The Belfast Giants will face a 5-3 deficit in the home second leg of their Challenge Cup semi-final with Cardiff.

Sunday's first leg was tied at 2-2 after two periods with Trevor Hendrikx and Ryan Russell on target for the hosts and James Desmarais and David Rutherford getting Belfast's replies.
Kris Beech scored the third Belfast Giants goal in Sunday's first leg.
But Guillaume Doucet, Leigh Salters and Joey Haddad netted to put the Devils in pole position for the return leg.
The second leg will be staged at the SSE Arena in Belfast on Tuesday, 23 February, with the final in Sheffield on 6 March.
Cardiff are the holders, having beaten the Sheffield Steelers in last year's final, while Belfast last won the Challenge Cup in 2009.


A patient suffering breathing problems spent 16 hours on a trolley at a hospital that hours later was put on "black alert", her daughter claims.

The woman was admitted to the Royal Cornwall Hospital last Monday, and was also told no pillows were available for her, her daughter said.
The black alert, the highest level the NHS issues, was declared on Tuesday and is still in place.
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has not yet commented.
The woman, who is aged in her mid-60s and did not want to be named, was discharged from the hospital on Friday.
Her daughter said she remained on a trolley from about 20:00 GMT on Monday until 12:00 on Tuesday, during which time she was moved between the A&E department and the Medical Admissions Unit.
She also had to sit in a chair for about 30 minutes while a bed was found, her daughter claimed.
The "black alert" at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, which covers St Michael's in Hayle, West Cornwall Hospital in Penzance and The Royal Cornwall at Treliske, applies to the whole health and social care system in Cornwall.
So far during the alert 280 beds have been blocked by people who were fit to leave but had no care package in place.
On Monday, trust bosses decided the alert should remain because of severe pressure on the service.


French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said he will sue for libel after a senior police officer said she was harassed to change her report on the Nice terror attack.

The policewoman, Sandra Bertin, was in charge of security cameras.
She said she had been told to report the presence of national police units, although she had not seen them.
More than 80 people died when a lorry struck crowds celebrating Bastille Day on 14 July.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the attack, which was carried out by a Tunisian man, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel.
Ms Bertin told the Journal du Dimanche (in French) she had been instructed by an interior ministry official to report the presence of national police units on the seaside Promenade des Anglais at the time of the attack.
"The national police were perhaps there, but I couldn't see them on the video," Ms Bertin said.
She told the Journal du Dimanche she had also been "harassed for an hour" by Mr Cazeneuve on the phone.
The interior ministry says there were 64 members of the national police on the seafront - as per arrangements with Nice city hall.
But the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says Nice city hall believes some of these national police had been replaced by municipal police -  who were more lightly armed and less able to intervene to stop the killer.
The suspicion - denied vehemently in Paris - is that there has been a cover-up, our correspondent says.
Mr Cazeneuve said he would sue for defamation over the "grave accusations".
The government has faced criticism for not preventing the attack, at a time when France was in a state of emergency following the extremist attacks in Paris in November last year.
French ministers were booed when they attended a ceremony in Nice to remember the victims.
President Francois Hollande said on Friday he had "full confidence" in Mr Cazeneuve.
Last week, local authorities in Nice refused a request by French anti-terror police to destroy CCTV images of the attack.
The Paris prosecutor's office said the request had been made to avoid the "uncontrolled dissemination" of images.
But officials in Nice responded by filing a legal document, arguing the footage could constitute evidence.


New Jersey governor and former Republican candidate Chris Christie is endorsing frontrunner Donald Trump for president, he has announced.

Mr Christie dropped out of the 2016 presidential race after a lacklustre showing in polls and state races.
"I'm happy to be on the Trump team and I look forward to working with him," said Mr Christie during a press conference.
Mr Trump gives Republicans the best chance to win the White House, he adds.
He said junior senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, both running for president, were "unprepared" for the job.
There is "no question" that Mr Trump will turn around Washington, Mr Christie continued, and keep Democratic candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from winning the White House.
If Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio generated any momentum from their ferocious attacks on Donald Trump during Thursday night's Republican debate, that's all gone now.
Mr Christie's endorsement allows Mr Trump to boast that he's drawing bona fide support from mainstream Republican officeholders - and not just a ragtag collection of politicians on the fringes of the party.
The New Jersey governor will help assure voters wary of Mr Trump's brash style that he's an acceptable candidate. He can also serve as an attack dog, tearing into Mr Rubio the way he did during that fateful debate in New Hampshire.
The Christie endorsement could signal a new phase of Mr Trump's presidential campaign, when prominent politicians begin to make peace with the reality of a Trump nomination.
Mr Christie, and others, may see a benefit to being among the first major figures on board the Trump bandwagon. Already rumours are floating that former candidate Mike Huckabee is on the verge of joining Mr Trump's ranks as well.
This is what happens when a frontrunner draws close to victory. And just because the man approaching the finish line is Donald Trump doesn't make it any less true.
Frontrunner Donald Trump, a businessman from New York, is leading in many state polls and has already won three consecutive state contests in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, despite never having worked in politics.
He shouldered some criticism from Mr Rubio and Mr Cruz at a Republican debate on Thursday but it is not yet clear whether this has hurt his popularity.
"He is rewriting the playbook of American politics because he's providing strong leadership that is not dependent upon the status quo," Mr Christie said of Mr Trump.
"I will lend my support between now and November in every way that I can for Donald, to help to make this campaign an even better campaign than it's already been."
Mr Rubio, the Florida Senator, continued to assail Mr Trump the morning after the debate.
He told CBS: "A con artist is about to take over the Republican Party and the conservative movement, and we have to put a stop to it."
And at a morning rally in Dallas, he mocked the Republican front-runner about his misspelled tweets and said he had seen Mr Trump having a "meltdown" backstage at the debate.


Boreham Wood climbed out of the relegation places after a surprise victory over promotion-chasing Dover.

The hosts took the lead at Meadow Park within three minutes as Jamie Lucas turned the ball in after Clovis Kamdjo's shot was blocked.
Just before half-time Boreham Wood doubled their lead as Danny Haynes headed in Conor Clifford's cross.
Lucas sealed all three points for the home side meeting Junior Morias' cross to score his second of the afternoon.
Dover remain in the final play-off place in fifth, only ahead of Braintree on goal difference, while Boreham Wood moved a point clear of Altrincham in 21st - who have a game in hand.


The author of a book about the Borders to Edinburgh railway has said tourist and leisure passengers could be "a crucial factor" in its success.

David Spaven said that was in contrast with the original "downbeat verdict" on the route's potential for such traffic.
He welcomed recent Scottish government backing for the important market and the "scenic qualities" of the line.
Mr Spaven also praised the Campaign for Borders Rail for pressing the case for the tourist potential of the route.
The multi-million pound rail link between Tweedbank in the Borders and Edinburgh is scheduled to open to passengers in September.
Mr Spaven, the author of Waverley Route: The battle for the Borders Railway, claimed original feasibility studies had been "incredibly lukewarm" about tourist potential.
However, the writer said that half-hourly services from Edinburgh to the Borders plus timetable provision for tourist charter trains could help the railway exceed passenger targets.
"The official traffic forecasts for the line are very conservative, equating to fewer than three passengers per train at Galashiels and at Tweedbank," he said.
"Traffic modelling techniques really haven't been able to address the non-commuting markets adequately."
He claimed there were "real concerns" about commuter use of the line due to journey times and reliability problems but he said the tourist market might be "more tolerant" of any issues.
"With the added attraction of the Great Tapestry of Scotland visitor centre to be located adjacent to Tweedbank station, my feeling is that tourist and leisure passengers to the Borders stations and to Newtongrange - for the National Mining Museum - could be the key to the railway exceeding its patronage forecasts," he said.
Mr Spaven criticised the design of Stow station but praised the CBR for campaigning for an extension to the platform and tracks at Tweedbank to accommodate 12-coach charter trains.
"It would be good to see the key successes of Borders rail campaigners - largely unsung over the years - properly acknowledged during the reopening celebrations on 4 to 6 September," he added.
Last year, the then First Minister Alex Salmond said one million passengers a year could be using the Borders to Edinburgh railway within five years of it reopening.
He said the "likely estimate" of commuters using the route was about 650,000-a-year.
He said that an additional 350,000 visitors using the line to travel from Edinburgh through Midlothian to the Borders would make it the most successful scenic railway in the UK.
Meanwhile, VisitScotland has announced it is investing ??367,000 in a "unique international marketing campaign" to put the new Borders Railway on the map.
The funding has been given to the national tourism organisation by the Scottish government, Scottish Borders Council and Midlothian Council to promote the "longest new domestic railway to open in the UK for over a century".
What do you think? Could the tourist use of the Borders railway actually be greater than its commuter potential? Have you bought a house in the area to take advantage of the new line or would you be tempted to take a leisure trip along the route? Email:selkirk.news@bbc.co.uk
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A man has been charged with four attempted murders after four women were stabbed near a supermarket car park in south-west London.

Ethem Aydin Orhon, 66, of Deacons Walk, Hampton, will appear in custody at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court later.
He is charged with four counts of attempted murder and one of possession of an offensive weapon following the incident in Hampton on Friday.
The four women are still in hospital and all are in a stable condition.
Police were called at about 10:30 BST on Friday to The Avenue in Hampton, Richmond-Upon Thames, close to a Sainsbury's supermarket.
Three women were found with stab injuries at the store's car park. A fourth woman was found at a property nearby.
London Ambulance Service said the women were treated at the scene for stab wounds to the chest, legs and back.
One of the victims, aged 53, was taken to a major trauma centre by an air ambulance while three others, aged 67, 62 and 71 years old were taken by road to a south London hospital as "priority".


Fire crews have tackled a blaze on a bus in south-west London.

