted out easily has turned into something big.
"I'm sure Top Gear will continue in some way - it existed before us, it's been reformatted several times.
"I don't want to talk about [who will replace Clarkson] too much, but I think of the three of us as a package.  It works for very complicated reasons that a lot of people don't fully understand. So that will require a lot of careful thought
"As much as I think he's a knob, I quite like working with Jeremy."
"Gutted at such a sad end to an era. We're all three of us idiots in our different ways but it's been an incredible ride together."
"Tony Hall was backed into a corner and was unable to make any other decision.
"If this had been kept confidential and investigated there would have been far more options available. At the moment we've lost Top Gear, Jeremy is off the BBC and the corporation probably suffers by about Â£100m a year. It needed to be investigated, but there was a brighter way to go about it.
"There could have been damages [paid] to the producer, financial penalties to Jeremy, suspension or a cooling down period - all of it could have been decided away from the public spotlight.
"The BBC may continue to try and push the franchise forward, but like him or loathe him, people tune in to Top Gear for Jeremy and the relationship the three boys bring on screen. That chemistry won't exist anymore."
"It's hard to fault the inquiry, but some will ask whether the BBC had to deal with it in a formalised way.
"There are three issues at play. One: Talent management - broadcast depends on talent and it would appear there was a long-term failure on talent management in this regard.
"Two: How on Earth do you reinvent Top Gear? It's a special programme because of these three characters. Everyone can see it, but creating it is terribly difficult.
"Three: The BBC really doesn't want to appear anti-Jeremy Clarkson. They want to say it's a broad church. Jeremy Clarkson is a valuable part of the BBC's proposition. They won't be lost without him, but they won't be where they were without him, either."
"Tony Hall had no choice. He paid a fulsome and appropriate tribute to Jeremy Clarkson, but verbal abuse on the scale that seems to have taken place is bad enough - if you bash somebody you have no choice. You have to go.
"He's kind of a licensed jester and was able to make inappropriate remarks and get away with it - but this is of a different magnitude.  It was a brave but absolutely correct decision.
"It will be very difficult to see him making a comeback to the BBC in any form for at least many years. Maybe he can serve his time, but it's difficult to see that happen.
"The great strength of the BBC is it can reinvent programmes like Top Gear and frequently has done so in the past when stars have moved on. I'm sure they'll do it successfully with Top Gear."


Crowdfunding has been used by Wrexham council to preserve ceremonial standards for war veterans' groups.

It is the first time Wrexham has turned to an online funding platform, as it appeals for £12,000 in public support.
The authority is looking at new ways of raising funds as it has to make £45m in budget cuts over the next three years.
The money will be used to make cabinets to hold standards of the Eighth Army Veterans, Normandy Veterans, Korean Veterans and Burma Star Veterans.
They will then go on show at the council chamber at the Guildhall.
About £2,000 has already been raised for the campaign which runs until June.


Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Haruhiko Kuroda has told me that its inflation target of 2% why the inflation target is not likely to be hit in April

He now believes that it'll take another year - at the end of the 2015 financial year, which is March 2016 - before Japan sees consumer prices rise by 2%.
Nearly two years ago in April 2013, Mr Kuroda vowed to do whatever it took to achieve the 2% inflation target.
The latest figures from November show that the targeted core CPI inflation, which strips out volatile items like food, is just 0.7%, having plunged since last April. It's been dragged down by oil prices which have fallen by about 50% since their peak in the summer.  The drop in CPI led to the BOJ pledging to inject more cash to the tune of more than $700bn a year to meet its inflation target and end 15 years of deflation, or price falls.
Mr Kuroda says that because Japan imports pretty much all of its energy needs, oil prices are the reason for why the inflation target is not likely to be hit in April.
However, he expects that growth will pick up and thus the target looks likely to be hit in another year's time.
When I asked if wage rises were required in order to sustain any price increases, he agreed and said to look to the spring wage negotiations between unions and businesses.
Mr Kuroda also said that he looked at the output gap - the difference between potential and actual output - which is small. He believes that Japan is pretty much at full employment. With a low unemployment rate, he expects economic growth to lead to bigger wage rises.
So, is Abenomics working to raise growth? Mr Kuroda said that structural reforms would take time. And that indeed is what the central bank is buying for the Abe government.
But, it alone can't do the heavy lifting - a theme that's heard frequently at Davos, especially as the European Central Bank has today announced that it will also inject cash to try to combat deflation and boost growth. It would do well to heed the lessons of the BOJ in that QE alone is unlikely to deliver all that an economy needs to be revived.


Two men convicted of murdering British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller in Thailand have lost their appeal against the death sentence.

The bodies of backpackers Miss Witheridge, 23, from Norfolk, and Mr Miller, 24, from Jersey, were found on a beach on Koh Tao in September 2014.
Burmese bar workers Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun were found guilty of the killings in December 2015.
An appeal court in Thailand upheld the death sentences handed down to them.
Lawyers for the two men now have 30 days to appeal to the Supreme Court - Thailand's final court of appeal.
The pair's mothers lodged appeals at Koh Samui court last May over concerns about the judgements, in particular the DNA evidence used in the investigation.
"We don't believe the court can say beyond reasonable doubt that Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were responsible for the events which took place in September 2014," said Andy Hall, one of the families' legal advisors.
Miss Witheridge, a University of Essex student from Hemsby, and Mr Miller, a civil and structural engineering graduate, were found on a beach having been bludgeoned to death.
A post-mortem examination showed Miss Witheridge had been raped.
Prosecutors said DNA evidence collected from cigarette butts, a condom and the bodies of the victims linked Lin and Phyo to the deaths.
The men, from Myanmar, retracted their initial confessions to the offences, saying they had been tortured by police.
Their lawyers argued DNA from a garden hoe - allegedly used as the murder weapon - did not match samples taken from the men.
They also claimed evidence had been mishandled by police and the pair's confessions were the result of "systematic abuse" of migrants in the area.


Britain's Dave Ryding followed his second place in the Kitzbuhel slalom on Sunday with his fourth top-10 finish of the World Cup season in Tuesday's Schladming night slalom in Austria.

The 30-year-old was 10th, 2.25 seconds behind winner Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway.
Ryding was in joint-fourth place after the first of two runs but slipped down the field in the second run.
"I was feeling it in my legs between the runs," he told Ski Sunday.
"There was such emotion on Sunday and I just didn't have time to get everything back together.
"I know I had a little bit more in me but just couldn't get it out there.
"But, it's not an excuse, I'm still 10th and it's my fourth-best result ever."
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Protesters who were prevented from accessing an HS2 drop-in event claim unnecessary force was used by security in blocking their entry.

It is claimed a man suffered a back injury when he was "violently flung" during a "peaceful protest" at Bramley Parish Hall, Rotherham.
The event, on Friday, was to inform the public about proposed changes to the HS2 rail line route in the area.
HS2 said the event was closed "for a short while" due to crowd numbers.
Richard Dickinson said his shirt was ripped when he was grabbed by a security guard.
"He grabbed hold of me, pushed me against the wall into a door, scraped me across the wall and just chucked me into the people who were coming inside the building," Mr Dickinson said.
"It was totally out of order, we were protesting peacefully and this guy just suddenly lost his temper for no reason at all."
A formal complaint was made and a statement was given to police.
Robert Foulds, clerk to Bramley Parish Council, wrote to the HS2 chairman claiming some witnesses were "in tears" when Mr Dickinson was "violently flung across the lobby".
The security firm, Churchill Security Ltd, said: "Our security staff are all highly trained and as a company we would never condone any inappropriate behaviour by any of our employees."
A spokesman for the firm said the security guard's conduct had been "vindicated" by police, but South Yorkshire Police said enquiries were ongoing.
An HS2 spokesperson said: "No restrictions were in place on those participating from the peaceful march from entering the event.
"However, due to the significant number of people, the room was simply not big enough to accommodate everyone inside the venue."
New route proposals see the HS2 line passing between Rotherham and Doncaster, with plans for a station in Meadowhall scrapped in favour of a stop in Sheffield city centre.


Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is "recuperating fast" from his illness, his wife Aisha Buhari has said.

