Photographs from the private collection of legendary crime author Agatha Christie are to be displayed in Cardiff.

The Agatha Christie: A Life in Photographs exhibition runs at National Museum Cardiff from Saturday until 3 September.
It shines a light on her family life, marriages and international adventures.
The queen of crime's grandson Mathew Pritchard said relatives were "delighted" to share the pictures.
Director general of the museum, David Anderson, said: "This is a beautifully curated exhibition which gives us an insight of Agatha Chirstie's life in photographs.
"The vivid images, accompanied by quotes in her own words, convey her humour and intelligence, as well as her love of travel and adventure. I hope our visitors enjoy a look into the extraordinary life of the most-widely published author of all time."
Each image is accompanied by a quote in Christie's own words, drawn from both published works and unpublished personal correspondence, capturing her thoughts and feelings.
In one, she says: "Nothing has surprised me more in life than to have become a famous authoress - I sometimes can't believe it's really me".
Family photos show Christie as an energetic and adventurous young woman, with photographs of her surfing on an idyllic Muizenberg beach in South Africa and roller-skating on Torquay pier.
A timeline will also mark the key milestones in her life, including the first performance of the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap, and the publication of her seminal works, such as Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None.
Chtistie, a crime novelist, short story writer and playwright, is best known for 66 novels and short story collections.
She is widely cited as the best-selling author of fiction of all time, with an estimated two billion sales worldwide.


A Wales Office minister has told MPs he is confident a Swansea city deal will go ahead despite the sacking of Lord Heseltine as a government advisor.

The former deputy prime minister lost his five advisory roles after voting against the government in the House of Lords over Brexit on Tuesday night.
He had been due to visit Swansea today in his role advising on a proposed Â£1.3bn investment deal for the region.
Minister Guto Bebb said he was "confident" the deal would go ahead.
During Welsh Questions in the Commons on Wednesday, Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts had asked the minister "what hope we have of securing similar deals for the rest of Wales if experts are axed at the whim of an insecure executive fearful of parliamentary sovereignty?"
In reply, Mr Bebb described the Swansea region city deal as a "bottom-up agenda", adding that Lord Heseltine contributed "significant expertise" at a "challenge' session.
"I am confident we will have a city deal for the Swansea city region," he said.
"We will have further growth deals for Wales as a result of the work that this government is doing to ensure that Wales benefits from investment in the same way as this as any other part of the United Kingdom."
A UK Government spokesman said: "Lord Heseltine provided useful input to the Swansea City Deal project.
"However the decision over his role as government adviser does not impact on the city deal.
"We will keep working to ensure we meet the Secretary of State for Wales' ambition to turn a good proposal into a great one."
Lord Heseltine told the BBC he felt "great disappointment" to be sacked as an advisor, but defended his rebellion on Brexit, saying Europe was the "transcending issue of our time".


The Conservatives have said they will back a bid to bring the Commonwealth Games to Wales.

Culture Secretary Sajid Javid, joining the election campaign in Wales, said it can bring people together and celebrate "our unity through diversity".
The Games, which were held in Cardiff in 1958, could also give an economic boost to Wales, the Tories have said.
Cardiff council and the Welsh government have been exploring a possible bid for 2026.
Speaking ahead of his visit to Wales on Monday, Mr Javid said: "Wales has always played an important role in the Commonwealth and having hosted the games over 60 years ago - I think it's time it came back and I'm glad to see the Welsh Conservatives will be working to make this happen.
"The Commonwealth Games is about bringing people together and celebrating our unity through diversity and sport is one of the very best ways to do that."
He added: "I really hope that Wales is successful in its bid. I know well how passionate the Welsh people are about sport and I know they will want to see this bid made a reality."
Elsewhere on the campaign trail, Welsh Labour will bid for the support of older voters, saying it will keep free bus passes and TV licences.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood welcomed support from SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon for parity of powers and funding for Wales with Scotland.
"Just as the SNP is doing for Scotland, Plaid Cymru is fighting for the best deal possible for Wales in this election," she said.
The Lib Dems are expected to restate their opposition to regional pay in the public sector.
Meanwhile Monday marks the deadline for registering to vote in the election on May 7.


Carlisle United have signed defender Macaulay Gillesphey on loan from Championship side Newcastle United until 2 January 2017.

Gillesphey, 20, made 27 appearances and scored two goals for the Cumbrians during a loan spell last season.
"He is a young man who I think is going to have a very bright future," Carlisle boss Keith Curle told the club website.
"It's excellent that we can be part of his development. We're forging links with a fantastic club in Newcastle."
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AO World, the online domestic appliance retailer, has reported deeper full-year losses, citing start-up costs and investment from its push into Europe.

Pre-tax losses were £6.7m in the year to March 2016, from £2.9m the previous year. Revenues rose 25.7% to £599.2m.
AO World said the widening losses reflected "investment and trading losses incurred in Germany and start-up costs in other European territories".
The retailer also announced it had appointed a new chairman.
Geoff Cooper, who currently works at Card Factory, is to be the new chairman, succeeding Richard Rose who will step down from the position next month.
AO World said it was growing its market share in all its product categories and added that it planned to start selling computers.
"Computing is a natural extension of our current categories and there is good potential for cross-selling to our existing customer base, making it an exciting opportunity for the business," said chief executive John Roberts.
AO World said it was still "in a start-up phase" in Europe, but its German business AO.de was "gaining traction with customers," while early signs at its Netherlands business, launched in March, were encouraging.
The firm floated on the stock exchange in 2014 with a market capitalisation of £1.2bn, a figure that surprised the City given its profits of less than £8m in 2013.
AO World's shares were priced at 285p each when it floated on the market. The shares were trading at about 165p on Wednesday, down 1% on the day.


An elderly woman was fatally injured when her husband crashed their car by stepping on the accelerator instead of the brake, an inquest heard.

Anthony Charnock, 82, was not used to his new Skoda's automatic gearbox when he crashed into the Hungerford branch of Tesco on 8 December.
His wife Colombine, 86, was a passenger in the car and died of her injuries, Reading Coroner's Court heard.
The coroner recorded a conclusion of death by road traffic collision.
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The inquest was told that Mr Charnock was attempting to park in a blue badge space when witnesses described his car crashing into a number of vehicles before hitting the front of the store.
He suffered only minor injuries.
Mr Charnock, who said he had no memories of the events immediately before the crash, was inexperienced at using his Skoda Yeti, the court heard.
He added that he had since surrendered his license and never wanted to drive again.
The car did not have any defects and there was no medical reason for the crash, the court heard.
David Russell, a police forensic vehicle advisor, said the collision was the result of "unintended acceleration".
He said it was a "well-known, common scenario" particularly with older or younger people driving automatic cars.
Berkshire coroner Peter Bedford praised nurse Rachel Davies who was shopping in Tesco and administered emergency treatment immediately after the crash.
Previously Mr Charnock's family paid tribute to his partner as a "beloved wife, mother and grandmother".


A file of evidence against a man suspected of murdering a schoolgirl almost 40 years ago has been submitted to prosecutors, the BBC has learnt.

Robert Black - who died in prison in January - killed four young girls and was believed to have murdered 13-year-old Genette Tate in Devon in 1978.
Devon and Cornwall Police said the file runs to "scores of pages".
Genette's body has not been found since she vanished while delivering evening newspapers in Aylesbeare, near Exeter.
Her case is believed to be the longest running missing person inquiry in Britain.
Black, originally from Grangemouth in Scotland, was first convicted of sexual assault when he was a teenager and the delivery driver's murder victims came from Northern Ireland, England and Scotland.
He was convicted for killing Jennifer Cardy, nine, of County Antrim in 1981, Susan Maxwell, 11, of Northumberland in 1982, and Caroline Hogg, five, of Edinburgh in 1983 and Sarah Harper, 10, of Leeds, in 1986.
Black died of natural causes in Maghaberry prison, Northern Ireland.
A senior Devon and Cornwall Police source told the BBC: "We would like a clear statement that it [Crown Prosecution Service] would have charged Black with Genette's murder.
"It's the closest we can now get to justice and might offer some comfort to her family and the community."
The new file is the result of two years of work by a dedicated group of eight detectives - including some who worked on the original inquiry - from the force's Major Crime Team.
But, John Tate, Genette's father, said: "It's a shame this file was not submitted earlier to the CPS.
"There was some talk of it being submitted last autumn, then the CPS would have had several months to decide whether to prosecute Black.
"That would have meant that Black would have died in January knowing that he was going to put on trial for Genette's murder."
He added he awaited the "result of the CPS decision with interest".
The BBC has been told the detectives found two new witnesses following a re-investigation of the case, including an examination of the thousands of files from the original investigation.
They have been re-interviewed at length, senior police sources said, and have "strengthened the circumstantial case against Black".
The witnesses' evidence "concerns Black's behaviour" at the time she disappeared, the sources added.
Black, who was serving a life sentence for the murders of four children, was arrested and questioned in 2005 over the Genette Tate case, but not charged.
The force sent a file to the CPS, but three years later it decided there was insufficient evidence to charge Black.
He denied any involvement in Genette's disappearance.


Japan has opened the door for increased imports of beef from the US, as it eased restrictions that have been in place for almost a decade.

It will now allow the import of beef from cattle up to 30 months old.
Japan banned US beef imports in 2003 after the outbreak of mad cow disease. It restarted imports in 2006, but only from cattle less than 20 months of age.
US officials said the move was likely to boost US beef exports to Japan by "hundreds of millions" of dollars.
Ron Kirk, the US trade representative said the decision by Japan was "great news for American ranchers and beef companies".
Japan has also eased restrictions on beef imports from Canada, France and the Netherlands.
The new rules will take effect from 1 February.
Before the ban in 2003, Japan was one of the biggest markets for US beef exports.
However, the ban resulted in other beef exporting countries such as Australia increasing their presence in Japan.
Since the lifting of the ban in 2006, US firms have been trying to regain their share of the Japanese market.
They have achieved some success and US exports to Japan have been rising. However, shipments are yet to reach the levels seen before 2003.
"This move is an important step forward in paving the way toward greater export opportunities to one of our largest export markets," said J D Alexander, president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
However, some analysts were sceptical about whether the easing of restrictions would have an immediate impact on US beef exports.
"Australia is not just going to give up the market share they've gained," said Lee Schulz, a livestock economist at Iowa State University.