The emergency services were called to tackle flames on the 371 bus on High Street, Kingston, at about 09:00 GMT.
The driver was treated at the scene by crews from the London Ambulance Service for the effects of breathing in smoke before being taken to hospital
No passengers needed treatment. Local properties were evacuated as a precaution and road closures put in place, a spokesperson for the Met said.
The fire was brought under control by London Fire Brigade.  Its cause is not yet known.


Welsh Labour is "not jaded or complacent" after four terms in government, the first minister has said.

Carwyn Jones said his party had delivered its promises despite "record breaking" cuts from Westminster.
"We've seen Aston Martin coming to Wales... unemployment lower than London, Scotland and Northern Ireland", he told The Wales Report.
He added he was "proud" of his party's achievements.
Attacking his political opponents, he said: "Some people will say: 'well its another election, people need to look at a change'.
"People change their car, but you wouldn't change your car for an old banger, which is what the other parties offer."
"We've got the drive, got the energy, got the momentum, and that will continue past May."
Speaking about the unveiling of the ealternative draft Wales Bill earlier this week, the Mr Jones said: "The UK government had the chance, put a bill on the table [but] it was so flawed that nobody supported it, literally.
"Above all else Scotland gets certainty, Wales gets fudge. And we don't want that in the future. Why on earth should Wales be put in a worse position than Scotland when it comes to people understanding exactly what the national assembly can do?"


Russian jets are reported to have intensified attacks on Syrian rebel positions, hours before a cessation of hostilities is due to come into force.

Russia said it was continuing to bomb "terrorists" in parts of Syria.
Earlier, almost 100 rebel factions agreed to respect the truce, the main Syrian opposition group has said.
The High Negotiations Committee (HNC) said Free Syrian Army factions and the armed opposition had signed up to the truce from midnight (22:00 GMT).
The temporary "cessation of hostilities" involves government and rebel forces - but not the so-called Islamic State (IS) group and the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. On Friday, Nusra Front urged its supporters to intensify attacks against President Bashar al-Assad and his allies.
Meanwhile, UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura said that peace talks would resume on 7 March, if the fighting stops and aid is delivered as planned.
Warring parties in Syria were meant to make their intentions known by midday Friday ahead of the pause in fighting.
Announcing the intentions of rebel factions, the HNC said the Syrian government and its allies must not use the "proposed text to continue the hostile operations against the opposition factions under the excuse of fighting terrorism".
The stage is set for the potential implementation of some kind of a ceasefire in Syria.
The Syrian government, the Russians, the US and its allies, along with just under 100 rebel groups, all appear willing to come on board.
But if it goes into effect at all, this "cessation of hostilities" - some prefer to call it a temporary truce - is going to be incomplete, partial, and fundamentally fragile.
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Overnight, Russian air strikes which were "more intense than usual" hit rebel bastions including Eastern Ghouta east of Damascus, northern Homs province and western Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
"It's more intense than usual," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman was quoted by news agency AFP as saying. "It's as if they [the Russians and the government] want to subdue rebels in these regions or score points before the ceasefire."
The Observatory said the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Douma had also suffered heavy air strikes on Friday, killing eight people, four of them children.
It said the Syrian government had also shelled the area, which is a stronghold of the Army of Islam rebel group.
But Russian President Vladimir Putin said his forces were targeting IS, Nusra Front and other extremist groups designated as legitimate targets by the UN Security Council,  adding that "the decisive fight against them" would "without doubt, be continued".
Turkey said the Russian and government strikes in the run-up to the cessation gave "serious concerns".
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, said Turkey had "played an active role" in drafting the ceasefire but "the fact that Russian planes' bombardments and Assad's forces' attacks on the ground have been continuing... gives us serious concerns about the future of the ceasefire".
The cessation has been brokered by the US and Russia but scepticism has lingered over the plan.
BBC Arab affairs editor Sebastian Usher says all sides have made it clear they will fight if attacked.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed "great concern" over fresh reports that pro-government forces had dropped barrel bombs on the Damascus suburb of Darayya.
He urged all parties "to refrain from steps that could endanger the ceasefire so close to it coming into effect".
Earlier, US President Barack Obama said the success of the cessation would depend on whether warring parties including the Syrian government, Russia and their allies lived up to their commitments.
Attacks needed to end, he said, and humanitarian aid had to be allowed through to desperate civilians.
"The coming days will be critical and the world will be watching," he added.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he hoped the US would also respect the truce.
More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed in nearly five years of civil war. Millions more have been displaced.


The Serie A match between AC Milan and Roma on Sunday was halted because of racist chanting inside the San Siro.

Play was stopped for about two minutes at the beginning of the second half after chants aimed at Milan's black players from the visiting supporters.
Roma captain Francesco Totti, who had complained to the referee about the chants, then went to speak to the fans.
An announcement was made ordering the chants to cease before play resumed, with the game going on to end goalless.
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Former Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli and Kevin-Prince Boateng were part of the Milan team.
A friendly between Milan and Pro Patria in January was suspended because of racist chants aimed at Boateng.
Following that incident, the Italian Football Federation introduced new rules to help referees deal with racist behaviour.
Officials can stop play and ask for stadium announcements to be made.
Should any such announcements fail to have an effect on offenders, match and stadium officials are authorised to abandon the game.
In March, Fifa announced the formation of a new taskforce designed to tackle discrimination in the game.
Boateng, English referee Howard Webb and Football Association chief executive David Bernstein are all members.


Motorbikes have caused damage which will cost "thousands of pounds" to repair at one of Nottinghamshire's most famous golf courses.

It is believed the bikes were driven onto Notts. Golf Club, also known as Hollinwell, on Sunday afternoon.
Members have estimated there are "ditches" up to nine inches (23cm) deep across the green.
Captain Stewart England said the course - one of the top 100 in England - has had issues with bikes for a long time.
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"Two motorbikes, we think, went onto [the] golf course and totally wrecked it," Mr England said. "It's really badly damaged and will cost tens of thousands of pounds to put right.
"The green has - what I would only term as ditches, created by motorcycle rear wheels being spun at such a speed that they've dug into the ground about eight or nine inches.
"It has to be seen to be believed really, the amount of mindless damage that's been caused."
Mr England said the damaged area would be out of action for "probably months".
"It's ranked amongst the top courses and people come from all over the world to play it," Mr England said. "It really is a shame that people can do this sort of damage without any thought."
A Nottinghamshire Police spokesman said: "This matter has been reported to us and we are liaising with the owners of the golf course."
Anyone with any information on the vandalism is asked to contact the force.


Squatters branded a "security risk" to the Queen have been evicted from a mansion close to Buckingham Palace.

About 30 people were removed from the seven-storey building on Buckingham Gate at around 04:00 GMT.
Bailiffs were called to the property after an application for eviction was made to the High Court on Friday.
The Met said it was concerned the occupiers could see into the royal grounds if they accessed the roof of an adjoining building.
Court documents seen by the Press Association showed a Metropolitan Police royal specialist protection officer raised the "potential security risk" posed by the group.
Snipers stationed on the roof of Wellington Barracks were also in "regular contact" with the owner of the building next-door to raise concerns about the view into the palace gardens from the roof, the document said.
But one of the protesters insisted they were not "going to do anything".
Daniel, one of the 30 people who had been 19 Buckingham Gate, which is believed to be owned by a Bahraini national, said: "It was pretty unprecedented. To just wake up and you are surrounded by bailiffs, they came in stealth mode.
"I opened my eyes to bailiffs on the staircase."
He described the operation as a "swift and silent eviction", adding: "I didn't see them (the bailiffs) turn on the lights until I was outside at the door."
He added he had never experienced an eviction executed so quietly and with such a number of bailiffs.
Asked whether they would move into another property in the Buckingham Palace area, Daniel said: "We have to stay in the area... it would be nice to continue with it."
The squatters, who call themselves the Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians, have occupied a series of properties in Belgravia, west London, since the start of the year, having been evicted from an empty mansion in Eaton Square believed to have be owned by Russian oligarch Andrey Goncharenko on 1 February.
The group say one of their aims is to highlight the number of empty properties in that part of London, which it believes could be used to accommodate the homeless.
Video footage posted on Twitter by Occupy London shows the protesters leaving the building, which they had re-branded the Rogue Embassy.
Within some of the footage, a man can be heard describing how squatting 100 metres from Buckingham Palace was the "basic aim" of the protest.
Signs stapled to the door of the property, state it is now being protected by a private security firm.


North Wales has been chosen as one of the best places in the world to visit.

Travel guide Lonely Planet named it fourth in a list of best regions to visit in 2017.
Surf Snowdonia, Penrhyn Quarry's zip lines and the underground trampoline in Blaenau Ffestiniog are all mentioned in the guide as attractions in the area.
Tom Hall, Lonely Planet's editorial director, said: "It's a stunning area with a vast array of activities on offer to keep travellers entertained."
North Wales was ranked higher than areas including Aysen in Chile, the Tuamotus in French Polynesia and coastal Georgia in the USA - Choquequiro in Peru took the top spot.
Mr Hall added: "We included north Wales in this year's list of top 10 regions because it deserves to be recognised on the global stage. North Wales is a gem and should be on every traveller's radar."
1. Choquequirao, Peru
2. Taranaki, New Zealand
3. The Azores, Portugal
4. North Wales
5. South Australia
6. Aysen, Chile
7. The Tuamotus, French Polynesia
8. Coastal Georgia, USA
9. Perak, Malaysia
10. The Skellig Ring, Ireland


The number of A&E visits in England soared by more than 400,000 in 2014, figures show.

