The US has marked 50 years since President John F Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in Dallas, Texas.

The city, which long struggled with the legacy of the assassination, hosted a series of official events.
Kennedy, who served less than three years, is often ranked among the nation's most revered presidents.
Just 46 when he died, he is praised for his youthful vigour, his leadership through the Cuban missile crisis and his vision to put a man on the Moon.
But he is also remembered for ordering one of the most disastrous episodes of the Cold War, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of communist Cuba by a CIA-trained paramilitary force of Cuban exiles.
By Mark MardellNorth America editor
Kennedy's family members laid a wreath on his grave at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington DC on Friday. His wife Jackie and two of their children are also buried there.
President Barack Obama issued a proclamation for flags to be flown at half mast at the White House, US Capitol and other government buildings.
"Today, we honour his memory and celebrate his enduring imprint on American history," he said.
Among official events in Dallas on Friday, the city's symphony orchestra performed and bells tolled at the minute of Kennedy's death. Crowds thronged the ceremony at Dealey Plaza, where the president was shot.
"The man we remember today gave us a gift that will not be squandered: the chance to learn how to face the future when it's the darkest and most uncertain," Dallas Mayor Michael Rawlings said to a large crowd before a moment of silence was observed.
Historian and author David McCullough read several of Kennedy's most famous quotes, including: "We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask, 'Why not?'"
Elsewhere, wreaths were laid in the German capital Berlin where Kennedy gave his Cold War-era "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in June 1963.
Those events and others conclude a week of tributes to the slain American leader.
Kennedy, a Democrat, belonged to one of the 20th Century's most prominent American political dynasties.
On 22 November 1963, he and his wife travelled to Dallas for early campaigning ahead of the following year's election.
Crowds of supporters lined the streets to catch a glimpse of the couple. As the presidential motorcade entered Dealey Plaza at around 12:30 local time (18:30 GMT), Kennedy's convertible passed the Texas School Book Depository.
Gunshots rang out. Bullets struck the president in the head and neck. Half an hour later, Kennedy was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
He was the fourth US president assassinated while in office, but the first to have his death captured on film.
Soon after, Vice-President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as president aboard Air Force One.
Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine Corps veteran and Soviet defector employed at the depository at the time, was arrested in connection with the shooting.
On 24 November 1963, he was scheduled to be transferred from police headquarters to a county jail when he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a local nightclub owner.
Official inquiries have determined Oswald was responsible for the assassination, but Kennedy's murder has provided endless fodder for conspiracy theorists.
Members of one such group demonstrated in Dealey Plaza on Friday, wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "50 years in denial is enough" and holding a sign that said "coup d'etat".
The events of that November plunged the nation into mourning, and many Americans still recall where they were when they heard the news.
Texan Daniel Kendrick, who as a teenager witnessed the shooting, told the BBC he had been preparing to approach the motorcade in the hope of shaking the president's hand when he witnessed Kennedy's shooting.
"I saw the look on Jackie Kennedy's face," he recalled. "She turned and looked straight at me with a look of horror on her face. That really freaked me out. I had to run."
Historian Robert Dallek said Kennedy's popularity endured in part because Americans have been so disappointed in his successors.
"People want a better life in this country," he said. "They want to think their children are going to do better. And they associate this with Kennedy's youth, his promise, possibility."


Ukraine pair Andriy Yarmolenko and Taras Stepanenko have settled a personal dispute which threatened to disrupt the team's Euro 2016 plans.

Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Stepanenko, 26, said their friendship was "over" after Dynamo Kiev forward Yarmolenko kicked him in a league match on 1 May.
But the players shook hands during a news conference on Monday after they were named in Mykhaylo Fomenko's squad.
"I want peace and friendship to prevail inside our team," said Yarmolenko, 26.
Yarmolenko kicked Stepanenko after the Shakhtar player kissed his badge and celebrated in front of Dynamo fans during his side's 3-0 win.
Both players were sent off - as were two of Stepanenko's team-mates. Yarmolenko is likely to be given a lengthy ban.
"We have discussed this situation and I hope this won't happen again as we are likely to play side-by-side in the Ukraine team for many years," said Stepanenko.
"This dispute should be considered settled."
Ukraine have been drawn in Group C with Germany, Poland and Northern Ireland for this summer's European Championship in France, which begins next month.
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A man who signed the death warrant of Charles I has been remembered in the city that refused entry to the monarch in 1642 sparking the English Civil War.

A plaque to John Alured, who signed the king's death warrant, is to be placed on a wall at the Charterhouse in Hull.
John and his brother Matthew, who was honoured with his own plaque, were prominent parliamentary soldiers who fought against the Royalists.
The cream plaques commemorate both men for their contribution to the city.
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Robb Robinson, a historian, said: "The plaques reinforce the role and notion of freedom that has always underpinned Hull's story.
"The Alureds are part and parcel of its history however brutal."
John Alured died in 1651 at the age of 44 but younger brother Matthew (1615-1694) went on to see much of the 17th Century struggle between the monarch and parliament.
He lived through the civil war, the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
The parchment document bearing the king's death warrant has 59 signatories or regicides and is still held in parliament.
Alongside John Alured's signature was a second Hull regicide, Perigrine Pelham, who has a plaque in Hull Truck Theatre.
The monarch went on trial in the House of Commons and was executed on 30 January 1649 in Whitehall.
The Charterhouse stand on lands near to where the Alured family owned land.
Less than a mile away are the remains of the Beverley Gate where the King was refused entry to Hull in April 1642 by the governor Sir John Hotham.
Mr Robinson said further civil war plaques are planned for Hotham and Major-General Robert Overton.
The plaques are some of the 100 placed around the city during UK City of Culture 2017.


Samsung's latest flagship phones restore a couple of popular features dropped from the previous generation.

The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge both accept MicroSD cards, allowing their storage to be expanded, and can also be submerged underwater.
In addition, they feature new gaming tech and a rear camera that should cope better in low-light conditions.
Their overall design, however, is similar to the Galaxy S6 line-up.
Some experts suggested that could pose a challenge.
"Although there are significant improvements under the bonnet with the camera, the chipset, the removable storage and the water resistance, Samsung will have to make sure that's visible to consumers," commented Ian Fogg from the IHS Technology consultancy.
"Because at a glance they look to be the same as last year's model."
Samsung does not disclose smartphone sales numbers. However its share of the market dropped by 2% in 2015, according to research firm IDC, at a time when Apple, Huawei and Xiaomi made gains.
Even so, IDC's data still indicates the South Korean firm remains the bestselling brand by a wide margin.
1. Samsung Galaxy
2. Samsung Galaxy S
3. Samsung Galaxy S2
4. Samsung Galaxy S3
5. Samsung Galaxy S4
6. Samsung Galaxy S5
7. Samsung Galaxy S6
Samsung’s first Android-powered phone ran version 1.5 (Cupcake) of Google’s mobile operating system.
It had a 3.2in (8.1cm) screen and was the first Android phone to include a 3.5mm headphone jack, allowing normal headphones to be easily connected.
The first of Samsung’s S-branded series had a 4in (10.2cm) screen, ran Android 2.1 (Eclair) and could shoot video in 720p high definition.
A 4G variant of the device attracted the ire of Apple’s lawyers, and became part of a high-profile patent case fought by the two rivals.
The S2 was marketed as the world’s thinnest smartphone, measuring less than 8.5mm (0.33in) thick.
It had a 4.3in (10.9cm) screen and was powered by Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).
Samsung promoted the “zero lag” shutter speed of its main camera as being suitable for snapping fast-moving objects.
The S3 used eye-tracking software to detect when it was being looked at, keeping its screen bright until its owner turned away.
It had a 4.8in (12.cm) screen and ran Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
The phone also introduced S-Beam, a way to send files and contacts between Samsung handsets.
The S4 bordered on “phablet” status with a 5in (12.7cm) touchscreen, which could be used while wearing gloves.
Running Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) it introduced a dual-video capture mode, allowing users to record footage from both cameras simultaneously.
The S5 added dust and water resistance, promising to work after being submerged 3ft (0.9m) deep.
It came pre-installed with Android 4.4.2 (KitKat) and introduced a fingerprint scanner and heart rate monitor.
Samsung promoted its “ultra power saving mode”, which let the device eke out a day of life when its battery fell below 10%.
Samsung launched two models of its flagship phone – the Edge version had a screen that curved round its sides and was more expensive.
The phones had brighter, more detailed screens than before, and supported the firm’s new smart wallet service Samsung Pay.
However, their metal frames and glass-backed designs led to some of the S5’s features being jettisoned, including water resistance and the microSD slot.
The new handsets were unveiled in Barcelona on the eve of the Mobile World Congress tech show. They are set to be released on 11 March.
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While the Galaxy S7 retains the same sized screen as the S6, the S7 Edge's display has grown slightly from 5.1in (13cm) to 5.5in (14cm).
The Edge version is also slightly curvier than before and its camera protrudes less far out.
In addition, the "edged" parts of the screen now provide shortcuts to email, different photo modes and third-party apps.
Both phones:
They also feature processors that are faster than before and capable of supporting the Vulkan API (application program interface).
This is an open standard that lets games make more efficient use of a chip's graphics processing units (GPUs). Modern PCs and games consoles can already support Vulkan, but Samsung says its smartphones are the first to do so.
The firm has also added a "thermal spreader" to the phone's innards. This is a 0.4mm-thick tube of water that turns to steam, cooling down the processor, when required.
It should allow the handset to better handle graphics-intensive titles without overheating.
In addition, Samsung has made it easier to record gameplay for later playback.
The new rear camera introduces two innovations.
Firstly, it has a bigger aperture of f/1.7 rather than f/1.9. This means the lens lets in about 25% more light than before. The pixels are also slightly bigger, which should mean the phones are more capable at taking low-light photos without the need for flash.
Secondly, its sensor is the first on a smartphone to feature "dual pixel autofocus".
This means each pixel can be used to both record the image and determine focus rather than just one or the other. This enables the phone to lock focus to an object more quickly for stills, and deliver smoother focus tracking in video mode.
The technology was first developed by Canon, and until now was limited to the Japanese firm's DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) and Cinema cameras.
"It's not easy to explain or even show off at the point of sale, and that's something Samsung will struggle with," commented IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo.
"But I believe those users who start using it will quickly realise it does make a difference and will help them get better pictures."
One consequence of adding the new technologies is that the camera's resolution has had to decrease from 16 megapixels to 12MP.
The South Korean firm also introduced a 360-degree camera. It can film footage for playback on its virtual reality headset, which Samsung makes in partnership with Facebook's Oculus division.
The Gear 360's interactive pictures and videos can also be uploaded to Facebook and YouTube.
The device is only compatible with the firm's own handsets. That contrasts with a similar camera unveiled by LG that works with both Android and iOS phones.
One analyst suggested such kit could "add a new dimension" to weddings and other big occasions.
"These cameras will allow users to easily create their own 360-degree content, and this will help fuel demand for virtual reality accessories and broader acceptance of the new types of photos and videos," said Ben Wood from CCS Insight.
It was also revealed that the Samsung Pay smart wallet service would be expanded to the UK, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Singapore and Spain this year.
One company watcher suggested it was a "no brainer" to pick the new phones over the Galaxy S5 and earlier handsets, but a harder sell when compared to the S6 range.
"Samsung has a problem that is actually shared by most smartphone companies today," said Carolina Milanesi from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.
"Each year's phones look more and more alike and what gets tweaked is more of a finesse to what's inside, and that's really hard to convince customers to pay extra for in stores."
Even so, a spokesman for Samsung said it intended to leave the S6 phones on sale alongside the new devices.
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Three nightclub doormen have told how they helped rescue a man trapped in an upturned car in a water-filled ditch.

