Police intelligence files are to be released to the Northern Ireland police watchdog after a legal dispute.

Police Ombudsman Michael Maguire had taken the Police Service of Northern Ireland's chief constable to court.
He challenged the PSNI's refusal to release sensitive information about informers, relating to 60 murders.
Mr Maguire began judicial review proceedings in June against the then Chief Constable Matt Baggott, who has since retired.
The police ombudsman claimed he had been refused access to more than 100 documents.
He alleged that the information had been deliberately withheld, and that some of his staff had been turned away from police stations.
The ombudsman's office is responsible for scrutinising all aspects of the PSNI, and its predecessor, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).
Among dozens of cases under investigation, is that of the killing of an RUC officer in 1992.
It has been claimed that the RUC's Special Branch had advance notice of the attack and that at least two IRA informers were involved.
Mr Maguire was also seeking details on what what known by informers with regard to an attack in County Down in 1994.
Six people were shot dead by loyalists as they watched a World Cup football match in a rural pub in Loughinisland.
The PSNI had maintained that there was an onus upon it to ensure that the lives of informants remained protected, and that as such the information could not be released.
It is understood that an accommodation has now been reached.
In a statement, the ombudsman said the PSNI has now accepted that his office has a legal right to see any material it wishes during the course of an investigation.
The information the PSNI had refused to allow him access to, is now being made available.
A member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, another oversight body that holds the PSNI to account, welcomed the resolution of the dispute.
Jonathan Craig, who chairs the Policing Board's performance committee, said: "It is critical for public confidence in the service that there is police cooperation in the provision and disclosure of information to the institutions with legislative responsibility for delivery of independent oversight of the PSNI."
South Down MP Margaret Ritchie, of the SDLP, said:  "It is crucial that the Police Ombudsman has access to any and all information as the office sees fit.
"It is essential for public confidence and so that victims and survivors can have complete faith that the past will be dealt with in an open and transparent manner."
Sinn FÃ©in's Gerry Kelly also welcomed the decision.
"The independence of the Police Ombudsman's office is central to building public confidence in policing," he said.
"Therefore I welcome today's decision by the new Chief Constable George Hamilton to release the files requested by Michael Maguire."


Ipswich cemented their position in the play-off places as Brighton failed to win for a fifth successive match.

Daryl Murphy gave Ipswich the lead as the Irishman pounced on Lewis Dunk's mistake and fired in off the post for his first goal since 28 November.
Brighton's Jamie Murphy had an effort disallowed just before the goal, while Town's Kevin Bru twice hit the woodwork in the first half.
Substitute Bobby Zamora hit the bar for Albion in the second period.
The win took Ipswich four points clear of seventh-placed Sheffield Wednesday, while long-time Championship leaders Brighton are fourth, five points behind leaders Middlesbrough.
Ipswich showed their attacking intent early on as Bru hit the bar with a long-range effort after 15 minutes, while Brighton's Murphy was denied by an offside flag after Dean Gerken had saved Dale Stephens' close-range effort.
Ipswich went ahead soon afterwards as Dunk was caught in possession, allowing Daryl Murphy to score from a tight angle, and Town could have doubled their lead when Bru hit the post before half-time.
Brighton brought on Zamora and fellow striker James Wilson in a bid to find the net, but Chris Hughton's side have now gone three league games without a goal.
Zamora came closest to equalising but his effort from Bruno's cross cannoned off the crossbar.
Brighton manager Chris Hughton:
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"We are going through a difficult period. We are finding it hard.
"We've hit a few problems and have generally worked around it, but we need to show we're good enough to get through this.
"The injuries have made it difficult, yes, but we don't want to use it as an excuse. Middlesbrough were a good side when they came here, but we should have got something tonight."
Ipswich Town manager Mick McCarthy:
"I thought we had an opportunity. Brighton have lost a few players and we were playing them at a good time because we have been playing well.
"I thought we were the better team to be honest. Our keeper Dean Gerken didn't make a lot of saves. We had the better chances, whereas Brighton had the ball percentage.
"It's tough to get a run of away wins and we've got Burnley on Saturday - a tough ask, but we'll see.
"It's not realistic for us to catch Middlesbrough and Derby and I don't think automatic promotion is realistic. But we will be trying like hell to catch them."
Match ends, Brighton and Hove Albion 0, Ipswich Town 1.
Second Half ends, Brighton and Hove Albion 0, Ipswich Town 1.
Corner,  Ipswich Town. Conceded by Bruno.
Corner,  Ipswich Town. Conceded by Connor Goldson.
Hand ball by Luke Hyam (Ipswich Town).
Hand ball by Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Attempt blocked. Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Bobby Zamora.
Attempt missed. Andrew Crofts (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Rajiv van La Parra with a cross following a corner.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Luke Varney replaces Daryl Murphy.
Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Jonas Knudsen.
Attempt missed. Elvis Manu (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Bruno following a fast break.
Íñigo Calderón (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Íñigo Calderón (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Luke Hyam (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Ipswich Town. Conceded by Íñigo Calderón.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Elvis Manu replaces Jamie Murphy.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Brett Pitman replaces Ryan Fraser.
Bobby Zamora (Brighton and Hove Albion) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno with a cross.
Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Christophe Berra.
Offside, Ipswich Town. Cole Skuse tries a through ball, but Daryl Murphy is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Luke Chambers (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Ryan Fraser (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Daryl Murphy.
Attempt missed. Rajiv van La Parra (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Bobby Zamora (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich Town).
Andrew Crofts (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luke Hyam (Ipswich Town).
Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Bobby Zamora tries a through ball, but Jamie Murphy is caught offside.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. James Wilson replaces Beram Kayal.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Bobby Zamora replaces Tomer Hemed.
Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Ryan Fraser.
Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Ryan Fraser.
Attempt missed. Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Jamie Murphy with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Jonathan Douglas.
Andrew Crofts (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luke Hyam (Ipswich Town).
Attempt missed. Rajiv van La Parra (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Beram Kayal following a set piece situation.
Beram Kayal (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town).
Attempt saved. Jonathan Douglas (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ryan Fraser.


Four people remain in hospital after being sold rogue drugs at a music festival where a teenager died, police have said.

Christian Pay, 18, of Millom, Cumbria, died following "substance abuse" at the Kendal Calling music festival.
Eight other music fans have been treated in hospital, including a Lancashire woman, 20, and a man from Manchester, 30, who is critically ill.
Four others are "serious but stable". A man and a woman have been discharged.
The family of Mr Pay said he was a "fun guy".
His mother said in a statement: "Christian was small in stature but had the heart of a lion and enough personality for everyone.
"He was studying motor vehicle maintenance at Furness College which he loved."
Cumbria Police urged festival-goers not to take drugs because of the risk that the "powerful and dangerous" substances pose.
Drugs seized that may be linked to the illnesses include a blue tablet with an Adidas logo, yellow powder believed to be MDMA, and an orange oval tablet with a Rolls-Royce logo.
Other seized drugs include green and grey pills with white flecks.
Four people arrested on suspicion of possession of drugs with intent to supply have been released on bail.
Supt Justin Bibby, of Cumbria Police, said: "Christian's death, along with the number of people admitted to hospital, underlines the dangers of taking drugs.
"The criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding Christian's death is ongoing and I would appeal for anyone with any information to get in touch with police."
The festival ended on Sunday.


A 27-year-old man from Cheshire has been killed in a hit-and-run collision during a holiday in the United States.

Andrew Hamilton, from Newton, Chester, was on holiday in Miami with friends when he was hit by a car in the early hours of Tuesday.
Miami Beach Police Department confirmed an investigation was under way.
Mr Hamilton's former teacher Michelle Ford, who is deputy head at St David's High School in Chester, said: "It was a great shock to hear the awful news."
"He was very friendly and popular with students and staff," she told BBC Radio Merseyside.
A fundraising page set up by friends has raised more than Â£6,000 to help Mr Hamilton's family.
Writing on the page, Amber Dower said: "Truly heartbreaking. Andrew was such a genuine and sincere person. RIP Andrew xx"
Bryony Turner wrote: "I feel so privileged to have had you as my best friend in work over the past few years. You are one of a kind."


Lewis Hamilton says he "can't believe" he has moved level with Alain Prost in second place on the all-time Formula 1 winners' list.

Sunday's victory in Mexico was the world champion's 51st of his career. Seven-time champion Michael Schumacher is the record holder with 91.
Hamilton said: "It has all happened so quickly and it doesn't feel very real."
The Briton's interest in F1 was developed watching Prost's battles with his hero Ayrton Senna as a child.
"It is just very strange to think that growing up watching these guys and seeing their cars at McLaren and hoping one day I get to race and do something similar to them," he added.
"It is quite an honour to be up there."
Hamilton's victory was his eighth of the season and his 30th since joining Mercedes for the 2013 season after spending the first six years of his career at McLaren, for whom Prost and Senna were driving when their duel was at its height.
The win reduced Hamilton's championship deficit to team-mate Nico Rosberg to 19 points, with 50 available in the two remaining races in Brazil on 13 November and Abu Dhabi on 27 November.
If Rosberg wins in Sao Paulo, the German will become champion regardless of where Hamilton finishes.
Rosberg can also afford to finish second and third even if Hamilton wins both races.
Hamilton, whose season has been hit by a series of reliability problems as well as bad starts, said: "I'm trying to claw it back.
"It is feeling pretty late this charge, but in the past it has shown it is never too late and that is why I have to keep on trying to do what I have done this weekend."
Rosberg said: "I am aware of that but it doesn't change anything for me.
"My approach is going to be the same - focus on Brazil and take it as one single race and for the win there just as I have done here.
"That's what feels best for me to perform as well as I can."


