The US government has pushed back the unveiling of a new, updated travel ban until next week.

President Trump had said the executive order would be announced this week, but White House officials have now told reporters it is being delayed.
The original order banned refugees and immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries from entering the US.
The order sparked mass protests and confusion at airports, and US courts have temporarily blocked the ban.
The White House has said the rewritten order will address some of the issues brought up in the courts, while Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has said it will be a "tighter, more streamlined version of the first executive order".
It is not clear how the new text will differ from the original measure.
Commentators say a repeat of the chaos that followed the initial order could be another blow to an administration that has been at the centre of a series of controversies with just one month in office.
Mr Trump's initial order, signed in January, banned anyone from seven majority-Muslim countries - Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and Libya - from entering the US for 90 days.
It also halted refugee resettlement for 120 days and banned Syrian refugees indefinitely.
But the measure was blocked by a Seattle court, in a decision that was later upheld by 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which said the government had not proved the terror threat justified reviving the ban.
Mr Trump has criticised the court decision, saying "the security of our nation is at stake".


"We have an opportunity in this country not to go down the American path."

Those were the words of former Australian Prime Minister John Howard before he radically changed Australia's gun laws and - many believe - rid the country of gun violence on a large scale.
After another mass shooting in the US - the recent one in San Bernardino killed 14 and and by some counts, brought the number of mass shootings in that country to over 350 this year alone - America finds itself very far down that violent path.
But could it change course the way Australia did?
In April 1996, 35 people were killed by a gunman, Martin Bryant, wielding semi-automatic weapons at a former prison colony and tourist attraction in Tasmania.
This became known as the Port Arthur massacre, and it was a turning point for Australia.
The event appalled and galvanised the nation, helping to push Australia to enact some of the most comprehensive firearm laws in the world.
President Barack Obama has often pointed to Australia as an example for the US to follow.
"Couple of decades ago, Australia had a mass shooting, similar to Columbine or Newtown. And Australia just said: 'Well, that's it, we're not seeing that again,' and basically imposed very severe, tough gun laws, and they haven't had a mass shooting since," he said last year.
So what exactly did Australia do, how did it work, and could it work in the US?
Less than two weeks after the Port Arthur massacre, all six Australian states agreed to enact the same sweeping gun laws banning semi-automatic rifles and shotguns - weapons that can kill many people quickly.
They also put more hurdles between prospective gun owners and their weapons.
Australia has 28-day waiting periods, thorough background checks, and a requirement to present a "justifiable reason" to own a gun.
Unlike in the US, self-protection is not accepted as a justifiable reason to own a gun.
In the 19 years since the laws were passed, about one million semi-automatic weapons - roughly one third of the country's firearms - were sold back to the government and destroyed, nearly halving the number of gun-owning households in Australia.
The number of Australia's mass shootings dropped from 11 in the decade before 1996, to zero in the years since.
And although the laws were designed specifically to reduce mass shootings, the rates of homicide and suicide have also come down since 1996.
Philip Alpers, a professor at Sydney School of Public Health, has done studies showing that aside from the victims of the Port Arthur shooting, 69 gun homicides were recorded in 1996 compared with 30 in 2012.
Despite the reduction in incidence though, gun violence has not disappeared in Australia. And gun ownership is actually on the rise.
Since 1996, Australians have been steadily replacing the outlawed firearms they sold back with legal ones, and gun ownership here has now risen back to pre-1996 levels.
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Sources: AIC Australian institute of Criminology, Small Arms Survey, and US Dept of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Australian firearms rights groups say that the laws go too far and restrict personal freedom.
They argue that gun violence was on a downward trajectory before the 1996 laws were passed, and reject any link between lower incidence of gun deaths and the tighter legislation.
Diana Melham, executive director of the Sporting Shooters Australia Association in New South Wales, argues the 1996 laws fuelled a sense of alienation among gun owners, which, she says "rallied the shooters".
The organisation, which is the country's largest gun lobby group, has grown rapidly since 1996 and its numbers are still on the rise.
But Tim Fischer, who was Prime Minister Howard's deputy in 1996 and instrumental in getting the National Firearms Agreement passed, argues the US should follow Australia's lead.
"Plain and simple, what we've done works," he told the BBC.
So could it work in the US?
The simple answer is - probably not.
Although Australia does have a long history of hunting and sport, there is no equivalent to America's Second Amendment right to bear arms here.
Another significant difference is the speed of government action.  In 1996 John Howard managed to get all six Australian states to agree to and pass uniform sweeping gun control legislation in just 12 days.
It is hard to fathom the US government ever being able to get all 50 states to agree to something, let alone act that quickly.
But according to Prof Alpers, the bigger difference is the cultural mindset.
"I don't for a moment think it would happen in the US," he says. "Australia already had a pre-disposition to doing something about it."
He explains that although by far the deadliest, the Port Arthur shooting was not the first Australia had experienced.
He says the country had lost nearly 150 people in the years running up to 1996 in mass shootings, and the national mood was changing.
"Port Arthur was the straw that broke the camel's back. You have to go back to those years to remember how visceral that backlash was."
Mr Fischer is more optimistic. He believes meaningful change could come to the US, but only when a "silent majority" are "sprung into action".
"Of course all mass shootings are a bridge too far," he says. "But there is going to be one that really tips the balance. Watch this space."
Exact numbers of the incidence of mass shootings in the US and abroad are hard to pin down because there is no uniform standard on the definition of a mass shooting.
In the US, there is no official database for this type of information, but tallies like the one from private research group ShootingTracker.com who put the number of mass shootings in the US in 2015 at 353, were widely cited in the US media in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting.


Wicketkeeper-batsman Ben Cox has signed a new four-year contract with Worcestershire.

Academy-graduate Cox, 24, had one year left on his existing deal but has now agreed to stay at New Road until at least 2020.
"I'm a Worcester boy through and through - to sign for another four years is brilliant," Cox said.
"I've been here since I was nine-years-old and never thought of leaving. I want to play my cricket here."
Cox famously made his debut for the club as a 17-year-old schoolboy in September 2009 against Somerset at Taunton.
He scored 61 and claimed former England opener Marcus Trescothick as his first victim behind the stumps.
Cox's tally of 778 runs - including a maiden hundred and five half-centuries - was Worcestershire's second-highest as the county were relegated from Division One of the County Championship in 2015.
"To have somebody of his loyalty towards the club, and passion for the club, to reward him with a long contract is exactly what we are all about." director or cricket Steve Rhodes said.
"He's a terrific cricketer now, as consistent a wicketkeeper in county cricket that I have seen and to do that at a young age is incredibly good.
"But also his match-winning experience and ability with the bat in the different formats has been excellent."
Cox is the 10th player to have signed a new long-term contract at Worcestershire in the last 10 months.


Chelsea striker Diego Costa suffered a bruised tibia in Saturday's 3-3 draw with Everton, scans have shown.

The 27-year-old scored one and made another before limping off in the 80th minute at Stamford Bridge.
Speaking after the match, interim Blues boss Guus Hiddink said Costa had been "in a lot of pain" - although it is unclear how long Costa could be out.
Chelsea next play away to Premier League leaders Arsenal in a 16:00 GMT kick-off on Sunday.
Spain international Costa has scored five goals in five games for Chelsea since Dutchman Hiddink was appointed in December.
He was their top scorer last season with 20 goals as Jose Mourinho led to the club to a Premier League and League Cup double, but had scored just four times before the Portuguese was sacked.


Ten men have been charged by police investigating child sexual exploitation in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

The men are accused of a catalogue of serious sex offences against seven females aged between 13 and 23 at the time of the alleged abuse, police said.
They were held under Operation Doublet, investigating child sexual exploitation of teen girls by older men in Rochdale.
The offences are alleged to have happened between 2005 and 2013.
They include rape, conspiracy to rape, inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, sexual activity with a child and sexual assault.
A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said the investigation was not connected to an ongoing inquiry into historical abuse at Knowl View School.
Assistant Chief Constable Ian Wiggett said: "This investigation is one of a number of cases which comes under the umbrella of Operation Doublet, which is the continued investigation into child sexual exploitation (CSE) that arose following the 2011 investigation into CSE in Rochdale.
"The operation is an investigation into CSE in Rochdale and across other areas of Greater Manchester.
"So far, 65 people have been arrested as part of Operation Doublet and the investigation continues.
"This is an extremely complex and challenging investigation which started in May 2012. The investigation will continue over the coming months and further arrests are anticipated."
The charges have been welcomed by Rochdale's Labour MP Simon Danczuk, who has called for more action to expose historical sex abuse crimes.
Mr Danczuk said: "There have been some who have urged me not to campaign on grooming, but I believe that this news shows what can be achieved by keeping up pressure and pushing for change."
The men have been charged as follows:
The men have been bailed to appear at either Bury or Tameside Magistrates' Court later this week.


Uber drivers in the UK will be entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the National Minimum Wage after a landmark ruling.

28 October 2016 Last updated at 14:32 BST
An employment tribunal in London ruled the drivers are workers rather than self-employed.
Uber says it will appeal against the decision.
The BBC spoke to two Uber drivers for their views of the job.


The French car firm PSA Peugeot-Citroen is under investigation by French prosecutors for cheating diesel emission tests, according to reports.

The Reuters and AFP news agencies say they have been told by judicial sources that the company is being investigated for breaking consumer protection laws.
Diesel emissions have been under the spotlight since the Volkswagen scandal.
But PSA said its vehicles have never been fitted with software to let its diesel engines deceive pollution tests.
A PSA spokesman said the company "respects regulations in all countries where it operates" and denied doing anything illegal.
The group was referred to French prosecutors by the consumer watchdog DGCCRF after its staff seized documents from PSA offices in France a year ago.
The accusation against PSA is that the emissions from its diesel engines might "render its merchandise dangerous for human or animal health".
Fraud investigators have already accused the partly state-owned Renault car firm of cheating on pollution tests for diesel and petrol engines for over the past 25 years, and with the knowledge of its top executives.
Since September 2015, Germany's Volkswagen has admitted fitting 11 million cars - 8.5 million of them in Europe - with devices to fool diesel emissions tests.
Last month, PSA agreed to buy Opel and Vauxhall from the US firm General Motors for £1.9bn in an attempt to challenge Volkswagen.


