Bangladeshi police have arrested three people and filed a case against 3,000 villagers after clashes erupted at a protest against a proposed power plant.

Four people were killed and at least 20 injured as police opened fire at the rally near Chittagong on Monday.
Police say they were forced to open fire when protesters attacked them.
Protesters fear they will lose their land when the coal-fired plant, funded by a Chinese firm, is built, and say it will pollute the local environment.
Bangladesh faces an electricity shortage, but some plans to build new power stations have faced strong opposition from environmentalists, the BBC's Waliur Rahman in Dhaka reports.
Police say it is not clear who shot dead the four villagers as the protesters had also opened fire, our correspondent adds.
Bangladeshi police accused the villagers of vandalism and assault after the protest at the village in Banshkhali turned violent on Monday.
However, some villagers said they had demonstrated peacefully against the power plant for days.
One local resident, who asked not to be named, told AFP news agency they feared police would "now use their power indiscriminately against any villager" who spoke out against the plans.
The area was tense on Tuesday as police patrolled the area and hundreds of locals staged another protest, calling for justice for the four victims, media reports say.


As the grieving families in Newtown, Connecticut were holding funerals for their lost loved ones, Mexico's new Congress was tightening the country's gun laws.

The two events were not related. It was not in response to the latest school shootings in the US that Mexican politicians moved to change the legislation. But the timing was certainly symbolic.
Ironically for a country awash with hundreds of thousands of illegal firearms, Mexico has some of the most stringent gun laws in Latin America.
Mexicans do have the right to own a registered gun in their home, but only the military, police and citizens with federal permits can carry arms outside the home.
Obtaining that licence costs $150 (Â£93) and involves rigorous checks. Consequently, many ordinary Mexicans who want to carry a weapon simply buy on the black market.
Since the Mexican government shut down the last private gun shop in the 1990s, there is just one legal gun store in the entire country, located in Mexico City and controlled by the military.
This latest piece of legislation was aimed at stemming the flow of magazines for automatic weapons into the country by closing a longstanding legal loophole.
Senator Arturo Zamora of the ruling PRI party introduced the measure to parliament saying: "The traffic of magazines for high-calibre weapons is in the hands of criminal organisations."
"These magazines pose a threat to society. They are not being brought into country with the aim of protecting people but rather to be used in crimes such as extortion, kidnapping and murder."
As the US grapples with the implications of the shootings in Newtown, there has been relatively little mention of the impact the country's lax gun laws have had on its southern neighbour.
Last year a US Senate report, submitted by the Democratic senator leading the push for greater gun control, Dianne Feinstein, said as many as 70% of the guns in the hands of the Mexican drug cartels came from the US.
Two years earlier, the number cited had been even higher, at about 90%.
For the pro-gun lobby, however, the statistics were inaccurate and the report fundamentally flawed.
The figure was based on some 30,000 guns confiscated by the Mexican authorities and submitted to the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for tracing.
Critics of Senator Feinstein's report say there are tens of thousands of weapons which were not handed over for tracing and many more still in circulation in Mexico whose origins are unknown.
"The single biggest supplier of firearms to the Mexican criminals is the US government through our sales to the military and the police," argues Robert Farago of the pro-gun online magazine The Truth about Guns.
Those firearms are "fully-automatic assault rifles", says Mr Farago, which "then seep to the cartels. They also have weapons coming in from China and Eastern Europe."
One particular episode involving US weapons in Mexico has created more tension between the two countries over the issue than any other.
In a botched sting operation by the ATF called Fast and Furious, US authorities lost track of some 1,400 weapons they were hoping would to lead them to drug kingpins. Instead the guns simply ended up arming Mexican gangs, particularly the Sinaloa Cartel.
"Fast and Furious" weapons have turned up in violent crime scenes across Mexico.
Now a Republican Senator from Iowa, Charles Grassley, has called for an investigation into whether guns from the bungled operation were used in a shoot-out earlier this year in which a 20-year-old beauty queen, Maria Susana Flores Gomez, was killed.
For pro-gun commentator Robert Farago, Fast and Furious is an example of where the problem lies.
"The idea that US gun laws are in any way impacting the availability of firearms in Mexico is ridiculous," he says. "It's not United States' gun stores they need to worry about."
Nevertheless, the 2011 Senate report concluded that the private sale of military-style weapons was "arming Mexico's drug trafficking organisations at an alarming rate", and called for the Assault Weapons Ban to be reinstated.
Those calls have turned into urgent demands from some quarters in the wake of the massacre at Newtown.
In Mexico, politicians and members of civil society have long made a link between US gun laws and the firepower of Mexico's cartels.
Asked whether greater gun control north of the border would improve security in Mexican communities, PRI Senator Arturo Zamora was emphatic: "Definitely it would, yes. In June, the Defence Ministry stated that in the last six years, it confiscated more than 12 million cartridges of different calibres."
Tighter US gun laws, he says, would immediately help to curb the illegal traffic of so many bullets and weapons into Mexico.
Needless to say, US gun enthusiasts vehemently disagree.
"It's absolutely laughable," says Robert Farago of the senator's argument.
"If anything, Mexicans should be copying our gun laws and Second Amendment rights. What Mexicans need are more magazines, more guns, more bullets in the hands of law-abiding citizens."
Most law-abiding Mexicans, however, believe more guns are the last thing the country needs.


Two police officers who filmed themselves near the Shoreham air crash site could be dismissed.

Sussex Police Deputy Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney said the pair would face disciplinary proceedings over the video, which was sent on social media, and a private message.
The constables made the video while working near the scene where 11 people died after a jet crashed on to the A27.
Ms Pinkney said they had behaved in a "wholly disrespectful way".
There was sufficient evidence the officers were not likely to become "well-conducted" PCs, she said.
Ms Pinkney said the force did not punish people for making honest mistakes, but added: "In this case, I don't believe this behaviour was an honest mistake.
"Instead, it was a deliberate choice to behave in a wholly disrespectful way."
Last week, when Ms Pinkney revealed the officers had filmed themselves near the scene, she said the video was made on the cordon and did not show details of the site, but was accompanied by an inappropriate and offensive message.
Under Regulation 13, which relates to new officers in probationary periods, the pair will meet a chief officer who will make a recommendation about their future after reviewing evidence against them.
"A possible outcome is that the chief constable may decide that the officers leave the force," Ms Pinkey said.
Ms Pinkney said she apologised again to the victims' families for the unnecessary distress they had been undoubtedly caused.


Plans for a £6m artificial surfing lake near Bristol have gone on display to the public.

The Wave wants to build the facility on land at Over Court Farm in Almondsbury and Washingpool Farm in Easter Compton.
A public consultation on the plans, which would create a freshwater lagoon on the 40 acre site, will run until 1 September.
The finalised plans will then be submitted to South Gloucestershire Council.
A spokeswoman for The Wave said if the plans were approved this year, the lake could be completed next year.
A company based in San Sebastian in Spain would create the technology needed to generate waves of up to 1.5m (5ft) high.
The Wave said it would be "joining forces" with an outdoor activity centre which already has an established business at the site.


Former Fulham and Stevenage striker Barry Hayles has joined Southern League Premier Division side Chesham United as a player-coach at the age of 43.

He was available after being released by Truro, with whom he won promotion out of Chesham's division in 2014-15.
It extends Hayles' 26-year career, which has taken in teams including Leicester, Cheltenham and Arlesey Town.
"He is incredibly fit, and still loves the game," Chesham boss Andy Leese told the club website.
"He has a lot to offer on the pitch still and now off it as well as he looks to start a coaching career."
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Seven people including a toddler and his baby sister were injured when a car crashed into pedestrians outside a shopping centre in Surrey.

A Volkswagen Polo hit "a number of people" in North Street outside the main entrance to Guildford's The Friary Centre at about 10:35 BST.
A one-year-old girl and a man aged in his 60s were airlifted to St George's Hospital, in Tooting, south London.
The baby's two-year-old brother was taken to a hospital in Guildford.
The siblings were in a children's push-along shopping trolley, in the shape of a car, which was being pushed by their grandparents.
South East Coast Ambulance said a woman was taken to the hospital in south London with leg injuries and three other women were treated at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford for injuries "not thought life-threatening".
Later it tweeted: "Our thoughts are with all those involved in today's incident in #Guildford."
A Surrey Police spokeswoman said the driver of the car was a woman aged in her 80s, and there was a male passenger.
One of the first on the scene was student nurse Amy Liversidge, who said: "I saw people lying on the floor... I just checked over everyone to make sure everyone was breathing, everyone was conscious, and then I went to an elderly gentleman who had a head injury."
Witness Carly Stevens said: "I heard screeching and babies screaming and four workmen ran and took the two kids out of the buggy.
"They held them until the police and ambulance got here. I'm not sure if they'd been hit but they were screaming."
The area around North Street remained closed while a Surrey Police specialist crash investigation unit sought to "establish the circumstances surrounding the incident".
A spokeswoman for the force appealed for witnesses and anyone with information to contact officers.
The Friary centre manager Vicky Hickson said: "We are closely working with Surrey Police as they investigate an incident which took place today on North Street.
"The main entrance to The Friary on North Street was temporarily closed, but has since reopened.
"We would like to thank customers for their understanding."
There is still a fair degree of shock and confusion and concern about what has happened here in Guildford this morning.
Eyewitnesses said the silver car was driving down North Street, coming down the hill, when it hit a bollard before running up on to the pavement.
We understand it then collided with a small red children's ride-on car - the type used at The Friary Centre for parents to push around young kids.
An eyewitness said two young children were inside the plastic toy car when it was hit.
Seven people in total have been taken to the hospital. The two occupants of the car are both reported to be elderly.


A raffle prize offered by Robert Downey Jr has helped raise nearly £1m for new children's hospice in Wiltshire.

