Five Israelis have been stabbed in Jerusalem - the latest in a series of recent stabbings by Palestinians.

In the latest attack, an Israeli soldier was wounded after being stabbed on board a bus. The attacker was shot dead and one civilian was injured.
Two youths were stabbed earlier at a settlement in East Jerusalem, leaving one of the victims, a 13-year-old boy, in a critical condition.
Two Israeli policemen were also wounded in separate attacks.
Four Israelis and dozens of Palestinians, including several assailants, have been killed in the recent upsurge of violence.
In the fifth attack on Monday, a man described by Israeli police as Arab stabbed an Israeli soldier on board a bus after trying to seize his gun. A civilian was also injured before the attacker was shot dead.
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The day's attacks began when an Arab man stabbed a policeman in the Old City after being stopped when he was seen acting suspiciously, police said. The officer was saved from injury because he was wearing a protective vest. His attacker was shot dead by police.
It occurred near the Lions' Gate, the scene of several other previous stabbings.
Later, an Arab woman stabbed a policeman near police headquarters in the Ammunition Hill area of East Jerusalem, police said. The policeman, who was lightly wounded, managed to shoot and injure the attacker.
One of the Palestinian attackers of the two youths in the Pisgat Zeev settlement was shot and killed by police. His 13-year-old accomplice was shot and seriously injured.
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri identified the two assailants as 13- and 17-year-old Palestinians from nearby Beit Hanina.
Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have soared recently, fuelled by clashes at a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem, in the West Bank, and across the Gaza border, as well as the wave of stabbings.
At the weekend several Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli troops and by an Israeli air strike on a militant site in Gaza in response to rocket fire on Israel.
There has been a spate of stabbings of Israelis by Palestinians since early October, and one apparent revenge stabbing by an Israeli. The attacks, in which some Israelis have died, have struck in Jerusalem and elsewhere, and in the occupied West Bank. Israel has tightened security and clashed with rioting Palestinians, leading to deaths on the Palestinian side. The violence has also spread to the border with Gaza.
After a period of relative quiet, violence between the two communities has spiralled since clashes erupted at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site in mid-September. It was fuelled by rumours among Palestinians that Israel was attempting to alter a long-standing religious arrangement governing the site. Israel repeatedly dismissed the rumours as incitement. Soon afterwards, two Israelis were shot dead by Palestinians in the West Bank and the stabbing attacks began. Both Israel and the Palestinian authorities have accused one another of doing nothing to protect each other's communities.
There have been two organised armed uprisings by Palestinians against Israeli occupation, in the 1980s and early 2000s. With peace talks moribund, some observers have questioned whether we are now seeing a third. The stabbing attacks seem to be opportunistic and although they have been praised by militant groups, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has said Palestinians are not interested in a further escalation.


Three men have gone on trial accused of murdering another man in an Edinburgh street after allegedly attacking him with a weapon, possibly a garden fork.

Gary Sim, 21, James Watson, 27, and Paul Watson, 29, deny killing Thomas Lamb at Edinburgh's Restalrig Circus on 20 September last year.
Lawyers entered not guilty pleas on their behalf at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Between them, the men are accused of four charges.
Prosecutors allege that Gary Sim assaulted Mr Lamb at the Tor public house in Restalrig Road on 19 or 20 September.
It is claimed that Mr Sim approached Mr Lamb from behind before putting his arm around his neck, pulling him from his chair, and pushing him on the body, causing him to fall to the ground. Mr Sim then allegedly caused Mr Lamb's head to strike against a table and chair.
The second charge alleges that on 20 September at Restalrig Circus, Mr Sim and the two Mr Watsons repeatedly struck Mr Lamb on the head and body.
Prosecutors claim that the three men then repeatedly kicked and jumped on Mr Lamb's head and body before repeatedly striking him "with a garden fork, knife or other similar sharply pointed or bladed instrument."
It is claimed that Mr Lamb sustained multiple stab wounds and that the three men murdered him.
The third charge alleges that having committed murder, Mr Sim attempted to defeat the ends of justice by disposing of his clothing and washing his hands.
It is claimed that he performed these actions at an address in Loganlea Drive, Edinburgh, and elsewhere in the city between 20 and 22 September in an "attempt to avoid prosecution".
The fourth charge alleges that between 20 and 22 September, at Taylor Place and elsewhere in Edinburgh, James Watson cleaned his clothing and shoes in an attempt to defeat the ends of justice.
The trial continues.


Two men have been arrested on suspicion of arson following a fire that badly damaged a 60-year-old playground in north Bristol.

The 18-year-old men, from Southmead, have been released on bail while the police investigation continues into the fire at the Ranch on 8 June.
Residents were in tears as the fire took hold of the play structure which had recently been renovated.
A fundraising effort has since been launched to rebuild the facility.
Learning Partnership West estimates it will cost Â£10,000 to replace the burnt-out structures. More than Â£2,000 has already been raised, including Â£500 from an anonymous donor.
The Ranch, used by generations of children in Southmead, featured climbing walls, an outdoor classroom and a zip wire.


Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with the death of Kim Jong-nam, the brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, in Malaysia.

A female Indonesian suspect and a Malaysian man thought to be her boyfriend were both detained on Thursday.
A woman travelling on a Vietnamese passport has also been detained.
Kim died on Monday after apparently being poisoned while waiting to board a flight in Kuala Lumpur.
Police say they have now finished their post-mortem examination, though the results have not yet been made public.
The two female suspects have been remanded in custody for seven days.
The inspector general of the Royal Malaysia police, Sri Khalid Bin Abu Bakar, said the second woman was detained on Thursday over the death of "a Korean male".
She was identified from airport CCTV footage and had an Indonesian passport.
Malaysian Deputy PM Ahmad Zahid Hamidi formally confirmed on Thursday that the dead man, who was travelling under the name Kim Chol, was Kim Jong-nam, according to state news agency Bernama.
There is widespread speculation that North Korea was behind the killing, but there has been no proof.
North Korea is on Thursday celebrating what would have been the 75th birthday of Kim Jong-il, the late leader and father of both Kim Jong-nam and Kim Jong-un.
Kim Jong-un was seen attending a ruling party meeting on Wednesday. Footage aired on state media showed him grim-faced, reported South Korea's Yonhap news agency, and he did not wave when he left, as is customary.
Selangor Police Chief Abdul Samah Mat told the BBC the examination of Kim's body was completed on Wednesday evening, but there has been no indication of whether the results will be made public.
The deputy prime minister said Malaysia would grant a request from North Korea for the body to be returned once police and medical procedures were completed.
Kim is believed to have been attacked in the airport departure hall by two women, using some form of chemical.
A grainy image taken from security camera footage, which has been broadcast in South Korea and Malaysia, shows a woman wearing a white T-shirt with the letters "LOL" written on the front.
It is not clear whether either is the woman in the footage, and police say they are still looking for "a few" other suspects.
Malaysia police said the woman arrested on Thursday was identified in her passport as Siti Aishah, 25, from Banten province in Indonesia.
The suspect arrested on Wednesday had Vietnamese travel documents bearing the name Doan Thi Huong, 28.
An alleged assassination attempt, a grainy shot of a woman wearing a T-shirt with "LOL" written on it, and a dead body that has yet to yield any information.
It has all the makings of a murder mystery, with more questions than answers.
Who is the Vietnamese woman the Malaysian police say they've arrested, and what does she have to do with the case?
How is it possible that in a crowded airport, in broad daylight, a man can be accosted with some kind of toxic substance, and no trace of it is left behind at the crime scene?
People I spoke to at the airport who may have seen what happened were reluctant to talk about it, and at least two of them told me that they had been instructed not to talk by police.
Then there's the investigation, which also appears to lack focus.
All Malaysian police officials will tell us is that once they have the results of the post-mortem they will be able to identify what really happened to the man believed to be Kim Jong-nam.
Kim Jong-nam was largely estranged from his family, after being bypassed for inheriting the leadership in favour of his youngest half-brother. He spent most of his time overseas in Macau, mainland China and Singapore.
He had spoken out in the past against his family's dynastic control of North Korea and in a 2012 book  was quoted as saying he believed his younger half-brother lacked leadership qualities.
But he had said he was not interested in assuming the leadership himself.
Unnamed US government sources have said they believe he was poisoned by North Korean agents.
South Korean spy chief Lee Byung-ho told South Korean MPs that Pyongyang had wanted to kill Kim Jong-nam for several years, but that he was being protected by China.
The secretive state has a long history of sending agents overseas to carry out assassinations, attacks and kidnappings.
But some analysts question what motive Kim Jong-un would have to kill his estranged half-brother, given the risk of the operation and possibilities for embarrassment, added to the fact that he was not seen as a threat to Mr Kim's leadership.
Still, Kim was reportedly targeted for assassination in the past. A North Korean spy jailed by South Korea in 2012 is said to have admitted trying to organise a hit-and-run accident targeting him.


West Midlands fashion chain Store Twenty One has collapsed into liquidation with the loss of 900 jobs.

The company will close its remaining 122 shops after last year shutting down 200 of its outlets.
Corporate recovery firm Quantuma has been appointed to oversee the liquidation of Store Twenty One which has been struggling for some time.
Partner Simon Bonney said the retail sector is facing challenges, "not least with the changes in business rates".
He added: "The company was founded in 1932 and unfortunately it is another example of the difficulties arising in the current economy."
Quantuma said that Store Twenty One's sales have declined in recent years with sustained losses.
The retailer had been operating under a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) since last year. This gives an insolvent business time to pay its creditors and, if they agree, to continue trading.
However, a court recently issued an order to wind the company up after it failed to secure additional investment.
The company was born out of a London-based manufacturing business which was set up in 1932 and supplied clothing to West End stores, in particular Marks & Spencer.
After the war, its factory outlet shops became popular, which stocked products that did not meet stringent quality controls specified by M&S. In the 1970s, the company expanded its reach and went on to float on the London Stock Exchange in the 1990s.
It was eventually taken private then acquired in 2007 by textile company Grabal Alok.