Police will not pursue further prosecutions over treatment of an elderly patient at two hospitals.

The family of Lilian Williams, from Porthcawl, complained of neglect to South Wales Police in September 2013.
She was admitted to Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend, and Neath Port Talbot Hospital between 2010 and 2012.
Three nurses have already pleaded guilty to wilful neglect of patients. Another two are due to go on trial later this year
The force has met with Mrs Williams' family to discuss the decision, following their investigation.
Mrs Williams' son Gareth said: "Since my mother's case was first publicised by the BBC, we are aware of several dozen other families who have contacted us expressing serious current ongoing concerns about the hospital.
"We implore them to do as we did and report them to South Wales Police. The number of seriously alarming cases that are still being reported to us on an almost daily basis is disturbing."
Det Ch Insp Mark Lewis said: "A separate investigation specifically investigating the monitoring of blood sugar levels by nurses within Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University has previously led to three nurses pleading guilty to the wilful neglect of patients, one of whom was Lilian Williams."
In a statement, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board said it is hoped it would end "rumours and speculation".
A spokesman added: "Notwithstanding the outcome of the police investigation we accept that there were significant shortcomings in Mrs Williams' care, which we very much regret and for which we have apologised to Mr Williams."


Cristiano Ronaldo's 33rd goal of the season helped Real Madrid take a big step towards the Champions League quarter-finals with victory at Roma in the first leg of their last-16 tie.

The Portugal forward struck in the second half with a deflected finish.
Roma had their chances, particularly on the counter, with Edin Dzeko hitting the side-netting.
However, Jese's low drive late on leaves Roma with it all to do in the second leg.
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A goal will perhaps have been especially sweet for Ronaldo, who had walked out of a news conference on Tuesday after being questioned about his record in away matches this season.
He had not netted away from the Bernabeu since 29 November and, although he was quiet for large periods of Wednesday's game, a clever bit of skill produced the breakthrough.
Chasing on to a long pass, Ronaldo took one touch to bring the ball under control and gave himself a sight of goal before firing into the top corner, with his effort taking a nick off Roma skipper Alessandro Florenzi.
The 31-year-old could have had more after that, notably heading just wide of the far post, but the strike means he now has five away goals in the Champions League this season; more than any other player.
The appointment of Zinedine Zidane as Real Madrid head coach may have been a bit of a surprise but the Frenchman has made a good start, winning five and drawing one of his six league games so far.
Zidane had plenty of experience of the Champions League as a player, famously scoring a stunning winner for Real against Bayer Leverkusen in the 2002 final, but this match represented his first experience of the competition as a manager.
With leaders Barcelona seven points ahead of Real in La Liga, coupled with their expulsion from the Copa del Rey, the Champions League is increasingly becoming the only competition Real have a chance of winning.
Real have historically struggled against Italian sides, having not knocked one out of a European competition in 29 years, but Zidane outlined his desire to secure an away goal by naming an attacking side that included Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and James Rodriguez, with the injured Gareth Bale remaining in Madrid.
In the first half, the Spanish side's play was industrious rather than fluid, but Ronaldo's goal caused the game to open up and Real had further chances to add to their lead with the Portuguese and Benzema going close.
As Roma pushed forward and chased an equaliser, Jese charged at a tiring defence to grab a second that should be enough to see Real through.
Roma scraped into the last 16 after winning just one of their group stage matches and were beaten 6-1 by Barcelona in the process.
Real Madrid, in contrast, won five of their six group games, scoring 19 goals.
However, the Italians had a good game plan against Real - soaking up the pressure and hitting them on the counter - and until Ronaldo scored it was an effective tactic, with the pace of former Chelsea winger Mohamed Salah causing Real plenty of problems.
They also had a strong claim for a penalty when Dani Carvajal went in strongly on Florenzi inside the area, but nothing was given. With a little more luck, the result could have been different.
Roma manager Luciano Spalletti: "The Roma fans are used to seeing big games and know when to clap or not. The fans know the lads played well and that we didn't get the rub of the green.
"I must tell the players that they played well and were a touch unlucky. We have to work but we're on the right track."
Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane: "We're happy with the game and the result. We knew it was going to be a tough game but we fought to the end. In the first half they pressured us and that's normal in a difficult Champions League tie.
"Cristiano was great but then again so was everyone. Even those who did not play were important for team morale. I'm happy with Jese's goal - he deserved it for his efforts. "
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Russian astronaut Gennady Padalka has returned to Earth with the record for having spent the most time in space.

The 57-year-old's latest mission lasted 168 days, bringing his total to 879 days in space over five trips.
This is two months longer than the previous record set in 2005 by Russian Sergei Krikalev over six missions.
Mr Padalka and two other members from the International Space Station (ISS) landed safely in Kazakhstan on their Soyuz spacecraft just before sunrise.
The capsule descended after re-entering the Earth's atmosphere under a parachute.
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A ground crew rushed to welcome and extract the three astronauts from the charred spacecraft and medics checked their condition.
"I am fine," Mr Padalka told them as he sipped tea and ate an apple, the AFP news agency reports.
Mr Padalka's companions - Andreas Mogensen from Denmark and Kazakh Aidyn Aimbetov - are both novices in comparison, having only spent 10 days in orbit on what was their first mission.
Mr Aimbetov had travelled in place of British soprano Sarah Brightman, who had been due to made the trip as a space tourist but withdrew from training in May citing family reasons.
Six astronauts now remain on the ISS, including Nasa's Scott Kelly and Russia's Mikhail Kornienko, who began a 12-month tour of duty in March - the longest continuous stay anyone would have been aboard the 400km-high (250 mile) orbiting platform.


High winds are affecting the operation to salvage the cargo ship that ran aground in the Solent.

An operation to pump 3,000 tonnes of water out of the Hoegh Osaka is expected to last until Sunday.
But poor weather conditions has made it unsafe for the salvors to board on Saturday to finalise pumping arrangements.
High winds of up to 83mph during the night caused the vessel to drag anchor for approximately 100 metres.
The ship had been anchored to help control its movement.
Salvage company Svitzer described working conditions on board as "difficult".
The Hoegh Osaka has been secured two miles (3.2km) east of the Bramble Bank sandbank from which it freed itself on Wednesday.
Water, described as being "lightly contaminated with oil" is being pumped from the ship's hold, which salvers say will cause the ship's 50-degree list to decrease.
The film of oil on the water is believed to have come from vehicles held within the hold.
With no power from the ship's generators, the water is being discharged using portable pumps during daylight hours.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said there was no evidence of any pollution.
Divers are also waiting until conditions improve to complete an inspection of the hull which began yesterday.
The Queen's Harbour Master has introduced an exclusion zone of 984ft (300m) around the vessel, currently held by tugs between Cowes and Lee-on-Solent.
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Hugh Shaw, the Secretary of State's representative for maritime salvage and intervention, said: "I've got confidence the salvors can discharge the bulk of the water from sucking underneath the oil and that will leave us with a small quantity of oil on board the vessel."
The 51,000-tonne vehicle transporter "refloated" itself unexpectedly at 14:00 GMT on Wednesday due to the high tide.
It was towed two miles east of Bramble Bank, where it was grounded on Saturday.
At a news conference on Tuesday, Bram Sperling of Svitzer, said there was some water inside because of a "small opening in the vessel" that had since been closed.
A refloat was the preferred option to avoid further damage to the ship from the sandbank.
Salvage experts boarded the ship on Monday and began carrying out an assessment to form a rescue plan.
The Singapore-registered transporter set sail for Germany at about 20:20 on Saturday, shortly before being deliberately run aground by the crew after it unexpectedly started to list.
There were 1,400 cars on board, including 1,200 Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles and 65 Minis, as well as 105 JCB machines and 500 tonnes of fuel.
Two crew members out of 25 rescued by RNLI Lifeboats and the Solent Coastguard on Saturday suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Two senior officers and a pilot stayed on board before being taken ashore.


No pollster, no pundit, no political leader saw it coming - not even David Cameron himself.

Governing parties don't gain seats. Parties that have implemented painful cuts and are promising more certainly don't. Until that is the Conservative Party did - achieving what had seemed to be Mission Impossible - a Tory majority.
Until that is David Cameron's personal triumph which triggered the near simultaneous resignation of his three principal opponents - Messrs Miliband, Clegg and Farage.
They did so in part because they helped to crush their partners in coalition these last five years - reducing the Liberal Democrat parliamentary party to a size when it can fit into two London taxis and still have two seats to spare.
In part because the extraordinary tidal wave of support for the SNP swept dozens of once safe Labour seats away.
In part because Nigel Farage persuaded millions to vote for him but secured just one seat - not, though, the one he was standing in.
But - and this is critical - because Labour performed worse overall than it had under Gordon Brown in the immediate aftermath of the worst financial crisis of modern times.
The result - the men who thought that today or sometime soon they'd be running this country's economic and foreign policies have now joined the unemployment register.
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A teenager has died in the custody of police after being detained by security staff at a shopping centre.

