Sean Abbott recorded his best ever bowling performance in his first match following the death of Phillip Hughes.

The New South Wales player, 22, took six wickets for just 14 runs as his state team beat Queensland.
NSW coach Trevor Bayliss praised Abbott's "character" and said the team were "over the moon" for the player.
The match took place at Sydney Cricket Ground, the venue where Abbott bowled the ball that led to the death of Hughes, 25, last month.
Abbott, who has played three ODIs and one T20 for Australia, was on a hat-trick at one point and finished with 8-67 in the match.
He received a standing ovation as he left the pitch.
"To do what he did really showed the character that he has," said New South Wales coach Trevor Bayliss.
"He was probably one of the guys who handled the situation better than some of the other guys.
"To do what he did today showed the character that he has got as well.
"Everyone was just so happy for him, after what happened two weeks ago, so hopefully that puts him back on the road to more success.
"It was a hostile spell. He bowled fast on a flat fourth-day wicket, and short when he had to, pitching it up hitting the stumps. It was a fantastic fourth-day performance.
"On this performance, he'll play more for Australia, I'm sure."
Abbott has been receiving counselling, and the support of the cricketing world, after he bowled the bouncer that killed Hughes.
He attended his funeral and was consoled by Hughes's family and other cricketers, who urged him to resume playing.
After taking two wickets in Queensland's first innings, on Friday Abbott showed why he is regarded as one of Australia's rising talents.
With the match seemingly heading for a draw, Abbott produced an extraordinary seven-over spell and at one stage took five wickets for five runs as NSW took control.
Former Australia Test bowler Shane Warne said: "Good to see him back enjoying his cricket and taking wickets."
Australia are also playing their first match since Hughes's death, the delayed opening Test against India at Adelaide.
David Warner scored his second century of the match for Australia on Friday and then posted a message on his Instagram account praising his New South Wales team-mate.
He wrote: "Credit to my good mate @sean_abbott bowling NSW to victory against QLD today. Been a tough week for everyone but this bloke has a genuine heart of gold and has fought hard this week to come back and bowl again. Well done mate proud of you."


West Yorkshire Police's chief constable will not face charges in connection with a bribery and misconduct investigation in Northern Ireland.

Mark Gilmore was suspended in June 2014 in connection with an investigation into the awarding of vehicle contracts.
The Public Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence to proceed.
West Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner said his suspension was under review.
The Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland said: "The PPS has made a decision not to prosecute one individual in relation to the overall investigation - that is Mark Gilmore.
"There are a number of files relating to other individuals still under consideration."
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) had arrested a total of seven men on suspicion of offences including bribery, misconduct in public office and procuring misconduct in public office.
When he was suspended, Mr Gilmore said he had always acted with "honesty and integrity". He voluntarily attended a police station in Belfast for interview in August 2014.
Mr Gilmore, originally from Belfast, was appointed chief constable of West Yorkshire in April 2013.
He joined the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the predecessor of the PSNI, in 1983.
He has previously worked as the assistant chief constable at West Yorkshire and the deputy chief constable at Northumbria Police.


A number of seaside communities in the South West will get a share of £800,000 from the Coastal Communities Fund in a bid to help attract visitors.

Communities Minister Mark Francois MP said the money would be spilt between eight seaside community projects.
He said it would help create jobs, training places and boost the local economy as well as attract visitors.
The South West Coast path in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset will get £130,000 for repairs and improvements.
Clevedon Pier in Somerset, Britain's only Grade 1 listed pier, is another project getting financial support from the scheme.
Mr Francois said: "Over the past three years we've already funded more than 200 projects along the shorefront.
"Now this extra £800,000 will help put another eight coastal communities back on the map and kick-start their own exciting regeneration plans."
Source: Coastal Communities Fund


Antrim made it two wins from two Christy Ring Cup games thanks to a 2-14 to 1-12 comeback victory over Roscommon in Dunloy on Saturday.

The Saffrons trailed 1-11 to 0-10 after 47 minutes before goals from Conor Carson and Nigel Elliott helped them to a five-point win.
Down finished strongly to claim a 1-18 to 1-15 victory over Derry in Owenbeg.
The sides were level in injury-time but three unanswered scores handed Down a place in the next round.
Derry were strong early on, with Oisin McCloskey's goal on 10 minutes handing them a 1-3 to 0-3 advantage.
Down levelled twice, but Derry held a slender 1-7 to 0-9 interval lead.
A Brook Byers goal put Down 1-9 to 1-8 ahead after the restart but Shane Farren's point saw the Oak Leafers lead 1-12 to 1-11 entering the final quarter.
However, Down hit form late on with six of the final eight point to defeat their Ulster rivals.
Antrim were forced to dig deep to overcome Roscommon, who led 0-8 to 0-7 at half-time.
A Jamie Lawlor goal early in the second half, and good scores from Micheal Kelly and Jerry Fallon, saw the visitors build up a three-point lead.
Carson's goal after 49 minutes tied the game at 1-11 apiece, with Roscommon held to just one further point as the hosts kicked on for victory.
Elliott netted Antrim's second goal seven minutes from full-time.
SATURDAY'S HURLING RESULTS
Christy Ring Cup
Round 2A
Antrim 2-14 1-12 Kildare
Round 2B
Derry 1-15 1-18 Down
Wicklow 0-9 0-17 Kildare
Nicky Rackard Cup
Round 2A
Mayo 0-22 1-11 Armagh
Monaghan 3-14 2-19 Fingal
Round 2B
Donegal 3-15 3-11 Fermanagh
Longford 4-18 3-17 Tyrone
Lory Meagher Round Two
Warwickshire 2-10 3-13 Louth
Lancashire 2-10 2-18 Leitrim


A group of men are being sought by police after a 19-year-old woman was raped in Reading.

The woman was walking close to the university campus entrance on Upper Redlands Road shortly after midnight when police said she was approached by a "small group of men".
Officers said she was raped in a small wooded area nearby. She later walked away from the scene.
Anyone who saw anything suspicious is asked to contact police.


Accidental discharge from a treatment works caused the deaths of more than 1,600 fish in a river near Newcastle, County Down, NI Water has said.

It said the "pollution incident" affected the Annsborough River on Saturday afternoon and the cause was identified and rectified shortly after.
The chemical spillage has been cleaned up and there is no further risk to the river, the company said.
NI Water said it would continue to work with the Environment Agency.
The Annsborough River is a tributary of the Carrigs River. which runs from Castlewellan through the village of Maghera and into Dundrum Bay.
The incident was reported to the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) pollution hotline on Saturday.
Staff from the agency and officers from the Department of Agriculture's fisheries team immediately went to the scene and conducted a detailed investigation.
"The source was traced to premises where it was discovered that a chemical had escaped into the river causing significant pollution," a spokesman for the department said.
"Statutory water samples were collected and evidence gathered with a view to an enforcement action. To date the number of dead fish is in excess of 1,600.
"All relevant authorities have been notified, including local council environmental health as Dundrum Bay is a significant shellfish production area."
Adrian Truesdale, who owns a caravan park beside the river, said he thinks the number of fish killed could rise.
"With part of the river being tidal, I would imagine that a lot from Saturday afternoon and Sunday have already been washed on down into the bay," he said.
"My worry is because it goes down into Dundrum Bay, other fish that would come in and go up the Moneycarragh river would also be affected by this."


League Two club Notts County have signed forward Lewis Alessandra from relegated Hartlepool United on a two-year deal, for an undisclosed fee.

Alessandra, 28, joined from Rochdale in July 2016 and scored nine goals in 50 games for Pools last season.
His most profitable spell came with Plymouth between 2013 and 2015, when he scored 25 goals in two seasons.
"When the chance arose I grabbed it with both hands," Alessandra told the club website.
"I don't think I would have come here if I didn't think we had a shot at doing well next season."
Notts manager Kevin Nolan added: "There were a number of clubs interested in Lewis and it looked tricky at one stage, but I'm absolutely delighted that he chose to come and work with us."
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Scottish amateur Craig Ross hopes to make the most of following in the footsteps of one of his golfing heroes this week on the European Tour.

The 23-year-old from Cambuslang is in the group that tees off after world number two Rory McIlroy at the BMW South African Open.
"I thought I'd have a chance to play with him but I'm playing behind him so it's good," Ross told BBC Scotland.
"A few people have said to try and get a signature from Rory or Ernie Els."
The SA Open is the first European Tour event of 2017 and Ross is one of four Scots competing at Glendower Golf Club in Ekurhuleni from Thursday to Sunday, along with David Drysdale, Scott Henry and Duncan Stewart.
He qualified for the tournament after winning the South African Amateur Championship last year.
Ross will start alongside Drysdale from 05:20 GMT and is glad to have been able to tap into all his countrymen's experience.
"I played with Duncan Stewart and Scott Henry on Monday and Wednesday and it was good to hear what they had to say, with them having been pro for a while now," he said.
"I feel I'm playing well enough to easily make the cut. Hopefully I can put a decent performance in and finish top 20 because I like the course and it suits me.
"It's great to get into such a big event with big names in the field. I've been on the range close to Rory and seen him hitting a few balls and it's impressive. Even seeing some of the other guys is really good, like defending champion Brandon Stone and Retief Goosen.
"A few friends and family will be watching back home and I've got my mum and dad and a family friend over here watching as well. A few of them are going to record it in case I get any TV coverage!"


A "disturbed loner" who randomly attacked four women during a stabbing spree in a supermarket car park has been jailed for 20 years.

