A Russian special forces officer killed in Syria after calling in an air strike against so-called Islamic State (IS) militants has been buried as a national hero in his home village.

The coffin of Lt Alexander Prokhorenko was draped in a Russian flag and had a solemn military escort when it arrived back in Moscow.
Hundreds attended the funeral in Gorodki, central Russia. His old school and a street are being named after him.
He died during fighting near Palmyra.
Prokhorenko did not surrender to IS militants who had surrounded him, the Russian military says. Instead, he called in Russian aircraft to bomb the militants - and he died too, on 17 March.
Friday was a day of mourning in Russia's central Orenburg region in his honour, with flags lowered on public buildings. A street in the city of Orenburg will bear his name.
He was posthumously awarded the Hero of Russia medal by President Vladimir Putin.
Russia has made the world-renowned ancient site of Palmyra a symbol of its campaign in Syria.
IS jihadists smashed many precious sculptures there before Syrian government troops, backed by Russian air power, pushed them out on 27 March.
IS claimed that it killed five Russian troops near Palmyra - but the Russian military did not confirm that figure. Russia has said little about its ground operations in Syria, instead giving much coverage to its air strikes.
The famous Russian conductor Valery Gergiev staged a televised classical concert in Palmyra's Roman amphitheatre on Thursday.


Gay rights activists in China are preparing for what they say could be a legal milestone in their fight to stop homosexuality being treated as an illness.

Later this month, a Chinese court will hear the first case of its kind brought against a clinic that offers so-called "gay conversion therapy".
A long campaign in Europe and America has been successful in shifting the medical consensus against such treatment, and now campaigners want Chinese doctors to follow suit.
In an office block in the eastern city of Nanjing, down a gloomy corridor, I find the Nanjing Urban Psychiatric Consultancy Centre.
It's a small office with a sparsely-furnished treatment room upstairs, from which - seemingly prompted by our arrival - a young male patient hurriedly leaves.
China declassified homosexuality as a mental illness well over a decade ago, but clinics like this one are still easy to find.
Dr Zhou Zhengyou shows me some of the books he's written on the subject over the course of his career.
One of them is a guide for parents who suspect their son or daughter might be gay.
The overriding message appears to be that it is their own parenting methods that are somehow to "blame".
Dr Zhou now claims to cure up to 70% of his gay patients, although he says it is a long and difficult process.
And, his critics point out, at $120 (Â£70) a session - a lot of money on an average Chinese wage - long and difficult can mean lucrative.
Dr Zhou tells me that today he uses counselling alone and does not treat his patients with so-called aversion-therapy offered elsewhere in China. But he is happy to describe how it works.
"One common method is electric shock. When the patient has a gay thought, we electrocute them or inject them with drugs that make them sick," he said.
China's gay community has begun to fight back. They've organised a number of protests - small in number but nonetheless brave in China.
Video footage of one demonstration shows activists holding up a protest banner at a Beijing medical conference. "Being gay is not an illness," it reads.
The delegates do not seem convinced. "We cannot support homosexuality," a doctor said. "Although we try to understand it," his colleague adds.
In addition to such direct action, the campaigners have been given another avenue to pursue.
For the first time, China has allowed them to challenge gay conversion therapy in the courts.
"I had electric shock therapy only once," the man bringing the case, who calls himself Xiao Zhen, told the BBC. "Imagine those who've had it many times."
He put himself through the treatment in order to gather the evidence and he's now hoping that a successful court ruling in his favour will effectively ban the practice.
It's a battle that has been fought elsewhere, of course.
Aversion therapy has been the target of campaigners in Europe and America for decades and today, the notion of the gay conversion has not completely gone away.
But the modern medical consensus in the West is that there's no good evidence that sexual orientation can be changed.
Some people suggest that attitudes in China have been slower to evolve because of the one-child-policy as well as heavy Confucian pressure on young people to get married and produce a family heir.
Attitudes in China, though, are changing fast - that Shanghai now holds an annual gay pride event is proof of that. It includes gay film screenings, discussion groups and a fun-run.
Being China, participants are not allowed to march.
Now the court case, it's hoped, will be another step forward, sending a message that the enduring medical prejudice needs to stop.


Veteran entertainer Sir Bruce Forsyth had a career spanning eight decades, in which he went from struggling variety performer to Saturday night TV stardom.

On the way, he became one of the most recognisable entertainers in the business, driven by what appeared to be inexhaustible energy.
He became synonymous with the plethora of game shows that seemed to dominate television light entertainment in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, although he often felt he had become typecast as the genial quizmaster.
And at an age when most performers would have put their feet up, his career enjoyed a huge revival with the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.
Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson was born in Edmonton, north London, on 22 February 1928.
His father owned a local garage and both his parents were Salvation Army members who sang and played music at home.
The young Bruce was a direct descendant of William Forsyth, a founder of the Royal Horticultural Society, whose name was given to the plant forsythia.
His interest in showbusiness was kindled at the age of eight and he was reportedly found tap-dancing on the flat roof after watching his first Fred Astaire film.
"As soon as I got home from school," he recalled, "I'd take up the carpet, because there was lino underneath, and start tapping away."
He made his stage debut at the age of 14 as Boy Bruce, the Mighty Atom, appearing bottom of the bill at the Theatre Royal, Bilston.
Live entertainment was a way of escaping the pressures and dangers of wartime Britain, and there was a huge demand for acts, no matter how bad they were.
Many years later he explained his motivation on a BBC chat show.  "I wanted to be famous and buy my mum a fur coat."
But there was to be no fast track to success. For the next 16 years he performed in church halls and theatres across the country, sleeping in train luggage racks and waiting for the big break.
It came in 1958, at a time when he had been unemployed for more than three months and was seriously considering giving up on showbusiness.
He was asked to present Sunday Night at the London Palladium, a televised variety show, made by Lord Grade's ATV company for the ITV network.
He'd finally found the fame he had always craved, appearing not in front of a couple of hundred people in a theatre, but the more than 10 million who regularly tuned in to the show.
"The pubs would empty when it came on," he told an interviewer.  "We would get calls saying: 'Can't you start it later?'"
Originally booked for two weeks, he stayed five years, by which time he was Britain's highest-paid entertainer, earning Â£1,000 a week (Â£18,700 in today's money).
But he continued touring with his variety show and the strain of combining this with his Palladium appearances took a toll on his private life.
He divorced his first wife, Penny Calvert, a dancer he'd met in the theatre, and she wrote an account of her husband's perpetual absence, called Darling, Your Dinner's in the Dustbin.
A popular element in his Palladium show was a feature called Beat the Clock, in which contestants, egged on by Forsyth, had to complete quirky tasks as a huge clock ticked down.
The segment gave a hint of his future television role and he went on to host some of the most popular television game shows of the 1970s and 80s.
With his catchphrases of "Nice to see you, to see you nice" and "Didn't he do well?" he reigned supreme at the helm of the BBC's Generation Game for six years from 1971, and again at the beginning of the 1990s.
At its peak, the programme attracted 20 million viewers, who tuned in to watch Forsyth seemingly having more fun than the competitors, enthusing over the mundane prizes on the conveyor belt.
The presenter argued with his BBC managers about the show's early evening timeslot but he eventually accepted his role as the "warm-up man" for Saturday night television.
His co-host on the show, Anthea Redfern, was each week encouraged to "give us a twirl". The couple married in 1973 but divorced six years later.
It was on the Generation Game that he introduced his famous "thinker" pose, appearing in silhouette at the beginning of each show.
The idea came from the classic circus strongman pose, something he'd perfected during his days in variety.
He repeated his success on ITV's Play Your Cards Right, where the audience joined in the cries of "higher" or "lower" as the contestants tried to guess the value of a series of playing cards.
Michael Grade said of him: "He knows how to get laughs out of people but it's never cruel and he leaves their dignity intact."
In 1995, a year after his final Generation Game appearance, he received a lifetime achievement award for variety at the British Comedy Awards and began hosting ITV's The Price is Right.
The entertainer was, by this time, a Rolls-Royce-driving multimillionaire and married since 1983 to Wilnelia Merced, a former Miss World.
He later claimed that he regretted becoming so associated with game shows and wished he'd done more variety work on TV.
Play Your Cards Right was axed in 1999 and, with changing tastes in entertainment, his TV career began to slide.
He returned to the theatre - but experienced an unexpected revival after his wife watched an edition of the satirical quiz, Have I Got News For You, and suggested he could present the programme.
After calling show regular Paul Merton, he landed the gig and offered to be "a little bit deadpan".
"But the team said, 'No, be Bruce Forsyth,'" he said.
He used the occasion to parody some of his old game shows, much to the ill-disguised disgust of team captain Ian Hislop.
But the appearance led to Forsyth, an accomplished tap dancer, being offered the job of hosting Strictly Come Dancing, which began a year later.
Viewed with scepticism when it launched, the celebrity dance show became one of the most-watched programmes on TV by the time it reached its fifth series in 2007.
He brought his own brand of avuncular good humour to the proceedings - reassuring many of the contestants with the phrase "you're my favourites".
"His particular character and personality went a long way to making the show what it is," said former contestant Ann Widdecombe.
But the presenter once revealed that Strictly "was never the show that I thought it would be".
"I thought it'd be a comedy show - me getting among the contestants and showing them how to dance, and them all falling over," he told ITV's This Morning. "It was a different show."
After missing a handful of episodes because of illness, he decided to "step down from the rigours" of presenting Strictly in 2014.
"But I'm not retiring," he insisted. "That's the last thing in the world I want to do. This isn't Brucie walking into the sunset."
He continued to host the Christmas and charity editions of Strictly until 2014 - all of which were taped, as opposed to live broadcasts.
Away from entertainment, Forsyth's biggest passion was golf and he took part in many pro-celebrity tournaments.
His house was next to the course at Wentworth, where he played with many of the world's best players, practising in the bunker in his own back garden.
During his career, Forsyth's multiple talents and years of application sparked an enduring appeal.
In 2011 he was knighted after years of campaigning by his fans and a parliamentary Early Day Motion signed by 73 MPs.
But he suffered from ill health towards the end of his life, and in 2016 his wife revealed he still had "a bit of a problem moving", following major surgery a year earlier.
Sir Bruce was one of the last entertainers from the tradition of music hall to be working on British television.
In many ways his act barely changed. The same corny gags, the same toothy smile and, above all, the same manic enthusiasm.
"On stage I think I'm 35," he once said. "Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop."
He will be particularly remembered for his ability to transform run-of-the-mill party games into glorious moments of mayhem that enthralled contestants and audiences alike.
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Ethiopian Olympian Feyisa Lilesa, who said he wanted to seek asylum after making an anti-government gesture in Rio, has arrived in the US.

