The row over the execution by Saudi Arabia of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and the attack on the Saudi embassy in Iran has led the Middle Eastern press to line up behind either Tehran or Riyadh.

Dailies in the Gulf, Jordan and Egypt support the Saudi stance, condemning Iran's "aggressive attitude"; while papers in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq describe the execution of Nimr al-Nimr as a "crime".
Meanwhile, some Iranian papers stress that the embassy demonstrators do not reflect the views of the government.
An editorial in Saudi pro-government Al-Riyadh does not hide its disgust at events in Tehran: "Iran has a strong tradition of targeting embassies… These attacks harm Iran and portray it as an unbridled state, whose people are led by hooligans."
Echoing the same sentiments, Saudi pro-government Al-Jazirah says : "Iran has shown its ugly face. By setting fire to the Saudi embassy, it proves that it is a main supporter of terrorism."
Similarly, Khalid al-Sulayman writes in Saudi pro-government Ukaz : "This aggressive attitude by the Iranian regime is no surprise… The frenzy aggressive statements were expected because Tehran has a large stock of obscene insults and hollow threats."
In Egyptian government-run Al-Ahram, Amr Abd-al-Sami stresses Egypt's position. "We stand by the side of Saudi Arabia in its confrontation with Iran… We reject Iran's detestable foreign interference in Saudi internal affairs."
An editorial in Qatar's pro-government Al-Rayah says: "The storming of the Saudi embassy in Tehran is a criminal act that is totally rejected. The Iranian government should... realise that these acts violate international conventions."
Jordan's Al-Rai suggests the embassy attack is part of manoeuvring around forthcoming Iranian elections. "Hardliner elements are preparing for the election battle and they need a big cause to fight for through using demonstrations," the paper says.
Iran's conservative Khorasan newspaper criticises the government for failing to ensure peaceful protests, meaning that the focus of the affair had switched from the executions to the embassy attack: "A mistake resulting from the anger or emotions of a few people - to replace the main issue, which is Ayatollah al-Nimr's martyrdom."
Tehran's reformist newspaper Etemad says the attack has left Iran on the defensive over the affair.
"The suspicious and untenable behaviour of the extremist groups at their representative offices in Iran... puts the ball in Iran's court after Iran said that Saudi citizens' human rights have been violated," the paper says.
Meanwhile, reformist Mardom Salari newspaper lays blame for the diplomatic row at the door of those who invaded the embassy:
"Unfortunately the action by some who like Spider-Man climbed the walls of the Saudi Arabian embassy and set it on fire, caused the marginalisation of the issue of execution of Sheikh Nimr and sweetened the Saudis' appetite to deceive and create tension with Iran."
Tehran has found support in Iraqi pro-government Al-Sabah newspaper, which describes the execution of Nimr al-Nimr as a "crime", columnist Muhammad Abd-al-Jabbar al-Shabbut saying: "Executing Al-Nimr will backfire. And this is the last thing we wanted."
Along the same lines, the editorial of pro- Shia Iraqi Al-Adalah, says: "The execution of Al-Nimr will not help calm down the situation in the Kingdom… This will lead to violent actions that will be followed by more oppression."
Syrian government run Al-Thawrah lashes out at Riyadh, saying: "The regime of Al Saud violates all human rights, curbs freedom of expression and personal freedoms and uses methods of execution that date back to the Middle Ages."
Meanwhile, Nasri al-Sayigh in Lebanese Al-Safir newspaper concludes: "The Saudi human rights record is characterised by brutality. This is a kingdom that lives through oppression… This is the kingdom of darkness."
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Red lines - everyone has them, including Greece and its creditors.

Lines they can't cross. Commitments they say they can't break. But suddenly the red lines are everywhere.
A counter-proposal put forward by the creditor institutions, in response to Greece's offer of budget reforms, is full of them.
Put simply, Greece has offered to meet its budget targets mainly by raising taxes rather than cutting spending.
But the creditors - and the IMF in particular - say that is unacceptable.
They see it as a squeeze of a different kind, snuffing out any hope of economic growth.
So there is still pressure for more cuts in the pension system, and the abolition of a larger number of subsidies.
The Greek government may think it has given significant ground in its latest proposal. The creditors appear to be saying think again.
So the mood goes from bad to good and back again. In terms of absolute numbers, the distance between the two sides isn't huge. But the political gulf is significant.
And Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is caught between a rock and a hard place - between the promises he made to his voters back home, and the commitments the creditors insist he must respect.
But these negotiations aren't just about budget targets. The Greeks are also demanding that there has to be serious discussion of debt restructuring.
On that issue there is more sympathy from the IMF. But there is less from the European Central Bank and several eurozone countries.
One proposal is to transfer â‚¬27bn ($30bn; Â£19bn) of debt that Greece owes to the ECB into the ESM, the eurozone's permanent bailout fund.
It has a more gentle long-term repayment schedule, and lower rates of interest.
If Mr Tsipras can go home with a deal which feels terribly tough, but which includes promises to reduce the suffocating embrace of the debt burden, he has a chance of selling it.
But he's now saying publicly that perhaps the creditors don't want a deal, or that they are pandering to specific interests inside Greece.
That speaks to the suspicion within Syriza that the creditors are determined to put the prime minister in an impossible position.
If he puts an agreement to the vote in parliament and loses, he will have to resign.
And the EU's only government of the radical left would go with him.


The government has launched a consultation over plans to strengthen the powers of the forensic regulator's office in England and Wales.

Currently, the regulator sets standards for forensic science services, but has no statutory, or legislative, powers.
Under the proposals, the regulator's office would be placed on a statutory basis and be handed the authority to investigate breaches in quality.
The government plan is outlined in its response to a recent Commons inquiry.
In July, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee published its report into the provision of forensic science since the closure of the Forensic Science Service in 2012.
In its response, the government defended its rationale for shutting down the service, which had employed some 1,600 people to analyse crime scene evidence.
The service had been losing money. But in its July report, the committee had criticised the decision, claiming that the statistic used (that the FSS was losing Â£2m per month) was flawed and that the government had not considered additional costs incurred as a result of the closure - for example, those to police forces.
In its response, the government defended its position, arguing that the logic behind the shut down "was based on accurate financial information and has delivered value for money to the police as well as addressing the unacceptable company losses being funded by the taxpayer".
It also said that adherence to quality standards on a voluntary basis had been effective up until now.
But it acknowledged that the UK's opt-out from a European Council framework decision could cause voluntary compliance to become ineffective. The European ruling, known as 2009/905/JHA, in effect prevents laboratories not accredited to the quality standard known as ISO 17025 from undertaking work that leads to either a DNA profile or fingerprint data.
And it also said that adoption of the forensic regulator's standards by defence forensic providers had been more difficult.
The government expects to decide on the outcome of the consultation following the appointment of the next forensic regulator in early 2014.
The current holder of the position is Andrew Rennison.


A teenage cyclist being pursued on foot by a police officer is in a "serious but stable" condition in hospital after he was in collision with a taxi.

Merseyside Police said the crash took place in Fountains Road in the Kirkdale area of Liverpool at about 20:30 BST on Monday following a "brief pursuit".
The 17-year-old was taken to hospital suffering from a head injury.
Police said they referred the incident to the Independent Police Complaints Commission as "standard practice".
A spokesman said: "An officer on patrol in the Fountains Road area was involved in a brief foot pursuit of a male riding a pedal cycle.
"The pedal cycle was ridden on to Fountains Road where it was involved in a collision with a taxi."
The taxi driver stayed at the scene and assisted police with their inquiries.


A pensioner has died after being hit by a car in the Ibrox area of Glasgow.

It is believed that David Spence fell on to Paisley Road West, near Copeland Road, at about 21:20 on Wednesday, before being struck by a car.
The 79-year-old was taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where he later died. The male driver of the silver Nissan Note was uninjured.
Police Scotland appealed for any witnesses to the incident to contact them.
Sgt Kenneth Canavan said: "Mr Spence is seen on CCTV crossing the road then falling to the ground where he was struck by a Nissan Note that was travelling east on Paisley Road West.
"Members of the public, including a passing paramedic, stopped to assist and Mr Spence was taken to hospital but unfortunately he died early this morning."


Walsall have signed teenage midfielder Bryn Morris on loan from Championship club Middlesbrough.

The promotion-chasing League One side side have brought in the former England Under-19 captain on an initial two-month youth loan.
Morris, 19, who started the campaign in the Midlands on loan at Coventry City, previously worked with Saddlers boss Sean O'Driscoll while on England duty.
"I've worked with Sean before. He's got a really good philosophy," said Morris.
"I loved playing for him and we had some really good results with England. He said it's the club's philosophy to give young players a chance.
"So that's good for me and shows young players that there is a pathway through the system."
Morris is Walsall's first signing of the January window and, other than on-loan midfielder George Evans' return to Manchester City, prior to being sold to Reading, the Saddlers have not yet had to let any players go.
O'Driscoll's side stand third in League One, four points off top spot.
Hartlepool-born midfielder Bryn Morris progressed through the ranks to sign professional forms in 2013, after joining Middlesbrough's Academy at the age of seven.
Despite joining the club in time for this weekend's FA Cup fourth-round tie at Reading, Morris is cup-tied, having played in the competition for York City, where he also spent a month in October.
Morris has made three Boro substitute appearances, since being handed his debut by Tony Mowbray, now Coventry's boss, as a 16-year-old. He has made 11 appearances this season; seven for Coventry, four at York.
He also made five appearances on loan to League Two champions Burton Albion last season.
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An asylum seeker from Myanmar has been identified as the man who set himself alight in a bank in the Australian city of Melbourne on Friday.