The relaunch of BBC Two's Top Gear was seen by an average of 4.4 million viewers, overnight figures show.

New host Chris Evans said earlier in the week he would be "disappointed" with anything fewer than five million viewers for the show's first episode.
The final Top Gear featuring former host Jeremy Clarkson attracted 5.3 million viewers last June.
But the new show was still the most watched programme in its 20:00 time slot, attracting 22.8% of the audience.
Its nearest rival was the British Soap Awards on ITV, which were seen by an average of 3.9 million viewers.
The first episode featured Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc driving Reliant three-wheelers from London to Blackpool.
Viewing peaked just before the show ended, with 4.7 million watching.
Evans seemed pleased with the show's first outing in a series of tweets he published on Monday.
The new presenters were signed up after the old team left following a fracas between lead presenter Jeremy Clarkson and a producer.
Evans opened the show saying: "Welcome to Top Gear with our all-new, improved audience."
Clarkson was fired from Top Gear in March last year after he punched a producer following a row about the provision of food late at night while filming on location.
by Lizo Mzimba, entertainment correspondent, BBC News
There's bad news and good news for Top Gear in the overnight figures from its launch programme. Such has been the media attention surrounding the show, it's certain to have attracted many who haven't been regular viewers in the past. But it still didn't manage to reach the five million figure hoped for by lead presenter Chris Evans.
However, it was still the second most watched programme of the day on any channel (after Countryfile), with a figure well up on the majority of BBC Two shows. And it actually achieved a larger audience share than the launch of the last Clarkson, May and Hammond series in 2015.
It's one of the BBC's most important programme brands, making tens of millions for BBC Worldwide, so a lot of attention will also be paid to how it performs internationally over the next few days.
But the real test, both here and abroad, will be the figures when people who recorded to watch later or who used catch-up services are taken into consideration. And particularly where those figures are later in the series - when it's either built a larger audience or lost viewers who've decided the show's not for them.
Evans made a jibe about the incident at the start of the episode, adding: "We don't make jokes about catering on this show any more."
Another joke referencing Clarkson's departure was made when Evans bragged he had "won custody" of masked driver The Stig.
The revamp featured many of the same elements the show is best known for, including a profile of a supercar and a head-to-head challenge between the presenters.
Reviews of the show by TV critics were mixed, with many saying the format had changed little since the last series, while some felt it was enjoyable and just needed some time to bed in.
Final consolidated figures - where on demand and catch-up viewing is taken into account - will not be known for a week.


Wales coach Warren Gatland was left picking over the bones of a disastrous final World Cup warm-up game against Italy that left two of his leading players needing hospital scans.

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Full-back Leigh Halfpenny and scrum-half Rhys Webb both left the field on stretchers after suffering leg injuries in a stuttering 23-19 win.
Gatland, whose team face hosts England and Australia in Pool A of the World Cup within the next month, also watched a disjointed performance by Wales.
But the headlines and the furrowed brows will be as a result of the injuries as much as the performance.
In the post-match media conference Gatland refused to be drawn on the extent of the injuries, but hinted at a possible outcome if Halfpenny is ruled out.
"Hopefully Liam Williams is taking a full part in training next week," he said.
Scarlets full-back Williams has been included in Wales' World Cup squad in spite of not having played since having foot surgery at the end of last season.
Williams is a counter-attacking runner and tenacious in defence, and with Dan Biggar available to take the kicks at goal it could cover for Toulon full-back Halfpenny.
But with Wales facing England and Australia, Williams's lack of game time would make his selection as first choice a gamble.
It could open the door for Cardiff Blues back Gareth Anscombe's return to the squad if his leg injury has healed enough.
The loss of Webb could mean a return for Racing 92's Mike Phillips if Gatland decides to bring in another number nine.
Gareth Davies and Lloyd Williams are the other scrum-halves already in the squad.
However, Scarlet Davies' appearance in place of Webb was only his fourth cap and Williams has played 18 times. Phillips - dropped from the squad in early August - has played in 100 Tests including those for the British and Irish Lions.
Captain Sam Warburton said: "We hope Rhys is okay, but we've probably got the best replacement you could find in Mike Phillips, who's just been released from the squad.
"So if he's needed, to call upon a two-time British Lion, that's not bad at all. It brings a massive amount to the group, so we've got plenty of strength in depth to cover for those players."
However, Gatland emphasised no replacements are being called up just yet.
The coach added: "If you look at the second Test against South Africa last year both those players [Webb and Halfpenny] were not involved in that game."
"Potentially in the next 24 to 48 hours when we get the [medical scan] results back we may have to sit down and start thinking about replacements, but until then there's nothing concrete in our heads.
"We haven't even spoken about it."
Aside from the injuries, Wales were a shadow of the team which beat Ireland 16-10 in Dublin seven days earlier or crushed Italy 61-20 in Rome in March.
On a day when England impressed as they saw off a spirited Ireland comeback to win 21-13 in Twickenham, Wales were equally unimpressive.
The management had hoped to play a fast game, spurning penalties and keeping the ball in play for as long as possible.
Ultimately, with injuries disrupting the flow and mistakes compounding the lack of continuity, Wales were forced to change tactics.
"It was such a stop-start game we've gone from 43 minutes ball-in-play time last week to 26 minutes this week," Gatland said.
"We had the same sort of game against them in 2014 in the Six Nations with the same referee [George Clancy] as well.
"In the end we've decided the most important thing was to get out of Dodge and win the game."
Wales go into the World Cup opener against Uruguay on 20 September on the back of two wins, an important factor according to Warburton.
Gatland, too, said the importance of the victory, however frustrating in terms of its nature, was of key importance.
"We're not happy and the players have to have a look at their own performances," he added.
"When Toby Faletau drops two kicks-offs - I've never seen him drop two - that sort of puts you under a bit of pressure and it's very unlike him, so you put it on the back burner and look ahead.
"I think Toby will want to forget about that game pretty quickly.
"The message to the players is not to read any newspapers tomorrow.
"We're good at putting those things behind us and not letting any negativity get to us.
"In the past we've been good at focusing what's in front of us. And that's what we'll do now."


Aerial footage has gone viral of a massive traffic jam, captured during the great Thanksgiving getaway in southern California.

A news helicopter filmed the miles-long gridlock on the 405 motorway in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday.
"It's called the 405 for a reason: It takes you '4 o' 5' hours to get anywhere," one Facebook user quipped.
Almost 49 million people are expected to travel at least 50 miles for Thursday's turkey feast holiday.
That's a million more than last year, and the most since 2007, according to the American Automobile Association.
Some social media users said it looked like the 405 interstate - which is no stranger to congestion - had been decorated with Christmas lights.
Another called the gridlock "the Most Epic Mannequin Challenge EVER!"
Thanksgiving dates back to the Pilgrims' 17th Century arrival in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they dined with the Native-Americans at the first holiday meal.


Former Celtic captain and manager Neil Lennon is excited by this season's Old Firm derbies, saying of the rivalry: "There's just nothing like it."

Rangers won promotion to the top flight for this season and will face defending champions Celtic on 10 September.
"When you see the intensity and the passion in the crowd and the expectation, it's addictive," Lennon told BBC Scotland.
"In my career, when I've left this environment, it's never the same."
Lennon feels the midfield joust between Rangers' Joey Barton and Celtic's Scott Brown adds particular intrigue.
"It'll be interesting," Lennon said on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"He [Brown] has certainly got the athleticism, the power, pace. He'll certainly dominate Joey in that department. I think Joey's technically, probably slightly better.
"I didn't think he [Brown] had a great season last year but I think that was down to injury. I watched him last Sunday against Hearts. I thought he was back to his best."
Looking back on his own experience of Glasgow derbies, Lennon spoke of his on-field rivalry with Rangers captain Barry Ferguson - a friend off the pitch.
"When you have a nemesis, you have to put your marker down, in Old Firm games especially," Lennon explained. "You put your marker down early.
"Barry would've gone for me and I would've gone for Barry because we were seen as the two leaders in the team. It'll be the same with Barton and Brown, maybe.
"I had total respect for Barry. I thought he was a fantastic player - technically superb, could see a pass.
"Socially, it was very difficult but every now and again, we'd meet up quietly out of the road. We'd chew the fat but we never ever fell out or anything like that.
"We had words on the pitch and then it was forgotten about afterwards. There was a real high level of respect there."


European Space Agency officials say all looks good ahead of this week's historic bid to land on a comet.

