Former Chelsea boss Avram Grant will be named Ghana coach if he can reach a financial agreement with the country's football association.

"If we reach an agreement with him we'll appoint him as Black Stars coach," GFA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi said.
"If we don't reach an agreement with him, we'll look at our second option."
The GFA said the Israeli is their first choice ahead of the Spaniard Juan Ignacio Martinez and former Switzerland assistant coach Michel Pont.
"We're going to engage Grant on the details of the job requirement and expectations which will span from remuneration, conditions of service and others," Nyantakyi added.
"We are going to re-negotiate effectively. We know his salary expectation but we'd like to see if we can beat it down further."
The 59-year old took Chelsea to the final of the 2008 European Champions League and also had a four year spell in charge of the Israeli national team.
The GFA did not put a timeline on when they intend to make a firm appointment but say they will offer Grant a two year contract with a mandate to win Ghana their fifth Africa Cup of Nations title.
The Black Stars have been without a coach since Appiah left the job after the opening two 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers and was replaced by Maxwell Konadu on a temporary basis.
Konadu oversaw the Black Stars back-to-back ties against Guinea in October, leading them to a  1-1 draw and a 3-1 victory to lift them to the top of Group E.
The delay in finding a new coach means Konadu is set to oversee the Black Stars final qualifiers, away to Uganda on 15 November and then at home to Togo four days later.
Initially former Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac is being widely tipped to return to the post he held between 2008 and 2010.
Former Netherlands striker Patrick Kluivert, ex-German international Bernd Schuster and Italian Marco Tardelli were also shortlisted for the job but were never interviewed for different reasons.


Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was a surprise pace-setter in second practice at the Mexican Grand Prix.

The four-time champion upstaged title rivals Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, pipping the Briton by 0.004 seconds.
Rosberg, who can tie up the title on Sunday if results go his way, was 0.435secs behind Vettel.
The German, 26 points ahead with 75 available over the remaining three races, will be champion if he wins the race with Hamilton 10th or lower.
Rosberg can afford to finish second - or second twice and third once - even if Hamilton wins all the remaining races and still be champion.
Final practice (16:00 BST) and qualifying (19:00) are live on the BBC Sport website and radio 5 live sports extra.
If Ferrari are in the mix at the front on Sunday, it would be unexpected after a difficult season for the Italian team, but it could play into Hamilton's hands.
Because Rosberg has such an advantage, Hamilton ideally needs him to finish below the podium positions. If Hamilton won with Rosberg lower than third, the Briton would be able to control the championship - two wins in the final two races would be enough, even without any further problems for the other Mercedes.
Ferrari have been working hard on developing their car in recent races and the SF16-H tends to go better relative to Mercedes at the races where the softer tyres of the five in the Pirelli range are behind used.
Mexico is one of those tracks, with the super-soft, soft and medium being the tyres available.
It was harder than usual to get a read on relative form because Ferrari did not run the super-soft tyres at the start of the race-simulation runs.
Instead, they sent Vettel out on the medium tyre and Raikkonen on the soft, while Mercedes and Red Bull did the more usual thing in running the super-soft.
Of the super-soft runners, Hamilton was comfortably quicker than Rosberg, who was closely matched with the Red Bulls.
Hamilton, who was beaten to pole and win by Rosberg in Mexico last year, said he had had "a solid day", adding: "The track is feeling better than it did last year and I feel a lot more comfortable in the car than I did the first time we came to this circuit, so hopefully I can carry that through the rest of the weekend.
"I didn't really get the maximum out of my lap and out of my tyres so I think we have got more pace."
Asked if Ferrari were a big threat, Hamilton said: "I don't think so but we'll find out tomorrow."
"It was a good day," said Vettel. "The car seems to work, but there was a lot of traffic - I felt like I was in Mexico City, not on the race track.
"Lewis' lap didn't look particularly good so I think he has a little more in the pocket. We need to be realistic. If it's like this tomorrow, we take it for sure."
Red Bull have been Mercedes' closest challenger in recent races but they appeared off the pace on one lap on Friday. However, Verstappen said he had struggled initially to find a good set-up after missing first practice following a brake fire. He said the short runs were "not representative" as a result but that "our race pace was very strong".
He added: "Ferrari look definitely very strong but we just need to work hard, understand the tyres a bit more on this slippery track and then I am pretty sure we are there as well tomorrow."
The whole day was a difficult one to read, perhaps as a result of the low-grip track surface at an unexpectedly cool Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, where highs were only 16C.
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Tyre supplier Pirelli said it was difficult to draw conclusions from the day's running and that the competitive picture would be clearer once more rubber had been laid down on the track on Saturday morning.
Nico Hulkenberg's Force India split the Red Bulls, Williams' Valtteri Bottas was eighth quickest and Fernando Alonso's McLaren was 10th fastest on a track where the Honda-powered team were expecting a difficult weekend.
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Regardless, it did appear as if Hamilton had an advantage in pace over Rosberg.
He was 0.7secs quicker in the first session in addition to his smaller advantage in the second and the auguries appear good at this early stage for him to keep the title fight alive, barring some kind of technical problem or error.
Mexican Grand Prix second practice results
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President Obama has said the US must invest more in its infrastructure, in the wake of a train derailment in Philadelphia that claimed eight lives.

He said he was talking to congressional leaders to secure passage of a transport bill.
It's not yet clear what caused Amtrak Train 188 to crash on Tuesday night, leaving more than 200 people injured.
Investigators said on Thursday a camera showed it was speeding up for more than a minute before the crash.
The train was going 70mph (115km/h) about 65 seconds before the video went dark, said Robert Sumwalt of the National Transportation Safety Board.
But 16 seconds before the crash, its speed had increased to 100mph and then hit 106mph as it entered a 50mph zone.
Driver Brandon Bostian will be speaking to investigators in the coming days.
He has already said he has no recollection of the accident, and it is still unclear to those investigating why the train was speeding up.
Mr Sumwalt said they have found no faults with the track, signals or the train itself.
It had left Philadelphia's 30th Street Station on time, he added.
Source: NTSB (camera mounted on train)
A speed control system called Positive Train Control had not yet been installed in that area, unlike other parts of the route along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
That has sparked a row in Congress about whether funding was an issue.
President Obama's comments came as he concluded a summit with Arab leaders near Washington.
He said: "We are a growing country with a growing economy and we need to invest in the infrastructure that keeps us that way, not just when something bad happens, like a bridge collapse or a train derailment. That's what great countries do."
Amtrak is a national publicly funded rail service, serving tens of millions of people every year.
Congress has only two weeks before federal funding for transport infrastructure expires, but the cash flow is likely to be temporarily extended.
Meanwhile, an Amtrak employee injured in the derailment has filed what appears to be the first lawsuit.
A lawyer representing Bruce Phillips, who was travelling as a passenger on the train, said he was still being treated in hospital for concussion and spinal injuries, and seeks damages in excess of $150,000.
The victims of the Amtrak derailment
Amtrak disaster as political football


Dominic West has revealed he based his performance in Palme d'Or contender The Square on real-life contemporary artists - but refused to reveal who.

The Wire actor plays famous artist Julian in the art world satire, alongside Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss.
He admitted he would be "pretty scared" to meet Julian as those kind of people are "so powerful and so rich".
Asked who he was inspired by for the role, he said: "I'm sure you can guess."
He added of his character, who wears pyjamas, a sports jacket and tinted glasses: "My clothes give it away," while co-star Claes Bang hinted that the name was also a clue.
The Square, by Force Majeur director Ruben Ostlund, focuses on Bang's character Christian as the gallery he runs prepares for a new exhibition called The Square, a space in the courtyard which encourages members of the public to be altruistic.
Meanwhile, his private life starts to unravel after he is mugged and seeks the return of his belongings in an unorthodox way.
Julian's work in the gallery includes piles of gravel arranged on the floor, and a neon sign reading: "You have nothing".
Speaking about his character, West told press conference at the Cannes Film Festival: "I think they're pretty scary, these guys, the incredibly knowledgeable artists who cannot be disputed because they're talking about art, which is something there's no definite answer to.
"So I'd be quite scared of meeting someone like that. Also, because they're so powerful and so rich."
Asked about the inspiration, he replied: "We had a lot of people in mind. A lot of the interview we filmed [when Julian takes part in a gallery event] was taken from various interviews with great international artists who we looked at in great detail."
To laughter from the press, he added: "I can't remember their names. But I'm sure you can guess. My clothes give it away."
Christian is interviewed by American journalist Anne, played by Moss, and when he returns to her flat one night finds an ape in there with him - the presence of which is never explained in the film.
Ostlund said of the half-bonobo ape: "Anything can happen in a movie when a monkey appears in an apartment.
"I love monkeys and I think human beings love looking at monkeys because you're seeing yourself reflected in them."
Moss said to him: "I got an email from you saying: 'So I'm thinking you should have a monkey'. And I was like - okay!"
She said working with Ostlund was "incredibly challenging, even more than I thought it was going to be".
Moss, who stars in A Handmaid's Tale, added: "That's what I wanted - to do something different that was out of the rhythm and the norm of what I would usually do."
Moss said a sex scene was "hilarious to film" - as it is shot from the perspectives of the two characters.
"I was doing it with a camera in my face, on an apple box," she said.
Moss said sex scenes are "always awkward and uncomfortable" but added "with Ruben, it becomes a thousand times more awkward and uncomfortable because that's what he's looking for".
It has had good early reviews - despite some complaining that at two hours and 22 minutes, it is overly long.
The film received four stars from the Daily Telegraph's Robbie Collin, who said that while it is a "slow burn", it has a "cumulative force that can't be resisted".
It also gained four stars from Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian, who called it "thrillingly weird".
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Switzerland, one of the world's wealthiest countries, is engaged in an intense process of soul searching - about money.

