Cricket's bosses have reversed a decision which effectively handed control of the sport to India, England and Australia.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) decided in 2014 that the 'Big Three' should have more powers over how the game is run and its financial split.
But at a meeting in Dubai, the ICC board voted to pass a new financial model and governance structure.
The changes will have to be ratified by the ICC full council in June.
The 2014 changes had angered other large cricketing nations such as South Africa and Pakistan.
However, the reversal is likely to upset India which has been demanding a $570m (£442m) cut from ICC revenues but will now receive $293m (£227m).
The board voted 13 to one in favour of the financial changes and local media have reported that India was the only dissenting voice.
Based on forecasted revenues and costs, the England and Wales Cricket Board will receive $143m (£111m) across the same period (2016-2023), Zimbabwe will get $94m (£73m) and the remaining seven Full Member nations $132m (£102m) each.
Constitutional changes made by the board - including paving the way for more Test cricket nations and the introduction of an independent female director - were agreed by a vote of 12 to two.
ICC chairman Shashank Manohar, who announced in March that he is stepping down, said: "This is another step forward for world cricket and I look forward to concluding the work at the annual conference.
"I am confident we can provide a strong foundation for the sport to grow and improve globally in the future through the adoption of the revised financial model and governance structure."
The ICC meeting has also agreed to look at:


China's Long Qingquan lifted a combined world record of 307kg to win Olympic gold in the men's 56kg weightlifting.

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Long's 170kg lift with his last attempt in the clean and jerk saw him grab gold from London 2012 champion Om Yun-Chol of North Korea, who lifted 303kg.
Thailand's Sinphet Kruaithong took the bronze medal at the Riocentro Pavilion 2 with 289kg.
In the snatch segment, Beijing 2008 winner Long matched the 16-year-old Olympic record of 137kg.
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Jim Furyk has become the first player in PGA Tour history to shoot a round of 58 at the Travelers Championship in Connecticut.

The 46-year-old American hit a total of 10 birdies and an eagle to shoot a 12-under-par round.
Furyk was already one of six men to have hit a sub 60 total for 18 holes.
Despite his record-breaking round Furyk is not in contention to win as he is still four behind leader Daniel Berger, before he starts his final round.
Furyk told Sky Sports 4: "It's pretty cool.
"A million and a half rounds played in the history of the PGA Tour and you look at the great names ahead of me. It's humbling, to stand alone at 58 is really a cool accomplishment.
"I never thought I'd have the opportunity to shoot 59 so once we accomplished that goal I said, 'I had my one chance, I was able to go ahead and birdie the last hole and do it, it'll probably never happen again', and lo and behold, I made the turn today and said, 'here we go again'.
"It's fun to break that barrier and be the first one."


Ricky Burns is aiming to unify the WBA and IBF light-welterweight boxing titles when he faces Julius Indongo in Glasgow on 15 April.

The 33-year-old Scotsman already holds the WBA belt and expects the Namibian to provide a stern test.
"It's a huge fight in the division and the kind I need to be involved in at this stage of my career," Burns said.
"There were other names talked about, but I wanted the toughest, most dangerous fight out there."
Burns, from Coatbridge, became a three-weight world champion when he claimed the vacant WBA title by beating Michele di Rocco last May and successfully defended his belt with victory over Kiryl Relikh in October.
Burns had hoped to face Adrien Broner in Las Vegas but will face the "dangerous" Namibian instead.
Indongo produced something of a surprise last month when he knocked out the previously unbeaten Russian Eduard Troyanovsky inside 40 seconds in Moscow.
"He is a big, tall, rangy southpaw, but bring it on," said Burns. "I have no fear of anyone and it is only the massive fights for me now.
"Fighting in Glasgow is special for me. The crowd at the SSE Hydro has been electric the last two occasions and I expect it to be no different this time round.
"Their support means the world to me, the crowd has always behind me and I want to put in a big performance for them again."
Indongo is under no illusions as to how difficult an opponent Burns will prove.
"It's an absolute honour for me to fight Ricky, who I regard as an accomplished champion," Indongo said.
"I respect what he has achieved so far, but I'm going to Scotland to rob him of his belt.
"I know it won't be easy, but I'm comforted by the fact that I have a good team and passionate Namibian fans, and I have every intention of making them smile and unifying the division."


A campaign to fight proposals to scrap consultant-led maternity services at an Oxfordshire hospital has begun.

NHS bosses are considering making the maternity unit at Banbury's Horton General midwife-led.
Banbury MP Victoria Prentis said: "They are proposals but they are very worrying."
Under the plans consultant-led services could move to Oxford and Horton could also lose its special care baby unit.
Keith Strangwood chairman of the Save our Horton group said: "There's been scenarios at the Horton when if there wasn't consultant-led maternity then a life would have been lost.
"If we lose it then it will happen."
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH), which runs the hospital said: "We are in the early stages of discussions.
"Public feedback will be used to inform and shape plans."
The clinical-led review by the trust is looking at the hospital's planned care, urgent care, maternity and children's services.
In 2008 campaigners won a battle to stop maternity and children's services being transferred elsewhere.
The secretary of state rejected the trust's proposals because they failed to provide an accessible or improved service for local people.


A rare bottle of Glenfiddich whisky laid down in the year of George VI's coronation has sold for a record price at an auction in Edinburgh.

The Glenfiddich Collection 1937 fetched £68,500 at the Bonhams Whisky Sale.
Bonhams said it was the highest paid at auction for a bottle of Glenfiddich and a Scottish auction house record for the sale of a single malt.
The bottle was laid down in cask 843 at the Glenfiddich Distillery at Dufftown, Moray, in 1937.
It was bottled 64 years later in 2001.
Auctioneers estimated before the sale the bottle would fetch between £25,000 and £35,000. It was bought by a bidder in the Far East at the whisky sale on Wednesday.
The auction house said it was "highly unusual" for a single malt Scotch whisky of this age to have kept its strength, which is what made the bottle so special.
It is the oldest and rarest bottling ever undertaken at the distillery.
Bonhams Whisky specialist Martin Green said, "The record price reflects the exceptional rarity of the Glenfiddich Rare Collection 1937 and its great appeal to collectors everywhere."


European regulators have paved the way for British Airways, Iberia and American Airlines to work together.

The EU Commission said it would give BA and Iberia immunity from anti-trust laws that prevent businesses from co-ordinating prices and schedules.
Under the plan - which still needs US backing - the airlines would share costs, but give up four transatlantic take-off and landing slots.
The regulators also approved BA's merger with Spain's Iberia.
That deal - to create Europe's third-largest carrier - is aimed at helping both carriers cut costs as the industry struggles to make money.
The new company will be called International Airlines Group, but the BA and Iberia brands will continue to operate as normal.
The European Commission said it did not have any anti-competition concerns over the merger because the enlarged airline would continue to face competition from rivals, even on routes such as London-Madrid and London-Barcelona.
When the merger was confirmed, BA said the group would operate 419 aircraft, flying to more than 200 destinations, and carry a total of 62 million passengers a year.
Virgin Atlantic has been vocal in its opposition to the deal between BA and American Airlines which it described as a "monster monopoly".
Chief executive Steve Ridgway told the BBC that BA already had the bulk of transatlantic flights from the UK, in particular out of Heathrow, and said that customers would suffer.
"BA and AA are not doing this to win a popularity contest. They're doing it because they want to dominate even more strongly these key markets across the Atlantic."
He added Virgin Atlantic would not be taking up the slots freed up by BA - because it objected to having to lease them.
"By offering the slots, they're saying there is potential harm to consumers and markets," Mr Ridgway said.
"We're being asked to pay to remedy some competition damage that's been done by this alliance."
BA has argued that closer co-operation between the airlines will benefit passengers with more choice and lower fares.
It plans to begin the transatlantic business from the autumn, provided it gets clearance from the US Department of Transport.
"We await the DOT's final decision, but welcome this important and vital step forward," said BA chief executive Willie Walsh.
He added that the move to make some of its Heathrow slots available to competitors was a "pragmatic decision so that we can get the joint business up and running as soon as possible".
"The slot commitments provide a further guarantee that there will be no possible loss of competition as a result of our joint business," he added.


London Irish came from behind to beat Yorkshire Carnegie in the first leg of the Championship play-off final.

The visitors took an early lead, Tommy Bell kicking two penalties before Danny Hobbs-Awoyemi went over for a try.
But scores for Mike Mayhew and Jonah Holmes, along with a Joe Ford penalty, put Carnegie ahead at half-time.
Fergus Mulchrone crossed to restore Irish's lead, while Bell kicked three penalties to give his side an 11-point advantage going into the second leg.
Ford also kicked his second penalty of the night after the break, but they were the only points of a disappointing second-half showing for Yorkshire.
The hosts were unable to take advantage of the extra man when Brendan McKibbin was sent to the sin-bin, as Irish improved their chances of making an immediate return to the Premiership following their relegation last season.
Carnegie could also be without forward Sione Faletau for the second leg at the Madejski Stadium on 24 May, after the Tongan was taken off with a head injury.
London Irish are unbeaten in the league at home this season, winning 41-17 when they hosted Carnegie in December.
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Yorkshire Carnegie: Elder; Holmes, Lucock, Casson, Stegmann; Ford, Davies; Beech, Mayhew, Faletau, Smith, West, Stedman, Mayhew, Burrows (capt.).
Replacements: Graham, Boyce, O'Donnell, Myerscough, Beck, Green, McColl.
London Irish: Bell; Lewington, Tikoirotuma, Mulchrone, Ojo; Marshall, McKibbin; Hobbs-Awoyemi, Paice (capt.), Franks, De Chaves, Sinclair, Coman, Cowan, Treviranus.
Replacements: Porecki, Court, Hoskins, Robson, Narraway, Steele, Tonks.