The Iron Man actor offered the chance to join him on the red carpet for the world premiere of his new film Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron in Los Angeles.
Dorset-based charity, Julia's House, has now raised more than half of the £3m needed to build the new hospice.
Chief executive Martin Edwards said it was "absolutely surreal" for someone as famous as Downey Jr to lend support.
He said the money meant the charity could now "go shopping" to buy land for its new building.
The as-yet-unnamed winner will be flown to the United States, where he or she will be fitted for a tuxedo or ball gown before arriving at the premiere as part of the motorcade.
A helicopter flight over Los Angeles is also included in the prize.


Pirelli has formally announced it will remain as Formula 1's tyre supplier until the end of 2019.

F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone said in October he had reached a commercial agreement with the Italian company.
But governing body the FIA only signed its contract with Pirelli recently, after resolving issues to do with the company's responsibilities in F1.
The sport is changing car design significantly next year, including introducing wider tyres.
Hamilton dominates European GP practice
Pirelli was insisting on a number of in-season testing days to ensure it could properly develop the tyres F1 needed for next season.
And after drivers complained that the current tyres were not to their liking, Pirelli asked the FIA for a 'target letter' defining what was required of it.
This letter dictates that tyres for 2017's faster cars must allow drivers to push flat out for much of the race, which is not the case at the moment.
The current Pirelli tyres have high levels of thermal degradation, which means if they go beyond a certain temperature they lose grip, which never returns.
The key points of the target letter define that:
The FIA feels that these requirements will guarantee Pirelli has to produce a product more like one that would be considered a normal racing tyre - one on which the requirement for management by driving under the limit to control thermal degradation is greatly reduced, and drivers can therefore push hard throughout a race.
On-track testing of 2017 tyres will start in August.
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Newport County manager Graham Westley has made Mitchell Rose his 11th signing of the January transfer window.

The 22-year old, who is the younger brother of Tottenham and England defender Danny, most recently played for Mansfield Town.
"It is widely known that I want to add to our midfield options and Mitch is an ideal recruit," Westley explained.
"He is youthful yet experienced. And he adds to our options and brings a huge ambition with him here in South Wales."


Celtic have lost their appeal against defender Dedryck Boyata's red card in the draw against Hamilton Academical.

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Referee Craig Thomson dismissed Boyata for a challenge on Carlton Morris at New Douglas Park on Friday.
Celtic manager Ronny Deila criticised his defender immediately after the Scottish Premiership clash but changed his mind after viewing the footage.
The defender will be suspended for Celtic's next league match away to Partick Thistle.
"I have seen it many times and, when you've seen it from all angles, it's the wrong decision," Deila said after reviewing the incident.
"I'm still saying that in this situation I want my player staying on his feet, because we have quick defenders and running with people is better than taking chances and putting the referee in a bad situation.
"He makes his decision and hits the ball, in my opinion it's not a red card."


A boat carrying asylum seekers has reached Australia's remote Cocos Islands territory.

The last documented asylum seeker boat arrival to Australia was in 2014.
The number of asylum seekers arriving by sea plunged after the government introduced tough new policies, including the towing back of boats.
Australia also sends all intercepted asylum seekers  to offshore locations such as Manus Island in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
The boat arrived within the Cocos Islands on Monday morning.
It came within 500m of Home Island before it was intercepted by Australian authorities.
Australia's immigration department would not comment on the incident.
The Cocos Islands are a remote chain of islands and atolls located between Sri Lanka and the west coast of the Australian mainland.
Australia's government says the journey asylum seekers make is dangerous and controlled by criminal gangs, and they have a duty to stop it.
However, critics say opposition to asylum is racially motivated and is damaging Australia's reputation.
Two asylum seekers on Nauru have set themselves on fire in the past fortnight, including a 23-year-old Iranian man who died of his injuries.


Four hundred jobs are set to be lost with the closure of a cosmetics factory in Northumberland.

Coty, which makes cosmetics and perfume, said it intends to shut its plant in Seaton Delaval.
The US-based company said after a study of global manufacturing capacities it wanted to consolidate its fragrance operations into "fewer core centres".
The factory will close by the end of 2018, subject to consultation and board approval.
Coty said in a statement: "These proposals are the result of a detailed study of our expanded global manufacturing capacities and capabilities for each of our divisions following the merger with P&G Specialty Beauty brands and with the objective to enable our future growth.
"Specific timelines are still under consideration and subject to consultation in relation to these proposals."
Kay Plumley, site leader at Seaton Delaval said: "I am committed to fully supporting all our colleagues through the coming months.
"Our priority is to work closely with them and their families throughout the consultation and to ensure that everyone is treated fairly and with respect."
Councillor Grant Davey, leader of Northumberland County Council, described it as "worrying news".
He said: "The loss of so many jobs would have a massive impact, not just on individuals and their families but also the wider economy and future prosperity of the area.
"Along with our partners, we are exploring all avenues to see what support the council can provide in the short, medium and long term."


A civil engineering company in Gwynedd is going into voluntary administration, resulting in 50 workers losing their jobs.

Caernarfon-based Mulcair told staff on Tuesday about the move.
Recent high-profile projects for the company included building a bridge to replace Pont Briwet across the River Dwyryd and a Welsh Water scheme to alleviate flooding in Deeside.
The company did not add any further comment.


Bins would be emptied fortnightly instead of weekly in Wolverhampton under plans to save up to £2.4m a year.

People could have a larger brown bin to cater for more recyclable waste under the proposal, the council said.
A five-year £2.3m government grant that enabled maintaining weekly collections would end in April, it added.
The government said it was still providing a long-term funding settlement to the city of more than £850m to spend between now and 2020.
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A Department for Communities and Local Government spokesman said: "This will allow them to deliver high quality services whilst keeping council tax bills down."
Plans have been put forward to increase opening hours at the city's two household waste and recycling centres.
Proposals also include charging £35 a year for a garden waste service and ending a food waste recycling service not used by 80% of Wolverhampton households, the city council said.
It said it must make an estimated £54.6m of new cuts by 2019-20.
Cabinet councillors, who meet on Wednesday, will be asked to agree to consult with the public on 32 proposals that would contribute £13.5m towards that total.
The annual £11.5m cost of household waste and recycling services was "no longer affordable when Government funding cuts are forcing the council to review the way every service is delivered," the authority said.
It said there were other issues also driving the need to change, such as more people renting and more single-person households.
The government said by the end of this parliament, councils would be able to keep 100% of local taxes including all £26bn from business rates.
It added it would continue to keep residents' bills down with council tax still expected to be lower in real terms in 2019-2020 than it was in 2009-2010.


Nearly one in five people working in the South East earns below the living wage, research has revealed.

The living wage - currently calculated at £7.85 - is based on the amount an individual needs to earn to cover the basic costs of living.
Woking has the highest proportion of people paid below it, at 38%, following by Rother at 37% and Thanet at 36%.
The research was done on behalf of accountancy firm KPMG.
38% Woking
37% Rother
36% Thanet
33% Wealden
32% Arun
The minimum wage is £6.70 per hour, which will rise by 50p in April.
Speaking to BBC Inside Out, Sarah Vero, who is the director of the Living Wage Foundation, said the new rate was not a "living wage".
"The government's new national minimum wage is exciting because it means six million people are going to get a pay rise in April 2016," she said.
"However, our rate [at £7.85] is slightly higher and it's calculated according to the cost of living in the UK, so it takes into account a basket of goods, food, housing, transport, child care and it puts that into a calculation and says what's the basic but affordable standard of living you need."
£7.85
Living wage rate
£9.15
London living wage rate
£7.20 The Governments National Living Wage rate
Gemma Stacey, from Ramsgate, who works part-time in sales and has two children, said she was struggling on low wages.
She said: "I try to make sure the kids eat healthily but sometimes you just can't, sometimes you haven't got the money that week to buy proper food.
"I don't want [my children] to grow up seeing me at home trying to find a job and struggling... I want them just to look up to me and be proud."
The South East as a whole has the lowest proportion of people being paid below the living wage - currently 19% compared to a 23% national average.
However, there are concerns the government's planned tax credit cuts will hit low-paid families hard.
Craig Mackinlay, the Conservative MP for South Thanet, said: "I know it's tough, you know the easiest thing in the world is to do nothing and just say we will keep on paying because it's all too difficult.
"We've been elected on a promise of getting the benefits bill down, on a promise of getting the nation's finances back in order and that's what we're doing."
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A man known as Faycal C, the only person arrested and charged with involvement in the Brussels attacks, has been released for lack of evidence.

Belgian media said the man had been suspected of being the mystery third man in CCTV footage of the bombers.
But a judge found there was no evidence to justify holding him, the prosecutor's office said.
Last Tuesday's attacks on the airport and the city's metro system killed 35 people and injured more than 300.
The attacks were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
Of the 35 victims, seven have still to be identified, the country's crisis centre said on Monday (in French).
At least 12 of the victims are foreign nationals from the US, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, France, the UK, Italy and China, it said earlier.
The death toll does not include three attackers, two of whom blew themselves up at the airport and one in the metro.
EU institutions based in Brussels will reopen on Tuesday, following the Easter break, "with important additional security measures in place", European Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva said in a tweet.
A man referred to officially as Facyal C was released on 28 March after being arrested on 24 March in Brussels and charged with "participation in the activities of a terrorist group, terrorist murders and attempted terrorist murders".
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In a statement, the Belgian federal prosecutor's office said: "The clues that led to the arrest of Faycal C were not substantiated by the ongoing inquiry.
"As a result, the subject has been released by the examining magistrate."
He had been charged only two days before with "taking part in a terrorist group, terrorist murder and attempted terrorist murder".
Belgian media say the charges remain, even though he has been released.
Belgian public TV and Le Soir daily identified the freed man as Faycal Cheffou, a freelance journalist.
CCTV footage released by Belgian police on Monday shows the two airport bombers alongside a third man, who is wearing light-coloured clothing and a dark hat. Each is pushing a loaded luggage trolley.
Twin blasts struck the main terminal of Zaventem Airport, in the north-east of the city. A third, even bigger, bomb was abandoned, prosecutors said at the time. It exploded after the security forces had secured the scene and nobody was hurt, they added.
The man in the hat is believed to have fled the scene.
Tuesday's other attack targeted the Maelbeek metro station in the city centre, close to several EU institutions.
Brussels was the second large-scale attack on an EU capital city claimed by IS, after gunmen and bombers killed 130 people in Paris on 13 November.
IS, an extreme Sunni Muslim group known for its ruthless tactics, has seized large tracts of territory in Syria and Iraq in recent years, attracting hundreds of young Europeans to its ranks, many of them Belgians.