This year alone there have been two nationwide referendums on executive pay, one of which approved strict limits on bonuses and banned golden handshakes.
Now two more votes are on the way, the first on the introduction of a minimum wage, and the second, and most controversial, on a guaranteed basic income for all legal residents, whether they work or not.
A universal basic income sounds very radical, but it is not a new idea - Thomas More proposed it in his work Utopia in the 16th Century.
On the left, universal basic income is thought to be fairer, while on the right it is seen as the policy that would make welfare payments obsolete.
For Enno Schmidt, a key supporter of universal basic income, Switzerland is the perfect place, and 2013 the perfect time, to launch a campaign to introduce it.
"Switzerland is the only place in Europe, and maybe in the world, where the people have the right to make something real, [through] direct democracy," he says.
That system of direct democracy means the Swiss could vote for free beer if they wanted to.
To hold a nationwide referendum, all citizens have to do is gather 100,000 signatures calling for a vote, and the ballot must be held - the result is binding.
The anger among many Swiss voters at the news that some of their biggest banks, such as UBS, had continued paying top executives huge bonuses while also reporting huge losses, has led to a heated debate about salaries, and more widely, about fairness.
In that context, it was easy to gather the 100,000 signatures to hold the vote on universal income, and the government is expected to name a date for the referendum soon.
Swiss business leaders have reacted with dismay, one calling it a "happy land" proposal, the product of a younger generation that has never experienced a major economic recession or widespread unemployment.
Many have also suggested it could provide a major disincentive to working at all, something that could pose problems for Swiss companies already finding it hard to recruit skilled workers.
Mr Schmidt denies this, saying the proposed amount for Switzerland, 2,500 Swiss francs ($2,800; Â£1,750) a month is scarcely enough to survive on, and that anyway a society in which people work only because they have to have money is "no better than slavery".
Instead Mr Schmidt argues that universal income would allow people more freedom to decide what they really want to do.
"The thought is not that people will work less, the people are free to decide - more, or less," he says.
That argument has found some enthusiastic supporters among young Swiss voters.
They have adopted a rather clever campaign technique, borrowing eight million five-centime pieces and displaying them around the country as a symbol that Switzerland can afford to pay its eight million inhabitants a universal income.
Che Wagner is one of the campaigners. He is 25, studying for a master's degree at Zurich university and working for a pizza delivery company.
"I have a daughter," he says, "and so of course I am there for my daughter, I look after her."
"But it is also a struggle - I have to work, so we can live.
"I think with a basic income I would still have to work, but I couldâ€¦ maybe [also] say, 'OK let's spend a week with my daughter.'"
And, when Che and his colleagues dumped their eight million coins outside the Swiss parliament, the politicians inside did not dismiss the campaign out of hand.
"The idea makes sense in a certain way," says Luzi Stamm, member of parliament for the right-wing Swiss People's Party.
But Mr Stamm adds, it would be a risky move for Switzerland to take as long as it remains inside Europe's free movement of people agreement.
"It certainly does not work in a country like Switzerland. In a country which is wealthy, and has open borders it is suicide."
Meanwhile on the left, economist and former social democrat member of parliament Rudolf Strahm backs a minimum wage but is against a universal income, believing it would undermine the famous Swiss work ethic.
"There will be no incentive for young people to learn a job or study," he says.
So how much exactly would such a scheme cost?
No-one is offering precise figures, although there is surprisingly little debate about whether Switzerland could afford it - the consensus seems to be that, financially, the scheme would be doable.
Income tax would not necessarily rise, but value added tax - on what people buy rather than what they earn - could rise to 20% or even 30%.
In the long run, supporters say, money might actually be saved because a basic universal income would replace means tested welfare payments.
But the main motivation behind the campaign is not economic but cultural, a bid to make people think more carefully about the nature of life and work.
Mr Wagner points out that the whole debate can make people uncomfortable, presenting them with choices that so far have been unimaginable.
"The idea goes to the personal question - what are you doing in your life, is it actually what you want to do?"


Free trade and globalisation had a bad 2016, but it looks like 2017 could be even worse.

For decades there has been a consensus that globalisation brought more jobs, higher wages and lower prices - not just for richer countries but also for developing and poorer nations.
But there is now a growing movement of anger as people see jobs being taken by machines, old industries disappearing and waves of migration disturbing the established order.
Global trade flows are falling and trade deals are being ripped up.
The new US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs of up to 45% on Chinese goods, accusing the country of economically "raping" the US.
One of China's fiercest critics, Peter Navarro, has been appointed as a top trade advisor.
An executive order pulling out of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) aimed at deepening economic ties between the US and Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Peru, was one of Mr Trump's first acts on moving into the White House.
The future of free trade is looking very gloomy.
But what's behind the anger that threatens decades of relative global consensus on globalisation?
The sense of grievance in the US is clear: the manufacturing sector in the country has seen six million jobs disappear between 1999 and 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Studies have shown that the decline in the US has been mirrored by gains in China.
But Chinese imports only explain 44% of the decline in employment in manufacturing in the US between 1990 and 2007, according to a report by the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn.
Part of the decline has been down to the outsourcing of jobs to other countries but automation and more efficient processes have also taken their toll.
"All countries end up with losers from technological development - whether it is telephone operators or bank tellers," says Gary Hufbauer, a trade expert from the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
"The problem in the US is that we don't do much to help those people who lose out through social security support or job retraining," says Mr Hufbauer.
The anger that flows from this has found a home in the protectionist rhetoric of politicians like Mr Trump.
"There has been no growth in household income during the last decade in Europe, the US and Japan. People are not happy and if you have to blame someone, it is easy to blame foreigners,"' says Mr Hufbauer.
The rise of political opposition to globalisation has coincided with - and contributed to - a period of declining world trade growth since the financial crisis of 2008.
Between 1986 and 2008 world trade grew at an average of 6.5%, according to the World Trade Organization.
Between 2012 and 2015 that rate has slowed to an average of 3.2% and is predicted to expand by just 1.7% in 2016.
That slowdown would make it the longest period of relative trade stagnation since the Second World War.
Since the financial crisis the slowing of the Chinese economy and political and economic stagnation in the eurozone have contributed to this flat-lining of world trade.
At the same time, in an attempt to insulate companies and industries at home, politicians have turned to tariffs and restrictions on imports from other countries.
"Governments worldwide have almost doubled their resort to trade distortions in the last two years," says Prof Simon Evenett, a trade expert at St Gallen University.
"The recent surge in 'beggar-thy-neighbour' activity predates Trump and Brexit, suggesting that populist pressures are likely to exacerbate protectionism," he says.
The flat lining of economic growth has increased pressure on politicians.
"Governments across the world are enacting protectionist policies often masquerading as 'industrial policy," according to Prof Evenett.
He says this often involves offering government subsidies to local companies, introducing import barriers and new '"local" standards for products from abroad.
Yet while protectionism may seem appealing to politicians assailed by angry workers, they often only end up raising prices for consumers.
For example, there was an outcry in 2012 when cheap Chinese tyres flooded into the US market, putting the viability of the domestic producers in question.
President Obama responded with punitive tariffs to get China "to play by the rules".
The protectionist measures were well received in the US, but a study by the Peterson Institute established that the tariffs meant US consumers paid $1.1bn more for their tyres in 2011.
Each job that was saved effectively cost $900,000 with very little of that reaching the pockets of the workers.
With the economic and social benefits of free trade coming increasingly under attack, proponents of globalisation have tried to launch a counterattack.
For example, The World Bank recently published a study of developing countries showing that average incomes for people living in the bottom 40% increased between 2008 and 2013, despite the impact of the financial crisis.
"There is a realisation in rich countries and among rich elites that there are problems with globalisation," says Branko Milanovic, an economist whose work on income inequality has driven much of the debate.
"They realise that for their own political self-preservation they have to tackle them."
But the solutions are not obvious, nor easy to implement.
"Most of the benefits of globalisation have been enjoyed by a relatively small group within each country.
"The question is not whether there are benefits to globalisation - there clearly are. But the question is about who is enjoying those benefits," says Andrew Lang from the London School of Economics.
Part of the anger might dissipate if economic growth was to stop its stubborn flat-lining trajectory, lifting incomes around the world.
"To help solve these problems you need to get the world economy revved up. Governments need to commit to fiscal stimulus to get their economies going again," says Gary Hufbauer.
Branko Milanovic points to the success of previous politicians in turning round seemingly intractably weak economies.
"It's not impossible for politicians to address these issues.
"Thatcher and Reagan managed to effect change in relatively short periods of time - a presidential term of four years should be enough to start making a difference," he says.
But Prof Evenett is pessimistic: "I expect the global plateau in world trade to continue in 2017 and that is before Donald Trump enacts any of the protectionist measures he has threatened."


Killer dentist Colin Howell has been sentenced to a minimum term of 21 years for murdering his wife and his former lover's husband in Castlerock, Northern Ireland in 1991.

