Boxing trainer Adam Booth says referee Victor Loughlin acted "immaculately" during Nick Blackwell and Chris Eubank Jr's British middleweight title fight.

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Blackwell, 25, is in an induced coma after being stopped in the 10th round on Saturday.
Booth, who threw in the towel for David Haye in 2004 but allowed Andy Lee to continue hurt last year, also praised Blackwell's trainer Gary Lockett.
"Victor Loughlin saw it and reacted to it," said Booth.
"It was as quickly as I've seen any referee act on a swelling like that - I thought he acted immaculately in a very competitive, hard fight."
Booth says Blackwell's trainer Lockett was right to keep "steering his man through the fight".
"There was nothing there to say 'come out of the fight'," he added. "In the 10th round Nick Blackwell started to have more success.
"All of a sudden the swelling came over his left eye. Eubank Jr caught him flush with a jab on the left eye and the swelling quadrupled very quickly.
"It was at that moment in time, even though Blackwell was having some success, Loughlin stopped the fight and took him to the doctor.
"As soon as he took him to the doctor, it became totally the doctor's call and Blackwell was in the care of the doctor from that point on."
Speaking to BBC Sport's boxing correspondent Mike Costello, Booth recalled two occasions when he had to make big calls to either throw in the towel, or let a badly hurt boxer fight on.
He stopped Haye, unbeaten in 10 at the time, in the fifth-round of his IBO cruiserweight title fight at Wembley with Carl Thompson.
"The referee wasn't going to stop the fight," explained Booth. "At the end of the second round I remember thinking, having known how the training had gone, 'I don't think this fighter's got many rounds left in him'.
"I could see from David's movement that physically he wasn't going to be able to perform. In the third round I saw more evidence of the same.
"It was only then (in the fifth) he started to catch David cleanly and David didn't have anything left to defend, that was when I threw the towel in."
Haye spent the night in hospital with concussion.
"It was the right decision," added Booth. "What if he'd taken another seven rounds of punishment trying to hang in there being too brave for his own good?"
Booth admits allowing Lee to continue his world title bout against Peter Quillin was a more difficult decision.
He felt the fight "was over" when he saw Lee "sliding along the ropes", but the Irish middleweight convinced his trainer to let him continue - taking a draw after 12 rounds.
"The easiest decision would've been to stop the fight, the evidence was there to stop the fight," added Booth.
"He sat down, I knelt down, and I went through the process. I was almost at the point where the fight is done, but there was no need to rush my decision.
"I got him to slow his breathing down and said a couple of things, but he didn't respond to me. In my mind I'm getting ready to call the referee over.
"My final thing was 'Andy, if you don't tell me what I need to hear, I have to stop the fight'. He looked at me, and very quickly his focus came back and he said 'I'm OK, I can get a grip of this' - he said what I needed to hear."
Booth added: "He stood up, he stood firm and in that second round he managed to get control of that fight - thankfully I made the right decision."
Booth says the difficult decision to stop a fight cannot be based on finances, with a view to future fights, or emotion and often relies on how well a trainer knows the boxer.
"A doctor doesn't necessarily know what the fighter is capable of," he said.
"If there are no medical factors to determine the stoppage - a broken jaw, cut eye, loss of vision - then it really comes down to the coach's knowledge of the fighter.
"Is he able to protect himself? And if he is, is he able to compete?
"It is a decision you will make instinctively based on your perceptions."
Booth insists hydration is key and thinks isotonic drinks should be allowed in the ring, like in other countries.
In British boxing, fighters can only ingest water between rounds, but Booth says "sugary" drinks would allow fighters to protect themselves for longer.
"A lot of us have exercised and at the time when we feel we are tired we might have a sugary drink," he said.
"You do feel you are able to perform a better technique for a longer period of time, because it gives you energy."
Booth feels governing bodies need to "catch up" on techniques used to help boxers make their weight, saying hydration levels could and should be tested ringside.
He suggested doping tests to stop the "what's in the bottle" argument.
"The most important time a fighter needs to be fully healthy in his hydration levels is when he is going to start fighting, at the moment of competition," explained Booth.
"What's the difference between that and a fighter having hepatitis, the flu or pneumonia when he walks into the changing room?
"If he is not physically in condition to compete and stay healthy to the best of his ability for 12, or however many rounds, then he shouldn't be allowed to fight.
"If someone isn't hydrated to a healthy level, then essentially you're talking about a fighter who's not fit and healthy to perform."
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From headlining Glastonbury to selling out Wembley Stadium, it's safe to say it's been a pretty good year for British musicians.

The last 12 months have seen UK acts setting the bar for Grammy nominations and making chart history in the US (no points for guessing which boyband).
For some, meeting an idol was the most memorable moment of the year while for others it was all about awards season.
Here are some of the UK's biggest acts' highlights of 2014.
It's an obvious one for these boys right? Glastonbury headliners at last? Well, another show was just as big a highlight in 2014 for Tom, Serge and co.
"The home show in Leicester and then Glastonbury," says Serge Pizzorno.
"One was just like an emotional 10-year trip to play in front of that many people where we were born and inspiring the next generation of kids from our town.
"And the weekend after was closing the greatest festival in the world, there's not really anything else to say."
Actually, they had a few more things to say on the matter.
"I've never quite been as high as that - for two weeks I was on the ceiling of every establishment I went in to," says the guitarist.
"[It was] just pure emotion," said frontman Tom Meighan.
"The summer was a wonderful time, I think it was probably the best year of us as a band, we won't ever top that forever, that was our moment."
Ahhhh.
Sam Smith certainly has plenty to choose from; this time last year, we hardly knew who he was.
In fact this time six months ago, we still weren't entirely sure - (watch this nonsense for further explaination...)
So despite having a number one album and single, and breaking America, his top moment is all the fun times he's having now he's a massive pop star.
"I think one of the highlights would be the MTV VMAs," he explained.
"I watched that as a kid every year and being there and performing, sitting in the seat I was sat in was very, very surreal."
He was sat perched in between Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus, with Ariana Grande and the Kardashians nearby and they all knew who he was.
"It's really odd what's happened over there [America] in such a short space of time, it's incredible.
"But do you know what? I do miss the UK when I am there and I can't wait to be back when I am gone."
We miss you too.
Foxes is another new artist who has had a stellar year and picked up a few famous fans along the way.
Her highlight was supporting Pharrell Williams on tour and meeting a couple of other huge, sorry, gargantuan stars.
"Supporting Pharrell, it was scary but it was an honour," she told Newsbeat.
"To be on that for 30 days was just mind-blowing. I learnt so much, made so many friends. I am sad to not be on it now."
As for Pharrell?
"He was lovely, he treated me and my team like family," she explained.
"It was just the most amazing tour to be on. I kept having to look around and be like, 'Oh my God there's Jay Z and Beyonce and Pharrell' and they are all there."
Actual Beyonce?
"I talked to her for about 15 minutes about make-up and I just didn't even know what to say," said Foxes.
"She asked me what mascara I use and I felt really silly because it is like Beyonce, you probably have your own mascara and so it was a moment."
He performed at the O2 arena in London, virtually on his own, while six different couples got engaged.
He had another number one album, hung out with the cast of Friends, Taylor Swift and everyone else in the world and announced he'd perform at Wembley Stadium.
But it was meeting his idol that really stood out for Ed Sheeran.
So who is this musical hero Ed?
"Van Morrison," he told Newsbeat.
"Growing up as a kid, he was the person I listened to starting off, so being able to chat to him for two hours, it kind of made my job feel very, very surreal.
"We chatted about music and what is happening now in the digital age.
"From the looks of things on the media forefront people might not think anyone likes me.
"So it's nice to see people I look up to and admire say good things."
This time last year, Ella Eyre was that girl, with awesome hair and incredible voice on Rudimental's Waiting All Night.
Now she is an artist in her own right, with a Mobo for best newcomer under her belt and her debut album on the way in 2015.
But let's not forget, she already has a Brit Award to her name as Waiting All Night was named best British single and that is her highlight of 2015.
"I was one of my first and biggest award ceremonies to be a part of," she said.
"It is such a highlight for it to be so early on in my career to have won a Brit Award and to be performing on the first world streamed Brit Awards.
"Also releasing my solo stuff after being known as a featured artist for quite a while now, it's just nice for people to know me on my own."
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Germany's second-biggest lender, Commerzbank, is planning to cut 9,600 jobs over the next four years and end dividend payments for the first time.

In a statement, the bank said by the end of 2020 it would have "sustainably increased its profitability".
However, the bank also said it aimed to create 2,300 new posts in areas where its business was growing.
Commerzbank's strategy for achieving this will be debated by the bank's board on Friday.
Last year, it had about 51,300 employees.
The announcement comes amid denials that the German government is working on a rescue plan for Deutsche Bank.
Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, is facing a $14bn (£10.8bn; €12.5bn) fine in the US for mis-selling mortgage-backed bonds before the financial crisis of 2008.
Commerzbank's strategy will see it concentrating on its "core" businesses of "private and small business customers" and "corporate clients" and digitising some processes.
As part of the €1.1bn (£948m) restructure, it plans to merge its "Mittelstandsbank", which deals with medium-sized German firms, with its corporates and markets division. Commerzbank may therefore have to write off about €700m in the third quarter of this year.
It also intends to "scale back" its investment banking activities, which could
The bank said that would "reduce earnings volatility and regulatory risk and will free up capital to be invest in core client businesses".
Commerzbank is the second-largest bank in Germany. Yesterday the largest bank, Deutsche, had to deny it had asked the German government for a bailout. Now Commerzbank says its is planning a massive restructuring, involving almost 10,000 job losses and no dividends for shareholders.
The restructuring is expected to save billions of euros a year and allow Commerzbank to invest in new sectors of business, creating new jobs in "growth areas".
Commerzbank is 15% owned by the German government, which took the stake to help the bank in the middle of the financial crisis in 2008. However, critics say that Germany's banks have been far too slow to deal with the consequences of the credit crunch.
Those banks face many similar problems: new competition, the higher cost of new regulations and all at the same time as ultra-low interest rates are hitting profits.
Despite the write-offs and higher loan loss provisions because of the weakness in the shipping markets, Commerzbank said it still expected to make a small net profit for 2016 as a whole.
It said it would begin talks shortly with employee representatives about the job cuts, which are expected to amount to a loss of 7,300 full-time positions, once the creation of 2,300 new jobs is taken into account.
Commerzbank's shares fell by 3% in Franfkurt on Thursday.
Meanwhile, shares in Deutsche Bank, which hit their lowest level in 30 years earlier this week, gained 1% on the German stock exchange, following a 2% rise on Wednesday.
Despite the gains, however, more of the bank's shares were being "shorted".
Investors have been selling stock in Deutsche in the expectation that the bank will need to issue more shares, pushing down the value of existing holdings. They could then buy them back at that lower price and make a profit.