The idea that smallpox is a very ancient human disease has been called into question.

Scientists say the deadly pathogen appears to have been around for hundreds rather than thousands of years.
Viral DNA from the mummified remains of a child living during the 17th Century - at the time of an epidemic - casts doubt on historical records.
Smallpox was thought to date back millennia.
However, past descriptions have been based on physical signs, such as a pustular rash, which can be confused with other diseases.
''We managed to sequence the complete genome of the virus that causes smallpox, that's called variola virus,'' Dr Edward Holmes of the University of Sydney told BBC News.
''It's the oldest human virus ever sequenced.''
The researchers obtained permission to study samples of the pathogen from a child interred in the crypt of a church in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Radiocarbon dating shows the child lived about 1650 AD, at a time when smallpox was common in Europe.
''This mummy allows us to calibrate very nicely the clock of evolution - it's a fossil, effectively,'' said Dr Holmes.
''This fossil tells us that in fact evolutionary history is much more recent than we thought before - it's actually only hundreds of years rather than thousands of years.''
However, it is not possible to determine where smallpox came from, what the ancestor of the virus was, and exactly when it first appeared in humans, he added.
Source: WHO
The child lived at a time when smallpox was spreading around the world, driven by global exploration and colonisation.
This was before the development of vaccination, which began after the famous experiments of Edward Jenner in 1796.
''What we can show is that in fact most of the evolution of smallpox that we can measure occurred after 1796,'' said Dr Holmes.
''It looks like it is a more recent evolution than we ever thought before.''
The disease was officially eradicated in 1980, following a global immunisation campaign.
Smallpox remains the only human disease eradicated by vaccination.
Prof Jonathan Ball of Nottingham University, who was not connected with the study, said it shows ''pretty conclusively'' that smallpox viruses present in human outbreaks for which we have samples share a common ancestor that probably dates back to the late 16th to mid-17th centuries.
However, he said, the question remains as to whether outbreaks occurred before that date, caused by strains that were never seen again.
''Only access to, and analysis of, even older samples will answer that; but these are difficult to find and difficult to work with, so perhaps we will never know.''
The research is published in the journal, Current Biology.


BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty has been named as the ninth celebrity on this year's Strictly Come Dancing.

The 41-year-old, who joined the BBC in 2008, said she was "mega-excited" if "petrified" to be taking part in the BBC One ratings hit.
"I'm going to give it my very best and enjoy what's bound to be a great adventure," she continued.
Munchetty, a keen golfer, also revealed she has known she would be taking part since February.
Only her husband knew she would be following in the footsteps of former BBC Breakfast presenters Natasha Kaplinsky and Bill Turnbull, she said on Thursday.
"I never thought I'd have the courage to say yes, but it would be simply silly to turn down the chance to learn to dance with a professional," Munchetty said.
The broadcaster, who started out career as a financial journalist on the London Evening Standard, said she was "equally excited, nervous and scared".
Munchetty's involvement was announced by BBC weather presenter Carol Kirkwood - herself a Strictly contestant - at the end of Thursday's programme.
Ed Balls, Daisy Lowe, Danny Mac, Melvin Odoom, Louise Redknapp, Ore Oduba, Laura Whitmore and Will Young are the other confirmed celebrities.
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A Buddha statue has been stolen from an Edinburgh temple.

The metre high statue was taken from Dhammapadipa Temple in Slateford Road between 20:00 on Friday and 15:45 on Saturday.
Police Scotland said it was treating the theft as a hate crime and urged anyone with information to come forward.
The religious object is is made of a lightweight material, similar to fibreglass.
PC Simon Wotton, of Police Scotland, said: "Local members of the Buddhist community who use the temple are extremely disappointed by this theft and we are currently progressing a number of lines of inquiry to identify the suspects and return the statue.
"Anyone who remembers seeing anything suspicious around the Dhammapadipa Temple between Friday evening and Saturday afternoon should contact police immediately.
"We would also urge anyone who knows where we can find the stolen statue to get in touch."
Wisanupong Thipra, the Dhammapadipa Temple's resident Buddhist monk, said: "Our community is deeply saddened by the mindless actions of a small few who have removed and stolen our Buddha statue from its home in our front garden.
"Our statue is our symbol of peace and mindfulness which we give respect to every day with prayers and meditation.
"We thank Police Scotland and our neighbours for the support we have received in response to this criminal act."


Qualifier Alan McManus beat four-time champion John Higgins 13-11 to reach the World Championship semi-finals for the first time since 1993.

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McManus, 45, trailed 5-3, 7-5, 9-7 and 10-8, but played with calmness and fluency in the closing stages.
The world number 29 scored four half-centuries and a 128 to win five of the last six frames and will face fellow qualifier Ding Junhui in the last four.
Marco Fu held off a brilliant Barry Hawkins comeback to win 13-11.
Hong Kong's Fu will face world number one Mark Selby, with both semi-finals starting on Thursday.
McManus said his first ranking semi-final appearance since 2006 was not as big a shock to him as it seemed to be to everyone else.
"I can and I can't believe this is happening," he said.
"You guys keep calling me a veteran and I'm thinking 'give me a break'. At 45, I guess I'm getting on a little bit.
"I've never thought these sort of days were completely gone because I can play and I'm still pretty dedicated to the sport.
"I love the game, and I love playing and I love playing in big arenas."
Higgins praised his fellow Scot, saying: "The Crucible brings intense pressure and I cracked at the end and Alan didn't. All credit to him. He's still a fine player."
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A hopelessly out-of-form Hawkins trailed 7-1 overnight and slipped 9-1 behind in Wednesday's morning session.
But world number 11 Hawkins suddenly discovered the touch that had seen him beat Ronnie' O'Sullivan in the second round to win eight out of nine frames and trail 10-9.
Fu won the next two to close to within one frame of victory and closed out the win with a nerveless 74, despite finally seeing off another brave Hawkins fightback.
"That has to be the best clearance of my life," said a relieved Fu. "I was under a lot of pressure at the end and I couldn't really pot the last ball.
"Some of the shots I played were were horrendous - and I was choosing all the wrong shots. Under pressure, you can think a bit silly.
"I am sure I will disgusted when I look back at some of the shots. I almost threw it away, but luckily I made a good break at the end."


A biting winter's chill seeps through embattled Aleppo as a city braces itself for what could be the worst months of a war approaching its sixth year.

Driving into government-controlled west Aleppo, through military checkpoints, a landscape of skeletal buildings is a monument to Syria's spiral into violence.
The fate of Syria's second city now looms as a bellwether for the course of this confrontation - ominous for some, enticing for others.
"By the end of December, we'll drink wine to celebrate a new year, and our triumph," says a young soldier standing by a green bus plastered with photographs of a smiling President Bashar al-Assad.
Syrian forces, bolstered by Iranian-backed militias and Russian air cover, are advancing with speed across a swathe of rebel-held territory in eastern Aleppo.
Many predict it is only a matter of time now before the whole city is in the government's grip.
An array of opposition forces, including groups linked to al-Qaeda and Western-backed fighters, are retreating to more densely-populated areas in south-east Aleppo, regrouping and vowing to fight back.
The story of Syria's war is one of shifting momentum on the battlefield and of prolonged painful sieges. But there's an air of an endgame or, at the very least, a decisive moment - not just for Aleppo but the entire war.
The boom and crack of shelling on what remains of the rebel stronghold reverberates across the entire city.
Across the skies, there's a rumble of warplanes. Each day also brings news of mortar rounds fired back into the west.
But the bustling heart of Aleppo's government-controlled expanse can seem strangely normal on its surface, even surreal. The story of Aleppo is also a tale of two cities trapped by war, both suffering, but in different ways.
In the west, traffic is brisk. Children skip and laugh as they spill through school gates into the rutted streets.
In a popular restaurant, loud music wafts from a glittering room filled with women and girls in their finest dresses of sparkles and lace to celebrate the feast of Saint Barbara in the eastern Orthodox Christian calendar.
"I think this celebration is even more important than it was last year or the years before the war," says Nora, 27, who has been left breathless from her dancing.
"In reality, we are not laughing," she says, brushing back ringlets of hair perfectly coiled for the occasion. "We are crying and we are afraid."
"But this party gives us a chance to remember we are human beings."
The ominous thud of the war outside is muffled by the hubbub within these walls.
No-one escapes the agony of Aleppo's war. But on rubble-strewn streets in the rebel-held east of the city, the future is now cast in apocalyptic terms.
"Death is a favour from God to us in comparison with going back to the regime," says an English teacher, Abdulkafi al-Hamdo, who broadcast his plea to the world on social media.
"Put yourself in my situation. Someone killed your children, killed your neighbours, killed your friends, destroyed your schools, houses and hospitals. And after that, you can go back to him?"
But after years of war, and months of a government siege pushing people to the brink of starvation, tens of thousands are now trying to escape what the UN calls a "slow-motion descent into hell".
In their search for safety, many are fleeing to the west, where government buses transport them to a derelict industrial zone to process their cases.
Abandoned warehouses which were once the focus of heavy fighting now act as a way station for the displaced and dispossessed.
"It's paradise compared to where we had been living," says one elderly woman dressed in black who would speak only in confidence about their journey into the night.
Five families escaped together, she says - they defied opposition fighters who warned they would be killed by the Syrian army if they crossed over.
Like many others, she recounted how they came under rebel fire as they tried to escape.
As she speaks, a young woman in tears, cradling her infant child, approaches us.
"My 18-year-old husband was taken away by Syrian forces for questioning," she says. "I don't know where he is."
All that is left in her life are the clothes she wears and the baby she carries in a blanket.
"All my family and my husband's family are dead. We only have each other."
This is the human face of Syria's punishing war nearly six years on - a people trapped between warring sides in the worst of the fighting, and its worst humanitarian crisis.
The fear in Aleppo now is, as fighting intensifies, it will get even worse.