She made the comments after a trip to London, where her husband is being treated for an unspecified illness.
Mr Buhari, 74, left for London nearly a month ago - his second trip to the UK for treatment this year.
His absence has led to some anxiety in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy, with people speculating about whether he will be able to resume his duties.
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is acting president, and has been widely praised for his handling of the country's economic crisis, following a sharp fall in the price of oil, its major export.
Mr Buhari took about seven weeks of medical leave in January, and flew to the UK for treatment.
When he returned home in March, he hinted that he had undergone a blood transfusion, but did not disclose his illness.
He flew again to London on 7 May for further treatment, and has not indicated when he will return.
Mrs Buhari said her husband thanked Nigerians for their "constant prayers and said he will soon be with them as he is recuperating fast".
She returned to Nigeria after spending about a week with her husband in London.
Buhari's unhealthy start to 2017
19 January: Leaves for UK on "medical vacation"
5 February: Asks parliament to extend medical leave
10 March: Returns home but does not resume work immediately
26 April: Misses second cabinet meeting and is "working from home"
28 April: Misses Friday prayers
3 May: Misses third consecutive cabinet meeting
5 May: Appears at Friday prayers in Abuja
7 May: Travels to UK for further treatment
6 June: Aisha Buhari says his is 'recuperating fast'


A second man has been arrested following the discovery of a woman's body in a lay-by.

Anita Kapoor, 34, was found on 23 June on the A413 at Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. She was last seen alive in London, police said.
A 34-year-old man from Southall, west London, was arrested on Wednesday night on suspicion of murder.
A 50-year-old man initially detained on suspicion of murder has been released without charge.
An address in Southall was being examined as part of the investigation, Thames Valley Police said.
Ms Kapoor, from Hayes, west London, died from "asphyxiation, due to compression of the neck", a post-mortem examination found.
Thames Valley Police said it wanted to establish Ms Kapoor's whereabouts between 03:00 BST on Tuesday, when she was last seen in Oswald Road, Southall, and 08:36 BST, the time her body was found.
A force spokeswoman said she was believed to have been wearing a black, thigh length coat with zips at the sides, black tracksuit bottoms with white writing down the sides, and white Reebok trainers.
Police would also like anyone who was driving past the lay-by in the early hours of Tuesday and saw anything suspicious to contact them.


The man charged with murdering Belfast boxer Eamonn Magee Jr has been treated in hospital after he was attacked in Maghaberry Prison.

Orhan Koca, who is originally from Turkey, sustained a broken cheek-bone in the prison attack on Wednesday and needed stitches above his right eye.
He has been in jail since Tuesday, when he was remanded in custody after denying the murder of Mr Magee Jr.
The Prison Service said the jail attack is being investigated by the police.
Mr Koca's defence solicitor, Eamon O'Connor, told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme that his client was attacked after leaving his cell for a family visit.
"He was going from the cell to the visiting area. Two other prisoners were speaking with him. He turned around and then he was hit in his face," Mr O'Connor said.
The lawyer said that as well as the fracture and stitches, Mr Koca suffered "possible nerve damage" with a loss of feeling around his mouth.
Mr O'Connor said he spoke to his client on Friday morning and he was "not able to communicate very well" because of his injuries.
He said that Mr Koca attended his family visit immediately after the attack "to make sure that someone saw the injuries that he sustained".
He was then brought to hospital for a number of hours, before being returned to Maghaberry Prison.
The lawyer said Mr Koca has requested that the prison authorities move him to an area where he could be held in "complete segregation" for his own safety.
The segregation request has been submitted in writing, and Mr O'Connor has also asked the Northern Ireland Prison Service for information on the "risk assessments" it carried out in relation to his client.
The lawyer said it was his understanding that the assault was captured on CCTV and was reported to police.
He said there was concern over how it could have taken place, as prison authorities have a "duty of care" to all inmates.
He added that the Koca family have contacted the Turkish Consulate in Scotland about the attack.
In a statement to Evening Extra, a spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Prison Service said they "can confirm that an incident involving a 32-year-old remand prisoner in Maghaberry took place on Wednesday, 3 June".
"PSNI have been informed and an investigation is ongoing. The police have also confirmed to us that they are investigating the incident," the statement added.


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Dywedodd Kirsty Williams fod addysg uwch yng Nghymru yn gweithredu mewn cyd-destun ar lefel y DU gyfan ac ar lefel ryngwladol.
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Mae Llywodraeth Cymru hefyd wedi cadarnhau y bydd yn gweithredu'r system newydd o gymorth ariannol i fyfyrwyr.
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Mae'r llywodraeth yn amcangyfrif y bydd un rhan o dair o fyfyrwyr llawn-amser yn derbyn y grant uchaf o £8,100 i fyfyriwr sy'n byw oddi cartref.
Bydd myfyrwyr sydd yn dod o aelwyd sydd ag incwm o £25,000 yn derbyn grant o tua £7,000 y flwyddyn.
Dywedodd Ysgrifennydd Cabinet cysgodol Plaid Cymru dros Addysg Llyr Gruffydd: "Mae Plaid Cymru yn gresynu fod Llywodraeth Cymru yn codi ffioedd dysgu i fyfyrwyr.
"Ddeufis yn unig yn ôl, dywedodd yr Ysgrifennydd Addysg y buasai'n gwrthod unrhyw godiad mewn ffioedd dysgu, a fis diwethaf, addawodd y blaid Lafur ddileu ffioedd dysgu yn gyfan gwbl. Ond dyma'r llywodraeth nawr yn cynyddu ffioedd dysgu.
"Mae'n siom o'r mwyaf fod y llywodraeth yn trymhau baich dyled myfyrwyr. Mae myfyrwyr ar y cyfan yn talu lefelau uwch o log nag y mae pobl yn dalu ar eu morgeisi, felly dyw hi ddim yn syndod o gwbl nad yw oddeutu 75% o fyfyrwyr byth yn ad-dalu eu dyledion.
"Yn hytrach na chodi ffioedd dysgu, mae Plaid Cymru eisiau gwneud addysg yn fwy fforddiadwy a gwneud i ffwrdd â'r rhwystrau ariannol sy'n atal llawer o bobl ifanc rhag mynd i'r brifysgol."


Max Verstappen publicly apologised to Red Bull team-mate Daniel Ricciardo for taking him out on the first lap of the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Verstappen collided with Ricciardo as they fought for fourth position at Turn Two on the first lap.
"It is never my intention to hit anyone but especially not your team-mate, and especially the relationship I have with Daniel," Verstappen said.
"We can always have a laugh so this is not nice."
The 19-year-old's immediate apology is likely to cool tension between the drivers.
Ricciardo said the move was "amateur to say the least".
Speaking before Verstappen offered his apology, Ricciardo, 28, told BBC Radio 5 live: "The way Max handles it, more than the way I handle it, will dictate how it goes in the future.
"For sure I can go and call him names after the race but it's more how he will respond - if he acts like the age he is, or if he acts like a man about it and and admits the error.
"If he starts bringing in some other kind of excuse, then we'll have some problems."
Ricciardo got the run on Verstappen after the Dutchman was pushed wide at Turn One by Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas and was ahead on the outside as they approached the next corner.
But Verstappen locked his brakes and slid into the Australian, breaking a radiator. Ricciardo spun into retirement on fluids from his own car a corner later.
Verstappen's move earned him a 10-second penalty, served at his pit stop, which cost him any chance of challenging the Ferraris and Mercedes. He came home in fifth place, just 13 seconds behind race winner Sebastian Vettel.
"I was on the outside of Turn Two, Valtteri was on the inside so I thought if I braked on the outside I could brake later," Ricciardo added. "I don't really know what he was doing because Valtteri was on the inside.
"It's frustrating. It's not even an overtaking move. It's an emotional response - sees me pass him, wants to make it back and messed it up."
Verstappen, who also angered Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton with his defensive driving early in the race, said: "It is not what you want to touch your team-mate but I didn't do it on purpose.
"You try to fight for position, but fair, but I locked up and it is difficult to control that when you are also tight on the first lap.
"It is not nice and good but I will speak to Daniel about that. I apologise to him and also to the team because we could have scored some good points there.
"We were both fighting for position in Turn Two. So we braked quite deep into the corner but I had a car in front of me so I locked the front and then I was just a passenger.
"I was trying to avoid Daniel, of course, but unfortunately it was not possible."


Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the US PGA, meaning he will miss all four majors in a calendar year for the first time since his Masters debut in 1995.

American Woods, 40, has not played tournament golf in almost a year and had two operations last autumn in an attempt to cure a back problem.
His agent has confirmed he will not play for the rest of this season as he is not ready for "competitive golf".
The 14-time major winner has dropped to a world ranking of 628.
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Residents in a flood-hit Gwynedd village have accused the first minister of snubbing them after he failed to stop on a tour of the area.

Villagers in Tal-y-Bont near Bangor were expecting Carwyn Jones to visit after 20 homes were hit by flooding.
He saw where the A55 had been blocked nearby, but drove through the village without stopping on Thursday.
Officials said they were unaware residents were waiting to see Mr Jones, who will return next week.
"We're very sorry for any confusion with the visit," said a spokeswoman for the first minister. "We weren't aware that a group of residents was waiting to meet him."
A Welsh government statement said Mr Jones would visit the village, along with Llanrwst in the Conwy valley and Beaumaris on Anglesey.
It said he would be meeting "volunteers and local people, all of whom have been affected by the flooding".
In addition, Mr Jones would "also visit local roads, including the A55 dual carriageway near the village of Tal-y-Bont" to see ongoing flood prevention work, said the statement.
The road was completely blocked on Saturday, along with routes to the A5, effectively cutting off north-west Wales.
But after visiting Llanrwst and seeing the A55, the first minister drove straight through Tal-y-Bont on his way to Beaumaris.
Mr Jones told BBC Wales he personally did not know he was expected in Tal-y-Bont and would return to meet residents.
But Eirlys Evans, whose home was hit by the Christmas flooding, said she was "disappointed and disgusted".
"That's how they are isn't it. They don't care about us here, do they?" she said.
Mr Jones's spokeswoman said: "If we'd been aware, he would have gone to meet them, that's why he is coming back on Tuesday."
She added that "we are really, really very sorry".


Construction work has begun on a UK-funded wall near the so-called Jungle migrant camp in Calais.

Dubbed the "Great Wall of Calais" by some media, it is an attempt to prevent migrants from trying to stow away on trucks heading for Britain.
The 4m (13ft) barrier will run for 1km (0.6 miles) along both sides of the main road to the northern French port.
The UK government has said that while it provides money for security, French authorities choose how to spend it.
Local authorities in Calais say construction is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
The wall will pass within a few hundred metres of the sprawling migrant camp, which charities say now houses more than 10,000 people.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd previously told MPs the wall was "not a new initiative", but what mattered was making sure the French had the right amount of security to prevent "illegals" trying to get to the UK.
"We support the French with money to help them do that," she said. "It is up to them how they decide to secure their borders in Calais and around it."
Numerous fences have been built to protect the port, the Eurotunnel terminal and train tracks on the other side of Calais, and the BBC understands the wall will not replace any of those.
The government has refused to confirm the cost of the wall, although reports suggest a Â£1.9m price tag - to be paid for out of Â£17m announced by David Cameron earlier this year.
But Rod McKenzie, from the Road Haulage Association, previously told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that instead of stopping migrants from boarding trucks, it would just "move the problem further down the road".
Many of the migrants in northern France attempt to reach the UK by boarding lorries as they approach ports or the Channel Tunnel.
In August, BBC footage showed people-smugglers wielding sticks and dragging a felled tree on to the main port road to stop lorries and allow migrants to climb on board.
Earlier this month, French lorry drivers and farmers blockaded the main motorway route into Calais in a protest calling for the closure of the camp.


Retired police officers have won High Court permission to challenge a report which said there was collusion between RUC officers and loyalist gunmen who killed six Catholics 23 years ago.

A judged has granted leave for a judicial review of a report by the Police Ombudsman into the attack on the Heights Bar in Loughinisland in 1994.
Families of the victims said they were surprised and disappointed retired officers continue to rub salt into their emotional wounds, with what they called a "vexatious challenge".
The report published last June said police informers were involved, adding that collusion was "a significant feature" of the murders.
The report was the result of a five-year investigation by the office of the Police Ombudsman.
Those taking the legal action argue that the Ombudsman acted beyond his legal powers and want his report quashed.
At a press conference launching the report, Ombudsman Dr Michael Maguire said he had "no hesitation" in saying there had been collusion.
But he said there was insufficient evidence to recommend criminal charges for any of the officers who colluded with the UVF gang, he added.
The findings were strongly criticised by unionist politicians and the Northern Ireland Retired Police Officers' Association.
Chief Constable George Hamilton also said he was surprised the Ombudsman did not arrest and charge officers he said had been involved.
A judge has granted permission for two retired police officers to challenge the report; one of them is Raymond White, a former RUC Assistant Chief Constable and senior Special Branch officer, who is now chairman of the Retired Police Officers' Association.
They have been granted leave to judicially review the report on a number of grounds.
These include an assertion that the Ombudsman acted "ultra vires" - beyond his powers - because there was no legal basis for the investigation and subsequent report.
The applicants claim the Ombudsman failed to establish any basis of belief that a serving or retired police officer had committed a criminal offence.
They are seeking a court order quashing the report.
They also want a declaration that the findings were "flawed and misconceived".
Niall Murphy, a solicitor for the Loughinisland families, said Dr Maguire's detailed and evidence-based report was unambiguous in his finding of collusion.
He said: "The victims and survivors are further distressed and disturbed that despite having written to the Retired Police Officers' Association and the court seeking formal notice party status, no party has sought to update the families, instead the victims and survivors have found this out via the media, which they consider to be nothing short of disgraceful."
In a statement to the BBC, Raymond White said: "We have every sympathy with the families connected to the Loughinisland tragedy. We are not challenging them, but the powers of the Police Ombudsman.
"The Ombudsman produces reports that do not contain any actual evidence about individuals and files are not sent to the director of public prosecutions recommending prosecution.
"But they conclude there was collusion, which infers criminal intent.
"If files were sent to the PPS to make a decision and retired officers were taken to court, they would have the opportunity to see the evidence and to challenge it.
"But that does not happen, instead they are indicted in the court of public opinion, with no right of appeal."
The Ombudsman has been given two months to respond to the case made by the retired officers.
The judicial review is expected to take place later this year.
A spokesman said the Police Ombudsman's office had acted totally within its powers and would strongly contest the legal challenge.


Scrum V is BBC Wales' television and online rugby service, with lots more rugby coverage on BBC Radio Wales Sport output.

During the rugby season, Friday night is your chance to catch up with live action from the Pro 12 league, on our flagship programme Scrum V Live.
This season Ross Harries and the Scrum V Live team will be on air from 19:00, although this will vary from week-to-week because of the Rugby World Cup and the scheduling of matches outside Wales.
Regular studio guests will include: Martyn Williams, Shane Williams, Ryan Jones, Robert Jones, Dafydd James, Colin Charvis, Andy Nicol, Carlo Del Fava and Phil Davies, with commentary from Gareth Charles and Jonathan Davies.  The four-times Pro12 title-winning coach Sean Holley will also be offering his unique insight from the analysis truck.
Sunday's magazine show - Scrum V Sunday - (live, usually with a later repeat) brings you highlights and analysis, action and reaction from the weekend's Pro12 matches as well as delving into the big stories in Welsh rugby.
Also, we'll be bringing you up to speed with news from around the Welsh premiership and Rick O'Shea will be visiting clubs from all over Wales to give you an idea of what's happening at grassroots level rugby. And, as always, there will be profiles and features with some of the biggest names in the game.
Look out also for our Scrum V Sunday Specials during the major events - the Rugby World Cup and the Six Nations.
Keep an eye on our programme page for transmission times of our output on BBC Two Wales and also on the iPlayer.
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When Bangladeshi film Meherjaan was released in January this year, it was a great moment for the director Rubaiyat Hossain.

