Fifa - the bestselling football video game franchise - is to get a story mode in its next release.

Its developer Electronic Arts announced the move at a press conference ahead of the start of the E3 video games expo.
The facility lets gamers develop a footballer's career on and off the pitch.
It marks a potentially risky move. A similar mode in rival 2K Games' basketball simulation NBA 2K16 was criticised in several reviews.
Last year's Fifa 16 was the UK's bestselling video game on both the PlayStation and Xbox platforms, according to market research firm GfK.
EA posted a $1.16bn (Â£815m) net profit for its last financial year, which ended in March.
That marked a 32% rise on the previous year thanks to the success of Fifa 16 and other games including Star Wars: Battlefront.
Fifa 17's story mode is called "the journey", and follows the story of a footballer called Alex Hunter.
A trailer shown at EA's event showed the character with his family; being approached by an agent; and clashing with another footballer.
Hunter was also shown playing for Manchester United, but EA has said gamers can opt to play at other Premier League clubs.
Other innovations in the new title include:
EA faces a challenge each year in trying to convince consumers they need to buy a new version of Fifa.
Sales in recent years have been aided by the release of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. But many of the series' fans will already own a copy of the game on a current-generation console by this point.
Its main competitor is Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer, whose developers are seeking to offer a more "realistic" experience.
"The Fifa team struggles to find something new to do every year because it has already made a very good simulation," commented Keza MacDonald, UK editor of games news site Kotaku.
"What they are trying to do here is offer some of the drama of sport and make it more of a human story.
"There's huge potential for it not to work. The standard of video game writing is not very high in general.
"But it could be great to contextualise what you are doing if they handle it right."
Pity the person at EA who must reinvent football each year. While other game genres allow developers to travel to new worlds, football, thank heavens, will always be just football.
To justify each yearly instalment for Fifa, EA has to keep adding new modes. Ultimate Team, where players build up a squad by winning and making transfers with other real people online, was a big success in the last few titles.
The Journey is a big gamble.
I'm not sure the story mode elements will be enjoyable enough to stop you from wanting to skip through.
And if you're controlling just one player in a game - well, previous attempts have that have been novel but without lasting appeal.
Other announcements by EA included confirmation that its sci-fi shooter Titanfall 2 will include a first-person mode, unlike the original game, which solely focused on multiplayer battles.
This will pose a challenge to Activision's Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare - another futuristic first-person shooter that will go on sale at roughly the same time later this year.
Gamers were given an early look at Mass Effect: Andromeda - a return to the space adventure role-playing game franchise that created controversy in 2012 when many players objected to the way the original trilogy ended.
There was also a brief tease of a Star Wars game being worked on by the studio Visceral Games, which previously developed the acclaimed Dead Space series.
EA also announced a $1m fund to reward e-sports champions who played its titles as part of a wider effort to support competitive games tournaments.
Although EA held a games showcase to coincide with E3, it is has decided not to pay for a booth at the event this year.
It will, however, continue to hold private meetings behind the scenes.
The show formally begins on Tuesday, but typically attracts most attention the day before when Sony and Microsoft host their own presentations.
Flags outside the Los Angeles Convention Center, where E3 takes place, are being flown at half mast following the mass shooting in Orlando, in which at least 50 people were killed.
EA made no mention of the attack at its event.
But E3's organiser, the Entertainment Software Association, and others involved in the expo have posted tweets and issued statements to pay their respects.
Although there is no suggestion that gaming was in any way involved in the gay nightclub killings, some parts of the media have noted the deaths could cause an issue for companies seeking to market first-person shooters and other violent titles.
"I wouldn't be surprised if some trailers were pulled if they seem disrespectful and in bad taste," said Rob Crossley, UK editor of Gamespot.
"I think the games industry is going to try and handle this with respect and dignity."
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A teenager has admitted killing his back-seat passenger and injuring an elderly nun by dangerous driving when he was being chased by police.

The 17-year-old, who cannot be identified because of his age, admitted six charges against him on Wednesday.
He was charged over an October 2014 crash on Belfast's Saintfield Road.
He admitted causing the death of Conal Daly, 18, from north Belfast, and causing grievous bodily injury to 75-year-old Sister Josephine McAteer.
The teenager also pleaded guilty to driving dangerously on the Ormeau Road and Saintfield Road, two counts of assaulting police and one count of causing criminal damage to a police vehicle.
The Jaguar car the teenager was driving crashed into the vehicle being driven by Sister Josephine, who is believed to have suffered two broken legs.
Mr Daly, a former pupil at Edmund Rice College and who was in the back seat of the Jaguar, was fatally injured.
Paramedics had treated him at the scene and rushed him to the Royal Victoria Hospital but he died a short time later.
It was reported at the time the police had been in pursuit of the "runaround" Jaguar from the roundabout at the top of the Ormeau Road when the chase came to an end a few miles along the road.
In court on Wednesday, a defence solicitor said he would be giving a report on the defendant's mental health to the probation service to assist them with their report.
Remanding the teenager back into custody, the judge provisionally listed the sentencing hearing on 24 June, depending on whether reports are ready.
He added that while it "may be academic" the killer driver was now automatically banned from driving.


More than 10,000 motorists are allowed on the roads despite having 12 or more penalty points on their licence.

Analysis by BBC News shows motorists in the north of England had the most licences with a dozen or more points.
Road safety charities said allowing people with lots of points to stay on the road made a mockery of the system.
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency said the figure included people who had served a ban and had successfully reapplied for their licence.
The data, covering Great Britain as of the end of June 2017, also showed:
Jason Wakeford, the director of campaigns for Brake, the road safety charity, said: "Allowing dangerous drivers to stay on the road makes a total mockery of the points system.
"These are irresponsible individuals who have shown disregard for the law and the lives of other road users, time after time. People who clock up over 12 points should face an automatic ban - there needs to be a clear message that dangerous driving will not be tolerated."
Ann Hannon's son Matt was 22 when he died.  He had been racing his best friend Steve Hayhurst, who was 23 at the time and admitted causing death by dangerous driving. Matt's family pleaded with the judge to spare him a prison sentence.
Mrs Hannon, of Blackburn, said driving bans needed to be longer in order to make people think about the consequences of bad driving.
"Six months is not enough," she said. "People use their cars for getting to work and going out. They can get by for six months. A year would make more of a difference.
"Speeding is still a big problem, but there's more focus on mobile phones as well. You see people on their phones at the wheel."
Mrs Hannon, of Blackburn, has worked with the Wasted Lives campaign in Lancashire to educate young drivers about risks on the road.
The data includes drivers who have served a driving ban and successfully re-applied for their licence. It does not include people who were currently banned as of the end of June.
The area with the highest proportion of drivers with a dozen or more points was Blackburn with Darwen.  Sixty-seven drivers there had a dozen or more points in June 2017, which is equivalent to almost 60 out of of every 100,000 motorists.
10,116
GB motorists with 12 or more points
51 points on one Oxfordshire woman's licence
42 points on a 52-year-old man's licence in Basildon
39 on 4 licences in Wigan, South Tyneside, Brentwood and Dagenham
Drivers are usually banned if they get 12 penalty points within three years.
Bans are six months for 12 or more penalty points accrued within three years. Further bans of 12 months for a second offence and two years for a third offence are also imposed. The points stay on licences, including after bans have been served, for up to four years from the offence.
Most points remain valid for three years from conviction, but stay on licences for four years, which is why so many drivers have a high number of points but are allowed to be on the roads.
The number of points put on a licence varies depending on the offence.
Exceeding the speed limit can lead to three to six points as can using a mobile phone at the wheel.
Someone who drives above the legal alcohol limit would get 10 points.
Up to 11 points can be put on a licence for drug driving and these stay on licences for up to 11 years.
Source: Gov.uk
The Ministry of Justice said decisions on sentencing were a matter for the courts, taking into account the "full facts" of the case.
A spokeswoman said: "Drivers who kill ruin lives and must face the full force of the law. While we can never compensate for the loss of a loved one, we are clear that the punishment must fit the crime.
"Last year, the government issued a consultation that will see the maximum sentence in this area increase from 14 years to life. We are now considering the consultation responses. Any announcement will be made in due course."


The family of an Anglesey man who is seriously ill in the United States have said they are concerned about his future treatment after insurers said his medical benefits would be stopped.

Carwyn Edwards, 39, has been in hospital in Tucson, Arizona, since the start of the year after an illness led to the partial amputation of both legs.
His family fear they could face substantial medical costs.
Medical insurer Cigna said it was addressing Mr Edwards' concerns.
A campaign to raise funds for Mr Edwards, who has lived in the US for 13 years, has raised Â£38,000, however the latest news that the benefit payments will stop in a fortnight has created more uncertainty about his future treatment.
Mr Edwards' brother, Aled Edwards, will be flying to Arizona shortly to try to resolve the issue.
He also hopes to find out what arrangements can be made to transport his brother to the UK continue his recovery.
Cigna said it could not discuss the case at length because of confidentiality laws.
A spokesman said: "We can say that our case workers have been in communication with this individual and will continue to address his concerns directly with him."


Workers at a Cardiff bakery plan to strike, affecting the production of some of the 900,000 hot cross buns produced there in the run-up to Easter.

The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union said members voted for Wednesday's 24 hour walkout at Allied Bakeries after changes to holiday entitlements and shift patterns.
Union representative John James said he hoped the issue could be resolved.
The company said it was in discussions with unions.
Mr James said 56 out of 70 workers who cast ballots voted for industrial action, timed to coincide with the lead-up to Easter.
Mike Auden, general manager at Allied Bakeries Wales, said: "We can confirm that we are in discussions with unions at our Cardiff bakery regarding a wage related matter.
"We are listening to employees and working hard to maintain open and constructive dialogue with our workforce.
"On that basis we hope that the strike action called for next week will not go ahead."


Lazio have threatened legal action against those who have questioned the legitimacy of the age of their 17-year-old Cameroonian player Joseph Minala.