The marathon runner crossed the line in second place with his arms above his head in solidarity with Oromo activists who are staging protests in Ethiopia.
He repeated the gesture later at a press conference, saying his life would be in danger if he returned home.
The government has been accused of brutally cracking down on protesters.
The country's Information Minister Getachew Reda told the BBC at the time that he had nothing to fear and would be welcomed home as a hero.
But speaking after the race, Mr Feyisa said he might be killed if he returned.
"If not kill me, they will put me in prison. I have not decided yet, but maybe I will move to another country."
His family later said that he wanted to seek asylum in the US.
A funding campaign, which has now reached its $150,000 (Â£113,000) target, was set up to help pay his legal fees and support his family back home in Ethiopia.
Mr Feyisa is from Oromia, home to most of Ethiopia's 35 million Oromo people, the country's largest ethnic group.
The region has been hit by a wave of anti-government protests since November last year as people complain about social and political marginalisation.
US-based rights group Human Rights Watch has said that more than 400 people have been killed by security forces during the demonstrations.
The government disputes the figure and has said that it welcomes dialogue and peaceful protests to sort out issues that people may have.
The information minister has acknowledged that there have been some killings but has said that in the main the security forces conducted themselves "in a very professional and responsible manner".
He put the killings down to "a few bad apples".


St Helens head coach Keiron Cunningham says he is a much more relaxed coach compared to his first season in charge.

The 39-year-old is in his second year as Saints boss after spending his entire playing career at the club before joining the coaching staff.
His side, who finished fourth, travel to Warrington in the Super League play-off semi-finals on Thursday.
"I don't get anxious, I wouldn't know what the emotion is," the former hooker told BBC Radio Merseyside.
"When I was a player I just used to get angry and that was to just so I could get out and play and have an influence on a game.
"Sometimes I was anxious last year, a little bit and worried about things - but this year I don't have any anxiety towards games."
The former Wales international added: "I'm a lot more relaxed with games and that's come with experience and that belief in the squad that they can go out and do a good job.
"I know as a club, me as a coach and my players are desperate to get out there on Thursday and it can't come quick enough."


A man has been wounded and hospitalised and two other men arrested on suspicion of assault.

The 28-year-old man is in Hull Royal Infirmary after a violent incident at a house in Hainton Avenue, Grimsby on Friday, said Humberside Police.
The two local men, aged 32 and 24, are currently being questioned in police custody.
A cordon was erected on Hainton Avenue while a forensic examination was carried out.


Hull City have signed Tottenham midfielder Ryan Mason for a club-record, undisclosed fee, and bought Manchester United striker Will Keane.

Mason, 25, who has won one cap for England, has signed a three-year deal.
The fee for Keane, 23 is also undisclosed, but reported to be £1m.
The Tigers' previous record signing was the £10m they paid Italian side Palermo for striker Abel Hernandez on deadline day in September 2014.
Keane, who has also signed a three-year deal, worked alongside Tigers caretaker boss Mike Phelan when he was assistant manager at Old Trafford.
Cardiff goalkeeper David Marshall, 31, became the club's first summer signing earlier on Tuesday when he joined for a fee that could rise to £5m.
Mason told the club website: "I'm delighted and excited to be here.
"I can't wait to get started and I see this as a massive opportunity for me."
Keane has been on loan at Wigan Athletic, Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield Wednesday and Preston North End - where he scored twice in 22 appearances last season.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


Former schoolteacher Jeff Horn stunned champion Manny Pacquiao to win the WBO world welterweight title with a unanimous points decision in Brisbane.

The three judges scored the fight 117-111, 115-113, 115-113 to the 29-year-old Australian at Lang Park.
"That's the decision of the judges. I respect that," said 38-year-old Pacquiao.
The Filipino, an eight-weight world champion, has now lost four of his past nine fights.
Horn, 29, was aggressive from the opening bell, although Pacquiao's left jabs scored points in the early stages.
Horn, who has now won 17 and drawn one of his 18 bouts, caused Pacquiao problems during the middle rounds and cut him above both eyes.
The veteran fought back with a brilliant counter-attack in the ninth round, only for Horn to win the 10th.
Both fighters tired in the final two rounds, with Horn's good work in the opening stages proving enough for a famous win.
Horn, nicknamed 'The Hornet', grew up in Brisbane and first walked into a boxing club 11 years ago to learn self-defence.
While studying for his degree, he reached the quarter-finals of the London 2012 Olympics, turned professional soon after and made his debut in 2013.
Horn, who until recently taught students at Pallara State School in Brisbane, won prize money sometimes as low as A$2,000 (£1,100).
Reports claim he won a guaranteed $500,000 (£383,832) from his fight against Pacquiao.
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Dutch-born author Michel Faber has been named as the winner of this year's Saltire Book of the Year award.

The writer, who has been based in Scotland since 1993, won the prize for The Book of Strange New Things.
The novel tells the story of a Christian pastor sent to a colonised planet to carry out missionary work among aliens.
Faber  previously won the Saltire First Book of the Year award in 2000 for his debut novel Under The Skin.
That book was adapted into a critically-acclaimed feature film in 2013, directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Scarlett Johansson.
His 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White was dramatised as a four-part BBC television series in 2011, starring Romola Garai and Richard E Grant.
Commenting on his win, Faber said: "When I emigrated from Australia to a remote part of Scotland in 1993, I never expected that it would be the beginning rather than the end of my literary career.
"I'm so moved and grateful that this honour has been bestowed on my work. You've made an alien feel very welcome."
The Saltire Society Literary Awards celebrate "literary and academic excellence" across seven categories, with the winners of individual book categories going forward to be considered for the Saltire Book of the Year award.
The Book of Strange New Things has also won the 2015 Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year, beating competition from a shortlist that included the latest works from Irvine Welsh, Kate Atkinson and Gaelic language writer Norma Nicleoid.
The winners in other categories were:
Faber collected both awards and a cash prize of Â£8,000 at a ceremony at the Central Hall in Edinburgh on Thursday.


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Football's capacity to lose the plot was rarely more evident than in the days since Sunday when Josh Meekings stuck out his hand and signalled a call to arms.