Barry McGivern, Scott Fryer and Troy Lacey were travelling to work at Dereham along the A47 Acle Straight, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
They jumped into cold chest-high water to free the man from the crushed car and helped to resuscitate him.
Mr Lacey, 23, said: "I'm just glad we could give him a fighting chance to see his family again."
The victim is in a stable but critical condition at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, police said.
The men stopped when they saw what they thought was a broken-down car and some people running along the road at about 21:00 BST on Saturday.
A blaring horn then alerted them to a car upside down in a dyke where they could see a man struggling inside, said Mr Fryer.
The unnamed victim, believed to be in his 40s, was trapped by his seatbelt in the crushed car and had his head in water.
Mr McGivern, 28, of Great Yarmouth, said he was the first to enter the "freezing cold" water which was chest-high.
Mr Lacey, from Martham, said their experience as security staff helped them to keep calm and they had freed the victim as a paramedic arrived.
"The car was that crushed that at one point I didn't think we would get him out, but I managed to get under his legs and get them free and Barry snapped the seatbelt," he said.
"His pulse was slow so I pumped his chest a few times."
Mr Fryer, also 28, a retained fire-fighter at Gorleston, then gave the victim the kiss-of-life.
"I'm just pleased we were there and we could help a fellow human being who was dying in front of us," said Mr Lacey.


A man who claims he was abused by Labour peer Lord Janner has said he believes the former MP is still being protected by establishment figures.

The man, now 50, told the BBC he was attacked in the 1970s and 80s at a Leicestershire working men's club but police ignored his complaint in 2007.
Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders, has defended the decision not to press charges against Lord Janner.
She told Newsnight his dementia meant he could "play no part in a trial".
It ruled that while there was enough evidence to prosecute the peer for 22 sex offences against nine people, the severity of his condition meant he was unfit to stand trial.
Ms Saunders told the BBC she made the "right decision" not to prosecute Lord Janner.
The 86-year-old's family said he was "entirely innocent of any wrongdoing".
The allegations against Lord Janner have not been tested in court and remain unproven.
The victim, John - whose full name has not been revealed for legal reasons - said he was being looked after by a family member at the working men's club when he encountered the former MP.
Aged nine or ten at the time, he said he was told to obey the "very important man".
"I believe he used his position in society to do what he did," he said.
"I believe deep down in my heart that he was protected by others and he's still being protected by others."
In the years following the alleged abuse, he said he was left "angry that there was nobody there to protect me".
"I can't form relationships. I can't form trust with anybody. I can't be in a room alone with anybody unless I've got an escape route," he said.
"I did turn to drink to try and forget it, which has caused me some health problems, but now I'm over that and I'm thinking extremely clearly, and I just want to get justice for the victims."
He said his marriage broke down and his relationship with his sons was damaged "because you don't want to be tagged as an abuse victim".
John contacted police in 2007 but said he was told to see his GP.
"They didn't take my details. Afterwards I did make a bit of a stink but they never followed it up," he said. "It was the old culture - pass the buck."
Lord Janner was first linked to abuse in 1991, during the trial of prolific sex offender Frank Beck.
The politician was interviewed in connection with grooming and abusing a boy, aged between 13 and 15, but the CPS did not pursue the case.
He was investigated again in 2002 and 2006-7 when fresh allegations surfaced, but no action was taken and the case was dropped.
John said he was shocked when, following the latest investigation, the CPS decided not to pursue the charges because of Lord Janner's dementia.
He said there should be a "fact-based trial", which is sometimes used to try defendants who are deemed unfit to be tried.
"Then the evidence would be tried in court, not by the establishment. All I want is the truth," John said.
He added he would give any compensation to charity.
"I feel empathy with the other victims because I know what they're going through," he said.
"I feel empathy with the police officers because of their frustration of all their hard work and it's just come to nothing.
"I feel sorry, funnily enough for [Janner's] family, because their loyalties are divided."
Linda Lee, former president of the law society and now chair of Voice, which supports victims and witnesses in Northamptonshire, questioned Ms Saunders' decision.
"This isn't disappointment for the victims, this is distress and the impact on the victims is part of the test whether to prosecute," she said.
"Also, a decision could have been made to have the medical evidence tested by the courts and that is a critical point for me.
"Because this evidence has been looked at by Alison Saunders but not the courts and not subjected to the scrutiny the courts would submit it to."
Peter Garsden, president of the association of child abuse lawyers and a solicitor representing two of the alleged victims, said: "If there is any way he can be placed before a court of law in any sense at all, that would satisfy the victims' requirements for justice.
"Because what they want, after a two-year police investigation, is to be able to give their evidence and be heard and the fact they can't be frustrates and angers them."


A man who died when his vehicle was hit by a train on a level crossing has been named by police.

Colin Cameron, 60, died when his Land Rover was hit by the London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa service at Frampton Mansell near Stroud on Tuesday.
British Transport Police said a post-mortem examination revealed he died from multiple injuries, and a file was being prepared for the coroner.
The line was closed for over 24 hours while police investigated.
Ch Insp John Angell said: "Our family liaison officers continue to support Mr Cameron's loved ones, who have asked for their privacy to be respected, and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time.
"Our enquiries at the scene have concluded for now and I would like to reiterate our thanks to the local community for the help they gave to passengers on the service involved immediately after the incident and for their cooperation as we worked in the area.
"We continue to appeal for anyone who saw what happened, or feels they may have any information which would be relevant to our investigation, to contact us."


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Cracks have been discovered in bricks which make up the core of one of two nuclear reactors at the Hunterston B power station in Ayrshire.

Operator EDF Energy said the cracks in three graphite bricks were found during planned maintenance on Reactor Three.
The firm insisted there were no safety implications and the finding had no impact on the operation of the reactor.
A similar issue - known as "keyway root cracking" was identified in Hunterston's other reactor last year.
EDF Energy said it was publicising the latest findings "as part of its commitment to openness and transparency".
Station director Colin Weir said: "Nuclear safety drives everything we do. This means we work within very large safety margins. This applies to graphite bricks too.
"The level of cracking which is considered reasonable is far below anything which would affect the reactor's safe operation.
"It is accepted by our regulators and materials experts that cracks will occur in some of the bricks and that the core will lose some of its mass as part of the normal ageing process."
Mr Weir added: "The observations were anticipated and are in line with our understanding, so our view of the best estimate lifetime planning date of 2023 has not changed."
Hunterston B has two advanced gas-cooled reactors, similar to those found at nuclear plants around the UK.
The core of the reactors is made up of thousands of graphite bricks.
The station began operating in 1976 and its working life has already been extended to 2023 - well beyond its planned closure date.
Scottish energy minister Fergus Ewing said he had received assurances that there were "no immediate" safety implications and it was safe to continue generating electricity - but the problems illustrated that Scotland's nuclear facilities had a  limited lifespan.
He added: "The Scottish government is opposed to the building of new nuclear capacity in Scotland, as it would divert billions of pounds away from renewable alternatives where Scotland has a key competitive advantage.
"Subject to strict safety considerations, extending the operating life of Scotland's existing nuclear stations can help to maintain security of supply while the transition to renewables and cleaner thermal generation takes place."
WWF Scotland director Lang Banks said the issue with cracks in both reactors emphasised the need "to embrace the clean energy transition".
He said: "Despite the assurances given by the nuclear industry, with cracks now found in both reactors it's clear the problem is spreading and that we can expect this facility to become even more unreliable in the future.
"News of more cracks in the country's ageing fleet of nuclear power stations underscores why we're right to be taking steps to harness cleaner, safer forms of energy."


The head of supermarket Tesco has warned retailers face a "lethal cocktail" of tax and costs at a time of slumping profits.