The Italian side stated that his birth certificate is "absolutely legitimate".
Lazio added: "We reserve the right to take action against those responsible for the protection of the good name of the company and the footballer."
The midfielder also issued a statement via the club's website denying he told an African website he was 41.
He said: "I have read the alleged statements posted on the website senego.net in which it says I confessed my real age which was different to what was stated in my [official] documents.
On his face there is sign of his previous life, which was not a happy life. That is it. Period. There is nothing else that makes you think he is 41
"They are false statements that have been attributed to me by people who do not know."
Minala joined the Rome club last summer and recently played for them in the Viareggio Cup youth tournament.
Italian journalist Max Evangelista, who reports on Lazio's youth team, said any suggestions the player was 41 were "unbelievable".
He said Minala had scored five goals and made six assists this season for Lazio's youth team, who are the holders of the national title.
"He is a very reactive player. You could never say he is 41," he told BBC World Service." When you are surrounded by players running like devils around you, in my opinion it is very tough to be 41. He runs, he is fast. It is unbelievable news, that is why Lazio felt the need to deny it.
"He was in an orphanage for a couple of years in Cameroon, then he had to face the situation here by himself. It is a controversial story because the face of the player is not that of a 17-year-old guy.
"On his face there is sign of his previous life, which was not a happy life. That is it. Period. There is nothing else that makes you think he is 41.
"He is a kid with the head of a kid. He only wants to play football as he did on the road years ago barefoot. That is the only thing he is focused on and being a talent because he is a talent."


More than eight billion videos are now viewed on Facebook every day, according to the social network.

5 November 2015 Last updated at 17:26 GMT
It is a staggering number, and represents double the figure reported in April.
What is more it appears to dwarf the billion views YouTube clocks up daily, although it is not a true like-for-like comparison.
Facebook's aggressive push into video will surely delight advertisers who can promote their products alongside popular clips.
But YouTube star Tom Ridgewell - who has nearly four million followers on YouTube - told the BBC he was not convinced that Facebook was a big threat to Google's service.


Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is to seal its place in history at the US Library of Congress as part of its National Recording Registry.

Joining it will be Chubby Checker's 1960's dance hit The Twist and Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel.
Each year, 25 "culturally" or "historically" significant recordings are added to the registry, established in 2000.
Garfunkel, 71, said he was thrilled and flattered to see the work preserved.
The Sound of Silence, written after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, initially flopped, only becoming a hit after it was re-edited.
Its subsequent success prompted the duo to reunite and record another album entitled Sounds of Silence in 1966, which Garfunkel said was a life changer for him and his partner, Simon.
"When you look at the little mesh, wire microphone and you address people on the other side of the mic, you hope that your performance will be special, and you hope that it will have lasting power,"
He added that he remembers thinking in the 60s that "if we do really good and give a very special performance to these great Paul Simon songs, we might last right into the next century and be appreciated".
The recording that received the highest number of public nominations for this year's registry was The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd's groundbreaking 1973 album.
The library said it was an example of "brilliant, innovative production in service of the music".
The selections, which span from 1918 to 1980 also feature recordings that capture the political climate of the period, including Jimmie Davis' You Are My Sunshine (1940) which became Davis' campaign song while running for governor in Louisiana.
It became one of the most popular country songs of all time and the state song of Louisiana in 1977.
Other recordings chosen include the soundtrack to the popular 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta and featuring the Bee Gees, which revived the disco craze and the original 1949 cast album for South Pacific.
The classical pianist Van Cliburn's Cold War performance when he won the prestigious Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition at 23 also was selected. The American musician who performed for every US president since Harry Truman, died in February.


Senior Conservative Party officials received a memo in August which warned the activist at the centre of the Tory bullying scandal was "sociopathic" and "dangerous".

It urged officials to keep Mark Clarke away from the party's youth wing and warned failure could be "devastating".
The memo, obtained by BBC Newsnight, was produced by a then-party staffer.
Mr Clarke has vigorously denied all allegations.
The document suggested that party staff had been aware that Mr Clarke had been "badly behaved" before the May 2015 election, and led Tory chairman Lord Feldman to launch an internal investigation.
Newsnight understands the memo was produced as an aide memoire for a meeting with a party official in which the former staffer made a verbal complaint about Mr Clarke.
In it, the author writes that Mark Clarke's "bullying tactics are well-knownâ€¦ it would literally be impossible to list all his crimes here".
The document does not directly contradict the insistence of party chairman Lord Feldman that he was unaware of Mr Clarke's alleged bullying before August.
However it suggests that numerous complaints about Mr Clarke's behaviour had been made in the months before the young activist Elliott Johnson himself complained about being bullied by Mr Clarke.
Mr Johnson took his own life a month later in September, leaving a letter which named Mr Clarke.
The party has since been dogged by a stream of allegations of bullying, sexual harassment and blackmail by Mr Clarke - and suggestions that Tory bosses should have taken action against him earlier.
In the memo, the former staffer at Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) says that Elliott Johnson's complaint "is the tip of the iceberg. Before the election we knew he [Clarke] was badly behaved but he managed to keep it away from us and under wraps. Since then he appears to be unravelling.
"In the months since the election, Conservative Future [the party's youth wing] activists who have come across him have had one of three things happen to them: been bullied, been lied to about his involvement with CCHQ or been hit on."
The former CCHQ employee goes on to say: "I receive I don't even know how many complaints about Mark Clarke and CCHQ's endorsement of him. I feel irritated that no one is stepping up to try and protect these young activists who have just worked bloody hard helping to deliver a majority and deserve thanks - not to be shelved by CCHQ and yelled at by Mark Clarke."
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The memo also warns that Mr Clarke is "sociopathic, dangerous and a bully". It was handed in to a senior member of staff at CCHQ on 14 August. It was then passed to Simon Mort, the official initially charged with investigating complaints about Mark Clarke.
It concludes by warning: "At the very least you need to keep him [Mark Clarke] away from Conservative Future as the effect he has could be devastating."
Mr Clarke was not suspended from the party until a month later, following the death of Elliott Johnson.
Mr Clarke was removed from the list of potential Tory candidates in 2010 after complaints about his behaviour during his campaign to become MP for Tooting in south London.
However he succeeded in working his way back into the party machine by launching RoadTrip 2015, an organisation which bussed young volunteers around the country to campaign in target seats.
Former Conservative chairman Grant Shapps, who gave Mr Clarke his backing and an official party role, resigned from his job as an international development minister last weekend.
Speaking to BBC Newsnight, the author of the memo, said that the document was a "brain dump" and not intended for publication.
"I was concerned that Mark Clarke was going round saying that he was to be the Director of 2020 Roadtrip," the staffer said. "People had been told by Mark Clarke, that his directorship had been endorsed by CCHQ. I felt that Mark Clarke shouldn't be let anywhere near CCHQ."
The former staffer told Newsnight that Mark Clarke's behaviour within CCHQ in the run up to the election, was troubling. "I didn't like the way he treated his interns at CCHQ. These young people were here as volunteers, doing unpaid work for CCHQ. Clarke was tough on them. He was abrupt and short."
Ray Johnson, Elliott's father, believes CCHQ knew about Mark Clarke's reputation "but didn't want to rock the boatâ€¦ I was told that 25 complaints were made about Mark Clarke to CCHQ going back a year."
He continued: "My understanding is that complaints were not treated the way they were supposed to be treated. RoadTrip was a successful campaign vehicle and they didn't want to do anything to jeopardise that. Any complaints were quietly shuffled away."
The author of the memo says party officials responded appropriately to the memo and Elliott Johnson's complaints. The former staffer said: "The weekend after Elliott's complaint was submitted, there was a conference call about it with the top bods from CCHQ. Soon after that, people were being called in to the investigation. Yes, CCHQ were bureaucratic and yes CCHQ were careful and so that may have delayed things. But they certainly cared."
The former staffer was asked to meet Mr Mort in the first week of September, three weeks after handing in the memo: "I wasn't a victim. I wasn't a complainant. He just wanted background."
It's understood the former party worker met Mr Mort on the same day as Elliott Johnson. By then Elliott had been persuaded to retract his own complaint.
A CCHQ spokesperson said on Wednesday night that the memo obtained by BBC Newsnight was part of "a bundle of complaints within one document which CCHQ immediately started to investigate".
She refused to comment on the specific allegations in the document: "An investigation is currently under way and it is not appropriate to comment until we can establish the facts."
Mark Clarke has previously denied all allegations of wrongdoing against him. "I believe that these false allegations and this media firestorm are related to the events surrounding Elliott's sad death," he said.
"As such I will be co-operating with the Coroner and providing him with the fullest information. This is the proper process. After the inquest I will look to take legal action for defamation in respect of these allegations."
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A legal challenge to the introduction of minimum pricing on alcohol in Scotland is under way at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) and several European wine and spirits bodies are seeking a judicial review of the legislation.
They argue a law passed by the Scottish parliament last year on minimum pricing breaches EU trade rules.
Both the UK and Scottish governments are respondents in the court case.
The Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012 was passed last May, as part of an effort to tackle alcohol misuse.
The Scottish government has said the minimum price would initially be set at 50p per unit, meaning the cheapest bottle of wine would be £4.69 and a four-pack of lager would cost at least £3.52.
The bill received royal assent on 29 June, but Scottish ministers have undertaken not to introduce the measures until after the Court of Session has made its ruling.
The UK government is currently consulting on introducing a minimum pricing policy in England and Wales.
Setting out SWA's case at the Court of Session, Aidan O'Neill QC argued the policy would hit poor drinkers.
He said health statistics showed that the problem of hazardous and harmful drinking was actually most common among the richer, rather than the poorer, sections of society.
Mr O'Neill said: "What one can draw from that is that hazardous and harmful drinkers are more likely to be found in the rich, rather than among the poor, and the rich, by definition, have more disposable income.
"Therefore a pricing measure which targets cheap alcohol is one ... that can be avoided by the rich.
"If you target hazardous and harmful drinkers then a pricing measure which prices up cheap alcohol and only cheap alcohol is not one which in fact is going to make that target, because it can be avoided because the rich have more money and they can afford the pricing increase.
"What this measure does is it targets poor drinkers."
In November, the European Commission voiced opposition to Scotland's plans for minimum pricing, describing them as a disproportionate response to the country's drink problems.
The commission also said it believed the move could restrict imports of foreign alcohol.
Mr O'Neill argued that the commission's opinion was "highly relevant" to the current case.
"It's not binding, but it's certainly an authoritative view of what European law requires," he said.
SWA has been joined in its legal action at the Court of Session by the European Spirits Organisation and European wine body Comite Vins.
They have argued that the law on minimum pricing would restrain trade and breaches the Act of Union, which stipulates there must be a common market across the UK.
However, the Scottish government believes the policy will save lives.
Eight days have initially been set aside for the court action.