The College of Emergency Medicine said that was the equivalent of filling an extra nine emergency departments.
The Health Select Committee has been taking evidence after the worst waiting times in A&E for a decade and many hospitals declaring "major incidents".
Doctors said it was "absurd" to blame patients, who were advised to go to A&E by services including NHS 111.
The committee heard the reasons for the surge in demand were "many, varied and complex", but staff were doing a "heroic" job.
Figures for England showed 92.6% of patients had been seen within four hours during the October-to-December quarter. The target is 95%.
Then, last week, data for the start of the new year showed the proportion had dropped to a new weekly low of 86.7%.
The figures include walk-in centres and minor injury units. Once you strip them out, just one in seven major A&E units are hitting the target.
Data from NHS England shows there were over 14.6m visits to A&E in 2014 - an increase of 446,049 on 2013.
Dr Clifford Mann, the president of the College of Emergency Medicine, told the committee: "Now the interesting thing about that is many people would describe that as only a 3% increase in attendances.
"That's certainly true, but the other way of describing it is to say that's equivalent to eight or nine extra emergency departments and of course we haven't built or staffed eight or nine extra emergency departments in the last 12 months."
Other parts of the UK are also missing the four-hour target with waits in Northern Ireland and Wales even worse than in England.
The four-hour target measures the point from when the patient arrives to when they are treated and discharged, admitted to hospital or transferred to another part of the NHS.
Prof Chris Ham, from The King's Fund health think tank, said there was no simple explanation for the extra pressures on A&E.
He said: "The causes are many, varied and complex. We think the most important causes are outside hospital."
He cited under-investment in GP services and a lack of community services to support people being discharged from hospital.
Dr Mann said it was not the fault of patients, who were often told to go to A&E, including through the helpline service, NHS 111.
He said: "I don't think you should blame people for attending an emergency department when we've told them to go there, it's absurd."
The pressures being felt in A&E are also affecting other parts of the hospital system.
The Government has made much of the Â£700m of extra funding made available to the NHS in England to cope with winter pressures. But has it all reached the frontline?
Doubt was cast on that by Dr Cliff Mann of the College of Emergency Medicine. He told MPs that investment of the money was "geographically patchy".
Chris Ham of the King's Fund ventured that some of the money might be "papering over the cracks" of trusts struggling with deficits.
Dale Bywater of the Trust Development Authority argued that the money had been pledged early and was being closely tracked through the system.
Just how the extra cash for the NHS has been used will continue to be an issue as the debate over the intense pressures on A&E continues.
Delays are also being seen when ambulances hand over patients and inside the hospital when patients need to be found beds and when they are ready to be discharged.
The problems have even led to a number of hospitals declaring major incidents, which means they take steps such as calling in extra staff and cancelling routine operations, such as knee and hip operations.
The committee heard that pressures on A&E would have a knock-on effect on the rest of the health service as priorities shifted to target the four-hour wait.
Prof Ham warned other targets were likely to slip later in the year.
Prof Keith Willett, the director of acute care for NHS England, said: "We have to do a transformation of the whole system with a particular focus on out-of-hospital services being the way to both reduce demand and also alleviate the issues of congestion within the hospital.
"It isn't going to be a quick fix. We have said it will be three to five years to get all of these things in place."


A radioactive gas has been detected at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the facility's operator says.

Tepco said xenon had been found in reactor two, which was previously thought to be near a stable shutdown.
There has been no increase in temperature or pressure, but the discovery may indicate a problem with the reactor.
Boric acid - used to suppress nuclear reactions - has been injected as a precaution.
Ever since the meltdowns in March triggered by the huge earthquake and tsunami, engineers have been working to bring the Fukushima reactors under control.
The government and Tepco - the Tokyo Electric Power Company - have said they are on track to achieve a stable shutdown by the end of the year.
But now they have found what could be a problem - radioactive xenon gas detected in a filter in reactor two.
Since it has a short half-life, it indicates a possibility of resumed nuclear fission in recent days.
Tepco says the temperature of the reactor, which has been below boiling point, has not increased, indicating any reaction would be small.
It is not ruling out a false reading but boric acid, which suppresses fission, was injected into the reactor overnight.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Japan a reactor has been switched on for the first time since the disaster.
Safety fears mean local authorities have been refusing permission for restarts after routine maintenance.
Dozens of facilities are offline amid concern about electricity shortages.


At least 12 members of the Iraqi security forces have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on the former US base of Camp Speicher, outside Tikrit.

There were reports of about five bombers at the camp's western gates. So-called Islamic State (IS) said it carried out the attack.
Most of the dead were police recruits.
The attack comes as IS continue to counterattack on the edges of the city of Ramadi, a week after it was recaptured by Iraqi troops.
The BBC's Thomas Fessy, who has just returned from Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, says there has been heavy fighting in the centre and north-eastern districts of the city, and the Iraqi forces have been taking casualties.
The Iraqi government said a week ago that it had "liberated" Ramadi from IS. The jihadist group had held the city since May.
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The attack on Camp Speicher took place in early hours of Sunday morning. At least 20 police were also injured.
They are reported to be police from Nineveh province, training to take it back from IS.
IS said in a statement that it had carried out the attack, adding that it had targeted "trainers from the rejectionist army", referring to Shia Muslims, Reuters news agency reported.
Camp Speicher was the scene of a massacre by IS of up to 1,700 Iraqi Shia troops during their advance across the region in June 2014, some of which has been reversed.
Iraq's Defence Ministry says IS has stepped up suicide attacks since it lost control of Ramadi.


Celtic forward Gary Mackay-Steven believes the Scottish Premiership title race will go "to the wire" after the champions beat Partick to stay on top.

Leigh Griffiths' 35th goal of the season and a second from Callum McGregor put the visitors in command.
But a Sean Welsh penalty for Thistle with six minutes left made for a nervier finish than anticipated.
"It's never nice when you are hanging on like that but overall I felt we deserved the win," Mackay-Steven said.
"In the first half we created a lot and if we had taken a few more chances, we could have made it a little more comfortable for ourselves.
"But this is never an easy place to come and win, so it is a crucial three points for us.
"It is nice to get them on the board but we know how well Aberdeen are going.  This league is going to go down to the wire. But if we look after ourselves, that is all we can do."
Celtic briefly extended their lead to four points, before Aberdeen closed the gap to one point again after beating Kilmarnock 2-1 later on Saturday.
Manager Ronny Deila felt his side "should have killed the game much before" but was pleased with their overall display.
"It got a bit edgy in the end and their penalty seemed very easy to me but I don't care right now," he told BBC Scotland. "We won the game and that is the most important thing.
"I think we controlled it quite well so there were a lot of positives.  We created a lot of chances and should have killed it at 3-0 before they scored.
"But we know we have got finishers in the team.  We just have to keep on creating and have a lot of energy in the team.  We won ball in a lot of good situations and hit them on the break and created a lot of chances.
"The boys are hungry - you could see that.  I am very happy for the team - they performed well."
It was a third successive defeat - against the top three sides in the league - in the space of eight days for Thistle, but manager Alan Archibald refused to use their punishing schedule as an excuse.
"I think it told mentally (rather than physically) after the second goal went in," he told BBC Scotland. "Then nobody wanted the ball as much as they did before.
"I felt the first half was pretty even and we had a couple of half-chances, but we lost a poor goal and that took the wind out of our sails a bit."
Partick, who remain eighth, six points above the relegation play-off place, now face matches against Hamilton, Kilmarnock and Dundee United - all below them in the table.
"We have got four cup finals before the split," Archibald added.
"If we can apply ourselves in the same manner as these last three games, we will take something from them but we can't have the defensive lapses we had today."


Pollution in London is amongst the worst in Europe and, as I've mentioned before, the mayor and Transport for London (TfL) are trialling all kinds of new technology to get the levels down.

They are already using "dust suppressants" on Upper Thames Street to stick pollution to the road. Now we are getting Green Walls.
The Green Walls are specially designed to trap harmful particulate matter, known as PM10s.
TfL believes the walls will help at hotspots that regularly exceed EU legal limits.
Campaigners believe more needs to be done to deal with the cause of the pollution and reduce the amount of traffic.
The cost of the project is Â£5m from the Department of Transport, but will it work?


Guernsey's hockey team kept up their impressive form as they beat rivals Jersey 1-0 to make the third round of the England Hockey Trophy.

Josh Kendal got the only goal for the Sarnians after 20 minutes.
Kendal missed a penalty flick 10 minutes later and Guernsey had a second goal disallowed just before half time  after a short corner shot was too high.
Jersey almost equalised in the final two minutes, but Guernsey goalkeeper Jake Le Marchant made a good save.
Guernsey are the reigning EH Trophy champions and have made the final for the past five years.
Guernsey are in good form, having secured a tie with Premier League side and former European champions Reading in the third round of the EH Cup.
"We're delighted, that was a tough game, especially in the second half," Guernsey player-coach Andy Whalley told BBC Radio Jersey.
"Jersey came into the ascendency in certain parts of the second half, the last five or 10 minutes we were hanging on."
Jersey's Tom Millar said: "We're disappointed with our performance, especially in the first half, we didn't carry the threat going forward that we might have done."


A teacher who took indecent photos of pupils was not investigated immediately because of a "misinterpretation of an ambiguous phrase", it has been claimed.

In November 2013, Essex Police was given information from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) about Martin Goldberg.
The force did not realise he was a teacher until September this year.
Essex's police commissioner said "an ambiguous phrase" was behind the delay - but refused to clarify what it was.
"It is believed that what went wrong was a misinterpretation of an ambiguous phrase used by CEOP... as they passed the material over," Nick Alston said.
"However, that detail is rightly being looked at by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
"It would be wrong of me to pre-empt that investigation," he added, when asked if he could reveal the phrase used.
Goldberg, deputy head of Thorpe Hall School in Southend, was found dead the day after being interviewed by police.
His name was on a list of 35 intelligence "packages" passed to the force by CEOP 10 months before his death.
The centre had received the information from police in Canada in 2012, after a company selling videos of naked children was investigated.
But he was not identified to Essex Police as "high risk", a force spokesman said.
When they discovered his occupation, officers applied for a search warrant - which was declined - and visited Goldberg at his home.
Mr Alston said Essex Police had changed its policy as a result of Goldberg's case.
He said when intelligence was received, occupation checks would be carried out straight away to determine if they worked with children.
"We needed to identify any key issues immediately, and Essex Police needed to act to address those matters and help protect children from harm as soon as possible," Mr Alston said.
A spokesman for CEOP said he could not comment on the case due to the IPCC investigation.


