US authorities have said they plan to seize more than $1bn (£761m) in assets allegedly bought with funds diverted from Malaysia's government investment fund, 1MDB.

The fund was a government project to develop Malaysia's economy, but the Department of Justice (DoJ) has alleged that vast amounts of the fund's money was actually spent by a few individuals on luxury assets around the world.  Officials at 1MDB have denied any wrongdoing.
Here are some of the ways the US says the money was spent.
The DoJ alleged that $380m was spent on a stake in the Park Lane, a luxury hotel overlooking Central Park in New York.
Another property, Park Laurel Condo, also in New York, cost $33.5m at purchase, the US claims.
Walker Tower Penthouse and Time Warner Penthouse were purchased for $50.9m and $30.5m respectively.
The Viceroy L'Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills in Los Angeles was also on the list, purchased for $44.8m, the US alleges.
A mansion in Beverly Hills with a pool curved around and it and tiered gardens was valued at $31m at purchase.
And the DoJ says $41.8m was spent on a secluded townhouse in the London's upmarket Belgravia area.
The US says 1MDB spent $100m on Red Granite Pictures, the studio backing the The Wolf of Wall Street - a film about corruption and greed. The production company was co-founded by Riza Aziz, stepson of the Mr Najib.
A Bombardier Global 5000 private jet was purchased for a reported $35.4m.
Vincent Van Gogh's La Maison de Vincent à Arles, a pen and ink drawing by the Dutch post-impressionist, was picked up for $5.5m, the DoJ said.
Oscar-Claude Monet's Nymphéas Avec Reflets de Hautes Herbes, an oil painting was worth $57.5m at purchase.
Monet's Saint-Georges Majeur au Crépuscule was bought for $35m.
Source: US Department of Justice


DJ Mark Goodier is said to be "recovering quite well" after having a stroke at the beginning of November.

A spokesman for his Wisebuddah company said there had been no complications and that the 55-year-old hoped to be back at work before the end of 2016.
The news came to light through an automated email response Goodier set up that referred to his absence.
"I am away from work for a time recovering from a stroke and so not seeing email every day," it reads.
Goodier was last heard on the BBC filling in for Radio 2 breakfast presenter Chris Evans on 24 and 25 October.
The former Radio 1 DJ was also heard presenting Radio 2's Pick of the Pops programme earlier this year, following Tony Blackburn's temporary departure.
"At the beginning of November Mark Goodier suffered a stroke and was taken directly to UCH [University College Hospital] in central London," a statement from his production company said.
"He was kept in for a short period and then returned to his home where he is currently recuperating.
"He is receiving excellent medical attention, and recovering very well indeed. He expects to be able to return to work before the end of December."
News of Goodier's condition prompted several of his radio colleagues to send messages of support.
Jeremy Vine said he was sending his friend "love and best wishes", while Sara Cox advised the "radio legend & all round lovely man" to "rest up & get better".
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Germany's president has called for refugees to be welcomed in a speech due to be broadcast on Christmas Day.

Joachim Gauck also praised Germans who have sheltered and cared for around 200,000 new refugees this year.
Many see his message as an indirect attack on a new anti-immigration group called Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West, or Pegida.
It has been running weekly rallies in Dresden since October. On Monday, a record 17,500 people took part.
Mr Gauck urged Germans "not to be afraid" of the world around them and said he was encouraged by those who do not "want to seal Germany off".
"Where we can contribute to maintaining peace or alleviate suffering so that we can build a better future, then we should do everything in our power to do so," he added.
Although Pegida has seen a surge in support, several counter-demonstrations have also taken place.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior politicians have spoken out against the Pegida rallies.
Germany has become Europe's main destination for asylum-seekers, many of whom are from Muslim-majority countries such as Syria and Iraq.
Thousands of Germans have also taken in refugees privately, Reuters reports.


A mother who has vanished with her young son to avoid a custody ruling "can't keep hiding away", the police chief leading the search has said.

Rebecca Minnock, 35, and three-year-old Ethan, from Somerset, have been missing for more than two weeks.
Det Ch Insp Marie Wright appealed to Miss Minnock to contact her directly and told the BBC staying in hiding "isn't in Ethan's best interests".
Miss Minnock contacted The Sun to say both she and Ethan are "safe and well".
She told the newspaper she had "lost all trust and faith in the system completely" following a custody ruling that Ethan should live with his father.
The pair have since been seen in Cheltenham and Birmingham where the police effort is now believed to be focused.
Det Ch Insp Wright, of Avon and Somerset Police, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she believed Ethan was safe and that Miss Minnock was a "good mother".
In a direct appeal to the mother she said: "It isn't in Ethan's best interests to carry on hiding like this and I'm more than happy to have some personal conversations with her about how we can bring this matter to a close."
"She can't keep hiding from this process - where is it going to end?"
Meanwhile a statement issued on behalf of Ethan's father has been released, requesting privacy.  It adds: "This is a very difficult time for Roger Williams and his family.
"The welfare and safe return of his only child, Ethan, is understandably his priority."
Police believe Miss Minnock and Ethan, from Highbridge, are staying with family or friends, some of whom have already been brought before a judge accused of withholding information.
Andrew Butt - the former partner of Miss Minnock's mother Louise - was earlier served with a "collection order" for Ethan at Bristol Crown Court - requiring him to bring the boy to the court or pass on any information that might help find him.
At a previous court hearing, Louise Minnock confirmed Mr Butt owned a black Ford Focus and said that neither she nor her daughter drove.
Rebecca Minnock was seen withdrawing cash in Highbridge on the morning of her disappearance before getting into a black Ford Focus which is believed to have been driven to Cheltenham, where she has family.
Judge Stephen Wildblood QC told Mr Butt: "I require absolute truthfulness as to what has been going on. My powers are to imprison you, fine you or seize your assets for contempt of court."
The judge told the court that Ethan's father was not present because he had run out of money.
"He has been legally represented at his own cost through these proceedings which have gone on for a long time," he said.
"He has left the immediate area because of the reaction that there has been to these proceedings."
Ethan has lived with his mother since his parents separated in February 2013.
On 27 May, a district judge ruled Ethan should live with Mr Williams after finding Miss Minnock had made false allegations and obstructed contact between the father and son. He had been spending four nights a week with his father and three with Miss Minnock following a court hearing in February.
A child psychiatrist had recommended that Ethan should live with his father and have supervised contact with his mother - a view shared by a social worker and a guardian.
Judge Wildblood stressed on Thursday:  "I think it is important to put right, so the public can understand, the seriousness with which the court takes in approaching the task of ensuring that both parents, if at all possible, maintain an effective relationship with the child."


Rare drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, which are part of the Queen's royal collection, have gone on show.

The works at Nottingham Castle include a chalk portrait of St Anne, sketches of bodies and plants, plus some technical drawings.
The artist made only around 20 paintings during his lifetime, including the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but left many more drawings.
In total, there are almost 600 drawings by da Vinci in the Royal Collection.
They were originally bound into a single album, thought to have been acquired in the 17th Century by Charles II.
Experts believe Leonardo's drawings are the richest, most wide-ranging and most technically brilliant of any artist.
The exhibition is on show at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery until 9 October.


Scientists have recorded the events that unfolded after the Earth's magnetic shield was breached.

Openings in the planet's magnetic field are not uncommon, but it is rarer to get the opportunity to gather data while such an event is in progress.
A cosmic ray monitoring facility recorded a burst of cosmic rays associated with the opening.
The magnetic field breach was the result of charged particles from the Sun striking the Earth at high speed.
The GRAPES-3 muon telescope located at the Cosmic Ray Laboratory (CRL) in Ooty, southern India, recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays of about 20 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) on 22 June 2015.
"In this case the magnetic field was breached for only two hours and then returned back to normal. The magnetic field strength reduced only by 2%," Dr Sunil Gupta, lead scientist at the CRL told the BBC.
Earth's magnetic shield, or magnetosphere, extends over a radius of a million kilometres. It protects the planet's biosphere from the continuous flow of solar and other cosmic radiation.
The Sun periodically ejects vast clouds of charged particles into space in events known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Each one can contain a billion tonnes of charged gas, or plasma.
The giant cloud of plasma ejected from the solar corona in 2015 caused massive compression of the Earth's magnetosphere and triggered a severe geomagnetic storm. In turn, this generated aurora borealis (northern lights), and radio signal blackouts in many high latitude countries.
Numerical simulations performed by the GRAPES-3 team on this event indicate that the Earth's magnetic shield temporarily opened up in response to the incoming solar plasma, allowing the lower energy galactic cosmic ray particles to enter our atmosphere.
Dr Gupta said that the CRL's measurements of the two-hour breach "gives us much more comprehensive information over a much larger region of space than the satellite based instruments".
The GRAPES-3 Muon telescope's combination of a large area and directional measurement enabled the accidental observations.
"We have been aware of impacts on the Earth from solar activity for a long time through the discovery of CMEs, but the Indian study adds a new element to this endeavour, with detailed analysis of a major particle event during the arrival of a particular cloud," Dr Richard Harrison, head of space physics and chief scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, UK, told BBC News.
A major event could occur any time with potentially significant impacts on human infrastructure. As such, there are ongoing efforts to improve the prediction of this so-called space weather.
"They can short circuit power supplies such as high voltage transformers which provide power to our cities, disrupt communication satellites and therefore will affect, for example, internet, mobile phones and just about anything that uses electricity," said Dr Harrison.
In addition, he said, a major solar storm could also threaten humans in space, with the potential for damage to or the loss of spacecraft - although such events are expected to be rare.
Scientists at CRL hope that the vast amount of data now available would enable them to better predict such events and take preventative measures. But the real challenge is to devise appropriate electronic hardware that can issue a reliable alert, Dr Gupta said.
The findings have been published in the journal Physical Review Letters.