Mzee Mohammed, 18, was seen with a knife "behaving erratically" at Liverpool One before officers were called to the scene.
His mother Karla told the Liverpool Echo her son was a "gentle giant" and she believed police and security staff had "questions to answer".
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating.
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At the family home in Kensington, Mr Mohammed's mother said her son had "a troubled past" but "he got past that".
He had no pre-existing medical conditions, she said.
A Merseyside Police statement said a man had run into a house in the Toxteth area of the city in "a distressed state".
Later, a man was seen with a knife "behaving erratically" at a number of locations in the city centre, it added.
Officers located him near Liverpool One where he was detained by security staff.
Police said the man was "suffering a medical episode" and was taken to hospital but was pronounced dead at about 19:55 BST.
As with all deaths in custody, Merseyside Police's professional standards department was obliged to notify the IPCC of the incident.
Inquest - a charity which provides advice to people bereaved by a death in custody - said there needed to be "the most thorough and robust scrutiny of the actions of the security guards and the police" who were in contact with Mr Mohammed before his death.
His family must be supported to find out how and why he died, a statement added.
Race relations activist Lee Jasper, said: "I don't think anybody has got any confidence in the IPCC to investigate these critical incidents.
"The IPCC needs to be transparent and engender trust and confidence in the wider community."
Merseyside's Police Commissioner Jane Kennedy said the IPCC investigation would "examine the full circumstances of what happened".
The young man's family can take some comfort from knowing it will answer any questions that they may have, she added.
"Merseyside Police and I will do everything in our power to ensure the man's loved ones and the local community are fully engaged. Merseyside Police and community leaders in Liverpool 8 have worked hard to build a strong relationship based on mutual confidence and trust."
A post-mortem examination is due to take place.


The body of the Russian ambassador assassinated by a Turkish policeman in Ankara has been flown home.

Andrei Karlov was shot by Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, nine times as he gave a speech on Monday, apparently in protest at Russia's involvement in Aleppo.
On Tuesday afternoon, Karlov's coffin was carried across Esenboga airport's tarmac, draped in a Russian flag.
He was accompanied to a waiting plane, sent by Moscow, by an honour guard of six Turkish soldiers.
A short ceremony, attended by Ankara's top diplomats and Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Tugrul Turkes, took place before Karlov left the country for the last time.
In highly unusual scenes for a Muslim country, a Russian Orthodox priest said prayers and swung incense over the coffin, while a Turkish soldier stood holding a picture of the murdered diplomat and Karlov's widow Marina wept.
Mrs Karlova was present when Altintas opened fire on her husband, who took up his posting in Ankara in 2013.
The plane carrying his body later touched down in Moscow.
It was not clear if the gunman, an Ankara riot police member who was later shot dead in a gun fight with Turkish officers, had links to any militant group.
However, Russia and Turkey agreed quickly the assassination was an act of "provocation" with Russian President Vladimir Putin saying it was "undoubtedly... aimed at disrupting the normalisation" of bilateral ties and the "peace process in Syria".
They have vowed to work together to find out who is behind the murder of Karlov. Russian investigators arrived in Turkey to help on Tuesday.
Mr Turkes also paid his respects to Karlov at Tuesday's ceremony, describing him as the man who "has become the eternal symbol of Turkish-Russian friendship".
In his time in Ankara, the veteran diplomat, 62, who had served as Soviet ambassador to North Korea for much of the 1980s, had to grapple with a major crisis when a Turkish plane shot down a Russian jet close to the Syrian border.
Demanding a Turkish apology, Moscow imposed damaging sanctions - notably a freeze on charter flights by Russian tourists - and the two countries only recently mended ties.
Meanwhile, a senior Turkish government official told the Associated Press that the killing was "fully professional, not a one-man action" and that the attack was well-planned.
Police have arrested six people over the killing, including Altintas's mother, father, sister and three other relatives, as well as his roommate.


A pet Amazon parrot is turning heads due to its distinct Yorkshire accent.

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Dougie, who lives with its owner Margaret Hullah in Boroughbridge, has learnt several phrases including "what's up w'you" and "ello Dougie".
The 11-year-old parrot also has a very apt favourite food - Yorkshire puddings.


US senators have voted overwhelmingly to impose fresh sanctions on Russia over its alleged interference in last year's election.

They also agreed, by 97-2, to set up a process by which Congress can block any attempt by President Trump to scale back those sanctions.
The legislation was filed as an amendment to an Iran sanctions bill.
It comes amid concerns that members of Mr Trump's campaign team colluded with Russia over the election.
President Trump and Moscow have always denied any collusion.
A number of investigations into the allegations have been opened in Washington, including a justice department probe led by former FBI director Robert Mueller.
The new sanctions will target:
The measures need the approval of the House of Representatives and to be signed into law by President Trump, although they are thought to have enough Congressional support to override any veto.
The Senate vote was welcomed by both Republicans and Democrats.
"It's time to respond to Russia's attack on American democracy with strength, with resolve, with common purpose, and with action," said Republican Senator John McCain.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer called it as "bipartisan as it gets". The only two senators not to vote for the bill were Republicans Rand Paul and Mike Lee.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had agreed "with the sentiment" of holding Russia accountable but had urged Congress not to pass any legislation that could harm a "constructive dialogue" with Moscow.
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been one of Trump's team facing allegations of holding undisclosed meetings with Russian officials during the election.
He told a Senate committee on Tuesday that any suggestion he colluded with the Kremlin was an "appalling and detestable lie".


Children were given a lesson in how not to spell when council contractors bungled a painted road sign outside their Chester school.

The yellow sign outside Highfield Community Primary School, Blacon, near the Welsh border, was meant to read "clear" but instead said "claer".
"Claer" has no meaning in English or across the border in Wales.
The sign was wrongly painted on Tuesday and corrected at no cost to Cheshire West and Chester Council earlier.


A man in Australia has attempted to set a world record by playing lawn bowls continuously for three days.

Shayne Barwick bowled for 73 hours in the remote Queensland town of Cloncurry, 1700km (1056 miles) northwest of Brisbane.
Mr Barwick, who was raising money for his club, believed 73 hours was the current record.
But he said he "really put his foot in it" after learning a singles bowling record did not exist.
"I was reading in the Guinness Book of rules and regulations and I thought it said 73 hours to beat (the record). But it wasn't - it was the age of some bloke," Mr Barwick told  The North West Star.
"I'm going to the pub with my mates (to) have a beer, have a cigar and relax."
The Cloncurry Bowls Club said Mr Barwick was now the "Guinness World Record holder", but a spokeswoman for the company could not immediately confirm the claim.
Starting at 09:00 on Friday (22:00 GMT on Thursday), the 46-year-old club manager was allowed a 10-minute break every four hours.
He was brought water and food on the green, while an ambulance crew was on standby.
Mr Barwick rolled his final ball at 10:00 on Monday, cheered on by what the local newspaper called "seemingly half the town".
"It's a superhuman effort, there's no other term for it," Cloncurry mayor Gregory Campbell told the BBC.
"I've done some pretty long stints at work but never anything that comes close to 73 hours."
Mr Barwick hoped to raise A$20,000 (Â£12,000; $15,000).


China has launched a new aircraft carrier in the latest sign of its growing military strength.

It is the country's second aircraft carrier, after the Liaoning, and the first to be made domestically.
The as-yet unnamed ship was transferred into the water in the north-eastern port of Dalian, state media said. It will reportedly be operational by 2020.
It comes amid heated rhetoric between the US and North Korea and ongoing tensions in the South China Sea.
China has had only one operational aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, which it bought from Ukraine and refitted.
The US has deployed warships and a submarine to the Korean peninsula, prompting an angry reaction from North Korea. China has urged calm.
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The sight of a bottle of champagne hitting the bow of a new Chinese-built aircraft carrier will worry many.
Western military intelligence will be poring over the television footage. For them it's not emotional: cold calculations are being made.
They see a not quite finished vessel, a few years from full service, partly based on Soviet-era design.
It's technologically inferior to the ten aircraft carriers being used by the United States Navy - but there's no doubt that it's a big step for China.
China's aircraft carrier programme is a state secret, but it's hard to imagine this country being satisfied with two of them.
The US says all options are on the table to remove North Korea's nuclear weapons - and it is using the USS Carl Vinson battle group to press the point.
That's the kind of power that China wants - and that's why we haven't seen the last Chinese aircraft carrier rolling off the production line in the Dalian shipyard.
The new carrier is touted as a significant upgrade from the Liaoning, which was built more than 25 years ago and is a refurbished ship from the days of the Soviet Union.
It has been seen by some analysts as a kind of training vessel in preparation for the new carrier, our correspondent says.
But China has been modernising its armed forces recently as its economy expands.
In March, it announced it would increase its military budget by about 7% this year - the second year in a row that increases have been less than 10%, after nearly 20 years of larger increases.
China's defence budget remains smaller than that of the US, however.
While China's military spending will be about 1.3% of the country's projected GDP in 2017, the US spends roughly 3% of its economic output on the military - and the US economy is larger, so the dollar value difference is enormous.
US President Donald Trump has also proposed a 10% increase in the military budget.
Chinese state news agency Xinhua said work had started on China's latest aircraft carrier in 2013.
The launch was attended by the vice-president of China's central military commission, Fan Changlong.
Officials smashed a bottle of champagne on the ship's hull as "magnificent patriotic songs" played on loudspeakers and nearby ships sounded their horns in celebration, reported Xinhua.
The defence ministry said previously that it would carry China's J-15 aircraft along with other planes, and that it would use conventional rather than nuclear propulsion.


Car firm Nissan's Sunderland plant has been hit by the worldwide ransomware attack with production affected.

But, bosses said there had been "no major impact" on the business.
"Like many organisations our plant was subject to a ransomware attack affecting some of our systems on Friday evening," a spokeswoman confirmed.
The government's emergency committee, COBRA, is due to meet to discuss the global cyber attack which also disabled NHS computers in England and Scotland.
The situation at the Wearside plant is "continuing to be monitored", but in line with normal weekend procedures no car production was taking place, the spokeswoman added.
Cyber-security firm Avast said it had seen 75,000 cases of the ransomware - known as WannaCry and variants of that name - around the world.
The attack that also hit about 40 NHS organisations was "unprecedented" in scale, Europe's police agency says.