It was her debut and in making it she had joined a handful of female film directors in Bangladesh.
The feature film is about a Bangladeshi woman's love affair with a Pakistani Baloch soldier during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence.
Little did she realise that her first venture would be mired in controversy.
Following fierce criticism in the media and on the internet, the film was withdrawn from cinema halls by its distributors just a week after its release.
Critics allege that it has distorted history and ignored the horrors of the war. But the director disagrees.
As Bangladesh celebrates the 40th anniversary of its independence, the events of the time still evoke strong emotions in a country struggling to come to terms with its violent past.
According to official estimates, as many as three million people were killed and 200,000 women were raped by Pakistani soldiers when Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, fought to become an independent nation with Indian assistance.
The government has already set up an International Crimes Tribunal to try those Bangladeshis accused of collaborating with the Pakistani forces and committing atrocities during the nine-month bloody war.
"In the context of 1971 we are used to looking at these binary images of Bangladeshi hero versus the dehumanised Pakistani brutal animal. I tried to break away from that and I think that's what created this huge uproar," says Ms Hossain.
The film follows Meher, who falls in love with a Pakistani soldier during the war. When her love is discovered, she is humiliated and silenced by her family and society.
Many years later one of her relatives, Sarah, visits Meher and tries to put together her past.
The movie features some of the region's biggest stars - including India's Jaya Bachchan and Victor Banerjee - as well as other leading performers from Bangladesh and Pakistan, making it one of few attempts involving a cast from three South Asian countries.
"Personally I like the movie. But a section of the people, especially some freedom fighters, were unhappy with the film. As a freedom fighter myself, I didn't want to hurt their sentiments, that's why I decided to withdraw the film from cinema halls," says Habibur Rahman Khan, the distributor of Meherjaan.
Despite its star cast and high expectations, some critics say the brutalities of the war were not truly reflected in the film.
"Because I have not shown any war within the canvas of my cinema, they are interpreting it like I deny that there was genocide, which is really not the case. There are so many indications in the film that a war is going on," Ms Hossain says.
"It's a film-maker's choice on how they want to represent a certain topic. I can make a movie about a murder and not show a drop of blood."
But these explanations have failed to convince her critics in Bangladesh, where issues relating to 1971 are still sensitive.
There is a sense of injustice among many Bangladeshis that those responsible for the atrocities have gone unpunished.
And those who went through enormous suffering during the war disagree with the way the movie has depicted the events during the war.
Ferdousy Priyabhashini, a well-known sculptor, was 23 in 1971 and she says she was repeatedly raped by Pakistani soldiers during the war.
She says the movie has undermined the suffering of thousands of rape victims like her.
"I am a rape victim and I have gone through lots of humiliation and suffering. My objection to the film is that they have shown a soft corner for the Pakistanis," she says.
"There is a silent message in the movie that we can forget about it. This historical sentiment cannot be erased."
Some feel that the time is not yet right to take such a bold step as to show a love affair between a Bengali girl and a Pakistani soldier.
But why is the issue still so sensitive?
"Pakistan still has not...apologised for the killings of hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi civilians by its army during the war. Under such circumstances, the making of this film is a bit premature," says eminent writer and director Aly Zaker.
Despite his views, Mr Zaker said he did not demand that the movie be withdrawn.
Other cultural figures too felt that the screening of the film should have been allowed.
"Probably the distributors were worried about public sentiment especially when the trial of the alleged war criminals was around the corner," Mr Zaker says.
But for now, the supporters of Meherjaan will have to wait before the film hits the cinema screens of Bangladesh again.


One of Katy Perry's dancers had an unfortunate fall at the Brit Awards on Wednesday evening.

23 February 2017 Last updated at 08:55 GMT
Perry was performing her new song Chained To The Rhythm and was surrounded by dancers dressed as houses.
As the song got near the end, one of the dancers missed their footing and fell off the stage.
Luckily the dancer wasn't hurt during the fall.
Video courtesy of ITV/ BRIT Awards Limited.


British number one Johanna Konta retired from the Madrid Open with an upper respiratory illness.

The 24-year-old Australian Open semi-finalist was trailing 6-4 2-1 in her first-round match against Caroline Garcia of France, the world number 51.
Fit-again Briton Laura Robson suffered a 6-4 6-2 first-round defeat by fourth seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.
Heather Watson could not capitalise on a lucky loser place as she lost 7-5 6-4 to Australia's Daria Gavrilova.
Former British number one Robson missed 17 months with a wrist injury, and has won just one WTA main draw match since returning last summer.
The 22-year-old, using her protected ranking of 58 to enter, saved five match points but lost in 84 minutes to the world number five.
She lost a keenly contested opening set in 40 minutes against Azarenka, the two-time Australian Open champion, who is ranked fifth in the world after winning the titles in Indian Wells and Miami this year.
But in the first meeting between the pair, Azarenka raced 4-0 ahead in the second after winning six games in succession and soon recorded her 25th victory in 26 matches this year.
Watson, 23, lost to Croatia's Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in qualifying on Saturday but went through as a lucky loser after illness forced out Yulia Putintseva.
However, the Briton was beaten 7-5 6-4 by 22-year-old Gavrilova, the world number 39.
British number three Naomi Broady lost 3-6 6-3 6-3 to Monica Puig in the final round of qualifying on Saturday.
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The three authors on the shortlist for the English-language Wales Book of the Year award have been announced at a ceremony at the Hay Literary Festival.

Philip Gross, from Penarth, novelist Terri Wiltshire from Newport, and Nikolai Tolstoy from Berkshire are selected.
The winner of the Â£10,000 prize will be unveiled in Cardiff on 30 June.
The awards are administered by Academi, the Welsh national literature promotion agency and society for authors.
Poet Philip Gross is shortlisted for his work I Spy Pinhole Eye, Terri Wiltshire for her debut novel Carry Me Home and Nikolai Tolstoy for The Compilation of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, an analysis of the origins of the Welsh folk tales.
Now in its 18 year, the awards are presented to the best books of the year in the English and Welsh languages.
The three works shortlisted in Welsh for the Book of the Year were also announced at the Powys book festival on Sunday afternoon.
They are: Banerog, a volume of poetry by Hywel Griffiths; Naw Mis, a novel by Caryl Lewis and Cymru: Y 100 lle i'w gweld cyn marw, by John Davies, a guide to 100 places in Wales that the author thinks people should see before they die.


The US art season ended with a record-breaking sales total of $412m (£259.9m) for Christie's, with records set for works by 11 artists.

Jeff Koons sculpture Tulip, which graced New York's Rockefeller Center plaza, achieved an artist record of $33.7m (£21.2m).
New records were also set for Franz Kline and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Christie's claimed the $412m figure was the most successful sale of post-war and contemporary art in history.
"This truly was an extraordinary sale," said Jussi Pylkkanen, president of Christie's Europe, Middle East and Russia.
"Clearly there's an enormous amount of energy in the post-war and contemporary market. It's highly likely that we'll see a continuation of records being broken."
The previous day, rival auction house Sotheby's had staged its most successful auction in its history, taking $375m (£236m).
Koons' Tulip became the second highest figure paid for a living artist, following on from Gerhard Richter's 1994 painting Abstraktes Bild, which sold in October.
Tulip was created between 1995-2004 and is one of five versions of the work.
Kline's canvas, featuring broad black strokes, sold for $40.4m (£25.4m), smashing the previous $9.3m (£5.8m) record for his work.
The Christie's sale also included Andy Warhol's Statue of Liberty, which sold for $43.7m (£27.5m).
Basquiat's untitled work from 1981 sold for $26.4m (£16.6m), beating the artist's previous record of $20.1m (£12.6m), which was only set in June.
Basquiat started out as a graffiti artist before finding fame as a contemporary artist. He died of a heroin overdose in 1988 at the age of 27.
Rothko's Red Strip sold for $23.4m (£14.7m), just a day after large-scale masterpiece No 1 (Royal Red and Blue) sold for $75.1m (£47.2m) at Sotheby's.


David Cameron has said he is focused on "the size of the prize" on offer in his renegotiations with the EU.

