Ukraine's interim President Olexander Turchynov has warned of the dangers of separatism following the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych.

His comments came amid continuing opposition in Ukraine's Russian-speaking regions to the new administration in Kiev.
The formation of a unity government has been delayed until Thursday.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Ukraine was not caught in a battle between East and West.
Speaking in Washington after talks with British Foreign Secretary William Hague, he said: "This is not a zero-sum game, it is not West versus East, it should not be, it is not Russia or the United States or other choices.
"This is about the people of Ukraine and Ukrainians making a choice about their future. We want to work with Russia, with other countries, with everybody available to make sure this is peaceful from this day forward."
Earlier there were reports that one of Mr Yanukovych's former aides, Andriy Kliuyev, had been shot and wounded.
Mr Kliuyev's car is said to have been attacked while he was travelling back to Kiev from the Crimea after tendering his resignation to the former president. A spokesman was quoted on local media as saying his life was not in danger.
Mr Kliuyev, the former head of the presidential administration, is said to have left Kiev with the president when he fled the capital at the weekend.
Addressing parliament, Mr Turchynov said he would meet law enforcement agencies to discuss the risk of separatism in regions with large ethnic Russian populations. Separatism was a "serious threat", he said.
The delay in announcing a unity government was to allow further consultations, Mr Turchynov said, adding that "a coalition of national faith must be elected".
Anyone held responsible for separatist moves should be punished, his press service quoted Mr Turchynov as saying in a later statement, Reuters news agency reports.
Parliament has now voted in favour of trying Mr Yanukovych at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The ex-president is accused of being behind the deaths of more than 100 protesters at the hands of the police, many of them shot by snipers.
The ICC is a court of last resort, our correspondent says - it will only try a case if the country concerned is genuinely unwilling or unable to do so.
In its resolution on trying Mr Yanukovych at the ICC, parliament said he had been involved in "serious crimes".
Maidan protesters stand their ground
MPs also want former Interior Minister Vitali Zakharchenko and former Prosecutor-General Viktor Pshonka tried.
Mr Yanukovych has been missing since last week. He was last reportedly seen on Sunday in Balaklava, on the Crimean peninsula. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
Russia has been vehemently opposed to the changes in Ukraine, with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev saying on Monday that those behind the new administration had conducted an "armed mutiny".
At a news conference in Moscow on Tuesday, Mr Lavrov warned other states against seeking "unilateral advantages" in Ukraine, but said Russia's "policy of non-intervention" would continue.
"It is dangerous and counterproductive to try to force on Ukraine a choice according to the principle of either being with us or against us," he said.
Mr Lavrov added that "it is in our interest for Ukraine to be part of the broad European family" but against Russia's interest to "allow the radicals and nationalists who are clearly trying to take centre stage to prevail."
One of the most prominent figures in the opposition, former heavyweight boxing champion, Vitali Klitschko, has confirmed that he will be a candidate in elections scheduled for 25 May.
A spokesman for former PM Yulia Tymoshenko, who was released from jail on Saturday, says she has not yet decided whether to run for the presidency.
In the eastern city of Kharkiv, where Mr Yanukovych has enjoyed support, the head of the regional state administration has said he will also be a presidential candidate.
Speaking on Kanal 5 TV, Mykhaylo Dobkin, gave as his reason "the fact that a total attack on the rights of the Russian-speaking population is under way, that laws are being adopted that threaten all those who do not accept fascism and Nazism".
Mr Kerry and Mr Hague met in Washington to discuss emergency financial assistance to Kiev.
The US has already said it is ready to give financial support to Ukraine to complement any future loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Further promised loans from Russia are looking increasingly unlikely.
The Ukrainian currency the hryvnia has fallen heavily against the US dollar.
EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton has held further talks in Kiev to discuss financial and political support for Ukraine's new leaders.
She urged the interim authorities to include Yanukovych supporters in any new government, adding: "Everyone I've spoken to here recognises the importance of this country sticking together. But we also know that there are big financial and economic challenges in the days, weeks and months ahead."
Senior US officials, including Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, will join EU officials in Kiev to participate in two days of meetings with political, business and civil society leaders.
Thousands of people remain in Kiev's Independence Square, the Maidan.
Unrest in Ukraine began in November when Mr Yanukovych rejected a landmark association and trade deal with the EU in favour of closer ties with Russia.


A man and woman have admitted killing a mother during a robbery at her Cardiff flat.

Kial Ahmed, 34, of Tongwynlais, pleaded guilty to murdering 38-year-old Nadia Jones, whose body was found at the property in Tremorfa on 11 September 2015.
Roxanne Deacon, 26, of Grangetown, denied murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter and robbery at Cardiff Crown Court.
They will be sentenced later in June.
The court heard the pair stole a quantity of Class A drugs and a roll of bank notes from Ms Jones's home.
Deacon was due to go on trial for murder but prosecutors accepted her plea to manslaughter on Wednesday.
Ahmed pleaded guilty to murder in April but his admission can only now be reported.
Judge Neil Bidder told the court: "This was a homicide killing which was committed in the course of a robbery.
"It was committed in order to steal drugs and cash from her."


British tennis player Dan Evans won an amazing victory over Marin Cilic in the Australian Open to secure his place in the third round.

The 26-year-old Brit lost the first set, but came back to win the next three
This is impressive as he is the third best player in Britain, while Marin Cilic is the 7th best in the whole world.
Last year in the same tournament, Dan Evans was knocked out in the first round, so he's done much better in the tournament this year.
Andy Murray also had a good day on the tennis court, as he beat 19-year-old Russian player Andrey Rublev in straight sets, meaning he is through to the third round too.
However, he gave his fans a scare in his match when he fell over - and it looked like he had badly hurt his ankle.
Thankfully, the world number one was okay. "It's just a little sore. It's not too serious," he said.
Dan Evans will play Australian Bernard Tomic next, while Andy Murray will face the American Sam Querrey.


Donald Trump's visit to Mexico on Wednesday is not without controversy, to say the least.

His successful bid for the US Republican presidential nomination came after claims Mexicans were "rapists" who dealt drugs - and criticism from Mexico's three most recent presidents.
He has also:
But the visit aims to bring him closer to Hispanic voters, and comes at the request of Mexico's president - so what phrases may prove useful to Mr Trump while he is there?
"Â¿Nos pueden devolver nuestros puestos de trabajo por favor?"
Odds Trump will say this: Unlikely
"Tengo muchos amigos mexicanos. Son los mejores mexicanos."
Odds Trump will say this: High
"Mi visita a Mexico me ha dejado impresionado y por tanto quisiera retractar todos mis comentarios previos."
Odds Trump will say this: Highly unlikely
"Ustedes van a pagar por este muro."
Odds Trump will say this: High
"Va a ser enoooooorme."
Odds Trump will say this: Huge
"Ya me canse, ese muro ahora lo vamos a hacer diez pies mas alto."
Odds Trump will say this: As high as the wall
"La corrupta de Hillary todavia no ha visitado Mexico."
Odds Trump will say this: Almost guaranteed
"Vamos a ganar en grande, creanme."
Odds Trump will say this: Polls are mixed
"Â¡Los mexicanos aman a Donald Trump!"
Odds Trump will say this: Extremely high


Michael Dunlop produced a blistering lap of 131.574mph on Wednesday to move to the top of the Superbike practice leaderboard at the Isle of Man TT.

Dunlop, 27, riding a Buildbase BMW, was almost seven seconds faster than fellow 11-times TT winner Ian Hutchinson.
Yorkshireman Hutchinson, 36, put in a stunning lap of 130.745 to lead the Superstock session.
Lee Johnston was the fastest Supersport rider on Wednesday but is only sixth overall in the class.
Northern Irishman Dunlop moved to the top of the Superbike charts on his third lap of the night which left him ahead of Tuesday's pacesetter Hutchinson, who marginally improved his best time of the week with a 130.691mph clocking.
John McGuinness produced his fastest lap of the week at 130.487 on his Honda to complete the top three in the Superbike class.
Manxman Conor Cummins slotted into fourth with an impressive 129.764 in almost perfect conditions.
Michael Rutter remains second in the Superstock class with an improved speed of 129.204 on Wednesday, with Dean Harrison third in the overall leaderboard for the week on 128.044.
New Zealander Bruce Anstey remains quickest in the Supersport class on the Padgett's Honda with the 124.508 lap he set on Tuesday evening.
Practice continues on Thursday evening, with the first race, the Superbikes, scheduled for Saturday at 11:00 BST.


Young black women in the UK are more likely than their white counterparts to develop "worse" breast cancer with a poorer prognosis, research suggests.

This group has larger, more aggressive tumours with a higher risk of recurrence.
This is despite having the same access to treatment, the study in the British Journal of Cancer shows.
As yet unidentified biological factors may be to blame, say the Cancer Research UK investigators.
Such women might respond less well to breast cancer drugs like tamoxifen because of the genetic make-up of their tumour, they say.
The research team, based at the University of Southampton, looked at data from nearly 3,000 UK women - of whom 118 were black - who were younger than 40 when they were diagnosed with breast cancer.
Even when individual differences such as body weight and treatment variations such as availability of chemotherapy were taken into account, black ethnicity remained an independent indicator of poor prognosis.
Dr Ellen Copson and colleagues say there have been similar findings in the US, suggesting this could be an international trend, but further research is needed to try to pin down the exact cause or causes.
Early diagnosis may also play a role if black women are less aware of the symptoms or less "breast aware", and so less likely to identify worrying changes, they say.
This could mean their cancer is diagnosed at a later stage which would reduce the chance of successful treatment and recovery.
Although NHS treatment is designed to be equal for all, some cultural factors such as recent immigration to the UK or language barriers may in practice affect use of health services, they say.
Dr Julie Sharp, Cancer Research UK's head of health information, said: "It's worrying that ethnic background may be a factor influencing a woman's chance of surviving breast cancer. We know that some ethnic populations carry higher genetic risks of getting certain types of breast cancer, but if this difference is down to symptom awareness or access to healthcare, that is particularly concerning.
"More research is needed to look into the reason why young black women have higher rates of recurrence, but in the meantime women of any ethnic background should be aware of what is normal for their breasts and get any new lumps or anything unusual checked out by their GP. More often than not breast changes won't mean cancer, but it's best to get any unusual changes checked out."