Nottinghamshire go to Finals Day confident of winning their first T20 Blast title, says long-serving wicketkeeper Chris Read.

Notts' 39-run win against Essex at Trent Bridge on Monday sees them return to the showpiece event at Edgbaston for the first time since 2010.
Read, who has won a Lord's one-day final and two County Championship titles with Notts, has been part their two previous Finals Day campaigns.
"Maybe this is our year," he said.
"We go to Finals Day full of confidence and hopefully pick up some silverware."
The only time Nottinghamshire have reached the final of the competition was in 2006 at Trent Bridge, with the Outlaws missing out on a maiden title when beaten by East Midlands rivals Leicestershire in the decider.
Samit Patel ensured Notts progressed on Monday with a superb spell of 4-20 as the visitors collapsed to 123 all out chasing what seemed a modest target of 163.
All-rounder Patel said victory brought a sense of "relief from everyone" as Notts had previously fallen at the quarter-final stage in four of the past five years.
Talking to BBC Radio Nottingham, the 31-year-old said: "We knew this was a big game for us.
"We will watch all the other quarter-finals and do as much homework as we can.
"It's good get Finals Day, but we'd like to go on and win it now."


Skipper Jos Buttler was "disappointed" by Bangladesh's pointed celebrations of his dismissal in England's 34-run defeat in Dhaka on Sunday.

Buttler fell lbw to Taskin Ahmed for 57 to leave England 123-7, chasing 239.
"You don't have to run up to a guy. I'm disappointed to get out, but emotions were running high," said Buttler.
"I was a little bit disappointed in the fashion they celebrated. Mainly the way they celebrated by running towards me and giving me a bit of a send-off."
The umpires intervened in the confrontation which followed the dismissal as several fielders approached Buttler.
He added: "They were obviously delighted to get the wicket. Maybe I should have just walked away."
That animosity then appeared to spill over after the match, with vice-captain Ben Stokes seeming to confront Tigers opener Tamim Iqbal as other players shook hands.
Stokes later tweeted: "Congrats to Bangladesh on the win tonight, outplayed us, What I won't stand for is someone putting a shoulder to my team-mate at handshakes."
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza, who earned the man-of-the-match award for taking 4-29, said both sets of players needed to show self-restraint.
"Sometimes, a lot of things happen in the heat of the moment. But players from both sides should control themselves," he said.
The two sides meet in a third and series-deciding match in Chittagong on Wednesday.


A company producing GM mosquitoes says it is to open a new factory in Brazil as it expand its operations.

Small-scale studies in parts of Brazil, Panama and the Cayman Islands suggest engineered sterile mosquitoes can reduce wild insect populations by more than 90% when released into the wild.
Intrexon said the facility in Piraciciba, SÃ£o Paulo, will be able to protect 300,000 people.
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carry three viruses - Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya.
The studies were carried out by the only company currently trialling GM insects, Oxitec, based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
Oxitec, which was spun out from the University of Oxford, was bought by US company Intrexon for $160m (Â£106m) in August last year.
Oxitec CEO Hadyn Parry said: " As the principal source for the fastest growing vector-borne infection in the world in Dengue fever, as well as the increasingly challenging Zika virus, controlling the Aedes aegypti  population provides the best defence against these serious diseases for which there are no cures."
Dengue fever, Chikungunya virus and Zika virus are spread by the bite of an infected Aedes mosquito.
Zika has been linked with birth defects in Brazil in babies of mothers infected with the virus.
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert last Friday advising pregnant women to avoid travelling to Brazil and other Latin American and Caribbean countries where outbreaks of Zika have been registered.
The travel alert applies to Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.


Revelations about Prime Minister David Cameron's financial affairs have spurred protests on the streets and other politicians to make public their income details, but how much should private individuals have to declare?

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is due to publish his tax returns, and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon has published hers.
Meanwhile, UKIP's Nigel Farage has rejected calls for greater openness over personal tax matters.
Unsurprisingly, there are mixed opinions on whether to declare and how much.
Share and declare
Paul Brazier emails the BBC: "Transparency of tax for all in elected office."
When it comes to Mr Cameron's wealth, Raymond Harris writes: "Five hundred thousand pounds is a figure most working people won't see in their lifetime, so I think he should not be hiding it off shore. He should be paying tax on it."
Valtid Caushi says: "Pay your tax. It is our unborn children who they are robbing, not the current generation."
Wendy Wright emails: "As in Sweden, everyone's tax returns should be public property. This would help to prevent a wide range of financial wrongdoing and help to ensure that everyone paid the proper amount of tax. All current loopholes to avoid tax should be closed immediately."
Jim Muir (not the BBC correspondent) tweets:
Private and personal
David Snelson, in Petersfield, says: "This trend towards all senior politicians publishing tax returns is worrying. We don't pay them that much money, and we now want to delve into all aspects of their personal affairs. Who can we expect to want to lead us in the future. Would Churchill have wanted to be prime minister in such circumstances? Be careful what you wish for!"
Stephen Nichols calls this political point-scoring, with Mr Cameron doing nothing illegal, "nothing anybody with a good financial adviser wouldn't be doing". "If there are loopholes, then change the laws," he adds.
Philip, in Glasgow, says tax returns should be kept private for everyone, adding: "The urgent need is not sorting out offshore tax jurisdictions, but sorting out the tax credits mess."
DSPG is not interested in leaders publishing tax returns, adding: "These should be a private matter, although possibly routinely examined by some central body such as the Register of Interests. I wouldn't want my neighbour to know how much bank interest I get every year (and thus an indication of my assets) especially as I don't flaunt a Bentley on the drive and a Rolex on my wrist."
Kath Stevens says she doesn't know what all the fuss is about, adding: "Just about every university vice-chancellor in the UK has a salary of over £200,000 a year, some are getting over £400,000, let alone barristers, chief executives of large councils, probably health authorities, probably senior civil servants, some of you BBC people and senior management in large companies, and don't get me started about the ludicrous amounts bankers are still pocketing. Time everyone got a grip on current reality."
Gary Aiken takes it further: "This is just a witch-hunt," he says. "Salary has always been a private matter."
And finally, how clear is all of this?
Compiled by Sherie Ryder


Remarkable images of life from one of the most inhospitable spots in the ocean have been captured by scientists.

Researchers have been surveying volcanic underwater vents - sometimes called black smokers - in the South West Indian Ridge in the Indian Ocean.
The UK team found an array of creatures living in the super-heated waters, including yeti crabs, scaly-foot snails and sea cucumbers.
They believe some of the species may be new to science.
Hydrothermal vents were first discovered in 1977. These fissures in the ocean floor spew out fiercely hot, mineral-rich water, yet somehow, diverse ecosystems are able to thrive in these hostile conditions.
The team, from the University of Southampton, was particularly interested in the vents on the South West Indian Ridge because this range is linked to the Mid Atlantic Ridge and the Central Indian Ridge, where vent life has been well documented.
This area is also unusual because it is an "ultra-slow spreading" ridge, which means it is less volcanically active than other ridges, with fewer vents that are further apart.
Dr Jon Copley, chief scientist of the Indian Ocean vents project, said: "This place is a real crossroads in terms of the vent species around the world."
Using a remote-operated, underwater robot called Kiel 6000, from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM Geomar), in Germany, the team was able to train their cameras on the vents.
In the hottest habitat around the black smokers, they found snails and shrimp, as well as mussels, sea cucumbers and crabs. They then compared these with the animals found at vents on the neighbouring ridges.
Dr Copley said: "I was expecting there to be some similarities to what we know from the Atlantic, and some similarities to what we know from the Indian Ocean vents, and that was true, but we also found types of animals here which are not known from either of those neighbouring areas, and that was a big surprise.
"One was a type of yeti crab. There are two currently described species of yeti crab known from the Pacific, and it isn't like those, but it is the same type of animal, with long, hairy arms.
"Also some sea cucumbers - not known from the Atlantic or Central Indian vents, but known from the Pacific."
He added: "We've got links to lots of different parts of the world here, which is very exciting."
The team was also surprised at the diversity of life they found during this expedition, which was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc).
Dr Copley said: "In a lot of other vent fields I've been to, in this hot zone where you get the animals there is often just one type of animal living there: in the deep Mid Atlantic Ridge, it's the shrimp. But here, we have seen three to four all in the same zone."
The findings should help researchers to learn more about how life moves from vent to vent: vents are short lived, and without the ability to hop from one system to the next, life there would go extinct.
"That is why vents are a great place to understand how species disperse and evolve in the deep oceans, because they are like little islands," Dr Copley added.
Despite these findings, the researchers are worried about the future of this underwater terrain.
China has been granted an exploratory licence by the International Seabed Authority to explore the potential of mining the vents in this area for their rich minerals.
Dr Copley said: "This vent field is the size of a few football pitches, and it seems possible that it is the only known range of some of these species.
"It would be very premature to start disrupting it before we really know the true extent of what lives in it."