Esa's Rosetta satellite will despatch its piggybacked Philae probe to the surface of the "ice mountain" known as 67P on Wednesday.
Controllers report both mothership and descent robot to be in excellent shape.
The landing commands on Philae have already been loaded, and an instruction was sent up on Monday evening to switch on and warm the probe.
The intention now is to leave it in an active state, ready for the separation. This is timed to occur at 08:35 GMT on Wednesday.
Touchdown should follow about seven hours later, with a confirmation signal expected back on Earth around 16:00 GMT.
But before the mission can get to this milestone, Rosetta must be primed to make its delivery run.
Rosetta mission: Can you land on a comet?
The satellite is currently moving on a long, slow arc around 67P at a height of about 30km.
At a predetermined time on Wednesday morning, it has to turn and head in towards the comet, releasing Philae on the path that will take it down to the targeted landing zone.
Executing this pre-delivery manoeuvre with high precision is the one really big issue vexing controllers.
They know their calculations for the thruster burn must be spot on. They know also that they will have very little time to assess its performance before giving the final "go" for separation.
"The point of separation is fixed in time, in space, velocity and attitude; and we have to reach exactly that point," explained Esa flight director Andrea Accomazzo.
"So, wherever Rosetta is, we have to design a manoeuvre to reach that point."
Esa's detailed landing timeline
Navigation specialists here at Esa's operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, will examine the present flight path of Rosetta on Tuesday afternoon.
They will then have the detailed information they require to implement this critical delivery dash.
But if any of the parameters are out by even a small degree, the errors will expand as Philae heads downwards.
Already, the landing zone, which is on the head of the rubber-duck-shaped comet, is considered extremely challenging.
It contains some very uneven terrain, with cliffs, boulders and a number of steep slopes.
Controllers will not want to make the probe's task even more difficult by sending it off-track.
Philae should touch the surface with a velocity of about 1 metre per second.
Foot screws and harpoons will hopefully lock it down. A small gas thruster will push the probe into the surface to give these mechanisms time to work.
"It will take a few minutes to really analyse and fully understand that, yes, we are landed; yes, the harpoons are fired and safely anchored," Stephan Ulamec from the German space agency told BBC News.
Whatever happens on Wednesday, the scope of the Rosetta mission will go through a major gear change, according to Esa project scientist Matt Taylor.
Since the satellite arrived at the comet in August, much of its focus has been on finding a suitable landing location for Philae.
With the landing now all set to occur, the emphasis can shift more towards the scientific study of the Comet 67P.
"Up until now, we have been doing science on the side, doing characterisation of the comet to enable landing site decisions.
"From this week onwards is when we start the main phase of this mission, in my view.  It's all go now - so, stay tuned," Dr Taylor said.
Even if Philae fails in its landing attempt, the Rosetta mothership will continue its remote observations of 67P through all of next year.
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Young people in the UK have some of the lowest levels of "mental wellbeing", according to an international survey.

A study of the attitudes of 15- to 21-year-olds in 20 countries examined levels of optimism, confidence and a sense of being loved.
Japan was the only country lower than the UK on this wellbeing ranking, published by the Varkey Foundation education charity.
Only 15% of young people in the UK said they got enough sleep and exercise.
The study looked at the views and expectations of so-called Generation Z, born in the years around the new millennium, based on a survey of more than 20,000 people in countries including the UK, the United States. France, Germany, India, China and Argentina.
And it suggested that there was no clear link between material wellbeing and mental health.
While the UK was almost at the bottom of the rankings for wellbeing, along with countries such as Japan and South Korea, the top places were taken by young people in Indonesia, India and Nigeria.
South Korea, with a reputation for a fiercely pressurised education system, was the only country where young people actively disliked where they lived.
Young people across this global sample, including the UK, reported that they were more pessimistic than optimistic about the future.
Although young people in China and India both bucked these gloomy expectations - with their young anticipating a more positive future.
The perception of risk from extremism, terrorism and conflict was widespread - more so than worries about climate change or inequalities between rich and poor.
In the UK, extremism and terror was identified as the biggest single reason for being "fearful for the future", followed by the threat of "conflict and war".
There were big differences in attitudes towards the principle of free speech - and whether it should be protected even for views might offend.
Only about a third of young people in Nigeria supported the right to free speech, if it was likely to offend some ethnic groups or religious beliefs.
In contrast, more than two-thirds of young people in Argentina supported free speech, regardless of who it might antagonise.
But there was a common global trend for these young people to hold broadly liberal views on issues such as migration, religious tolerance, equal rights for men and women and acceptance of same-sex marriage.
"At a time of nationalist and populist movements that focus on the differences between people, the evidence shows that young people - whatever their nationality or religion - share a strikingly similar view of the world," said Vikas Pota, chief executive of the Varkey Foundation.
"Teenagers in Nigeria, New Delhi and New York share many of same priorities, fears, ambitions and opinions.
"There is far more unity among young people than a glance at the headlines would suggest.
"Young people are passionate believers in the right to live the life that they choose, whatever their background, free of prejudice of all kinds."
But Mr Pota said that this was also a generation that was "deeply pessimistic about the future of the world".


BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is predicting the outcome of every game at the 2014 Fifa World Cup.

The second round of group games include must-win matches for England, against Uruguay, and Spain, who face Chile, after both teams suffered defeats in their opening fixtures.
Brazil and Mexico are the first teams to play their second game, on the same day as the opening fixtures in Group H. Those results are also included in Lawro's predictions.
Before the tournament, Lawro picked his two teams to go through from each group and reach the knockout stage.
He is backing Argentina to win the World Cup and lift the trophy at the Maracana on 13 July, and believes England will reach the quarter-finals.
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Brazil 0-0 Mexico
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Cameroon 0-4 Croatia
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: Brazil and Mexico
Australia 2-3 Netherlands
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Spain 0-2 Chile
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: Spain and the Netherlands
Colombia v Ivory Coast (19 June, 17:00 BST)
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Japan v Greece (19 June, 23:00 BST)
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: Colombia and Ivory Coast
Uruguay v England (19 June, 20:00 BST)
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Italy v Costa Rica (20 June, 17:00 BST)
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: England and Italy
Switzerland v France (20 June, 20:00 BST)
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Honduras v Ecuador (20 June, 23:00 BST)
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: France and Switzerland
Argentina v Iran (21 June, 17:00 BST)
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Nigeria v Bosnia-Hercegovina  (21 June, 23:00 BST)
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: Argentina and Nigeria
Germany v Ghana (21 June, 20:00 BST)
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United States v Portugal (22 June, 23:00 BST)
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: Germany and the United States
Belgium v Russia (22 June, 17:00 BST)
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South Korea v Algeria (22 June, 20:00 BST)
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: Belgium and Russia


Apple's iCloud facility, which stores iPhone and iPad users' photos and personal data, has a "fundamental security flaw", an expert has warned.

The online service is under scrutiny after intimate images of celebrities were stolen and leaked.
It has emerged that a security measure called two-step verification, which is recommended by Apple, can be bypassed using easily available software that allows access to iCloud back-ups.
Apple declined to comment.
The program still requires hackers to know the user's email address and password, and there is no clear evidence that it was used in the recent breaches.
Two-step verification - which requires a user to type in a short code sent by Apple to their phone or tablet in order to access their account - is supposed to offer an extra level of protection.
On Tuesday, Apple suggested its customers "always use a strong password and enable two-step verification" after it acknowledged that some of its accounts had been compromised by a "very targeted attack".
But one expert said Apple had given people "a false sense of security".
Technology magazine Wired first reported that software from a Russian firm, ElcomSoft, was being mentioned on a hackers discussion group as a useful tool for infiltrating iCloud accounts.
The program, marketed to law enforcement agencies, claims to offer access to iCloud content without the operator needing to be in possession of the iPhone or iPad concerned.
It uses a system devised by Moscow-based computer programmer Vladimir Katalov, which downloads copies of iCloud data.
It is not known whether the facility was utilised by those who stole naked images of Jennifer Lawrence and others.
But Mr Katalov told the BBC that, although he could not be "100% sure", he believed the software was used in the recent celebrity hacks, as ElcomSoft's program is "the only one able to do that".
He added that while his company "didn't like it much" when the software was used for illegal purposes, it had sold the system to individuals, as well as authorities.
Security expert Mikko Hypponen told the BBC the issue lay in the design of Apple's two-step verification system, which he believed was "implemented only to protect your credit card".
"It doesn't require two-factor authentication when you just want to access the photo roll, or if you want to restore the back-up," he said.
Using ElcomSoft's program, he added: "I can use my computer to extract files from your online back-up - something you can't do yourself".
Indeed, Apple's own page on two-step verification explains that it protects:
It does not mention any protection for photos, contacts or calendar entries, which are all backed up to iCloud.
However, the BBC understands that it does protect against hackers trying to use the "forgotten password" facility on Apple's website.
Usually, people who have forgotten their login details can regain access to their accounts by entering the answers to some personal questions - and this process cannot be exploited when two-step verification is enabled.
But Mr Hypponen said that by focusing on protecting payments and IDs, Apple might have misjudged what customers care about.
"For many users they would rather have their credit card numbers stolen than their private photos," he said.
Other security experts said Apple's advice about two-step verification was possibly misleading.
"There is a danger in suggesting that two-step verification is an umbrella that will protect, because obviously that is not the case," said David Emm, a senior analyst at Kaspersky Lab.
"There are chinks in the armour which could potentially be exploited."
Mr Emm added that he was concerned by the fact that ElcomSoft's software has been around since 2012.
"I think [the vulnerability] has probably been raised several times," he said, and the fact that Apple had not beefed up its two-step verification system was "a surprise".
However, he emphasised that overall: "It's clear that Apple does take security seriously."
Prof Alan Woodward, a computer security expert at the University of Surrey, said the holes in Apple's two-step verification system amounted to a "fundamental security flaw" and that it was "like double locking your front door and leaving the window open".
He added that the advice given by Apple "gives people a false sense of security".
But Mikko Hypponen said that iCloud was not the only service to have vulnerabilities.
"We don't really know if this is the only way in," he said.
"It's also highly likely that users not using Apple products were also targeted."


As Theresa May arrived at her last Brussels summit before pushing the button on Brexit, it is enough to give you a splitting headache.