The 21-year-old is under guard in hospital after the incident that injured 26 others.
He arrived by boat three years ago and had been released from detention pending a decision on his case.
It was reported that his benefits had not been in his account when he tried to withdraw them on Wednesday.
The man, known to his friends as Noor, set himself alight using gasoline at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia branch in the Melbourne suburb of Springvale.
Five bystanders suffered burns and 21 more smoke inhalation.
Video taken by eyewitnesses of the immediate aftermath showed flames inside the bank branch and thick black smoke, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The suspect had arrived in Australia as an unaccompanied minor and was awaiting receipt of a refugee visa.
The man was reportedly of mixed Muslim parentage. Although he is partly Rohingya - the Muslim community that lives in Rakhine state near the Bangladesh border and which has been denied citizenship and freedom of movement by the government - he reportedly lived in southern Myanmar.
He had been detained in a camp on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean before being moved to Melbourne.
The president of the Australian Burmese Rohingya Organisation, Habib Habib, told the Melbourne Age: "He has been suffering and his friends say his welfare payment was not received and he couldn't pay his rent."
He had returned to the bank each day after finding his money was not available on Wednesday.
Mr Habib said: "This system makes all of them crazy. They're in legal limbo."
Refugee and asylum seeker advocate Pamela Curr told the Age the man was also was known to have mental health problems.
The department of immigration has set up a fast-track system to process about 30,000 asylum claims. Ms Curr said this had caused uncertainty in the community.
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce expressed concern for those who were burned in the incident.
"There's nothing more disturbing than a burns ward. Maybe he had lost his mind - you'd have to lose your mind to do something so cruel," Mr Joyce said.


Unbeaten Northampton Town gained their first League One win since promotion by beating 3-2 MK Dons in a thriller.

Harry Beautyman scored with a shot on the turn in the eighth minute for the Cobblers, who are now 30 games unbeaten in the league.
Alex Revell's glancing header made it 2-0, before Matt Taylor curled in a fine free-kick for a third.
Dean Bowditch pulled one back for MK Dons, and Taylor had a penalty saved before a late Samir Carruthers goal.
Northampton, who won League Two last season, were three goals up inside the first half-an-hour, leading when Jak McCourt won the ball and advanced into the area before finding Beautyman, who beat goalkeeper David Martin from 10 yards.
Former Dons striker Revell doubled the advantage five minutes later, getting on the end of Taylor's excellent cross to find the bottom corner of the net.
Nicky Maynard went close for the visitors with a shot on the turn which goalkeeper Adam Smith saved comfortably, but the hosts increased their lead in the 28th minute when Taylor curled a 20-yard free-kick over the wall and into the top corner of the net.
Ed Upson flashed a shot wide before the visitors reduced the arrears in the 38th minute when Bowditch headed home a cross from Carruthers.
Northampton squandered a great opportunity to restore their three-goal advantage shortly after the restart - Bowditch conceding a penalty when he impeded Kenji Gorre only for Martin to save Taylor's effort.
Smith kept out a fierce drive from Carruthers as the visitors looked to make the most of the let-off.
The home side had further chances on the counter but Carruthers reduced the deficit in stoppage-time, racing on to Darren Potter's pass to beat Smith.
Report provided by the Press Association.
Match ends, Northampton Town 3, MK Dons 2.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 3, MK Dons 2.
Goal!  Northampton Town 3, MK Dons 2. Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
David Buchanan (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George Baldock (MK Dons).
Substitution, Northampton Town. Marc Richards replaces Alex Revell.
Foul by Alex Revell (Northampton Town).
Dean Lewington (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
David Buchanan (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Samir Carruthers (MK Dons).
Alex Revell (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Samir Carruthers (MK Dons).
Foul by Alex Revell (Northampton Town).
Dean Lewington (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Daniel Powell (MK Dons).
Alfie Potter (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
George Baldock (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alfie Potter (Northampton Town).
Substitution, MK Dons. Daniel Powell replaces Ryan Colclough.
Corner,  Northampton Town. Conceded by David Martin.
Attempt saved. Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Jak McCourt (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Reeves (MK Dons).
Substitution, Northampton Town. Sam Hoskins replaces Paul Anderson.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Alfie Potter replaces Kenji Gorré.
Corner,  MK Dons. Conceded by Adam Smith.
Attempt saved. Dean Bowditch (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  MK Dons. Conceded by Jak McCourt.
Paul Downing (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alex Revell (Northampton Town).
Foul by Kieran Agard (MK Dons).
Zander Diamond (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, MK Dons. Ben Reeves replaces Ed Upson.
Substitution, MK Dons. Kieran Agard replaces Nicky Maynard.
Penalty saved! Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the bottom right corner.
Penalty Northampton Town. Kenji Gorré draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Dean Bowditch (MK Dons) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Darren Potter (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Paul Anderson (Northampton Town).


Low interest rates and changes to savings taxation are resulting in "perhaps the worst Isa season on record", a financial analyst said.

The returns available to savers putting money into a cash Individual Savings Account (Isa) are among the lowest ever seen, Moneyfacts said.
This time of year tends to see banks offering better rates to attract savers to the tax-free products.
Moneyfacts said the best easy-access Isa rate was 1.41%.
This was well down on the top rate of 3.15% offered five years ago.
The returns for Isa savers have been hit by the low interest rate environment, as well as the introduction of a new personal savings allowance in April, which will mean most savers will be free from tax on their savings interest anyway.
The change means basic rate taxpayers will be able to earn up to Â£1,000 in savings interest tax-free and higher rate taxpayers will be able to earn up to Â£500 in tax-free savings income.
Charlotte Nelson, of Moneyfacts, said: "Isas were once the go-to product for savers as they offered not only tax benefits but also some of the better rates on the market.
"However, this is certainly no longer the case thanks to almost constant rate decreases. For instance, the best easy access Isa rate has dropped by 0.10% in just six months, making this perhaps the worst Isa season on record."


The new US secretary of state is heading off on his first trip to Asia, where diplomatic tensions run high.

Rex Tillerson, who has no previous political experience, will be visiting countries in the shadow of North Korea's nuclear programme.
Global superpower China may be the key to that problem, and to stability in the region, but relations with the US are strained at the moment, partly over comments Mr Tillerson himself has made.
His first true test as a diplomat is a potential powder keg. So is the former oil boss up to the task?
Rex Tillerson has kept a remarkably low profile in his first month or so in office, giving no press briefings in six weeks, and sticking to prepared statements.
Any hopes that reporters might see him in action on this Asia trip were dashed, however, when it emerged he wouldn't be bringing the state department press corps along.
Instead, Mr Tillerson will be taking a single reporter from a conservative website, the Independent Journal Review - because of the small plane being used, the state department said. The journalist, Erin McPike, recently wrote about Tillerson in a piece on "Exxon Mobil's special treatment from the White House".
The trip is seen as important because Mr Tillerson will be trying to conduct high-level diplomacy in a region shaken by his president's public comments.
Donald Trump has tweeted that China needs to be "taken on" and decried the country's "military complex" in the South China Sea. The president has said that South Korea "makes a fortune on us" while the US defends it, and has accused Japan of "currency manipulation".
Such remarks have led to uncertainty in the region about the direction of US foreign policy, something Mr Tillerson will have to deal with.
Mr Tillerson's trip starts with Japan, which is likely to be the easiest leg of the journey. He is scheduled to meet the foreign minister, as well as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe - who Trump has already met, and "had a great time" with.
But the military threat from North Korea is likely to dominate the discussion.
The secretive isolationist nation has continued its development of nuclear weapons despite sanctions and threats from the international community. Two nuclear explosion tests and more than 20 missile launches in the past year have increased tensions.
Both Japan and South Korea, which are US military allies and host US troops, are within missile distance of North Korea.
But it is China, as North Korea's only ally on earth, which holds the power to affect change.
Donald Trump has accused China of ignoring the North Korea situation, and essentially allowing it to worsen.
But Beijing has taken relatively strong steps in recent weeks. Early in March, it asked Pyongyang to stop its missile tests to "defuse a looming crisis", and earlier dealt its ally a severe economic blow by banning coal imports.
Mr Tillerson is likely to urge China to do even more. But at the same time, he'll have to smooth over another row that the US is involved in.
The United States has deployed the Thaad missile defence system (that's Terminal High Altitude Area Defence) in South Korea to defend it from nuclear attack.
Unfortunately, the missile defence system's radar is extremely long range, extending into China.
"It's incredible the speed with which China's leaders can just switch on anti-South Korea sentiment here," the BBC's China Correspondent, Stephen McDonnell, said in a blog post this week.
China's development of artificial islands with defensive capabilities in the South China Sea is deeply controversial.
"We're going to have to send China a clear signal that first, the island-building stops and second, your access to those islands also is not going to be allowed," Mr Tillerson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January, likening it to Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
"They are taking territory or control or declaring control of territories that are not rightfully China's," he said, in remarks that might be welcomed by Japan and others who contest China's territorial claims.
But it makes the delicate negotiation with China that much harder.
For China's part, state-controlled media warned Mr Tillerson that such actions could cause "devastating confrontation" or even "a large-scale war".
A rather more emollient foreign minister told his annual news conference in Beijing that Mr Tillerson "is a person who is willing to listen and is a deep communicator."
Even if Mr Tillerson can bring calm to the South China Sea dispute and persuade Beijing to step up sanctions against Pyongyang, there's still one more problem - an economic one.
One of President Trump's first actions was to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would have opened up trade with Japan and 11 other nations by reducing tariffs. That's good news for China, which saw the TPP as an effort to contain its economic might, but means Japan needs to start over.
And China has its own problems with US trade policy.
During the election campaign, Mr Trump floated the idea of a 45% tariff on goods from China, and in January, a senior academic adviser warned the current trade deal was "more favourable to China than us".
Anthony Scaramucci told the BBC a trade war is "going to cost them way more than it is ever going to cost us, and I think they know that."
And while the relationship with South Korea may have long been stable, the country is in the depths of a major political crisis following the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye.
She had been a long-time supporter of US foreign policy in the region, particularly when it came to isolating North Korea.
But the current frontrunner to replace her, Moon Jae-in, has suggested a new approach might be required in handling North Korea - and has voiced concern about the US deployment of the Thaad defence system in the South.
With so many competing interests in economic and territorial disputes, and a looming military threat, Mr Tillerson will have to thread the diplomatic needle carefully - weighing each nation's goals against the desire of the US, and everyone else involved, for regional stability.