Ethem Orhon, 67, inflicted "appalling injuries" on his victims during the rampage outside Sainsbury's in Hampton, west London on 20 May, a court heard.
The attacks happened a day after Orhon was arrested for possessing a knife.
He was found guilty of two counts of attempted murder and two counts of wounding with intent to cause GBH.
A Kingston Crown Court jury took four hours and 55 minutes to find Orhon, of Deacons Walk, guilty of the offences.
'I thought I was going to die'
Orhon told the court he was "like a zombie" and felt "hypnotised" as he attacked strangers with a Leatherman knife, hours after being bailed by police.
He said he had felt humiliated after being strip-searched by officers when he was arrested.
Sentencing, Judge Paul Dodgson told Orhon: "This was a planned attempt to kill albeit while the balance of your mind was disturbed.
"You took that knife intending to use it, intending to kill people."
"You are on your own and as a loner it may be you are someone who tends to brood on matters," the judge added commenting on his "unusual personality".
Suzanna Brand, Janet Morsy, Jean Sullivan, and Charandasi Chandiramani, were randomly targeted, the jury heard.
Ms Brand, 53 was hit from behind, struck 13 times and left with two collapsed lungs.
Ms Morsy, 63, thought she was going to die as she was struck in the arm and chest and tried to defend herself.
Ms Sullivan, 68, was stabbed in the back, damaging her chest wall, right lung and liver.
Ms Chandiramani, 71, was stabbed twice in the back.
Speaking outside court after the verdict, Janet Morsy, who has spoken to the BBC about her ordeal, said the experience has "completely changed" her life.
"When I see someone with hands in their pockets I fully expect them to pull a blade," she said.
Chandarasi Chandiramani, who has suffered with post-traumatic stress disorder since she was injured by Orhon, said she still sees "the madness in his eyes at night" but the verdict has provided closure.
"The mental aspect has a profound effect on my life," she said.
"Hopefully now I can get off the sleeping tablets - I don't want to be addicted to anything - and get back to my old life."
The court heard Orhon was distracted by two schoolboys from the nearby Hampton Grammar, who warned other passers-by and called 999.
Praising the boys the judge said they "certainly averted a greater disaster" and awarded them Â£1,000 each to recognise their "bravery" and thanking them on behalf of the whole community.
Jurors were told the Orhon, who is from Turkey, had left Belgravia police station after being charged with having a bladed article in a public place.
He later told police he went home picked up a knife before heading for the crowded supermarket, less than 10 minutes from his home.


Dover Athletic have re-signed Hartlepool United midfielder Nicky Deverdics on a one-month loan deal.

The 29-year-old has scored two goals in 24 appearances since joining Pools from the Whites last summer.
Deverdics spent two years with Dover after moving to Crabble in the summer of 2014, and scored 16 goals in all competitions last season.
He is eligible to play for Chris Kinnear's side against Wrexham in the National League on Saturday.
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The Edinburgh city bypass has reopened after being closed for seven hours causing massive delays.

Police said no-one was injured when a lorry hit the central reservation after a tyre blew out near the Calder junction on the A720, at about 07:20.
Footage from a dashcam filmed from on the other side of the road shows the lorry hurtling down the steel barrier.
The lorry appears to have mounted the central barrier and comes close to crossing into oncoming traffic.
The bypass was closed eastbound throughout the morning but reopened at about 14:30.
There were queues several miles long following the crash, which also affected the M8 heading into Edinburgh, back to Junction 3 at Livingston.
There were also queues on the M9 southbound heading down to the M8, with traffic back to 1a at Kirkliston.
There were further queues on all routes heading to the bypass, the A71, the A70 and the A772 Gilmerton Road.


Malian soldiers have fired on Islamist fighters in the centre of the country, military sources say.

Details remain sketchy but some sources say the Islamists, who last year seized a vast area of the north, have advanced towards Mopti - the last town under government control.
The army responded with "warning shots", military sources say.
In December, the UN approved an African-led military operation against the Islamist groups.
Last week, one of the Islamist groups, Ansar Dine, said it was ending the ceasefire it had previously announced during talks with mediators.
The army used artillery against the Islamist fighters in the village of Gnimignama, 30km (19 miles) from army positions, according to army sources.
"Jihadist elements" are now deployed on several points along the frontier between the two sides, from the Mauritanian border in the west to the Douentza region in the east, Malian Defence Minister Col Yamoussa Camara told Radio France International.
It is not clear whether there were any casualties.
Representatives of the Malian government and Islamist and Tuareg rebels are due to hold talks in neighbouring Burkina Faso on 10 January.
The rebels seized power in the north - an area the size of France - in the chaos following an army coup in March.
Since then, there has not been any fighting between the army and Islamist forces.
The alliance between the Islamists and Tuareg quickly collapsed, with the Islamists taking the region's main urban centres.
The Islamist groups have since destroyed ancient shrines in Timbuktu and imposed a strict interpretation of Islamic law, sparking international outrage.
The UN Security Council last month gave its backing for a plan to send some 3,000 West African troops to help Mali's government retake the north if no peaceful solution could be found in the coming months.
No operation is expected to begin before September 2013.


There will be no "spending sprees" in Wednesday's Budget, Chancellor Philip Hammond has warned.

Mr Hammond said any surplus cash would be used to ensure the UK had enough "gas in the tank" for the coming years.
He also acknowledged social care budgets were under particular pressure but said this was "not just about money".
Labour said the government was putting money aside to prepare for Brexit which should instead be spent on the NHS.
Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show after ruling out "huge spending sprees" in a Sunday Times article ahead of his first Budget, Mr Hammond said:
The government has been under pressure to provide more money for the NHS and social care.
On Saturday tens of thousands of people marched in London to protest against "yet more austerity" in the health service.
Mr Hammond said the economy was "performing extremely well" but that spending reductions were putting pressure on services.
This was particularly the case with adult social care, he said, but added that some councils were performing "extremely well" while others were struggling.
The chancellor did say there was a case for taking a long-term, strategic view on how the costs of an ageing population can be met, but said that in the short term: "This is about good practice as well as budgets."
Writing in the Sunday Times, he said that calls for "massive borrowing to fund huge spending sprees" were "reckless, unsustainable and unfair on our young people who would be left to deal with the consequences".
Public sector net debt - not including public sector banks - was £1.68tn at the end of January 2017, equivalent to 85.3% of GDP, according to the Office for National Statistics.
It has increased by £91.7bn since January 2016, the ONS said.
Mr Hammond last year abandoned the timetable of his predecessor, George Osborne, to eliminate the deficit by 2020, instead pledging to invest in homes and transport.
Also on the Marr show was Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell, who said the National Living Wage should be increased to give workers a "pay rise".
He said this, along with reversing changes to disability benefits and a cash injection for the NHS, could be funded by reversing £70bn in corporation, capital gains and inheritance tax cuts.
He also said Labour wanted to abolish university tuition fees and was looking at how this could be afforded.


Taking the UK out of the EU single market would be "the greatest job-killing act in Welsh economic history", Plaid Cymru has said.

Several of Sunday's newspapers claim Prime Minister Theresa May will signal the move in a speech on Tuesday.
Plaid's treasury spokesman Jonathan Edwards told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme the impact on Wales would be "devastating".
Downing Street has described the reports as "speculation".
The Carmarthen East and Dinefwr MP said pulling out of the single market and customs union would have a "huge impact on jobs and wages in Wales".
"The reality of what we're going to hear from [Theresa May] on Tuesday, it's going to be the greatest job-killing act in Welsh economic history, probably in British economic history," he added.
"In that regard my colleagues and I are going to be opposing this extreme Tory government every step of the way."
The Conservative AM for Monmouth, Nick Ramsay, told the programme Mrs May would ensure the best bespoke deal for the economy.
"There are advantages of being in the market but there are also disadvantages and these are very complex negotiations that have been ongoing," he said.
"At the end of the day, we need the best deal for Wales, the best deal for the UK. And I'm confident that the team are trying to achieve that."


Dame Vera Lynn has been recognised for services to entertainment and charity in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.

Dame Vera, 99, became known as the Forces Sweetheart for entertaining the troops during World War Two.
One of her best-known songs, The White Cliffs Of Dover, featured in a list of the Queen's favourite pieces of music, released earlier this week.
Despite this, Dame Vera, who lives in Sussex, said she "never expected" this accolade and was "greatly honoured".
She has been made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to entertainment and charity.
Dame Vera said: "I was very surprised... I felt very greatly honoured to be given a Damehood and never expected to receive anything else.
"So for Her Majesty to bestow a further accolade on me is very unexpected and I feel even more honoured."
In her 20s, Vera Lynn played a huge role in keeping British spirits up during the Blitz. She travelled thousands of miles, often at great personal risk, to entertain troops.
Her hits included We'll Meet Again, I'll Be Seeing You, Wishing and If Only I Had Wings.
In 1941, she was given a BBC radio programme, Sincerely Yours, with a peak-time evening audience.
After the war she retired from the stage to bring up her daughter, Virginia, at their home in Ditchling, Sussex, but remained in demand across the world.
Dame Vera once said: "I have never been terribly ambitious. I never wanted to be a Judy Garland.
"If work came along I liked, I would do it. If it interfered with home life for too long or took me away, I wouldn't."
Her accolades include an OBE in 1969, a DBE in 1975, and in 1978 she was given the Freedom of the City of London.


A Facebook page is melting hearts and changing minds with its pictures of orphaned baby bats wrapped in blankets.