The girl band Little Mix has rescheduled their two cancelled Belfast gigs for July.

The group cancelled their performances at Belfast's SSE Arena on Thursday at short notice.
Crowds had begun to gather at the venue for the matinee show when a notice was handed out saying that band member Jesy Nelson was unwell.
The rescheduled concerts will be on 2 July.
Tickets for the matinee show will be valid for July's matinee, while the same goes for evening tickets.
Anyone unable to attend will be entitled to a refund.
Thursday's cancellation was announced just minutes after the doors opened for the afternoon performance.
Fans were later informed by text message that the show would not be going ahead as scheduled.
General Manager of The SSE Arena, Neil Walker, apologised to fans who were disappointed by the cancellations.
"For anyone unable to attend the rescheduled shows, please contact point of purchase for details on how to obtain a refund," he said.


The Disappeared are those who were abducted, murdered and secretly buried by republicans during Northern Ireland's Troubles.

Despite extensive and painstaking searches, the bodies have never been found of seven out of 16 people listed by the commission set up to locate victims' remains.
Here is a timeline charting more than 40 years of developments in one of the darkest episodes of Northern Ireland's Troubles.
Joe Lynskey was a former Cistercian monk from the Beechmount area of west Belfast, who later joined the IRA. Mr Lynskey's name was added to the list of the Disappeared in 2010 when republicans claimed he was "executed and buried" by the IRA. His body has not been found.
Kevin McKee, 17, was the youngest member of the Disappeared. He was abducted alongside fellow IRA member Seamus Wright, 25. The pair are interrogated and murdered by his former colleagues who accuse them of being British army agents and members of its undercover Military Reaction Force. Despite extensive searches in Coghalstown, near Navan in County Meath, their bodies have never been found.
Jean McConville, a widow and mother-of-10, is taken by the IRA from her home in the Divis Flats in west Belfast. The case initially gains extensive media attention in the run-up to Christmas as her children plead for information about their mother. However, republicans put out the message that she is merely lying low, and the story gradually fades. Her body was found at a beach in County Louth in 2003.
Peter Wilson, 21, vanishes from his Falls Road home in west Belfast. Described as a vulnerable person with learning difficulties, for four days before he disappeared he lived with an Army unit at their headquarters near his home. At the time the Army was accused of using a vulnerable person to gather information on the IRA, but the Army said they wanted him to experience military life. Reports suggest he may have been abducted and murdered by the IRA. His name was added to the list of the Disappeared in 2009 after new information became available. His remains were found in November 2010.
Eamon Molloy, 22, is kidnapped and shot dead by the IRA over claims he is a police informer. His body was discovered in a cemetery near Dundalk, County Louth, in 1999.
The IRA abducts and murders Columba McVeigh, a 17-year-old from Donaghmore, County Tyrone. He had allegedly confessed to being a British army agent with instructions to infiltrate the IRA. Despite a number of extensive searches at Bragan Bog near Emyvale, County Monaghan, his body has never been found.
Captain Robert Nairac, 29, is abducted by the IRA in south Armagh. The SAS-trained officer is taken from outside a pub where he had been singing Irish rebel songs and brought across the border to a field at Ravensdale, County Louth. His body has never been found.
Brendan Megraw, 23, is abducted and murdered by the IRA, who claimed the Belfast man had confessed to being an undercover British agent. His wife was expecting their first baby at the time. Despite extensive searches, his body has never been found.
Friends Brian McKinney, 22, and John McClory, 18, are abducted and murdered after being accused of stealing IRA weapons for use in robberies.
Their bodies were uncovered near a bog in County Monaghan in 1999.
Gerard Evans, 24, goes missing in County Monaghan while hitchhiking home to Crossmaglen in south Armagh. No group has ever admitted his murder. His remains were recovered in County Louth in 2010.
Eugene Simons, 26, goes missing from his home near Castlewellan, County Down, on New Year's Day. His body was discovered by chance in May 1984 in a bog near Dundalk, County Louth.
Danny McIlhone goes missing from his west Belfast home. The IRA said Mr McIlhone was not suspected of being an informer but was being questioned about stealing weapons - it was claimed he was killed in a struggle with the person who was guarding him. His remains were found in 2008.
Charlie Armstrong, 57, goes missing on his way to Mass in Crossmaglen. His remains were found in 2010.
Body of Eugene Simons is discovered.
Seamus Ruddy, 32, originally from Newry, County Down, goes missing. He had been working as a teacher in Paris. It is believed he was killed by members of the INLA. Fresh searches were carried out in 2008 after his family were told his remains were in a forest in Normandy, but they found nothing.
The IRA announces a "complete cessation of military operations". This ceasefire holds until the bomb in London's Docklands in February 1996.
The INLA admits it killed Newry man Seamus Ruddy.
The IRA announces its second ceasefire.
The Good Friday Agreement is signed, following years of intensive peace talks between political parties in Northern Ireland and the British and Irish governments.
Bereavement counselling group WAVE sets up a confidential freephone number for anonymous callers to provide information on the Disappeared. In the same month, an IRA spokesperson acknowledges to the newspaper An Phoblacht/ Republican News that the IRA secretly killed and buried "a small number of people" in the 1970s. The interview said the IRA had set up a special unit to trace the bodies.
Information emerges to suggest Newry man Seamus Ruddy is buried in Rouen, France, but nothing is found in subsequent searches.
The IRA admits it has located the graves of nine people it abducted and killed in the 1970s and 1980s. It claims most of those they had murdered had been giving information to the British security forces, an allegation denied by the victims' families.
The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) is established by a treaty between the British and Irish governments. The commission's purpose is to obtain information that may lead to where the remains of the Disappeared are buried. Information given to the commission is strictly confidential and is not passed to other agencies or used in prosecutions.
The remains of the first of the Disappeared - Eamon Molloy - are recovered near Dundalk, County Louth, and returned to his family for burial. His remains had been placed in a coffin and left above ground at Faughart cemetery.
In a separate development, the IRA provides information about the location of the Disappeared to the ICLVR through intermediaries. As a result of this, digging begins at six sites in the Republic of Ireland.
The remains of Brian McKinney and John McClory are discovered in a double grave after 30 days of searches at a bog in Colagh, County Monaghan.
The remains of Brian McKinney and John McClory are returned to their families, 21 years after their disappearance. Both men are laid to rest in Milltown Cemetery in west Belfast. Brian McKinney's mother Margaret tells the Irish News: "I wouldn't have wanted to go to my grave without Brian being properly buried. For years I've had nowhere to mourn him. Now I'll be able to go to his grave and talk to him. I'll have somewhere to bring flowers and to cry."
Remains unearthed by a dog walker at a beach at Shelling Hill, County Louth, are thought to be those of Jean McConville.
A third search for the remains of Columba McVeigh at a bog at Bragan, County Monaghan, ends without success.  The latest dig concentrated on an area about the size of a football field, adjacent to where previous searches took place in 1999 and 2000.
DNA tests confirm that remains found buried on a County Louth beach are those of Jean McConville. Irish police confirmed that she had died from a bullet wound to the head. Her remains are returned to her family, and her funeral takes place in Belfast.
The IRA issues a statement apologising for the grief caused to the families of the Disappeared, saying it was sorry their suffering had continued for so long. The apology is dismissed by the families of Jean McConville and Columba McVeigh.
The mother of Columba McVeigh dies at the age of 82. A tireless campaigner for the return of her son's body, she had been ill for some time.
The remains of Danny McIlhone are discovered at bogland near the Blessington Lakes in County Wicklow, following information given to the ICLVR. In a statement, his family said: "We as a family are now at peace and now have the opportunity to given our brother Danny a Christian burial and to lay him to rest with our beloved mother and father." The discovery followed two unsuccessful searches in 1999 and 2000.
The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains begins investigating the disappearance of Peter Wilson.
Legislation comes into force to allow families of the Disappeared whose bodies have not been found to settle their affairs. Under the Presumption of Death Act, the families of missing persons will, for the first time, be able to have the presumed death of their family member confirmed by the High Court, and a certificate of presumed death made available to them by the General Register Office.
The name of west Belfast man Joe Lynskey is added to the list of the Disappeared. A spokesman for the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains says he is satisfied the case "falls within its remit". It follows a number of newspaper reports based on briefings from "senior republican sources" that the IRA had murdered Mr Lynskey.
The remains of Charlie Armstrong are discovered in a bog in County Monaghan. The discovery is made less than 300 metres away from where the bodies of Belfast friends John McClory and Brian McKinney were found more than 11 years previously.
Charlie Armstrong's funeral takes place in Crossmaglen, almost 30 years after he went missing.
The remains of Gerry Evans are found at a site in Carrickrobin, County Louth, following searches based on information given to the ICLVR. His remains were discovered shortly after it announced its search at the site was winding down. They had unearthed an area the size of four football fields during 16 months of painstaking excavation but had found nothing. Mr Evans was laid to rest in the grounds of St Patrick's Church in Crossmaglen, not far from the grave of Charlie Armstrong.
The remains of Peter Wilson are discovered at Waterfoot beach in County Antrim. Archaeologists and other experts were sent to the beach in the Glens of Antrim after a tip-off to the ICLVR. His sister, Anne Connolly, said it had been a shock to learn he might be buried in Waterfoot as her mother, Lily, who died three years previously, had often visited the beach.
DNA tests confirm that a body exhumed from a graveyard in Scotstown, County Monaghan, are not those of Columba McVeigh.
Another search for the remains of Columba McVeigh begins in Bragan, County Monaghan, but it is abandoned a few weeks later because of bad weather. It resumes in the spring but again nothing is found.
A sixth search for the body of Columba McVeigh ends in failure. Trees are cleared at Bragan Bog, County Monaghan. However, nothing is found.
The ICLVR issues a fresh appeal for information about the location of the remains of the Disappeared. It follows the broadcast of a BBC/RTÃ‰ documentary highlighting the plight of families with missing relatives.
A former IRA leader is charged in connection with the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville. Ivor Bell, 77, who was a senior leader in the Provisional IRA in the 1970s, is arrested at his home in Andersonstown. The case against him is based on an interview he allegedly gave to researchers at Boston College in the US. He is released on bail.
Sinn FÃ©in President Gerry Adams is arrested in connection with the 1972 murder of Jean McConville. He presents himself at Antrim police station for questioning. In a statement he says: "While I have never disassociated myself from the IRA and I never will, I am innocent of any part in the abduction, killing or burial of Mrs McConville." After four days of questioning, he is released. Police said a file would be sent to the Public Prosecution Service.
The sister of Seamus Ruddy says she knows the names of his killers. Anne Morgan, who was the last family member to see Mr Ruddy alive, says: "We want them to come forward and to show the right place where our Seamus is buried."
Relatives of Columba McVeigh and Brendan Megraw say finding their loved ones' remains is more important than justice.
Forensic work begins in the search for Brendan Megraw, who was abducted and murdered in 1978. The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains carries out a 'geophysical survey' on land not previously searched at a bog in Oristown, County Meath. There have been three unsuccessful searches for him, the most recent in 2010.
Human remains found on 1 October in a search of bogland in County Meath are confirmed as being those of Brendan Megraw, following DNA tests. His brother Kieran spoke of his family's relief. "He has been alone for nearly 40 years and now we can bring him home and lay him to rest with our mum and dad. We want to thank all those who have supported us over the years."


