Argentina are out of the automatic qualification places for the World Cup after losing 2-0 to Bolivia hours after captain Lionel Messi was given a four-match ban for abusing an official.

Messi was punished for using "insulting words" towards an assistant referee during Thursday's 1-0 win over Chile.
Juan Carlos Arce and Marcelo Martins scored for Bolivia, while Everton defender Ramiro Funes Mori was taken off on a stretcher for Argentina.
Argentina are now in fifth place.
Messi will also miss three of Argentina's remaining four games against Brazil, Uruguay and Venezuela later this year, though Argentina plan to appeal against the severity of his ban.
Only the top four teams in South America will qualify automatically for the World Cup in Russia next summer, with the team in fifth facing the winners of the Oceania group in a two-legged play-off.
Colombia are now second behind now qualified Brazil as they beat Ecuador 2-0 with goals from James Rodriguez and Juan Cuadrado.
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"Bolivia won fair and square," Argentina coach Edgardo Bauza said.
"We are still alive and we want to qualify for the World Cup. We know that this is going to be a battle and we are going to keep fighting."
Funes Mori was taken off with a knee injury just four days after Everton team-mate Seamus Coleman broke his leg playing for the Republic of Ireland.


Police in southern India have filed a case against a legislator who threatened to behead those opposed to the building of a Hindu temple on the site of a destroyed mosque.

The 16th Century mosque in Ayodhya town was razed in 1992 by a Hindu mob who want to build a temple to Lord Ram.
The threat was made by T Raja Singh, a senior leader of India's governing BJP party in Telangana state.
A BJP spokeswoman criticised the remarks Mr Singh made on 5 April.
Late on Sunday, police in Hyderabad city registered a case against him for "deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs", after a complaint by a Muslim political organisation.
Mr Singh has defended his statement on the flashpoint issue, saying it was aimed at those who were opposed to the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
"For the construction of the temple, we can sacrifice our lives and even kill others, this is my warning to those who want to create hindrance in the construction of the temple," Hindustan Times quoted him as saying.
In the past too, Mr Singh has courted controversy when in December 2015 he supported the lynching of a Muslim man by a Hindu mob on suspicion that he had stored beef in his home in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
Last year, he justified the beating of some Dalit (formerly known as untouchables, who form the lowest rung of India's caste hierarchy) men by cow vigilante groups in Gujarat.


A teenager has pleaded guilty to a cyber attack on Mumsnet which caused the parenting site to reset the passwords of 7.7 million members.

David Buchanan, 18, of Haslemere, Surrey, admitted two counts of hacking and one of impairing the operation of or hindering access to a computer.
The charges refer to "computer intrusion and damage to network profiles" in July and August 2015.
Mr Buchanan will be sentenced on 2 August at Guildford Magistrates' Court.
The Mumsnet homepage was redirected to a now suspended Twitter profile page and had some posts edited during a cyber attack in August.
It was also subjected to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, where an attempt is made to force a site offline by swamping it with internet traffic.
Mumsnet users were made to reset their passwords as a "precautionary measure" following the attacks.


The assembly government is to urge the Department for Transport to reconsider its decision not to electrify the rail line as far as Swansea.

The Â£1bn electrification of the Great Western line between London and Cardiff was confirmed by the UK government on Tuesday.
Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones said he would ask for a rethink.
He said there was still a "robust business case" for electrification to Swansea.
"We think that it's imperative because we want the economic benefits to flow not just to the south east but also south west Wales," said Mr Jones.
"As Swansea is one of our major cities, I think it's entitled to see the major investment coming to it through electrification."
The UK government said it had found "no evidence of a pattern of demand" and trains will switch to diesel power between Cardiff and Swansea from 2017.
However, electrifying the south Wales valleys commuter lines remains a future possibility.
There has been mixed reaction to Tuesday's announcement.
Cardiff council's leader Rodney Berman applauded the decision: "It knocks about 20 minutes off the journey time which is going to make Cardiff more attractive to businesses coming to locate.
"They will look at that journey time and think it's closer to London and Heathrow and that's good for the economy of south Wales.
"I think we've got to remember Swansea is going to benefit from this as well.
'Kick in the teeth'
"We're getting an awful lot of doom and gloom, particularly for political reasons, but we're forgetting this is beneficial to both cities."
But Andrew Davies, Labour assembly member for Swansea West, said it was "disappointing".
"Once again Swansea and west Wales is being regarded as second class.
"This is a kick in the teeth for people and yet another broken promise by the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government.
"It would be far more cost effective to do this all at the same time."
Martin Evans, of the Transport Research Centre at the University of Glamorgan, said in the future the decision not to electrify as far as Swansea may be considered "perverse".
He said: "Prosperity declines the further away you get from London.
"Swansea is already far away from London and Europe.
"I think the problem will be perception because Swansea is looking like it's somewhere beyond the end of the line."
In a statement to MPs, Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said he had looked carefully at the arguments in favour of electrifying the line as far as Swansea.
But with no evidence of a pattern of demand that would lead to an increase of the one service an hour between London and Swansea, Mr Hammond said there was not a viable business case for electrification of the main line between Cardiff and Swansea.


Britain's Hannah Barnes finished third on the Women's Tour as Poland's Katarzyna Niewiadoma claimed the overall title after Sunday's final stage in London.

Barnes finished second on the 62km street race to move on to the podium as Belgium's Jolien D'Hoore won the stage, with Christine Majerus in third.
Luxembourg's Majerus finished second overall, 1:18 minutes behind Niewiadoma
Barnes' sister Alice was sixth with fellow Briton Dani King in ninth.
Britain's defending champion Lizzie Deignan finished 42nd overall, while Olympic team pursuit champion Katie Archibald was 18th.
1. Jolien D'Hoore (Bel/Wiggle High5) 1hr 28mins 23secs
2. Hannah Barnes (GB/Canyon SRAM Racing) same time
3. Christine Majerus (Lux/Boels Dolmans) same time
4. Roxane Fournier (Fra/FDJ) same time
5. Katie Archibald (GB/WNT) same time
1. Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Pol/WM3 Pro Cycling) 16hrs 34mins 53secs
2. Christine Majerus (Lux/Boels Dolmans) +1min 18secs
3. Hannah Barnes (GB/Canyon SRAM Racing) +1min 30sec


Bank of England governor Mark Carney has warned of a consumer spending squeeze this year as inflation rises and real wages fall.