After talks with his Irish counterpart Enda Kenny, Mr Cameron said the UK could have the "best of both worlds" by remaining in the EU but rectifying some of the things that "frustrate" the UK.
He reiterated his belief that an agreement could be reached next month.
But after the PM later spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, No 10 stressed there was "more work to do".
Mr Cameron has pledged to secure a better deal for the UK in the EU as a prelude to an in-out referendum by the end of 2017, in which voters will be asked whether they want to stay in the EU or leave.
There has been speculation that the PM could call the poll as early as June this year if he gets the backing of the EU's other 27 leaders for his reform demands at a summit  in February.
He told reporters in Downing Street that if there was a "good deal" on the table next month he would "take that deal to the British people" and strive to "win the argument for why we should stay in a reformed Europe".
But he cautioned: "It has to be the right deal. If it is not there, we have got plenty of time - we don't need a referendum till the end of 2017."
Mr Cameron said he was "very positive" about the outcome for the UK and for Europe as a whole if changes on competitiveness, economic governance, sovereignty and new powers to curb migration were obtained.
"Imagine the scale of the prize if we can remain a member of the single market...with a seat at the table and a say over the rules...combined with action to make sure we deal with things that frustrate people about the EU," he said.
"That is what I am focused on - the scale of the prize if we get this right - the best of both worlds... Being in the single market but not the single currency. Taking action in Europe when it is in our interest but not being involved in an ever-closer union."
Mr Kenny said his personal view was that a deal was possible in February but "he couldn't speak for the other countries around the table".
"It is an issue that needs to be dealt with. We regard it as being very important to the relationship between Ireland and Britain but also to the continuing strength and functioning of the EU with Britain continuing as a central member."
As the PM seeks to mobilise support ahead of the next month's summit of EU leaders, particularly over the thorny issue of curbs on access to migrants' benefits, he has again spoken to Mrs Merkel, regarded as Europe's most powerful leader.
Following their call, a Downing Street spokesperson said: "They agreed that there had been progress since December's European Council and that there was genuine goodwill across the EU to address the British people's concerns in all four areas.
"Both concluded that there was more work to do ahead of the February European Council to find the right solutions."
The latest round of diplomacy comes as campaigners clashed over the economic benefits of being in the EU.
Those arguing for the UK to leave the EU accused "In" supporters of ignoring the costs of being a member and the benefits that could follow from being able to negotiate bilateral trade deals.
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In the European Parliament, MEPs sit in political groups that cross national boundaries.

Groups can and do change their formation or name from time to time, and political parties can switch their affinities.
Being part of a political group gives parties access to funding to cover staff and administrative costs, as well as a greater chance of getting their MEPs elected as chairs of the Parliament's committees.
It will also give a party's MEPs more speaking time during debates, as the number and length of contributions during debates is determined by group size.
Seven groups were initially formed following the 2014 European Parliament elections - this increased to eight in June 2015, with the creation of the Europe of Nations and Freedom bloc of anti-EU nationalist parties.
According to the Parliament's rules, each group must have at least 25 MEPs from a minimum of seven member states.
There are also a number of MEPs who do not belong to any group, known as non-attached members (or the "non-inscrits" in EU jargon).
This is the biggest group in the European Parliament, containing some of the EU's longest-established political parties.
This used to be the home of the UK Conservatives before they left to set up a more Eurosceptic group in 2009.
It is broadly centre-right, and enthusiastic about deeper EU integration.
Along with the Socialist group, the EPP  it has traditionally been one of the two powerhouses of the Parliament, providing most of its presidents and vice-presidents.
Eight out of the Parliament's 20 permanent standing committees are currently chaired by MEPs from the group.
Around half of the European Commission are also members of the wider EPP party, including Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
German Christian Democrats make up the biggest delegation in the group - Manfred Weber, from the CSU's Bavarian sister party, is the group's leader.
Formerly known simply as the Socialist group, the group is the home of Labour party MEPs from the UK.
It is the main centre-left group in the Parliament, and for many years was the biggest group in Brussels, although that crown has since been taken by the EPP.
Along with the EPP, it tends to get the lion's share of top jobs in the Parliament.
Current Parliament President Martin Schulz is a member, and stood unsuccessfully as the group's proposed candidate for Commission President in 2014.
The chair of the group is the Italian MEP Gianni Pittella.
One of the big winners of the 2014 elections, the group rose to third place, despite a drop in support for one of its biggest components, the UK Conservatives.
The origin of this group can be found in David Cameron's desire for the Conservatives to leave the federalist EPP and set up a new right-of-centre Eurosceptic group at the time of the 2009 elections.
Alongside the Conservatives, the biggest delegation is Poland's Law and Justice Party, and the group also contains - among others - the Ulster Unionists and Alternative for Germany party.
Broadly centre-right and Eurosceptic, it contains a mixture of groups that are more socially conservative and those that promote economic liberalism.
British Conservative MEP Syed Kamall is the group's leader.
The main centrist group in the Parliament, ALDE saw its overall numbers take a hit at the 2014 elections, mainly due to the sharp fall in support for its two biggest components, the UK Liberal Democrats and the German Free Democrats.
One of the most Euro-enthusiastic groups in the Parliament, it has often held the balance of power in key votes and has been courted by both the Socialists and the EPP when majorities are sought.
Analysis from the Votewatch Europe website has shown that the group won more plenary votes in the first year of the current Parliament term than any other.
Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt is the group's leader.
As its name suggests, this is the group that can be found on the far left of the political spectrum, containing members from a number of Communist and traditional Socialist parties.
Among the UK's 73 MEPs, the only one to sit in this group is Sinn Fein's Martina Anderson.
It is broadly Eurosceptic, but from an anti-austerity or anti-capitalist point of view, rather than specifically on issues of national sovereignty.
The group's full name represents the fact that it has traditionally contained left-wing environmentalist groups from Scandinavia.
It is chaired by the German MEP Gabriele Zimmer.
As its name suggests, this group is an alliance of two parties - the European Greens and the European Free Alliance, which primarily represents parties focused on regional or national interests such as the SNP, Plaid Cymru, and Catalan parties.
The group generally takes a left of centre position on most issues, and - as the name would suggest - is the home of the UK's three Green Party MEPs.
It is co-chaired by Rebecca Harms from Germany and Philippe Lamberts from Belgium.
The EFDD contains MEPs who disagree with the idea of European integration from a broadly - but not exclusively - right-wing perspective.
The UK provides the largest number of MEPs in this group, containing as it does the 22 MEPs from the UK Independence Party, with the 17 MEPs from Italy's Five Star Movement in second place.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage is co-president of the group, along with the Five Star Movement's David Borrelli.
The formation of the anti-EU ENF group was announced in June 2015, reportedly after over a year of on-off negotiations between previously non-attached members.
The bulk of the group's MEPs come from the French Front National (FN), whose leader, Marine le Pen, is also the group's head.
The far-right FN had previously struggled to find members from enough countries to form a group.
The bloc also includes Italy's Northern League and MEPs from the Dutch Freedom Party.
It also includes ex-UKIP MEP Janice Atkinson, who was expelled from the party earlier in the year over an expenses scandal.
Generally speaking, this cohort is made up of MEPs who have not been able to find enough allies to form a group of their own, or who have been rejected by other parties.
However, it also contains MEPs who feel they do not fit into any of the other groups, such as the Democratic Unionst Party's sole MEP.
In the main, the ranks of the non-attached are made up of nationalist MEPs, such as the three that come from Hungary's Jobbik party.
There are also two MEPs from the Front National who are not part of the ENF group: Bruno Gollnisch and FN founder Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Mr Le Pen was suspended from the party the month before the group formed, over his comments that the Holocaust was "a detail of history".
Being unattached means that members have much less access to speaking time in the chamber, as well as fewer administrative and secretarial resources.
Numbers correct as of 20 October 2015


A restored Welsh-built steam locomotive believed to be one of the last of its type has made its way from Llangollen to Carmarthen.

The standard gauge loco known as Taff 28 was built in 1897 and completed its journey on the back of a lorry, via Cardiff Bay's Coal Exchange, on Friday.
It is going on display at the Gwili Steam Railway with the only Welsh-built standard gauge carriage.
The train was restored in workshops at Llangollen Steam Railway.


New Cliftonville manager Barry Gray has made Carrick Rangers goalkeeper Brian Neeson his first signing following his appointment to the role last week.