On Friday Belfast Crown Court heard he must serve the minimum tariff before he can be considered for release.
Howell, 51, from Castlerock, pleaded guilty to the double murders.
The bodies of Lesley Howell, 31, and Trevor Buchanan, 32, were found in a car full of exhaust fumes in 1991.
It was initially thought that they had died in a suicide pact.
In sentencing Howell Mr Justice Hart said he had carried out "truly heinous crimes".
He described the "the cold blooded, carefully planned and ruthlessly executed double murder of two people who Howell saw as standing in the way of his adulterous desire to be with Hazel Buchanan (Stewart)".
"Each murder was carried out when the victim was asleep and thus entirely defenceless," he said.
"Even when they stirred in their sleep, Howell did not draw back and spare their lives, but physically subdued their faint signs of approaching consciousness, thereby ensuring their deaths," the judge added.
In his summary Mr Justice Hart said two innocent people were murdered and six children deprived of the love of their mother or their father.
"The reputations of their innocent parents, who had already been wronged by Mr Howell, were further stigmatised by the false implication that they had taken their own lives in a suicide pact".
Mr Justice Hart said he had read victim impact statements from two of Mr Howell's children, from Lesley Howell's brother, and from members of Trevor Buchanan's family which showed that many lives had been gravely affected for many years by the murders.
The court was also told that, while the prosecution accept that Mr Howell was not motivated by money when he committed the murders, he had been in financial difficulties at the time and profited financially from his wife's death.
Overcome
Mr Howell inherited her estate and that of her father who had died a few days before, as well as receiving the proceeds of a number of insurance policies.
As a result he received various sums amounting to just over Â£414,000.
At the outset Mr Justice Hart clarified that Mrs Stewart had pleaded not guilty to both counts of murder. Her trial is due to begin on 7 February 2011.
He said that Mrs Stewart accepted she and Mr Howell were engaged in an adulterous relationship for some time prior to the murders, and that it continued on for several years before each of them subsequently remarried.
Mrs Stewart disputed the intensity of their relationship after the murders.
The judge said he did not propose to refer to her alleged role in the events leading up to, and during the murders, as this will have to be considered by the jury during the trial.
Mr Justice Hart considered it was not necessary to await the outcome Mrs Stewart's trial before fixing the minimum term which Howell must serve, as admissions had clearly set out his role.
On Monday, Belfast Crown Court was told how Lesley Howell called out to her six-year-old son, Matthew, as her husband gassed her.
Details of how Mr Buchanan struggled with his killer before becoming overcome with fumes were also made public.
The case was re-opened last year when Howell handed himself in at a police station.
The court heard that he kept the secret for almost 20 years before eventually confessing to detectives after losing more than Â£350,000 in a bid to find missing gold in the Philippines - a project which turned out to be a scam.
Howell, a father of 10, was a highly-acclaimed dentist and a lay-preacher.
The court was told that in recent years Howell had "realised he was a fake" and wanted to be "real", and that is why he confessed to the police.


Michal Zyro scored twice on his Wolves home debut to help Kenny Jackett's side to victory over Fulham at Molineux.

Having been redeployed up front, Zyro put Wolves ahead after latching on to Jordan Graham's cross, before doubling that lead with a cool solo effort.
The visitors were back in it by the break after Lasse Vigen Christensen easily headed in Jazz Richards' cross.
Matt Doherty extended Wolves' lead with a long-range goal before a late Ross McCormack strike set up a tense finale.
Having now won four consecutive league matches, Wolves move up to 10th in the Championship table, seven points shy of the play-off places, while Fulham remain 19th.
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The hosts broke the deadlock on six minutes when Graham produced his eighth assist of the season to tee up Zyro, who joined Wolves from Polish side Legia Warsaw last month, to put the hosts ahead.
A superb home debut for Zyro continued in the 13th minute when he made easy work of beating Fulham's offside trap to place the ball through goalkeeper Andy Lonergan's legs.
The away side worked their way back into the game on 24 minutes when Richards sent a curling ball into the box for Christensen to coolly nod past Carl Ikeme.
Wolves re-established their two-goal lead three minutes after the break through Doherty's powerful shot from 35 yards after Graham's corner had been cleared. And, although McCormack scored from 20 yards with just over 15 minutes to play, Wolves were able to hold on.
Wolves head coach Kenny Jackett:
"It was a big win for us and full credit to the players as four Championship wins on the trot is not an easy thing to do.
"We wanted to put on a spirited and hard-working performances for our fans as there is some uncertainty around and I can feel it because of the sale of Benik Afobe.
"And I felt that the players answered it and responded in the right way and played with a lot of pride in playing for Wolves."
Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic:
"I am trying to find the way for the team. We are not playing the same way that Fulham did before. We are a very good team with the ball but right now very soft without the ball.
"It is important to try and have more time with the ball in our possession to stop suffering so much. This is the plan we have for the future.
"I cannot blame my players as they tried to follow the plan. At the end we lost the game but they did many, many positive things."
Match ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 3, Fulham 2.
Second Half ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 3, Fulham 2.
Foul by Dan Burn (Fulham).
Adam Le Fondre (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Emerson Hyndman (Fulham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Emerson Hyndman (Fulham).
Kevin McDonald (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Emerson Hyndman (Fulham).
Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dan Burn (Fulham).
Dominic Iorfa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Adam Le Fondre replaces Rajiv van La Parra.
Attempt saved. Jamie O'Hara (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Tom Cairney.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Nathan Byrne replaces Jordan Graham.
Attempt missed. Tom Cairney (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner.
Substitution, Fulham. Matt Smith replaces Lasse Vigen Christensen.
Corner,  Fulham. Conceded by Matt Doherty.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. James Henry replaces Michal Zyro.
Foul by Ryan Fredericks (Fulham).
Jordan Graham (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ross McCormack (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rajiv van La Parra (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Danny Batth tries a through ball, but Rajiv van La Parra is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Rajiv van La Parra (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jordan Graham with a cross.
Corner,  Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Dan Burn.
Offside, Fulham. Shaun Hutchinson tries a through ball, but Moussa Dembele is caught offside.
Goal!  Wolverhampton Wanderers 3, Fulham 2. Ross McCormack (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tom Cairney.
Substitution, Fulham. Ryan Fredericks replaces Jazz Richards.
Substitution, Fulham. Emerson Hyndman replaces Alexander Kacaniklic.
Attempt missed. Jordan Graham (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kevin McDonald.
Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Kevin McDonald tries a through ball, but Michal Zyro is caught offside.
Shaun Hutchinson (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michal Zyro (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Rajiv van La Parra (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Attempt saved. Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jordan Graham.
Dan Burn (Fulham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Dan Burn (Fulham).
Dominic Iorfa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Lasse Vigen Christensen (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tom Cairney.
Attempt saved. Michal Zyro (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rajiv van La Parra.


For a country with a reputation as a tech powerhouse, public wi-fi is surprisingly difficult to find in Germany.

20 April 2017 Last updated at 00:28 BST
The reason is that cafe and shop owners who provide wi-fi could be held liable for illegal activity that happens on their network, such as piracy or illegal downloads.
But campaigners are trying to change this law.
Video journalist: Joe Miller


Britain's Nathan Cleverly will defend his WBA light-heavyweight title against Badou Jack on Saturday, 26 August.

The bout will take place on the Floyd Mayweather v Conor McGregor undercard in Las Vegas.
Welshman Cleverly said: "I've trained long and hard for this fight and I'm ready to be let off the leash. This is the biggest fight of my career."
Swede Jack, 33, is based in Las Vegas and has 12 knockouts in 21 wins, with one defeat and two draws.
Cleverly, 30, won the title by beating Juergen Braehmer in October 2016.
Jack's super-middleweight unification fight with Britain's James DeGale ended in a controversial majority draw in January 2017.
He is moving up a weight after holding the WBC super-middleweight crown for two years.
Jack said: "I'm getting ready to take that belt, and win a title in my second weight class."
If Cleverly - whose record is 30 wins, including 16 knockouts, and three defeats - wins, he must defend the belt against Russian Dmitry Bivol.
According to WBA rules, a champion has 120 days to fight a mandatory challenger, and that deadline has expired.
Russian Bivol, 26, claimed the interim championship in May 2016 by defeating Felix Valera, and has won all 11 of his professional bouts.
The World Boxing Association says Cleverly and Bivol's teams have 30 days - from 27 July, 2017 - to reach an agreement or the fight will be called to purse bids.
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Newlyweds whose wedding car was involved in a crash on the way to their reception were escorted there instead by police.

Emmott and Georgia Garnett were married at Burnley's register office on Saturday shortly before the collision.
Police were called to Colne Road at about 15:00 GMT and offered to take the bride and groom to their reception at Cafe Cargo in Foulridge.
Guests were "very shocked" to see the couple arrive in a police car.
The groom said he did not think the incident was a sign of things to come, joking: "It was certainly us to arrive in style."
The couple had just exchanged their vows when the chauffeur-driven vintage 1970s' Rover was involved in a collision. Their ten-month-old son Arlo was also in the car.
Mr Garnett explained: "On the way, about three minutes after being married, someone crashed into our wedding car. We were stuck in the middle of Burnley town centre. The car wouldn't move. We called the police and the officer offered to take us to the reception.
"It was a big shock to see everyone's faces when we got out of a police car."
PC Pete Howarth, now nicknamed "PC Pageboy" by colleagues, said: "We tend to deal with people who are having a lot worse days so it was a refreshing change.
"It came in as a minor road traffic collision, so once that was dealt with we were left with a stranded bride and groom. We weren't going to leave them at the side of the road and we were just pleased we were able to help.
"I managed to remove all the mouldy bananas and crisp wrappers out the back of the car before they got in it."
Burnley and Padiham Police said on Facebook "not all heroes wear capes", and congratulated the new Mr and Mrs Garnett on their marriage.


A new approach to developing cancer vaccines has been used to treat prostate tumours, an international team of scientists has said.