Thousands of Palestinian prisoners are refusing food for one day in protest at the death of a fellow detainee.

Arafat Jaradat, 30, appeared to have died of a heart attack on Saturday, the Israeli prison service said.
Palestinians said an autopsy performed on Sunday revealed signs of torture, but Israelis said injuries were probably from attempts at resuscitation and that key tests were still needed.
Israel has launched an investigation into what happened.
Mr Jaradat's death comes after a week of violent clashes between the Israeli army and Palestinian youths over the continued detention of four hunger strikers.
The clashes continued on Sunday, fuelled by news of Mr Jaradat's death.
Stone-throwing protesters in the West Bank towns of Hebron, Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin and elsewhere faced off with Israeli soldiers deploying tear gas and stun grenades.
One Palestinian man was said to have been seriously wounded after being hit with live rounds.
In Gaza City, women gathered with flags and posters to protest at the conditions of more than 4,500 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
At least 3,000 Palestinian prisoners are believed to have refused meals on Sunday in protest at Mr Jaradat's death.
Mr Jaradat, a father of two from the village of Sair, near Hebron, in the southern West Bank, died suddenly on Saturday in Israeli's Megido prison.
He was arrested last week on suspicion of throwing stones at Israeli soldiers.
Palestinian human rights groups have suggested Mr Jaradat died either during or shortly after interrogation.
On Sunday, Mr Jaradat's body underwent an autopsy attended by a Palestinian pathologist.
A preliminary findings statement said that "no signs of external injury were found apart from marks of resuscitation and a small friction on the right side of the chest".
But it added that "the preliminary findings are not sufficient to determine the cause of death", saying the results of additional tests had not yet been received.
This judgment was dismissed by Palestinian Minister of Prisoners Issa Karake, who said the Palestinian doctor attending the autopsy had told him there was no sign of a heart attack.
"The evidence corroborates our suspicion that Jaradat died as a result of torture, especially since the autopsy clearly proved that the victim's heart was healthy," Mr Karake said in a statement.
(Source: Israel Prison Service December 2012)
He called for an independent international inquiry into Israel's treatment of Palestinian detainees.
Earlier, an envoy for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made "an unequivocal demand" to the Palestinian Authority to calm the surge of protests.
But a senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blamed Israel for the upsurge in anger - and analysts say the protests seem likely to continue in light of the claims surrounding the death of Mr Jaradat, who is due to be buried on Monday.
A statement from the office of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Saturday expressed "deep sorrow and shock over the martyrdom of prisoner Arafat Jaradat".
As of December 2012, Israel held 4,517 Palestinians in its jails.
Of these 1,031 are being held until the conclusion of legal proceedings, 178 are in administrative detention and 170 are under 18 years of age.
Israeli officials say they use administrative detention when they fear an immediate risk to security or to protect informants.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club said the number of inmates on open-ended hunger strike had climbed to 11 from four.


Former world champion Carl Froch says he will not reconsider his decision to retire from boxing, but hopes to build a career in acting instead.

Froch told BBC Radio 5 live's Friday Sports Panel that he is set to play "wing man" to Hollywood actor Jason Statham in a three-part crime series.
The four-time world super-middleweight champion says he is undergoing acting lessons to prepare for the role.
"I'm dipping my toe in the water for a bit of acting," the 38-year-old said.
"I've just been reading the script this morning, so it may come to fruition or it may not.
"It's crime in London, it's all going off and there's terrorists going off, and Jason's tackling it through the Metropolitan Police."
Four-time world super-middleweight champion Froch retired in July 2015, 14 months after his last fight, when he knocked out George Groves at Wembley Stadium to retain the WBA and IBF titles.
Froch's only defeats in his 35-fight professional career over 13 years came against Mikkel Kessler in 2010 and American Andre Ward in 2011, although he beat the Dane in a 2013 rematch.
The Nottingham fighter still believes he could win another world title, but says family commitments and the prospect of 12 weeks of hard training have persuaded him to rule out a comeback.
"I think about a comeback every day, but I am realistic," he told Friday Sports Panel.
"I am 40 years old next year. It is not just the fight, it is the 12-week training camp, the intensity, the dieting, and then being away from my kids."
"But as a retired athlete I still look at the super-middleweight division and think: 'James DeGale - I can beat him. George Groves - I beat him at Wembley in front of 80,000 people.'
Froch, who is also set to appear in a Terry Stone film called "Once Upon a Time in London", follows a long tradition of sporting stars who have appeared on the silver screen.
His mini-series co-star Statham, who starred in the action thriller "The Transporter" trilogy, competed for England in the diving competition at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland.
Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson played a cameo role in the Hollywood film "The Hangover", while Irish former middleweight champion Steve Collins held a minor part in the British action film "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels".
Former Manchester United footballer Eric Cantona won critical acclaim for a series of roles in French independent cinema, and in the 2009 Ken Loach film "Looking for Eric", while a number of US sports stars, including wrestler Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, and former American football star OJ Simpson, have appeared in Hollywood films.
Former Wimbledon and Leeds United footballer Vinnie Jones is arguably the most successful sportsman-turned-actor that Britain has produced.
Jones, 51, made his big-screen debut in "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" in 1998, then starred in the 2001 film "Mean Machine", the British remake of the Burt Reynolds movie "The Longest Yard".
Jones also starred alongside action stars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 2013 thriller "Escape Plan".


A father and son who spent "too much time in the bar" were refused on a flight to Turkey - despite the rest of their family being onboard.

The men were told they could not board the Monarch flight to Dalaman at 07:00 BST after arriving at the gate late.
The pair "talked themselves into being arrested" for being drunk and disorderly, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.
The rest of the family continued with their flight from Manchester Airport.
In a Facebook post, GMP said the pair, aged 60 and 27, had "let the drink get the better of them".
"The flight wasn't delayed as they didn't get there on time," the force said.
"However, the other members of the party did and should be shortly landing in Turkey to enjoy their holiday."


Bed bugs might be developing thicker "skins" to help them survive exposure to common insecticides.

Human population growth and international travel have helped the bug become a source of irritation in hotel rooms around the world.
Insecticides are the most common way to kill them, but they have rapidly developed resistance.
Now, an Australian team writing in Plos One journal thinks it has found one of the reasons why.
Killing resistant strains of the bug may require concentrations 1,000 times larger than those needed to eliminate non-resistant creatures.
Infestations have spread to homes and offices and the bugs are extremely hard to get rid of once they gain a foothold.
They can survive for up to a year without feeding and a single fertilised female can infest a whole building.
While they were a common part of life in the 1940s and 50s, the introduction of DDT and other powerful insecticides initially restricted their populations.
But there was a resurgence as the bugs quickly developed resistance to DDT and subsequent classes of chemicals deployed to kill them.
Like all insects, bed bugs are covered by an exoskeleton called a cuticle.
Using scanning electron microscopy, David Lilly from the University of Sydney and colleagues compared the thickness of cuticles taken from bed bugs that were resistant to insecticides with cuticles from those that were more easily killed by insecticides.
The results showed that the thicker the cuticle, the more likely the bugs were to be resistant to insecticides.
"One way bed bugs beat insecticides is by developing a thicker 'skin'," said co-author Mr Lilly, a PhD candidate.
The researchers say the results could explain why bed bug infestations are so difficult to control and could assist the search for more effective strategies.
"If we understand the biological mechanisms bed bugs use to beat insecticides, we may be able to spot a chink in their armour," said David Lilly.
However, there may be other ways that the organisms beat widely used bug sprays. Another team of scientists in the US thinks that bugs there may be able to produce large quantities of enzymes that break down toxic chemicals, including insecticides.
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The trial of a man accused of planning to target Tony Blair or carry out a Mumbai-style terror attack has heard secret recordings of him praising jihadist battles in Syria and Iraq.

Erol Incedal, from London, was recorded saying he hated white people and wanted to do "a drive-by".
The Old Bailey heard lengthy recordings made by police after they bugged his car in September last year.
Mr Incedal, 26, who is being tried partly in secret, denies all charges.
The recordings were played in court, with many difficult to clearly hear.
In one video, Mr Incedal sings about killing Shia Muslims by cutting their throats.
In another, Mr Incedal and two others, who were watching or listening to accounts from fighters in Syria and elsewhere, are heard laughing and commenting on the deaths of enemies of al-Qaeda or Islamic State fighters.
At one point, Mr Incedal comments to another man, Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, about the types of weapons being fired, adding the incomplete phrase "we used that".
The jury were told that one video, called Dola, related to al-Qaeda in Iraq.
"I've watched so many different like jihadi people's videos and it doesn't do nothing to me," says Mr Incedal on the tape.
"But the Dola ones, it just puts this thing in your head that you just want to do drive-by."
Mr Incedal and his companion are then heard laughing.
"They do it a lot bruv," says Mr Incedal. "And they've got this special like machine uzi gun like and silence on it - it's nuts."
The jury was told on Tuesday that Rarmoul-Bouhadjar had pleaded guilty to possessing bomb-making plans.
Mr Incedal denies the same charge. He also denies preparing for acts of terrorism.
Earlier on Wednesday the court was told that Mr Incedal's home was searched after he was arrested on 13 October last year in central London.
During the search of the property in south-east London, officers found a document referring to a "Plan A" on top of a wardrobe in a bedroom.
It listed "three to four workers, two tennis racquets, one month's surveillance, rent nearby flat, transport, assess security, assess risk, legitimacy, action etc", prosecutor Richard Whittam QC said.
Mr Incedal's wife Kadeejah Baluch and four children were at the property, prosecutors said. Three were his own children, aged six, four and 11 months, they added.
The court heard Mrs Baluch confirmed she was married to Mr Incedal, and said: "He normally lives here but not for the last four days."
Police also searched a second property near Paddington, which Mr Incedal failed to disclose, jurors were told.
Officers found signs a number of people lived there, including three pairs of shoes, three beds, condoms and various DVDs, the court heard.
They also found a laptop in a drawer in the bedroom, which prosecutors say contained coded messages referring to a "Mumbai-style" attack and Kalashnikov rifles.
In the recordings, Mr Incedal is heard arguing and complaining to his wife about how he was stopped and held for a few hours while the police examined his car.
He tells his wife: "I hate white people so muchâ€¦ we might have to destroy everything, and do something else, Plan B.
"These pigs, I just feel like running them over. Talking about the police."
The court was told on Tuesday that prosecutors believe he was planning either an attack similar to the one in 2008 in Mumbai, which left 174 dead, or to target a prominent figure. An address belonging to former Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie were among items recovered from his car, jurors heard.
The prosecution has said he had no settled plan.
Jurors were told on Monday that parts of the trial would never become public.
Some sessions, such as one being held on Wednesday afternoon, will only be open to a limited number of journalists. They will not be able to report what is said.
A third part of the trial will see even these accredited journalists excluded from hearing the evidence.