British sailor Ben Ainslie will not bid for a fifth Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Rio Games and will instead focus on his Americas Cup campaign.

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Ainslie, 35, admits it would have been "difficult to top" the feeling of winning at his home Olympics and is keen to move on with new challenges.
"It was a tough decision," Ainslie told BBC Sport.
"I've had a fantastic Olympic career but I want to make it clear that the focus is now on the Americas Cup."
Ainslie won a silver medal at Atlanta 1996, with golds in Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London. He has won more medals than any other sailor, ahead of Denmark's Paul Elvstrom, who has four golds.
He is fourth in Britain's all-time individual medallist's list, behind Sir Chris Hoy (cycling; six gold, one silver), Sir Steve Redgrave (rowing; five gold, one bronze) and Bradley Wiggins (cycling; four gold, one silver, two bronze).
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Ainslie added: "I considered all of the factors - my fitness and the issues with my back, the venue for the next Olympics and the type of boats, but what it really came down to was this opportunity with the Americas Cup."
The sailor envisages skippering his Ben Ainslie Racing AC45 catamaran to glory in the historic competition will be one of the "biggest tests" of his career.
"It's always been a dream of mine since I was a kid to be part of a winning Americas Cup team and ultimately I want to try and bring it back to the UK where it all started in 1851."
Ainslie, who won his first Games medal - a silver in the Laser fleet - at Atlanta 1996, says he may have extended his Olympic career into a twentieth year had the International Sailing Federation [ISAF] reversed their decision to axe the Star class from Rio 2016.
"There was a possibility that it may have been reinstated, but that didn't happen," reflected the four-time World Sailor of the Year Award winner.
"There would have been no guarantees I would have made it to the Olympics going up against 2008 gold medallists Iain [Percy] and Andrew [Simpson], but certainly it was an option to go into that class."
Ainslie ranked his success in London as his greatest personal Olympic moment, but that attaining a first gold at the Sydney 2000 Games was a close second.
"It meant a huge amount to me to reverse the silver medal from 1996 and it gave me a huge amount of confidence that I could go on and achieve more," stated Ainslie who switched from the Laser to the Finn dinghy for Athens 2004.
"I am proud of what I achieved [in the Olympics] but I think this decision [to retire from dinghy sailing] really helps to make it clear what the goal is and the intensions are.
"Hopefully now we can go ahead and get the support to make that [Americas Cup success] happen."


A bronze sculpture worth £20,000 has been stolen from Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow.

Dreaming, by Gerald Laing, disappeared on Sunday afternoon. It was last seen by museum staff at 15:45.
Strathclyde Police have started to examine CCTV images from a number of areas within the museum.
Management said it was the first time a piece had been stolen since the building reopened in 2006 after a major refurbishment.
A spokesman for Glasgow Life, which manages the city museums, said: "This was a deliberate act.
"Someone has stolen from the people of Glasgow. As with all of our collections, this work belongs to them.
"We are working with the police and other agencies and would appeal for the safe return of this work of art."
He said there had been more than nine million visitors to Kelvingrove since it reopened, with no previous incidents of work being taken from public view.
"Thanks to the quick action of staff, we have been able to identify a short timeframe where we believe the bronze was stolen and are in the process of examining CCTV footage from across the museum to identify those responsible," he added.
Artist Laing was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and lived on the Black Isle, near Inverness.
He died, aged 75, in November last year.
Laing spent much of the 1960s working in pop art in New York and was a close friend of artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
His most famous works included images of actresses Brigitte Bardot and Anna Karina.


Bravery claimed a narrow victory from race favourite Oh This Is Us in the Lincoln Handicap as the new Flat season got under way at Doncaster.

The 20-1 shot, ridden by Daniel Tudhope and trained by David O'Meara, denied Ryan Moore a fourth win of the day.
The jockey had earlier secured a 575-1 treble - on Ballet Concerto in the Spring Mile Handicap, Tupi in the Cammidge Trophy Stakes and Kool Kompany in the Doncaster Mile Stakes.
Donncha was third, with Gabrial fourth.
"He was held up slightly on the far side of the field, so to get that win was a real result," O'Meara told ITV.
"It means an awful lot. You like to hit the ground running - sometimes you come here and loads of bubbles are burst, but it's nice to win. It tells you you've probably done the right thing over the winter."
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The relief from the betting industry as Bravery's last-gasp success defied a Ryan Moore four-timer was palpable.
They could have done without a massive pay-out on combination bets on Moore's mounts a week before the potential uncertainties of the Grand National.
There was not so much relief as delight from the winning team, which has endured near-misses in this most competitive of races in the past, but finally nailed it.
And what a way to start the new season: David O'Meara admits to taking time to find his feet after a move of stables within Yorkshire, but things are well on track again now.


Luke Rowe is targeting a podium finish at this Sunday's Tour of Flanders.

The 26-year-old will lead Team Sky's challenge alongside Englishman Ian Stannard in the one-day classic.
Welshman Rowe, who has a top finish of third this season, feels improving on his fifth place at Flanders in 2016 is the next natural aim, having finished outside the top 50 in 2015.
"I'm pretty optimistic ahead of the race, and podium would be the next step up," he told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"But to just be in a position where you're leading one of the biggest professional cycling teams in the world in one of the biggest professional cycling races in the world is a nice position to be in."
The 2017 Tour of Flanders takes place in Belgium on Sunday, 2 April, with the gruelling 260.8km route including 18 climbs and cobbled sectors.
The following Sunday on 9 April riders will tackle Paris-Roubaix, the 257km route between Compiegne and Roubaix in Northern France, known also as Hell of the North.
Rowe feels he can make an impact in both races.
"For me they're the biggest two races of the season and they're the two races which suit my characteristics and I know I can perform in them," he said.
"They're just special, real iconic events in our sport and I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into them.
"It'll be six or seven hours, 250-260km full focus and hopefully things will fall into place and I'll get some good results."
Rowe will then turn his attention to preparing for the Tour de France and helping team-mate Chris Froome win a fourth title.
After competing in the race in 2015 and 2016 the Welshman is very much looking forward to being involved again.
"I've been there the past few years and Froomey (Chris Frome) has won them both, and to be part of that winning team has been pretty special," he said.
"I could potentially race the Tour of Yorkshire because I like to race on home roads and then I'll do an altitude camp up in Mount Etna and then I'll do the Dauphine.
"It's a pretty hectic programme but I hope to keep myself ticking over and gain a place in the Tour de France squad again and do the business for Froomey."
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A gay man has won a landmark ruling which will give his husband the same pension rights as a wife would receive.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that if John Walker, 66, dies, his husband is entitled to a spouse's pension, provided they remain married.
The ex-cavalry officer said it would "drag" the government "into the 21st century", while human rights group Liberty said "thousands" could benefit.
A government spokesman said it would review the implications of the ruling.
BBC legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman said the decision will have "a dramatic effect on the entitlement of thousands of civil partners and spouses in same sex marriages".
They will now enjoy the same pension rights and entitlements as those in a heterosexual marriage, our correspondent added.
The ruling means Mr Walker's husband - who is in his 50s - will now be entitled to a spousal pension of about £45,000 a year, rather than around £1,000 a year.
Mr Walker said it was "to our government's great shame that it has taken so many years, huge amounts of taxpayers' money and the UK's highest court to drag them into the 21st Century".
He added: "Finally this absurd injustice has been consigned to the history books and my husband and I can now get on with enjoying the rest of our lives together."
Mr Walker took legal action as he wanted to ensure that, should he die first, his husband would receive an adequate pension.
The majority of occupational pension schemes give 50% of the value of a pension to a spouse for the rest of their lives after their husband or wife dies - without taking the marriage date into account.
However, the Equality Act 2010 has an exemption for employers, allowing them to exclude civil partners from spousal benefits paid in before December 2005.
The Supreme Court has now ruled the exemption under the 2010 act is "incompatible with EU law and must be disapplied".
Emma Norton, a lawyer from Liberty, which represented Mr Walker, called on the government to promise Brexit would not threaten the ruling.
"This ruling was made under EU law and is a direct consequence of the rights protection the EU gives us," she said.
"We now risk losing that protection. The government must promise that there will be no rollback on LGBT rights after Brexit."
A government spokesperson said the rights of same sex couples had been "transformed for the better since 2010".
During the hearing, it said the cost of applying the ruling retrospectively would be £100m for private sector schemes and a further £20m for the public sector.


The number of recorded suicides has risen sharply in Wales, according to latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

In 2015, 350 people took their own lives compared to 247 in the previous year.
However, the charity Samaritans said the apparent increase needed to be "treated with caution."
It said the fluctuations from one year to another could be put be down "problems with accuracy".
In many cases, there can be a substantial delay in registering a death by suicide.
Out of the 350 suicides registered last year, just under half happened before 2015.
The ONS said: "Part of the rise in the number of suicides registered in Wales in 2015 can be explained by a higher proportion of suicides occurring in previous years being included in this year's figures."
Last year's recorded suicides involved 274 men and 76 women.
The highest number were in Cardiff (34), followed by Swansea (18), Newport (16) and Ceredigion (8).
The chief executive of Samaritans, Ruth Sutherland said: "Suicide is not inevitable, it's preventable and politicians, employers, health bodies and educators all have a role in identifying and supporting those most at risk.
"With better awareness and education on suicide prevention, as well as better planning, we will save lives".


A doubling in student rape reports in Greater Manchester has prompted a "no consent, no sex" campaign.