This year will be "a more challenging time for British households" and "wages won't keep up with prices", he said.
He was upbeat about wage growth beyond 2017 - but only if the government secures a "smooth" exit from the EU.
It came as the bank trimmed UK economic growth forecasts for 2017 from 2% to 1.9% and held interest rates at 0.25%.
The bank, unveiling its Quarterly Inflation Report, also raised its forecast for inflation this year to 2.8% from its February forecast of 2.4%.
Interest rates are set by the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which is tasked with keeping inflation at 2%.
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The Bank said the expected overshoot in inflation to 2.7% this year was "entirely" due to the impact of weak sterling and that raising interest rates would not be an effective way of tackling the increase in living costs.
Before last June's referendum the pound was trading at about $1.47. It is currently trading around $1.29 - some 12% lower.
The Bank also highlighted that its current forecasts were based on the assumption that "the adjustment to the United Kingdom's new relationship with the European Union is smooth".
Mr Carney characterised a "smooth" Brexit as the UK securing "an agreement about future trading arrangements and there will be a transition, or an implementation period, from the negotiation to that new agreement".
Lucy O'Carroll, chief economist at Aberdeen Asset Management, said: "The Bank of England is stuck between a rock and hard place. It has to base its forecasts on a view of the Brexit deal but, with so little to go on at present, it's not an easy judgement.
"To say that is far from certain is a huge understatement. Governor Carney acknowledges the risks, but the weight of uncertainty - and therefore frailty of the forecasts - does undermine the Bank's relatively positive message."
At the moment, Mr Carney said there was some evidence "that businesses are hesitating to bring in higher wage costs at a time of some uncertainty about market access and other costs that could be associated with the Brexit process, resulting in more modest wage settlements".
However, if business concerns ease over the process of exiting the EU, wage growth will accelerate.
Since the MPC's previous interest rate meeting in March, official figures have indicated that the economy is weakening. The economy grew by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2017, a sharp slowdown from the 0.7% growth rate in the final three months of 2016.
"The slowdown appears to be concentrated in consumer-facing sectors, partly reflecting the impact of sterling's past depreciation on household income and spending," the Bank said in its report.
It says that consumption growth will be "slower in the near-term than previously anticipated", but then forecasts that it will recover over the next two years as income growth picks up.
The Bank forecasts that average weekly earnings will grow at a rate of 2% this year, but rise to 3.75% by 2019.
If the UK economy follows the Bank's projections and begins to improve, it said monetary policy may need to be tightened.
At this month's meeting the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted 7-1 to keep the interest rate on hold.
Ben Brettell, senior economist at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "Unsurprisingly interest rates were left unchanged, with just Kristin Forbes voting for a 0.25% rise to 0.5%. However, the Bank also warned that rates may have to rise sooner and faster than the market currently expects.
"It might not take much positive economic data to persuade further MPC members to join Forbes and vote to hike rates, though it should be noted that she is due to leave the MPC at the end of June."


Pope Francis has urged young Mexicans to reject a life of crime and "dare to dream" as he visited Michoacan - a state hit hard by drug violence.

He told the crowd in a packed football stadium in the city of Morelia that they were "the wealth of this land".
Michoacan has seen some of the worst violence in Mexico's drug war, which has left more than 100,000 people dead or missing in the past 10 years.
On Wednesday, the Pope will hold a mass in Ciudad Juarez on the US border.
Francis is expected to speak about the plight of migrants and will also visit a prison in the northern city, as he concludes his five-day visit to Mexico.
Tens of thousands of people will be travelling to Ciudad Juarez from El Paso, Texas, to listen to the pontiff's speech.
Mexicans hope papal visit brings change
"Don't lose the charm of dreaming. Dare to dream," Pope Francis told the crowd in Morelia on Tuesday.
"I understand that often it is difficult to feel your value when you are continually exposed to the loss of friends or relatives at the hands of the drug trade, of drugs themselves, of criminal organisations that sow terror.
"It is a lie to believe that the only way to live, or to be young, is to entrust oneself to drug dealers or others who do nothing but sow destruction and death.
"Jesus would never ask us to be assassins; rather, he calls us to be disciples," the pontiff said.
He earlier told members of the local clergy not to give up in the face of violence and corruption.
"Faced with this reality, the devil can overcome us with one of his favourite weapons: resignation," Francis warned.


Tottenham winger Nacer Chadli will be out for about six weeks with an ankle injury.

The 26-year-old Belgium international, who joined Spurs from FC Twente in July 2013, damaged ankle ligaments in Saturday's 0-0 draw with Liverpool.
He was taken off after eight minutes following a collision.
Spurs are already without Ryan Mason, who has a knee injury, Nabil Bentaleb, who has an ankle problem, and Son Heung-min, who has an injured foot.


ITV has apologised after a poll on Loose Women about rape offended viewers.

The show asked whether rape was ever a woman's fault.
The poll followed on from comments The Pretenders' singer Chrissie Hynde had made in the Sunday Times.
She said she blamed herself for a sexual assault she had experienced aged 21 and was criticised when she said women "have to take responsibility".
The Loose Women poll drew criticism on Twitter, with one viewer Rebecca Gill calling it "off the scale of acceptability".
Rape Crisis for England and Wales tweeted that it was "not an appropriate opinion poll; legally and morally the answer is a resounding 'no'" and questioned whether the show would "have a poll on whether it is ever someone's own fault if they are mugged or murdered?"
Katie Russell the national spokesperson for Rape Crisis England & Wales added:
"A programme like Loose Women could choose to use its high profile to raise awareness and understanding of rape, its impacts and prevalence, and to support and encourage survivors to seek services like those Rape Crisis offers; instead, they've reinforced myths and stereotypes with this ill-considered, insensitive and insulting poll."
Peterborough Rape Crisis Care Group called the poll "harmful to women".
In a statement issued to The Guardian an ITV spokesperson admitted the poll "was misjudged".
"Loose Women is a daily talk show centred around topical debate and this discussion, linked to a recent news story, involved a full and frank range of views from the panellists.
"We always want to know what our viewers think about topical issues, however, we accept that the wording of the online poll was misjudged and we apologise for any offence caused."
Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom said it had received 53 complaints about the poll and will "assess these complaints before deciding whether to investigate or not".
Last year, Judy Finnigan apologised for comments she made on Loose Women about rape.
She upset viewers when she talked about convicted rapist Ched Evans and said the rape was "not violent".
"I apologise unreservedly for any offence that I may have caused as a result of the wording I used," said the former This Morning presenter.


A 12-year-old scout has died at an international jamboree in Finland.