Four men have been charged with preparing to commit acts of terrorism.

It comes after raids in Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent by West Midlands counter terrorism officers on 26 August.
Those charged are: Naweed Ali, 28, of Evelyn Road, Sparkhill; Khobaib Hussain, 24, also of Evelyn Road, Sparkhill; Mohibur Rahman, 31, of High Lane, Stoke-on-Trent; Tahir Aziz, 37, of Wulstan Road, Stoke-on-Trent.
They will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on Friday.
A fifth man, aged 18, was released without charge.


US car manufacturer General Motors (GM) expects to spend nearly $300m (£180m) in the first quarter to repair vehicles affected by its recent recalls.

The firm set aside the amount on Monday as it announced three separate recalls affecting nearly 1.5 million vehicles.
That follows the 1.6 million vehicles it called back last month over faulty ignition switches.
GM is facing an investigation over its handling of the recall over the faulty switches which can disable airbags.
"I asked our team to redouble our efforts on our pending product reviews, bring them forward and resolve them quickly," said Mary Barra, chief executive of the firm, in a statement.
The recall announced on Monday affects the following models:
GM is under pressure over its handling of a recall earlier this year that involved faulty ignition switches which could turn off the engine and disable airbags.
The carmaker issued that recall in February, but has admitted that employees knew about the problem as early as 2004.
Two US congressional committees have said they will investigate the handling of the issue.
GM has also launched an internal enquiry into the matter.
"We are conducting an intense review of our internal processes and will have more developments to announce as we move forward," Ms Barra said on Monday.
There is a also a dispute over the number of deaths that have been linked to the issue.
GM has said the problem has been linked to 12 casualties.
However, last week a report commissioned by the Center for Auto Safety linked faulty airbags in two of the six models affected by the recall to 303 deaths.
It claimed it had got the number by reviewing US federal crash data for the said models.
But GM has disputed the number in the report, saying it only looked at raw data and did not evaluate the reasons.


Lee Hodson reckons this week is crucial as Rangers attempt to overtake Aberdeen and finish second in the Premiership.

The Ibrox outfit trail Aberdeen by eight points ahead of the Dons' trip to Dundee on Friday and Rangers' home fixture against Motherwell on Saturday.
"This week is massive, first we have Motherwell, then we've got Wednesday's game at Kilmarnock," Hodson said.
"If we can get six points there, going into the game with Aberdeen on Sunday, it'd put them under a lot of pressure."
Third-place Rangers make the trip to Pittodrie a week on Sunday and the two sides will meet once more before the end of the campaign.
Saturday's match against Well is new manager Pedro Caixinha's second in charge, with the Portuguese having guided Rangers to a 4-0 win over Hamilton in his first match as boss.
And Hodson insists positive thinking has a part to play as Rangers try to reel in Aberdeen.
"We've got to believe we can catch them," the defender said.
"In the last three games we've shown some real positive signs that we can push forward to where we want to be.
"If you go into games thinking you're not going to win, that's not right. You need to have that winning mentality.
"There's a new manager in now and that's given the players a lift. That showed against Hamilton in his first game in charge. We put in a real strong performance."
Hodson looks set to start against Well, with fellow right-back James Tavernier suspended, and the Northern Irishman hopes to put a marker down.
"When a new manager comes in, every player is being looked at," the 25-year-old said.
"It's up to you as a player to try and catch the manager's eye and impress him so you are the one who plays come Saturday.
"We're still only three weeks in and everyone is playing for their places. Hopefully if I carry on training well I'll get more game time.
"That's down to the manager, though, and we'll have to see how things go in the next couple of weeks."


The unemployment rate in the eurozone has fallen to its lowest since February 2009, according to the latest official figures.

The rate dropped to 9.1% last month, from a downwardly revised 9.2% in May.
Separately, inflation remained unchanged in July at 1.3%, according to a preliminary estimate from Eurostat, the European Union's statistics office.
However, core inflation, which excludes food, alcohol and energy prices, rose to 1.2% from 1.1% in June.
Inflation in the 19-nation bloc still remains well below the European Central Bank's target of close to, but below, 2%.
Unemployment fell in all 19 eurozone member countries except Estonia.
The lowest unemployment rates last month were in Germany at 3.8% and Malta at 4.1%.
Greece has the highest rate of unemployment in the eurozone at 21.7%, and also the highest rate of youth unemployment at 45.5%, although those figures refer to April - the latest data available for the country.
The second highest unemployment rate was 17.1% in Spain, which was down from 19.9% a year earlier.
Spain also had the second highest level of youth unemployment among 15-24 year olds at 39.2%.
The increase in the core rate of inflation had not been expected by analysts.
Signs of recovery in the eurozone have led to much speculation that the European Central Bank (ECB) will soon start to cut back its 2.3 trillion euro (Â£2 trillion) quantitative easing (QE) programme, which has involved bond buying to try to boost the bloc's economy and avoid deflation.
ECB president Mario Draghi has previously said that sluggish core inflation and wage growth are reasons to be cautious about reining in the policy.
"Today's upside surprise in core inflation is likely to give the ECB some comfort, even though its level remains low," Morgan Stanley economist Daniele Antonucci said. "We expect a QE tapering announcement this autumn."
However, Connor Campbell, financial analyst at Spreadex, said the markets felt the latest data was not  strong enough "to push the ECB in a hawkish direction", and tighten its policy.


A former Army corporal accused of raping a colleague with another ex-soldier told a military court the alleged victim consented to sex.

Thomas Fulton, 28, was stationed at barracks in Sennelager, Germany, at the time of the alleged attack on Anne-Marie Ellement, from Bournemouth, in November 2009.
Ms Ellement died two years after reporting she had been raped.
Mr Fulton and ex-corporal Jeremy Jones, 28, both deny rape.
Cpl Ellement, who was 28 at the time, was found nearly naked and crying outside her accommodation in the early hours of 20 November 2009.
Mr Fulton told the court he and Mr Jones had been drinking with Cpl Ellement.
He said: "We went back to the room with the intention to have sex. She kissed us, she instigated things."
He told the court he awoke later to find Cpl Ellement had left wearing his lightweight trousers.
When he found her nearby, an argument ensued when she refused to return them.
He said: "She pulled the lightweights down in front of me and she threw them to my chest."
He admitted hurling insults at the corporal, adding: "I was frustrated that she had spoiled a really good night for us all."
He said: "I was 21. It is the biggest regret of my life that I never walked Anne-Marie back that night."
Mr Fulton said he and Mr Jones then took a taxi to a nightclub but received a call informing them that Cpl Ellement was upset.
When they returned, they were arrested on suspicion of rape but the case was dismissed in January 2010.
The panel of civil servants and senior military officers at the trial had not been told the circumstances of Cpl Ellement's death in 2011, when she was aged 30.
But in an interview read to the court, Mr Fulton told officers: "I am really sorry she killed herself. I wish something had been done to help her."
Cpl Fulton, formerly of 174 Provost Company 3 Royal Military Police, and Cpl Jones, formerly of Close Protection Unit Royal Military Police Operations Wing, each deny two charges of rape.
The trial continues.


A man accused of murdering his wife at their home in Kent has appeared in court.

Supply teacher Caroline Andrews, 52, was found dead at a house in The Street, Benenden, on 4 February.
Stuart Andrews, 54, who appeared before Judge Jeremy Carey at Maidstone Crown Court spoke only to confirm his name.
He was remanded in custody and is next due to appear at the same court on 1 April. A provisional trial date was set for 25 July.
A post-mortem examination showed mother-of-four Mrs Andrews died from strangulation.


European Space Agency (Esa) member states have resolved key issues at their ministerial council and agreed a 10.1bn-euro programme of activities.