DNA from healthy cells was used to create a vaccine which cured 80% of mice, Nature Medicine reports.
The researchers believe the principle could be applied to other cancers and have begun studies on melanoma.
Cancer Research UK said it was a significant development, but human trials would be needed.
Cancer vaccines are not new. Unlike traditional vaccines which protect against infection, these work by making the immune system attack tumours already in the body.
Specifically they target markers on the surface of cancerous cells, known as antigens.
Professor Alan Melcher, of the University of Leeds, said: "The biggest challenge in immunology is developing antigens that can target the tumour without causing harm elsewhere."
Researchers in Leeds and at the Mayo Clinic, in the US, broke up chunks of DNA from healthy prostate cells and inserted them into a virus.
The mice were then repeatedly infected with the virus.
The prostate DNA made the virus produce a wide range of prostate antigens, so when the immune system battled the virus it learned to attack the cancerous prostate cells.
Crucially, healthy prostate cells and other parts of the body were not affected.
In the lab, a course of nine injections with the virus cured 80% of mice with prostate tumours.
Professor Melcher said human trials were years rather than months away.
"We have reason to be quite excited. It's not out-of-the-blue research, but based on immunotherpay and virus treatments which are looking very promising and that is what is really exciting," he added
Doctors recently claimed that the drug Ipilimumab, which stimulates the immune system to fight cancer, could increase life expectancy.
Researchers say using healthy DNA is a "proof of principle" which could have implications for vaccines for other cancers. They are trialing the same technique in mice with skin cancer.
Professor Peter Johnson, Cancer Research UK's chief clinician, said: "This is an interesting and significant study which could really broaden out the field of immunotherapy research.
"Although the vaccine didn't trigger the immune system to overreact and cause serious side effects in mice, it will need to be further developed and tested in humans before we can tell whether this technique could one day be used to treat cancer patients."
Dr Kate Holmes, research manager at the Prostate Cancer Charity, said the study provided "new hope".
"Although we are hopeful that the results of this study could help to form the basis of a new cancer vaccine in future, it is important to remember that the researchers have only investigated the potential of their vaccine in mice.
"Further research looking at its effect in men is needed. We look forward to the outcome."


World Anti-Doping Agency officials have urged Russia to admit to state-sponsored doping in a bid to regain the rest of the sporting world's trust.

Former Russian sports minister Vitaly Smirnov, head of Russia's anti-doping commission, said it has never conducted a state-sponsored doping programme.
Wada pushed for a complete ban on Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee decided instead to leave the decision to individual sports federations.
It came after an independent report found evidence of widespread state-sponsored doping in Russia in the lead up to the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014.
At Sunday's foundation board meeting in Glasgow, Wada announced that the second part of the independent report, compiled by Professor Richard McLaren, is to be released on 9 December.
Sir Craig Reedie, who has been re-elected as Wada president for a second three-year term, said he was confident Wada was "making progress" with Russia.
"The facts are that the McLaren commission indicated that there had been breaches of the code involving the Moscow lab and the ministry of sport," said the 75-year-old Scot.
"To that extent, that's the scale of the issue we have to deal with. I'm really, really keen to move forward. We need to have Russia compliant."
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Wada also announced proposals to seek greater powers to impose sanctions, as well as a new whistleblower programme aimed at protecting and encouraging athletes or officials who seek to highlight doping.
"What we started today was a roadmap on compliance," added Reedie.
"People have been saying to us that non-serious compliance needs non-serious sanctions - and that serious non-compliance needs serious sanctions.
"There is quite clearly a feeling within the athlete community that this should be done. There is much work to be done. It will take massive consultation before we get to the finished article."
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The body said at its board meeting in Glasgow that people are still at risk from cyber-hackers who are trying to access athletes' medical records.
A hacking group known as Fancy Bears has been releasing records of therapeutic use exemptions, which allow athletes to use otherwise-banned drugs because of a verified medical need.


Eating raw meat and making stone tools may be behind the smaller teeth and faces of humans compared with their ancient relatives.

Meat and tools, not the advent of cooking, was the trigger that freed early humans to develop a smaller chewing apparatus, a study suggests.
This in turn may have allowed other changes, such as improved speech and even shifts in the size of the brain.
The authors conclude that cooking became commonplace much later.
Prof Daniel Lieberman and Dr Katherine Zink from Harvard University have published their work in the journal Nature.
The earliest members of our genus, Homo, are only sparsely represented in the fossil record.
By the time the species Homo erectus appeared about two million years ago, humans had evolved bigger brains and bodies that had increased our daily energy requirements.
But paradoxically, they had also evolved smaller teeth, as well as weaker chewing muscles and bite force. They also had a smaller gut than earlier human ancestors.
One of the possible reasons for these changes, cooking, did not become commonplace until 500,000 years ago, the researchers found. This means that it probably did not play a significant role in the evolution of smaller chewing muscles and teeth.
"If you were to go and spend time with chimpanzees, you'd find that they spend.. about half of their day chewing," said Prof Lieberman.
"At some point in human evolution, there was a shift - we started to eat less. This shift is made possible by two factors: we eat a much higher quality diet than our ancestors, but we also eat food that has been heavily processed."
The scientists evaluated chewing performance by feeding adult experimental subjects samples of meat, and the kind of vegetables our early ancestors might have consumed before incorporating meat into their diets.
They measured the muscular effort required for chewing and how well the food was broken up before swallowing.
The findings suggest that by eating a diet of one-third meat, and using stone tools to process the food - slicing the meat and pounding the plant material - early humans would have needed to chew 17% less often and 26% less forcefully.
In their paper, Lieberman and Zink argue: "We further surmise that meat eating was largely dependent on mechanical processing made possible by the invention of slicing technology.
"Meat requires less masticatory force to chew per calorie than the sorts of generally tough plant foods available to early hominins, but the ineffectiveness of hominin molars to break raw meat would have limited the benefits of consuming meat before the invention of stone tools approximately 3.3 million years ago."


Authorities in China say they have held a suspect over Thursday's attack on a market in Urumqi in Xinjiang province in which 39 people died.

More than 90 others were wounded.
The man was held in Bayingolin prefecture, to the south of Urumqi. The other four suspects died in the attack, officials told Xinhua.
The authorities have announced a one-year campaign against militant violence in Xinjiang province, home to the Muslim Uighur minority.
Two vehicles drove into crowds at a market in Urumqi and threw explosives in Thursday's attack. One of the vehicles then blew up.
Previous reports had suggested all five suspects had died in the attack.
Xinhua quoted police as saying the men took part in "illegal religious activities" and "watched and listened to terrorist violence video and audio materials".
Xinjiang has seen a spate of attacks in recent years.
Beijing has blamed these - and other recent mass-casualty attacks - on Uighur separatists.
These include an attack in Beijing, where a car ploughed into pedestrians in Tiananmen Square, killing five people, and attacks at railway stations in Urumqi and Kunming.
China says it is pouring money into the Xinjiang region, but some Uighurs say their traditions and freedoms are being crushed.


A previously undocumented German wreck has been discovered in Scapa Flow.

The vessel is believed to be a pinnace - a small boat which would have acted as a supply boat for larger ships.
It is likely to have gone down with its parent ship when the German High Seas Fleet was scuttled in 1919, following the end of World War One.
A team from Orkney diving boat MV Valkyrie came across the wreck after an unexpected object was picked up on sonar equipment.
Diver Simon Brown expected to find a lump of anti-torpedo boom net.
Instead he discovered a German vessel which has lain undiscovered for almost 100 years.
Skipper Hazel Weaver told BBC Radio Scotland: "There's lots of piles of steel boom netting dumped after the First World War and the Second World War in Scapa Flow and we assumed it was a pile of that."
She said Mr Brown offered to investigate the discovery and he was in the water for about an hour.
"He took a lot of photos and came back up very, very excited," she added.
Ms Weaver said they had not come across similar vessels previously, so they consulted Kevin Heath of local diving services firm Sula Diving.
"He identified it as a motor pinnace, or diesel pinnace, from the German High Seas Fleet," she said.
"It's a remarkable discovery, especially to find such a wreck even with all the brass works still in tact."
More than 50 German ships sunk to the bottom of Scapa Flow on 19 June 1919.
Most were removed from the water after the war but local people say seven remain on the sea bed.
Ms Weaver said there are still a lot of artefacts to be discovered below the surface of the water and experts are using sonar to survey the area.
"More are being found all the time," she said. "Other operators in Scapa Flow are also looking for these smaller items because they represent a slice of history that is more or less being forgotten now."


Former celebrity publicist Max Clifford has appeared before magistrates charged with indecently assaulting a 17-year-old girl.

He is accused of committing the alleged offence at his London offices between October 1981 and May 1982. He indicated he would be pleading not guilty.
Clifford, 72, formerly represented some of the biggest names in show business, including pop mogul Simon Cowell.
He will next appear at Southwark Crown Court on 4 August.


A survivor of the Auschwitz death camp is now the world's oldest man, the Guinness World Records organisation says.

Yisrael Kristal was born near Zarnow in Poland in 1903 and lived through two world wars before moving to the Israeli city of Haifa.
He was 112 years and 178 days old on 11 March, Guinness World Records says.
The previous oldest-recorded man, Yasutaro Koide of Japan, died in January aged 112 years and 312 days.
As he received his Guinness World Records certificate, Mr Kristal said he did not know the "secret for long life" and that he believed everything was "determined from above".
"There have been smarter, stronger and better looking men then me who are no longer alive," he added.
"All that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is lost."
The son of a religious scholar, Mr Kristal was separated from his parents during World War One. He later moved to Lodz to work in the family confectionery business.
After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939, Mr Kristal and his family were moved into the Lodz ghetto.
His two children died there and Mr Kristal and his wife Chaja Feige Frucht were sent to Auschwitz in 1944 after the ghetto was liquidated, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Mr Kristal's wife was murdered in Auschwitz but he survived, performing slave labour in that and other camps. When he was found by the Allies in May 1945 he weighed just 37 kg (5 stones 11 lbs).
The sole survivor from his family, Mr Kristal emigrated to Israel in 1950 with his second wife and their son, where he continued to run his confectionery business until his retirement.
His daughter, Shula Kuperstoch, said the Holocaust had not affected her father's beliefs.
"He is optimistic, wise, and he values what he has," she told the Jerusalem Post.
The oldest person alive today is believed to be an American woman, Susannah Mushatt Jones, who is 115 years and 249 days.
The oldest person ever to have lived is thought to be Jeanne Calment from France, who died aged 122 years and 164 days.
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An inspection of companies based around Beijing found more than 70% were violating air pollution regulations, Chinese state media says.