Police have received 30 reports of rape from students aged 18 to 24 between August and October  compared to 15 in the same period in 2013.
Posters with the strapline "drinking is not a crime, rape is" have been put up in bars and clubs used by students.
Det Insp Damian Simpson said "alcohol-fuelled" nights were the target because the reports often involved drink.
He said officers had "dealt with many an incident whereby two young people have met on an alcohol-fuelled night out, one thing has led to another and the next morning we're arresting somebody for rape".
"It doesn't matter whether there has been flirting, kissing or you've exchanged numbers - if somebody is too drunk to consent then the best thing for all involved is to assume it has not been given."
The joint campaign by Greater Manchester Police and students' unions and is being backed on social media using the hashtag #noconsentnosex.
Jess Lishak, women's officer at the University of Manchester Students' Union, said she was "really pleased to create this campaign [which is] aimed at perpetrators rather than victims".
"I think it marks a really important change in the narratives around rape in our community."
Fiza Ikram, the president of the University of Salford Students' Union said the posters "encourage students to be respectful to one another, keep one another safe and think before they act".
A police spokesman added the force was working "very closely" with St Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre, Survivors Manchester and Rape Crisis to "continually improve the support services offered to victims of this crime".


A teenager has been detained for six years after crashing a car at 100mph (160kmh) and causing the deaths of three friends.

Arayeb Saqib, 18, admitted three counts of death by dangerous driving and one of causing serious injury.
Manchester Crown Court heard he had no licence, was uninsured and had smoked cannabis before losing control of an Audi S5 in Manchester, in April.
The judge told Saqib, "Driving like yours ends lives."
Saqib, of Wisner Court, Glasgow, who was 17 at the time, had agreed to meet up with his friends who had been attending a wedding and accepted an invitation to drive the car.
The court heard he drove through the suburb of Fallowfield at speeds of up to 100mph at about 03:15 BST on 27 April.
He was chased by a police patrol which spotted him driving at speed but he drove even faster to get away.
Hamzaa Jacob Iqbal, 24, from Burnage, Mohammad Hamza 21, of Bramhall and Munib Afzal Karim, 20, of Heald Green were all killed in the crash.
A fourth friend was seriously injured.
Sentencing Saqib, Judge David Stockdale, the Honorary Recorder of Manchester, said it was the worst case of causing death by dangerous driving that he had encountered and he "changed the lives of many people close to those young men".
Police Constable Paul Joynson of Greater Manchester Police said: "Arayeb Saqib was 17 at the time of the collision and was in no way experienced enough to drive such a high powered car.
"Saqib's attempts to show off to his friends in a high powered car directly resulted in their death and he will have to live with that on his conscience for the rest of his life."


A 32-year-old man has been charged in connection with an attempted murder in Fife.

The attack happened on Friday at a shop on Station Road in Windygates, Leven.
A 30-year-old woman, who was working in the shop, sustained a serious head injury from a weapon.
The man is due to appear at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court later.


My father cried with sadness when he found out his first child was a girl.

But having an economist mother as a role model helped me to grow up largely protected from sexism in Brazilian society.
I encountered it only later in life, through a few professional experiences and, most of all, through statistics.
The announcement of interim President Michel Temer's cabinet and its 23 white men rings alarm bells in the battle for equality.
It is the first time in nearly four decades that we have a male-only cabinet. The last time was during the military dictatorship.
After strong criticism, there is talk the culture ministry, one of the nine closed in an attempt to cut expenditure, will be brought back.
Reports say Mr Temer is adamant it should be led by a woman. Interestingly, the former ministry will have a lower status, a secretariat. There is no word in Portuguese yet for tokenism.
This absence of women goes beyond their already appallingly low representation in politics.
Among the 81 members of the Senate, only 12 are female. One of them was referred to on Twitter as the "coffee lady" by a famous TV presenter.
The senator, Regina Sousa, from the Worker's Party, is also one of the few black legislators.
The main "employer" of women in Brazil is still domestic service. And most domestic workers are not just women but black. This explains why the comment revolted many. But not all.
Lack of diversity is not a popular subject to bring up in Brazil, a country where the "Party of the Brazilian Women" has only one elected MP - a man.
Debates often become polarised.
"Do you want a quota for government jobs now?" said a male reader on our Facebook page, commenting on a piece entitled "All the president's men (and no women)".
"In politics or in any company, people need to be there for their competence not idiotic sexism, silliness from the left," he said.
Others though criticised the new cabinet.
"This is what you would expect from a president whose wife is 'beautiful, demure and at home'," said one journalist, referring a controversial profile of Brazil's new first lady in the country's most influential magazine.
"She is a lucky woman," was the opening line.
Luck for Marcela Temer apparently came when she met her future husband. She was only 18 and he over 60 when her uncle introduced them at a party conference.
Critics denounced a perceived double standard from the press in the portrayal of another woman.
Also in April, when Congress handed President Dilma Rousseff a crucial defeat, another controversy about gender emerged. She was portrayed on the cover of a magazine as a woman with a nervous breakdown.
Using an archive photo that looked like she was screaming, the president was described as having kicked things, abused staff and being too "emotionally unstable" to run the country.
"What a typical way to undermine women," said a prominent feminist, pointing out the description was a surprising contrast to how Ms Rousseff, a former guerrilla who endured torture, insisted she would fight until the end.
It is hard to argue that there is no sexism in the attacks against Ms Rousseff.
But reducing the huge dissatisfaction in her to sexism ignores the fact that the same woman had been one of the most popular presidents Brazil has ever had in democratic times.
Her management of the economy, and the worst recession since records began, as well as the corruption scandal involving her party are at the heart of her downfall.
"It [sexism] is not the reason, but it certainly made her more of a target," says my elder sister.
I am the third child and my father did not cry when I was born. He was the product of a family of Syrian migrants and used to say they saw women as cattle.
"But when we have a problem, we just deal with it," he told me once jokingly.
He was also an electronic engineer who introduced me to the world of cables. I was proud to be able to install phone extensions from an early age.
At 22, in my first month as an economics reporter for a Brazilian newspaper, I was shocked when an older journalist whispered in my ear, "I'm going to eat you all up", before calmly returning to his desk.
I froze for a few seconds until a sense of deep humiliation turned to anger.
I stormed after him and, in front of a full newsroom, asked him loudly to repeat what he had just said. "Calm down," he repeated in a patronising tone, clearly not expecting that reaction from a young journalist who had been nicknamed Pocahontas by male colleagues.
"You are a disgusting coward," I shouted, along with a number of other things. Then, still fuming, I returned to my desk to finish a story on unemployment.
My parents taught me to fight back and I was never bothered in that newsroom again. I am a lucky woman.


Cycling stars Jason Kenny and Laura Trott had quite the time in Rio, securing themselves five gold medals between them out there.

24 August 2016 Last updated at 07:10 BST
Now they are back in UK and Ayshah caught up with them to ask them some of your questions.
So if you're curious to find out Laura's top tips for aspiring Olympians, or maybe you want to know how many bikes this cycling couple have got, then watch this video.


More than $1bn (Â£618m) is needed to fight the West Africa Ebola outbreak, which is a health crisis "unparalleled in modern times", UN officials say.

The spread of the disease means the funds needed to fight the outbreak have increased ten-fold in the past month, the UN's Ebola co-ordinator said.
Ebola has killed 2,461 people this year, about half of those infected, the World Health Organization said.
There has been criticism of the slow international response to the epidemic.
The outbreak began in Guinea before spreading to its neighbours Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Nigeria and Senegal have reported some cases, but seem to have contained the transmission of the virus.
"We requested about $100m a month ago and now it is $1bn, so our ask has gone up 10 times in a month," the UN's Ebola co-ordinator, David Nabarro, told a briefing in Geneva.
"Because of the way the outbreak is advancing, the level of surge we need to do is unprecedented, it is massive."
At the same briefing, World Health Organization (WHO) deputy head Bruce Aylward announced the latest Ebola case figures.
The virus has infected at least 4,985 people so far, with about half of those infected dying.
"Quite frankly, ladies and gentlemen, this health crisis we're facing is unparalleled in modern times. We don't know where the numbers are going on this," he said.
11,315
Deaths - probable, confirmed and suspected
(Includes one in the US and six in Mali)
4,809 Liberia
3,955 Sierra Leone
2,536 Guinea
8 Nigeria
When the WHO had said it needed the capacity to manage 20,000 cases two weeks ago "that seemed like a lot", Dr Aylward said.
"That does not seem like a lot today," he added.
US President Barack Obama is expected to announce plans to send 3,000 American troops to Liberia, one of countries worst affected by the outbreak, to help fight the virus.
Officials say the troops will build 17 health care centres, each with 100 beds, deliver health care kits to hundreds of thousands of homes and help train 500 health workers a week.
Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) called on other countries to follow the US lead as the response to outbreak continued to fall "dangerously behind".
At the Ebola briefing, MSF president Joanne Liu said there needed to be "co-ordinated response, organised and executed under clear chain of command".
"The window of opportunity to contain this outbreak is closing," she said. "We need more countries to stand up, we need greater deployment, and we need it now."
Sick people in the Liberian capital were banging on the doors of MSF Ebola care centres desperate for a safe place in which to be isolated, she said.
"Tragically, our teams must turn them away; we simply do not have enough capacity for them," Dr Liu said.
"Highly infectious people are forced to return home, only to infect others and continue the spread of this deadly virus. All for a lack of international response."
Earlier on Tuesday, the WHO welcomed China's pledge to send a mobile laboratory team to Sierra Leone, which will include epidemiologists, clinicians and nurses.
"The most urgent immediate need in the Ebola response is for more medical staff," WHO head Margaret Chan said in the statement.
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After more than a decade in space and four years orbiting Mercury, Nasa's Messenger mission is set to reach its explosive conclusion.

