About 20 armed men who seized a police station in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, have surrendered, police say.

The men seized the building nearly two weeks ago seeking the release of "political prisoners" including opposition leader Jirair Sefilian.
A police officer was shot dead from inside the police station during the stand-off on Saturday.
The shooting came as police issued a deadline for the anti-government group to surrender.
When the deadline passed, thousands of protesters again took to the streets in support of the group.
The Interfax news service said all of those inside the police station had now been detained.
Mr Sefilian, a former military commander, has criticised the government's handling of the long-running conflict involving pro-Armenian separatists in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Police issued an ultimatum to the group to surrender following violent scenes late on Friday when police with truncheons and stun grenades clashed with protesters.
About 60 people were injured, including some journalists, and more than 100 arrests were reported..
Three gunmen were also wounded on Friday, apparently shot in the legs by police snipers. Two of them were escorted to hospital under armed guard.
The group seized the police station on 17 July, killing one policeman and taking several hostages.
They released a video demanding the release of Mr Sefilian and a number of others, and urging supporters on to the streets.
The CivilNet newspaper identified the group as the Daredevils of Sassoun.
The group had said it would retaliate if attacked.
Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has an ethnic Armenian majority. A bloody war erupted after the end of Soviet rule in 1988, and there has been frequent unrest since, the latest in April, when clashes left dozens dead.


An initial report into a plane crash that killed three members of Osama Bin Laden's family has revealed the jet's warning system issued six alerts.

The aircraft had also overtaken a microlight before it landed and overshot the runway, the Air Accidents Investigations Branch report stated.
The private jet was attempting to land at Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire on 31 July.
The jet's Jordanian pilot was also killed.
Bin Laden's half-sister, Sana Mohammed Bin Laden, her mother, Raja Bashir Hashim, and his brother-in-law, Zuhair Hashim, died in the crash, along with pilot Mazen Al-Aqeel Da'jah Salem.
Before making the landing descent, the Saudi-registered Phenom 300 private jet had overtaken a microlight, and "climbed slightly to pass ahead of and above that aircraft".
The aircraft had communicated it was "clear of conflict" when it was approaching the runway with the landing gear down, the report stated.
Kevin Byrne, an aviation expert from Coventry University, said the jet then began "a very high-speed descent", dropping at up to 3,000 ft per minute.
He said: "That's well over twice as much as they would normally do so he [the pilot] was in a hurry to get down for whatever reason."
In addition, the manufacturer states the plane should land at a speed of about 120mph, or 108 knots, but towards touch down it was doing 150mph.
During the descent, the aircraft's Terrain Avoidance and Warning System (TAWS) issued six "pull up" warnings on final approach.
According to the report, the Blackbushe runway has an available landing distance of  1,059m (3,474 ft).
Tyre marks indicated the plane landed just 349m before the end of the declared landing area and 438m before the end of the paved surface.
Mr Byrne said: "It was going very fast, it was landing very far down the runway, and unfortunately it didn't have enough time or length of runway to stop."
The plane then crashed into a one-metre high earth bank, causing a section of the nose landing gear and the nose gear doors to detach.
It then briefly became airborne before crashing into vehicles at a British Car Auctions site at the airfield, losing one of its wings and bursting into flames.
The report stated the weather conditions were "fine with light and variable winds".
The plane, which was arriving from Milan, Italy, crashed shortly after 15:00 BST, exploding on impact.
Eyewitnesses at the scene said there had been a "ball of flames" and "several explosions".
In a statement, the Saudi ambassador to the UK, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud, offered condolences to the Bin Laden family.
An inquest into the deaths was opened and adjourned earlier.


Radamel Falcao scored twice as Monaco beat Nice convincingly in the Cote d'Azur derby to move three points clear of their rivals in the title race.

Valere Germain headed home the opener soon after the break to put the hosts, chasing their first title since 2000, into the lead.
Falcao slid home Benjamin Mendy's cross to make it 2-0 and turned home Thomas Lemar's ball to seal the win.
Paris St-Germain moved above Nice into second with a 3-1 win at Dijon.
Thiago Silva and Edinson Cavani scored in the final 10 minutes for Unai Emery's side, after Dijon's Julio Tavares had equalised Lucas Moura's opening goal in the first half.
Both PSG and Nice are three points behind Monaco, who are the second team in Europe to have scored 100 goals in all competitions this season. They were narrowly beaten to the mark by Barcelona - who played earlier in the day.
Elsewhere, former Arsenal and Middlesbrough forward Jeremie Aliadiere scored his first Ligue 1 goal in almost three years as bottom club Lorient won 1-0 at Lille.
The winner from Aliadiere, who returned to the club for a second spell last summer after two years in Qatar with Umm Salal, gave Lorient a first away victory in Ligue 1 since last April.
Match ends, Monaco 3, Nice 0.
Second Half ends, Monaco 3, Nice 0.
Corner,  Monaco. Conceded by Paul Baysse.
Wylan Cyprien (Nice) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nabil Dirar (Monaco).
Valentin Eysseric (Nice) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Alassane Pléa with a through ball.
Substitution, Monaco. Kylian Mbappe-Lottin replaces Falcao.
Foul by Alassane Pléa (Nice).
Fabinho (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Monaco. Nabil Dirar replaces Bernardo Silva.
Dalbert (Nice) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Djibril Sidibe (Monaco).
Attempt missed. Arnaud Souquet (Nice) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Jean Michael Seri.
Corner,  Nice. Conceded by Danijel Subasic.
Attempt saved. Alassane Pléa (Nice) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dalbert with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Alassane Pléa (Nice) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dalbert.
Foul by Wylan Cyprien (Nice).
João Moutinho (Monaco) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal!  Monaco 3, Nice 0. Falcao (Monaco) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Thomas Lemar.
Attempt missed. Alassane Pléa (Nice) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jean Michael Seri.
Attempt blocked. Younès Belhanda (Nice) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Balotelli.
Substitution, Monaco. João Moutinho replaces Valère Germain.
Jean Michael Seri (Nice) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Falcao (Monaco).
Attempt blocked. Mario Balotelli (Nice) right footed shot from long range on the left is blocked.
Mario Balotelli (Nice) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Bernardo Silva (Monaco).
Corner,  Nice. Conceded by Thomas Lemar.
Offside, Nice. Wylan Cyprien tries a through ball, but Mario Balotelli is caught offside.
Younès Belhanda (Nice) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Fabinho (Monaco).
Attempt missed. Younès Belhanda (Nice) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Alassane Pléa with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Alassane Pléa (Nice) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Valère Germain (Monaco) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Bernardo Silva with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Monaco. Conceded by Paul Baysse.
Attempt blocked. Bernardo Silva (Monaco) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Nice. Younès Belhanda replaces Malang Sarr.
Malang Sarr (Nice) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bernardo Silva (Monaco).
Goal!  Monaco 2, Nice 0. Falcao (Monaco) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner. Assisted by Benjamin Mendy with a cross.