India has rejected Google's plans to collect images for its Street View service in the country after objections from security agencies.

Officials told the BBC there were concerns that the service would compromise the country's security.
Google Street View collects high definition images to give its users 360 degree views of streets, tourist spots, hills and rivers.
Google's data collection has caused concern in numerous countries.
The Press Trust of India agency reported that India's interior ministry had informed Google that its plans to cover India through the service had been rejected.
Security agencies had expressed concerns about allowing such image-capturing services, on the basis that planning for the 2008 Mumbai attacks is believed to have involved photographic reconnaissance of targets by key "planner" David Headley, a US man.
"The main concern was security of sensitive defence installations. The defence ministry said it was not possible to monitor the service once it was launched and it would be detrimental to national security," a senior government official was quoted as saying by The Hindu newspaper.
A spokesman for Google told the BBC that had they had not received a copy of the order as yet.
In 2011, police in the southern city of Bangalore stopped Google from collecting images for its service in the city on an experimental basis after police objections. Cameras mounted on cars and tricycles had been taking pictures of the city.
Google Street View was launched in May 2007, covering San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, New York and Miami, allowing users to navigate virtual streets from photographs gathered from directional cameras on special vehicles.
The service has been hugely successful but has caused problems of privacy in some countries.
In 2010 almost 250,000 Germans told Google to blur pictures of their homes on the Street View service and the Czech government also banned Google from taking any new photos for the service.


Google has launched its first wi-fi network in Uganda's capital Kampala, as part of a project to broaden access to affordable high-speed internet.

The company is making the broadband wireless network available to local internet providers, who will then charge customers for access.
The web giant says the network is now live in 120 key locations in Kampala.
Official statistics show Uganda has about 8.5 million internet users, making up 23% of the population.
Google hopes that by improving internet capacity in the city, local telecom companies will then be able to offer faster, cheaper broadband access to their customers.
The company estimates that one day's unlimited data using the new network should cost 1,000 Ugandan shillings ($0.30, Â£0.20), although local providers will decide how much they want to charge for the service.
Critics say it would have been better to focus on Uganda's rural areas, where high-speed internet access is very limited.
The wireless network forms part of a wider project to improve web infrastructure in Africa, which has seen Google lay 800km (500 miles) of cables in Uganda to establish a fibre optic network.
There are now plans to expand the project to the Ghanaian cities of Accra, Tema and Kumasi.
In October, Facebook announced its own initiative to increase access to the internet in Africa by using satellites.


The Bank of England has held the UK's main interest rate at 0.5% despite speculation that it would cut rates.

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted 8-1 to leave rates unchanged, but minutes of the meeting showed most members expect the Bank will take some action next month.
Sterling rose as high as $1.3480 following the decision before falling back to $1.3312.
Financial markets had priced in an 80% chance of the Bank cutting rates.
The Bank said: "Most members of the committee expect monetary policy to be loosened in August.
"The precise size and nature of any stimulatory measures will be determined during the August forecast and Inflation Report round."
The only member of the MPC to vote for a rate cut this month was Jan Vlieghe. He was a senior economist at Brevan Howard Asset Management before joining the committee last September.
Interest rates have remained on hold since the Bank cut its key rate to the record low of 0.5% in March 2009.
The MPC is dealing with two competing forces. First, a slowdown in economic growth following the referendum vote, which many economists believe could tip the economy into recession.
Second, a possible increase in inflation sparked by the fall in the value of sterling. At the moment, the data on the former is limited.
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The Bank said that some businesses were starting to delay investment projects and postpone recruitment decisions, while a "significant weakening" in activity in the housing market was expected.
Figures released earlier on Thursday showed interest among UK homebuyers fell to its lowest level since mid-2008.
"Taken together, these indicators suggest economic activity is likely to weaken in the near term," the Bank said.
It also said it expected "sizeable falls" in commercial real estate prices in the short term.
However, the MPC raised its expectation for economic growth in the three months to June to 0.5% from a previous forecast of 0.3%.
Aberdeen Asset Management economist Paul Diggle said the Bank had decided that patience was a virtue.
"The next meeting is only three weeks away, and by then Carney and his colleagues will have a few extra post-referendum data points to digest, as well as a new set of forecasts," he said.
"The market should get its way then, with an interest rate cut likely and renewed quantitative easing possible."
Ben Brettell, senior economist at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "It looks almost certain that looser policy will be necessary at some stage to counteract the economic uncertainty posed by the Brexit vote... Rates could conceivably remain at rock bottom for the next five to 10 years."
However, Angus Armstrong, director of macroeconomics at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, was more critical: "The lack of clear direction is more likely to add to economic uncertainty and therefore be detrimental to demand and the economy."
Returns on UK government bond yields rose sharply, with the 10-year yield rising about four basis points to 0.815% after the decision, before easing back to 0.8%.
Bank governor Mark Carney met the new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, on Thursday.
Earlier, Mr Hammond told the BBC he thought Mr Carney was doing an "excellent job".


Daniele Henkel decided she had to flee Algeria because she felt her children were no longer safe.

"Islamists were starting to attack girls in the street," she says. "I had to think about my daughters, so I decided to move to Canada."
This was back in 1990, and Algeria was about to descend into more than a decade of civil war between a secular government and various Islamist groups.
Morocco-born Daniele was 34 at the time, and she and her Algerian husband lived a comfortable life with their four children. She worked as a political and economic adviser for the US consulate in the coastal city of Oran, while he was engineer.
But they gave up everything, almost overnight, to seek asylum in Canada.
The family arrived penniless in the city of Montreal in the middle of a bitterly cold Canadian winter, a snowstorm in full swing.
"Before moving, the immigration department of Canada had told us that my husband and I would easily find work," says Daniele. "In reality, things turned out to be very different."
While her husband Ahmad couldn't secure any work in his field, Daniele spent seven years scraping a living earning 75% less than she had done in Algeria. She did everything from working as a secretary, to selling lunchboxes, to trying her hand with an estate agents firm.
Daniele says she felt "rejected and worthless", but her life was to transform again for the better in 1997 when she decided to start her own business selling health and beauty products. She says she wanted to be her own boss because she was "tired of being exploited".
Her eponymous company has gone on to make her a multi-millionaire, and, today the 60-year-old is one of the best-known business leaders in the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec.
Born to a Moroccan mother and a German father whom she never met, Daniele was raised in Algeria.
At the age of 18 her mother forced her to have an arranged marriage with the best friend of her older brother.
"When my mother told me I had to marry Ahmad I screamed and cried. I was furious," says Daniele.
"I didn't want to get married, but I wanted to stay close to my family, so I eventually agreed. I was married within two weeks."
Although she hadn't wanted the relationship, Daniele says she soon learned to love her husband. "He was the perfect man. He was generous, smart and very loving."
While he was a successful engineer, she quickly rose through the ranks at the US consulate after initially getting a low-grade job allocating visas.
So the couple built a happy life together in Algeria, until they were forced to flee the country.
In Canada, however, the marriage came under strain, which Daniele says was caused by Ahmad being unable to find work as an engineer. Ultimately they divorced, which she says made her feel "very guilty".
With four children to feed this put extra pressure on Daniele for her business to succeed.
Her idea was to create an exfoliating glove inspired by those used in Algerian and Moroccan bathhouses. Made of plant fibres (eucalyptus and spruce), the user would rub the glove over his or her wet skin to remove dead cells, and generally improve skin condition.
Daniele thought it would be popular, but it took a bit of explaining in 1990s Canada.
"There was nothing like it in Quebec [at the time]," she says. "When I would present my project, people would tell me: 'In Quebec we wear winter gloves, not exfoliating gloves.'"
Undeterred, Daniele found a manufacturer, and started visiting beauty salons in Montreal to persuade them to try the glove, which she called "Renaissance". She says that she wouldn't stop for the day until she had sold at least 250 Canadian dollars worth ($190; Â£150).
The popularity of the glove (which today costs C$26) quickly grew, with sales to both salons and members of the public.
"People liked my glove so much they started asking me for more products," says Daniele. "That is how I realised I had a clientele."
Almost two decades later, Daniele's business has sold millions of the gloves, and expanded to a health and beauty empire that includes a range of cosmetics, treatments for cellulite, burns, excess fat and acne, and a laboratory that develops tests to detect food intolerances.
Daniele has also become a celebrity in Quebec after appearing in the first five series of In The Eye Of The Dragon, Quebec's French language version of entrepreneurship TV show Dragons' Den.
The four other judges were always all men, and she says she sometimes felt they "were not always interested" in her views. However, Daniele made herself heard, winning her a lot of female fans.
"The experience made me realise how much business is a boys' club," she says. "I was kind of the black sheep... but I took my rightful place."
Canadian businessman Mitch Garber, who appeared with Daniele on the show, says she is a trailblazer.
Mr Garber, who is the chief executive of casino and online gaming group Caesars Interactive Entertainment, says: "Daniele Henkel has done as much for the advancement of women entrepreneurs as anyone in Quebec, and for that she is credited and widely respected."
Looking back on her often unconventional life so far, Daniele says it has taught her that you "always have a choice".
"Even when things that you can't control happen, you can always choose how you react to them," she says.


A council has dismissed an objection from a brewery over plans to widen a Grade II listed bridge damaged by winter flooding in North Yorkshire.