Neeson, who has also played gaelic football for Antrim, has signed a pre-contract agreement with the Reds.
The 27-year-old will move to the Solitude club in the summer when his contract with Carrick Rangers expires.
Striker Joe Gormley signed a pre-contract deal with the club in January after agreeing a three-year contract.
Gormley was unable to play for the club this season as he had already turned out for Peterborough and St Johnstone, on loan, during the present campaign.
Ex-Warrenpoint boss Gray was appointed as successor to Gerard Lyttle, who left to manage League of Ireland club Sligo Rovers last month.
Cliftonville finished fifth in the Premiership and lost out to Glenavon in the semi-finals of the Europa League play-offs.
Meanwhile Glentoran manager Gary Haveron has signed Corey McMullan from Ballyclare Comrades and John McGuigan from Warrenpoint Town.
Premiership new boys Warrenpoint have acquired the services of goalkeeper Alan Blayney, Darren Murray, Sean Mackle and Matthew Parker in preparation for their return to the top flight.


The ebb and flow of the tide is easily measured on the River Witham in Boston.

When it is swollen the muddy banks disappear, hiding an unappealing shoreline.
The flow of people into this Lincolnshire market town is harder to fathom, its impact is less clear.
In the decade since the expansion of the European Union in 2004, thousands came from countries once under Soviet domination to work on the land and in the local factories.
There were tensions as that human flow increased.
That has given UKIP a boost. The latest opinion poll by Lord Ashcroft showed the party, which campaigns for the UK's exit from the European Union, within striking distance of taking what was once a Conservative safe seat. They have picked up support from voters who have watched their town change rapidly.
But the businesses that have benefited from migration - and have started to see the town revive on the back of it - are reluctant to speak out.
"Below the radar there are businesses that do feel it is positive (but) in a small town, you can alienate yourself very quickly," says Simon Beardsley, chief executive of Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce.
"Initially there was a mood of scepticism around individuals coming in and the impact that they would make on the town and the economy.  Over a period of time those impressions have changed and the acceptance of migration into the town has changed.
"Without the numbers coming in, the businesses would suffer because predominantly the area is made up of low-skilled, low-wage jobs in agriculture and food processing and there isn't the indigenous population looking to take up those jobs."
Mr Beardsley says many employers would suffer if they couldn't recruit the labour they needed and, even if they were to entice British workers to apply, the higher wages necessary would drive up the costs.
Despite numerous BBC requests, we found, with a fierce election contest underway, those employing east Europeans in large numbers all refused to speak about it.
"Most of the land work is taken up by the east Europeans now," one young man tells me in a cashpoint queue. He says those who want that work on the land, as he once did, see the arrivals as competition.
"If you were ever stuck for a job there was always land work but it has got a bit more difficult now everybody is having to work more, because they work all the hours God sends.
"The east European gangs will work for a lot less, for a lot longer, than the English gangs."
Big increase
Boston has seen a bigger increase in residents from Eastern Europe than anywhere else in England and Wales, according to the 2011 census.
In 2001, the town had a population of 55,753, with 98.5% indicating they were white British.
In 2011, 10.6% of the town's 64,600 population indicated they came from one of the new EU nations such as Poland, Lithuania, Latvia or Romania.
Asked if businesses like immigration because the arrivals had pushed down wages, Simon Beardsley answers obliquely.
"There is a supply and demand issue here in terms of the flood of labour into the market.  Businesses do need the labour, without it they would struggle to do what they need to do, so yes it is potentially a lower cost base," he says.
Entertaining her daughter in a play park, Jurgita - a qualified Lithuanian environmental scientist who came to do low-skilled factory work and has already been promoted - is reluctant to address the political hostility to the migrants.
"English people are good to me, so I am really happy here. I live my life and if other people want a better life, I don't see a problem that they come. If people want to work - they can do it. If they don't, they should stay at home. There is enough for everybody."
In the pedestrianised town centre, there is a vibrancy not seen in years.
"There are a lot of full shops instead of empty ones," says one male resident.
"If they (the east Europeans) disappeared now, there would be a whole street called West Street that would be pretty much empty. It's like Poland down there," he says, referring to the once-battered road that has become a totemic indicator of the town's changing character, with its array of Baltic and Polish food shops.
One British woman tells me she welcomes the broader outlook the arrivals bring to the town, but she bemoans the pressure on schools and hospitals; a concern mentioned by many here.
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Her friend begins to walk off, but pauses to describe her "two years of hell" living next to 12 noisy east European men who, she says, partied 24 hours a day.
Another British woman says she fears the town is divided now but she is critical of her own community's hostility.
"If I went to a different country and people were horrible to me and didn't want to speak to me I wouldn't want to speak to them either," she says.
Len Evans, a fruit-and-veg stallholder on the market, interrupts his sales banter to explain how his traditional customers were ageing and dwindling each year.  Demand for his produce is now driven by the "fantastic" new east Europeans.
"They've regenerated the town and the market and they're very good customers and the majority are very nice people," he says with a wry smile.
"If the east Europeans weren't here, we wouldn't be here as stall holders."
The chamber of commerce agrees the new arrivals have brought a dynamism to the economy. But many east Europeans are massively over-qualified for the work they are doing and they are competing for low-skilled, low-paid jobs with British people with fewer work opportunities. They are a godsend for employers but viewed with more suspicion by those competing for work, homes and services.
Once they have mastered the language, they are likely to move on and up the professional food chain to compete in other sectors and that could imply more immigration to fill behind them.
Saulius and Laura are both highly qualified Lithuanian architects.  Laura helped renovate the royal palace in the capital Vilnius and Saulius was a project manager; both lost their jobs in the economic crisis and moved to the UK.
Laura looks after their baby while Saulius works in a food factory enjoying, for now, what he calls a stress-free job with regular hours. Both see Boston as "the start" of a new UK life-journey and Laura is particularly keen to return to architecture.  It is a pattern repeated in countless interviews with aspirational migrants.
But there's a twist.  Laura and Saulius agree their progress in learning the language and integrating into UK society has been slowed by the lack of English people around them to speak to in Boston.
"We can learn Polish more (easily) than English," says Saulius.
"There are very few English people at the factory so there is little opportunity to speak."
The migration they and others like them represent has ebbed and flowed over the years. Some locals initially resented the fact that many took their hard-earned wages and returned home with the spoils but that has given way to a realisation that many are now intending to stay.
The voters will soon have their say but the east Europeans have come ashore and the waters in Boston are settling.
But the key question "is immigration good or bad for the people of towns like Boston?" defies all simple answers.


A Brazilian construction tycoon has been jailed for 19 years over a corruption scandal involving the state oil company Petrobras.

Marcelo Odebrecht was convicted of paying more than $30m (Â£21m) in bribes to Petrobras officials in exchange for contracts and influence.
The Odebrecht group is Latin America's biggest construction conglomerate.
The Petrobras inquiry has led to proceedings against dozens of business executives and ruling party figures.
Last week former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, also from the governing Worker's Party, was detained and questioned for his alleged role in the affair.
Lula, 70, is suspected of receiving about 30m reais ($8m; Â£5.6m) in speaking fees and donations to his charity, the Lula Institute.
The party has held the Brazilian presidency since 2003, both under Lula and his successor Dilma Rousseff.
Odebrecht was one of Brazil's richest and most powerful businessmen - with close relations to many top politicians, the BBC's Daniel Gallas reports from Sao Paulo.
He was found guilty of money laundering, corruption and taking part in a criminal association.
He had been in prison since last June and stepped down last December from the firm - which was founded by his family.
The firm built major projects across the continent and in Africa and before the scandal had 181,000 employees in 21 countries.
The corruption scandal has cost Petrobras over $16bn, including $2bn that went straight to corrupt executives and firms.
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.


School Reporters from the West Midlands took to the airwaves on a pop-up radio station on News Day at BBC Birmingham.