Firms pumped out more emissions than allowed, operated without licences or had insufficient pollution control equipment, Xinhua news agency reported.
Checks were carried out at thousands of companies at 28 cities in and around the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Air pollution in Chinese cities is notoriously bad.
The findings appear to confirm suspicions that companies ignore strict environmental protection policies and that officials do not enforce them, correspondents say.
Inspections found that more than 13,000 companies had failed to meet environmental standards, the ministry of environmental protection said in a statement.
The ministry ordered local officials to investigate the firms and rectify the problems, the statement said.
China's government is under pressure to do more to address the sources of smog, including reducing reliance on coal-fired power plants, the country's primary source of electricity.
Earlier this year, Beijing's mayor said a new team of environmental police would try to reduce smog levels by tackling local sources of air pollution, including open-air barbecues and dusty roads.
The mayor also promised to reduce coal consumption by 30% this year.


Fifty-thousand schoolchildren in Northern Ireland could soon be playing one of the world's most popular video games in class.

Minecraft will be made available to every post-primary school as part of an innovative technology project.
It will be the first time that it has been made available to schools in this way.
Licences for the game will be given to up to 240 sites in Northern Ireland.
Minecraft is a Lego-style adventure game enabling players to use 3D blocks to create their own worlds while exploring worlds built by others.
It has had over 100 million downloads since its launch in 2009.
Now pupils in Northern Ireland will be able to use MinecraftEdu, a special version of the game that is more appropriate for the classroom.
It can be used to inspire creative writing, engage young people in city planning, and even teach quantum physics.
Londonderry-based innovation festival CultureTECH devised the project and secured £60,000 of funding from the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure to provide free licenses to over 200 schools and 30 libraries.
CultureTECH chief executive Mark Nagurski said the game's popularity meant it could easily be used to help children learn the STEM subjects - science, technology, engineering and mathematics - as well as art, history and computer coding.
"We invited MinecraftEdu to CultureTECH last year and they spent a week at schools in Derry," he said.
"The response was ridiculous - the engagement and excitement among the pupils was amazing.
"What is really exciting is how Minecraft is being used by educators to help young people express their creative skills and develop their understanding of technology."
CultureTECH will work with other organisations to provide training and support to teachers who want to use the programme.
St Joseph's Boys' School in Derry has been running a pilot scheme of the project.
History teacher Darren Currie said pupils' enthusiasm in lessons using Minecraft had been noticeable.
"Our year nine pupils are participating in a collaborative project between the IT and history departments, constructing and labelling a plantation bawn from the early 17th century using Minecraft," Mr Currie said.
"I admit I was very dubious at first because I've had to put a bar on my own children using it at home, but then you see what it can do in an educational context and it can have big benefits to improve learning."
Culture minister Carál Ní Chuilín said the project had a role to play in education and economic development.
"Game players regularly exhibit persistence, risk taking, attention to detail and problem solving skills. By making Minecraft available we hope to encourage this kind of behaviour."


Stephen Curry claimed a record 13 three-pointers in a single game as Golden State Warriors beat New Orleans Pelicans 116-106 on Monday.

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The reigning NBA Most Valuable Player had shared the previous record (12) with Kobe Bryant and Donyell Marshall.
His history-making exploits came three days after the 28-year-old had failed to record a three-pointer in a game for the first time in two years.
Curry had previously gone a record 157 games with at least one three-pointer.


A schoolboy from Stoke-on-Trent, Paul Murray travelled to the match on a Liverpool Supporters' Club coach with his father, Tony Murray, who survived

This is the full statement to the inquests from his mother, Edna Murray:
Paul leapt into the air, shouting, "This has been the best day of my life".
The FA Cup semi-final tickets had finally arrived by post on his birthday on 12 April, 1989.
He was excited that both he and his dad, Tony, were going to the match, especially because it was a semi-final.
Paul Brian Murray was born in Stoke-on-Trent on 12 April, 1975.
He was a very content baby right from the start. He later attended Alexandra Infant School from the age of five and then went to Alexandra Junior School.
At school, he enjoyed all sports, but especially football and swimming. He was more keen than talented, but he always turned up on time with his kit and helped the teacher to get everything ready.
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From the time that he was in junior school, everyone knew that his favourite team was Liverpool Football Club.
His love of the club was encouraged by his grandad, who was a Liverpudlian, and also his dad, who appreciated a good team. His favourite players were Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush and John Barnes.
Paul was a member of the church choir where the vicar's son was also a Liverpool fan.
On prize-giving evenings at school, Paul would sit patiently, hoping against hope that he would get one of the awards, but it was never to be.
In September 1986, Paul moved to Sandon High School, where his older sister was already a student.
He was really happy when he was picked to play in the school football and basketball teams. By then he had joined the food technology class and had started to enjoy cooking at home, too.
Paul was really popular with his school friends and neighbours, young and old. After Paul died, the elderly lady who lived next door to us told us how he used to run down the hill where we lived to help carry her shopping home for her.
She also told us how he would sit on her garden wall and describe all the plants and flowers in her garden to her. The reason he would do this is because she was almost blind, and I guess this was his way of helping her to see the garden.
Unfortunately, we did not know any of this until after Paul died.
Paul also played football for a local 'lads and dads' team. He was a very popular team player and he always enjoyed playing with them and having the support of his dad there.
By the end of 1989, Paul's name was on several trophies. Both schools he attended had organised special awards in his honour and we were asked to present them to the winners.
We agreed as long as they were for the boy or girl who was most helpful, reliable, always smiling and a pleasure to have in school, someone such as Paul himself. The two trophies are still awarded to this day.
Paul often said, "I want to be famous". In a strange way, his wish was granted in a small part of Stoke-on-Trent.


Police are appealing for witnesses after a 29-year-old man was seriously assaulted in a hairdresser's in Glasgow on Thursday.

The man was in Gary's Barber Shop in Springburn at about 16:15 when two men entered.
One of the men attacked the 29 year-old and he suffered "lacerations to his head". He was treated at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Police said they were reviewing CCTV from the surrounding area.
Det Sgt Michael McCullagh said: "The motive for this attack remains unknown and I am appealing to anyone who was in the area at the time of the incident, who may have seen the two men fleeing the shop to contact us.
"We are still reviewing CCTV images in the hope that further information can be gleaned about this attack but I would urge people to please get in touch with us - what you saw or noticed may seem insignificant to you but it could help us piece together elements of this investigation and lead us to tracing those responsible for this crime."


A pilot who had to make an emergency landing on a golf course in his biplane said it was the kind of "in-flight entertainment you really don't want".

Dave West was filmed landing the plane on the 15th fairway at Westhoughton Golf Club on Saturday.
The pilot was forced to make the landing when his plane developed a mechanical problem.
One golfer was heard shouting "what a driver" when his plane touched down.
Mr West told the BBC: "My options seemed quite limited at the time.
"The engine developed a real rough running, a real knocking and banging on the engine and it lost power."
He said he was unable to maintain height and "it was reasonably clear" he would not make it back to the airfield.
"I flew for probably a minute or so looking for fields and trying to find something that would be suitable to land in and safe to land in and losing height all the time before I saw the golf course, " Mr West said.
"The 15th fairway was beautifully aligned into wind.
"I did pick a fairway that did look as if it didn't have as many golfers on it. And I have to say the club were brilliant."
He added: "Yeah, in-flight entertainment of the type you really don't want."
An air ambulance passing overhead at the time also landed on the fairway to provide help but the pilot was uninjured.


The director of a UK science facility says scientists there will try to set a new world record in nuclear fusion.