The Rivers Agency has said water levels across Lough Erne in County Fermanagh have been starting to fall consistently over the last 24 hours.

The Upper Lough currently stands at 14 centimetres below the pre-Christmas peak.
A number of roads in the county remain closed following the recent flooding.
Water levels at Lough Neagh recently reached a 30-year-high after heavy rain from storms Desmond, Eva and Frank.
Armagh Observatory said December had been the wettest on record at the institute.
It said the total amount of water recorded as falling was nearly 7.33 inches (18.61cm).
However, it said it was also the warmest December at Armagh since 1988.
Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill visited homes affected by flood water outside Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, on Tuesday.
Ms O'Neill said it was "very evident" that for some residents, the only suitable form of transport was a tractor.
She said the flooding was causing difficulties to everyday life and "massive challenges for those who live around Lough Erne, particularly in Fermanagh".
On Thursday, Ms O'Neill held an urgent meeting with the environment and regional development ministers to discuss the response to the recent flooding.
Road closures in Northern Ireland


Sarah Young remembers being told the devastating news that nothing more could be done for her five-year-old son, Ollie.

Days earlier, he had been diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour and now he had been given just weeks to live.
His health deteriorated rapidly, leaving him paralysed down his left side, but a visit to a children's hospice in Oxford proved to be a turning point for the whole family.
"Ollie perked up immediately when we got there. He was relaxed, he was chatting and he couldn't wait to get in the water," Sarah says.
Over the following week, while he was still able, he splashed about in the hospice's hydrotherapy spa, played in the sensory room and loved making as much noise as possible in the music room.
By the time of his second visit to Helen House, Ollie was confined to a bed - but the care he received was just as attentive and amazing, according to his mum.
"I felt like we were treated as a special case. Ollie thrived. That's why he lasted so long. It was down to Helen House. At home or in hospital, he wouldn't have left us happy."
But not every family's experience of end-of-life care is as comforting as that experienced by the Youngs.
And that is why NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) has published draft guidance this week which seeks to improve care for the estimated 40,000 children and young people in England living with a life-limiting condition.
These can include cancers, genetic conditions and rare or chronic diseases.
With improvements in neo-natal and intensive care, this population of vulnerable children has been growing over time but experts say there is not enough understanding about what they face, nor enough funding of children's palliative care.
The guidance recommends that children and their families should be able to choose the type of care they receive and the place where they want to spend their final days.
Often, it notes, there is an assumption that the best place to die is at home but it says there are many other factors to consider - such as how to manage the dying child's pain and symptoms alongside the daily demands of family life.
Places like Helen House, which specifically cares for children and has eight beds, have the time, staff and resources to provide end-of-life care.
The guidance highlights the importance of using music, art and pictures to help children explore their feelings and questions about what is happening to them.
And it suggests that children, young people and their parents or carers should be offered emotional and psychological support to help them cope with distress.
Dr Emily Harrop, interim chairwoman of the NICE guideline committee and consultant in paediatric palliative care at Helen & Douglas House in Oxford, says care around the country is patchy.
"To lose a child is a tragic, unimaginable, life-changing event. However, the way the death is handled by the professionals around a family, can make an enormous difference."
She stressed the importance of communicating with children in an age-appropriate way and empowering families by really listening to their wishes.
Dr Harrop recalls a terminally ill boy in her care whose eyes lit up when he was able to have a musical conversation with a music therapist and another child, who could no longer speak, who was able to communicate his pain through pointing at pictures.
"These techniques can draw out a distressed person, give them a sense of autonomy and make them relax," she explains.
Zoe Picton-Howell, a lay member of the NICE guideline committee, who lost her son Adam in March 2015, when he was 15, echoes Dr Harrop's comments.
She says: "The most helpful thing was to have healthcare professionals who took the time to listen to Adam.
"When we worked together, Adam got the best care possible, but if a member of the team thought they knew best and became uninterested in what Adam wanted, his care tended to be bad."
The guidance also refers to ways of helping to manage pain without resorting to drugs - which include music, massage and holding patients.
Sarah Young says all these elements played a crucial part in Ollie's care in the weeks before he died in 2012.
"Massage helped because he had bedsores and had to be turned regularly.
"And there was always someone talking to him, playing music, giving him a drink and listening to him."
The needs of Ollie's older brother Alfie, who was eight, were not forgotten either.
In Ollie's final days, leading up to his sixth birthday, Sarah says she felt very reassured because there was always time for her questions to be answered and her concerns to be heard.
When it came to preserving memories of Ollie - which some people choose to do with handprints, locks of hair or photos - the family set up a foundation in his name which funds paediatric brain tumour research and support.
"I don't know where we'd be now if it hadn't been for the support we received at Helen House," Sarah says.
The consultation for NICE's draft guidance is open until 12 August 2016. Comments are welcome through the NICE website.


UK retail sales grew more strongly than expected in February, up 0.7% compared with the previous month, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Compared with February 2014, sales were 5.7% higher, boosted by the recovery in the housing market, the ONS said.
Rising home sales boosted purchases of products such as furniture.
Average store prices fell for the eighth consecutive month, falling by 3.6% in February 2015 compared with a year earlier.
The largest contribution to the drop in prices came from the slide in fuel prices, which fell more than 15% over the year to February 2015.
The ONS's statistics measure sales volumes, or changes in the number of items sold each month. The amount spent also grew in February, up by 0.3% compared with January and 2.2% higher than a year earlier.
Non-food stores saw the biggest increase in sales by volume, in particular household goods which the ONS said was a lagging effect of last year's improvement in house sales, as people furnished and decorated their new homes.
Online sales increased in volume by 10.1%, but the value of online transactions fell by 2.3%.
The steady increase in retail sales adds to the picture of a recovering UK economy, but will in turn fuel concerns that growth is too reliant on shoppers.
"Although these figures are good news and will strengthen confidence, we must remember that the UK's economic growth remains unbalanced and is too reliant on consumer spending," said David Kern, Chief Economist at the British Chambers of Commerce.
"UK exporters are still facing huge challenges, particularly in the eurozone, which is our largest trading partner."
The previous month's figures were also revised upwards. In January, sales rose 0.1% in comparison with December, rather than the 0.3% fall originally reported.
Observers put the increase in sales down to record low inflation, which has boosted real incomes.
Martin Beck, senior economic adviser to the EY ITEM Club, said: "Falling prices look a prime candidate in explaining February's strength."
Expectations that prices might fall further did not appear to be putting consumers off spending, he added.
"Fears that falling prices might encourage consumers to defer purchases, risking a downward deflationary spiral, currently look very wide of the mark."


Chelsea striker Diego Costa trained with the first team on Tuesday after being linked with a move to China.

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The 28-year-old was a target for Tianjin Quanjian but any potential move was scuppered by new rules in the Chinese Super League, according to the club's owner.
Costa did not play in Chelsea's win at Leicester on Saturday with boss Antonio Conte saying he had a back problem.
He trained on his own on Monday but this was to aid his recovery.
BBC Sport understands Chelsea are determined to keep Costa, who is the joint top scorer in the Premier League with 14 goals.
Costa's return to training means he could be in contention for the visit of Hull on Saturday as Chelsea look to extend their seven-point lead at the top of the table.


Glamorgan all-rounder David Lloyd has signed a two-year contract extension with the county until the end of the 2019 season.

Lloyd scored his maiden first-class hundred in 2016 and went on to hit three centuries in the season.
"I'm delighted to extend my contract," the 24-year-old said.
"Having come through the development system and making my debut over four years ago, it has been a great journey so far."
He also established himself as an opening batsman in the T20 Blast, with a top score of 97 not out off 49 balls against Kent in Cardiff.
St Asaph-born Lloyd will hope to improve on his 2016 tallies of 712 Championship runs and 10 wickets with his seam bowling, after a disappointing second half to the season.
"The way the season started I was really pleased with every format, this year I'd hope to get a thousand runs and be more consistent where the back end of the season tailed away" he told BBC Wales Sport.
"Hopefully I can learn from it, go an extra couple of steps and keep on being as consistent as I can."
Lloyd was one of five players to hit maiden hundreds in 2016, along with Aneurin Donald, Nick Selman, Kiran Carlson and Owen Morgan.
"The young players are going to be a year older and go into the season with a bit more experience. There were a couple of games we had in the bag and if those had been won, the season could have been a lot different.
"It's making sure we don't take our foot off the gas" he said.
"(The T20 Blast quarter-final defeat to) Yorkshire was a big blow, but hopefully we can learn from that as well."
Glamorgan chief executive Hugh Morris told the club's website: "David has a big role to fill as part of our first-team plans this year and in the future.
"He has made some key contributions in limited-overs and Championship cricket particularly over the last 12 months with bat and ball and he is benefitting from working hard through pre-season.
"Our long term strategy is to produce more talent from both North and South Wales."


A driver died when his car crashed on the M6 motorway in Warwickshire.

The crash happened on the southbound carriageway between junction 3a and Corley Services just before 11:15 GMT on Saturday, police said.
The man, in his 50s and from Birmingham, was declared dead at the scene.
PC Stephen Barr said police wanted to speak to anyone who saw the crash or the man's grey Mini Cooper "in the minutes leading up to the collision".
"I'd like to thank people for their patience while the road was closed and also the other emergency services for their help at the scene," he said.


Up to eight people including a child were killed when suspected Islamist militants blew themselves up after being surrounded in a hideout in north-eastern Bangladesh, police say.