Monaco have won the Ligue 1 title for the first time in 17 years after a 2-0 win at home to Saint-Etienne.

Needing a point to be crowned French champions for the eighth time, the in-form Kylian Mbappe scored the opener in style.
Mbappe, 18, latched on to captain Radamel Falcao's through ball, skipped around the goalkeeper and slotted in.
Forward Valere Germain made sure of the win in injury time with a tap-in from close range.
The home side had all but secured the title before kick-off, with Paris St-Germain three points behind with just one game to play and a far inferior goal difference.
The new champions rarely looked troubled in registering their 11th consecutive league win and subsequently lifting a trophy that has eluded them since the turn of the millennium.
The last time Monaco won Ligue 1 they were fielding a team which included the French trio of Fabien Barthez, David Trezeguet and Willy Sagnol.
Monaco's success this season is largely down to the reinvigorated Colombian Falcao and the emergence of French teenager Mbappe.
Falcao, 31, has put the disappointment of his loan spells with Manchester United and Chelsea, where he scored just five goals in 36 appearances, behind him.
The forward will finish top scorer for Monaco this campaign, netting 24 times with four assists.
Mbappe has caught the eye of suitors from the top teams in Europe in his breakthrough season. He has scored 15 league goals this season to add to his remarkable performances in the Champions League.
Mbappe, voted Ligue 1's young player of the year, scored six in six as Monaco reached the semi-final stage, eventually losing to Juventus over two legs.
That defeat did not overshadow their achievements, however, as Monaco brushed aside Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund en route to the semi-finals.
Monaco's triumph is all the more impressive given they finished eighth in Ligue 2, France's second division, five years ago, having been in and out of the relegation zone over the course of the 2011-2012 season.
The following season they finished top of Ligue 2 and returned to top-flight football.
Just two seasons later, they have scored over 104 goals, conceding just 29, on their way to being crowned the best team in France.
Four players from that Ligue 2 winning team are in Monaco's current title-winning squad: Goalkeeper Danijel Subasic, defender Andrea Raggi, winger Nabil Dirar and forward Germain.
Whether they struggle to hold onto the likes of Mbappe awaits to be seen, but the celebrations, prematurely, had already been put in place before Wednesday's victory.
On Wednesday morning, the club announced on Twitter that American rapper 50 Cent would be performing at the players' victory party.
A statement on the club's website read: "The American star will come to celebrate the excellent results of Falcao's team-mates this Sunday in the Palace Square in the Principality."
Before the party can begin, Monaco will end their season with an away trip to ninth placed Rennes on Saturday.
Match ends, Monaco 2, St Etienne 0.
Second Half ends, Monaco 2, St Etienne 0.
Goal!  Monaco 2, St Etienne 0. Valère Germain (Monaco) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Thomas Lemar following a fast break.
Substitution, Monaco. Andrea Raggi replaces Kylian Mbappe.
Foul by João Moutinho (Monaco).
Jérémy Clément (St Etienne) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Monaco. Guido Carrillo replaces Falcao.
Attempt missed. Kenny Rocha Santos (St Etienne) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jordan Veretout with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  St Etienne. Conceded by Kamil Glik.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, St Etienne. Kenny Rocha Santos replaces Fabien Lemoine.
Delay in match Benjamin Mendy (Monaco) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Valère Germain (Monaco) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fabinho.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Falcao (Monaco) because of an injury.
Leo Lacroix (St Etienne) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Falcao (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Leo Lacroix (St Etienne).
Attempt missed. Valère Germain (Monaco) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Kylian Mbappe.
Attempt missed. Falcao (Monaco) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Djibril Sidibe with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner,  Monaco. Conceded by Kévin Théophile-Catherine.
Substitution, Monaco. Valère Germain replaces Bernardo Silva.
Substitution, St Etienne. Romain Hamouma replaces Alexander Søderlund.
Bernardo Silva (Monaco) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Bernardo Silva (Monaco).
Jordan Veretout (St Etienne) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Monaco. Conceded by Leo Lacroix.
Corner,  Monaco. Conceded by Leo Lacroix.
Kamil Glik (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Veretout (St Etienne).
Attempt saved. Henri Saivet (St Etienne) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  St Etienne. Conceded by Falcao.
Foul by Djibril Sidibe (Monaco).
Jordan Veretout (St Etienne) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Arnaud Nordin (St Etienne) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kévin Théophile-Catherine.
Attempt blocked. Benjamin Mendy (Monaco) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Fabinho (Monaco).
Henri Saivet (St Etienne) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Monaco. Conceded by Leo Lacroix.
Attempt saved. Falcao (Monaco) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Thomas Lemar with a cross.


A man has been jailed for a "vicious" and "unprovoked" attack on another man outside a nightclub in Nottingham.

Ricky Scott, 29, of New Basford, handed himself in after footage was released showing a man being knocked unconscious after helping two women, in March.
Michael Kane, 27, from Glasgow, who officers said was a "good Samaritan", suffered multiple skull fractures.
Scott was sentenced to two years and eight months after admitting the attack, at Nottingham Crown Court.
On 1 March, Scott had just left the Bambuu club, in the Lace Market area of Nottingham, where he had been drinking with friends.
CCTV footage shows him running up to Mr Kane, who had started to talk to two women he thought were upset, one of whom was Scott's girlfriend.
He then knocked Mr Kane to the ground with one punch.
The court heard Mr Kane, who was visiting the city for a poker tournament, had to be fed through a straw because his injuries were so severe.
Judge Steven Evans said Scott was fuelled by anger and made matters worse by claiming he was provoked by a racial slur, which was a lie.
"This was an assault born out of anger and being incensed by a man talking to his girlfriend.
"Michael Kane was no threat to you... [the attack] was unwarranted, unprovoked and vicious and you tried to blame the victim."
Scott admitted a charge of wounding without intent in June.
Det Con Sharon Lowth, from Nottinghamshire Police, said: "This case really highlights how devastating a single punch, a single act of violence lasting no more than a couple of seconds, can be."


Tony Hibbert has described scoring in his testimonial match as "a fairytale".

Full-back Hibbert, who has failed to find the net in 308 appearances for Everton, scored a stunning free-kick in Wednesday's 4-1 win over AEK Athens.
He told BBC Radio Merseyside: "The lads were saying to me in the changing room that it was like a fairytale.
"I'd said to Leighton Baines earlier on that I was on free-kicks. All the fans were asking me was if I was going to score, I hit it well and it went in."
I've been putting the wrong guy on the free-kicks for too long
Hibbert's testimonial was in recognition of more than a decade in the Everton first team. He equalled the club record for the most European appearances, a record he later broke, against AEK Athens in 2009.
Manager David Moyes added: "It wasn't a goal that was made up. It wasn't as if somebody tripped in the box and got a penalty kick.
"It was a genuine goal. I've been putting the wrong guy on the free-kicks for too long.
"He's been reliable, he's very rarely injured and he's a competitor. Just like Liverpool have Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher, I'd put Tony Hibbert in the same situation for us here at Everton."
New signing Steven Naismith scored a first-half hat-trick on his first appearance at Goodison Park.
"It was a good night all round and it was topped off with Hibbo scoring," said the former Rangers man. "For me personally, it was an ideal start and I was glad to show what I could bring to the team."
Everton start the Premier League season on Monday, 20 August, with a home game against Manchester United.


A 151-year-old Bible has been returned to the Scottish descendants of its original owner after making a 3,500 mile journey from the US.

The book was returned after American owner Marshall Whitehead decided to track down the family of the original owner.
It was eventually handed to Donald Mackechnie, 66, at his home in Glasgow.
The Bible had originally belonged to the great-grandfather of Mr Mackechnie's grandmother.
Mr Whitehead, who was gifted the pocket-sized book in 2001 by an amateur Bible collector from Cleveland, Ohio, had rediscovered it when moving home in May.
Noting that the Bible bore the name Alexander MacDonald of Inverness with the date 1 January, 1866, he decided to track down the descendants of Mr MacDonald, who was born in 1825 and worked as a ship master, wine merchant and grocer.
After contacting Highland Council, he was put in touch with Anne Fraser, a historian at the Highland Archive Centre who created a MacDonald family tree.
Mr Whitehead then used social media to track down Mr Mackechnie's daughter Mairi in Glasgow, who alerted her Islay-raised father.
The Bible, which had a four-leaf clover tucked within its pages, was hand-delivered to Mr Mackechnie by Alistair Begg, a pastor at Mr Whitehead's church in Ohio who is originally from Glasgow and was visiting relatives in the city last month.
Mr Mackechnie, clerk to the board at St Columba Gaelic Church of Scotland in Glasgow, said: "There was a knock on the door one day and this chap was standing there.
"I almost fell on the floor when he explained what he was giving me. I could not believe it, it was such a shock and a surprise.
"The whole family are delighted and over the moon to receive his previously unheard of family heirloom.
"It does not even enter your head that this kind of thing could ever happen - it is quite amazing."
Mr Mackechnie, a retired mechanical design draftsman, said the story of the Bible's return to Scotland is "fascinating and shows there are still kind people in the world".
Mr Whitehead, who chose the book from a collection of more than 100, said he believes it is not a coincidence that it has been returned to the family of the original owner.
"I am very pleased that this keepsake treasure of the MacDonald family, located in Cleveland, Ohio, was safely returned to Mr MacDonald's native homeland," he said.
"It would not have happened if it had not been for the tireless effort of Anne Fraser and the kind gracious act of my senior pastor, Alistair Begg."


The entire senior management team of the Vatican bank is to be replaced as part of extensive reforms of the Catholic Church's central government.