Microsoft has revealed details of the first voice-controlled speaker to be powered by its smart assistant Cortana.

A video shows a cylindrical product with a blue pulsating light, made by the audio specialist Harman Kardon.
The device resembles Amazon's rival Echo. It will also face competition from Google's Home speaker.
The video comes a week after Microsoft said it planned to bring Cortana to other smart home kit including thermostats, fridges and toasters.
However, the tie-up with Harman Kardon might be short-lived because the firm's parent company is in the process of being taken over by Samsung, which is working on a smart assistant of its own.
Cortana was originally developed for Windows smartphones before making its way to PCs.
But the decision to place it in a device that does not feature a screen may have come about only because of a gamble Amazon took two years ago.
When the shopping giant released the original Amazon Echo in November 2014, it was criticised for being an "unpolished novelty" that was likely to lack mainstream appeal.
But many other internet-based services added support for the device's Alexa platform, and although Amazon has not released sales figures, it is recognised as being a success.
"Smart speakers have been one of the surprises of the past couple of years, and it feels like we have reached a tipping point for natural-language interfaces," said Ben Wood from the tech consultancy CCS Insight.
"Previously, smart assistants on smartphones did not live up to expectations and had been a poor user experience, which most people abandoned.
"But Amazon proved that with the cloud and artificial intelligence assets it had, it could deliver a service people could see a real benefit from."
Amazon has since brought Alexa to several third-party products and Google has voiced its intention to do likewise with the assistant that controls the Home.
Many industry watchers are expecting next month's CES tech expo in Las Vegas to provide an indication of how well the two companies are faring at securing such tie-ups. Microsoft's entry into the market will intensify the competition.
The video indicates it aims to promote the new device as a "premium audio" option.
Microsoft is also likely to build on October's claim that its speech-recognition tech is now as good at recognising the words in conversational speech as a human.
"There will now be a battle of the big guns in the speech interface space," said Mr Wood.
"Amazon got the jump on everyone else but Google is highly motivated to get its software everywhere, and Microsoft has also put a stake in the ground.
"We'll now have to see what Apple does, because we're not ruling out it trying to offer Siri more broadly because it needs the scale that that offers."


The audience for BBC Radio Cymru has fallen to its lowest level this century - three months after its previous record low.

Between July and September, 101,000 listeners tuned in, a drop of 2,000 compared to the previous three months, according to Radio Joint Audience Research (Rajar) figures.
Radio Wales increased its audience to 340,000, with 7,000 extra listeners.
BBC Wales has not commented on the figures.
Both stations attracted record low numbers of listeners during the second quarter of this year.
The editor of BBC Radio Wales has since stepped down, while Radio Cymru has launched a separate temporary service called Radio Cymru Mwy on some digital platforms.
Listening figures do not take account of catch-up listening or podcast downloads, although Rajar said more than 98% of listening still happened live.
In commercial radio, there were increases in audiences for Capital FM in south and north Wales, while Heart gained listeners in the south but lost listeners in the north.


Eight slow lorises that were seized from illegal traders in Indonesia have been nursed back to health and taken to a protected Sumatran rainforest ahead of their release into the wild.

The animals were rehabilitated at a primate centre by East Sussex charity, International Animal Rescue (IAR).
Charity workers monitored their behaviour, health and eating as they returned to their natural, wild state.
The slow lorises were rescued from traders in Western Java last September.
The creatures are being kept for a month in an enclosed area, and they have radio collars around their necks for monitoring after their release.
Co-ordinator Bobby Muhidin said: "Our team will monitor the lorises for about a year."
IAR ran a celebrity-backed Tickling is Torture campaign last year to expose the cruelty involved in keeping the shy, nocturnal primates as pets.
It followed an online craze where YouTube clips showed pet slow lorises with their big eyes, soft fur and slow movements being tickled and handfed.
But IAR said when a slow loris was tickled it raised its arms as a defensive gesture to activate a venomous gland - not because it was enjoying it - and given the chance would give a serious bite.
It said most rescued slow lorises had dehydration, malnutrition - and stress exacerbated by having their teeth cut.
The charity's latest slow loris release comes one year after its campaign launch, but Alan Knight, chief executive of the Uckfield charity, said the illegal trade remained a "huge threat".


The Mayor of London has announced plans to offer newly-built affordable homes to certain private renters at below-market rents.

The London Living Rent scheme would see low and middle-income households being offered new homes with rents set at a third of average household incomes.
Sadiq Khan said it would provide "an alternative to renting privately" and allow people to "save for a deposit".
But the Conservatives called the scheme "another feat of illusion".
According to the mayor, a household typically earning between £35,000 and £45,000 would be able to a rent a two-bed London Living Rent flat for less than £1,000, compared to average private rents of £1,450.
However, he could not say how many homes would be available under the scheme as "it depends on how much land comes forward".
Tony Devenish, the Conservative planning spokesperson, said the mayor was "attempting to distract Londoners with spin instead of real answers".
"The only way to slow down the increase in rental prices is to build far more homes," he said.
Green London Assembly Member Sian Berry said the capital needed "something more sophisticated" as there was a risk of people "being left behind by this policy".
"An arbitrary definition based on a third of the local average income will leave many women and families with children still struggling," she said.
Mr Khan made the announcement during a visit to the Sugar Hill housing development in Harlem, New York, as part of his five-day business trip to North America.


Bob Dylan said it was "truly beyond words" to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

In a speech read on his behalf at the ceremony in Sweden, he said he thought his odds of winning were as likely as him "standing on the moon".
The songwriter told those at the event in Sweden he was there "in spirit" and thanked the Academy for seeing his songs as works of literature.
Patti Smith performed his song A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall at the ceremony.
But the singer, who is a friend of Dylan's, had to apologise during her rendition after nerves got the better of her and she forgot the lyrics.
"Sorry, can we stop that section," she said as the audience began to applaud her. "I apologise, I'm so nervous."
In the speech, read out by the US ambassador in Sweden, Azita Raji, Dylan said he had joined the "rare company" of Nobel-winning writers.
He said from an early age he had read and absorbed the works of past winners and giants of literature such as Kipling, Shaw, Thomas Mann, Pearl Buck, and Ernest Hemingway.
But he said it was "truly beyond words" that he was joining those names on the winners list.
"If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel prize, I would have to think that I'd have about the same odds as standing on the moon," he wrote.
He said his win was surprising because he was a songwriter, rather than a writer of books and poems "taught in the schoolroom, housed in libraries across the world."
"Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, 'Are my songs literature?'" he told attendees at the dinner, before thanking the prize-givers for "providing such a wonderful answer".
The folk singer explained that Shakespeare, the "great literary figure", probably thought of himself a dramatist.
"The thought that he was writing literature couldn't have entered his head," he said. "His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read."
Few predicted that Dylan would be awarded the prize when the announcement was made in October.
The 75-year-old singer waited two weeks to acknowledge the win and later said he would not travel to Sweden due to "pre-existing commitments".
The delay was deemed "impolite and arrogant" by Per Wastberg of the Swedish Academy, the body which awards the prize.
During his speech, Dylan said he was "out on the road" when he found out the news which took "more than a few minutes to properly process".
The Swedish Academy defended its decision to extend the award to a genre such as folk music.
Speaking at the dinner, Prof Horace Engdahl of the Swedish Academy, a literary critic, said the choice "seemed daring only beforehand and already seems obvious".


A mother accused of murdering her newborn baby has described her panic and fear after giving birth to what she believed was a stillborn girl.

Claudia Martins who lived with her sister Vilma in Bristol denies killing the baby at their home last year.
She told Bristol Crown Court: "I was really panicking. I was really scared. She wasn't moving - they would think I had done something to hurt her."
Ms Martins, who said she did not know she was pregnant, denies murder.
The jury heard how Ms Martins gave birth on 12 September.
The prosecution asked if she had called for help from her sister or an ambulance. But she replied she was panicked and scared as the baby "was not moving".
Ms Martins added: "I hid her inside my suitcase close to the bed... I don't know, I was in [a] panic. It was a feeling I'd never felt before.
"I felt my blood was boiling, my head was spinning - I don't know how to describe it."
Following the birth paramedics and police were called to the home but Ms Martins had already been taken to hospital.
Three days later officers found the baby's body in a suitcase at the home. The court heard toilet paper was found inside her mouth.
When the prosecution asked how the toilet paper came to be in her baby's mouth she said: "I don't know, I can't remember."
The case continues.


Researchers have developed a clever way to achieve the lowest temperatures ever recorded on Earth.

Achieving such temperatures is necessary to study fundamental properties of matter and the strange effects caused by quantum mechanics.
The new method relies on "optical lattices" of atoms from which only the hottest atoms are selectively removed.
The approach, reported in Nature
, may be well-suited to create memory for future quantum computers.
The limits of low temperature have been constantly pushed in recent years, and the current best lies somewhere in the nanoKelvin regime - that is, within just billionths of a degree of "absolute zero" at zero Kelvin or -273.15C.
That ultimate limit is set formally as the lowest possible entropy, or disorder, that is achievable.
Optical lattices are an ideal system in which to attain temperatures ever nearer that limit. The peaks and troughs of intensity in crossed beams of light form a kind of "egg-crate" structure in which atoms are inclined to remain in the troughs - a point of lowest energy.
As the atoms are added to each trough - or each point in the lattice - it becomes more difficult to add another, in a situation called a blockade.
But researchers from Harvard University have invented a modification to this effect called orbital exchange blockade.
It is a way to cool these assemblages of atoms that could be extended to the picoKelvin regime: within trillionths of a degree of the coldest possible temperature.
The team carefully adjusted the intensity of the crossed light beams. The trick was to do so in such a way that only the most energetic atoms in each lattice site absorbed energy from the light fields, becoming more energetic again.
By adjusting how frequently the light beam intensities were changed, the team was able to remove these "hottest" atoms from the system, leaving only the "coolest" ones behind.
The approach removed entropy, or in other words, reduced the overall temperature of the lattice.
In an accompanying article in Nature
, optical lattice expert Gretchen Campbell from US measurement agency Nist points out that this ability to specifically address single lattice sites, and potentially to cool to never-before-achieved temperatures, may make the approach useful in quantum computers.
These devices, still in early developmental stages, would make use of the slippery nature of quantum states to perform computation at incredible speeds.
But like any computer, they would need memory, and optical lattices that keep delicate quantum information preserved in cold atoms could be a suitable solution.


Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has appointed a team of senior government officials to launch talks with the opposition on changes to a peace deal with the Farc rebel group.

Mr Santos made the announcement after meeting with political party leaders.
The peace deal was rejected by a narrow margin in a referendum on Sunday.
Former President Alvaro Uribe, who led the "no" campaign, did not attend the meeting but appointed three negotiators to hold talks with the government.
Mr Uribe, a senator and leader of the Democratic Centre party, wants rebels who committed serious crimes to serve prison sentences and for some of the Farc leaders to be banned from politics.
The peace deal was signed last week after nearly four years of negotiations, which were held in the Cuban capital, Havana.
For the agreement to be implemented, putting an end to 52 years of conflict, it would have had to be ratified by the Colombian people in a referendum.
Pre-election polls had indicated a strong victory for the "yes" camp.
But in a surprise result, 50.2% of voters rejected the agreement.
The difference was about 54,000 votes out of almost 13 million ballots. Turnout was low with fewer than 38% of voters casting their votes.
President Santos said last week there was no "Plan B" for ending the conflict, which has killed about 260,000 people.
Since the result has been announced, however, both Mr Santos and the Farc have affirmed their determination to continue working to secure a peace deal.
"I will not give up, I will keep seeking peace until the last minute of my term," he said in an address after the results were announced.
Farc leader Timoleon Jimenez, better known as Timochenko, said the rebels would continue to abide by a bilateral ceasefire agreed with the Colombian government.
The chief peace negotiator for the government, Humberto de la Calle, offered to resign earlier on Monday, saying he took "full responsibility for any errors in the negotiation".
He was earlier ordered back to the Cuban capital of Havana to work with rebel leaders on modifying the deal.
Mr Santos rejected his resignation and, instead, appointed him to lead the "national dialogue" team that will try to save the peace process.
The other two members in Mr Santos's team are Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin and Defence Minister Luis Carlos Villegas.
Mr Uribe appointed three senior politicians from his party for the talks: Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, Carlos Holmes Trujillo and Ivan Duque.
Colombia was divided regionally with most of the outlying provinces voting in favour of the agreement and those nearer the capital and inland voting against it.
In Choco, one of the provinces hardest hit by the conflict, 80% of voters backed the deal. The capital, Bogota, also voted "yes" with 56%.
But in the eastern province of Casanare - where farmers and landowners have been extorted for years by the Farc - 71.1 % rejected the deal.
Most of those who voted "no" said they thought the peace agreement was letting the rebels "get away with murder".
Under the deal, special courts would have been created to try crimes committed during the conflict.
Those who confessed to their crimes would have been given more lenient sentences.
Many Colombians also balked at the government's plan to pay demobilised Farc rebels a monthly stipend and to offer those wanting to start a business financial help.
"No" voters said this amounted to a reward for criminal behaviour while honest citizens were left to struggle financially.
Others were unhappy that under the agreement, the Farc would be guaranteed 10 seats in Congress.
Read more about the deal's most contentious points


The search for a 90-year-old man who went missing after going out to sea on his boat is being continued by a police helicopter and the coastguard.

Arthur Roy Taylor, known as Archie, left his accommodation at about 09:30 BST on Saturday to take his boat out from Gwbert boat club in Ceredigion.
A costal search was called off on Sunday after his vessel was found but Mr Taylor is "still unaccounted for".
The coastguard had said on Sunday further searches were "unlikely".
But a spokesman did add the search would resume if "new evidence comes to light".
Dyfed-Powys Police have appealed for video or photos taken by members of the public in the Gwbert area on Saturday morning as they may have captured Mr Taylor sailing.
He is 5' 4", of slim build, has grey hair and was last seen wearing a navy jumper and dark grey waterproof jacket.


Scotland's top doctor is quitting his post to concentrate on fighting health inequalities, the Scottish government has announced.

Sir Harry Burns is standing down as chief medical officer to become professor of global public health at Strathclyde University.
He has said health inequality is the biggest issue facing Scotland.
Health Secretary Alex Neil said Sir Harry had made a "significant contribution".
Sir Harry, a former surgeon who became chief medical officer in 2005, has played a key role in shaping health in Scotland, including leading the response to the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
He said: "It has been a pleasure working with the Scottish government over the past eight years, but it is time to hand over to a new chief medical officer.
"I have enjoyed the challenges over the past eight years, and I have had the opportunity to do a lot of work around health inequalities.
"I am looking forward to being able to develop my interest in health inequalities further, and continuing to contribute towards building a better public health landscape."
After graduating from Glasgow University in 1977, Sir Harry spent 15 years as a surgeon, eventually becoming consultant surgeon at the city's royal infirmary.
He went on to become director of public health for Greater Glasgow health board in 1993, until his appointment as Scotland's chief medical officer.
Sir Harry, who was knighted in 2011, has become well know for highlighting the links between poverty and poor health.
In 2012, he told the Scottish Parliament's audit committee: "Health inequalities are the biggest issue facing Scotland just now, because not only are health inequalities a problem but [they] are really a manifestation of social inequality.
"Social complexity, social disintegration drives things like criminality, it drives things like poor educational attainment, it drives a whole range of things that we would want to see different in Scotland.
"The more attention we can get paid to the drivers of that situation, the better."
Last year, Sir Harry suggested the decline of heavy industry was partly responsible for poor health in Scotland, saying at the time: "A void appeared in men's lives and the void was filled with drink, drugs and fighting."
Paying tribute, Mr Neil said: "Sir Harry has brought a renewed focus to the issue of health inequalities within Scotland, and I am delighted that his new role will enable him to continue his focus in this area."
Sir Harry will start his new post in April and the Scottish government is currently working on appointing a new chief medical officer.


As the election looms, David Cameron - who in his early leadership days seemed to present himself as more the heir to Blair than Thatcher - wants a bit of Margaret Thatcher's election-winning magic dust.

So he has nicked and reworked her totemic policy of flogging council houses to their working-class tenants - some of whom redefined themselves as a new generation of aspirant Tories.
He, therefore, hopes that he will win a few supporters among the 1.3 million tenants of housing associations who would be given the right to buy their properties on the same generous terms available to council house tenants - namely maximum discounts of 70% based on length of occupancy.
But although the electoral politics are about whether it makes sense to turn renters into owners, the economics and social policy are largely about something different - they are all about what impact the policy would have on a nation chronically short of housing, especially affordable housing.
Therefore, the more interesting aspect of the manifesto pledge is that local authorities will be forced to sell their most expensive housing stock - properties judged as the third most pricey of all properties in an area - as and when those properties become vacant, to raise an estimated Â£4.5bn a year.
The Â£4.5bn putative proceeds would be used for four purposes: to pay for the housing association sale discounts (of course); to clean up poisoned brownfield land for housing development; and to provide the funds for housing associations and local authorities to replace sold housing on a one-for-one basis.
It is that very last point, the replacement of the sold stock, which matters most - in that if the sold housing were replaced precisely by new building, this policy would have a significant positive impact on the supply of new affordable housing, in a country desperate for such construction.
Now the Tories admit that they can't force the housing associations - who hate being forced to sell their properties - to replace the sold homes. But they insist that if the associations chose to shrink and shrivel, the funds will be directed to the construction of starter homes in other ways.
In other words, there is a risk that - for a few years at least - the policy would lead to a contraction in the supply of affordable rented housing.
As for local authorities, the Tories say they will legislate to force them to replace the expensive properties being sold with cheaper ones. So in that sense they would address the concern raised by Shelter that local authorities' record of replacing sold housing is truly lamentable.
Campaigners for affordable housing, like Shelter, will, therefore, judge this policy on whether local authorities can really be forced in a timely way to build new social housing to replace what would be sold.


A woman has begun her legal battle to overturn a £100 fine for feeding a chip to a pigeon in Swansea.

Lauren-Paige Smith said she was "only feeding the birds" when she first received a litter fine from a council worker.
The 19-year-old refused to enter a plea at Swansea Magistrates as she did "not believe a crime was committed."
Swansea council said throwing food is a "littering offence" and anyone caught risks a fine.
Representing herself against Swansea council's legal team, Miss Smith, from Rumney, Cardiff, said she had "never been in trouble before."
"The person who approached me did not give me any warning or tell me to pick anything up," she told magistrates.
"I had colleagues with me at the time who also couldn't believe it."
Footage taken by the council worker heard him tell Miss Smith: "You could feed them seeds but not chips, that's human waste."
Speaking before the case, Miss Smith said: "There are so much worse things going on in the world.
"I can't believe I'm being penalised for doing a kind act.
"I thought it was a wind-up but now the fine has escalated and I'm being hauled into court."
District judge Neale Thomas said he wanted to speak to the council worker and other witnesses before continuing the case.
He adjourned proceedings for two weeks.
Before Tuesday's hearing, a Swansea council spokesman said they have an ongoing campaign in the city centre to discourage people from throwing food on the ground for seagulls and pigeons.
"City centre businesses raised concerns about aggressive birds attacking shoppers," he said.
"Throwing food on the ground is a littering offence and anyone caught doing it risks being issued with a fixed penalty.
"Discarded food and other types of litter can have a negative impact on the look of our city centre and we are doing what we can to make sure the city centre is an attractive place for visitors to come and enjoy."


Zac Goldsmith has retaken Richmond Park for the Conservative party in one of the most dramatic results of the election.