Former Wales scrum-half Mike Phillips says he could finish his playing career at Sale Sharks.

The 33-year-old will move to the Aviva Premiership club in the summer from Racing 92 on one-year contract.
Phillips was asked by Scrum V Radio if Sale could be the last club he plays for before retiring.
"I don't know - I'll see how it goes really, see how the body feels and see how I perform," said the five-cap British and Irish Lions player.
"I guess I'll be able to tell a few months into it."
Carmarthen-born Phillips has also played for Bayonne, Ospreys, Cardiff Blues and Scarlets.
Wales' most-capped scrum-half, who retired from international rugby in December 2015, will return to Britain after five years in France.
"I've enjoyed every minute of it," Phillips said.
"I really wanted to go back and finish my career in the UK and hopefully finish on a high.
"I've had a chat with a few guys who have played there and obviously the coaching staff and they were really positive.
"I think it's a club moving in the right direction."


With thoughts on how to house Millenials and designs for an airport for drones, the visionary architects and curators at the Venice Architecture Biennale are looking to the future.

"If we're going to talk the talk, we have to walk the walk," insists the Pritzker Prize-winning Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena - curator of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale.
"[The Biennale] is not about the advancement of architecture but about improving the quality of lifeâ€¦ and the way architects try and do that is through the built environment.
"The first thing was to define what are the front lines, what are the challenges, what are the problems?
"Inequality, migration, pollution and the production of waste are the kind of things every single citizen suffers or experiences."
So, instead of "producing more debris", he decided to create the first room of his sprawling exhibition in Venice's Arsenale out of the waste materials from the unwanted exhibition stands used in last year's Art Biennale.
The walls of the room are constructed from 100 tonnes of discarded plasterboard, layered horizontally to look like elegant rows of chalky bricks, while the ceiling shimmers with the effect of a huge mass of misshapen metal studs hanging down like stalactites from above.
For him, "value should not be dependent on the cost of materials, but from the way you deal with them."
It's a point underlined in a modelled plan for how a modern European city might respond, in architectural terms, to a large influx of migrants.
It shows a public realm designed by the architect, around which are a series of low-rise apartment blocks that have been plumbed and wired but have little else - for example, there are no dividing walls or windows.
These, says Aravena, would be supplied by the new resident after taking a trip to the local DIY store. Basic, yes - but far better, he thinks, than a tent in a muddy field pitched on the edge of a city.
His concerns about the practicalities of city living in the 21st Century are echoed in the British Pavilion, which has been commissioned by the British Council.
Three young curators have presented an exhibition that explores possible answers to the country's housing problems.
An over-sized mock-up of the front door to 10 Downing Street sets their show and ideas into a political context, while questioning the Elizabethan notion of a front door for all.
They argue that our attitude to the home needs to change - it shouldn't be how big it is, but how long do you need it for.
Hence, their exhibition starts with A Home For Hours, a crash-pad full of day beds in which resources are pooled for a better quality of life, where domestic appliances, board games, clothes and shoes are shared.
It's an idea that might seem a little far-fetched to some, but for those Millennials who have grown up in an age of student debt and rocketing house prices, it could present a practical solution to a pressing problem.
Another room is a Home for Days, consisting of two "Zorbs", giant spherical inflatables into which you can jump and sleep - the concept being that we already spend so much of our time living in a virtual bubble, why not go the whole hog and live in an actual one?
A Home for Months, meanwhile, is a tiny two-storey tower containing a bed, bathroom and kitchenette - a structure designed to be arranged in rows within a larger room where residents would share communal spaces.
It's a contemporary take on the boarding house: affordable city living for the i-Generation.
The celebrated architect Lord Foster is also in Venice presenting his latest creation - not, this time, a fancy tower block or gorge-spanning bridge, but a modest, vaulted brick-built building which he claims to be the world's smallest airport.
It's the next stage in a project he's being working on for some time, which would see this "drone-port" installed in Rwanda as a base from where remote-controlled machines can take off and deliver much needed supplies to inaccessible areas.
It looks a little like a mud hut, but is actually a highly complex computer-based design that is the result of a partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
With the aid of cutting edge computer science and buried steel tension ropes, the largely self-supporting structure uses a fraction of the materials such a building would normally need and can be made with minimum expertise.
It's a project that fits perfectly with Aravena's vision for this Biennale.
"The scarcer the resources, the greater the need to think creatively about the use of those resources - and that, in the end, is down to mind power, it is creative.
"To build quality projects doesn't mean you have to have costly materials."
The Venice Architecture Biennale runs from 28 May to 27 November 2016.


A highly unusual expedition is under way in the Arctic Ocean where a research vessel has been parked in the ice all winter.

Run by the Norwegian Polar Institute, the mission is exploring the big questions of how the region is changing and what this means for the ice and the wildlife.
This matters because the Arctic is on course to switch at some point this century from having permanent ice-cover to existing in a state where the ice comes and goes with the seasons.
That could open up everything from new shipping lanes to untapped oil and gas fields, and could also alter weather patterns far to the south as well.
A converted fishing vessel, the Lance is now a floating laboratory and the crew and researchers on board have been experiencing the rigours of science in one of the most hostile environments on Earth.
I was given a rare invitation to visit this research outpost five hundred miles from the North Pole, and cameraman Rob Magee, producer Mark Georgiou and I reached the ship after a spectacular journey.
Our starting point was the Arctic islands of Svalbard, which lie far to the north of Norway. There we were given floatation suits for a flight by helicopter out over the ocean.
The journey took us through majestic fjords, some clear of ice but others choked with a patchwork of white and grey fragments.
At one point we passed an old Russian mining settlement, its abandoned buildings standing forlorn against the snow.
After an hour, we crossed the final shoreline of some of the northernmost land on earth and headed out over the Arctic Ocean. If you could keep going from where we were, you would not meet land again until Siberia.
Our destination, the Lance, lay far ahead and, with a long way still to go, the helicopter needed to refuel so the pilots had made a rendezvous with a Norwegian coast guard patrol ship.
We touched down on its deck, the dark blue of the polar waters churning below, and, in the bitter cold, the crew's faces were almost invisible behind helmets and scarves.
The refuelling was carried out with military efficiency. If a country neighbouring the Arctic wants a presence in this region, it needs plenty of hi-tech muscle.
Next on our trek came a long stretch of open water, an area that would have been covered in ice in previous decades and only far in the distance could we see a band of mist marking the edge of the frozen ocean.
Soon we crossed that boundary and were flying over an infinite expanse of white, the snow and ice sculpted into bumps and twists, occasional cracks dividing the floes, ridges showing where those floes had been forced together.
Then came a shout as someone spotted a flash of pale yellow fur bounding over the ice below us - a polar bear, on its own, lumbering but deceptively fast.
After nearly three hours of flying, a pale blue shape emerged from the dazzling landscape - it was the Lance, a lonely outpost of humanity jammed amid the ice at 83 degrees North.
As soon as we climbed out of the helicopter, the effect of the intense cold was stunning. The air temperature at that point was about minus 19C - it was like steeping into a freezer. With vigorous wind, it felt far more brutal.
Every breath produced a cloud of vapour and the sense of entering an icy realm was overwhelming.
A door was opened leading to the bridge and I was welcomed inside, our home for the next few days.


Great Britain's Ben Ainslie said he is "back in the game" but admits he has a fight on his hands if he is to win a fourth Olympic sailing gold medal.

The 35-year-old climbed to second, 10 points behind Jonas Hogh-Christensen of Denmark, after a fourth and a third place on another windy day in Weymouth.
Ainslie is still yet to beat surprise leader Hogh-Christensen, who came first and second in the day's two races.
2008 Beijing: gold - Finn
2004 Athens: gold - Finn
2000 Sydney: gold - Laser
1996 Atlanta: silver - Laser
There are four races of the opening series left to sail.
Ainslie came into the Games as many people's idea of a certainty for gold, but Hogh-Christensen is intent on ruining the Briton's quest to usurp fellow Dane and four-time gold medallist Paul Elvstrom as the most decorated Olympic sailor.
"I was really angry and frustrated yesterday, but today I was back in the game," said Ainslie, who has won three golds and a silver at the Games.
I was really angry and frustrated yesterday, but today I was back in the game
"Jonas is sailing really well, he's having the regatta of his life. All I can do is keep pushing hard and hope he slips up along the way. It's still a long way to go but at some stage I've got to start getting some points back."
Hogh-Christensen, who will go back to his job as commercial director of a concert promoter in Denmark after the Games, said: "I've always had the feeling I could beat Ben on my best day.
"If I can keep that up, there is a good chance I can win. I'm a bit surprised it's going this well, but I always thought I had it in me."
Britain's defending champions Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson tightened their grip on the Star class to lead by four points from Brazilians Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada.
"All we can do is paddle to the end," said Percy, who is the oldest member of the British squad at 36. "We are definitely here to defend our title but it is going to be a fight to the end."
Paul Goodison, who is defending his Olympic Laser title, was in tears because of a back injury that is threatening to end his regatta.
"Hogh-Christensen's speed is a surprise to everyone, but Ben is still going quite well. His speed was good today.
"He would have been worried about his upwind pace yesterday but today he had great upwind pace, apart from Jonas. That is a little bit of a worry but Ben is rock solid. He won't be unnerved by it, he'll just be wondering what he can do, how he can go a bit faster.
"I never underestimate Ben. It's been a long time since I've seen him lose anything, even when things have gone terribly wrong in the beginning."
Despite climbing into 12th place overall with a 16th and a second, Goodison trails runaway leader Tom Slingsby of Australia by 40 points with the worst result to be discarded.
In the RS:X windsurfing classes, Nick Dempsey opened his campaign with a fifth and a seventh for fourth overall, while Bryony Shaw had a seventh and a sixth to sit in sixth.
Weymouth local Dempsey, who won bronze in Athens but came fourth in Beijing, said he was "slightly disappointed" with his first day as he chases the gold that has eluded him in his three previous Games.
"It's steady. I haven't thrown it away, I'm still very much in the competition," said the 31-year-old, who is married to two-time Olympic champion Sarah Ayton.
British 49er duo Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes scored a third in their first race of the day but capsized in race two and finished 18th to remain 12th overall.
Morrison was upbeat despite his impromptu swim, pointing out the unpredictability of the class given that leaders Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen of Australia also capsized.
"There are an awful lot of positives out of a fairly major negative, but we're going very fast and for 99% of the time we're sailing very well," he said. "You can't win a sailing event by panicking. Equally, there's no denying the fact we've got a lot of work to do."
Olympic debutant Alison Young, 22, posted two seconds on day two to lie fourth behind Ireland's Annalise Murphy, who has won all four races.
In the women's Elliott 6m match-racing class, Britain's team of Annie Lush and sisters Lucy and Kate Macgregor won twice to sit in a tie for third in the round-robin stage.