Chief executive Dave Lewis said the retail industry faced £14bn of extra costs in the next five years.
Business rates and the new national living wage are among extra outgoings.
He complained of the "unintended consequences" of policies such as the new £7.20 an hour living wage for adults next April.
Tesco shares were down 3% in midday Tuesday trading.
"Profits are down but business rates are up," he said in a speech at the Confederation of British Industry's conference. "It is the biggest tax we have and is three times the OECD average."
He claims Tesco's own rates bill has risen more than 35% in five years.
"For every £1 we pay in corporation tax large UK retailers pay £2.31 in rates. It is unsustainable."
Tesco says its pay and benefits "is already significantly above the new voluntary living wage rate" but Mr Lewis said pressure to increase basic pay at the expense of other benefits "is not the answer".
The retailer paid about £8.80 for the lowest-paid staff outside London if benefits are included, he said.
Rising costs come at a time of deflating food prices, hitting Tesco's and other big supermarkets' profits.
Mr Lewis said he would like closer negotiations between the retail industry and the government on proposed policy or changes such as rates, the living wage and the apprentice levy.
"The impact of the retail sector on our wider economy is absolutely massive. We need to be careful we don't lose or damage some of that almost by accident."
Shops, offices, factories and businesses currently pay a uniform business rate set by central government.
Councils collect the tax and send the funds to the Treasury, which then redistributes them so that areas with fewer businesses do not lose out. Since 2013 local councils have been able to keep up to half.
Councils in England will be able to keep the proceeds from business rates raised in their area under plans unveiled by Chancellor George Osborne.


Prison inspectors have expressed concerns about levels of serious violence directed at staff and inmates at a Kent young offenders institution.

Improvised weapons such as sharpened cutlery had been used during fights at Cookham Wood in Rochester, they found.
An unannounced inspection found an increase in the number of boys needing hospital treatment for head injuries.
Prison officials said they had taken measures to improve safety and behaviour since the inspection.
HM Inspectorate of Prisons said that at the time of the inspection in May, Cookham Wood held 166 boys, most aged 16 and 17.
About 10% of the boys had been convicted of or charged with murder or manslaughter.
The number of violent incidents was very high and in the six months leading up to March 2015 there had been 61 assaults and 92 fights, some of which were very serious.
Assaults on staff had almost doubled since the last inspection with 21 in the preceding six months, some resulting in serious injury.
However, the inspectors found levels of self-harm had fallen and health care had improved.
Chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick said Cookham Wood reflected systemic problems across young offenders institutions.
"The welcome fall in the number of children in custody means that those who remain represent a more concentrated mix of very challenging young people, held in a smaller number of establishments that are increasingly unsuitable to meet their needs, and cared for by a staff group beset by shortages and a lack of training for their complex and demanding role," he said.
"A much wider political and policy response is needed if we are to fulfil our responsibilities to care for these, our most damaged children, safely and help them to grow into adults who are valued, not feared."
Michael Spurr, chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, said: "Cookham Wood manages an increasingly complex group of boys.
"Since the inspection, staff numbers have increased; a new education contract has been introduced; staff have been trained in new restraint techniques and safeguarding measures have been strengthened, all of which have had a positive impact on safety and behaviour.
"Tackling violence and providing a safe environment remains the governor's biggest challenge and top priority and work will continue to improve standards even further."


Huddersfield Giants returned to the top of Super League with a seven-try victory over bottom club Castleford.

The Tigers led through Oliver Holmes, while Adam Milner, Daryl Clarke and Jonathan Walker scored late on.
But the Giants dominated the remainder of the game, winger Jermaine McGillvary crossing twice for Paul Anderson's men.
Shaun Lunt, Joe Wardle, Aaron Murphy, Luke Robinson and Brett Ferres also touched down for Huddersfield, who replace Wigan at the summit.
But the Warriors will reclaim top spot if they beat Wakefield at the DW Stadium on Sunday.
Ian Millward's Castleford, meanwhile, are now winless in nine Super League games, despite making the perfect start to the match and ending with three tries in the space of four minutes in the closing stages.
Seconds after making a try-saving tackle near his own line, influential half-back Rangi Chase created a first score of the season for back-row Holmes, who burst through a gap to cross under the posts from close range.
Castleford have now gone nine games without a win (D1, L8). Their last victory came against champions Leeds Rhinos in round two
But any hopes of repeating of  were soon extinguished by a ruthless Huddersfield outfit.
Hooker Lunt's opportunist effort from dummy half, followed by a run of 80 metres from centre Wardle, saw the Giants take a 12-6 lead.
A flowing move to the left wing sent Murphy over for a third try without reply, and it got worse for the Tigers when Chase was shown a yellow card for dissent.
The visitors used the extra man to their advantage as they worked an overlap for McGillvary to sprint in unchallenged, before a break from Leroy Cudjoe allowed Robinson to extend the advantage.
After a quiet start to the second period, Huddersfield were back amongst the tries and it was no surprise that their skipper played a prominent role.
Danny Brough, who was successful with six of his seven goal attempts, kicked from half-way and McGillvary outpaced Castleford full-back Richard Owen to touch down.
Another smart kick from Brough sent Ferres over in the corner for the Giants' seventh score of the afternoon.
Castleford sparked into life following the departure of Huddersfield's Jamie Cording to the sin bin, with Milner, Clark and Walker all crossing the visitors' line with ease, but it was far too late.
Castleford Tigers head coach Ian Millward:
"We probably made more clean breaks than we have in a lot of games but the composure was lacking and that's what happens when you are on a losing run.
"The players tried hard in the second half but it's not about trying hard. We want to turn that into being a more consistent team.
"I think Nathan Massey has dislocated his knee. It's not a good one for us. He's been a really consistent performer for us.
"And I think Jake Webster will be out for the season. We'll know more in a couple of weeks but, whether or not he has an operation, I think it will be six months.
"It leaves us very short. I've identified a player in Australia who would be good for us but we'll just have to see."
Huddersfield Giants head coach Paul Anderson:
"The closing stages definitely took off some of the gloss, although I thought we were the better team throughout.
"I'd told our players that Castleford have got a history recently of scoring a flurry of points and we allowed them to do it again. We've got to be better than that but we've won.
"You can't forget that the players have just come off the Easter programme. If you look at our game today -and I'm sure there will be a few more tomorrow - there's going to be some points scored because there's going to be some tired people out there. It's not an excuse, it's the truth.
"We could have been better but we got two points and I'm happy because it keeps us where we want to be."
Castleford Tigers: Tansey; Owen, Shenton, Gilmour, Thompson; Chase, Ellis; Walker, Milner, Mason, Massey, Hauraki, Holmes.
Replacements: Clark, Huby, Fleming, Boyle.
Sin Bin: Chase (22).
Huddersfield Giants: Grix; McGillvary, Cudjoe, Wardle, Murphy; Brough, Robinson; Fielden, Lunt, Kopczak, Ferres, Lawrence, Ferguson.
Replacements: George, Faiumu, Patrick, Cording.
Sin Bin: Cording (66)
Referee: Phil Bentham (Warrington)
Attendance: 3,222


Scotland centre Alex Dunbar intends to train hard and "enjoy" being back with the national squad after almost a year out through injury.

Dunbar, 25, has not played in a dark blue jersey since tearing knee ligaments 12 months ago during the build-up to facing England.
The injury ruled him out of last year's World Cup and he has more recently been recovering from a thigh strain.
"It's been frustrating," Dunbar told BBC Scotland.
"You do all the hard work to come to fitness, play a game and feel good then go on to the next game and you pick up something that means you can't lace the boots up for two weeks.
"But I feel good now. Hopefully it lasts."
Dunbar played the first half of Glasgow's victory over Cardiff Blues on Sunday but was withdrawn at half-time by head coach Gregor Townsend, who told the media it was a decision made after discussions with the Scotland coaching team.
Vern Cotter called Dunbar into the national squad the following day and he is now in contention to face France.
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"You never know," a smiling Dunbar said. "I don't pick the team. I'd be in if I did!
"The games I've been back playing for Glasgow I've done all right. I feel good just now and fresh so if I get the chance then I'd jump on it."
Dunbar, who has 14 senior caps, has been analysing matches during his recuperation and hopes to add elements he has watched to his own game.
"You see bits and pieces from games and how certain teams play," he explained. "Some teams want to go out and attack and score tries while others are a bit more physical and the games are more of a tactical affair.
"Some bits you think you could add to your game. You've just got to go out in training and work on it.
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"There's a great buzz around the squad. Boys are laughing and joking and it's all pretty positive. Things are just a bit more relaxed and it takes the pressure off."
Assistant coach Nathan Hines says Scotland are focussed on their own game rather than developing a game-plan to combat the physicality of Sunday's visitors.
"We're obviously looking at what they do and what they've got the potential to do," he said.
"But most of the focus is on us and improving on what we did against Italy."


For years it has been more surprising when Ken Livingstone hasn't raised hackles than when he has.

That's why so many Labour MPs feared a miscalculation when their party's leader brought his old comrade back into the fold.
But his staggering comments today about Hitler and anti-Semitism crossed a line - they were enough for Jeremy Corbyn to suspend him.
But the problem for the leader doesn't end with that act.
No one believes that Jeremy Corbyn himself tolerates discrimination against Jews.
But on repeated occasions Labour has been slow and clumsy in closing down cases of anti-Semitism among its members when they emerge.
Any moments of delay or doubts about the leadership's determination, open the window a tiny crack to the kind of intolerance that the vast majority of the Labour Party, and indeed the public, find appalling.
Public denials that there is even a issue could make it even worse. Perhaps in politics as in normal life, the first step towards fixing a problem is acknowledging that it exists.
And with only a week before Jeremy Corbyn's first big test at the polls, In elections in London, Scotland, Wales, and al round England, it's the kind of mess, and political distraction Labour could do without.


A student accused of raping a drunken undergraduate laughed as he held her down "like a ragdoll" and attacked her, a court has heard.