The road bridge over the River Wharfe at Tadcaster partially collapsed in December.
Plans to widen it were agreed at a council meeting, but in a letter the Samuel Smith's Brewery said the proposal contradicted planning policy.
Repairs to the bridge are set to finish by December.
In response to a seven-page objection letter, which cited "important nature conservation interests" and the effect it would have "on the behaviour of flood waters", Selby District Council dismissed the claims.
The letter claimed the decision to approve the plans "was legally or procedurally flawed".
However, Selby council replied: "Having considered your letter against the information that was before the local planning committee we do not agree the decision reached was legally or procedurally flawed."
The authority also said some of the points raised by the brewery were not applicable as changes had been made to the proposals, including its appearance.
The government pledged £3m for repair work within days of the bridge collapse, and £1.4m was given by the region's Local Enterprise Partnership to widen and strengthen the bridge.
Currently the river can only be crossed using a temporary footbridge.
The brewery has so far declined to comment on the council's decision.


Scuba divers are being sought to help clean an outdoor pool in Cambridge.

Staff at Jesus Green Lido - claimed to be one of the largest outdoor pools in Europe - said fallen leaves had become too difficult for them to clear.
"We realised we just can't hold our breath long enough to get rid of them all," said duty manager Sophie Wing.
"Because it's been so windy we have far more leaves than usual and they are clogging up our filters and messing up the pool.
"We thought a group of scuba divers might like to help out as we know they use indoor pools for training."
She said she had not heard of other pools asking for scuba-diving cleaners, but was hopeful a group would come forward.
The outdoor pool - which is managed by Cambridge City Council and social enterprise GLL - is just over 90m (295ft) in length and between 1.2m (4ft) and 2.5m (8.2ft) deep.
It is open between May and September each year.


A key safety limit at one of Britain's nuclear power stations is being raised to allow the life of the reactor to be extended, the BBC has learned.

The regulator has agreed to increase the amount of weight graphite bricks at the core of the reactor at Dungeness B in Kent will be allowed to lose.
The bricks, which degrade over time due to radiation, are vital for safety.
The Office for Nuclear Regulation said it was a "robust" body but one expert accused it of "moving the goalposts".
The nuclear reactor at Dungeness B would have breached the safety margin within months which could have forced the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) to prosecute or even shut it down.
The safety margins cover thousands of graphite bricks at the core of Britain's 14 elderly Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors (AGRs).
But the bricks, each about a metre in height, are both cracking and starting to lose weight due to decades of radiation, and that could affect safety.
The current graphite weight loss limit for Dungeness is set at 6.2% but the regulator says when it reached 5.7% its operator, French power giant EDF, applied to raise it to 8%.
Mark Foy, deputy chief inspector at the Office for Nuclear Regulation, said "We will be in a position to agree that 8% limit within the next few weeks. Ageing is a nuclear safety issue".
As part of that ageing process the licensee was required to monitor and inspect the reactors regularly.
Steve Thomas, professor of energy policy at the University of Greenwich, said: "It doesn't feel good when we come up against limits and the first thing they [the ONR] do is to move the goalposts."
Mr Foy stressed that the ONR was a "robust regulator" and due process had been followed.
"If we feel the evidence they [EDF] have supplied is robust and sufficient to underpin the 8% case then we will agree it," he said.
The graphite bricks are integral to UK nuclear power stations and they act to moderate the nuclear reaction; it will not function without them.
The bricks cannot be replaced which means they are being carefully monitored as the reactors age. They become damaged through years of intense bombardment by radiation and effects of the coolant CO2 on the material.
A distortion to the graphite core could prevent the control rods being inserted, which shut down the reactor in an emergency.
EDF said "safety of the public and our employees is our overriding priority" and the company took a "cautious approach" working closely with the regulator and they operated with "very conservative safety margins" and safety requirements were "stringent".
But in shifting the graphite limit Dungeness can still run only until the start of 2020 but that is still three years fewer than EDF would like and it may have to request a second increase in the safety limit.
Prof Paul Mummery, from Manchester University, agreed that the original limits were "conservative."
But he said the twin problems of graphite cracking and weight loss meant it may be "uneconomic" for EDF to keep all the 14 AGR reactors running in the long term because the regulator may insist on more inspections to demonstrate safety.
"They [EDF] are making good progress but I would not be able to say with absolute confidence that they will reach 2023," he said.
It was an "engineering judgement", he said, but "no one could be sure".
"There was more weight loss than expected in Dungeness B and that has led to some uncertainty about the continued operation."
The AGR reactors contribute about 15% of Britain's electricity, according to Prof Thomas.
He said EDF wanted the old AGR reactors to last until the planned next generation of nuclear power stations came on line after 2023 but said it was reaching a "crunch point".
The old reactors might not last as long as EDF would like and there were still real doubts about the plans to build the new reactor at Hinkley C in Somerset.


A driver accused of hitting a group of pedestrians and throwing one man into the air was encouraged to do so by his passenger, a court has heard.

The incident took place at 00:55 BST on 23 July in North Walsham in Norfolk and left a man, 30, with a broken pelvis.
Darren Blackmore, 43, formerly of Cantley Lane, Norwich, was charged with offences including driving dangerously and wounding with intent.
He appeared at Norwich Magistrates' Court via a video link.
His passenger Sammi Horner, 35, also appeared at Norwich Magistrates' Court, charged with encouraging or assisting the commission of an indictable-only offence.
Ms Horner, of Market Place, North Walsham, was bailed to appear at Norwich Crown Court on 22 December.
Mr Blackmore, who was also charged with attempting to wound with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, will reappear in front of Norwich magistrates via a video link on 8 December.


The UK's competition watchdog has raised concerns over Mastercard's takeover of UK payments firm Vocalink.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said there were worries regarding competition over the Link ATM network, which is run by Vocalink.
The CMA said Mastercard and Vocalink were two of the three most credible suppliers of services to Link.
As a result, a merger would reduce the number of possible bidders the next time a service provider is chosen.
The two companies have until 11 January to come up with a plan to address the concerns.
If they fail to deliver, then the case could be referred for an in-depth investigation.
CMA acting chief executive Andrea Coscelli said: "The Link ATM network provides an essential service for millions of customers.
"It's important that Link has a good choice of providers when it comes to supplying the necessary infrastructure so it can take advantage of the opening up of payment systems to competition.
"These concerns warrant a closer investigation in the event that Mastercard cannot address them at this stage."
When the deal was announced in July, Chancellor Philip Hammond said the takeover of Vocalink by  America's Mastercard "shows that Britain remains an attractive destination for international investors".
As well as the Link system, Vocalink also supplies Bacs, the automated clearing house which processes direct debits.
Vocalink was owned by several major banks including Barclays, Lloyds and HSBC.


A former head of human resources at a Conwy Valley food firm has lost her claim of sexual discrimination.

Jackie Atkinson, who worked at Bodnant Welsh Food Centre, claimed her ex-boss called a transgender member of staff "it" and said he wanted her out.
Chris Morton, who has since retired, said during the tribunal in October that the decision to make her redundant was made on a business basis.
Miss Atkinson was told her claim had failed in a reserved decision.
She said she was "shocked" by the decision and intended to appeal.


County Championship leaders Middlesex enjoyed a fine opening day with bat and ball to take control against Durham.

Openers Mark Stoneman (46) and Keaton Jennings put on 74 for Durham, but that was as good as it got for the visitors at Lord's as spinner Ollie Rayner took 4-17 to help bowl them out for 204.
Middlesex captain James Franklin also chipped in with 3-26.
The hosts closed on 100-1, trailing by 104, with Nick Gubbins unbeaten on 42 and Nick Compton 10 not out.


A mother who tried to take her children to Syria to live under Sharia Law faces a "substantial custodial sentence", according to the judge at her trial.

The 34-year-old woman, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, cannot be named for legal reasons but pleaded guilty to two charges of abducting children under 16.
Judge Rodney Jameson QC said she would be sentenced on 8 January.
The woman and two children had flown from Heathrow to Turkey on 10 October, Leeds Crown Court heard.
She was planning to travel on to Raqqa in Syria.
However, the woman was arrested after landing in Istanbul, Turkey, with Â£4,000 in cash after her suspicious husband alerted police.
She had told her husband she was taking the children to a birthday party.
She later admitted to police she had planned to travel to Syria and ultimately to Mosul in Iraq though did not tell family as they would not approve.
The defendant was born in the UK and spent her formative years in Pakistan before returning to live in Bradford.
Earlier this year her family noted she was becoming "more overtly religious" telling them she wanted her children to grow up under Sharia law and she wanted to give up her job in finance as charging interest on money was "un-Islamic", the court heard.
The woman's lawyer, Marie Harbin, said she was a "loving, caring mother" who was "not a supporter of Islamic State, the organisation itself" but wanted to live in a state which follows Sharia law.
Judge Rodney Jameson QC replied: "It's a fairly narrow distinction."
The women could face up to seven years in jail.


Manchester City centre-back Abbie McManus has been ruled out for the rest of the season after having an operation on an ankle injury.

McManus was hurt in City's 5-1 win over Notts County when landing awkwardly on her ankle.
The England Under-23 international had started 12 of City's 14 matches so far this season.
City sit top of Women's Super League One and are bidding for their first ever league title.


Xiao Meili is a well known women's rights activist in China.

She launched an "Armpit Hair Competition" on China's popular micro-blog service Weibo to get women to take ownership of their bodies.
The competition attracted thousands of comments from Chinese women.
You have been sharing your thoughts via @BBC_HaveYourSay on Twitter. Here is a selection of your tweets:
@jen_vorhaut  in Washington DC, US, chooses not to shave her armpits.
@MARKDIDDY  from Nigeria and @Jenn_Abrams from the US share their reasons for preferring armpits to remain hairless.
But not all readers agree that shaving armpits is the best way forward. @bijubelinky  in London, UK, thinks it is down to the individual to choose.
@YHHSulami  from Manhattan, Kansas, US, thinks that shaving armpits is a way to keep clean.
@ennisorca is from Australia and says that shaving, or choosing not to shave, is a seasonal choice.
And finally, @WomenAlso_ from the UK raises the point that shaving armpit hair has nothing to do with hygiene.
Produced by Alison Daye


A fir tree grown on Gower has been unveiled as one of 10 Downing Street's two official Christmas trees.