Perceptions that comics and graphic novels are just about city-wrecking scraps between superheroes and super villains are being challenged by a growing number of women in Scotland interested in the genre.
Among these women are a university masters degree graduate and artists and writers from across Scotland.
In their own words they tell of why they are passionate about comics and how they are so much more than stories about caped crusaders.
Tanya Roberts: Comic and graphic novel artist
Edinburgh-born artist Roberts has illustrated comics based on Star Wars spin-off Clone Wars, as well as Toy Story and Strawberry Shortcake.
Among her current projects is creating a graphic novel called Abeyance, with her husband.
She believes that now is a good time for female artists, writers and readers, but also for comics generally, irrespective of gender.
"There are a few good reasons for it," she says.
"Comics, the characters that are within them and the worlds that they create are now people's playgrounds.
"People can write about them, dress up like them even create alternative universes or fan art for them.
"All of this of course is then posted to various online social media type things and perpetuate people's interest in that particular fandom. That, in turn, sells more comics.
"I think the differences in attracting a male/female readership is subtlety small. Because I go to conventions and sell my material to people I get feedback and notice who is buying my artwork.
"Females seem to appreciate character relationships and that emotional connection between them a bit more. I know I do, as a female reader, get inspired when there's great characters in the story with interesting relationships to others."
Roberts believes there to be a healthy female audience for comics.
She says: "Girls don't only seem to cosplay as their favourite characters they also buy comics too.
"I always get excited talking to people who are inspired by comics and even more so to learn that they have taken their passion even further, that it in turn has inspired them to create something, like fan art, fiction or even their own original stuff.
"To which I say to them: see you next year at the stall next to mine selling your own comic."
Louise Quirion: Comic book exhibition curator
French-born Louise Quirion is a graduate of University of Dundee's MLitt course in Comics and Graphic Novels.
She is also the curator of Girls in Print, an exhibition running until 21 October in the university's Tower Building Foyer.
The exhibition includes more than 30 original artworks from a number of Dundee publisher DC Thomson's titles such as The Topper, Bunty and Twinkle.
"When I began looking into this area, I was amazed at the range of stories covered by girls' comics," says Quirion.
"As well as school and ballet stories, there are also sports stories, historical dramas, science-fiction and tales of the supernatural.
"This exhibition is a great opportunity to discover or re-discover the high school stories of the Four Marys or the space adventures of the Supercats, while appreciating rarely seen original art."
To show how comics have evolved today, the exhibition also features work by current female comics artists such as Kate Charlesworth, Tanya Roberts and Gillian Hatcher.
During her research for the display, Quirion became interested by how publishers in the UK target readers with gender-specific titles, which is a different approach to other parts of Europe.
She says: "I find it fascinating because France and UK are geographically very close, and yet their comic cultures are based on very different ideas.
"I feel like this separation girls/boys is mostly a marketing strategy. They are still using it in Japan and it works great there."
But she adds: "Everyone reads comics in France, whatever their gender or age is, so the best strategy is more to appeal to everyone.
"I know American comics are pretty popular right now, but I encourage anyone that likes comics to also read other things."
Team Girl Comic: Scottish-based collective of comic book creators
TGC was set up to as a support network for women cartoonists across Scotland, and features in Louise Quirion's Girls in Print exhibition in Dundee.
Gill Hatcher, editor and founder of the group, says: "The number of women and girls in Scotland both attending comic events and making comics has exploded in recent years.
"When TGC began in 2009 we were a very small tight-knit group, but the number of people getting in touch and asking to join keeps on growing.
"There are a lot more opportunities for young people to learn the craft of writing and drawing comics, and lots more channels for them to get their work out to a wider audience.
"And gradually, as more women have got involved in the Scottish comics scene, the more it has opened up to new creators who might have previously felt intimidated or unwelcome."
Hatcher says the subjects women want to tackle through comic stories and art are wide-ranging.
She says: "Our contributors write about all sorts of subject matters, often highly personal and touching on politics, identity and feminism.
"There's often a lot of humour in the stories we tell too."
Hatcher adds: "Our latest anthology, That Girl Comic, featured our artists' different takes on the theme 'growing up' and we ended up with a great mixture of childhood memories, teenage angst and present-day reflections, as well as some more surreal and whimsical interpretations."
Vicky Stonebridge: Artist and comic book fan
Stonebridge, a painter, craftworker and co-organiser of the Highlands' popular but now defunct HiEx comic convention, is based in Lochcarron in Wester Ross.
Growing up in the Highlands, she recalls pouring over a comic her dad bought her when she was three or four.
"It wasn't the Dandy and Beano I later came to love, but a 'boys' comic with sci-fi, action and crazy perilous monster stories in it. I loved it," she says.
"I was an early reader, but didn't really get what was going on, there was a giant rat man who was mugging people and being generally menacing."
Stonebridge's interest in comics was reignited later at art college when a friend showed her a copy of the British sci-fi and fantasy adventure comic, 2000AD.
She says: "It blew me away. I was the only other person I knew who read it, it was for a long time the only comic I knew.
"I even wrote part of my dissertation about it. I loved the escapism, the action, satire, punk attitude, fantasy and adventure. I was never a girly girl so stories of ballerinas and public school girls were never going to cut it with me."
She adds: "My love of sci-fi went along similar lines, with a teacher taking a book off me when I was seven as it was 'too old for me'.
"I still remember vividly the aliens, mutants and space paradoxes that excited me, and the feeling of resentment at being told it wasn't for me.
"This is why I enjoy working with young people and encouraging their interests in comics, geek culture , genre fiction and art, because I think it is important to support them in their journey of discovery in order to foster creativity and imagination instead of closing doors."
Stonebridge says a big challenge with comics is challenging the way female characters can be portrayed in the illustrations.
"There are lots more examples of strong female characters in comic books and film adaptations coming to the fore," she says.
"2000AD always had some strong women, but often these were sidekicks to the main male character.
"The character Psi Judge Anderson is an interesting character, some writers and artists have given her real depth, and yet there still persists other artists who still portray her as a pouting doll with ridiculous breasts.
"A more consistent 2000AD female character was Aimee Nixon. She switched sides and her allegiances were muddy, but she was always fierce and kick-ass."
Stonebridge adds: "As I've become middle aged myself I crave to see older women characters, as all these idealised slim attractive comic women just don't resonate.
"I love to see diversity in comics, characters who reflect the real world. There are always gnarly old men characters, but where are the women - apart from being super villains of course, because everyone knows that older women are always evil."


Sydney is marking the first anniversary of the cafe siege which left three people, including the gunman, dead.

Iranian self-styled Muslim cleric Man Haron Monis held 18 hostages inside the Lindt cafe on 15 December last year.
The families of victims Katrina Dawson and Tori Johnson are expected to join thousands of people at a twilight vigil outside the cafe on Tuesday.
The Dawson family say they have been overwhelmed with support from around the world this past year.
"Whilst nothing can replace the void that Katrina's death has brought to our lives, the warmth of those many voices of support has helped us enormously on our darkest days," the family said in a statement on Tuesday.
"Today is one such day. Nevertheless we shall remember Katrina not because of the circumstances of this anniversary but because of the extraordinary joy, hope and inspiration she brought to so many people's lives."
New South Wales Premier Mike Baird on Tuesday said Sydney continues to mourn with Tori and Katrina's families.
He said that one year ago "terror came right to our doorstep", but the city will not be broken "by those who want to bring evil and those who want to divide us".
How the Sydney siege unfolded
The premier has also announced plans for a permanent memorial to be built into the pavement in Martin Place.
Clear cubes containing flowers will be embedded into the concrete and will shine with specialised lighting.
It is a project inspired by the massive floral tributes that were left in the days after the siege.
Meanwhile, siege survivor and Lindt cafe worker Jarrod Morton-Hoffman has written an emotional essay, reflecting on the ordeal.
He said that one year on, he still struggles to understand the "senselessness" of the event.
"Inherently, terrorism can be seen as an extremely violent performance designed to catch the attention of the public and broadcast the terrorist's goals," he wrote for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"For Monis, that goal was to threaten us for our involvement in Syria and Iraq. His objective was to spread fear. His success or failure is based solely on our choice to either remain afraid or be brave."


Scientists have reproduced the wrinkled shape of a human brain using a simple gel model with two layers.

They made a solid replica of a foetal brain, still smooth and unfolded, and coated it with a second layer which expanded when dunked into a solvent.
That expansion produced a network of furrows that was remarkably similar to the pattern seen in a real human brain.
This suggests that brain folds are caused by physics: the outer part grows faster than the rest, and crumples.
Such straightforward, mechanical buckling is one of several proposed explanations for the distinctive twists and turns of the brain's outermost blanket of cells, called the "cortex".
Alternatively, researchers have suggested that biochemical signals might trigger expansion and contraction in particular parts of the sheet, or that the folds arise because of stronger connections between specific areas.
"There have been several hypotheses, but the challenge has been that they are difficult to test experimentally," said Tuomas Tallinen, a soft matter physicist at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and a co-author of the study, which appears in Nature Physics.
"I think it's very significant... that we can actually recreate the folding process using this quite simple, physical model."
Humans are one of just a few animals - among them whales, pigs and some other primates - that possess these iconic undulations. In other creatures, and early in development, the cortex is smooth.
The replica in the study was based on an MRI brain scan from a 22-week-old foetus - the stage just before folds usually appear.
A 3D printout of that scan was used to make a mould, which in turn was filled with a silicon-based gel to make the "gel brain".
Finally, a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface - to play the role of the cortex.
When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes, this outer layer swelled up and contorted itself into a very familiar shape.
"When I put the model into the solvent, I knew there should be folding but I never expected that kind of close pattern compared to human brain," said co-author Jun Young Chung from Harvard University, US.
"It looks like a real brain."
Specifically, the shape and direction of the gel brain's major grooves were an excellent match to those found in a typical 34-week-old human brain.
The team also created a computer simulation of the process.
Starting with the same shape as the replica foetus brain, split into its two simple layers, this mathematical model allowed them to follow the expansion process much further - until the simulated brain reached adulthood.
"In real brains there's something like a 20-fold increase in cortical area during development," Dr Tallinen told the BBC. "We can't create that in physical model - but in the numerical model we can. And we can also use more realistic parameters."
The experiments were a continuation of previous research by the same team, in which they stuck an expanding layer onto a simple spherical shape and calculated the stiffness and depth of "cortex" that produced wrinkles of a brain-appropriate size.
"In this paper we use real brain geometries, and we reproduce a developmental setting," Dr Tallinen explained. "We can study how brain geometry affects folding and creates the kind of arrangements of folds that we see in human brains."
As for whether these findings clinch the argument for brain folding being a purely mechanical process, Dr Tallinen was circumspect.
"The things that we saw in our model will inevitably happen in real brains as well, just as a consequence of this simple expansion. But there could be some other biological factors that modulate this process."
Zoltan Molnar, a neuroscientist at Oxford University who studies cortical development, said this was an impressive study that reconciled different ideas about how the brain folds, using a simple model.
"It's an excellent start - and it's almost alarming how similar it looks!" he told BBC News.
The simplicity of the mechanical mechanism is appealing, Prof Molnar explained, because it helps explain why "almost every branch" of the evolutionary tree has some species with brain folds, and some without.
"It has to be quite simple, because evolution is not going to keep inventing things twice. This way, you can see why it's so common."
The work also holds promise, he added, for studying diseases in which the brain fails to fold in the usual way.
"If they could recreate [a disorder] by changing some of the parameters... that would really help us to understand some of these folding abnormalities."
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A teenage cyclist who was killed in a crash with a car in Moray has been named by police.

Keiran McKandie, who was 16 and from Elgin, died at the scene of the crash involving a white Volkswagen Golf on the B9010 Forres to Kellas Road.
The road between Forres and Elgin was closed after the collision which happened just after 11:00 on Sunday,
No-one in the car was injured.  Officers have urged anyone who witnessed the crash to contact them.


A nine-year-old disabled girl says she is devastated after a thief stole a collection box with money earmarked for treatment to help her walk.

Kareena Hayes of Long Eaton, Derbyshire, needs to raise Â£30,000 for an operation and physiotherapy to treat complications caused by cerebral palsy.
She said the thief was "horrible", adding: "I hope they are sorry for what they've done."
The charity box was stolen from a cafÃ© in Borrowash several days ago.
Her father Craig Hammond, who is her full-time carer, said the operation was her only chance to ever walk unaided again.
"I just don't understand how anyone could do that. They are just the lowest of the low."
He said the operation, which cannot be provided on the NHS, at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre would be "hugely life changing for her ... it would improve her mobility and hopefully she would walk much better".
The family's appeal had already been boosted by a donation from the charity Caudwell Children, which helps transform the lives of disabled children across the UK.
Kareena, who uses a walker to get around, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when she was two years old.
The family was advised that an operation called selective dorsal rhizotomy would improve her mobility.
The treatment involves cutting some of the nerves in the lower spinal column an requires "extensive physiotherapy lasting several months", an NHS website said.
The operation only became available in the UK 18 months ago, but is not yet offered free of charge by the NHS.
Mr Hammond said Derbyshire Police were investigating the theft of the collection box.