A "large and complex" insurance claim for a 1930s Art Deco cinema that was wrecked by fire has been concluded, its owners have said.

Regent Cinema in Lyme Regis, Dorset, was engulfed by the blaze which caused the roof to collapse in March 2016.
Scott Cinemas said it had concluded its dealings with the insurer after more than a year but it had been a "much longer process than hoped".
It said architects and surveyors were now working on the rebuilding plans.
The Grade II listed building was extensively damaged in the fire which began following an electrical fault.
The auditorium was gutted, although the Art Deco frontage and the foyer were left largely intact.
Lyme town councillor Jeff Scowen said: "It's been sorely missed by the community and visitors. It's a beautiful iconic structure and it seems it's taken forever.
"Finally things are moving and it can't be a day too soon."
Scott Cinemas previously vowed to rebuild the cinema and said it hoped to begin work by the end of the year.
Source: Scott Cinemas


A post-mortem examination on a hippopotamus at the National Zoo of El Salvador has found that it did not die as a result of a stabbing attack, officials say.

The zoo earlier reported that the much-loved hippo, Gustavito, had been stabbed and beaten by unknown assailants.
But prosecutors, who found no sign of puncture wounds, said it was likely the hippo died as a result of poor care.
Gustavito, 15, died late on Sunday.
A detailed examination showed that the animal had apparently died of a pulmonary haemorrhage, or bleeding from the lung, state prosecutor Mario Salazar said.
Earlier reports that Gustavito had been brutally attacked caused international outrage and the alleged incident was described by officials as cowardly and inhumane.
Police later questioned employees of the zoo to try to establish who could have entered the premises to carry out such an attack.
None of the CCTV cameras at the zoo overlook Gustavito's enclosure.
Culture Minister Silvia Elena Regalado said the result of the post-mortem examination did not rule out an attack on the hippo, which she said could have died from the resulting stress.
Following the death, zoo director Vladlen Hernandez said he did not believe employees were involved in any attack and added that the zoo had received no threats from any of El Salvador's feared street gangs.
Mr Hernandez later said that Gustavito had been buried "straight away" because he wanted Salvadoreans to remember the hippo the way he used to be - eating fruit or swimming in his pool.
Last Saturday, the zookeepers noticed Gustavito acting strangely, refusing to eat and unwilling to come out of the pool in his enclosure.
The zoo's veterinarians then reportedly found lacerations on the hippo's neck and face, and the animal clearly in great distress.
His condition worsened on Sunday and he died late that night despite the efforts of the staff to save him.


US officials are investigating several attacks that happened over the weekend, including three on one day.

What do we know about who attacked Minnesota, New York and New Jersey?
On Saturday morning, a pipe bomb exploded on the route of a charity race in New Jersey. Nobody was hurt, because the road was empty at the time. The race had been delayed due to an unattended bag. The event, which was planned to raise money for Marines and sailors, was cancelled.
That evening, a man dressed in a security uniform stabbed eight people in a shopping centre in a town in Minnesota. They all survived and none of their injuries are life-threatening. The attacker was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer. It happened in St Cloud, 70 miles (110km) from the major city of Minneapolis. The town's police chief said the man had asked at least one person if they were Muslim.
At roughly the same time, more than 1,200 miles (1,900km) away in Manhattan, New York, a pressure cooker filled with shrapnel exploded. It happened in the Chelsea area where there is a bustling nightlife, and 29 people were injured. All were released from hospital by Sunday. The same kind of bomb had been used in the Boston marathon attack in 2013.
A second, similar, bomb found four blocks away was removed safely.
Overnight on Sunday and in the early hours of Monday morning, up to five explosive devices were found in a backpack inside a rubbish bin in Elizabeth, New Jersey. One of them exploded while being handled by a robot. The city's mayor has said this was "not a controlled explosion".
On Monday, Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested after a shootout with police in Linden, New Jersey, a city four miles (6.4km) south-west of Elizabeth, where more devices were found on Sunday. Rahami, 28, a suspect in the New Jersey and New York bombings, was born in Afghanistan and later became a US citizen.
Earlier on Monday, the FBI sent text message alerts to millions of New Yorkers warning them Rahami "should be considered armed and dangerous".
Dahir A Adan, a 22-year-old student, was identified by his father as the assailant in the Minnesota knife attack. Adan, a Kenyan-born Somali man, had lived in the US for 15 years according to his father. Ahmed Adan said he had "no suspicion" his son was involved in extremist activity.
It's hard to say - not least without a consistent definition of what terrorism is. The authorities have said the motive for all three attacks was unclear.
New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo originally said the bomb in the city was "obviously an act of terrorism, but it's not linked to international terrorism", and clarified that no link to the so-called Islamic State (IS) group "et cetera" had been found.
But after the suspect was identified, Mr Cuomo said: "Today's information suggests it may be foreign related, but we'll see where it goes."
So-called Islamic State said the Minnesota attacker was one of its "soldiers", but the FBI says it has not been able to find any link. IS has called for "lone wolf" attacks and has been known to claim attacks by people who were later found not to have been in contact with the group.
They already have. About 1,000 extra security personnel have being deployed to New York's transport hubs as President Barack Obama arrived in the city. He was scheduled to be there on Tuesday to open the UN General Assembly, attended by leaders and delegates from around the world.
"If you look at a number of these incidents, you can call them whatever you want: they are terrorism, though," said Chris Christie, the Governor of New Jersey.
The Democratic Party's candidate for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, said: "This should steel our resolve to protect our country and defeat ISIS and other terrorist groups."
Republican candidate Donald Trump was one of the first to say Chelsea was a bomb attack. He later tweeted: "Best wishes and condolences to all of the families and victims of the horrible bombing."
Saturday 09:30 local time (13:30 GMT):  Pipe bomb explodes on route of charity race in Seaside Park, New Jersey
Saturday 21:00 local time (01:00 Sunday GMT): Manhattan pressure cooker bomb explodes
Saturday 23:30 local time (03:30 Sunday GMT): Manhattan second pressure cooker bomb found but does not explode
Saturday 20:00 local time (02:00 Sunday GMT): eight people stabbed in Minnesota
Sunday 20:30 local time (01:30 Monday GMT): first of five pipe bombs found in a bin in Elizabeth, New Jersey


Worcester City beat Coventry City 2-1 to produce the biggest shock of Sunday's FA Cup first-round ties.

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Sean Geddes' two goals helped the Conference North side through at the expense of the League One Sky Blues, Cup winners in 1987.
League Two Portsmouth, winners in 2008, left it late to draw 2-2 at home with Conference club Aldershot.
Northern Premier Blyth Spartans beat Conference Altrincham 4-1 to take their place in the next round.
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Worcester took full advantage after Coventry goalkeeper Lee Burge was sent off in the first half for lashing out at visiting  striker Daniel Nti.
Geddes scored the resulting penalty and added a second goal 10 minutes into the second half.
Coventry's Reda Johnson missed a penalty before the break and, though he scored late on, Worcester held on.
"We were the better side," Worcester manager Carl Heeley told BBC Sport. "We're nine games unbeaten now, so we're a good footballing side. But to come to a League One club and to beat them on their own patch - it's a brilliant day."
Coventry boss Steven Pressley said: "This defeat ranks as one of the worst in the club's history."
Blyth's Robbie Dale maintained his record of scoring in every round of this season's competition with two against Altrincham, while Danny Maguire also scored twice for team from the seventh tier of English football.
Aldershot were nine minutes away from a famous win over their Hampshire rivals, but Danny Hollands' header earned the former Premier League side a replay.
Bradford City came from behind against non-league opposition, overcoming an early FC Halifax Town goal to win 2-1 thanks to two goals in quick succession early in the second half.
Two deflected goals from Gary McSheffrey were enough to give Scunthorpe United victory at Forest Green Rovers, while League One pair Chesterfield and Colchester put six past Braintree and Gosport Borough respectively.
Maidstone United, of the Ryman Premier Division, held Stevenage of League Two to a 0-0 draw, while a lacklustre encounter between Notts County and Accrington Stanley ended in the same scoreline.
Rob Ramshaw hit a hat-trick as Gateshead eased to a 4-0 win away at Norton United, while Wrexham are also into the second round after a 3-0 victory at home to fellow Conference side Woking.
The second-round draw takes place on Monday at 19:00 GMT. You can watch it live on BBC Two and the BBC Sport website.


A fossilised fruit dating back 52 million years has been discovered in South America.