Pope Francis has sought to stamp out corruption and other abuses at the bank, which handles the Church's funds.
French financier Jean-Baptiste de Franssu will take over as head of the bank from Ernst von Freyberg.
The bank will also eventually give up its investment activities to focus on serving religious orders and charities.
Ernst von Freyberg was appointed by former Pope Benedict just before his retirement in February 2013 after allegations were made that the Vatican bank had been used by money launderers.
However, attempts to create a more transparent banking system for the Catholic Church will continue under new management.
His successor, Mr de Franssu, said he saw it as a mission to "continue the efforts of transparency".
The Vatican's new economic affairs department will be headed by Cardinal George Pell, who will oversee all the Vatican's financial dealings and will report directly to the Pope. He was called to Rome as a result of a year-long attempt to clean up the Vatican's accounts.
"Our ambition is to become something of a model for financial management rather than cause for occasional scandal," said Cardinal Pell, the former head of the Catholic Church in Australia.
Analysis: David Willey, BBC News Rome
The news that the entire governing board of the scandal-ridden Vatican bank is being replaced marks a watershed in Pope Francis's new regime of change and greater transparency inside the Holy See.
It came at a news conference presided over by Cardinal George Pell, from Australia, who has just taken over as the Vatican's economic czar. His last such appearance was in Sydney where he was defending his local church against accusations of covering up paedophile priest scandals.
Cardinal Pell admitted he was not "nimble" in Italian. The domination by Italians of the Roman Curia, the central government of the Roman Catholic Church, which has lasted centuries, is slowly being eroded under the leadership of the dynamic new Pope from Argentina.
The Pope's English is not fluent, but he understands his fellow cardinals' and bishops' desire for a more truly universal Catholic Church with top level appointments from every continent.
The bank's profits fell last year to 2.9m euros from 86.6m euros in 2012.
Its precarious financial situation was revealed by the simultaneous publication in Rome of balance sheets for 2013 of the Holy See, of the Vatican City state, a separate entity, and of the Vatican bank, known officially as the Institute for Religious Works (IOR).
The IOR moves money around the world to finance Catholic missions and provides banking services for the Pope, clergy and religious orders.
Alongside the bank's massive drop in profits, the Holy See, the administrative headquarters of the Church, ran up a deficit of 24.2m euros (Â£19.2m) last year.
However Vatican City state, the tiny sovereign enclave in the heart of Rome, which derives a large part of its income from tickets to the Vatican museums, reported a profit of 32.3m euros (Â£25.7m).
The bank's losses were attributed in part to writedowns of investments made before the bank's reform programme started and when less vigilance was exercised.
The cost of bringing in American anti-money laundering experts to comb through and vet some 18,000 individual accounts at the Vatican amounted to 7.3m euros.
In an interview with the BBC's David Willey in his Vatican bank office, Mr von Freyberg said he had discovered "only small" skeletons in the cupboards of the IOR during his term of office.
"There is much less to the IOR than people think. We are smaller than most small town savings and loans [banks] in the world and the same is true of our skeletons."
"Whatever we found is much smaller than you might believe reading up about the Vatican bank in the media," he added.
According to the IOR website, the total assets of the Vatican bank amount to 5.9 billion euros.
Under Mr von Freyberg's management some 3,000 customer relationships have been terminated, leaving about 15,000 current accounts active.


A row between a Conservative candidate and his chairman is "a little bit embarrassing", Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb has admitted.

Guto Bebb, seeking re-election in Aberconwy, referred to Gary Burchett as an "idiot" after he told Mr Bebb he no longer had his backing.
Mr Crabb told BBC Radio Wales political parties were like families which had "tiffs and rows".
But he insisted Mr Bebb was a "great candidate" with "huge" support.
The row broke out when Mr Bebb sent an email questioning Mr Burchett's lack of involvement in his campaign for re-election.
Mr Burchett, a former mayor of Llandudno, replied by suggesting Mr Bebb had been promoting himself more than the party, saying he had "spent the last 18 months making excuses for you not using the Welsh Conservative brand".
Asked about the row by presenter Jason Mohammad, Mr Crabb said: "Like every family you don't want your arguments in public and disagreements.
"It's a little bit embarrassing, but people on the doorsteps are much more interested in the big issues."


A peace award, protests and a pretty unusual birth, those are some of the stories in Friday's papers.

"McGuinness up for peace award" reads the front page of Friday's Daily Mirror.
The paper leads its news offering in Northern Ireland with the former first minister's nomination for the Tipperary International Peace Award.
It says the ex-IRA commander could be given the award for "his work in securing Northern Ireland's future".
Mr McGuinness shares the shortlist with human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Inside, the paper reports that rape and sexual abuse charity Nexus has met officials from Ulster Rugby and the GAA following a "spike in calls" to its offices.
The charity says there had been a surge in referrals to its offices in Londonderry, Belfast and Enniskillen, but it would not say if those getting in touch had claimed they were abused in sport settings in Northern Ireland.
And we go from peace to protests in the papers as up to 200 people gathered at Belfast's US Consulate on Thursday night.
The Irish News features a picture of the crowds in Stranmillis, some of them holding up placards.
It reports the protest was over an invitation for President Trump to visit Northern Ireland.
Amnesty International's Patrick Corrigan says: "If President Trump comes to Northern Ireland it would spark mass protests."
Some common ground now between the Irish News and the News Letter, who both carry the story of a wild swan found in County Londonderry that tested positive for Bird Flu.
They report the bird was found near Lough Beg.
Chief veterinary officer Robert Huey says: "The prevention zone and temporary suspension on gatherings of poultry remain in place."
Members of the public have been encouraged to report sightings of dead birds as a result.
Also in the News Letter is the remarkable story of an Irish ex-heroin addict who has become the fastest solo competitor in the history of the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge, which has been dubbed the world's toughest row.
Gavan Heenigan, from Galway broke the record by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic in 49 days, 11 hours and 37 minutes.
It means he also broke the record for the quickest Atlantic crossing by an Irish rower.
The paper reports Mr Hennigan turned to heroin after struggling to admit he was gay.
In the Belfast Telegraph, a mum has shared the story of a birth she doesn't actually remember.
Ciara Murray, from Enniskillen, tells the paper how she woke from an induced coma to find she had a ten-day-old son.
She was in a coma after suffering a stroke when she was 37 weeks pregnant in December 2015.
Thankfully both mum and one-year-old James are healthy and happy now.
Also in the Belfast Telegraph is the news that Aer Lingus plans to begin a new route from Dublin to Las Vegas.
It reports the route is expected to run two to three times a week and will begin next winter, but could be extended depending on how popular it is.


Former France winger David Ginola is recovering in hospital in Monaco after a quadruple heart bypass operation.

The 49-year-old former Newcastle, Tottenham, Aston Villa and Everton player, who retired in 2002, collapsed in the south of France on Thursday.
His surgeon, speaking with authority of the family, told BBC Sport Ginola was "extremely lucky" to be alive.
A tweet from Ginola's account on Friday read: "Hello world, never slept better. I'm fine, just need to rest a bit."
"David played a sort of charity football match. All of a sudden he collapsed and people thought it was a joke but after one or two minutes they realised it was serious," said Gilles Dreyfus, professor of cardiac surgery at the Monaco Heart Centre.
"Fortunately there was one person who had been trained in CPR, because otherwise he would have been brain dead. They then called the emergency services, who arrived eight minutes later with him in cardiac arrest.
"I was speaking to the captain and he was telling me the girl who was in the ambulance only knew where the football field, which isn't an official one but a private one, was because she had seen it that morning and asked somebody what it was.
"If she hadn't then most likely she would not have found it within the timeframe to save him.
"They arrived with him in cardiac arrest, he was shocked four times on site, they were able to restore a normal heart rhythm and within 10 minutes a helicopter arrived to transfer him to Monaco Heart Centre.
"I made the decision to transfer him to the operating theatre and he immediately underwent a quadruple heart bypass, which was very straightforward although difficult.
"This morning he woke up perfectly normally with no neurological damage and is now recovering from a bypass like anybody would normally do.
"It was a sequence of events that at every stage went absolutely fine, that is why he is here today. Luckier you can't be. It's an unbelievable story."
Ginola, who won 17 caps for France, retired in May 2002 and has gone on to become a pundit with the BBC, BT Sport, Canal Plus and CNN.
He began his football career in England in 1995, when Newcastle signed him from Paris St-Germain for £2.5m.
A fans' favourite at St James' Park, he joined Tottenham in 1997, winning the 1999 League Cup with the Londoners.
That same season, he was named the PFA players' player of the year and the Football Writers' Association's footballer of the year.


A champion surfer who escaped a shark attack in South Africa live on television has returned to the water six days later in his native Australia.

Mick Fanning, 34, posted a picture of himself early on Saturday near his Tweed Heads home in northern New South Wales.
He wrote: "First surf back. Feels so good."
Mr Fanning was competing in Jeffreys Bay, on the eastern Cape, when he was knocked off his surfboard by a shark.
The three-time world champion was competing in the final of the J-Bay Open when two sharks were seen in his vicinity.
A live camera caught the moment he was thrown from his board.
He said he managed to punch the shark and startle it escaping injury. He was soon rescued and the tournament called off.
On Saturday, he posted an Instagram picture on Twitter of himself looking out to sea.
Responses included user nick.j.poole writing: "Good on ya man" and 'knee_house' posting: "Dude, such an inspiration. Now go get that gold jersey".
Meanwhile, a man has been killed by a shark in Tasmania, Australia, while diving with his daughter local media reported.
He was a recreational scallop diver and was attacked on the east coast near Orford.


August's total solar eclipse in the US will almost certainly be the most watched such event in history.