Huddersfield briefly moved top of the Premier League as they played out a goalless draw with Southampton.

The Terriers had the best of the chances as they looked to extend their 100% start to the season, with Rajiv van la Parra, Steve Mounie and Elias Kachunga all having opportunities
But they ultimately had defender Tommy Smith to thank for saving a point with a goalline clearance from Ryan Bertrand's injury-time header.
Three games into their first Premier League season, Huddersfield are ahead of Manchester City on goal difference.
But having gone top when their match finished, they were usurped by Manchester United after their win over Leicester later in the day.
Saints boss Mauricio Pellegrino, meanwhile, has made an unbeaten start in the Premier League with two draws and one victory.
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Huddersfield have opened the league season with three successive clean sheets - only the second time a promoted side have done so after Charlton achieved the feat in 1997.
Few would have predicted their flying start to the campaign, but David Wagner's side have been a breath of fresh air.
"We have three clean sheets in the Premier League so I am very proud," said Wagner.
"We will go into this international break with a smile on our face.
"We wanted to show that we are brave. I am very happy."
The visitors may not have made the most convincing start to the game, but they remain unbeaten in the league this season.
And, were it not for Smith's late clearance, they would have stolen all three points, taking them - not the hosts - level on points with Manchester City.
While much of the attention has been focused on the future of defender Virgil van Dijk, the Saints have made a steady start under Pellegrino.
Despite Huddersfield having nine first-half shots, they showed defensive solidity, and will hope to welcome back the Dutchman once the transfer window shuts this week.
Huddersfield manager David Wagner: "I was happy how brave we were in the first half. Unfortunately, we didn't score and this is why we have to accept the 0-0.
"There were some good blocks and saves. We missed opportunities. Southampton had the best chances in the second half.
"It was an unbelievable save on the goalline [from Tommy Smith]."
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Southampton manager Mauricio Pellegrino: "We have to think about what we can do to be better in the next game. We have to keep going. Huddersfield are now really high. They are in a good moment.
"We had chances in the last 15-20 minutes and put them under pressure. There were moments for us and moments for them.
"It could have been three points, one point or none. It was tough from the beginning."
Following the international break, Huddersfield travel to London Stadium to face West Ham on Monday, 11 September at 20:00 BST. The Saints host Watford two days prior to that (15:00).
Match ends, Huddersfield Town 0, Southampton 0.
Second Half ends, Huddersfield Town 0, Southampton 0.
Offside, Southampton. James Ward-Prowse tries a through ball, but Oriol Romeu is caught offside.
Nathan Redmond (Southampton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town).
Attempt blocked. Ryan Bertrand (Southampton) header from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Shane Long with a cross.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Collin Quaner replaces Elias Kachunga.
Offside, Southampton. Nathan Redmond tries a through ball, but Sam McQueen is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Shane Long.
Attempt missed. Steve Mounie (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Tom Ince.
Oriol Romeu (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Williams (Huddersfield Town).
Attempt missed. Danny Williams (Huddersfield Town) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Kasey Palmer with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Jack Stephens.
Attempt blocked. Kasey Palmer (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Ince.
Attempt saved. Tom Ince (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tommy Smith.
Substitution, Southampton. Sam McQueen replaces Dusan Tadic.
Foul by Nathan Redmond (Southampton).
Tommy Smith (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Southampton. James Ward-Prowse replaces Manolo Gabbiadini.
Foul by Shane Long (Southampton).
Christopher Schindler (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Tom Ince (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Elias Kachunga.
Foul by Cédric Soares (Southampton).
Tom Ince (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Shane Long (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christopher Schindler (Huddersfield Town).
Corner,  Southampton. Conceded by Kasey Palmer.
Corner,  Southampton. Conceded by Zanka.
Substitution, Southampton. Shane Long replaces Mario Lemina.
Attempt missed. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Manolo Gabbiadini.
Dusan Tadic (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Williams (Huddersfield Town).
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Danny Williams replaces Philip Billing.
Foul by Jack Stephens (Southampton).
Kasey Palmer (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Steve Mounie (Huddersfield Town) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Tommy Smith with a cross.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Kasey Palmer replaces Rajiv van La Parra because of an injury.
Corner,  Southampton. Conceded by Tom Ince.


A north-east of England council says government budget cuts are forcing it to use funding earmarked for vulnerable residents.

Newcastle City Council is using money previously ring-fenced for welfare and crisis loans on other frontline services, it said.
Labour council deputy leader Joyce McCarty said it was facing "really tough choices".
The government said local councils were best placed to decide priorities.
It is proposing to cut a further £12bn from its annual welfare budget.
Funding for welfare grants and crisis loans was devolved to local control in 2013/14.
Ring-fencing was removed from 2015/16 and the cash now goes into the council's central budget.
The authority said it could not prioritise discretionary loans over its statutory obligations and would only be able to allocate £120,000, compared with last year's £229,000, for emergency welfare payments.
It had been forced to "make some really, really tough choices between providing frontline services and offering this level of support" to poorer residents, Ms McCarty said.
The Tees Valley Community Foundation, a private charity which helps support those in need, said it expected more requests for help as a result.
Chief executive Hugh McGouran said he expected to see "a rapid increase" in demand.
"Twelve billion is such an eye watering figure," he said.
"There's going to be some significant cuts and I think people will start to turn more and more to charities to try and plug that gap."
The government said nationally-run community care grants and crisis loans had been "poorly targeted and failed to help those most in need".
"Local authorities now choose how best to support local welfare needs," a Department for Communities and Local Government spokesman said.
Additional money had been provided to assist authorities dealing with pressures on local welfare and health and social care, he said.


DNA extracted from samples from the scene of a schoolgirl's murder 40 years ago is a billion times more likely to belong to the accused than anyone else, a court has heard.

Stephen Anthony Hough, 58, is on trial for the rape and murder of 15-year-old Janet Commins in Flint in 1976.
He denies the charges, which include sexual assault and manslaughter.
Forensic scientist Alexander Peet told Mold Crown Court swabs taken from her body matched Mr Hough's DNA profile.
Mr Peet, who works for DNA testing service Cellmark, said in at least one of the samples tested, he believed the DNA originated from sperm cells.
The court heard DNA assumed to belong to Janet was also detected in one test.
In another, there were "low level" indications of a third contributor, but it was not possible to determine their origin.
Mr Peet said that reading could be "an artefact of the DNA process itself," or could be down to "tiny fragments" of DNA being introduced in the collection process.
Cross-examining Mr Peet, Patrick Harrington QC said the defence did "not dispute any of the scientific observations you make", but said there was a "paramount" need for integrity and continuity when it comes to the source of the material.
He added this was a "very unusual case and it may even be a unique case".
The court also heard evidence from Dr Christopher Lloyd, who carried out further testing after his colleague Mr Peet.
Dr Lloyd concentrated on Y-STR profiling, which focuses on the Y (male) chromosome.
He said his findings "are as I would expect if Stephen Hough had been involved in sexual activity with Janet Commins".
Although there was a very "low-level", unconfirmed result in one swab that might indicate the presence of another male, Dr Lloyd said it had "not provided any evidence" that more than one male was involved in sexual activity with Janet.
He added that, as the Y chromosome is passed on by fathers, a closely-related male on Stephen Hough's paternal line, would have a similar Y-STR profile.
Janet's body was found in a field on 11 January 1976.
One man has already served a sentence after admitting Janet's manslaughter, but he said he did not kill her.
The trial continues.


Celtic defender Kieran Tierney is "up there with the top left-backs" in Britain at the moment, says the club's first-team coach John Kennedy.