The newly elected MP won the seat from the Liberal Democrats' Sarah Olney with a majority of only 45 votes.
Mr Goldsmith lost his seat last year after resigning and calling a by-election in protest at the decision to expand Heathrow Airport .
There were no fewer than four recounts before a result was declared.
Mr Goldsmith won 28,588 votes, with Ms Olney receiving 28,543 votes on a turnout of 79%.
Mr Goldsmith admitted he had won by a "narrow margin" but thanked the voters of Richmond Park for giving him another chance to represent them.
''I hope my constituents know I will never let them down. " he added.
Ms Olney took the seat from Mr Goldsmith, who stood as an independent after his temporary departure from the Tories, last year.
The Lib Dem win was attributed to her opponent's pro-Brexit stance in the largely Remain-voting constituency.


Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, star of US satire Veep, has said she "would relish" taking on more dramatic roles.

"I would love to spread my wings in that direction, why not?" the multiple Emmy winner told the BBC ahead of the release of her new film Enough Said.
The comedy, which had its UK premiere at this year's London Film Festival, tells of a divorcee who finds love just as her daughter is leaving for college.
Louis-Dreyfus won her fourth Emmy last month for her role in Veep.
Created by Armando Iannucci of The Thick of It fame, the HBO show sees her play an ineffectual US vice president whose attempts to expand her role are continually thwarted.
Though ostensibly a romantic comedy, Enough Said - the fifth film by writer-director Nicole Holofcener - has "a couple of very dramatic moments" according to its 52-year-old star.
"They were a great joy to do even if they were painful," the actress explained. "I hope my fans will be happily surprised."
The film, which had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September and is released in the UK on Friday, sees Louis-Dreyfus appear alongside James Gandolfini.
The late star of The Sopranos plays Albert, a well-meaning man unaware his massage therapist girlfriend - the character Louis-Dreyfus plays - has taken on his vindictive ex-wife as a client.
"I've never done anything as deceitful in my life but I understand why she does it," said the actress, who described her co-star as a "gentle giant" and a "dear, dear man".
"This is a woman on the precipice who's been emotionally hijacked by herself. The dread and fear of her daughter's impending departure fuels this horrible thing she does."
The scene in which her character's deception is exposed was both "tough" and "excruciating" to film, said the New Yorker, who is currently shooting the third season of Veep - a slang term for vice president.
"But it was exciting to do something so dramatic about large human emotions."


A decision over when a fresh inquest can start over the death of Pte Cheryl James at Deepcut barracks in Surrey has been delayed.

The 18-year-old from Denbighshire was found dead in November 1995 with a single bullet wound to the head.
A previous inquest recorded an open verdict, however, a new inquest was ordered in July.
During a pre-inquest review at the High Court a barrister for Surrey Police requested the new inquest was delayed.
The force wants the delay in case applications for fresh inquests into the deaths of three other soldiers at Deepcut - Pte Sean Benton, Pte Geoff Gray and Pte James Collinson - are made.
The hearing has now been delayed for at least four weeks.
Pte James's parents - who believe their daughter suffered sexual harassment and violence - want the new inquest into her death to be held separately and as soon as possible.
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Welsh boxer Joe Cordina is set for his third professional fight, on the undercard of Kell Brook's meeting with Errol Spence Junior.

An opponent for Cordina has yet to be named for the bout at Bramall Lane, Sheffield on Saturday, 27 May.
In April the 25-year-old super-featherweight claimed two stoppages in seven days.
He overpowered Sergej Vib at Wembley Stadium after stopping Jose Aguilar on his professional debut on 22 April.
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Britain's Liam Smith says he is being driven on by fear as he attempts to beat Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez in Texas.

Mexico's Alvarez, who knocked out Briton Amir Khan in his last fight in May, has lost just one of 49 pro bouts, to Floyd Mayweather on points in 2013.
He is favourite to beat WBO light middleweight champion Smith, 28, when they meet on Saturday.
"I need tests like this because I need a bit of fear in me to win," the Liverpudlian told BBC Sport.
"I need that fear factor in training otherwise I might get beat by someone I should never lose against, all because I couldn't get up in the morning.
"I don't want that to happen, so this fear I have in training will bring the best out of me when I face Alvarez."
Smith, who is unbeaten in 24 contests, won the WBO belt when he defeated USA fighter John Thompson in Manchester last October.
He believes victory over former WBC middleweight champion Alvarez on Saturday will establish him as a major force in world boxing, which is why he told his promoter, Frank Warren, he wanted the fight.
"I'm one win away from being a superstar," he said.
"This kind of fight is one I've asked for since I won the title. I could've kept kidding the public, kept taking money off Frank and said: 'I'm not ready to step up yet. Keep on giving me easy fights.'
"But as soon as I became world champion and they gave me the WBO belt, I've wanted to fight the big names ever since. I wanted to fight guys like Shane Moseley, Miguel Cotto and Alvarez. Now I have my chance."
Alvarez has been fighting since the age of 15 and demonstrated his punching power during his emphatic victory over Khan.
But Smith said: "In my frame of mind, I'm not going in that ring as the underdog and I'm not calling it an upset because I know I'm good enough to beat him.
"I will look for the knockout, because that's the way I fight. I want to get in there, break him down and stop him. And when I win and my hand is raised, I'll say to all those people that doubted me: 'I told you so.'"


On Super Tuesday Donald Trump's hostile takeover of the Republican Party should come even closer, and like stiff-collared executives in some wood-panelled boardroom trying belatedly to fight off a corporate raid, the GOP high command seems incapable of stopping him.

For them, Super Tuesday could become Black Tuesday. Friday must have been gloomy enough, when Chris Christie, supposedly a card-carrying member of the establishment, kissed Donald Trump's hands and gave this political outsider his endorsement.
Christie's blessing came as a bolt from the blue, and taught us once more to expect the unexpected. But shouldn't the establishment - and us in the media, for that matter - have seen the billionaire coming? After all, for years the Republican standard bearers have been vulnerable to a challenge from an anti-establishment candidate.
Before going on, we should say what we mean by the Republican Party establishment, a term regularly bandied around but rarely explained. Fifty years ago, it was easier to identify.
It was an eastern establishment dominated by Wall Street bankers and corporate executives, who were strongly pro-business, ideologically moderate and politically pragmatic.
Nelson Rockefeller, the scion of the banking dynasty and Governor of New York - who lived, like Donald Trump, in great splendour on Fifth Avenue - was their figurehead.
These days, however, the Republican establishment is harder to define and more diffuse, which also explains why it is easier to topple.
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Commonly it is broadly taken to mean the Republican National Committee, senior office-holders (like Chris Christie), present and past, conservative lobbyists, like the US Chamber of Commerce, big-money donors and opinion-formers, who write for publications like the Weekly Standard, the National Review and op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal. But that definition is open to debate. Its disparate membership explains its inability to exert control.
The most obvious reason for the decline of the Republican establishment has been the rise of anti-establishment adversaries. The Tea Party, an insurgent grassroots movement that emerged after Barack Obama's inauguration, has posed the most serious threat.
Its hatred of the president is matched almost by its loathing for establishment Republicans in Washington, like the Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell, who activists complain could have done more to thwart the White House.
Tea Party primary challengers have ousted senior establishment fixtures, like Senator Richard Lugar, who represented Indiana for 36 years.
The "Hell No" Caucus on Capitol Hill, a rump of 50 or so Tea Party-backed Republican hardliners in the House of Representatives, was strong enough to push the former House Speaker John Boehner to the point of resignation.
As for opinion formers, most of the loudest and dominant voices in the modern-day conservative movement, like the talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and the commentator Ann Coulter, are vehement critics of the establishment.
The Fox News channel, even though it has often given a platform for anti-establishment voices, doesn't fall into that same category. But it has become a rival power centre, outside the control of the GOP high command.
Going into the 2016 campaign, there were big clues that establishment candidates would be vulnerable. Eric Cantor, the House Republican majority leader, was ousted, unexpectedly, ahead of the 2014 congressional mid-terms. Boehner was pressured to resign as House Speaker.
However, most of us made the mistake of interpreting the results of the congressional mid-term elections as a major setback for insurgents, because they failed to make more breakthroughs.
Their attempt, for example, to oust the Republican Senator Thad Cochran in Mississippi, then a six-term incumbent, was unsuccessful. In Kentucky, Mitch McConnell also crushed a Tea Party challenge in the Republican primary.
According to polls, Tea Party favourites, like Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann, also lost their lustre.
Even though the Tea Party was waning - in October last year, a Gallup poll suggested its support had dwindled to just 17% - the anger and rage that gave rise to it had not gone away.
Conservative insurgents just needed a better candidate and more effective mouthpiece.
The most obvious figure was Ted Cruz, a long-time darling of the Tea Party. But Donald Trump has proved more adept at giving voice to the politics of frustration and rage, even though he is not a Tea Party candidate per se.
Long before announcing his presidential bid, the billionaire had already burnished his reputation among Tea Party devotees by becoming the most prominent "birther" - claiming, falsely, that Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States. His outspoken attacks on Mexicans and Muslims, combined with his contempt for political correctness, are music to insurgents' ears.
Another analytical failure was to assume that the Republican establishment could do in 2016 what it has done successfully in the past seven presidential elections: to see its anointed favourite become the nominee.
George Herbert Walker Bush, Bob Dole, George W Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney. All were Republican establishment favourites. What's perhaps most remarkable about that run of success for the party's high command is that it continued so long.
We should have paid more attention to the difficulty Mitt Romney had securing the nomination in 2012 and also the extent to which he was assisted by the absence of a strong establishment rival.
A central problem for the GOP high command this year, of course, has been that Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Jeb Bush and Chris Christie have split the vote.
Not only that, we should have been more mindful of Rick Santorum's surprise showing four years ago. The right-wing former Pennsylvania Senator won 11 states and four million votes, even though he was viewed at the outset of the race as a woefully weak candidate.
It suggested that the Republican establishment would face a more serious problem in 2016 if a more compelling right-winger emerged.
Besides, one of the reasons why anti-establishment fervour is so strong this time round is because the grass roots is so fed up with being saddled with establishment moderates, like Romney.
Had we reached further back into Republican Party history we would have seen that hostile takeovers have succeeded in the past.
In 1980, Reagan ran as an anti-establishment candidate, beating the blue-blood Republican George HW Bush, a scion of the establishment.
Then there was Barry Goldwater's success in 1964, when he scored that highly symbolic victory over Nelson Rockefeller, the great pillar of the establishment.
The victory of an Arizonian right-wing firebrand over a New York moderate personified the shift in the Republican Party's centre of gravity during the civil rights era from the north-east to the south and south-west.
It changed the character of the party, setting it on its present course.
Revulsion right now of the permanent political class and party elites seems to be a global phenomenon, but in America it is particularly pronounced, on the left as well as the right.
But an anti-establishment figure like Donald Trump would not have become so strong had not the party establishment become so weak. The GOP, the Grand Old Party, has been ripe for a takeover for years.