Alistair Cooke, 22, who studied geography at Durham University, is alleged to have followed the woman home from a house party in June last year.
The third year student, from Perranarworthal, Truro, Cornwall, denies three counts of rape.
Durham Crown Court was told his accuser consented to sex.
The woman said she remembered Mr Cooke had his hands on her chest and that "he was laughing at me, he was hurting me, he was raping me".
She said: "I remember waking up and seeing him opening up a condom packet, I tried to sit up but he pushed me down like a ragdoll.
"I could not even stop this happening in my own house. I blamed myself so much, maybe if I had not drunk so much I could have stopped it."
During cross examination, defence barrister Cathy McCulloch told the woman: "You did participate in sex willingly and now you are just regretting it and this is a story of regret not rape.
"He sat next to you on the bed. You leaned up and started to kiss him as you had done at the party."
Ms McCulloch asked the woman why she did not go straight to the police and accused her of waiting six days so they would not have been able to test how much alcohol she had in her system.
The court has previously heard Mr Cooke was a volunteer with the Nightline student listening service and during his training he role-played being accused of raping a drunken woman after following her home.
The trial continues.


A man who raped two women and used pliers to rip out one of the victim's teeth has been jailed for 10 years and given a lifelong restriction order.

Donald Jeffrey was convicted of three rapes, a murder bid and four assaults against a woman between 2008 and 2014.
The 44-year-old, from Glasgow, was convicted of five offences on the other woman - two rapes, indecent assault and two assaults, between 1994 and 1998.
Jeffrey denied the crimes but was found guilty after his victims gave evidence.
Jailing him at the High Court in Paisley, judge Lord Matthews told Jeffrey: "You were found guilty of a catalogue of appalling offences against two vulnerable women who had the misfortune to be your partners.
"The relationships were characterised by jealousy, serious violence and rape.
"You dominated the lives of these women and subjected them to extreme emotional and physical cruelty as well as sexual aggression."
The judge added: "It is obvious you are a very dangerous man and it is my duty to protect the public from you for as long as you are able to lift a finger, I propose therefore to make an order for lifelong restriction."
The order imposed means Jeffrey will be supervised for the rest of his life.
During his trial, Jeffrey's 47-year-old victim said that during one attack he pulled her teeth out with pliers then made her pose in front of a mirror.
He also repeatedly raped her, tried to drown her in a freezing bath and threatened to throw her out of a 17th-floor flat window.
The victim said: "He had me over his shoulder. He opened the window, I was screaming. But, then he dropped me beside the window."
She also recalled how Jeffrey dropped heavy dumb-bells onto her body after demanding she lie on the ground.
The woman never spoke to police about the abuse until last year after which an investigation uncovered Jeffrey's victimisation of another woman.
The 44-year-old woman who was raped and battered by Jeffrey recalled in court how he once smashed her arm with a martial arts weapon while she was heavily pregnant.
She also told how he hit a young boy who was living at her house with a belt, then made her do the same.
She said: "I felt sick. It should not have happened, but I felt it was the only way to stop it at the time."
The jury heard after the guilty verdicts that Jeffrey already had three high court convictions.
He was previously jailed for robbery, firearms offences and drug crimes.


A health boss previously criticised for her treatment of whistleblowers who had concerns of nepotism has been suspended over "financial allegations".

London's St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said the claims against acting chief executive Paula Vasco-Knight related to a previous employer.
Dr Vasco-Knight was suspended from Torbay Hospital in 2014, accused of recruiting her daughter's boyfriend.
She resigned in May 2014.
Dr Paula Vasco-Knight has been acting chief executive at St George's for two weeks.
The trust said: "The trust board has asked the medical director, Professor Simon Mackenzie, to fill Dr Vasco-Knight's role.
"The allegations are financial in nature and relate to her work at a previous employer.
"The trust is not in a position to comment further at this stage."
A spokeswoman for Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust told BBC News: "So far as we are aware these allegations do not relate to any previous role held at South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust."
Dr Vasco-Knight was the chief executive of Torbay Hospital but, in January 2014, a tribunal found Claire Sardari and Penny Gates had been victimised as a result of whistle-blowing about their concerns.
In May 2014, the then South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust said she had decided to relocate to the north-west of England for "family reasons".
Jonathan Wood, director of finance at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, where Dr Vasco-Knight worked as a consultant for a year until July last year, said: "The Trust was satisfied with the work she carried out.
"The allegations do not relate to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust."
Dr Vasco-Knight is yet to comment.


England continued their run of being the only side with a 100% record in qualifying for Euro 2016 with victory over Estonia.

Everton midfielder Ross Barkley impressed in the middle of the park for the hosts, striker Harry Kane failed to score, while defender Gary Cahill captained England for the first time.
So how did England's players fare overall? Chief football writer Phil McNulty runs the rule over those on duty.
Barely in action. Has had plenty of quiet matches in this Euro 2016 campaign - might have been a night for Jack Butland to get a taste of the action.
Had plenty of time to get forward and deliver some crosses but actually had a fairly quiet game. Barely needed defensively.
Useful outing for the Southampton defender but very much down the pecking order of England left-backs. Competent.
Not much to do but elegant on the ball and one excellent clearance that could easily have been an own goal with poor technique.
Solid in defence but once again a night where he was never fully tested by an average Estonia side.
Tireless as ever but restricted by his role as a holding midfield player. Hodgson's Mr Reliable.
A dazzling, unpredictable talent. Still has flaws in decision-making but a real England game-changer and superb pass for Theo Walcott's goal.
Busy without making a serious impact on the game. Did not do enough to suggest he will be a starter when it matters.
Good night for the Arsenal striker as he got on the scoresheet. An increasingly reliable performer and offers England pace and adaptability.
Quiet night for the Spurs striker but has proved before he can get goals for England.
Good performance. Busy and showed real pace. Good for his confidence to get on the scoresheet with a simple late finish.
Very quiet cameo.
No rating but on long enough to set Sterling's goal up with a very unselfish pass.
A pointless substitution on Alli's debut.


One of Brazil's best-loved television actors, Domingos Montagner, has drowned in a river where the crew had been recording scenes for the country's most popular soap opera.

Montagner played the leading role in Velho Chico, a soap opera named after the Sao Francisco river where he died.
The 54-year-old had gone for a swim with an actress after a day of shooting in the north-eastern state of Sergipe.
She said he was dragged away by the river's strong currents.
The actress, Camila Pitanga, cried for help but local people failed to act initially as they believed the drowning was a scene in the soap opera.
Authorities said there was little that anyone could have done.
In the soap opera, Montagner played a farmer who often fought off local gunmen. In one of those clashes, he was shot multiple times and appeared to drown in the same Sao Francisco river, but reappeared weeks later.
"They thought they had chosen a safe spot to swim, but that is one of the most dangerous areas in the town of Caninde and usually avoided by locals," police chief Antonio Francisco Filho told O Globo.
One person, on average, has drowned every year in the town since 2005, reports said.
Four hours after the incident, rescue teams found Montagner's body underwater, some 300 metres (984ft) from where he drowned.
Montagner was born in Sao Paulo and had a career in the circus before becoming a television actor, in 2008.
This was his 12th role on TV. His first significant soap opera role was in 2011, and he had his film debut in 2012.
Montagner had been married for 14 years to actress Luciana Lima, with whom he had three children.
The news of his death has caused commotion in Brazil, where fellow actors and social media users have paid tributes to the actor.
The football team he supported, Corinthians, praised him also for his success as a handball player for the club's affiliate in the 1980s.
His latest film, Um Namorado Para Minha Mulher (A Boyfriend For My Wife), was released two weeks ago.


Dissident artist Ai Weiwei says that he would like to travel abroad but Chinese authorities are continuing to curtail his freedom despite his bail ending.

Mr Ai told the BBC he had been told he could not leave China - which was very "disappointing".
He also spoke of constant surveillance in the year since his release from detention.
He was detained last year and then fined for tax evasion, actions he says are politically motivated.
He is challenging the $2.4m (£1.59m) fine but was prevented from attending a court hearing earlier this week.
His bail ended a year after his 22 June 2011 release from custody, but Mr Ai said he was still subject to restrictions.
"My feelings are very mixed," he said. "They told me I cannot leave the nation. I asked them for how long and they said: 'We cannot answer you'. It seems very disappointing."
The artist said he would like to go to both the UK and the US later in the year for work, but did not know whether it would be possible.
"It comes as a surprise they will not let me travel, because you cannot give somebody freedom and say there are strings attached," he said.
He said that for the past year he had been living under restrictions which he described as "sometimes very strong", including not being allowed to talk to foreign press or post on Twitter.
"Of course, I have violated many of them because it is impossible for me not to reveal some truth," he said.
"I have been followed, even in the park... You see people hiding behind the bushes, you see they are recording, video tape," he said.
"You see them following you everywhere, two cars, three cars, every day for past 300-something days... Then of course they tap your phone, they check your e-mail, they do whatever is possible to violate your privacy."
The artist said he is now being investigated for alleged crimes including putting pornography on the internet - believed to stem from a portrait showing him seated, surrounded by four naked women.
The artist, an outspoken critic of the government, was detained for almost three months without charge last year. After he was released, he was accused of tax evasion and the fine imposed.


Middlesex captain James Franklin stood by the contrived declaration which helped his side beat Yorkshire at Lord's and win the County Championship.