Charlie Girling, of the 1st Aylesford Scouts, in Kent, collapsed on Sunday at Roihu 2016, near HÃ¤meenlinna.
The UK Scout Association said the on-site medical team and local paramedics "rendered immediate support but unfortunately were unable to save him".
Spokesman Simon Carter said it was in touch with the families of the children at the jamboree, which more than 16,000 people are attending.
"We will be working with the Finnish Scout movement and the relevant local authorities to establish the full details of this tragic incident," he added.
More than 2,800 scouts from more than 40 countries are attending the jamboree in the south of Finland.
Memorial services have been held at the event in tribute to Charlie.
Anna Munsterhjelm, chief scout in Finland, said: "The Guides and Scouts of Finland and Finnjamboree Roihu express their deepest condolences to the friends and family of the tragic medical situation that resulted in the death of a scout.
"The loss has moved thousands of people within and outside the camp.
"The camp has professional crisis counsellors that are making their utmost best that everybody has the support they require." (sic)
Charlie had been a Year 7 pupil at Maplesden Noakes School, in Maidstone.
Head teacher Jane Prideaux said staff were "deeply shocked and saddened" by his death.
"He'd been with us for just a year," she said.
"He was a lively lad, well-liked by his peers and teachers," she said.
Ms Prideaux added Charlie had been a "very hard working, very able student, with a great sense of humour".
"He was full of life, and wanted to get involved in things."


Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has been nominated for the title of Laureus World Sportsman of the Year.

Hamilton, 31, is in the running for the award, along with Lionel Messi, Usain Bolt, Novak Djokovic, Jordan Spieth and basketball player Stephen Curry.
There are six British nominations for the awards, voted for by sports media.
Heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill, the GB Davis Cup team, swimmer Adam Peaty, mountain cyclist Rachel Atherton and boxer Tyson Fury are also short-listed.
The winners will be announced at the Laureus World Sports Awards in Berlin on 18 April:
Usain Bolt (Jamaica) athletics, Stephen Curry (US) basketball, Novak Djokovic (Serbia) tennis, Lewis Hamilton (GB) motor racing, Lionel Messi (Argentina) football, Jordan Spieth (US) golf.
Genzebe Dibaba (Ethiopia) athletics, Anna Fenninger (Austria) skiing, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jamaica) athletics, Katie Ledecky (US) swimming, Carli Lloyd (US) football, Serena Williams (US) tennis.
All Blacks (New Zealand) rugby, FC Barcelona (Spain) football, Golden State Warriors (US) basketball, Great Britain Davis Cup Team (tennis), Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team (Germany), US Women's Football Team.
Chile Men's Football Team, Jason Day (Australia) golf, Tyson Fury (UK) boxing, Adam Peaty (UK) swimming, Jordan Spieth (US) golf, Max Verstappen (Netherlands) motor racing.
Dan Carter (New Zealand) rugby, Jessica Ennis-Hill (UK) athletics, Mick Fanning (Australia) surfing, Michael Phelps (US) swimming, David Rudisha (Kenya) athletics, Lindsey Vonn (US) skiing.
Marie Bochet (France) skiing, Liu Cuiqing (China) athletics, Daniel Dias (Brazil) swimming, Omara Durand (Cuba) athletics, Pieter Du Preez (South Africa) athletics, cycling, Leung Yuk Wing (China Hong Kong) boccia.
Rachel Atherton (UK) mountain biking, Bob Burnquist (Brazil) skateboard, Adriano de Souza (Brazil) surfing, Mick Fanning (Australia) surfing, Jan Frodeno (Germany) ironman triathlon, Chloe Kim (US) snowboarding.


Aberdeen Journals - the publisher of the Press and Journal and Evening Express newspapers - is in the final stages of negotiations to move into the new Marischal Square development, BBC Scotland has learned.

Aberdeen Journals is based in the Lang Stracht area of the city.
An announcement on the move is believed to be imminent.
The Â£107m Marischal Square development is due for completion in the summer of next year.
Neither Aberdeen Journals, developer Muse, or Aberdeen City Council have been willing to comment.
It is understood staff were told of the plans last week.
The proposed move is set be discussed in private by councillors at the authority's finance, policy and resources committee next week.
So far drinks and restaurant chain All Bar One and Marriott hotels have confirmed they intend to move into Marischal Square.
Protestors failed in their bid to get the development halted last March.
Councillors voted by 22-21 to continue with the project.
Aberdeen Journals is owned by Dundee-based DC Thomson.
The Press and Journal and Evening Express have not been printed in Aberdeen since 2013 when production moved to Dundee.
Until 1970 and the move to the Lang Stracht, Aberdeen Journals Ltd had offices in Broad Street, close to where Marischal Square is being built.


Members of any fandom are passionate, but Game of Thrones and Star Wars actress Gwendoline Christie was put in an awkward position when she was asked which of her fan bases was "crazier".

During the Game of Thrones panel at Comic-Con, a fan asked Christie - who plays Brienne of Tarth in the fantasy drama and Captain Phasma in the latest Star Wars films - who was more passionate.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, she gave a diplomatic answer.
"It's not really a craziness, but the level of passion is pretty much equal," she said.
"What is noticeable is that Star Wars is something many of us grew up with, which gives many of us a sense of hope. That's how I feel - like I came home.
"With Game of Thrones, we're going into season seven now, and there's a similar feeling. I hope that Game of Thrones lives on so people have that same feeling of home and love for it."
Christie was joined by cast mates Jacob Anderson (Grey Worm), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), Liam Cunningham (Ser Davos), Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy), Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei), John Bradley (Samwell Tarly), Conleth Hill (Lord Varys) and Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Bran Stark) at the panel.
And fans were delighted it was hosted by Kristian Nairn, who starred as Hodor until season six.
However, since season seven began this week, the cast members were tight-lipped - not giving much away and talking mainly around their characters.
Alfie Allen decided to bring his puppy to Comic-Con, which was well behaved during the hour-long panel.
It's Hodor! And he speaks in full sentences!
Sophie Turner received a brief boo from the crowd when she said she wished she could bring back the evil Joffrey to the show, but only because she enjoyed working with Jack Gleeson who played him.
Liam Cunningham joked that a Game of Thrones spin-off show was in the works called Better Call Davos.
When asked what new laws they'd make in Westeros if they were on the throne, Nathalie Emmanuel said she'd give education for everyone and John Bradley (above centre) wanted Maesters to clean up "their own stinking" waste.
Isaac Hempstead-Wright wanted a warm holiday scene for all the characters who usually film in cold places. Which is fair enough - winter has been coming for a while.
A teaser clip of what's to come in episode two this coming week was also shown to the crowd and released by HBO shortly after.
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Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill believes Jonny Evans could have a successful career in football management when he chooses to retire.