Not just the complexity of actually getting a deal done, but the ceiling of the brand new European Council HQ in Brussels, decked out in a crazy patchwork of rainbow colours.
The architect told the BBC he hopes his design will lead to "joyful meetings" in a space "where politicians' deep talents can be expressed like poets".
Harsh words and hard bargaining are more likely to be a feature of the next two years despite the architect's dreams.
Even if there is goodwill on both sides, as British ministers increasingly hope, the technicalities of doing a deal are impossible to dismiss.
First off there's an exit process to negotiate, with a likely exit bill of as much as Â£50bn.
Ministers have been careful so far not to say too much.
But Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told me Britain has an "illustrious precedent" and should reject the demands - just as Margaret Thatcher did at the fabled summit in 1984 when she wielded her handbag and didn't just ask for money back, she threatened to walk out if she didn't get her way.
He told me: "We have illustrious precedent in this matter... I think you can recall the 1984â€¦ summit in which Mrs Thatcher said she wanted her money back and I think that is exactly what we will, we will get."
A rather more provocative way of telling the rest of the EU that the contentious demands expected to be made just aren't going to happen and - by mentioning the Fontainbleu incident - implying at least that it is possible the UK could walk out over the cash.
That's before we start to untangle four decades when our countries, laws, rules and regulations have been becoming more and more enmeshed.
Then there are the prospects of getting a deal on the future of our relationships done.
What happens to security arrangements, information sharing, rules and regulations, our entire legal system, our future immigration system, fishing, farming, air traffic control, water quality rules, Europol, continent-wide arrest warrants? The list goes on and on.
Then, as our interview with Nicola Sturgeon makes plain, the constitutional implications at home are only starting to be understood.
There are fights too for powers in Northern Ireland with risks of destabilising the peace process, argues Tony Blair.
And if those two nations are fighting for more powers as control returns from Brussels, can Wales sit and just play along?
The hardest solutions to find though are on trade.
It's true that those who were ardent Remainers now in government say privately they are more hopeful.
A senior figure told me: "It's like a divorce. At the start you say, I hate you, I never want to see you again. Then you say, I still don't like you, but we need to talk about the kids."
There is no question that, in Westminster at least, the expectation is that individual members of the EU are softening their resistance.
That's why part of the UK government's strategy is unquestionably to divide and conquer.
But there isn't much sign of any softening, or at least anyone willing to say so in public.
That's why, despite their optimism, there is a realism in government too, and they are preparing to think about having to walk away, with the Brexit Secretary David Davis admitting to me, he is very hopeful of "Plan A", but that ministers "have to do the work for the so-called Plan B or C".
He also reiterated the government's position that there is no way they will agree to a deal on EU citizens in Britain without agreement from the other side of the table.
He claims the "highest probability" is of getting a deal done.
For the many ministers and officials we've spoken to, they believe - for some of them it's more accurately a hope - that a good deal can be reached because in the end, money talks.
Just as Vote Leave argued, the belief at the highest levels of government is that whether it's German cars or Italian prosecco, European politicians will come willingly to an agreement because they rely on the buying power of the British consumer.
That is the argument that's continually cited and the ultimate irony.
Britain's politicians are relying on the EU to put economics before politics.
One of the reasons Britain chose to leave the EU is the perpetual frustration felt on our side of the Channel that continental politicians are incapable of doing just that.
It's a gamble perhaps that Theresa May didn't have much choice but to take.
But if she's wrong, the government, arguably the country, will need Mr Davis' Plan B. And the dreams of an architect might in fact be the start of a nightmare.


The new National Rugby League Museum is to be based in Bradford.

The museum is scheduled to open in the West Yorkshire city in 2020 to mark the 125th anniversary of the code's formation in nearby Huddersfield.
The museum will display the sport's historical artefacts within Bradford City Hall.
It is to be funded from a range of sources, including private benefactors and government grants, charity Rugby League Cares said.
Bradford was selected by a working group chaired by the director of the National Football Museum, Dr Kevin Moore.
Bradford club Manningham were founder members of the Northern Union (now Rugby League) in 1895 and won the game's first championship before later switching to football and becoming Bradford City.
The city also holds the UK record for the biggest crowd for a rugby match when an official 102,575 spectators watched the Challenge Cup final replay, Halifax v Warrington at Odsal Stadium in 1954.
Bradford Bulls have also made six summer-era Grand Final appearances, winning three times.
Chris Rostron, of Rugby League Cares, said it had seen the city's "positivity for this very prestigious project".
Brigid Power, heritage manager for the charity, said: "We have some fantastic objects and archive material in our collection, which we are continually adding to.
"Our most recent donation has come from one of Bradford's finest rugby league legends, Ernest Ward, whose son Trevor has very kindly donated some of his father's medals, boots and photographs."
Ward played more than 390 matches for Bradford Northern in the 1940s and '50s.


Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has ruled out trying to sign England goalkeeper Joe Hart.

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It was reported on Wednesday that the Anfield club were close to a £20m deal for the Manchester City keeper, who is currently on loan at Torino.
Hart, 30, is expected to leave City but Klopp is content with current keepers Simon Mignolet and Loris Karius.
"He's a fantastic keeper, the highest quality, but it's not for us at the moment, nor in the future," he said.
Hart told BBC Sport in March that he is "surplus to requirements" at City and does not see himself playing for the Premier League club again.
He moved to Italian side Torino on a season-long loan in August after being told he was free to leave City by manager Pep Guardiola.
"If you're not going to win there is no point in fighting, especially someone as powerful as that," Hart said.
Guardiola has maintained that no decision will be taken until the end of the season.
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Klopp also confirmed that midfielder Adam Lallana should return to full training in the latter part of next week after his thigh injury, and that forward Danny Ings is running again after a serious knee problem.
However, midfielder Jordan Henderson remains sidelined with a knee injury.
"At this moment he cannot really train. We must wait. We are in intense talks with different medical departments," Klopp said.
"He looks really healthy but he can't play football."


David Scott has become the first product of Scotland Rugby League's development pathway to win the player of the year award.

The 22-year-old, who can play as a winger or full-back and has joined Batley Bulldogs from Doncaster for the 2016 season, is the 12th winner of the Dave Valentine Award.
It is based on performances in Scotland's 2015 international campaign.
Scotland head coach Steve McCormack said: "Davie was outstanding for us."
Scott started playing rugby league at Easterhouse Panthers and joined Featherstone Rovers in 2013.
He was loaned to Doncaster, made the switch permanent in 2014 and will play in the second-tier English Championship for Batley in the coming season.
Scott made 28 appearances for Doncaster, scoring two tries and 36 conversions.
He played for Scotland in the 2013 World Cup and their recent European Cup campaigns.
"He is the perfect example to all the kids coming through, showing there is a pathway for teenage players in Scotland," added McCormack.


Jets used to spray the hull of Henry VIII's flagship the Mary Rose have been switched off for the first time in almost 30 years.

The warship's hull has been constantly sprayed with water and wax chemicals since it was raised from the seabed.
Work to remove 100 tons of water from the hull could take up to five years.
The hull will be kept in a "hot box" chamber but visitors to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard will be able to view it through windows from 31 May.
Inside the airtight chamber conditioned air will be directed at the hull to gradually remove water from the wood, dry and preserve it.
Mark Jones, head of conservation at the Mary Rose Trust, said: "It really will be a unique chance for visitors to see our team preserve a treasured artefact as they can see through windows into the "hot box" containing the Mary Rose when the new museum opens."
The 16th Century hull was first sprayed with chilled fresh water to remove salt and later with a water-soluble wax which prevents shrinkage of the timbers.
The spray jets have now been switched off four weeks from the official opening of the Mary Rose Museum before the hull undergoes the technical drying process.
The new museum finally reunites the Mary Rose with thousands of the 19,000 artefacts raised from the wreck.
The bulk of the Â£35m funding for the museum and conservation project came from a Â£23m Heritage Lottery Fund grant, with remaining cash raised through various charitable trusts, fundraising and sponsors.
The Mary Rose saw 34 years of service before she sank while leading an attack on a French invasion fleet in 1545, and was raised 437 years later on 11 October 1982.
King Henry VIII watched from Southsea Castle as his ship sank killing all but 35 of the 500-strong crew.


More than 70 firefighters are dealing with a blaze at an industrial bakery unit in Tottenham.

London Fire Brigade advised people living near the fire on West Mews to keep doors and windows closed as a precaution because of smoke.
A spokesman said firefighters "don't believe" anyone was inside the burning building.
At one stage crews were using jets to protect a 2,000-litre diesel fuel tank. The cause of the blaze is not known.
The front of the building, a single-storey unit, has partially collapsed.
Four people from a nearby building were initially unaccounted for but were located by firefighters.
London Fire Brigade said it was called at around 18:20 BST to the incident. Ten engines and 72 firefighters and officers are at the scene.
From there station manager Charles Hanks said: "Crews were confronted with a large fire when they arrived and are now working hard to confine it to the bakery and stop it from spreading to any neighbouring factory units.
"There is some fuel stored on site but crews have isolated the supply and it is not involved in the fire."
He added: "The fire is producing a lot of smoke so we are advising residents to keep their doors and windows closed as a precaution while it is going on. Thankfully though no injuries have been reported."


Steve Scott secured a fifth shooting place for Britain at the 2016 Olympic Games by winning World Cup silver.

The 30-year-old reached the gold medal match but lost to American Walton Eller in the double trap at the Gabala World Cup meet in Azerbaijan.
Scott, based in Battle, East Sussex said his only goal for the past year had been to win a quota place for Rio.
"I was very nervous going into the semi-final because there was so much riding on it," he said.
"But my training kicked in and thankfully I was able to just stick to my technique and keep hitting the clays," he added.
"After achieving the goal I've been aiming for over the last year, I relaxed quite a lot going into the gold medal match.
"As much as I wanted to go on and win, I think I probably took my foot off the gas a little bit."
He joins Amber Hill, Ed Ling, Elena Allen and Jennifer McIntosh in the list of British Shooting athletes who have secured Team GB quota places for Rio 2016.


Chelsea may have needed the "wake-up call" of losing to Burnley last week to show them the level of effort required to defend their Premier League title, says goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.

The 25-year-old admits Antonio Conte's side "started bad" with defeat at home on the opening weekend of the season.
They responded with Sunday's 2-1 victory over Tottenham.
"We don't have the easiest start but this victory is good for the confidence," he said.
"Maybe we needed as a group a little wake-up call and say 'look, we need to give 150% this year and not 100%'."
Marcos Alonso scored both of Chelsea's goals at Wembley, the second of which came in the 88th minute.
Captain Gary Cahill and midfielder Cesc Fabregas missed the game through suspension after being sent off in the 3-2 loss to Burnley, while Eden Hazard is still out through injury.
"Physically we dug very deep," said Courtois. "Spurs, especially the last 15, 20 minutes of the first half, they had a lot of pressure on us. As well in the second half.
"You see that physically we are very good and for us that is important."
Spurs have now lost seven of their past 10 games at Wembley.