Tierney captained the team and scored a stunning long-range goal in Tuesday's 5-0 Scottish League Cup rout of Kilmarnock - a game in which he was deployed at centre-back.
The 20-year-old has also featured at right-back for Scotland.
"He can play wherever. He's a top player," said Kennedy.
"He still has improvement in him and he realises that himself. Physically he'll fill out more, technically he'll get better and as he plays more games tactically he'll become much more aware.
"For a young player he's done very well. He's got a lot of experience behind him now and you've just got to keep building on that.
"He's certainly up there with the top left-backs in the country [Britain]."
Having established himself in the first team as a young defender in his own playing career at Parkhead, Kennedy has been impressed with the way Tierney has handled the rise from youth team player to first-team stalwart.
He believes Tierney could operate effectively at centre-back - where manager Brendan Rodgers selected him against Kilmarnock - or at right-back, where Scotland boss Gordon Strachan used him in the World Cup qualifier against Slovenia in March.
"He can do that just now," Kennedy said. "It comes down to Brendan [Rodgers] and Gordon [Strachan] with Scotland, It's trust, that's all it is.
"You have a young player there who has 100% trust from their manager, wherever he plays on the pitch.
"Kieran has that mindset to try to develop and get better all the time - and he'll never change.
"I'd imagine when Kieran's 30 years old he'll still be the same guy, still be giving everything he's got every day and after games wanting to know what he can do better. That's the kind of guy he is."
Meanwhile, Kennedy says Celtic will have to bide their time in their pursuit of Patrick Roberts.
The Scottish Premiership champions want to bring back the Manchester City winger, who previously enjoyed an 18-month loan spell at Celtic Park.
"We just have to be patient on it," Kennedy explained. "Patrick had a fantastic time here, a lot of admiration for him from our end, but Manchester City have him under contract.
"Patrick has to be involved in that decision as well so we've just got to be patient and see if something materialises. But at the moment nothing has really happened on that."


Gambling on football is a huge and growing global industry worth billions of pounds per year.

While having a flutter at the bookies has long been associated with horse racing, the growth of online betting could see football challenge that position in Britain.
However, betting on football is now a worldwide phenomenon with much of the trading carried out on illegal markets in Asia, where the huge sums wagered bring with it the threat of match-fixing.
Here we look at the rise in betting, the risks of corruption and the history of cheating in the sport.
"The current estimations, which include both the illegal markets and the legal markets, suggest the sports match-betting industry is worth anywhere between $700bn and $1tn (£435bn to £625bn) a year," says Darren Small, director of integrity at betting and sports data analysts Sportradar.
About 70% of that trade has been estimated to come from trading on football.
Sportradar has contracts to monitor betting on some 55,000 matches a year, running algorithms which cover 350 global bookmakers, to spot suspicious betting patterns. Concerns are raised with about 1% of fixtures monitored.
"It doesn't sound a great deal but it is still 500 or so matches that are potentially fixed and we are talking potentially millions of pounds in turnover on these matches which is running through criminal activities," says Small.
International crime investigation body Interpol says its Operation Soga has carried out more than 2,300 raids on properties worldwide as part of its drive to disrupt match fixers.
It has seized over $27m (£16.8m) in cash, and closed down illegal gambling dens which handled bets worth more than $2bn (£1.2bn).
While betting in Asia is usually restricted to a limited range, the array of options in Europe are far more than the traditional straightforward choices of win, lose or draw.
Licensed bookies offer upwards of 200 different markets on matches around the globe.
You can bet on the first and last goalscorer, the correct score, the half-time score, number of goals, whether there will be a sending-off, a hat-trick, penalty or the amount of corners.
Some markets are time specific - offering odds on whether there might be a goal, card, corner or penalty in the first five minutes of the match, for example.
The Football Pools started 90 years ago this year. Within months, hundreds of thousands of fans were filling in weekly coupons, attempting to predict Saturday afternoon's results in the hope of winning cash prizes.
In 1961, Viv Nicholson, a factory worker from Castleford, won a £152,000 jackpot, equivalent to almost £5m today.
More than £3.2bn in winnings has been paid to 61m people over the years and more than 500,000 people still play the pools each week.
The growth of the internet and mobile devices with quick access to odds has made betting generally much more accessible.
Satellite television channels and increased coverage of live football matches around the world has increased interest and opportunity.
With it has come the widespread use of "in-running" betting, where punters can stake money on the action as it happens - for example, who will score the next goal, with odds fluctuating on the pattern of play.
Online football betting has mushroomed since it first became significant before the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000.
There is a ban on sports betting in some countries, while elsewhere illegal betting syndicates offer better odds, making the potential winnings more attractive.
Laws vary in different countries. In Singapore, for example, it is legal to place a wager on a football match at a "pools store", but online sports betting is banned.
Aside from the concerns over match-fixing, there are other financial issues associated with illegal betting, including transactions that are unaccounted for and cost governments hundreds of millions in lost tax revenue, while they also damage the profits of legal bookmakers.
Gamblers take their own risks. With no records of bets, the arrangement is based on mutual trust.
Incidents involving British footballers are relatively isolated, although betting scandals go back as far as 1915 when seven players were banned after Manchester United beat Liverpool 2-0 in a match at Old Trafford where the visitors missed a penalty.
An investigation was launched after complaints from bookmakers following a run of bets on the correct scoreline, with a goal in each half.
Nearly 50 years later, eight players were jailed for offences surrounding match-fixing, including Sheffield Wednesday's 2-0 defeat by Ipswich in 1964.
A series of floodlight failures affected top-flight English matches in 1997 and later saw a businessman convicted of taking part in an Asian betting scam.
The fraudster, who had links to the Chinese Triad underworld, was found guilty of plotting to black out a Charlton-Liverpool game.
Two previous matches - West Ham v Crystal Palace and Wimbledon against Arsenal - saw the floodlights fail when the scores were level, a result favourable to a Far East betting syndicate, but cases of match-fixing in Britain are relatively rare.
In 2006, Italian sides Juventus, Fiorentina and Lazio were relegated for their involvement in a match-fixing scandal - although after appeals, only Juve were actually demoted.
Earlier this year, 58 Chinese football officials were given match-fixing bans and last month police in Singapore arrested 14 people said to be part of a crime gang involved in global football match-fixing.
There have also been cases of cheating in Malaysia and South Korea while last month six people - including four Britons - were charged with betting-related corruption in Australia.
In February this year, the European Union's law enforcement agency Europol said it was investigating the fixing of 680 matches across the world - in Europe, Asia and South America.
A Europol statement said the conspiracy originated in Asia and involved at least 425 individuals - including match referees, club officials, players and members of organised criminal gangs.
It also said that, in Germany-based matches alone, criminals wagered £13.8m (16m euros) on rigged matches and made £6.9m in profits.
Three months later Michel Platini, president of European football's governing body Uefa, called for the establishment of a European sports police force to deal with match-fixing, hooliganism and doping - something he had first suggested in 2007.
With 22 players on the pitch, substitutes and managers, it would appear on the surface that several people would need to be in on the scam.
However, mistakes in key positions can sometimes be enough to land a gamble.
Reckless tackles leading to penalties, a flawed goalkeeping performance or deliberate own goals have been noted in suspect matches.
Referees can also be targeted as demonstrated by bans handed down by Fifa following matches between Latvia and Bolivia, and Estonia and Bulgaria, in 2011.
The games, which took place as a double-header in Turkey and only attracted about 100 spectators, produced seven goals - all scored from penalties.
Six officials involved in the games were found guilty of "passive corruption" and "unlawfully influencing match results" by Fifa's disciplinary committee.
He also asked that if a continent-wide police force was not possible, individual countries could introduce legislation to punish those guilty of corruption.
Meanwhile, in 2011 Interpol and football's governing body Fifa announced a 10-year joint initiative aimed at educating people about the risks with workshops, conferences and online tutorials.
Fifpro, the worldwide professional footballers' union, last year launched Don't Fix It, a prevention and education programme aimed at raising awareness of the dangers of match-fixing and reducing conditions that lead to it occurring.
Dr Andy Harvey of Birkbeck, University of London, is carrying out research for the Don't Fix It programme. He said: "In many cases the players are the victims of match-fixing rather than just the perpetrators of it.
"The main instigators of it, as has been the case in Italy in the past, are when clubs have been infiltrated by criminal gangs, like has happened in eastern European countries, or where players have been groomed by criminal gangs.
"This very often happens because the players are vulnerable. The European bodies, particularly Uefa, have to get to grips with governances at a national level and make sure that clubs are owned by fit and proper people."
Written by Frank Keogh and Gary Rose


The firm behind plans to build a £1bn food and power plant on Anglesey also hopes to open a short-stay centre for human-trafficking victims on the site.

Orthios hopes to create more than 1,700 jobs with a combined biomass plant and eco park at the former Anglesey Aluminium site, near Holyhead.
It has now submitted a plan to turn a medical centre there into a refuge.
Anglesey council said it would meet the firm to "better understand" the plan.
The planning application is for a secure support centre, which would be operated by North Wales Police, the Red Cross and women's organisation, Soroptimists International.
The facility would accommodate trafficked or enslaved people intercepted at Holyhead port or in other parts of north Wales.
Housing up to 60 people in two 30-bed dormitories, it would include washing facilities, a dining room, kitchen, lounge, communal areas, interview rooms and secure facilities.
The centre could also be used as a temporary emergency operations centre, in the event of a crisis on Anglesey.
In a letter to the council, the applicants said: "The Secure Support Centre will provide a safe refuge and immediate care for men, women, and families, who have been rescued from modern-day slavery.
"It provides temporary secure facilities where individuals can be interviewed, examined by relevant medical professionals and accommodated until more permanent accommodation can be found within a range of support centres throughout the country."
Anglesey said it could not comment on the proposal, which was yet to go before its planning and orders committee.
But a spokesman added: "Officers and members will be meeting with representatives from the company over the coming weeks to better understand these proposals and how they link with other possible uses on site."
Anglesey Aluminium smelting works shut in 2009 with the loss of nearly 400 jobs.


India says it will do "whatever it takes" to ensure justice for a former navy officer sentenced to death in Pakistan on charges of spying.

Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said Kulbhushan Jadhav was "kidnapped" and tried on "concocted charges".
Mr Jadhav was arrested last year and convicted on Monday of "espionage and sabotage activities against Pakistan".
Shortly after his arrest, Islamabad released a video in which he was shown admitting involvement in spying.
India has always questioned the alleged confession, saying that it was extracted under duress.
There are differing accounts of how and where Kulbhushan Jadhav was detained.
Pakistan says he was detained on 3 March 2016 in the restive Balochistan province, which has been hit by a separatist insurgency that Islamabad accuses India of backing. India says he was kidnapped by Pakistan while he was in Iran.
Speaking in the Indian parliament on Tuesday, Ms Swaraj described the death sentence as "an indefensible verdict" and warned Pakistan to "consider the consequences".
Home Minister Rajnath Singh promised that the government would do "whatever it takes to make sure Mr Jadhav gets justice".
On Monday, Pakistan said he had been tried by a military court and sentenced to death.
Pakistan said he told the court he had been ordered to "plan, coordinate, and organise espionage/sabotage activities aiming to destabilise and wage war against Pakistan".
He has 40 days to appeal to the court, Pakistani media report. No date was given for his execution.
The nuclear-armed neighbours have a long history of diplomatic spats and Delhi and Islamabad often accuse each other of sending spies into their territories.
In November, Pakistan withdrew six officials from its mission in Delhi after they were outed as suspected spies by India.
It later leaked to the press the names and photos of eight alleged Indian spies working from India's mission in Islamabad.
But executions for spying are rare. In 1999, Pakistan hanged Sheikh Shamim 10 years after his conviction for spying.
Sarabjit Singh, an Indian man sentenced to death for spying in 1991, died in prison in 2013 while on death row after an attack by other prisoners.


Samurai swords, axes and air guns are among thousands of weapons seized from schools in England and Wales, Freedom of Information requests have shown.

Press Association analysis of data from 32 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales showed 2,579 weapons had been found in two years to March 2017.
Police chiefs said there had been a "worrying" increase in young people carrying knives.
There are about 25,850 schools in England and Wales.
Heads said children's safety was their top priority and that schools worked closely with police to protect pupils.
In 2016-17 alone, 1,369 weapons were found - a rise of almost 20% on the previous year.
According to the 24 forces - including Manchester and the Metropolitan Police - that gave details of the type of weapons seized, nearly 20% were knives or swords.
Other weapons confiscated included at least 26 guns, including air guns and an imitation firearm.
More unusual seizures included a police baton, a rolling pin, a can of beer and a 15in (38cm) metal rod.
At least 47 children below the age of 10 - the age at which someone can be prosecuted - were found with weapons.
This included three five-year-olds, one of whom was caught with a knife, while another was found with a "missile" - typically a brick or a rock.
Chief Constable Alf Hitchcock,, the National Police Chiefs Council lead for knife crime, said: "Carrying a weapon of any kind in schools is not an issue for a school to deal with alone; police and partners will always be willing to work with them and take appropriate action.
"We have recently seen an increase in young people carrying knives, and this is worrying.
"We are responding to this trend by targeting those who carry them illegally and working with retailers to reduce the sale of knives to under-age people, through nationally co-ordinated operations.
"Police involvement in schools, whether it be officers delivering talks and interactive sessions or based in schools themselves as part of the Safer Schools Partnership, helps us to educate young people and explain why carrying a weapon illegally is never acceptable."
Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: "Schools work closely with the police to protect and educate their pupils, and in some cases police officers are stationed in schools.
"Where appropriate, schools conduct searches and use metal detectors, and they implement robust disciplinary procedures against anyone found in possession of a weapon."
The figures come amid a crackdown on knife crime in schools by some forces.
Earlier this month, the Metropolitan Police announced officers would be working with schools to highlight the potential consequences of carrying a knife.
It follows the case of Ann Maguire, who was stabbed to death at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds in April 2014 by a 15-year-old pupil.
The following year, teacher Vincent Uzomah was seriously injured when he was stabbed at Dixons Kings Academy in Bradford by a racist pupil.


Syria's largest city Aleppo has been bitterly contested between rebels and government forces since 2012.

30 March 2016 Last updated at 00:12 BST
Years of fighting caused massive destruction, until a partial ceasefire took effect at the end of last month.
Drone footage reveals how much of the rebel-held eastern part of Aleppo - once Syria's commercial centre - now lies in ruins.
Video produced by: Mohamed Madi


Police are investigating claims an iCloud account reportedly belonging to the Duchess of Cambridge's sister Pippa Middleton has been hacked and private photographs stolen.

The Sun reported that it was offered the images, which it said included shots of the duchess's children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
The paper said someone had contacted it asking for Â£50,000 within 48 hours.
The Met Police said inquiries were ongoing and no arrests had been made.
The haul from the hack is believed to include 3,000 pictures, and an anonymous person has reportedly tried to sell them via encrypted messaging service WhatsApp.
The Sun quoted a spokesman for Miss Middleton, who was maid of honour at her sister Catherine's 2011 wedding, as saying: "Thank you very much for drawing this to the family's attention.
"I can confirm that not only have the lawyers been informed but the police are about to be involved as well."
A Met Police spokesman said: "Police have received a report concerning the alleged hacking of a personal iCloud account. Specialist officers are now investigating."
In the summer, Miss Middleton and hedge fund manager James Matthews confirmed their engagement, with a wedding planned for next year.
Several high-profile figures have had images stolen from their iCloud accounts, including actress Jennifer Lawrence and singer Rihanna.
In July, US man Edward Majerczyk pleaded guilty to running a phishing campaign to steal private pictures and videos from film and TV stars, in what was known as the "celebgate" affair.
In 2014, Apple said it had expanded its use of "two-step verification" checks to protect data stored on its iCloud servers.
The process works by introducing an extra step after an account holder has typed their username and password into a device they have not used before.
They are also required to enter a four-digit code that is either texted to a trusted mobile phone number or sent via Apple's Find My iPhone app.
If the person does not enter the code, they are refused access to iCloud and are blocked from making an iTunes, iBooks, or App Store purchase.


Four men arrested in the UK following an international counter-terrorism operation have appeared in court to face extradition proceedings to Italy.

Bakr Hamad, 38, of Hull, Sharif Kadir, 52, of Sheffield, Zana Rahim, 32, of Derby and Awat Hamasalih, 33, of Birmingham, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday.
All four refused to consent to extradition when appearing in court.
The men are due to appear before magistrates again on 20 November.
They were arrested on Thursday on European Arrest warrants.
During their court appearance, their lawyers indicated they may challenge their extradition because of the risk of "refoulement", which the United Nations defines as "the expulsion of persons who have the right to be recognised as refugees".
The men were held as part of raids in six European countries, led by Italian authorities and connected to a suspected "jihadist network", Rawti Shax, which is said to be seeking to establish a caliphate in Iraq's Kurdistan region.
The group was allegedly plotting to free its leader, Mullah Krekar, who is in detention in Norway.
Suspects were also arrested in Italy and Norway, while authorities in Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK also searched a total of 26 properties.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said there was no suggestion any of those arrested were planning attacks in the UK.
Their focus appeared to have been in the Middle East, he added, with the investigation aimed at breaking up an international recruiting pipeline that was sending jihadists to join the Islamic State and Al-Nusra organisations - both proscribed terrorist organisations - in Iraq and Syria.
Eurojust, the EU agency which co-ordinated the European raids, said suspected leaders and several members of the group were arrested during simultaneous activity in the six countries.
It added: "The arrested persons are charged with international terrorism."
The operation, which follows several years of work by investigators, was launched under the direction of the Public Prosecution Office in Rome.
Mullah Krekar went to Norway as a refugee in 1991 from Iraq and founded radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, although he later tried to distance himself from it.
Norwegian authorities have been trying to deport him since 2003 after deeming him a threat to national security.
Eurojust said Rawti Shax, or Didi Nwe, meaning the "new course" or "towards the mountain", represented an "evolution of Ansar al-Islam", which is listed by the UN as a terrorist organisation affiliated with al-Qaeda.
It says the group has a "primary objective" which is to "violently overthrow the current Iraqi Kurdish government and replace it with a caliphate governed by Sharia law".
It also alleged that the group was active in providing logistical and financial support for the recruitment of foreign fighters to be sent to Syria and Iraq, and also had the intent of training them for a future conflict in Kurdistan.


The son of a senior councillor arrested on suspicion of fraud as part of a probe into the sale of the authority's former properties will face no further action.

Azeem Hafeez, the son of Sandwell Council's former deputy leader Mahboob Hussain, will not be charged, police have said.
Mr Hafeez said: "My arrest did not relate to the sale or purchase of any former Sandwell Council properties.
"I'm considering taking legal action."
A West Midlands Police spokeswoman said: "The 30-year-old man who was arrested in connection with an investigation into irregularities regarding the sale of former Sandwell council properties between June 2012 and September 2014 has been released without charge and told no further action will be taken against him.
"He was arrested from an address in Oldbury on 1 April 2015. He was on police bail throughout the intervening period."
The investigation into the sale of the council's former properties continues, the West Midlands force said.
Labour-run Sandwell Council said it would co-operate with the police investigation when it began in October.
In October,  Oldbury ward councillor Mr Hussain stood down as chairman of the council's asset management and land disposal committee.
At the time, the council said Mr Hussain's resignation was a neutral act that did not imply any wrongdoing.
In a personal statement, issued last year, Mr Hussain said: "I fully expect the audit service's investigation to clearly show I have followed all the proper rules and procedures."
He has also since resigned from the authority's ruling cabinet, along with former economy chief councillor, Ian Jones.


China and the United States will work together to try to prevent further missile tests by North Korea, US President Barack Obama says.