The spacecraft is expected to crash into the planet's surface at 20:26 BST on Thursday; it made its final powered manoeuvre on 28 April.
After reaching Mercury in 2011, Messenger has far exceeded its primary mission plan of one year in orbit.
It is only slowly losing altitude but will hit at 8,750mph (14,000km/h).
That means the 513kg craft, which is only 3m across, will blast a 16m crater into an area near the planet's north pole, according to scientists' calculations.
All of Messenger's fuel, half its weight at launch, is completely spent; its last four manoeuvres, extending the flight as far as possible, have been accomplished by venting the helium gas normally used to pressurise actual rocket fuel into the thrusters.
The high-speed collision, 12 times faster than sound, will obliterate this history-making craft. And it will only happen because Mercury has no thick atmosphere to burn up incoming objects - the same reason its surface is so pock-marked by impact craters.
During its twice-extended mission, Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) transformed our understanding of Mercury. It sent back more than 270,000 images and 10 terabytes of scientific measurements.
It found evidence for water ice hiding in the planet's shadowy polar craters, and discovered that Mercury's magnetic field is bizarrely off-centre, shifted along the planet's axis by 10% of its diameter.
Messenger traces a highly elliptical orbit around Mercury, drifting out to a distance of nearly twice the planet's diameter before swinging to within 60 miles (96km) at closest approach. To maintain this pattern in the face of interference from the Sun, it needed a blast of engine power every few months - but its fuel tanks are now empty.
After circling the planet 4,104 times, Messenger made its penultimate pass at a distance of between 300 and 600 metres - one or two times the height of the Eiffel Tower - at about 13:00 BST on Thursday.
"If you could see that, it would be a real spectacle," said Jim Raines, the instrument scientist on the craft's FIPS instrument (Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer) and a physicist at the University of Michigan. "It would cross the horizon in just a second or two, flying low overhead at ten times the speed of a supersonic fighter."
The next time it swings back close to Mercury's surface, eight hours later, it will be curtains for Messenger; the impact has been precisely modelled using maps produced by the craft's own data.
Mercury has towering cliffs left by its shrinking, wrinkling history, but the predicted path has Messenger missing these.
"It's a pretty flat area of the planet," said Nancy Chabot, the instrument scientist on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), Messenger's twin cameras. "It's going to be a skimming impact."
But it will leave a mark.
"It will probably be an oblique crater... because the impact angle will be so shallow, so grazing to the surface. But at over 8,000 miles per hour, it's going to make a crater."
The impact will happen on the side of the planet facing away from Earth. This puts the craft out of contact, and means it will probably carry more than 1,000 unseen images to its final, explosive resting place.
MDIS can take hundreds of photos every day. Earlier this month, mission scientists released fresh images which superimposed years of spectrometry data about the chemistry of the planet's surface, illustrated by different colours, onto black-and-white images built up from thousands of smaller MDIS photos.
The planet has been mapped and studied to a level of detail far beyond the original mission plan. Many of the results themselves have also been surprising.
"A lot of people didn't give this spacecraft much of a chance of even getting to Mercury, let alone going into orbit and then gathering data for four years instead of the original scheduled one-year mission," said William McClintock from the University of Colorado Boulder, principal investigator on MASCS (the Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer, another of the seven scientific instruments on board).
"In the end, most of what we considered to be gospel about Mercury turned out to be a little different than we thought."
Dr Chabot remembers the tension of processing the first image ever recorded by a spacecraft orbiting Mercury, back in 2011. She had only recently taken over as the instrument scientist on MDIS.
"It was exciting but for me personally it was also a bit stressful," Dr Chabot, who works at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, told the BBC. "But then the first image came back and it looked amazing and beautiful, and we realised we were here at Mercury to stay. I take a lot of pride in that image."
Despite being able to look back with pride, Dr Raines said this is still a sad day for Messenger scientists.
"Pretty much all the instruments are still doing great, so that makes it a little harder," he told BBC News. But the mission was always going to be limited by the fuel needed to maintain its difficult orbit.
"To be honest, I've seen this day coming for a long time and it's just one of these things that I've not been looking forward to. I'm really going to be sad to see it go."
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Two of the three men arrested by detectives investigating the disappearance of a Cambridgeshire pub landlady in 1997 have been released.

Deborah Steel, who was 37 and ran the Royal Standard in Ely, was last seen in the early hours of 28 December. Her body has not been found.
No further action will be taken against a 50-year-old and a 70-year-old, both from Ely, Cambridgeshire Police said.
A 72-year-old man from Ely has been re-bailed until 17 February.
Ms Steel's disappearance was recently reclassified from a long-term missing person inquiry to a murder inquiry by officers.


World leaders have called for closer co-operation to tackle the threat of nuclear terrorism at a summit on nuclear security in Seoul.

A communique at the end of the summit reiterated a joint call to secure "vulnerable nuclear material".
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said nuclear terrorism remained a "grave threat", while US President Barack Obama said action was key.
The meeting was dominated by North Korea's plan to launch a rocket.
North Korea says the long-range rocket will carry a satellite when it goes up in April. The US says any launch would violate UN resolutions and constitute a missile test.
Iran's nuclear programme was also on the minds of the summit participants, with Mr Obama pledging to meet the leaders of Russia and China on the sidelines to work towards a resolution.
At the meeting, world leaders discussed measures to fight the threat of nuclear terrorism, including the protection of nuclear materials and facilities, as well as the prevention of trafficking of nuclear materials.
By Jonathan MarcusBBC Diplomatic Correspondent
The communique describes nuclear terrorism as one of the most challenging threats to international security. But the responsibility to maintain security over nuclear materials lies firmly with states rather than international bodies. And any effort to try to establish or impose common international standards inevitably raises concerns in some quarters that the world's major powers are seeking to intrude into the nuclear affairs of other countries.
That's why this communique reaffirms that measures to strengthen nuclear security will not hamper the rights of states to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.  The summit urges states to minimise the use of highly enriched uranium - one of the building blocks for a nuclear bomb.
The summit highlights the threat from radioactive materials more generally. But again all the summit can do is urge states to take measures to secure these materials and work towards ratifying international conventions on nuclear security. It is hardly a resounding outcome from a  gathering over-shadowed by the more immediate wrangling over North Korea's and Iran's nuclear activities.
A joint communique reaffirmed  their commitment to nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
"Nuclear terrorism continues to be one of the most challenging threats to international security," it said.
"Defeating this threat requires strong national measures and international co-operation given its potential global, political, economic, social and psychological consequences."
But it omitted a reference made in a draft communique last Thursday on the need for "concrete steps" towards a world without nuclear weapons, AFP news agency reports.
There are currently no binding international agreements on how to protect nuclear material stored peacefully inside its home country, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul. An amendment seeking to do that is still unratified after seven years.
Addressing the summit, Mr Obama warned there were still "too many bad actors'' who were threatening to stockpile and use ''dangerous'' nuclear material.
"It would not take much, just a handful or so of these materials, to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people and that's not an exaggeration, that's the reality that we face," he said.
"The security of the world depends on the actions that we take."
Mr Hu called for "an international environment conducive to boosting nuclear security" to be created and Mr Lee called for concrete action to tackle a threat that posed "a grave challenge" to peace.
The summit was attended by almost 60 leaders from around the world.
Meetings on Monday were overshadowed by North Korea's planned launch, scheduled to take place between 12 and 16 April.
Pyongyang says it is intended to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of North Korea's founding leader Kim Il-sung.
Source: Federation of American Scientists
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On Tuesday, a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said that the launch would go ahead as planned and criticised Mr Obama's stance as ''confrontational''.
North Korea "will never give up the launch of a satellite for peaceful purposes", the spokesman said in a statement in the official KCNA news agency.
A KCNA report also described the ''weather satellite''  Pyongyang planned to launch as useful for ''the study of weather forecast needed for agriculture and other economic fields''.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, speaking at the summit, called on Pyongyang to cancel the rocket launch, saying that it would violate UN Security Council resolutions.
"As such, the international community strongly urges North Korea to exercise restraint and cancel the launch," he said.
The resolutions were passed after a similar launch in April 2009. Japan is particularly concerned as that rocket was launched over the country three years ago.
The US and Chinese presidents met on Monday on the sidelines of the summit and agreed to co-ordinate their response to any "potential provocation" if Pyongyang went ahead with the launch.
South Korea and the US say North Korea risks further sanctions and isolation if it does not cancel its plans. Seoul has also warned it will shoot down the rocket if it strays over South Korean territory.


Five years ago, in the aftermath of the 2010 election, it became the received wisdom that next time things would be different.

Technology and in particular social media would play a key role in the 2015 campaign. Twitter and Facebook would become vastly more influential than newspapers in spreading election messages, and sentiment analysis - mining the big data of social media -  would tell us exactly what was going on. How wrong that turned out to be.
Sure, there was vastly more social media activity, and the news cycle was accelerated as campaigners used Twitter to debunk their opponents' gambits within minutes.  Ed Miliband had hardly unveiled his tablet of stone before the hashtag #edstone was a trending topic.
Five years ago, Twitter was something shiny and new for politicians, and even using Facebook was regarded as something quite frivolous by many - but both were obsessively used this time. And despite the much greater noise about Twitter, I suspect that Facebook was a much more important platform for reaching voters. Certainly, that was where the Conservatives spent a decent chunk of money.
If you wanted to get first news of every move in the campaign, or indulge in passionate debate with people who had a different view of politics, then tapping away at an app on your smartphone was the thing to do.
But for the most part, social media followed the campaign rather than led it. The running was made by those old dead-tree newspapers which proved, whether Twitter liked it or not, that they could still punch above their weight. And after a result that confounded both the pollsters and the Twitterati, many are concluding that social media platforms are just giant echo chambers where voters have their prejudices confirmed rather than challenged.
What though of the science of sentiment analysis? During the 2010 campaign, I was bombarded with press releases from companies claiming they could chew through the data from Twitter and Facebook and reach conclusions about who was faring best. When the results were in, it was seen that they'd failed, overestimating the Liberal Democrat vote by a wide margin.
This time, with more than 30 million Britons on Facebook and 15 million on Twitter, it seemed they had a better chance. Here was the opportunity for Big Data to show its mettle. Indeed one software consulting company boasted of its app which would "showcase uses of its Big Data technologies", using "contextual analytics" to provide insight on "the sentiment and frequency of Twitter conversations" about the election.
When I asked this morning for examples of where sentiment analysis had proved a useful predictor of voting patterns, the company behind that app returned with a blizzard of charts. Extracting any kind of conclusions from the data was almost impossible. What should we make, for instance, of the fact that Ed Miliband got more mentions than David Cameron on Twitter? Or that UKIP was the most talked about party?
But I also heard from Elections UK, a joint venture between Warwick University, City University and a Greek research institute that had success in using Twitter data to predict the recent election there. They bravely sent me their prediction, made at 1400 on election day, which combined Twitter data with opinion polls to reach a conclusion. And guess what? Just like the polls, it put Labour and the Conservatives neck-and-neck.
Twitter itself also got in touch to tell me that David Cameron had been the most-mentioned party leader this year, Conservative MPs had tweeted more than their Labour rivals over the last three months, and there was evidence that Twitter had encouraged more young people to vote.
So it seems that there is now a vast amount of data available to those wishing to look into the minds of British voters, but the techniques employed to examine that information and extract some meaning from it still need some work. Across the political spectrum many are convinced that technology can now play a huge role in an election campaign - but they are still puzzling over just how to use it effectively.