They described a horrific scene at the end of the two day stand-off at Moulvibazar near Sylhet.
Police told local media the militants detonated a grenade after failing to escape and to avoid being captured.
The dead are believed to include members of a local jihadist group.
On Saturday six people - two police officers and four civilians - were killed in twin bombings in Sylhet when commandos flushed out another group of suspected Islamist militants.
So-called Islamic State (IS) claimed on messaging app Telegram that it was behind one of the blasts.
In the latest incident on Thursday, police told The Daily Star that the bodies were discovered when a bomb disposal team entered the militants' den after "disposing of grenades and bombs [which were] lying scattered on the floor" of the building.
The paper says that the sound of gunfire and explosions could be constantly heard right up until the time the security forces entered the premises.
It is unclear how a child was apparently caught up in the violence.
The BBC's Waliur Rahman in Dhaka says that another suspected hideout in the same north-eastern area has also been surrounded by police since Wednesday.
Meanwhile, law enforcers are also keeping a close watch on a building in the eastern town of Comilla, where a similar raid to flush out militants is imminently expected.
The escalation in violence comes at a time when many in Bangladesh thought security forces had managed to curb Islamist militancy, following the deadly siege on a cafe in Dhaka last year.
Recent suicide attacks on security camps and checkpoints have surprised many.
IS has claimed to be behind at least two other incidents this month, including one at a checkpoint near Bangladesh's international airport and one involving a man who tried to cross a checkpoint run by an elite police unit.
However, Bangladeshi police maintain that an offshoot of the banned Islamist outfit Jamiatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) is responsible for many of these attacks, despite claims to the contrary by IS and al-Qaeda.


Children's services in Birmingham are "improving" and making steady progress, says the government watchdog Ofsted.

Inspectors say the city council has "taken some important steps" in improving services in a report following a monitoring visit.
It was the first monitoring visit since children's services were last judged in November..
The council said it was pleased with the progress, but said there was "no room for complacency".
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The city's children's services have held an inadequate rating since 2008 and were branded a "national disgrace".
In a letter to the authority, Ofsted said: "Although substantial further progress is required before services are consistently good, in a number of key areas in Birmingham are receiving better and timelier services.
"Against a long-standing history of failing to provide good services for children, this represents notable progress."
Inspectors noted:
The council's cabinet member for children and families, Brigid Jones, said despite the progress, the authority recognised there was "still a long way to go".
"We have always said that we would need to build strong foundations before we can ensure sustainable improvements," she added.
"However, this is tangible evidence that we are heading firmly in the right direction and I know there will be no complacency as we continue on our improvement."


A stretch of the M4 around Newport was reopened six hours after it was shut to fix an overhead sign which came loose in high winds.

It was closed from junction 24 Coldra to 28 at Tredegar Park from 21:00 GMT on Friday to 03:40 on Saturday.
Officials said it led to very slow traffic as motorists were forced to come off the motorway.
A diversion using the A48 through Newport was put in place as emergency repairs were carried out.


A man has been jailed for 28 years for murdering a "naive pensioner" whom he lured to a disused quarry.

Kevin Cooper, 34, from Carharrack, beat David Alderson, 72, before leaving him face down in a pond, Truro Crown Court heard.
Cooper took his victim's house keys and gained access to a safe containing his life savings of Â£40,000.
The jury failed to reach a verdict on a second man, Trewen Kevern, 21, from Falmouth, also charged with murder.
Judge Mr Justice Nicholas Blake said it was clear Mr Alderson had been treated brutally in his last moments in January 2014.
Mr Alderson's beaten body was found at west Cornwall's Wheal Maid mine.
The court heard he had been brought there on the pretext of arranging a deal for him to buy guns.
Cooper went to Mr Alderson's flat and stole about Â£40,000 from a safe and went on a spending spree including the purchase of a BMW car.
When he was arrested two days later on suspicion of drink driving, police found the keys to Mr Alderson's flat in the vehicle.
Following the hearing, Det Insp Stuart Ellis, senior investigating officer, said Mr Alderson's generosity was "his downfall".
"Once it was known that he kept a large amount of cash at his home a plan was devised to murder him and steal his money," he said.
Det Insp Ellis said the victim was "tricked" into driving to the quarry and his house keys were taken from him to enter his home and steal his money.
"From that point on a web of lies was spun to cover for Mr Alderson's disappearance and the acquisition of his money. These lies have now finally come undone," he said.
Police said they would be consulting with the Crown Prosecution Service to "consider the options for further action" regarding Mr Kevern.


Roaming services have now been fixed for all customers on the Three mobile network in France, Portugal and Luxembourg, the operator has said.

Three apologised for the issue, which had lasted since yesterday.
On Twitter, several customers complained about problems they had experienced.
"The issue with our roaming partners which was affecting roaming service in France, Portugal and Luxembourg has now been fixed," said Three in a statement.
"We apologise for any inconvenience."
One customer wrote online: "I'm travelling alone and can't make any calls or send any texts."
Another said: "I'm driving to Paris tomorrow, and I've got to follow road signs because I have no connection for my Google Maps."
BBC journalist Dougal Shaw - on holiday in France - also said on Twitter that he had been affected.
"I got lost in a market," he wrote.


Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced the lifting of the power rationing that has been in place for two months.

From 25 April much of the country had its power cut off for four hours a day.
The measure was put in place after a drought caused the Guri dam, which produces almost two-thirds of the country's electricity, to reach critically low levels.
The power cuts came amidst an economic crisis and severe food shortages.
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Mr Maduro said that when he ordered the power cuts in April, Venezuela had been "six days away from a collapse, we were facing having to turn off almost the entire country".
"Today we can say that Guri [hydroelectric dam] has recovered and we're in a position where we can resume normal service," he announced in a speech to supporters in Caracas.
The cuts caused widespread anger among Venezuelans already struggling with food shortages.
The government said the power shortage was down to a severe drought caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon which caused the level of the Guri dam to drop to a record low.
But critics blamed the authorities, saying they had failed to invest in Venezuela's electricity system and to make it less reliant on hydroelectric power.
As part of its efforts to conserve energy, the government ordered civil servants to work only two days a week.
President Maduro also asked women to refrain from using hair dryers and otherwise "wasting" energy.
The power cuts caused problems especially in hot regions of Venezuela where residents struggled to keep their food cool as fridges were turned off.


Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill will receive her record-equalling third world heptathlon gold medal in a ceremony at the World Championships in London - six years after the event in Daegu.

The 2011 result was confirmed on Tuesday after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) dismissed Tatyana Chernova's blood doping ban appeal.
Chernova beat the Briton to gold in Daegu but her results are now annulled.
The Russian also won bronze medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
The 29-year-old has been told she must give up all three medals after twice testing positive when her anti-doping samples were later re-analysed. Her biological passport has also revealed years of blood doping.
World governing body the IAAF first stripped Chernova of her Daegu gold in November 2016 but the medal could not be reallocated until the appeal to Cas had been heard.
Several ceremonies to reallocate medals are expected to be held at the London World Championships, which runs from August 4-13.
Ennis-Hill, 31, announced her retirement from athletics in October but will now be able to celebrate her third world heptathlon title in front of a home crowd.


Up to 240 prisoners are being moved out of HMP Birmingham following a 12-hour riot at the jail.

Inmates took over four wings, started fires and gained access to medical supplies as they rampaged in the prison. One man was taken to hospital.
Friday's disturbance has been described by the Prison Officers' Association as the worst since the Strangeways jail riot 26 years ago.
Justice Secretary Liz Truss said there would be a "thorough investigation".
Rioters would "face the full force of the law," she added.
UK prisons chief Michael Spurr said there were "serious problems" in jails that would not be solved immediately.
The Ministry of Justice said riot teams restored order to all four wings of HMP Birmingham just after 22:30 on Friday.
The disorder was understood to have involved up to 600 inmates.
Two wings suffered "superficial damage" with more serious damage caused to two others.
G4S is in control of the jail and the cost of the damage will be borne by the firm, the BBC understands.
"Our teams have worked tirelessly throughout the night to assess the damage caused, start the process of clearing up and capture any evidence that could be used by West Midlands Police for any subsequent prosecutions," a G4S spokesman said.
"This disturbance is rightly subject to a thorough investigation and we are working openly and transparently with the Prison Service and other relevant authorities to understand the causes behind it."
The Ministry of Justice said: "The prison remains calm and ordered with additional staff on site to offer support.
A "limited regime" is being offered to inmates not involved in the disturbance, the spokesman added.
Prison visits have also now resumed.
Mike Rolfe, national chairman of the Prison Officers' Association, said more than 30 staff had left the Winson Green prison in recent weeks. He compared the trouble to the notorious Strangeways riot in 1990.
"We've been warning for a long time about the crisis in prisons and what we are seeing at Birmingham is not unique to Birmingham, but it certainly would seem that this is the most recent worst incident since the 1990 Strangeways riot," he said.
Ms Truss said: "I want to pay tribute to the bravery and dedication of the prison officers who resolved this disturbance.
"This was a serious situation and a thorough investigation will now be carried out.
"Violence in our prisons will not be tolerated and those responsible will face the full force of the law."
As the investigation and clear-up operation get under way at Birmingham Prison, the immediate concern for officials will be the risk of "copycat" disturbances.
Many jails are volatile places, with violence never far from the surface.
Reports of the rioting and rumours about how it all began could encourage others: it may be no coincidence that this is the third serious prison disturbance in six weeks after Lewes and Bedford.
The other main consequence of the damage is that it'll put a number of cells out of use at a time when capacity is already stretched.
Last week, there were around 1,200 spare prison places across England and Wales - that may seem like a lot but, spread across a large geographical area with different categories of prisoner to accommodate, it doesn't leave much slack in the system.
The BBC understands that one prisoner was hurt during the riot and taken to hospital with a fractured jaw and broken eye socket.
Prison wings are now being inspected to assess the full scale of the damage after prisoners took control of the category B prison on Friday morning.
Rodger Lawrence, chairman of the Birmingham Prison Independent Monitoring Board, said his members had not seen anything of concern during a visit earlier this week, but said the riot "didn't come as a complete shock" as there had been "a build-up of frustration" over prison conditions.
Michael Spurr, who is chief executive of the National Offender Management Service Agency, said overcrowding, reduced staffing and drugs had put pressure on prisons.
"On a day-by-day basis governors and staff keep prisons safe and manage a very difficult population extremely well," he told BBC News.
"Yes, there are assaults, there is too much violence, but we are tackling that.
"It will take some time but events in prisons such as yesterday do happen on occasions."
He said a Â£1.3bn investment in new prisons over the next five years, which includes plans for more prison officers, drug tests for inmates on entry and exit from prisons, and more autonomy for governors, would help tackle the issues.
"Over the coming months and years, we will turn it around," he said.
Trouble flared after an officer was "rushed" by inmates at about 09:00 on Friday.
Violence quickly escalated and due to the scale of the disturbances the Prison Service took over the incident and specialist Tornado units were deployed to regain control.
Prison units from across the country were also drafted in to assist.
During the disturbance, the BBC was contacted by several men claiming to be prisoners at the jail, who said poor conditions were behind the disturbance.
The men, who said they were calling from inside HMP Birmingham, cited inadequate staff numbers, poor healthcare and nutrition.
They said being on "lockdown" in their cells all day was a major factor that contributed to the trouble.
BBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw believes that although the riot at HMP Birmingham was "clearly very serious", it may not be the worst since Strangeways, as the Prison Officers' Association has claimed.
He said: "In April 2009, there was a riot at Ashwell prison in Rutland involving 400 inmates.
"It caused such extensive damage to three wings in the old part of the jail, the entire prison closed permanently in January 2011 because the cost of repairs would have been too great."