Northern Ireland's economy is relatively "more vulnerable" than other parts of the UK to potentially negative impacts of a withdrawal from the European Union, a new report has said.

It was produced by the Oxford Economics consultancy for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment.
The report says the the main area of vulnerability relates to the high level of trade with the Republic of Ireland.
A referendum on whether the UK should stay in the EU will be held on 23 June.
Other areas of concern highlighted by the report are the relative dependence on foreign investment and the type of manufacturing industry in Northern Ireland.
Oxford Economics considered nine potential scenarios for the UK's trading relationships if it leaves the EU.
In the best case scenario there would be virtually no impact on Northern Ireland economy.
That is described as the "liberal customs union", in which the UK would no longer have to contribute to the EU budget but could not make its own trade deals.
That scenario would see deregulation, tax cuts and only modest restrictions on immigration.
In the worst case, economic output in Northern Ireland would be more than 5% lower in 2030 than it otherwise would have been.
That is described as the "populist most favoured nation" scenario, in which the UK fails to make a free trade deal with the EU, aggressively clamps down on immigration and spends more on public services.
Under a "moderate free trade agreement", in which the UK makes a free trade deal, clamps down on immigration and concentrates on deficit reduction the Northern Ireland economy would still see growth 3% lower than it would otherwise have been in 2030.
Oxford Economics research found that "in any plausible scenario" the UK economy would have its growth curtailed post-exit from the EU.
In eight of the nine scenarios, the Northern Ireland economy would suffer a bigger hit than the UK as a whole.
The consultancy concludes that Northern Ireland would be particularly vulnerable if a free trade agreement could not be made with the EU.
That is mainly because of its "unique characteristic" of sharing a land border with an EU state.
It also reflects Northern Ireland's "reliance on foreign direct investment as a source of financing for investment".


England will play co-hosts Australia on the opening day of the 2015 World Cup.

Pool A is completed by the other co-hosts New Zealand, 1996 winners Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and two associate nations from qualifying tournaments.
Holders India, South Africa, Pakistan, West Indies, Zimbabwe, Ireland and a qualifier are in Pool B.
The tournament starts on 14 February with the final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground - where Pakistan beat England in the 1992 final - on 29 March.
1975 - West Indies
1979 - West Indies
1983 - India
1987 - Australia
1992 - Pakistan
1996 - Sri Lanka
1999 - Australia
2003 - Australia
2007 - Australia
2011 - India
After their opening match against Australia, which will also take place at the MCG, England head to Wellington to face New Zealand six days later.
Alastair Cook's men stay in New Zealand for two more matches, against a qualifier in Christchurch - still rebuilding from an earthquake two years ago - and against Sri Lanka back in Wellington on 1 March.
They then head back to Australia for games against Bangladesh, on 9 March in Adelaide, and the other qualifier in their group, on 13 March in Sydney.
The tournament will follow the same format as the 2011 event with the top four teams from each pool progressing to the quarter-finals.
International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson said the World Cup "is the flagship tournament of the 50-over game".
He added: "I'm absolutely confident that the success of the Cricket World Cup 2015 will further strengthen the status of 50-over cricket as a successful and viable format alongside Tests and Twenty20 internationals."
Australia Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said: "This is one of the biggest events in world sport.
"It will attract cricket fans from around the globe and also promote Australia and our close friend New Zealand internationally - especially in India and other parts of South Asia."
Defending champions India, who beat Sri Lanka in the 2011 final, will begin their campaign against Pakistan in Adelaide on 15 February.
Click here for full fixtures schedule.


Chris and Gabby Adcock are one of those couples that finish each other's sentences.

Some might find it annoying, others cute. But when your significant other is also key to winning Olympic gold, being so perfectly in tune can be essential.
Having been together for 10 years, the Adcocks are finally realising their potential, becoming the first Britons to win a World Superseries title, badminton's equivalent of tennis' ATP Tour finals.
The victory in Dubai came in some style too, cruising to straight-set victories in the semi-finals and final, having topped their group and beaten the world number two pair in the process.
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They also won Commonwealth gold in Glasgow last year and are now targeting a first British Olympic badminton medal since Gail Emms and Nathan Robertson at Athens 2004.
"You get addicted to that success," says 25-year-old Gabby. "It's such a high."
Chris, 26, adds: "Having those titles will hopefully give us confidence for Rio. If we play our best, we can beat anybody."
They are not the first couple to grace British badminton, but after meeting through the sport in their teens and marrying in 2013, they are planning to be the most successful.
BBC Sport has been finding out what makes the Adcocks tick.
Although not strictly on the plane to the Olympics yet, the world number seven pair's form and ranking points all but assure them a place in the mixed doubles in Brazil.
They believe being free from the insecurity of qualification, coupled with the win in Dubai keeping them on an upwards trend, could propel them to success on the biggest stage.
"Not having to worry about qualification and focusing on winning is such an advantage," says Chris.
"Of course we want a medal but I want to play well. I know if we play well we've got a chance. It's a challenge but it's something I know we can do."
Having grown up as a formidable mixed doubles pairing, the Adcocks were controversially split up prior to London 2012.
The rationale was placing each with a more experienced partner to boost their chance, a move they both agree was tough, but ultimately right at the time.
As Gabby was unsuccessfully paired with Rob Blair, Chris joined up with Imogen Bankier, leading to reports that he had 'dumped' his girlfriend but Gabby says rumours her and Bankier did not get on were "rubbish".
"It was made a lot worse than reality," she adds.
"We were training together that morning and I got a text saying there's going to be something in the paper," Chris says.
"We opened it up and it said I was like a love rat. I couldn't believe it. Behind closed doors we had a good laugh about it."
Bankier and Chris won world silver in 2011, but were knocked out early in London.
So, did the fact that the initial decision resulted in joy for Chris and despair for Gabby affect their relationship?
"Honestly no! These are the experiences that make us stronger," says Chris.
Gabby adds: "When I was watching him at the Olympics I didn't think of me not going, In that moment I was so proud."
"I'm obsessed with him," Gabby beams, and a quick scan of her Twitter feed confirms the statement.
Cuddled together in picture after picture, a cute couple with love in their eyes - only it is not Chris with Gabby but Bowser, their pet dog.
Yet with tournaments in destinations like Kuala Lumpar, Jakata and Dubai, it means being away from home for large periods of time - not an ideal situation when the other person that cares for your pet is travelling with you.
"It's the most illogical thing we've ever done," says Chris. "We travel together so don't miss each other. The biggest thing we miss is Bowser."
"Chris' dad was so against it," adds Gabby, whose parents look after Bowser when they are abroad.
"He is worth every second," says Chris. "He's such a release for us. When you get home from training, he greets us with a squeak and brings you straight back to normal life."
As they are a pair that needs to work together for an end goal, psychology is pivotal in ironing out underlying tensions.
For Gabby and Chris, those tensions might not actually be on the court, but stem from their personal relationship.
Their go-to guy is Simon Drane - sports psychologist turned marriage councillor.
"I always say we have couples therapy," jokes Gabby. "He's the nicest guy and we meet up regularly as a friend."
So close is their relationship that upon sitting with Drane for the first time since reuniting as a pair at the end of 2012, the two decided to have some fun.
"I said Gabby and I were having a bit of an issue," recalls Chris. "Simon was rubbing his hands that he'd have something to work with.
"I said that Gabby hates it when she's in the shower and then I go on the toilet. His mouth just dropped and he must have wondered what he'd go himself into.
"We waited a few seconds whilst he stumbled for words and then burst out laughing."
With matching wedding date tattoos, the two are not adverse to a little body modification.
More recently, Chris went a step further adding a half-sleeve on his left arm, complete with lion, roses and Commonwealth medal.
However, Chris played his most recent tournament in a sleeveless top - and had forgotten to inform two people in particular about his tattoo.
"He didn't tell his parents," Gabby says.
"They watch the live streaming and I said to Chris they're going to find out."
Chris adds: "I got a text from mum saying 'Christopher'.
"That's when I know I'm in trouble. 'What is that on your arm. I hope you're stopping there.'
Chris has the Olympic rings adorning his body and Gabby now hopes to match her husband having missed out on London 2012.
"They are very addictive," she said.
"Having missed the first one, it's important to me. I won't get the rings before Rio though."
Being two of the best badminton players in the world, you would imagine Chris and Gabby were handy at physical education at school.
Whilst Gabby takes great pride in her A* at GCSE, she takes even greater pleasure from beating Chris, who scored zero on his practical exam.
"I got a B," he says. "But I did break my leg when I was doing my GCSEs playing badminton.
"When the school came to give my practical, they said we'll give you a 10 as you're European champion. The exam board wouldn't accept it because they hadn't seen me play."
Gabby adds: "Still got a B."