The big decisions included a go-ahead for an upgrade on Europe's Ariane 5 rocket in parallel with design work on a replacement for the early 2020s.
Esa nations also approved the project to provide the propulsion unit for Nasa's new manned capsule, Orion.
In the surprise of the meeting, even the UK put money into this project.
It has long stayed out of the agency's human spaceflight activities, but agreed to a "one-off, 20m-euro" contribution because of the technology development it could enable in a number of British companies.
"We're confident our interests will be reflected," UK science minister David Willetts said.
Most of the meeting's agenda had been worked out in advance. Great uncertainty however had remained over how much the 20 nations could commit to space in the midst of the Eurocrisis.
With that context in mind, Esa director-general Jean Jacques Dordain expressed great satisfaction at the 10.1bn-euro (Â£8.1bn; $12.9bn) outcome.
"Member states recognize that space is not an expense; it's an investment," he said.
The future of Ariane 5 and how to maintain its competitiveness in the face of growing international competition was the most problematic topic going into the Ministerial Council.
Germany had wanted to upgrade the rocket with a more powerful upper-stage engine to make it more versatile and therefore more attractive to potential customers; the French had wanted to go straight to a next-generation launcher that would benefit from substantially reduced production costs.
In that argument, Germany won.  Ariane 5ME (Mid-Life Evolution) will be developed and will aim to fly in 2017.
However, the upper-stage Vinci engine will also be used on the successor (now officially called Ariane 6), and the meeting appeased French concerns by agreeing to detailed definition studies now and another gathering in 2014 to decide how to implement the future vehicle.
The hope is it can be put on the launch pad by about 2021.
Settling the launcher issue enabled a cascade of other agreements.
On the International Space Station (ISS), ministers not only had to find money to cover general European operating costs, they also had to approve their non-cash contribution to the orbiting platform.
There is a gap in this obligation in the period 2017-2020 and the US space agency (Nasa) had asked Esa to fulfill it by making a propulsion unit that could drive the Americans' new manned capsule, Orion, through space.
European member states indicated they would do this - but there was a surprise: the UK said it would help with the cost, which is expected to be 450m euros.
Even though it was an original signatory on the treaty that brought the ISS into being, Britain has steadfastly refused down the years to pick up any of the costs of constructing the platform or even to pay for the UK national Tim Peake, who was recently selected as an astronaut.
But Mr Willetts indicated his nation would make a "one-off, 20m-euro" contribution to the propulsion module project. He said there were telecommunications and propulsion companies in Britain that would benefit from the involvement.
Mr Dordain's reaction: "The UK is on the space station. It's a historic moment."
Professor Jan Woerner, part of Germany's delegation in Naples and a frequent critic of Britain's past reluctance to join the ISS programme, also saluted the change of position.
In addition, he highlighted the significance of the module to Europe more widely.
"The first flight is an unmanned flight, but Orion, as you know, is a capsule for future human transportation so it's a big deal that Esa is now on the critical path together with the Americans for human transportation."
After the two-day event, Germany went away as the largest Esa contributor (2.6bn euros) followed by France (2.3bn).  The pair are the traditional power-houses in European space.  But the meeting saw the UK climb (1.5bn) above Italy (1.1bn) into third position.  The monies agreed in Naples will be spent over different periods but, broadly speaking, over the next three to five years.
Esa's science budget - the part that makes space telescopes to study the cosmos, and the like - received a "flat cash" settlement of 2.5bn euros.  In other words, the 2013 budget will be repeated in the following four years with no adjustment for inflation (ie 508m per year).
Science is the agency's mandatory programme.  Everyone must contribute a sum that reflects the relative size of their economy.
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Gateshead midfielder Antony Sweeney is pleased to be returning to his native North East after leaving League Two side Carlisle United.

The 32-year-old joined the National League side following his release by the Cumbrians at the end of last season after a two-year spell.
Sweeney, who is originally from Stockton-on-Tees, spent 13 years at Hartlepool, making 444 appearances.
"It obviously was a factor," Sweeney said of the region's appeal.
"I've got a young family at home, but it wasn't the be all and end all. I was quite happy to move away if needs be but luckily enough I didn't have to.
"Everything fell into place here and I'm quite confident we'll have a decent season and it'll prove a good move."
Sweeney was manager Neil Aspin's sixth addition this summer, which has now risen to 13 following the addition of left-back George Smith.
Chairman Richard Bennett who along with wife Julie took over the club in May 2015, have targeted the Football League and maintained the club's full-time status.
"It's always been a club - with me being from the North East - that I've looked out for on the results and followed," Sweeney added.
"I sat down with them and he [Bennett] discussed the plans he wanted to do and they matched my own ambitions, which I've made no bones about.
"I still feel I can contribute in league football and hopefully that will be with Gateshead."
The Tynesiders began their pre-season training on Wednesday as they look to push for promotion to the English Football League for the first time in the club's history.
Sweeney, who spent his entire career playing in the Football League, says success in non-league can be transfer to the higher tiers of the English football pyramid, as Crawley, Stevenage and Fleetwood Town have previously shown.
"Its momentum, it's all about momentum", admitted Sweeney.
"If you can get out of this league, I'm not sure there's a great deal of difference between League Two and the National League.
"So if you've got that momentum and you go into that league, you can carry that on quite easily."


A year-and-a-half ago, Gao Yaojie, a celebrated doctor, would have been greeting a steady stream of desperate HIV patients at her old home in central China.

Now she passes her days holed up in a flat in the New York melting pot neighbourhood of West Harlem, writing about China's blood-selling epidemic in three books that she considers her legacy.
"I never go out. All I do, from day to night, is work on my books. I go over pages and pages every day," she says in Mandarin, loudly, in the way those hard of hearing often do.
"I am 84 years old. My goal is to publish them before I die."
Dr Gao is one of China's oldest and most famous dissidents. Fearing for her freedom, she fled the country in 2009, crying all the way.
Home is now a massive public housing complex, where the language spoken is often Spanish.
"If I consider only my living standards, this place is a lot better than my old place in Zhengzhou," she says, gesturing to her newly renovated one-bedroom flat.
"There is even heat when it gets cold! Life is more comfortable here. But I miss my old life and the work I used to do."
The apartment, paid for by charities, seems spacious because it is sparsely furnished.
When Dr Gao left China, she boarded the plane with a few Mao jackets and manuscripts of three books, the culmination of her life's work.
For more than a decade, the country doctor, a gynaecologist by training, was at the forefront of Aids activism in China.
Known as Grandma Gao, she travelled across the country treating patients, often at her own expense.
But Dr Gao refused to keep quiet about what she found. She believes the vast majority of people infected with HIV in China caught the virus as a result of selling their blood for money.
"You know how many people were infected? Ten million. That includes the number of people who have already died. It's not less than that," she says, her voice rising in anger.
That is far greater than Beijing's official figure of 740,000 people living with HIV. For years, the country denied having such patients.
China's Henan province, where Dr Gao lived, was the centre of a tainted blood scandal in the 1990s. With a huge population and limited industry, Henan residents sold themselves to make a living.
They sold their blood, which was then pooled with blood from other donors into a central collection. The valuable plasma was then separated.
The remainder of the blood, now contaminated with HIV and other viruses, was given back to donors to speed up their recovery so they could give again.
Government officials initially covered up the practice. Many profited directly. As a result, entire villages were devastated by illness.
Dr Gao believes the problem still exists: "It's bigger. It's nationwide, everywhere. I have seen everything with my own eyes. Blood selling is illegal. In the past, it was open and public. Now, it's underground."
Dr Gao treated her first HIV patient in 1996. She also led a campaign for greater openness and transparency. As a result of her efforts, she was recognised at home and abroad for her work.
But in May 2009, after the detention and trial of two other prominent activists, she concluded that her freedom was in danger.
"I got a call from the French embassy, telling me I had won an award," she recalled. "Then my phone line was cut. The last time that happened, I was under house arrest for two weeks.
"I later got information that the government planned to stop me from collecting my award and telling the world what was happening. So, without eating my lunch, I got on a bus to Beijing."
Dr Gao then made her way to the southern province of Guangdong, where she enjoyed the warm weather and company of supporters, before leaving for America and a life in exile.
"When I was young, I could work to the fullest of my ability to serve China. Now that I am old, America is supporting me," she said.
Dr Gao spent several months with a Chinese family in small-town America, before being enticed to New York with a visiting fellowship at Columbia University, and a $40,000 (Â£25,000) annual stipend, courtesy of two charities.
Shortly after her arrival in New York, the problems of old age caught up with the frail, yet feisty, grandmother.
Hearing loss in both ears worsened. She also discovered a blood clot in her leg, restricting her movement.
"There is so much I can't do now," she says, crying at times in frustration over her declining health.
"In the past, I treated patients. I was also teaching, nine classes in one day. It pains me that I am not healthy enough to work like I used to."
Dr Gao receives few visitors. Due to her outspoken activism, she is estranged from her children. Her husband of several decades passed away in 2006.
Mortality is constantly on her mind. "All I think about is that before I die, I am able to leave these painful questions and records with the next generation.
"If I don't, then what has happened to so many people would just be stories. My work is not done. It will never be completed. But I can't do any more."


People living in the home town of Olympic champion Helen Glover have been unable to buy special stamps issued in her honour due to a shortage.

Glover, who grew up in Penzance, Cornwall and her rowing partner Heather Stanning won Team GB's first gold on Wednesday.
Royal Mail rushed the limited edition stamps out to 500 post offices.
But some Penzance branches had none, while the 80 sheets delivered to the main branch sold out in about an hour.
Trevor Churchfield, one of the last customers to successfully purchase the stamps from the main branch, said Royal Mail had grossly underestimated the demand there would be in Cornwall.
"I was about 25th in the queue and by the time I got to the counter there was only one sheet left," he said.
"At one point a teller came out to see if anybody wasn't waiting for stamps - and there was only one."
Resident Annie Prouse said she was bitterly disappointed at not being able to get her "little bit of history".
She ordered three first-day covers from her local branch at Heamoor, but when she went to collect them on Thursday, the postmaster said they had not been delivered.
Mrs Prouse tried two other branches without success before going to the main Post Office branch in Market Jew Street.
"I was told it had been a dreadful day with people queuing in the town and the 80 sheets of stamps they'd had delivered were sold in less than an hour," she said.
"Truro couldn't help me and I was told to phone the main stamp depot in Edinburgh, but the girl said it was nothing to do with them.
"The postmaster at St Clare said he was led to believe the bulk of the stamps had gone to Plymouth.
"Well, I'm sorry but Helen's a Cornish girl so why send them to Devon when we want them here -  because it's really important to us."
Glover and Stanning - the first British women to win rowing gold - are the first all-female sports team to appear on a Royal Mail stamp.
The Royal Mail has pledged to issue a stamp for each Team GB gold medal during the London 2012 Olympic Games.
It said the "unprecedented levels of demands" for the gold medal stamps had exceeded its expectations, adding that a further 4,700 post offices would be supplied over the weekend.
A spokesperson said it had anticipated "significant" interest and so had supplied the main post ofice in Penzance with double the volume of the special stamps it received for the royal wedding last year.
"However, the level of demand from people in Penzance wanting to buy stamps to celebrate blew us away - with all the stamps selling out in an hour," a statement said.
"We have of course restocked the Post Office there and we are having to revise upwards our projections of demand for gold medal stamps by people in our Olympic heroes' home towns.
"We stand ready for our Weymouth and Poole sailors and of course in Plymouth next weekend for Tom Daley.
Branches which have the special edition stamps can be found on the Post Office website, where the stamps can also be ordered.
In further recognition of Glover's Olympic achievement - the 26-year-old only started rowing four years ago - a post box in Penzance's Quay Street has been painted gold.
Its original red colour will be reinstated in six months.