With the winners taking the title and a draw making Somerset champions, Yorkshire were set 240 off 40 overs after discussions between the captains.
Middlesex slogged 120 off 8.5 overs and then bowled Yorkshire out for 178.
"Both teams felt we owed it to the occasion to try to make a good game of it," Franklin told BBC Sport.
Somerset, who were top of the table at the start of Friday's play after beating relegated Nottinghamshire inside three days, needed their two title rivals to draw to win the County Championship for the first time.
And the decision to set up a Yorkshire run chase meant the title winners were likely to come from the game at Lord's, with Somerset watching on helplessly on television at Taunton.
Somerset opener Marcus Trescothick told Sky Sports: "Both teams wanted to win and you can understand it - they're going to try to win at all costs.
"We're all pretty disappointed because it was heading in a certain direction. It's fairly tough."
The decision to allow the hosts to score quickly before declaring was criticised by some, but Franklin said both teams put everything on the line to go for victory.
The 35-year-old said: "We were still under the pump going into Friday's play but Nick Gubbins (93) and Dawid Malan (116) batted beautifully and forced the hand to start discussions.
"To have the best chance of winning, there would have to be a bit of give and take and each side had to be prepared to lose.
"I take my hat off to Yorkshire for committing to that because we were committed to it. If [Yorkshire captain] Andrew Gale was holding the trophy now, our guys would have walked off with their heads held high. We're very fortunate that we are on the winning side."
Toby Roland-Jones wrapped up Middlesex's first title success for 23 years with a hat-trick.
He was part of the side which inflicted Yorkshire's only defeat of 2015 but it was not enough to stop them from winning a second successive Division One crown, with Middlesex finishing second.
"We said to ourselves we didn't want to watch them lift the trophy at Lord's again this year when we played them here for the last game," said the 28-year-old seamer.
"Winning in the manner we did is an unreal feeling, it's what I have dreamed of since I joined the club."
Yorkshire were unable to give head coach Jason Gillespie a victorious send-off - he is leaving the club after five years in charge to return to his native Australia.
The former Australia paceman led Yorkshire to promotion from Division Two in 2012 and back-to-back Division One titles in 2014 and 2015.
"I'm very disappointed to lose the game, but I am incredibly proud of our players," Gillespie said.
"I'm going to miss them a huge amount and I'm no longer a coach, but a Yorkshire supporter now."
Meanwhile, Yorkshire skipper Gale said it was an achievement to have still been in contention on the final day.
Batsman Gale managed just 525 runs at an average of 21 this season, with his side's top order in particular failing to fire on a number of occasions.
"We probably haven't played our best cricket but to take it to the last hour of the season is incredible," he said.
"I'm disappointed not to get over the line. I thought 240 was maybe a few too many but a longer chase would be better for us.
"We just needed one man to make 100 but it wasn't to be and I'm gutted that I can't send Gillespie out with a trophy."


Actor Jamie Bell's casting in a new film was partly due to his links to the ancient tribe his character represents, the movie's director has said.

Bell plays slave Esca in The Eagle, which opens in UK cinemas this month.
Director Kevin MacDonald said Esca's tribe, the Brigantes, once lived in the actor's native north of England.
Scotsman MacDonald joked on BBC Radio Scotland's Movie Cafe that Bell was typecast as a Brigante in the Roman Legion film because of the connection.
The director, who grew up near Loch Lomond, said the decision to cast an American in the lead role as Roman soldier Marcus Aquila was also deliberate.
He said Hollywood films of the 1930s and 40s cast English actors as Romans, drawing a link with the British Empire while Americans were given roles as freedom fighters.
MacDonald said: "It made sense back in the 30s, but who is the empire of the world today? The empire is Amercia. It is culturally dominant."
The director said Channing Tatum, who plays Aquila, also had the look of a "marine, or GI in a small fort" in Afghanistan's Helmand Province.
The Eagle also stars Donald Sutherland and Mark Strong and is an adaption of a book by Rosemary Sutcliff about the mystery of the missing Ninth Legion.
Some of the scenes were shot around Achiltibuie and Old Dornie, near Ullapool. Locals also had roles as extras.


Ukraine has halted the movement of all goods in and out of areas seized by pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country.

The move was announced after an urgent meeting of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council in Kiev.
It follows weeks of unofficial action by war veterans and activists, who have been blocking roads and rail lines.
The blockade is hugely damaging to industry in the rebel-held east - but also to the wider Ukrainian economy.
On Wednesday, the council said it decided to act because of a "sharp escalation of Russia's aggression against Ukraine and the seizure of Ukrainian businesses" by the rebels in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
It said the decision would remain in force until the separatists handed back control of the businesses and also complied with the 2015 peace agreements signed in Minsk.
War veterans, activists and some lawmakers had for weeks demanded that all transport links with the rebels be cut, describing any business activity with the east as "trade in blood".
The veterans had also repeatedly clashed with police sent to dismantle makeshift blockade points.
The unofficial blockade has cut off vital links between industrial plants on either side of the conflict's frontline.
As a result, operations at several steel and coal plants on the separatist side have been suspended.
The blockade also puts at risk Ukraine's energy supply.
Ukraine is dependent on anthracite from the rebel-held areas, while Donetsk and Luhansk need coke produced in Ukraine's government-controlled regions.
Earlier this week, rebel leaders announced that they started shipping coal to Russia.
More than 10,000 people have died since the Russian-backed rebels seized parts of the Donetsk and the Luhansk region in April 2014, triggering clashes with Ukrainian forces.
In March 2014, Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula.


A teenage boy has been charged after a shotgun and ammunition were seized at a Warwickshire school.

He has been charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition with intention to endanger life and possession of an article with a blade on school premises.
Police arrested the boy after being called to Higham Lane School in Nuneaton on Tuesday.
The boy, from Nuneaton, will appear at Warwickshire Magistrates' Court later.
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In a statement on the school's website, head teacher Phil Kelly assured parents the school "will continue to be vigilant and will take all necessary precautions to ensure our children's safety".
"The safeguarding of our students is our priority and we dealt with this matter swiftly with Warwickshire Police," he said.


A body found at the side of a road in Lincolnshire is believed to be a pensioner who has been missing since before Christmas.

Jack Foster, known as Derek, from Long Bennington, disappeared after a hospital appointment on 23 December.
A body, which police believe to be the 83-year-old, was found on a verge of the A1 near the turn-off for Foston and Allingham on Tuesday.
Police said the death is not being treated as suspicious.
Mr Foster's next of kin have been informed and a post-mortem examination is expected to be carried out in the next few days, a force spokesman said.
He had last been seen at Grantham bus station but police said it was not known if he had got on a bus.


Details have been emerging of the plan by billionaire entrepreneurs to mine asteroids for their resources.

The multi-million-dollar plan would use robotic spacecraft to squeeze chemical components of fuel and minerals such as platinum and gold out of the rocks.
The founders include film director and explorer James Cameron as well as Google's chief executive Larry Page and its executive chairman Eric Schmidt.
They even aim to create a fuel depot in space by 2020.
However, several scientists have responded with scepticism, calling the plan daring, difficult and highly expensive.
They struggle to see how it could be cost-effective, even with platinum and gold worth nearly Â£35 per gram ($1,600 an ounce). An upcoming Nasa mission to return just 60g (two ounces) of material from an asteroid to Earth will cost about $1bn.
The inaugural step, to be achieved in the next 18 to 24 months, would be launching the first in a series of private telescopes that would search for asteroid targets rich in resources. The intention will be to open deep-space exploration to private industry.
Within five to 10 years, however, the company expects to progress from selling observation platforms in orbit around Earth to prospecting services. It plans to tap some of the thousands of asteroids that pass relatively close to Earth and extract their raw materials.
The company, known as Planetary Resources, is also backed by space tourism pioneer Eric Anderson, X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis, Ross Perot Jr, son of the former US presidential candidate, and veteran astronaut Tom Jones.
"We have a long view. We're not expecting this company to be an overnight financial home run. This is going to take time," Eric Anderson told the Reuters news agency.
The billionaires are hoping that the real financial returns, which are decades away, will come from mining asteroids for platinum group metals and rare minerals.
"If you look back historically at what has caused humanity to make its largest investments in exploration and in transportation, it has been going after resources, whether it's the Europeans going after the spice routes or the American settlers looking toward the west for gold, oil, timber or land," Mr Diamandis explained.
Water from asteroids could be broken down in space to liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen for rocket fuel. Water is very expensive to get off the ground so the plan is to take it from an asteroid to a spot in space where it can be converted into fuel.
From there, it could be shipped to Earth orbit for refueling commercial satellites or spacecraft.
"A depot within a decade seems incredible. I hope there will be someone to use it," Dr Andrew Cheng, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory told the Associated Press.
"And I have high hopes that commercial uses of space will become profitable beyond Earth orbit. Maybe the time has come."
Prof Jay Melosh from Purdue University said that the costs were just too high, calling space exploration "a sport that only wealthy nations, and those wishing to demonstrate their technical prowess, can afford to indulge."
Eric Anderson, who co-founded the space tourism firm Space Adventures, said he was used to sceptics.
"Before we started launching people into space as private citizens, people thought that was a pie-in-the-sky idea," He said.
"We're in this for decades. But it's not a charity. And we'll make money from the beginning."


A swathe of emails from the inbox of Ashley Madison's chief executive is now being scoured by a variety of security experts and journalists.