O'Neill says the West Brom defender has the tactical brain to become a coach.
The former Manchester United and Sunderland player, 29, has already won 60 caps for his country.
The Northern Ireland squad are holding a training camp in Turkey this week to prepare for their World Cup qualifier against Azerbaijan on Saturday.
Ahead of the game, O'Neill singled-out the Belfast native when he was asked which of his players was most suited to a career in management.
"Jonny's very bright, very intelligent, he knows the game and has strong opinions on the game," O'Neill said.
"Jonny certainly has all the attributes that you would look for in a manager and he's got good qualities as a human being as well as a football coach."
Evans made his Manchester United debut under Sir Alex Ferguson and the centre-back has also been coached by David Moyes, Louis van Gaal, Roy Keane and Tony Pulis during his 11-year senior career.
"Within the squad, they all have capabilities and know the game," O'Neill added. "We have a lot of people who have a lot of good human qualities that I think would make them a good manager."
"But you just never know with players. Everyone comes at different times and has a different career path. The biggest thing now is, 'Are you prepared to do the work? Are you prepared to go and start somewhere and work your way into it?'."
"The modern-day player may not just have that desire. You've so many opportunities outside the game. We're seeing people who were perceived as if they were going to be top managers actually settle for being pundits."
"If you have the playing career that some of those guys had I think that's fully understandable. I had to go and start at Brechin City while I was working in financial services - that was what was open to me."
"You do it, work as hard as you can, and hopefully have success. It's where lads get the opportunity and whether they're prepared to take it and stick at it."
"It's a very challenging career but that's what makes it enjoyable. It's very difficult to find something after your playing career that will give you that level of focus and that level of challenge, and certainly management does that."
Northern Ireland are second in Group C, five points behind Germany but remain on course for a play-off spot.


The chancellor has announced a major overhaul of the North Sea tax regime, in response to difficulties facing the UK oil and gas sector.

In his Budget statement, he said Petroleum Revenue Tax (PRT) would be "effectively abolished", having cut it last year from 50% to 35%.
The existing supplementary charge for oil companies will also be cut from 20% to 10%, backdated to 1 January.
The SNP's deputy leader Stewart Hosie welcomed the changes.
But he said he was "slightly disappointed in the lack of strategic direction" and that there was no mention of exploration or production allowances for the industry.
Mr Hosie said tax receipts from the North Sea had dropped to extremely low levels.
He told BBC Scotland that Mr Osborne should not have introduced the supplementary tax in 2011 and he should have acted "much sooner" to help the struggling sector.
Scotland's Deputy First Minister John Swinney had previously written to UK chancellor George Osborne, urging him to use his Budget to help the sector by doing more to encourage further exploration.
Scottish Labour Leader Kezia Dugdale also said support for the oil and gas industry did not "go nearly far enough".
She said: "What we needed to see from the chancellor today was support to make sure that essential infrastructure such as platforms and pipelines are not decommissioned early."
I am uncertain as to whether there is much of the poetic in the soul of the Chancellor. But, still, Gideon was casting both backward and forward in his Budget statement today.
The backward bit came when he transformed an announcement of support for the North Sea oil industry into an excoriating attack upon the SNP.
In a prolonged section - to the sound of his backbenchers jeering in the general direction of the Nationalists - George Osborne said that the tax support announced for the North Sea was only feasible because of "the broad shoulders of the UK."
Reflecting back to the independence referendum, Mr Osborne argued that Scotland was better together with the rest of the UK. Cue growling from said SNP benches.
But there was a look forward as well - to the EU referendum due on June 23. Much of Mr Osborne's budget was aimed at strengthening support for the PM's position in that plebiscite - or, more precisely, avoiding issues which might see that position deteriorate.
Read more from Brian
Industry body Oil and Gas UK welcomed the chancellor's announcement, saying the move would reduce the headline rate of tax paid on UK oil and gas production from between 50% and 67.5% to a rate of 40% across all fields.
Chief executive Deirdre Michie said: "Today's announcement does indeed mark further progress in modernising the tax regime for an increasingly mature basin.
"We welcome these measures as they will build on the industry's achievements in improving efficiency in the face of low oil prices, boosting the sector's competitiveness and helping to restore investor confidence.
"We will continue to work with the Treasury to complete its 'Driving Investment' plan to ensure that the fiscal regime reflects the business needs of a maturing basin and signals to global investors that the UK is truly open for business."
Environmental charity Friends of the Earth expressed disappointment at the tax cuts.
Campaigner Liz Hutchins said: "The chancellor's budget was full of 'next generation' rhetoric, but tax breaks for the climate-wrecking oil and gas industry pose a real threat to the security of people, the economy and planet.
"This government should do far more to develop the UK's huge renewable energy potential - creating jobs and putting us at the forefront of building an economy fit for the challenges of the future."
The UK government said the North Sea Budget measures were worth £1bn over five years.
In his budget speech, Mr Osborne said: "The oil and gas sector employs hundreds of thousands of people in Scotland and around our country.
"In my budget a year ago I made major reductions in taxes, but the oil price has continued to fall so we need to act now for the long term.
"I am today cutting in half the supplementary charge on oil and gas from 20% to 10% and I am effectively abolishing Petroleum Revenue Tax too - backing this key Scottish industry and supporting jobs right across Britain."
Other Budget measures particularly affecting Scotland included:
The North Sea offshore industry has been hit hard by plunging oil prices and has shed thousands of jobs in the North Sea over the past year.
A recent report by industry body Oil and Gas UK said that less than £1bn was expected to be spent on new projects this year, compared to a typical £8bn per year in the past five years.
On Wednesday morning, Brent crude was standing at just under $40 a barrel, about 27% lower than it was a year ago and a fraction of its mid-2014 high of $115 a barrel.
Earlier this year, Prime Minister David Cameron announced a £20m funding package to help the North Sea oil and gas sector.
Mr Osborne's March 2015 Budget also included a £1.3bn package of measures aimed at easing the difficulties facing the industry.
The Scottish government has also announced a new £12m fund to help people who face losing their jobs in oil and gas to gain new skills and find new work.


Travelodge is to open two new hotels in Scotland.

The company said 15 jobs would be created at its new 54-room site in Inverness's Academy Street where an office building is being converted.
Fifteen posts are also to be created in Stirling where Travelodge is building a new hotel in Goosecroft Road.
The new hotels are scheduled to open to customers later this year.