The 'Batzilla' community page has already garnered more than 155,000 likes.
Denise Wade, a co-ordinator at Queensland's Bat Conservation and Rescue group, set up the page to highlight the plight of Australia's bats and flying foxes.
"It functions primarily as an education tool, something I can use to highlight the truth about bats and to dispel misinformation about their species," Ms Wade told the BBC.
"I also hope the truth will speak for itself: that bats are incredibly beautiful and intelligent animals."
Native bats and flying foxes are protected in Australia, but urban bat populations are a source of controversy.
Urban development is encroaching on bat habitats and residents worried about disease, noise and odours have sought to move bat colonies away from their houses.
Ms Wade hopes to convert more people into bat lovers.
"More bats are moving into urban areas and this could cause conflict with humans," she said.
"We need to understand them more and we can only do so by changing the way we do things so we can all live in harmony."
She said the name 'Batzilla' did not carry any meaning. "It was just something fun I came up with."
Many of the page's fans come for the pictures of baby bats, which are often photographed wrapped in thick blankets.
"The problem these little ones face is when they come out of the incubator, they chill off very quickly and it can become dangerous, so we need to keep their bodies warm," Ms Wade said.
Ms Wade has expanded her social media footprint with a YouTube account, which features videos of her baby bats and flying foxes.
She praised her "wonderful group of followers".
"I spend as much time as I can with updates as I think social media can be a very important education tool," she said.


The Royal Society of Edinburgh says having YouTube star Stampy Cat deliver its Christmas lecture is the "biggest event" in the organisation's history.

Stampy - real name Joseph Garrett - gave the lecture at Dundee's Caird Hall in front of 2,000 schoolchildren.
The creator of the "Let's Play" videos for Minecraft and other games has more than 6.8 million subscribers to his YouTube channel.
His lecture offered an insight into how he makes the videos.
Chris van der Kuyl, convenor of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's (RSE) young people's committee, said Stampy was one of the world's biggest stars on YouTube.
"For under-12s, Stampy's one of the biggest stars of his generation and the RSE could not believe it when he agreed to come and give our Christmas lecture this year," he said.
"In just over 250 years, this is the single biggest event in the RSE's history with the youngest lecturer ever."
Mr Van der Kuyl, who is also chairman of 4J studios that helps develop Minecraft, said the lecture would show young people how careers could be forged in industries that did not exist three or four years ago.
Stampy arrived for his pre-lecture media interviews dressed casually in jeans and a signature Stampy Cat T-shirt. His distinctive voice is instantly recognisable to millions of children - and their parents.
His channel has an average of about 150 million views a month, which has given him worldwide fame as well as considerable financial success.
But the 24-year-old, from Hampshire, told BBC Scotland the millions of video views and comments he receives are hard to relate to real life, which is why he welcomes taking part in events like the lecture.
"This is the best part of what I do. The rest of the time I'm at a computer. I'm reading comments and watching numbers but it doesn't feel like real people.
"No matter how big the numbers get, you can't think about it like when you're meeting people one-on-one and they're saying I love the thing you did last week," he said.
"That's the most rewarding part of it."
Stampy said his success was not something that "blew up" overnight, but came after many years of making and uploading videos for YouTube.
"I've been doing Minecraft videos for about three-and-a-half years and it's been a gradual slope up. I've been doing YouTube for a long time before then as well, but no-one was watching."
The 24-year-old puts the videos' continued popularity down to very careful planning. Even when they do seem "wild and crazy", Stampy said he has generally worked out the beginning, middle and end of the story he is trying to tell.
"The good thing about Minecraft is it's just a blank canvas. So for me making videos I can tell whatever story I want," he said.
"Rather than how to play the game it's about inspiring and giving ideas."
The game is being used more and more in schools as an education tool and Microsoft - who bought Minecraft in 2014 from the game's developer Mojang for $2.5bn (Â£1.7bn) - recently launched a site aimed at teachers to encourage its use in the classroom.
But for the 2,000 school children attending the afternoon lecture - Stampy will give a second one at 19:00 on Monday - it was all about meeting their idol, who was greeted with prolonged screams of excitement.
Ancrum Road Primary pupil Sam, who was in the audience, said: "I think he's really, really famous. I'm super-excited, I can't wait till the show starts. This is a dream come true."
Stampy is reluctant to reveal what his next big project would be, saying only that he and his girlfriend Bethany Bates - known as Squaishey on YouTube - had "lots of plans".
In a comment on the popularity of his videos which could equally apply to his career in a new digital age, he added: "There isn't a script. I'm not reading a script."
The RSE's Christmas lecture will be shown exclusively on the BBC iPlayer on Thursday.


The BBC will continue to broadcast live radio coverage of the Ashes, including the Women's Ashes, after renewing its partnership with Cricket Australia.

The new five-year agreement includes Test Match Special coverage of this winter's five-Test men's tour down under, which starts in November.
The women's teams will meet in a multi-format series, including the first women's day-night Test in October.
TMS will also broadcast England's home Ashes series in the summer of 2019.
The deal between the BBC and Cricket Australia grants exclusive UK radio rights for all international women's and men's cricket in Australia, and non-exclusive rights for the Big Bash League and Women's Big Bash League Twenty20 competitions, up to the 2021-22 season.
Ben Gallop, head of BBC Radio Sport and Digital, said: "We're thrilled BBC radio will once again be the home of the Ashes in Australia for the next five years, and that we'll also be covering some of the other great cricket competitions taking place in Australia over this period.
"This deal is a brilliant way to mark the 60th anniversary of Test Match Special, which remains one of the most-treasured programmes on the BBC."
Cricket Australia's Ben Amarfio added: "The BBC's cricket coverage has long been an integral part of the sport in the UK, and this agreement will mean more people will be able to enjoy the scintillating cricket action this Australian summer and for the next five years."
This winter's series will go ahead after the ongoing pay dispute between Australia's players and Cricket Australia was resolved.
Former captain Alastair Cook led England's men to a 3-2 victory in the 2015 home series, regaining the Ashes after 5-0 whitewash during the 2013-14 tour to Australia.
England and Australia have won 32 series apiece, with five drawn.
Australia regained the Women's Ashes - a multi-format, points-based contest - in 2015.


Brexit means it is time to sell Wales to the world like "never before", Carwyn Jones has said.

Mr Jones announced the Welsh Government had appointed officials to represent Wales in EU negotiations.
He reiterated his support for the UK remaining in the single market - but said he was not making the same demands on Europe's system of freedom of movement.
Opposition parties have accused him of being slow to respond to Brexit.
"We've got to sell Wales to the world... like never before," Mr Jones said, speaking at Cardiff's Cathays Park.
"We need to reassert our confidence and we need to do it now."
Mr Jones revealed he is visiting the US next week as part of his drive to drum up business, while Economy Secretary Ken Skates is heading to Japan in October.
Mr Jones said the Welsh Government had "appointed a team of senior government officials to represent Wales in the forthcoming EU negotiations and to fight for Wales' best interests on an international stage".
Asked for further detail, a Welsh Government spokesman said the "European Transition Team", had been set up as part of the office of the first minister to support him in co-ordinating the Welsh Government's negotiating strategy.
Calling for the UK to stay in the single market, Mr Jones told the press conference: "I don't advocate that things should stay as they are for the free movement of people.
"What I advocate is that things should stay as they are regarding the free movement of goods and services."
But he said it was "right to say the only model at the moment that exists involves accepting both".
Mr Jones also set out Welsh Labour's law-making priorities at the press conference, called to mark 100 days since he was reinstated as first minister.
He said an assembly bill on what will replace stamp duty in Wales - Land Transaction Tax - would be introduced next month, followed "swiftly" by a new public health bill, a law on landfill disposal tax, a trade union bill and legislation to abolish the Right to Buy.
A law to amend the Welsh Language measure will be introduced in the new assembly term and a development bank for businesses in Wales would be operational by the second quarter of 2017, he said.
News earlier in August of a committee to advise on Brexit was dismissed by Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies as a "last-minute scramble for ideas".
A spokesperson for the Welsh Conservatives said: "Catch-up Carwyn's approach to governance has to date been defined by a distinct lack of proactivity and a drought of ideas - and this announcement is more evidence of that."
Analysis by BBC Wales political editor Nick Servini
It has become clear that Carwyn Jones will define his approach to Brexit negotiations around the need for the UK to remain in the single market.
The problem is that the free movement of goods and services may be entirely connected to the free movement of people, which could be unacceptable to many of those who voted to leave.
He is banking on access to the single market still being possible at the same time as the UK regains more control of its borders. That could be a big ask.
His tone was markedly different to the Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns, who will represent Wales at the cabinet, where the big early decisions on Britain's negotiating position will be made.
Mr Cairns talked about opportunities and entrepreneurs thriving on change, while Mr Jones spoke of investments being put on hold and potential problems for attracting investment.


Pop star Anastacia is to donate her fee from Strictly Come Dancing to a breast cancer charity, she has revealed.

The 47-year-old US singer was treated for breast cancer in 2003 and underwent a double mastectomy when the disease returned in 2013.
She said she wanted to "give as much as I can back to the women and to a cure" and to "make a difference".
She is among the 15 celebrities taking part in the new series of the BBC One dance show, which begins on Saturday.
Anastacia told BBC News she would ask friends to add to her contribution.
She said: "I'm going to try to ask as many of my mates that might have a couple of extra dollars to match what I make.
"So whatever I end up making I just want them to match it."
Anastacia shot to international fame in 2000 with her debut song I'm Outta Love, which she performed on the Strictly Blackpool special last year.
She has not said how much her fee is worth or which charity it will go to.
The star was speaking at the red carpet launch event for the show's 14th series, which will also feature singer Will Young, Olympic high jumper Greg Rutherford, BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty and former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls.
Balls revealed he was feeling "totally intimidated".
"I've never danced properly before, let alone on national television," he said. "It's totally out of my comfort zone.
"They're all fit and dynamic and know what they're doing. So it's going to be a struggle but I'm really looking forward to it."
Balls said he was used to facing former Prime Minister David Cameron and ex-Chancellor George Osborne on the floor of the House of Commons - but was not prepared for the dancefloor.
"I've done live TV, I've done performing on a stage, I've done the House of Commons. But doing this on Strictly is like nothing else," he added.
"The House of Commons, David Cameron, George Osborne - has it prepared me for this? Not at all."
Balls lost his seat as an MP at last year's general election.
On Saturday, viewers will see which professional dancers the celebrities have been paired with.
Judges Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, Darcey Bussell and Craig Revel Horwood will return - although this will be the last series for Goodman.
Long-serving professional Brendan Cole is among those rumoured to be in the frame to take his place next year.
He said: "It's going to be sad not to have Len, he's part of the furniture, and whoever replaces Len [will have] massive shoes to fill.
"If I'm even considered as a possibility, that would be a massive honour. But for now, the focus is on the dancing and whoever I'm partnered with."
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An owner of a care home has been found guilty of force-feeding elderly residents and failing to seek immediate help for a scalded woman aged 99.