Voters in France are choosing between Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe to be their centre-right presidential candidate in next year's election.

Mr Fillon is now seen as the favourite to win Sunday's run-off, after securing 44.1% of votes in the first round a week ago. Mr Juppe had 28.5%.
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy was knocked out of the race.
The Republican candidate is widely expected to take on far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen next spring.
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Polls across France are due to open at 07:00 GMT and close at 18:00 GMT.
Self-declared supporters of the centre-right values are choosing between the two former prime ministers.
It is the party's first such primary vote, modelled on the US system.
Both Mr Fillon, 62, and Mr Juppe, 71, want economic reforms - but they differ widely on how far and how fast to take them.
Mr Fillon says France is angry and wants radical change. He is planning to slash 500,000 public jobs.
Mr Juppe is proposing to sack just over half that number of people, and is focusing on a message of harmony and diversity.
Earlier this week, the two contenders clashed over the level of change they were promising to bring in a TV debate.
A poll of 908 debate viewers by Elabe suggested 71% of conservative respondents found Mr Fillon more convincing, as did 57% of viewers of all political stripes.
Mr Juppe - who was once the favourite to win this primary - has spent the past week highlighting Mr Fillon's personal views on abortion and gay marriage - widely seen as a bid to mobilise centrist and perhaps even left-wing voters, the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Paris reports.
Mr Juppe also said his rival was close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, amid growing tensions between the West and Moscow over the crises in Syria and Ukraine.
"This must be the first presidential election in which the Russian president chooses his candidate," Mr Juppe said.
Mr Fillon has argued that the EU and the US "provoked" Russia by expanding in Eastern Europe, calling for an alliance with Russia to fight Islamic State militants in Syria.
Mr Fillon, a Roman Catholic, has also complained of being portrayed as a "medieval conservative", describing his opponent as a "man of the system" with no real plans for change.
After losing last Sunday's first round, Mr Sarkozy endorsed Mr Fillon.


An EgyptAir plane that was forced to land in Uzbekistan due to a hoax bomb threat has been cleared to resume its journey from Cairo to Beijing.

All 118 passengers and 17 crew on board the Airbus A330-220 were evacuated at Urgench International Airport.
The aircraft was searched by Uzbek security forces but no explosive device was found, Egyptian officials said.
Three weeks ago, an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo carrying 66 people crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.
The cause of the crash remains a mystery, although Egyptian officials have said an act of terrorism is more likely than a technical failure.
French investigators said last week that signals from one of the plane's black boxes had been detected about 290km (180 miles north) of the Egyptian coast.
The chairman of EgyptAir, Safwat Mussallam, told the AFP news agency that Flight MS955 left Cairo at 21:55 GMT (23:55 Cairo time) on Tuesday and was scheduled to land in Beijing at 07:34 GMT (15:34 Beijing time) on Wednesday.
During the flight, an anonymous caller telephoned security agents in Cairo to say a bomb was on board the aircraft and the pilot was told to land at the nearest airport.
The plane eventually touched down at Urgench, about 840km (600 miles) west of the Uzbek capital Tashkent, at 03:00 GMT (08:00 Tashkent time) on Wednesday, Uzbekistan Airways said in a statement.
"The aircraft was evacuated, searched and the result of the search was negative, we were told by the Uzbek authorities, who gave us the authorisation to take off again," Mr Mussallam said.
"We must take any warning seriously," he added.
Egyptian officials told the Associated Press news agency that the plane resumed its journey to Beijing about four hours after landing in Urgench.
The official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, also said the bomb threat was a hoax.


Guernsey Police has hailed a high-profile crackdown on offences in the north of the island a success.

Nine on-the-spot fines were issued for littering, cycling on footpaths and people not wearing seatbelts in cars.
Four lorry drivers were formally warned about faults and three scooters were taken off the road.
On Wednesday night, officers also carried out liquor licence checks and an anti-social behaviour patrol in Delancey Park.
Insp Clare Cuthbert said officers may get tasked to do similar operations around the island.
She said: "We often get the comments 'have you got nothing better to do?' and what my instructions to the officers involved was that the community office has been asked and tasked by the community to go and address these problems.
"In fact a couple of members of the public actually went to the officers afterwards and thanked the officers, certainly about cycling on the footpath as that seems to be an issue for members of the public."


Robert Kubica's return from life-changing injuries will take a step up when he drives a 2017 Renault at a test in Hungary on 2 August.

The 32-year-old Pole has not raced in Formula 1 since a horrific rally crash in 2011 left him with only partial movement in his right arm.
The test, Kubica's third for Renault, is described by the team as "a new phase in assessing [his] capabilities".
It will increase speculation about an impending - and remarkable - comeback.
Kubica has already done two tests in a 2012 Renault and has said that his physical limitations do not affect his driving.
But it cannot be certain that he can return until he has proved that is also the case in faster and more demanding 2017 machinery.
Renault F1 managing director Cyril Abiteboul said: "The first two days of testing allowed both Robert and ourselves to gather a great amount of information.
"The upcoming session with the RS17 at the Hungaroring will allow us all to obtain detailed and precise data in a current car and representative conditions.
"After this test, we will carefully analyse the collected information to determine in what conditions it would be possible for Robert to return to competition in the upcoming years."
The test in which Kubica is taking part is the official two-day F1 test on the Tuesday and Wednesday following this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix.
It will enable Kubica's performance to be measured directly against other teams and drivers and with the immediate context of Renault's performance over the previous race weekend.
A source close to Kubica has told BBC Sport that "Robert is ready to come back at his level".
Should Kubica prove to be anything close to his former abilities, it would leave Renault with a difficult choice.
They have been considering replacing their second driver Jolyon Palmer for some time as the Englishman has lagged behind the performance of team leader Nico Hulkenberg this season.
If Kubica performs successfully in the Hungary test, the temptation to draft him in for the Belgian Grand Prix on 25-27 August after F1's summer break may be difficult to resist.
A return by Kubica would be one of the most remarkable comebacks in sporting history.
He suffered a partially severed right arm and multiple fractures in his rally crash in February 2011.
At the time, he was regarded as one of the brightest talents in the sport, a winner of the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix for BMW Sauber and considered to have similar levels of talent to superstars Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.
But the injuries curtailed his career on the eve of his second season with Renault, at a time when he was widely considered to have been lined up to join Ferrari as Alonso's team-mate in 2012.
He has spent the past six and a half years struggling to get his body into a condition where he can make a comeback to F1 and in the past few months believes he has finally done so.
He said after his most recent test on 12 July: "My doubts about my capacities have disappeared with these two days of tests. I am no longer afraid of not being at the level but there remains a way to go."
That final remark is said by sources close to him to be a reference to the fact that he has not yet driven a current car.


Kiefer Sutherland has confirmed he will "definitely not return in any way" to his hit TV show, 24.

Sutherland starred as counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer in the highly-successful thriller from 2001 to 2010, and made a return in last year's spin-off series 24: Live Another Day.
When Fox announced a reboot with a new protagonist earlier this year, the star said he hadn't "ruled out a cameo."
However, he has now told the BBC: "24 is definitely over now for me."
"It's one of the greatest gifts I've ever been given as an actor," Sutherland added, "but it's moving on without me, I want to do other things."
The Canadian star, who made his name in 1980s "Brat Pack" films like The Lost Boys and Young Guns, said working in television had fundamentally changed his outlook on acting.
"I want to do more television," he said. "My experience of 24 was unbelievable, but the main benefit was that it was nice to do something that people actually watched, and that they enjoyed.
"There are some movies I've made people might have enjoyed, but there were nine of them watching. And so 24 was so refreshing - the most significant thing was that it was accessible to a lot of people and to know they enjoyed it was so rewarding for me.
"I don't think there's a better medium than television out there at the moment. So think I want to do more of it and look for projects where I can repeat my experience.
"You have to take your time though to find something like it - and that means you have to work less. So I'll be waiting for something that's worth it, with the potential for the kind of audience access that 24 had."
Despite this, Sutherland was speaking to the BBC at the launch of his new film, Forsaken, which sees the 48-year-old star opposite his father Donald for the first time.
The younger Sutherland explains that he "dreamed for thirty years of acting opposite my father, but I just wanted this ideal project to come along.
"Then at Christmas I just looked at my father and I realized we probably didn't have that much time left to do this together - he's just turned 80 - so I got on with it."
Forsaken is Sutherland's first western since Young Guns 2 in 1990. He plays a reformed killer, while Donald plays his estranged father.
The star believes that it was only the kudos of the actors' names that allowed the film to get a green light.
"Hollywood doesn't want to make westerns any more," he mourns. "I've had Robert Downey Jr and Kevin Bacon both express envy because I'd been able to make Young Guns at all.
"The studios may have tried to make a western with aliens, anything to try and revive the genre, but generally it's not on the cards.
"New York and Los Angeles are where ideas for films come from and they've long since left the middle of the country behind, they don't represent it very well."
Forsaken has shown at the Toronto and Zurich Film Festivals, and has been bought for cinema release next year. But Sutherland says that, for once, the success of the film is secondary to his experience.
"I was so desperately afraid that I would let my father down," he confesses. "But it turned out he was as nervous as I was, and we told each other that the night before we started shooting.
"It turned out great, I think - perhaps it's cheating, but when I looked into my real father's eyes during takes I think my heart beats a little faster.
"Some fathers take their sons fishing to connect - I got to make a movie with my dad, even if it was a little late in life."
The Zurich Film Festival runs from 24 September - 4 October.


A row over who gets the best dressing room is threatening to derail Saturday's super-bantamweight unification match between Scott Quigg and Carl Frampton.