In recent weeks, North Korea has carried out a hydrogen bomb test and repeatedly test-fired missiles.
Mr Obama met Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a nuclear summit in Washington on Thursday.
But hours later, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the North appeared to have test-fired another missile.
The latest test saw what appeared to be a ballistic missile land off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, Yonhap reported.
Mr Obama said he and Mr Xi were seeking to agree "how we can discourage action like nuclear missile tests that escalate tensions and violate international obligations".
Mr Xi, quoted by China's state news agency Xinhua, said it was critical all parties "fully and strictly" implemented newly-agreed sanctions. China is North Korea's closest ally and largest trading partner.
Zheng Zeguang, China's assistant foreign minister, said the presidents had a "candid and in-depth exchange of views on a variety of issues...and reached an important consensus". He called the meeting "positive, constructive and fruitful".
North Korea's nuclear test on 6 January and a satellite launch on 7 February were violations of existing UN sanctions.
Since then, the UN and Washington passed further sanctions on Pyongyang. The UN steps were drafted with support by China and reportedly came after two months of negotiations between Beijing and Washington.
Previous UN sanctions imposed after North Korean tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013 did little to dispel its nuclear ambitions.
Much of the burden of making sure the sanctions are implemented is falling on China.
Under the new measures, any North Korean ships arriving in China must be inspected for contraband and imports halted if there is proof profits from those exchanges go towards the North's nuclear programme.
Washington has long pushed for Beijing to put more pressure on North Korea. A White House statement in February said China's "unique influence over the North Korean regime" gave it the chance to do so.
China's foreign ministry last week said it was keen to push for wider talks on North Korea, involving a number of regional powers, during the meeting with Mr Obama. There was no confirmation whether new talks were agreed on Thursday.
Mr Obama also vowed to closely work on the same issue with its allies South Korea and Japan after meeting their leaders on Thursday.
"We are united in our efforts to deter and defend against North Korean provocations," he said.


Barack Obama has enjoyed a rare tête-à-tête with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Montreal.

The duo dined at trendy Liverpool House on Tuesday when the former US president was in town for a speaking engagement.
The pair have a storied bromance, which began when Mr Trudeau visited the White House for a state dinner last year.
Mr Trudeau, who once called Mr Obama his "sibling", tweeted that they discussed getting young people "to take action in their communities".
The Obama Foundation also tweeted that the two had discussed their "shared commitment" to youth leadership.
Mr Obama was in town to give a speech at the Palais des congrès hosted by the Montreal Chamber of Commerce. The event was sold out, with reports of tickets being resold online for hundreds of dollars.
During his speech, Mr Obama commended the Paris climate agreement and expressed disappointment that the US has withdrawn.
"In Paris, we came together around the most ambitious agreement in history to fight climate change," he said. "An agreement that even with the temporary absence of American leadership will still give our children a fighting chance."
But it wasn't all business for the busy former president, who took time to have dinner with the Canadian prime minister.
Mr Trudeau and Mr Obama's friendship has been heralded as one of the great "bromances" of our times, inspiring everything from Twitter memes to fan fiction.
Restaurant owner David McMillan told the CBC that the pair seemed jovial at dinner, which included oysters, shrimp, halibut, steak, spaghetti lobster and strawberry shortcake. The restaurant is a favourite of Mr Trudeau's, who is from Montreal and represents the district of Papineau.
But while the pair were cool and collected inside, outside it was mayhem with about 200 security guards and a street packed with onlookers.


Chile's lower house of Congress has approved a proposal that lifts a ban on abortion in cases of rape, when there is health risk for the mother, or when the foetus is not viable.

The draft, which was submitted by Michelle Bachelet's government, needs Senate approval to become law.
Despite being predominantly Catholic, Chile allowed abortion until 1989.
But the practice was banned by General Augusto Pinochet in one of the last acts of his military government.
"Incredible, the motion is passed," said the leader of the Chamber of Deputies, Marco Antonio Nunez.
Opinion polls say most Chileans approve the change.
"This is an historic day. We see the political will to let women make their own decisions," said lawmaker Karol Cariola of the Communist Party, which is part of Ms Bachelet's governing coalition.
The proposal was approved by 66 to 44 votes.
The government, which tabled the bill 14 months ago, managed to get the support of some members of the conservative Christian Democrats.
"This is a setback for protection of the unborn," said Claudia Nogueira of conservative Independent Democratic Union party.
Chile is one of seven Latin American countries where there is still a total ban on abortion.
The others are El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and Surinam.
Only Cuba, Guyana, Puerto Rico and Uruguay allow abortions in cases other than rape, incest or threats to a woman's health.
In 2012, Uruguay's congress voted narrowly to legalise abortions during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
In Mexico, only Mexico City has legalised abortion, during the first 12 weeks.


The Irish government has said there is no longer cause for concern about a man thought to have been caught up in the attack in Nice in which 84 were killed.

The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs was previously "very concerned" about this individual.
They said they are continuing to try and contact a number of people but had "no reason to believe that any of these have been caught up in the incident."
The Irish embassy is in ongoing contact with the French authorities.
The attack coincided with Bastille Day, a national holiday in France, and thousands of people had gathered on the streets to watch a fireworks display.
Live updates: Bastille Day attack in Nice
A Northern Ireland man who witnessed the attack has described the "panic" at the scene.
Paddy Mullan, from Londonderry, is in Nice on holiday with his girlfriend.
He was standing on the city's Promenade des Anglais when he saw the truck approaching.
"This lorry just mounted the kerb, across the street from us and the next thing, all you could hear was banging and shouting and screaming," he said.
Belfast man Suneil Sharma, who was nearby when the truck hit the crowds, described the aftermath as "absolute pandemonium".
Meanwhile, the Irish ambassador to France, Geraldine Byrne-Nason, told the BBC she was not in a position to confirm details about individual cases.
She said the embassy was working on a number of "cases of concern" but there was no confirmation from the French authorities about the nationality or identity of the victims.
Ms Byrne-Nason said Irish people in France should contact their own families in Ireland and the embassy.
Northern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers, Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness, have issued a joint statement condemning the atrocity.
"The people who carried out this attack want to create fear and division," they said.
"Their actions have resulted in the loss of many lives of people of different nationalities. Their acts are futile and will serve only to strengthen our resolve and determination that democratic means are the only way forward."
The taoiseach, Mr Kenny, described it as an "act of madness".
"I'd like to, on behalf of the government and the Irish people, extend our sincere and deepest sympathies to President Hollande and the French people," he said.
A book of condolence for the victims of the Nice attack is due to be opened at Belfast City Hall on Monday.
Belfast City Council said the City Hall will be illuminated in the colours of the French flag, as a mark of solidarity with the French people on Friday evening.
The British and Irish embassies in France have both issued telephone helpline numbers for any of their citizens who have been affected by the Nice attack
The British embassy's 24-hour number is: +33 144513100.
The Irish embassy can be contacted on: + 33 144176700.


Liverpool will take a one-goal advantage back to Anfield for the second leg of their Champions League play-off tie with Hoffenheim after Trent Alexander-Arnold's free-kick and an own goal earned them a hard-fought victory in Germany.

Rookie full-back Alexander-Arnold demonstrated a cutting edge lacking in some of his more experienced team-mates with an expertly taken set-piece that found the bottom corner of the home net in the 35th minute to give him his first goal for the club.
James Milner took advantage of acres of space on the left to find the top corner via a significant deflection from the chest of Havard Nordtveit just 10 minutes after coming on as a second-half substitute.
But defensive frailties again hampered the Reds as Mark Uth was found by a long ball into the box and fired in largely unchallenged in the closing stages.
It could have been worse for Jurgen Klopp's side. In just the 11th minute, Simon Mignolet had prevented European debutants Hoffenheim taking the lead with a neat save to push away Andrej Kramaric's poor penalty after Dejan Lovren had upended Serge Gnabry in the box.
Having inflicted a first home defeat on Hoffenheim since the final day of the 2015-16 season, Liverpool will look to seal a return to the Champions League group stages for the first time since 2014 at Anfield next Wednesday.
Having picked the same starting XI that began the see-saw 3-3 draw at Watford in their opening Premier League fixture on Saturday, Liverpool played to type.
The Reds were superb going forward and should probably have scored more than twice, with Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino both failing to add goals to the ones they scored at the weekend.
Salah was sent running clear by Firmino's pass in the first half but shot tamely past both keeper and post, while the Brazilian saw a close-range shot blocked by Oliver Baumann after being found by a low cross from the excellent Sadio Mane in the second.
But they will be left to rue familiar defensive frailties, which almost saw them concede an early lead when Lovren clumsily fouled ex-Arsenal winger Gnabry for the penalty and then gave the German side a lifeline in the tie when some lax marking gave Uth all the time he needed to score with three minutes to go.
Between then, Mignolet was required to pull off two good saves, firstly to deny Gnabry from close range and secondly to push away a Nadiem Amiri drive from just inside the box.
The positives, though, outweigh the negatives for Klopp and his side.
In winning at the Rhein-Neckar-Arena they have achieved what no Bundesliga side - including Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund - was able to last season.
While clearly a stronger side with Philippe Coutinho in it, the Reds have shown over two matches that they can score goals without the Brazilian, who sat this game out with a back injury and remains on Barcelona's wanted list.
In Alexander-Arnold they have a home-grown solution for a right-back position many assumed Klopp would have to fill at notable expense during this transfer window.
And in eight days' time they will take to the field at Anfield as firm favourites to seal a lucrative spot in the group stage of Europe's premier club competition.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, speaking to BT Sport: "Hoffenheim had a specific plan to play. We gambled a little too much on the wing, it was a little dangerous in the first half, but as always when we play football, we found spaces in-between and created wonderful chances.
"The result is OK. The first half is done and if you said before the game we would win, I would take the result.
"We need Anfield, what an intense game for both sides. I am looking forward to a European night at Anfield. Only the person who does not know about Hoffenheim can be surprised by this."
Hoffenheim coach Julian Nagelsmann: "We deserved to at least of had a draw.
"We were brave, but we were a bit too open in the second half and risked too much.
"The way the game went, with the missed penalty, was unfortunate for us."
Liverpool play their first home Premier League game on Saturday, with Crystal Palace the visitors. The return leg against Hoffenheim is four days later.
The German side are at home against Werder Bremen on Saturday before the trip to Merseyside.
Match ends, 1899 Hoffenheim 1, Liverpool 2.
Second Half ends, 1899 Hoffenheim 1, Liverpool 2.
Attempt saved. Marko Grujic (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by James Milner.
Attempt blocked. Nadiem Amiri (1899 Hoffenheim) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Steven Zuber.
Attempt blocked. Kerem Demirbay (1899 Hoffenheim) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Benjamin Hübner (1899 Hoffenheim) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Nadiem Amiri with a cross following a set piece situation.
Nadiem Amiri (1899 Hoffenheim) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marko Grujic (Liverpool).
Håvard Nordtveit (1899 Hoffenheim) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool).
Corner,  1899 Hoffenheim. Conceded by Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Substitution, Liverpool. Marko Grujic replaces Sadio Mané.
Goal!  1899 Hoffenheim 1, Liverpool 2. Mark Uth (1899 Hoffenheim) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Håvard Nordtveit.
Foul by Kerem Demirbay (1899 Hoffenheim).
Emre Can (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Liverpool. Dominic Solanke replaces Roberto Firmino.
Attempt missed. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.
Attempt missed. Sandro Wagner (1899 Hoffenheim) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Pavel Kaderábek with a cross.
Attempt saved. Nadiem Amiri (1899 Hoffenheim) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pavel Kaderábek with a headed pass.
Foul by Nadiem Amiri (1899 Hoffenheim).
Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.
Benjamin Hübner (1899 Hoffenheim) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Benjamin Hübner (1899 Hoffenheim).
Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Own Goal by Håvard Nordtveit, 1899 Hoffenheim.  1899 Hoffenheim 0, Liverpool 2.
Foul by Nadiem Amiri (1899 Hoffenheim).
Sadio Mané (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Emre Can (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Alberto Moreno with a cross following a set piece situation.
Hand ball by Håvard Nordtveit (1899 Hoffenheim).
Attempt saved. Dejan Lovren (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Milner with a cross.
Substitution, 1899 Hoffenheim. Mark Uth replaces Serge Gnabry.
Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Oliver Baumann.
Attempt saved. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Emre Can.
Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Håvard Nordtveit.
Attempt missed. Serge Gnabry (1899 Hoffenheim) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Andrej Kramaric with a cross.
Corner,  1899 Hoffenheim. Conceded by Joel Matip.
Corner,  1899 Hoffenheim. Conceded by Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Corner,  1899 Hoffenheim. Conceded by Joel Matip.
Substitution, Liverpool. James Milner replaces Jordan Henderson.