Indranee Pumbien, who ran the Briarwood Rest Home, Preston, with her husband, was convicted of ill-treating the woman and a man, 80, between 2013 and 2014.
Meghadeven Pumbien, 64, and employee Niphawan Berry were also convicted of failing to get urgent medical care for the woman, who was scalded in a bath.
The three will be sentenced in October.
At Preston Crown Court, Judge Pamela Badley warned them they may face jail terms.
The court previously heard Margaret Wheatley, 99, suffered extensive burns to her legs and feet which were consistent with contact with water between 46C (113F)and 50C (122F)for up to five minutes.
Jurors heard the Pumbiens, of Grosvenor Place, Preston, tried to evade scrutiny by saying Mrs Wheatley had cellulitis and an infection.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) described it as "shocking abuse of extremely vulnerable adults".
Mrs Pumbien, 59, was also convicted of force-feeding Mrs Wheatley and another resident.
She was cleared of ill-treating another pensioner at the home and perverting the course of justice. The jury failed to reach verdicts on four further counts of mistreatment against her.
Police started investigating the home, in Todd Lane South, Lostock Hall, in June last year after a complaint was made about the treatment of a resident.
Officers said other allegations of mistreatment came to light during the investigation.
The home closed soon after the first allegations were made. The site is now under new ownership and has been renamed.
Ben Southam, from the CPS, said: "These three people have abused the trust placed in them by the appalling treatment of those in their care.
"Their actions have caused considerable distress not only to the victims, but also to their families who have had to hear in great detail how their loved ones were ill-treated and abused in the most deplorable way."
The jury failed to reach a verdict on an allegation of grievous bodily harm against Berry, who was accused of placing Mrs Wheatley in the bath.
Berry, 42, of Christ Church Street, Preston, was cleared of ill-treating a second resident.
The Pumbiens were also cleared of ill-treating a resident in relation to allegedly failing to provide adequate lifting equipment.


The Welsh Liberal Democrats will show they are "the champions of community politics", their leader has said.

Mark Williams was speaking ahead of the party's spring conference in Swansea this weekend.
The Welsh Lib Dem are defending 75 of Wales' 1,254 council seats in May's elections having gained councillors since the 2012 poll.
The party has been part of a Conservative-led coalition running Monmouthshire over the past five years.
"This conference will set out our commitment to the communities of Wales for the upcoming elections in May," Mr Williams said.
"The Liberal Democrats are the champions of community politics, standing up in the best interests of our communities at every turn.
"This conference will show that we have the ideas, the drive, and the passion to deliver better public services and a more accountable politics."
The Liberal Democrats won 72 council seats in Wales five years ago - down from 164 in 2008 - in the first set of national elections held after the party formed a coalition with the Conservatives at Westminster in 2010.
Since 2012, the party has made a net gain of three council seats as a result of by-elections and defections.
In the 2015 general election, the Liberal Democrats lost two Welsh seats leaving Mark Williams as the party's only MP from Wales.
The 2016 Welsh Assembly election saw Kirsty Williams return to Cardiff Bay as the party's only assembly member after four of her colleagues lost their seats.
Ms Williams was appointed to the Labour-led Welsh Government as education secretary.
She will address the conference on Saturday although the party's UK leader, Tim Farron, will not be attending.
Despite electoral blows in recent years the Liberal Democrats have made several by-election gains since the EU referendum.
Brexit will be high on the agenda this weekend as the party hopes to attract voters who wanted the UK to remain part of the EU.
"We come together after a difficult year for progressives, to reunite, to rebuild, and to look ahead to the future of progressive, liberal politics in Wales and the UK," Mr Williams said.
"We are more determined than ever to fight for an open, tolerant and united country where everyone has the opportunity to succeed."


Syrian opposition leader Moaz al-Khatib has urged President Bashar al-Assad to respond to his offer of peace talks.

Mr Khatib, recently elected head of the Syrian National Coalition, called on Mr Assad to give his vice-president the task of opening negotiations.
He said the aim would be to help the Syrian regime stand down peacefully, to spare further bloodshed.
The US has backed Mr Khatib's initiative but there has been no response so far from Damascus.
The opposition leader dismayed many of his colleagues last week with his offer to talk to government officials provided 160,000 prisoners were freed.
The opposition has previously insisted President Assad step down before any talks begin.
The BBC's Jim Muir, in neighbouring Lebanon, says that as fighting continues there seems to be a growing awareness on both sides that a stalemate is setting in and a political solution may be the only way out.
"I ask the regime to send (Vice-President) Farouq al-Sharaa - if it accepts the idea - and we can sit with him," Mr Khatib told al-Arabiya TV.
"The issue is now in the state's court... to accept negotiations for departure, with fewer losses."
He said it was not "treachery" to seek dialogue to end the conflict.
In separate comments to al-Jazeera TV he said: "The regime must take a clear stand (on dialogue) and we say we will extend our hand for the interest of people and to help the regime leave peacefully."
Mr Khatib held talks in Munich over the weekend with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akhbar Salehi and Sergei Lavrov, foreign minister of Syria's other key ally Russia.
He also met US Vice-President Joe Biden.
Our correspondent says it shows that new lines of communication have been opened up.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that Syria's problems could not be solved by military means and called for "national understanding and free elections".
Syrian Defence Minister Fahd al-Freij admitted on Monday that the army was overstretched and had abandoned some outlying positions in order to save lives.
But in a defiant message he told state TV: "This heroic Syrian Arab army proved to the world that it is a strong army, a trained army, an army that cannot be broken."
The Syrian government is, meanwhile, pushing ahead with preparations for a national dialogue conference and a referendum on a national charter.
However, President Assad said there would be no dialogue with people he called traitors or "puppets made by the West".
His speech last month was described by UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi as "narrow and uncompromising".
More than 60,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the 22-month conflict between the Assad government and rebel groups.
Opposition activists reported clashes between the army and rebels to the east of Damascus on Monday and heavy shelling of rebel-held areas in the central city of Homs.
The UN says it fears the continuing violence could destabilise the whole region.
More than 600,000 Syrians have fled into neighbouring countries to escape the violence, the UN refugee agency says.


The impeachment process against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been thrown into doubt.

The acting speaker of Brazil's lower house, Waldir Maranhao, has annulled a vote in the lower house that allowed the proceedings to go on to the Senate.
But the president of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, later said the vote there would happen anyway.
The Senate is scheduled to vote on Wednesday on whether to start an impeachment trial.
The president of the Senate impeachment commission (in Portuguese) also said the vote would take place as scheduled.
In his decision, Mr Maranhao said there had been irregularities during the lower house session in which its members overwhelmingly voted in favour of the impeachment process going ahead.
He said members of the lower house should not have publicly announced what their position was prior to the vote, and that it had been wrong of party leaders to instruct their members how to vote.
Mr Maranhao called for a new vote in the lower house.
But Mr Calheiros said in a special session that he would ignore Mr Maranhao's order, and go ahead with the Senate vote. He accused Mr Maranhao of "toying with democracy".
When I sat down for an extended interview with Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia last week, she was fully prepared for and anticipating her likely suspension as president.
She assumed, like just about everyone else in Brazil, that the country's Senate would vote in favour of a full impeachment trial.
Indeed, Ms Rousseff told me she would fight to clear her name after her expected suspension from office later this week over charges that she illegally hid the scale of the budget deficit.
The decision by the interim speaker of the lower house to annul the impeachment process took everyone - including the president - by surprise.
But if it is a stay of execution for Ms Rousseff it may only be temporary.
The case has already left Waldir Maranhao's jurisdiction and is before the Senate where senior figures have already vowed to ignore the ruling from Mr Maranhao.
Whatever the outcome - and don't bet against the impeachment process getting "back on track" - this fiasco does the image of Brazil and its discredited political system no good.
An increasing majority of Brazilians are not just dissatisfied with the country's situation in general but, in particular, with the behaviour of politicians in Brasilia.
The place is, rightly or wrongly, perceived to be riddled with corruption where politicians serve only in their self interest while the rest of the country struggles with a worsening economy, an ever more violent society and with the country's image being ridiculed overseas.
Mr Maranhao, who opposed the impeachment process in the 17 April vote, only took over as the speaker of the lower house last week, after the previous speaker, Eduardo Cunha, was suspended.
Mr Cunha, an outspoken critic of President Rousseff, led the impeachment drive against her.
Reacting to the news, Ms Rousseff urged "caution", adding that there was a "hard fight ahead".
Ms Rousseff has said the efforts to impeach her amount to "a coup attempt".
She has accused Mr Cunha and Vice-President Michel Temer of being the "ringleaders of the coup".
Mr Temer would step in as interim president if Ms Rousseff were to be suspended from office.
In a BBC interview last week, Ms Rousseff said she was an "innocent victim" and that she would fight on.
She is accused of manipulating the government budget ahead of her re-election in 2014. The president has defended her fiscal measures as common practice in Brazil.
If the trial goes ahead, she will be suspended from office immediately.
Following Mr Maranhao's decision, Brazil's currency, the real, lost more than 4% against the dollar, while the country's stock exchange slipped more than 3%.
Investors have criticised Ms Rousseff and her Workers' Party for what they say are interventionist policies and see Mr Temer as being more market-friendly.
Brazil is in its worst recession in 25 years, with inflation at a 12-year-high in 2015.
The president's approval ratings have plummeted recently, and recent polls suggest most Brazilians support her removal from office.