The thunder in the wake of the Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden is uniquely Scottish, not so much in its ferocity but in its complexity and longevity.
The theories are running wild and will do so for years. The name McLean has now joined the word Dougie in the lexicon of outraged Celtic fans.
There isn't a crowbar big enough to separate some Celtic supporters from the notion that they were the victims of a plot rather than a colossal blunder on Sunday.
Social media has been a playground for those who would go toe-to-toe with anybody in a world conspiracy championship.
Those who espouse the view that Neil Armstrong never stepped on the moon, or that Marilyn Monroe was killed by the Kennedys, would have their hands full when confronted by the cyber Celts in full flow about the wrongs supposedly perpetrated against their club.
Such a contest would surely have only one winner. The chances are that the Armstrong and Monroe crews would quickly accept that they are mere amateurs when it comes to such matters before abandoning their mission and lumping-in with the professionals of Parkhead.
Sunday gave us a big story, but in a sense we are going over old ground. It's not a revelation that the standard of officiating in Scottish football can be utterly dreadful at times.
It's not a sensation that teams have appalling decisions given against them, nor is it a shock that these teams have a rather one-eyed view of the injustice visited upon them. That goes for Inverness as well as Celtic.
John Hughes, the Inverness manager, has accepted that Meekings handled the ball and that it should have been a penalty. He's also been honest enough in admitting that, had referee Steven McLean spotted the incident, Meekings would almost certainly have been sent-off and, therefore, banned for the final.
They are now railing against the SFA for following a rulebook that Inverness themselves signed up to. It's another example of a club agreeing to a rule only to go ballistic when it impacts on them, a la Celtic agreeing to a justice system based on balance of probability only for them to cry foul when balance of probability was applied in the case of Aleksandar Tonev's ban for racially abusing Aberdeen's Shay Logan.
Clubs tend to be one-eyed when it comes to this stuff.
"Do you want all clubs to abide by the rules?"
"Yes."
"Including your own club?"
"It depends."
There are shades of grey, of course. Inverness can rightly question why, in four years, no player has been charged with a handball offence retrospectively. They can plead inconsistency and they'd have a lot of support, but in their attempts to free Meekings for the final they are rather hoist by their own petard in terms of the rulebook that carries their imprimatur.
Celtic, of course, are masters at this game. The reason why so many fans of so many other clubs around the country have zero sympathy for them in the wake of Sunday is because, in the past, Celtic have seen only what they've wanted to see when such incidents have gone in their favour.
The classic example, much mentioned on social media, was the case of John Guidetti's wrongly-awarded penalty against Hearts in a Scottish Cup tie in November. Guidetti hit the deck under a non-challenge from Brad McKay and subsequently scored from the spot to make it 2-0.
Hearts were down to 10 men at that time and had a mountain to climb in any event, but the dodgy penalty decision effectively ended any hope they had of making a comeback.
It was abundantly obvious that it was not a penalty and yet Ronny Deila seemed to back the decision in the aftermath, refusing to criticise Willie Collum, the man who made the blunder.
"The referees have been fantastic," said manager Deila. "It's a high level of refereeing in Scotland. It's been worse in Europe, like last Thursday against Salzburg. We have more problems in Europe with referees.
"But the referees here have been good. Sometimes you get something for you, sometimes you get something against you. I don't think a lot about it. If you perform well as a team, you'll win."
When Celtic fans started to bombard their club looking for them to seek "clarification" about why the officials missed the Meekings incident, where was Celtic's philosophical attitude then? Where was the "sometimes you get 'em and sometimes you don't, let's move on" response from the autumn?
They can object to a wretched error if they like, but they leave themselves wide open to a charge of hypocrisy when quietly accepting a wretched error that gave them an advantage.
John Collins, the Celtic assistant manager, only added to this on Tuesday when asked whether he thought it was a conspiracy against Celtic that led to Meekings going unpunished or mere rank awful officiating. "The only person you are going to ask the question to is the referee and the officials, " he said. "I can't answer that."
Hearts people were entitled to be scornful of Celtic's shifting mind-set - from "I don't think a lot about it" when a bad decision goes in their favour to "let's not rule out a conspiracy" when a bad decision goes against them. You can fully understand their anger, but a bit of self-awareness wouldn't go amiss either.
It seems that Donald Trump was too busy ruminating on a possible bid for the presidency of the United States to attend a media day at Turnberry on Tuesday, but bombast is hereditary in the Trump clan and his son, Eric, merrily boasted in his father's absence.
You have to wade through an amount of pomposity where the Trumps are involved, but we may have reached a historic moment on Tuesday, a moment when all the braggadocio may have finally been justified.
Turnberry did not need to be purchased by The Donald to make it one of the great wonders of the golfing world, but even this less than enthusiastic Trump observer has to admit that the changes planned for the Ailsa course are excellent.
The alterations, of course, have been mooted for years by Turnberry's members, long before Trump ever came to town.
Chief among the changes is the ninth hole, which is now a 449-yard par-four and will, by June next year, become a 235-yard par-three, played over the rocks by the famous lighthouse. It's a variation to quicken the pulse of any golfer, professional or hacker.
Young Eric has predicted that it will be "the greatest par-three in the world." Normally it's a good policy to ignore the Trumpet-blast, but in this case he could actually be right.
Martin Fletcher was 12-years-old on the day of the Bradford stadium disaster, the fire that engulfed a stand at Valley Parade killing 56 people, including his father, brother, grandfather and uncle.
For 15 years, Fletcher researched the events of the day and the aftermath. In gathering evidence for his book "56 - The Story of the Bradford Fire", Fletcher uncovered a truth that, he says, nearly killed him.
He has suffered seizures along the way. His story is harrowing and jaw-dropping, a huge testament to his courage and his resilience, a book that evokes shock and emotion at the circumstances surrounding that horrific day and the lack of proper investigation in its wake.
Reading the book, you think of Stuart McCall, who was a 21-year-old midfielder in the Bradford team that day. McCall has spoken emotionally many times in the past about the horrors of the fire and has gone to many memorial services over the years.
He remembers Fletcher as a young lad. Fletcher maintains that there was more to the fire than mere tragic accident, but McCall is not inclined to agree.
Whatever the viewpoint, the book remembers the victims and tells the story of a survivor who has been damaged for life because of what happened 30 years ago next month. It's profoundly sad and utterly compelling.


Bury Council's chief executive has been suspended over claims he and others failed to follow procedures in their handling of a safeguarding case.

The Manchester Evening News reported it related to a councillor who admitted making indecent images of children.
Mike Owen and two senior officers have been suspended following an external review of the case, a spokeswoman said.
Council leader Rishi Shori said the suspensions would allow the three to "focus on responding" to the case.
He said they were "a neutral act".
The council had commissioned the review by childcare expert Malcolm Newsam after it "received allegations that there were failures to act appropriately in following safeguarding procedures in respect of an individual case," he added.
Deputy chief executive Pat Jones-Greenhalgh will replace Mr Owen until the council's own investigation is concluded, the authority's spokeswoman said.


New counter-terrorism units have been set up at two Australian airports, PM Tony Abbott says, amid concern over Australians fighting in Iraq and Syria.

Mr Abbott told parliament units in Sydney and Melbourne began operating last week.
They had already intercepted at least one person of interest, he said.
Meanwhile Australia's top spy says that 15 Australians are believed to have died fighting for Middle East-based extremist groups like Islamic State.
Mr Abbott did not give further details about how the person was intercepted or their intended destination.
He said the move would be extended to all Australia's international airports, with an additional 80 border force officers to monitor the movements of people on security watch lists.
Biometric screening would also be introduced to all international airports, according to Fairfax Media.
At least 60 Australians were known to be fighting with jihadist groups in Syria and northern Iraq, the prime minister said.
Separately, the director general of Australia's spy agency, David Irvine, told reporters that 15 Australians fighting with militant groups were believed to have been killed in the current conflicts in Iraq and Syria, including two young suicide bombers.
Dozens of Australian fighters had already returned home and "a good number of these" remained a concern to the authorities, he said.
Mr Irvine said 100 or more people in Australia were "actively supporting" militant groups by recruiting new fighters, grooming suicide-bombing candidates, and providing funds and equipment.
Australia and the United States signed an agreement on Wednesday to share information that would confirm identities of foreign travellers at airports.
Australia is also spending an extra A$630 million (Â£354m, $587m) over the next four years to tackle the threat of home-grown terrorism. This week the government announced that as part of that package, it would spend A$64 million to help prevent young people from becoming radicalised.
Mr Abbott had earlier announced Australia would restrict citizens from travelling to certain areas to join militant groups.
The moves follow a series of disturbing reports. An image of a young boy, reportedly the son of an Australian terror convict, holding a Syrian's severed head shocked Australia earlier this month.
In July, an 18-year-old suicide bomber from Melbourne killed several people in a market near a Baghdad mosque.
In the same month authorities in Canberra issued arrest warrants for two Australian Islamic State fighters, after one was pictured brandishing the severed heads of what appeared to be Syrian government soldiers.


Two high-profile cases involving allegations of racism have reignited a row about free speech in Australia, and mobilised the nation's ideological forces, writes Kathy Marks.

The cartoon depicts a beer-swilling Aboriginal man being handed back his errant son by a police officer - and, on being instructed to teach the boy about "personal responsibility", struggling to remember his name.
Drawn by one of Australia's best known cartoonists, Bill Leak, the satirical image caused an uproar when it appeared in The Australian newspaper in August.
Some condemned it as unfairly tarnishing all Aboriginal fathers; others applauded it for highlighting an unpalatable truth. But was it racist, and should it have been banned by law?
These questions are exercising federal politicians as they prepare to hold an inquiry into the Racial Discrimination Act, focusing on a contentious section which outlaws behaviour likely to "offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate" people on the basis of race, colour or ethnic origin.
The section, 18C, is anathema to conservatives, who call it a gag on freedom of speech. They point to the cartoon and another recent case, involving racism allegations against three Queensland University of Technology (QUT) students, as underlining the need for reform.
Defenders of the law, though, who include opposition Labor politicians, ethnic community organisations and the UN special rapporteur on racism, say it has worked well for 20 years, protecting Australians from ethnic minority backgrounds from harassment and intimidation.
They also note that the act - under which discrimination complaints are initially investigated by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) - operated without controversy until 2011, when the Federal Court ruled it had been breached by a leading right-wing commentator, Andrew Bolt.
Mr Bolt had published articles and blogs in which he accused nine fair-skinned Australians with mixed heritage of playing up their Aboriginality to secure jobs, grants and awards.
The judgement outraged his friends and ideological soulmates, who include former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
Mr Abbott's government drafted amendments diluting the act in 2014, but backed down following an outcry from community groups - and from MPs in the ruling Liberal Party who represent ethnically diverse urban electorates.
Those same groups are now mobilising again as battle lines are drawn on an issue which arouses strong opinions and emotions on both sides of the political divide.
While Australia prides itself on its multiculturalism, with more than one in four people born overseas, some are uneasy at what Tim Wilson, a prominent libertarian turned Liberal MP, calls "the direction of the country... its ethno-cultural make-up and whether we're holding to our values and traditions".
The parliamentary inquiry has been ordered by Mr Abbott's successor, Malcolm Turnbull, who only a few months ago ruled out changes to the Racial Discrimination Act.
Once known as a social progressive, Mr Turnbull, who won power in July by the narrowest of margins, is discovering that government requires harsh compromises. Not only is he under pressure from right-wing Liberals, but he has to court the likes of Pauline Hanson's anti-immigration One Nation to get legislation through the Senate.
One of four One Nation senators, Ms Hanson wants 18C repealed, as does David Leyonhjelm, another Senate cross-bencher who espouses libertarian causes.
The push for reform gathered momentum following the cartoon and QUT rows, the latter involving Facebook posts by the three students after they were asked to leave a computer lab reserved for Aboriginal students. One wrote: "I wonder where the white supremacist lab is."
Both affairs prompted complaints to the AHRC by apparently injured parties. In the Bill Leak case, the complaints were subsequently dropped. In the QUT case, the Federal Court dismissed the discrimination claim as having no reasonable chance of success.
On Monday, the UN special rapporteur on racism, Mutuma Ruteere, called for the Racial Discrimination Act to be protected, describing it as a "useful balance" between free speech and protecting minority groups.
Removing it would "open the door to racist and xenophobic hate-speech which has been quite limited thanks to this provision", he said.
While there is little likelihood of 18C being repealed, opponents are calling for, at the very least, the words "insult" and "offend" to be removed, maintaining that they "set the bar too low" for a claim to succeed under the act.
Mr Wilson told the BBC that the passions surrounding the topic "feed into a cultural concern about whether we're preserving the best type of society we've been in the past ... based on Western traditions of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and liberal democracy".
He said: "It's about whether the law should be used as a weapon to censor and silence conversations on difficult subjects. The reality is: people use their freedom of speech to say challenging and offensive things all the time, and that's what a free society is."
A recent study found that only 1.8% of complaints end up in a court or tribunal, with the rest dropped, dismissed or conciliated by the AHRC.
The QUT and Leak cases were "highly exceptional", one of the report's authors, Katharine Gelber, from the University of Queensland, told the BBC. She also noted that the following section of the Act, 18D, provides a broad "public interest" defence.
At a time of rising populism globally, including a growing backlash against "political correctness", the 18C debate "hits right at the heart of the political divide", Prof Gelber said.