More than 12 million people - from Oregon to South Carolina - live on the path of darkness that the Moon will cut as it sweeps in front of the Sun.
Nearly four times that many live within a two-hour's drive. And then there are all the tourists who will flock to America to witness the spectacle.
It makes the eclipse a wonderful citizen science opportunity.
"By going out and looking at the Sun we take part in this time-honoured tradition of citizen science," says astronomer and artist Prof Tyler Nordgren from the University of Redlands in California.
"Edmund Halley during an eclipse in 1715 in London asked people to go outside, look up and see if they could see the total solar eclipse and measure the length of totality, and by that he was able to help refine the orbit of the Moon," he told BBC News.
You might think that with all the space telescopes trained on the Sun these days there is little the citizen or even the keen amateur can contribute. But total solar eclipses are special because they afford particularly favourable conditions to study the tenuous outer atmosphere of the Sun called the corona.
It is in this superheated "gas" of charged particles that the solar wind originates, and from which billions of tonnes of matter can occasionally burst towards the Earth to disrupt satellites, communications and even electricity grids.
The corona is outshone by the Sun's surface, its photosphere. And satellites will block out this glare using devices called  coronagraphs or occulters. But these are usually so wide that they also obstruct a doughnut of light immediately above the edge of the star.
"The spacecraft block out not only the Sun but also a whole lot of light around it, otherwise there would be scattering all over the image. And so we have that whole region uniquely to observe in white light from the ground at total solar eclipse," says Jay Pasachoff from Williams College, a veteran of 65 eclipses.
And he wants members of the public to get in on the act.
One key project in the planning is the Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) project run by the National Solar Observatory.
It is making available 59 identical telescopes and digital cameras to universities, schools and astronomy clubs along the path of the eclipse (another 40 observing kits are available to purchase).
Participants are being trained to gather images of the corona from their locality that can then be spliced together with everyone else's to produce an uninterrupted 90-minute video.
Citizen CATE will rely on dedicated, calibrated equipment. But a similar venture plans to make use of the countless photos that will be taken on the day with general pocket cameras and smartphones.
The Eclipse Mega Movie Project is supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and a number of colleges, observatories, and corporations.
The initiative has a core band of photographers, but the public will be able to participate with the aid of an app that will offer advice on getting the best image quality and provide the means to upload pictures.
The 21 August event is the first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in the US since 1918.
The Moon's shadow begins its journey across Earth's surface - the path of totality - out in the Pacific.
It makes landfall near Newport in Oregon at 10:16 local time (17:16 GMT; 18:16 BST); and leaves the continent close to the Atlantic coastal city of Charleston, South Carolina, at 14:49 local time (18:49 GMT; 19:49 BST).
The location that will experience full darkness for the "greatest duration" is just outside the town of Carbondale, Illinois. Totality there will last 2 minutes and 40.2 seconds.
So many people are expected to try to view the eclipse that the American Astronomical Society has set up a taskforce to advise urban and rural communities on how to prepare for the expected population surge.
Prof Nordgren works a lot with the National Parks Service: "I'm going to be at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in eastern Oregon.
"They have six parking spaces and a porta-potty, and yet they're expecting maybe 20,000 people to come there on that day."
And taskforce colleague, Angela Speck from the University of Missouri, added: "We need to have communities ready for the influx of people that are coming, and that means things like emergency services, road traffic control, food and water. Especially water - the eclipse is in August."
Nordgren, Speck, and Pasachoff were speaking here in Boston at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos


Team GB's athletes have revealed the colourful outfits they will wear for the Olympic Games closing ceremony - complete with illuminated shoes.

Sunday's event at Rio's Maracana stadium will see Britain's sports stars celebrate their largest ever haul of overseas medals.
Lancashire-based clothing manufacturer Simon Jersey has designed the athletes' red, white and blue outfits.
The quirky costumes are matched with shoes encrusted with flashing bulbs.
The Accrington-based designers said the USB-charged shoes were inspired by the carnival spirit of Rio de Janeiro.
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The jacket will feature a "thank you" to Brazil, written in Portuguese, and a "hello" to Tokyo, the host nation of the next Olympic Games in 2020.
Liz Murphy, of Simon Jersey, said the theme of the costume was inspired by the "spirit of the Rio carnival".
She added: "This is a fantastic contract for us to win. We're the first uniform supplier to actually get this contract, it would normally go to a big high street retailer.
"A billion people are going to see this costume on Sunday night and that's really fantastic."
Brazil has planned an elaborate celebration for the closing ceremony, featuring a traditional street party carnival known as the CordÃ£o da Bola Preta.
And, just as Rio de Janeiro put in a guest appearance at the closing ceremony of London 2012, Tokyo will make a special eight-minute presentation.


A portrait by Lucian Freud has sold for £16.1m, far exceeding its estimated sale price.

Pregnant Girl was pursued by six bidders at the London auction on Wednesday, according to Sotheby's.
The portrait depicts the artist's girlfriend, Bernardine Coverley, in the early 1960s, asleep while she was expecting their daughter Bella.
The painting had been expected to fetch £7-10m.
Coverley was 16 when she first met Freud in London in 1959. It's understood she was 17 when he painted Pregnant Girl.
Bella Freud, now aged 54 and a fashion designer, was the first of the couple's two children.
She said: "It must have been a very happy time in her life, being pregnant with the man she loved and him wanting her to be there and paint her. I think he was undoubtedly the love of her life."
Oliver Barker, Sotheby's senior international specialist in contemporary art, said: "There is arguably no other portrait by Freud that is more gripping, more tender, and more laden with such emotional depth."
The record for a Freud was set in May 2015 when a life-sized nude, Benefits Supervisor Resting, was sold at auction in New York for $56.2m (£35.6m)
Lucian and Bernandine separated when their children were young. He died in 2011 at the age of 88, while Bernadine died just   four days later.


A man who befriended a student by carrying her shopping at a railway station has been jailed for seven years after hiding in her back garden and raping her.

Awais Khan, 26, of Witton Road, Aston, approached the woman after she had been shopping, and walked her home.
A week later he climbed over the fence, waited until his 20-year-old victim was alone and attacked her.
When released, Khan will be deported to Pakistan, he was told.
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At Birmingham Crown Court, Khan admitted two counts of rape and was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison. He will be on sex offenders' register for life.
Speaking after the hearing, Det Con Gavin McGrath, from West Midlands Police, said: "This young woman endured a sickening ordeal at the hands of Khan, who had planned his attack for a number of days.
"There are no excuses or grey areas when it comes to rape."


Shares in Lloyds Banking Group have risen by 7.5% in mid-afternoon trading in London, after it released its first-quarter results.

Underlying profit was at the top end of expectations, up 21% to £2.178bn.
Boss Antonio Horta-Osorio said there had been "continued improvement in financial strength".  Lloyds shares were up 5.81p at 83.19p.
However, the group also said it had recorded a loss of £660m on the sale of TSB to Spain's Banco Sabadell.
As a result, Lloyds saw its statutory profit before tax fall by 11% to £1.214bn in the first quarter of 2015
The bank also said there had been no further provision during the quarter to cover the mis-selling of PPI products.
Lloyds was forced by the European Commission to sell or spin-off TSB. This followed the UK government's purchase of a 43.4% stake in the group in 2009 - a move which the Commission said involved state aid.
Lloyds floated TSB on the stock market in 2014. A takeover of TSB by Sabadell was announced in March, but the deal has yet to be completed.
The sell-off of TSB is costing Lloyds because of the charges involved in removing TSB from its computer servers, with the cost estimated to be £450m.
In a statement accompanying its results, Lloyds said: "We agreed the sale of our remaining stake in TSB to Banco de Sabadell in the first quarter and as part of this agreement, we sold 9.99% of our stake in March.
"The full disposal of TSB will enable us to meet our commitment to the European Commission ahead of the mandated deadline."
In its earnings report, the bank also said losses from bad debts fell 59% on the same period a year ago to £177m.
Lloyds also said it planned to pay a dividend for the half-year and full year for 2015, as previously indicated.
Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "The Lloyds business is looking increasingly healthy, while the strength of the balance sheet and income growth augur well for the proper resumption of the dividend later in the year."
He added: "The fact that, for the moment, there is no further PPI provision will be a welcome change for generally beleaguered bank investors."
Over the past two years, the government has been selling off tranches of shares in the taxpayer-backed bank.
And in April, David Cameron said that up to £4bn worth of Lloyds Bank shares would be offered to small investors at below-market prices if the Conservatives win the election.
The offer would be part of the £9bn sale of shares in the bailed-out bank announced in the Budget in March.


Mae teulu dyn sydd wedi cael ei arestio ar ôl ymosodiad terfysgol ger mosg yn Llundain nos Sul yn dweud eu bod yn mewn sioc.