Farmer Rob Morgan from Three Crosses won the competition to provide the tree - a Nordman fir - for the pillared state dining room.
His family have been in sheep and cattle farming for five generations and started planting trees in 1996.
"It's like winning supreme champion at the Royal Welsh Show", said Mr Morgan.
The Gower farmer was runner-up from around 300 entrants in the British Christmas Tree Growers Association competition in October.
Mr Morgan told BBC Wales he was "immensely proud" to be chosen and was looking forward to meeting Prime Minister David Cameron at the unveiling of the 12ft (3.6m) tree inside 10 Downing Street on Monday.
"I'm a fifth generation farmer here - these fields have produced livestock over the years," he said.
"I changed the trend of the farm to plant Christmas trees - I hope I'll have made my all my forefathers proud by creating something like this in a different business."
Mr Morgan said he now had around 320,000 trees but was a much smaller operation than many of his rivals, who would have had millions of trees to choose from.
He said success in producing a prize-winning tree was down to "shape and height, all in proportion, a fairly natural look" - and taking good care of them over a growing period of at least ten years.
"Every tree is nurtured from a seedling ...  you can't just plant a tree and watch it grow," he added.
Source: British Christmas Tree Growers Association


The first minister has said the UK Government has pledged to allay his fears that a bill converting EU law into British law undermines devolution.

Carwyn Jones had described the repeal bill as a "naked power-grab".
He told an assembly committee on Friday that Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns assured him they would work together "to make the situation acceptable".
Mr Cairns has expressed surprise at Mr Jones's criticism, saying the Welsh Government had helped draft the bill.
Mr Jones and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon issued a strong rebuke to the UK government's publication of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill on Thursday, saying they could not back it "as it currently stands".
Taking questions in Bangor from the assembly committee which scrutinises his work, Mr Jones said  there was a feeling among civil servants in Whitehall that they were "superior" to the Welsh Assembly and would "impose their will" on the devolved administrations.
He said his dealings with the UK Government's agriculture department, Defra, led him to believe "they would create an agriculture policy which would suit one part of the UK - England".
Plaid Cymru AM Simon Thomas asked if the first minister was concerned that the UK Government could overrule the Welsh Government on devolved issues where there are different policies in Wales and England, such as the badger cull.
Mr Jones replied that as far as an agriculture policy goes, the UK Government could not impose a cull in Wales.
But he added that if any livestock export agreement between the UK and the EU included a badger cull, the UK Government could say "if you want to export, you have to cull. That is a possibility, yes".
Mr Cairns told BBC Radio Wales on Friday that the repeal bill was intended to give "continuity and certainty" to exporters and prevent "a cliff edge" situation of no rules being in place the day after Brexit.
"Ultimately we've said that the powers of the devolved administrations will be extended, but we really have to focus on Welsh farmers and Welsh businesses that want to export and continue to buy and trade with the European Union," he said.
"If we can't get agreement before we leave the European Union, there's a major risk that we leave Welsh farmers and Welsh businesses without a market."


World number one Michael van Gerwen defeated Scotland's Peter Wright to win the inaugural World Series of Darts Finals event in Glasgow.

Van Gerwen came out on top 11-10 in an exciting final to follow up his Grand Slam of Darts success in Wolverhampton seven days earlier with another tournament victory.
"I played well when I had to," said the 26-year-old Dutchman.
"I think I deserved to win the trophy and I'm really glad I did."
Van Gerwen went 4-0 ahead in the best-of-21-legs final, but Suffolk-based Wright, 45, won the next five legs to take the lead - a run that was halted by a 170 checkout from Van Gerwen.
At 9-9, two missed darts at double 14 looked to have proved costly for Van Gerwen as Wright moved to within one leg of his first major televised title.
But Van Gerwen, the PDC world champion in 2014, produced a stunning 129 checkout to take the match into a deciding leg and he clinched victory with an 11-darter.
"Peter is a fantastic player and sooner or later he will win a big tournament," he added.


Scottish Green MPs are needed to help safeguard social and environmental protections, the party has said as it launched its election manifesto.

The Greens will only have three candidates standing on 8 June, including co-convener Patrick Harvie.
As he launched the manifesto, Mr Harvie said the Conservatives were planning to rip up many of the protections that had been achieved within the EU.
He claimed that this would "literally put people's lives on the line".
The Scottish Greens fielded 32 candidates in the last general election two years ago, but failed to win any seats in the House of Commons. They currently have six seats in the Scottish Parliament.
The party has insisted that its decision to only stand in three seats this time around was not influenced by senior SNP figures calling for the Greens to avoid "splitting" the pro-independence vote in key constituencies.
Its manifesto promises that any Scottish Green MPs will:
Mr Harvie said a huge number of the social and environmental protections which have been achieved within the European Union will be transferred to the UK after Brexit.
But he said the Conservatives were openly calling for a "bonfire" of many of these regulations.
Mr Harvie warned: "This will literally put people's lives on the line.
"Greens led the way in achieving much of what's now at risk, from capping bankers' bonuses to controlling toxic chemicals. We need a Green voice to stand up for these protections.
"We also need a Green voice to oppose the UK government's cuts agenda and its failure to invest in the new, sustainable economic future we need."
Mr Harvie, who is hoping to become the first-ever Scottish Green MP, will be standing in the Glasgow North constituency.
The party is also fielding candidates in the Edinburgh North and Leith seat, and in Falkirk.
Mr Harvie insisted: "We are running a tightly-focused campaign, giving Scotland the best chance it has had to send a Green voice to Westminster.
"We are making the case no other party is for the sustainable, fair and decent society we know this country can become."
But the Scottish Conservatives branded the Greens as "pathetic", and claimed that Mr Harvie "wants to help the SNP cling on to as many seats as possible".
Conservative environmental spokesman Maurice Golden said: "The Scottish Greens have been exposed as an SNP mini-me party. The Scottish Conservatives are the only party which will stand up to the SNP at this election - not cave into them.
"We are also the only party in Scotland which this year has set out clear plans to support the environment. That's a prospectus we're happy to set out to people right across Scotland."
Scottish Labour's environment spokeswoman, Claudia Beamish, said the country did not need "Green MPs who stand aside for the SNP".
She added: "No one can take the Greens seriously after they rolled over and let the SNP cut Â£170m from schools and local services in the last Scottish budget.
"The Scottish Greens have given up any pretence of being concerned with the environment or austerity first and foremost - for them it is Scottish nationalism first and everything else a distance second."
Elsewhere on the election campaign trail, the SNP pledged that its MPs would work to "stop Tory cuts to pensions and public services" in the next parliament.
The party said its manifesto, which will be unveiled on Tuesday, would set out an alternative to austerity that would see an additional Â£118bn invested in public services.
This would include protecting the triple lock on pensions, stopping cuts to the winter fuel allowance and delivering extra investment for the NHS, for social security and other vital public services.
And Scottish Liberal Willie Rennie was in South Queensferry, where he used a DeLorean car to attempt to recreate the iconic poster for the Back to the Future movie.
Mr Rennie also resumed his attack on the SNP over the state of Scotland's public services, arguing that government ministers had "taken their eyes off the ball".
He said: "It is back to the future with the SNP and their relentless campaign for another divisive referendum on independence. They are distracted from the day to day business of government.
"The SNP manifesto needs to cancel the divisive independence referendum so that the SNP can finally turn their attention full time to Scottish public services."


The man in charge of the International Champions Cup says the competition represents a new approach to pre-season preparations by Europe's elite clubs.

Fifteen of the continent's biggest clubs are contesting the 2017 edition, which is broken down into separate competitions in three countries.
This year, eight teams - Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Paris St-Germain, Juventus and Roma - will have played three games each at 11 venues in the United States.
"These clubs realise they are bigger together than they are separate," says Charlie Stillitano, chairman of Relevent Sports, which launched the competition in 2013.
Speaking to BBC Sport, Stillitano added: "It comes down to trust and years and years of working.
"Early on they did not want to play against big teams. They certainly did not want to play against their big rivals. Over time that has changed.
"The bigger and better you are, the more exposure you have."
Already this month the two Manchester clubs met in their first derby played outside England - and 67,000 supporters turned up to watch.
And just this week, 200,000 fans attended three International Champions Cup fixtures held on the same day, even though the USA national team was playing Jamaica in the Gold Cup final on the same night.
To cap it all off, there's the small matter of Real v Barcelona to come on Saturday - the first El Clasico to be played outside Spain in 25 years.
After years of playing low-key pre-season matches, Europe's biggest clubs have realised there is a market for marquee encounters, which raises their profile and drives commercial revenue.
And for now at least, it provides the closest thing we are going to get to a 'European Super League'.
"We need to be realistic," adds larger-than-life sports executive Stillitano. "What we have created is a great competitive product.
"If and when the authorities decide they want to open things up to a world league, we will be ready.
"But they have been trying to create a Champions League between South and North America. The obstacles don't just begin and end with the logistics of flying 12 hours to a game. They have hit major problems.
"I don't see a pan-European league happening at all."
It is estimated clubs earned between £9m and £15m for taking part in the 2016 edition of the International Champions Cup.
The bigger the club and the bigger the games they play, the greater the fee.
So, for example, it's safe to assume Manchester United's games against Manchester City, Real Madrid and Barcelona, puts them safely in the upper echelon of earners.
The precise fees for each team are adjusted depending upon what the promoters provide and what clubs sort out for themselves. This may include perimeter advertising, which clubs can take responsibility for, allowing them to sell to their sponsors.
It's also a nice experience for players and staff - private planes and five-star hotels come as part of the package.
What is expected in return is Champions League-levels of media access - a pre-match news conference with the manager and a player, and for the manager to attend a post-match media briefing.
Clubs also hope to generate interest making themselves available to local media, in addition to doing interviews with rights holders which, in the USA, has been renowned sports broadcaster ESPN.