Pro-Moscow authorities on the Crimean peninsula are holding a referendum on whether the region should secede from Ukraine and join Russia.

Ukraine's interim government, the EU and the US have condemned the move as "illegal".
A copy of the 16 March ballot paper - released by the Crimean parliament - appears to give voters two choices: to join Russia immediately or gain greater autonomy within Ukraine.
See the document below to find out more:
The ballot paper is in three languages. Russian, Ukranian and Crimean Tatar - the language of the indigenous Tatar community of Crimea. The opening sentences explain that the ballot paper is for use in the referendum on the future of the Crimea set for 16 March.
Voters are directed to check one of two boxes corresponding to two questions. The first asks: do you support reunifying Crimea with Russia as a subject of the Russian Federation?
The second question asked is: Do you support the restoration of the 1992 Crimean constitution and the status of Crimea as a part of Ukraine?
(The wording "restoring the 1992 constitution" does not make it clear whether this refers to the original version of the constitution, declaring Crimea an independent state, or the later amended version, in which Crimea was an autonomous republic within Ukraine).
The ballot paper carries a warning in all three languages that choosing both available options makes it invalid.
There is also a referendum website that carries a mechanism to vote online.


Wales claimed a bonus point as they opened their World Cup campaign with a stuttering eight-try win over battling Uruguay at the Millennium Stadium.

Cory Allen scored a hat-trick as Wales opened a 28-9 half-time lead.
But the centre may miss the rest of the World Cup with full-back Liam Williams and props Paul James and Samson Lee among other injury worries.
Uruguay fly-half Felipe Berchesi impressed and kicked Los Teros into an early 6-0 lead, before Wales responded.
However, six days before facing England at Twickenham, Warren Gatland's team were not convincing, despite completely dominating the forward exchanges.
Relive Wales' win as it happened.
Wales lacked composure behind the scrum, while Uruguay were dogged and courageous opponents who refused to capitulate even after Wales reached the 40-point mark on the hour.
Wales eventually made their forward dominance pay, with two tries for scrum-half Gareth Davies and one each for Lee, Justin Tipuric and Hallam Amos.
With Jonathan Davies, Rhys Webb and Leigh Halfpenny already out of the tournament, the last thing Wales needed was more injury trouble.
So the sight of full-back Williams limping off with a thigh injury after 35 minutes on his return after foot surgery was a major worry for Gatland, who said it was too early to tell how serious the full-back's injury was.
Gatland also described Allen's hamstring injury as "significant", and he said props Lee and James have calf injuries. Gatland faces a decision over which prop to replace and there is also concern over fellow prop Aaron Jarvis, who has a rib problem.
There was some good news for Wales with flanker Dan Lydiate passing his concussion protocol.
With fly-half Berchesi a lively playmaker and their defence determined to cut down anything in a red shirt, Uruguay started with purpose and were 6-0 up in nine minutes.
Wales hit back with their pack dominating and Lee touching down from a driving line-out.
It was a recipe which troubled the South Americans all afternoon, though the Welsh backs play was less impressive.
But it was Allen who profited most, taking advantage of Rhys Priestland's chip to score the first of his three tries.
His third, on the stroke of half-time, was the pick with Tipuric and Amos combining superbly as Wales claimed their bonus point.
Wales' driving line-out was their main weapon, but this was not a vintage display. Uruguay's mix of full-time Europe-based professionals and home-grown part-timers deserved their lap of honour and the warm applause.
England's pack is unlikely to be as accommodating at Twickenham on Saturday.
Wales coach Warren Gatland: "Hopefully some of those players will recover over the next couple of days. The next day we're back in training is Wednesday to get ready for Saturday.
"The number of turnovers was a bit disappointing. We had 24 turnovers. Respecting the ball and keeping the ball in hand is a big thing.
"I was pleased up front. We stuck to the task and I was pretty happy with some of the performances.
"Tipuric was outstanding again. Jake Ball had a really strong game for us and the front five stuck to their task as well."
Wales captain Sam Warburton: "They were going to be extremely passionate. It was just weathering that storm in the first 10 minutes, being accurate and being as patient as we could.
"I'm a little bit disappointed we didn't look after the ball well enough so there's a lot we can improve on.
"But the main thing was winning and getting a bonus point and we managed to do that.
"The most important thing in this group is picking up your bonus points.
"It's unlikely to come to a [match] points decision."
Wales: Liam Williams (Scarlets); Alex Cuthbert (Cardiff Blues), Cory Allen (Cardiff Blues), Scott Williams (Scarlets), Hallam Amos (Newport Gwent Dragons); Rhys Priestland (Bath Rugby), Gareth Davies (Scarlets); Paul James (Ospreys), Scott Baldwin (Ospreys), Samson Lee (Scarlets), Jake Ball (Scarlets), Luke Charteris (Racing 92), Sam Warburton (capt, Cardiff Blues), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), James King (Ospreys).
Replacements: Owens for Baldwin (62), Jarvis for James (31), Francis for Lee (40), Day for Charteris (46), Lydiate for Warburton (58), Moriarty for King (46), Lloyd Williams for Allen (54), Morgan for Liam Williams (35).
Uruguay: Gaston Mieres; Santiago Gibernau, Joaquin Prada, Andres Vilaseca, Rodrigo Silva; Felipe Berchesi, Agustin Ormaechea; Alejo Corral, Carlos Arboleya, Mario Sagario, Santiago Vilaseca (capt), Jorge Zerbino, Juan Manuel Gaminara, Alejandro Nieto, Matias Beer.
Replacements: Kessler for Sarazola (77), Duran for Sagario (71), Sanguinetti for Corral (77), Lamanna for Zerbino (61), Alonso for Vilaseca (74), De Freitas for Beer (58), Duran for Ormaechea (74), Bulanti for Prada (74).


Two US cardinals due to go to Rome to help elect a new pope are being questioned about cases of child abuse by priests under their supervision.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan testified about his release of names of accused clergy members in his former archdiocese.
Cardinal Roger Mahony will be questioned on Saturday about a Mexican priest accused of abusing 26 children.
Pope Benedict XVI unexpectedly said last week he would retire, becoming the first pontiff to do so since 1415.
Cardinal Dolan, 62, also the Archbishop of New York and president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, has been seen as a long-shot candidate for the papacy.
His deposition came during a bankruptcy trial filed in 2011 by Cardinal Dolan's successor to the archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, over abuse claims from nearly 500 people.
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The scandal has seen the removal of several church officials, including another former archbishop.
A spokesman for Cardinal Dolan said he was eager to co-operate with lawyers on the trial.
"He has indicated over the past two years that he was eager to co-operate in whatever way he could," said spokesman Joseph Zwilling.
The plaintiffs have said the evidence given by Cardinal Dolan would help them to establish when church officials first became aware of the abuse allegations and victims.
Current Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki has said the church is seeking bankruptcy protection so it can continue to operate, while still compensating victims.
It is the eighth US diocese to take such action.
A spokesman said Cardinal Dolan's decision to make public the names of suspected abusers was part of a wider effort to begin the healing process.
But the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests is asking for the cardinal's testimony to be made public.
Cardinal Dolan "did a lot of creative manoeuvring of priest sex offenders and creative accounting of church money," said Peter Isley, a director of the group.
Meanwhile, Cardinal Mahony is due to provide evidence in a separate case over visiting Mexican priest Reverend Nicolas Aguilar Rivera.
Police believe he abused 26 children in 1987 and fled to Mexico a year later when parents complained.
He has been removed from the priesthood and is still a fugitive.
In recent weeks, the archdiocese of Los Angeles has released thousands of documents concerning more than 120 accused clergymen.
The papers showed Cardinal Mahony and other church officials protected some of those accused and made no effort to warn churchgoers about the risk to their children.
There are mounting calls for Cardinal Mahony to withdraw from the conclave. But in blog and Twitter posts the cardinal has indicated he intends to go to Rome.


Nobel laureate poet Derek Walcott has died aged 87 at his home on the Caribbean island of St Lucia after a long illness, local media reports say.