The 30 gigabyte dump of stolen data appears to include nearly 200,000 emails belonging to Noel Biderman.
Some experts have decided not to view the contents, but certain details are being distributed via Twitter.
There has also been more fallout from the release of an earlier batch of data including Ashley Madison user emails.
TrustedSec, a US security firm, has published a blog in which it verifies the basic details of the email data, released last week.
The company says the files amount to 30 gigabytes' worth and regard 6,800 unique senders and 3,600 unique recipients.
The veracity of the most recent data dump has also been confirmed by Norwegian security researcher Per Thorsheim, who was able to decompress the files.
"I saw one email or two emails and I could verify the sender, the recipient, the domains and everything so it has to be an email from the CEO's mailbox," he told the BBC.
"There's no doubt about that."
However, Mr Thorsheim says that beyond verifying that the dump is real, he is not interested in reading the contents of the emails.
Speaking to the BBC, the security firm hired by Ashley Madison to investigate the hack said it appeared to have been carried out through unusual means.
"I can say that unlike many similar attacks, where a remote attacker has been able to use a security vulnerability such as an SQL [programming language] injection in order to dump data directly, that was not the case here," said Joel Eriksson, a security expert at Cycura.
The Motherboard news site has published excerpts of several of the emails, which appear to contain discussions around Ashley Madison's security policy.
"This hack affects potentially millions of people," journalist Joseph Cox told the BBC.
"The massive email dump, which appears to be legitimate, gives some insight into what those who were in charge of the site really thought about security."
One screenshot of the emails published by Motherboard reveals one employee's suggestion that news of a different social networking site being hacked could be "used as a PR spin".
Meanwhile, users who have been linked to Ashley Madison by email addresses found in an earlier release of data have been the subject of uninvited scrutiny.
Troy Hunt, who has been blogging about the implications of the hack, has described the case of church leader (who he chose not to identify) who had contacted a member of their own congregation, whose email address was linked to an Ashley Madison account.
Hunt says that he has also received a "huge number of enquiries" from worried individuals who are concerned that they may be associated with Ashley Madison, whether or not they have actually created an account on the website themselves.
"People are desperate to get the data," he told the BBC.
"They're resorting to things that could get them into hot water, like trying to download the data themselves.
"I don't think it's right for the individuals in the Ashley Madison database to have their personal lives put on display," he added. "Very often these people are entirely innocent."
Mr Hunt and others have warned that users may be the subject of blackmail and extortion attempts.
Indeed, security blogger Brian Krebs reported last week that spam emails demanding Bitcoin payments were targeting email addresses found in the Ashley Madison data.
Although the implications of the data's release are still to be determined, some commentators are already pointing out that they could be far-reaching.
Two law firms have launched a class action lawsuit against Ashley Madison in recent days, and it is possible that the plaintiffs would seek to use information from the chief executive's leaked emails to help build a case, according to Mark Watts, head of data protection at London law firm Bristows.
"If the emails sent to/from the CEO are relevant to the case (ie to the class action) then I suspect that the lawyers involved would seek to rely upon them if they are helpful to the case," he told the BBC.
Watts explained that even though the emails have been obtained illegally, any relevant correspondence to the case would probably have been discovered later anyway as part of the legal process.
"Essentially, the claimants' lawyers would just be getting them early," he said.


A body found in woodland in East Dunbartonshire is believed to be that of a missing man, police have said.

Matthew Bowie, 83, was last seen by a neighbour outside his home in Gleneagles Gardens, Bishopbriggs, on the morning of Sunday 24 January.
His family had made a public appeal for help in tracing him on Monday.
Police said the family had been informed that a body, believed to be Mr Bowie's, had been found in a wooded area in Bishopbriggs at about 10:00.


Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has explained why he attended the Confederation of African Football awards on Thursday in casual clothes.

Aubameyang drew criticism on Twitter for wearing a sports cap and t-shirt.
"When you arrive for the ceremony.... and they lost our baggage!! So that's how we dress tonight. Thanks Lufthansa," he wrote on Instagram.
Fellow player of the year nominees Riyad Mahrez, who won, and Sadio Mane were dressed in formal suits.
Leicester winger Mahrez became the first Algerian and first North African to win the award since it began in 1992.
Borussia Dortmund striker Aubameyang was runner-up with Senegal and Liverpool striker Mane third.
Caf spokesman Junior Binyam added: "Aubameyang only arrived at the Hilton Hotel in Abuja an hour before the event without his bags, as they were missing in transit. That was why he dressed that way."


Northern Ireland's most senior police office has said he is saddened by the death of a prison officer days after a bomb attack in east Belfast but said he will not make assumptions about what caused his death.

15 March 2016 Last updated at 16:40 GMT
PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton told the BBC Adrian Ismay suffered "horrendous injuries" when the booby-trap device exploded under his van on 4 March but said police will await the results of a post-mortem before deciding if his death was due to the bomb.


A huge collection of jewellery that once belonged to the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos, is to be sold at auction.

It was seized by the government when her husband, Ferdinand Marcos, was overthrown in 1986.
The jewellery has been valued at more than $21m (Â£14.5m).
The authorities are rushing to sell the jewels in case the couple's son, Ferdinand Marcos Junior, becomes vice-president in elections in May.
Officials fear he would then stop the auction.
Mrs Marcos had tried to prevent the sale.
What happened to the Marcos millions?
The family and associates are estimated to have amassed more than $10bn (Â£6.1bn) in property, jewellery, cash and other assets during their time in power.
Mrs Marcos has consistently denied embezzlement.
She was found guilty on corruption charges in the mid-1990s and sentenced to a minimum of 12 years in prison, but the conviction was overturned on appeal.
In 2014 some artworks in her possession were taken away by the authorities, who said she had acquired them with state funds.
Mrs Marcos lived a lavish lifestyle during her husband's 21-year rule. She is best known for amassing a huge collection of designer shoes during the family's tenure in power
After the coup that overthrew Mr Marcos, hundreds of millions of pounds were recovered from his bank account in Switzerland and later awarded to the government.


One person was killed when four cars and a lorry crashed on the M42 near Redditch and Bromsgrove.

Three of the cars went up in flames after the smash on the southbound junction of the motorway last night.
One woman was pulled from a flaming car by an off-duty paramedic who ran to her aid.
A 52-year-old man from Exmouth, Devon, has been arrested on suspicion of death by dangerous driving, police say. He remains in police custody.
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The person who was killed has not yet been identified by police who are appealing for witnesses.
West Midlands Ambulance Service received a 999 call to the M42, between junctions one and two, at 20.55 BST and sent two ambulances and two paramedic officers to the scene.
Three of the cars were described as being "well alight" when crews arrived.
The injuries of one occupant were fatal.
An ambulance service spokesman said: "Unfortunately, it immediately became apparent nothing could be done to save them and they were confirmed deceased."
Of another patient, the service said: "An off-duty technician, who was in traffic just behind the accident, immediately went to assist upon seeing the collision and with the help of bystanders, managed to pull a woman from one of the burning cars."
The woman, said to be in her 70s, was treated for minor burns and an arm injury and taken to hospital.
The spokesman added: "The quick-thinking actions of those who rescued the woman undoubtedly saved her from suffering far more significant injuries."
The driver of the car - a man also believed to be in his 70s - had got out of the car and was treated for minor injuries.
The male driver of another car was treated for a knee injury and taken to hospital.
Four other patients, including the driver of the lorry, were assessed and discharged at the scene with minor or no injuries, the ambulance service said.
A police spokesman said: "A criminal investigation has commenced, with forensic reconstruction currently taking place."
The crash caused major delays on the southbound motorway.


A Scottish woman is celebrating becoming a millionaire after scooping a £2.5m jackpot in an online casino game.

The single mother won the cash just three months after netting £30,000 with the same bookmaker.
William Hill said the latest prize was the largest ever won by one of its customers.
The woman, who lives on an island in the north of Scotland and works in a school, described the accumulated jackpot win as "surreal".
She has asked to remain anonymous.
She has booked a trip to Disneyworld for herself and her seven-year-old son but has no idea what she will do with the rest of her winnings.
"I was washing the dishes this morning and thought to myself - 'no matter how much money you have, you still have to wash the dishes,' she said.
"It is all still so surreal. You obviously play these games, hoping to win a couple of quid, not a couple of million. I'm still stunned."
The woman won a total of £2.558m on The Festival of Lights Vegas game.
A spokesman for William Hill said: "This, by our reckoning is the biggest sum that a William Hill customer has ever won. It is an incredible, life changing sum of money."


Dennis the Menace's dog Gnasher has been microchipped in the latest issue of the Beano as part of a campaign to get other dog owners to do the same.

New rules mean that all dog owners in England and Wales will soon have to microchip their pets and the Dogs Trust has been working with the famous comic to encourage people to get theirs done for free.
The microchips are used to identify animals if they get lost or stolen and include the animal's name, address and owner's contact details.
The chips are put under the animal's skin painlessly and are less likely to get lost than a collar.
New laws will come into force in Wales in 2015 and England in 2016 making it compulsory. The Scottish Government has yet to announce its plans.
Microchipping can help to reduce the number of stray and abandoned dogs.
Over 10,000 dogs were reunited with their owners this year.
The comic, which has run for 76 years, often sees Gnasher causing trouble in Beanotown.
This week's strip sees the the famous dog visit the Dogs Trust Beanotown rehoming centre where he gets his chip.


Iraqi forces have reached the besieged town of Amerli in northern Iraq, where thousands have been trapped by jihadists, military officials say.

The apparent breakthrough came amid fresh US air strikes on Islamic State (IS) positions. Fifteen IS fighters are said to have been captured.
The UK, France and Australia joined the US in dropping humanitarian aid.
Some 15,000 minority Shia Turkmen in Amerli have been surrounded by Islamic State militants for two months.
Military sources told the BBC's Jim Muir, who is a few miles from Amerli, that the Iraqi Army and volunteer militia entered the town on Sunday and had broken the siege.
However Amerli remains dangerous because of roadside bombs left behind by IS militants, our correspondent says.
No-one here seems to be in any doubt that the combination of forces backed up by Iraqi government air power has in fact broken the siege.
There is a lot of celebration here, including gunfire. We cannot go into the town yet as the Islamists have left lots of booby traps and bombs.
The situation inside is said to be dire because Amerli has been cut off for two months.
However, what we're told from recent figures is that the number of civilians there is much fewer than thought. We were told 15-16,000, but now perhaps 2,500 remain. Many of those are now fighters, having taken up arms.
So there might not be as many desperately needy people as first thought.
The US military confirmed it had carried out two further air strikes on Sunday. One was near the Mosul Dam and had destroyed an IS armed vehicle. The other was near Amerli, where an IS tank was damaged.
The strikes brought the overall total by US Central Command across Iraq to 120.
Earlier, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that his government would join other Western countries in arming the Kurds - sending rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and assault rifle ammunition.
"None of us want to get involved in another Middle Eastern war, but it is important to do what reasonably can be done to avert potential genocide," Mr Abbott said.
The operation to reach Amerli began on Saturday when an alliance of Iraq government forces, Shia militias and Kurdish Peshmerga began a two-front attack on IS positions.
US and Iraqi planes provided air cover overnight.
Reports described it as the biggest military operation since IS began making major gains in Iraq in June.
"Security forces and militia fighters are inside Amerli now after breaking the siege and that will definitely relieve the suffering of residents," Adel al-Bayati, mayor of Amerli, told Reuters.
One resident of Amerli, Amir Ismael, told Reuters by phone: "I can see the tanks of the Iraqi army patrolling Amerli's street now. I'm very happy we got rid of the Islamic State terrorists who were threatening to slaughter us."
The UN had expressed fears there could be a massacre if IS took the town, which lies in Kurdish-controlled Iraq.
IS has been accused of atrocities in areas of Iraq and Syria under its control.
The jihadists see the Shia Turkmen in Amerli as apostates.
Islamic State has seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria in recent months, including Iraq's second city, Mosul.
Pledging allegiance to their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the jihadists have imposed a harsh form of Islamic rule in areas under their control.
The group has declared a new caliphate, or Islamic state ruled by a religious leader, and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has announced himself as caliph.
The IS ideology has attracted would-be jihadists from a number of Western nations, including the UK, and has spread its message aggressively on social media, often posting gruesome pictures of beheadings and mass killings.
The group responded to the US beginning air strikes against it by killing the American journalist James Foley.