Sebastian Vettel took a sensational maiden victory for Ferrari as he won a straight fight with Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes at the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Vettel, who joined Ferrari this year as Fernando Alonso's replacement, won a strategic battle as Mercedes struggled with tyres in the tropical heat.
Hamilton's team-mate Nico Rosberg was third from Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen, who fought back from an early puncture.
The McLarens of Alonso and Jenson Button both retired.
The performance of Ferrari and Vettel was a wake-up call for both Mercedes and Formula 1, the German manufacturer having dominated the sport since the start of last season.
It raises the possibility that Mercedes will face an unexpected fight for this year's world title, with Ferrari very much on the world champions' pace all weekend.
Vettel, who started second, took the lead when Mercedes chose to call in Hamilton for a pit stop during an early safety car period, while Ferrari left the German out on track.
Mercedes preferred to do the majority of the race on the slower hard tyre, finding it had greater resilience on their car.
But Vettel used the faster medium tyre for all but one stint and Hamilton was unable to get on terms.
Vettel was still eight seconds in the lead when he made his first pit stop on lap 17 - 13 laps after Hamilton had stopped under the safety car - and he closed on Hamilton and Rosberg after rejoining in third.
A second stop by Hamilton only seven laps after Vettel's first put him 24 seconds behind the Ferrari, with half the race and one further stop for each remaining.
Mercedes continued to believe they could win until Hamilton made his final stop on lap 38, one after Vettel.
The world champion rejoined 14 seconds behind and, although he was slightly faster than the Ferrari, he was unable to close at anything like the required rate, Vettel holding him at a distance of about 10 seconds.
Tensions within Mercedes were revealed under the pressure of the fight, as Hamilton questioned the team's choice of the hard tyre for the critical final stint, and his engineer told him their only other option was a well-worn set of mediums.
That stemmed from Mercedes' decision to use the faster tyre in the first part of qualifying, a decision based on their preference for the hard as a race tyre, but which meant they only had one set of new mediums remaining for the race.
Vettel's victory was the 40th of his career - only one short of Ayrton Senna, who is third in the all-time list - and the first time Mercedes had been beaten since last August's Belgian Grand Prix.
And it marks an amazing turnaround by Ferrari, who last year had their worst season for 21 years, managing only two podiums.
The Ferrari's pace in the difficult, tyre-melting conditions was underlined by Raikkonen's recovery to fourth.
He qualified in 11th, lost most of a lap with a puncture on lap two but, helped by the safety car closing up the field, drove well to regain lost ground and get the best possible result.
The Finn was followed by the Williams cars of Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa, the Finn passing the Brazilian in spectacular style around the outside of the fast Turn Five on the last lap.
Toro Rosso's 17-year-old Max Verstappen, racing impressively side by side with rivals through the frantic early stages, took seventh, just ahead of team-mate and fellow rookie Carlos Sainz Jr.
Both Red Bull junior team drivers beat the senior team's Daniel Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat into ninth and 10th.
McLaren's performance had been encouraging while it lasted, Alonso running strongly in ninth place and closing on Kvyat before he was called in to retire with overheating of his hybrid system on lap 21.
Button, who out-qualified Alonso after the Spaniard made a mistake on his final lap on Saturday, was not quite able to match his team-mate's pace in the race and retired from close to the back of the field at about two-thirds distance with turbo failure.
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Reeling from a run - the first on a British bank for more than a century - and nationalisation soon after, the state of Northern Rock was mirrored by its Sunderland offices.

The sparsely populated premises at Doxford Business Park had fallen into such a poor condition that part of the roof would eventually blow off.
Now, the building has been renovated into the sleek, open-plan nerve centre of UK Asset Resolution (Ukar) - the Treasury-owned company that has the job of running down the rump of the Rock.
Those in charge believe that the state-of-the-art, largely transparent customer operations centre reflects the way in which the business is now run, albeit with very different ambitions.
Ukar oversees the shaky side of the mortgage books of Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley - the parts of the banks that could not be sold off to the likes of Virgin. Its job is not to offer new home loans but to run down those old, riskier deals while keeping a roof over mortgage-holders' heads when possible.
But the boss, chief executive Richard Banks, doesn't like the phrase "bad bank". Only 5% of mortgage customers - nearly 30,000 people - are in arrears with mortgage repayments, a figure that is falling. The Treasury is steadily being paid back, with the announcement of further loan repayments to government expected imminently.
It is not a household name. When asked, some customers thought Ukar (pronounced U-kar) was a motor dealership.
In fact, letters to customers are headed with the names of the specific lenders - Northern Rock Asset Management, Bradford & Bingley or Mortgage Express.
Yet, the decisions it makes affect the homes and day-to-day finances of nearly half a million people, many of whom stretched themselves almost to breaking point during the housing boom prior 2008.
Amit Rao, 32, is typical. He bought a one-bedroom flat in Watford at a time when he says lenders were "handing mortgages out like Smarties".
He signed up to Northern Rock's Together mortgage, which was popular before the credit crunch and allowed homebuyers to borrow the full price of the property plus an unsecured loan on top.
"I thought it was wise to invest, and that you couldn't go wrong with property," he says.
But things did go wrong for him. The bank collapsed and had to be rescued by government, the value of his property fell, and his job moved further away from home. Northern Rock Asset Management can no longer offer fixed-rate deals, so when his deal expired he had to move to the Rock's more expensive standard variable rate (SVR). No other lenders were willing to take him on.
This is common among Northern Rock Asset Management mortgage holders. Nine out of 10 of them are on the SVR of 4.79%.
Mr Rao moved back in with his parents to cut his costs.
Eventually he changed the conditions of the mortgage so he could rent the flat out to tenants, but the rent he gets in does not cover the mortgage repayments.
The property is still worth less than his outstanding mortgage - known as negative equity - and he feels stuck.
"I can't really move on with my life," he says.
"My biggest fear is that interest rates go up soon, and rise to a level that I can't sustain repayments."
He says he would welcome some guidance and communication from the lender, explaining his options.
Ukar says that it can help customers in this situation review their monthly incomings and outgoings and may put borrowers in touch with independent mortgages brokers who could help find a new fixed-rate deal with another lender.
Yet, chief executive Mr Banks points out: "It is not our job to be a social service."
Still, he admits he worries about the effect that an interest rate rise would have on customers, predicting the first increase in the Bank rate to come early in 2015.
He says that 25% of their mortgage customers could face serious difficulties in making mortgage repayments were the Bank rate to rise to 5%. It is currently at a record low of 0.5%.
Meanwhile, there will always be those who face money problems as a result of redundancy or marital breakdown, he says, who will start getting behind on their bills.
Customers who miss a mortgage repayment can expect a phone call within two days. Text messages and letters may follow. But, says Jim Waddell - Ukar's head of customer assistance, this is not a debt collection call, but an attempt to prevent any problems spiralling out of control.
A huge banner hanging from the ceiling above his team displays the phone number of the National Debtline, aimed at encouraging those struggling with debts to get help from the charity in drawing up a repayment plan.
Elsewhere in the Sunderland complex, calls have been made to prevent more long-term debt troubles.
Every customer with an interest-only mortgage deal, where the term will end and the final lump sum will be due within 10 years, received letters asking how the borrower intends to pay off the balance.
Every lender has done something similar, following an agreement with the regulator, but only for those with terms ending by 2020.
From September, those with interest-only deals where the balance is due in more than 10 years' time, will also start to receive letters from Ukar asking about their financial plans.
Mr Banks, whose career included director level positions at Alliance and Leicester, says that it is refreshing - but unusual - to be a mortgage lender who does not have to worry about sales.
His job, and his target, within the next 10 years is to pay back the Â£50bn or so of government loans that it needed to start the job of running down a book of 553,853 home loans worth Â£62.3bn.
The more successful Ukar is at running down the mortgage book, the quicker the organisation will disappear, which makes staff motivation a challenge.
But, for now, Mr Banks - a DIY enthusiast - and his staff take pride in having "put together and repaired" two broken bits of the UK banking system, Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley.
"It is testament to what skilled operators our staff have to be. They have to be behavioural psychologists while obeying the rules," he says.
Ultimately, their success will depend on whether - like the refurbished offices in Sunderland - they can keep a roof over their customers' heads.


A Labour MSP was ejected from the Holyrood chamber while trying to complain about a ruling the presiding officer made on the Trade Union Bill.

MSPs were debating the Westminster bill during topical questions, after Tricia Marwick rejected a bid by government ministers to block it.
After James Kelly refused orders to sit down, the presiding officer had him escorted from the chamber.
A number of other Labour MSPs raised points of order to protest.
The issue was being debated at topical questions after Ms Marwick rejected a bid by government ministers to lodge a legislative consent motion against the Trade Union Bill.
Both Labour and the SNP are opposed to the Westminster bill, and fair work secretary Roseanna Cunningham has now sent a memorandum on the matter for consideration by the further powers committee.
She said it was "essential that the Scottish Parliament is able to express its opposition" to the "poorly thought out piece of legislation", which seeks to curb the powers of unions.
At the end of topical questions, Mr Kelly said he wanted to raise a point of order, asking if the legal advice the presiding officer had been given on the matter was open to challenge.
When Ms Marwick told him to get to the point, he replied that he could only do so if she would stop "interrupting" him.
The presiding officer then repeatedly ordered him to sit down, and he repeatedly refused. She asked him repeatedly to "desist and to apologise", and he refused.
Ms Marwick then had the Rutherglen MSP escorted from the chamber, and had him barred from participating for the rest of the day and the following day.
A series of Labour MSPs including Richard Simpson, Neil Bibby and Neil Findlay then raised points of order of their own in protest.
Ms Marwick said Mr Kelly had not come to his point of order or explained what it was.