Nasa's Messenger mission to Mercury has reached its explosive conclusion, after 10 years in space and four in orbit.

Now fully out of fuel, the spacecraft smashed into a region near Mercury's north pole, out of sight from Earth, at about 20:00 GMT on Thursday.
Mission scientists confirmed the impact minutes later, when the craft's next possible communication pass was silent.
Messenger reached Mercury in 2011 and far exceeded its primary mission plan of one year in orbit.
That mission ended with an inevitable collision: Messenger slammed into our Solar System's smallest planet at 8,750mph (14,000km/h) - covering 2.4 miles (3.9km) every second.
The impact will have completely obliterated this history-making craft. And it only happened because Mercury has no thick atmosphere to burn up incoming objects - the same reason its surface is so pock-marked by impact craters.
According to calculations, the 513kg, three-metre craft blasted a brand new crater the size of a tennis court. But that lasting monument is far too small to be visible from Earth.
"Today we bid a fond farewell to one of the most resilient and accomplished spacecraft ever to have explored our neighbouring planets," said Sean Solomon, Messenger's principal investigator.
"Our craft set a record for planetary flybys, spent more than four years in orbit about the planet closest to the Sun, and survived both punishing heat and extreme doses of radiation."
Messenger's fuel supply, half its weight at launch, was completely spent weeks ago but four final manoeuvres were conducted, to extend the flight as long as possible. These were accomplished by venting the helium gas normally used to pressurise actual rocket fuel into the thrusters.
The last of those manoeuvres took place on 28 April.
During its twice-extended mission, Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) transformed our understanding of Mercury. It sent back more than 270,000 images and 10 terabytes of scientific measurements.
It found evidence for water ice hiding in the planet's shadowy polar craters, and discovered that Mercury's magnetic field is bizarrely off-centre, shifted along the planet's axis by 10% of its diameter.
For four years - and 4,105 circuits in total - Messenger traced a highly elliptical orbit around Mercury. It regularly drifted out to a distance of nearly twice the planet's diameter, before swinging to within 60 miles (96km) at closest approach.
To maintain this pattern in the face of interference from the Sun, it needed a blast of engine power every few months, which meant the mission faced an inevitable, violent end when the fuel ran out.
Messenger made its penultimate pass at a distance of between 300 and 600 metres - one or two times the height of the Eiffel Tower - at about 13:00 BST on Thursday.
"If you could see that, it would be a real spectacle," said Jim Raines, the instrument scientist on the craft's FIPS instrument (Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer) and a physicist at the University of Michigan. "It would cross the horizon in just a second or two, flying low overhead at ten times the speed of a supersonic fighter."
The next time it swung back close to Mercury's surface, eight hours later, it was curtains for Messenger; the impact was precisely modelled using maps produced by the craft's own data.
Mercury has towering cliffs left by its shrinking, wrinkling history, but the calculated path showed Messenger missing these particular obstacles.
"It's a pretty flat area of the planet," said Nancy Chabot, the instrument scientist on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), Messenger's twin cameras. "It's going to be a skimming impact."
But it will have left a mark.
"It will probably be an oblique crater... because the impact angle will be so shallow, so grazing to the surface. But at over 8,000 miles per hour, it's going to make a crater."
Because the impact happened on the side of the planet facing away from Earth, the craft was out of contact in its final moments. So it probably carried more than 1,000 unseen images to its final, explosive resting place.
MDIS used to take hundreds of photos every day. Earlier this month, mission scientists released fresh images which superimposed years of spectrometry data about the chemistry of the planet's surface, illustrated by different colours, onto black-and-white images built up from thousands of smaller MDIS photos.
The planet has been mapped and studied to a level of detail far beyond the original mission plan. Many of the results themselves were also surprising.
"A lot of people didn't give this spacecraft much of a chance of even getting to Mercury, let alone going into orbit and then gathering data for four years instead of the original scheduled one-year mission," said William McClintock from the University of Colorado Boulder, principal investigator on MASCS (the Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer, another of the seven scientific instruments on board).
"In the end, most of what we considered to be gospel about Mercury turned out to be a little different than we thought."
Dr Chabot remembers the tension of processing the first image ever recorded by a spacecraft orbiting Mercury, back in 2011. She had only recently taken over as the instrument scientist on MDIS.
"It was exciting but for me personally it was also a bit stressful," Dr Chabot, who works at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, told the BBC. "But then the first image came back and it looked amazing and beautiful, and we realised we were here at Mercury to stay. I take a lot of pride in that image."
Despite being able to look back with pride, Dr Raines said this was still a sad day for Messenger scientists.
"Pretty much all the instruments are still doing great, so that makes it a little harder," he told BBC News. But the mission was always going to be limited by the fuel needed to maintain its difficult orbit.
"To be honest, I've seen this day coming for a long time and it's just one of these things that I've not been looking forward to. I'm really going to be sad to see it go."
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Safety pins have again become a symbol of solidarity with victims of racist, religious or homophobic abuse, following alleged attacks in the US in the wake of Donald Trump's election win.

The idea of wearing a safety pin as a political message was used in the UK after the vote there to leave the European Union, following an increase in alleged cases of hate crime.
The Republican said in his victory speech that he would be a "president for all Americans".
But the billionaire ran a campaign in which he made remarks that offended Muslims, Latinos, women and the disabled, among others.
Hours after his victory, alleged cases of abuse against minorities were reported in many US cities.
In California, authorities were investigating the reported attack of a Muslim student wearing a headscarf at the San Diego State University campus by two suspects. They allegedly made comments about Mr Trump's election.
Officials said the assault on the woman, who was wearing a hijab and was not hurt, happened in a parking complex. The suspects stole her car keys, and the vehicle was later reported missing.
Police were also investigating spray-painted obscene messages in South Philadelphia, the Philly Voice reported. Pro-Nazi graffiti was also spotted - it was not clear if the cases were related.
There was also at least one false claim. In Louisiana, an 18-year-old student admitted she fabricated a story that two white men, one wearing a Trump hat, had attacked her near the University of Louisiana campus hours after the Republican's victory. She gave no reason for the false account.
There were also cases of violence against Trump voters. Police were investigating an incident in Chicago, where a man was beaten after a traffic incident, with bystanders yelling "Don't vote Trump". A video of it has gone viral.
Safety pins were first used as a symbol of unity and hope back on World War II, when the Netherlands were invaded. The Dutch wore them under their collar to show loyalty to the queen and not be persecuted by the Nazis.


The funeral for Irish student Karen Buckley, who was murdered in Glasgow earlier this month, is be held in County Cork later.

It will take place at Analeentha, Mallow in north Cork, on Tuesday afternoon.
Ms Buckley, 24, a nurse and student, went missing following a night out at the Sanctuary nightclub in Glasgow on 11 April.
Her body was found at High Craigton farm, near Drymen, four days later.
Alexander Pacteau, 21, from Glasgow, has appeared in court charged with her murder.
Ms Buckley moved to Glasgow in February to study occupational therapy at Glasgow Caledonian University. She lived in the city's Garnethill area.
She was an only daughter. Her parents and brothers brought her back to her native Cork on a specially commissioned flight from Glasgow at the weekend.
Her funeral Mass will be held at the Church of St Michael the Archangel in Analeentha at 14:00 BST on Tuesday, before burial at St John's Cemetery in Burnfoot.
On Monday night, thousands of people attended the removal of Ms Buckley's body in Mallow.


Major changes are to be made to new school qualifications in a bid to cut teachers' workload.

The Scottish government plans to scrap some "unit assessments" which are marked by teachers before pupils sit their exams.
Instead final exams will be strengthened and externally marked coursework in some subjects will also contribute to students' grades.
National 5 courses will be altered next year and Higher courses in 2018.
Under the government's plans, some exams may now form 100% of the final mark. In other cases, the externally marked coursework may make up a significant proportion.
The move comes after Education Secretary John Swinney told teachers he was "absolutely committed" to reducing their workload earlier this year.
Announcing the planned changes to the qualifications, he said the proposals would significantly reduce teacher workload, bureaucracy and over-assessment.
He added: "They will ensure that teachers in Scotland have more time to teach in the classroom and make the significant contribution they can to reducing the attainment gap, delivering excellence and equity in Scotland's schools and maintaining the credibility and integrity of our qualifications."
The proposals have been given a cautious welcome by unions which have called for changes to deal with what they say is the excessive workload and bureaucracy associated with the qualifications.
Members of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) have been on a partial work-to-rule over the issue.
Its general secretary, Larry Flanagan, said news of the government's plans would be welcomed by teachers, pupils and parents.
"Since the introduction of new national qualifications, pupils and teachers have been placed under an excessive and unnecessary assessment burden during the senior phase of secondary, leading finally to EIS industrial action," he said.
"The agreement to remove mandatory unit assessments as a requirement from all National 5 and Higher courses is a victory both for common sense and for that campaign of action, carried out by EIS members in secondary schools across Scotland."
However Seamus Searson, the general secretary of the Scottish Secondary Teachers Association (SSTA), said the changes should happened during this academic year.
The "direction of travel" was welcome, he added, but the government should also consider making changes to the National 4 qualification.
"At the moment National 4 is wholly managed and assessed, to the bureaucratic SQA specifications, by the teacher in the classroom.
"The SSTA view is the workload should be reduced and the inclusion of a externally assessment or exam."
The National 5 qualification was introduced in the 2013-14 school year and is broadly equivalent to a credit in a Standard Grade or a good pass in an old O Grade.
Changes to Highers started to be phased in the following year.
Mr Swinney said the changes were in line with the principles of the Curriculum for Excellence.
He added: "I now intend to take the proposals to the Curriculum for Excellence management board as the appropriate body to discuss the details and agree their implementation."
Scottish Conservative education spokeswoman Liz Smith said: "It has taken far too long for this to happen but I warmly welcome the announcement to remove unit assessments.
"It was perfectly clear that they provided very little educational benefit yet, at the same time, added significantly to teacher workload.
"Their removal should allow teachers to concentrate more on coursework and on preparation for SQA examinations. That has to be a good thing and will be welcomed by teachers, pupils and parents."
Scottish Labour education spokesman Iain Gray said: "Any move to reduce workloads on our teachers is a welcome one, but this is a big climbdown by John Swinney who had previously said this could not be done without compromising the integrity of the National exams.
"It is a pity the teaching unions have had to threaten industrial action to get the government to listen to them.  The truth, though, is that teachers will continue to be burdened by heavy workloads as long as the SNP continue to cut education budgets."