With the fight taking place at the Manchester Arena, Bury's Quigg is adamant he is the home fighter and should therefore get the 'star' dressing room.
However, Belfast's Frampton believes he should get the roomier quarters because he is the bigger draw.
"I'm sure it will drag on, be childish and pathetic and everyone will lose their rag. But we will find a resolution," said Quigg's promoter Eddie Hearn.
"We had to bend over backwards to make the fight happen. Carl had to be on the left-hand side of the poster, had to enter the ring second, had to have American officials. We let him have all the little things that he cared about.
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"But Scott is the home fighter in Manchester and he gets the home dressing room."
Quigg will be putting his WBA belt on the line against IBF title-holder Frampton in a rare all-British world title unification match.
And at an ill-tempered final news conference, which ended with the fighters pushing and shoving after the face-off, it became clear how just how fractious the relationships are between the two camps.
"Scott wants the dressing room that the star of the show usually gets," said the 29-year-old Frampton, who is undefeated in 21 professional fights.
"It's a matter of principle. I'm the A side of the fight and I'm entitled to that dressing room. The best solution is that we lock that dressing room and each use different ones."
Scott wants the dressing room that the star of the show usually gets
Quigg, who is unbeaten in 33 pro fights, replied: "What makes you think you're coming to my arena and choosing the dressing room? That's the dressing room I'm having and that's that."
Later, Frampton played the Stevie Wonder song 'Superstition' into his microphone before adding: "He's wants the dressing room because he's very superstitious and that's a sign of weakness."
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As the row rumbled on, Hearn was heard to mutter: "I've lost the will to live."
The fighters' respective trainers also traded verbal blows. When Quigg's trainer Joe Gallagher questioned Shane McGuigan's credentials, Frampton's trainer replied: "Hopefully after the fight, he'll finally respect me."
In addition, Quigg's camp suggested Frampton had struggled to make the 122lb super-bantamweight limit, while Frampton's camp thought Quigg might have weight issues of his own.
The governing bodies have agreed to a Saturday morning re-weigh, at which neither boxer should be more than 10lb above his weight at Friday's official weigh-in.
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"My weight is fine," said Frampton, who was knocked down twice in his last fight before beating unheralded Mexican Alejandro Gonzalez on points.
"I've spent 17 weeks in training camp, the longest I've ever had. I've missed my son taking his first steps, his birthday and my daughter's birthday. There's absolutely no way I'm going to let this guy rip this away from me.
"I just believe I'm a better fighter in every single department. I have the punching power to knock him out in any round but I've also got the boxing brain to beat him comfortably on points."
Quigg, who knocked out Spain's Kiko Martinez in his last fight, said: "I believe I'll be the bigger man in the ring but it's my boxing ability that will win this fight.
"This fight is everything I've worked towards since the age of 15. I've put in too much for anyone to stop me. I'll win by knockout."
Watch a full interview with Scott Quigg on Saturday Sportsday this weekend, BBC One at 12:50 GMT.


One Direction have been named best live act at the O2 Silver Clef Awards for the second time.

The group beat Adele, Little Mix and Ed Sheeran to win the award, despite currently being on a break.
One Direction scored more than 60% of votes to take the prize - the only award at the ceremony to be voted for by the public.
Other winners this year include Olly Murs and Florence Welch - who have won best male and best female respectively.
The awards ceremony took place on Friday afternoon, though all the winners were announced in advance.
One Direction said: "Thank you to all our fans for voting. Our live show is so important and it is amazing for this to be recognised... for the second time."
Lionel Richie was announced as the winner of the top honour - the Silver Clef Award.
Jess Glynne won best newcomer, while Craig David scooped the innovation award.
Patti Smith took home the outstanding achievement prize, while Jeff Lynne was the recipient of the icon award.
Violinist Andre Rieu was the winner of the classical award, while Irish musician Hozier received the international award.
Speaking before the ceremony at London's Grosvenor House Hotel, Murs said he was "very proud" to be recognised at an event in aid of the Nordoff-Robbins charity.
Glynne also said she was "really excited" to be recognised, calling the charity - which funds music therapy sessions for children and adults - "a special thing to be a part of."
ELO's Jeff Lynne said of his accolade: "I'm always shocked when I get anything but this is up there at the top. This is a beautiful thing and I'm very proud of it."
Richie, who received his award from Bee Gees star Barry Gibb, said his Silver Clef award was "the best thing in the world because attached to it is a charity".
"Attached to it is some kids that are probably going to use music therapy as I used it - to pull themselves back together again," added the 67-year-old singer.
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Sussex have appointed all-rounder Luke Wright as their captain in all three formats of the game.

The 30-year-old, who led the Hove side in the T20 Blast this year, replaces Ed Joyce, who stood down last week.
"Once Ed had made his decision, the club asked if I was interested. It was a pretty easy decision to say yes," Wright told BBC Sussex.
"I was proud and honoured to do the T20. Now I get to put my stamp on the whole club and I am excited about it."
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Ireland batsman Joyce, 37, stepped down after three-and-a-half years in the role and following Sussex's relegation from Division One of the County Championship.
Wright, who joined Sussex from Leicestershire in 2004, has made 101 limited overs appearances for England in Twenty20 and one-day internationals and is a seasoned campaigner in the Indian Premier League and Australian Big Bash T20 competitions.
He is optimistic that next season the club will be able to secure an immediate return to the top flight.
"Relegation gives you even more drive, hunger and desire," Wright said.
"We had an honest meeting as a group and things we have got to change. That is a great starting point.
"We have a good squad but there are a few things I want to tinker with and, with the odd person coming in, hopefully we can get back to winning ways."
Sussex cricket manager Mark Robinson said Wright would bring "passion, commitment and energy" to the role.
"It comes at an important time for the club, as we look to rebuild and come back stronger for the 2016 season," Robinson said.
"Luke will bring a lot of experience from around the world. He will have the full respect from everybody from within the club and the game."


James Bond film Spectre has held on to the top spot at the North American box office in its second week of release.

The 24th film in the 007 franchise, starring Daniel Craig, made $35.4m (£23.3m) between Friday and Sunday, according to estimates.
The Peanuts Movie held firm at number two, with takings of $24.2m (£16m).
But the Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt drama By the Sea failed to make a splash, taking just $95,440 (£63,000) at 10 screens.
The European art house film stars the real-life couple as a husband and wife struggling to cope in the aftermath of a trauma.  The film was also directed by Jolie - her third time at the helm of a movie - and the actress also wrote the script.
The drama, which marks the first time the two stars have appeared together on the big screen since Mr & Mrs Smith in 2005, has been generally panned by critics.
Despite its poor takings, its limited release is thought unlikely to hurt its film company, Universal, too much since it was made for a relatively modest budget of $10m (£6.6m).
Spectre's takings fell 50% in its second weekend, bringing its North American total to $130.7m (£86m).
That is well behind the $161m (£106m) earned by its predecessor Skyfall over the same period.
The Peanuts Movie - the family-friendly adaptation of the beloved Charles Schulz comic strip, featuring Charlie Brown and Snoopy -  saw its second weekend takings drop by 45%, bringing its total in the US to $82.5m (£54m).
The rest of the top five saw Love the Coopers, an ensemble comedy about a family gathering starring Diane Keaton and Alan Arkin, enter the chart at number three with $8.4m (£54m).
Old release The Martian dropped one place to number four, while at number five was another new release, The 33.
The film based on the 2010 Chilean mining disaster took $5.8m (£4m) from 2,452 cinemas.


The Panama Papers affair has widened, with a huge database of documents relating to more than 200,000 offshore accounts posted online.

The database became accessible from 18:00 GMT at offshoreleaks.icij.org.
The Panama Papers have shown how some wealthy people use offshore firms to evade tax and avoid sanctions.
The papers belonged to Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca and were leaked by a source simply known as "John Doe". The company denies any wrongdoing.
Last week it issued a "cease and desist " order to prevent the database being made public but the organisation that has the documents, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), went ahead.
The documents have revealed the hidden assets of hundreds of politicians, officials, current and former national leaders, celebrities and sports stars.
They list more than 200,000 shell companies, foundations and trusts set up in more than 20 tax havens around the world.
Among those whose affairs have come under scrutiny include UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia, Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine and Mauricio Macri of Argentina, along with Argentinian football star Lionel Messi, Hong Kong film legend Jackie Chan and Spanish movie director Pedro Almodovar.
Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson resigned after the matter came to light.
Mossack Fonseca says it has never been accused or charged with criminal wrongdoing. It says it is the victim of a hack.
Offshore companies are not illegal but their function is often to conceal both the origin and the owners of money, and to avoid tax payments.
Some 2.6 terabytes of information - 11.5 million documents - was originally given to the German newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, by "John Doe" more than a year ago.
The paper allowed the ICIJ to have access. Through it hundreds of journalists, including from the BBC, then worked on the data. Their reporting was published last month.
The ICIJ insists that Monday's online database is not be a data dump of the kind used by the Wikileaks organisation.
The ICIJ said: "The database will not include records of bank accounts and financial transactions, emails and other correspondence, passports and telephone numbers. The selected and limited information is being published in the public interest."
On Monday, 300 economists signed a letter urging world leaders to end tax havens, saying they only benefited rich individuals and multinational corporations, while boosting inequality.
"The existence of tax havens does not add to overall global wealth or well-being; they serve no useful economic purpose," the letter says.
Last week, "John Doe" issued an 1,800-word statement, citing "income equality" as his motive.
He said: "Banks, financial regulators and tax authorities have failed. Decisions have been made that have spared the wealthy while focusing instead on reining in middle- and low-income citizens."
He revealed he had never worked for a spy agency or a government and offered to help law authorities make prosecutions in return for immunity.
Although the name John Doe is used, the gender of the source has not been revealed.


Scientists have identified three new planets around a star they already suspected of hosting a trio of worlds.