The Jet experiment in Oxfordshire was opened in 1984 to understand fusion - the process that powers the Sun.
Prof Steve Cowley told the BBC a go-ahead to run Jet at maximum power would allow scientists to try for the record by the end of the decade.
This could bring Jet up to the coveted goal of "breakeven" where fusion yields as much energy as it consumes.
Fusion is markedly different from current nuclear power, which operates through splitting atoms - fission - rather than squashing them together as occurs in fusion.
"We're hoping to repeat our world record shots and extend them," Prof Cowley, who is director of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy - which hosts Jet, told BBC News.
"Our world record was from 1997, we think we can improve on it quite considerably and get some really spectacular results. We're winding up to that and by the end of the decade we'll be doing it."
Despite its history spanning some five decades, scientists hoping to harness fusion have faced many hurdles. But it remains an attractive prospect because it can yield a near limitless supply of clean energy.
The fusion community hopes their luck could change when the multi-bn-euro Iter fusion experiment comes online in Cadarache, in the south of France, in the 2020s. And officials from Jet, based at Culham, Oxfordshire, are now in the process of signing a contract that will keep the facility running for another five years.
Jet (Joint European Torus) was the prototype for Iter and over its extended lifetime will effectively carry out a dress rehearsal for that much bigger reactor, which will aim to demonstrate the scientific viability of fusion power at scale.
Prof Cowley also hopes to use the additional five years to train up young scientists who could eventually take their expertise to Iter.
During Jet's extended run, scientists will again begin using the deuterium-tritium fuel mix needed for maximum fusion power. Until recently, scientists had been running the experiment using deuterium fuel only. While running the experiment in this mode allows scientists to gather valuable scientific knowledge, both deuterium and tritium will be needed to exceed the record set by the Oxfordshire facility 17 years ago.
"Jet is the only machine in the world that can handle that fuel. When you put tritium in, it reacts like crazy," said Prof Cowley.
Jet uses the same approach to fusion as Iter. This is known as magnetic confinement fusion (MCF), in which electrically charged gas called plasma is heated to millions of degrees inside a sealed tube called a "tokamak".
The temperature inside Jet during one of its full power shots can soar to a scorching 200 million C. That's more than 10 times the temperature at the centre of the Sun - estimated to be about 15 million C.
In 1997, scientists pushed 24MW of energy into Jet and managed to get 16MW out - a fusion energy gain of about 0.7. A fusion energy gain factor (known as Q) of greater than one is required to achieve "breakeven", where the amount of energy produced equals the amount of energy consumed.
However, higher gain factors are required to achieve self-sustaining fusion, where the reactions continue without any external input of energy.
"We hope in the next runs of Jet that we'll approach a gain of one. But that's no good for energy production - you need a gain of 10, 20, 30 - much more energy coming than you put in. That's what Iter will do," said Prof Cowley.
Jet was the result of a European plan for fusion power conceived in the 1970s. Recently, the machine has undergone a series of upgrades to bring components in line with those planned for Iter. In coming years, it will shed light on some of the challenges for making fusion a success.
"The plasma is spewing out tank shells of neutron particles. The neutrons that come out of fusion are 10 times more energetic than those coming out of nuclear fission," said Steve Cowley.
"When they slam into the walls [of the tokamak] they rearrange the atoms in those walls. The question is can we have a material that doesn't mind having its atoms rearranged 10 times a year?"
In magnetic confinement experiments the plasma can become unstable, causing fusion to break down. However, improving performance is partly a matter of scale - and as Iter is likely to demonstrate - bigger really is better, as far as fusion is concerned.
In November 2013, the European Parliament formally endorsed the European Commission's 80bn-euro Horizon 20-20 research budget. This encompasses funds of about 300m euros to keep Jet running. Officials are currently finalising details of the settlement, with a view to signing the contract soon.
The National Ignition Facility in the US recently made a fusion breakthrough of its own. NIF takes a different approach to fusion from that taken by Jet and Iter, concentrating laser energy on a hydrogen fuel pellet to initiate fusion.
During a run of the experiment in September 2013, the small amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel - a first at any fusion facility.
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The first minister has said Northern Ireland politicians need to strive to regain the confidence of voters.

Arlene Foster's comments followed a week of disagreements over expenses payments.
In a speech on Friday, the DUP leader called for "a completely independent system" for administering expenses.
She said the electorate "need to be confident that we're one of them, fighting for them and not for ourselves".
Mrs Foster added: "If people are going to vote for us, they need to have confidence in us."
On Friday, the Assembly Commission and the Stormont expenses watchdog issued a joint statement on expenses payments.
It said the two bodies are committed to working together to sort out the differences.
In her speech to DUP members in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Mrs Foster expressed frustration that the issue was preventing her from communicating her vision for Northern Ireland.
She said that she left the stability of a career in the legal profession "because [she] believed in a cause".
"I wanted to make Northern Ireland a better place.  I still have that vision," she said.
"At the minute, no-one can hear about my vision for Northern Ireland because the administration of expenses is the main issue.
"As leader of this party, I am not going to let an issue like this destabilise our strategy.
"How we deal with this will reflect on how we deal with other matters of government."
The first minister said that she plans to send a letter to DUP assembly candidates and other party leaders appealing for a new system to deal with financial matters in the new term.
"The DUP has consistently argued that politicians should have absolutely no role in either deciding the level of their pay or expenses, or in administering the system by which those expenses are paid.
"The completely independent system at Westminster may not be perfect, but it has instilled public confidence that failures of the past will not be repeated."
At present, an independent Stormont regulator determines the level of MLAs' pay and Office Cost Allowances.
However, claims are submitted to, and processed by staff within the assembly.
Mrs Foster suggested that this "creates confusion and dents public confidence".
"We need a completely independent system, just as there is in Westminster, where expenses are taken entirely out of the hands of MLAs and of staff working for the Northern Ireland Assembly," she said.
"The DUP proposed exactly this kind of system 18 months ago. Sadly, other parties did not agree with us at that time.
"If other parties will not join me in reforming the system, I will take steps on the floor of the House to have this put in place.  I accept IPSA is more expensive and bureaucratic but it is essential that people can have confidence."


A strong final quarter saw Dublin beat Mayo by 3-15 to 1-14 in Saturday's All-Ireland semi-final replay to progress to a second final in three years.

The sides were level seven times in the first half and it was 0-10 each at the break before Cillian O'Connor's 43rd minute goal put Mayo four points clear.
Dublin hit 2-3 without reply in a 10 minute spell late on to take control.
Bernard Brogan and Philly McMahon got the goals, with Kevin McManamon firing home a third for the 2013 champions.
The sides drew a fiery encounter last Sunday with Diarmuid Connolly sent-off near the end, but the Dublin forward was cleared to play after winning his appeal to the Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) on Friday night.
Team-mate Paddy Andrews was the influential Dublin player in the first half, kicking four of his five points from play before the interval in a man-of-the-match display.
Dublin outscored Mayo 3-5 to 0-2 in the final quarter to set up an All-Ireland final meeting with defending champions Kerry on 20 September.
Mayo brothers Cillian and Diarmuid O'Connor were also influential in the opening half scoring six of the Connacht champions' points.
Their midfielder Seamus O'Shea was black-carded early in the second half but Cillian O'Connor's close-range goal, after a strong run by veteran substitute Andy Moran, helped Mayo into a 1-12 to 0-11 lead after 53 minutes.
They spurned several opportunities to go five points clear and Dublin seized on their uncertainty, reeling off a brilliant 2-3 between the 54th and 63rd minutes.
Bernard Brogan slid in to drill home Dublin's opening goal after 55 minutes and 90 seconds later, Philly McMahon beat Mayo goalkeeper Rob Hennelly and fumbled the ball into the net.
Points from James McCarthy, McMahon and Andrews pushed Dublin clear before McManamon added a spectacular third goal in the 66th minute.
Dublin: S Cluxton; P McMahon (1-2), R O'Carroll, J Cooper; J McCarthy (0-1), C O'Sullivan, J McCaffrey; B Fenton (0-1), D Bastick; P Flynn, D Connolly, C Kilkenny (0-2); B Brogan (1-1), P Andrews (0-5), D Rock (0-2, 2f).
Subs: MD Macauley for Bastick, M Fitzsimons for Cooper, A Brogan for Flynn, K McManamon (1-1) for Rock, E Lowndes for Connolly, J Small for B Brogan.
Mayo: R Hennelly; K Higgins, G Cafferkey, C Barrett; D Vaughan, L Keegan (0-1), C Boyle; T Parsons, B Moran (0-1); D O'Connor (0-2), S O'Shea, K McLoughlin (0-1); J Doherty, C O'Connor (1-6, 5f), A O'Shea (0-1).
Subs: P Durcan (0-1) for Vaughan, A Moran (0-1, 1f) for S O'Shea (black card), D Drake for Boyle, S Coen for Parsons, M Ronaldson for McLoughlin.
Referee: E Kinsella (Laois).


Brighton defender Connor Goldson has been identified as having a heart issue and will miss the rest of the season.

The Championship club say routine cardiac screening discovered "a possible risk factor" with the 24-year-old's heart.
Centre-back Goldson will now have preventative surgery.
"This is a significant blow for Connor, and the club, but this is absolutely the right course of action," boss Chris Hughton told the club website.
"We wish him well with his recovery and look forward to him returning for us next season."
Goldson signed a new deal at the Amex Stadium last October and has made eight first-team appearances for the Seagulls this season.


An inquest into the deaths of eight men killed in a crash in County Donegal in 2010 has returned a verdict of unlawful death as a result of dangerous driving.

Seven friends in a car being driven by Shaun Kelly died in the crash at Meenaduff on 11 July 2010.
Hugh Friel, 66, a pensioner returning from bingo died in the other vehicle when Kelly crashed into him.
Coroner Dr John Madden said the tragedy had shocked the whole country and news of it even travelled across the globe.
He said the inquest would not solve anything for the families, but he hoped it would be one less hurdle to help them get on with the rest of their lives.
The families of some of the eight men killed expressed their frustration with the remit of the Coroner's Court after the verdict.
The inquest was beset by legal arguments throughout over the involvement of a third vehicle on the night of the incident.
The inquest heard that Kelly's car had earlier collided with a Renault Megane being driven by a 62-year-old woman.
There were a number of legal arguments over which side of the road the woman's car was on.
The passengers in Kelly's car were 21-year-old Mark McLaughlin, from Fahan; Paul Doherty and Ciaran Sweeney who were 19 and from Ballyliffin; Patrick McLaughlin, 21, from Burnfoot; 22-year-old Eamonn McDaid and 21-year-old Damien McLaughlin, both from Buncrana, and James McEleney, 23, from Clonmany.
Last December, Kelly, 25, of Hill Road in Buncrana had his sentence for causing the deaths doubled to eight years.


Acclaimed Egyptian novelist and journalist Gamal al-Ghitani has died in Cairo, aged 70.