Pupils from Perry Beeches V, Pedmore Technology College, Aston Manor Academy and Aldridge School helped broadcast around the UK for two hours.
There were also opportunities to take part in a series of workshops, including learning about how to present the weather and online journalism.
BBC Newsround's Martin Dougan was also on hand to offer advice.
School reporters from Cardinal Newman Catholic School, in Coventry, Birmingham's St Paul's School for Girls, The Westminster School, Sandwell, and the City of Birmingham School also descended on the BBC's West Midlands home at the Mailbox on the 10th annual News Day.
Other workshops - all run by BBC staff volunteers - gave the students the opportunity to try computer coding, football commentary, go behind the scenes at the flagship regional news programme Midlands Today and even to star in a radio drama.
Abdul, from Perry Beeches V, in Small Heath, and Ethan, from Pedmore Technology College, Dudley, were two of the School Reporters who helped present the pop-up radio station alongside BBC WM's Richie Anderson.
Their show was broadcast on the School Report website and via the red button, and included the latest news and sport, as well as interviews with the BBC's director general, Tony Hall, musician Joe Jonas, of the American pop rock group the Jonas Brothers, and former Birmingham and Bolton footballer Fabrice Muamba.
"It was nerve-wracking," said Abdul, aged 12. "It was an amazing experience but the nerves were getting me."
Ethan, 13, added: "It was really interesting, especially the part when we crossed over to BBC WM and were speaking to thousands of people.
"Richie was really good. He helped us out beforehand and coached us through it, as well."
BBC WM's Carolle Forde Garcia looked after the pop-up station in Birmingham.
She said: "I loved the idea of creating a 'pop-up' station for the day - and to work with lots of youngsters, who are so excited to be part of a BBC project, is just fab."
School reporters from the Westminster School were among those who took a trip to the Midlands Today studio and were given a quick guide to weather presenting by journalist Rebecca Wood.
Jack, 15, said: "I was amazed how small the studio was because it looks much bigger in person."
Cardinal Newman Catholic School pupil Julia, 13, said: "It was interesting to see all the cameras - how many there were, how many different angles there were and where or who they aimed at.
"I learned that the weather reporter is told by an ear piece how much time they have to present and how it can change last-minute.
"I was also surprised when I found out the weather reporters have to make their own graphics and how the windows behind the presenters are not real and were designed in Los Angeles."
BBC WM's Mike Taylor gave a masterclass in sports commentary and got school reporters to have a go at putting their own commentaries to clips of this month's Premier League match between leaders Leicester City and West Bromwich Albion.
Fifteen-year-old Kaliesse, from the City of Birmingham School, was among those to have a go.
"It was quite scary," he said. "I wasn't sure how to explain what was going on. I could feel my heart beating in my chest.
"It was really hard. Then I got into it, got the hang of it and I just went with the flow.
"It was hard because you had to speak quite fast and know a bit of information about what was going on. The most beneficial thing I found out was how to present and prepare for the game. I was really surprised that Mike spent three or four hours preparing for the match."
Another of the workshops offered an introduction to computer coding using BBC Microbit.
The school reporters had to create a code on a computer to make an LED image of a smiley face.
Lauren, 11, from Aldridge School, said: "Doing the coding was hard when you first started but when you have been told what to do it gets easier. The best bit about it was getting to make my own image on the screen."


Papers dismiss calls for the government's intervention in the wake of frenzied buying on the Chinese stock market on Monday.

The Shanghai stock exchange composite index reached a 44-month high on Monday and closed at 3,020 points.
Several papers, including the Global Times, have explained that the rally was supported by November's interest rate cut, which increased liquidity in the market.
The People's Daily urges the investors "not to follow blindly" and to "approach the market with a rational mind".
The state-run paper also cautions financial research institutes to adopt a "rigorous attitude" and "be responsible" when they publish market reports to "direct investors' expectations in a reasonable way".
However, the daily does not support any intervention from the authorities to cool the market and urges officials to be vigilant and watch out for illegal market activities.
The Global Times' Chinese edition also dismisses suggestions that the authorities should intervene and urges people to "not invest all their savings in the stock market".
Some economists, however, paint a gloomier picture.
Experts warn that "the economy is still facing strong downward pressure" and there are no "clear improvements" in the overall performance of listed firms.
Dong Dengxin, a financial expert at Wuhan University of Science and Technology, tells the the English edition of the paper that the Chinese stock market's performance has exceeded the growth of listed companies.
He adds that the bull market in China is much shorter and unpredictable, as compared to the capital markets of developed economies.
Meanwhile, a commentary in the China Daily expects the downward pressure faced by the Chinese economy to continue in 2015.
Elsewhere, papers and experts call for the "purifying" of the party and the army after China's former security chief Zhou Yongkang was arrested and expelled from the Communist Party on Friday.
Mr Zhou is the most senior official to be arrested in China's anti-graft campaign.
Pointing to the recent high-profile corruption cases, Xu Qiliang, the vice-chairman of China's top military body, urged the army on Monday to clean up its work style and called for "serious reflection" following violations by the top military officials, the Xinhua News Agency reports.
A front-page commentary in the People's Liberation Army Daily gives a stark reminder to all party members to avoid "individualism".
Noting that "some units" have disregarded organisational discipline to seek personal gain, the article reiterates that the army should "follow the party" and "strictly observe the political and organisational rules and regulations without conditions".
And finally, the People's Daily hails China for playing an important role to help the Maldives fight water shortages.
Beijing dispatched two military aircraft and a vessel carrying tonnes of water to the Maldives over the weekend to help relieve the water shortage crisis caused by damage to the country's sole desalination plant.
Yu Jun, a diplomacy expert, tells the paper that Beijing's foreign aid policy is part of its "international strategy".
The pundit says that the policy shows the world that China is a "responsible big country".
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Bradford City have signed midfielder Romain Vincelot from Coventry City for an undisclosed fee.

The 30-year-old Frenchman has agreed a two-year deal with the Bantams and becomes the League One club's seventh signing of the summer.
Vincelot spent a year with the Sky Blues, scoring four goals in 46 games after joining from Leyton Orient.
"I see Romain fitting perfectly with what we want to do here," Bradford boss Stuart McCall told the club website.
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India need 87 runs to win the series-deciding fourth Test against Australia after dominating the third day.

The hosts resumed on 248-6 and, helped by Ravindra Jadeja's 63, reached 332 - a first innings lead of 32.
Jadeja, fellow spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and pace bowler Umesh Yadav took three wickets apiece as Australia were bowled out for 137 in 53.5 overs.
India reached 19-0 at the close after KL Rahul and Murali Vijay negotiated the final six overs of the day.
Jadeja's sparkling knock with the bat, which included four sixes, dominated a 96-run seventh-wicket partnership with wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha that saw India move past Australia's first innings total.
In their second knock, Australia were 31-3 and only Glen Maxwell offered any real resistance with 45 as the tourists lost their last seven wickets for 50 runs.
The four-Test series is tied at 1-1.


A van used by retired world champion boxer Floyd Mayweather has been set on fire, police said.

6 March 2017 Last updated at 14:51 GMT
The window was smashed before accelerant was poured inside and it was set alight at 03:30 GMT on Sunday at the Park Regis Hotel in Broad Street, Birmingham.
Mayweather was appearing in the city, meeting fans as part of a tour.
An eyewitness who filmed the damaged vehicle but did not wish to be named said: "He [Mayweather] was actually outside when the van was set on fire, then he ran back in.
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"There was panic inside the whole hotel. Nobody was allowed out of the hotel for a couple of hours. They had the whole hotel on lockdown."
There is no sound on the video.


At least 31 people died in clashes between ethnic militia and security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the weekend, officials say.

They say the violence in the central Kasai province was sparked by a row between an uncle and a nephew over the title of a traditional chief.
Deputy Governor Hubert Mbingho N'Vula said 13 members of the security forces sent to quell the fighting were among those killed.
Eighteen militiamen also died, he said.
Mr N'Vula said public order had been restored in and around the city of Tshikapa in the remote province.
DR Congo is beset by sporadic violence between ethnic militias.
This has been inflamed further by the postponing of a presidential election due to be held before the end of the year.


A pregnant woman seen hanging outside the Bataclan theatre in Paris while gunmen were attacking inside is safe, a friend told a website.