A man who inflicted "catastrophic" injuries on a six-week old baby has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.

Steven Davidson admitted shaking the baby girl to her severe injury and danger of life at a house in Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire, on 3 October 2012.
The 23-year-old was looking after the child while her mother was asleep.
The child, now aged two, cannot sit upright or communicate and needs round-the-clock care.
At the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lady Scott said Davidson's actions had resulted in truly tragic consequences for the child.
The judge said: "She suffered truly catastrophic injuries, causing very real danger to her life."
Defence counsel Ronnie Renucci said first offender Davidson had accepted full responsibility for the offence in "a truly tragic case".
He added that Davidson would regret it for the rest of his life.
He said Davidson had been suffering from toothache and had been up most of the night. The baby had been changed and was then sick and had to be changed again.
Mr Renucci said that in "a single moment of madness" he shook the child once and threw her down on a sofa.
He did not think that a soft sofa would cause such injuries.
The defence counsel said that it was a one-off isolated, catastrophic incident. He added: "It is a matter he deeply regrets."
A previous hearing was given medical evidence which showed that the child had been shaken and may have been hit against something.
Davidson was originally charged with attempted murder, but the Crown accepted his plea to a reduced charge.
Advocate depute Paul Kearney, prosecuting, outlined the consequences of the girl's injuries.
He said: "She has an acquired brain injury which has left her with a severe physical disability. She is not able to sit unaided and has restricted movement in her upper limbs.
"Although aged two she functions at the level of a child of four or five months. She can make sounds, but cannot speak. She is described as an engaging child and can smile, laugh and cry and use facial expressions, but is otherwise unable to communicate, even though she clearly wants to.
"The child cannot take solid food and will need a wheelchair."


The father of a man murdered by loyalist paramilitaries has launched a legal challenge to Brexit.

Raymond McCord is seeking a judicial review and lodged the papers at the High Court in Belfast on Thursday.
Mr McCord became involved with the rights of victims of the Troubles after his son was murdered.
His legal team claim it would be unlawful to begin the formal process of the UK leaving the EU without a parliamentary vote.
They also claim it could undermine the UK's treaty obligations under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and the peace process.
It is the first challenge of its kind in Northern Ireland.
With similar legal action already under way in England, efforts are being made to secure an initial court hearing in Belfast next week.
Mr McCord's son Raymond Jr was beaten to death by the Ulster Volunteer Force in north Belfast in 1997. His body was dumped in a quarry.
Mr McCord is concerned that money from the European Union, which goes towards victims of the Troubles, may be discontinued.
His lawyer said there are fears that Brexit could impact on Mr McCord's fundamental rights.
"As a victim of the most recent conflict in Northern Ireland, Mr McCord is very concerned about the profoundly damaging effect that a unilateral withdrawal of the UK from the EU will have upon the ongoing relative stability in Northern Ireland," he said.


The UN human rights commissioner has condemned an Egyptian court's decision to sentence to death 528 supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

A spokesman for Navi Pillay said the "cursory mass trial" was "rife with procedural irregularities" and breached international human rights law.
The defendants were found guilty on Monday of charges relating to an attack on a police station in Minya in August.
Another 683 Morsi supporters went on trial at the same court on Tuesday.
They include the Muslim Brotherhood's general guide, Mohammed Badie, and the chairman of its Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), Saad al-Katatni.
Later, security forces clashed with hundreds of Minya University students protesting against the trials.
Tear gas was fired at the students after they blocked a main road, threw stones and set an armoured police vehicle on fire.
There has been widespread condemnation of Monday's decision by the Minya Criminal Court to sentence 528 people to death for their alleged participation in an attack on a police station in the central city in mid-August, in which a police officer was killed.
The incident took place in the immediate aftermath of an operation by security forces to break up two sit-ins in the capital Cairo that left almost 1,000 people dead. The sit-ins were set up by supporters of Mr Morsi's after he was overthrown by the military the previous month.
The trial, at which more than three-quarters of the defendants were not present, is reported to have lasted less than an hour on Saturday.
The prosecution did not put forward evidence implicating any individual defendant, even though it had compiled significant evidence, and the court prevented defence lawyers from presenting their case or calling witnesses, according to Human Right Watch.
A second session was held on Monday solely to announce the verdict.
On Tuesday, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, told a news conference in Geneva: "The astounding number of people sentenced to death in this case is unprecedented in recent history."
"The mass imposition of the death penalty after a trial that was rife with procedural irregularities is in breach of international human rights law."
Sixteen Egyptian rights groups voiced concern, saying the trial constituted a "dangerous, unprecedented shift in the Egyptian's judiciary's treatment of such cases" and represented "a grave violation of both the right to a fair trial and the right to life".
But Egypt's interim government defended the court, insisting that the sentences had been handed down only "after careful study".
The state-run al-Ahram newspaper said the court would issue its final verdict on 28 April after Egypt's grand mufti, who under the law must ratify each death sentence before it can be carried out, had passed judgement.
The defendants may then appeal. Legal experts said a higher court would most probably order a retrial or reduce their sentences.
Mr Colville also expressed concern about the 683 people who went on trial at the Minya Criminal Court on Tuesday on similar charges relating to an attack on another police station in which no-one died.
The BBC's Orla Guerin, who is outside the courthouse, says that after an opening session lasting just a few hours the case was adjourned until 28 April, when the judge, Said Youssef, said a verdict would be given.
Critics will ask how the fate of so many people could be decided after the briefest of trials, our correspondent says. And, she adds, there were two key elements missing - most of the defendants and any of their lawyers.
Only 62 defendants reportedly appeared in court, with officials saying Mr Badie and Mr Katatni could not attend for security reasons, while the defence team staged a boycott in protest at the preceding trial.
"As lawyers, we haven't seen anything like what happened here yesterday in our entire professional lives and we will not see anything like it until our deaths," Khaled Fouda of the Minya lawyers' syndicate said.
Despite the boycott, the judge heard testimony from witnesses and questioning several of the defendants before adjourning the case.
The wife of one of the accused in Tuesday's case told the BBC she feared the verdict had been decided in advance. She said her husband was an innocent man who had been arrested while picking up their daughter from hospital.
The 1,200 defendants in the two cases in Minya are among more than 16,000 Egyptians arrested over the past eight months, according to figures recently provided by senior interior ministry officials. They include about 3,000 top or mid-level Brotherhood members.


Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, is holding much-anticipated presidential and parliamentary polls on 20 November.

They come more than a year after a first attempt to hold the presidential ballot ended without a run-off round
The October 2015 presidential election was won by Jovenel Moise but opposition challenger Jude Celestin called foul and, after violent unrest, the ballot was annulled and a new election called.
It should have been held this 9 October but was postponed after Hurricane Matthew devastated parts of the country.
A second round is due in January if no candidate wins more than 50% of the vote.
Also on Sunday, Haitians will vote in the second round of parliamentary elections - the first was held in August of last year.
Jocelerme Privert was named as interim president by parliament in February 2016 to fill the power vacuum after the incumbent, Michel Martelly, stepped down at the end of his term.
Standing this weekend are:
The most pressing issue is the continuing humanitarian crisis which began with the 2010 earthquake. The United Nations has said it is struggling to assist Haiti because of insufficient foreign aid.
Almost seven years after the 2010 earthquake, about 1.5m victims still live in temporary shelter while cholera has caused nearly 10,000 deaths.
Massive deforestation has led to crops being washed away and many homes being destroyed by natural disasters.
Political instability and corruption have also contributed to rampant poverty.
Without effective government for decades, Haiti ranks 163rd out of the 188 countries on the UN Human Development Index.


Chinese President Xi Jinping is on the second full day of his state visit to the UK.

On Wednesday morning Mr Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan visited Imperial College London to hear about research collaborations between China and the UK. The couple were joined by Chancellor George Osborne and the Duke of York.
Afterwards, Mr Xi and his wife attended a "creative collaborations" event at Lancaster House, where they were joined by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
A display including James Bond's car and a Dalek was put on for the Chinese leader.
The president also met Jackie Chan, second from left below, who appealed for support for Chinese movies.
The actor said: "I think [the visit] really helps for the culture exchange.
"Right now, China is one of the bigger markets. Collaboration really helps me to create new ideas."
Next up was Downing Street, where Prime Minister David Cameron and Mr Xi are holding talks.
Mr Cameron's spokeswoman has said nothing is off the table during discussions and the impact of Chinese steel subsidies is likely to come up.
A sizable number of the Chinese delegation also made the trip to Downing Street.
Both protesters and supporters of the Chinese government gathered in Whitehall.
Some protesters carried Tibetan flags.
During a press conference following talks, President Xi said his country attached great important to the protection of human rights. David Cameron said the leaders had discussed the excess supply of steel, which President Xi said was a problem worldwide.
Among agreements signed on a number of issues, Chancellor George Osborne signed a deal for closer customs co-operation between HMRC and the Chinese General Administration of Customs.
As part of a busy afternoon schedule, Mr Xi also visited Mansion House with Mr Cameron and Huawei Technologies in London, where he met the Chinese communications company's staff.
In the evening, the president and Madame Peng, joined by the Duke of York, attended a banquet at Guildhall given by the Lord Mayor and City of London Corporation. Protesters and pro-Chinese groups have again gathered outside.