The ancient berry belongs to a family of plants that includes popular foods such as potatoes, tomatoes and peppers.
The plant family's early history is largely unknown as, until now, only a few seeds have been found in the fossil record.
Scientists say the origins of the class go back much further than previously thought, by tens of millions of years.
The plant, a type of Physalis, was found in a fossilised rainforest in Patagonia.
It belongs to the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family of flowering plants, which includes crops, tobacco, medicinal plants and garden flowers such as the petunia.
Peter Wilf, professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University, led the team that discovered the ancient berry.
He told BBC News: "It's the only fossil fruit ever found of this whole group of plants, that now has over 2,000 species.
"A lot of the evolutionary history of life, especially plants, which are rare as fossils, is largely unknown.
"Here we have this discovery of these incredibly rare, delicate fossils - here you have a berry surrounded by this papery calyx - it's almost unheard of that such a thing could be fossilised."
The fruit is closely related both to tomatillos, which are used commonly in Mexican cooking, and to ground cherries, or Physalis.
They have papery lantern-like husks that grow around fleshy, often edible, berries.
Previously it was thought that tomatillos and ground cherries evolved more recently around the time the Andes rose.
About 50 million years ago, South America was closer to Antarctica and Australia than it is today and the world was also much warmer.
The researchers believe the area will yield many more discoveries of fossil plants.
"Paleobotanical discoveries in Patagonia are probably destined to revolutionise some traditional views on the origin and evolution of the plant kingdom," said N Ruben Cuneo of CONICET, Museo Palentologico Egidio Ferulgio.
The research is published in the journal, Science.
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Scotland's first satellite has been launched successfully in Kazakhstan according to the team who built it.

UKube-1 is a cubesat, packing six payloads into a space not much bigger than a shoebox.
Its experiments include a study of space weather and a project to let school pupils interact with the satellite.
It was commissioned by the UK Space Agency and built by Glasgow company Clyde Space.
The firm has a big share of the market for cubesat components and already has orders for another two complete satellites.
It says it is planning to mass-manufacture hundreds or even thousands more.
Strictly speaking it is not Mission Control Maryhill but it is not far from it.
The headquarters of Clyde Space is up a flight of stairs in a neat but unassuming building at Kelvin Science Park in Glasgow's West End.
They will not be running the mission from here but this is where they built the first Scottish satellite.
The basic cubesat concept is a cube ten by ten by ten centimetres. That's a litre into which, thanks to microelectronics, you can squeeze a lot of science.
The design of UKube-1 is based on three such boxes. It is what they call a 3U cubesat. Three litres of payload.
Clyde Space say this is the most advanced small satellite of its kind in the world and - they hope - the first of many. Because the economics of spaceflight are in their favour.
A cubesat could cost you around $250,000. Not the sort of thing you could buy out of the housekeeping money but in the satellite business it is close to peanuts.
The low weight means launch costs are also relatively low.
Universities, research institutes and - increasingly - businesses are seeing them as affordable options for getting experiments and services into Earth orbit.
A low orbit means some other cubesats will burn up on re-entry after just a few years. But it should not cost too much to replace - and that is where Clyde Space foresee a huge growth area.
They think cubesats will become a mass market, with some companies ordering hundreds at a time. Clyde Space think they could become the first mass manufacturer of small satellites with thousands of orders on their books.
But they are walking before they run. The publicity surrounding UKube-1 has helped them win orders for two more complete satellites. The business of building components and subsystems for cubesats has also continued to grow.
Turnover has doubled in a year. Staff numbers have increased by 50%. This is just part of a burgeoning Scottish space industry which many Scots don't yet realise exists.
A successful launch and deployment could change all that.
UKube-1 was launched aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
It was the Soyuz which lifted many Soviet space pioneers to orbit when Baikonur was still part of the USSR. Its 21st century incarnation continues to combine reliability with relatively low cost.
UKube-1 is one of eight large and small satellites aboard for this launch, further underlining the economic arguments for both the cubesat concept and Soyuz.
Baikonur occupies a hallowed place in the history of spaceflight. Sputnik 1, Earth's first artificial satellite, lifted off from there. So did Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.
The launch of Scotland's first satellite is admittedly a smaller milestone. But in Maryhill they'll be watching just as intently as those first satellite builders.


North Korea has detained several US citizens - sometimes holding them for years, the BBC explains.

Matthew Todd Miller, a 24-year-old US citizen, was sentenced to six years of hard labour on 14 September 2014 for what state media described as "hostile acts" against North Korea.
He had been in custody since 10 April when, according to North Korean sources, he destroyed his tourist visa and demanded asylum.
The youngest of four sons, he grew up in Bakersfield, California, and both his parents were oil engineers.
Described by former classmates as "quiet but extremely intelligent", he learnt Korean on his first trip to South Korea four years ago while visiting a brother stationed there with the US air force.  A California neighbour said he liked it so much he stayed.
Notes produced in court, apparently in Mr Miller's handwriting, suggested he had become a fugitive because he was involved with Wikileaks, the organisation that leaked US state secrets.
However, the BBC's Stephen Evans in Seoul says it is unclear if they were written under duress or not, and if any of the allegations were true.
In an interview this month with CNN, attended by North Korean officials, Mr Miller said: "I will say that I prepared to violate the law of the DPRK before coming here."
He also said he deliberately committed his "crime", without specifying what he had done wrong.
The charges he faced in trial were non-specified.
Mr Bae, a Korean-American known in North Korea as Pae Jun-ho, was arrested in November 2012 as he entered the north-eastern port city of Rason, a special economic zone near North Korea's border with China.
He has been described as both a tour operator and Christian missionary. North Korea said he used his tourism business to form groups to overthrow the government.
He was sentenced to 15 years' hard labour in May 2013.
Mr Bae's trial and conviction came at a time of high tension between the US and North Korea, in the wake of the communist state's third nuclear test. So far efforts to secure his release have been unsuccessful.
His family say he has several health complaints including diabetes and liver problems.
Jeffrey Edward Fowle: June 2014 - October 2014
Jeffrey Fowle entered North Korea on 29 April and was detained as he was leaving the country some time between mid-May and early June, according to reports.
He is a 56-year-old US citizen from Miamisburg, Ohio, who works for the city.
The father of three came into the country as a tourist but, according to reports, left a Bible in his hotel room - something the North considers incendiary.
He was facing a trial for non-specified charges but was released following negotiations and returned to the US in October 2014.
Mr Jun, a businessman, was arrested in November 2010 for an unspecified "grave crime", and detained in North Korea for six months.
It was reported that he may have been involved in missionary work during business trips to North Korea.
The communist state views organised religious activity as a potential challenge to its leadership.
North Korean state media said that he had confessed to wrongdoing, and that he was treated well in custody, being allowed diplomatic contact and family phone calls.
Visiting US officials repeatedly requested his release, including Robert King, the US special envoy for human rights, who was visiting North Korea to assess its food situation.
During Mr King's visit, the North agreed to free Mr Jun on "humanitarian grounds".
Mr Jun was flown out with Mr King's delegation.
The US had suspended its food aid to North Korea in 2009 amid concerns over the North's nuclear programme, and Mr King stressed that Pyongyang had not been promised aid in return for Mr King's release.
Aijalon Mahli Gomes, 31, was sentenced to eight years' hard labour for illegally entering North Korea from China in 2010.
He had been teaching English in South Korea, but reportedly crossed into North Korea in January 2010. He was arrested in April that year.
Mr Gomes, a devout Christian, was thought to have gone to North Korea on a one-man peace mission.
North Korean media said he tried to commit suicide while in detention.
Mr Gomes' detention came during a period of heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
In March 2010, South Korea's Cheonan warship sank, killing 46 sailors. International investigators said that the vessel had been sunk by a North Korean torpedo, something Pyongyang denied.
Soon afterwards, the US and South Korea took part in joint military drills, sparking anger from North Korea.
Six-party talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear programme had also been stalled for several months.
Former US President Jimmy Carter secured Mr Gomes' release during a "private humanitarian trip" to North Korea in August 2010.
During his trip, he met North Korean officials, including ceremonial head of state Kim Yong-nam.
North Korean media said that Kim Yong-nam expressed North Korea's commitment to resuming six-party negotiations on its nuclear programme, during his talks with Mr Carter.
US Christian activist Robert Park entered North Korea on 25 December 2009, carrying a letter for then-North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
He crossed into North Korea from China by walking over a frozen river. He was arrested almost instantly.
He told the BBC he had decided to make the trip because his conscience had been tormented by the thought of people suffering in North Korea.
He said he was tortured while in custody.
In February, North Korea said it had decided to "forgive and release" Mr Park.
North Korean media said he confessed to crossing the border, and agreed that his view of North Korea was based on false reports.
He now realised that religious freedom was ensured in North Korea, North Korea's main news agency added - something his colleagues described as "propaganda".
Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for California-based Current TV, were jailed for illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years' hard labour.
They had been filming a video about North Korean refugees, and admitted to entering North Korea for a short time, but said they were on the Chinese side of the border when they were arrested.
"We were firmly back inside China when the soldiers apprehended us," they said.
"We tried with all our might to cling to bushes, ground, anything that would keep us on Chinese soil, but we were no match for the determined soldiers."
They said it was possible that they had been lured into a trap.
Their detention took place during a period of high tensions between Pyongyang and Washington. In April, North Korea dropped out of six-party denuclearisation talks, and in May, it said it had successfully completed its second nuclear test.
The two journalists were issued with a special pardon after former US President Bill Clinton visited Pyongyang, and returned to Los Angeles on a chartered flight with Mr Clinton.
Official North Korean reports said that Mr Clinton had apologised on behalf of the US for the actions of the two reporters - something denied by the US, who said Mr Clinton carried no message to North Korea.
Correspondents said that it appeared that the women had been held in relative comfort in a guest house for most of their time in North Korea, and been used by North Korea as a diplomatic tool to secure a visit by a high-profile US envoy.
Bryan Toh also contributed to this article


More than 2,000 people have been left without a GP after a surgery was closed for being inadequate.