Mae'r tad i bedwar, Darren Osborne, sy'n 47, yn hanu o Weston Super Mare ond yn byw yn ardal Pentwyn, Caerdydd.
Mae o yn y ddalfa ar amheuaeth o geisio llofruddio ac o droseddau'n ymwneud â therfysgaeth ar ôl i fan daro torf o Fwslimiaid yn Finsbury Park.
Bu farw un person yn y digwyddiad ac roedd angen triniaeth ysbyty ar naw arall.
Yn ôl Heddlu'r De a Heddlu'r Gogledd, fe fydd 'na fwy o batrolau i sicrhau diogelwch cymunedau Mwslimaidd.
Mewn datganiad, dywedodd mam, chwaer a nai Darren Osborne: "Rydym mewn sioc enfawr. Mae'n anghredadwy - mae'n anodd credu hyn."
"Mae ein calonnau a'n cydymdeimlad gyda'r rhai sydd wedi cael eu hanafu.
"Wnaeth o [Darren Osborne] erioed fynegi safbwyntiau hiliol."
Mae'r heddlu wedi arestio dyn sydd wedi ei amau o gyhoeddi negeseuon sarhaus yn dilyn yr ymosodiad ar fosg yn Finsbury Park.
Mae Richard Evans yn fab i un o gyfarwyddwyr Pontyclun Van Hire - perchnogion fan gafodd ei defnyddio yn yr ymosodiad.
Dywedodd Richard Evans ar wefan gymdeithasol ei bod hi'n "bechod nad ydyn nhw'n llogi stêm-roleri neu danciau i wneud joban deidi ohoni".
Mae ei dad, Len Evans wedi beirniadu sylwadau ei fab: "Dwi mo'yn condemnio'r sylwadau Twitter difeddwl yma yn y termau cryfa' posib.
"Dydyn nhw ddim yn adlewyrchu fy sylwadau i nac unrhyw un arall yn y teulu.
"Roedd yr ymosodiad yn Finsbury Park yn frawychus ac yn llwfr. Ynghyd â'r holl staff yn Pontyclun Van Hire, dwi'n gwneud popeth o fewn fy ngallu i helpu ymchwiliad Heddlu Llundain."
Mae'r cwmni yn y Rhondda yn cael ei redeg gan bum brawd. Dywedodd un arall o'r brodyr, Paul Evans, nad oes gan Richard Evans unrhyw ran yn y cwmni.
Mae cymdogion ym Mhentwyn yn dweud eu bod mewn "sioc" ar ôl i Darren Osborne gael ei arestio.
Dywedodd un dyn: "Mae hon yn ddinas gosmopolitaidd ac mae wedi bod erioed.
"Nid yw wedi digwydd ar stepen ein drws ni ond mae wedi gan fod y dyn o yma.
"Dydyn ni ddim eisiau cael ein cysylltu gyda'r peth."
Mae rhai o heddluoedd Cymru'n dweud y byddan nhw'n gwneud mwy dros yr wythnosau nesaf i sicrhau diogelwch y gymuned Fwslemaidd.
Dywedodd Heddlu'r De a Heddlu'r Gogledd y bydd swyddogion yn cynnal mwy o batrolau, tra fod Heddlu Gwent yn dweud y byddan nhw'n "gweithio gyda chymunedau i wneud yn siŵr eu bod yn teimlo'n ddiogel".
Yn ôl Alun Michael, Comisiynydd Heddlu a Throsedd Heddlu De Cymru, mae gweithio o fewn y cymunedau a chydweithio gyda'r cymunedau yn un o'r atebion wrth fynd i'r afael ag eithafiaeth.
Dywedodd Heddlu Llundain fod dyn wedi cael ei arestio ar amheuaeth o baratoi neu gynnal gweithred derfysgol gan gynnwys llofruddiaeth a cheisio llofruddio.
Roedd y fan gafodd ei defnyddio yn y digwyddiad yn eiddo i gwmni Pontyclun Van Hire o Rondda Cynon Taf.


Many buildings were destroyed in the country of Nepal, in South Asia, during major earthquakes that happened there earlier this year.

26 November 2015 Last updated at 07:30 GMT
People were left homeless and lots of children were unable to go to school.
A group of junior fire cadets in Cheshire raised money to build a school for one village that was hit, They went out to Nepal themselves to help complete it.
Here's their story.


Canada is set to donate an experimental vaccine to help fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

13 August 2014 Last updated at 15:08 BST
It says between 800 and 1,000 doses of the vaccine, which has only been tested on animals, will be donated to the World Health Organization (WHO) for use in West Africa.
Canada's offer comes after the WHO said it was ethical to use untested drugs on Ebola patients.
Here's the story explained in 15 seconds.


Romania captain Ilie Nastase was banned from the Fed Cup tie against Britain after an incident that left Johanna Konta in tears and her match suspended.

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In Konta's match against Sorana Cirstea, Nastase was sent off after swearing at the umpire and abusing Konta and her captain Anne Keothavong.
The world number seven lost her serve in the next game and was visibly upset before play was halted for 25 minutes.
The International Tennis Federation is investigating Nastase's conduct.
The world governing body said it was looking into "this matter as well as previous comments made by Mr Nastase during the week".
Nastase - a former world number one - had caused controversy in the build-up to the tie after being heard making a derogatory comment about Serena Williams' unborn child.
While Romanian player Simona Halep was answering a question in English about Williams' pregnancy on Friday, the 70-year-old turned to one of his other team members and added in Romanian: "Let's see what colour it has. Chocolate with milk?"
He also put his arm tightly around Keothavong and asked for her room number, in earshot of the watching media.
Before play had even started on Saturday, Nastase insulted a British journalist over their reporting of Friday's events, calling the Press Association's tennis correspondent "stupid".
And as he was finally escorted away from the venue by a group of security guards, he abused the reporter again, calling her "ugly".
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The incident that led to him being dismissed on Saturday happened when Cirstea was 2-1 up in the second set of the World Group II play-off tie in Constanta.
After Konta and Keothavong had complained of calling out from the crowd at 1-1, Nastase was involved in a discussion with officials in which he used foul and abusive language.
Nastase called both Konta and Keothavong "a bitch" multiple times, as well as swearing at them.
He was sent off the court by referee Andreas Egli and, after initially taking a seat in the stands, was then escorted back to the locker room.
Konta went 3-1 down after her serve was broken in the next game and was in tears before the umpire suspended play.
Romania player Halep spoke to the crowd during the suspension to try to calm the situation.
When play resumed in a subdued atmosphere, Konta won five games in a row to win the match 6-2 6-3, levelling the tie at 1-1.
The ITF explained Nastase was asked to leave "for unsportsmanlike conduct, having already received two official warnings".
A statement added: "Mr Nastase was also removed from the grounds due to his serious misconduct. His accreditation was removed and he will play no further part in the tie."
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"It was not something anyone should experience," Konta told BBC Sport.
"It did upset me quite a lot and that was shown. I am not one to cry on court. It was slightly embarrassing but it affected me more than I would have liked.
"I know that Fed Cups can be quite emotional and can sometimes take an unexpected turn but it wasn't something I was prepared for.
"Obviously, it left me slightly unnerved but the best I could do was to make it as much about the tennis as possible. I felt I did that and am looking forward to that again tomorrow."
Keothavong said she had "expected a patriotic crowd", but did not expect "abusive language to be used".
"It's unacceptable. No-one deserves to be spoken to in that way," she told BBC Sport.
"We've come here to play tennis. The referee made the right call to suspend the match, and during the break I was just trying to keep Johanna calm.
"All of the players - from both teams - handled the situation incredibly well. It's happened, it's done and there is a lot to play for tomorrow."
The Lawn Tennis Association said it was "deeply shocked" by Saturday's events.
"There is no place in sport for that type of behaviour, it's not acceptable and the integrity of the sport must always be paramount," it said in a statement.
"We will be submitting an official complaint to the ITF after this tie and expect a full investigation into the actions by the Romanian captain."
However, Cirstea claimed Konta had "overreacted".
"Someone crying cannot stop a match," she told BBC Sport.
"From a tennis point of view, Johanna deserved the win - she is a better player than me - but the behaviour of the British team was exaggerated.
"Why did we stop? Only because Johanna cried? I have never cried on the court because someone told me something. You have to toughen up.
"OK, at 2-1 you take our captain out, that was the right decision, but then at 3-1 I break you and now you cry. I am not saying it was fake, but it was not logical.
"Next time I'm in trouble I will cry, maybe I can go off the court. As Romanians we get double insulted because of our nation but it's OK, we are tough. Tougher than British people apparently."
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Before play started on Saturday, Nastase went into the media centre to seek out British journalists over their reporting of the comments he made about Williams at Friday's news conference.
Press Association Sport reported that their tennis correspondent Eleanor Crooks was the only member of the British media present in the room at the time and that he said to her: "Why did you write that? You're stupid, you're stupid."
PA Sport has sent details of Nastase's remarks to the International Tennis Federation.
"He repeatedly called me stupid, asked me why what he said was racist," said Crooks.
"I explained we simply reported what he said and that it was unnecessary to make such a comment about colour. He said the English were out to get him and called me stupid a few more times.
"Fortunately he was across the other side of the room from me and there were other journalists around so it was unpleasant rather than threatening.
"But it is certainly not the behaviour you would expect of someone in his position and wholly unnecessary, especially given he did not dispute the accuracy of what was reported."
And when Nastase was escorted from the venue on Saturday he confronted Crooks again, calling her "ugly" as he was being led away by security.
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Romanian Tennis Federation president George Cosac defended Nastase.
When asked about the comments made about Williams and to Keothavong on Friday, he told told BBC Sport: "That's Nastase. He was all the time with a lot of jokes. That's why everybody likes him.
"He didn't make any mistakes. It was not racist, you cannot take it seriously. I'm sure it was just a joke," Cosac added.
"What I know is that he is a very good friend with Yannick Noah and he played many tournaments together with Arthur Ashe [Noah and Ashe are the only black men to win Grand Slam singles titles] - I'm sure he didn't say something wrong."
Earlier on Saturday, Romania took the lead when Halep won 26 of the last 33 points on her way to comfortably beating Heather Watson 6-4 6-1.
World number five Halep increased her intensity at 4-4 and broke Watson to love before serving out to take the opening set for the hosts.
Watson, ranked 113, struggled to cope with her rival as she lost her serve twice to love in the second set.
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent
This was a very decorated player, but an increasingly isolated man, losing his cool on a spectacular scale.
Nastase appears to have no concept of why I, and my three British colleagues here in Constanta, felt his slurs and actions of Friday needed highlighting.
Having targeted one of the journalists in the morning, he turned his ire on his opposite number and her star player when battle was joined on the court.
ITF president Dave Haggerty says Nastase's conduct is "unacceptable". They have issued more than one stern statement this weekend, but will be judged on their deeds, rather than their words.
If the ITF do not act, then the Romanian Federation clearly will not either. Their president cannot understand why we do not appreciate Nastase's sense of humour.
Why can't we see that his captain is more than entitled to make derogatory comments about Serena Williams - because many of his best friends are black?


Flash flooding has affected parts of mid and west Wales, the fire service has said.