An article on Chinese state media that said Taiwan's new leader Tsai Ing-wen has an "extremist style" because she is unmarried has prompted outrage online.

The opinion piece, published by the Xinhua news agency, said Ms Tsai did not have the "emotional burden" of a family, leading to an "erratic style".
Chinese social media users largely rallied in support of Ms Tsai, who has been outspoken about her single status.
She was sworn in on Friday as Taiwan's first female president
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Her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which leans towards independence from China, won January's elections, ending eight years under pro-Beijing President Ma Ying-jeou.
Ms Tsai's singleness was a central focus of a commentary by Wang Weixing, originally published by Xinhua.
The article has since been removed from Xinhua's website, but can still be found on other news portals and micro-blogging accounts.
Mr Wang, a senior military officer, pointed to an "extremist political-style development" displayed by Ms Tsai.
"As a single female politician, Tsai Ing-wen does not have the emotional burden of love, of 'family' or children so her political style and strategies are displayed to be more emotional, personal and extreme," the report in Chinese read.
It continued that her "erratic behaviour" influenced her political style and advised that she should take that into consideration, rather than "focus on long-term goals" for Taiwan.
Alex Huang, a spokesman for Ms Tsai, told BBC News that her office had "no comments" in response to the piece.
But thousands of Chinese-language social media users have expressed outrage and anger towards the article, which has been reposted by several accounts on China's popular micro-blogging site Sina Weibo.
"This was the stupidest and most offensive thing I have read in ages," said a post from a Weibo user from the Chinese capital, Beijing.
"Many women abroad admire Ms Tsai's tenacity and drive, especially the fact she is strong and independent and does not need a man to rule."
"If the tables were turned and Ms Tsai was a man, she would be celebrated for being single. This is typical discriminatory behaviour but it still disgusts me," said another user on the site.
Su Mei Cho, a teacher from Shanghai, left a comment in response to a post that was being circulated on the site: "If Xinhua wanted to criticise Tsai Ing-wen, do it on fair grounds and look at her ability to lead Taiwan and revitalise areas like defence and the economy.
"What does her private life have to do with the way she governs Taiwan? Taiwanese celebrate her and her strong achievements and I doubt they will care as much about who she decides to date, such trivial writing and opinions expressed in this report."
Over in Taiwan, netizens on the popular PTT forum were discussing the "poor taste" of opinions expressed towards their leader.
"Even a woman's singlehood can make the news?"
"They are probably threatened that a cat lady like Ms Tsai could beat any men she sets her mind to - they are intimidated," said another.
But not everyone disagreed with the article.
A user from China's Yunnan province said it was not an attack, and the article was based on facts. He questioned whether it would also be an attack for a psychologist to point out a patient's personality faults.
Another user from Henan province, central China said the article was all based on public information, and said it was right to use public information to study a politician.
Reporting by the BBC's Grace Tsoi, Heather Chen and Yashan Zhao.


Lenovo, the world's second-largest PC maker, has reported a rise in profits due to its still-growing home market and from sales abroad.

Beijing-based Lenovo made $144m (Â£92m) in the quarter to June, up 30% from the same period last year.
But the pace of profits growth was the slowest in more than a year amid signs that China's economy is cooling.
However, Lenovo, maker of the ThinkPad, said that it remains "optimistic" on its growth prospects.
"Although challenges to worldwide PC demand remain largely due to weakening economic condition, Lenovo remains both optimistic about the future of the PC market and committed to innovation," it said in a statement.
The firm's sales were boosted by fast-growing developing countries.
Shipments of PCs jumped 59% in the Asia Pacific and Latin America.


Tens of thousands of protestors have filled the streets of central Hong Kong demanding that China withdraws rules that allow it to vet candidates for the next leadership election.

The protesters, who are made up of students and supporters of the Occupy Central pro-democracy movement, want a free choice of candidates for the vote in 2017 but Beijing has ruled that option out.
BBC News readers in Hong Kong and mainland China have been explaining why the issue has caused so much anger on the streets.
David Boyton, former police officer, Hong Kong
As a lawyer and a former Hong Kong police officer I did not initially care much for the Occupy Central movement.
I also felt greatly inconvenienced when I was stuck in Hong Kong traffic for several hours at one point because of these protests.
However, when I saw the unnecessary gassing of protesters who were not doing anything, my attitude completely changed.
This is an indication of what is to come - PRC [People's Republic of China]-style heavy-handed police tactics to deal with its own citizens.
It is no coincidence that the underlying movement promotes democracy and government accountability.
Why do the police, who are themselves citizens of Hong Kong, have to treat its own citizens with such disdain and contempt?
No doubt it will come out in the wash that, "we were just following orders". The unnecessary escalation by the Hong Kong police has changed my attitude completely.
The government and police must be made accountable; and this society must be allowed to move ahead in the way that the majority wishes.
I now fully support the protesters and I am ashamed of ever being a police officer in Hong Kong.
SK, a student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
I spent a tense night amongst the students when it all started kicking off on Friday night.
The police just burst into a crowd that was formed by thousands of students and citizens who were outside the Hong Kong government headquarters.
Police used huge pepper sprays to attack the protesters. Students were shouting "protect the students, police please leave!" I support the student protests because Beijing's solution is unacceptable.
Hong Kong's leader, CY Leung, has ignored our demands to meet and that's why people in Hong Kong are so angry - not just us students.
Clara Me, Hong Kong
It's not that I don't sympathise with the protesters but I feel their way of going about things is too extreme.
I understand why they are doing it - but it is very naive to think if the students protest or speak loudly enough it will change things.
The Hong Kong government is under China's jurisdiction and if China doesn't agree, the Hong Kong government can't act. It's a difficult situation.
No-one wants another Tiananmen Square. People have been spreading rumours on social media of guns and tanks outside of Hong Kong and the territories - they are old pictures, it's not what is happening now.
So it makes me think some people want things to escalate. I want the protesters to calm down and go home.
Jason Liu, a civil engineer from Hong Kong
The students have been calm and peaceful.  Some brought food and water with them, and the protest has been well organised.
The students have been lying peacefully on the ground. The police seized a protester's loudspeaker and this is what caused the first disturbance.
The protesters were not happy about it and they tried to stop the vehicle that was taking it away.
The police are trying to persuade protesters to go away. The police increased the number of barricades to stop people going into the government square.
I believe they will escalate their actions in order to clean up the square. But the protesters have been sitting peacefully.
I've never seen this happen in Hong Kong in my life.
I want the world to know that we are peaceful; no looting or vandalism, but police still treat us as if we are rioting.
We only use umbrellas to protect ourselves from the tear gas.
Ben Sun, sales manager, Shenzhen, China
I don't support the protesters, especially those who are secondary school students. They are the ones in society who need to be protected from politics, not involved in it.
1 October is National Day. Whatever China looks like and feels like in everyone's heart, it is Mother's Day too.
No-one hates their mother even if she is ugly, poor or unwise. To protest on Mother's Day is no different to a rebellious child misbehaving.
People in Hong Kong are full of idealism. Do the university students even know what they are protesting about? I think they are too young.
Just like an older brother to a younger brother, I would suggest, please talk to your parents and respect their decision.
When you can raise children yourself and support your parents, then you will really understand.
Jessica Yeung, professor, Hong Kong
I agree with the protesters.
Civic Square is supposed to be a public space but a fence three metres high was erected around it only a few months ago. I think the government was preparing for protests.
I saw thousands of people gathering there. It was very moving. People were coming with food, drink, facemasks, raincoats and cling film - so as to protect against the pepper spray.
Beijing is being increasingly manipulative and controlling when it comes to Hong Kong's legislation.
There is a huge cultural difference and I don't think Hong Kong's legislation reflects the view of the residents to Beijing. This has caused a lot of misunderstanding.
The present government is responsible to a large extent for what is happening. They've blocked communications between democrats and Beijing.
Andy Bugden, Shenzhen, China
I don't know what the protesters expect to achieve.  I think Hong Kong people look down on mainlanders.
In about 30 years Hong Kong will return obediently to the mainland under one system.
They need to deal with reality. If they work with China then all will be fine - work against and they will find that China is stronger.
Hong Kong people are not going to get a choice that they want. A stable government is good for business.
The people of Hong Kong have to see the long-term view. They won't have democracy until China has democracy.


I've just been witness to what feels like a modern-day technological miracle.