Arthur Binnie, the first journalist to report on the discovery of the missing Stone of Destiny, has died at the age of 89.

Arthur was a reporter with the Arbroath Herald when the stone was removed from Westminster Abbey in London by four nationalist students on Christmas Day 1950.
The stone had been there for more than 600 years since it was taken from Scotland in 1296 by Edward I, who knew its importance as the Coronation stone of Scottish kings at Scone.
From then on, for centuries, it sat under Westminster's Coronation chair.
The nationalists' stunt shocked the establishment. For months, police searched for the stone on both sides of the border.
Finding it at Arbroath Abbey four months later was the scoop of Arthur Binnie's long career, which included 20 years as the head of the BBC's Aberdeen newsroom.
Arthur was at his desk in Arbroath on 11 April 1951 when the phone rang with a tip that if he went to the abbey he might find something of interest.
That was all. He wasn't told anything more.
He took the office camera and raced to the abbey, cycling so hard the chain came off his bike.
When he arrived, he realised very quickly the scale of the story.
Everyone knew the Stone of Destiny was missing.  Arthur was met by the uniformed custodian who led him silently through the abbey ruins to the high altar.
Years later, Arthur described what happened.
He told me: "There,  a blue and white Saltire was covering a fairly bulky object which appeared to be sitting on a stonemason's barrow.
"I didn't need rocket science to deduce what it might be and when the custodian pulled away a corner of the Saltire, there it was ... the Stone of Destiny."
He took some photographs and the custodian gave him an envelope with a message from the four students.
Then Arthur Binnie hurried back to his office, puzzled about why no other reporters or photographers had been there.
Later he learned there'd been a mix-up.
A local councillor who'd been supposed to alert journalists had decided to let the police know first but the officer in charge in Arbroath that day took a while to establish the story wasn't a hoax.
Arthur Binnie had the discovery of the Stone of Destiny to himself.
The news went worldwide.
His picture of the stone was on the front pages of national papers in the UK and the United States.
He said the extra money he earned came at an ideal moment.
"I did rather well from all the stories and bits and pieces," Arthur said.
"So much so much so that I was able to get married the following year. So I was grateful for that."
Arthur Binnie moved to Aberdeen soon after his Stone of Destiny scoop.
There's been a debate over the years about whether the sandstone block left in Arbroath Abbey was the genuine article.
Arthur saw it close up and believed it was.
He was a meticulous journalist who advised young colleagues to stick to the ABC of the trade: accuracy, brevity and clarity.
He and his wife Bette celebrated 63 years of marriage in September.
The Stone of Destiny was returned to Scotland permanently in November 1996.


UK Prime Minister Theresa May has called a snap general election for 8 June, taking the country by surprise.

The previous election was in 2015, so another was not due until 2020.
Ms May pledged several times after taking office last year not to call an early election, so this is something of a U-turn.
Why the U-turn?
The prime minister wants a strong mandate in parliament going into what are likely to be fraught negotiations with Europe over Britain's exit from the EU.
Her Conservative party has a relatively slim majority in the House of Commons, won in 2015 under the previous leader David Cameron. But since that election the main opposition Labour party has collapsed in the polls, leaving her in a much stronger position and making an election win significantly more likely.
A victory in June would also hand her a very important personal mandate. Having taken over from Mr Cameron when he resigned mid-term, after losing the Brexit referendum, she has yet to win her own general election.
A former home secretary, Ms May has cultivated an image of iron resolve and dependability.
As fellow top Conservative MPs imploded in the chaos that followed the Brexit referendum, that image helped her emerge from behind as the frontrunner and she eventually became prime minister uncontested.
The 59-year-old served for 17 years in senior positions within the Conservative party before becoming leader, and is said to have harboured ambitions at a young age to be the first female prime minister.
She is the country's second, following Margaret Thatcher.
A snap election needs to be approved by two thirds of MPs in the House of Commons.
The leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, has already backed the call for an election and so between the two main parties there should be comfortably enough votes to pass the motion.
Ms May said she would put the election to a vote on Wednesday. If it passes, parliament will be dissolved 25 days before the election, on 3 May, for official campaigning to start.
It might seem foolish to call anything a certainty now in politics, but this is probably as close as you'll get.
A raft of Sunday polls in the UK put the Conservatives somewhere between 11 and a massive 21 points ahead of Labour, the largest gap between the parties in the past nine years.
Surveys also suggest that the British public is confident in Ms May's ability to negotiate a good deal from the EU.
The Labour party has collapsed in the polls since the previous general election, plagued by infighting over a divisive leftist leader, Mr Corbyn.
The Brexit vote sowed divisions through public and parliament, and part of the thinking behind this snap election will be to strengthen Ms May's hand at home before negotiations begin in earnest.
Britain has already triggered Article 50 - the formal starting gun on Brexit, and withdrawal from the EU is all but a certainty at this point.
The Labour party has said it supports the outcome of the Brexit referendum, and only the small Liberal Democrat party has expressed a desire to overturn the vote.
But there has been disagreement in parliament over the terms of the exit, and an improved majority will give Ms May more leverage and help to quell arguments among her own MPs.


A seal found 60km (37 miles) inland was malnourished and full of bacteria when it died, scientists have said.

The juvenile common seal had been in a lagoon near Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, for "a couple of weeks" before it died on 1 March, scientists said.
Tests carried out by the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) found the seal was in "moderate-poor nutritional condition".
Its body was recovered from Ferry Lagoon near the River Great Ouse.
Rob Deaville, project manager at CSIP, said seals were not normally resident so far inland, but had occasionally made their way up river streams in the past, including the River Great Ouse.
Common seals are normally found on islands, rocky shores and cliffs, and are particularly common around western Scotland and the northern UK islands.
During a post-mortem examination, scientists found the young male seal had "a moderate burden of lungworms".
They also discovered "several bacterial species of potential interest" which are being tested to find out their "potential significance".


Rail passengers in Hampshire and Surrey faced "major disruption" after a train hit a car at a level crossing.

The empty car was struck on the line at Liss in Hampshire on Friday evening with services between Petersfield and Haslemere suspended in both directions.
South West Trains said there were "no reported injuries to anyone on board the train".
Disruption lasted until 23:00 and emergency services took care of the 20 passengers and staff involved.


The government of Sao Tome and Principe has cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan, officials said.

China welcomed the decision by the African island nation saying it was "back onto the correct path of the One China principle".
Taiwan's foreign ministry condemned the move, alleging Sao tome demanded a huge amount of financial support.
The "One China" principle insists that there is only one China in the world and that Taiwan is a part of it.
The move comes just over a week after comments by US president-elect Donald Trump that the US did not have to abide by the One China policy - the diplomatic acknowledgement by the US of the One China principle.
The move means only 21 countries and governments, including Swaziland and Guatemala, still maintain official ties with Taiwan.
Sao Tome suspended ties with China in 1997, after choosing to officially recognise Taiwan.
Any country that wants diplomatic relations with mainland Beijing must break official ties with Taipei, leading to Taiwan's diplomatic isolation from the international community.
Taiwanese Foreign Minister David Lee alleged on Wednesday that Sao Tome was demanding "an astronomical amount of financial help," without providing further details.
"We think the Beijing government should not use Sao Tome's financing black hole ... as an opportunity to push its 'One China' principle," Mr Lee said on Wednesday.
"This behaviour is not helpful to a smooth cross-strait relationship."
China has not said whether it will now establish diplomatic ties with the West African state.


Bydd hi'n anghyfreithlon i bobl dan 18 gael twll yn eu tafod wedi i'r Cynulliad gymeradwyo mesur newydd.

Mae'r Mesur Iechyd Cyhoeddus hefyd yn cynnig gwahardd ysmygu mewn parciau chwarae a chyflwyno system drwyddedu ar gyfer aristiaid tatŵs.
Cafodd y ddeddfwriaeth gyfnogaeth unfrydol ar lawr y Senedd ddydd Mawrth.
Daw hyn 14 mis wedi i'r Cynulliad wrthod mesur tebyg yn dilyn ffrae am led-waharddiad ar e-sigarets.
Fe fydd tyllu'r tafod ac organnau rhyw yn cael ei anghyfreithloni ar ôl i gynnig gwreiddiol Llywodraeth Cymru gael ei ddiwygio yn ystod y broses ddeddfwriaethu.
Roedd nifer o welliannau i'r ddogfen wreiddiol, gan gynnwys:
Ymysg rhannau eraill y gyfraith mae system drwyddedu ar gyfer tyllu'r corff, tatŵs, electrolysis a nodwyddo.
Fe fethodd fersiwn flaenorol o'r mesur gael ei phasio yn y Cynulliad achos diffyg cefnogaeth i ran ohoni oedd yn cynnig gwahardd e-sigarets mewn rhai llefydd cyhoeddus.
Roedd y Ceidwadwyr a'r Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol yn feirniadol o'r syniad, ond roedd disgwyl i rai aelodau o Blaid Cymru gefnogi'r mesur.
Fe newidiodd hynny yn dilyn sylwadau gan y gweinidog wasanaethau cyhoeddus ar y pryd, Leighton Andrews, wnaeth gyfeirio fargen flaenorol gyda Phlaid Cymru fel "cheap date".
Doedd dim sôn am wahardd e-sigarets yn y mesur newydd, a dim gwrthwynebiad gan y gwrthbleidiau.
Fe gefnogodd Plaid Cymru, y Ceidwadwyr ac UKIP y mesur gyda'r gwelliannau.