David Warner hit his seventh one-day century of the year as Australia sealed a 3-0 series whitewash over New Zealand with a 117-run win in Melbourne.

The opener, who made 156 off 128 deliveries, was run out off the final ball of Australia's 264-8. The next highest score was Travis Head's 37.
Mitchell Starc took 3-34 as New Zealand were bowled out for 147 with almost 14 overs unused at the MCG.
Only Sachin Tendulkar (nine) has made more ODI hundreds in a calendar year.
Warner, whose century was his second in successive games and fourth in his six matches, has scored 1,388 runs at an average of 63.09 in 23 ODIs in 2016.
Australia beat New Zealand by 68 runs in Sydney and 116 runs in Canberra in the first two matches of the series.
Australia begin a three-Test series against Pakistan on Thursday in Brisbane, while New Zealand host Bangladesh in a limited-overs series starting on 26 December.


Maria, which isn't her real name, was 20 years old when she says she was raped following a poker night in her bedroom while studying at Oxford University.

"I got really drunk," she says. "I passed out and someone raped me."
It was only when she talked to a friend the day afterwards that she says the scale of what had happened hit her.
"I woke up at about two pm. My friend messaged me asking, 'What happened last night?'" Maria recalls.
"I felt a bit awkward about it. It was only when he said, 'Maria... that's rape' that I thought, 'Actually, like, that's not OK.'"
Maria says she did report her case but that police "weren't very helpful".
"I went to the police station first, then the police came over to my house and asked me to put my bed sheets, my clothes, and condoms in evidence bags," she says.
"This woman came over later, and she basically told them that my case wouldn't stand up in court - and to give me the evidence bags back.
Maria decided not to take the case any further but says she "doesn't think it was fair" for police to put pressure on her in that moment to make a decision about whether she wanted to do something, like take it to court or not.
In a statement, Thames Valley Police says it "takes all reports of rape and sexual offences extremely seriously" and that some of Maria's comments are "extremely concerning but as [she] has written it anonymously we need [her] to contact us directly so we can identify the case and properly investigate the claims being made".
Maria says she doesn't think she will take up her case again with the police as too much time has passed and she doesn't have the evidence any more.
Oxford University is made up of 38 colleges. She also recalls what she says happened when she spoke to her college welfare officers about being raped.
She says the college had a few conversations with her alleged attacker about it.
"A couple of weeks later they decided that it was OK, that they could drop it."
Maria talks about how uncomfortable she has felt and said they had "parties in college and he was always kind of around".
Since Maria blogged about her case, Oxford University has revised its harassment policy and developed new guidance for all staff on handling cases of sexual assault or violence, including rape.
In a statement, the university says it takes the issues Maria raises very seriously.
"Sexual violence, like all forms of sexual harassment, is unacceptable at Oxford University.
"Support for all victims, including of sexual violence, rape or assault, is available at a number of levels and now co-ordinated centrally."
There has also been sexual consent workshops launched as part of Freshers' Week.
It's an issue that's been discussed at other universities as well. Last month Greater Manchester police started a new rape campaign together with student unions and universities in north-west England.
"Drinking is not a crime. Rape is," reads a leaflet that's been distributed to bars, clubs and student accommodation.  They're also encouraging that message to be shared on social media using #noconsentnosex.
In October the National Union of Students started a sexual consent pilot scheme with 20 students' unions from further and higher education that aims to "facilitate positive, informed and inclusive conversations and campaigns about consent".
The NUS also completed a campaign last week called reclaim your campus, which focused 16 days of activism against gender violence.
One of the pledges of that campaign was urging universities to "investigate the level of harassment and assault on campus and publicly publish the results".
There is currently no official data from the Office of National Statistics on the number of rapes that occur at universities in the UK.
The latest rape figures from the ONS show 22,116 rapes were recorded in England and Wales in the year from July 2013 to June 2014.
Maria thinks overall attitudes need to change about being raped while drunk.
"It's not my fault for passing out, it's his fault for raping me," she says.
While she's not taking the case further, Maria is confident the person who raped her is aware of the blog she wrote about it.
"As much as I hate his face, I would still love to have seen his face when he read that," she says.
"He must know that I'm a click of a button away from telling everyone that he's a rapist and that feels extremely empowering.
"I almost feel like that's enough for me. I don't need him in prison and I like to think with sexual consent workshops in college, he won't reoffend."
Maria also doesn't want that one night to define her.
"I like to think that there's more to my personality than just being a person who got raped," she says.
"I don't want people to look at me and think, 'That's the girl that got raped.' I want them to think, 'That's the girl that did X, Y and Z. She's amazing.'"
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Melania Trump is suing a British newspaper and a US blogger for $150m (£114m) over allegations she was a sex worker in the 1990s, her lawyer says.

The Daily Mail suggested Mrs Trump may have worked as a part-time escort in New York, and met husband Donald Trump, who is now running for the White House, earlier than previously reported.
The claims were "outright lying", lawyer Charles Harder said.
Both the blogger and the Daily Mail have since retracted their articles.
"These defendants made several statements about Mrs Trump that are 100% false and tremendously damaging to her personal and professional reputation," Mr Harder said in a statement.
"Defendants' actions are so egregious, malicious and harmful to Mrs Trump that her damages are estimated at $150m," Mr Harder's statement said.
He has filed the complaint before the Circuit Court for Montgomery County in the US state of Maryland.
The document states that Melania Trump asks the court to rule against all defendants "in an amount in excess of Seventy Five Thousand Dollars ($75,000) in compensatory and punitive damages".
There has been no explanation of the discrepancy.
Mrs Trump, 46, was born in Slovenia and moved to the US to work as a model in the 1990s. She married Mr Trump in 2005.
For Melania Trump to succeed in a defamation action in the US she would have to prove that the Daily Mail acted maliciously.
In other words, she would have to provide evidence that the British newspaper was aware that the allegations were false and yet went on ‒ deliberately and maliciously ‒ to publish them.
That would be a very difficult task, especially as it is clear that the paper had sources for the story. So the chances of a successful claim in the US are remote.
However, the position would be different if Mrs Trump sued here. She clearly has a reputation in the UK ‒ she is a global figure and is entitled to bring a claim.
If she could prove that the published allegations were defamatory and that she had suffered serious harm as a result, it would be hard for the Daily Mail to defend an action. Also, in light of its retraction it could not argue that it was justified in publishing.
The big difference is that the maximum damages for a defamation claim here would be about £300,000 ‒ a fraction of the $150m (£112m) Mrs Trump's lawyers say the claim is worth.
Melania Trump in her own extravagant tweets
In July, Mrs Trump was embroiled in a row over plagiarism, after her speech at the Republican convention. Lines matched almost word for word those delivered by First Lady Michelle Obama at the Democrats' convention in 2008.
An employee of the Trump Organisation, Meredith McIver, later admitted her role in writing the speech, saying it was her mistake.


Cardiff Blues are out of contention for an Anglo-Welsh Cup semi-final spot after suffering a heavy defeat at Sale.

Denny Solomona, Welshman Jonathan Mills and Laurence Pearce went over before the break.
Pearce added a second after 50 minutes and Neil Briggs and James Flynn followed before a late penalty try.
The seven-tries-to-none win sent Sale from bottom to the top of Pool Two, but Ospreys can reclaim pole position if they beat Bristol on Saturday.
Sale Sharks: Mike Haley; Denny Solomona, Johnny Leota, Sam Tuitupou, Byron McGuigan; AJ MacGinty, Mike Phillips; Ross Harrison, Neil Briggs, Halani Aulika, Bryn Evans, Jonathan Mills, Tom Curry, David Seymour (capt), Laurence Pearce.
Replacements: Cameron Neild, James Flynn, Kieran Longbottom, George Nott, Ben Curry, James Mitchell, Sam James, Mark Jennings.
Cardiff Blues: Aled Summerhill; Teri Gee, Cory Allen, Garyn Smith, Harri Millard; Jarrod Evans, Pele Cowley; Corey Domachowski, Ethan Lewis, Kieron Assiratti, Ben Edwards, Seb Davies, James Sheekey, Morgan Sienawski, Cam Dolan (capt)
Replacements: Liam Belcher, Marc Thomas, Ben Leung, Callum Bradbury, Aled Ward , Dane Blacker, Ben Jones, Cameron Lewis.=


A Republican-backed measure to derail the Iran nuclear deal has been blocked by Democrats in the US Senate, securing a major foreign policy victory for President Barack Obama.

Mr Obama will now not have to veto any measures against the deal that puts limits on Iran's nuclear programme.
Republicans fell two votes short of the 60 needed to advance the resolution to a final vote.
Discussion on the deal continues in the House of Representatives.
"This vote is a victory for diplomacy for American national security, and for the safety and security of the world," said Mr Obama in a statement.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called today's outcome "clear, decisive and final" and that efforts to derail the deal any longer are "simply a waste of time."
A vote not to vote isn't high political drama, but it's a sweet victory for Barack Obama nevertheless.
Despite a massive advertising and lobbying campaign by its opponents and near universal Republican opposition, the controversial Iran nuclear deal will survive.
During his first presidential campaign in 2008, then-Senator Obama pledged to talk with "our foes and friends" without preconditions.
Those efforts have reached fruition in normalised relations with Cuba and now, in the twilight of his presidency, a nuclear agreement with the Iranians. These - for better or worse, depending on whom you ask - will likely be viewed as the two key components of Mr Obama's foreign policy legacy.
The deal faced unanimous opposition from Republicans controlling Congress, Republicans running for president, Israel and its US lobbyists.
Starting next week, Mr Obama will be allowed to draw back US sanctions on Iran.
Republicans contend that the deal enriches Iran's power and brings it closer to building a bomb.
"This is a bad deal with decades-long consequences for the security of the American people and our allies," said House Speaker John Boehner. "We'll use every tool at our disposal to stop, slow and delay this agreement."


App-based guides for games, including Fifa and Pokemon Go, were used to target more than 500,000 Android users with malware, a cyber-security company has said.