England secured their place at Euro 2012 with a scrambled draw in Montenegro - but Wayne Rooney was sent off and will miss the start of the tournament.

Fabio Capello insisted Rooney was in the right frame of mind to play in stormy Podgorica despite his father's arrest on Thursday in a probe into alleged betting irregularities, but his flash of temper - when he kicked out at Miodrag Dzudovic - suggested otherwise.
England's path to Poland and Ukraine next summer looked to be a smooth one as goals from Ashley Young and Darren Bent gave them a comfortable lead after 31 minutes.
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But England's final qualifier, played out in the hostile surroundings of Podgorica City Stadium, turned on two incidents that will have cast a cloud over Capello's delight at reaching another major tournament.
Elsad Zverotic gave Montenegro hope with a goal with the last kick of the first half - and when Rooney was deservedly shown red by referee Wolfgang Stark, England were placed under pressure they could not survive.
Just as the clash entered stoppage time Dzudovic crossed for Andrija Delibasic to head in at the far post for a goal that gave Montenegro the point that puts them into next month's qualifying play-offs.
Rooney's sending off will be the main talking point, however, and his actions once again raise questions about his temperament that he looked to have gone a long way towards answering in recent times.
The Manchester United striker's explosive response to a block from Dzudovic was a complete over-reaction and the consequences quickly dawned on Rooney as he made his way off.
England and Capello can now make plans for Euro 2012, but they will be without Rooney for at least the opening group match and perhaps more should Uefa decide to increase his suspension.
Capello warned his players that caution was not an option as they went in search of the result that would take England to Euro 2012. And his message was carried out to the letter in the opening exchanges as England played with a tempo and threat Montenegro struggled to subdue.
Theo Walcott's final pass has often drawn criticism but there could be no complaint in the 11th minute when his perfect delivery to the far post only required a stoop and a nod of the head from Young to put England ahead.
Capello can now turn his attention to next summer, but only the wildest optimist would study England's body of work and their squad and predict success in the face of competition from the likes of Spain, Holland and Italy
Read Phil McNulty's blog from Podgorica
And with the sting drawn from Montenegro's gifted attacking players and thunder and lightning crackling around the small but atmospheric arena, England's rain-soaked fans were celebrating a second goal after 31 minutes.
Bent was again left with the simplest of finishes when Rooney picked out Young and he unselfishly crossed for Bent to tap in from inside the six-yard area.
Even then the perfectionist Capello was not happy, almost dancing in his technical area in fury when Gareth Barry wasted possession, constantly urging England to maintain the tempo that saw them take such a measure of command.
Just as a satisfactory 45 minutes looked to be drawing to a close without further incident, England conceded a sloppy goal with the last act of the half. Fatos Beciraj was allowed time and space to find Zverotic, whose shot took a crucial deflection off Gary Cahill's boot and out of Joe Hart's reach.
In a single moment Montenegro and their supporters were given fresh impetus and encouragement. Beciraj tested Hart with a low shot before teenager Phil Jones, on his England debut, suffered an anxious moment when Stevan Jovetic went down under his challenge, leaving the youngster clearly relieved to see referee Stark wave away Montenegro's appeals.
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Capello made a change on the hour which was presumably enforced by injury as the excellent Young was replaced by Stewart Downing. And four minutes later Bent went off to allow Frank Lampard to come on and restore England's earlier midfield superiority.
As England attempted to steady the ship, the Rooney flashpoint occurred 17 minutes from time. He was involved in little more than a routine battle for possession near the touchline before lashing out at Dzudovic.
Dzudovic made the most of the offence but Rooney could have no complaints when he was shown a red card.
The final twist came with that late equaliser. The final whistle brought celebrations from both sets of fans - but utter dejection for the tormented Rooney.


Bahrain's justice minister has said 47 medical workers will be charged with acting against the state during the recent unrest in the Gulf kingdom.

The 23 doctors and 24 nurses had promoted efforts to bring down the Sunni monarchy and spread false news, Khaled Bin Ali Al Khalifa alleged.
Activists say medics are being punished for treating pro-democracy protesters hurt in clashes with security forces.
On Monday, two ex-MPs from main Shia opposition group Wifaq were arrested.
Matar Matar and Jawad Fairuz were taken from their homes in the evening and had not been heard of since, members of Wifaq said.
Mr Matar had continued to speak out against Bahrain's heavy-handed clampdown on demonstrators, the imposition of martial law in 15 March, and the bringing in of troops from neighbouring Sunni-ruled Gulf states.
Bahraini forces stormed the Salmaniya Medical Centre in Manama - the country's largest hospital - last month as they attempted to quell the protests led mostly by Shia majority community.
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The hospital had become a shelter for demonstrators and doctors were providing information on the number of dead and wounded.
Officials said the facility had been "overrun by political and sectarian activity". Dozens of doctors, nurses and other medical staff disappeared.
At a news conference on Tuesday, Sheikh Khaled read out the charges facing the medics, which included promoting efforts to bring down the government, harming the public by spreading false news, embezzlement of public funds, forcefully occupying a public building, incitement, and participating in illegal protests.
The Reuters news agency said the medics were also being charged with "assault that led to death". It quoted the justice minister as saying they had caused the deaths of two protesters by inflicting additional wounds to one and performing unnecessary surgery on another.
"The medical profession was strongly abused during this period," he said.
Physicians for Human Rights has said there is "hard evidence of systematic and co-ordinated attacks against medical personnel because of their efforts to provide unbiased care for wounded protesters".
At least 30 people have been killed in Bahrain since mid-February. Among them were four policemen, and four opposition supporters who died in custody. More than 400 other people are facing trial.
Last week, four Shias were sentenced to death and three others jailed for life by a military court for the alleged killing of two security men. Human rights groups have urged the Bahraini authorities to halt the sentences.
The media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, added King Hamad Bin Issa Al Khalifa to its blacklist of "predators" against press freedom.
The Bahraini authorities deny any human rights abuses. They accuse Iran of fomenting the unrest - a charge which Tehran denies.


A man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder has been released on bail after a van carrying gas cylinders was set alight with the driver inside.

Thames Valley Police said the "targeted attack" happened at about 23:00 BST on Monday in a lay-by on the A41 Aston Clinton bypass near Aylesbury.
The driver, 47, escaped and was not seriously injured despite the acetylene tanks exploding during the blaze.
A man, 42, from Tring, Hertfordshire, has been bailed until September.
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Det Sgt Simon Johnson, said: "I would like to reassure the community that we believe this was a targeted attack on the 47-year-old victim."
The driver of the Mercedes Sprinter van, who was taken to hospital as a precaution, later tweeted his gratitude to Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service.
"Many thanks to the brave emergency services for their help in keeping me safe. #heroes," he wrote.