A California police department has released two videos of the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man outside a shopping centre on Tuesday.

The footage shows two officers confronting Alfred Olango before one of them shoots him dead in a car park in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon.
The police said the man, a Ugandan refugee, had been behaving erratically at the time.
But his mother said he was having a mental breakdown and needed help.
The shooting of Mr Olango led to violent protests in El Cajon.
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Police said they shot the 38-year-old when he pulled an object that turned out to be an e-cigarette from his pocket and pointed it at a police officer.
One of the videos of the incident was recorded by a surveillance camera mounted at the window of a drive-through restaurant, while another came from the mobile phone of a bystander.
In the second video, which lasts less than 20 seconds, a woman can be heard shouting: "Officer don't shoot him!" before at least four shots ring out and she screams.
El Cajon police chief Jeff Davis said Mr Olango died after one officer fired an electronic stun gun and another officer simultaneously fired his firearm several times.


Former Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones has been chosen as the party's general election candidate in its top target seat of Ynys Mon.

Mr Jones, who left frontline politics four years ago, beat three other candidates to the nomination.
Ynys Mon is seen as a three way fight between Plaid, Labour, who hold the seat, and the Conservatives.
Mr Jones was the constituency's MP from 1987 to 2001 and its assembly member between 1999 and 2013.
He was also Wales' deputy first minister for four years, in a Labour-Plaid coalition Welsh Government formed in 2007.
Mr Jones stood down from the assembly in 2013 to lead the Menai Business Park.
Ynys Mon has been held by Labour's Albert Owen since 2001, and he now has a majority of 229.
Mr Owen, who is standing again, told BBC Wales: "It's a matter for them who they choose.
"Plaid Cymru say they want to take the island back, I say I want to take Ynys Mon forward".
The Conservatives, who represented the seat from 1979 to 1987, are yet to choose a candidate.
A Tory spokesman said: "The choice facing voters in Wales is clear. It is between Theresa May and the Conservative Team providing strong and stable leadership for the UK, or a coalition of chaos led by Jeremy Corbyn that will put the future of our nation at risk."
The Liberal Democrats said the party was in the process of selecting its candidate for the seat and hoped to make an announcement next week.
UKIP will announce its candidate on Thursday.
A party spokesman said: "Anglesey voted to leave the European Union.
"By Ynys Mon electing a UKIP MP, they would have a representative that would fight on their behalf and look after their interests specifically."
A full list of candidates will be available after nominations close on 11 May.


Worcestershire suffered another second-innings batting collapse as they fell to a 61-run defeat against Sussex.

Resuming on 47-0 and needing another 200 for victory, the visitors were all out for 185 as Ajmal Shahzad took 5-46.
The winning margin would have been even wider had it not been for a last-wicket stand of 51 between wicketkeeper Ben Cox (48 not out) and Charlie Morris.
Steve Rhodes' side made 100 in their second innings against Yorkshire in the opening Championship game loss.
Worcestershire's batting troubles this time around were triggered by Australian seamer Steve Magoffin when he removed captain Daryl Mitchell lbw for 21.
Seven balls later, former Nottinghamshire fast bowler Shahzad sent Richard Oliver's stumps flying and then dismissed Alex Gidman and Tom Kohler-Cadmore in the space of three deliveries.
The wickets continued to tumble as Alexei Kervezee and Tom Fell were both trapped lbw and Gareth Andrew was bowled by Shahzad as the visitors reached lunch on 127-7.
After the interval, Jack Shantry became the fifth leg-before victim of the innings to Magoffin and Shahzad soon had his fifth wicket when Sachithra Senanayake edged behind.
The visitors had lost nine wickets for just 77 runs and although Cox and Morris delayed the inevitable, spinner Luke Wells eventually wrapped up the win when he enticed Morris to edge to slip.
Sussex captain Ed Joyce:
"It was a fantastic performance. At the start of the day they were slight favourites but we got Daryl Mitchell, who is a massive wicket, early and then we stuck at it.
"Shahzad bowled fantastically. He got it to swing conventionally and then reverse and was aggressive on a pitch that didn't do much, although it was a bit up and down in bounce.
"It's good to get two wins on the board even though there are still areas we can be better in.
"We were a bit careless with our first-innings batting, we should have got more runs and made the last day a bit easier and I'm frustrated with the number of catches we dropped."
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes:
"It was a fantastic effort by the team but sadly we failed to carry it through today.
"An hour's cricket probably cost us the game. We lost a cluster of wickets but we can't afford to keep doing that and have to address it.
"We're an inexperienced side and have to learn from these situations and improve."


A heavily pregnant woman had a gun pressed to her head when masked burglars broke into her Rochdale home.

The 28-year-old's nine-year-old daughter was also threatened by a member of the gang, who had a knife.
The burglary happened at their home in the Turf Hill area at about 05:30 BST on Wednesday, Greater Manchester Police said.
The three balaclava-wearing men stole cash, jewellery and a mobile phone before fleeing.
The offender carrying the gun, said to be a small silver metal handgun, was described as Asian, slim and aged between 20 and 30.
The man with the knife was black, between 30 and 40, of a medium build and with bloodshot eyes.
It is believed they were met by three other men outside the property.
Police are now appealing for anyone with information to contact them.
Det Con Rich Shelton said: "This gang targeted a mum and her young daughter, even stooping as low as to hold a gun to the head of a woman who was clearly heavily pregnant and absolutely terrified.
"Thankfully they were not physically injured and the unborn baby not harmed but the emotional trauma they have suffered is immeasurable."


Nearly four years ago Sophie Gilman, from Sevenoaks, was in bad way.

She could only attend school two or three times a week, for half a day, and she spent most of her time lying around the house.
"I got very breathless and I was on tablets a lot. Life wasn't great," she says.
She was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy and told she would need a heart transplant by the time she was 21.
In the end she was just 15 when she was given the life-saving operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London.
"I got worse much more quickly than the doctors thought I would, but I only waited six days for a new heart and I was out of hospital within 17 days."
It sounds a simple solution, but there is nothing simple about replacing a child's diseased heart with another healthy one and nothing easy about the decision to donate an organ so that someone else's child might live.
Sophie admits that she thinks about it quite a lot.
"It doesn't feel real sometimes, having someone else's heart in my body, but it just feels like mine now.
"I'm really glad I have it and I feel incredibly lucky."
Dr Matthew Fenton, consultant paediatric cardiologist and heart transplant doctor at GOSH, says it's worth remembering that organ donation is a precious gift.
"I want to recognise the generosity and thoughtfulness of all the people and families who have donated organs over the years and made these transplants possible.
"At such an incredibly difficult time for their own family, organ donation can be a tough decision to make - but it's also an extremely powerful one in granting a child a second chance at life."
Dr Fenton, who looks after the families before and after transplant surgery takes place, says children are not just restricted to accepting a heart from another child.
Larger adults hearts can be transplanted into quite young children, he explains.
"A heart from a 60kg adult can be matched with a six-year-old who weighs just 20kg.
"That's why we need more adults donating because their organs can be used in children, and that means the smaller hearts which become available can be used for much younger children."
Transplant operations of this kind have very good outcomes. The mortality rate is less than 10%, and one year after surgery, there is a 92% survival rate.
The life expectancy of a child who has had a heart transplant is only around 20 years however - unless they are lucky enough get another donor heart.
NHS Blood and Transplant is the body responsible for encouraging people to donate organs, blood and tissues.
It says there is a huge demand for organs which outstrips supply. Their figures show that more than 10,000 people in the UK are currently waiting for a transplant and of these, 1,000 each year will die because there are not enough organs available.
But this week Wales decided to change the way organ donation works, by creating a new system of presumed consent.
Instead of joining a register if you want to donate organs, as in Northern Ireland, England and Scotland, people in Wales will consent to their organs being donated unless they opt out.
With only 31% of people in Britain having joined the Organ Donor Register up until now, the change of approach in Wales is bound to boost organ donations.
But with the help of new technology, there may come a time when there will be no need for organ transplants at all.
A team at GOSH is investigating how using a patient's own stem cells might help the heart repair itself while a donor organ is being found, and they hope this technique may help to repair damaged hearts completely in the future.
Twenty-five years ago, the first heart transplant was carried out at Great Ormond Street Hospital, by surgeon Prof Marc de Leval. Five hundred transplants involving hearts and lungs have since taken place at the hospital and advances in medicine and technology have helped to keep more children alive.
One of the greatest developments has been the use of the Berlin Heart, a machine which takes over from the heart and helps to pump blood around the child's body.
This allows the child to move around without being confined to a bed and keeps children alive while they wait for a donor heart to become available.
Dr Mike Burch, paediatric cardiologist and director of cardiothoracic transplantation at GOSH, says the Berlin Heart could also potentially enhance children's quality of life for a significant number of years before the need for a transplant returns.
For Sophie, life has transformed since her heart transplant.
She is full of energy once again, she completed her A-levels last year and has just started a new job in London - and she has a message for people who are thinking about registering to be a donor.
"If you're willing to take an organ then you should be willing to donate one. Why not do the same back?" she says.


Fans of the Twilight film series have been warned that they could be putting their sight at risk by sharing cosmetic contact lenses bought online.