Labour's Brexit bind is not hard to grasp.

The vast majority of Labour MPs campaigned to keep Britain in the EU. But most now represent constituencies that voted to leave.
And as Parliament prepares to vote on triggering divorce talks with Brussels, Labour MPs are being ordered to approve the start of Brexit by a party leader who spent his backbench career ignoring similar demands for discipline.
These are agonising days for a parliamentary party struggling to maintain a coherent position on the biggest issue facing British politics for a generation.
Let's start with Jeremy Corbyn's decision to impose what, in parliamentary parlance, is called a three-line whip.
As far as the political parties in Westminster are concerned, MPs are not sent to Parliament to carefully weigh up each issue and vote according to their own judgement or conscience.
No, they are there to vote as their party leadership tells them to. Over the weekend, all MPs will receive a letter from their party's whips office telling them how to vote on various Bills before the Commons next week.
The most important by far will be the Second Reading of the bill to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.
It will not be the end of the parliamentary process for the Bill (a Committee stage will follow the week after and the Lords needs to approve it too) but it's a big moment.
And in the letter Labour MPs will receive, the name of the bill will be underlined three times. That means they must vote as their party managers instruct - no ifs, no buts.
In this case, they must vote to support the government's plan to trigger Article 50 by the end of March.
It's an instruction that gives Labour MPs no wiggle-room or freedom to vote according to their conscience. Of course, Labour MPs can choose to ignore the instruction but for backbenchers that would normally mean a big black mark against their name by the party whips and for front benchers such insubordination would mean resignation or the sack.
So why has Mr Corbyn decided to issue a three-line whip on Article 50?
First, he has made it clear Labour will respect the result of the referendum and not block the start of Brexit in Parliament. Mr Corbyn believes it is imperative his party has a clear position on the issue.
For him personally, triggering Article 50 may not cause too much discomfort. He campaigned for Remain but has been an EU sceptic most of his political life.
But there are obvious political considerations at play too. Roughly two thirds of parliamentary constituencies represented by Labour MPs voted to leave the EU.
As the shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said: "You have to remember how this looks to people in post-industrial Britain, former mining areas, the North, the Midlands, south Wales - it would look as if elites were refusing to listen to them".
Swathes of Labour's traditional working-class heartlands voted to leave the EU and the leadership believes the party must stand firmly behind their decision.
There are imminent electoral tests for Labour too: By-elections in Copeland and Stoke on Trent.
Stoke voted to leave the EU by 69.4% and UKIP's leader Paul Nuttall is running in the city he is describing as the "capital of Brexit".
If the Labour leadership was to look flaky on the question of triggering Brexit, the party could give up on holding Stoke Central now.
And as Labour MPs who represent similar seats look ahead to the next general election they will make the same calculation.
I've spoken to former Labour ministers who passionately believe that leaving the EU will be bad for Britain, but feel they must respect the referendum result.
And if they want to keep their seats, they have little choice.
However, there is a second category of Labour MPs with a very different perspective.
According to BBC research, about 70 Labour MPs represent constituencies that voted to remain in the EU.
Just four of those MPs campaigned to leave (including Kate Hoey in Vauxhall and Gisela Stuart in Birmingham Edgbaston) which means dozens of Labour MPs who wanted to keep Britain in the EU represent seats that voted the same way.
And many of them look set to defy Jeremy Corbyn's orders on Article 50. Even two Labour whips  - Jeff Smith and Thangam Debbonaire - have said they will refuse to vote in favour of the Article 50 Bill, in a bizarre show of parliamentary self-flagellation.
It seems likely a number of front bench and even shadow cabinet Labour MPs will do the same. The question is, whether Mr Corbyn sacks them or allows some tacit elasticity.
As one Labour MP said to me this week, party discipline on the issue is rapidly breaking down and MPs were going "feral".
Mr Corbyn rebelled against the Labour whip 428 times during Labour's years in power and it's clear many of his MPs aren't cowed by calls for party discipline now.
Remember too, polls conducted before the referendum showed a large majority of Labour Party members were strongly in favour of remaining in the EU. They will be making their views felt at constituency meetings.
In the end, the government will get its Article 50 Bill through Parliament with ease. Even if dozens of Labour MPs join other opposition parties and vote against the bill or abstain, the government seems certain to secure a hefty majority.
But the choice being weighed up by Labour MPs goes to the heart of what Members of Parliament are for.
In this case, is it to endorse the decision of a national referendum? Is it to reflect the wishes of their constituents? Is it support the position of their party in Parliament?
Or is to judge, individually, what they think is in the best interests of the country? Perhaps not since the Iraq vote in 2003 have Labour MPs faced such a testing decision.


New Zealand wrapped up a 2-0 Test series victory over Sri Lanka, winning the second match by five wickets on day four in Hamilton.

Needing only 47 more runs for victory on Sunday having recovered from 11-2 on day three, the Kiwis reached their target of 189 with no further loss.
Kane Williamson, who resumed on 78, finished unbeaten on 108.
It was his fifth century of the year - a Kiwi record - and he set another for most NZ runs in a calendar year.
Williamson, who has now made 13 centuries in his 46 Tests, finished the series with 268 runs at an average of 89.
New Zealand won the first Test in Dunedin by 122 runs.


Up to 83 jobs are under threat at an engineering factory based in Londonderry.

Administrators have been called in to Schivo NI, formerly known as Maydown Precision Engineering (MPE), a supplier to major aircraft manufacturers such as Bombardier.
MPE was bought by the Waterford-based Schivo Group two years ago.
A spokesperson for the company told the BBC: "We have been unable to turn around Schivo NI Ltd."
In August 2015, the workers union, Unite, voiced concerns over possible job losses.
The company had previously said it would be expanding its interests in the aerospace engineering sector.
"Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of management and considerable investment, we have been unable to turn around Schivo NI Ltd," a spokesperson said.
He said the administrators were conducting a thorough review of the company and its operations before advising on the best course of action.
"All other companies in Schivo Group are unaffected and continue to operate as normal," he said.
"We are supporting our colleagues at Schivo NI during this process and thank them for their dedication to the turnaround we undertook.
"We hope to be able to provide clarity on the future of the site as soon as possible."
Sinn FÃ©in MLA Raymond McCartney described the situation as "concerning".
"This firm employs more than 80 people in the city and, no doubt, this announcement will have created fear and uncertainty," he said.
"I will be in contact with the firm to discuss the current situation and to ensure the rights and entitlements of workers are respected.
"It is important that management at the company engage fully with workers and trade unions in the time ahead and that staff are kept up to date of all developments."
The Schivo Group has business interests in the medical technologies, aerospace and oil and gas sectors.


A businessman's widow has won a High Court action against his employers over his death in a helicopter crash.

Tomas Dusek, 37, from Buckinghamshire, was in Peru in June 2012 looking at sites for a hydroelectric plant.
The Sikorsky helicopter chartered for the trip crashed in the Andes Mountains killing all 14 on board.
Mr Justice Hamblen ruled his employer StormHarbour Securities was liable as it had breached a duty to provide him with a safe place of work.
Mr Dusek was on duty for the independent global markets and financial advice firm when the helicopter crashed in bad weather.
He left his wife Angela and two children, then aged eight and five, who live at Gerrards Cross.
At the London High Court, Mr Justice Hamblen said his employers owed a duty to take reasonable care not to subject Mr Dusek to unnecessary risk.
If StormHarbour had made an investigation it would have told Mr Dusek not to go on the flight, Mr Justice Hamblen said.
"Although Mr Dusek was prepared to take risks, he did so on a calculated basis. He was also a devoted family man.
"He would not have taken on the risk of this flight in the light of an instruction not to do so from his employer on safety grounds."
The hearing was not concerned with damages at this stage.
Mrs Dusek said: "Tomas was a wonderful father and a loving and cherished husband.
"When he stepped on board the helicopter as part of his job, we expected and assumed it to be safe, not that he would be putting his life at risk and leaving us devastated by his death.
"My husband's life was thrown away by StormHarbour's disregard for his safety."


Leyton Orient moved into the play-off places as Ryan Edwards' own goal gave them victory against 10-man Morecambe.

The Shrimps had goalkeeper Barry Roche sent off early on for bringing down Orient striker Jay Simpson in the area.
Replacement keeper Kieran O'Hara, only 19 years old, kept out Simpson's effort from the spot with an outstretched leg.
But the teenager was powerless when Alan Goodall hit a clearance against Edwards and the ball rebounded into the net to give Orient the points.
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Leyton Orient player-manager Kevin Nolan told BBC Radio London: "We've done it without really playing well, and I think that was due to a lot of unnecessary things that happened in the game.
"We can't finish teams off and that's what we've got to learn to do. We're working hard on the training ground with lots of crossing and finishing.
"Hopefully in the coming weeks we'll start seeing that ball hit the back of the net a few more times."


Bernie Sanders fans are not the only ones wondering what might have been - here are eight US election "what ifs" - some more hypothetical than others...