David Bowie released what was to be his final album, the jazz-infused Blackstar, on 8 January 2016 - just two days before his death.

Like much of Bowie's output over the decades, it proved to be experimental, groundbreaking and lyrically enigmatic.
Many have picked up on the significance of the opening line in the mournful third track Lazarus: "Look up here, I'm in heaven/ I've got scars that can't be seen."
The video to the song, released as a single last month, shows Bowie in a hospital bed with his eyes bandaged.
The seven-track album ends with a song I Can't Give Everything Away.
Blackstar has been getting ecstatic reviews since its release, with many critics suggesting it is one of the highpoints of his career.
Here is a selection of reviews:
The new David Bowie release, Blackstar, begins with an execution, and from there the tidings only get Âgrimmer. His 25th studio album features just seven songs, but they serve up a veritable Grand Guignol of dread, death, even dismemberment.
Read the full review
The overall effect is ambiguous and spellbinding, adjectives that apply virtually throughout Blackstar. It's a rich, deep and strange album that feels like Bowie moving restlessly forward, his eyes fixed ahead: the position in which he's always made his greatest music.
Read the full review
Baffling is a word that comes up a lot in reviews. But Bowie is a rare act who is at his best when he is at his least accessible... how fantastic to have an album as rich and strange as Blackstar that refuses to yield in a few listens.
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Considering the innovations and inspirations Bowie has brokered in the last half century, this thrilling departure may be the most extraordinary of his fabled career.
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It's a finale that suggests a Bowie desperate to break with the past, but acknowledging it'll always be with him - however hard he tries here.
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Is 'Blackstar' vintage Bowie? No, but nor is that the intention. Actually, one of the few certainties we can take from this restless, relentlessly intriguing album is that David Bowie is positively allergic to the idea of heritage rock.
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Though this mix of jazz, malice, and historical role-play is intoxicating, Blackstar becomes whole with its two-song denouement, which balances out the bruises and blood with a couple of salty tears.
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A man who died in a head-on collision with a fire engine probably steered into the vehicle deliberately, an inquest has heard.

Father-of-two Darren Mark Harvey, 25, of Portsmouth Road, Woolston, died in the crash in the New Forest in August.
The coroner concluded Mr Harvey died as a result of a road traffic collision and it was probable that he steered into the vehicle in a deliberate act.
He said he could not be absolutely sure Mr Harvey had intended to kill himself.
The crash happened on the A337 close to the Holland Wood Campsite near Brockenhurst late on Saturday 22 August last year.
Mr Harvey's wife, Rebecca, told the inquest that on the night of his death, Mr Harvey had left home in such a distressed state, she had called the police.
The inquest was shown footage from a camera mounted on the dashboard of the fire engine that showed Mr Harvey's car swerve into its path.
He had a history of depression and was on anti-depressants, the inquest was told.
Mr Harvey's family described him as a "proud dad, a loving son, brother and grandson who recently married".


The commission set up to discuss further devolution to the Scottish Parliament has received more than 14,000 submissions.

The deadline for members of the public, interest groups and institutions to send their proposals to the Smith Commission closed at 17:00 on Friday.
Provisional numbers showed it had received 14,000 emails and letters from the general public.
And it had received more than 250 submissions from institutions.
The commission, headed by Lord Smith of Kelvin, is currently considering greater autonomy for the Scottish Parliament in the wake of September's "No" vote on Scottish independence.
Lord Smith said: "When I accepted the invitation to lead the commission I was determined to make sure that the public and Scotland's civic institutions would have the chance to have their say.
"I believe we have undertaken a broad ranging programme which has been as extensive as it was possible to achieve in the time available.
"I have been delighted by the response and want to thank the many individuals and organisations who worked hard to make substantial and thoughtful submissions."
He said the political parties would have the chance to reflect on the submissions before any decisions are made.
Lord Smith added: "They will be given full access to all submissions and we will shortly hold a dedicated session of all-party talks to discuss them."
Trade unions, charities and industry bodies have made submissions and Lord Smith has held a number of meetings around the country to discuss the proposals.
The commission was set up after David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg made a vow in the run-up to the referendum that there would be further substantial devolution if Scotland rejected independence and stayed in the UK.
But Lord Smith - who recently chaired the organising committee for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games - has stressed it is not solely the three main Westminster parties who will be involved in the negotiations.
The SNP are represented on the Commission by Finance Secretary John Swinney and MSP Linda Fabiani; Labour by Holyrood finance spokesman Iain Gray and Westminster shadow pensions minister Gregg McClymont; the Conservatives by former Scottish leader Annabel Goldie and academic Professor Adam Tomkins.
The Liberal Democrats are represented by former Scottish secretary Michael Moore and ex-Scottish leader Tavish Scott; and the Scottish Greens by co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Maggie Chapman.
Under the timetable already agreed for reform, an agreement on recommendations for what new powers should be transferred north has to be reached by the end of November, with draft legislation produced by the end of January 2015.
This would then be implemented by whatever party wins next year's general election.


The Scottish Airshow will go ahead as planned in two weeks' time and will not be affected by the Shoreham tragedy, a director of the event has confirmed.

A Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to a road during the Shoreham Airshow on Saturday, killing at least 11 people.
With an inquiry under way, the aviation regulator has said vintage jets will not be allowed to do major aerobatics displays over land.
The Scottish Airshow said all of its displays were "safe" and over water.
The event at Ayr and Prestwick will take place over the weekend of 5 and 6 September.
The flying event on Saturday will take place over the sea, off Low Green at Ayr. An exhibition of aircraft will be held the following day at Prestwick Airport.
Both days are expected to attract more than 50,000 spectators.
There have been calls in the aftermath of the Shoreham crash for air shows to be cancelled on safety grounds.
Doug Maclean, from The Airshow Scotland Ltd, said organisers had considered cancelling the Ayrshire event but decided to go-ahead as all the flying was done over water in a "very safe" environment.
He said they would fully consider new restrictions from the Civil Aviation Authority.
"We don't plan to have anything over land at all," he said.
"The Scottish Airshow is based in Ayr at the moment because it's a very safe and very friendly environment to operate in.
"The flying is done offshore and in controlled airspace."
But Mr Maclean said that aviation in the UK was generally "very safe".
"Every aircraft in the sky is regulated either by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) or the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
"These aircraft are maintained to meticulous standards, which applies to both a modern aeroplane and something like a Spitfire, which was built for the Second World War.
"So you could almost say that the older aeroplanes are actually safer because they do pay a lot of attention to the history of the aeroplanes and what they've been doing all of their career."
He added: "Aviation is very safe because we learn lessons from any incident that happens."
In the wake of the Shoreham Airshow tragedy, the CAA said vintage jets would be "limited to flypasts" at airshows.
This meant that "high-energy aerobatics" would not be permitted in displays over land.
A spokesman for CAA confirmed that all Hawker Hunter aircraft had been grounded until further notice.
The regulator added that it would be conducting "additional risk assessments on all forthcoming civil air displays".


Novak Djokovic withstood a comeback from Sir Andy Murray to defend his Qatar Open title and end the Briton's winning streak of 28 consecutive ATP Tour matches.

Murray remains world number one despite the 6-3 5-7 6-4 defeat by the Serbian world number two.
The Scot saved three match points to come from a set and a break down to win the second set and level the match.
But Djokovic broke in game seven of the decider to win in two hours 54 minutes.
Both players now head to Melbourne for the Australian Open, the year's first Grand Slam, which starts on 16 January.
"Its a tough one to lose," said Murray, 29. "It was high level tennis, some of the points were physically tough. But it's a great way to star the new year and I look forward to the next few weeks."
This was the 36th meeting between the pair and Murray had won the last time they met at the ATP Tour Finals in November, a victory that kept him at world number one.
The Scot has never beaten the Serb after losing the first set and he was soon trailing as Djokovic broke in the eighth game following a string of unforced errors from Murray.
Djokovic broke again in the second set and served for the match at 5-3 but Murray fought back and reeled of four straight games to level.
The 12-time Grand Slam champion looked to be tiring in the third and was 0-30 on his own serve at 2-3 down but he fought back to hold and then broke Murray for the third time in the match as he won his second title in Doha.
"To win here, against the biggest rival, is a dream start," said Djokovic, who was penalised a point in the second set for smashing his racket.
Djokovic is the defending champion in Melbourne, having won his sixth Australian Open title last year as he condemned Murray to a fifth defeat in the final of the tournament.
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
The end of his winning streak will be less of a concern to Murray than the fact he was beaten by Djokovic - who appears to be nicely back on track.
The world number two played a phenomenal deciding set - showing great resilience after Murray had turned the second set on its head. The win is sure to give Djokovic renewed confidence as he heads to Melbourne as a six time Australian Open champion.
But Murray also looks to be in fine form: if they stay free of injury, these two look likely to dominate 2017 as well.


Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola will not make a decision on Joe Hart's future until the end of the season.

It is expected the England goalkeeper will leave City for good when his loan at Serie A club Torino ends in May.
The 29-year-old has reportedly attracted interest from a number of Premier League and European clubs.
Guardiola, who is "so happy" with keepers Willy Caballero and Claudio Bravo, said of Hart: "We will talk about it at the end of the season."
Hart has kept five clean sheets in Serie A for Torino this season, one fewer than City have managed in the Premier League.
Bravo has been criticised since his £15.4m arrival from Barcelona in August, and the Chile keeper, 33, was replaced by Caballero for last week's Champions League win over Monaco.
Argentine Caballero, 35, could keep his place for Wednesday's FA Cup fifth round replay with Huddersfield at the Etihad Stadium but a decision on his future will not be rushed even though he is one of a number of City players, including Yaya Toure and Bacary Sagna, who are out of contract in the summer.
Guardiola said: "There are five, six players out of contract but they know the situation.
"Of course there is a risk, maybe they can sign a contract for another club. We have to accept that."


Labour has made a number of gains in London including taking the Tory-led councils of Hammersmith and Fulham, and Croydon.

The party took 11 seats from the Conservatives to control Hammersmith for the first time since 2006.
Labour also gained Merton and Redbridge Councils.
The Tories have won Kingston Council from the Liberal Democrats, while holding Hillingdon, Wandsworth, Bexley, Westminster, Bromley and Richmond.
They have also held Kensington and Chelsea.
Redbridge, which was controlled by a Tory and Lib Dem coalition, is now under Labour control for the first time.
In Harrow, Labour have regained control of the council but have returned to the same level of support they had in 2010 before an internal row split the local group.
Labour has also held Barking and Dagenham, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Hounslow, Islington, Lambeth, Newham, Southwark and Waltham Forest, while in Merton it gained control where previously no party was in overall control.
The party fell agonisingly short of taking majority control of Barnet Council for the first time. Despite gaining nine seats from the Tories, it fell just short of the 32 seats needed for a majority.
The party finished the night on 27 seats but with the postponed Colindale ward vote in June expected to return three Labour councillors, it has fallen just short of a majority.
The Tories will regain control of the council but with their number of seats slashed from 38 to 32, the minimum needed for a majority.
A controversial former Tory councillor who claimed to have slept with an Arsenal striker and alleged that Ted Heath was gay and went "cottaging" before becoming prime minister lost his seat on Barnet Council, winning just 265 votes.
Self-styled "King of Bling" Brian Coleman once served as chairman of the London Assembly and was a Conservative councillor in the borough before being suspended after assaulting a woman who filmed him breaking parking rules.
He had kept his seat as an independent after the incident.
The Liberal Democrats held Sutton. The Lib Dems lost 15 seats in Brent and are now left with just one councillor.
In Havering, there is still no party with overall control.
In the elections for a directly-elected mayor, Labour has won three with Sir Robin Wales being re-elected for Newham, Jules Pipe for Hackney and Sir Steve Bullock for Lewisham.
In Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman of TH First was re-elected mayor on a second count.
In March the BBC's Panorama found that Mr Rahman had more than doubled funding recommended by officers for Bengali-run charities.
Opposition councillors said they believed the grants were made in return for electoral support, claims categorically denied by Mr Rahman.
Following the broadcast, the Metropolitan Police was handed three files of material but said they contained "no new credible evidence of criminality".
BBC London's political editor Tim Donovan said: "This is the best performance that Labour have had in London since 1998."
Greg Hands, Conservative MP for Chelsea and Fulham and former Hammersmith and Fulham councillor, said Labour's campaigning had been "entirely dishonest" about the future of Charing Cross Hospital.
He said: "There are a lot of Labour lies about Charing Cross Hospital. The old building was going to be demolished but replaced with a new build hospital and A&E."
Labour's Stephen Cowan, the new leader of Hammersmith and Fulham, described Mr Hands's response to his party's defeat "as sour grapes" and denied lies had been told.
He said people had "voted Labour in David Cameron's favourite council", sending a clear message.
Andy Slaughter, Labour MP for Hammersmith, said the victory was "the most fantastic result we've had in London for years".
In Croydon, Labour leader Tony Newman said: "This is a real victory for positive change.
"We are ambitious for Croydon and will be cleaning up the borough and be providing jobs and homes."
Tory leader Mike Fisher blamed UKIP for the defeat, telling the Croydon Advertiser: "I believe many UKIP voters were Conservatives who were making a protest and I think they will now be horrified at what they have done."
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the party had not had a "strong" performance in the capital and it needed to perform better next year.
He said: "Certainly London is a younger demographic but the real reason we are not as strong in London as we are just over the side of the M25, is political parties rely very heavily on voluntary structure and our structure in London is behind the rest of the country."
Results for the European elections will be announced late on Sunday.


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He is lucky with the talent he has in key positions, he is lucky with the funds and facilities created for him and he is lucky that no other nation save New Zealand has the same strength in depth sitting on their replacements' bench.
But there is nothing lucky at all about how he utilises all of those to forge an England team that has already set new records and may yet set more impressive ones still.
It wasn't hard to see where England were going wrong in the first half against France. It was everywhere you looked.
A first line-out so bad it hit the back of Dan Cole's head. A yellow card for a tackle that was unnecessary and illegal. An inability to dent the blue defensive wall with ball in hand, a problem stopping the waves of French runners coming at them from deep and wide and fast.
The difficulty lay in working out what to do about it and how to make that plan work.
No Vunipolas to add muscle and metres made. No Chris Robshaw to slow the progress of a French back row charging and offloading like a French back row of old. An opposition liberated from the stylistic straightjacket of recent torpid years, and a Twickenham crowd silenced by unexpected uncertainty and fear.
Any coach could have torn into their team after a first 40 minutes as scrambled as that. Not so many could have sent them out again after half-time clear of mind and confident in their ability to turn that slump into success. Fewer still could have made not just the right changes to personnel but customised the positional and tactical ones so shrewdly too.
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With 18 minutes to go, England were much improved but still four points down, Rabah Slimani's offload-inspired try threatening to end France's 12-year wait for a win in south-west London and mark the Six Nations' opening day with a second shock to match that of Scotland's thrilling win over Ireland.
Off came Joe Launchbury. On came James Haskell into the back row, forward went Maro Itoje into the second row. More pace. More power.
Five minutes later, George Ford and Jonathan Joseph off, Ben Te'o and Jack Nowell on, Owen Farrell to fly-half, Elliot Daly to inside centre. More power still, now pace spilling out everywhere, now a dynamism and drive and the sound from the stands of belief and excitement too.
Quick ball, sharper minds. Farrell found Te'o, Te'o found a soft opposition shoulder and the try-line opened up in front of him.
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"I always thought we were going to win," said Jones afterwards. "I thought we were awful, but I always thought we were going to win."
There were not many others so sure in the moment, fewer yet who could have prevented even subconscious anxiety and anger from transmitting itself to the players on the pitch.
France had three men - Scott Spedding, Virimi Vakatawa and Louis Picamoles - who all made over 120 metres with ball in hand. Northampton number eight Picamoles, not content with being as hard and lumpy and slippery to stop as an iceberg, also carried the ball 15 times, beat seven defenders, made five tackles, offloaded four times and won a turnover too.
France made 591 metres to England's 383, made 10 line breaks to their opponents' five and beat 24 defenders to England's 13.
Those are hard numbers to turn your way.
Tough too was the blocking tackle Farrell put in on Picamoles as the number eight thundered into the England half with the game still in the balance, and harder still does it become with each passing performance not to see Farrell as not just Jones' epitome on the pitch but his skipper in waiting too.
Jamie George is putting his own pressure on Dylan Hartley, even if the incumbent captain and hooker is still understandably rusty after his most recent lengthy suspension. Farrell, four from five from the tee on Saturday, hitting the post with his other pot, is increasingly making an unarguable case either way.
The best coaches have a leader on the pitch who shares their outlook, intensity and approach. Legendary Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson had it best in outstanding midfielder Roy Keane: never a backward step, always pushing for better, intimidated by no-one and no situation.
Jones loves Hartley's obduracy. He appreciates his aggression, when it is focused and snarling just the right side of illegality.
In Farrell's goal-kicking he sees a weapon that keeps better teams within reach and turns tight games his way. In the 25-year-old's youth he sees a man who will be at his physical peak at the next World Cup. In the apparent absence of self-doubt he sees a reflection of his own confident character.
Farrell is not as instinctive with ball in hand as his childhood friend and team-mate George Ford. He is not infallible with the boot, although he can sometimes make it look mighty close.
In a match like this, described afterwards by Jones as an ugly performance but a beautiful result, he is the backbone and the brains too: implacable, unshakeable, the on-field general who drags others along with him.
Jones isn't perfect. "I take full responsibility," he told the BBC on Saturday after the sub-par performance. "I didn't prepare them well enough."
Neither are his team, even if they have won more matches in a row - 15 - than any other England side in history. If he can solve problems, he must also be growing sick of the slow starts that cause them.
And he is certainly lucky. But so too are England, to have a coach who can take what he has been given and turn it into something better, who has set new standards and is still nowhere close to being satisfied.


The latest advice for British holidaymakers at - or about to travel to - Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh resort after the UK suspended air links over security concerns.