A French-Tunisian woman who was kidnapped in Yemen last December while working for the International Committee of the Red Cross has been released.

Nourane Houas was flown to Oman after being freed on Monday, the ICRC said.
Oman said her release had been secured at the request of the French authorities and "in co-ordination with Yemeni parties" whom it did not name.
Ms Houas was seized by armed men on her way to work in the capital Sanaa, which is controlled by Houthi rebels.
She was travelling with a colleague when their car was intercepted, but her colleague was released unharmed a few hours later.
No group has said it was behind the abduction, and the ICRC has said it will not comment on the identity of the armed men who seized her, their motives or the details of her release.
"We are relieved and thankful that Nourane is now back with us, safe and sound," said the ICRC head of delegation in Yemen, Alexandre Faite.
"Her abduction was a terrible ordeal for her, as well as for her family, friends and colleagues. And it has obviously dealt a real blow to our humanitarian work."
After landing in Muscat on an Omani air force flight, Ms Houas thanked "the sultanate, without which [her] release would not have happened", according to the official ONA news agency.
French President Francois Hollande praised her "courage during her long detention", adding that he "shares in her family's joy" over her release.
He also "expressed his gratitude to all those who allowed for a happy ending to this ordeal", notably Oman's Sultan Qaboos.
Oman declined to join the Saudi-led coalition that launched a military campaign in Yemen in March 2015 after the Houthis took full control of Sanaa and forced the country's government into exile, and has mediated between the warring parties.
The United Nations estimates that at least 3,800 civilians have been killed and 6,700 others injured in the fighting, while three million others have been displaced.


Aberdeen could be the city worst hit by falling economic output due to a "hard" Brexit, experts have predicted.

A new report from the Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, said all cities would see a fall in output due to increasing trade costs.
Aberdeen and Edinburgh were both ranked among the ten most affected cities.
However the study said both cities are also among the best-placed to respond to any predicted economic turbulence.
The study excludes Belfast as the authors said data for Northern Ireland was not available.
The UK government said it was committed to securing a "bold and ambitious" free trade deal and building on the diverse strengths of all the UK's cities and regions.
Meanwhile, Scottish and Welsh government ministers have met in Cardiff to discuss Brexit legislation.
Earlier in July, business advisers PwC said uncertainty about Brexit was having a negative impact on the Scottish economy and housing market.
The London-based Centre for Cities think-tank said all UK cities faced "significant economic challenges" as the UK leaves the EU due to a predicted increase in trading costs.
They produced predicted reductions in economic output for each of the country's cities, for both the scenario of a so-called "soft" Brexit - with the UK joining a free trade area such as the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) - or a "hard" Brexit, where the UK does not come to an immediate deal with the EU and defaults to World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules.
The researchers said either scenario would result in an increase in non-tariff barriers, such as customs checks, border controls, differences in product market regulations and legal hurdles, all increasing the cost of trade.
Under both models, the group predicted that local trade flows and employment shares meant Aberdeen would see the largest reduction in output, measured by gross value added, over the next ten years - of 3.7% under the "hard" Brexit scenario, or of 2.1% under a "soft" Brexit.
Edinburgh was ranked sixth in the table in both models, with reductions of 2.7% and 1.4% respectively. Other cities which feature on the tables include London, Reading, Leeds and Swindon.
However, the researchers said the factors which made the cities likely to suffer in the short term also made them well-placed to respond.
They said the cities were "home to large, highly-skilled labour markets, significant numbers of innovative firms and strong business networks - all of which are crucial in enabling a city to reinvent or adapt its industrial structure to changing economic circumstances".
Prof Stephen Machin from the Centre for Economic Performance said: "The fact that the industrial specialisation and the skill and knowledge intensity of different places are key to local impact should be of significant importance to the design and implementation of policy, especially in the arenas of industrial, skills and labour market strategies."
A UK government spokesman said: "We are committed to a bold and ambitious free trade agreement that works for the whole of the UK.
"The government is engaging extensively with businesses and organisations across the country, and will continue this work throughout the exit process.
"Through the government's modern industrial strategy we will look to build on the diverse strengths of all of the UK's cities and regions."
Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie contended that Brexit would have a "significant negative impact" regardless of the deal secured, saying the government "cannot just wave these numbers away".
He said: "People last year did not vote to make themselves poorer. The question on the ballot paper was not whether we wanted to destroy our economy and the prosperity of our cities. Giving the people a chance to exit from Brexit with a vote on the deal is the right and democratic thing to do."
Scottish Labour said the report showed the importance protecting jobs and the economy as part of the Brexit deal.
Shadow Scottish Secretary Lesley Laird said: "There should be a jobs-first Brexit, to ensure that our cities such as Aberdeen and Edinburgh can continue to grow. Jobs, the economy and retaining the benefits of the single market and the customs union are our top priority."
Meanwhile, Scottish and Welsh ministers have met in Cardiff to discuss the EU Withdrawal Bill, the legislation planned by the UK government to begin extricating the country from Europe's legal framework.
Scottish Brexit minister Mike Russell and Lord Advocate James Wolffe sat down with Welsh Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford and Welsh government's top lawyer, Counsel General Mick Antoniw.
The devolved administrations fear the legislation could see them lose powers over areas such as fishing and agriculture. The UK government denies this, and says the legislatures will actually gain powers as a result of Brexit.


A man has pleaded guilty to the murder of Colin Chevalier, who was found dead in his Jersey home in April.

Darren Neil McCormack, 35, pleaded guilty at a Jersey Royal Court sitting held held in the Magistrates' Court building.
He will be back in court on 8 January for sentencing after reports have been prepared for the judge.
Mr Chevalier, 46, was discovered in his flat in Duhamel Place, St Helier, with "extensive" injuries.


Firefighters are tackling a fire at a hotel in Aberdeen.

The emergency crews were called out to the Britannia in Bucksburn at about 16:45.
Nine appliances are at the scene, as well as a height vehicle.
Crews are using jets and breathing apparatus to tackle the flames, which have badly damaged the building. Police said they were not aware of any casualties.


The daughter of a Conservative council leader has joined the Labour Party in protest at public spending cuts.

Kelly Jennings, whose father Harvey Jennings leads Derby City Council, said the government was slashing budgets in the wrong areas nationally and locally.
Ms Jennings, 26, a single mother who voted Conservative in the last general election, said cuts were hurting the most vulnerable people.
Mr Jennings was quoted as saying his daughter could make her own decisions.
The council recently approved budget cuts of almost Â£25m, that could result in 530 staff job losses.
This included the closure of six children's centres, reducing some adult support services and increasing charges for burials and parking.
At the same time the council is renovating its headquarters at the cost of Â£40m.
Ms Jennings said: "I voted for the Conservatives because I thought there was going to be more help for the NHS.
"Now they are cutting that off and locally they are cutting off the Sure Start centres which single parents like myself rely on."
She said her father "was a bit shocked from what I could tell but he was also pleasantly surprised and wished me well".
Derby City Council said it had done all it could to reduce the impact on front-line services.


League One side Southend United have signed winger Zavon Hines on a contract until the end of the season.

The 27-year-old ex-West Ham and Bradford player has not made a first-team appearance since featuring for Dagenham & Redbridge in September 2015.
Since then Hines has had surgery twice on the same knee, but has recently been on trial with Phil Brown's Shrimpers.
Hines, released by the Daggers in May, comes in following injuries to Southend forwards Nile Ranger and Simon Cox.
Both came off with knocks in Saturday's 2-0 win at Oldham.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


The Republic's bad bank, Nama, has again defended itself from criticisms over the sale of its NI property portfolio, known as Project Eagle.

Seamus McCarthy, the Comptroller and Auditor General, said Nama could have got £190m more for the sale of Project Eagle than it did.
Nama contested that, saying it received the market price for Project Eagle.
The Northern Ireland property folio that Nama inherited was once valued at about £4.5bn.
Nama sold it two years ago for about £1.3bn and has always vigorously contested the £190m finding describing it as a desktop finding without any market or expertise input.
Mr McCarthy - whose job is to make sure the Irish taxpayer gets value for money from public spending - said that the difference between the role of the sale advisers in this deal compared to others by Nama "was enormous".
But he told the Dail's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the probable loss was not set in stone, saying he did not have a crystal ball and does not know if a better price could have been achieved.
In his report earlier this month, the comptroller also said Nama was slow to act once it became aware that Frank Cushnahan, the bad bank's former Northern adviser, was due to receive a payment from the sale.
Mr McCarthy repeated that criticism on Thursday.
When they appeared before the PAC this time last year, senior Nama officials said Frank Cushnahan had no inside knowledge, and that was reiterated again on Thursday.
Nama's chairman, Frank Daly, said Mr Cushnahan may have presented himself in Northern Ireland as a Nama insider but that he was "peripheral".
And on whether the sale should have been stopped once Nama became aware that Mr Cushnahan was to receive a fee, Mr Daly said their judgement then and now was that the sale and interest of the Irish taxpayer "took precedence" over "alleged misbehaviour".
Earlier this month, the BBC Spotlight programme appeared to show Mr Cushnahan had accepted £40,000 in cash from a developer.
Mr Cushnahan was working as an advisor for Nama at the time. He has denied any wrongdoing.
On Thursday, Nama officials said that if they had known then what they know now, they would have terminated his contract regardless of "whatever inter-governmental difficulties" may have arisen.
On the programme itself, Nama said that property valuations that were allegedly the bad bank's were not - and were in fact significantly lower, in one in case by 80%.
Today's Public Accounts Committee session had all the hallmarks of a second round in a fight between two state bodies.
The Nama deal is already the subject of an inquiry by the Northern Ireland Assembly's finance committee.
The Irish government has announced it intends to set up an investigation into NI's biggest ever property deal.