No officers were deployed to search for a vulnerable teenager who was later found dead, the police watchdog said.

Thomas Gallagher, 16, was discovered by a member of the public in Old Kays Park in Tottington, Bury, in July 2015.
An inquest concluded the schoolboy took his own life and police shortcomings did not contribute to his death.
But an Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report found Greater Manchester Police's (GMP) conduct was "below the standard expected."
The teenager's parents criticised police, saying there had been serious failings in the handling of the case, the Manchester Evening News reports.
In a statement they said: "We explained his vulnerabilities concerning his recent mental health history. Subsequently two members of the public found Tom five hours later. GMP failed to respond at all."
The IPCC found police delayed looking for the schoolboy because of staffing shortages in the Bury division, which were "foreseeable".
"No officers were deployed...until the discovery of Thomas' body some five hours later," the investigator found.
The report said the response of four officers and a radio operator was "unsatisfactory".
It said the conduct of an inspector, a police sergeant, an acting police sergeant, a police constable and a civilian radio operator, "whilst not amounting to misconduct, did fall below the standard expected."
IPCC Associate Commissioner, Guido Liguori, recommended GMP "should address" the "under-resourcing" of the police division in Bury as well as "ensuring police officers and staff are properly supported" for "the benefit of the local community."
Ch Supt Chris Sykes from GMP's Bury division said: "Thomas Gallagher's death was a tragedy and our deepest condolences remain with his family.
"Unfortunately, it was not possible for GMP to resource the original missing report, due to staff abstractions and a higher than usual number of incidents on the night."
Changes have already been implemented in Bury, including new shift patterns, to ensure the force could respond to unanticipated spikes in demand in future, he added.
He said: "Whilst the jury concluded that none of the shortcomings in GMP's response caused or contributed in any way to Tom's death, we fully acknowledge the comments made by the jury in delivering their conclusion at today's inquest. We will also await the coroner's report on any recommendations."


Saudi Arabia judoka Wojdan Shaherkani will compete at the Olympics after a dispute over a hijab was resolved.

The International Judo Federation said the 16-year-old must fight without the headscarf for safety reasons, but the Saudis threatened to withdraw Shaherkani.
An International Olympic Committee spokesman said: "The judo federation will allow her to wear something which will not compromise her safety, which I think they use for competitions in Asia."
A Saudi official said earlier this month that the country's two female athletes at London 2012 - Shaherkani and 800m runner Sarah Attar - must obey Islamic dress codes.
But judo officials claimed a headscarf could cause choking, in a sport that involves grabbing and throwing.
Shaherkani will fight Puerto Rico's Melissa Mojica, ranked 13 in the world, in the first round of the +78kg category on Friday.
There is almost no public tradition of women participating in sport in Saudi Arabia, who have found it difficult to select athletes for the London Games who met the minimum qualifying standards.


Detectives investigating a fatal assault have released CCTV footage of potential witnesses who have yet to come forward.

20 December 2015 Last updated at 13:02 GMT
Andrew Russell, 36, was found unconscious in a car park on Bradshaw Way, in Derby, shortly before 02:00 on 16 November. He was taken to hospital but later died.
Det Insp Graham Prince, of Derbyshire Police, said: "We are trying to trace a number of cars seen driving along London Road between 1.30am and 2.15am that morning, along with several lone people walking down the road during the same time period.
"These people have yet to come forward and they could have information which may help with the inquiry."
A 41-year-old man has been charged in connection with the alleged attack.


1492 - Christopher Columbus visits the island, which he names Hispaniola, or "Little Spain".
1496 - Spaniards set up first Spanish colony in Western hemisphere at Santo Domingo, which subsequently serves as capital of all Spanish colonies in America.
1697 - Treaty of Ryswick gives western part of Hispaniola island (Haiti) to France and eastern part (Santo Domingo - the present Dominican Republic) to Spain.
1795 - Spain cedes its portion of Hispaniola island to France.
1808 - Spain retakes Santo Domingo following revolt by Spanish Creoles.
1821 - Uprising against Spanish rules is followed by brief period of independence.
1822 - Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer marches his troops into Santo Domingo and annexes it.
Republic is born
1844 - Boyer overthrown; Santo Domingo declares its independence and becomes the Dominican Republic.
1861-63 - President Pedro Santana returns the Dominican Republic to Spanish rule.
1863-64 - Spain withdraws from, and annuls its annexation of, the Dominican Republic following a popular revolt.
1865 - The second Dominican Republic proclaimed.
1906 - Dominican Republic and US sign 50-year treaty according to which the US takes over the republic's customs department in return for buying its debts.
1916-24 - US forces occupy the Dominican Republic following internal disorder.
1924 - Constitutional government assumes control; US forces withdraw.
Trujillo dictatorship
1930 - General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina establishes personal dictatorship following the overthrow of President Horacio Vazquez.
1937 - Army massacres 19,000-20,000 Haitians living in areas of the Dominican Republic adjacent to Haiti.
1960 - Organisation of American States adopts resolution calling for severance of diplomatic ties with the Dominican Republic.
1961 - Trujillo assassinated.
US invades
1962 - Juan Bosch, founder of the leftist Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) elected president in the first democratic elections for nearly four decades.
1963 - Bosch deposed in military coup and replaced by a three-man civilian junta.
1965 - Some 30,000 US troops invade the Dominican Republic following a pro-Bosch uprising.
Return to democracy
1966 - Joaquin Balaguer, a Trujillo protege and former leader of the Reformist Party (later to become the centre-right Christian Social Reform Party (PRSC)), is elected president.
1978 - Silvestre Antonio Guzman (PRD) is elected president and proceeds to release some 200 political prisoners, ease media censorship and purge the armed forces of Balaguer supporters.
1979 - Two hurricanes leave more than 200,0000 people homeless and cause damage worth 1 billion dollars as the economy continues to deteriorate due to high fuel prices and low sugar prices.
1982 - Another PRD candidate, Jorge Blanco, elected president.
Austerity, unrest
1985 - IMF-prescribed austerity measures, including price rises for basic foods and petrol, lead to widespread riots.
Joaquin Balaguer's political career spanned seven decades
1986 - Balaguer (PRSC) re-elected president.
1988 - Jorge Blanco tried in absentia and found guilty of corruption during his presidential tenure.
1990 - Balaguer re-elected, defeating Bosch by a small majority.
1994 - Balaguer re-elected, but agrees to serve only a two-year term after being accused of fraud.
1996 - Leonel Fernandez Reyna of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) elected president.
1998 - Hurricane George causes widespread devastation.
2000 - PRD returned to power with Hipolito Mejia as president.
2001 May - Appeals court quashes a conviction against former president, Salvador Jorge Blanco, on charges of corruption.
2001 November - US jet bound for Santo Domingo crashes in New York killing all 255 people on board. Three days of national mourning declared.
2002 July - Former president Joaquin Balaguer dies aged 95; thousands pay their last respects to a man who dominated politics for more than 50 years.
2003 November - Deadly clashes between police and protesters during demonstrations against high prices, power cuts. Two months later, demonstrations about economic policies leave at least five dead.
Fernandez elected
2004 May - Former president Leonel Fernandez defeats incumbent Hipolito Mejia.
Severe floods in the south-west, and in parts of neighbouring Haiti, leave more than 2,000 dead or disappeared.
2005 September - Congress approves a proposed free trade agreement with the US and Central American nations. The DR enters the accord in March 2007.
2008 May - President Leonel Fernandez is re-elected.
2010 May - Congressional elections. Governing Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) retains firm grip on power.
2010 October - Dominican Republic tightens border restrictions to prevent cholera spreading from Haiti.
2012 May - Governing Dominican Liberation Party candidate Danilo Medina wins close presidential election over former president Hipolito Mejia.
2012 October - Hurricane Sandy causes extensive damage.
2013 September - Dominican Republic's highest court rules that the children of undocumented migrants are not eligible for Dominican nationality. Human rights groups warn that it could leave tens of thousands of people of Haitian descent stateless.
2014 May - The Dominican parliament approves a bill to grant citizenship to Dominican-born children of immigrants.
2016 May - President Danilo Medina is re-elected with a large majority.
2016 November - More than 20,000 people are displaced in flooding. The government declares a state of emergency.


A man who admitted attacking his wife with a cricket bat and forcing her to drink bleach has been jailed after a judge said the court was "misled" over a cricket contract.