He had been in a coma in hospital for two months after being admitted with respiratory problems.
Trained as a carpet designer, Ghitani took up journalism in his 20s and went on to write historical fiction.
Much of his work has been widely translated, including the 1974 novel Zayni Barakat, considered a seminal portrayal of authoritarian rule.
Set in the Mamluke era, the novel was seen as a veiled critique of the regime of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
As a journalist Ghitani also reported from the frontlines during the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1973.
He won awards in Egypt for his writing, as well as being awarded France's Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1987.
Prime Minister Sharif Ismail said that Ghitani had "contributed significantly in enriching literature with his unique style, intelligence and broad vision".
Ghitani was one of several intellectuals who supported the army's ousting of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013, despite the harsh crackdown against the army's opponents that followed.


A pinch of cardamom, a little coriander and a smattering of cinnamon - all ingredients not just in a great British curry but in a political row that's been bubbling up in the kitchens of Indian restaurants up and down the country.

It begins with a question - where is the next generation of curry chefs going to come from - and ends in with another - would leaving the EU save your local Indian from closing?
Currently two or three curry restaurants are shutting every week.
Now, you may think you know the answer to where Indian chefs come from. If so think again.
For decades your "Indian" - whether a chicken tikka masala or late night vindaloo - was almost certainly cooked by a chef from Bangladesh or, perhaps, someone whose father was.
Not any more though. The voices you hear in a growing number of kitchens above the noise of the chopping and the sizzling are the voices of East Europeans - in particular Romanians.
The reason is that tougher immigration rules mean it simply costs too much for most restaurants to bring new chefs over here.
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A decade or so ago a curry chef would earn around Â£15,000 a year. Now, a restaurant has to pay almost double that as well as jumping a series of complex bureaucratic hurdles to persuade the Home Office to allow them to bring in a chef from abroad.
"Abroad" means, of course, not from outside the UK but outside the EU.
Pasha Khandakar, the president of the Bangladesh Caterers Association, told me that this was an "immigration double standard".
"We've been told by British ministers to import European Union people," he said, pointing to a "language problem, a culture problem and a smell problem." He contends that Eastern European workers dislike the smell of curries.
"We have to give chance for everyone in this world who's fit for these jobs - not for their colour, not for their geographical identity."
"Why should it be easier and cheaper to hire a Romanian to work in a curry house than a Bangladeshi?" many British Asians ask.
Why, indeed, should it be so easy for Eastern Europeans to bring their families to live with them when it is now so much harder than it once was for the families of British people with Commonwealth roots to do the same?
It is the widespread feeling that immigration rules now discriminate against them and their families which Brexit campaigners have sought to tap into.
Indeed, the employment minister and prominent Leave campaigner, Priti Patel, has claimed that a vote to quit the EU is the only way to save the curry industry.
That depends on a very big assumption. That following Brexit the British public would become so relaxed about immigration that politicians felt able to relax the immigration rules that stop low paid and low skilled workers coming here from elsewhere.
At Le Raj in Epsom - an upmarket restaurant in Surrey which is a favourite of Chris Tarrant and Heston Blumenthal - that's not how they see things.
The head chef here is a Bangladeshi. Recently he's had to brush up on his language skills - to learn not English but Romanian.
His kitchen is manned now by people who had never smelt a curry never mind cooked one before coming to work under his tutelage.
The boss of the Raj, Jeffrey Ali, is as frustrated as anyone in his industry with the current immigration rules but he tells me that he simply does not believe any politician will want "to touch relaxing the rules with a 10 foot pole".
"If immigration were to be brought down, even by half, there would still be no onus from any politician to say, 'Ok now because we have less people coming from the EU, let's bring in more people from the Commonwealth,'" said Mr Ali, who plans to vote Remain in the referendum.
Not least when unemployment is high amongst the British Bangladeshi community whose children choose, he argues, to claim benefit rather than to take the relatively low pay and long hours that their parents once worked as waiters or chefs.
Brexit, he believes, offers a false dawn for an industry that needs to do more to raise its status and to train the next generation of chefs.
Jeffrey Ali is helping to sponsor a new academy down the road to teach cooking to young British born people in the hope that one day he will not be forced to choose between immigrants he cannot afford and those who know as much about curry as he knows about Romanian cuisine.
Immigration is the main reason people who plan to Vote Leave give for their choice.
What's clear, though, is that even if we do vote to quit the EU on the 23rd June the debate about how much immigration we need and want and can afford as a country will stay firmly on the menu alongside  the question - who will cook and serve my Indian in the future?


A number of people have died and others have been injured following a reported explosion at Manchester Arena.

Witnesses said they heard two loud bangs, reported to in the foyer, after a pop concert by singer Ariana Grande.
Greater Manchester Police said there are a "number of confirmed fatalities and others injured".
The cause of the reported explosion is unknown but the North West Counter Terrorism Unit is treating it as a possible terrorist incident.
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford said senior counter-terrorism officers are assembling in London and are liaising with the Home Office.
He said early estimates put the number of fatalities in double figures, although these are not confirmed.
Manchester Victoria station, which is close to the concert venue, has been closed and all trains cancelled. British Transport Police say explosion was in the foyer area of Manchester Arena.
Greater Manchester Police tweeted to urge people to stay away from the area.
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The BBC's Tim Ashburn, who is at the scene, spoke to some volunteer paramedics who treated the injured for "shrapnel-like injuries".
A number of eyewitnesses have described the confusion in the aftermath.
Andy Holey, who had gone to the arena to pick up his wife and daughter who had been at the concert, said: "As I was waiting, an explosion went off and it threw me about 30 feet from one set of doors to the other set of doors.
"When I got up I saw bodies lying on the ground. My first thought was to go into the Arena to try to find my family.
"When I couldn't find them, I went outside with the police and fire and looked through some of the bodies to try and find my wife and daughter.
"I managed to find them eventually and they're OK.
"It was definitely an explosion and it was some force. It happened near the box office at the entrance to the Arena."
Robert Tempkin, 22, from Middlesbrough, said: "Everyone was screaming and running, there were coats and people's phones on the floor. People just dropped everything.
"Some people were screaming they'd seen blood but other people were saying it was balloons busting or a speaker had been popped.
"There were lots of ambulances. I saw somebody being treated. I couldn't tell what had happened to him."
Josh Elliott, speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, said he was shocked by news of the fatalities.
"A bang went off and everyone stopped and screamed... we basically hit the deck," he said
"It was bedlamâ€¦ it was horrific.
"We got up when we thought it was safe and got out as quickly as possible.
"People were just crying and in tears... police cars were everywhere.
"We just wanted to get out as quickly as possible because we didn't know what was going on."
Manchester Arena, formerly known as the MEN Arena, is the biggest indoor venue in the city with a capacity of around 18,000 for concerts.
The arena foyer connects with Victoria train and tram station, a major hub on the northern edge of the city centre.
The arena regularly hosts concerts by major stars like Ariana Grande - a 23-year-old American TV teen actress-turned-pop star.
She's a big draw for young fans, with hits including Problem, featuring Iggy Azalea, which hit number one in the UK in 2014; and Side To Side, featuring Nicki Minaj, which reached number four last year.
She's currently on a European tour - she's already played Birmingham and Dublin and is due to be at the O2 Arena in London on Wednesday and Thursday.
Michelle Sullivan, from Huddersfield, was attending the concert with her daughters, aged 12 and 15.
"It was really scary," she said. "Just as the lights have gone down we heard a really loud explosion... Everybody screamed.
"When we got out they just said 'keep on running, keep on running'."
Pat Carney, Manchester City Council's spokesman for the city centre, said the city's thoughts were with the families of those killed and injured.
"It's a very easy target - a concert hall where young people are enjoying music," he said.
"The public are really co-operating by staying away from what is basically now a crime site.
"The world we live in, police and the council have emergency procedures that we practise all the time.
"Obviously everyone in the city is shocked, having seen how young some of these people are
"The police are treating it as a live site, we don't know if this is the end or there are other incidents in that area... we don't know at the moment."


American actress Charmian Carr, who played the eldest von Trapp daughter Liesl in the film The Sound of Music, has died aged 73.

Carr died in Los Angeles after complications from a rare form of dementia, her representative said.
In her role in the 1965 film, she famously performed the song Sixteen Going on Seventeen.
After leaving the film industry, Carr ran an interior design firm in California.
Her mother had arranged for her to audition for the role, although she had had no singing or acting lessons.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music was a massive hit, at the time surpassing Gone with the Wind as the highest-grossing film of all time.
Carr later wrote two books on her experience - Forever Liesl and Letters to Liesl - and frequently appeared at events commemorating the movie.
Her only other major role was in the Stephen Sondheim television musical Evening Primrose.
Many fans of The Sound of Music took to Twitter to post their memories, clipping up sections of her performance.
Kym Karath, who played Gretl in the movie, tweeted: "She has been like a sister throughout my life."
The real life Liesl, Agathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter of the Austrian family who inspired the film, died aged 97 in 2010.


All it takes to officially run for the Republican presidential nomination is a one-page form sent to the Federal Election Commission, the US government entity in charge of overseeing campaign laws.