The number of patients who died while waiting for heart surgery at two south Wales hospitals has risen in the past year.

Between April 2013 and March 2014, 29 patients died waiting for surgery at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales and Morriston Hospital in Swansea.
That is 12 more than the year before, when the Royal College of Surgeons raised serious concerns.
The figures were uncovered by BBC Wales' Week In Week Out programme.
Among those who died waiting for an operation was Newport Labour councillor Ron Jones.
He had been waiting 15 months for bypass and value replacement surgery at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in Cardiff when he died in August 2013.
His partner Pam Allen said: "You could see him deteriorating, he was losing weight, he couldn't even water the garden and his angina spray he was using as much as 15, 20 times a day.
"All he kept saying was promise me if anything happens to me before this operation that you won't leave it there."
Mr Jones's family are now waiting to hear the outcome of an investigation into his death on the waiting list.
Figures obtained by Week In Week Out show:
Adam Cairns, chief executive of the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, said that while the hospital's cardiac waiting lists have been reduced more needs to be done. He added £2.4m would be put towards reducing waiting times even further.
He said they currently carry out 900 procedures each year and are looking to increase to 1,100 as a first step, with this going to 1,300 a year as the service continues to develop.
"Over the last 12 months we have seen a 25% drop in the number of people waiting 36 weeks for surgery," said Mr Cairns. "We know that whilst we've seen some great improvements in some areas we have work to do in others and I would like to apologise to those people for whom we haven't been able to provide the kind of experience we would like."
Labour MP Ann Clwyd, who has complained that too many patients in Wales are waiting too long for diagnosis and treatment, said: "Those are shocking figures. That means some [people] are going to get worse because they have not been diagnosed.
"Some people are going to die because by the time they get treatment it may be too late."
Patients could be dying because of a regular shortage of intensive care beds across Wales, according to Dr Paul Morgan, chairman of the Welsh Intensive Care Society.
He said: "If you are the patient whose operation is postponed for whatever reason, you are going to be traumatised psychologically - but it might also be that the physical nature of whatever disease process you have got could be adversely affected - it could become inoperable."
Wales' Health Minister Mark Drakeford insisted the Welsh NHS was doing a good job and said improvements were being made to reduce waiting lists.
Week In, Week Out: Ann Clwyd - Rebel With A Cause can be seen on BBC One Wales at 22:35 BST on Tuesday, 3 June.


Every February the latest set of pictures from a 24-year-long series are exhibited in London and this year's set marks the halfway point.

The 24 photographers are each assigned an hour of the first day of the year in which to record an aspect of their lives. The original 24 met while studying at Central St Martin's in London and though they have gone their separate ways the project continues to unite them and their photography.
This year the exhibition is curated by Bridget Coaker, night picture editor at the Guardian and co-founder of Troika, who said: "When I first heard about 24photography I thought, 'What a great idea - I do hope they manage to keep the momentum going.'
"Now in its 12th year, this group of dedicated photographers are still going out in all weathers and all hours to capture something that shows something of the first day of each new year. Their commitment to the project is inspiring."
The pictures are on show in Soho Square, London, from 24 February until 19 March.
Here is a selection of the pictures with comments from the photographers.
01:00 Algy Sharman
"This shot was taken in a cafe near a spooky industrial estate outside Stockholm. This guy and his buddy were out skateboarding. He was waiting for a kebab - so was I."
03:00 Christoph Grothgar
"The photograph is of the last firework I had kept until my time slot had come. While taking the picture, I thought of someone who told me that I shouldn't always have everything in the centre of the frame, so I took it off-centre."
04:00 (11:00 local time)  Virginia Standard-Sheader
"My image was taken in Hanoi, Vietnam, in the old quarter. It shows a young man sleeping on his bike oblivious to the chaos around him."
05:00 Jean-Francois Vallet
"My picture was taken in my flat in Paris, back from a New Year's Eve party. A little bit tired, I was wondering what I could shoot and discussing it with my room-mate Laurent. We had the idea to play with the science skeleton belonging to my wife Marion.
"Getting older, 2015 is for me the step to the age of 40. Dancing with death is an ironic reference for me."
09:00 Sarah Lucy Brown
"Due to an unseasonably warm start to the winter this delicate cherry blossom tree had flowered already. It caught my eye and felt that it symbolised a good start to the new year."
11:00 (19:00 local time) Enrico Vietti
"Christmas time in Asia is a good example of the (often tacky) mix between different cultures. Even in 20C  you can see Santa Claus in the streets and Christmas trees are everywhere, although they tend to be integrated in some Asian context and elements.
"This was taken in Hoi An, Vietnam, a city well known for its tailors and lanterns."
12:00 (20:00 local time) David Mazza
"Ten years ago we were married on our farm in Western Australia. New Year's Day 2015 became a beautiful summer evening and the kids wanted to go for a walk up to Wedding Hill."
13:00 (14:00 local time) Pierre Mansiet
"This image was taken during the new year's parade on the Champs Elysees and the "star" of the parade was this Hero Go Pro camera attached to its telescopic stick.
"They were all over the place. I know the National Gallery in Washington DC forbid them in the museum as there were so many of them and this started to cause problems."
14.00 Guy Bell
"New Year's Day offers people the chance to consider changes as well as relax. I decided to go to Winter Wonderland, in Hyde Park, to gauge the mood.
"I expected a sea of miserable people trudging around and being ripped off, but instead saw a more cheery view of life - how simple and sometimes corny things (fairground rides, soft toys, balloons and hot dogs) can entertain and genuinely lift the mood."
17:00 Anthony Curran
"New Year's Day is a busy time, the sales are on in Oxford Street and the area is packed with people. Despite this there is still plenty of opportunity for people to be isolated. New technology can make this more bearable, whilst at the same time making it more likely."
18:00 Candida Jones
"This was taken in London and for me it sums up how many of us feel on New Year's Day, tired, aching, and more than a little green around the gills."
19:00 Raphael Schutzer-Weissmann
"I took this photo in response to the anti-immigrant rhetoric increasingly noticeable in the UK and Europe recently.
"At first it seemed to me that Romanians were the target, but the Charlie Hebdo atrocity took things to a new level. It became a blame game. Blame the immigrants, blame the Muslims, blame the Jews, blame somebody, for something. To my mind inclusiveness and diversity are things to be celebrated, not demonised."
21:00 Claire Spreadbury
"My image is intended to portray the innocence of childhood as well as capturing the fashion of the time - the onesie."
Top photograph:
00:00 Yvonne De Rosa
"I was in Reykjavik and I was with friends in the square close to the main church. Everybody was enjoying the fireworks and I actually discovered that Icelandic people have quite a love and obsession for them.
"As in Naples in southern Italy where I come from, they all had fireworks and were firing them in the streets, quite a crazy party! All was chaotic and fun. To the  contrary the couple I decided to photograph where in some sort of calm embrace and in their own magic space."


The FA People's Cup regional semi-finals saw 400 teams compete across eight venues on 27-28 February - and for one player it was particularly special.

Elliott Holdham, who has Asperger's syndrome, heard about the competition on social media and was desperate to be involved.
His dad called up the local organisers, who invited them to watch AFC Dunstable in round one of the tournament.
On the day, the team were a player short and the 19-year-old stepped in, scoring six goals and securing a place in the side for the second round.
I am hoping to push onto bigger and better things
Holdham's father, Jason, said: "I'm really proud. Football has helped Elliott grow in confidence and he's been a breath of fresh air for the team."
His son has been a Luton Town supporter since he was six but only began playing football eight months ago.
Due to his condition, Holdham had not found a suitable team to play for, until discovering the FA People's Cup.
AFC Dunstable's manager Josh Spavin said they were "thrilled to find such a great player".
Speaking on BBC Three Counties sports programme with Geoff Doyle and Luke Ashmead, Spavin added that "without Elliott they would have struggled over the weekend".
And, even though AFC Dunstable did not manage to get through to the finals day, Holdham has high hopes for the future.
"I am hoping to push onto bigger and better things," he said.
You can catch up with the highlights of the FA People's Cup semi-finals here and will be able to follow the finals day on Sunday, 20 March with our live text commentary.


British number two James Willstrop ended a run of 10 years and 19 defeats by beating number one Nick Matthew.

Willstrop had not beaten his domestic rival since the 2007 English Open final but won 11-6 7-11 5-11 11-7 11-4 at New York's Grand Central Station.
"It's been tough over the years," said Willstrop. "His game makes it very hard for me."
Matthew said: "He's a class player and we've played some massive matches, so that win was coming some day."
Willstrop, 33, and 36-year-old Matthew have met 35 times down the years, with Matthew now holding a 26-9 overall record.
Willstrop now faces Paul Coll of New Zealand in the quarter-finals of the JP Morgan Tournament of Champions.


A passenger wept as she told a court how she tried to save the life of a dead baby on a bus.

Rosalin Baker, 25, and Jeffrey Wiltshire, 52, deny murdering 16-week-old Imani and trying to cover it up by staging her death in public.
The Old Bailey has heard the infant was already dead when her mother boarded the bus in Stratford, east London.
But jurors were told how Ms Baker told passenger Fjoralba Shmitz: "There's something wrong with my baby".
Moments before, the mother had gestured for her to come over while talking on her phone, Ms Shmitz said.
"I saw the baby's face. I touched her left cheek. It was cold," she told the court.
"The baby was not breathing. I tried to help but I didn't manage to do so."
Ms Shmitz told the court how she took the baby and asked the driver of the number 25 bus to call paramedics.
She said: "I became distressed because the baby was not moving. I took the child in my arms.
"I went up to the bus driver and asked him to call the police and the ambulance. I thought that the baby was dead.
"I took the baby back to the bus seat and a lady - I think she was Spanish - started praying."
Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson asked Ms Shmitz how Ms Baker had reacted.
"She was not crying, she was not shouting, she was not speaking and there were other passengers on the bus too who were asking if it was my son," she said.
Cross-examining, Icah Peart QC, asked if Ms Baker seemed detached during the "distressing episode".
Ms Shmitz replied: "As far as I'm concerned, she seemed very relaxed."
The jury has heard Imani had been attacked at least three times before her death, leaving her with 40 rib fractures, a fractured wrist and head injuries.
The couple, of Newham, east London, deny murder and causing or allowing the death of their child.