As many as one in four pregnancies are thought to end in a miscarriage, and yet most women never talk about it.

The Miscarriage Association, which came up with the figure, wants people to open up about baby loss to break what it calls "the last taboo".
One mother has gone a step further and filmed the aftermath of her miscarriage for a documentary, to challenge the secrecy surrounding it.
Lisa Francesca Nand, from Greenwich, has suffered five miscarriages in total, including one the day before her 12-week scan.
"One minute I was pregnant, we were planning the future and thinking about being a mummy and daddy. Then suddenly, in the space of a few hours, we were no longer going to be parents, it was heartbreaking," she says.
The experience made her determined to share her story. One scene shows her husband David waiting outside the hospital while she has the remains of their second unborn child removed from her body.
"They had sent me home to pass the sac. It took a week of walking around with a dead baby inside me for it to come out. And I bled for six weeks afterwards. No-one talks about the physical pain, so I didn't expect it.
"I started filming a video diary because no-one talks about it. I want people to understand they are not alone, " adds Lisa, who has since gone on to have two healthy boys.
So why are miscarriages still shrouded in mystery? Ruth Bender Atik, national director of the Miscarriage Association, thinks it is because of the "rule" that women should not announce their pregnancy before their first scan.
"Most miscarriages happen in the first three months. If you don't tell people you are pregnant then sadly you are not going to get the support that you need when you are grieving. It doesn't suit everyone to talk about their pregnancy before their scan, but it can help.
"We don't tell people 'in case something happens', but that can reinforce the idea that you should keep it a secret if you miscarry," Ms Bender Atik said.
The reason behind a miscarriage is often unclear - leaving women with no one to blame but themselves, she adds.
"Most women never find out why, so they think it must be their fault, and this is very a dangerous path to go down."
Family and friends might not know how to react, and can make things worse with insensitive comments, according to Ms Bender Atik.
"We want people to say things like 'I am so sorry for your loss' and 'do you want to talk about it?', rather than 'don't worry, you will be pregnant again soon," she added.
My own miscarriage happened earlier this year, at nine weeks in to my first pregnancy. I noticed some light bleeding and was sent to Colchester Hospital for a scan.
My husband and I were overjoyed to catch the first glimpse of our tiny baby, with a strong heartbeat pulsing furiously away on the screen.
Only a few friends and family members knew that I was pregnant, and we rushed round to show them the photos of our beautiful baby.
But 24 hours later we were sat in the same chair, being told that our precious baby had gone.
Sitting in the car park crying, we tried to make sense of what had happened. My husband told me through tears that all he had ever wanted was to be a father, and I felt like I had let him down.
We had planned to tell his parents that evening over dinner, so we still made the trip up north and kept our restaurant reservation.
We sat in shocked silence for most of the journey, playing songs that I have not been able to listen to since.
Telling them we had miscarried felt even harder, because they had never known the joy of my pregnancy in the first place.
In the following days, I began to blame myself. It must have been the heavy camera kit I had stupidly picked up at work. Or perhaps it was the rum I drank on an all-inclusive holiday before I knew I was pregnant.
My husband was hugely supportive throughout, but I found myself pushing him away, telling him that he did not understand how it felt.
I made him put the baby books and maternity clothes I had foolishly bought in the loft, because it was too painful to look at them. How naÃ¯ve I was to buy them, I berated myself, looking at the nursing chair in the corner that I knew I would not sit in.
I talked about getting a tattoo because I felt like I had nothing to show for being pregnant, as if it had never really happened at all.
One of my best friends told me she was pregnant and was due at the same time as I would have been, and I hated myself for not feeling happy for her.
"I'm really lucky that I didn't need to have an operation, some people have much worse miscarriages," I kept telling friends and family, to make them feel better. But inside I felt like the unluckiest person in the world.
I went straight back to work because my colleagues did not know, and on the first day I had to attend an inquest about a dead baby. But this is completely normal, I told myself. After all, no-one talks about miscarriage.
Six months on, I have realised three things. Firstly that men can suffer as much as women after a miscarriage, and if anything, this experience has made our marriage stronger.
Secondly and probably most importantly, that it was not my fault. And thirdly, that miscarriage is so much more common than I had realised.
I slowly started telling people and was amazed by how many confided that they too had secretly suffered this fate.
I posted a message on Facebook saying I was writing this article and friends I had known for years got in touch, having never before shared their stories of loss.
One said she had a miscarriage at work but felt like she had to hide because she did not want to tell her boss.
Not a day goes by without another of my friends thinking about her babies and what they would have become.
One friend sent me a note to say she was going through her second miscarriage at this very moment.
Another said she could not tell anyone because she felt ashamed, like she had failed at the one thing women should be able to do.
No-one should feel like this after a miscarriage. If it feels right for you, try sharing your story - you might be surprised by the reaction.
First Heartbeat was first shown on 15 October at 10pm on TLC UK - and will be repeated on 17 October at 9pm, 19 October at 9pm and 28 October at 10pm.


Wigan Warriors pair Josh Charnley and Taulima Tautai will miss the Challenge Cup semi-final against Hull FC after both were given two-match suspensions.

Both players will miss Friday's Super League fixture against St Helens, as well as the semi-final on 29 July.
Charnley, 25, pleaded guilty to Grade C contact with a match official in their 18-16 defeat by Leeds Rhinos.
Tautai, 28, was found guilty of a Grade B dangerous contact on Adam Cuthbertson in the same game on 15 July.
The duo have both been given a £300 fine in addition to their suspensions.
Charnley, who will cross codes to join Sale Sharks at the end of the season, has scored 19 tries in 23 appearances and is Wigan's top try-scorer this campaign.


Memorial services for a former winner of the Manx Grand Prix (MGP) who died in a crash while racing will be held later.

Jamie Hodson, 35, from Wigan, was fatally injured in Northern Ireland's Dundrod 150 race at the Joey's Windmill section of the course on 10 August.
The road racer won the Supertwins MGP race in 2016, which is held on the Isle of Man TT course.
A service will be held in Douglas at 14:00 BST and another in Wigan.
A spokesman for St Ninian's Church said the Isle of Man service is being held with the "kind permission of the Hodson family" and will be conducted by Rev John Coldwell.
A "celebration of Jamie's life" will also be held in his home town of Wigan, he said.
Hodson's brother Rob was also involved in the same crash but was not seriously hurt.
Gavin Lupton, 37, from Otley in Yorkshire, died from injuries sustained in a different crash on the same day.
Lupton competed at the Isle of Man TT and North West 200, as well as the Ulster Grand Prix, in recent years.


North Korea has test fired a mid-range ballistic missile which crashed a few seconds after launch, say South Korean military officials.

It is thought to be the second test of the North's new Musudan missile. An attempt earlier this month also failed.
The tests come amid a recent ramp-up in weapons activity as the country prepares for a rare party congress.
Reports suggest it is planning a fifth nuclear test, despite condemnation of its last test in January.
South Korean officials said the mid-range missile launch took place early Thursday morning near the eastern coastal city of Wonsan but the missile "crashed a few seconds later" in the coastal area, reported Yonhap news agency.
The incident was captured by a US surveillance satellite.
The Musudan missiles are said to be able to travel up to 4,000km (2,485 miles), within the range of US territories in the Pacific.
No confirmation of the attempt or the failure has come from North Korea, but sources in South Korea say that the movement of two so-called Musudan missiles, mounted on trucks, was detected earlier in the month.
One was launched two weeks ago and tracked but failed to go far. The same has now happened to the second, according to South Korea.
Kim Jong-un is building up to a big event in just over a week, a rare meeting of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang.
He has trumpeted a series of announcements about progress towards having a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking Washington. Failed launches indicate that the reality may not match the rhetoric.
All the same, they indicate determination. A fifth nuclear test coinciding with the congress would not be a surprise.
On Saturday, North Korea's foreign minister Ri Yong-su suggested that it would suspend nuclear tests if the US ended its annual military exercises with the South.
But US President Barack Obama dismissed the proposal, saying it was not serious and that North Korea would "have to do better than that".
Strengthened international sanctions were placed on North Korea after it tested what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb and launched a long-range missile.
Over the weekend it also claimed it fired a submarine ballistic missile.
Observers have speculated that Pyongyang is boosting the development of its weapons programs ahead of its political conference aimed at solidifying the power of its leader Kim Jong-un.
The North announced this week that the congress, which was last held in 1980, would take place on 6 May.


An organisation representing 100 renewable heating businesses has said a plan to cut costs associated with the RHI scheme would be "catastrophic".