The A40 in Powys was closed for a short time after a heavy downpour during a thunderstorm washed stones and debris on the road at Trecastle between Llandovery and Sennybridge.
Four fire crews are also dealing with several flooding problems in the Glynneath area.
A weather warning is in force for south, west and mid Wales until 23:00.
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it was responding to incidents in the Glynneath area at High Street, Maes Yr Eglwys and the Dinas Rock Hotel.


Eight contenders have been shortlisted for the 2015 BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year award.

Footballers Gareth Bale and Ashley Williams, rugby player Dan Biggar and athlete Aled Sion Davies are on the list chosen by a panel of experts.
Taekwondo athlete Jade Jones, boxer Lee Selby, triathlete Non Stanford and cyclist Geraint Thomas are also named.
A public vote will decide the winner, who will be revealed at the Wales Sports Awards in Cardiff on 7 December.
Voting will open at 08:00 GMT on Monday, 30 November and will close on 18:00 GMT on Saturday, 5 December. More details on how to vote will be available in due course.
The annual awards evening, in its third year, is a collaboration between BBC Wales and governing body Sport Wales to celebrate the very best elite and grassroots sport in the country.
Jason Mohammad and Dot Davies will host the event from the Sport Wales National Centre, with the show available to watch live on the BBC Wales Sport website and on BBC iPlayer (UK only) from 20:00 GMT on Monday, 7 December. Further coverage will be on BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru.
The pinnacle of the awards ceremony will be to crown the 2015 BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year from the following nominees (listed in alphabetical order):
Bale was the driving force behind Wales' successful qualifying campaign for Euro 2016. He scored seven goals in the 10 games, including the winner against Belgium in Cardiff in June that gave such impetus going into the final four games. The Real Madrid forward, 26, played all but three minutes of the campaign as Wales finished second in their group behind the Belgians to ensure their place in the finals in France next summer.
His performances were recognised when named Wales Player of the Year for a record fifth time, while also being voted Players' Player of the Year and Fans' Player of the Year.
Biggar gave outstanding performances for Wales during the Rugby World Cup, the Six Nations and for regional side Ospreys. The 26-year-old scored 23 points in a man-of-the-match performance in the 28-25 win over England in the pool stage at the World Cup, including a long-range winning penalty. In total he scored 56 points in four matches as Wales were knocked out in the quarter-finals against South Africa.
In the Six Nations, he scored 26 points in five games as Wales missed out on the Championship on points difference with four wins from five. He also helped Ospreys to the semi-finals in the Pro12.
Davies won two gold medals at the IPC World Championships in Doha in October. He won the F42 discus, throwing a world record 49.59 metres, and then added another gold in the F42 shot put with a Championship record effort of 14.95m. Davies, 24, had a hernia operation 10 weeks before the championships, which had put his participation in doubt.
His latest success takes him up to 10 medals at major championships since 2011.
Jones won gold for Great Britain at the inaugural European Games in Baku in June. Further gold medals followed at two legs of the World Taekwondo Grand Prix series, winning in Samsun and Manchester. The 22-year-old took silver in Moscow.
Her achievements have already secured Team GB a berth in her -57kg division for the 2016 Rio Olympics. As world number one, she is set to take that place and be given the chance to defend her title.
Selby became the 12th Welsh world boxing champion by beating Russia's Evgeny Gradovich to claim the IBF featherweight title in May. Selby then defended his title against Mexican Fernando Montiel in Phoenix, Arizona on his debut on American soil.
The 28-year-old has signed with one of boxing's most influential figures, American Al Haymon, advisor to five-weight world champion Floyd Mayweather.
Stanford returned to action this year after a long injury lay-off to book her place in the GB team for the 2016 Rio Olympics by finishing second at the World Triathlon Grand Final in September. She was also second in a Rio test event in August.
After 20 months out with a foot injury, the 26-year-old competed again in April and secured her first podium finish of the year at an ITU World Triathlon Series event in Hamburg.
Thomas became the first British rider to win the formidable E3 Harelbeke race in Belgium in March. The 215km race - known as one of the Cobbled Classics - is among the hardest on the professional circuit. Thomas was then a key member of Team Sky that led Chris Froome to a successive Tour de France victory.
The 29-year-old rode through the pain barrier, and at one point into a telegraph pole, in helping Froome and was up in fourth in the overall standings until the latter stages of the final week, eventually finishing 15th.
Williams captained Wales to Euro 2016 qualification, marshalling one of the tightest defensive units in the qualifying stage. Wales had the fourth-best defensive record, conceding just four goals in 10 games. The Swansea City defender, 31, played every minute of every game and reached the 50-cap milestone during the campaign.
At club level, he captained Swansea to their highest Premier League finish of eighth last season and is rated as the best British centre-back by former Wales and Celtic striker John Hartson.
In addition to the main prize, there will also be 12 other awards on the night:
The Unsung Hero award has already been given to Jane Roberts and Nerys Ellis for their work at Llanrwst Swimming Club. They will appear at the ceremony on 7 December to collect the award and will go on to represent Wales at the UK BBC Sports Personality of the Year event in Belfast on Sunday, 20 December.
A review of the sporting year will be broadcast on BBC Wales television on Friday, 18 December at 21:00 GMT.
Please note the event is not connected with the UK Sports Personality of the Year and is for the Wales award only.
The BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year will be named during a live awards show at the Sport Wales National Centre, Cardiff, on Monday, 7 December 2015.
The nominations processes, criteria and voting details (where applicable) for each award are outlined below.
MAIN AWARD - NOMINATION PROCESS & CRITERIA
This award goes to the sportsperson whose actions have most captured the public's imagination during 2015.
An expert panel (hereafter 'the Panel') will be convened in November 2015 in Cardiff to decide the shortlist of 5- 10 sportspeople for the BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year award.
The BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year production team will provide the Panel with an extensive list of the top sportspeople from 2015, including information on their achievements. The Panel will be free to consider other potential candidates.
The Panel will comprise 5 members this year:
Nigel Walker (chair)
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
Non Evans
Christian Malcolm
Nathan Blake
The Panel will also:
• Undertake a back-up vote for the main award (in the unlikely event of voting difficulties on the night of the show).
The Panel will select a short list of sportspeople for the main award on the basis of the following criteria:
• Reflects Wales' sporting achievements on the national and/or international stage;
• Represents the breadth and depth of sport in Wales; and
• Takes into account 'impact' over and beyond the sport or sporting achievement in question.
Sports people are eligible to win the main BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year award if they represent or are eligible to represent Wales at international sport.
Non-playing coaches or management are not eligible.
The Panel will endeavour to produce a shortlist based on reaching a consensus view. If a consensus view cannot be reached on all or some of the candidates, then the Panel will be asked to vote for the remaining candidates. In the event of a tied vote, the chairperson's decision (Nigel Walker) will be binding.
The shortlist of contenders was announced during BBC Wales Today on BBC One Wales and on Newyddion 9 on S4C later in November, and will also appear on the BBC Wales Sport and BBC Cymru Fyw websites.
MAIN AWARD - PUBLIC VOTE
The public will decide the winner from the shortlist of contenders from Monday 30 November - Saturday 5 December 2015 inclusive with a vote. This will be overseen by an independent adjudicator.
In the unlikely event of:
• A tie in the public vote amongst the two contenders obtaining the highest number of votes, the award will be shared amongst those two. There will be no award in second place category and the third place category award will go to the contender scoring highest after the two in the tie.
• A tie in the public vote amongst the three contenders obtaining the highest number of votes, the award will be shared amongst the three and there will be no awards in second and third place categories.
• A tie in the public vote amongst two contenders obtaining the second highest number of votes, the second place award will be shared amongst those two and there will be no award in third place category.
• A tie in the public vote amongst two contenders obtaining the third highest number of votes, the third place award will be shared amongst those two.
GENERAL VOTING TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Voting for the main award will be from a shortlist of contenders presented between 08:00 Monday, 30 November 2015 and 18:00 on Saturday, 5 December 2015. Voting will be available by phone or text. The number to call for each contender will be revealed when the voting period commences. There is no voting via email or by Red Button. The telephone and text numbers will be available via the BBC Wales website and social media sites.
2. Voting is by telephone and text message only. Please note that you cannot vote by email, Red Button or via this website. Votes will be capped at 5 votes per caller per voting method.
3. Telephone and text votes will open and close as specified above. Votes received outside the specified times or exceeding the maximum set out above will not be counted, but may still be charged. Voting times may change.
4. The BBC reserves the right to cancel or suspend voting at any time. In the event of any such cancellation or suspension, a technical failure or any other malfunction with the vote, the BBC reserves the right to arrange for the winner to be decided by a contingency arrangement from the votes cast by a pre-agreed contingency panel. This panel will be the same as one which devised the shortlist - see above for details.
5. The vote is open to all residents of the UK, including the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Please note that BBC employees, their close relatives or anyone directly connected in any way with the production of the programme or the provision of fixed line or mobile telephony services to the programme are not eligible to vote.
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9. Make sure you dial carefully only the number or type carefully the short code/keyword combination of the person you wish to vote for.
10. You can vote up to a maximum of 5 times on your telephone or your mobile. The BBC reserves the right to disqualify votes if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that fraudulent voting has occurred or if it considers there has been any deliberate attempt to manipulate the result. The BBC can only guarantee that votes individually entered directly through the telephone numbers or short code/keywords promoted by the programme will count.
11. There are a number of contingencies which could occur. These may include the decision reverting to a back-up panel formed by people from the sports sector, in the event of problems with the phone or text vote or in the event of a tie. Any such use of contingencies will be declared.
12. For the purposes of verifying any claim for refunds (where offered) or investigating possible voting irregularities, the BBC may need to request the telephone service provider to disclose the telephone number that you are voting from.
Please note that this will still be required where you have originally opted not to disclose your telephone number (caller's line identification barring). If you do not agree to this, you should not vote.
Where such investigations are required, the BBC will only ever use your telephone number for the purposes of processing refunds or investigating possible voting irregularities.
The BBC will not publish this information or provide it to anyone without permission, except where required for enforcement of these terms. Please see the BBC's Privacy and Cookies Policy for more information at http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy.
13. The BBC, its sub-contractors, subsidiaries and/or agencies cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for: (i) any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem with any telephone network or line, system, server, provider or otherwise which may result in any vote being lost or not properly registered or recorded; and (ii) any nominee withdrawing from the event or refusing to accept the award for any reason.
14. The voting in this programme accords with the BBC's Code of Conduct for Competitions and Voting, details of which can be found on the BBC's Standards and Guidelines website.
15. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of England and Wales.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
This award honours someone who has made a major impact on the world of sport in Wales during their lifetime. It is decided by the panel of judges as described above. The award will be presented live on the Wales Sport Awards programme on Monday 7 December 2015.