Former England striker Teddy Sheringham held talks with Swindon Town on Thursday about the managerial vacancy at the League Two club.

The former Tottenham and Manchester United forward is one of several to have met officials from the club.
Sheringham, 51, had a spell in charge of League Two Stevenage in 2015-16 but was sacked after 33 games.
Swindon will start next season in League Two having been relegated last term after winning only 11 of 46 games.
Sheringham has been out of management since leaving Stevenage - his first managerial job - in February 2016 after winning just seven of his games as boss.
Previous Robins boss Luke Williams left his role soon after the club's relegation was confirmed, having won two of their final 11 league matches with him in charge.
Since then, Swindon have had an approach for Mansfield boss Steve Evans turned down, and on 23 May chairman Lee Power said although the process had taken longer than expected they had a three-person shortlist.
As part of structural changes at the County Ground, director of football Tim Sherwood's role appears likely to be scrapped.
Swindon won just seven of 31 games following former Tottenham and Aston Villa boss Sherwood's arrival in November 2016.


A new lifeboat is to be named after a former taxi driver who funded it with a £1m donation from compensation he received after medical blunders.

The Antony Patrick Jones will be the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's fastest lifeboat - capable of speeds twice that of their existing fleet.
Mr Jones died in 2002, leaving a £1m donation to the RNLI in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, in his will.
The craft will be housed in the town's new lifeboat station.
Mr Jones received compensation after mistakes during an operation left him paralysed and blind.
As well as the lifeboat charity, he left money to the RSPCA and the Riding for the Disabled Association when he died at the age of 46.
Richard Dunk, chairman of the Bridlington RNLI, said Mr Jones' interest in the charity was mainly through his late mother, Terri, who was a member of the station's fundraising guild.
Mr Dunk said: "It is very sad that Terri will not be here to witness the arrival of the new lifeboat named after her son, but she knew that we were all incredibly grateful for Antony's legacy, and that the new lifeboat will be a fitting and long-lasting tribute to his memory.'
Mr Jones' cousin, Jackie Powell, said she was proud his legacy would help to save lives at sea for "decades to come".
Work has begun on the new lifeboat station on Spa Promenade, which is to replace the old building on South Marine Drive.


Police in Thailand say they have seized methamphetamine pills worth almost $6m (4.5m euros, £3.8m) thought to be en route to the capital Bangkok.

The haul of nearly one million pills was discovered at a checkpoint in northern Chiang Rai province in the Golden Triangle region.
Packs of the drug, also known as crystal meth, were hidden in the roof of a pick-up truck.
The Golden Triangle is notorious for drug smuggling, particularly of opium.
Deputy provincial police chief Virat Sumanaphan told AFP news agency that the seized drugs had an estimated value of up to $6 (4.50 euros, £3.8) per pill.
Three men and a woman, all from neighbouring Chiang Mai province, were arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling.


The Duchess of Cambridge has carried out her first solo public engagement, at a preview of a new Lucian Freud exhibition in central London.

Kate met dignitaries and was walked round the show at the National Portrait Gallery, of which she is a patron.
St James's Palace has confirmed the duchess has also agreed to pose for a portrait for the gallery.
Prince William is currently deployed in the Falkland Islands as an RAF Search and Rescue co-pilot.
The duchess was taken around the exhibition - part of the countdown to the London 2012 Festival - by gallery director Sandy Nairne and exhibition curator Sarah Howgate.
Freud, one of Britain's most distinguished and highly-regarded artists, died last year at the age of 88.
Mr Nairne said: "The duchess was extremely attentive and I think really interested in not just the chance to see the full range of Lucian Freud's work but very interested to see the differences in technique.
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"Because the early work is very fine in particular and then of course the work changes and becomes much more painterly."
Kate has a history of art degree from the University of St Andrews, where she and William met in 2001.


A walker who broke his spine and shattered both legs after falling on Holy Island has thanked the Great North Air Ambulance who flew him to hospital.

Adrian Chadwick, 47, from Marton, Middlesbrough, fell from Lime Kilns last May.
He spent several weeks in hospital and had to wear a frame around his body for more than five months.
Mr Chadwick, a father-of-two, said it was like the "cavalry had arrived" when the air ambulance came.
He was anesthetised once aboard the helicopter and taken to Newcastle's Riyal Victoria Infirmary.
He was then transferred to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough after seven days.
Mr Chadwick said: "I'm still recovering now. My injuries are life-changing but it certainly isn't the end of the world.
"It has made me realise that you need to seize the moment as you never know what is around the corner."


Police have said the shooting of a police officer in north Belfast was 'reckless madness'.

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The attack happened near a petrol station on the Crumlin Road on Sunday night. The officer is in a stable condition in hospital.
Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said their main line of inquiry is "violent dissident republicans".


The sale of printed books will be outstripped by e-books by 2018, a new report by Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) has suggested.

It says the consumer e-book market - which excludes text books and professional manuals - will increase in value from £380 million to £1 billion.
At the same time, sales of printed books are forecast to fall by a third.
PwC said 50% of the UK population would own an iPad, Kobo, Kindle or similar e-reader device by 2018.
It added that 15.5 billion apps were expected to be downloaded in the UK in 2018.
The company's evaluation of the e-book market is at odds with the founder of the Waterstone's book shop who predicted the "e-book revolution" would soon go into decline.
Tim Waterstone told the Oxford Literary Festival in March  that "every indication - certainly from America - shows the [e-book] share is already in decline. The indications are that it will do exactly the same in the UK."
But Phil Stokes, an entertainment and media partner at PwC, said: "This growth is being driven by the internet and by consumers' love of new technology, particularly mobile technology."
The report went on to say that the UK's entertainment market is expected to be worth £64 billion by 2018.
Filmed entertainment, currently worth £3.9 billion will rise to £4.6 billion by 2018.
The market for video games is expected to reach £4.1 billion, with digital console games expected to overtake online games this year and mobile games in 2017.
Last year's best-selling e-book on Amazon - which has 79% of the UK market - was Dan Brown's Inferno.
Mr Stokes said. "The entertainment and media industry is at the forefront of the digital revolution, because so many of its products and services can already be delivered in digital form.
"It may not be long before digital revenues from print, film, publishing and music overtake physical revenues in some markets."


A much-loved hippopotamus called Gustavito has died after an unexplained attack over the weekend in the National Zoo of El Salvador.

The police are trying to establish who entered the animal's enclosure at night and brutally assaulted him.
Gustavito, 15, died from his injuries late on Sunday.
Officials have described it as a cowardly and inhumane attack on one of the most iconic animals at the city's zoo.
BBC Central America reporter Will Grant says that in a country where murder has long lost the capacity to shock, the extreme animal cruelty that claimed Gustavito's life has angered and upset all of El Salvador.
Unknown assailants entered the national zoo in San Salvador over the weekend and subjected the hippo to a sustained beating with what appears to have been sharp weapons and blunt tools.
The following morning, the zookeepers noticed Gustavito acting strangely, refusing to eat and unwilling to come out of the pool in his enclosure.
The zoo's veterinarians then found lacerations on the hippo's neck and face, and the animal clearly in great distress.
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Hippo calf takes to the water for the first time
His condition worsened on Sunday and he died late that night despite the efforts of the staff to save him.
The culture ministry in El Salvador has said an investigation is under way to find the attackers.
Meanwhile many Salvadorans have taken to social media to express their sadness and disgust at the case.
Many are calling for investigation into conditions at the zoo to determine how an attack of this nature could happen so easily, while on Twitter others have simply been posting: "Forgive us Gustavito".
The country has one of the highest murder rates in the world, the United Nations said last month. About 10 people a day have been murdered so far this year, with most of the violence caused by criminal gangs, known locally as maras, which operate across Central America.
El Salvador's criminal groups were formed initially in the streets of Los Angeles in the 1980s by children of Salvadoran migrants escaping the country's brutal civil war.
When the war ended in 1992 many of them returned home, taking the LA gang culture with them.


New York City authorities are dropping sexual assault charges against five teenagers after their accuser recanted her story.

The woman initially told police she was gang raped at gunpoint in a Brooklyn park on 7 January.
Police arrested five teens, but parts of the woman's story began to come under scrutiny as more details emerged.
Her father was said to have been chased off by the suspects, but it took him nearly 30 minutes to alert police.
The teenagers said the encounter was consensual. They told police when they entered the park they saw the woman and her father engaged in a sex act.
Prosecutor Kenneth Thompson said the 18-year-old woman provided "multiple inconsistent accounts" when detectives questioned her.
"That night, this young woman's father and the five young men engaged in conduct that was reprehensible and wrong, but because of the lack of reliable evidence, criminal charges simply cannot be sustained," Mr Thompson said.