The Renewable Heat Association (RHA) for Northern Ireland is also considering legal action.
Northern Ireland ministers are trying to claw back some of the £490m overspend on the botched Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
The economy minister will bring the plan to the assembly on Monday.
Simon Hamilton has produced amended legislation which would reduce tariffs paid to about 1,800 people who got into the RHI scheme before November 2015. The minister's plan requires a vote by MLAs.
However, there is an acceptance that any move to reduce tariffs could face a legal challenge.
The RHA, which represents businesses who signed up to the scheme, is promising just that.  On Sunday, it plans to send out a letter to all 108 MLAs setting out its opposition.
RHA spokesman, Michael Doran, called for "a reasonable solution to this as soon as possible".
"We want to see audits, we want to see technical audits, we want to see business audits. If anybody fails those audits and is found to be acting fraudulently, throw them out of the scheme, prosecute them," he said.
"But don't hammer the people who are operating the scheme properly."
However, an expert in contract law from Queen's University, Belfast, said amendments passed by legislation could be legal.
"There would be no difficulty at all if they could prove people were extracting payments from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Industry (Deti) without actually complying with the scheme," said Dr David Capper, reader of law.
"It's where the assembly tries to take away people's vested rights that they have a problem. They can do so, provided they act proportionately."
The RHI scheme has been criticised for its lack of cost controls and for over-generous subsidies which were greater than the cost of renewable fuel.
It led to claims the scheme was open to abuse because the more fuel applicants burned, the more they earned.
A whistleblower alleged that previously unheated factories had installed boilers with the intention of running them throughout the year to collect about £1.5m in RHI payments over 20 years.
However, Dr Capper said existing regulations governing the scheme may provide a legal way for dealing with those who have abused the system.
He told the BBC's On Your Behalf programme that an article applying to businesses using the scheme expressly forbids generating heat to make money.
"You're not, strictly speaking, entitled to burn just as much as you want to earn as much as you can get.
"There is a condition in the regulations, which would be a condition in the contract itself, that you mustn't generate heat for the predominant purpose of increasing your periodic support payments."
The DUP has refused to comment on the issues raised.
So far the legislation has not been approved by Sinn Féin Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir.
It is understood officials in his department are assessing the plan over the weekend.


A Welsh doctor has returned from a 6,000 mile round trip to take supplies to Syrian doctors building an entire hospital from donations.

Dr Saleyha Ahsan, an emergency doctor at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, Gwynedd, said Â£220,000 has been raised by crowd funding to help those affected by the civil war.
The support was "staggering", she said.
"This act in itself has been a massive display of solidarity with these doctors who are risking their lives."
Dr Ahsan was part of a convoy supported by a number of human rights organisations who responded to a call from the doctors to build a unit to serve 66,000 children near Aleppo where thousands have been evacuated.
They handed over the equipment to members of Syria's Independent Doctors Association at the border.
Dr Ahsan returned to north Wales on Friday in time for her Christmas weekend shifts at the hospital.


The number of emergency food parcels handed out by food banks in Scotland hit a record high last year, according to new statistics.

The Trussell Trust says its food banks provided more than 145,000 packages to people in crisis in 2016-17.
It marks a 9% increase on the previous year - a trend the charity blamed on benefit payment problems and low incomes.
The UK government said the reasons for food bank use were "complex".
"It's misleading to link them to any one issue," a spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) added.
The new report by The Trussell Trust examines the activity of its network of 52 food banks north of the border.
It reveals that 47,955 children in Scotland were among those it helped with three-day emergency food supplies last year.
And it found that low income was the single biggest reason for referral to a Scottish food bank - affecting a quarter of those referred.
Problems with benefits were also a major factor.
Around 24% of those referred to the charity had suffered benefit delays, while 18% encountered difficulties with benefit changes.
But its own statistics also reveal that the growth of food banks has slowed since 2014/15, when food bank use increased by two-thirds in 12 months.
Meanwhile a UK-wide report by the charity found that food banks in areas where the Universal Credit system has been rolled out are reporting increased demand.
The research, which includes some areas of Scotland, found that there has been a 16.85% average increase in referrals, compared to a nationwide average of 6.64%.
The number of food parcels handed out in Scotland last year was enough to feed the entire population of Dundee for three days, according to the charity's Scotland network manager Ewan Gurr.
He said: "Despite nine Scottish local authorities showing a decrease in food bank use six months ago, it is clear that a cold Christmas, the rollout of Universal Credit and the ever-increasing pressure on the pockets of low-income individuals and families is yielding bitter outcomes.
"Worrying stories emanating from food banks highlight the reality that a record 12-month inflation rate of 2.3% and benefit delays attributed to the rollout of Universal Credit are leaving men, women and children up and down the country sitting at the dinner table with no food in front of them.
"With both council elections and a general election on the horizon, it is absolutely critical for confirmed as well as prospective candidates to put tackling hunger and food poverty front and centre of the policy agenda."
Speaking at the STUC congress in Aviemore, film director Ken Loach accused the UK government of "conscious cruelty" by imposing benefit sanctions which he claims have led to an increase in the use of food banks.
His I, Daniel Blake film told the fictional story of a man denied employment and support allowance.
Mr Loach said: "When the sanctions increased, the use of foodbanks increased. If your money stops and you are dependent on social security, you haven't got a large bank account like Tory cabinet ministers - you have got nothing.
"And very shortly people have to take very tough choices - how do they survive? Often they don't eat.
"Last year there were figures that nearly half a million children eat because people put extra tins in a collecting bag - that cannot be right."
Alex told The Trussell Trust's You Tube channel that he hit difficulties when he returned to Scotland from New Zealand after his marriage broke up.
He said: "I'm a former Olympic athlete, I'm a former British champion, I've had my own businesses, I've had several businesses, and then all of a sudden everything came crashing down.
"If it hadn't have been for the food bank I'd have been in real big trouble [and] I wouldn't have been eating. I was on the brink. I was in a bad way."
He added: "All the people in the food bank were fantastic, they were really nice, they were really helpful and that was one of the reasons I wanted to give my time as a volunteer.
"It's a great feeling knowing that you're helping people [and] if we didn't have the food bank people would have nowhere to go, nowhere to eat. If it wasn't for the food bank I probably wouldn't be here."
A spokesman for the DWP defended the Universal Credit system, which collapses all benefits into one and is being rolled out across the UK.
He said: "Employment is the best route out of poverty, and there are now near record numbers of people in work in Scotland.
"Under Universal Credit, people are moving into work faster and staying in work longer than under the old system.
"Universal Credit is designed to mirror the world of work and give people control over their own finances.
"The majority of UC claimants are confident in managing their money and we work closely with local authorities to support those who need extra help.
"Budgeting support, benefit advances, and direct rent payments to landlords are available to those who need them."
The Scottish government said it was working to help people affected by welfare cuts and low incomes.
A spokesman said: "A range of actions are needed to stop people having to rely on emergency food provision.
"The Scottish government has taken such action through our Â£1 million a year Fair Food Fund and more than Â£100 million a year to mitigate against welfare cuts, including our Scottish Welfare Fund.
"We have also made significant investments in a range of services to support people on low income and to tackle the underlying causes of poverty including investing in affordable housing, increasing free childcare, promoting and paying the real living wage."


England head coach Eddie Jones has named 15 uncapped players in his 31-man squad to tour Argentina in June.

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Dylan Hartley will be captain after being left out of the Lions squad.
Flanker Sam Underhill, New Zealand-born cross-code convert Denny Solomona, and fly-half Piers Francis - who will join Northampton from Auckland Blues in the summer - are included.
There are also call-ups for Sale twins Ben and Tom Curry, 18, as well as Saracens forward Nick Isiekwe, 19.
London Irish wing Joe Cokanasiga and Harry Mallinder of Northampton are included too.
After missing out on selection for the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand, the likes of Joe Launchbury, James Haskell, Chris Robshaw, George Ford and Mike Brown all are included, but there is no place for Danny Cipriani, Christian Wade or Semesa Rokoduguni.
Harlequins player Jack Clifford and Sam Jones of Wasps are unavailable through injury.
"We are looking forward to going to Argentina and winning 2-0," said head coach Jones.
Australian Glen Ella, who coached England on tour last summer, will again join Jones' backroom team.
On the tour, England will face their hosts in San Juan on Saturday 10 June and in Santa Fe a week later.
At a news conference, Jones said he did not want to get involved in debate about the Lions squad.
"You miss out on a Lions tour and you get an England tour - it's not a bad second prize," said the Australian.
"If I can develop three or four of these guys to be better than the Lions guys, it will be a successful tour.
"It's going to be a tough tour, but my job is to improve the squad. It's a great opportunity where we can bring a bunch of young, enthusiastic and potentially good players into the squad at one time."
Forwards: Will Collier (Harlequins, uncapped), Luke Cowan-Dickie (Exeter Chiefs, 4 caps), Ben Curry (Sale Sharks, uncapped), Tom Curry (Sale Sharks, uncapped), Charlie Ewels (Bath Rugby, 3 caps), Ellis Genge (Leicester Tigers, 1 cap), Dylan Hartley - captain (Northampton Saints, 84 caps), James Haskell (Wasps, 75 caps), Paul Hill (Northampton Saints, 5 caps), Nathan Hughes (Wasps, 8 caps), Nick Isiekwe (Saracens, uncapped), Joe Launchbury (Wasps, 42 caps), Matt Mullan (Wasps, 15 caps), Chris Robshaw (Harlequins, 55 caps), Sam Underhill (Ospreys/Bath Rugby, uncapped), Harry Williams (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped), Tom Wood (Northampton Saints, 50 caps)
Backs: Mike Brown - vice-captain (Harlequins, 60 caps), Danny Care - vice captain (Harlequins, 71 caps), Joe Cokanasiga (London Irish, uncapped), Nathan Earle (Saracens, uncapped), George Ford - vice captain (Bath Rugby, 35 caps), Piers Francis (Auckland Blues/Northampton Saints, uncapped), Sam James (Sale Sharks, uncapped), Alex Lozowski (Saracens, uncapped), Harry Mallinder (Northampton Saints, uncapped), Joe Marchant (Harlequins, uncapped), Jack Maunder (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped), Jonny May (Gloucester Rugby, 25 caps), Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs, 4 caps), Denny Solomona (Sale Sharks, uncapped)
BBC Radio 5 live rugby reporter Chris Jones:
Even though 16 men are away with the Lions, this is a startling squad from Eddie Jones, with almost half of the touring party uncapped.
There are four men who helped clinch the Under 20s Grand Slam, one who recently qualified in Denny Solomona, while Sam Underhill and Piers Francis will both tour before they have played for their Premiership clubs.
Jones will lean on a wealth of experience - with all the main Lions casualties on this trip - but the abundance of youth points to a healthy future for English rugby.