He was regarded by critics as one of the greatest Caribbean poets.
The writer's collections include In A Green Night: Poems 1948 - 1960 and his epic work, Omeros, which draws on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2011.
His winning collection for the TS Eliot Prize, White Egrets, was called "a moving, risk-taking and technically flawless book by a great poet" by the judges.
The Nobel Committee, announcing his prize, said: "His poetry acquires at one and the same time singular lustre and great force... Walcott's style is melodious and sensitive."
Derek Walcott found that he was often defined as a black writer. That is not how he saw himself. He was, he said, first and foremost, a Caribbean writer.
Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer and Yeats were all addressed and reassessed through his Caribbean-focussed literary lens. As was Homer - in 1990 - when he wrote his epic poem Omeros - in which Achilles finds himself relocated to the West Indies.
His great skill, and gift to literature, was the way in which he used his unique poetic voice to explore and explain the world from a largely unseen perspective.
He was never parochial or nationalistic, quite the opposite in fact. Derek Walcott was a master at using the specific to identify common ground and universal themes, illuminating both the individual and the collective.
The poet won many other prizes, including a MacArthur Foundation award - the so-called "genius grant".
Walcott said at the time: "It's nice to get it, because it gives you four or five years of a great deal of security - the tough thing is when it's finished!
"It has a very bad connotation, this idea of a 'genius' - I'm not denying the fact that I'm prodigious, I'm not denying the fact that I wrote well... to me it's a gift. I feel blessed that I was gifted."
Appearing on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 1992, he said he had written as far back as he could remember and recalled his mother, a schoolteacher, reciting Shakespeare at home.
His father, who died while he was still an infant, had also written poetry, he said.
"I heard that kind of sound at home from when I was very young," he said. "I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry."
Born in 1930, he studied at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, before moving to Trinidad in 1953, where he worked as a theatre and art critic.
He published his first collection, 25 Poems, at the age of 18. He was also an accomplished painter and playwright.
The Cultural Development Foundation of St Lucia paid tribute to Walcott, saying in a statement: "The world has lost one of its noted literary icons.
"Our sympathies extend to St Lucia as a nation, who without doubt are proud and honoured to call him a true son of St Lucia.
"He was very vocal about the island's culture and heritage, and its preservation, and his love for St Lucia and the Caribbean was evident in his numerous mentions of 'home' in his work."
Speaking about the shock of returning home to St Lucia, Walcott said: "You had to balance off the beauty of the place with some of the poverty around you."
The Poetry Society described his death as "terrible news" and encouraged others to read his poetry in memoriam.
Walcott was also embroiled in controversy over his candidacy for the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2009.
He pulled out of the race after academics at the university received dozens of anonymous letters linking him to an allegation of sexual harassment in 1982.
The eventual winner - the first woman to hold the prestigious position - was then forced to resign after just days in office, when it emerged she had briefed journalists on the allegations.


Hull KR prop James Green has been ruled out for the rest of the season after having surgery on a shoulder injury.

The 25-year-old, who has played 20 games for Rovers this term, dislocated his acromioclavicular (AC) joint in the 24-20 defeat by Leeds in July.
The injury comes as a blow for a Hull KR side looking to retain its Super League status though the Qualifiers.
Rovers, who finished second from bottom in Super League, host Batley in their Qualifiers opener on Sunday.


First Great Western rail workers have voted to support strike action over plans to axe guards and buffet cars on new Hitachi Inter City Express trains.

Members of the RMT union will walk out for 48 hours from 18:30 BST on 8 July.
The union said a guard should be kept on every train, "not a diluted customer service role", but First Great Western said having drivers controlling doors was safer and jobs would not be lost.
In the ballot, 80% supported strike action and 92% other forms of action.
The union said "no satisfactory solutions" had been proposed by management in response to its demands for a "safety competent guard" and buffet car facilities on trains.
It also said maintenance of the new rolling stock should remain in-house and there should be no job losses.
First Great Western (FGW) said it was seeking a meeting with the union following the ballot result.
A spokesman said: "We are disappointed that our assurances over job security, the need for more - not fewer - staff and maintaining existing pay and conditions for those staff have not been heard.
"These new trains will shave journey times by as much as 17 minutes, and provide the capacity we know our customers want to see but in order to be able to do this we need to operate these trains differently to the way we operate our current 40 year-old High Speed Trains.
"The best way to make the most of these new trains, in an efficient and safe way, is by the use of driver operation of the doors."
Buffet cars could also be replaced with a trolley service under the plans.
RMT General Secretary Mick Cash accused the company of "profiteering".
"RMT has made every effort to secure a series of very basic assurances from FGW over jobs, services and safety as a result of the introduction of the new Hitachi fleet and they have simply ignored us," he said.
The first Hitachi trains will run on the Great Western main line from 2017 and the East Coast main line from 2018.
The new trains are being introduced under the Intercity Express Programme (IEP) on routes between London Paddington and Oxford, Bristol and South Wales.


A council has denied people using its pools and gyms will have to pay extra membership fees when a private company takes over operating them.

Birmingham City Council's leisure facilities are due to be taken over by Serco in June.
Gym users were told they would need to pay twice to use facilities at different sites.
But the council said it was "looking at options" after one member said he would have to pay double his current cost.
David Hindson, from Kings Heath, who currently uses Billesley Tennis Centre and Tiverton Road Baths in Selly Oak, has threatened to cancel as he was told his ??35 monthly fee will double.
From June, the tennis centre is one of eight facilities across the city that will by run by the Birmingham Community Leisure Trust - managed by private company Serco.
However, the baths will continue to the run by the council.
"At present, I use the city council facilities because I can have access to any centre throughout Birmingham," he said.
"The council says this is an exciting time for Birmingham. How can it be exciting to pay twice for the same service?"
Steve Hollingsworth who oversees leisure at the council, said he can "assure David he will not be paying double."
"The vast majority of our 9,000 customers are loyal to one site. For those who, like David, use more than one facility, we will put an interim service in place and look at options for them."


"The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything."

So said Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman, in response to revelations about the activities of the US National Security Agency (NSA) made by whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
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Schmidt's advice appears to have been heeded by companies that provide internet-based services.
Microsoft, for instance, says it will have "best-in-class industry cryptography" in place for services including Outlook.com, Office 365 and SkyDrive by the end of the year, while Yahoo has announced plans to encrypt all of its customers' data, including emails, by the end of the first quarter of 2014.
For many smaller businesses too, 2014 is likely to be the year of encryption. That's certainly the view of Dave Frymier, chief information security officer at Unisys, a Pennsylvania-based IT company.
But he believes the driving force for this will be different: not government surveillance programmes, but the threat of attacks from hackers.
Rather than encrypting everything, Mr Frymier advocates that companies identify what he believes is the 5%-15% of their data that is really confidential, and use encryption to protect just that.
He says employees should then be barred from accessing this data using standard desktop and laptop machines or their own smartphones or tablets, which can easily be infected with malware. Access would be restricted to employees using secure "hardened" computers.
"When you look at the increasing sophistication of malware, it becomes apparent that you need to establish highly protected enclaves of data. The only way to achieve that is through modern encryption, properly implemented," says Mr Frymier.
"You can split your data into diamonds and paperclips, and the important thing is to encrypt the diamonds, and not to sweat the paperclips."
Prakash Panjwani, a general manager at Maryland-based data protection company Safenet, also believes that the large number of high-profile data breaches in 2013 - including hacker attacks on US retailer Target, software maker Adobe, and photo messaging service Snapchat - means that 2014 will inevitably be a bumper one for encryption vendors.
"Snowden has focused attention on surveillance issues, but the real threat is organised crime and the number of data breaches that are occurring," he says.
"Companies are going to come under extreme pressure from boards, customers and regulators in 2014 to take action so that if there is a data breach they can say, 'We didn't lose any data because it was encrypted.'"
A large number of companies already use encryption to protect the data they store on their own systems "at rest", as well as data "in flight" as it is sent over networks to customers, other data centres, or for processing or storage in the cloud.
But Ramon Krikken, an analyst at Gartner, believes that the way encryption is used by many of these companies is likely to change in 2014.
"Companies are certainly going to have to take encryption more seriously thanks to the Snowden revelations," he says.
"At the moment many companies are using encryption for compliance reasons, not for security. They are not using it to protect their data, but because it is the easiest way to comply with regulations: encryption is the auditor's and the regulator's favourite check box item."
One question that companies will need to consider is which encryption algorithm or cipher to use to best encrypt their data. It's an important question as some older ciphers can now be "cracked" relatively quickly using the computing power in a standard desktop PC.
And there is a question mark over whether the NSA may have deliberately used its influence to weaken some encryption systems - or even to introduce "back doors" that provide easy access to encrypted data to anyone who knows of their existence.
"The problem is that even if you can inspect the source code, it is certainly not a given that you would be able to spot a back door," Mr Krikken says.
He believes it is more important to establish where all the parts of an encryption solution come from.
"If you procure software or hardware from overseas, from a country with a government which does not have your best interests at heart, you need to remember that it may not be as secure as you think," Mr Krikken says.
"So you have to decide who you trust, and find out where the vendor gets all the parts of its product from."
Another thing companies need to consider when they implement encryption is how strong the encryption should be. Using a longer encryption key makes it harder for hackers or governments to crack the encryption, but it also requires more computing power.
But Robert Former, senior security consultant for Neohapsis, an Illinois-based security services company, says many companies are overestimating the computational complexity of encryption.
"If you have an Apple Mac, your processor spends far more time making OS X looks pretty than it does doing crypto work."
He therefore recommends using encryption keys that are two or even four times longer than the ones many companies are currently using.
"I say use the strongest cryptography that your hardware and software can support. I guarantee you that the cost of using your available processing power is less than the cost of losing your data because you were too cheap to make the crypto strong enough," he says.
"No-one ever got fired for having encryption that was too strong."


Formula 1 commentator Eddie Jordan and German racing driver Sabine Schmitz are to join the new series of Top Gear.

Motor journalist Chris Harris and TV presenter Rory Reid have also been signed to co-present the programme.
They will join Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc when the BBC Two programme returns in May.
The new presenters were signed after Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond left the programme last year.
Sabine Schmitz will become the show's first female presenter in 15 years. The last was Vicki Butler-Henderson in 2001.
Speaking about her new role, Schmitz said "the chance to combine both driving and filming was too good an opportunity to pass up".
"I've appeared on Top Gear a few times in the past, so I know we're going to have a lot of fun," she added.
Schmitz has already been filming a sequence with Chris Evans for the new series that "will leave even the most hardened speed-demons gasping for breath when it debuts on TV", the BBC said in a statement.
Her fellow co-presenter Chris Harris is well known for fronting various motoring programmes on YouTube.
Referencing the show's cheeky and irreverent style, Harris said: "I'm quite gobby and happy to get into trouble, so I'm hoping I can underpin the programme with journalistic credibility but still cause some mischief."
Newcomer Rory Reid was recruited to Top Gear from the show's 2015 public auditions, but previously presented for CNET's Car Tech channel, and also had a starring role in Sky 1's Gadget Geeks series.
He said: "When I submitted my 30-second audition tape, I knew the odds were very firmly against me, as the auditions were open to absolutely everybody.
"To be the only person to make it through the open audition process makes me immensely proud."
Former presenter Jeremy Clarkson left the show last year after an "unprovoked physical attack" on one of the show's producers.
His co-stars James May and Richard Hammond also exited the show. All three have since been signed up to present a new motoring programme for Amazon Prime.
Chris Evans said of his new Top Gear gang: "We really do have a bit of everything for everyone."