A subsidised air service between Cardiff and Anglesey is underperforming, a cross-party group of assembly members has warned.

The flights, running since 2007 and currently operated by Citywing and Links Air, gets a £1.2m annual subsidy.
The current contract ends in December and the assembly's Public Accounts Committee said several improvements are needed for the service to continue.
Liberal Democrats said the "wasteful, polluting" subsidy should be scrapped.
Flights currently run twice a day on weekdays, with none on weekends.
The committee heard that the service carried just over 65,000 passengers between May 2007 and April 2013, at an estimated cost to the taxpayer of £9m.
Passenger rates have now fallen by 43% since their peak in 2008-09.
2007/08: 14,133
2008/09: 14,718
2009/10: 9,491
2010/11: 8,719
2011/12: 9,606
2012/13: 8,406
Max number of seats available per year: 18,720
Source: Wales Audit Office evidence to the committee
AMs say it should be marketed more effectively and suggested promoting connecting bus services and the opportunities to get connecting flights.
Committee chair Darren Millar said: "The committee remains concerned that this service is underperforming when it comes to providing value for money for the Welsh taxpayer.
"The lack of reliable, independent data about passenger numbers, including the types of people using the service must be addressed."
North Wales Liberal Democrat AM Aled Roberts, a member of the committee, said his party would "scrap" what he called a "wasteful and polluting subsidy".
"This costly venture does little to address the real problems of public transport links between north and south," he added.
"Rail links are far more important for my region than this service.  Any public money should be spent on improving rail links between the north and Cardiff."
Responding to the committee report, a Welsh government official said: "The service improves business connectivity between north and south Wales, as well as boosting tourism opportunities.
"The process to award a future contract for this service has now started and will look for the best service for the travelling public, with the highest economic impact while at the same time minimising the cost to the Welsh government."


Photos from the first leg of the Red Arrows' 60-day world tour - aiming to promote "the Best of British" - have been released.

The aerobatics team flew over Saudi Arabia, before making stops in Pakistan and India.
They will visit a total of 12 countries on the tour, which will include the team's first ever display in China.
The Red Arrows left their base at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire on 29 September.


German champions Bayern Munich have signed Brazil midfielder Douglas Costa from Shakhtar Donetsk.

Costa, 24, has moved for a fee of £21m according to the Ukrainian club and signed a five-year deal with Pep Guardiola's side.
"A dream has come true for me today," said Costa, who has returned from Copa America duty with Brazil.
The transfer could increase speculation linking Bayern midfielder Bastian Schwensteiger with Manchester United.
Guardiola, who guided Bayern to their 25th Bundesliga title last season, has plenty of midfield options, including France's Franck Ribery and Spain internationals Thiago Alcantara, Xabi Alonso and Javi Martinez, meaning Schweinsteiger, 30, may feature less regularly.
The Germany international only played 20 league games in 2014-15, his lowest tally since 2002, when he signed professional terms with the club.
Costa scored 29 goals in 149 league games for Shakhtar, where he won the title five times.
"Douglas Costa will be good for our team," said Bayern sporting director Matthias Sammer. "He has great technical ability, a powerful left foot, he is very agile and extremely quick."


The cities of Pune and Rajkot will host teams in cricket's Indian Premier League for the next two years.

New Rising Pune and Intex Rajkot replace the suspended Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings, both of whom were found guilty in an illegal betting and match-fixing probe in July.
The Royals and Super Kings are expected to return to the IPL in 2018.
Many of the world's best players compete in the competition, which began in 2008 and runs from April to May.
Following their successful bids, the new two franchises will not take money from the central pool available; indeed Pune will pay £1.6m and Rajkot £1m to compete.
Their inclusion means the IPL remains an eight-team competition, with existing teams in Delhi, Mohali, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
The 2016 edition begins on 8 April.
The Royals and Super Kings were suspended in July by a panel appointed by India's Supreme Court.
Royals co-owner Raj Kundra and Gurunath Meiyappan of the Super Kings were also banned from all cricket-related activities for life.
Chennai have reached four finals, winning in 2010 and 2011. The Royals won the inaugural tournament in 2008.


A Mexican police officer has been suspended after a video posted on YouTube showed a man in uniform killing a crocodile with a machine gun.

The incident happened at a water treatment plant in the north-western state of Sinaloa. An investigation has been launched.
The man is facing criminal charges and up to nine years in jail, as crocodiles are a protected species in Mexico.
Local media say the crocodile posed a threat to the local population.
The footage shows the man shooting at the crocodile several times after it was pulled to the side of the pond in a fishing net.
A group of men in civil defence shirts are seen cheering.
They warn the police officer that the animal is still alive and ask him to shoot it in the head.
A second man in uniform then joins him and both men finish the crocodile off with pistols.
The mayor of the city of Ahome, where the water treatment plant is located, said there was risk to the population.
The decision to kill the crocodile "should be analysed in the view of the danger," Mayor Arturo Duarte Garcia told the AP news agency.
He added, however, that "the excess of violence in this case is regrettable".
Sinaloa is the home state of Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, who was Mexico's most wanted man until his arrest in February 2014.
He was the leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, which controlled much of the drug traffic to the US via Mexico's Pacific coast.


Toni Duggan, Fara Williams and Jordan Nobbs have been included in the England women's squad for the Euro 2017 qualifiers later this month.

Williams, England's most-capped player, and Nobbs have been sidelined through hamstring injuries, while Duggan returns from an ankle problem.
The Lionesses face Bosnia in Bristol on 29 November (15:30 GMT).
It will be their first home game since finishing third at this summer's World Cup in Canada.
The same squad will also travel to Duisburg to play Germany on Thursday, 26 November (17:00 GMT) in a friendly.
Manager Mark Sampson said: "2015 has been an amazing year for the team and our supporters, full of special memories for everyone involved.
"To end the year with a match in Germany, one of the biggest tests in women's football, and then the team's homecoming in Bristol against Bosnia is a fitting way to mark such a big year for the game."
Goalkeepers: Karen Bardsley (Manchester City), Rachael Laws (Sunderland), Carly Telford (Notts County)
Defenders: Laura Bassett (Notts County), Lucy Bronze (Manchester City), Gilly Flaherty (Chelsea), Alex Greenwood (Notts County), Steph Houghton (Manchester City), Claire Rafferty (Chelsea), Demi Stokes (Manchester City), Casey Stoney (Arsenal), Amy Turner (Notts County)
Midfielders: Isobel Christiansen (Manchester City), Jordan Nobbs (Arsenal), Jill Scott (Manchester City), Fara Williams (Liverpool)
Forwards: Eni Aluko (Chelsea), Jess Clarke (Notts County), Gemma Davison (Chelsea), Toni Duggan (Manchester City), Fran Kirby (Chelsea), Jodie Taylor (Portland Thorns), Ellen White (Notts County)


Northampton moved into the Premiership top four with a bonus-point victory over Harlequins at Franklin's Gardens.