The British government halted UK flights to and from Sharm el-Sheikh after intelligence suggested a plane crash in Sinai on Saturday could have been caused by a bomb on board the aircraft.
The UK is working with the Egyptian authorities and air carriers to boost security at the airport so holidaymakers can get home on rescheduled flights, or on an earlier flight if they want.
Airlines have said they expect to start flying people back to the UK on Friday, with British Airways the first to say services will resume then.
But PM David Cameron has warned it will take some time to get everyone home.
Read the latest Foreign Office advice here.
The advice is to try to remain calm as the threat level has not been raised in the resort - only air travel is affected.
You should get in touch with your tour operator, travel agent or airline about travel arrangements.
British Consulate staff are also being sent to the airport and resort to help if you are flying back to the UK very soon.
You may want to call your travel insurer to check they will still provide you with cover while you are there.
But the Association of British Travel Agents (Abta) advises that most insurers will continue to provide cover for holidaymakers who are waiting to get home.
The Foreign Office says security is being increased in the Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada resort areas, at the international airports and at check points near towns and many other areas.
Tour operators should meet extra accommodation costs for people on a package holiday.
The Foreign Office is advising against all but essential travel by air to or from Sharm el-Sheikh airport.
Anyone who ignores this advice will invalidate their travel insurance.
If you're not on a package holiday you should contact your travel insurance provider to check you are covered.
Those with holidays booked within the next 48 hours are advised to contact their travel company to discuss their options, says Abta.
"If you have booked a package you will be entitled to a refund or alternative holiday," it said.
But, a word of warning - travellers may have to pay the difference in price if going on an alternative trip.
If you are due to fly to or from Sharm el-Sheik beyond the next 48 hours, you should check with your travel company nearer to the time of your departure to find out what your options are, as there will probably be a review of the current advice.
Different firms are likely to have different policies.
The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has also advised its citizens against all non-essential travel to Egypt.
The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs is advising its citizens against travel to or from Sharm el-Sheikh airport, but says flight suspensions are down to individual airlines
UK officials said they expected other countries to issue similar advice.
Abta says the latest change in advice applies only to air travel to and from Sharm el-Sheikh.
Previous travel restrictions for other areas may still apply, and you should check before travelling.


Rangers left Cappielow with all three points after beating Morton 2-0 but also nursing a sense of grievance.

The Scottish Championship leaders were infuriated when Andy Halliday was sent off after celebrating the second goal.
Rangers manager Mark Warburton said he was "mystified" by the decision to show a second yellow card for raising his fist in triumph, deemed an offensive gesture by the match officials.
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Halliday is now suspended for Saturday's game against Falkirk.
The player was clearly furious as he made his way up the tunnel.
He had celebrated Barrie McKay's strike in front of the Morton fans, but television footage did not capture any kind of offensive gesture.
McKay's second-half goal added to a Kenny Miller strike that allowed Rangers to restore their five-point lead over Hibernian at the top of the table.
Morton were spirited and industrious opponents, though, often making life difficult for the visitors at Cappielow.
Morton manager Jim Duffy told BBC Scotland: "On Burns Day, we didn't want to be a poor and timorous beastie and we weren't.
"We made them work hard for it and the most important thing we asked the players was to show commitment and attitude and they did that.
"We had a few crosses and balls into the box. I was more disappointed with our final ball.
"I thought that could have been better, but in terms of work ethic and organisation, commitment, I couldn't ask for more.
"Sometimes you have to accept it if the other team has more in the tank."
Duffy was also unable to shed any light on Halliday's dismissal.
"I really don't know," he said when asked what happened. "I was told he made a gesture to the crowd, but I didn't see it.
"I was more disappointed with the fact that we'd just lost a goal."


Too many university applicants realise too late they picked the wrong school subjects at 16, says Which?

The consumer group said almost a third (28%) of more than 1,000 UK 18- and 19-year-olds university applicants surveyed said they wished they had chosen different subjects.
And 41% wished they had considered which subjects would be of most use.
The Russell Group of selective universities said clear information on subject choice was crucial.
The research, carried out by Youth Sight, in January, also found only about half of the university applicants felt well enough informed at school about how the subjects they had studied could affect their choice of degree and university.
Some degrees require specific A-levels of equivalents and some universities do not consider certain subjects challenging enough, warns Which?
However, only 41% of the teenagers surveyed were aware of this.
And 30% complained the advice they had received had failed to warn them of the impact choices made at 16 could have on their future prospects.
Russell Group director general Wendy Piatt said it was "really important for all young people, especially those whose parents didn't go to university, to have clear information about how the subjects that they choose to study in the sixth form or at college can affect their options at university and their chances in life".
In 2011, the group published its Informed Choices guide to the most useful school subjects for students aiming at one of its 24 universities.
The guide suggests 16-year-olds should study two of the following "facilitating" subjects to keep a wide range of options open:
Which? University has also launched an Explorer tool to help 16-year-olds and their teachers to explore their options.
"While certain A-levels might suggest a particular degree path, our tool shows there are usually alternative options students can take," said Which? campaigns director Alex Neill.
And student Dan French, who is applying to Salford University, said he wished it had been available when he had been 16.


Swansea City have rejected a £10m bid from Premier League rivals Everton for central defender Ashley Williams.

The Wales and Swans captain was reported to be close to agreeing a move to Goodison Park.
Williams, who turns 32 later this month, is under contract at the Liberty Stadium until 2018.
A club spokesman said: "We are not looking to sell him and therefore we have turned down the offer currently on the table."
Williams has played more than 300 games for the Swans since joining for £300,000 from Stockport in March 2008.
He has not played in any pre-season matches having been given an extended break after leading Wales to the semi-finals of Euro 2016.
There was reported Everton interest in Williams last summer when the Toffees' England international John Stones was being linked heavily with Chelsea and Manchester City.
With City still hopeful of signing the 22-year-old - valued at £50m by his club - Everton are seeking replacements in central defence.
Former Everton skipper Kevin Ratcliffe, who also captained Wales, says Swansea's stance could be more than just a bargaining position.
"It might be a determined decision to keep him because of the importance of the player," Ratcliffe told BBC Wales Sport.
"It's not just about the player being the player that he is but it's about his character and his leadership they're looking at and how do you replace that?
"I don't think they have and it will cost you a lot more than £10m."


A pod of whales have been filmed playing under the Northern Lights.

7 October 2015 Last updated at 09:00 BST
The dazzling light show is caused by the interaction of charged particles and the Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere.
How the Northern Lights happen
Photographer Harald Albrigsten captured the beautiful creatures swimming near Whale Island, off the coast of Tromso in Norway.
Video courtesy of Harald Albrigtsen


Andrew Strauss is the perfect candidate to become the England and Wales Cricket Board's director of cricket, says former England spinner Graeme Swann.

Former captain Strauss is set to take on the new role, created following the exit of managing director Paul Downton.
"Strauss is a fantastic leader of men, he knows cricket inside out and is a born diplomat and politician," Swann told BBC Sport.
"I can't think of anyone better for the role, whatever it is."
The remit of the post is unclear as the ECB has declined to make the job description public.
Downton left his post following England's dismal World Cup and, in the aftermath of the disappointing 1-1 Test series draw with West Indies, former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott said "things won't change" if Strauss is named director of cricket.
However Swann, who played 42 of his 60 Tests under Strauss, countered: "Without seeing the job description, we've no idea the influence he will be able to have.
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"But in my experience he is a great man to have in charge."
When asked about the possibility of working under Strauss, England coach Peter Moores said: "He has a very strong reputation. The experience he could bring would be fantastic."
Moores also addressed some of the criticism his team have faced in the aftermath of their draw in the Caribbean, which was confirmed with a five-wicket defeat in the third Test in Barbados.
Jonathan Trott, who on Monday announced his retirement from international cricket, managed only 72 runs in six innings, including three ducks, after being asked to open the batting on his return to the side.
"We don't regret asking him to open," said Moores of 34-year-old Trott, who batted at number three for the rest of his Test career. "It was a question we had to answer.
"It was right to give him the chance. He's had a go, but it has been a tough trip for him so he will be disappointed."
England also endured criticism for failing to select Yorkshire leg-spinner Adil Rashid in any of the three Tests, especially after Moeen Ali struggled in the decisive loss in Barbados.
"Mo had a tough game, but he has come through a brilliant last year," said Moores. "He is young in terms of his career as a bowler and he was challenged in Barbados.
"I hope Adil Rashid had a good trip. He has worked very hard to adapt to what he thinks will be successful at Test-match level.
"He's a very talented batsman as well as bowler and we are hoping that development will continue."


Defending Pro12 champions Glasgow Warriors bagged a late bonus-point victory over the Dragons despite a host of absentees and two yellow cards.