Neglect contributed to the death of a 78 year old given a massive overdose in a care home, a coroner has concluded.

Patricia Rosen was given 16 times the proper dose of a painkiller meant for another resident also called Patricia.
She died just hours after arriving at Cedar Court in Wigston, Leicestershire, on 18 February 2013.
The coroner said the unit was short staffed and the agency nurse who gave the drug had poor English and struggled with the drug system at the home.
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Dianne Hocking also found there was no proper care plan in place for Mrs Rosen.
The inquest at Leicester Coroner's Court had heard nurse Mariana Birsesteanu was left in charge of more than 50 patients the night Mrs Rosen was given the fatal dosage.
Mabel Casyao, the home's deputy manager, told the court she went through how to administer and record the drugs with Ms Birsesteanu.
But with hindsight she should have stayed until all the drugs had been given, she said.
Speaking outside court, Ms Birsesteanu said: "This is a nightmare I will be carrying for the rest of my life.
"It could so easily have been avoided, it just took a second to miss something and it all changed."
In a statement, Mrs Rosen's family said her death was "wholly avoidable" and they hoped the case would serve to remind all involved the safety of residents, and the training of all staff should always be at the forefront of their minds.
At the time of the death, international nurses working in the UK were not made to carry out a language test. This has since changed.
Procedures at the care home have also since changed.
Police investigated but the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to bring any charges.


Ghana's government has sent more than $3m (£1.8m) in cash by plane to Brazil to pay the appearance fees owed to the national team at the World Cup.

Deputy Sports Minister Joseph Yamin told Ghanaian radio station Citi FM the players "insisted" on cash payments.
He added: "The government had to mobilise the money and a chartered flight to Brazil."
Ghana must beat Portugal in their final Group G game on Thursday to have any chance of staying at the World Cup.
And even a win would not be enough to put Ghana through to the knockout phase if United States and Germany were to draw their match.
Earlier this week, there were rumours the Black Stars could boycott training ahead of the game if their demand for payment was not met.
As unrest grew in the Ghana camp, Ghana President John Dramani Mahama personally assured the players they would receive their money.
A statement from the Ghana Football Association said: "The government is pre-financing the payment of the Black Stars appearance fees, which will be reimbursed when Fifa's prize money for Ghana's participation in the World Cup is paid."


An Uber executive obtained the medical records of a rape victim in India, according to a report.

Eric Alexander, who ran Uber's business in Asia, is said to have shared the records with the company's chief executive, Travis Kalanick, over a year ago.
Uber confirmed to the BBC that Mr Alexander no longer worked at the firm - but offered no further comment.
Technology news site Recode said Mr Alexander was fired only after the publication contacted the company about the story.
It said as well as Mr Kalanick, the records were seen by the company's senior vice president, Emil Michael.
The news is the latest in a series of high-profile scandals greatly affecting Uber's reputation. On Tuesday, the company announced it had fired 20 employees as part of an investigation into sexual harassment and other misconduct at the company.
In December 2014 a 26-year-old Delhi woman was raped by Uber driver Shiv Kumar Yadav. Yadav was sentenced to life in prison.
At the time Uber said "sexual assault is a terrible crime and we're pleased he has now been brought to justice", adding it had improved security due to "lessons we learned from this awful case".
But the ride-sharing service was consequently banned from operating in Delhi (the ban was lifted in June 2015).
Behind the scenes, Uber executives reportedly doubted the authenticity of the woman's claim, and questioned whether Ola, an Uber competitor in India, was behind the incident as part of a sabotage attempt.
As well as the criminal case, the woman sued Uber. It was settled out of court.
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Barrow survived a Chester fightback to bank a deserved 3-2 win at Holker Street.

The Bluebirds did the damage in the latter stages of the first half, as firstly Ross Hannah capitalised on a poor back-pass by Elliott Durrell and rounded Liam Roberts expertly to put his side in front.
Just two minutes later, Jordan Williams headed in a second after Roberts failed to parry a Liam Hughes shot to safety.
Williams remained "on fire" after the break, cutting inside before unleashing a spectacular third.
Chester unexpectedly rallied midway through the second period and James Akintunde slid in to pull one back after a goalmouth scramble, before three minutes later setting up Theo Vassell to halve the deficit - but Barrow held on for maximum points.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Barrow 3, Chester FC 2.
Second Half ends, Barrow 3, Chester FC 2.
Evan Horwood (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Barrow. Richard Bennett replaces Ross Hannah.
Substitution, Barrow. Andy Haworth replaces Lindon Meikle.
Jordan Williams (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  Barrow 3, Chester FC 2. Theo Vassell (Chester FC).
Blaine Hudson (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  Barrow 3, Chester FC 1. James Akintunde (Chester FC).
Substitution, Chester FC. Ryan Lloyd replaces Johnny Hunt.
Substitution, Chester FC. James Akintunde replaces Elliott Durrell.
Moussa Diarra (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  Barrow 3, Chester FC 0. Jordan Williams (Barrow).
Substitution, Barrow. Andrew Parry replaces Shaun Beeley.
Second Half begins Barrow 2, Chester FC 0.
First Half ends, Barrow 2, Chester FC 0.
Goal!  Barrow 2, Chester FC 0. Jordan Williams (Barrow).
Goal!  Barrow 1, Chester FC 0. Ross Hannah (Barrow).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


A group of MPs will visit a firm providing meals and accommodation for asylum seekers in Cardiff following a row over demands they wear wristbands as a condition for receiving food.

Lynx House has scrapped the policy, which some said was dehumanising and made people targets for abuse.
There have also been subsequent claims of overcrowding and poor conditions.
Welsh Affairs Committee chairman David Davies said the MPs wanted to "see the place for ourselves".
"As a committee, we feel it is important to be able to get behind the headlines of news stories about Welsh issues," he said, ahead of Monday's visit.
"We currently house over 1,000 asylum seekers in Wales and it is important that we scrutinise this area now, as the refugee crisis shows little sign of abating in the near future."
The Clearsprings Group, which runs the service, said wristbands were seen as a "reliable and effective way" to guarantee service delivery, but they would no longer be used.


A close aide to former Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha has been acquitted of killing the wife of politician Moshood Abiola, after spending 14 years in prison.

Major Hamza al-Mustapha was sentenced last year to hang for ordering the killing of Kudirat Abiola.
She was shot dead in 1996, three years after the elections her husband is believed to have won.
Those elections were annulled and Abacha seized power.
He went on to become one of Nigeria's most notorious military rulers, accused of stealing billions of dollars from the oil-rich nation.
Abacha and Abiola both died in 1998, paving the way for the end of decades of military rule the following year.
The BBC's Tomi Oladipo in Lagos say that a huge crowd of Maj Mustapha's supporters cheered outside the courtroom following the news of his acquittal.
The appeal court ruled that the charges of murder and conspiracy had been politically motivated.
The lower court "did not evaluate the evidence placed before it as the court was out to convict the appellant [Mustapha] at all costs," Judge Rita Pemu said, according to the AFP news agency.
"There is no evidence linking the appellant with the offence. Therefore, the appellant is discharged and acquitted," she added.
Maj Mustapha's lawyers appealed in December 2012, condemning as an "injustice" the many years he had spent in detention during the much-delayed case.
The prosecution, however, plan to appeal to the Supreme Court.
One of Abacha's sons, Mohammed, was also accused of links to Mrs Abiola's killing but was cleared in 2002 after three years in detention.
After Abacha seized power, Abiola declared himself president and was charged with treason.
He died in detention after a visit by US and UN officials - a month after Abacha died from a heart attack.


He was one of India's tallest leaders: the architect of what is probably the world's longest constitution, a legal scholar, a spiritual leader and, most importantly, the undisputed leader of Dalits, some of the most wretched citizens because of an unforgiving and harsh caste hierarchy that condemns them to the bottom of the heap.

After Mahatma Gandhi - whose birthday falls on Friday - Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is indubitably India's most revered leader.
All over the country, his statues abound: in towns and cities and villages, road crossings and railway stations, and in parks. The charismatic leader is usually portrayed as a stocky bespectacled man, wearing a western suit and tie, with a pen in his front pocket and holding a book - the constitution of India - under his arm.
This, according to historian Janaki Nair, "symbolises the self-assertion on the part of Dalits". Not surprisingly, in caste-ridden and unequal India, Ambedkar is a lightning rod for Dalits (formerly known as untouchables) and their opponents.
This also possibly explains why authorities are placing in cages the statues of the leader - the "darling of the dispossessed", as historian Ramachandra Guha calls him - in many states.
Tamil Nadu, one of India's most developed states, is one of the worst affected by the scourge of caste. It is India's second largest economy and, according to the World Bank, well on track to meet the major millennium development goals. The state's two main political parties were founded on rationalism. But this masks a dark reality of decades-old and continuing atrocities by the dominant castes against the Dalits, who comprise 19% of the state's population.
Opponents of Dalit assertiveness have, over the years, provoked rioting and violence by desecrating - garlanding them with slippers, cutting off their heads - statues of Ambedkar. Pusillanimous authorities, unable to rein in the dominant castes have responded by placing the leader's statues in cages all over the state.
"This is Tamil Nadu's biggest shame. It shows the complete failure of the state to protect the Dalits. The state is increasingly succumbing to caste barbarity," says political scientist C Lakshmanan.
The opposition is so fierce and brazen that dominant caste groups have joined hands openly to demand softening of laws that aim at curbing atrocities against the Dalits - an example of what Mr Lakshmanan calls "explicit anti-Dalit politics".
In the past, dominant castes have refused to let state-run public transport buses named after Dalit icons to enter their villages, forcing the authorities to remove the name. In many villages, Dalits are still not allowed to use communal wells, enter Hindu temples, and visit barber shops.
More than 70 Dalits - more than in dirt-poor, caste-ridden, violent Bihar state - were killed in Tamil Nadu last year in mob attacks and clashes. There have been more than 15 judicial enquiries into incidents of atrocities against Dalits in the state since 1956, but not a single person has been punished.
"The tension with the dominant castes is increasing by the day. The dominant castes are ranged against the Dalits," says D Ravikumar, former lawmaker and leader of VCK, a strident anti-caste party.
Many in the state call the shameful caging of Ambedkar statues as an example of "caste fascism" in modern-day India.  It also proves that the country's caste parties are mostly interested in extracting special privileges and concessions for their communities rather than fighting for justice and rights. So untouchability, in its worst and vilest forms, is alive and well in Tamil Nadu.
In one of his memorable speeches, Ambedkar had wondered how long Indians would continue to deny equality in their social and economic life. "If we continue to deny it for long, we do so only by putting our political democracy in peril."
Then, with what many say was chilling prescience, Ambedkar said that much of the growth of independent India was like "building a castle on a dung heap". He was not entirely off the mark.