A Samsung smartphone has just been recharged from being nearly out-of-juice to full capacity in less time than it takes to boil a kettle.
The Israeli start-up behind the demo, Storedot, has shown off a similar feat before.
But a previous demo posted online eight months ago involved a battery many times thicker than the handset itself as well as an outsized charger - making the tech impractical for real-world use.
This time round the phone involved is no bigger than normal, and the charging dock is pretty slim-line as well.
There's a couple of trade-offs involved, but being able to recharge devices about 100 times faster than at present has the potential to revolutionise the way we use mobile phones, tablets, laptops and wearable tech.
Storedot's ambitions, however, are even larger.
The BBC is the first to have been shown the new kit, apart from tech industry executives who had to sign non-disclosure agreements.
It's not something that can be retrofitted to existing devices, since most phones would be fried by the 40 amps of electricity the current version of the charger supplies.
It also involves using a completely new type of battery, which contains specially synthesised organic molecules.
"We have reactions in the battery that are non-traditional reactions that allow us to charge very fast, moving ions from an anode to a cathode at a speed that was not possible before we had these materials," explains Doron Myersdorf, the company's chief executive.
He adds that phone-makers from the US, South Korea, China and Japan have already begun talks to either license or buy exclusive rights to the tech, and that he has 17 meetings at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas with "all the major" players.
But Mr Myersdorf also acknowledges that there is still more work to be done before his tech is ready for consumers.
Storedot has a 2017 goal of matching the energy density - the amount of energy stored per kilogram - of its own batteries and the lithium-ion ones commonly found in existing handsets.
The firm's prototypes currently deliver about a third of that rate, meaning the normal-sized handset used in the demo only held 900mAh of juice, and would have to be recharged several times a day were it deployed now albeit only taking two minutes to do so each time.
The company also showed off a 2,000mAh battery, which took three minutes to recharge, but the phone that housed it had been made 5mm (0.2in) thicker than normal to accommodate its girth.
By the 2017 deadline, Storedot also aims to halve its current charging times.
At this point it's probably wise to offer a caveat.
The tests involved the BBC being shown a graphical readout to prove the batteries were being recharged as fast as suggested.
This would be relatively easy to fake, and Mr Myersdorf acknowledges that his scientific claims have yet to be peer reviewed.
But his credentials and those of his chief technology officer, Prof Simon Litsyn, check out. Both held key roles at Sandisk, which they helped make a leader in flash memory tech.
Furthermore, their firm has already raised $48.5m (Â£32.1m) of funds, $10m of which came from Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich's private asset management company. The BBC understands Samsung is among the other investors.
Even so, one industry-watcher remains wary.
"Battery technology is the single biggest challenge holding back the consumer electronics industry right now," says Ben Wood from the CCS Insight consultancy.
"Any claim to a major breakthrough should always treated with scepticism because it's been promised so many times before and we still don't have a solution.
"But if what this company is claiming to offer comes to pass, it would have a huge impact, as the amount of battery-hungry connected devices people use in their daily lives is rising exponentially."
Certainly, CES itself is packed with firms offering a plethora of portable batteries to help users make it through the day, everything from lip-stick sized chargers for emergency top-ups to a $500 (Â£300) backpack that can power up several gadgets at once.
Were we able to recharge smartphones in less than a minute, the need to buy such external batteries would decrease - and we might even become more willing to use processor-intensive apps and games, as well as adopt smartwatches and other wearable tech.
But Storedot has a bigger plan.
"We are just starting to work on electric vehicles," says Mr Myersdorf.
"And we intend to show in one year a model of a car that can charge in three minutes.
"We are 100% sure we can deliver, because the knowhow of how you take one cell and combine thousands of them together has already been done by Tesla.
"The user-experience would be exactly like refuelling, but without fumes.
"It would really boost adoption of electric vehicles. It would be a game-changer."
Click here for more coverage from the BBC at CES 2015


Police searching for a woman missing from her home in Pitlochry have found a body near the River Tummel.

Claire Roy, 40, had last been seen at about 19:45 on Friday.
Search and rescue teams and the police helicopter were called in to assist local officers.
Although the body has not been formally identified, Claire Roy's next of kin have been informed of its discovery.


An eight-year-old girl has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after police were called to a house in Edinburgh.

A 48-year-old woman from the same address in Danube Street was also taken to hospital but her injuries were not said to be life-threatening.
It was reported that the girl had suffered stab wounds.
Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident at about 01:35 on Wednesday.
A spokesman for Police Scotland said: "Police in Edinburgh were called to an address in Danube Street at around 01:35 on Wednesday 7 December.
"An eight-year-old girl was found with serious injuries and was taken to the Royal Hospital for Sick children.
"A 48-year-old woman was also taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
"Enquiries are ongoing into the full circumstances. However, officers are not currently looking for anyone else in connection with this incident."


Mark Howard's brilliant second-half penalty save preserved a point against MK Dons and kept Bolton top of the League One table.

The former Sheffield United goalkeeper pushed Kieran Agard's spot-kick onto the crossbar moments after the Dons had brought themselves level through Ryan Colclough.
Phil Parkinson's side took a seventh-minute lead when Jay Spearing's corner was headed back at the far post by Jamie Proctor and Mark Beevers swept home from close range.
Wanderers dominated the half and should have doubled their advantage when David Wheater headed over from close range.
Agard missed a chance to open his account for the season when he failed to get a touch on Dean Bowditch's low cross, but the Dons were level nine minutes after the restart when Colclough slotted home at the second attempt following a save from Howard.
Agard then won a penalty after being pulled down by Lewis Buxton, only to be frustrated by a magnificent stop from Howard.
Almost immediately Bolton had a good claim for a penalty of their own turned down when Proctor appeared to be fouled in mid-air by Joe Walsh.
The home side turned the screw and Newcastle loanee Sammy Ameobi had two late efforts kept out of the net by some excellent goalkeeping by David Martin and some frantic defending.
Reports supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, MK Dons 1.
Second Half ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, MK Dons 1.
Corner,  Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Samir Carruthers.
Attempt blocked. Chris Taylor (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, MK Dons. Nicky Maynard replaces Ryan Colclough.
Attempt saved. Sammy Ameobi (Bolton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Chris Taylor replaces James Henry.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Tom Thorpe replaces Josh Vela.
Substitution, MK Dons. Daniel Powell replaces Ben Reeves.
Corner,  MK Dons. Conceded by Liam Trotter.
Attempt blocked. Dean Bowditch (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by David Wheater (Bolton Wanderers).
Ryan Colclough (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by David Wheater (Bolton Wanderers).
Dean Lewington (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Darren Potter.
Attempt blocked. Sammy Ameobi (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Sammy Ameobi (Bolton Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Samir Carruthers.
Corner,  Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Darren Potter.
Foul by David Wheater (Bolton Wanderers).
Dean Bowditch (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Joe Walsh (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Liam Trotter (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Liam Trotter (Bolton Wanderers).
Darren Potter (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, MK Dons. Samir Carruthers replaces Ed Upson.
Attempt blocked. Ed Upson (MK Dons) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is blocked.
Foul by James Henry (Bolton Wanderers).
Ryan Colclough (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left.
David Wheater (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kieran Agard (MK Dons).
Penalty saved! Kieran Agard (MK Dons) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the bottom left corner.
Jay Spearing (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card.
Lewis Buxton (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Lewis Buxton (Bolton Wanderers) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty MK Dons. Kieran Agard draws a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Sammy Ameobi replaces Keshi Anderson.


A three-month-old baby, who was injured in an incident at a house in Swindon, has died.

The boy was found with "life-threatening injuries" at a property on Thresher Drive, on 25 March.
He was taken to the Great Western Hospital before being transferred to Bristol Children's Hospital.
A Wiltshire Police spokesman said a 50-year-old man remains on bail after being arrested in connection with the incident.


South Africa has formally begun the process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), notifying the UN of its decision.

South Africa did not want to execute ICC arrest warrants which would lead to "regime change", a minister said.
Last year, a South African court criticised the government for refusing to arrest Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir.
He is wanted by the ICC on charges of genocide and war crimes.
Mr Bashir was attending an African Union summit in Johannesburg, when the government ignored an ICC request to arrest him.
He denies allegations that he committed atrocities in Sudan's troubled western Darfur region.
Several media outlets say they have obtained a copy of the "Instrument of Withdrawal", signed by South Africa's foreign minister.
"The Republic of South Africa has found that its obligations with respect to the peaceful resolution of conflicts at times are incompatible with the interpretation given by the International Criminal Court," the document says.
Justice Minister Michael Masutha said at a press conference that the government would table legislation in parliament to withdraw South Africa from the ICC.
The Rome Statute, under which the ICC was set up, required the arrest of heads of state for whom a warrant was issued.
The consequence of this would be "regime change" and the statute was incompatible with South African legislation which gave heads of state diplomatic immunity, he added.
Analysis: Anna Holligan, BBC ICC correspondent
The ICC has a notoriously fractious relationship with the African continent. Despite 34 African nations voluntarily signing up to the court's jurisdiction - in recent years a handful of governments have decided their idea of international justice is incompatible with that set out in the Rome Statute.
When the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was charged with crimes against humanity, the African Union argued that heads of state should be entitled to immunity for the duration of their term in office, a direct contravention of the ICC's raison d'etre to hold the most powerful to account.  The trial against Mr Kenyatta later collapsed because of a lack of evidence.
There were almost farcical scenes when the Sudanese president attended a summit in Johannesburg at the invitation of the African Union, then disappeared during dinner after resounding calls from human rights groups for South Africa to uphold its obligation as a member of the ICC to detain him in line with the outstanding arrest warrant.
It seems this divided loyalty between the competing demands of AU and ICC has driven South Africa to initiate the process of pulling out. Nine out of 10 of the ICC's current investigations are in Africa - leading to allegations of bias against African countries.
So is this the beginning of the end of the world's first permanent war crimes court? The answer will partly depend on whether this withdrawal generates a domino effect.
Human Rights Watch has criticised South Africa's decision.
"South Africa's proposed withdrawal from the International Criminal Court shows startling disregard for justice from a country long seen as a global leader on accountability for victims of the gravest crimes," said Dewa Mavhinga, the NGO's Africa division senior researcher.
"It's important both for South Africa and the region that this runaway train be slowed down and South Africa's hard-won legacy of standing with victims of mass atrocities be restored," Mr Mavhinga said.
Mr Masutha said the government had also decided to drop its appeal against a ruling of South Africa's High Court, that it had violated its international obligations by failing to arrest Mr Bashir.
The appeal was due to have been heard next month.
The move to leave comes a week after the South African President Jacob Zuma visited Kenya, a country that has been highly critical of the ICC ever since the prosecutor charged its President Uhuru Kenyatta with crimes against humanity.
He denied the charges, and the trial later collapsed beceause of a lack of evidence.
The ICC and global justice:
What is the International Criminal Court?
Two weeks ago Burundi said it would pull out of the ICC - a decision described by the court as "a setback in the fight against impunity". MPs backed the decision and its president signed the measure into law on Tuesday.
Last year, Namibia also said it planned to withdraw from the ICC, describing the court as an an "abomination" which wanted to "dictate" to Africans on how they should be governed.
Previously, the African Union has urged member states not to co-operate with the ICC, accusing it of being racially biased against Africa by failing to prosecute suspected war criminals from other parts of the world.
The ICC denies the allegation, saying it pursues justice on behalf of Africans who are victims of atrocities.
The 124-member ICC opened in 2002. It is the first legal body with permanent international jurisdiction to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.