Supporters of the Vermont senator, who gave Hillary Clinton a run for her money in the primaries, could be forgiven for saying "I told you so" right now. And that is precisely what some of them have been doing.
"American voters demanded radical change and had the party elites been able to see this coming, we'd be talking about [a] Sanders victory. I have no doubt that we could've beaten Trump with Sanders," former Sanders national organizer Corbin Trent told The Daily Beast.
If Wikileaks had posted its revelations about Clinton earlier in the year, during the primaries, Sanders might have fared better.
It would have been a very different election campaign with Sanders as candidate. Trump would have found it more difficult to present himself as an anti-establishment outsider, when he was up against another maverick, albeit one that held elected office in Washington.
And Sanders' billionaire-bashing and opposition to further free trade deals might have played well in the rural white heartlands that turned out in such numbers for Trump.
But would he have had more success than Hillary Clinton in persuading black or Hispanic voters who backed Obama in 2012 to go to the polls?
In the primaries, Clinton won far more African American voters than Sanders - 75.9% to 23.1% - and his lead over Clinton among white voters was only 0.2%.
But Sanders was more popular than Trump, say his supporters - and while this was true during the primaries, according to RealClearPolitics polls, how would he have coped with Trump's taunts in the campaign proper?
Instead of "Crooked Hillary" we would have had "Red Bernie," the "European-style socialist" - he even spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union, folks.
We will never know, of course. Unless he decides to run in 2020.
Much has been made of the gender divide at this election. And while it was big, with women backing Clinton over Trump by 54% to 42%, it was not much bigger than in 2012, according to Pew analysis of exit poll data. The simple fact is that more women tend to vote for the Democrats at US elections than men.
Donald Trump got 53% of male voters to Clinton's 41% - which is a big gap by historic standards, but not dramatically higher than in the 2000 election between George W Bush and Al Gore.
Trump would certainly have won by a landslide if only men had voted - but Clinton would have won if it was only women.
We are deep into intellectual elite territory here - and the sort of snobbish, East Coast whining that will, no doubt, be silenced by the new man in the White House.
Yes, Trump scored big with the non-college educated voters. Bigger than any presidential candidate since exit polls began measuring this in 1980. And with a nine-point lead over Trump, it would have been plain sailing for Clinton if the Democrats had managed to introduce some sort of academic test at polling stations.
But not all college graduates backed Clinton. The majority of white women with degrees - a group she was banking on - voted for Trump, by a four-point margin, according to Pew.
FBI director James Comey's surprise announcement, 11 days before the election, that the agency was again investigating emails linked to Clinton was seized by Donald Trump like a drowning man reaching for a lifebelt. And there is no question that the opinion polls tightened - but they generally do as polling day approaches and they were wrong anyway.
About 40 million Americans voted early, approaching half of those that took part in the election.
Comey cleared Clinton two days before election day. What harm, if any, had the week of speculation done? It's a question that will be keeping suddenly-unemployed Clinton aides awake at night.
The Libertarian candidate and fellow "third party" contender Jill Stein, of the Green Party, were bit-part players at this election, with about 3% and 1% of the popular vote respectively.
But some, such as CNN, have suggested they cost Clinton the election by siphoning off votes from her in key swing states.
According to exit polls, a quarter of Johnson and Stein voters said they would have backed Clinton if they had to pick between the two major-party candidates.  About 15% would have backed Trump.
But - and here is the major flaw in the argument - most Johnson and Stein voters said they would have just stayed home if their only choices were Clinton and Trump.
What we are really asking here is could Joe Biden (pictured) have beaten Trump?
The plain-speaking, avuncular vice-president was being tipped as the likely stand-in if Clinton had decided to quit the race back in October when she was diagnosed with walking pneumonia.
Like Bernie Sanders, who almost certainly would not have been chosen by the Democratic Party inner circle to take over as the nominee, Biden might have gone over better than Clinton in the Rust Belt.
His closeness to President Obama might also have helped convince a few Democrats pining for a third Obama term.
Some have claimed tighter voter registration laws, championed by Republicans and allegedly aimed at making it more difficult for African Americans to cast a ballot, cost Hillary Clinton crucial votes in swing states like Virginia and Wisconsin.
Black voters did not turn out in the same numbers for Clinton that they did for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 - and this was one of the reasons she lost to Donald Trump.
But it is impossible to say with any certainty how much of this was down to the new registration rules in 14 states and how much was down to the fact that Obama was not on the ballot.
People do or don't vote for all kinds of reasons. What we do know is that there were 868 fewer polling places in the 16 states with a history of voter discrimination that, under the old rules, would have had to get federal permission to close them.
There is also some evidence from North Carolina of the suppressive effect a shortage of polling places had on the vote in black areas in early voting.
More research is required here, although most of the states with the new restrictions were not battlegrounds, so it's not clear whether it would have ultimately changed the Electoral College result.
Hillary Clinton looks on course to win the popular vote, although only by a slender margin. That would be only the fifth time in American history that the losing candidate in a presidential election has got more votes than the winner.
So things might have been very different if the Electoral College system had been scrapped.
But if a campaign as well-funded and slick as Clinton's (remember how much we heard about her superior "ground game"?) could not get out its vote in swing states then, you might argue, it really didn't deserve to win.


Ernesto Valverde will not coach Athletic Bilbao next season, the Basque club announced, with strong speculation he is to take over at Barcelona.

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu says he will announce on Monday the board's decision about who will replace Luis Enrique.
Former Barca player Valverde, 53, guided Athletic to eighth place in La Liga this season.
He previously managed Barcelona's city rivals Espanyol.
At a news conference to confirm he was leaving Bilbao, Valverde said: "Right now I have no commitment to any team even though there are teams that have been interested in me.
"Athletic is my club, first I say goodbye to them and then I'll think of another team.
"I will not talk about other teams here and now."


Warplanes have carried out fresh air strikes on Aleppo, hours after Syria's government announced an offensive to retake rebel-held areas of the city.

Syrian and Russian planes were pounding eastern Aleppo, according to activists. A rescue worker described what was  happening as "annihilation".
The government has urged people to avoid positions held by rebels. Russia has not confirmed its involvement.
US-Russian talks to revive a collapsed truce have broken up without progress.
Russia supports the Syrian government, while the US backs the opposition. The two powers accuse each other of failing to rein in their respective allies on the ground.
The White Helmets, a Syrian volunteer rescue group, says dozens of air strikes were carried out in Aleppo on Friday morning.
The group says the centres set up to help victims of bombardments were being targeted, and three out of four had been put out of action.
The Al Jazeera news agency tweeted that its bureau in the city had been partly destroyed.
Announcing the new offensive on state television late on Thursday, the Syrian government warned Aleppo residents to "stay away" from "terrorist positions".
Syrian military sources said a ground offensive would follow.
One told the Agence France-Presse news agency that the bombardment "could go on for hours or days before the ground operation starts. The timing of the ground operation will depend on the results of the strikes".
Army officials said there would be exit points for anyone, including rebels, who wanted to flee.
Russian and Syrian commanders - always sceptical about the merits of the ceasefire - now appear to have been given a green light to sort out the Aleppo problem once and for all.
Imagery of the shattered city presents a gaunt vista in which thousands of innocent people remain trapped on both sides. Targeted attacks by government forces against medical and civil defence facilities add another element of horror to the situation.
The fact that this new onslaught is taking place against a backdrop of the total failure in the US and Russian brokered efforts to implement a ceasefire in Syria is also significant. In the wake of this failure there is a good degree of bitterness on all sides.
This provides space for the stepping up of military action on the ground. Indeed the pause may well have enabled government forces to reposition in key areas and to improve intelligence gathering.
The government's warning came after days of air strikes on Aleppo. Syria declared the week-long ceasefire over on Monday.
Residents told the BBC earlier this week that barrel bombs had struck rebel-held districts, causing many fires. Dozens of civilians were reported to have been killed.
Islamic State and the crisis in Iraq and Syria in maps
Thursday night's meeting in New York brought together members of the International Syria Support Group, which includes the US, Russia and other powers.
After the talks broke down without agreement, UN envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura described them as "painful and disappointing".
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington could not be the only one trying to hold open the door to peace.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused US-backed rebels of ignoring the truce, and said  a new one would amount to a "unilateral pause".
Also on Thursday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied claims that he was responsible for the ongoing fighting.
In an interview with the Associated Press news agency, he reaffirmed his government's position that a deadly strike on an aid convoy in Aleppo on Monday had not been carried out by Syrian or Russian planes.
Mr Assad also ridiculed concern about the army's use of barrel bombs, saying: "What's the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it's about how to use it. When you use armament... you kill terrorists in order to defend civilians."


The International Criminal Court (ICC) has summoned Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to appear before the tribunal on 8 October.

Judges want to question him over claims that his government has withheld documents requested by prosecutors preparing his crimes against humanity trial.
The trial has already been delayed several times.
Mr Kenyatta denies organising ethnic massacres after elections in 2007.
Some 1,200 people were killed and 600,000 driven from their homes.
Two weeks ago, prosecutors asked for the case against him to be adjourned indefinitely, saying they did not have enough evidence because of obstruction by the Kenyan government.
President Kenyatta has repeatedly argued he needs to remain in Kenya to fight militants from the al-Shabab group and take care of state affairs.
In a statement, the ICC said discussions with Mr Kenyatta would focus on "the status of co-operation between the prosecution and the Kenyan government".
African leaders have lobbied for the case to be dropped, accusing the ICC of only investigating alleged atrocities in Africa.
Mr Kenyatta's lawyers have repeatedly said the whole case should be dropped because of a lack of evidence.
Mr Kenyatta was elected in 2013, despite facing the charges. Analysts said he turned the prosecution to his advantage, portraying it as foreign intervention in Kenya's domestic affairs.
In 2007, Mr Kenyatta was a close ally of President Mwai Kibaki, who was declared the election winner despite claims of fraud from his rival Raila Odinga.
The disputes soon turned violent, with targeted killings along ethnic lines, pitting members of the Kikuyu ethnic group of Mr Kenyatta and Mr Kibaki against other communities.
Mr Kenyatta is accused of organising an ethnic Kikuyu gang, the Mungiki sect, to attack rival groups.
His Vice-President, William Ruto, faces similar charges, although he was on Mr Odinga's side during the violence.


Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a hat-trick as Paris St-Germain warmed up for their Champions League tie with Manchester City with a comfortable win over Nice.

Ibrahimovic put the French champions ahead from an awkward angle after David Luiz's pass before Hatem Ben Arfa equalised with a deflected effort.
However, the Swede curled in a free-kick to restore the hosts' lead and Luiz headed in a third from a corner.
Ibrahimovic netted his third goal after being put through by Adrien Rabiot.
It means the 34-year-old striker, who has been linked with a move to the Premier League in the summer, has now scored 30 goals in 26 Ligue 1 games this season.
PSG - who clinched the Ligue 1 title in March with eight games to spare - are 25 points ahead of second-placed Monaco and are next in action on Wednesday when they take on Manchester City at home in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final.