More than 100 people have welcomed a new £2.7m lifeboat for Porthdinllaen on the Llyn peninsula.

The Tamar class lifeboat - John D Spicer - began its journey to north Wales from the RNLI's headquarters in Poole, Dorset, on Friday.
A new boathouse will be built with materials brought in by sea, due to problems with the cliff-side location.
Volunteer crew members have been training on the new boat, which is faster than the current one.
As it sailed in, sirens, foghorns and flares were let off in welcome as more than 100 people cheered.
The old lifeboat entered service in 1987 and has been launched 315 times.
Source: RNLI
"When the new lifeboat comes around the headland for the very first time I know there will be gasps from everyone who has turned out to welcome her," said Porthdinllaen RNLI coxswain Mike Davies speaking before the boat arrived.
"Bringing her home will definitely be one of the highlights of my career and a proud moment.
"This really is a fantastic boat and I have every confidence that she will serve us well and help us to save more lives off Porthdinllaen," he added.
The new craft was funded by a bequest from John Dominic Spicer, from Oxfordshire, who died in October 2010.
At the request of the executors of Mr Spicer's will, the new boat is called the John D Spicer.
The new boat will be temporarily kept on a mooring while work to build a new boathouse at the Morfa Nefyn site begins.
It had been hoped that construction on the new building would begin last spring, but that has now been put back.
There had been concerns locally that materials for the new building would have to come through Nefyn and along a cliff-top road by the local golf club.
Source: RNLI
Last year the charity said it had taken the decision to look at transporting materials for the new boathouse by sea because of the financial implications.
"The close co-operation and assistance we have received from the Nefyn and District Golf Club and the local community has been fantastic, however it just was not a financially viable option to re-align the trackway away from the cliff edge," Colin Williams, divisional inspector of lifeboats in Wales, said at the time.
It is not the first time the RNLI has used the sea to help construct a new boathouse.
This method was used to build the £5.5m boathouse at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, in 2005.


European champions Spain were beaten 1-0 by Georgia in their final warm-up game before Euro 2016.

A poor Jordi Alba pass led to Georgia midfielder Tornike Okriashvili scoring the only goal on 40 minutes.
Spain boss Vicente del Bosque had his Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid players available for the first time since last month's Champions League final.
But his side, who had not lost since March 2015, lacked the creativity to beat the world's 137th-ranked team.
Spain are aiming to win their third successive European title at Euro 2016, which will be hosted by France.
They face the Czech Republic in Toulouse on Monday before further group matches against Croatia and Turkey.
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A green energy summit has been held in Glasgow to discuss the impact of plans to end onshore wind farm subsidies.

The UK government recently announced plans to scrap the Renewables Obligation scheme early.
UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd has said ending the scheme meant energy bills would not need to rise.
But Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing, who chaired the summit, has accused the Conservatives of ignoring Scottish concerns.
The event was attended by more than 200 people from businesses and organisations, according to the Scottish government.
The UK government has said that ending the subsidy scheme, which was funded by a levy on household fuel bills, was likely to mean about 2,500 planned onshore turbines would be cancelled.
Ending the subsidy was part of a manifesto commitment by the Conservative party ahead of the general election in May.
It had been due to end in April 2017 - but will now cease a year earlier.
When she announced the move last month, Ms Rudd said: "We are driving forward our commitment to end new onshore wind subsidies and give local communities the final say over any new wind farms.
"Onshore wind is an important part of our energy mix and we now have enough subsidised projects in the pipeline to meet our renewable energy commitments."
But the Scottish government has said that ending the subsidy will disproportionately affect Scotland, which leads the UK in onshore wind power.
Industry body Scottish Renewables has warned the change could put up to Â£3bn of investment in Scotland at risk, and called for UK ministers to reconsider.
Speaking after the summit, Mr Ewing said: "Delegates this morning spoke about the damage this will cause the rural economy - many of the shops and business that are vital to these communities.
"Over the next few weeks DECC (Department of Energy and Climate Change) will be seeking the views of those affected and I strongly encourage anyone with an interest to respond on this to ensure our concerns are heard.
"We will continue to make representations to both the UK government's energy department and to the Scotland Office, feeding back from what I heard at the summit and the many meetings I have had with representatives from the industry."


A man has died during a fight in east London in which several people were stabbed.

Police were called at about midnight to the Army and Navy pub in Plaistow and found four men aged between 18 and 37 with knife wounds.
A 29-year-old man died later in hospital. Two others remain in hospital but their injuries are not believed to be serious.
Ten people have been arrested in connection with the incident.


As the US gets ready for next week's mid-term elections, our North America editor Jon Sopel answers your questions about what's at stake, on our BBC World News Facebook page.

This is an edited version of the session.
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Why are facts so irrelevant in US elections and why is the reporting and campaigning so shameless?Question from Jakob Wassmann
Jon Sopel: Facts aren't irrelevant. It's just that they're contested. And that's why so much time is spent on rebuttal. I think the campaigning is HUGELY sophisticated, using the latest ways of measuring opinion. But it's not old-fashioned tub thumping.
Why is the BBC obsessed with elections in the US? Why other countries don't get the same air time? Allen
JS: Not sure that's fair. We are pretty obsessed by elections and democracy - and I say this having been sent to cover elections recently in India and France. But America is the richest country in the world, the most powerful. What the people decide matters. Without passing any comment on the virtues/shortcomings of either men, the election of George W Bush was significant, just as Barack Obama's election was significant. And what they do in office makes a difference.
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What will change if the Republicans take control of the Senate? Kev Greenhalgh
JS: Well, the world will keep on spinning. And the real answer is "who knows". But if they're smart they will be thinking only about how to create a good impression for the general election in 2016 when the presidency is up for grabs. Do well, be constructive, set a clear agenda - and there may be big rewards. So don't automatically buy into the idea that it will all be gridlock and impasse.
What will a Republican Senate mean?
Would a Republican-controlled Senate intensify partisan strife or force both parties to work together more? Shawschenk Redemption
JS: I already hate the answer I'm going to give you - because it is an "only time will tell" answer. There is the potential that it will intensify strife. Although, on the strife-o-meter, we're already pretty much at 8,000 revs. So how much worse can it get? What we might see a lot more of is the presidential veto. But let's face it, it has hardly been functional and harmonious these past couple of years. Anyone remember the government shutdown?
Yeah, when are we going to remove money from the process so everyone is represented, not just those who can buy votes?Leanna Devonfo
JS: Great question. Reminds me of Churchill's comment about democracy - it's the worst of all systems until you consider the alternatives (someone is going to give me the accurate version of that) - money in politics is ugly, has the power to corrupt, can be sleazy. But I am not sure state funding of political parties is good either - because then what motives do the politicians have to connect with the people they seek to represent? But I don't like it becoming like an arms race. Although I did enjoy the spectacle at the last US presidential election of one or two people spending MILLIONS, and getting nothing in return for it.
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Doesn't having elections for the House every two years effectively put the US on a constant election cycle and actually prevent things getting done? Richard Speight
JS: When I first studied this, I thought it was bonkers. Just totally nuts. Because of course the impetus then is to be permanently campaigning, and not making long-term decisions. But I think potentially worse than this is the way it appears that some Congressional districts have been carved, so that an incumbent can never be beaten. No elected representative should either feel they have a job for life, nor should they feel they have to be on a permanent election footing.
Is it possible to impeach Mr Obama? Sonja Brego
JS: Haven't seen it on the ballot for next Tuesday. Isn't impeachment for when there has been serious maladministration, or corruption - am not sure I like the idea of impeachment being bandied around, just because people disagree with a president's policies. You dislike someone's policies - beat them at the election, but don't resort to constitutional last resorts.
As a Canadian with investments in the American healthcare industry, will a Republican victory spell disaster for Obamacare? Freddy Tang
JS: I wonder. Here's what I predict - there will be a lot of huffing and puffing, but I don't see them blowing Obamacare over. For all its faults, for all that some find it ideologically repellent there are millions who've signed up for it, so I suspect it will stay in more or less its present shape and form.
Do you think that a Republican-dominated Senate would push for war? Bello Eshiofune Ismail
JS: Push for war where? But even with a Republican Congress, there is still only one commander-in-chief - and that is the president. So I'm not sure it will make that much difference.
How much do [mid-term results] affect the outcome of the presidential election in 2016? Deepak Uniyal
JS: This could be an essay rather than a quick answer. Clinton took a pasting in the 1994 midterms, and then went on to win in 1996. Ditto Obama in 2010 when he took a "shellacking" as he put it. But the American people are suffering the "six-year itch", when disillusionment sets in - and it is interesting the extent to which Democrats, with their eye on the 2016 presidential elections, are putting maximum distance between themselves and the president. The man who was once credited as having the Midas touch, now finds his presence is not wanted in many races.
What will Republicans like Chris Christie be looking for their party to achieve to maximise their opportunity in 2016? George Chiverton
JS: Well, as you well know there are different strands of Republican opinion: social conservatives, libertarians, establishment Republicans (I would put Christie in that group) - so depending on where you are you will be looking at the sort of issues that resonate. But irrespective of which strand of Republican opinion you represent you will be looking at how you are doing with women, young people and Hispanics - those groups have been a real weak point for the Republicans in recent years. Oh, and one other thing. All Republicans will want to see how well their machine performs against the Democratic Party's, which has been far more effective in the last few elections.
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Are the Obama administration's successes with the economy and employment going to be recognized in voting? And will turnout be any different than it usually is in mid-terms (dismal)? Gary Laugel
JS: Just for future reference - never, ever give a politician a two-part question - they will only ever answer the part they want to! Anyway, I am not a politician. So part one: you look at where America was in 2008 and where it is now, and if as Clinton used to say, "It's the economy stupid", then you would think Obama would be sitting pretty. Unemployment has been falling consistently, growth last quarter was 4.6%, consumer confidence is rising. But I suspect he's not going to be rewarded - because politicians tend not to get credit for putting something right that was wrong. He's merely re-established normality. And it is frustrating this administration and the government in the UK, which is also performing well - they are going through a voterless recovery. Now part two. Probably no. Phew! That was brief and to the point.
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Average UK wages would be £38 a week lower by 2030 if the UK votes to leave the EU, the Trades Union Congress says.