Mustafa Bashir, 33, was spared a custodial term in March as the judge heard he would lose out on a cricket contract with Leicestershire.
Judge Richard Mansell QC, reviewing the sentence at Manchester Crown Court, said he was "fundamentally misled".
He sentenced Bashir to 18 months.
Bashir, who has played cricket for Oldham and Bolton, denied telling his barrister at the last hearing that he was about to sign the contract with Leicestershire.
He claimed he "wasn't listening" to his barrister's comments, was "extremely emotional" and there were a "series of misunderstandings".
Judge Mansell rejected Bashir's claims, saying: "You were clearly making a claim to court you had a professional cricket contract."
Leicestershire CCC accused Bashir of "inventing" the job offer "in order, it would seem, to evade a prison sentence".
The club later contacted the Crown Prosecution Service to deny any contact with Bashir.
However the court heard the club accepted he may have taken part in an open nets session.
Bashir, of Hebers Court, Middleton, Greater Manchester, earlier admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm, assault by beating, destroying or damaging property and using a destructive substance with intent to maim.
Judge Mansell ordered the case back to court under the "Slip rule" which allows judges to re-sentence if new information comes to light.
He had asked Bashir to provide evidence but said the defendant had produced only a "handful of emails" to support his claims.
The court heard a sports agent had written a letter to the earlier hearing saying Bashir "had a very bright future ahead of him" as he had been selected for Leicestershire.
The sports agent, who the new defence team said had "mistyped" the letter to court, has since been spoken to by police, the court heard.
Bashir's barrister also said the previous defence and probation officer had "got the wrong end of the stick" over the job offer.
Imposing the new sentence, the judge told Bashir: "You were clearly making a claim to the court you had a career in professional cricket ahead of you which was false.
"You made that quite clearly in the hope you would avoid a prison sentence.
"There's not a shred of evidence you were ever chosen to play for Leicestershire County Cricket Club, let alone you had received any offer of a full time contract."
Welcoming the sentence, Leicestershire CCC chief executive Wasim Khan said the club was "horrified at being used as a means for someone who had been convicted of appalling violence to his wife to escape imprisonment".
He said the new sentence was "a much more fitting punishment for what he did and good news for the fight against domestic violence".
Judge Mansell drew criticism from domestic abuse campaigners and several MPs when he told the court last month that the victim was not vulnerable as she was "an intelligent woman with a network of friends" and had a degree.
Reviewing Bashir's sentence, he said his earlier comments were meant as an explanation of advice issued by the Sentencing Guidelines Council about the vulnerability of witnesses.
He said he wanted to make clear Bashir's wife had been believed, she was "plainly vulnerable", but he had been explaining the different factors which can make a victim especially vulnerable.


Police investigating the attempted theft of a cash machine in Kinross have said they are looking for a distinctive white van.

Thieves attempted to steal a cash machine at the Sainsbury's on Station Road at 03:30 on 17 October.
Officers said the van may have been in Airth, near Falkirk, before or after the crime in Kinross took place.
The van has a blue, white and grey logo of "Bishop Auckland Car & Van Hire" on the side.
Det Insp Nicola McGovern said: "Extensive inquiries have already been carried out into this crime and this vehicle is of significant interest to the investigation.
"It is important that we identify exactly where this van was overnight between the Friday 16 and Saturday 17 October."
Anyone with information is asked to contact the police.


A 32-year-old woman has died in a crash between a car and a lorry in Gloucestershire.

The accident happened at about 09:15 GMT on Friday on the Saltway - an unclassified road near Northleach.
The woman, from Cheltenham, was driving the car and suffered fatal injuries in the crash, Gloucestershire Constabulary said.
Anyone who witnessed the crash has been asked to contact the force with information.


Left-arm spinner Steve O'Keefe took 6-35 to give Australia control of the first Test against India in Pune.

All O'Keefe's scalps came as India lost seven wickets for 11 runs to be 105 all out - captain Virat Kohli making his first Test duck in 45 innings.
Australia, bowled out for 260 in their first innings, then moved to 143-4 to lead by 298 runs.
Captain Steve Smith, dropped three times, was unbeaten on 59 at the end of day on which 15 wickets fell.
O'Keefe claimed three wickets in one over, first dismissing top-scorer KL Rahul (64) before Ajinkya Rahane and Wriddhiman Saha fell for ducks.
All of his six wickets came in the space of 24 deliveries as the 32-year-old claimed career-best figures in his fifth Test.
Despite Ravichandran Ashwin dismissing David Warner (10) and Shaun Marsh for a duck, Smith and Matt Renshaw (31) steadied the innings to put Australia on top.
Only one team has chased more than 300 to win a Test in India - India scored 387 to beat England by six wickets in 2008.


A section of the M1 was closed for nine hours after a man was hit by a lorry.

The man died at the scene at about 05:20 BST. Police are investigating any link to a crash minutes earlier on a bridge over the motorway.
Both incidents were close to junction 23 in Leicestershire with the first crash involving one vehicle.
The northbound motorway and the nearby A512 were reopened by 14:30. Vehicles trapped in the tailbacks were taken off the motorway by police.
The Highways Agency said there was still congestion in the area but this should ease by 15:30.
More on this story and other news in Leicestershire


The right of UK air passengers to force airlines to pay compensation for long flight delays has been suspended by the High Court.

A European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling last November gave passengers the right to compensation for long delays, not just cancellations.
But the High Court has, at the request of UK airlines, referred the matter back to the ECJ for a further hearing.
It means UK courts will not hear any more cases until the ECJ rules again.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which enforces the airline regulations, said it would defend the current position at the next ECJ hearings.
"The High Court stayed our enforcement powers so the courts won't hear cases in the interim," a spokesman said.
"But our view of the law hasn't changed - we wish to enforce the position laid down by the 2009 ruling."
Until last November, European rules awarded airline passengers cash compensation if their flights were cancelled, but not if they were delayed.
If passengers were delayed the airlines had only to offer meals, refreshments, two free telephone calls and, for an overnight delay, hotel accommodation and transfers to and from the hotel.
That changed when the ECJ effectively re-wrote the original 2004 regulations, and said that people whose flights were delayed should be treated as if their flights had been cancelled.
That meant cash compensation should be awarded, in addition to their other rights, if delays lasted longer than three hours.
However, the UK airline industry opposed the move. BA, Easyjet, the tour operator TUI and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) took the matter to the High Court, to persuade it to ask the European court to look at the issue again.
"It was an unexpected judgement last November," said aviation lawyer Sue Barham at law firm Barlow, Lyde and Gilbert.
"The rules don't say there is an obligation to pay compensation for delayed flights but the ECJ decided that that is what they meant."
Sarah McIntyre at Easyjet said: "It is important to clarify that this case will not affect delayed passengers' right to care such as phone calls, hotel accommodation and food, and we will continue to fully comply with EU regulations for claims relating to cancellations or denied boarding."
Since November some airlines have been paying up when delayed passengers have demanded compensation, while others have tried to stall and avoid paying, arguing that the ECJ judgement was wrong.
A stay on any new compensation cases in the UK courts, and refusal by UK airlines to pay compensation to passengers who merely ask for it, could last for two years.
"There will be a further hearing and I do not expect another judgement until the first half of 2012," said a source close to the airlines.
Despite the new round of court hearings, a CAA spokesman explained that a UK passenger could still make a claim for delay compensation in another EU country if an EU airline was involved.
The referral back to the ECJ is not a formal appeal - such a procedure does not exist - but it is being asked to reconsider the issue and change its mind.
Separately, some airlines have been fighting their obligation to pay food and hotel costs, for instance following the widespread disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud over much of Europe during the spring.
Last week, the European Commission threatened to take legal action against the Dutch airline KLM which has been reimbursing its passengers for the cost of just one day and one night's delay.
Ryanair initially threatened not to reimburse passengers whose flights were cancelled due to the ash cloud, but it backed down under pressure from the UK and Irish authorities.


Three schools have apologised to the families of children with special educational needs after initially refusing to accept them as pupils.

Settlements were reached in cases brought against Wallace High School, Lisburn, St Brigid's College, Londonderry, and Lislagan Primary School in Ballymoney.
The schools had been identified as suitable by the education authorities.
The families ended up sending their children to alternative schools.
The families brought cases against each school to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal with the support of the Equality Commission.
The Equality Commission said the schools had also agreed to work with the commission to ensure their procedures and policies conform with the law.
Michael Wardlow, chief commissioner with the Equality Commission, said there was a "lesson from these cases for every school".
"When a disabled child applies for a place, they should proactively give proper consideration to how they can adapt to meet the needs of that pupil.
"These are children who have enough barriers facing them in life.
"They don't need the additional barriers that can be thrown up when schools decide that their needs cannot be accommodated."
He added: "The children who are at the heart of each case have moved on with their education and we wish them well as they progress through life.
"By challenging the decisions which were taken they, and their families, hope to ensure that other children, in similar circumstances, can avoid the additional, and unnecessary, difficulties which were placed before them."
Wallace High School said that a Â£3.2m investment in a school enhancement programme would secure a "significant improvement in disability access for all young people, staff, parents and other visitors to our school".


The Welsh Rugby Union have withdrawn an offer of a dual contract for Scarlets centre Scott Williams.

WRU Chairman Gareth Davies confirmed the move was made after regions had "upped the ante" over the Wales international's contract.
At least one other Welsh region has shown an interest in Williams, whose current contract ends next summer.
"It's over to the regions really to try and hopefully keep Scott Williams," Davies told Radio Wales Sport.
"The central contract from the union has been withdrawn after some of the regions started upping the ante, as it were."
The union's offer would have kept the player at the Scarlets.
Dual contracts are funded 60% by the WRU and 40% by the region, and Davies' comments suggest the regions are offering bigger deals than the one they put on the table.
It also hints that the WRU are not prepared to get involved in an auction of escalating bids.
However, it appears that the player will stay in Wales, but with a region paying his contract in full.
That situation would not upset the governing body, who set up the dual contracts to stop players moving abroad.
"It's difficult because we can't centrally contract everybody because of the funding issues - some players will be, some won't be," added Davies.
"But the important thing is that between the union and the regions that we work together to ensure that we can retain as many of the top stars as possible, and the youngsters coming through as well."


A postcard sent from Scotland to Lancashire has arrived at its destination 62 years later.