Having a total hip replacement increases the risk of a stroke in the year after the operation, according to records of patients in Denmark.

Data from more than 66,000 operations showed the odds of a stroke increased more than fourfold in the fortnight immediately after surgery.
The research in the journal Stroke showed that taking drugs such as aspirin could reduce the risk.
The Stroke Association said the results should be taken "very seriously".
Hip replacements are a very common operation, carried out on hundreds of thousands of people around the world each year.
Researchers in the UK and the Netherlands said the probability of having a stroke in the year after surgery was 2%, compared with 0.4% if they did not have the operation.
The risk peaked in the weeks after surgery before returning to normal over the course of a year.
One of the researchers, Prof Cyrus Cooper from the University of Southampton, said the risk was twice as high as would be expected from general surgery.
Taking medication which reduced the risk of a blood clot, such as aspirin, appeared to lower the risk in the study. The report's authors called for more studies to investigate if patients should be given pills before going under the knife.
Prof Cooper said: "This research has demonstrated that there is a high risk of stroke to patients soon after having a total hip replacement and suggests that the use of soluble aspirin might be beneficial in reducing this risk.
"Normally we would have reservations about people taking aspirin every day but our results suggest aspirin is a benefit and worthwhile to give to the patient before the surgery.
"The data is of huge clinical importance."
Dr Peter Coleman, from the Stroke Association charity, said: "Hip replacement surgery is a significant operation and can be very traumatic for the body. Like with any major surgery there is always a risk of incurring further health problems.
"This research suggests that hip replacement surgery could increase your risk of stroke and the results should be taken very seriously.
"If you are due to undergo a hip operation, it is important that you speak to your GP or hospital consultant beforehand in order to discuss the potential risks."


Kanye West has accused the Grammys of "disrespecting artistry" by handing Beck album of the year instead of Beyonce, after almost invading the stage during Beck's acceptance speech.

West had seemed about to repeat his infamous Taylor Swift moment, when he stormed the VMAs stage in 2009.
However in a rant on E! afterwards he said he decided to smile and sit down out of consideration for his daughter.
The rapper also said he thought Beck "should've given his award to Beyonce."
"I just know that the Grammys, if they want real artists to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us. We ain't gonna play with them no more," he told E! After Party, as he was interviewed alongside wife Kim Kardashian.
"And Beck needs to respect artistry and he should've given his award to Beyonce."
West went on to say that he and other artists were "tired" of being disrespected by the Grammys.
"Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration.
"And we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place."
West's stance echoed the 2009 VMAs, when he stormed on stage as Taylor Swift was accepting her award, to say he thought Beyonce should have won.
Beck took the stage invasion in his stride, beckoning West towards the microphone.
He later and later told Us Weekly: "I was just so excited he was coming up. He deserves to be on stage as much as anybody.
"How many great records has he put out in the last five years right?
"I still love him and think he's genius. I aspire to do what he does."
Many Grammys commentators initially thought West's brief appearance next to Beck had been a joke.
However, the rapper said it was out of consideration for his daughter, North and his wife that he had decided not to speak.
"I'm not going to do nothing to put my daughter at risk, but I am here to fight for creativity," he said.
"That's the reason why I didn't say anything tonight, but you all know what it meant when Ye [referring to himself] walked out on that stage!"
West had performed his track Only One during the ceremony, as well as appearing with Sir Paul McCartney and Rihanna for a performance of their collaboration FourFiveSeconds.
Beck won two Grammys including album of the year for Morning Phase, beating Ed Sheeran, Pharrell Williams and Sam Smith as well as Beyonce in that category.
Beck revealed to Billboard at Saturday night's pre-Grammys party that he was not expecting a trophy.
"It would be a surprise with this record, honestly. I've been in that category before, and it's usually something that's very definitive of the time."
Speaking after the show, he reiterated: "I thought she was going to win. Come on, she's Beyonce!"
In the final event, Beyonce won three awards, while Sam Smith was the evening's big winner with four. See our list of key winners and our full story for more.


Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has played down midfielder Jack Wilshere being pictured on a night out last Sunday.

Wilshere, 24, has only recently returned to training having not played this season because of a broken leg.
"I've spoken to him. It looks to be taken out of proportion a little bit. These are matters we like to keep internal," said Wenger.
"There was no training session the next day. I had a day off. You can accept players go out."
England midfielder Wilshere will play in an under-21s game on Friday as he steps up his recovery after breaking his left leg in August 2015.
"What is positive is that he works very, very hard," added Wenger. "The news looks quite good. I think he will have a good test on Friday."
Wilshere's career has been plagued by leg and ankle problems since he first sustained a stress fracture during pre-season in 2011, which left him sidelined for 15 months.
He had two operations last season after injuring his left ankle against Manchester United in November 2014.
England manager Roy Hodgson has not ruled Wilshere out of his squad for Euro 2016 but Wenger says he is "a bit cautious" about the player's return to fitness "because of his history".
"At the moment I believe he's a real football brain, Jack Wilshere. He loves football," said the Frenchman.
"He's very serious, very dedicated. The only thing that could stop him from having the career he can make is injuries.
"He had the history of his injuries. It's been bad recently. But I hope he can get rid of that and make the career he deserves."
Wenger praised the impact Alex Iwobi, 19, has had since breaking into the first team and revealed talks over a new deal with the forward are under way.
Iwobi has scored two goals in his last two Premier League games.
"We are discussing it at the moment, to extend it," said the Gunners boss. "He is a real Arsenal person because he's been here since the age of eight.
"He has three years left at the end of the season but we want to keep him here longer."
Iwobi plays for Nigeria and Wenger added: "There's a possibility he will go to the Olympic Games and the African Nations Cup and travel a bit more. We have to respect his choice."
Arsenal, who are 11 points behind top-flight leaders Leicester with a game in hand, could have midfielders Aaron Ramsey and Mathieu Flamini back after injury to face West Ham on Saturday.
Ramsey has been out with a thigh problem, while Flamini was out with a hamstring problem.
"As long as mathematically it's possible, there's a strong possibility [of catching Leicester]," said Wenger.
"You look at the difficulty of the Premier League, they have been remarkably consistent, but every game is very, very tight, so that can go the other way as well."


Great Britain will look at the 2014 Sochi Olympics as a significant step forward for winter sport after surpassing the three-medal target set by UK Sport.