The counter-terror raids conducted by Belgian law enforcement over the weekend and the lockdown of the capital Brussels have sparked varying responses in the European media.

Papers are much concerned with reflecting what seems to be a rising tide of fear on the continent. Some commentators question the readiness of the authorities to deal with the threat posed by violent extremists.
In an article headlined "Relief and astonishment in Brussels in the wake of [police] operations" the Belgian Le Soir expresses the dramatic impact the  "unprecedented" action is having on the country.
"One thing is certain: the lockdown paralyses Brussels and gradually the whole country in a climate of anxiety," it says. "The 'lockdown' of a city for a long period as a precaution against a terrorist threat is unprecedented, not only in Belgium."
The paper also accuses the authorities of creating "horrible confusion" by way of contradictory statements on the situation.
Belgian La Libre says Brussels now "lives in fear" since it is "a target", and concludes by asking if this is indeed the aim of the terrorists: "Has 'the work been done' as we feared, restricting our movements, taking away our leisure, and imposing a kind of curfew?"
Belgium's Flemish-language papers also focus on the security measures in Brussels, with Het Nieuwsblad highlighting the disruption to the courts.
The papers are also very interested in foreign reaction to the news, with Het Laatste Nieuws writing that the "Brussels lockdown is front page news worldwide"
Dutch newspaper NRC asks whether Belgium is a "failed state", highlighting "tough" international criticism of its perceived failure to clamp down on violent Islamism. It interviews several Belgian opinion makers, who in general defend their country's measures. The article is widely reported in the Flemish press.
Belgian VTM Nieuws TV commentator Faroek Ozgunes says the big question is what fugitive Salah Abdeslam plans next: "Is he going to finish the job, or does he fear that he is being hunted by Islamic State?" after he apparently failed to blow himself up in Paris.
Andre Tauber in German conservative paper Die Welt, writes that "fear of terror will be the city's constant companion in the coming days".
"There is little evidence that the major night-time police deployment will restore the confidence of the people of Brussels that they are safe once again," he writes.
The French left-leading L'Humanite fears that the rising security or counter-terrorism measures might lead to escalating violence from both sides of the political spectrum, saying: "By sowing death beyond the lands where it rages, [Islamic State's] objective is to numb people, divide them in order to provoke chaos, push towards [the application of] brutal measures which could bring them followers, promote the rise of tough regimes."
Several media outlets openly question law enforcement agencies' readiness to handle major terrorist threats.
Political correspondent Peter Carstens in the centre-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, is not convinced that Germany's police are equipped to deal with such a co-ordinated onslaught.
A couple of dozen special task forces aside, he fears the police suffer from "drastic staffing and equipment deficiencies" in terms of ammunition and armoured vehicles for "an extended fire-fight", and a lack of adequate body armour leaves them "relatively easy targets for battle-hardened Islamic State terrorists".
Sueddeutsche Zeitung's home affairs editor Heribert Prantl looks at the legal context. He writes that society must decide how far civil liberties must yield in providing a "robust defence against terrorism, before any shocking attack takes place".
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Serbian authorities say they are investigating after two US-made Hellfire missiles were found on a passenger flight from Lebanon.

The Lebanese army says the US-bound missiles were for training purposes and did not contain explosives.
Serbian officials, quoted by Reuters, said they were trying to establish whether the missiles were live or not.
They said sniffer-dogs had found the missiles on an Air Serbia flight at Belgrade airport on Saturday.
Air Serbia said it was helping with the investigation.
A source at the Serbian prosecutor's office told Reuters: "Experts are determining whether the missiles were equipped with live or training warheads.
"They were packed in proper transportation crates and supplied with paperwork."
The missiles were due to be transferred to another flight to Portland, Oregon, the source added.
In a statement, the Lebanese military said: "They [the missiles] belonged to the Lebanese army, which decided to send them back to the American company that manufactured them upon agreement with it, in accordance with legal and administrative procedures and after training with them had been completed."
The AGM-114 Hellfire is a laser-guided missile that can be deployed from an attack helicopter or an unmanned drone.
Last month, Cuba returned to the US an inert Hellfire missile that had been wrongly shipped to Havana in June 2014.


The adverts shown during the Super Bowl are often as talked about the next day as the game itself.

This year, NBC is charging advertisers $4.5m (Â£3m) for a 30-second spot. But with an expected US audience of 110 million, and more streaming the most popular ads online, it's a price companies are willing to pay.
The BBC's Franz Strasser takes a look at the price of the products advertised and asks how many items you could buy for the cost of a commercial.
Budweiser's one-minute ad tells the story of a lost dog that is reunited with his owner. Nine million dollars can buy you a lot of beer cans at the price of 58 cents in a 12-pack.
For the first time in seven years, Victoria's Secret is paying up to air a spot during the biggest game. The brand sells one of its "everyday" bras for $39.50.
Dove Men will show a spot about fathers to advertise their body wash. The price of one item is $5.39, compared to the price of $4.5 million for the ad.
The German carmaker is using an old news clip and TV personalities to advertise its electric car. The starting price for a BMW i3 is $42,300.
Advertisers will pay close to $41 per one thousand viewers, if 100 million Americans tune in. A rate slightly above the industry average of $37.
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A man has admitted killing a friend with a single punch in a pub in Bedford.

Nigel Williams, 39, pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denies the murder of Mark Munday in the Grafton Hotel in Midland Road on 4 December.
The incident was described as a "one punch homicide case" at Luton Crown Court on Tuesday.
Judge Michael Kay QC remanded Mr Williams in custody. A trial will now take place in May.
Mr Williams, an electrical engineer of Cowper Street, Olney, appeared in court via video link from Norwich prison.
Mr Munday, 48, from Kempston, died in hospital several hours after an incident at the hotel on 4 December.
Prosecutor Tim Prober-Wood told the judge: "This is a one punch homicide case. It seems likely the plea tendered will be accepted."
He added that the results of a full post-mortem examination will also have to be taken into consideration.
A further hearing will take place on 10 April. A trial date has been set for 15 May.


Nine branches of HSBC are to close in Wales in 2017 as the banking giant concludes a restructuring programme.

Maesteg in Bridgend county,  Ammanford in Carmarthenshire, Fishguard and Narbeth in Pembrokeshire and Churchill Way, Cardiff will all close.
Holyhead on Anglesey, Holywell in Flintshire, Llanrwst in Conwy county and Knighton, Powys will also lose their HSBC branches.
The bank said 180 jobs were at risk across the 62 UK branch closures announced.
"Fewer people are using branches. More than 90% of our interactions with customers are now through our digital channels - an increase from 80% last year," said Francesca McDonagh, HSBC's head of retail banking.


Matt Tubbs' first goal for Forest Green Rovers was not enough to clinch a first victory of the season after a 1-1 draw with Sutton.

The hosts could not have got off to a better start when Tubbs headed home a free-kick by Mohamed Chemlal after just seven minutes.
Forest Green pushed for a second with Chemlal looking the man most likely to add to the score.
But Sutton scored an equaliser when Nick Bailey struck from the spot after Drissa Traore brought down Bedsente Gomis in the area.
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Match ends, Forest Green Rovers 1, Sutton United 1.
Second Half ends, Forest Green Rovers 1, Sutton United 1.
Roarie Deacon (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Sutton United. Maxime Biamou replaces Ross Stearn.
Substitution, Sutton United. Shaun Cooper replaces Gomis.
Nicky Bailey (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Rob Sinclair replaces Drissa Traoré.
Substitution, Sutton United. Chris Dickson replaces Dan Fitchett.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Elliott Frear replaces Fabien Robert.
Goal!  Forest Green Rovers 1, Sutton United 1. Nicky Bailey (Sutton United) converts the penalty with a.
Kieffer Moore (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Forest Green Rovers 1, Sutton United 0.
First Half ends, Forest Green Rovers 1, Sutton United 0.
Kieffer Moore (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Ross Stearn (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  Forest Green Rovers 1, Sutton United 0. Matt Tubbs (Forest Green Rovers).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


A woman accused of fatally stamping on her daughter used the money she received in benefits to fund her cannabis habit, a court heard.

Kathryn Smith said she received £52 a week in income support, some of which was used to buy the Class B substance.
Jurors previously heard she was concerned 21-month-old Ayeeshia Jane Smith may have had a seizure after taking drugs kept at the house.
Ms Smith and ex-partner Matthew Rigby both deny murder.
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The toddler, known as AJ, died in 2014 at the couple's flat in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire.
Under questioning from prosecutors, Ms Smith, 23, said she did not initially tell doctors treating Ayeeshia over her fears she had accessed drugs because she feared they would think she was "a bad mother".
She also said she did not tell police about the drugs being at home because she knew they were illegal.
A quantity of cannabis worth £30 was found inside a Tommee Tippee plastic cup at the property on Britannia Drive after Ayeeshia's death but Ms Smith said her daughter did not use the cup as it was broken.
The court heard a senior social worker had reported seeing Ms Smith, of Sandfield Road, Nottingham, looking "spaced out" during a home visit a week prior to Ayeeshia's collapse, although her daughter had not been in the house at the time.
Two social workers had tried to conduct an on-the-spot drugs search at the flat on 17 April 2014, days before Ayeeshia died, after smelling cannabis, but Ms Smith refused to comply.
Text messages made by Ms Smith to Mr Rigby and her parents were mentioned by the prosecution, including one where she threatened her father on the day Ayeeshia died.
Christopher Hotten QC, prosecuting, said the message showed her in a bad temper "on the day somebody killed your daughter in anger".
However, Ms Smith said:  "Nobody was angry on that day, or the day before that, nobody was being angry that day."
Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court previously heard her death was caused when her heart was torn by a forceful stamp.
Medical experts said the injuries were normally only seen in car crash victims or people who have fallen off buildings.
The trial continues.