Idris Elba is teaming up with BBC Three for a series of short films to appear on the channel when it moves online.

The Luther star's production company, Green Door Pictures, will collaborate with BBC Three on the films from new writers.
Established names will work alongside new actors for the series.
BBC Three controller Damian Kavanagh vowed the channel, which goes online next month, would be bold, British and creative.
He has a budget of Â£30m a year for creative ideas, he said at an event to launch the new-look channel.
Elba, widely considered to have been overlooked for an Oscars nomination for his role in Beasts of No Nation, said: "I'm looking forward to working with BBC Three and giving new writers and actors a chance to show what they can do."
Kavanagh said the short films, made in conjunction with BBC Drama in-house, would be set in London, featuring "chance encounters between two people".
New programmes for the channel also include Clique, focusing on two friends starting university in Edinburgh, magic show Life Hacks with Ben Hart and Unsolved: The Boy who Disappeared which tells the true story of the disappearance of a teenager two decades ago.
BBC Three programmes including Stacey Dooley Investigates and Life and Death Row will still be available when the switchover happens on 16 February.
Kavanagh said: "We're reinventing our offer for young people and this is just the start. We will be bold, we will be British and we will be creative."
The channel is introducing two new formats for online - The Daily Drop, home to a stream of daily content, and The Best Of, bringing together original long-form programmes and new content, including short films.
BBC director general Tony Hall said: "We are the first broadcaster in the world to work out what it's going to be like in this on-demand world.
"This is new and let's be clear, it's also risky, but risky in the way it should be risky because if we don't take risks, who's going to?"
He applauded BBC Three for making programmes that "provoke such strong reactions" and emphasised the importance of finding new talent.
"I want people to look back on the new BBC Three as being the place that spotted the next James Corden, the next Aidan Turner, the next Sheridan Smith," he said.
Switchover night will include the first episode of Cuckoo, the first film from the new series of Life and Death Row, and Live from the BBC, featuring new British comedians.
Content will be available on iPlayer and BBC Three's new online home.


Stamps commemorating Scotland's victory at the 1978 World Cup and the creation of a devolved Scottish Assembly following the 1979 referendum are part of an archive of postal history.

They are held in the new Postal Museum, which is opening in central London.
As neither event actually happened, the stamps were never made.
Ally MacLeod's Tartan Army failed to win football's most coveted trophy and Scottish devolution was shelved for another 20 years.
The stamp designs will not initially be on public display at the new museum but are part of the archive collection there that can be viewed on special appointment.
Chris Taft, head of collections at the Postal Museum, told BBC Scotland: "What they (Royal Mail) do occasionally is produce designs of stamps in the expectation of them happening, because obviously these things take time.
"If Scotland had been fortunate enough to win the World Cup that year, Royal Mail would obviously want to produce a stamp to mark it, and this was produced and designed but sadly never released.
"They don't do them for every World Cup on the off chance, but that year they obviously decided the chances were high enough to warrant a design."
Two stamps marking the football triumph, one at 9p and the other at 11p,  were designed in May, 1978 by Barry Wilkinson -  a month before the tournament began.
Sadly, it wasn't to be. As any self-respecting Scottish football fan will know, the Scottish squad - containing the likes of Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness and Joe Jordan - went to the competition in Argentina with very high hopes, no doubt singing Andy Cameron's catchy 'Ally's Tartan Army' World Cup song on the way.
After an ignominious defeat to Peru and a draw with Iran, Archie Gemmill's famous goal against Holland helped the Scots defeat the eventual World Cup finalists 3-2 and restore some pride. It was too little, too late.
If Scotland had won the World Cup, the stamp would have been produced and been available a month after the final. In the end, the designs were locked away in the archive.
Chris added: "My mum is Scottish, so I would have loved for Scotland to win. I always support Scotland and England jointly in these things. I would love for this stamp to have been produced."
The Scottish Assembly stamp designs were commissioned in case Scots voted for devolution from Westminster in 1979. The Thistle was designed by Stuart Rose, and the building image was created by Willie Rodger.
The House of Commons had decided that a vote for devolution would be void unless at least 40% of the eligible electorate voted that way rather than a simple majority.
Scots were in favour of devolution by 51.6% to 48.4%, but only 32.9% of the total electorate had voted for it so it was never carried.
As a result, designs for these stamps were also locked away never to be used. Supporters of devolution had to wait until 1999 for a Scottish Parliament to be convened.
Other items in the museum and its archive include the famous Night Mail documentary and a curious tale about rocketry.
Night Mail, which was about the mail train from London to Scotland, was made in 1936 and featured the writing of W. H. Auden and the music of Benjamin Britten. It was a landmark in the development of documentary. A section of the film will be on display.
Meanwhile, the story of Gerhard Zucker's attempts to deliver mail across in the UK by rocket finds a place in the new museum.
Faced with trying to get mail to all corners of the United Kingdom in 1934, Zucker tried to prove his rockets could take mail from the mainland to the Outer Hebrides.
In an effort to convince the General Post Office that his idea was viable, Zucker made several attempts but his rockets either blew up or crash landed, burning the mail inside. Zucker's dream went up in smoke.
Chris said: "We have got lots of stories about how important communication was and how important it was for people to keep in touch with each other. It is very much a social network story, not a postal history story."


Twelve people have been charged in Taiwan over deadly gas blasts that prosecutors say were caused by multiple human errors.

The blasts in the southern city of Kaohsiung in July killed 32 people and injured more than 300.
Whole sections of road were ripped open and cars scattered by the blasts, which were caused by leaking propene from an underground pipeline.
The head of the pipeline operator is among the 12 people charged.
Prosecutors say LCY Chemical failed to maintain the pipes.
The 11 other people charged include LCY employees, three employees of a subcontractor tasked with delivering propene, and three former officials accused of inadequate monitoring of the pipeline construction in the 1990s.
Prosecutors say the public works bureau violated guidelines when they allowed a drainage culvert to be built crossing the pipeline, reports the BBC's Cindy Sui in Taipei.
Over the years, the drainage channel exposed the four-inch pipeline to air and moisture, causing it to corrode and eventually rupture.
Second, state-owned oil refiner CPC, which had built the pipeline, tested it only twice in the past 23 years.
Had it paid attention, it would have discovered the drainage pipe was illegally constructed around its pipeline, prosecutors said.
But prosecutors put most of the blame on LCY, which bought the pipeline from CPC in 2007, accusing it of making no effort to inspect or maintain it, our correspondent adds.
It and the company hired to deliver the gas also did not stop the process when their employees discovered what they suspected was a leak, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors, however, did not charge five top city officials, including the mayor, saying they were not deliberately lax in their response.
The officials were widely criticised for not responding fast enough, after residents reported a chemical leak eight hours before the blasts occurred.


Uber is a transport firm that requires a licence to operate, a senior member of European Union's top court has said.

The decision is a set-back for Uber, which had argued it only provided technology to help drivers find passengers.
If the ruling is enforced across Europe, it might mean Uber has to operate under the same conditions and safety rules as established taxi firms.
Uber said the decision did little to change the way it was regulated.
Maciej Szpunar, advocate general at the Court of Justice of the European Union, made the decision while considering a case brought by an association of taxi drivers from Barcelona.
They said Uber was competing unfairly in the city by using unlicensed drivers for its service.
Mr Szpunar said that although Uber was "innovative", the way it operated still fell within the realm of transport rather than information services.
Uber was not merely a middleman, he said, but was essential to the way the ride-sharing system worked.
"Uber can thus be required to obtain the necessary licences and authorisations under national law," said Mr Szpunar.
The decision is not binding, but in the past judges ruling on cases before the court have generally followed the advocate's lead.
For Uber, the decision might mean it has to take more care of its drivers and ensure they are properly trained.
The decision could also have implications for other tech companies, such as Airbnb and Deliveroo, that maintain a "hands-off" relationship with people who provide their services.
In response, Uber said it was already regulated as a transport operator in many European countries so the ruling would have little impact.
But it added that if the court backed the ruling it would "undermine the much needed reform of outdated laws which prevent millions of Europeans from accessing a reliable ride at the tap of a button".
This isn't a final ruling - although judges at the ECJ do follow the reasoning of the Advocate General in most cases.
Uber says if it loses the case, its operations in most countries won't be affected. This is true - Uber has spent the past few years fighting a raft of legal cases, and has generally found a solution acceptable to national and local authorities.
But it still regards the rules in many areas as "outdated and disproportionately restrictive". It maintains that it's a different kind of company to traditional taxi firms, with a new business model, and it says laws should be updated to take that into account.
That idea doesn't go down well with many European taxi driver unions, which regard Uber as an interloper, intent on undercutting their members and determined to use any legal loopholes it can find to do so.
If the court decides that under European law Uber is not simply an intermediary - a platform for putting passengers in touch with drivers - but is in fact a transport company, it will set an important precedent, which national governments will be able to refer to. In law, it will effectively be just another taxi firm.
That, the company thinks, could undermine the "much needed reform of outdated laws" which it is anxious to promote.