Cosmetic lenses are available to buy on the internet, in novelty stores or at market stalls, close to Hallowe'en.
Trading standards officers said the law stated that lenses should be sold with an optician or medic present.
Youngsters buying the lenses may wish to recreate the look of the Twilight films and Vampire Diaries TV show.
Cosmetic lenses are used to change the colour of the eye, and are also known as plano or zero-powered lenses.
Trading standards officers and health experts say young people are known to share them, leading to an increased risk of corneal ulcers and infections.
Alistair Bridge, director of strategy at the General Optical Council said: "Opticians make sure that contact lenses fit properly and that wearers receive expert advice on how to wear and store them safely.
"They will also offer important advice such as not to sleep in contact lenses and to never share or swap lenses, which can spread eye disease."
Leon Livermore, Chartered Trading Standards Institute chief executive, said: "Cosmetic contact lenses are often made and distributed on a one size fits all basis and not tailored to the wearer's needs which can increase the risk of eye health issues."
"We would advise against buying products like these online or from retailers as without professional supervision there are more likely to be health concerns for the individual."


Abigail, Eva, Frank and Gertrude are some of the 21 names that have been chosen to be given to storms in the UK and Ireland in the future.

The Met Office, which keeps track of the weather here, has decided to give storms boys and girls names in the same way as they do in America.
They asked the public to suggest names for big storms and picked a list that also includes Imogen, Jake, Katie and Mary.
But why do they need names and how are they decided? Here's Newsround's guide.
The Met Office hopes that naming big storms will mean people are more aware of them and how dangerous they can be.
They think that it will be easier to follow the progress of a storm on the TV, radio, or on social media, if it has a name.
Derrick Ryall, from the Met Office, said: "We have seen how naming storms elsewhere in the world raises awareness of severe weather before it strikes."
Not all storms will be big enough to get names - only those expected to cause significant damage.
The UK storms will take it in turns to be girls' or boys' names.
In America and other parts of the world, big storms and hurricanes already have names. Strangely, research shows that hurricanes with female names are more likely to hurt more people than those with males names.
Scientists think that's because people find female names less threatening.
They will be taken from the list in alphabetical order.
There is a name for each letter of the alphabet, excluding Q, U, X, Y and Z. That's the same naming convention used in America.
The full list of names chosen for future selection are: Abigail, Barney, Clodagh, Desmond, Eva, Frank, Gertrude, Henry, Imogen, Jake, Katie, Lawrence, Mary, Nigel, Orla, Phil, Rhonda, Steve, Tegan, Vernon and Wendy.


Rights groups have asked the European Court of Human Rights to rule on the legality of the UK's large-scale surveillance regime.

Amnesty International, Liberty and Privacy International filed a legal complaint with the court today.
The scale of the surveillance carried out by GCHQ has been revealed by US whistleblower Edward Snowden.
A similar legal challenge mounted in the UK last year saw judges rule that the spying did not breach human rights.
"The UK government's surveillance practices have been allowed to continue unabated and on an unprecedented scale, with major consequences for people's privacy and freedom of expression," said Nick Williams, legal counsel for Amnesty in a statement.
The three organisations claim that the surveillance carried out by GCHQ breaches the European Convention on Human Rights that enshrines certain freedoms in law.
The surveillance carried out by GCHQ has been subject to a series of legal challenges since National Security Agency documents provided by Edward Snowden started to appear in the media.
In December, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that oversees the work of the intelligence services ruled that GCHQ's spying did not violate Britons' human rights and was a legitimate way to gather intelligence.
In February, a separate ruling by the IPT found that the spy agency's surveillance programme was unlawful because the processes governing how GCHQ gathered and shared information were not public enough.
Amnesty acknowledged these rulings in its statement but said the "secretive" nature of IPT hearings meant there was little transparency about the way GCHQ was being policed. This, it said, undermined the faith people had in official oversight of the agency.
Information that had come to light in the last 12 months showed, said Amnesty, that there were flaws in the oversight system. One revelation concerned arrangements GCHQ has with its US counterparts to get at data it would be difficult for the UK agency to get permission to acquire.
There were also loopholes in UK laws governing surveillance being exploited by GCHQ to expand its spying abilities, it said.


A ferry had to take action to ensure it avoided a possible collision before docking in Orkney.

The Hrossey was heading into Kirkwall in fog at about 22:00 on 3 July when passengers described the ship making what appeared to be an emergency manoeuvre to avoid another ship.
It was believed to have been the anchored Coastguard tug Herakles.
Serco Northlink Ferries has now said the ferry had "manoeuvred to ensure a safe passing distance".
This was said to have "caused the ferry to list more than normal".


An independent commission should be set up "to end decades of drift and delay on major infrastructure decisions", a Labour-commissioned report has said.

Successive governments have failed to set strategic priorities, the report from Olympic Delivery Authority chairman Sir John Armitt found.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls urged the government to implement the report as quickly as possible.
But Treasury minister David Gauke said Labour had scored a "massive own goal".
Major infrastructure projects "are often controversial and politicians are rarely in office long enough to see the electoral dividends of major investment programmes", the report said.
Problems surrounding the planning and implementing of schemes had affected energy policy, airport capacity, road and rail schemes and water projects, it added.
The report went on: "The Office for National Statistics, for example, forecasts UK population will grow to over 73 million people by 2035.
"However, there is little evidence that governments are planning for the infrastructure we will need by then to support another 10 million people."
It called for the creation of an independent National Infrastructure Commission, appointed by government and opposition parties, to identify the UK's long-term infrastructure needs and monitor the plans developed by governments to meet them.
Sir John said: "We have the Victorian pioneers to thank for the infrastructure that has underpinned the quality of life for our generation.
"It is up to us to lay the ground for the next pioneers who will create the innovative systems and services that will serve future generations."
Mr Balls added: "This excellent report sets out a clear blueprint for how we can better identify, plan and deliver our infrastructure needs.
"The Olympics showed what can be done when there is cross-party consensus and a sense of national purpose.
"Now we need that same drive and spirit to plan ahead for the next 30 years and the needs of future generations."
But Treasury minister David Gauke said: "This is a massive own goal from Ed Balls."
The report was "an epitaph to Labour's failure over 13 years to address the infrastructure challenges Britain faces", he argued.
Mr Gauke concluded: "This government is clearing up the mess, creating an economy for hardworking people by investing in the biggest programme of infrastructure development since the Victorian era."


An inspiring letter sent out to pupils by several schools ahead of upcoming Sats tests has gone viral.

The letter, sent by various schools in England, says the tests do not assess what makes pupils "special and unique".
One, from Willesborough Junior School in Ashford, states: "The people who create these tests... do not know your laughter can brighten the darkest day."
The key stage two tests taking place this week assess maths, reading, spelling, punctuation and grammar.
It is widely claimed this year's Sats are more rigorous and led to some parents taking their children out of school in protest last week.
Headteacher Jennie King said the tests were "stressful" for children.
Ms King, whose letter was shared by 4,500 people on Facebook, said: "Not every child is going to be academic, there will be dancers, musicians and footballers.
"I firmly believe a child needs a good grounding in academic subjects, but the tests aren't the be-all and end-all. They are stressful for children.
"Children need to be outside riding their bikes, socialising and doing things that open them up culturally."
The letters to children have become increasingly popular with school headteachers. The idea is believed to have originated in the USA.
In 2014, Barrowford school in Nelson, Lancashire, sent out a similar letter. A year later the school was rated "inadequate" by Ofsted, with inspectors noting staff expectation of pupils' attainment was "not high enough".
A Department for Education spokesman said: "These tests should not be a cause of stress for pupils â€Ž- they simply help teachers make sure young children are learning to read, write and add up well.
"The truth is if they don't master literacy and numeracy early on, they risk being held behind and struggling for the rest of their lives - we are determined to prevent this by helping every child reach their full potential."


US police have fired smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse a crowd defying a curfew in St Louis, Missouri, where a shooting has inflamed racial tensions.

Police say they broke up the crowd of about 150 in the suburb of Ferguson after being called to the scene of a disturbance after the curfew started.
A police car reportedly came under fire and a person was hurt in an apparently unrelated shooting in the same area.
Black teenager Michael Brown was shot by a white policeman on 9 August.
The shooting of the 18-year-old as he walked down a street drew allegations of police brutality among people in the mainly black suburb of Ferguson.
A riot erupted on Friday night, with local stores targeted by looters, after police named the officer who shot Mr Brown and also released CCTV from a shop where he apparently stole a pack of cigars and intimidated the owner just before his death.
A five-hour curfew, running from midnight (05:00 GMT), was imposed in response.
US civil rights leader Al Sharpton has said a peaceful rally, led by Michael Brown's family, is planned for later on Sunday.
The teenager's killing caused dismay across the US, with peaceful nationwide vigils held on Thursday night, while images of riot police deployed in an American city suburb have made headlines worldwide.
Seven arrests were made when police moved to break up the protest at a barbecue restaurant.
Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, who was put in charge of bringing calm back to Ferguson, said police had moved in after receiving a report of people breaking into the restaurant and climbing on to the roof.
As police were nearing the restaurant, a man with a handgun went into the street but ran away, AP news agency reports.
Someone also shot at a police car but it was not clear if it had been hit.
In the same area, a person was shot and critically wounded and police were searching for the attacker.
Demonstrators complained that the curfew would make matters worse.
As police prepared to move on the protesters during the night, a chant of "No justice! No curfew!" could be heard from the crowd, followed by "We have the right to assemble peacefully".
Jayson Ross, who was leading the protesters toward the police before tear gas was fired, was quoted as saying by AP: "They got guns. We got guns. We are ready."
Local politician Antonio French, who was with the protesters, tweeted to say: "Too many young men talking about they're ready to die tonight."
Governor Jay Nixon said he would not allow a handful of looters to endanger the community.
"This is a test," he said. "The eyes of the world are watching. We cannot allow the ill will of the few to undermine the good will of the many."
The US justice department is investigating the shooting of Mr Brown, with 40 FBI agents dispatched to Ferguson to gather information.
Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson revealed on Friday that the officer who shot Mr Brown was Darren Wilson, a six-year police veteran with no previous complaints against him.
Mr Wilson has been on paid administrative leave since the shooting.
Commenting on the CCTV footage that was released, Chief Jackson said that Mr Wilson had not known Mr Brown was a robbery suspect.
The policeman had reportedly stopped the teenager for walking in the street, disrupting traffic.
Mr Brown's family condemned the release of the footage as a police attempt to "justify the execution-style murder".