Patients at the Mapperley Park Medical Centre in Nottingham have been advised to contact other GP surgeries nearby.
After being put in special measures last year, continued concerns were raised about staffing levels, infection control and record keeping.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said the practice will remain closed until necessary improvements are made.
The practice, run by Dr Mark Stephen, was initially rated as inadequate after an inspection in March 2015 and placed in special measures the following June.
A subsequent assessment in December found "patients were still at risk of harm because effective systems were not in place to ensure identified risks were sufficiently mitigated".
The CQC confirmed it carried out another inspection on 1 September and found "a number of concerns".
In a statement it said: "We are working closely with Nottingham CCG [Clinical Commissioning Group] and NHS England with regard to the service and have taken urgent action to protect people who use the service.
"While our legal processes do not allow us to go in to further detail at this time, we will publish a full report of our findings in due course."
A patient outside the clinic said they were "very surprised" at the move.


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Among the many arresting images from Paris since the Friday attacks was that of the distraught father pleading with French Prime Minister Manuel Valls for news of his missing daughter, Nathalie Jardin.

"I don't know where my daughter is," said Patrick Jardin. "I don't know if she's still alive or in which hospital she might be." His daughter had been working at the Bataclan concert hall as a lighting director.
Confirmation of her death emerged on Monday but the search goes on for several others missing since Islamists opened fire on the Bataclan and several other sites in Paris on Friday night.
The hashtag #rechercheParis has been widely used. And as the identities of the dead and wounded have been confirmed, many of the names and faces originally posted on Twitter have been updated with the simple word "deceased".
At least 10 of the victims are yet to be identified.
Hospitals in Paris said in a statement on Monday that of the 80 people admitted in a critical condition, 29 remained in intensive care. Another 48 are still being treated but are no longer in a critical condition.
One nurse posted a message on Sunday saying that some patients who were not in a critical condition had not been identified and were labelled as "X".
Remi Suquate was among the crowd watching Eagles of Death Metal at the Bataclan where at least 82 people were killed.
Lola Ouzounian was also at the Bataclan, and also 17 years old. One young woman wrote that Lola was her teacher's daughter. "Let's help him, please," she tweeted.
Most messages on social media gave brief details of those who were missing: their height, age and hair colour.
One appealed for help in finding Seraphin Amafela, 29, with the simple message: "Letter K tattooed on left shoulder."
For some of those searching for friends and loved ones, word eventually came that they had not survived.
Sven Alejandro Silva Perugini, a Venezuelan working in Spain, had been at the Bataclan concert. For days, appeals on social media were made from friends and relatives at home. But eventually his body was identified.
The #rechercheparis hashtag did, however, have some successful outcomes.
For days, friends of Eli Sardon, a 23-year-old student, appealed for help in tracing her. She had been at La Belle Equipe restaurant when it came under fire.
Finally, on Tuesday, someone from a Paris hospital rang up to say that someone of Eli's description was being treated.
"Thanks, everyone, thanks. You don't know how much help you've been," tweeted one friend.


World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn does not believe in false modesty.

The snooker supremo, Matchroom Sport mogul and boxing promoter-turned-Leyton Orient chairman, claims to be the "best in the world" at what he does.
Since his return to his first sporting love nearly four years ago, even his harshest critic would struggle to argue that Hearn has not made a significant impact.
At the time, Hearn said snooker was in desperate need of salvation.
"It was much too cosy," he told BBC Sport. "It was dying, it was dormant, it was moribund.
"It was a part-time sport and in today's world you can't be a part-time sport.
"When I took it over I said I would blow it up and start again and that is effectively what we have done - and it's working.
"To me, the opportunities were so obvious and crystal clear that the job was easy. This is what I do for living. I have done it for 40 years and I think I am the best in the world at what I do.
"It has been fantastic. When I looked at it four years ago I saw a sport where the management was non-existent, and everyone was going through the motions built around a BBC contract. They had settled for a slow decline."
Slow decline was never going to lie comfortably with Hearn and the progress has been clear. Snooker is once again enjoying something of a boom period.
Much of that is down to the the sport's new-found worldwide appeal - which has tapped into the explosion of interest in China, India, parts of Europe and other destinations around the world.
"The globalisation is the biggest success without a doubt," Hearn added.
"We all knew China was going to be big and we have made it bigger. We thought we should have an event in Australasia and we did. We thought we should try South America and we did - and we may return there.
"We think the biggest breakthrough is potentially the Indian Open. The Indian sub-continent is a massive potential market for us.
"The overseas audience is bringing new players to the table.
"We haven't got a major event in the Middle East at the moment, so is that the next one?
"India has gone really well. Do they just want one a year? China is a massive market but we can't be complacent. We will be more a global sport."
Television and online "exploitation" has meant the prize money has more than doubled from £3m to more than £7m.
"In a recession market. It is difficult to criticise," Hearn said.
The snooker calendar is also stacked to such an extent that players now pick and choose events.
Current world number nine Mark Allen warned that travel expenses could decimate player numbers, while there has even been talk of snooker burnout, with world number two Mark Selby blaming his early exit from this year's World Championship on fatigue.
Former world champion Peter Ebdon was against Hearn's takeover of the sport from the start.
And snooker's biggest draw and current world champion, Ronnie O'Sullivan, pulled out of the 2012-13 season because of "personal issues" after previously refusing to sign World Snooker's official players' contract earlier in 2012 because he felt it was "too onerous".
Hearn gives the dissenting voices short shrift. The UK Championship's new format is the perfect example of what he believes is the right way forward.
The tournament at York's Barbican Theatre features 128 players in the first round, with the top seed playing the number 128 and so on. No longer are the world's top 16 guaranteed places in the latter stages of most ranking events.
"It's one of those opportunities in the 'Brave New Aldous Huxley World of Snooker' where ability is the only criteria and you find out how good you are," Hearn said.
"Players will only ever look at a system and ask the question 'How does this affect me?' That is a natural reaction from human beings - selfish, but natural.
"My responsibility is to ask how will it affect the game. This is competition in its purest sense. It is absolutely on merit, on the day.
"The fascinating thing will be round one. Of the top 64 seeds in the world, playing the next 64 in the world, how many upsets will we get and how many people will grasp the opportunity?
"Then you really see who you are dealing with and who is the best."
Hearn expects 10-16 shocks  in the first round at "top whack". But says surprises and a shake-up are exactly what was needed.
"The old system was so protective of the top players," the 65-year-old said.
"They were guaranteed a certain amount of money and ranking points. To my mind life is not about guarantees, and sport is not about guarantees. It is about the unexpected.
"This system is so brutally fair that it will cause some ripples - and that's what I want to do."
The ripples have been felt. But most appear to have slowly warmed to the new regime. The financial rewards have clearly helped appease some of those who doubted.
Hearn knows he cannot please everyone but, unsurprisingly, he does not care anyway.
"Sport is about giving players opportunities, it's not about giving them money," he explained.
Money talks:
"Sport is about money. All the glories are down the road. Initially it is all about cash. How do you get the top players? Easy. Push the money up. If you want the top players in golf, snooker and tennis you have to come up with the top prize money and if you don't you get what is left."
Winning the player battle:
"Life's tough but the rewards are great. In any industry where the rewards are good it comes at a price. The players have to trust me and I think I have won over the trust of most of them."
Overkill:
"There is always a danger of overkill and I think I did it myself in the late 1980s and 90s. We learnt from it. It wasn't a colossal mistake, but I am aware of it much more now. You have to make sure the product is at a premium. If you supply more than the demand you will devalue the product."
The 1985 World Championship final:
"Our global audience is at a level we have never seen before but people get parochial and say 'When are you going to get 18m again on the BBC?' (viewing figures for Steve Davis v Dennis Taylor). Answer? Never. The world has changed and we have to change with it."
"If they are good enough to take their opportunity they deserve the money they win. First-round losers get nothing, no matter who you are.
"They either improve or they get another job. I have no sympathy with them. Once I give them the opportunity, my job is over.
"There will always be a few because their life has changed. It's not peaceful and getting yourself ready for a tournament every two or three months. If they are not prepared to join me, get off at the next stop."
Hearn has no intention of slowing down just yet.
A "bloody nuisance" of an Achilles injury sustained in the gym may have hindered his movement and temporarily scuppered his own golfing exploits, but nothing seems to have affected his passion for what he does in the 31 years since Matchroom was a tiny operation run out of a small office in Romford and he had his hands on everything.
He has learned to let go a little bit. Son Eddie is now the main man for Matchroom's boxing arm, and Hearn says it is an interesting adjustment.
"It's tough to let go," he admitted. "But when you appoint someone to manage, you have to let them manage.
"My son is a better promoter than me, though I would never tell him, but it does not stop me having my opinions.
"I have opinions about football, but if [Orient manager] Russell Slade started being influenced by my opinions, I would sack him. And the same with Eddie."
Hearn is still involved in the boxing as well as darts, and with his boyhood football team. Even ping pong got the Hearn treatment in January.
He has not finished with snooker yet either.
"We are a class sport and I think we provide entertainment, but we have not exploited ourselves properly," he said. "That has changed massively but there is still more change to come.
"The world has changed and we have to change with it. The answer is to push on and be as big as you can be. We are on that way."
Hearn believes he will know when he is no longer the man to lead from the front and it is time to completely relinquish control.
"In my dotage, they still give me a free ticket," he added.
"One day my son will probably charge me. Then I will know the end of the empire is nigh."