A County Londonderry-based blind manufacturer is more than doubling its workforce in a £4m investment.

Bloc Blinds of Magherafelt specialises in made-to-measure roller blinds, and its major customers include the John Lewis department store chain.
It currently employs 69 staff but aims to add 93 jobs over the next two years.
The expansion is being supported with a £465,000 grant from Invest NI.
The investment includes new manufacturing facilities and market development activities to help increase export sales.
Cormac Diamond , the firm's managing director, says the move "underpins our ambition to increase sales particularly in Europe and the US".
He said a new manufacturing facility brings all the firm's production under one roof which will "help increase production and operating efficiencies."
Mr Diamond, whose background is in mechanical engineering, founded the business in the depths of the recession.
He developed easy-to-install, customisable blinds and got his first John Lewis order when a buyer spotted the his products at a trade show.


First-half goals from John Marquis and Andy Williams helped Doncaster to a 2-1 win against Portsmouth at Fratton Park.

Striker Marquis gave Doncaster a seventh-minute lead when he latched onto a long ball down the middle and rounded David Forde to slot into an empty goal.
It was the third home game in a row in which Pompey had fallen behind and Williams cleverly clipped over his shoulder to double the lead.
Pompey hit back hard and Carl Baker's powerful dipping effort from the edge of the area needed a top save from Marko Marosi to tip over before Doncaster left-back Cedric Evina almost fired into his own goal.
Listen to Doncaster boss Darren Ferguson speaking to BBC Radio Sheffield
Pompey were given a first-half lifeline when Joe Wright bizarrely hooked Gareth Evans' wayward cross into Baker's path and the winger thumped in.
Conor Chaplin failed to crane his header into an open goal, Baker dragged a long ball onto the bar and Curtis Main air-kicked under the bar.
But the best chance was kicked off the line by Andy Butler after Gary Roberts had headed towards goal as Pompey fell to a second straight defeat.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Portsmouth 1, Doncaster Rovers 2.
Second Half ends, Portsmouth 1, Doncaster Rovers 2.
Attempt missed. Michael Doyle (Portsmouth) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner,  Portsmouth. Conceded by Matty Blair.
Attempt missed. Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner,  Portsmouth. Conceded by Andy Butler.
Attempt missed. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Amine Linganzi (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Wright (Doncaster Rovers).
Cedric Evina (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Carl Baker (Portsmouth).
Andy Williams (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner,  Portsmouth. Conceded by Jordan Houghton.
Foul by Curtis Main (Portsmouth).
Jordan Houghton (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Carl Baker (Portsmouth).
Cedric Evina (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) header from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Andy Williams (Doncaster Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. Harry Middleton replaces James Coppinger.
Attempt saved. Curtis Main (Portsmouth) left footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Carl Baker (Portsmouth) hits the bar with a right footed shot from very close range.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Curtis Main replaces Conor Chaplin.
Delay in match  (Portsmouth).
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. Niall Mason replaces Riccardo Calder.
Matthew Clarke (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers).
Attempt missed. Christian Burgess (Portsmouth) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner,  Portsmouth. Conceded by Cedric Evina.
Attempt missed. Milan Lalkovic (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Andy Williams (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Andy Butler (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andy Butler (Doncaster Rovers).
Substitution, Portsmouth. Amine Linganzi replaces Danny Rose.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Milan Lalkovic replaces Kal Naismith.
Attempt missed. John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner,  Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Michael Doyle.
Attempt blocked. Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.


The mother of a man who was shot by police has told the inquiry into his death she believes it was "murder".

Marina Schofield told Liverpool Crown Court her "whole world fell apart" when she was told her son, Anthony Grainger, had died in March 2012.
Mr Grainger, 36, was shot once in the chest during a Greater Manchester Police operation in Culcheth, Cheshire.
Officers believed the father of two was part of a group planning an armed robbery.
Mr Grainger, from Bolton, had been under surveillance by police before he was shot through the windscreen of a stolen Audi in a car park.
Marina Schofield described how six police officers visited her home on the evening he died.
"They told me Anthony had been shot in Culcheth by the police," she said.
"My whole world fell apart.
"All I could think about was how I was going to tell his two young children that their daddy was gone forever and that the police did it."
Mr Grainger's partner Gail Hadfield-Grainger sobbed as she told the inquiry they had been trying for children.
The police force has said it "maintains that the suspicions held by those investigating Mr Grainger were both reasonable and correct".
The marksman who shot Mr Grainger had earlier told the inquiry he thought officers were "in extreme danger" as he believed Mr Grainger "was reaching for a firearm".
The inquiry has also heard there were problems with the competency of four of the five commanding officers in the operation, including one who had failed a specialist firearms course in 2011.
Three men, all from Manchester, who were arrested at the scene were later cleared of conspiracy to rob by a jury.
The public inquiry, chaired by Judge Thomas Teague, is expected to run until 21 April.


First Bus is appealing against a court ruling, won by a disabled man from West Yorkshire, that the firm's wheelchair policy is discriminatory.

Doug Paulley, 36, from Wetherby, was denied access to a First bus to Leeds when a woman with a pushchair refused to move.
He won his claim the company had breached the Equality Act in a hearing at Leeds County Court in September.
First said its drivers needed to know "what they are legally required to do".
The case is expected to last three days at the Court of Appeal.
Mr Paulley attempted to board the bus to visit his parents in Leeds in February 2012.
But he was told to wait for another when the woman with the pushchair refused to move because her baby was asleep.
A judge at Leeds County Court said First's policy of "requesting but not requiring" non-disabled travellers, including those with babies and pushchairs, to vacate the space if it is needed by a wheelchair user was in breach of the Equality Act 2010.
Mr Paulley was awarded Â£5,500 damages.
At the Appeal Court in London, Martin Chamberlain QC for First Group said it was an example of a long-running problem on public transport that had "produced conflicting court decisions".
He said bus operators were now seeking legal clarity.
Mr Paulley said: "Public transport should be for everybody, including parents with pushchairs, but ultimately it is a wheelchair space.
"Without that space ,wheelchair users are unable to travel on the bus."


Ronaldo Vieira scored a late winner as Leeds United came from behind to beat Norwich in the Championship.

Norwich took a first-half lead when Robbie Brady's header was deflected in off Leeds defender Luke Ayling.
Pontus Jansson headed home Pablo Hernandez's corner to level the scores, before Ayling set up Chris Wood to fire the visitors in front.
Kyle Lafferty slotted in to put Norwich back on terms, before Vieira's 25-yard strike won it in added time.
The result extended Leeds' unbeaten run to five games in all competitions, while Norwich's winless run was stretched to four matches.
Alex Neil's side have let in eight goals in two games and they are without a clean sheet in 13 league fixtures, conceding 26 times in that period.
The Canaries were top of the Championship table on 15 October, but have since fallen to fifth, 10 points behind leaders Newcastle.
Leeds have taken 22 points from their last 10 games, a run which has seen them climb from 22nd place to sixth in under two months.
Leeds manager Garry Monk: "Over the course of the game I thought we were the better team and got what we deserved in the end.
"I think the first 20 minutes was the best start to a game we have had since I have been here. We looked sharp, should have put some of our chances away and then found ourselves behind when we conceded a really poor goal.
"I told the lads at half-time that if they repeated those first 20 minutes in the second half there was a result to be had and full credit to the lads, they went out there and did just that.
"That's one for the fans to enjoy. It's a great result, but there is nothing to be won yet. We know we are not the finished article yet, but we are making good progress."
Norwich boss Alex Neil: "I thought we were a bit nervy early on, but once we got our goal we settled down and at half-time I told them to go out and get the second goal.
"But once Leeds scored there was a fear about us and although there was nothing wrong with the lads' effort it was obviously a very disappointing result.
"It's a difficult time but three weeks ago we were top of the league. I don't think I have become a bad manager in three weeks and I don't think the players have become bad players in three weeks either.
"Having said that I accept the buck stops with me - if we do well I get praised and if we are doing badly I get criticism, I fully accept that. We just need to raise our game and turn this around."
Match ends, Norwich City 2, Leeds United 3.
Second Half ends, Norwich City 2, Leeds United 3.
Timm Klose (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Wood (Leeds United).
Foul by Cameron Jerome (Norwich City).
Eunan O'Kane (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Hadi Sacko (Leeds United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Matt Grimes.
Louis Thompson (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United).
Kyle Lafferty (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United).
Goal!  Norwich City 2, Leeds United 3. Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Eunan O'Kane following a set piece situation.
Foul by Timm Klose (Norwich City).
Chris Wood (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Graham Dorrans (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Timm Klose with a headed pass following a set piece situation.
Kalvin Phillips (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Louis Thompson (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kalvin Phillips (Leeds United).
Substitution, Leeds United. Matt Grimes replaces Pablo Hernández.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Robert Green (Leeds United) because of an injury.
Goal!  Norwich City 2, Leeds United 2. Kyle Lafferty (Norwich City) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Cameron Jerome.
Jacob Murphy (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Pablo Hernández (Leeds United).
Substitution, Norwich City. Kyle Lafferty replaces Alex Pritchard.
Attempt missed. Chris Wood (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.
Attempt missed. Jacob Murphy (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan.
Corner,  Leeds United. Conceded by Ryan Bennett.
Offside, Leeds United. Pablo Hernández tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Alex Pritchard (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Kyle Bartley (Leeds United).
Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Norwich City. Jacob Murphy replaces Robbie Brady.
Goal!  Norwich City 1, Leeds United 2. Chris Wood (Leeds United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Luke Ayling.
Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Timm Klose (Norwich City).
Substitution, Leeds United. Ronaldo Vieira replaces Souleymane Doukara.
Offside, Norwich City. Russell Martin tries a through ball, but Wes Hoolahan is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Graham Dorrans (Norwich City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan.
Attempt saved. Alex Pritchard (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.