Lynn Harter found the sepia card from Edinburgh among birthday cards that came through her letterbox in Garstang.
"I thought at first a friend knowing my interest in history had sent it," the former town councillor said.
But when she examined the card closely she found it had a 1955 postmark and was addressed to a Mr and Mrs Phillipson.
The postcard of Edinburgh Castle, which was addressed to the couple at Bridgefield, Kepple Lane, reads: "I am having a great holiday here, staying with friends. The weather is good and doing lots of sightseeing. Trust you are both keeping well, my love and best wishes Madge Johnson."
Mrs Harter checked the deeds of her home to find Mr and Mrs William Phillipson bought it in 1943.
She said: "Interestingly Mrs Helen Phillipson died in 1951 so either the sender of the postcard, Madge Johnson, didn't know she'd died, or William may have married again?"
Mr Phillipson died in 1961.
Mrs Harter said: "A friend of mine who is a postman said there are several reasons it may have taken so long. It could have been found by someone who just forwarded it or it could have got lodged in an old sorting machine and only unearthed when the machine was changed."
A keen local historian, Mrs Harter found out Mr Phillipson had moved to Garstang after retiring from the police force in Bolton.
"I know he kept a horse in a stable at the back of the bungalow and I have heard stories about a former policeman who used to ride a horse bareback through Garstang," she said.


Cardiff city centre roads will be shut as 60,000 people head to the capital for each of Coldplay's two concerts.

The Principality Stadium's gates open at 17:30 BST on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the support act starting at 19:00 and Coldplay on stage at about 20:30.
Those driving to Cardiff are urged to use a park-and-ride at Cardiff City Stadium.
Visitors by train have been strongly advised to leave plenty of time, with the network expected to be busy.
The Principality Stadium, which will have its roof open for the concert, has issued new policies on bringing bags into the stadium, as well as information on prohibited items and body searches.
Only small bags, no larger than 35cm (13in) x 40cm (15in) x 19cm (7in), will be allowed into the stadium.
A queuing system will run at Cardiff Central Station.
Queen Street Station will close at 21.45.
All train passengers are advised to buy a ticket before they board a train.
Road closures
Scott Road and Park Street will be closed earlier on each day to allow for a barrier system to be put up on the approach to gate five.
A full programme of city centre road closures will be in place from 18:00 until 23:30, including:
The following roads will be closed in their entirety:
Duke Street, Castle Street, High Street, St Mary Street, Caroline Street, Wood Street, Central Square, Westgate Street, Quay Street, Guildhall Place, Golate, Park Street, Havelock Street and Scott Road.
The following roads will be closed from 21:00 until 23.30:
Saunders Road from the junction with St Mary Street, Customhouse Street, throughout its length and Penarth Road, from the junction with Saunders Road to the entrance leading to the back of Cardiff Central station.
Buses
Buses will be diverted out of the central city centre bus stops.
Those displaced from stops within the closure will relocate to either Churchill Way for the east, Greyfriars Road, for the north, and Tudor Street, for the west.


Three people have died and five have been injured in a flat fire in Derbyshire.

One resident who managed to escape dropped his son into the arms of a neighbour before fire crews arrived just after 04:00 BST.
A man, a woman, and a young girl were pronounced dead at the scene, in North Street, Langley Mill.
East Midlands Ambulance Service said a member of the public told them a car fire had spread to nearby flats.
Resident Sean Needham said: "I heard my smoke alarms going off and I opened the door and saw the house full of smoke.
"One of the neighbours climbed over his garden fence and I passed my lad down to him.
"I dropped him about six feet into the neighbour's arms. Me and my wife got out down a ladder."
Mr Needham, who believes all his belongings have been lost through fire and water damage, said his six-year-old son was "traumatised and frightened".
"My main concern was for him because he was born with chronic lung disease... but he was checked out at the hospital and was shaken but fine.
"I am still shaking and... I am in shock but I am glad I am still here. I owe my neighbour my life as he saved my little boy."
Alex Clark, who helped rescue Mr Needham's son, said: "Sean passed his little lad down to me - I'm not a hero - I am just a person that has helped to rescue a family."
He added: "It is tragic. It is the sort of thing you wish would never happen."
Five people were taken to hospital - four to Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham and one to the Royal Derby Hospital, the ambulance service said.
Several neighbouring properties were evacuated as the fire caused a gas leak.
Neighbour Craig McFarlane said: "There was a lot of noise and confusion - I went round and there was a car on fire.
"We went to get a few ladders and managed to get a few people out. There were about 30-40 people running around. Everyone was out there doing what they could do.
"Flames were climbing up the stairs and up the flats so fast. Nobody stood a chance."
Another neighbour Paul Barber said: "We saw people trapped in the property and one of our neighbours threw his sonâ€¦ to safety.
"There were two people hanging out of a window screaming for help but they managed to get out."
John Dunkley, a watch manager with Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service, tweeted: "Terrible night shift. Thoughts with all personnel from all emergency services involved at Langley Mill this morning."
A fire service spokesman said: "Two people from the property affected by the fire, and a further three residents from adjacent flats were able to escape.
"Our thoughts and sympathies go out to the family and friends of the deceased."
Four fire engines were sent to the blaze.
A police spokesman said they were "keeping an open mind as to the cause of the fire", but said nothing had been ruled out.


A design team have built a tank on wheels that gives fish a chance to 'drive' around on land.

The smart tank has a camera that detects the fish's movements and makes it travel in the direction the fish is swimming.
Thomas De Wolf from Studio Diip, the company that invented it, says he wanted to bring fun back to technology.
The company are working on this version of the tank to protect the fish from becoming stressed if they go too fast.


Cuts which led to a decision to protect "bedrock" BBC Cymru Wales services like news and political coverage have led to "thinner programming" in other areas, its director has said.

Rhodri Talfan Davies told Radio Wales a 20% reduction in spending over the past six or seven years had had consequences for areas such as comedy.
On Tuesday, during a speech in Cardiff, BBC director-general Tony Hall said programming in Wales had been "eroded".
BBC Wales is marking 50 years in 2014.
Mr Hall's speech to celebrate the anniversary at the National Assembly for Wales' Pierhead building included a declaration that English language broadcasting from and for Wales from all broadcasters had been declining for almost a decade.
Speaking on the Sunday Supplement programme, Mr Davies agreed with some of Mr Hall's points.
"The decision we took, and I think rightly, was to protect the bedrock of BBC Wales, its news, its current affairs, its political coverage.
"I think what Tony put his finger on in the speech is that clearly in making those decisions, the right decisions, they have consequences.
"[With] other programmes in some programming areas such as comedy or light entertainment or some areas of documentary, the programming gets thinner and that's the consequence of living within our means," he told presenter Vaughan Roderick.
Mr Davies said he believed what Mr Hall had recognised in his speech was that BBC Wales had a disproportionate scale of responsibility in journalism and broadcasting, with the press in Wales being limited in comparison to Scotland, for example.
"The responsibility for not just reporting Wales but making sense of Wales culturally, socially, linguistically, to a very large extent falls on the BBC," he said.
"[Tony Hall] has clocked the issue in Wales, particularly how we serve the 80% of the population who don't speak Welsh.
"There is a deficit there, not so much in the journalism which is often the focus of our political leaders, but in other areas such as comedy and light entertainment.
"What he's asking for is a broad-based debate, not a debate that is seen solely through the prism of news or the Welsh language, that looks at the full cultural needs of Wales."
He said there were examples of Wales-based drama and other output produced for network BBC such as The Indian Doctor and the forthcoming A Poet in New York, a drama about Dylan Thomas starring Tom Hollander, but "not enough".
Mr Davies added: "The money has been declining, but creatively we're not declining.
"The scale of ambition is there. What we're seeing from our in-house teams and from the indie sector is a real ambition to deliver."


Companies like Ticketmaster should take more action to prevent touts "harvesting" concert tickets, a government review has recommended.