The upcoming Sherlock special will be set in Victorian London, the show's co-creator, Steven Moffat, has confirmed.

Last year, the BBC released an image of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in character as the detective and his assistant in Victorian clothing.
It led fans to speculate whether the special would be set in the past, or if the pair were merely dressing up.
But Moffat told Entertainment Weekly it would be an historical adventure that stood alone from the main series.
"The special is its own thing. We wouldn't have done the story we're doing, and the way we're doing it, if we didn't have this special," he said.
"It's not part of the run of three episodes. So we had this to do it - as we could hardly conceal - it's Victorian."
Moffat added filming had been completed on the special and he was "very pleased" with the result.
The BBC has yet to confirm when it will be broadcast.
Meanwhile, Sherlock co-creator and star Mark Gatiss has said he based his character, Mycroft, on the British Labour Party politician Peter Mandelson.
"It was explicit even before I was going to play him," he told the Radio Times.
"Steven... and I talked about how Mandelsonian Mycroft was. Conan Doyle says Mycroft is the British government. He's the power behind the throne."
Gattiss is playing Mandelson for real in the new Channel 4 drama, Coalition, which airs on Thursday. 26 March.
The one-off special charts the turmoil that followed 2010's General Election, as the three main parties scrambled to form a coalition government.
It also stars Bertie Carvel as Nick Clegg, Ian Grieve as Gordon Brown and Mark Dexter as David Cameron.


Black actress Noma Dumezweni has been cast as Hermione Granger in the upcoming production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a move celebrated by fans who have long explored the concept of a black Hermione.

The announcement reignited a long-running debate about Hermione's race with many pointing out that the character's skin colour is never specified by author JK Rowling.
In the books, she is described more often by her personality traits than her physical appearance. She's clever and loyal and a valued friend.
Many people associate Hermione with Emma Watson who played her in the films. But some argue that it makes sense for Hermione to be black because of the challenges she goes through.
The character fights a constant battle against prejudice because she was born to non-wizarding parents.  This casts her as an outsider in a world where wizards of "pure" blood are seen by some to be superior, and "mudbloods" like Hermione are looked down upon.
Online, Art by Harry Potter fans depicting Hermione as black or non-white has been circulating on sites like Tumblr for a while.
Representations of other well known characters in film and literature as a race they are not typically associated with are also popular. It's known as "racebending".
Marianne Khalil is one artist who decided to draw Hermione as black. She says she originally did it as a gift for a friend but "because Hermione is never explicitly stated to be white in the text, there's an opportunity to create representation where there wasn't previously."
"It's important that Hermione can be read as a woman of colour, and all of these artworks depicting her as such are reclaiming that for the people who lost representation to the films."
Writer Chantell Monique describes herself as a dedicated enthusiast of Harry Potter. She says it wasn't a surprise to see Hermione cast as a black actress.
"I was just like 'of course she'd be black'."
But she says challenging the norm is important. "Seeing the actress for me is like coming home. There's a comfort to it that I didn't even realise."
"I've always connected to Hermione but having her look like me, or my mother, or my aunt is amazing."
Cousins Robyn Jordan and Bayana Davis run a website called Black Girls Nerd Out. It centres on identity in fan culture and explores how identity is portrayed.
They say this announcement is definitely something to be celebrated.
They've both been Harry Potter fans since they were children. While they both could, and did, identify with Hermione, they always saw her as white.
Bayana says it's great now to literally be able to see herself in the character.
"So much media out there that reinforces the idea that white people can be anything and do anything and we don't get that as much for black characters and black people."
Robyn added "Moving away from the fact that a character default is white is important. Representation in general is a big deal."
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas is an assistant professor specializing in children's literature at the University of Pennsylvania. In the past, she has written some of her own Potter fan fiction.
She says she cried when she saw the casting. For her, this is revolutionary.
"What this signals is that race doesn't necessarily have to be the defining characteristic of a human being. What is essential about Hermione is not her skin tone, what's essential about her is that she's smart."
Thomas says she's noticing a definite shift towards what she calls colour blind casting.
The Broadway musical Hamilton, based on the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton, is a great example, says Thomas.
Actor Lin-Manuel Miranda currently plays the lead role. He is of Puerto Rican descent.
Thomas says depicting one of America's founding fathers as anything other than white would have been difficult until recently.
"In a world where Alexander Hamilton can be Puerto Rican then why can't Hermione be black?"


The family of the late former Australian cricket captain and legendary cricket commentator Richie Benaud has rejected Australian PM Tony Abbott's proposal for a state funeral.

His widow Daphne phoned the PM's office on Saturday to "kindly decline" the offer, Mr Abbott said.
The commentator himself had wished for "something very, very quiet and very, very private", he added.
Benaud, 84, is said to have died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday.
He will be remembered in a private funeral attended only by his immediate family, Australian media reported.
Mr Abbott told reporters on Sunday: "I thought it was important that as a mark of the respect that we have long had for him that we should offer a state funeral.
"But my understanding is that Richie's own wishes were for something very, very quiet, and something very, very private."
A pioneering leg-spin bowler, Benaud played in 63 Tests, 28 as captain, before retiring in 1964 to pursue a career in journalism and broadcasting including a long association with the BBC.
His final commentary in England came during the 2005 Ashes series, but he continued to work for Channel Nine in Australia until 2013.
Cricket Australia chairman Wally Edwards described Benaud as "the iconic voice of our summer".


A lifetime's collection of hundreds of diving helmets and equipment has fetched £476,000 at auction.

Anthony and Yvonne Pardoe travelled round the world collecting the items which date from the 1900s to the 1950s.
Buyers from the US, Israel and Holland attended the auction at Bearnes, Hampton and Littlewood, Exeter.
It was thought to be "the fourth largest collection in the world" director Christopher Hampton said.
A US Navy Helium diving helmet took top price for a single item at £8,000, followed by an Italian helmet which took £7,200.
Auctioneer Brian Goodison-Blanks said: "When you start looking back and start thinking, 'well how did these guys actually go down with these diving helmets on', it looks incredible."
He said the colours and patterns of the helmets also sparked "that emotive Jules Verne feeling" in people and "just look wonderful".


Charlton Athletic have signed Queens Park Rangers left-back Yun Suk-Young on loan until the end of the season.

The 26-year-old South Korea international has featured just three times for the R's this season, with his last appearance coming on 28 November.
"Yun is a player that will bring us some of the experience that we need in our situation," Addicks boss Jose Riga told the club website.
"He knows the Championship and has a good knowledge of English football."
Suk-Young has scored one goal in 37 appearances for Rangers since joining from Chunnam Dragons in January 2013.
The Addicks, who are 23rd in the Championship and six points from safety, signed former Watford defender Marco Motta on Friday.
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German side Hertha Berlin await the winners of Hibernian's Europa League second qualifying round tie with Brondby.

Hibs trail Brondby 1-0 following Thursday's first leg at Easter Road, with the return leg in Denmark next Thursday.
Aberdeen, leading Latvians Ventspils 3-0, could face Maribor or Levski Sofia.
And Hearts, level at 0-0 with Birkirkara, will play Russian side Krasnodar if they progress.
Slovenians Maribor, who have knocked Hibs and Rangers out of the Europa League in recent years, recorded a goalless draw with Bulgarian outfit Levski Sofia on Thursday.
The first legs of the third qualifying round ties are provisionally scheduled for 28 July, with the second legs on 4 August.
The Europa League play-off round - the final knockout round before the group stage - follows the third qualifying round.


Two people have been arrested in connection with the death of a man in Sligo in the Republic of Ireland.

His body was found in an apartment at Holborn Street on Monday afternoon.
He was in his late 50s and lived alone. A man and woman, both in their 20s, were arrested on Monday night.
A post-mortem examination is due to be carried out later.


The world should find fairer ways of resettling Syrian refugees fleeing the war in their country, the new UN refugee agency chief has said.

Speaking during a visit to a refugee camp in Jordan, Filippo Grandi said the crisis "cannot only concern the countries neighbouring Syria".
Jordan is hosting 633,000 of the 4.39 million Syrians registered as refugees with the UN.
Many Syrian refugees are also sheltering in Turkey and Lebanon.
Hundreds of thousands of others have sought refuge in the European Union in recent years.
"I think we need to be much more ambitious'' about resettling refugees, Mr Grandi, an Italian diplomat, said at the Zaatari refugee camp.
"What is needed is a better sharing of responsibilities," he added.
His comments came as the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said the number of Syrians stranded on the Jordanian border had risen sharply to about 17,000 people.
Mr Grandi also said the UNHCR would organise a conference in Geneva in March to find host nations for Syrian refugees, after a fund-raising event in London planned for next month.
The Syrian conflict erupted in 2011 with mass protests against President Bashar al-Assad.
More than 230,000 people are estimated to have been killed since then.


At least eight people have died after a cement factory partially collapsed in Bangladesh, police say.

About 70 people were in the building in the port town of Mongla, 200km (125 miles) south-west of the capital Dhaka, when the roof gave way. The factory had been under construction.
More than 60 people were rescued and many were taken to hospital. Many had been working on the roof itself.
Bangladesh has a history of poor building safety standards.
The collapse of the Rana Plaza complex in Dhaka left more than 1,130 people dead in 2013. Most of them had worked in the garment industry.
The disaster was one of the world's worst industrial accidents.
In Mongla, rescue co-ordinator Mizamur Rahman told BBC Bengali that six bodies had so far been recovered.
Rescuers have seen two more bodies but have not said how many more workers remain missing.
The cement factory compound is army-owned but the construction work was being carried out by a Chinese-owned firm.
Survivors said dozens of the men had been working on the roof when it collapsed.
Footage broadcast on television in Bangladesh showed piles of scaffolding, metal and concrete at the bottom of the building.