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Lizzy Yarnold's skeleton gold, silver for the men's curlers, bronze for the women's curlers and Jenny Jones in snowboard slopestyle equalled the record of four medals Great Britain won at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix 1924.
UK Sport invested £13.4m from lottery and exchequer funding to achieve their goal, but could have earned more podium places.
Elise Christie's three disqualifications in short track were a bitter pill to swallow, highly-rated slopestyle skier James Woods was hampered by a hip injury in training and John Jackson's GBR 1 bobsleigh crew led briefly on a tense final afternoon in the Sochi sun.
Olympic sport is decided by fine margins - there are winners, losers and those in between. Four years of toil is done. The long road to Pyeongchang begins now.
UK Sport funding to Sochi: £0 Medals in Sochi: 0
Soldiers Lee Jackson and Amanda Lightfoot represented Great Britain in biathlon but both finished outside the top 40 in their events.
In cross country, Britain had four athletes competing with a best finish of 29th in the sprint free by Andrew Musgrave, who recently won the Norwegian national championships.
The 23-year-old was 44th in the 15km classic and 53rd in the 50km mass start, but did not finish the team sprint classic after team-mate Andrew Young suffered from a flare up of a pre-existing heart condition.
Others: Jackson (33) - 67th in 10km sprint, 42nd in 20km individual; Lightfoot (27) - 71st in 15km individual, 75th in 7.5km sprint. Young (22) - 42nd sprint free, 37th in 15km classic; Callum Smith (21) - 67th in 15km classic, 62nd 15km + 15km skiathlon, 62nd sprint free; Rosamund Musgrave (27) - 66th in 10km classic, 42nd in sprint free.
BBC commentator Rob Walker said: "Andrew Musgrave will be pretty disappointed. He came last in his sprint free quarter, and he'll be wishing that worked out differently. It was still the best performance ever by a Briton in cross country (Tom Cairney was 28th out of 30 in 1956) so he is making inroads, albeit slowly, in what is a very competitive field.
"Overall, the fact Britain had four cross-country skiers was absolutely tremendous. Vancouver was first time Britain even had any cross-country skiers since 1994. Hopefully people at home have seen the sport a bit and it's perked the interest.
"The biathlon was OK, but they need a bit more financial support. They are heavily reliant on army people at the moment."
Funding to Sochi: £3,304,250
Previous Olympic success: Gold: 1964 (two-man), silver: 1924 (four-man), bronze: 1936 and 1998 (four-man).
Performance target: 0-1 medal (or 1x 4th-6th for men; 1x 4th-8th for women) Medals in Sochi: 0
GBR 1 pilot John Jackson steered his four-man team into the lead at one stage midway through the fourth run but the remaining crews nudged them down to fifth at the Sanki Sliding Centre.
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Jackson, who defied doctors by fighting back from a serious Achilles injury, drove his crew of Joel Fearon, Stuart Benson and Bruce Tasker to within 0.11s of an Olympic medal. The quartet, who came to Sochi as European silver medallists, achieved their Games target of a top-six finish.
Lamin Deen's GBR2 four-man squad narrowly qualified for the top-20 to contest the final run and ended 19th.
Britain's women's crew of Paula Walker and Rebekah Wilson finished 12th, while Deen and John Baines in the two-man bob came 23rd. The team only came together the week before competition started after a back injury in training ruled out Beijing Olympic sprinter Craig Pickering.
Former Olympic brakeman and BBC commentator Colin Bryce said: "Paula Walker didn't get on with the track initially and struggled in training, but she stepped it up in competition and although she was not in the top eight as she hoped, I still think it was a solid result.
"Lamin Deen is a pilot for the future. He's a big strong man, improved over the season, especially in the four-man, and bodes well for the future.
"John Jackson and his crew pushed exceptional starts. The athletes they brought into the crew, and the technological help from McLaren and BAE Systems, gave him the chance to drive as well as he did, despite the horrific injury.
"You need a good pilot, a good start and good equipment and for GBR 1, all three elements were exceptional. I hope Jackson stays in the sport for another couple of seasons to pick up some more deserved medals."
Previous Olympic success: Gold: 1924 (men) and 2002 (women)
UK Sport funding to Sochi: £2,055,100
Performance target: 1-2 medals Medals in Sochi: 2 (one silver, one bronze)
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Britain's curlers once again captivated the nation with their ancient and absorbing game. And in winning two medals they achieved at the top end of their performance target, proving the British curling machine is working.
David Murdoch's men beat world champions Sweden to reach the final but went down 9-3 to defending champions Canada in the gold-medal match.
"We just never got off to a good start," said Murdoch. "A silver medal is scarily cool."
Eve Muirhead's women lost to Canada in the semi-final but beat Switzerland 6-5 with the last stone of the match to claim bronze.
"It's a dream come true," said Muirhead. "This is the medal we've been missing and to win it with four of my best friends feels so special."
Former Olympic curler and BBC commentator Jackie Lockhart said: "We've hit our targets, won a silver and a bronze and raised the profile of our sport. It's onwards and upwards from here."
Previous Olympic success: Gold: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (1984), Robin Cousins (1980), John Curry (1976), Jeannette Altwegg (1952), silver: Cecilia Colledge (1936), bronze: Torvill & Dean (1994), Altwegg (1948) and Ethel Muckelt (1924).
UK Sport funding to Sochi: £174,338
Performance target: Top-10 Medals in Sochi: 0
Britain's six skaters competed in the team event first and placed a not wholly unexpected 10th and last, with only the top five going through to the free programme.
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In the ice dance, Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland - the latter skating less than four months after undergoing heart surgery - met their top-10 target with 10th overall.
The GB pair of David King, 29, and Stacey Kemp, 23, finished 19th out of 20 in the short programme and so also fell short of qualification for the free skate.
Jenna McCorkell, 27, fell one place short of qualification for the free skating after finishing 25th in the short programme.
BBC figure skating commentator Sue Barker said: "Penny and Nick had a really traumatic first week when they were penalised by the judge in the short programme twice, mainly for an extended lift which they didn't get right, which was heart breaking for them.
"They bounced back with a fabulous free dance that gives them a lot of confidence going forward. The 2018 Winter Games were always their goal and they have learned some harsh but valuable lessons in Sochi."
Previous Olympic success: Bronze: Nicky Gooch (1994) 500m
Funding to Sochi: £2,953,400
Performance Target: 0-1 medal (or 2x top 8) Medals in Sochi: 0
Short-track speed skating can be cruel at the best of times, but Elise Christie suffered the worst of times. The 23-year-old was tipped to pick up medals in one or all of her disciplines - 500m, 1500m and 1,000m - but in each she was penalised for racing infringements.
In the 500m final, she crossed the line second but was deemed to have caused an earlier collision. In her 1500m heat she came first but was ruled not to have crossed the proper finish line.
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And in the semi-final of the 1000m - her favourite event - Christie was judged to have impeded a Chinese athlete as they both fell over. Christie also had to endure online abuse, mainly from South Korean fans after an incident with one of their athletes in the 500m.
The only other Briton to reach a final was Jack Whelbourne, 22, but he crashed and hurt his ankle to finish last of the seven in the 1500m.
Others: Whelbourne - 27th in 500m, 21st in 1000m; Jon Eley (29) - 7th in 500m, 25th in 1000m; Richard Shoebridge (28) - 27th in 1000m; Charlotte Gilmartin (23) - 16th in 500m; 28th in 1500m.
Former Olympian and BBC short track commentator Wilf O'Reilly said: "The British team can fly home with their heads held high despite missing out on medals. They can feel proud that they've shown what short track is all about and how you cope with this rollercoaster sport.
"The International Skating Union and the technical committee need to start looking at how they can make the sport, from a rules point of view, more understandable. Everybody keeps asking why Elise Christie was disqualified and so few people know.
"If there is a penalty, the referee should announce it so the whole arena knows what it is, the commentators know and people at home know. Then it becomes far more interesting - you understand it.
"What's important now is we not only have funding for the future to support the high-performance programme, but create funding to improve the grassroots development of the sport."
Previous Olympic success: Gold: Amy Williams (2010), silver: Shelley Rudman (2006), bronze: David Carnegie (1928), John Crammond (1948), Alex Coomber (2002)
Funding to Sochi: £3,447,600
Performance Target: 1 medal Medals in Sochi: 1 (one gold)
On the day of my competition, I got my TV licence bill through on email. There is of course reality but there is beauty in reality because I can't wait to get back into the UK
Lizzy Yarnold followed up Amy Williams's success in Vancouver with victory in Sochi to keep the women's skeleton gold medal firmly in British hands.
The 25-year-old went into the Sochi Games as the clear favourite and her commanding performance maintained Britain's great tradition of winning a medal in every Games the skeleton has been contested - six in all.
Team-mate Shelley Rudman, 32, finished 16th in her third Olympics, while partner Kristan Bromley, 41, was eighth in his fourth Games and Dominic Parsons 10th on his Olympic debut.
BBC pundit and 2010 Olympic champion Amy Williams said: "Lizzy is living proof that the British skeleton performance programme works. By getting the right people involved, making the right decisions, working hard, with the best equipment and the right coaching, you can produce an Olympic champion. It's exciting that when we get back there will be another huge talent search to find the next batch.
"I don't have an answer as to why the men have not performed quite as well, historically, as the girls but there are some good young guys coming through and we've got to keep up the development, do the same things we did with Lizzy, and target four years' time."
Previous Olympic success: No medals (Alain Baxter's "bronze" in the 2002 slalom was rescinded for failing a drugs test)
Funding to Sochi: £0 for alpine, £1,509,950 for freestyle skiing and snowboarding.
Performance target: 1-2 medals Medals in Sochi: 1 (one bronze)
Freestyle skiing and snowboarding
The Sochi Games featured the new discipline of slopestyle, which was tipped as a possible source of British medals - and so it proved. Snowboarder Jenny Jones, 33, bagged Britain's first ever medal on snow with a bronze to kick start the GB medal haul.
In the men's event, 20-year-old Jamie Nicholls was sixth with team-mate Billy Morgan, 24, 10th.
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In the skiing equivalent, Britain's big hope James Woods, the 2012-13 World Cup winner, injured his hip in training and came fifth, while 18-year-old Katie Summerhayes was seventh. Zoe Gillings narrowly missed out on the snowboard cross final to place ninth.
Halfpipe skier Rowan Cheshire, 18, a World Cup winner this season, missed the competition after a training accident put her in hospital with concussion.
Others: Dom Harington (29) - 38th snowboard halfpipe; Ben Kilner (25) - 34th snowboard halfpipe; Emma Lonsdale (29) - 18th ski halfpipe; Murray Buchan (22) - 17th ski halfpipe; James Machon (23) - 23rd ski halfpipe.
BBC commentator Ed Leigh said: "In 2006, we had Zoe Gillings and Lesley McKenna representing GB. In two Olympic cycles we've gone to a medal and six top-10 finishes. It's unbelievable really. They have had a bit of funding but it's down the passion and the grassroots of the sport in the UK.
Hopefully I'll be in a few pub quizzes now
"On a personal level for Jenny it has been a really important achievement, but for British freestyle skiing and snowboarding it could be the starting block of some huge investment both from UK Sport and other sponsorship and the sport could explode in the UK.
"I'm very excited about the future. Woodsy is pretty disappointed, and is beating himself up, but the way he skied and what he managed to achieve with his hip injury was unbelievable."
Alpine skiing
With no lottery funding for alpine skiing in the wake of Vancouver, only two skiers were able to satisfy performance criteria and make it to Sochi.
1924: Men (curling)
1936: Men (ice hockey)
1952: Jeannette Altwegg (figure skating)
1964: Tony Nash & Robin Dixon (two-man bobsleigh)
1976: John Curry (figure skating)
1980: Robin Cousins (figure skating)
1984: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (figure skating)
2002: Women (curling)
2010: Amy Williams (skeleton)
2014: Lizzy Yarnold (skeleton)
* Madge Syers won figure skating gold at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London
Chemmy Alcott fought back from career-threatening double leg fracture in 2010 and a further break in 2013 to compete in her fourth Games. The 31-year-old finished 19th in downhill and 23rd in super-G. Dave Ryding, 27, fell foul of a devilish gate that caught out some of the world's best but recovered to finish 17th in the men's slalom.
Five-time Olympic skier and BBC commentator Graham Bell said: "We had two top-20 performances, but there should have been more skiers here. I don't think the selection policy reflected the ability we have in alpine skiing and we should have seen the likes of Dougie Crawford and TJ Baldwin representing us in men's downhill.
"They would certainly have been in the top half of the field which I thought was the BOA's rule of thumb for performance.
"In my opinion, alpine selection criteria needs to be looked at, and also the funding needs to be looked at because alpine is the feeder into a lot of the other sports and participation-wise it dwarfs freestyle skiing and snowboarding amongst junior athletes.
"So a good performance from Chemmy and Dave - but there should have been more of them."