A former railway station in Paris is being turned into the world's largest incubator for tech start-ups.

25 April 2017 Last updated at 10:51 BST
Station F cost 250m euros (Â£212m) to renovate and its central section will be able to seat more than 3,000 entrepreneurs.
The site will open later in 2017.
BBC Click finds out more.
See more at Click's website and @BBCClick


The Northern Ireland farming industry saw its profit fall by 42% to £183m last year, driven by a big fall in prices for the dairy sector.

The figure is worked out by assessing the value of agricultural output and subsidies and subtracting the cost of production and finance.
The profit was less than the total value of subsidies, which were £236m.
Total turnover fell 9% to £1.74bn while input costs were down by 4% to £1.39bn.
The output value of the dairy sector was down by 27% to £480m, reflecting persistently low milk prices.
The output value of cattle was marginally higher at £394m.
While the number of animals slaughtered fell by 2%, this was more than offset by a 9kg increase in the average carcase weight.
Output values for sheep meat, pork and poultry were all down due to lower farm-gate prices.
The only bright spots were in the increased output values of eggs, mushrooms and flowers
The Department for Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) has forecast that at the individual farm level profits are likely to be down by 46% in 2015/16.
The average farm profit was £24,942 in 2014/15 and is expected to drop to an average of £13,451 in 2015/16.
A spokesperson for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said: "Without subsidies in 2015 market receipts would not have covered all costs (including consumption of fixed capital and depreciation costs).
"This also occurred in 2012 and previous years in the past."


A surgeon has reattached TV magician Paul Daniels' finger after he cut it off with a saw on New Year's Day.

Daniels, 73, lost his left index finger and the tip of his ring finger in an accident with a circular saw while building props for his act.
He drove himself from his Berkshire home to hospital in Henley-on-Thames, where the index finger was reattached.
He told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I've only lost the tip of one finger. It could have been a hell of a sight worse."
He added: "It's all healing up now and it's coming along really well; the surgeon's really pleased, the sensation's there, it's all bending. I will have to adapt when I get all the bandages off for the handling of some of the stuff I do."
Daniels said he was on his own at the time while his wife and assistant Debbie was being interviewed on a BBC radio station.
Daniels said on his blog: "Bad moments recur, the worst being full shock state one night which turned me into a gibbering wreck as I relived the moment it happened. This has given me a fuller understanding of shock. It's not nice."
He said he was recuperating while preparing for his new theatre tour, which will begin in February.


India's Supreme Court has ruled that the controversial practice of instant triple talaq practised among some Muslims in the country is unconstitutional.

The ruling was made after five women petitioned the court, arguing that the practice, which allows a Muslim man to divorce his wife in minutes merely by repeating the word "talaq" (divorce) three times, was a violation of their fundamental rights.
These are their stories:
When Afreen Rehman, married her lawyer husband in a lavish ceremony in the northern city of Jaipur in 2014, she had an MBA and a lucrative job.  She then resigned from her job at his insistence.
"I wanted the marriage to work so I agreed," says Ms Rehman."But it didn't. There were frequent demands for dowry and bouts of violence, I slipped into depression."
Within the year, she alleges, she was asked to leave her husband's house. She went to live with her widowed mother. A few months later, she was seriously injured in a car crash that also killed her mother.
While she was recovering, her husband sent a note to her sister's house with the words "talaq, talaq, talaq" scribbled on it.
"I was shocked. It's a horrible feeling to be left alone without being consulted," she says.  "I just didn't know what to do."
Ms Rehman's cousin, an activist, encouraged her to approach the courts to annul the talaq and also helped her file dowry harassment and domestic violence charges. Her husband and mother-in-law deny these charges. They were arrested and released on bail four days later.
"I will have to live with stigma all my life, because in India, the woman is always considered responsible for divorce," says Ms Rehman. "I don't want to return to my husband - that's not why I'm fighting this case. It's for justice and to ensure other women do not get treated like this."
"Instant triple talaq changes the life of a woman forever and destroys her children's future," declares Shayara Bano.
Ms Bano was recovering from illness at her parent's home in the northern city of Kashipur in October 2015 when she received a letter from her husband. He had written "I give you talaq" three times on it.
That was the end of her 15-year marriage. Her children were at her marital home when the letter came. She alleges that she has not been able to see them since.
"I'm a victim but I didn't want that to continue with future generations, that's why I went to the Supreme Court," she says.
A local court sent notices to her husband to appear before it and explain why he was refusing Ms Bano access to her children, and put his viewpoint but he has not appeared.
She alleged that her husband abused her and wouldn't allow her to leave the house. "My children were the only reason I tolerated it," she says.
Her husband remarried in 2016.
Ms Bano says she has lost faith in the institution of marriage but is trying to move on. She has also enrolled in an MBA programme so she can find a job and does not want to remarry or see her daughter forced into marriage.
"What is the guarantee that another man would not treat me this way?" she asks. She says her daughter should marry only "when she is financially independent".
Ishrat Jahan was heartbroken when her husband called her from Dubai and abruptly ending their marriage of 15 years by simply saying "talaq" three times. He soon remarried.
It had been a long and unhappy relationship. Ms Jahan alleges that her husband "insulted and harassed" her for having three daughters and says that he also forced her to have a "physical relationship" with his brother.
She had a son in 2014, but she says it was "too late" by then, as he had already made up his mind to marry another woman.
Soon after the divorce, Ms Jahan says her husband "kidnapped" the children and took them to live with his second wife.
Ms Jahan is illiterate, but knows that "instant triple talaq" is not mentioned in the Koran.
"According to the Koran, if a man wants to marry a second time, he needs to take permission from his first wife," she says.
She approached the Supreme Court with the help of a local NGO. She has also filed police complaints accusing her husband of domestic violence and his brother of molestation.
But, she says, she still wants to reunite with her husband.
"And if my husband just does not want to live with me any more, he should say that to me in person, and we can talk about it," she says. "Whatever he decides, he should at least let me keep my children."
Atiya Sabri only found out she had been divorced when her husband sent a letter to her brother's office, in which he had written "talaq, talaq, talaq".
"Sharia law says a marriage can take place only when both parties agree, so how can 'talaq' be given by one person unilaterally?" asks Ms Sabri. "He never called or spoke to me about it, that's why I don't accept this divorce."
In February, she appealed to the Supreme Court to declare instant triple talaq unconstitutional.
Ms Sabri's two-and-a-half-year-old marriage was strained. She alleges that she was "punished" for giving birth to two daughters, and says her husband's family abused and even tried to poison her. She was then "thrown out" of her their home and had to be admitted to hospital, she adds.
Soon after, the letter arrived.
Ms Sabri complained to the police about the violence. Her husband, who denies the charges, was arrested and is awaiting trial.
"A voice within me said if I got scared or gave up, what would happen to my daughters?" she says. "I have to fight for them and win my rights."
Gulshan Parveen's family had a hard time finding an educated groom for her. With a Masters in English and a job teaching at a private school, she was among the most qualified women in her town in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
The man she finally married was less qualified but from a "respectable" family. The marriage did not last. She was often sent to her parents' home for months on end.
"She was sent home for six months when she became pregnant and then after the baby was delivered again for eight months - and when she returned, her husband wouldn't give her proper food and would beat her up too," alleges Ms Parveen's brother, Raees.
Still, she kept going back to her husband's home because she wanted to make sure her child had a family.
The abuse continued but after one incident when he allegedly "beat her with rods", Ms Praveen went to the police. Local elders also intervened and agreements between the couple to "live amicably" were reached.
Ms Parveen's husband then submitted a letter to the police declaring he had given her "instant triple talaq". So she appealed to the Supreme Court to restore her conjugal rights.
"The only reason she wants to return to her husband is so that her son can grow up in a family. After all how long will I or our parents support her?" Raees says.
Muslims are India's largest minority community, with a population of 155 million, and their marriages and divorces are governed by Muslim personal law, ostensibly based on Sharia law.
Even though it has been practised for decades, unilateral instant triple talaq is clearly an aberration - it finds no mention in the Sharia or the Koran.
Islamic scholars say the Koran clearly spells out how to issue a divorce - it has to be spread over three months, which allows a couple time for reflection and reconciliation.
Most Islamic countries, including Pakistan and Bangladesh, have banned instant triple talaq, but it has continued  in India until now.
And modern technology has made it even easier for unscrupulous men to dump their wives phone, email or text. There have also been instances where men have used Skype, WhatsApp or Facebook for the purpose.