Simone Favaro got the crucial try with the last move of the game, following earlier touchdowns by Chris Fusaro, Zander Fagerson and Junior Bulumakau.
Rynard Landman and Ashton Hewitt got a try in either half for the Dragons.
Glasgow showed far superior strength in depth as they took control of a messy match in the second period.
Home coach Gregor Townsend gave a debut to powerhouse Fijian-born Wallaby wing Taqele Naiyaravoro, and centre Alex Dunbar returned from long-term injury, while the Dragons gave first starts of the season to wing Aled Brew and hooker Elliot Dee.
Glasgow lost hooker Pat McArthur to an early shoulder injury but took advantage of their first pressure when Rory Clegg slotted over a penalty on 12 minutes.
It took 24 minutes for a disjointed game to produce a try as Sarel Pretorius sniped from close range and Landman forced his way over for Jason Tovey to convert - although it was the lock's last contribution as he departed with a chest injury shortly afterwards.
Glasgow struck back when Fusaro drove over from a rolling maul on 35 minutes for Clegg to convert.
But the Dragons levelled at 10-10 before half-time when Naiyaravoro was yellow-carded for an aerial tackle on Brew and Tovey slotted the easy goal.
The visitors could not make the most of their one-man advantage after the break as their error count cost them dearly.
It was Glasgow's bench experience that showed when Mike Blair's break led to a short-range score from teenage prop Fagerson, converted by Clegg.
Debutant Favaro was the second home player to be sin-binned, on 63 minutes, but again the Warriors made light of it as replacement wing Bulumakau, a recruit from the Army, pounced to deftly hack through a bouncing ball for an opportunist try.
The Dragons got back within striking range with some excellent combined handling putting Hewitt over unopposed after 72 minutes.
However, Favaro became sinner-turned-saint as he got on the end of another effective rolling maul to earn his side the extra point with the last move of the game, Clegg converting.
Dragons director of rugby Lyn Jones said: "We're disappointed to have lost but our performance was a lot better [than against Leinster] and the game could have gone either way.
"Unfortunately too many errors behind the scrum cost us a great deal, though from where we were a fortnight ago in Dublin our workrate and desire was excellent.
"It was simply error count from individuals behind the scrum that cost us field position, it's not rocket science - they were correct in how they played and we had a few errors, that was the difference."
Glasgow Warriors: Rory Hughes, Taqele Naiyaravoro, Alex Dunbar, Fraser Lyle, Lee Jones, Rory Clegg, Grayson Hart; Alex Allan, Pat MacArthur, Zander Fagerson, Rob Harley (capt), Scott Cummings, Hugh Blake, Chris Fusaro, Adam Ashe.
Replacements: Fergus Scott, Jerry Yanuyanutawa, Mike Cusack, Greg Peterson, Simone Favaro, Mike Blair, Gregor Hunter, Junior Bulumakau.
Dragons: Carl Meyer, Ashton Hewitt, Ross Wardle, Adam Warren, Aled Brew, Jason Tovey, Sarel Pretorius; Boris Stankovich, Elliot Dee, Brok Harris, Nick Crosswell, Rynard Landman (capt), Lewis Evans, Nic Cudd, Ed Jackson.
Replacements: Rhys Buckley, Phil Price, Shaun Knight, Matthew Screech, Ollie Griffiths, Luc Jones, Charlie Davies, Nick Scott.


Only a handful of newspapers in Russia are published at the weekend and along with the press websites running updates on the story, they have tried to make sense of what exactly happened to Flight KGL9268.

State-controlled Channel One TV said it was the worst disaster in the history of Russian aviation. Russia and Egypt "fully understand each other on issues relating to the investigation of the crash", it quoted Russian Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov saying.
NTV said the black boxes will be deciphered by Russian specialists and the pro-Kremlin rolling news station LifeNews TV said: "The whole world mourns the victims of the air disaster."
"We cannot rule out that terrorists could have had a hand in the air disaster. It is well known that since Russia started a military operation in Syria, a number of jihadist groups have declared a 'holy war' against Russia and its citizens," mass-circulation newspaper Moskovskiy Komsomolets said on its website.
On Ekho Moskvy radio, a former member of the elite anti-terrorism Alpha force, Sergey Goncharov,  dismissed reports that the group calling itself Islamic State (IS) might be responsible for the crash. "This is another publicity campaign by IS," he said.
The pro-government paper, Izvestia, reports that the airline owes the Russian state Pension Fund money for insurance fees, but it notes that the company's alleged cash flow problems stem from tour companies not paying their bills.
An aviation engineer, Viktor Alksnis tells the pro-government tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda this is not the first time that "we are stepping on the same rake".  He says dozens of small airlines that emerged in "the wild 1990s cannot ensure safety of air travel".
Novaya Gazeta newspaper warns against the tendency by watchdogs to criticise disasters only after they happened.  They should focus on trying to prevent them, the article argues. "We have too little information so far to develop versions on the causes of the air crash... The agencies always find airlines' violations after the trouble has happened".
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A big row has been going on over Big Ben's famous chime.

18 August 2017 Last updated at 11:18 BST
There are plans for the bell to be silent for four years while repair work is done.
But not everyone is happy about it.
The plans aren't set in stone yet but we thought it would be a good opportunity to tell you a bit more about Big Ben.
Here is our 60 second guide.


US Vice-President Joe Biden told an audience in Ottawa that the world needs "genuine leaders" such as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The outgoing vice-president spoke during a state dinner and took the opportunity to praise America's northern neighbour.
"The world is going to spend a lot of time looking to you, Mr Prime Minister", he told the Canadian leader.
Mr Biden has been highly critical of US President-elect Donald Trump.
"Vive le Canada because we need you very, very badly," he told the dinner guests.
He went on to describe the self-doubt that liberal leaders across the world are currently experiencing after several political defeats.
But he praised "genuine leaders" including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, saying such statesmen and women are in short supply.
Mr Trudeau reportedly became emotional during Mr Biden's remarks when the American spoke of his late father, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
"You're a successful father when your children turn out better than you," Mr Biden said.
This is the second state dinner shared by the two North American nations this year.
President Barack Obama hosted Prime Minister Trudeau at the White House in March and later in the summer visited Canada to give a speech in parliament.
Canadian officials say the visit is not about "specific policy", but rather "an opportunity to show the depth of the relationship", said Kate Purchase, Mr Trudeau's director of communications.
The dinner ensures "that there is continuity in the relationship" with the new American administration, she added.
Experts say Mr Biden will seek to assure Canadians that the US-Canada relationship will remain strong during President-elect Donald Trump's presidency.
On Friday Mr Biden is meeting with Canada's provincial premiers and indigenous leaders to discuss climate change.


Chinese authorities have punished 197 people for spreading rumours online about the recent stock market crash and fatal explosions in Tianjin, according to state news agency Xinhua.

A journalist and stock market officials are among those arrested, Xinhua said. It gave no other details.
Chinese shares fell by nearly 8% after a week of volatile trading that spread fear to global markets.
The Tianjin explosions killed 150 people - with 23 still missing.
A total of 367 people remain in hospital after the 12 August blast at a warehouse where large amounts of toxic chemicals were stored. Twenty are in critical condition, according to Xinhua.
Separately, the UK's Financial Times says Chinese leaders feel they mishandled their stock market rescue efforts.
The paper, quoting an account of a meeting of senior regulatory officials on Thursday, said the government had decided to abandon attempts to boost the stock market and instead step up efforts to punish people suspected of "destabilising the market".
Chinese authorities tightly control information online and have previously prosecuted internet users for spreading rumours.
The rumours described by the latest statement include reports that a man had jumped to his death in Beijing due to the stock market slump and that as many as 1,300 people were killed in Tianjin blasts, Xinhua said.
The news agency said "seditious rumours about China's upcoming commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II" were also among the offences.
A journalist was also arrested along with several stock market officials, according to a Xinhua report. The journalist, Wang Xiaolu, is accused of "spreading fake information" about the market slump, the report said.
The state news agency said Mr Wang confessed that he "wrote fake report on Chinese stock market based on hearsay and his own subjective guesses without conducting due verifications".
In 2013 Chinese authorities introduced a possible three-year sentence for spreading rumours - the sentence was supposed to apply to anyone who posted a rumour that was reposted 500 times or viewed 5,000 times.
Last year, Qin Zhihui, a blogger, was sentenced to three years in a government crackdown on internet rumours. Mr Qin was found guilty of "slander" and "picking quarrels and provoking troubles", state broadcaster CCTV said at the time.


The 2010 World Cup in South Africa triggered an increase in the number of boys born in the country nine months after the event, a study says.

The ratio of boys to girls born in that period was the highest recorded between 2003 and 2014, the study in the Early Human Development journal found.
People were more relaxed and probably had more sex during the World Cup, increasing the ratio, say researchers.
South Africa hosted its first World Cup between 11 June and 11 July 2010.
Dr Gwinyai Masukume, from the University of the Witwatersrand, was involved in the study and told News Day on BBC World Service: "The World Cup caused less stress, people were happier, there has been published research done that people had better feelings, positive feelings about themselves and their country.
"People also probably had more sexual intercourse during the World Cup.
"It has been known that if people have sexual intercourse more frequently there is a tendency to have more boys born than females."
The study showed the ratio of boys born nine months after the tournament was 0.5063, compared with an average during the period from 2003-2012 of 0.5029, which represented about 1,088 extra boys.
Because the ratio of sexes shows "significant cyclic trends", researchers compared the data with the same months in previous years.
The medical reasons for the altered sex ratio could be because of unimpaired sperm mobility, increased frequency of sexual intercourse and, or, decreased male foetal loss during pregnancy, the report's authors concluded.
They added it was "unlikely to be due to chance or a seasonal effect".
Allan Pacey, Professor of Andrology at The University of Sheffield, said it had been known for many years that the proportion of males born could be altered temporarily by external factors like military conflict and natural disasters.
But he said the reasons were still unclear.
He said theories included the thought that men might produce more Y chromosome (male-bearing) sperm for a short period of time, or that a woman's body can "sort" the sperm in some way after intercourse and therefore alter the proportion of X or Y sperm which reach the egg.
Professor Pacey added: "All these are credible biological mechanisms, but no-one knows which of them, if any, is responsible for altering the number of boys born in a population."