The pro-Remain organisation is also warning manufacturing jobs would go and employments right be put at risk.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said trade and investment would be affected by an EU exit.
But another union chief, the RMT's Mick Cash, said the EU had pursued a "race to the bottom" on workers' rights and could never be reformed.
Publication of the TUC's research comes amid a drive to recruit traditional Labour voters by the rival sides ahead of the 23 June referendum.
It said the manufacturing sector would be hit seven times harder than those in the services sector because it exports so much to the EU.
How working conditions and pay rates are affected by EU membership.
Ms O'Grady said: "Thirty eight pounds a week may not be much for politicians like Boris Johnson, but for millions of workers, it's the difference between heating or eating, between struggling or saving, and between getting by or getting on."
But Mr Cash - whose union represents people in the transport industry - said the EU was no "workers' paradise", pointing to industrial unrest in France and high unemployment rates in other countries.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We as a union have opposed being members of the EU since 1979, because we do not think workers have benefited from it."


A man who was watching Plymouth Argyle play Liverpool at Anfield when he found out his son had died has been reunited with two men who comforted him.

Argyle fan Kevin May was at the clubs' FA Cup tie on 8 January when he received a text with the news.
His son Daniel, 25, was quadriplegic, blind and had cerebral palsy following an operation he had as a baby.
Liverpool brought the unnamed men to Home Park for Wednesday night's replay, along with a special banner.
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Bearing the slogan "RIP Daniel May You'll Never Walk Alone", it was unfurled at the cup tie.
Fans from both sides also joined a minute's applause in the 25th minute, to mark Daniel's age.
Mr May, from Plymouth, described the two men who looked after him during the Anfield clash as his "guardian angels".
Speaking about the special welcome organised by Liverpool, Mr May said: "I had a lovely time with them."
He said before the meeting that it would be "poignant, very nice, and very sad", but he was "determined to focus on the positives, with many thousands of people thinking of my boy Daniel".
"Home Park is where I go to worship and for them to be thinking of Daniel is beyond words," he said.
Mr May was told on the phone that Daniel had died as he watched the first cup game alongside thousands of Plymouth supporters.
The distraught dad, who was taken to a quiet room away from the crowd after receiving the news, later thanked a policeman and staff at Anfield for their support.
His message led to a fundraising campaign led by a Liverpool fan Anthony Grice to pay for the banner in memory of Daniel, who lived in Surrey with his mother.
Mr May said he would take the banner to Daniel's funeral on 7 February.


As a proud Mexican wrestler Super Astro won't take off his mask or reveal his real name.

Now 58 years old, while he still competes in the ring from time to time, his main job is running his sandwich shop in Mexico City. Which he does while still wearing his silver and black mask.
The eatery - Tortas Super Astro - is a homage to Mexican wrestling, known in its homeland as lucha libre (free wrestling).
Pictures and paintings of Super Astro and other masked heroes line the walls, and it specialises in giant portions to meet the calorie needs of the numerous wrestlers among its regular customers.
The signature sandwich is a torpedo-shaped roll called the Super Special Astro.
Some 16 inches (41cm) in length, it weighs 2.5kg (5.5lb), and it is filled with beef, chicken, ham, bacon, sausage, cheese, omelette, onions, tomatoes and avocados.
It costs 270 pesos ($17; Â£12), but if you can eat it in less than 20 minutes, you don't have to pay. Not many people manage that feat.
Super Astro first opened the business back in 1986 because despite the enduring popularity of lucha libre in Mexico, the wrestlers were paid very little.
He says he realised that there would be demand for a sandwich shop that provided giant amounts of food for low prices. And at the same time, that the eatery would also give him a more dependable source of income.
Fast forward 26 years, and Mexican wrestlers still don't get paid very much, particularly in comparison with the stars of the US behemoth that is World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
For while WWE wrestlers can easily pocket $2m (Â£1.3m) a year, the best lucha libre fighters earn about $1,600 at the largest weekly events, and most are paid significantly less.
Is it a sport? Like most modern forms of wrestling, lucha libre is known as "sports entertainment". This is because the matches are designed primarily for spectacle and entertainment rather than as an out-and-out competitive sport
Why the masks? Most lucha libre wrestlers wear masks due to a tradition that dates back to the 1930s
Lucha libre wrestlers are not allowed to pull off an opponent's mask. Masks are generally only removed if a player loses
As well as wearing a mask, the wrestler take on a stage name, with some playing hero characters, and others performing as baddies
The wresters are known as "luchadores", and traditionally they perform more aerial moves than wrestlers in the US-based World Wrestling Entertainment
Despite continuing grumbles from the Mexican wrestlers that the promoters take too much of the cash, there is simply not a great deal of money in the industry.
Although lucha libre has a loyal fanbase, its popularity in Mexico is dwarfed by the likes of football, baseball and boxing.
And while the biggest two or three lucha libre events of the year can attract crowds of 17,000, most weekly fights see attendances of between 1,000 and 3,000 people, with tickets costing about 300 pesos.
Numerous fights are shown on TV, but one of the two biggest lucha libre organisations, the family-owned Lucha Libre AAA, continues to make most of its money from ticket sales, and sponsorship.
As a result, AAA's annual turnover is about $20m, compared with $500m at WWE.
The lucha libre industry also has to cope with Mexicans being able to watch WWE fights on their televisions, and even with WWE holding a few meetings in Mexico each year.
Yet despite the pressures on lucha libre, the small firms that form its backbone - such as the makers of the celebrated masks, and AAA itself - continue to have big ambitions to thrive.
Lucha libre traces its origin back to the second half of the 19th century. It takes its name from the fact that many more wrestling moves were allowed than the more formal Greco-Roman wrestling from which it developed. Lucha libre became popular across the whole of Mexico in the 1930s.
The wearing of masks started around the same time when an Irish wrestler living in Mexico known as "Cyclone McKey" wanted to become the first masked wrestler.
Cyclone McKey got a mask made for him out of goat skin by a shoemaker called Antonio Martinez.
Despite not liking the first design, the Irish fighter started to order additional batches from the shoemaker, and soon other wrestlers were copying him, and going to Mr Martinez for their own masks.
The business is today called Martinez Sports, and run by the late Mr Martinez's son Victor.
One of a handful of traditional wrestling mask makers in Mexico, it produces 450 per week, from bespoke designs that require 17 measurements of the wrestler's face, and cost $100, to more affordable off-the-peg versions. These days the masks are made from man-made fibres to make them lighter and more breathable.
Despite much cheaper Chinese-made masks being available, both worldwide and in Mexico itself, Martinez Sports continues to enjoy strong business.
It supplies a majority of the 250 or so professional wrestlers in Mexico, and in recent years has set up a website to sell to wrestling fans around the world.
Victor Martinez says: "My dad was a perfectionist, and he left me that legacy. It is my responsibility to maintain his prestige.
"Today the masks remain one of the key elements that give life to wrestling.
"The Chinese imitations look amateurish, they never have the quality of a professional mask, the quality isn't the same."
At AAA, the organisation is working hard to create new revenue streams for the sport, such as recently helping to create a wrestling video game.
It also hopes to get lucha libre onto television screens in the US via establishing a reality TV programme looking at the lives of wrestlers.
Back at Super Astro's sandwich bar, Super Astro says despite the pressures it is under, lucha libre will continue to be popular.
"There is still a lot to offer to the public that is faithful to us," he says. "The public still demanding it, enjoy it and pay to see a good show."
His optimism is echoed by former fighter Nicolas Sanchez, 52, (known to his old fans as Modern Hercules), who now runs a gym in Mexico city where wrestlers train.
"Wrestling is part of Mexico, lives in the heart of people," he says. "Here come young people with enthusiasm, they want to be wrestlers, who dream and step into the ring to be stars. We and the coaches are here to support their dreams."
However, Victor Martinez is not so optimistic, grumbling that lucha libra is losing some of the more intricate and acrobatic wrestling moves of the past, to instead become more like the showbiz and brute force of WWE.
"Wrestling is not what it was before," he says. "Now it's more spectacle, more circus and less sport. But people still like it, that will not change."