With the global economy in troubled waters, the Japanese yen persists as an unlikely haven for investors who want to keep their money safe.

Worries ranging from China's slowdown to the euro crisis and a possible Brexit continue to unnerve investors.
And while Japan is by no means a thriving economy, it still seems to provide more stability than many of the rest of the world's economies.
That has sent the yen to a three-year high against the dollar.
It is expected to remain strong.
Yet if you just looked at the Japanese economy itself, that does come as somewhat of a surprise.
Think Japan and you'll most likely be thinking quantitative easing, negative interest rates, deflation and the looming threat of recession.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic reform programme is widely seen as not having been quite as successful as the government had hoped.
So on the face of it, Japan doesn't seem like the country you'd turn to if you wanted to park your money in a safe spot.
"But safety is always a beauty contest - the definition of a safe haven is that it's merely safer than others," Martin Schulz of the Fujitsu Institute in Tokyo told the BBC.
Yet how come investors see the yen as safer than the rest of the pack?
"While there's a slowdown in Asia, Japan is on an expansionary monetary and fiscal course which means the domestic economy is well supported and faces very few domestic risks right now," Mr Schulz explains.
"The overall Asian markets, however, are facing major risks both from commodity prices and the slowdown in China."
In addition to that, there is the continuing concern over Europe; the eurozone crisis hasn't gone away and the upcoming referendum in the UK over whether to leave the European Union is significantly adding to the tensions.
Across the Atlantic, the US economy is recovering slower than many had hoped and is not yet strong enough to shore up global growth.
Paradoxically, the very monetary policy that is seen as reassuring by international investors was originally aimed at actually weakening the yen.
The Bank of Japan's policy is part of the larger Abenomics reform agenda and the hope was that a lower yen would support the country's vital exporters and help get inflation up.
After years of flat-lining, Japan's economy is still struggling to achieve notable growth rates. And the surging yen will make it even harder for Shinzo Abe's reforms to take hold.
The country's benchmark Nikkei index on Monday fell sharply by 3.5% over the strong currency.
Japanese goods are being made ever more expensive to export - because of the success of the currency in which they are priced.


Fire crews have brought a large blaze at a factory on Swansea enterprise zone under control.

Emergency services were called to Pure Wafer on Millbrook Drive, Llansamlet, at 09:00 GMT on Sunday.
A large oxygen and nitrogen store was protected and then the fire was tackled but crews are expected to be in attendance for a while.
Eighteen people were evacuated before the fire service arrived, and the cause is being investigated.
Police have advised residents in the Birchgrove and Glais to keep their windows and doors shut and roads in the immediate vicinity of the business park also remain closed.
Mid and West Fire Service incident commander Chis Margetts said there are 68 firefighters at the scene.
He added: "A very successful multiagency operation has now brought the significant fire under control and we have been working with our partners to ensure all environmental and chemical risks have been identified.
"Crews have now successfully surrounded the fire, however, we anticipate that we will have crews in attendance into this evening.
"Fire investigation officers are also in attendance and have commenced preliminary enquiries into the cause of the fire."
Chris Davies, 26, a Royal Mail worker of nearby Tregof village, said he heard an explosion at his home, half a mile from the site.
He said: "There was a large explosion and the sound of gas escaping, a hissing noise.
"They have cordoned off the road, but I could see there were four storage tanks and it looked like one of them had exploded.
"There was nothing left of it. The firemen were on a cherry picker tackling it."


Cardiff Blues lock George Earle has been banned for eight weeks after being sent off in their European Challenge Cup defeat by Bath.

South African Earle made contact with the eye area of Bath flanker Tom Ellis in the second half of the 38-3 loss.
The first game the 29-year-old will miss is the Pro12 home derby with Newport Gwent Dragons on 26 December.
Blues head coach Danny Wilson had stated he believed the contact was accidental.
Earle pleaded not guilty to the charge, but a disciplinary panel ruled he had committed the offence.
He - and tournament organisers - can appeal against the decision.
Earle is next free to play on Monday, 13 February, 2017.
Among the other cases to be heard on Wednesday, Worcester flanker Sam Betty will discover his fate after being sent off for striking an opponent during their Challenge Cup defeat by Newport Gwent Dragons at Rodney Parade.


England's Laura Trott won gold in the women's points race at the Commonwealth Games despite being laid low with a kidney infection.

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Trott and Wales' Elinor Barker were tied on 37 points but double Olympic champion Trott was awarded the gold as she placed higher in the final sprint.
Scotland's Katie Archibald claimed bronze, her first medal of the Games.
England's Jess Varnish won her second medal in Glasgow, a bronze in the women's sprint.
Australia's Stephanie Morton beat compatriot Anna Meares to win gold.
Trott, 22, has been suffering with a kidney infection and had until now endured a disappointing Games, failing to qualify for the individual pursuit before finishing 11th in the 10km scratch race.
"I can't believe it," she told BBC Radio 5 live. "I felt so bad at times in that race. I'm not even 100%, I've not eaten properly for the last two days and I've been living off porridge. I'm not really a porridge fan.
"It's right up there with the Olympics for me after the disappointment of the last two days. To pull it off at the end was great."
Varnish comfortably beat Malaysia's Fatehah Mustapa in a deciding second race, having been awarded the first when commissaires relegated Mustapa for unfairly holding her line on the final straight.
"It was so obvious, she just elbowed me," said Varnish, 23, who added a second medal to the bronze she won in Thursday's 500m time trial.
"I am quite sure I would have come around her anyway but I am glad to have got the medal."
New Zealand's Shane Archbold won gold in the men's 20km scratch race, with Glenn O'Shea of Australia in second and Canada's Remi Pelletier in third.
The Isle of Man had two riders in the top five, with Mark Christian fourth and Joseph Kelly fifth.
Sophie Thornhill and Helen Scott won their second Commonwealth gold in the Para-sport 1,000m tandem time trial for blind and visually impaired athletes.
The English pair beat Scotland's Aileen McGlynn and Louise Haston into silver for the second time following their earlier victory in the tandem sprint event, while Australia's Brandie O'Connor and Breanna Hargrave won bronze.
Meanwhile, in the men's keirin, three-time Olympic gold medallist Jason Kenny was eliminated in the repechage by fellow Englishman Matthew Crampton.
That event was later won by Australia's Matthew Glaetzer, who finished ahead of New Zealand's Sam Webster and Malaysia's Azizulhasni Awang.
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Five men accused over racist chanting on the Paris Metro ahead of Chelsea's Champions League game in the city have appeared before magistrates.

Scotland Yard is seeking a football banning order after Chelsea fans were filmed singing racist chants and refusing to let a black man on a train.
The men, who appeared before Waltham Forest Magistrate's Court earlier, are contesting the banning order.
Their civil case has been adjourned until July.
Lawyers representing one of the men, Jordan Munday, 20, of Ellenborough Road, Sidcup, south-east London, said in a statement their client denied any involvement in the chanting and was not facing any criminal charges.
They said he would contest the "draconian" civil banning order, which can restrict a person's movements for between three to five years.
"We question why the Metropolitan Police Service has chosen to involve itself in an incident which occurred in another European country, and only after the football fans have returned to the UK, particularly in view of the fact we are aware that football officers from the Metropolitan Police Service were on the Metro train in question", they added.
The other men police suspect of involvement in the racist incident are: Richard Barklie, 50, of Victoria Street, Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland; Dean Callis, 32, of Liverpool Road, Islington, north London; Josh Parsons, 20, of Woodhouse Place, Dorking and William Simpson, 26, of Hengrove Crescent, Ashford, Surrey.
Controversy erupted when fans were filmed singing racist chants and refusing to let the man on the Paris Metro train ahead of the match against Paris St Germain in February.
Several Chelsea supporters chanted: "We're racist, we're racist and that's the way we like it."
Chelsea has apologised to Souleymane S who was identified as the man prevented from boarding the train.
He refused the club's invitation to be their guest for the return match at Stamford Bridge and said the incident had "destroyed" him.
He said he was depressed and unable to work or travel on public transport. He said his children had also been "traumatised" from reading the reports about him.


Kelly Osbourne has revealed, that like Angelina Jolie, she plans to have her ovaries removed.