Growing up in rural Cambodia, Khai Socheung knew that life was tough, and that she might have to leave her homeland to find work.

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So, when she was offered a job in China paying up to $1,000 (Â£590) a month - more than she could earn at home - she decided to go.
It would help her family pay off their debts, and she thought, would be "a good opportunity for me to leave the country for a better life".
It did not turn out that way.
Socheung had fallen victim to a Chinese and Cambodian gang of people traffickers. When she arrived, instead of giving her a job, the gang sold her to a man for $15,000.
"On the first night he tried me to force me to sleep with him but I refused, then he turned angry. He just raped me repeatedly every night," she says.
Determined to escape, Socheung persuaded the gang's leader to buy her a Sim card, saying she needed it to keep in contact with her family.
Eventually she managed to get in contact with Licadho, a human rights charity based in Phnom Penh, which helped her get repatriated to Cambodia.
Socheung says she refused to give up: "I was so angry at them for tricking me, but I could not do anything.
"I needed to control myself until I was able to contact the NGO [non-governmental organisation]."
Her story is not uncommon and the trafficking of poor Cambodian women into China is on the increase, says Pung Chiv Kek of Licadho.
"If you don't punish everybody, especially the officials, then they will continue. It's good business."
According to the International Labour Organization, there are 21 million modern slaves across the globe - trafficked and working as forced labourers.
Slavery in all its forms is tough to beat partly because it crosses so many borders and involves organisations which do not always work together effectively.
If a woman is reported missing in one country, and is then recorded as a prostitute in another, her plight will not automatically be flagged up.
Yet there are now some technical solutions that could help put the trafficking gangs out of business.
One man who is trying to change this is Kevin Montgomery of Stanford University, who has set up Collaborate.org.
Collaborate takes input from sources such as GIS (geographic information system) data, news and social media feeds, sensor networks, weather reports, shipping movements, and collates this in a single global mapping platform.
Its 3D world view then allows a user to zoom in on a location and see all the information there is about that place.
It currently has up to 10 petabytes worth of data - five times the information stored in all US academic research libraries - a figure which is increasing all the time.
"When you can bring all of those layers together, and everything that everyone knows about this problem together - you can really get some co-ordinated action planned," says Dr Montgomery.
However, one basic problem for many modern slaves - is how to call for help.
Hugh Bradlow, the chief technology officer for the Australian telecoms firm, Telstra, is pushing for a single global emergency number for victims of slavery.
But there are various challenges to overcome first before there is a single global help.
"Often the people who are being trafficked don't know what country they are in, so it needs to be the same number in every country.
"They could be illiterate so they may not be able to use texts. They could be in a different language zone, so it needs to be multi-lingual."
Keeping callers safe from retribution is also vital.
"The people who are trafficking them have access to their phones, if they are using phones," says Mr Bradlow.
This means traffickers can see which numbers their captives are dialling or texting messages to.
He says the safest way to do this securely could lie with a relatively little-used piece of technology called USSD, or Unstructured Supplementary Services Data.
USSD is built in to all GSM (global system for mobile communications) phone signalling systems, and is a way of sending short commands from the mobile to the network.
Most commonly, USSD is used by prepaid phone users to check their available balance - the text messages can be up 80 characters in length.
"It's a very simple system, you put in a hash before and after a number, and then you press send -  it doesn't leave a trace on the phone," says Mr Bradlow.
"On the receiving side it's very easy then to redirect that message globally and it tells you which network the phone is attached to and what home number it's got.
"And that would enable the local authorities in that country to go then and locate the phone."
Mr Bradlow hopes that this could be operational relatively soon.
"I wouldn't like to declare victory at this stage - globally you've got to get some changes made to the networks of different carriers - but it is feasible and not beyond the realms of cost."
For her part, now safely in Cambodia, Socheung says she is simply happy to be home.
"When in China, my life was hell - my life now is much better."
There is a curious coda to her story. The trafficking gang's leaders are now on the run, and if caught it will be Socheung's testimony that will be used as evidence against them.
Recently she got a call from the daughter of the gang's ringleader. It was an offer of a bribe if she dropped her case. The sum offered was insultingly low - just $50.
Socheung says she refused outright: "It's ridiculous - a pig is worth much more than this!"
For more on technological solutions to slavery, listen to Ed Butler on BBC World Service's Business Daily programme


A British family of four killed in a plane crash in Canada have been named by the Quebec Coroner's Office.

Fiona Hewitt, 52, Richard Hewitt, 50, Felicity, 17, and Harry, 14, died when the seaplane crashed in woods in the Les Bergeronnes area of Quebec province during a sightseeing trip on Sunday.
A relative said the Hewitts, of Milton Keynes, were on a special holiday when they died alongside two others.
Family members were said to be devastated by their loss.
In a statement released by the Foreign Office, the unnamed relative said: "Their families are devastated by the news of this tragic incident and are struggling to come to terms with the loss of the entire family.
"Please respect the family's wishes for privacy in this deeply distressing time and we ask to be left to grieve in private."
Pilot Romain Desrosiers and French passenger Emilie Delaitre also died in the crash.
The seaplane had taken off from Tadoussac, on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence - located about 270km (167 miles) north east of Quebec City - on Sunday evening (local time).
An Air Saguenay official said the flight was supposed to last 20 minutes and flying conditions at the time were "excellent".
However, crash investigators have been hindered by bad weather and the inaccessible terrain.
Le Journal de Quebec reported that the plane crashed into a mountainside 20km (12 miles) from Tadoussac, where the tourists were staying.
The newspaper also reported the Britons might have rented a car with an Ontario number plate to drive to the region.
The Quebec Coroner's Office said it would carry out further investigations into the deaths in the coming weeks and its findings would be published in a report in the coming months.
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond offered his condolences, saying: "This terrible incident has taken the lives of all on board, including four British nationals.
"My thoughts and sympathy are with their family and friends at this difficult time."
The UK's High Commission in Ottawa is in close contact with the Canadian authorities and consular assistance is being provided to the relatives of those killed, he added.


A woman has been found guilty of trying to smuggle 12 Vietnamese migrants into the UK in a van loaded with tyres.

Katy Bethel was a passenger in the van driven by her then-partner Aaron Harris when they were arrested on 4 July 2015 at Coquelles' Eurotunnel check-in.
Four men, five women and three children were found hidden among the tyres after a Border Force officer spotted a pair of legs sticking out of one of them.
Harris, 33, admitted assisting unlawful immigration at Maidstone Crown Court.
Harris and Bethel will be sentenced on 11 September.
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Bethel, 28, who was six months pregnant with her fourth child at the time, claimed she had no idea the migrants were in the vehicle.
She told the court she and Harris had gone on a day trip, looking for a beach, but had got lost and left the van by the roadside as they went for a walk.
The prosecution accused her of talking "nonsense".
The jury heard that in the four hours the pair were in France, they sent and received 67 messages and calls to and from an unknown number.
Bethel, of Dial Road, Gillingham in Kent, said Harris, the father of two of her children, was using her phone on the trip to make calls and texts and she was unaware of their contents.
The couple were returning from Calais to Folkestone when they were stopped by customs officers.
Both were charged with aiding and abetting unlawful immigration.
Harris had previously pleaded guilty to the charge.


A gunman has surrendered to police in the United States after allegedly shooting dead six people, including four of his own children, near Houston.

One of the suspect's daughters is in a critical condition after being shot in the head, but she was able to direct police to him.
After a 20-minute chase, the man's car was surrounded and he gave himself up following a two-hour stand-off.
Police said the incident appeared to have started over a domestic dispute.
"It appears this stems from a domestic issue with a breakup in the family, from what our witness has told us", a police press spokesman said.
The gunman and his wife were estranged and she was not in the state of Texas at the time, police said.
Police described the suspect as a man in his 30s with a beard who was "cool as a cucumber".
When approached by officers he was "just sitting in his car looking out at us," said Sgt Thomas Gilliland.
There followed "two hours of constant talking with a man armed with a pistol to his head and who had just killed six people".
Police had been called to a house about 18:00 (23:00 GMT) and found three children and two adults dead, a Harris County Sheriff's Office statement said.
A fourth child died in hospital. The children ranged in age from 4 to 13. The two adults are also believed to be related to the suspect.
Two of the children who died had been adopted.
The suspect's 15-year old daughter, who alerted police to the shooting, is currently in critical condition in hospital.
She warned police that her father was heading for her grandparents' home, allowing them to intercept him on the way.


A senior teaching union boss has been accused of fostering a "hostile, sexist and discriminatory environment".