Saints prop Alex Waller bundled over and Courtney Lawes added a second, but Tim Visser showed electric pace to give Quins a 13-12 half-time lead.
Quins extended their advantage as Jack Clifford ran in from 40 metres but Ben Foden's try put Saints back in front.
Ben Botica missed two crucial penalties for the visitors before Harry Mallinder dotted down Saints' fourth try.
Saints now face two crunch games in their bid to make the play-offs as they travel to third-placed Wasps on 3 April, before hosting Leicester, in fifth, on 16 April.
Harlequins' hopes of sneaking into the top four are fading as they sit six points behind Saints and still have to travel to leaders Saracens before hosting second-placed Exeter on the final day.
With the hosts 22-20 ahead Botica, who had been faultless from the tee all afternoon, missed a difficult kick from 45 metres and then sliced an easier attempt wide of the uprights.
Teenager Mallinder, son of Northampton director of rugby Jim, then made sure of the bonus point as he finished off George Pisi's initial burst.
Northampton Saints: Foden; K. Pisi, G. Pisi, Burrell, North; Myler, Dickson (capt); Waller, Haywood, Brookes, Craig, Lawes, Gibson, Wood, Harrison.
Replacements: Marshall, Ma'afu, Hill, Matfield, Dickinson, Fotuali'i, Hanrahan, Mallinder.
Harlequins: Brown; Walker, Marchant, Roberts, Visser; Botica, Care (capt); Marler, Gray, Collier, Merrick, Horwill, Clifford, Wallace, Easter.
Replacements: Ward, Lambert, Sinckler, Luamanu, Robshaw, Dickson, Hopper, Chisholm.


Leeds United survived a late Bolton Wanderers rally to reach the fifth round of the FA Cup for only the second time in 13 years.

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Souleymane Doukara's left-footed shot and Toumani Diagouraga's swept finish gave Leeds a 2-0 lead their first-half dominance deserved.
Bolton looked out of it until Darren Pratley fired high into the net with 10 minutes to go.
Gary Madine hit a post as the hosts pressed for a late equaliser.
Madine had earlier fired over from inside the six-yard box, shortly after Doukara put Leeds ahead.
That was as close as Bolton came in the first half as Leeds kept their Championship rivals at arms' length.
Wanderers, who are second bottom of the table and beset by financial problems, improved too late to force a replay.
Bolton manager Neil Lennon: "We were way too passive in the first half.
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"It was a goalkeeping error for the first goal but our reaction wasn't good after that and I am looking at our senior players.
"It was a good opportunity for us; a great cup tie, a good atmosphere, but you can't give teams 2-0 leads and expect to go through. We nearly resurrected but we didn't work hard enough in the first half."
Leeds boss Steve Evans: "When I arrived Souleymane Doukara felt discarded, didn't feel loved. And that's harsh. I told him he was going to get the biggest opportunity of his life and he is enjoying every minute of it.
"He is going to get fitter and sharper and I don't think there will be many teams who will look forward to playing against the big fella.
"His power and purpose all afternoon was great. He has got a heart the size of Big Ben and I am pleased he is getting these rewards."


A gun was held to the head of a 13-year-old sexual abuse victim as a "warning" against speaking out, a court has heard.

Eight men are on trial charged in connection with the sexual abuse of three girls between 1999 and 2003.
The men, who are accused of rape, indecent assault and other offences, deny the charges.
Jurors at Sheffield Crown Court has been hearing police interviews with the woman who is now in her twenties.
One woman, who said she was sexually assaulted as a 13-year-old in 2003 by a group of Asian men, described being plied with alcohol and drugs and passed around for sex.
On one occasion, she said, a gun was held to her head by an unnamed man in a car.
He said he was going to shoot her, counted down from three and pulled the trigger but the gun was empty, she told police.
Asked by officers what she thought of the incident, the woman said: "I took it as a sort of warning, like I shouldn't say anything."
During police interviews she told how she was forced to have sex with men in Clifton Park and in an alleyway in Rotherham town centre.
"They'd start off nice and get more aggressive when I said no. No was just not an option", the woman told police.
She said the men told her she owed them money for the alcohol and drugs they'd given her and said she had to pay it back by going with them for sex.
The trial continues.


Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Kansas City bishop who failed to report a child abuse priest.

Bishop Robert Finn admitted in 2012 that he waited six months before reporting a priest who had lewd photos of young girls on his computer.
The offending priest was sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges.
Since Mr Finn's guilty plea on failing his duty, the Vatican had been under pressure to remove him.
The 62-year-old's resignation means he is no longer head of the Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph in northern and western Missouri.
Bishop Robert Finn offered his resignation under a part of canon law that allows bishops to resign if they are ill or because of a "grave" reason that makes them unfit to continue in their role.
The Vatican has not explicitly said why it took this decision.
He is the highest-ranking church official in the US to be convicted of failing to take action in response to abuse allegations.
Cardinal Bernard Law resigned from his post in Boston in 2002 when widespread allegations of sex abuse in his archdiocese came to light.
The Vatican's unwillingness to act against Mr Finn for three years after he pleaded guilty had fuelled charges that priests continued to enjoy protection even after Pope Francis pledged "zero tolerance".
Anne Barrett Doyle, co-director of BishopAccountability.org, an online abuse resource, said the resignation was a welcome step, but she called on the pope to publicly state that Mr Finn was removed over his conduct in the case of his priest, Rev Shawn Ratigan.
"We urge Pope Francis to issue such a statement immediately. That would be unprecedented, and it would send a bracing message to bishops and religious superiors worldwide that a new era has begun," she said.
Mr Ratigan's computer had hundreds of lewd photos of young girls taken in or near churches were he worked.


The Seattle Seahawks and the Houston Texans progressed from the wildcard round as the NFL play-offs kicked off on Saturday.