The apps, discovered on the Google Play Store, were designed to take control of devices before downloading malware.
Unwanted ads could then be displayed to users, for example, according to researchers at Check Point.
Google did not respond to a request for comment.
More than 40 guide apps for popular games were found to be capable of delivering the malware to users' devices, Check Point said.
It is thought that the apps were downloaded between 528,000 and 1.8 million times, though it is not known how many of these downloads resulted in the deployment of malware.
"Since the actual apps do not contain any malicious code themselves, it's very hard to trace," said Daniel Padon, at Check Point.
He added that when Check Point had notified Google about the apps they had been removed.
But the researchers said that they continued to find more examples on the Play Store.
Some of the apps were made available as long ago as November last year.
When one is downloaded, it asks users for device admin permission to ensure the software cannot be deleted.
It then attempts to establish a connection with a command and control server, turning the device into a bot in a botnet - a network of devices controlled from afar.
Malicious software can then be downloaded.
Mr Padon told the BBC that this could allow hackers to send illegitimate pop-up ads, use the device as part of a DDoS attack, or snoop on data sent via the device's network.
He said mobile botnets were becoming more common.
"We, other security vendors and Google have found different mobile botnets spreading via the Play Store," Mr Padon said.
"This is a hard thing to stop - it could have a devastating impact."
The approach could indeed be dangerous, agreed Nikolaos Chrysaidos at cyber-security firm Avast.
"At the moment, it seems like the cyber-criminals behind the threat are only interested in making money from ads," he said.
"The threat currently has very basic functionalities [...] However, there is nothing stopping the threat from becoming more sophisticated in the future."


Graham Taylor will be remembered by many for his unfulfilling spell in charge of England - but by plenty more as an outstanding club manager at Watford and Aston Villa and one of the nicest, most genuine men in the game.

The reaction to Taylor's death on Thursday at the age of 72, and the affection expressed for him, was the true measure of his standing inside and outside football.
Born in Worksop in Nottinghamshire, Taylor was the son of a journalist and rose to prominence in the game as a manager after retiring as a player with Lincoln City in 1972. He became manager and coach at the club, winning the Fourth Division title with them before moving to Watford in 1977.
It was here, in tandem with his chairman Sir Elton John, that he produced arguably his finest work, taking the club from the Fourth Division to the top flight in the space of five exhilarating years.
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Taylor nurtured Watford legends such as Luther Blissett and John Barnes, remarkably finishing second behind Liverpool in their first season at that elite level and reaching the FA Cup final in 1984, where they lost 2-0 to Everton.
Not so long ago he joked with me, with his usual broad smile: "You know I have never watched any of that game from that day to this - but I don't need to see it again to know that second goal from Andy Gray was a bloody foul on our goalkeeper Steve Sherwood."
Taylor's unlikely partnership with the flamboyant rock star worked against the odds, the manager's down-to-earth approach dovetailing with his chairman's lavish lifestyle. They remained friends for life, as demonstrated by Sir Elton's heartfelt tribute.
On trips abroad when he worked as a BBC Sport pundit, Taylor would gladly tell stories of that partnership, always with a laugh and underlining the genuine affection they shared.
Taylor's brilliance inevitably attracted attention from elsewhere and, perhaps feeling he had achieved all he could at Vicarage Road, he left for Aston Villa in May 1987.
Villa were in reduced circumstances having been relegated to the second flight. Taylor soon put that right by winning promotion in his first season - and, not content with that, rebuilt the club with such success and shrewd management that he took them to second place behind Liverpool in 1990.
Taylor's methods were tried and trusted and yet he often received criticism for what his detractors perceived as "long ball" football. He, with much justification, pointed out his willingness to use wingers and flair players such as Barnes and the young Mo Johnston, whom he brought to England from Partick Thistle.
England inevitably looked in Taylor's direction after Sir Bobby Robson left following the 1990 World Cup in Italy, where his side lost to West Germany on penalties in the semi-final.
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This was, without doubt, the darkest and most frustrating period of Taylor's career and is one of the reasons his other work has been so criminally underrated over the years.
Taylor took over at a tough time after the loss of England mainstays such as goalkeeper Peter Shilton and past captains such as Terry Butcher and Bryan Robson. He gave players like Alan Shearer and Martin Keown their first England caps - but he drew criticism for selecting players many simply felt were not international class, such as Carlton Palmer.
England reached Euro 92 in Sweden under Taylor but produced a series of disappointing performances, going out at the group stage after losing 2-1 to Sweden in Stockholm.
Taylor courted controversy and criticism in that decisive game by substituting England captain and main marksman Gary Lineker for Arsenal striker Alan Smith with a goal still needed - it never arrived and Lineker never played for England again. The manager was vilified and lampooned as a "turnip" in the Sun newspaper.
The campaign to qualify for the World Cup in the United States in 1994 also ended in failure, and was brutally chronicled in the fly-on-the-wall documentary 'The Impossible Job', which gave an intimate insight into the pressures Taylor was under.
Those struggles were illustrated starkly in the game that effectively sealed his fate, the 2-0 loss to the Netherlands in Rotterdam.
He may have operated at the highest level but he never talked down to supporters and was always interested in how they viewed the game
The tortured Taylor is seen on the sidelines pleading with officials after Ronald Koeman somehow escaped a red card for a foul on England's David Platt, only to be reprieved and score the brilliant free-kick that sent the Dutch on the way to victory.
He resigned the following month and stayed out of the game until returning at Wolves in March 1994. During his spell in charge he took them into the second-tier play-offs in 1994-95, where they lost to Bolton Wanderers.
Taylor left in November 1995 before returning to revisit old glories. Sir Elton John was back at the helm at Watford so it was no surprise when he turned to Taylor to come back to Vicarage Road as general manager in February 1996.
It was once more the perfect fit and he was back as manager a year later, winning the third-tier title in 1998 before putting Watford in the Premier League at the end of the following season after a play-off final victory over Bolton.
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Watford, despite an early win at Liverpool, were relegated and the following season Taylor decided to retire - only to change his mind and make a comeback at Villa in February 2002. He retired for a second and final time after they struggled the following season.
It was the end of one chapter and the start of another as Taylor became a respected pundit on BBC Radio 5 live, a role he performed with total assurance and perception.
Taylor was part of the radio team that covered England. It was a sign of the esteem in which he was held by fans as well as players that whenever he encountered supporters abroad, he was treated with complete respect.
There was barely a reference from England followers to any of his struggles in charge of the national team. To them, Taylor was a true gentleman, to be given his due not just for his work but for his warm personality and willingness to discuss football matters with anyone he met.
He may have operated at the highest level but he never talked down to supporters and was always interested in how they viewed the game.
As a BBC Sport colleague, Taylor was unfailingly co-operative and the consummate professional, willing to take a call at any time, even when he was meant to be spending time with his beloved wife Rita.
And as well as a fount of knowledge and a man with strong opinions, Taylor was also an endless source of entertainment and stories, just as happy to poke fun at himself as everyone else.
Graham Taylor was a top-class manager at club level and a true gentleman inside and outside of football. He will be greatly missed and perhaps now his work in management, viewed through the prism of this sad news, will finally get the credit it fully deserves.


Leeds midfielder Ronaldo Vieira has signed a four-year contract extension.

The 18-year-old came through the club's academy and made 38 appearances in all competitions this season.
He has been called up to the England Under-20 squad for the first time and could make his debut later this month in the Toulon Tournament.
Vieira is the first player to sign a new contract with the club since they were taken over by Italian businessman Andrea Radrizzani on Tuesday.


Eddie Jones says he sympathises with Richard Cockerill and is open to the possibility of the sacked Leicester boss joining England's coaching set-up.

Cockerill, 46, was dismissed as Tigers' director of rugby on 2 January, with the club fifth in the Premiership.
England head coach Jones told BBC Sport that despite having a forwards coach he would "never close the door".
Jones also said Dylan Hartley would continue to captain England if he was fit enough to be selected.
Northampton hooker Hartley is serving a six-week ban for catching Leinster's Sean O'Brien with a swinging arm in a Champions Cup match in December.
Jones, 56, said last month that the 30-year-old had "let his country down" with the third red card of his career.
But the Australian said on Tuesday that Hartley was "doing everything right" to be England captain for the forthcoming Six Nations.
Cockerill had been a member of Leicester's coaching staff since 2004, taking over as head coach in 2009 and becoming director of rugby in 2010.
But following a 16-12 defeat by Saracens on New Year's Day, and with Leicester 15 points adrift of leaders Wasps, Cockerill was sacked.
Jones said: "I have a massive amount of sympathy for Richard Cockerill.
"He is a great rugby guy, a great player for Leicester, has been a very successful director of rugby and coach.
"You don't like to see that happen to anyone but the reality of being a coach is that everyone goes through that and I am sure he will end up somewhere else.
"It has been a discussion point for the Leicester players. They are disappointed for Richard but know they have to get on with the job.
"We are very well endowed with the forwards coaches we have at the moment so we can always look at the possibility of that [getting Cockerill]."
Former England lock Steve Borthwick is currently England's forwards coach.
Hartley's dismissal in Northampton's 37-10 home defeat by Leinster had jeopardised his involvement in England's Six Nations campaign, with their opening fixture against France at Twickenham on 4 February.
However, he is eligible to play again from 23 January.
Jones added: "A prerequisite to get into the England side is to be very fit and not playing games means he needs to undergo an unbelievably stringent fitness programme over the next five or six weeks. He is doing that and is in the best position to continue as captain.
"If Dylan is right to play, he will be captain.
"Everyone makes mistakes. In the last 12 months, he has made one mistake and done a hell of a lot of good things so his batting average is pretty high. If that falls, then we need to look at things.
"We have had a number of chats, not any longer than five minutes, but plenty of information has been exchanged. He understands where he is at and what he needs to do. He will do it."
The former Australia coach said it was a "big relief" to have James Haskell back in contention after the flanker missed the autumn internationals with a toe injury.
Leicester centre Manu Tuilagi has been ruled out of England's training camp in Brighton next week after a knee injury cut short his involvement in the Tigers' defeat by Saracens.
"He was coming back into some form, getting his power back so it is enormously frustrating for him," said Jones.
Former England captain Chris Robshaw also faces a nervous wait to discover the extent of the shoulder injury sustained with Harlequins on New Year's Day, with England ordering a scan.
World Rugby has tightened the tackle law with immediate effect, clamping down on high and dangerous tackles by lowering the acceptable height of the tackle and increasing the severity of on-field punishment.
"I think it is fantastic," said Jones. "The game of rugby is such a great game and we have to keep improving it.
"Concussions is an issue that will be there more and more so the scrutiny for head injuries is nothing like it was three or five years ago.
"Over the next period of time, it is going to be quite difficult. We will then have a safer, healthier game.
"We played against Argentina with 14 men and it was a great game. We are preparing for that. The penalties over the next period of time will be harsh."