Video footage emerged showing the woman clinging on to a window shouting: "I'm pregnant! Catch me if I fall!"
A man, who was also trying to escape the shootings, helped her back up when it seems she grew too tired to hang on.
Her friend tracked down the man on Twitter and put them in contact, he told the Huffington Post.
A total of 89 people were killed and more than 100 injured when gunmen stormed the Bataclan concert hall during a concert by US band Eagles of Death Metal on Friday.
The pregnant woman, who prefers to remain anonymous, could not thank her rescuer in the wake of the carnage at the Bataclan. So her friend, Frans-Alexandre Torreele, asked Twitter to help her find him:
"Thanks Twitter," Mr Torreele tweeted on Monday. "This pregnant woman is well and she found her saviour through Twitter."
"The man who helped my friend to climb in the window of the Bataclan was found," he said in another tweet. "The rest of the story belongs to them."
Mr Torreele told the Huffington Post that he had spoken to his friend to make sure it was the right person.
"She was saved thanks to a succession of small gestures, a little bit of attention, and, in this moment of total craziness, these minuscule gestures accomplished big things," Mr Torreele said.
"That's what my friend wants people to know. It's hard to imagine how merely holding out a hand, or putting a hand on a shoulder can save people. These people should thank each other, should hold each other in their arms."
The rescuer, a Frenchman known only as Sebastien, told French radio he was able to rescue her "by chance".
He had sought refuge from the hostage-takers through an emergency exit next to the stage, which led to a corridor, but realised there was no way through, only two windows, too far up to be able to jump from.
He found refuge in a ventilation shaft with his legs dangling on the outside of the building, about 15 metres above ground.
This is where he saw the pregnant woman hanging from the other window and who was calling down towards passers-by fleeing below her to catch her as she was going to jump.
But no-one was stopping because of all the shooting going on, he said.
"At one point, she said she was going to let go. In that case, you cannot watch someone die in front of your eyes, there had been too many already."
So he went back to the corridor and helped her up.
He said he found out on Monday that she was alive, and that they were due to speak to each other on Tuesday.
Sebastien said they had gone in separate directions soon afterwards, but five minutes later he had felt the barrel of a Kalashnikov against his leg.
He was held captive for some time, but says he managed to escape when police stormed the Bataclan.
A series of attacks in the hall, a stadium, restaurants and bars across Paris on Friday at least 129 dead and 350 wounded.


Braintree strengthened their National League play-off push with a comfortable home victory over Chester.

Mark Phillips gave the home side the lead early on, converting Dan Sparkes' inswinging corner.
Matt Paine soon doubled Braintree's lead, drilling home from another testing Sparkes set-piece.
The Iron pushed for further goals, nearly geting one midway through the second half, but Taylor Miles struck over from Remy Clerima's cross.
Chester had latest free transfer signing James Alabi making his debut, but the visitors could not build on their improved performance after the break.
Steve Burr's side have slipped to within seven points of the relegation zone. having now picked up just one point out of a possible 33 on the road in a run of 10 losses in 11 National League away games.
Including next Saturday's FA Trophy third round tie at Halifax, they are now embarked on a run of five successive away matches.
Chester manager Steve Burr told BBC Radio Merseyside:
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"It's annoying, as we'd spoken all week on how to deal with their set pieces and that's how the goals came.
"We were camped in their half after the break but could not score.
"James Alabi worked hard but he was feeding off scraps and did not get the best of service.
"We're on a bad run of results in the league but we've got the FA Trophy to look forward to."


The African Union, or AU, is a pan-African organisation whose goal is to propel a united continent towards peace and prosperity.

The AU supports political and economic integration among its 54 member nations. It aims to boost development, eradicate poverty and bring Africa into the global economy.
Profile compiled by BBC Monitoring
The AU succeeded the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 2002. In its later years the OAU - which originated in the decolonisation struggles of the early 1960s - had been criticised for becoming a mere talking shop.
Conceived by the then Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as a "United States of Africa", its structure is loosely modelled on that of the European Union.
It inaugurated a pan-African parliament in March 2004 - one of a number of proposed institutions. The body debates continent-wide issues and advises AU heads of state.
There are far-reaching plans to set up a human rights court, a central bank and monetary fund, and by 2023 an African Economic Community with a single currency.
The AU believes that conflicts must be settled before there can be a chance of achieving prosperity. To this end, it set up a Peace and Security Council in 2004. The council may intervene in conflicts, replacing the old OAU principle of non-interference with one of "non-indifference".
The council can deploy military forces in situations which include genocide and crimes against humanity. It can authorise peacekeeping missions. The council planned to have a Standby Force of rapid-reaction troops in place by 2010, but this has yet to happen.
AU peacekeepers have served in Burundi and AU ceasefire monitors have served in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. An AU force has also been deployed in Somalia since March 2007.
The AU oversees the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad), an anti-poverty blueprint which offers a bargain with the West: the promotion of good political and economic practice in return for more aid and investment.
Morocco is the only African country not to have joined the AU. It left the Organisation of African Unity in 1984, after the OAU granted membership to the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic set up by the independence movement in the disputed territory of Western Sahara.
The African Union has regularly suspended member-states over coups d'etat, re-admitting them when they return to constitutional rule. Madagascar has been suspended since 2009 after Andry Rajoelina seized power, and has yet to be re-admitted. The Union suspended Mali in March 2012 over a coup.
South Sudan became the 54th member-state in the summer of 2011.
Chairman: Post holders rotate on annual basis
Assembly: The assembly comprises the heads of state of member countries, who meet at least once a year. It is the AU's main decision-making body. Members of the assembly elect an AU chairperson, to hold office for 12 months.
Executive Council: The council comprises the foreign ministers of member states, who advise the assembly members.
Commission: The administrative branch comprises 10 commissioners, who hold individual portfolios. The commission implements AU policies and coordinates the body's activities and meetings.
The commission elects its chairperson to a four-year term.
South African Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was elected in July 2012 to become the first female head of the commission. The battle for the leadership was closely-fought and threatened to divide the AU. She defeated the incumbent, Jean Ping of Gabon.
Its critics have questioned whether the AU can be more effective than its predecessor. They point out that many of its leaders are the same people who presided over the OAU, an organisation that became known as the "dictators' club".
The AU came in for criticism over its failure to act earlier over the civil war in Libya. There was talk that the AU Commission, under Gabon's Jean Ping, had not given sufficient backing to a South African-sponsored peace plan, which itself was criticised for not requiring Muammar Gaddafi to step down.
The Libya dispute prompted the ultimately successful challenge to Mr Ping from South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the wife of President Jacob Zuma, for the post of commission chairperson.
Money is another sticking point. There are doubts about whether the AU - many of whose member nations are struggling to tackle domestic poverty - can afford to fund some of its ambitious schemes.
The union, keen that its activities should be bankrolled by member countries, has eschewed the "begging bowl" principle. But in 2004 the commission chairman warned that the AU needed the kind of financial lifeline that the US gave to post-war Europe.
China has paid for a new AU headquarters in Addis Ababa at a cost of $200m, prompting some concern among African observers that China is trying to buy influence in the AU as it extends its economic presence on the continent.
Under a voluntary "peer review" scheme, AU members are expected to ensure that each other's governments adhere to democratic principles and sound economic practice. But their political will to do so has been questioned by doubters. Sceptics point out that, while promoting pan-African democracy, some AU nations are run by autocrats.


New Down manager Eamon Burns says he has yet to speak to former Aussie Rules star Martin Clarke about returning to inter-county action in 2016.

The 28-year-old, who has Addinson's Disease, is back playing colleges football with Queen's in Belfast.
Clarke has said he would jump at the chance to resume his Down career.
"I have spoken to James McCartan about him and we will keep an eye on him during the McKenna Cup and see how things go in the Sigerson," said Burns.
"We could make a decision then. He has been managing the medical condition he has."
Clarke, who had two spells with Collingwood in the AFL, has not played for Down since 2011.
Addinson's Disease is a disorder of the adrenal glands which can lead to flu-like symptoms, but it can be effectively controlled by treatment.
Manager Burns, who won the All-Ireland as a Down player in 1991 and 1994, is hoping star forward Benny Coulter could also return to the panel.
Mayobridge man Coulter announced last year that he was retiring from inter-county football.
Coulter, 33, made his senior inter-county debut in 2000 and, like Clarke, played for the Mourne men in the 2010 All-Ireland final.
"I have spoken to Benny and he has some work commitments," said Burns.
"He has not committed to us yet."