A 13-year-old boy has been praised by firefighters after saving two young children from a house fire in Bradford when a hoverboard exploded.

Jibril Faris dragged friend Tony Chiem, nine, and his sister Karen, eight, from the living room at the St Mary's Drive property and dialled 999 on Friday.
All three were taken outside the house by Tony's mother, who was also inside.
West Yorkshire Fire Service commended Jibril's "quick-thinking actions" and issued safety advice on using the toy.
Jibril described the moment he saw the hoverboard burst into flames while it was charging.
"So much smoke started coming out. Then all of a sudden it went boom and exploded," the teenager said.
"My first instinct was to get out the door so I grabbed Karen because she's the youngest and I shouted 'Tony come on', so I grabbed them and I took them out."
Tony, whose family are now living with friends, said all his possessions had been obliterated.
"Everything in there was a good memory to me... now it's just burnt, all gone," the nine-year-old said.
The fire service said the teenager took the two children to an upstairs bedroom from where he called emergency services and followed instructions to stop smoke entering the room.
Mark Helliwell, from the fire service, said: "The teenager's quick-thinking actions are certainly commendable and he later said that he remembered the fire service advice given in his school talk in Year 5."
He said the fire "quickly took hold of the sofa and spread rapidly throughout the living room".
The fire service said it was difficult to confirm the exact cause of the fire, but it was "likely that lithium batteries in the hoverboard overheated and exploded or ignited".


Former TV star Rolf Harris has been cleared of three sex assault charges.

The jury at Southwark Crown Court failed to return a verdict on four other counts.
Harris, who found success with novelty pop hits and on children's TV, made no reaction when the not guilty verdicts were read out.
The 86-year-old is currently in jail after a 2014 trial saw him convicted of 12 sex offences against four females, including a girl under 10.
After deliberating for just under a week, the jury found Harris not guilty of indecently assaulting a young autograph hunter on a visit to a Portsmouth radio station with her mother at the end of the 1970s.
He was also cleared of groping a blind, disabled woman at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London in 1977, and sexually assaulting a woman in her 40s after filming a TV show in 2004.
Judge Alistair McCreath discharged the jury from deliberating on the further four counts he was accused of.
These other alleged offences included Harris putting his hand up a teenage girl's skirt at a youth music event at London's Lyceum Theatre.
Another teenager accused him of grabbing her breast and sliding his hand between her legs while she helped on the TV programme Star Games in the summer of 1978.
A 13-year-old girl claimed Harris asked her: "Do you often get molested on a Saturday morning?" as he allegedly felt underneath her top after a children's TV show in 1983.
He was also accused of stroking a 19-year-old's bare back at a music studio near London Bridge in 2002, while allegedly making a sexual comment.
Stephen Vullo QC, defending, had told jurors Harris was innocent of these latest charges, as well as the indecent assaults over which he was convicted in 2014.
He blamed a "media frenzy" for making Harris "vulnerable to people making accusations against him".
The prosecution team asked for a week to decide whether to apply for a retrial. Harris has been remanded in custody until then.
His defence team said Harris was expected to be automatically released from prison for the sentence he is currently serving this summer.
Outside court, his solicitor, Daniel Berke, said: "Mr Harris is grateful for the care and attention this jury has given to his case and for the not guilty verdicts returned."
Until his arrest in 2013, Rolf Harris had been a fixture on screens in Britain and beyond since television took off in the 1950s.
He had shown early promise in sport and art - narrowly missing out on representing his native Australia as a swimmer at the 1948 Olympic Games and staging exhibitions of his paintings from the age of 16.
Illness led him to focus on painting, and he moved to London to enrol in art school, performing at cabaret clubs to earn money before auditioning for children's TV.
Harris became a regular on the BBC and commercial TV in the UK and Australia, hosting variety shows, children's programmes and animal welfare documentaries - the exposure even led to pop success and appearances at the Glastonbury Festival.
But it all ended with his conviction in 2014 for 12 indecent assaults on four women and girls between the 1960s and '80s.
Rolf Harris: Full profile


Bahrain has freed two former Shia opposition MPs arrested in the wake of widespread anti-government protests.

Jawad Fairooz and Matar Matar were detained in May after resigning from parliament in protest at the handling of the protests.
Mr Matar told the BBC they had been tortured in prison.
They were prosecuted in a security court on charges of taking part in illegal protests and defaming the country.
It is not clear if they still face trial in a civilian court.
Civilian courts took over jurisdiction after King Hamad Bin Issa Al Khalifa lifted a state of emergency in June.
Mr Matar told the BBC he believed his arrest had been intended to put a pressure on his al-Wifaq party.
"At some stages we were tortured," he said. "In one of the cases we were beaten."
Human rights lawyer Mohamed al-Tajir was also released.
He was detained in April having defended people arrested during the Saudi-backed suppression of protests in March.
Correspondents say their release appears to be an attempt at defusing tensions in the country, a key US ally in the region that hosts the US Navy's 5th Fleet.
Bahrain's King Hamad Bin Issa Al Khalifa recently accepted a series of reforms drawn up by a government-backed committee created to address grievances that emerged during the protests.
The kingdom's Shia community makes up about 70% of the population but many say they are discriminated against by the minority Sunni monarchy.


A missing labradoodle named Cooper, which sparked a major hunt after boarding the wrong flight in Canada, has been reunited with his owner.

The puppy was due to fly from Nova Scotia on Wednesday to stay with family in Newfoundland, but landed in Ontario.
On arrival, flight staff took Cooper outside to relieve himself, but he slipped off his lead and escaped.
His owner, who was due to travel to Jamaica for a wedding, said on Friday she was "grateful" for his return.
The golden labradoodle was supposed to board a WestJet flight from Halifax on Wednesday bound for Deer Lake, but was placed on a plane destined for Hamilton, a city more than 2,000 km (1,200 miles) away.
"I got a call saying they had put my dog on the wrong flight to a totally different province," Cooper's owner, Terri Pittman, said.
On hearing the news, Ms Pittman took a flight to Hamilton, where she was joined by "thousands" of members of the public in the search for Cooper.
He was found wet and hungry on Friday by a group of local residents, CBC news reports.
"Knowing that people were spotting him running in the same area gave me more hope," Ms Pittman told CBC.
"The community of Mount Hope and Hamilton have been amazing," she said earlier, adding that "random people messaged me saying they want to help".
When Ms Pittman was informed by airline staff that Cooper had taken the wrong flight and had escaped, she said it was "one of the worst days of my life".
In a post on Facebook, Ms Pittman said: "This dog is everything to me, and the thought of losing him for good was sickening. To the city of Hamilton, I am overwhelmed."
Coincidentally Deer Lake, where Cooper was supposed to touchdown, is a town situated in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.


Game of Thrones author George RR Martin says writing the Red Wedding was the hardest thing he's ever done.

The wedding occurs in the third book of the A Song of Ice and Fire series and the third season of the TV show.
He says: "I couldn't write it when I got to it. I skipped over it - I finished the entire rest of the book with a hole in it."
Major characters die at the wedding of Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey, in one of the most shocking plots of the series.
Speaking to ABC News, Martin admits he struggled killing some of the characters off.
"I knew it was coming but it was very hard to write and was the hardest thing I've ever wrote.
"I went back and made myself write that scene because it was painful to kill these characters I'd created and lived with for so long. "
Viewers who hadn't read the books were shocked with what happens at the wedding, but Martin says he expected it.
"When the book came out we got a tremendous reaction to it. I got angry letters that said 'I'll never read your work again'. The TV show version is 13 years later and I knew, having been through it once already, we would get a similar big reaction."
The Winds of Winter, the upcoming sixth novel of the series doesn't have a release date yet. It's thought there will be seven books in total from the series.
The fifth season of Game of Thrones will air next year but some fans are worried the show will catch up with the books.
It's something Martin is also concerned about.
"The show is definitely catching up with the books. There's no doubt the show is moving faster than I am writing the books.
"There was a certain point a few years ago when I was freaking out about that. My obligation is to finish the books as strongly as I can. I can't speed that process up by wishing it was speeded up."
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Thieves who hit and bit a Carlisle shopkeeper who tried to stop them stealing wine worth £14 have been jailed for 15 months.

Danielle Nicholson and Tania Liddle attacked the man at the Fusehill Street Spar in May last year.
Liddle, 35, hit him while Nicholson, 27, sank her teeth into his arm. A third unidentified person attacked him with a broken bottle.
Judge Peter Davies at Carlisle Crown Court called the attack "disgraceful".
Both Nicholson, of Chatsworth Square, Carlisle, and Liddle, of Heathfield Crescent, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, admitted affray and theft.
The judge said "vulnerable" shopkeepers need to be protected.


A portrait of Sir David Attenborough has been unveiled to commemorate his 90th birthday - in a museum where he once volunteered.

The painting was revealed by the veteran broadcaster and naturalist at New Walk Museum, in Leicester.
He grew up in the city and volunteered at the museum as a teenager.
The artist - Bryan Organ - has also painted Sir David's brother Lord Attenborough, Prince Charles and former prime minister Harold Macmillan.
The portrait was commissioned by the City of Leicester Museums Trust and will complement the portrait of Lord Attenborough, the acclaimed actor and film director, which also hangs in New Walk Museum.
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Sir David said it was "an honour" to sit for Mr Organ.
When asked what he made of the portrait, he said: "I haven't had the chance to have a look at it - I mean, I've only seen it obliquely. As far as I can see, it's very nice.
"It was great fun sitting with Bryan, the only problem was the painting got in the way."
The Attenborough brothers grew up in the city where their father was principal of the then University College Leicester.
Tributes have been paid to Sir David throughout the year since he turned 90 in May.