How does it feel to give up your nationality, to renounce the country you were born in, potentially forfeiting the chance to ever return?

"It's not going to be easy at all. It's the last thing I ever thought of doing," Jane tells me when I meet her in a Paris cafe.
Her voice cracks and her eyes well up. She is in the process of relinquishing her American nationality. Soon she'll visit the US embassy formally to renounce her citizenship, she says, under duress.
"I'm very proud of being an American. It's what I am when I look in the mirror.
"If it weren't for Fatca [the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act] and the decision by the bank, I'd never be doing this. Never ever. It's just breaking me in half."
She's not alone. According to the US Treasury, a record 4,279 individuals renounced their US citizenship or long-term residency in 2015 - an increase of 20% on the previous year, which was itself a record-breaking year.
In 2010, just 1,006 gave up being US citizens, but since then the numbers have risen every year.
Reasons for giving up your US citizenship aren't officially listed, but one of the main reasons cited is Fatca - a 2012 law designed to target overseas accounts held by wealthy Americans.
The United States is one of only two countries in the world that has citizenship-based taxation (the other is Eritrea).
As a US citizen you must file a tax return, no matter where you live, and often pay US taxes on top of the tax you already pay in your country of residence - so-called double taxation.
This has been the case in the US since the Civil War in the 19th Century and until recently really only affected the rich. Americans abroad are given a yearly allowance of $106,000 (Â£73,000) before double taxation kicks in.
But Fatca expands the scope of what can be taxed, and places a burden on foreign banks to identify US citizens among their customers to US tax authorities. The penalty for failing to do so can be as high as 30% of all a bank's dealings with the USA.
As a result, ordinary Americans abroad are being denied access to basic banking facilities; banks would rather refuse US citizens' custom than run the risk of hefty penalties.
"I went to one and as soon as I typed in I was born in the United States, there was a big set of red letters that said 'No to US persons'," says Jane.
"I've got to pay my bills, I've got to buy food - I've got to have a bank."
For people like her the only option is to renounce their citizenship, and this is causing such a backlog of paperwork that in November, the fee for renunciation was put up to $2,350 - an increase of about 400%.
It's a heavy price to pay for financial stability, but for many there's an even bigger, more emotional price to pay - becoming an ex-American.
"They first of all make laws that make life impossible and then when you decide it's impossible and you've got to do something that's against what you believe in your heart, they've gotta just up the fees like a bunch of extortionists," says Jane.
Jane has lived and worked in France for 30 years drawing what she calls a "humble" salary. She has filed a tax return every year even though she earns significantly less than $106,000 a year.
But under Fatca her pension and savings can also be taxed, and that's money she can't afford to lose.
The process to renounce is humiliating, she says.
It must be done in person, in front of other Americans at the US embassy. Her real name will then be published in the Federal Register (Jane agreed to talk to the BBC anonymously) -  a move she feels is made to shame those who renounce.
And it's expensive too.
Many foreign banks are taking no chances either. They are closing down accounts of anyone who might be an "accidental American". This could be anyone with an American parent but born outside the US, or people of other nationalities born in the US - like Fabien.
"I live in France, I work in France, my life is in France. I have no link to the United States. My life as a Frenchman is in France," Fabien tells me through an interpreter. "I don't even speak English!"
His French father brought him to Europe when he was 18 months' old - but because he was born in California he is a US citizen and thus subject to Fatca.
His bank demanded he either provide proof he had renounced his US citizenship, or his social security number. He had neither. Renouncing his "accidental" US citizenship is no mean feat, either.
"We have to enter into the American system at the risk of substantial penalties. I have to submit the last five years' tax returns, but then also the next two years in order to renounce," he says.
"We're in a situation where it's unknown what will happen when we start. I have to have money to be able to pay the expenses to enter into the system, and then I have to pay to renounce."
Fatca (its original acronym was rumoured to be "Fatcat") was made into law at the height of US public concern that the wealthy were avoiding paying tax owed to the federal government by hiding their money in offshore bank accounts.
"The overall purpose of the law is to detect, deter and discourage offshore tax abuses through increased transparency, enhanced reporting and strong sanctions," said a spokeswoman for Congressman Charles Rangel - one of those who introduced Fatca.
"The US Treasury worked tirelessly to address many of these problems, and most have been resolved. If there are still problems with the law, then I believe Congress should hold hearings to see how it can be improved."
Yet Fatca's blunt implementation has led to criticism from Americans abroad who feel abandoned by their government and that this is all little more than taxation without representation.
There is no one congressional representative for the nearly nine million Americans who live abroad. Expatriates are registered in their last state of residence.
As a group they are fragmented and, say some, lack a voice in government. This compounds the difficult decision to renounce.
For her part, Jane is defiant.
"They can take my passport, but I'll still have a picnic on 4 July, I'll still celebrate Thanksgiving. The only way they'll stop me being American is if they kill me."


For slightly less than two decades Indian policymakers have refrained from militarily responding to what it has called Pakistan-based militant attacks on Indian soil.

However, even though each attack was met with domestic outrage, in the end India's leadership, regardless of political ideology, eschewed any military response.
At best, according to knowledgeable journalists, they permitted some cross border artillery barrages.
The standard justification for inaction was the apparent risk of escalation, culminating in a nuclear exchange.
In effect, Pakistan's possession of nuclear weapons and its stated first-use doctrine had effectively neutralised any public retaliatory action by India.
The view from Pakistan
Some political commentators in India sought to put a suitable gloss on this policy of inaction by referring to it as "strategic restraint".
This week however, the Narendra Modi government departed from past precedent.
Shortly after the attack on the Indian military base at Uri on 18 September, which had resulted in the deaths of 19 soldiers, an army spokesman had said that the country would respond "at a time and place of our own choosing". At a political level, Prime Minister Modi stated that the attack "would not go unpunished".
After some deliberation, on the night of 29 September, Indian special forces apparently struck across the Line of Control. The army said the strikes were directed against terrorist launch pads and appeared to have inflicted some casualties.
It is worth noting that India's Director-General of Military Operations, Lieutenant-General Ranbir Singh, had called up his Pakistani counterpart to alert him of the strikes.
This was an extremely prudent and deft gesture as it clearly conveyed to the Pakistani military that India was carrying out a very limited set of incursions.
This operation has contradicted the popular belief that Pakistan's stated "red lines" meant that India could not engage in punitive strikes because of the inherent risks of nuclear escalation.
This belief persisted even though India managed to very successfully carry out the entire Kargil operation in 1999 under this nuclear shadow.
Once again, it needs to be recalled that the Kargil conflict was conducted with suitable Indian restraint. For example, Indian air force pilots had been under strict instructions not to breach the Line of Control for fear of provoking Pakistani concerns about a wider war.
It is entirely possible that in the days and weeks ahead, Pakistan will feel compelled to retaliate against this publicly acknowledged Indian action.
Many people have left their homes in villages close to the border with Pakistan in India's Punjab, fearing an escalation of hostilities.
It should also be noted that in a phone conversation with the US National Security Adviser, Susan Rice, India's National Security Adviser, Ajit Doval, made it clear that no further actions were contemplated. This meant that there was little to no possibility of an escalatory spiral.
In turn, her office issued a clear statement calling on Pakistan to rein in two UN-designated terrorist organisations based in the country, the Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Even as further details about this military operation are awaited it is evident that India has now crossed a threshold in dealing with what it says are Pakistan's persistent provocations.
It has also shown that despite the ongoing turmoil in the Kashmir Valley, the regime in Delhi is still willing to carry out a strike into Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
Some commentators within India have suggested that this incident will only fuel further jingoistic sentiment in the country and could thereby easily plunge it into an inadvertent conflict.
Such an argument, while superficially attractive, is actually quite flawed.
The action that was taken was limited in scope, firepower and duration. Its purpose was strictly punitive and demonstrative.
Having orchestrated this operation with some finesse and with little fanfare the government should now seize the opportunity in the restive Kashmir valley.
Instead of seeing the disturbances in the state as a purely law and order problem it needs to tackle the persistent political grievances that have wracked the state for some time.
Such a strategy will undercut attempts to stoke discontent in the Valley and blunt any efforts to revive the last embers of the insurgency in the state.
Sumit Ganguly is a professor of Political science, holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations and is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy research Institute in Philadelphia