The parents of Nicola Payne, who disappeared 24 years ago in Coventry, have appealed to the public to help find their daughter's body.

16 November 2015 Last updated at 12:38 GMT
A jury at Birmingham Crown Court has found two men not guilty of the abduction and murder of the 18-year-old, who went missing on 14 December 1991.
John and Marilyn Payne said they felt terrible guilt they had still not found their daughter and asked the public to come forward if they had any information which could help them lay her to rest.


A firm behind plans to build a farm in Derbyshire with more than 25,000 pigs has been given until May to answer Environment Agency questions.

More than 27,000 people signed a petition against the proposed Midland Pig Producers (MPP) farm near Foston.
The Environment Agency said the questions concerned the facility's air filtration system.
MPP said it did not meet the first deadline because the independent expert chosen to analyse data was unwell.
The Environment Agency said the new deadline was now 30 April.
A spokeswoman for MPP said: "The Environment Agency requested some additional information which we are happy to provide.
"However, unfortunately, the independent expert who has been asked to undertake analysis of our data has been unwell, meaning that we could not provide the requested information by 31 January.
"Therefore we requested and were granted a short extension."
Dominic West, who starred in US crime drama The Wire, and chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, both oppose the project due to its size.
The petition was set up over fears for the welfare of the animals.
MPP had said the proposed farm will protect welfare standards and, thanks to sophisticated filtration systems, neighbours will not be affected by smells or pollution.


French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for clear international standards on nuclear safety in light of the ongoing crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Speaking in Japan, he proposed that nuclear safety authorities from the G20 countries discuss the issue in May.
Radiation detected in the sea near the stricken plant has again risen steeply.
Meanwhile, the UN has advised Japan to consider expanding the evacuation zone around the reactors.
Mr Sarkozy is the first foreign leader to visit Japan following the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country on 11 March.
The disaster has so far claimed more than 11,000 lives, with at least 16,000 people still reported missing.
The French president said he wanted to see international standards on nuclear energy established by the end of the year, and that France would ask G20 nuclear delegates to lay the groundwork for a special meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in June.
"The problem is more about establishing safety norms than it is about the choice of nuclear energy, for this there is no alternative right now," Mr Sarkozy was quoted as saying by Reuters.
"We must address this anomaly that there are no international safety norms for nuclear matters. We want international standards because the world is a village and what happens in Japan can have consequences elsewhere."
Q&A: Health effects of radiation
Q&A: Fukushima radiation alert
The IAEA has nuclear standards, but they are not binding.
France is more dependent on nuclear power than any other country, using it to meet about 75% of its domestic needs.
French nuclear reactor maker Areva has been offering the Japanese help with containing contaminated water.
UN nuclear monitors advised Japan to consider widening the 20km (12-mile) evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi plant after the IAEA found safe radiation limits had been exceeded at the village of Iitate, 40km north-west of the nuclear plant.
But Yoshihiro Sugiyama, a nuclear safety agency official, said there were no plans to increase the size of the zone.
"At the moment, we do not have the understanding that it is necessary to evacuate residents there," he said. "We think the residents can stay calm."
The village mayor was quoted as saying he was "very worried" about the IAEA warning. "But the government immediately informed us that there is no immediate harm to human health, so I was relieved," he added.
A government spokesman said authorities would "continue monitoring the level of radiation with heightened vigilance" and "take action if necessary."
Radioactive iodine levels in seawater near the plant reached a new record - 4,385 times the  limit.
Radioactive material may be leaking from the damaged plant continuously, the country's nuclear and industrial safety agency (Nisa) said.
Workers are continuing to try to stabilise four reactors by using water to cool fuel rods. They also face the problem of how to deal with highly radioactive run-off water that has accumulated in a tunnel.
Kyodo reported that the radiation level in a tunnel outside Reactor 2 was more than 10,000 times above normal levels.
The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), announced on Wednesday that the four stricken reactors would be decommissioned.
The US and UK earlier advised their citizens in Japan to keep at least 80km from the plant.
The US is to send a 140-member radiation control team to assist Japanese authorities, Kyodo News agency quoted Japan's military chief, General Ryoichi Oriki, as saying.


Bernard Tomic has ruled himself out of the Rio Olympics because of an "extremely busy" schedule - and will play at an ATP event in Mexico instead.

Tomic and Nick Kyrgios had been warned by Australia's Olympic team boss that their behaviour was being monitored in the build-up to the Games.
Tomic, 23, was criticised for holding his racquet by the strings when facing a match point at the Madrid Open.
He says he made himself unavailable for Rio "with a heavy sense of regret".
The world number 22 added: "On the basis of my extremely busy playing schedule and my own personal circumstances, I am regrettably unable to commit to this year's tournament."
Tomic plans to play in the Abierto Mexicano Los Cabos, which starts on 8 August, two days after the Olympic tennis tournament begins.
Tomic's behaviour at the Madrid Open was labelled "appalling" by Australia's Olympic chef de mission Kitty Chiller, who said she would not "twist anyone's arm" to compete in Rio.


There could be a spike in UK migration ahead of Britain's withdrawal from the European Union and the possible end to free movement rights, MPs have warned.

The Home Affairs Committee urged the government to state an "effective cut-off date" for when EU citizens in the UK would be granted the right to stay.
It added there could be fresh delays and backlogs in the immigration system if more people tried to enter the UK.
Ministers said it would be "wrong" to set out details before exit talks.
The government has confirmed it will seek curbs on free movement rules that currently give EU nationals the right to live and work in other member states.
But it has said it is not possible to give a firm guarantee about the status of EU nationals currently living in the UK without a reciprocal pledge from other nations about British nationals living on the continent.
The committee's report said the outcome of the 23 June referendum, in which Britain voted to leave the EU, had placed EU nationals living in the UK "in a potentially very difficult and uncertain position".
"Past experience has shown that previous attempts to tighten immigration rules have led to a spike in immigration prior to the rules coming into force," the MPs said.
"EU citizens living and working in the UK must be told where they stand in relation to the UK leaving the EU and they should not be used as bargaining chips in the negotiations."
By Danny Shaw, home affairs correspondent
Every three months, the Home Affairs Committee meticulously documents the progress made by immigration officials in dealing with asylum cases, processing visa applications and removing foreign national offenders.
It's usually a depressing read, with examples of inefficiencies, backlogs and delays.
Today's report is no exception - but with an extra complication.
Britain's looming exit from the European Union raises the possibility of a sudden influx of EU citizens to the UK anxious to claim their right to residence.
If, as the report suggests, a "cut-off date" months or two years into the future is identified it's hard to see how a "surge" in arrivals can be prevented.
Name a date in the past - 23 June for example - and there'll be howls of protest from those who arrived afterwards.
Dr Swati Dhingra, from the London School of Economics, told BBC 5 live the rise in the national living wage in the UK might encourage people to travel to the country.
She also said if there was a cut-off date "a lot of people might think, if they want to move to the UK - now is the time".
The report said the most obvious cut-off period would be the date Article 50 - the formal mechanism to leave the EU - is triggered, or when the UK actually leaves the bloc.
It said the first step to establishing where EU nationals in the UK were living and working was through National Insurance numbers or a system of registration, and the process needed to start quickly.
A government spokesman said: "We are about to begin these negotiations and it would be wrong to set out further unilateral positions in advance. But there is clearly no mandate for accepting the free movement of people as it has existed up until now."


Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has withdrawn from the Labour party leadership contest citing the uncomfortable pressure of extra scrutiny on his life.

Here is his statement in full.
Shortly before the election campaign, I made the decision, in the event that Labour was defeated and a new leader was to be elected, to stand for the leadership of the party if there was a desire in the party for me to do so.
I dearly hoped Labour would win the election and it was a decision I would not have to implement.
I also thought I understood the scrutiny and attention a leadership contest would bring.
As a member of the Shadow Cabinet, I am used to a level of attention which is part and parcel of the job. I witnessed the 2010 leadership election process close up and thought I would be comfortable with what it involved.
However, since the night of our defeat last week I have been subject to the added level of pressure that comes with being a leadership candidate.
I have not found it to be a comfortable experience.
One can imagine what running for leader can be like, understand its demands and the attention but nothing compares to actually doing it and the impact on the rest of one's life.
Consequently after further reflection I am withdrawing my candidacy.
I apologise to all those who have kindly supported and encouraged me to do this and for disappointing them.
I know this will come as a surprise to many but I had always wondered whether it was all too soon for me to launch this leadership bid - I fear it was.
Most importantly, I continued to have very real concerns and worry about this bid's impact on those close to me.
I intend to carry on playing my full role as a proud member of our Shadow Cabinet taking on the Tories.
I also hope to play a leading role in Labour's campaign to keep the UK in the EU during the forthcoming referendum which is absolutely crucial.
Most importantly, I will as ever continue to serve the area I know and love - the Streatham parliamentary constituency.