Championship side Brentford have extended the loan spell of Chelsea's England Under-21 international John Swift until the end of the season.

The 20-year-old midfielder has scored three goals in 15 appearances since joining the Bees on an initial month-long deal at the start of October.
"John has lots of scope to develop further," Bees head coach Dean Smith told the club website.
"It is great to have him as part of the squad for the rest of the season."


Disagreements, insults, a flurry of hype on social media - and then a lucrative fight.
But how far should the bad blood go? And can pay-per-view boxing exist without it?
Before Tony Bellew and David Haye meet at London's O2 Arena on Saturday, the British fighters speak to BBC Sport to address controversial comments, glamorous Miami training camps and whether animosity works for boxing fans.
The pair have sparred together but it seemed any bond they shared disappeared when Bellew, 34, called his rival "Spongebob Squarepants" after beating BJ Flores in October. However, that insult, a dig at Haye's hairstyle that Bellew admits referred to the wrong character (he meant Sideshow Bob), was a relatively gentle precursor to the nastiness that has followed.
Bellew: "He was saying that he's going to leave me in hospital and I'm going to leave the ring on a stretcher. I thought that was absolutely disgusting. All I care about is going home to provide for my three kids and my missus - that's all I need to make me happy.
"We have to remember there are fighters lying in hospital at the moment in comas because of boxing. You've had the whole thing with Nick Blackwell, the tragic death of Mike Towell, and it's becoming more frequent of late, which is worrying for my sport. This clown David Haye thinks it's a joke."
Haye: "When a boxer gets knocked unconscious in a ring, it's standard procedure to take that boxer to hospital for a brain scan to make sure there is no serious damage. I've knocked out 26 of my 28 opponents. They've all been taken to hospital.
"I told him the truth by saying he will go the same way. I don't want anything serious to happen - but that is a fact."
Haye is no stranger to confrontation. The 36-year-old from London brawled with Dereck Chisora at a news conference in 2012. This time around he threw a punch at Bellew at a media gathering in November. Liverpool's Bellew, meanwhile, built a reputation as one of British boxing's biggest talkers from early in his career. His camp have claimed Haye needs this fight for the money.
Haye: "People who aren't boxing fans are interested in this fight because it makes so much noise when you have two men trading insults and shoving each other.
"We broke ticket records at the O2 and it's a non-title fight with me beating the hell out of some guy. So the fans will always be there to see those types of fights."
Bellew: "Nobody will pay good pay-per-view money to see two good guys shaking hands and saying how good the other one is. It's not a good thing though - it's a bad thing. But it sells and it works.
"Boxing should not be about all the talk beforehand but that's what gets people going. People want to see two men who really don't like each other, who have a bit of bad blood and history, and they want to see a good scrap."
Bellew steps up to heavyweight after becoming the WBC cruiserweight champion - a title he still holds. Haye, a former WBA heavyweight champion, will fight for the third time since returning from over three years out, knowing a win could see him return to a position where he could compete for a title.
Bellew: "David Haye is making a mockery of boxing. The last two fights he had were exhibitions - they weren't fights. He has been conning the public for a very long time and it has to stop because it's a joke.
"I'm a prizefighter and the prize in this fight is massive. So what was I supposed to do? Fight my mandatory WBC title challenger for absolute buttons or face David Haye for 10 times the pot? It's a no-brainer. I beat this clown and I will become a pay-per-view star on my own."
Haye: "He tried to attack me when he jumped out of the ring. But when I tell him home truths it really upsets him. He's going to get a reality check."
Haye's Instagram page shows a series of posts in the Miami sunshine during his preparation camp, with trainer Shane McGuigan sometimes in attendance. Bellew, who works under Dave Coldwell, prefers a more traditional camp.
Haye: "I wanted to show fans a glimpse of a better training style - because how much fun can you have in London? It's always raining and it's very depressing. You can't go on beaches, you can't ride jet skis or play basketball on a yacht.
"It was the best training camp I've ever had."
Bellew: "Haye is a pretender. He keeps trying to portray this fake celebrity lifestyle on social media to keep his name out there. I don't do that.
"I use social media to talk to fans because they help pay my wages. Without the fans, I wouldn't be where I am in boxing."
Both men are heavy hitters and have losses on their records. On paper, defeat for Bellew would still leave him in a position to return to cruiserweight as a champion, albeit one carrying a stinging setback. Haye's two wins since returning to the sport have not lasted long enough to convince some punters of his ability to contest a tough fight after shoulder surgery in 2013.
Bellew: "David Haye is a quality fighter. He was brilliant at cruiserweight but that was 10 years ago.
"I've had 13 hard fights over three and a half years when this clown has been sunbathing in Miami or Dubai or wherever he likes to hide. How does he think I'm going to be an easy touch?"
Haye: "He has seen my success and he will never be considered as good a cruiserweight as I was. He won a vacant title in his own stadium; I beat the long-reigning champion Jean Marc Mormeck on his home turf and knocked him out to take all the titles.
"I've done things he'll never be able to do and he doesn't like the fact I draw a bigger crowd from the masses."
When the punches fly from two 6ft 3in fighters, any telling blow could change the trajectory of the other man's career. Both have two defeats on their record, with one loss apiece by knockout - but who will have been beaten for a third time by the end of Saturday?
Haye: "Bellew got knocked out by Adonis Stevenson at light-heavyweight. I weigh 50 pounds heavier than that guy so how does he think he's not getting knocked out against me?
"This will be a proper destruction job. This is the last you will hear of Tony Bellew."
Bellew: "Make no mistake, I'm labelled as the underdog and everyone's saying what David Haye will do to me - but they don't know what I can do to him.
"If he loses this fight, he's finished and he's got nowhere to go."


Papers analyse Sri Lanka's decision to suspend a Chinese-funded construction project.

According to reports, newly-elected Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to revisit some deals signed with China by his predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The suspension of the port city project in Colombo and subsequent protests by Sri Lankan workers have gained wide attention in Chinese papers.
Mr Sirisena's government said that the project was launched "without relevant approvals from concerned institutions".
Some papers report that Sri Lankan workers are very angry over the decision, while other news portals quote foreign media reports saying that the incident is a test of Beijing's "ambitious overseas ventures".
The Xinhua News Agency highlights Mr Rajapaksa's criticism of the suspension.
"Halting of development projects means that the Sri Lankan workers and engineers working on them will lose their jobs and thereby the cash flowing to villagers will stop," state media quote him as saying.
The Colombo port project is part of Beijing's Maritime Silk Road initiative, which is aimed at connecting China with the Indian Ocean nations and the larger Asia-Pacific region.
A commentary in the Haiwai Net, a news portal of the People's Daily newspaper, stresses that China views Sri Lanka as one of the important "components" in the country's Maritime Silk Road project.
Observers in international media outlets say the initiative poses a direct challenge to India. Chinese papers, however, dismiss such views, assuring that the project will benefit every country in the region.
"The authorities cite regulations and environment issues as reasons for the suspensionâ€¦ but this is only an excuse," says the Haiwai Net article.
The commentary notes that the new Sri Lankan president is "very pro-India" and suspects Colombo may have been "facing pressure from Delhi".
However, it highlights that India is unlikely to have the economic capacity needed to help Sri Lanka, and predicts that Colombo will "still depend on Beijing for infrastructure investment in the long term".
Turning to domestic news, papers assess "judicial fairness" after Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court Zhou Qiang urged the courts to learn from wrongful convictions.
His comments come months after a high-profile case involving a wrongly-executed 18-year-old sparked a debate.
An article in the Global Times points out that it is "rare" for judicial authorities to use "such strong words".
The admission shows that the authorities "have been reflecting on their flaws" and "proactively responding" to the public's doubts about judicial fairness in China, it says.
Praising the judicial departments for being "courageous", the Beijing News urges the authorities to put in more effort to improve the system.
Echoing similar views, the Beijing Times says the admission of fault is "a first step". It urges judicial workers to "carry out their responsibilities according to the law".
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North Korea's state media says its military has tested a new high-performance rocket engine.

Leader Kim Jong Un declared the test "a new birth" for the North's rocket industry, state news agency KCNA said.
He said the engine would help North Korea achieve world-class satellite launch capability, it added.
The development, not confirmed elsewhere, comes as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visits China - Pyongyang's main ally.
After personally overseeing the test, Mr Kim "emphasized that the world will soon witness the great significance of the epoch-making victory we achieved today", KCNA reported, adding that it marked the birth of the country's rocket industry.
Mr Tillerson's East Asian tour has been dominated by anxieties over North Korea's nuclear capabilities.
In South Korea on Friday, he said a US military response would be on the table if North Korea threatened South Korea or US forces.
The US and China pledged to work together to get the North to take "a different course" and move away from its weapons programmes after Mr Tillerson met his Chinese counterpart on Saturday.
North Korea has conducted five nuclear tests and a series of missile launches. Experts and government officials believe it is working to develop nuclear-warhead missiles that can reach the US.
Kim Jong Un has said the country is close to a test-launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.