A woman was attacked in her own car after being flagged down by a pedestrian in West Lothian.

The 29-year-old driver stopped her Vauxhall Corsa on the A89, near the former Bangour Hospital, in Dechmont, at about 16:15 on Monday.
After rolling down her window to speak to the female pedestrian, she was hit in the face before a man tried to open the front passenger door.
The woman managed to drive off before contacting police.
The female suspect was described as white, about 5ft 3in tall with tied-back brown hair. She was wearing a blue, hooded top.
The male suspect was described as wearing a dark-coloured jacket.
Insp Scott Robertson, from Police Scotland, appealed for witnesses to come forward.
He said: "Fortunately, the woman was not injured during this incident and neither suspect was able to gain entry to her car.
"Nevertheless, she was left extremely shaken as a result and we are pursuing various lines of inquiry to trace both suspects."


Victor Ponta announced his resignation hours after one of the biggest protests Romania's capital has seen in the past 25 years.

More than 20,000 people, most of them young, took to the streets of Bucharest, calling for him to go, days after the deaths of 32 people at a Halloween party at the Colectiv nightclub. The demonstration was one of the largest seen in Bucharest since the fall of communism in 1989.
"Down with Ponta", "Down with Oprea", "Down with Piedone", they chanted, singling out the prime minister, interior minister and a local mayor for blame.
Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea had been under pressure over the recent accidental death of a police outrider on duty in the minister's official motorcade. The mayor of the Bucharest district where the fire took place, Cristian "Piedone" Popescu, was accused of having illegally approved the opening of the club.
The prime minister and Mr Oprea were gone by midday and were followed shortly afterwards by a contrite Mr Popescu, who had previously said he felt no responsibility for the Colectiv Club tragedy.
The protesters shouted slogans such as "Corruption kills", alleging that the Colectiv club - a disused factory used as a nightclub venue - could only function because the owners had bribed the authorities.
Mr Popescu has denied the allegations. He had intended to run for mayor of Bucharest and replace Sorin Oprescu, the current mayor who is himself under investigation for alleged corruption.
The government on Tuesday adopted two emergency ordinances boosting the powers of the Emergency Situations Inspectorate (ISU) enabling it to close down clubs and restaurants which do not comply with fire regulations.
"We have increased fines from 2,500 lei (Â£400; $610), which was really nothing for a club, to between 30,000 and 100,000 lei. We have also made it a criminal offence," the deputy interior minister in charge of emergency situations, Raed Arafat, told the BBC.
"Do you want my honest opinion? It will only increase bribes," one protester said of the new measures.
More than 100 people are still in hospital, some of them in a critical condition, after suffering burns and poisoning in the 30 October fire. Doctors fear the toll could rise.
A young woman who lost two friends in the blaze was clearly angry.
"We, the young, are the future. That is what we were told, that is how we were educated. And when something very serious like that happens and young people die, we see it as an attack against us. Things must change and change must come from those who govern us," she said.
President Klaus Iohannis, a political opponent of the prime minister, expressed his support for the demonstrators on Facebook, declaring himself "impressed".
"The next step has to belong to the politicians who cannot ignore the sentiment of revolt expressed by the people," he said in a brief statement.
But many of the young people who backed Mr Iohannis in his race against Victor Ponta for president a year ago have been unimpressed with their head of state; a man they see as stand-offish and not forceful enough in his criticism of the government.
The demonstration brought back memories of other large-scale protests in the capital which also had significant repercussions.
A big protest in 1989 brought about the fall of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. And a year later demonstrators targeted then President Ion Iliescu, whom they accused of perpetuating the Communist regime.
"When I see these children demonstrating, many of them weren't born 25 years ago, I feel there is hope for the rebirth of this nation," one protest veteran said.


Celtic's players are not giving 100% under manager Ronny Deila, according to the club's former winger Joe Miller.

Deila and his players are having a clear-the-air meeting after Aberdeen narrowed the gap at the top of the Scottish top-flight to four points.
"Those talks usually come about when a team's struggling." Miller told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"He [Deila] picks a team and they should be going out there giving 100%. I don't think they are."
Deila said he understood why he and his players were booed off the field by Celtic supporters after the goalless draw at home to Dundee.
"We need to clean the air and be agreeing with how we go forward," the Celtic manager added.
"That's my job to do. That's what I'm going to do.
"The players give 100%, but I don't get 100% out of them," he said. "They can play better than they did last night.
"It's about confidence. We haven't performed in some games and we need to turn that around."
Aberdeen's 1-0 win away to Dundee United drew the second-placed side to within four points of the reigning champions.
However, Deila believes that the fans will still back him and the players despite their frustration.
"We need to get back together," added the Norwegian. "The fans will stand behind us because they're Celtic fans.
"We have to show we want to fight for it. A wrong pass can happen, but we need to see desire on the pitch.
"I understand the reaction to last night. We didn't create anything.
"We looked tired. We need to turn it around."
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Miller, who played for Celtic from 1987 to 1993, added: "It happened to me at Aberdeen when Willie Miller was the manager and it's the sign of pressure on the manager, the staff and the players.
"It surrounds them every day in training and then when the go out on a Saturday the confidence isn't there and they don't get results.
"So, when they're having sit-down talks it's worrying.
"They're trying to do something about it and be pro-active. Sometimes you can air that and get everything off your chest.
"But the bottom line is that players have got to produce the goods. Ronny Deila's not the man who's kicking the ball, it's the players."
A managerial change may help to galvanise Celtic's title challenge, Miller added.


Talks between the Rail Maritime and Transport Workers union (RMT) and Southern rail have broken down.

Conciliation service Acas confirmed discussions ended without the two sides reaching agreement and there are no plans to resume on Wednesday.
Southern's parent firm Govia Thameslink (GTR) said it had hoped to end the 10-month row over guards' roles on trains but were "saddened" talks had ended.
The RMT said the rail operator had blocked serious negotiations.
The bitter dispute centres on Southern's desire to turn guards into on-board supervisors. As such, they lose responsibility for opening and closing carriage doors, with that role falling to the drivers.
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RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "It soon became clear that the only thing Southern were interested in was bulldozing through driver-only operation further and faster with safety and access to services not even on their agenda."
Describing the development as "dire news" for both staff and passengers who wanted a safe, reliable and accessible service, he said: "RMT's negotiating team is furious at the way this union and its members have been treated."
GTR's chief operating officer Nick Brown said: "The travelling public will find the union's obstinate refusal to engage in meaningful and constructive talks disappointing, disheartening and increasingly destructive."
He said conductors in the RMT transferred to the new on-board supervisor role at the beginning of last month, and the company had fully implemented its modernisation programme with the driver opening and closing the doors and a second person focused on customer service.
"Everyone is sick and tired of the RMT's strikes and their pointless and intransigent stance needs to stop," he added.
A statement issued by Acas said: "Conciliation talks have ended without the sides reaching agreement. Our services remain available."
Two unions - the RMT and Aslef - have been in dispute with the train operator.
Drivers' union Aslef reached a deal with Southern on 2 February. However, the RMT was not involved and called the agreement a "betrayal".
The Aslef deal includes details of circumstances when a train can be operated as driver-only, without an on-board supervisor.
About 900 of its members have been voting on whether to accept the deal, with ballot papers expected to be returned by Thursday.


A talented rugby coach has died after being struck by a giant wave while on holiday in France.

Rob Walton, 36, from Hinckley in Leicestershire, was hit while swimming off the coast of Labenne, in south-west France, where he was on holiday with his family.
Mr Walton played in the lock position at Championship-level in Birmingham, Rotherham and Coventry before becoming player-coach at Rugby Lions.
Friends said he was a "gentle giant".
The accident happened at about 14:00 BST on Monday.
Friends said Mr Walton, a father-of-four, was swimming off the coast when he was hit by a "freak" wave.
Mr Walton grew up in Stoke Golding, near Hinckley, and played junior and senior rugby at Hinckley Rugby Club before moving to Birmingham - now Birmingham and Solihull - Rotherham and Coventry.
He was part of the Birmingham side - then known as the Pertemps Bees - that famously beat London Wasps in the 2004 Powergen Cup quarter-final.
After playing the sport in New Zealand alongside two future All Blacks - Chris Jack and Dan Carter - and having a second stint in Hinckley, he moved into coaching, guiding the Rugby Lions to two successive promotions.
Steve Avent, fixtures secretary at Hinckley, said he felt "so sorry" for Mr Walton's family.
"Everyone is devastated," he said. "I have known him since he was 10 years old and he's such a nice lad.
"He played rugby at a high level - he was a gentle giant, really. You wouldn't think something like this was possible."
"The flag at the club is flying at half-mast and there is no doubt we will have some sort of remembrance for him," he said.
Fellow player-coach Rob Dignum said he did not know how the club would "fill the void".
"He had a heart of gold and friends all over the world," he said.


A high school has had to close after a 60ft (18m) monkey puzzle tree fell on to part of the building and cut off electricity supplies.

St Alban's RC School in Pontypool, Torfaen may have to remain shut on Monday after the tree fell overnight.
Head teacher Michael Coady said the canteen and large parts of the school were "out of action".
Torfaen Council's property services team are at the scene removing the evergreen tree and clearing up.
The council said it hoped the school would reopen on Monday but it depended on how long the clear-up took.