It says the current measures are inadequate, and suggests buyers should be forced to give proof of ID.
The report also challenges re-sale sites to observe the law, by displaying the original face value of any tickets they list for sale.
A recent survey by Which? found the rules were consistently being breached.
While it is not illegal to re-sell tickets, it is thought that some of the selling patterns are only possible because of software known as "bots", which automatically sweep up huge numbers of tickets the moment they go on sale. Touts then resell them at a profit on secondary market websites.
Tickets to see Radiohead in the UK this week are being advertised for as much as Â£6,000 - nearly 100 times face value - but that pales in comparison to Adele.
In February, it emerged that tickets for her UK tour were being advertised for Â£25,000 each.
The singer called out the touts during one of her recent London shows, calling them "terrible people".
"I hope no one paid that much," she said. "If you did, I'll pay you back."
However, secondary sites say these highly-priced tickets rarely sell.
Sir Elton John has also branded secondary ticket sites "disgraceful" and urged fans not to pay over the odds, telling the BBC: "I'd rather have empty seats."
Meanwhile, an anti-touting petition launched by the unlikely combination of Mumford and Sons and Little Mix three weeks ago has already attracted 42,000 signatures.
The government review was authored by Professor Michael Waterson, economics professor at Warwick University.
He said primary sites like Ticketmaster, Ticketweb and Seetickets should "take seriously the possibility of mass purchase by individuals using bots who have no intention of attending the event and guard against this".
"Mass purchases of this kind are usually undertaken with a view to resale at a profit, resulting in the primary sites selling out very quickly and tickets ending up on the secondary ticketing market at inflated prices."
He praised Glastonbury's ticketing model, whereby tickets are "deliberately personalised" and ID is checked at the gates - and encouraged more sellers to introduce ID requirements.
Professor Waterson was also critical of ticket pre-sales, revealing that often "85-90% of a venue's inventory has already been sold" by the time the general sale begins.
He also cited oral evidence suggesting that some concert promoters "quietly" gave tickets to secondary sites at higher prices "because they recognise the gains to be made".
The review also looked at whether consumers were being sufficiently protected by the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
Under the law, buyers must be told the original face value of any tickets being resold and, where appropriate, the seat numbers and any other restrictions - for example age limits.
But a Which? survey of the four main ticketing sites - Viagogo, Seatwave, Stubhub and Getmein! - found "numerous examples" of the rules being breached.
Professor Waterson agreed that the sites needed to be monitored more closely, perhaps by Trading Standards, and penalties imposed when they broke the rules.
However, he dismissed calls for an outright ban on the secondary market, arguing it would simply drive the sector underground.
He added that around 30% of tickets on resale sites were sold below face value, thus "offering a useful service to consumers".
During the consultation, many fans asked the government to prevent tickets being resold at a profit, capping the price at 10% above the original face value.
However, Professor Waterson vetoed the idea, saying it would be "difficult to police" and arguing it would "legitimise" touting through legislation.
His report was given a cautious welcome by musicians including Arctic Monkeys, One Direction, Florence + the Machine, Ed Sheeran and Iron Maiden.
A joint statement, signed by their managers, said: "Professor Waterson exposes a dysfunctional and under-regulated ticketing market. His review calls on Government to enforce the law, and for secondary ticketing sites to apply the law and show responsibility.
"We believe that fans should be given every opportunity to buy and exchange tickets at the price they were intended - not see them used as collateral to boost the profits of scalpers."
A spokesperson for Stubhub, which is owned by eBay, said: "We welcome Professor Waterson's recognition of the benefits for consumers from the secondary market and his decision to reject further legislation at this stage, including price caps.
"But we are concerned that there are still insufficient legal safeguards to stop event organisers using row and seat number details to cancel, without compensation, tickets offered for resale. Transparency should not come at the expense of people's right to resell their tickets."
Shadow sports minister Clive Efford said: "The Government was forced to concede to a number of Labour's demands on the secondary ticketing market during the passage of the Consumer Rights Act.
"This report shows that secondary ticketing companies are ignoring existing regulations and that there is no enforcement taking place.
"Due to the Government dragging its feet on this issue, sports fans have been needlessly ripped off for tournaments such as the Rugby World Cup, the Ashes and currently the European Football Championship."


Plans to redevelop a stand at Lord's, the home of cricket, have been given the go-ahead.

The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has been granted permission by Westminster City Council to replace the Warner Stand at the London ground.
The MCC said the new structure, which includes a 135-seat restaurant with views of the ground, will improve sight-lines and accessibility.
Work is set to begin on the Â£21m project at the end of the 2015 season.
The redevelopment must first be approved by the club's membership, with the committee set to seek approval at a special general meeting in the summer of 2015.
The current Warner Stand was built in 1958 and its replacement is the first phase of development in the 15-year Masterplan for Lord's, which was unveiled last May.
MCC chief executive Derek Brewer said the club "wants Lord's to be the world's finest cricket ground and this new stand combines the best in architecture with world-class facilities to help achieve that".
"Lord's celebrates its 200th birthday this year and we have a duty to ensure any changes made to the ground will stand the test of time and bring long-term benefits."
He added the MCC, who remain the guardians of the laws and spirit of cricket, will continue to consult with local residents in St John's Wood about the ground's redevelopment.


New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has had a four-game ban restored over allegations footballs were deliberately under-inflated before an NFL play-off game last year.

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Brady, 38, and the Patriots were sanctioned after a 243-page report into what became known as 'deflate-gate'.
Brady's ban was overturned in September by a federal judge, who said the NFL's ruling had "legal deficiencies".
But the NFL's subsequent appeal was upheld on Monday.
Brady is now set to miss the first four games of the 2016 season, which starts in September.
The four-time Super Bowl winner, considered one of the best ever quarterbacks, maintains neither he nor the club did anything wrong.
The Patriots won the match in question - against Indianapolis Colts in January 2015 - 45-7, and then won the Super Bowl.
The league fined the Patriots a record $1m (£660,000) and stripped the team of two draft picks, with its report finding Brady was "generally aware" of the scheme.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's inquiry concluded Brady "knew about, approved of, consented to, and provided inducements and rewards" to ensure balls were deflated.
But US District Judge Richard Berman found the league's disciplinary process was "fundamentally unfair" and there were "several significant legal deficiencies" in the penalty issued by Goodell - including failing to notify Brady about the possibility of a punishment.
After his ban was lifted in September, Brady played the full season - his 16th as a professional footballer.
He said at the time: "I don't think it has been good for our sport, to a large degree, we have all lost."
Deflated balls are considered easier to throw and catch.


Russia has withdrawn a request for three warships to dock at the Spanish port of Ceuta for refuelling, following concern among Nato allies.

The Spanish foreign ministry says the stopovers have now been cancelled.
Spain had been under pressure from Nato allies not to allow the refuelling of the Russian warships bound for Syria.
Russia's defence ministry later said no request had been sent for the main vessel, aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, to be refuelled in Ceuta.
In a statement (in Russian), the ministry said the Russian vessels had the necessary resources to carry out tasks.
The ministry added that it had considered - upon agreement with Spain - the possibility of a "business" docking of some of the ships or a maintenance ship into Ceuta's port.
Russia's battle group has been sailing for the past week from Russia to the Mediterranean.
"Given the information which appeared on the possibility that these ships would participate in supporting military action in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the ministry of foreign affairs requested clarification from the embassy of the Russian Federation in Madrid," the Spanish foreign ministry said earlier on Wednesday in a statement to the BBC.
It added that permission had been granted in September for three Russian ships to dock in Ceuta between 28 October and 2 November. It said such stops for Russian naval vessels had taken place for years in Spanish ports.
But following its request for clarification, the ministry said, the Russian embassy in Madrid said it was withdrawing its request for refuelling.
The Russian embassy has confirmed the withdrawal.
Nato had earlier expressed concern that the ships could be used to help bomb civilians in Aleppo, but said the final decision on resupply rested with Spain.
Nato's Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg had warned that warships could be used to target civilians in Syria.
"We are concerned and I have expressed that very clearly about the potential use of this battle group to increase Russia's ability and to be a platform for air strikes against Syria," he told journalists on Tuesday.
In the end it was little more than a storm in a petrol pump.
Russia withdrew its request to refuel its warships in a Spanish port, and so Moscow and Madrid both found a diplomatic way to get themselves off a difficult hook.
But the passions aroused by Spain's apparent willingness to refuel Russian vessels were real, especially since this time the Russian task group was on its way - as the British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon put it - "to bomb Syrian civilians in Aleppo".
How would it look, just as Nato defence ministers met to strengthen their forces in the Baltic, in Poland and around the Black Sea, if one of their members was helping a Russian task group on its way to a conflict where many Nato governments have accused Moscow of carrying out war crimes through its indiscriminate bombing?
Led by Russia's only aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the naval group includes a nuclear-powered battle cruiser, two anti-submarine warships and four support vessels, probably escorted by submarines.
The battle group carries dozens of fighter bombers and helicopters and is expected to join about 10 other Russian vessels already off the Syrian coast.
Some 2,700 people have been killed or injured since the Russian-backed Syrian offensive started last month, according to activists.
Western leaders have said Russian and Syrian air strikes on Aleppo could amount to war crimes, an accusation rejected by Russia.
About 250,000 civilians who live in Aleppo have been trapped by the fighting. Moscow announced last week a "humanitarian pause" in attacks as part of a plan to allow civilians and fighters to leave the area.


Two men travelling on stolen passports on board a missing Malaysian airliner were Iranians with no apparent links to terrorist groups, officials say.

Malaysian police named one as Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad, 18, and said he was probably migrating to Germany.
Interpol identified the other as Delavar Seyed Mohammadreza, 29.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing went missing on Saturday, after taking off with 239 on board. The search has been widened.
Experts have said the presence of two people with stolen passports on a plane was a breach of security, but one that is relatively common in a region regarded as a hub for illegal migration.
Malaysia's police chief, Inspector General Khalid Abu Bakar, said the younger Iranian was "not likely to be a member of a terrorist group", adding that the authorities were in contact with his mother in Germany, who had been expecting her son to arrive in Frankfurt.
Speaking in Paris later on Tuesday, Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said the two men had travelled from Qatar's capital Doha on their Iranian passports, and switched to stolen Italian and Austrian passports to board the Malaysia Airlines flight.
"The more information we get, the more we are inclined to conclude it is not a terrorist incident," he added.
The authorities' statement supports an account given to the BBC by a young Iranian in Kuala Lumpur, who says he was a school friend of one of the men who boarded the airliner using stolen documents.
He says the friend and another Iranian stayed with him before taking the Malaysia Airlines flight, and that they had hoped to settle in Europe.
Reports from Thailand suggest that the tickets of the two men, routing them to Amsterdam via Beijing, had been bought through a Thai travel agent and an Iranian middleman.
Officials say they still have no idea what went wrong with the aircraft.
None of the debris and oil slicks spotted in the water so far have proved to be linked to the disappearance.
Four areas of investigation were focused on the possibility of human agency, the police chief said: hijacking, sabotage, psychological problems or personal problems with passengers or crew.
Two-thirds of the passengers were Chinese. Others were from various Asian countries, North America or Europe.
Relatives have expressed frustration at the lack of information about the plane's fate.
At least 40 ships and 34 aircraft are taking part in the search in the seas off Vietnam and Malaysia.
Search teams from Australia, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, New Zealand and the United States of America are assisting.
Civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said on Tuesday that the search was being conducted "on both sides" of the Malay Peninsula.
The area has been expanded from 50 nautical miles (57 miles; 93km) from where the plane had disappeared - over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam - to 100 nautical miles.
Malaysia Airlines said it was considering the possibility that the aircraft had tried to turn back to an airport at Subang, near Kuala Lumpur, leaving its flight path.