It means this relatively nearby star, Gliese 667C, now has three so-called super-Earths orbiting in its "habitable zone".
This is the region where temperatures ought to allow for the possibility of liquid water, although no-one can say for sure what conditions are really like on these planets.
Gliese 667C is 22 light-years away.
Astronomers can see it on the sky in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion).
Previous studies of Gliese 667C had established there were very likely three planets around it, with its habitable zone occupied by one super-Earth - an object slightly bigger than our home world, but probably still with a rocky surface.
Now, a team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escude of the University of GÃ¶ttingen, Germany, and Mikko Tuomi, of the University of Hertfordshire, UK, has re-examined the system and raised the star's complement of planets.
The researchers used a suite of telescopes including the 3.6m telescope at the Silla Observatory in Chile.  This incorporates the high-precision Harps instrument. Harps employs an indirect method of detection that infers the existence of orbiting planets from the way their gravity makes a parent star appear to twitch in its motion across the sky.
The planets' presence needs to be disentangled from this complex signal but the Harps instrument is recognised as having tremendous success in identifying smaller worlds.
Gliese 667C is a low-luminosity "M-dwarf" star just over one-third the mass of our Sun.
This means its habitable zone can be much closer in before temperatures make liquid water impossible.  The team is now confident that three rocky worlds occupy this region at Gilese 667C.
"Their estimated masses range from 2.7 to 3.8 that of the Earth's," Mikko Tuomi told BBC News.
"However, we can only estimate the physical sizes by assuming certain compositions that is, well, only educated guessing.
"Their orbital periods are 28, 39, and 62 days, which means that they all orbit the star closer to its surface than Mercury in our own system. Yet, the estimated surface temperatures enable the existence of liquid water on them because of the low luminosity and low mass of the star."
These planets are said to completely fill the habitable zone.  There are no more stable orbits in which to fit another planet.
That said, the team has found tantalising evidence for what may be another rocky world on the inner-edge of the zone. This would be a seventh planet in the system.
The planets would need an atmosphere to sustain liquid water on their surfaces, but at a distance of more than 200 trillion km, there are no means currently to determine what the precise conditions are like or whether life would have any chance of establishing itself.
Nonetheless, Dr Tuomi believes M-dwarf stars are good candidates to go hunting for potentially habitable worlds.
They are small enough that close-in rocky planets will show up well in the Harps Doppler spectroscopy data, but they are also dim enough that those close-orbiting worlds will not be roasted.
"This discovery single-handedly demonstrates that low-mass stars can be hosts of several potentially habitable planets," explained Dr Tuomi.
"In practice, it means that we might have to double or treble our estimates for the occurrence rate of habitable-zone planets around M-dwarf stars.
"There might, in fact, be more habitable-zone planets in the Universe than there are stars, which makes it much easier for the future space missions to obtain images of these planets.
"So, although only a rather simple discovery, its implications might force us to re-think how common habitable-zone planets are in the Universe."
The research has been written up for the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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Serbia became a stand-alone sovereign republic in the summer of 2006 after Montenegro voted in a referendum for independence from the Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

When the vote was followed by a formal declaration of independence by Montenegro, a special session of parliament in Belgrade declared Serbia to be the legal successor to the now defunct Union.
Serbia and Montenegro, the two republics still left in the old Yugoslav federation, had agreed in 2002 to scrap remnants of the ex-communist state and create the new, looser Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
The EU-brokered deal under which the union came into being in 2003 was intended to stabilise the region by settling Montenegrin demands for independence and preventing further changes to Balkan borders.
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The same agreement also contained the seeds of the Union's dissolution. It stipulated that after three years the two republics could hold referendums on whether to keep or scrap it. Montenegro duly voted for independence in a referendum in May 2006.
The two republics had been united in one form or another for nearly 90 years. With separation from Montenegro, Serbia is cut off from the Adriatic Sea and becomes landlocked.
Yugoslav era
The end of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro marked the closing chapter in the history of the separation of the six republics of the old Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia which was proclaimed in 1945 and comprised Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia.
Under Yugoslavia's authoritarian communist leader, Josip Broz Tito, the lid was kept on ethnic tensions. The federation lasted for over 10 years after his death in 1980, but under Serbian nationalist leader Slobodan Milosevic it fell apart through the 1990s.
The secession of Slovenia and Macedonia came relatively peacefully, but there were devastating wars in Croatia and Bosnia. Serbia and Montenegro together formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between 1992 and 2003.
Kosovo
In 1998 violence flared in the autonomous province of Kosovo in Serbia. The Kosovo Liberation Army, supported by the majority ethnic Albanians, came out in open rebellion against Serbian rule. International pressure on Milosevic grew amid the escalating violence.
Nato launched air strikes in Kosovo and Serbia in March 1999. An exodus of ethnic Albanians to neighbouring countries gathered pace. The UN took over administration of the region after Serbian forces had been driven out.
Kosovo declared independence on 17 February 2008 after the failure of UN-brokered talks on the status of the province. Serbia said the declaration was illegal, and other countries are divided as to whether to recognise it.
Road to Europe
In late 2005, the EU began talks with Belgrade on the possibility of reaching a Stabilisation and Association Agreement. These were called off some months later because of the continuing failure of the Serbian authorities to arrest several war crimes suspects.
One of the most notorious of these, the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, was arrested in Belgrade in July 2008 by Serbian security forces and extradited to The Hague, weeks after a pro-Western government took office. European foreign ministers praised the arrest as a significant step for Serbia in its efforts to join the EU. Mr Karadzic was found guilty of genocide and war crimes by the UN tribunal in 2016.
In December 2009 Serbia formally submitted its application to join the EU. The beginning of accession talks was delayed while two major Serbian war crimes suspects were still at large, but with the arrest of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic and Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic in 2011, this block to Serbia gaining EU candidate status was removed.
The European Commission duly recommended Serbia for EU candidate status in a report in October 2011, but insisted that the opening of membership talks was conditional on Serbia normalising its ties with Kosovo.
The deadlock over this issue was finally broken with the signing of an EU-brokered deal between Belgrade and Kosovo in April 2013. However, Serbia insists that the normalisation agreement - which grants a high degree of autonomy to Serb-majority areas in northern Kosovo - does not mean that it has recognised its former province's independence.
Serbia's EU accession talks began in January 2014.
Relations with Russia
Although the current Serbian government is pro-Western and sees eventual membership of the EU as being in the country's best interests, Serbia is traditionally an ally of Russia, which supported its opposition to Kosovo's independence.
In 2008, Serbia-Russia ties were further strengthened by the signing of a major energy deal, and in October 2009 Russia granted Serbia a 1bn euro (Â£0.9bn) loan to help it cover its budget deficit after the economy was hit hard by the global downturn.
When the nationalist Tomislav Nikolic became president in 2012, he declared his intention of developing ties with both the European Union and Moscow.


Atletico Madrid defender Lucas Hernandez has signed a new contract until 2022 before Tuesday's Champions League semi-final with Real Madrid.

The 21-year-old Frenchman is expected to start the first leg at the Bernabeu.
Hernandez has played 23 La Liga games for Atletico, including 12 this season.
"It is great news for all Atletico fans, he is a player with enormous potential with a spectacular future to come," said Atletico's sporting director Jose Luis Caminero.
Hernandez's 19-year-old brother, Theo, is on loan at Copa del Rey finalists Alaves from Atletico, while their father, Jean-Francois Hernandez, played for Atletico between 2000 and 2001.


A US military air strike in north-western Syria has killed more than 100 al-Qaeda militants at a training camp, the Pentagon says.

Spokesman Capt Jeff Davis said the camp in Idlib province had been in operation since 2013.
The attack involved a B-52 bomber and an undisclosed number of drones, officials said.
The strike on Thursday was the second major US military attack in the final hours of Barack Obama's presidency.
Less than 24 hours earlier, a combination of B-2 stealth bombers and drones killed up to 90 so-called Islamic State (IS) militants in two camps in a remote area of Libya, officials said.
Capt Davis said the Syria attack disrupted training operations "and discourages hard-line Islamist and Syrian opposition groups from joining or co-operating with al-Qaeda on the battlefield".
He said it capped a series of successful strikes against al-Qaeda recently.
"These strikes, conducted in quick succession, degrade al-Qaeda's capabilities, weaken their resolve, and cause confusion in their ranks," he said.


US-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters have opened up a new front against so-called Islamic State (IS) in northern Syria, close to the Turkish border.

The offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is reported to be directed at Manbij, a town under IS control.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said US-led pre-dawn air strikes on Manbij killed 15 civilians.
The operation aims to cut IS off from an area it uses to move weapons and fighters across the border.
Thousands of forces have been deployed in the offensive, which could take weeks, unnamed US officials told Reuters news agency.
The SDF fighters are being supported by US special forces.
US officials say the SDF force is mostly Arab with a small number of Kurds.
However, the Syrian Observatory (SOHR) said most of the fighters were from the Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) militia.
Turkey considers the YPG a terrorist group and fiercely opposes any Kurdish advances near the border.
The SOHR added the troops were about 15km (nine miles) from Manbij.
The clashes were "fierce and intense", SDF military adviser Nasser Haj Mansour told AFP news agency.
The SDF has emerged as a key ally of the US-led anti-IS coalition over the past two years, leading the fight against the militants on the ground in northern Syria.
They began an offensive last week to expel IS from territory north of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the "caliphate" proclaimed by the group in 2014.
Control of the Turkish-Syrian border is of crucial importance - US-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters are pushing towards the town of Manbij in an effort to deny IS a vital swathe of territory that offers a route for supplies and foreign fighters entering Syria.
Further to the west though towards Azaz, IS has itself gone onto the attack - a sign of the vital importance it attaches to this border zone.
It is here the complexities of the Syrian conflict are most apparent. US backing for Kurdish fighters - the most capable of the forces ranged against IS - outrages the Turkish government.
Turkish border towns have come under sporadic IS rocket or artillery fire while Turkey itself has been happy to mete out punishment to both Kurdish and IS fighters when the occasion demands.
Syria's multiple conflicts are complicated enough but here they clash with the strategic interests of one of the country's most powerful neighbours.