World champion Stuart Bingham is taking inspiration from his surprise victory last year as he looks to end the "Crucible Curse" in Sheffield.

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No first-time winner has successfully defended the World Championship at the venue, but the Essex potter sees no reason why he cannot end the hoodoo.
Bingham gets the showpiece event under way against Ali Carter on Saturday and wants to prove people wrong once again.
"I've still had people saying it was fluke," Bingham, 39, told BBC Sport
"But I would love to see people fluke beating Ronnie O'Sullivan, Judd Trump, Graeme Dott, and then Shaun Murphy in the final. That's obviously what you get; you get some haters.
"People wrote me off last year and said I couldn't win it, so who's to say I can't win it again?"
No sinking feeling
World number two Bingham beat Murphy to win the sport's biggest prize in 2015 and, almost a year on, he is still coming to terms with his life-changing victory.
"To be honest I don't think it has sunk in yet," the Basildon-born potter said.
"Graeme Dott [the 2006 world champion] said to me that it might be one of those that only does sink in when your career ends and you look back at what you have won and think 'wow'."
And even though Bingham has not won a tournament this season, being world champion has been "special" and he feels he has been getting back to his best in recent weeks.
He reached the semi-finals in the Shanghai Masters in the early stages of the season and the last four at the Masters in January, when he lost to Ronnie O'Sullivan.
A run to the final of the World Grand Prix last month saw him lose a final-frame thriller to Murphy and he then backed up that performance by making the last eight at the China Open.
"The last two or three tournaments I have felt like my game is there," Bingham added. "I showed some grit against Shaun and somehow got to 9-9. It shows I am in there and fighting.
"With the year I had the confidence isn't as high as I wanted it be but I am winning matches again."
Whatever happens in Sheffield, Bingham knows he has already joined a select club and that stepping out as reigning world champion at the Crucible will be another "fantastic" moment.
"I am looking forward to going back. I don't know how it will be walking out there and being introduced as world champion," he added.
"It will be a bit weird and there will be a big pressure. I will have emotions flying everywhere so I am just going to enjoy it like I did last year and see what happens.
"To get my name engraved on that trophy forever means more than the money."


Tottenham and England left-back Danny Rose has undergone exploratory surgery on his left knee, delaying his return from injury until next season.

Rose, 26, has not played since damaging medial ligaments at Sunderland on 31 January but had been expected to return before the end of the season.
He recently returned to training but it was discovered "the problem has not resolved fully", a club statement read.
"Therefore a decision has been made to proceed to surgery."
Rose made 21 appearances for Spurs this season, 18 of those in the league, and scored two goals.


The crew of a US fighter jet were "momentarily disorientated" when a laser beam was directed at the plane as it landed in Suffolk.

The US Air Force confirmed the beam was pointed at one of its F-15 Strike Eagle jets as it approached RAF Lakenheath on Wednesday night.
A spokeswoman said although the green light did not hit any of the crew in the eyes they were temporarily disorientated.
The jet landed safely, she said.
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"The aircrew saw what they recognised to be a laser reflecting off the aircraft.
"If you can imagine a laser pointer, that's what our aircrew saw, only it was amplified in intensity and size," the spokeswoman said.
Directing a laser at a jet could cause a plane to crash resulting in casualties not just to the crew but to members of the public on the ground, she warned.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said targeting military aircraft with lasers was "rare", but added: "Such attacks jeopardise flight safety and are a civil offence.
"These events are recorded and reported to the civilian police for action."
Between January 2009 and June 2015 more than 8,998 laser incidents were reported to the UK Civil Aviation Authority.
How dangerous are lasers to planes?
Last month a Virgin Atlantic flight heading to New York turned back to London Heathrow Airport after a laser beam was shone into the cockpit.
The airline said it was a "precautionary measure" after the co-pilot reported feeling unwell.
Under article 222 of the Air Navigation Order 2009 offenders can charged with "shining a light at an aircraft in flight so as to dazzle or distract the pilot".
Between 2010 and 2014, 199 people were convicted of the offence in the UK.
It is not an offence to possess a laser, but the National Police Air Service wants stronger laws in the UK to crack down on the purchase and use of lasers.


Romelu Lukaku and Eden Hazard scored as Belgium came from behind to beat Norway in their final game before Euro 2016.

After Everton striker Lukaku's fiercely struck opener from outside the box, Bournemouth's Joshua King levelled.
Veton Berisha profited from static defending as Norway then led, but Hazard deftly headed in an equaliser and Laurent Ciman got the winner.
Meanwhile, Russia, who begin their Euro 2016 campaign against England on Saturday, drew 1-1 with Serbia.
They were denied victory by an 88th-minute equaliser from Newcastle striker Aleksandar Mitrovic, having taken the lead through Artem Dzyuba in the 85th minute.
Earlier, Czech Republic suffered a 2-1 home defeat by South Korea in their final warm-up game.
Yoon Bit-garam and Suk Hyun-jun gave the away side a 2-0 half-time lead before Marek Suchy got one back and Theodor Gebre Selassie was sent off for a second yellow card.
Match ends, Belgium 3, Norway 2.
Second Half ends, Belgium 3, Norway 2.
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Belgium).
Ruben Jenssen (Norway) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Divock Origi (Belgium).
Jonas Svensson (Norway) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner,  Norway. Conceded by Marouane Fellaini.
Substitution, Belgium. Mousa Dembélé replaces Eden Hazard.
Romelu Lukaku (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ruben Jenssen (Norway).
Laurent Ciman (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Valon Berisha (Norway).
Attempt missed. Marouane Fellaini (Belgium) header from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Eden Hazard with a cross following a corner.
Substitution, Norway. Alexander Sørloth replaces Joshua King.
Corner,  Belgium. Conceded by Jonas Svensson.
Substitution, Belgium. Divock Origi replaces Dries Mertens.
Attempt missed. Valon Berisha (Norway) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ruben Jenssen.
Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Jonas Svensson (Norway) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Eden Hazard (Belgium) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jonas Svensson (Norway).
Jordan Lukaku (Belgium) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jordan Lukaku (Belgium).
Markus Henriksen (Norway) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hand ball by Ruben Jenssen (Norway).
Offside, Belgium. Thibaut Courtois tries a through ball, but Kevin De Bruyne is caught offside.
Substitution, Norway. Ruben Jenssen replaces Stefan Johansen.
Radja Nainggolan (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Markus Henriksen (Norway).
Goal!  Belgium 3, Norway 2. Laurent Ciman (Belgium) header from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Toby Alderweireld with a headed pass following a corner.
Substitution, Norway. Stefan Strandberg replaces Ole Selnaes.
Substitution, Norway. Iver Fossum replaces Veton Berisha.
Corner,  Belgium. Conceded by Haitam Aleesami.
Attempt blocked. Romelu Lukaku (Belgium) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Dries Mertens (Belgium) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Jordan Lukaku.
Attempt missed. Jordan Lukaku (Belgium) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left misses to the right. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Goal!  Belgium 2, Norway 2. Eden Hazard (Belgium) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.
Corner,  Norway. Conceded by Toby Alderweireld.
Attempt blocked. Joshua King (Norway) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Markus Henriksen.
Substitution, Norway. Valon Berisha replaces Adama Diomande.


Pope Francis is removing the commander of the Swiss Guards, with the pontiff reportedly unhappy at the officer's strict authoritarian style.

The news that Daniel Anrig would not be continuing as commander was published in the Vatican's daily newspaper.
He will leave the Vatican after Christmas at the end of an eight-year stint, and be replaced by his deputy.
Since his election Pope Francis has made efforts to reform the Church and make it more open.
The notice in the L'Osservatore Romano said: "The holy father has ordered that Colonel Daniel Rudolf Anrig end his term on 31 January, at the conclusion of the extension of his mandate."
Col Anrig's approach has riled colleagues, with one Swiss Guard telling Italian media "this is the end of a dictatorship", on news of his departure.
No official reason has been given for the dismissal by the Vatican.
The 110-strong Swiss Guard are responsible for the personal security of the Pope.
They have served the papacy for five centuries, first coming to Rome to protect Pope Julius II in 1506.
Pope Francis, according to Vatican sources, is unhappy at the Swiss officer's excessively strict military discipline imposed on his non-commissioned officers and men.
Colonel Anrig was head of a criminal investigation team in Switzerland before his appointment by former Pope Benedict in 2006.
He was investigated by the Swiss Red Cross and by Amnesty International for alleged human rights violations during a raid he led on an immigrants' refugee centre in 2003, but has denied any wrongdoing.
Pope Francis is apparently also unhappy at the commander's refurbishment of a large and luxurious penthouse apartment for his family above the barracks inside the Vatican where the Swiss Guards are quartered.
The Pope has a relaxed relationship with his security staff, knows most of them by name, and often accepts only reluctantly the advice of those who warn him of possible dangers to his life from lax security arrangements.


Ned Eckersley hit his third century in a week as Leicestershire enjoyed a fine day with the bat against Northants.

Leicestershire struggled early on as Ben Sanderson (6-58) took three wickets for nine runs in just five overs.
Eckersley hit 107 in 160 balls, including 11 fours and two sixes, as he helped Leicestershire to reach 519.
The visitors took two early wickets before Rob Keogh put on 91 for the third wicket with Rob Newton, who had made 69 when Northants closed on 142-4.
After his 117 and 104 against Derbyshire, Eckersley became just the third Leicestershire batsman in their history to score a century in three consecutive innings.
Leicestershire batsman Ned Eckersley told BBC Radio Leicester:
"There's been some sticky periods for me where I haven't got the runs I wanted so it's great to come here and put us in a good position.
"Ben and I managed to switch momentum and put them back under pressure. Ben was brave and we got into a good flow and made a big stand.
"The wickets at the end of the day give us something to go into tomorrow. There's definitely some spin there and a couple a turning off the straight so that's positive signs for us."