A zebra that ran away from a horse riding club in Japan has died in a golf course lake after it was tranquilised.

Police officers and veterinarians had chased the animal around the course near Toki city in the central Gifu prefecture for hours.
It ran into the lake shortly after it was shot with a tranquiliser dart.
The animal died despite being pulled out within minutes. Officers said it had likely drowned and that its heart had stopped.
The two-year-old male zebra was owned by a mobile zoo, reported the newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, but was being housed at the Mikuni West Farm, a local stable and riding club.
On Tuesday evening, farm managers were bringing in the zebra for the night when it became agitated, trampled the paddock fence, and escaped, fleeing towards a nearby mountain.
By early Wednesday morning police were receiving reports of a zebra running along a highway.
They quickly tracked it to the Toki International Golf Course, where veterinarians and police tried to catch it.
It ran into a lake shortly after being darted.
"We pulled it out, but its heart had stopped," said police spokesman Takahiro Taniguchi, saying it had likely drowned.
The unusual story quickly became a talking point among Japanese netizens who expressed shock and sadness on Wednesday, with the Japanese word for zebra "shimauma" trending on Twitter.
Many retweeted a photo by a girl who said she had spotted the animal galloping down a road on Tuesday night and expressed surprise at spotting "a zebra in the forest".


Smart cyber thieves who query lots of websites at once can guess credit card numbers in a few seconds, suggests research.

Security experts from the University of Newcastle found loopholes on websites that helped thieves seeking card data.
The attacks works against some of the most popular retailers on the web, said the team.
Vulnerable sites have been told about their findings and some have now put in place defences against the attack.
The research, led by PhD student Mohammed Aamir Ali at the University of Newcastle, created a credit card querying system that simultaneously submitted payment requests to different sites at the same time.
Starting with just the first six digits of a card, the system guessed the remaining details and tried the combinations on many sites at the same time.
By trying different combinations of a card's number, expiry date and security code this system could quickly find out all the information needed to replicate a card, said the researchers in a paper describing their work.
Because different sites ask for different parts of the credentials required to verify a purchase it was possible to compile the fragmented details that sites share to build up all the security information for a card.
"This attack subverts the payment functionality from its intended purpose of validating card details, into helping the attackers to generate all security data fields required to make online transactions," they wrote.
This approach could help thieves who have some knowledge of victims gained from information in the massive troves of data released by breaches at web firms.
Few sites noticed that multiple queries were being run across lots of sites, found the team.
"It is possible to run multiple bots at the same time on hundreds of payment sites without triggering any alarms in the payment system," they said.
A sample attack showed that if an attacker ran many queries at once they could compile the correct information about a card in approximately six seconds.
There is no evidence that cyber thieves are using such a distributed attack, said the researchers, but their work showed it was "practical" and therefore a "credible" threat.
The team shared its findings with 36 of the sites against which they ran their distributed card number-guessing system. The disclosure led to eight sites changing their security systems to thwart the attacks. Many now limit the number of times card details can be checked.
However, said the researchers, the other 28 sites made no changes despite the disclosure.
"We do not know the reason behind this and further research will be needed to find the explanation," wrote the team.


Supporters of Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy have been asked to sign a letter giving him their backing.

The BBC understands the letter will be presented to the Scottish Labour Party Executive on Saturday, where Mr Murphy faces a vote of no confidence.
He has said he is confident of retaining the leadership, despite mounting calls for him to stand aside.
Last week's poll saw the SNP win 56 Scottish seats, leaving Labour with just one - down 40 on the 2010 result.
Former Aberdeen South MP Dame Anne Begg is thought to be among those who have given Mr Murphy their support.
She was one of 40 Scottish Labour MPs who lost their seats to their SNP in last Thursday's election.
Ms Begg said Mr Murphy was not to blame for 10 years of Labour decline.
A Labour spokesman confirmed the "letter does exist".
He said: "There is overwhelming support for Jim Murphy across the Scottish Labour Party. We need to work together to rebuild our movement and regain the trust of the people of Scotland."
Mr Murphy earlier told the BBC he was "confident" of staying in the post despite last week's disastrous general election result.
The 47-year-old, who lost his Westminster seat to the SNP, said he still wanted to do the job.
Mr Murphy was clearing out his Westminster office when he spoke to BBC Scotland correspondent David Porter about his desire to stay on.
On Tuesday, the Labour MSP for Cowdenbeath, Alex Rowley, said the party was heading for "disappearance" in Scotland unless Mr Murphy resigned.
Pressure has been growing on the Scottish Labour leader to step down.
Both the Unite union and the train drivers' union, Aslef, have backed calls for him to go.
And Unison Scotland urged a "radical change in approach" by the Labour Party in Scotland and said it "would not oppose" a move to change the leader.
However, Mr Murphy has received backing from Usdaw, which represents shop workers.
The union's Scottish officer Lawrence Watson said that while the election result "could barely have been worse", to have a second leadership contest in Scotland in a year would be "navel-gazing".
Mr Watson added: "We need to keep our heads, quickly understand why the people of Scotland have, for the moment, moved away from Labour and focus on turning around the party's fortunes at the Scottish parliamentary election next year.
"Jim Murphy needs the time and our support to get the job done."
Mr Murphy had been an MP for the East Renfrewshire area since 1997.
However, when votes were counted after the close of polls last Thursday, his SNP opponent Kirsten Oswald was declared the winner.


Durham's players have been reassured by their chief executive that the county is not going bust and that all contracts will be honoured.

David Harker said he had addressed speculation that Durham faced administration at a team meeting.
"Hopefully I persuaded them that the rumours were nonsense," he said.
"We are not running out of money. Work is in hand to sort our long-term future and we looking at ways to continue sustaining cricket in the north east."
He added: "We are not facing administration in the near future."
It is no secret that Durham have been facing financial problems over the past year, with several players receiving offers from other counties.
Opening batsman Mark Stoneman recently agreed to join Surrey for 2017, but it is understood Durham had offered him a six-figure contract to stay.
Batsman Scott Borthwick has also been offered a new deal and is considering remaining, while captain Paul Collingwood recently penned a one-year contract extension.
On Wednesday, Durham will announce that one of their senior players is signing a new contract, with the county still in the running for their fourth County Championship title in nine seasons.
According to Harker, this is a clear sign that they are not going out of business.
"You always get rumours stated by some agents with ulterior motives," he added.


The chief executive of Sunderland Football Club was told about Adam Johnson's sexual activity with a 15-year-old fan more than a year ago, police have said.

Durham Police said Margaret Byrne was told on 2 March 2015, the day of Johnson's arrest, that he had messaged and kissed the schoolgirl.
Sunderland initially suspended him before reinstating him two weeks later.
He was convicted on Wednesday of sexual activity with the girl.
His victim has asked why he was allowed to keep on playing.
Det Insp Aelfwynn Sampson from Durham Police, the lead investigator of the case, said she met Sunderland chief executive Margaret Byrne on 2 March 2015.
She told BBC News: "They were given detail that he had met the girl and sexual activity had taken place."
She said the club was also told he had exchanged messages with the girl.
She added: "At the centre of this we have a 15-year-old girl who was an avid Sunderland fan and a massive fan of Adam Johnson, she describes him as her idol, she'll want to know why he was allowed back on the pitch."
Det Insp Sampson had told Adam Johnson's trial she had met Ms Byrne to outline the case.
The Sunderland Echo reported the officer said particulars of the offences were not discussed as Johnson had not been interviewed.
Sunderland are yet to respond to the specific claim about the meeting with Durham Police.
Johnson was suspended for two weeks but then allowed to play again, with the club saying they understood he planned to deny all the charges against him.
The club sacked him on the first day of his trial after he admitted grooming and kissing the girl.
During his trial Johnson said Sunderland knew he had kissed the girl, but in a statement released after the verdicts the club "strongly refuted" any claim that they knew he planned to admit any of the charges.
The statement said: "It is understood that a suggestion was made that the club knew all along that Mr Johnson was intending to change his plea just before trial to enable him to continue to play football for the club and that the club may also have been involved in tactical discussions about the plea.
"This is utterly without foundation and is refuted in the strongest possible terms.
"The club never placed any pressure or demands on Mr Johnson to play football during this process."
In a press conference earlier, Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce said Johnson played on the basis that he planned to plead not guilty to all the charges.
He said it was a "massive shock" and the club took "swift and direct action to dismiss him immediately" after Johnson admitted two charges.
Children's charities, MPs and campaigners are calling on the club to explain what exactly they knew and when.
Sunderland Central Labour MP Julie Elliott said the club had questions to answer.
She said: "Clearly, having listened to the victim's statement, our focus should be on supporting her to rebuild her life after an horrific year.
"What is also clear however is that there are questions to be answered. I am concerned about what safeguards were put in place, in light of what has come out of the trial.
"These questions should be put to the club."
The BBC sent Sunderland a list of questions including what exactly Ms Byrne knew about Johnson, what safeguarding measures the club put in place and how the decision about his suspension was made.
The club said they were making no further comment at this stage.
The FA said its safeguarding team met with Sunderland officials in April 2015 to discuss Johnson.
A spokesman said: "Sunderland confirmed Adam Johnson did not have any roles with the club involving a position of trust with children and was not involved in their community schemes."
Pictures taken at the Stadium of Light ahead of Sunderland's league game against Manchester City on 2 February this year show Johnson signing autographs for young fans.
Eight days later he admitted grooming and kissing the girl.