The joy on the face of Sam Tomkins when the hooter went at Old Trafford showed just what it meant to the England full-back to win the Super League Grand Final with Wigan.

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In his 152nd and final appearance, before a world-record fee move to New Zealand Warriors, he had helped his side to a success against Warrington that sealed the league and Challenge Cup double, following August's victory against Hull at Wembley.
What made the achievement most special to Tomkins and his team-mates was the backdrop in which it had been won.
Two top-class half-backs Brett Finch and Thomas Leuluai had left the previous winter, as had prolific centre George Carmont, prompting some sections of the media to question whether the club could challenge for honours.
"At the start of this season we were written off to be finishing fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh or whatever it was, because we lost a few players," Tomkins told BBC Sport.
Pat Richards took his tally of points for the Warriors to 2,468 with a try and five goals in his last appearance before returning to Wests Tigers in his native Australia.
Eight seasons at the club produced two Super League titles and two Challenge Cups to add to an NRL Premiership won with Tigers in 2005.
"Pat has been an unbelievable servant for this club and he deserves every single bit of credit, accolade and praise," Sam Tomkins said.
"We've had too many Aussies come and go in Super League, be average and take money from players who probably deserved it more.
"Pat has been a brilliant servant for the club and we are lucky to have had him for eight years."
"To silence those people and win the double is unbelievable."
The loss of such quality players was overcome by some inspired recruitment from Wigan coach Shaun Wane, with the new pairing of Matty Smith from Salford and Hull KR stand-off Blake Green playing starring roles in their success.
Smith picked up the Lance Todd Trophy in the Wembley final for his consummate kicking game, while Green overcame a facial cut, after being caught by a swinging arm from Ben Westwood, to score a thrilling try and collect the Harry Sunderland Trophy in the Super League showpiece.
"What character he showed after having his eye busted after two minutes," Tomkins said.
"You can teach players how to catch and pass and kick but you can't teach character. Without him we wouldn't have won."
In addition to new arrivals the squad has seen the resurgence of home-grown talent, which has provided the backbone to the push for honours.
Michael McIlorum and Logan Tomkins at hooker, Liam Farrell in the back-row and Josh Charnley and Darrell Goulding in the three-quarters have all shone for Wane - who coached many of them at academy level before their step-up to the seniors.
"It's a special occasion to win with your hometown club," Goulding told BBC Sport.
"It's massive to have local lads in the team. You've seen the same thing with Leeds over the years and how well they've done. We've started doing the same over the last couple of years.
"There's players here, and I know I have, who have grown up playing together and there's that bond you have from that.
Man of the match Blake Green capped an impressive 2013 season at Wigan with two team honours to add to personal silverware.
The 27-year-old joined Wigan from Hull KR and has scored nine tries in 24 games, but might have been forced off prematurely when he was caught by a swinging arm from  Warrington's Ben Westwood early on in the game.
"I don't remember anything about it," he said.
"I haven't seen it so I can't really comment. I wasn't knocked out but, when I hit the ground I felt a bit of impact on my eye and the doctor wanted me to stay down and make sure I could breathe properly.
"It was just precaution really. There was no way I was coming off. I was glad I stayed out there because it was cool to play an important part of the win for the team.
"It's what you dream about, playing in finals and winning the man of the match. and for it to all fall into place is just surreal."
"There's no-one we'd want to win more for than Shaun. You saw after the game how everyone wanted to go straight to him.
"He means a lot to all the lads, and the players all do to each other and it's a culture we have built into this club."
Reward for winning the Grand Final is a place in the World Club Challenge, against NRL Premiership winners Sydney Roosters.
As a player Wane played in 1987's inaugural final between Wigan and Manly at Central Park, and was assistant to Michael Maguire when the Warriors were beaten by St George Illawara in 2011.
"I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to that," Wane added.
"To play in that sort of competition whether it is in Sydney or here, it will be great. It's a pity it's not against the Souths [Maguire's current side], that would have been interesting but it is great."
Having coped with major squad changes in 2013, Wane will have to do so again as Tomkins is followed out of the club by prolific winger Pat Richards, England prop Lee Mossop and versatile forward Chris Tuson.
Richards and Mossop will head to Wests Tigers and Parramatta Eels for next season, while Tuson crosses the Pennines to join Hull FC.
In return Matt Bowen has come in from North Queensland Cowboys to replace Tomkins, Eddy Pettybourne arrives from Wests Tigers while Sam Hopkins' promise at Championship level with Leigh prompted the Warriors to secure his signature.
"The four lads that are leaving have been outstanding, all of them, and I love them to pieces, but teams move on," Wane said.
"[Sean] O'Loughlin has been loyal, McIlorum too, I'm really pleased not just for the four that are leaving but also the lads that have been here for years."
Wane and Wigan proved their critics wrong in 2013, but with such a drain of talent, they might just find themselves facing the same doubters come the start of the 2014 season.


NHS managers have approved the business case to build a new £380m hospital in the West Midlands.

Plans for the 670-bed Midland Metropolitan Hospital have been drawn up by Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust for land in Smethwick.
It would replace Sandwell Hospital and City Hospital in Winson Green, it said.
The NHS Trust development agency has approved the business case. It said the final decision would be made by the treasury in the next few months.
Chairman of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust, Richard Samuda, said he was "pleased at this important milestone".
He said: "In 2006, local people supported the need to change the shape of services here to improve quality... and we are working to open our new facilities in 2018."
The development, which is earmarked for a site off Grove Lane in Smethwick, has the support of Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group, he said.


Britain is in danger of "sleepwalking into a social care crisis", a former pensions minister has warned.

Ros Altmann called on the government to use tax breaks to help people save for care in later life, as she said the cost of funding provision was pushing the NHS in England to breaking point.
She said she warned other ministers of looming problems last year.
The Department of Health said it was significantly raising the funds local authorities have access to for care.
Lady Altmann, who was pensions minister under David Cameron, said the chancellor should use Wednesday's Autumn Statement to offer incentives to help families "recognise the need" to prepare for care costs.
"This should have been done years ago, but successive governments have failed to offer any help," she said.
"Government spends billions on private pensions tax breaks, and there is a state pension to provide a base level of support, but there are no incentives to set money aside for care costs."
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Cuts in social care funding in England have been blamed for a sharp increase in the number of patients stuck in hospital beds because care cannot be arranged elsewhere.
Lady Altmann, who left her government post in Theresa May's reshuffle in July, said the NHS cannot carry on picking up the pieces of a "broken care system".
"Care has been left to cash-strapped councils keep who keep cutting provision," she said.
She suggests a new ISA to help people save for care could be introduced and firms could offer "eldercare vouchers" along the lines of the childcare voucher scheme, which attracts tax relief.
Lady Altmann told the BBC she had sent a memo around Whitehall when she was appointed after the May 2015 general election, warning that the issue of care costs could cause significant social and economic distress.
The Department of Health said local authorities in England had been given powers to raise extra money for social care through higher council taxes, and other funding would be available from next April.
A spokesman said: "This government is committed to making sure older people throughout the country get affordable and dignified care.
"We are significantly increasing the amount of money local authorities have access to for social care, by up to Â£3.5bn by 2020.
"Our care Act also introduced the biggest reforms to social care in over 65 years to make support more consistent across the country."


Kent batsman Sean Dickson has signed a long-term contract extension with the Canterbury-based club.

The 24-year-old has scored 571 runs at an average of 51.90 in 10 appearances in Division Two of the County Championship this season.
The South Africa-born right-hander, who joined Kent in 2015, hit his highest first-class score of 207 not out in the win over Derbyshire in May.
Kent have not disclosed the length of Dickson's new deal.


The body overseeing the trade in "blood diamonds" has agreed that Zimbabwe can resume limited exports from new diamond fields in the east of the country.

Under the terms of the deal, Zimbabwe will be able to sell some stockpiles.
It may be able to resume full exports after a review of conditions at the Marange diamond fields in September.
The Kimberley Process suspended the diamond exports in November in response to allegations of atrocities committed by security forces at Marange.
There have been weeks of deadlock over the negotiations and the deal in Russia came only after a Zimbabwean human rights activist was released on bail earlier this week.
Farai Maguwu is accused of providing false information about the diamond trade and was arrested after meeting a representative of the Kimberley Process on 3 June.
His continued detention scuppered attempts to reach a deal on Zimbabwe's diamond exports at a Kimberly Process meeting in Israel last month.
Campaigners said a crisis had been averted by a last-minute deal.
"The ball is now in Zimbabwe's court to make good on its promises and act to end one of the most egregious cases of diamond-related violence for many years," Annie Dunnebacke of Global Witness said in a statement.
"We fervently hope that the governments in the Kimberley Process will, for their part, hold Zimbabwe to its commitments in order to begin to restore the battered integrity of the scheme."
Zimbabwe Mines Minister Obert Mpofu said the country was "ready and willing" to work with the Kimberly Process.
"We know the value of co-operating with the organisation," the Wall Street Journal quotes him as saying.
The army took over the Marange mines in 2008 and has since been accused of committing widespread abuses there - killing some 200 miners and forcing others to work in the mines.
Campaigners say the diamond money is being used to fund President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.
Zimbabwe's army has denied the allegations.
In February, President Mugabe threatened to leave the Kimberley Process after Zimbabwe was given until June to prove that its mines were properly run.
The Kimberley Process was set up in 2002 after the diamond trade was accused of fuelling several conflicts in Africa.
The diamonds from the Marange field could see the country become one of the world's top six exporters and generate $1.7bn (Â£1.1bn) a year.
Zimbabwe has accused the West of trying to hold back its economic development.


Ireland captain William Porterfield said his team's shock World Twenty20 defeat by newcomers Oman was "hard to take" but insisted that they can regroup to progress to the main draw.