That's the easy part. So far this year, 213 would-be commander-in-chiefs have done exactly that.
The hard part is everything that comes next.
Announcing one's candidacy, and making it official with federal paperwork, gets a name on exactly zero ballots in the state-level primaries and caucuses that are the key to winning enough delegates to secure the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in July.
Qualifying for those ballots is a state-by-state slog, with different rules and regulations for each. It takes time and money - and lots of it. Only the most organised, professional campaigns can manage the task.
For instance there's a $1,000 (Â£600) price tag attached to getting on the ballot in New Hampshire - the early-voting state that has made, and broken, many a candidacy.
That's nothing, however, compared with South Carolina, the third state in the nominee selection process and a battleground for Republican candidates looking to build momentum as the Southern states hold their votes.
To have a shot at winning there, Republicans by Wednesday had to cut a cheque for $40,000 (Â£26,500) to the state's Republican Party - half of which is passed along to the state government for administrative costs. The other $20,000 goes straight to the party's coffers.
"It's extortion," says Richard Winger, editor of Ballot Access News. And it may not even be legal.
In 1972 the US Supreme Court unanimously held that a fee of up to $8,900 to run for a local office in the Democratic Party primary was unconstitutional.
"Many potential office seekers lacking both personal wealth and affluent backers are, in every practical sense, precluded from seeking the nomination of their chosen party, no matter how qualified they might be and no matter how broad or enthusiastic their popular support," Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote.
The case speaks directly to fees like the one in South Carolina, says Winger. "I think it's unconstitutional. If all these states started doing this, pretty soon it'd be up to a million dollars."
And South Carolina and New Hampshire are just the start. Eight other states have primaries with filing fees, mostly in the $1,000 range. Arkansas, which holds a primary on 1 March, charges $25,000 - payable by 9 November. Want in on the caucuses in Kansas or Kentucky? Those will cost $15,000 apiece.
Complicating all this is the fact that filing fees have to come directly from the candidates or their campaign funds - which have maximum contribution limits and strict reporting requirements - not from friends, relatives or the allegedly "independent" Super PAC entities that can raise unlimited amounts of money from deep-pocketed donors to support candidates.
South Carolina's prohibitive amount is said to have helped convince former Texas Governor Rick Perry to end his cash-strapped quest for the presidency in mid-September. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker paid the fee only to drop out the following month. His campaign was reportedly more than $750,000 in debt by the time it folded.
Despite this high bar, no one has stepped forward to challenge the fee in court - and all 15 remaining Republican candidates anted up in South Carolina. Some, like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former New York Governor George Pataki and that longest of long-shots, former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore, filed within days - or even hours - of the afternoon deadline. Everyone, it seems, is content to just sign the cheque and not rock the political boat.
Democrats have their share of fees too, of course, but they're generally much lower. In South Carolina, for instance, candidates like Hillary Clinton will have to pay $2,500 to the state party, which then is responsible for covering the remaining $20,000 to the state for election administration costs out of its own funds.
Money isn't the only obstacle, either. Many states require candidates to gather up to 5,000 signatures from in-state registered voters - a task that demands a strong national organisation with a motivated volunteer base or the funds to pay professional signature-gatherers to pound the pavement.
In 2012 Virginia ballot-seekers had to hand over petitions with at least 10,000 names - and only two, eventual winner Mitt Romney and libertarian Ron Paul, managed to qualify. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Senator Rick Santorum - each with earlier primary wins under their belts - failed to make the cut.
For the 1 March, 2016, balloting, Virginia has reduced that signatures amount to 5,000, due by 10 December, but at least 200 of those names have to come from each of the state's 11 congressional districts. Many states have similar district-by-district requirements, where the failure to gather enough signatures in even one district will keep a name off the ballot.
Some states give candidates a choice. To qualify for the 1 March primary in delegate-rich Texas, for instance, presidential aspirants must either pay a $5,000 filing fee or submit the signatures of 300 registered voters in at least 15 of the state's 36 congressional districts.
Florida, not surprisingly, is a bit unusual. Candidates can cut a cheque for $25,000, gather at least 3,375 volunteer-obtained signatures from across Florida or commit to attending the Sunshine Summit - a presidential forum hosted in Orlando by the state Republican Party in November.
That summit could be a big money-maker for the party, which expects to sell 2,500 tickets to the event - and is charging $200 for a two-day pass and $1,000 for "premium reserve seating" (all major credit cards happily accepted).
Then there's first-in-the-nation Iowa, which has no petition requirements, filing fees or, for that matter, ballots. Voters can support whomever they please in the caucuses, and if enough likeminded individuals show up to do the same, the candidate will be on his or her way to winning prized delegates.
But then the state's caucus system presents challenges of its own. Getting Iowans to turn out on a cold February weekday and spend an evening singing the praises of their politician can be a logistical effort that makes South Carolina's $40,000 price of admission seem like chump change.
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Here's a guide to who's who in David Cameron's cabinet:

David Cameron, who became prime minister in 2010 at the head of a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, has now appointed an all-Conservative cabinet.
David Cameron argued during the campaign that it was essential for George Osborne to be "back at his desk" following the election.
The chancellor will also take on the role of first secretary of state, making him the highest ranking cabinet minister after the prime minister.
Theresa May has been re-appointed to the position she has held since 2010.
Also re-appointed is Philip Hammond, who has been foreign secretary since 2014.
Former Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb was promoted to the Department for Work and Pensions on 19 March following the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith.
Michael Fallon has also been re-appointed to a position he has held since 2014.
Oliver Letwin
Oliver Letwin is promoted to Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in overall charge of the Cabinet Office.
Jeremy Hunt was appointed Health Secretary in 2012 and remains in post.
Former Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has been made of Leader of the House, replacing William Hague who is no longer an MP.
Michael Gove, a former education secretary, is moved from chief whip to take up the justice secretary's position held by Chris Grayling since 2012.
Nicky Morgan continues as education secretary after her appointment last year.
Conservative peer Baroness Stowell retains this position and has been made a full member of the cabinet.
Sajid Javid will take up a new role as business secretary. In the last parliament he held the role of Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport.
Amber Rudd is to be secretary of state for energy and climate change. This post was previously held in the last parliament by Lib Dem Ed Davey.
John Whittingdale will take up this role held previously by Sajid Javid. Before the election he was chairman of the Commons culture select committee.
Liz Truss held this position during the final year of the coalition government, and will remain in post.
Justine Greening was appointed to this position in 2012 and continues in the post.
Patrick McLoughlin remains in this position, after taking over from Justine Greening in 2012.
Greg Clark was promoted to the cabinet after being minister for universities, science and cities for the last year of the previous parliament. He replaces Eric Pickles.
Theresa Villiers was appointed Northern Ireland Secretary in 2012 and continues in post.
Alun Cairns, formerly Wales minister, was promoted to secretary of state in the mini reshuffle triggered by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith's resignation.
The Conservatives' only MP for a Scottish constituency, David Mundell, who served as a minister in the department from 2010-15, takes this position. Two Lib Dems - Michael Moore and then Alistair Carmichael - held it in the coalition.
Also attending Cabinet are:
Greg Hands takes this position, formerly held by Lib Dem Danny Alexander who was a victim of the SNP surge in Scotland.
Former Immigration Minister Mark Harper has been made government chief whip.
Anna Soubry, previously minister of state for defence, is the new Minister of State for Small Business in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Priti Patel is to be Minister of State for Employment at the Department for Work and Pensions. She was Exchequer Secretary in the last parliament.
Robert Halfon is Minister without Portfolio - his responsibilities include contributing to the government's policy and decision-making processes.
Matthew Hancock has been appointed Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General.
Responsibilities include: public sector efficiency and reform, government transparency, civil contingencies, cyber security and UK statistics, among others
Jeremy Wright is to remain as Attorney General, a post he has held since July 2014.
... and also attending political cabinet
The Mayor of London has accepted an invitation from the prime minister to attend political cabinet. However this is not a ministerial appointment. He won't be attending full cabinet and he will not be running any department.
Lord Feldman is appointed Conservative Party Chairman and will attend political cabinet. He replaces Grant Shapps.


A £1.2bn deal to boost economic growth in south east Wales has been backed by Cardiff council.

The Cardiff Capital Region City Deal will see £734m invested in the Metro transport scheme and £495m on other projects.
Cardiff council backed a report on the deal at a meeting on Thursday evening.
Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr council have already formally supported the deal while Monmouthshire and Blaenau Gwent also backed the plan on Thursday.
The other five councils will vote on the agreement over the next few weeks, with Caerphilly, Newport and Torfaen to discuss the proposal on Tuesday.
Phil Bale, Cardiff council leader, said the city deal was "crucial".
"We're a central part of a region that makes up over half the Welsh economy, yet the Cardiff capital region lags behind our counterparts in England and UK cities are even further behind their counterparts in Europe," he said.
"Over its lifetime we anticipate the deal will deliver up to 25,000 additional new jobs and leverage an additional £4bn in private sector investment."
He said the deal would "grow our economy and create new employment", adding: "This is a significant moment in the history of both this city and the region."
It follows concerns Mr Bale would struggle to persuade his Labour group to back the plan without more detail on individual projects.
The 10 local authorities involved - expected to contribute a total of £120m - will be "locked in" to the deal for five years before any can quit.


US judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first black woman to serve in New York's highest court, has been found dead in the city's Hudson River.

The 65-year-old is also widely reported to have been the country's first female Muslim judge.
New York police said they pulled her from the water and pronounced her dead on Wednesday after being alerted by an emergency call.
Her husband had reported her missing, police said.
Judge Abdus-Salaam's family identified her and a post-mortem examination will determine the cause of death, New York police say.
According to local media reports, police are treating the death as a possible suicide but an investigation is ongoing.
The body was fully clothed and showed no signs of trauma or criminality, police said.
Judge Abdus-Salaam's brother took his own life three years ago and she had been battling depression, according to reports.
Her husband told police she had not been heard from since Tuesday morning.
Justice Abdus-Salaam, born in 1952 in Washington DC, was appointed to the New York Court of Appeals by Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2013.
"Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam was a trailblazing jurist whose life in public service was in pursuit of a more fair and more just New York for all," Mr Cuomo said in a statement.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called her death "an enormous loss for New York, our judiciary, and all who knew, respected and loved her".
He described her in a statement as a "thoughtful, thorough and fair jurist".
A graduate of New York's Columbia Law School, she started her legal career working for low-income people in Brooklyn and later served as a New York state assistant attorney general.
Justice Abdus-Salaam is identified in the Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History as the first female Muslim to serve as a US judge.