The mother of a man found dead in a harbour 20 years ago has told how every day since has been a "sad day" while they seek answers to why he died.

Kevin Mcleod's body was found in Wick harbour in February 1997. His death was treated as accidental, but his family believe he was murdered.
Police Scotland has agreed to assess information relating to his death.
June Mcleod told BBC Scotland that if this review "turns up nothing new" she and her family would fight on.
Mrs Mcleod, her husband Hugh and Kevin Mcleod's uncle Allan have been campaigning for a criminal investigation into the 24-year-old's death.
On the 20th anniversary of her son's death, Mrs Mcleod said: "Every day is a sad day - for 20 years."
She said over that time she has refused to accept the explanation put forward by the authorities that he went into the harbour's waters after tripping on an ornamental street bollard while out at night.
Mrs Mcleod said: "Kevin was given a kicking by someone or some people.
"Kevin was kicked to death. It is terrible for me to say that as I am his mother."
The Mcleod family believe there are people in Wick who know who is responsible.
Mrs Mcleod and her husband secured a fresh assessment of information relating to the case after taking part in a radio station's phone-in with Police Scotland's chief constable Phil Gormley.
She said if the review did not answer her family's questions they would continue their fight for them.
Her husband added: "We are fighting for justice."
Northern Constabulary, the force that investigated Mr Mcleod's death at the time, was criticised for its handling of the Mcleod family's complaints about its investigations.
His family have consistently criticised police for not treating his death as a murder. They have also said a fatal accident inquiry held into the death "raised more questions than answers".
In 2007, the Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland said Northern Constabulary behaved with "institutional arrogance" in the way it handled complaints from Mr Mcleod's parents, Hugh and June Mcleod.
It ordered the then chief constable, Ian Latimer, to apologise in person to his relatives, which the senior officer did.
Mr Mcleod's father said he hoped the new review would examine all documents and other evidence concerning his son's death.
Caithness, Sutherland and Ross MSP, Gail Ross, said the Mcleod family had "been through hell" and deserved a thorough investigation of what happened the night Kevin Mcleod died.


At least 10 people drowned and more than 100 others were rescued when an inflatable boat carrying migrants capsized 32km (20 miles) off Libya.

Those who died were all women, Italian reports said.
The latest migrant tragedy came as the Italian navy raised to the surface a boat that sank with the loss of more than 700 lives.
The April 2015 sinking was the worst loss of human life since the influx of migrants began in 2013.
More than 64,000 migrants and refugees have crossed the Mediterranean to Italy since the start of this year, according to UN figures, including more than 16,000 in June alone. Most of the arrivals have come from African countries.
The Italian coast guard arrived at the scene of Thursday's sinking after a distress signal was received at its Rome headquarters.
The dinghy was partly submerged and many of its passengers were already in the water, reports said.
Sea conditions were described as poor, with high winds and waves of up to 2m (6.6ft).
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The Italian navy was due to give more details about the operation that brought the boat 370m (1,214 ft) to the surface from the seabed off Sicily.
Many of those who died had been locked below the top deck and hundreds of bodies are thought to be still on board.
A special yellow-framed apparatus was submerged and affixed to the boat before a pulley system was used to bring the boat up.


Hampshire collapsed from 84-0 but then declared on 211-9 as Somerset took control on day one at Southampton.

Having won the toss and chosen to bat against the pink ball, the hosts got through the opening session untroubled.
But Craig Overton (2-35) struck, removing Jimmy Adams (47) and Rilee Rossouw in quick succession, before Jack Leach (2-54) and Tim Groenewald (2-27) hastened the decline.
Hampshire then put Somerset in to face six overs, but they closed on 18-0.
Overton, who was unused by England in last week's three-game T20 series with South Africa despite being called up to the squad, bowled a crucial spell to turn the tide.
With Liam Dawson (53) and Adams going well in their patient opening stand, the fast bowler found the latter's outside edge before Rossouw top-edged through to Steven Davies to go for a fifth duck in his last eight County Championship innings.
Dawson fell lbw soon after to Lewis Gregory (3-51) and, despite James Vince's 47, Hampshire's batting fell apart as Leach's accurate left-arm spin gave nothing away.
With a batting point secured, Hampshire captain George Bailey declared, but Marcus Trescothick (10 not out) and debutant Eddie Byrom, who was unbeaten on one, had no troubles reaching stumps under the floodlights.
Hampshire all-rounder Liam Dawson told BBC Solent:
"The crowds haven't changed. We haven't had any more people in. But it is early days and it is something that might work.
"From my first experience of it, they need to have a good look at what balls they are going to use. If you are going to keep on using those balls then you are going to get some pretty boring cricket.
"It was fine to see. It just goes very soft, very quickly."
Somerset fast bowler Craig Overton told BBC Radio Bristol:
"The ball was strange. It swings and then goes really soft. It didn't really do much maybe a little bit in it for the bowlers but because it is so soft and slow it is tough to score on.
"We knew it was going to be tough batting after lights so it is perfect to be nought down with Tres and Eddie.
"It was nice to be with the England boys and see how it all works. I've had a couple of experiences with it now and hopefully next time I'll get a go."


Promoter Eddie Hearn described Ricky Burns' next opponent as a "nightmare" but praised the world champion for not taking an easier fight.

Burns will defend his WBA super-lightweight title against IBF world champion Julius Indongo on 15 April.
But Hearn wanted him to face a less dangerous foe.
"It's not wrong for him because he can't win the fight, it's just that there were easier options for more money," Hearn said.
"That's why you have to admire him, because he doesn't care about the money, he cares about creating a legacy, about creating history. That's inspirational."
Burns could have defended his world title against the American Paulie Malignaggi, but as soon as Indongo won the IBF belt against Eduard Troyanovsky in Russia, Burns wanted to face the Namibian.
The contest, at The Hydro in Glasgow, will be the first time a unification bout - when each opponent is putting a world title at the same weight on the line - will be held in Scotland.
"To get a unification fight in this division is very difficult, because it's either Terence Crawford [the WBC and WBO super-lightweight champion] or this guy," said Hearn.
"This was one we targeted and, in the meantime, the Malignaggi fights and other fights came up who were bigger names but were easier.
"I'm going to Ricky Burns and saying, 'you can fight this guy for x money or this horrible nightmare for less money, what do you want to do?'.
"And he said, 'I'll fight the horrible guy for less money'. So I thought I'd better phone Alex [Morrison, his manager] to talk him out of this.
"Alex agreed with me 100%, as any advisor would do. He phoned me back 10 minutes later and said, 'it's a complete waste of time, I've spoken to him and this is the only fight he wants'.
"It's a 50/50 fight. You'd like to think Indongo would fold, coming to Glasgow and the crowd, but he just went to Russia and knocked out the champion.
"But Ricky knows what he's doing. He's been around a long time."
Hearn believes that a Burns victory would immediately open up the opportunity of a rematch with Crawford, who defeated the Scot in 2014, with the American's promoters already having made contact with him.
Burns himself, though, is wholly focused on the prospect of facing Indongo and the challenges of preparing for the fight when so little video footage is available of the Namibian.
"I know that it's a much harder fight, a riskier fight, but the rewards are going to be so much better," Burns said. "I've taken the risk, so we'll soon find out.
"There have been a few times in my career when I've proved to myself and to other people that, when I'm up against it, when people are writing me off, that's when I'll always perform to my best.
"Fingers crossed that this is another one of those situations.
"He's tall, big long arms, southpaw. It's going to be a hard fight."
Burns said that his trainer, Tony Sim "has brought in sparring partners who are quite similar, so we're getting the best preparation that we can".
"I'm confident of getting the win," he added.


Sunderland striker Fabio Borini has been ruled out for three months with a groin injury.

The 25-year-old Italian suffered a torn ligament taking a free-kick in the 1-1 draw with Southampton last Saturday and had to be replaced.
It leaves the club with Jermain Defoe, 33, as the only recognised striker alongside 17-year-old Swede Joel Asoro.
Sunderland missed out on the signing of Norwich forward Steven Naismith, 29, on transfer deadline day.
Manager David Moyes' other forward options are 22-year-old winger Duncan Watmore and Manchester United's on-loan winger Adnan Januzaj, after Jeremain Lens was loaned to Fenerbahce.
The Black Cats also missed out on re-signing midfielder Yann M'Vila from Russian side Rubin Kazan, who spent last season on loan at Wearside.
But they have a pre-contract agreement in place allowing the two clubs to negotiate again in January.
M'Vila posted on social media that he was at Heathrow on transfer deadline day, but the two sides could not agree on a fee for a permanent transfer, with Kazan wanting 10m euros (£8.4m).
"We worked incredibly hard to try to get a striker in all through the window," Moyes told the Sunderland Echo. "We didn't get anything late on, which we thought we would do.
"We may have to go and look into somebody who could give us an alternative for coming off the bench or a wee bit of back-up through the season."
Free agents are still able to sign for clubs outside the transfer windows.
Sunderland confirmed a move for Boavista goalkeeper Mika was also unable to be completed before the transfer deadline on Wednesday.
They have appealed to football's world governing body Fifa after the paperwork was held up at the Portuguese end.
Meanwhile, first-choice keeper Vito Mannone was scheduled to be out for three months after tearing elbow ligaments, but tweeted on Wednesday that he had had an operation and would be back "sooner than expected".
Mannone's deputy, Jordan Pickford, has returned from international duty with England's Under-21s with a slight thigh strain, although he is expected to be fit for the home league match against Everton on 12 September.
Sebastian Larsson is also injured, alongside key midfielders Lee Cattermole and Jan Kirchhoff.
Moyes was only appointed Sunderland manager on 23 July - after Sam Allardyce left to take charge of England - and lost his first two Premier League games, including the 2-1 defeat by Middlesbrough.
He bought in defenders Donald Love and Paddy McNair from Manchester United for a combined £5.5m, Papy Djilobodji from Chelsea for £8m, midfielder Didier Ndong from Lorient for £13.6m, free agent Steven Pienaar, and completed the loan signings of Jason Denayer and Javier Manquillo.