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The Irish must beat Bangladesh on Friday to keep their hopes alive after Wednesday's dramatic two-wicket defeat.
"As long as Oman lose a game, to a large extent, it's still going to be in our own hands," said Porterfield.
"We've got to win our next two games and keep an eye on the run rate."
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Chasing 155, Oman openers Zeeshan Maqsood and Khawar Ali added 69 and Aamer Ali's 32 from 17 balls helped steer the minnows to victory in Dharamsala.
Oman needed 14 from the final over but two Max Sorensen no-balls, one of which went for four and another which went for four byes, helped seal a dramatic victory.
Porterfield's decision not to give former England Test player Boyd Rankin his full possible four overs looked questionable as Sorensen was punished at the death after Tim Murtagh had been clubbed for 20 in the 17th over.
The Irish captain defended his decision to hand the late overs to Murtagh and Sorensen and said the slippery ball in the moist conditions may have been a factor in Ireland's implosion.
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"A lot of the lads have been there and done in that scenario. Whether the ball was slippery at the end, I'm not sure," added the Ireland captain.
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"We just didn't get it quite right in that last four or five overs."
Opener Porterfield had failed to get off the mark in the first over of Ireland's innings before his 29 helped the Irish reach 154-5.
"We felt that getting over 150 was a decent effort but it didn't prove to be enough," continued Porterfield.
"We've been in this kind of position before when we've lost the first game in qualifiers and then fought back to win 10 games in 11 days.
"A lot of the team have been involved in those campaigns so we will now aim to get back on track on Friday."


Eight puppies found dumped in a rubbish bin in Flintshire have been rehomed.

The newborn Staffordshire bull terrier cross pups were discovered by children on Chester Road East, Queensferry, in March.
The puppies were taken to the RSPCA's Bryn-y-Maen Animal Centre where they were cared for.
Animal care assistant Abbie Griffith said watching the puppies leave for their new homes was a "bittersweet" moment.


When the US government uses the term "criminal alien", it means someone who is not a US citizen that has been convicted of a crime.

Twitter, meanwhile, thinks flying saucers and The X-Files.
On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security opened a new office, called VOICE, to "serve the needs of crime victims and their families who have been impacted by crimes committed by removable criminal aliens".
The centrepiece is a new hotline that victims can call for support and assistance. It was set up under the authority of an executive order on immigration from President Trump in January.
People began making clear exactly what people should not be using the line for.
But others noted the hotline was launched on Alien Day (a yearly promotional day backed by the Alien film franchise's producers).
And soon, people inevitably said they were beginning to call the hotline to report "criminal alien" activity of a different kind than that envisioned by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.
He said at the launch of VOICE on Wednesday that the victims were "unique, and too often ignored".
"They are casualties of crimes that should never have taken place," he said. "Because the people who victimised them often times should not have been in the country in the first place."
It's unclear how many people actually placed calls to the hotline, and several Twitter users reported long wait times to get through. But the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency suggested it had impacted their service.
"There are certainly more constructive ways to make one's opinions heard than to prevent legitimate victims of crime from receiving the information and resources they seek because the lines are tied up by hoax callers," a spokesperson told Buzzfeed News
President Trump famously enraged Mexicans by suggesting in June 2015 that the country's immigrants were criminals and "rapists", and he has continued to take a tough line on illegal immigration since entering the White House.
Steep decreases in the number of people arrested while illegally crossing the border from Mexico in recent months have been touted by the administration as a sign that Mr Trump's policies are having the desired effect.
The government says the VOICE office will keep victims of alleged crimes by undocumented migrants updated as the suspect moves through the immigration system, including if they are deported.
Opponents of the administration's policies and rhetoric focusing on immigrants and crime point out that numerous studies have shown immigrants are less likely to commit serious crimes or be jailed than the native-born population.
The American Immigration Council says this "holds true for both legal immigrants and the unauthorised, regardless of their country of origin or level of education".


A stopwatch used to time Roger Bannister's first sub-four-minute mile has sold for £20,000 at auction.

Sir Roger, now 86, made his run at Oxford's Iffley Road track on 6 May 1954, when he was 25.
Used by timekeeper WJ Burfitt, the watch was expected to attract bids between £5,000 and £8,000.
A collection of autographs and pictures from four-minute mile athletes, also including Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway, were sold for £420.
The auction was held by Graham Budd Auctions at Sotheby's in London.
There were five timekeepers on the day the four-minute mile barrier was broken.
Charles Hill was the chief timekeeper. His watch was bought by Lord Archer for £8,855 at an auction at Bonham's in 1998 and donated to Oxford University Athletics Club.
Auctioneer Graham Budd did not reveal the identity of the latest successful bidder, but said the Swiss-made watch was from "one of those remarkable, historic moments in British sporting history".
Sir Roger ran the mile in three minutes and fifty-nine seconds.
The Nero Lemania stopwatch was sold with an invoice for repairs to Mr Burfitt.
It also included his personal copy of the programme from the day, signed by Sir Roger.
Sir Roger studied medicine at the University of Oxford and went on to work in research and clinical practice.
He was knighted in 1975 and retired as Master of Pembroke College, University of Oxford, in 1993.


A former school governor who had hundreds of indecent images of children, some as young as three, has been jailed for two years.

Andrew Brown, 61, of Montague Road, Peterborough, had claimed a burglar planted the material on his computer.
Brown, who was chair of governors at Peterborough's King's School before his arrest in 2015, was found guilty of six charges relating to images of children.
He was jailed at Peterborough Crown Court earlier.
Brown was caught after reporting the theft of various devices and phones from his home in October 2015.
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He told officers had received a blackmail letter from the thief saying there were indecent images on the items, and demanding Â£8,000 for his silence.
Brown denied any knowledge of them, saying the burglar must have placed the images on his devices in order to blackmail him.
However, when police recovered his phones and memory sticks, forensic analysis uncovered more than 700 indecent images, 170 of which were graded category A - the most severe - which pre-dated the break-in.
Brown was charged with a number of offences and was found guilty of three counts of possessing indecent images of a child, two counts of making indecent images of a child and one count of possessing prohibited images of a child.
Det Sgt James Weston, of Cambridgeshire Police, described the case as "complicated" because of Brown's "position of trust... and his denial throughout the investigation regarding the possession of indecent images of children".
He was jailed for two years, placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years and made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years.


Lincoln City have signed defender Rob Dickie from Championship club Reading in a six-month loan deal.

The 21-year-old centre-back spent the entire 2015-16 season on loan at Cheltenham Town and returned to the Robins for the first half of last term.
His only appearance so far for Reading came as a half-time substitute against Blackburn in May 2016.
"The idea is hopefully that it's with a view to a permanent deal at the end of the loan," said Imps boss Danny Cowley.
"It's something we've been trying to do all window. I'm really delighted to be able to bring Rob into the squad - he's a really gifted centre-half."
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Race leader Michael Matthews won the second stage of Paris-Nice after Nacer Bouhanni was disqualified.

France's Bouhanni crossed the line first at the end of the 213.5km stage to Commentry, the longest of the event.
But the Cofidis rider was ruled to have changed his line in the sprint finish, blocking Matthews who was subsequently handed the victory.
"I would have won if we hadn't touched," said Matthews, 25, who also won the opening Prologue.
Italy's Niccolo Bonifazio was promoted to second place, with Bouhanni demoted to third.
Australian Matthews now holds a 14-second lead over Dutchman Tom Dumoulin.
Team Sky's Geraint Thomas is in fifth place, 19 seconds off the leader, with reigning champion Richie Porte of Australia in 10th.
Wednesday's third stage runs over 165.5km from Cusset and finishes with a climb to the top of Mont Brouilly.
Stage two result:
1.  Michael Matthews (Aus/Orica) 5hrs 4mins 26secs
2.  Niccolo Bonifazio (Italy/Trek) Same time
3.  Nacer Bouhanni (Fra/Cofidis)
4.  Alexander Kristoff (Nor/Katusha) +1sec
5.  Arnaud Demare (Fra/FDJ)
6.  Ben Swift (GB/Team Sky)
7.  Andre Greipel (Ge/Lotto)
8.  Wouter Wippert (Net/Cannondale)
9.  Adrien Petit (Fra/Direct Energie)
10. Jonas Van Genechten (Bel/IAM Cycling)
Selected other:
17. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky)
Overall classification after stage two:
1.  Michael Matthews (Aus/Orica) 9hrs 41mins 46secs
2.  Tom Dumoulin (Net/Giant) +14secs
3.  Patrick Bevin (NZ/Cannondale) +19secs
4.  Jon Izagirre (Sp/Movistar)
5.  Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky)
Selected others:
18. Alberto Contador (Sp/Tinkoff)
19. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) +37secs
21. Ben Swift (GB/Team Sky)  +38secs


Designs have been published showing the planned transformation of a popular Edwardian public bath house in Glasgow.

Govanhill Baths closed in 2001 despite a local campaign to save it. It reopened in 2013 as a community hub, run by Govanhill Baths Community Trust.
The group has secured enough funding to re-open the venue as a swimming and wellbeing centre in late 2018.
The architect's designs for the revamped building will be on public display at the baths from 15:00-20:00.
The open day will feature live music and art installations and volunteer tour guides will show people around the building.
Visitors will also be able to experience a 3D digital tour of the new building, which has been designed by Hall Black Douglas Architects and Alistair Coey Conservation Architects.
The cash is now in place to carry out the renovations work with the main funding coming from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Big Lottery, Historic and Environment Scotland and Glasgow City Council.
A new reception will be formed within the existing ground floor foyer space that will lead directly into a community cafe with access to the garden, facing onto Calder Street.
The learner and ladies pools will be restored and refurbished.
Changing facilities, including family and accessible cubicles, will be added as well as a new Turkish suite featuring both a sauna and steam-room.
The existing first floor slipper baths will be re-developed to create a community gym and activity space, with a number of historic cubicles retained and restored to accommodate private bathing and changing.