Manchester United winger Memphis Depay is Lyon coach Bruno Genesio's "number one priority" during the January transfer window.

United manager Jose Mourinho said on Friday the Premier League club had turned down an offer for the 22-year-old Netherlands international.
"I have put a priority on Memphis Depay," said Genesio.
"Things are progressing. We keep on working. It takes time because recruiting a player now is not easy."
Depay joined United from PSV Eindhoven for £31m in May 2015, signing a four-year contract.
He has scored seven goals in 53 appearances for the Red Devils but has not started Premier League game since Mourinho was appointed in the summer.
Speaking on Friday, Mourinho said: "The offer we had is far from being reasonable for us.
"He is our player. If nothing happens, he is one more for us."
Genesio described Depay as a "young player with great international experience and a lot of potential".
He added: "He has an interesting profile for us. But there are several things to consider, including the price."
Lyon, who visit Caen on Sunday (16:00 GMT) are fourth in Ligue 1, 10 points behind leaders Nice with a game in hand.
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A 16-year-old boy is in a critical condition after a collision between a police car and a moped being ridden by three teenagers in south-west London.

The crash happened at 02:15 BST on Sunday in South Park Road, Wimbledon.
All three boys were taken to a south London hospital for treatment.
The moped was believed to have been involved in an attempted robbery and was being monitored by the National Police Air Service helicopter, said the Metropolitan Police.
A second 16-year-old suffered a serious injury to his leg and a 15-year-old sustained minor injuries.
All three were arrested at the scene and two large knives were recovered.
The moped had been reported to police as lost or stolen, on 12 July.
The Met said the Directorate of Professionals Standards has been informed and the incident had been referred to the police watchdog.
In a statement, the Met said the moped was not being "pursued by police vehicles on the ground" at the time of the collision but "was monitored by police helicopter".
"The moped was in collision with the rear offside of a marked police car, which was being driven to a position ahead of the moped," it said.


A vet and his assistant have been convicted of keeping animals in a "filthy dungeon" in Leeds.

Police discovered 22 dogs and eight cats - some of them in cages - in the basement and back room of Armley Vets in February.
Four dogs and a cat had to be put down following the raid on the Town Street practice.
Vet Gary Samuel and assistant Rochelle McEwan were found guilty after a trial at Leeds Magistrates' Court.
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RSPCA inspector Nikki Cheetham said officers discovered some of the animals by accessing a trap door covered with carpet, while others were found shut in a separate room.
"The dogs were found living in cages in a pitch black dungeon," she said.
"It was filthy, there was faeces everywhere, and they had no access to food or water. Most of the cats were shut in one room, which was also covered with excrement.
"The condition of these animals and the way in which they were being kept was appalling."
All the dogs were husky-types, including several puppies, with the exception of two Chinese crested dogs.
The majority were signed over to the RSPCA, which launched an investigation and 21 animals have now been rehomed.
Samuel, 49, of Weston Road, Enfield, north London, was struck off by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2013 following a conviction for theft, common assault and a public order offence.
The Privy Council  overturned this in 2014 after ruling his removal from the veterinary register was a "disproportionately severe" punishment.
An earlier investigation in 2011 by the RCVS into Samuel's conduct while working as a veterinary surgeon at Nottingham Greyhound Stadium was dismissed.
Samuel and McEwan, 28, of Stonecliffe Close, Leeds, were convicted on Thursday of six offences under the Animal Welfare Act and will be sentenced next month.
The RCVS said it would launch an investigation in light of the new conviction. The Privy Council declined to comment.


The family of a woman whose murder was one of a string of linked incidents on Friday say they have been left "devastated" by her death.

Claire Nagle, 38, died in hospital after being found seriously injured at a house in Borrowash, Derbyshire.
The alarm was raised by a 22-year-old man who suffered head injuries at a house less than a mile away.
Police later said the death of a man on the M1 was linked to both attacks and all three people involved were related.
On Saturday, Derbyshire police's Ch Supt Jim Allen said officers were not looking for anyone else in connection with the investigation.
In a statement, Mrs Nagle's father, Martin Paton, said: "We are devastated at the loss of a much loved, beautiful and vibrant mother, daughter and sister, Claire.
"We believe this was a tragic incident for everyone involved and their families.  We don't want to apportion any blame and wish to be left alone to grieve as a family.
"We'd also like to thank everyone who has offered us messages of support."
The 22-year-old man remains in hospital, police said.
Prayers were held at Stephen's Church in Borrowash and a book of condolence has been opened, which will be given to Mrs Nagle's family.
The Reverend Tim Sumpter said it was important for the community, who were in a "complete state of shock", to have "space and quiet".
An appeal has begun to raise money to support Mrs Nagle's five children, the BBC understands.
Hundreds of drivers were left stranded on the motorway after part of the M1 near Trowell services was closed when a 44-year-old man died in a crash with a lorry.
Det Ch Insp Gareth Meadows said police wanted to hear from anyone who saw a white Ford Focus on the hard shoulder of the M1 on Friday morning, or two men on an overbridge who may have been behaving in an "out of place" manner.
Taz, a tattoo artist based in Station Road, described helping the 22-year-old man.
"There was a young lad lying on the floor, he was a bloody mess. He had multiple lacerations on his face and had lost a lot of blood.
"I just ran back over here, grabbed some gloves and gauze and headed back over to him to see if there was anything I could do."
On Friday a cameraman for BBC East Midlands Today, reporting on the M1 closure, said he saw a body on the carriageway.
Police have urged anyone who may have information about the deaths, or dashcam footage of the motorway, to contact them.


Free tuition will continue for EU students who are enrolled or preparing to study in Scotland this year.

John Swinney, who is Deputy First Minister and Education Secretary for Scotland, reassured students in a joint statement.
He said there was no change in funding just now and anyone eligible would remain so during their course.
He also called for clarity on the status of EU nationals after Britain leaves the EU.
Universities Scotland, the representative body of Scotland's 19 higher education institutions, said it also wanted more guidance and reassurance for students who are coming to study next year.
And the statement also said Scotland would continue to support research collaboration with partners in Europe
Mr Swinney said: "EU students are welcome in Scotland and their contribution is valued.
"We are proud that Scotland is a destination of choice for students and staff from overseas and I am firmly committed to ensuring this remains the case.
He added: "That is why, in addition to confirming funding arrangements for our EU students today, we have renewed our call for the reintroduction of a post study work visa.
"This would boost the international appeal of Scotland's universities and help retain talent from across the world.
"The UK Government must also clarify as soon as possible, the immigration status of EU nationals who will be living, working and studying in Scotland when the UK formally leaves the EU."
Prof Sir Pete Downes, Convener of Universities Scotland and Principal of the University of Dundee said: "Our student community is incredibly diverse, with students from 180 countries studying here. This adds so much to the quality of higher education and the student experience we offer in Scotland.
"We are determined that this will continue to be the case."


Brazilian security forces and protesters have clashed in Barra da Tijuca, near Rio de Janeiro, where the Brazilian government is auctioning off exploration rights for a huge oilfield on Monday.

Members of the National Security Force fired tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse some 300 protesters.
Several protesters have been injured.
President Dilma Rousseff had ordered tight security after violent demonstrations in Rio last week.
By Wyre DaviesRio de Janeiro correspondent
Local media said a small number of protesters tried to set a car alight while others tried to block cars carrying officials from Brazil's Mining and Energy Ministry from getting to the hotel where the auction is taking place.
"There were bizarre scenes. Riot police firing tear gas and stun grenades, not just against protesters, but also on to the beach, with hundreds of tourists and sun worshippers looking on incredulously," the BBC's Wyre Davies reported from Rio de Janeiro.
Among the protesters are members of various unions representing oil workers, who have been on strike since Thursday at more than 40 oil platforms and refineries.
The unions accuse the government of "selling off" Brazil's riches.
Eleven international oil companies are said to be interested in the Libra oilfield, and nine of them have so far reportedly paid the required registration fee.
The Libra offshore oilfield is located at a depth of some 5,000m (16,500ft), below a thick layer of salt sediments, which makes its exploration extremely challenging.
The Brazilian government hopes that by bringing foreign expertise on board it will be able to exploit Libra's estimated 8-12 billion barrels of recoverable oil reserves.
"We're taking over this immense wealth that lies under the sea and on land. It is not available to us if it stays where it is," Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao told AFP news agency.
But critics say Brazil should protect the monopoly of exploration of its oil reserves.
Others argue that the rules set by the government for the auction have scared off big players such as BP and Exxon for allegedly allowing too much state intervention.
The Libra field belongs to the Brazilian government's National Petroleum Agency (ANP) and is part of huge oil reserves discovered in 2010 under a layer of rock, sand and salt beneath the seabed.
The discovery potentially doubles Brazil's known oil reserves.


Welsh Water says an increased £77m profit for 2014-15 will help it deliver £1.7bn of investment in its network over the next five years.

The latest figures, released on Thursday, are up from an underlying profit of £50m on the previous year.
It comes just weeks after plans to cut 360 posts over five years were announced as part of savings.
The firm said it is investing almost £1m a day in services - without hikes in customer bills.
Welsh Water's chief executive Chris Jones told BBC Wales that the results reflected a "very good performance" for the company.
He said because the firm had a not-for-profit business model and no shareholders, the entire surplus would be reinvested.
"We've got a programme now of investment over the next five years that will be getting on for nearly £2bn - that's going to enable us to do an awful lot," he added.
The company's priorities include improving customer services by investing in the water pipe network, looking at how to combat climate change and how drainage systems can cope in the future.
It has already invested £15m in the RainScape drainage schemes in parts of Carmarthenshire and Swansea and is setting aside £60m for similar schemes.
Mr Jones said last month's jobs announcement reflected the need to keep up investment in water services while keeping customer bills down.
He told BBC Wales the redundancies would be part of a voluntary programme as part of efficiency targets set by the industry watchdog, Ofwat.