A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who arrived at a doctor's surgery with stab wounds and died shortly after.

Officers were called to Rowley Healthcare on Hawes Lane in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, on Monday afternoon.
The woman, who was in her 50s, was treated by medical staff and taken to hospital but died a short time later.
A 54-year-old man was arrested at the surgery and is in police custody.
The area has been cordoned off while forensic experts examine the scene.


Thousands of small businesses ordered to register for auto-enrolment pensions face fines after part of the regulator's website crashed.

An online server at the Pensions Regulator has been faulty since Wednesday at least, the BBC understands.
Some of the businesses concerned could face fines as a result of missing registration deadlines.
The regulator said any difficulties would be taken into consideration.
However, it could not guarantee that all fines would be waived, a spokesman said.
One business owner told the BBC he had been trying to register since Monday, but that the server had been down since then.
His deadline is less than a week away.
Small and micro businesses - those with between one and 49 employees - are having to sign up for auto enrolment pensions.
Under the law, anyone who pays an employee over the age of 22 more than Â£10,000 a year has to provide a pension.
In a statement the the Pensions Regulator said: "We are aware of a technical issue affecting some functionality on our website.
"We are working hard to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
"Anyone with concerns about their automatic enrolment pension duties should contact our helpline on 0345 600 1011. Each case will be discussed on an individual basis."


As the 2017-18 season draws ever closer, you can be guaranteed of a few things: long-running transfer sagas, friendlies that mean as much as a five-a-side game on your local astroturf and new kit launches.

Usually the latter of those points is the one to happen without note, but League Two side Wycombe Wanderers have decided it was time to go bold. Really bold.
Their new goalkeeper kits, in particular the tie-dye-like home strip, has gained immediate cult status for the sheer in-your-faceness.
And it is in no way accidental.
"I wanted to try to create a target area to draw opposition players' eyes to," said Chairboys goalkeeping coach and chief designer Barry Richardson.
"The modern-day goalkeepers are a lot bigger than they used to be, so it's a no-brainer to design something with big, bright, bold colours because it just makes big goalkeepers even bigger."
So where did his inspiration for the kit come from?
"I had a kaleidoscope as a kid," said Richardson. "I remember looking at it and it drew my eyes into the middle.
"With all of the sparkly colours, you could see them all on the peripheral, but your eyes are always drawn to the centre."
Richardson, 47, acts as back-up to first-choice Scott Brown at Adams Park, the man lucky enough to model the kits in official photos.
"You're always looking for that extra 1% and hopefully this can help us in one way," said Brown.
"It's definitely the best kit I've had. You get the standard ones, a home one and away one and they're identical. It's usually a green one and a yellow one and these are totally different."
According to Richardson, the reaction from Wycombe's strikers has already proved how worthwhile the design is.
He continued: "What the strikers have said straight away was that 'I don't look at the goalie, he doesn't distract me'. Straight away, those are the sort of answers you want because you're already affecting their heads. They're thinking about it now.
"There are only three things that are certain in life: death, taxes and goalkeepers conceding goals. So if we can concede less and it preys on a few people mentally, they're thinking 'I'll show them and stick it in the top corner', we've already affected them."


A former north Wales police chief was "in a position to abuse" two teenage boys in the 1980s, a court has heard.

Former Supt Gordon Anglesea, 78, is accused of two indecent assaults and one serious sexual assault against one boy, and the indecent assault of another.
He denies the four charges.
On the first day of his trial at Mold Crown Court, prosecutors said his position made it "harder for complaints to be made".
Prosecuting, Eleanor Laws QC, said the allegations dated back to when Mr Anglesea, of Old Colwyn, was a police inspector based in Wrexham in the mid-1980s.
The victims, now in their forties, were in their mid-teens at the time.
Ms Laws said: "The prosecution say that Gordon Anglesea, back in the day, was in a position to abuse these two men when they were teenagers as a result of his position he held within the police force at the time, a time when the issue of institutional abuse and abuse by public figures was hard for most of us to believe, or want to believe - and harder for complaints to be made."
The trial, set to last several weeks, continues.


A man who stole a dumper truck and left a 37-mile (59.5km) trail of destruction during a police chase across two counties has been jailed.

The two-hour low-speed pursuit last July started in Norwich and ended in Brandon, Suffolk, and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage.
Nicholas Churchill, 40, from Brandon, wrote off two cars and damaged several others after a "red mist" descended.
A police officer whose car was rammed said he thought he was going to die.
The pursuit took place on major roads including the A140, A11, and A134 - as well as in a pedestrianised precinct - and involved six police cars and a helicopter.
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At an earlier court hearing, Churchill, of Mounts Pit Lane, admitted aggravated vehicle taking, dangerous driving and driving while unfit through drugs.
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3 police patrol vehicles were damaged in the chase
Norwich Crown Court heard he took the 30-tonne truck from his employer after becoming angry about the air conditioning in his cab when it became too hot to work at a quarry in Spixworth, Norfolk.
But it was a mild day of about 13C (55.4F) and he felt hot because he had been taking amphetamines, prosecutor Andrew Oliver said.
His antics left a trail of destruction along the way and shoppers were forced to scatter as he drove through the Brandon street that is closed to traffic.
A Norfolk policeman, whose patrol car was rammed, told the court: "I thought I was going to die. I was petrified."
Churchill's rampage damaged police cars and the truck he was driving was estimated at costing more than Â£26,000 to repair or replace.
In mitigation, the court was told: "The red mist descended. What happened after that he can't remember or explain."
Jailing Churchill for 14 months and banning him from driving for two years, Judge Anthony Bate said: "You left a trail of destruction and damaged police vehicles in your wake.
"It was a shocking piece of sustained dangerous driving."


The mother of an eight-year-old boy who was killed after his family was knocked down by a car has said she cannot believe Adam "is gone".

Adam Gilmour was walking to meet a school bus with his mother and siblings when the accident happened near Cloughmills, County Antrim, last week.
His five-year-old brother needed hospital treatment.
Sarah Gilmour has blamed the North Eastern Education and Library board for Adam's death.
She said she has not heard from the education board since the crash.
Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show programme, she said they "had not had the decency to reply in any way" after she had flagged up concerns about the safety of the road on which she has to walk her children to school.
"I hold them responsible for this, if they had have sorted out the lifts, to come up that small distance in the morning, Adam would be here," she added.
"The news hasn't sunk in that he's gone. I don't think I'll ever get over it. I can't get my head around it. I can't believe it's true.
"You see all the television programmes with all the accidents and children being knocked down, I never, ever, ever thought in my life I would be burying one of mine.
"If I have to go back up to that house, I don't want to go back up to that house, none of my children will ever walk out that gate. Should I have to keep them off school and get in bother for doing that, I will, until there is a bus or a taxi to come in and lift them. There's absolutely no way.
"Transport was told about how dangerous the road was and the risks walking children down it, and it was like water off a duck's back.
"It's mindboggling. I said someone was going to get skittled, or something like that.
"I would rather put me and my children in a tent than go near that road or that house.
"I'm dreading Christmas. I know I have to do it for the other kids but it will never be the same, ever," she said.
Adam's grandmother, Marlene Hanna, has also blamed the education and library board for not providing a bus to take them to school.
The bus leaves some of the children home but does not pick them up there.
Education Minister John O'Dowd has asked his officials to seek a report on the accident from the board.
On Sunday, a private service was held at Adam's grandmother's house in the village of Cloughmills, close to where the accident happened, before a funeral service.
An 18-year-old man was arrested over the crash and was later released on police bail.


Bank of America has reported a return to profit for the first three months of the year.

It posted a net income of $3.4bn (Â£2.3bn) for the first quarter, compared to a loss a year ago, when it was hit by litigation costs.
A 55% increase in mortgage loans and a rise in profit at its global banking division helped drive the increase.
Chief executive Brian Moynihan said the bank saw "continued encouraging signs in customer and client activity".
"This should bode well for the near-term economic outlook," he added.
However, some of the bank's divisions saw revenues fall, with income from its loan portfolio lower than the same period last year due to low interest rates.
Profits at its consumer bank, its biggest division, were flat which the bank blamed on lower returns from credit cards.


Police investigating the death of Tia Sharp are examining the possibility the schoolgirl had been smothered.

A post-mortem on the body found in her grandmother Christine Sharp's house in New Addington, Croydon, on Friday, is expected to recommence this week.
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Danny Shaw said: "It is understood there was bruising to her body."
Stuart Hazell, 37, of New Addington, was remanded in custody after appearing at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court.
Mr Hazell who has been accused of murdering Tia, appeared via video-link from Sutton police station.
No plea was entered to the charge, which accuses Mr Hazell of murdering the girl between 2 and 11 August.
He confirmed his name, date of birth, and address as The Lindens, New Addington, where the body was found.
Mr Hazell was arrested on Friday, soon after a body was removed from the house in south London he shares with Tia's 46-year-old grandmother.
Tia, 12, was reported missing on 3 August and was last seen at the house in New Addington, Croydon.
Although police are still waiting for formal identification of the body found on Friday, the victim is named in the murder charge as Tia.
Mr Hazell will appear at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, with a further date for a preliminary hearing, recorded as 19 November.
Christine Sharp, who was arrested on suspicion of murder, and a 39-year-old man, arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, have both been bailed to return to a south London police station, in October.
On Saturday, Scotland Yard apologised to Tia's mother, Natalie, from Mitcham, in south London, over the time it took to find the body at Ms Sharp's house, blaming "human error"
Meanwhile, it has emerged the body was found in a black bed sheet in a black bag in the loft of the house.