Australia's most newly-discovered spider surfs, swims and can catch prey up to three times its own size.

The spider was revealed at the World Science Festival in Australia, and was given the name 'Brian', after a famous scientist called Professor Brian Greene.
The spider can be found in Queensland, Australia, and eats fish, frogs, tadpoles, and even big cane toads, but luckily isn't dangerous to humans.
Brian catches its prey by sitting on the surface of water, and feeling vibrations caused by the creatures it wants to hunt.
When it feels a vibration, it runs across the water to grab its prey.
It then dives under the water with it, before swimming back to shore to eat it up.


A record number of terrorist attacks were planned, foiled or carried out in European Union countries last year, with the UK reporting the highest number of attacks.

EU law enforcement agency Europol said there were 211 attacks in 2015, the highest since records began in 2006.
Of those, the UK had the highest with 103 attacks, thought mostly to have been in Northern Ireland.
More than half of arrests in the EU - 687 - were "for jihadist terrorism".
Of these arrests, 94% were later found guilty in court.
The failed, foiled and completed terrorist attacks were in six EU member states - Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Spain and the UK.
A spokeswoman for Europol said it did not have a breakdown of the number of terror attacks that had actually been carried out in the EU.
France had the highest number of planned, foiled or completed attacks - 72 - followed by Spain with 25.
According to the agency's EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report, there were more than 1,000 arrests for terrorism-related offences last year - 424 of which were in France.
In addition to the jihadist terrorism arrests, there were 67 for left-wing terror, 11 right-wing terror and 168 separatist. A further 144 arrests were unspecified.
Europol said 151 people died and more than 360 were injured in terrorist incidents last year.
In its report, Europol said: "As in previous years, the attacks specifically classified as separatist terrorism accounted for the largest proportion, followed by jihadist attacks."
Europol also said the report outlines two "worrying developments".
"The overall threat is reinforced by the substantial numbers of returned foreign terrorist fighters that many member states now have on their soil, and the significant rise in nationalist (xenophobic), racist and anti-Semitic sentiments across the EU, each resulting in acts of right-wing extremism."
Europol said there was "no concrete evidence to date that terrorist travellers systematically use the flow of refugees to enter Europe unnoticed".
However, it noted that two of the men who carried out the Paris attacks in November, which killed 130 people, entered the EU through Greece as part of the influx of refugees from Syria.
The report said nuclear power plants and nuclear weapon facilities in the EU "remain potential targets for terrorists", as does "the deliberate contamination of water supplies".
It added: "Explosive remnants of war and illicit trafficking in explosives from former conflict areas present a significant threat to the EU.
"Chemical facilities or companies, especially these perceived as having a low profile until recently, can become a vulnerable target.
"Terrorists prefer the use of conventional firearms and explosives because of their availability, simplicity and effectiveness."
Europol also described cyber terrorism as "high potential but currently low probability".


Russia has confirmed it has sent an S-300 air defence missile system to its naval base in Syria's port of Tartus.

Defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the purpose of the system was to guarantee the security of the base from the air.
The move comes amid growing tension with the West. On Monday, the US halted talks with Russia on trying to co-ordinate air strikes against jihadists.
A ceasefire brokered by Washington and Moscow collapsed last month.
"Let me remind you that the S-300 is a purely defensive system and poses no threat to anyone," Maj-Gen Konashenkov said.
"It is unclear why the deployment of the S-300 caused such alarm among our Western partners."
The spokesman said the system was similar to one earlier deployed at sea on the cruiser Moskva.
The deployment of S-300 surface-to-air missiles (known to Nato as the SA-23) to Russia's naval base at Tartus is the first time Russia has deployed the system outside its own territory. It joins another sophisticated anti-aircraft system, the S-400, already in place at the Russian air base near Latakia.
The S-300 is highly mobile - its radars, launchers and command systems carried on a number of vehicles. It can be mounted on a heavy wheeled launcher as well.
It is one of the most lethal area defence systems ever developed intended to engage aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles.
Its deployment indicates that Russia is significantly bolstering its air defences in Syria. This is a clear signal to Washington that there would be a heavy price to pay should the US be tempted to intervene in some way against Russian or Syrian operations.
Profile: Russia's S-300 missile system
Fox News reported earlier quoting unnamed US officials that the system had been deployed at the weekend.
In addition to the Tartus naval base, Russia uses the Hmeimim air base near the Syrian coastal city of Latakia.
Last year, Moscow deployed the more advanced S-400 system there as it began conducting air strikes in Syria.
On Monday, the US said it was suspending talks with Russia over Syria, accusing Moscow of having "failed to live up" to its commitments under the ceasefire deal.
Washington blamed Russia and the Syrian government for intensifying attacks against civilians, including rebel-held areas in eastern Aleppo.
State department spokesman John Kirby said Moscow and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's troops had been "targeting critical infrastructure such as hospitals and preventing humanitarian aid from reaching civilians in need, including through the 19 September attack on a humanitarian aid convoy".
Moscow strongly denies involvement of its own or Syrian planes in the deadly aid convoy strike, and says the incident was caused by fire on the ground and not by an air strike.
Hundreds of people, including children, have died since government forces launched an offensive to take full control of Aleppo after the week-long truce lapsed.
Responding to the suspension of the talks, Russia said it regretted the US move, accusing Washington of trying to shift blame for the collapse of the ceasefire.
"Washington simply did not fulfil the key condition of the agreement to improve the humanitarian condition around Aleppo," Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
She also said that the US had failed to divide jihadist groups in Syria from the moderate opposition.
Russia and the US were due to convene in Geneva to try to co-ordinate air strikes against jihadist groups, but American officials were told to return home.
The US also said that it would withdraw personnel "that had been dispatched in anticipation of the possible establishment of the Joint (US-Russian) Implementation Centre".
However, the two sides would keep talking about counter-terrorism operations in Syria to avoid unnecessary clashes.


Durham secured their first Championship win of the season by beating Glamorgan by nine wickets at Chester-Le-Street.

Four wickets from Barry McCarthy helped the hosts dismiss Glamorgan for 263 in their second innings to give Durham a target of 158 to win.
Opening batsman Stephen Cook scored an unbeaten 89 from 78 balls to guide them to victory.
Cook shared an opening stand of 129 with Cameron Steel who scored 51, although both batsmen were dropped.
It was Durham's first win since the county were relegated from Division One and handed a 48-point penalty by the England and Wales Cricket Board in October 2016.
Glamorgan had won their two previous Championship games but were second-best against a positive Durham team.
Colin Ingram scored 70 not out and nightwatchman Lukas Carey contributed 49 in the Welsh county's second innings, but losing five wickets before lunch left them on the back foot.
And in contrast to Glamorgan's slow run rate, Steel and Cook scored at nearly six an over to set up the victory to take Durham into positive points in Division Two for the first time this season.
Durham bowler Barry McCarthy told BBC Radio Newcastle:
"It was nice to get going and get that first win of the season.
"It has been a frustrating few weeks to say the least. We have played some good cricket over the last four days and it's nice to be finally rewarded with a win.
"It has been a couple of tough weeks. We have played some good cricket against Kent last week, where we were unfortunately just one wicket short at the end and there were some final over losses which were not great.
"Over the last two weeks we have shown we are going to turn things around and push to get up that table."


Manager Paul Hartley has denied claims that Dundee have offered Danny Williams and James Vincent much more money than their present club, Inverness.

Caley Thistle manager John Hughes had admitted that Dundee have made the midfielders pre-contract offers to switch to Dens Park next season.
"Dundee are not paying any more money than anybody else," said Hartley.
"I don't know where John is getting his information from, but it's certainly wrong. That's laughable."
Winger Williams, 28, previously of Kendal Town, and fellow Englishman Vincent, 26, formerly of Kidderminster Harriers, both arrived at Caledonian Stadium in 2013.
They helped Caley Thistle win the Scottish Cup in May, but Hartley described suggestions that Dundee had made offers that Inverness could not afford as "way beyond the mark".
Hughes has not given up hope of persuading the pair to remain in Inverness.
However, asked to confirm if Dundee had made contact with the duo, he joked: "That's 100% right and I'm going to drive them down there this moment because, for the money Dundee are offering, I would be down there signing for it too.
"That's just part and parcel of the game. Who says we're not talking to players, that we don't have one or two pre-contracts signed up ourselves?
"One thing I will say is that I don't think we can match the finances that - if what I am hearing is true - Dundee are wanting to give the players."
Hughes also warned the pair that, if they do want to remain in the Highlands, they both need to prove their desire to him before he asks the Caley Thistle board to release the extra funds that might persuade them to sign on again.
Williams has been an almost ever-present this season, but Vincent has made only 16 appearances and has not played since 2 January.
"For Danny Williams to stay here, he has to show us it's not all money motivated," added Hughes. "If it is the case that he wants to be here then it gives us a wee half nudge to try and keep him.
"In James Vincent's case, he has to get himself back playing. He's not had the best of seasons in terms of injuries.
"But right in this moment in time he has to get himself back playing before I can go clear it with the board that Vinny deserves another contract. He has to go and earn it.
"Hopefully they will be here next year, but if not, football evolves and we keep just moving on."