The allegations against Jim Quigley, of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), were made at a tribunal hearing in Exeter.
Charlotte Revely, 51, a former union employee, is making a whistleblower and sexual discrimination claim.
The NASUWT has strongly denied the claims.
Ms Revely, from Hinton St George, Somerset, worked for the union as a professional assistant in its South West regional centre in Exeter from January 2013 until she quit in August 2014.
She told an Exeter employment tribunal: "During my period of employment I witnessed colleagues being bullied and female colleagues treated less favourably than their male counterparts.
"I suffered direct discrimination and victimisation."
She said: "At the end of April I became ill because I could no longer cope with such a hostile and aggressive working environment.
"I felt that my work was being closely scrutinised and that Mr Quigley was waiting for me to make a mistake."
She said a regional official vacancy was advertised when she was ill, but feared she would not be treated fairly.
After she made a complaint against Mr Quigley she was left "shocked and dismayed" by a "brutal character assassination" from Mr Quigley, which stated she was "malicious, vexatious, dishonest and lazy".
It was "clearly a response to my whistleblowing", she said.
Ms Revely claimed other workers, male and female, were also being bullied.
The NASUWT "wilfully ignores their own policies and procedures" and "turns a blind eye to discrimination", she said.
"I am a passionate and lifelong trade unionist and I feel utterly betrayed by the conduct of my former employer."
The tribunal continues.


A day of intense political drama showed that Australia's political class is not yet sick of the periodic blood-letting that has characterised the last decade.

Former lawyer Malcolm Turnbull defeated Prime Minister Tony Abbott in a late night ballot, but not before a fraught few hours of rallying allies and eyeing up rivals. Here is how the day unfolded in pictures.


A 35-year-old man has been charged in the Netherlands in connection with the suicide in 2012 of Canadian teenager Amanda Todd, who was bullied online.

The unnamed suspect was charged with extortion, internet luring, criminal harassment and child pornography, Canadian police say.
Suspected of numerous other abuse cases, he has entered no plea.
Ms Todd posted a video before her death where she told how she was blackmailed into exposing herself online.
After pictures were posted on Facebook, an online bullying campaign began and the 15-year-old from British Columbia eventually killed herself.
Her story made headlines worldwide and her video, which contains images of self-harm some readers may find distressing, has been watched millions of time.
On the basis of materials seized, the detainee is also suspected of dozens of cases of online abuse in the Netherlands, the UK and the US, the Dutch newspaper Omroep Brabant reports.
Carol Todd, Amanda's mother, thanked police at news of the arrest, saying: "This is truly a day we have been waiting for."
The suspect, who was arrested in January, made his first court appearance in Amsterdam on Wednesday, at which his detention was reportedly extended for three months.
"Today marks a major milestone in our investigation," said Inspector Paulette Friel of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. "A suspect has been identified, he has been arrested and he has been charged."
The suspect is said to have been living alone in a holiday home in the Netherlands town of Oisterwijk.
"The suspicions against the man are that he approached underage girls via the internet and then seduced them into performing sexual acts in front of a webcam,'' Dutch prosecutors said in a statement, quoted by AP.
"He is suspected of subsequently pressurising them to participate in making new material."
Suspected targets include men who were allegedly convinced the man was an underage boy and were persuaded into performing sexual acts on camera.
His lawyer, Christian van Dijk, said: "Prosecutors seem to think they have a big fish here, but if I see the evidence, it's not much. Lots of references to IP addresses and such."
He added: "He seems like a decent person, a young good-looking man who is easy to speak to."
Carol Todd told Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper  she believed others were involved in the abuse too.
"I don't want everyone to get so hyped up that this is it, that this is the end," she said. "I don't think in my heart that this is the end. It's the start of it. There's more than one person in those chat rooms. There are more people responsible for extorting [Amanda]."


Sir Lenny Henry says he needs to wash off his latest stage role - a Chicago mobster modelled both on Hitler and Donald Trump - after each performance.

"You have to have a shower and get rid of it because he's quite a nasty piece of work," he said of the title role in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.
Originally based on Hitler, the Bertolt Brecht play has been reworked by Bruce Norris to include references to Trump.
"I don't think you could have avoided the connections," Norris told the BBC.
"In a play about totalitarianism you have to nod in that direction."
Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Arturo Ui tells of a gangster who uses bribery and intimidation to take control of the city's grocery market.
Norris's version sees Sir Lenny make a Hitler-style salute while using certain quotes that became associated with Trump during last year's US presidential election.
At one point Ui calls a female critic a "nasty woman", mirroring a remark Trump made during his final debate with rival Hillary Clinton.
At others he declares his intention to "make this country great again" and "build a wall", slogans that helped the tycoon turned politician take the White House last November.
"We started taking Trump quotes wholesale and shoehorning them into the play," said Norris, whose previous plays include the Tony- and Pultizer-winning Clybourne Park.
"They didn't require much adjustment. They were already chillingly close to what was already in the play."
"Bruce has definitely appropriated bits of Trump," said Sir Lenny after Tuesday's press night performance at London's Donmar Warehouse.
"But it's really a cautionary tale about any demagogue who uses their influence to ease their way into the upper echelons of society."
The role of Arturo Ui represents the comedian turned actor's latest foray into "serious" theatre, a career shift that began with him playing Othello in 2009.
"I still love comedy, but this is my career now," he explained. "This is me growing up and the journey that began with Othello continuing."
Early reviews of Simon Evans' production have praised Sir Lenny's performance, with the Evening Standard saying he brings "heavyweight authority" to his "smug bully" role.
"It's another casual tour de force from him that showcases his irresistible combination of talents," writes the Telegraph's Dominic Cavendish,
According to The Guardian, Sir Lenny "exudes massive authority" as he transforms "from a shambling klutz into a figure of authoritarian power".
Yet critic Michael Billington feels "there is something a touch glib about the [play's] frequent invocations of Donald Trump".
His reservations were echoed by The Arts Desk's Marianka Swain, who felt "the barrage of explicit references to 'The Donald' becomes a tad wearying".
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui runs at the Donmar Warehouse until 17 June.
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The remains of dozens of people who were buried more than 200 years ago are being slowly exposed on an island in Kent.

Horror stories have been handed down the generations about the mysterious site, known as Deadman's Island, so the BBC's Inside Out South East programme took a boat across to investigate whether any of the rumours were true.
Lots of people have since been talking about it on social media sites.
Here are the answers to six things you wanted to know.
1. Where is Deadman's Island and who owns it?
It lies at the mouth of The Swale, opposite the town of Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, off the north Kent coast.
The uninhabited mudbank is owned by Natural England, who lease it to two people.
The wetland site is protected land, and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and recognised to be of international importance under the Ramsar convention.
It is also an important bird breeding and nesting site.
2. Can anyone visit?
No, the island is completely out of bounds to the public.
The Inside Out team was only allowed to visit after receiving permission from the leaseholder and because it was not the bird breeding season.
3. Who were the people buried there?
The remains are believed to be those of men and boys who died of contagious diseases on board floating prisons, known as prison hulks, which were moored off the Isle of Sheppey more than 200 years ago.
They were buried in unmarked coffins in six feet of mud.
4. Why are their remains being exposed?
Rising sea levels and coastal erosion over the years have begun to slowly wash away their final resting place, leaving wooden coffins and skeletal remains sticking out of the mud.
They are only visible when the tide is out.
5. Will the bodies be reburied?
The remains are being washed out into the sea, and would be difficult to re-bury.
Coincidentally, during the Napoleonic wars, many French prisoners of war were held around the coast at Chatham, with those who died buried on the nearby marshes.
When erosion started to reveal the bodies, they were exhumed and reburied on St Mary's Island.
When the land was later needed for redevelopment, they were disinterred again and reburied at St George's Church, now the St George's Centre, at Chatham Maritime.
6. Have archaeologists visited the island?
Kent archaeologist Dr Paul Wilkinson was taken to the island by Inside Out, and confirmed the bones were human remains.
It is not known if any archaeologists have surveyed the area as nothing has been made public.
You can see the full story on Inside Out, on BBC One South East and London on Monday 30 January at 19:30 GMT, and later on the BBC iPlayer.


Five men have been jailed over a plot to kill a man with a sawn-off shotgun.

Jonathan Catchpole survived a gunshot wound to the chest but needed surgery following the attack in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in August 2015.
Colin Deferia, 60, of Barking, Suffolk, who commissioned the "hit" due to a "grudge" against the victim, was jailed for 26 years.
Simon Webber, Frank Warren and Andrew Seaton were each jailed for 23 years and Paul Baker for 17 years.
All five had denied conspiracy to murder, but were found guilty at Ipswich Crown Court following an eight-week trial.
Webber, 32, of Bridgwater, Somerset; Warren, 52, of Dorchester, Dorset; and Seaton, 40, of Maiden Newton, Dorset; were also convicted of possessing a prohibited firearm.
Baker, 35, of Maiden Newton, had acted as a go-between between Deferia and the others, the court heard.
Police found Mr Catchpole with a "significant" gunshot wound to his chest at a flat in Forum Court, Bury St Edmunds, on 4 August 2015.
Shortly afterwards, a burnt-out car was discovered on the edge of the town. It contained a sawn-off shotgun found to have been used in the crime.
Deferia was identified as a suspect due to an ongoing dispute with Mr Catchpole and was arrested the next day.
Analysis of his mobile phone established he had been in contact with some of the other suspects. All four were arrested over the following days.
Mobile phone data, automatic number plate recognition and CCTV footage helped prove Webber, Warren and Seaton had travelled to the town from the south-west of England on the day of the attack.
Forensic evidence linked Webber to the shooting. Warren and Seaton assisted him in carrying out the attack, with Seaton driving the stolen getaway car.
The court heard since the attack, Mr Catchpole, who is in his 30s, needed life-saving surgery to remove multiple pellets.
A victim impact statement read to the court said he was now afraid to open the door and did not feel safe in his home.
Judge David Goodin said he had been shot at point-blank range and it was a "miracle" he had survived.
He described Deferia as a wealthy, successful, self-made businessman but behind his good nature was "vicious remorselessness".
Mark Milliken-Smith, for Deferia, said his client had been law-abiding until this crime, with no previous convictions, and suffered from a depressive disorder.
After the hearing, Ch Insp Caroline Millar, said: "This was a pre-planned and orchestrated attempt to murder an innocent man, all because of a grudge held against him by Colin Deferia.
"Deferia hired the other four men to carry out this attack and between them they thought they had planned the perfect crime."