A 58-year-old man is still being held by police over the Westminster attack, as two others are released without charge.

Police said a man, 27, from Birmingham, who was earlier in custody, and a 39-year-old woman who was on bail have been released with no further action.
Four people died and 50 were injured when Khalid Masood drove his car into pedestrians before stabbing a police officer. He was shot dead by police.
Fourteen people remain in hospital.
PC Keith Palmer was guarding Parliament when he was stabbed by Masood. He was unarmed, but the Metropolitan Police have confirmed that he was wearing a protective vest.
A post-mortem examination heard that there was no obvious evidence the vest had been damaged or penetrated, but it had been cut off when emergency first aid was given, the Met said.
It added that the coroner had requested that the provisional cause of death was not released at this stage.
Eleven people were initially arrested over the incident.
In a statement, the Met Police said the 39-year-old woman who was arrested in east London on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts had been released.
Another women, aged 32, who was arrested in Manchester, remains on police bail while police continue their inquiries, it said.
The 58-year-old, who is still in custody, was arrested in Birmingham the morning after the attack under the Terrorism Act, meaning officers can hold him for up to two weeks.
Police are trying to establish whether Masood acted alone inspired by terrorist propaganda or if others supported him.
They are also looking into whether he used the encrypted messaging service WhatsApp to send a message two minutes before he struck.
Masood's other victims were Aysha Frade, who was in her 40s and worked at a London sixth-form college, US tourist Kurt Cochran, 54, and retired window cleaner Leslie Rhodes, from south London.
Janine Roebuck, a friend of 75-year-old Mr Rhodes, said he was "immensely proud" to have cleaned the windows at Chartwell - the Kent home of Sir Winston Churchill - for "many years".
"He was exceptionally fit for a man of his age. I would turn around and he had bounded up the ladder like someone half his age," she told BBC News.
"I am filled with huge sorrow that his life has been snatched from him in such an untimely manner."
The attack has brought into question security levels at Parliament, prompting a review by police and Parliamentary authorities.
Lord Blair, a former Met Police Commissioner who was in charge during the 2005 London bombings, said he was "absolutely certain that there will have to be changes" to the area near the entrance gates where PC Palmer was stabbed.
He refused to criticise officers for leaving the gates unguarded immediately after the attack, saying "at that moment they were behaving as human beings".
"That incident will have gripped them completely. They will know that the cavalry of the serious armed officers are on their way," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
London attack: The victims
The path from violent crime to killer
The Metropolitan Police said Masood, 52, who had previous criminal convictions but none for terrorism, had used a number of aliases.
At birth, he was registered in Dartford, Kent, as Adrian Elms, but later took his stepfather's name becoming Adrian Ajao in childhood.
In the early 2000s, he was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm after slashing a man across the face with a knife in a pub.
Masood was believed to have been living in the West Midlands before Wednesday's attack, but had previously spent time in Luton, Crawley, Rye and Eastbourne.
The Saudi Arabian embassy said Masood had worked as an English teacher in the country for two years between 2005 and 2009.
In 2015, he obtained an Umra visa - allowing pilgrimage to Mecca - and was in the country from the 3 to 8 March.
The embassy in London said it "strongly" condemned the "terrorist act in London, as it does all forms of terrorism".


The remnants of burnt carbon have been causing Australians all over the world to hang their heads in shame in recent days.

But the painful loss of the Ashes, cricket's most ridiculous trophy, to England, isn't the only CO2 related problem facing the Lucky Country.
The Australian government's announcement of an emissions reduction target for 2030 has been met with the international political equivalent of "meh".
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said his plan, to cut carbon by at least 26% of 2005 levels by 2030, was "fairly and squarely in the middle of comparable economies".
Err, not really.
Australia has chosen to use 2005 as its base year, coincidentally the year its emissions peaked. But if you make a comparison with 1990 as a baseline year, a clearer picture emerges.
Figures from the Australian think tank, the Climate Institute show that Mr Abbott's new plan will cut emissions by 20% of 1990 levels by 2030. The US on the same basis will cut by 32%, the EU by 40%  - and the UK will have reduced carbon dioxide by 66%.
The only countries to do less than Australia in this analysis, are Canada and New Zealand.
Commentators were quick to put the boot in to the Abbott plan.
The message from Australia's neighbours in the Pacific was even stronger.
"Australia's weak target is another serious blow to its international reputation," said Tony de Brum, Foreign Minister for the Marshall Islands, who argued that the plan sent a serious shudder through the Pacific.
"If the rest of the world followed Australia's lead, the Great Barrier Reef would disappear.  So would my country, and the other vulnerable atoll nations on Australia's doorstep."
Given the Abbott government's track record on repealing the country's carbon tax and lowering its renewable energy target, their low ball carbon target is hardly a surprise.
Despite the poor reception for the plan, there is a slight silver lining to the dark carbon clouds.
Australia's commitment means that a new global compact on climate change is more likely to be agreed this December at a crucial UN meeting in Paris.
Anyone remember the Kyoto Protocol? The world's first significant attempt to rein in carbon emissions was signed, amid fanfare, back in 1997 and came into force in 2005.
But crucially the treaty was rejected by the US and Australia, initially. It also didn't include restrictions on CO2 from China and all other developing nations.
Right now, four months ahead of Paris, the US , EU, China, Australia and around 50 other countries, representing over 60% of emissions, have pledged to rein in their carbon as part of a new global compact on climate change.
Critics will say, rightly, that it doesn't amount to a hill of methane-infused beans in keeping global warming below 2C, the accepted threshold for dangerous consequences.
Negotiators are aware of this  - and are already seeking to ensure that a deal in Paris will have a mechanism to review and ratchet up contributions of countries like Australia.
UK climate secretary Amber Rudd recently outlined her preference for this idea, when questioned by the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee.
"We want 194 countries signed up to keeping two degrees within reach," Ms Rudd told the MPs.
"And then, on top of that, I would like to see five-year reviews in which there will be an aggregate look at how we're doing."
And who knows, if public opinion in Australia is to be believed, there seems to be greater appetite for action on carbon than Mr Abbott has pledged.
Climate change could become the big issue in the next general election down under. And where Australia leads, the world may follow.
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Police are trying to trace three valuable James Bond posters that were stolen during a burglary at a house.

The posters are originals from the 1960s and 1970s, and were used to advertise the films Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun.
They are worth several hundred pounds each, with the most valuable being an Italian poster for Goldfinger.
Only one other item was stolen during the burglary in Breadsall, Derbyshire.
This suggests the home might have been targeted for the posters, although police say the thefts could have been opportunistic.
Det Sgt Claudia Musson from Derbyshire Police said: "We are keeping an open mind as to whether the home was targeted for these particular items.
"We would ask if anyone has been offered similar items for sale, or indeed have seen them suddenly appear on display in someone's house, that they contact us."
The burglary happened on Rectory Lane in the village between 23:30 on 21 January and 08:30 GMT on 22 January.
Since then, police have tried to trace the posters through specialist dealers but have had no luck.


The UK can take action to stop British jihadists re-entering the country without flouting international law, Deputy PM Nick Clegg has insisted.

He told the BBC it was possible to have "proportionate, targeted and effective" measures to stop suspects returning.
While the option of removing passports would be examined, the UK always needed to act within the law, he said.
He also said the UK would reserve the right to take military action in Iraq without consulting Parliament first.
Mr Clegg said he supported the "convention" that the government should seek MPs' approval before undertaking any military action, but he told BBC Radio 4's Today there may be circumstances where emergency action had to be taken quickly where it might not be "pragmatic" to do so.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said there was a growing sense the UK might be willing to take part in "punitive action" against Islamic State fighters in Iraq.
Prime Minister David Cameron did not rule out UK participation in further air strikes when he updated MPs on events in the Middle East on Monday.
The government's proposals are
Mr Clegg defended planned new anti-terror measures after the reviewer of terror laws, David Anderson, said there were "significant difficulties" with preventing UK-born terror suspects from re-entering the country.
The prime minister has pledged to hold all-party talks on whether it is possible to remove the passports of UK nationals returning from conflict zones likely to present a threat to domestic security.
But Mr Anderson said there were legal issues and warned that the UK could end up in a "game of pass the parcel" with other countries' suspected terrorists.
Mr Clegg said it was right to "examine the options" but insisted: "We are not going to do something which flouts international and domestic law. Of course we can't do that. We must act within the law."
He rejected claims that his party, the Liberal Democrats, had watered down the government's response by blocking plans which could result in terrorist suspects effectively having their citizenship removed.
"It is not a question of whether I will let it happen. It is important to underline this is not an argument between two political parties.
"This is about a government across the coalition seeking to do what is proportionate, effective and targeted to keep this country safe in keeping with our long-standing legal and judicial principles."
He said it was possible to "square the circle" by giving the police greater powers to temporarily confiscate the passports of people suspected of travelling to Iraq and Syria to fight as well working with airlines to stop returning fighters from boarding planes to return to the UK.
He also insisted plans to re-introduce powers to relocate terror suspects under the government's terror prevention and investigation measures was not a return to the system of control orders scrapped by the coalition in 2011.
Labour said the government was in "complete disarray" over the way forward, with no guarantees of new laws or details about when any new powers would come into force.
"Over the weekend, the government said they intended to block suspected British terrorists from returning to the UK," said shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper.
"Yesterday they admitted they had to comply with international law and could not remove citizenship after all. But the prime minister still claimed to have vague plans to stop people even though no-one at all can explain what he is talking about."
While he sensed the terror response was not a source of tension between the coalition partners, Nick Robinson said there was a striking mismatch between the government's rhetoric last week about what it was intending to do and the actual detail of what had been announced.