The TV star and former fashion reporter was talking about Jolie's decision to have preventative cancer surgery on CBS show The Talk.
The 30-year-old said: "I actually do have the cancer gene."
Her mother, Sharon, also has the gene and had a double mastectomy in 2012. "My mom made all of us get tested. I agree with this 100%," said Kelly.
"I know that one day I will eventually have to do it too because if I have children, I want to be there to bring them up.
"I want to be there to support them in every way I can.
"It's something I applaud Angelina for because she's bringing attention to this, and people are now going to go out and get tested for it."
Angelina Jolie, 39, wrote an article in the New York Times to explain her decision to have both her ovaries and Fallopian tubes removed.
She has lost her mother, maternal aunt and maternal grandmother to cancer.
While neither Kelly nor her mother have suffered from ovarian or breast cancer, Sharon was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2002.
She successfully fought the disease with two surgeries which was documented in the family's reality show on MTV, The Osbournes.
After her recovery Sharon underwent genetic testing that revealed she carried BRCA1, the same gene as Angelina Jolie.
She then decided to have a double mastectomy.
Last month, Kelly Osbourne quit her role as the co-host of E!'s Fashion Police.
She had been on the show since 2011.
A statement released at the time by E! said: "Kelly Osbourne is departing E!'s Fashion Police to pursue other opportunities."
It came days after her co-star Giuliana Rancic was forced to apologise over a joke about Disney star Zendaya Coleman's hair at the Oscars.
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The parish priest on Barra has said a "dark cloud" has come down on the island after the suicide bombing in Manchester left one girl dead and another seriously injured.

Eilidh MacLeod, 14, has been confirmed among those killed in Monday's attack.
Her friend and fellow Castlebay Community School pupil, Laura MacIntyre, 15, is in hospital with serious injuries.
Roman Catholic priest Father John Paul Mackinnon said he was very upset.
Twenty-two people were killed and dozens injured after the attack at the end of a concert by US pop star Ariana Grande on Monday night.
Father Mackinnon told BBC Scotland: "Two young girls who I have seen grow up on the island have gone off to enjoy a concert, something they have wanted to go and see.
"People from the islands don't get these opportunities much.
"We are a remote part of the world and these two girls have looked forward to going away, having a lovely concert, and to come back with wonderful memories.
"Now the memories are so sad for the family, for the community, for me as a priest on the island. It is all upsetting."
Barra is the second southernmost inhabited island of the Outer Hebrides and has a population of just over 1,000.
The island priest said: "The community have felt a dark cloud has come down on the island. A real dark cloud.
"People are looking at one another. They are trying to look at responses, what do we do? what do we say? how should I feel? People are a bit in a daze. We are all in a daze. We don't know what to say, what to do."
The priest said he was supporting people and "trying to lift them up in some way".
He said: "We are at the edge of the world here on our little island.
"We are just a small little island and yet the world has suddenly come to our little island and we are the centre of the world from everything that's happened in Manchester.
"People are weighed down. This dark cloud is just pushing down on all of us and we are trying to lift ourselves up. It's difficult."
Father Mackinnon said he had been telling his parishioners: "We have to be there for the two families.
"That's our total focus. I tell my parishioners that is where we are.
"We may feel hurt and pain and angry and every emotion under the sun but we've got rally round for these two families."
Eilidh's great uncle, Donald Manford, described her and Laura as "two wonderful children" and "treasures" who had contributed to the community since early childhood.
Mr Manford, the local councillor, told BBC Scotland: "The community is pulling together as this community does.
"Their thoughts are for the family and with the family and they are hurting for them."


The original score for The Beatles' song Eleanor Rigby is expected to fetch £20,000 at auction.

It was handwritten by producer George Martin and signed by Paul McCartney, who wrote the lyrics.
Rigby's name is inscribed on a headstone in a Liverpool graveyard, where McCartney first met John Lennon at a church fete.
Deeds for the grave and a miniature Bible, dated 1899 and with her name written inside, will also be sold.
They were discovered by a relative when the estate of two of Rigby's half-sisters was left to the family.
Paul Fairweather, from Omega Auctions, said it was an "incredible coincidence" for both lots to come up for sale at the same time.
"I expect there to be fierce bidding from across the globe."
With its familiar refrain of "All the lonely people, where do they all come from", the song Eleanor Rigby was released as a double A-side single.
The song formed part of The Beatles' 1966 album, Revolver, and was released on the same day as the LP, alongside Yellow Submarine.
It also featured in The Beatles' film of the same name in 1969.
The score, written in pencil, includes notes that the song was to be recorded in London's Abbey Road Studio number two and was to include four violins, two violas and two cellos.
The items will be on sale at the Beatles Memorabilia Auction in Warrington on 11 September.


Police Scotland is investigating alleged irregularities with property deals carried out on behalf of the SNP MP Michelle Thomson.

The transactions, in 2010 and 2011, led to a solicitor being struck off by the Law Society of Scotland.
It referred the case to the Crown Office, which has instructed the police investigation.
The Edinburgh West MP has denied any wrongdoing but has withdrawn from the party whip.
The BBC understands the initial police inquiries will not involve Ms Thomson, who was the party's business spokeswoman at Westminster.
The investigation relates to solicitor Christopher Hales who was struck of last year for professional misconduct.
He did work for Ms Thomson and it has now emerged that all 13 of the transactions he was struck off for involved her or M&F Property Solutions, a firm in which she was said to be a partner.
After a hearing in May 2014, the Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal said Mr Hales failed to provide mortgage companies with key information used to prevent fraud and must have been aware that there was a possibility he was facilitating mortgage fraud, whether or not it occurred.
In some cases, loans obtained for the properties were greater than the actual purchase price.
Official documents from the hearing set out Ms Thomson's role in the mortgage deals.
The Law Society said it first raised the case "informally" with the Crown Office in December last year but then made a formal referral in July 2015.
In a statement released on Tuesday evening, Ms Thomson said she would "cooperate fully" with the police inquiry if she was required to do so.
She added: "I have always acted within the law and look forward to being cleared of any wrong doing.
"I have this afternoon decided to withdraw from the party whip whilst an investigation takes place.
"Once the investigation is concluded I look forward to returning to play a full role in party activities."
Her withdrawal from the whip means she is no longer a member of the parliamentary party and will not speak for the SNP on business issues at Westminster.
An SNP spokesperson added: "In line with party rules Michelle Thomson's decision to withdraw from the party whip means her party membership is also suspended."
Analysis by Glenn Campbell, BBC Scotland political correspondent
What a difference a minute makes.
At 18:22 the SNP issued a statement on behalf of Michelle Thomson MP.
It confirmed that she would not represent the party while the police investigate property transactions carried out on her behalf.
The statement reads:
"I am aware of the police investigation and will cooperate fully if required to do so.  I have always acted within the law and look forward to being cleared of any wrong doing.  I have this afternoon decided to withdraw from the party whip whilst an investigation takes place. Once the investigation is concluded I look forward to returning to play a full role in party activities.  I will be making no further comment on this matter."
Yet just one minute earlier, at 18:21, a statement issued by Michelle Thomson's personal media adviser made no mention of her stepping down from SNP duties.
It reads:
"I am aware of the police investigation and will cooperate fully if asked to do so.  I have always acted within the law and look forward to being cleared of any suggestion of wrongdoing. I will be making no further comment on this matter."
Makes you wonder whether she really did jump or was she pushed?
Either way, she is no longer the SNP's business, innovation and skills spokesperson at Westminster.
Ms Thomson, a prominent figure in the pro-independence campaign group Business For Scotland ahead of last September's referendum, is reported to have built up a large "buy to let" property portfolio.
She was one of 56 SNP MPs elected to Westminster in the general election in May after winning the seat of Edinburgh West and was appointed the party's spokesperson for business, innovation and skills.
Opposition parties have now called for the SNP to reveal how much was known about her business dealings.
A Labour spokesperson said: "It is now vital that the SNP come clean about this situation, and who knew what, when.
"The first minister and senior SNP party officials have serious questions to answer. Did Nicola Sturgeon know about these allegations before Michelle Thomson was approved as a SNP candidate for the general election?
"When did senior SNP officials first become aware of the allegations and did they investigate them?
"Michelle Thomson was vetted by the SNP and deemed to be an acceptable candidate for an election. Senior cabinet ministers have backed her citing her business dealings. Now she is withdrawing from the party whip, and resigning from the SNP as an investigation takes place."
Scottish Conservative chief whip John Lamont said: â€Ž"Having tried to ignore these serious allegations for 48 hours, the SNP has hit the panic button.
"The SNP needs to explain very clearly what they knew about Ms Thomson's business dealing and whether they were aware of her connection to these property deals when she was being selected.
"The SNP promised a new politics at Westminster. It has taken a matter of weeks for their shine to wear off."
Deputy First Minister John Swinney said: "It is important that any allegations that are put forward in this matter are fully and comprehensively answered by Michelle Thomson."
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Police Scotland can confirm that as a result of a complaint from the Scottish Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal, it has been instructed by the Crown Office to carry out an initial investigation into alleged irregularities relating to property deals in the year 2010-2011."
Lorna Jack, chief executive of the Law Society of Scotland, said: "If the Law Society has concerns about any potential criminal matter arising from a SSDT finding, it will refer the matter to the appropriate authorities.
"In the case of Christopher Hales, we first raised this informally with the Crown Office in December 2014. Our Guarantee Fund sub-committee referred it formally to the Crown Office in July 2015."


Sixteen children have been spoken to by detectives and social care workers as part of an investigation into child sexual abuse, the BBC has learned.

About 70 police officers were involved in the operation on Thursday, which saw four addresses searched in Cheltenham.
Nobody was arrested and all of the children, of various ages, are now back with their families.
A "significant" inquiry into current and historical sexual abuse had been opened, Gloucestershire Police said.
Det Ch Insp Chris Hanson said several warrants were executed at a number of addresses simultaneously, and a "large amount" of "computers, phones, data devices and tablets" were recovered.
"They will be examined by specialist officers.... to establish if there are any indecent images or any other evidence relating to the sexual abuse of children," he said.
He added that specially trained police officers, along with colleagues from social services, spoke to the 16 children and arrangements were in place to monitor them at home.
Police said the operation was in response to "information received around non-recent and current sexual abuse against children".
A Gloucestershire County Council spokesperson said: "We can confirm that we supported a police operation yesterday and we continue to offer support and advice.
"Our primary concern is to look after vulnerable people who need our protection."


A woman has pleaded guilty to the murder of a man who she stabbed at a house in West Yorkshire.

David Butterfield, 43, was found with a stab wound to the chest at the property in Gomersal, near Cleckheaton, on 13 January.
Michelle Spencer, 48, of Shirley Terrace, Gomersal, pleaded guilty to murder on the first day of her trial at Leeds Crown Court.
She has been remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced on Thursday.
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A Cardiff University student recovering from a stem cell transplant is highlighting the need for more ethnic minorities to sign up as donors.

Vithiya Alphons, 24, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia just days after returning for her final year of study.
She needed an urgent stem cell transplant, but the search for a donor proved difficult as not many south Asian people are on the registers.
Doctors were forced to use her mother's cells, which were only a 50% match.
The transplant took place in May and Miss Alphons, from Walthamstow, London, said her recovery had been "a very tough journey" but she was grateful to everyone who helped her.
"I am now getting better," she added.
She is now urging more ethnic minorities to sign up to donor registers.
"I was very lucky that my mum was fit and healthy and able to be a donor," she said.
"There are a lot of people who will not have that option and will only be able to rely on an unrelated donor."
The charity Anthony Nolan started the search to find Miss Alphons a donor and her family launched a social media campaign.
Although no match was found, thousands of people signed up to the donor register in the weeks afterwards.
Ann O'Leary, head of register development at Anthony Nolan, said: "Vithiya's appeal raised huge awareness of the need for more Asian and ethnic minority donors to join the stem cell register.
"And it is remarkable that Vithiya continues to raise awareness of this need, despite being in the early stages of recovery.
"She has remained positive throughout her illness and is a true inspiration to us all."


Royal Bank of Scotland will take another financial hit when it sets aside a further $4bn (£3bn) for fines.

As early as Thursday morning it will announce it has now put nearly $10bn in the kitty to pay a monster fine from the US Department of Justice.
It relates to the bank's role in the selling of risky mortgages - the so called subprime crisis - which was at the epicentre of the financial crisis.
This will plunge RBS, 72% owned by the taxpayer, further into the red.
It will make 2016 the ninth year in a row that RBS has lost money.
To be clear, this is not unexpected, nor is it a final settlement. The urgency to settle once and for all which existed around the beginning of this month (before the change of the guard in the US administration with a Trump presidency) has eased as a new administration and a new attorney general are now in place.
Guesses on the final bill from the US vary widely from $12bn-$20bn. If this $10bn did prove to be enough for the final bill, that would be considered a good result.
It remains to be seen whether the new US administration takes a tougher or more lenient approach to misconduct by European banks.
Barclays recently walked away from negotiations, preferring to fight the top US lawman in court, rather than pay what the bank considered a fine that was disproportionate to its involvement in the subprime market.
For RBS it is yet another of the "big bumps in the road" that chief executive Ross McEwan has previously warned lie between the RBS of the last nine years and the RBS he hopes it will one day be. Exclude the fines, and RBS is churning out a £1bn profit every three months.
But the sins of the past are grave, as are the penalties. The bank has paid well over £50bn worth since the financial crisis - more than the £45bn the UK taxpayer put in way back when.
RBS and the taxpayer will hope that as painful as this is, it is one step closer to the light at the end of the tunnel.


A 31-year-old man has died in a car crash in County Galway.

It happened at about 22:37 local time on Tuesday at Cloonkeenkerril, Colemanstown, Ballinasloe.
The man was driving a car which hit a tree. No other vehicle was involved.
Police have appealed for information.


A couple who style themselves the 'Panini Cheapskates' have started work on a new football sticker album.

Alex and Sian Pratchett, from Oxford, created a World Cup Panini album in 2014 to avoid spending hundreds of pounds on stickers in shops.
They now hope to draw 800 stickers for Euro 2016 before the final on 10 July.
Mr Pratchett said they were raising money for charities to give them "the motivation to keep churning out our dishevelled little men".
He said he expected the "foolhardy task" to take up to six hours a day, leaving him and his wife "shells".
Their first Euro 2016 efforts were a "dreadful mess", he said, including a portrait of Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo with a "bulging neck."
The couple's 2014 World Cup album, involving 640 stickers in 32 days, was featured in news articles around the world, including Iran, Mexico and Japan.
In 2015 they turned their "uniformly awful" drawing skills to politics, sketching party leaders before the General Election.
The couple are using the latest "sticker-drawing odyssey" to raise money for the charities which employ them - Cancer Research UK and Macintyre, which supports people with learning disabilities.
They have pledged to sketch personalised pictures of the top 100 donors.


Shares in VW have dropped after it reported "irregularities" in carbon dioxide emissions levels, which could affect about 800,000 cars in Europe.

An internal investigation by the firm into diesel emissions revealed that CO2 emissions and fuel consumption were understated during standards tests.
VW said it concerned mainly diesel but also some petrol models and could affect VW, Skoda, Audi and Seat cars.
It comes weeks after VW was accused of cheating nitrogen oxide level tests.
Cars with 1.4, 1.6 and 2.0 litre motors are thought to be releasing more of the greenhouse gas, CO2, than previous tests had shown.
The firm estimated the problem could cost about €2bn (£1.4bn).
VW has already put aside €6.7bn (£4.7bn) to meet the cost of recalling 11m diesel vehicles worldwide that were fitted with so called "defeat devices" that circumvented tests for emissions of nitrogen oxides.
The scandal was revealed in September by US regulators who said the software detected when vehicles were undergoing emissions tests and changed the way they operated.
On Monday US authorities also accused VW of fitting nitrogen oxide defeat devices on its larger 3.0 litre diesel engines used in luxury sport utility vehicles for Porsche, Audi and VW.
VW has denied those particular charges made by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Porsche also denied the allegations but its North American division has announced it is discontinuing sales of Porsche Cayenne diesel sport utility vehicles until further notice.
On the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, shares in VW were down by more than 4% in afternoon trading.
The company's shares have lost about a third of their value since September, when the diesel emissions scandal first broke.
The dirty laundry is piling up at VW. Yesterday, it faced new accusations of distorted emissions tests from American regulators (which it rejects); today it announced its own investigations have uncovered "irregularities" in a completely different part of the testing and approval process.
VW's shareholders could be forgiven for wondering just what else is going to come to light, what other "irregularities" might have gone unnoticed in the company's recent rush for growth, as it sought to become the world's best-selling carmaker.
Customers could also be forgiven for feeling rather bemused.
Volkswagen has not said whether or not it believes the latest irregularities were caused by deliberate action.
Matthias Mueller, VW's chief executive, said: "From the very start I have pushed hard for the relentless and comprehensive clarification of events. We will stop at nothing and nobody. This is a painful process, but it is our only alternative. For us, the only thing that counts is the truth."
The firm's board will talk to regulators about the consequences of its discovery, the firm said in a statement, adding that "the safety of the vehicles is in no way compromised".
The supervisory board issued a separate statement saying it was "deeply concerned" and promising "to ensure swift and meticulous clarification".
Arndt Ellinghorst, who used to work for VW and is now head of automotive research at investment firm Evercore said: "We estimate the whole recall will cost VW around €28bn over time. Even that is manageable but if this goes further then VW might have to start selling parts of their business."
"The question is how painful will it be to change the culture (at VW) and how long will it take the new management."
Automotive engineer John German works for the International Council on Clean Transportation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to reducing vehicle emissions and is credited with helping to uncover the VW emissions scandal.
He said while VW is in the spotlight, the entire auto industry needs to look at emissions in general.
"There's an increasing gap between CO2 measured on test procedures (across the industry) and that reported by people in the real world."
"Manufacturers are exploiting flexibility, tolerances and loopholes in the regulations to be able to show lower emissions on the official test cycles, but they aren't necessarily being implemented in the real world."
The car industry agrees that real world testing is necessary. Industry associations in the UK and Europe have been working with the European Commission to devise a real world emissions test, which is due to begin for new cars from September 2017.
Despite the scandal VW's sales in the US rose in October.


West Ham are interested in signing Manchester City's out-of-favour England goalkeeper Joe Hart.

There is no deal done yet but it is understood joining the Hammers is a possibility for Hart, who has no future at City under manager Pep Guardiola.
Hart was on loan at Torino in Italy last season but has returned to City, where he has a contract until 2019.
Conversations have also taken place between the 30-year-old's representatives and Manchester United.
While United boss Jose Mourinho is an admirer of Hart, who has 71 international caps, the clear preference at Old Trafford is to keep David de Gea, which they expect to do.
The signing of Ederson Moraes for £35m from Benfica underlined Guardiola's view of Hart.
City are only thought to be interested in a permanent transfer.
They leave for a three-match tour of the United States on 17 July.
Italian football journalist Mina Rzouki speaking to BBC Radio 5 live:
He made a lot of mistakes at Torino. I'm not saying he's a bad goalkeeper, sometimes he really pulls it out, and what was great for him at Torino was everyone loved him.
He was the one that commanded the headlines. Everyone wanted to read about him, everyone wanted to talk about him because he was the English captain and everyone wanted to look at him like this beacon that came to Torino and chose Serie A over everyone else.
But let's be honest, he's not of that calibre. He is a Torino-style goalkeeper rather than Manchester City any more.
So, all in all, he is only what I would say is mediocre in Serie A, which is littered with good goalkeepers and good defenders.