A 16-year-old boy has been charged with the murders of a man and a woman in Colchester.

Saudi national Nahid Almanea, 31, was stabbed 16 times as she walked to the University of Essex campus in June 2014.
James Attfield, 33, was found with 102 knife wounds in Castle Park last March.
The boy, who was arrested in Colchester on suspicion of carrying an offensive weapon, is due to appear at Chelsmford Magistrates' Court on Saturday.


Wales full-back Leigh Halfpenny is a step closer to returning from a serious knee injury after Toulon named him in their European Champions Cup squad.

The holders have registered the British and Irish Lion ahead of their quarter-final at Racing 92 on Sunday, 10 April.
The former Cardiff Blues back suffered his injury in Wales' win over Italy in September and missed the World Cup.
Halfpenny has not played since, but may now be in contention to be part of Wales' June tour to New Zealand.


The first Syrian refugees to be settled in Wales are due to arrive this month, with four local authorities ready to welcome them.

About 50 people are due to be housed in Torfaen, Ceredigion, Neath Port Talbot and Caerphilly, councils say.
More will be dispersed to other areas in the new year.
Around Wales, some councils are able to say how many refugees they can take, while others are still waiting to decide.
Here is a round-up of what each Welsh council is doing:
The council will welcome 10 Syrian families (or 30 individuals) over the next three years.
The council does not yet know how many refugees it will take or when they will arrive.
The council does not yet know how many refugees it will take or when they will arrive.
Caerphilly council will house two families before Christmas - most likely in the town of Caerphilly.
They will be accommodated in private rented housing, arranged by the council. The Home Office will meet all of the costs of housing and any other support required.
The council expects the total number of families housed within the county borough to be low, and will assess the situation in the new year once the initial families have settled in.
The council does not yet know how many refugees it will take or when they will arrive.
The council is waiting to hear more details from the Welsh government but a recent council meeting heard about 60 people could be housed here.
Between 10 and 12 Syrian refugees are to be resettled in Aberystwyth before Christmas.
The refugees have been prioritised by staff from the United Nations, working closely with the Home Office in order to determine their suitability to be resettled in Ceredigion.
They will be housed in properties that private landlords have made available. The tenancies will be managed on their behalf by the Care Society, a stand-alone voluntary organisation.
The council does not yet know how many refugees it will take or when they will arrive.
The council does not yet know how many refugees it will take or when they will arrive.
Flintshire plans to receive a number of families each year, although it has not yet given an exact number and does not know when they will arrive.
Chief Executive Colin Everett said: "The families would be housed and supported in private rented housing with no direct impact on waiting lists and times for council and social housing.
"The bigger challenge will be to integrate children into schools with full language and curriculum support, and to integrate families into local communities remembering that people will be mentally and emotionally scarred by the experience and will be in need of empathy and support."
Gwynedd Council says that on the basis of the 20,000 refugees that the UK is to receive over the next four and a half years, it estimates the county can expect between 24 and 40 people in that time - or 10 each year.
The authority says it does not yet know when they would arrive, but it has been contacted by a number of local people about helping house them.
A spokesman said: "We will consider the various options in terms of accommodation, including the offers received from members of the public and other properties which could be available within both the public and private sectors."
The council does not yet know how many refugees it will take or when they will arrive.
The council does not yet know how many refugees it will take or when they will arrive.
The council says it is committed to taking 10 families and five of those are due to arrive before Christmas.
Newport council has offered to accommodate 50 households over the life of the UK Government's vulnerable persons' relocation scheme in response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis.
A spokesman said: "The make-up of these households will be determined by the availability of adequate services and provisions at the time.
"It is therefore not possible to put a definitive figure on the actual numbers of Syrian refugees likely to arrive in Newport."
The council does not yet know how many refugees it will take or when they will arrive.
The council says the first Syrian refugees could arrive in Powys by the end of March, although it has not given details of how many people it expects to accommodate.
Councillor Darren Mayor, cabinet member for housing and property, said: "We have identified Ystradgynlais and Newtown as communities that are well placed to receive Syrian refugees because of the availability of family housing and capacity in local schools."
Rhondda Cynon Taf council is preparing to house between 30 and 40 refugees, but it is not known when they will start arriving.
The UK Government has said it will allow 20,000 refugees into the UK over a five-year timescale, and Swansea Council's intention is to allocate one house a month within this time to a refugee family â€” that means approximately 60 refugee families over five years.
It is looking to be ready for this by the start of the new year.
Two families of Syrian refugees are due to arrive and resettle in Torfaen before Christmas.
Both families have young children and will arrive from refugee camps around Syria.
A further four families are expected to settle in Torfaen in the new year.
The Vale of Glamorgan council is working with Cardiff council ahead of refugees arriving in the area.  The council does not yet know how many refugees it will take or when they will arrive.
The council does not yet know how many refugees it will take or when they will arrive.


England's Graeme Storm beat Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy in a play-off at the South African Open to claim his first European Tour victory since 2007.

The pair finished on 18 under after four rounds at the Glendower Golf Club in Johannesburg with 38-year-old Storm winning after three extra holes.
Storm nearly lost his Tour card in 2016 but held his nerve to defeat the world number two for his second Tour title.
His only previous success came at the French Open in July 2007.
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In November, Storm finished 100 euros short of the prize money needed to guarantee his spot for this season.
However, he kept his Tour card after American Patrick Reed's points were deducted because he had not played in the minimum number of tournaments required.
"I'm shocked. This has been a surreal week and to find myself in the position I was in with probably the best player in the world was a dream come true," said Storm.
"I got my playing rights due to the fact Patrick could not play and I took it with both hands. To win this tournament with the prestige of it is incredible."
England's Jordan Smith finished third for the best result of his career, while fellow Englishman James Morrison tied in 13th.
Storm had held a three-shot advantage over McIlroy after Saturday's play and shot a final round one-under 71.
But a four-under 68 from 27-year-old McIlroy, which included birdies at the first, second, eighth, 13th and 15th and a bogey at the 17th, forced the play-off.
In front of a large crowd, both players made pars at the 18th in the first two-extra holes and Storm registered another par before McIlroy's bogey proved decisive.
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North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea as annual US-South Korea military exercises got under way, officials in Seoul say.

The two missiles, with a range of 490km (305 miles), were fired from the western city of Nampo into the sea east of the Korean peninsula, the South Korean military said.
The drills, involving tens of thousands of troops, always anger Pyongyang.
It traditionally shows its displeasure with missile tests and louder rhetoric.
Seoul and Washington describe the military exercises as defensive in nature. North Korea calls them a rehearsal for invasion.
Key Resolve, a largely computer-simulated exercise, lasts 12 days and Foal Eagle, which has ground, air and sea components, lasts eight weeks.
In a statement, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles, fired early on Monday, were probably Scud Cs or Scud Ds.
The military remained "vigilant against any additional launches", it said.
Defence Minister Kim Min-seok vowed a stern response to any provocation.
"If North Korea takes provocative actions, our military will react firmly and strongly so North Korea will regret it in its bones," he was quoted as saying by Reuters.
Earlier in the day the North Korean military condemned the joint exercises as "undisguised encroachment" on national sovereignty.
Aggression should be dealt with by "merciless strikes", it said in a statement carried by KCNA news agency.
In 2013 the joint exercises led to a prolonged surge in tensions, with North Korea threatening pre-emptive nuclear strikes and cutting a military hotline with the South.
Drills in 2014 passed off relatively quietly, however.
In January North Korea said it would offer a moratorium on nuclear testing if the joint exercises were cancelled. The US rejected this suggestion as an "implicit threat".
North Korea has conducted three nuclear tests, in 2006, 2009 and 2013. Six-nation talks aimed at ending its nuclear programme have been stalled since early 2009.


Midfielder Chris Sargeant will miss New Saints' Champions League first qualifying round second leg against Europa FC.

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Second Half ends, Europa 1, The New Saints 2.
Toni (Europa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, The New Saints. Greg Draper replaces Steven Saunders.
Javi Muñoz (Europa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Europa. Toni replaces Guille Roldán.
Substitution, The New Saints. Adrian Cieslewicz replaces Wes Fletcher.
Second yellow card to Álex Quillo (Europa) for a bad foul.
Álex Quillo (Europa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kike Gomez (Europa) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Paul Harrison (The New Saints) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal!  Europa 1, The New Saints 2. Liam Walker (Europa) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Aeron Edwards (The New Saints) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Second Half begins Europa 0, The New Saints 2.
First Half ends, Europa 0, The New Saints 2.
Goal!  Europa 0, The New Saints 2. Scott Quigley (The New Saints) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Goal!  Europa 0, The New Saints 1. Wes Fletcher (The New Saints) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Scott Quigley (The New Saints) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jonathon Routledge (The New Saints) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Sargeant has not travelled to Portugal, which hosts the Gibraltese side's home leg, after he was involved in a car accident.
Saints trail 2-1 after the first leg.
"It wasn't a serious car crash, but he had to go to hospital to be checked out," interim manager Scott Ruscoe said.
"I think he suffered a bit of whiplash. He wasn't in a good state and he felt groggy, so we took the decision out of his hands.
"It wouldn't have been good for him to travel and be on a plane, so he's stayed behind."
Ruscoe also confirmed left-back Chris Marriott will not feature for the Welsh champions at the Estadio Algarve.
Marriott has failed to recover from the knee injury that kept him out of the first leg.
The winners of the tie will face Croatian side HNK Rijeka in the second qualifying round.