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Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson threw for 224 and two touchdowns in a 26-6 victory over the Detroit Lions.
It was the Seahawks's 10th consecutive post-season victory at home.
Earlier in Houston, the Texans overpowered rookie third-choice quarterback Connor Cook to beat the Oakland Raiders 27-14.
The Raiders were without starting quarterback Derek Carr, who broke his leg in the penultimate game of the regular season, and his back-up Matt McGloin.
It took Oakland, making their first post-season appearance since the 2002 term, until the fourth quarter to pass 100 total yards by which time the game was out of sight.
In Seattle, Thomas Rawls set a record when he became the first Seahawks running back to post 100 or more rushing yards in the first half of a post-season game.
The victory set up an NFC divisional round trip to the second-seed Atlanta Falcons on Saturday.
The remaining two wildcard games take place on Sunday when the Miami Dolphins visit the Pittsburgh Steelers (18:05 GMT) before the Green Bay Packers host the New York Giants (21:40).
The Texans will face either the New England Patriots or the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC divisional round next weekend, depending on the result in Pittsburgh.


Ben Gerring's first Torquay United goal was enough to give the Gulls all three points at home to Bromley.

The centre back powered home a header from Aman Verma's corner shortly before half-time to seal Torquay's first win of the season.
Adam Cunnington's header just before Gerring's goal was Bromley's best chance, as the Gulls deservedly won.
Brett Williams hit the bar on his home debut while Dan Sparkes and Nathan Blissett went close after the break.
Match ends, Torquay United 1, Bromley 0.
Second Half ends, Torquay United 1, Bromley 0.
Substitution, Bromley. Connor Dymond replaces Max Porter.
Brendan Moore (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Bromley. Bradley Goldberg replaces Dave Martin.
Substitution, Torquay United. Jamie Reid replaces Brett Williams.
Brett Williams (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Torquay United. Sam Chaney replaces Damon Lathrope.
Second Half begins Torquay United 1, Bromley 0.
First Half ends, Torquay United 1, Bromley 0.
Goal!  Torquay United 1, Bromley 0. Ben Gerring (Torquay United).
Aman Verma (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sean McGinty (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


A Labour leadership candidate has said he knew Wales was getting an unfairly low share of UK spending while he was a Treasury minister eight years ago.

But Andy Burnham told BBC Wales he was unable to change government policy.
In 2007, he rejected calls to review the Barnett formula, used to determine changes in the Welsh government budget.
All four leadership candidates - Mr Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Jeremy Corbyn and Liz Kendall, have been speaking to the Sunday Politics Wales programme.
Leaders of all the main parties in Wales have claimed that the Barnett formula is over-generous to Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Eight years ago, as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Mr Burnham told Parliament: "The government has no plans to review the Barnett formula."
But now, speaking to BBC Wales, he said: "I conducted the last spending review of the last Labour government and I looked in detail at the Barnett formula, and concluded that it wasn't fair to Wales and there would need to be changes to it to ensure a much fairer funding settlement.
"That remains my view. It hasn't changed."
Asked why he rejected calls to change the formula while in office, he said: "That was the government line at the time, and obviously I wasn't in a position to over-rule that.
"I wasn't number one at the Treasury, I was number two [to Chancellor Alistair Darling].
"But the great thing about a contest like this is that you can speak for yourself and put forward your own manifesto to put your own stamp on the Labour Party.
"In this respect I believe Wales has been short-changed and as leader I would take steps to correct that."
All four candidates to lead Labour support the idea of a constitutional convention to plan the future pattern of powers across the UK's nations and regions.
Yvette Cooper said: "I want to see the constitutional convention taken forward, but it needs to include more than just the Labour Party.
"We need all sorts of different community voices and organisations from across the country to be part of that."
Jeremy Corbyn believes Labour's Welsh history offers a guide to the future.
"The NHS came from Aneurin Bevan, Keir Hardie was the MP for Merthyr, we have that huge background in Wales," he said.
"The very roots of Labour are in Wales. Let's be proud of it."
Liz Kendall said she was neither a Blairite nor Brownite candidate.
"I'm the Kendallite candidate, I also strongly believe in devolution and decentralisation," she said.
"Things will happen differently in different parts of the country. The Welsh Labour government will know what's best for Wales."
The four candidates will take part in a hustings in Cardiff in July.
Sunday Politics Wales is on BBC One Wales at 11:00 BST on Sunday 28 June.


Egypt's government says it is lifting the country's three-month state of emergency and night-time curfew.

The move comes two days earlier than expected, after a court ruling.
An aide to the prime minister said the measures had ended at 14:00 GMT, but the government later said it was still waiting for the text of the ruling.
The measures were introduced on 14 August after security forces forcibly ended sit-ins in support of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
They had been due to last a month, but the government extended them for two more months on 12 September.
An adviser to Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi told the BBC that both the state of emergency and the 01:00-05:00 curfew were lifted with effect from 16:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Tuesday.
This followed the ruling by the administrative court that said the decree extending the measures should only be effective for two calendar months.
However, a cabinet statement then said Cairo was still waiting for the text of the ruling before implementing it.
The statement also stressed that the army-backed government would abide by the verdict.
The state of emergency and the curfew allowed the authorities to make arrests without warrants and search people's homes.
Many people have also blamed the curfew for a fall in business in Cairo - at a time when the government is trying to create jobs and revive the economy.
The measures were introduced after hundreds of people died following the clearing of the pro-Morsi camps in the capital.
Mr Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president, was ousted by the army in July following widespread demonstrations against his rule.
He is currently on trial for allegedly inciting the killing of protesters outside the presidential palace in 2012.
Egyptians lived under a state of emergency - which gives extra powers to the security services - for more than three decades, until President Hosni Mubarak was forced from power amid mass protests in 2011.
Even with Thursday's moves, Egypt's military-backed government will still be keeping a tight grip, the BBC's Orla Guerin in Cairo reports.
The authorities say security forces will be deployed on main streets and in city centres across the country to tighten control, our correspondent says.
And she adds that stringent new limits on freedom of movement are expected to be introduced soon, in a law regulating public protest.
Human rights campaigners say the proposals will give police the power to ban protests outright.
A draft legislation - currently being considered by Interim President Adly Mahmud Mansour - requires protest organisers to notify police in advance of any meeting of more than 10 people, in public or in private.


A woman accused of murdering her friend by slipping cyanide into her coffee has been found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in jail by an Indonesian court, in a case that gripped the country.

Jessica Wongso, an Indonesian citizen and Australian permanent resident, said the verdict was "not fair".
The victim, Wayan Mirna Salihin, met Wongso at a Jakarta cafe in January.
She died minutes after sipping a coffee ordered by her friend. An autopsy found traces of cyanide in her body.
The trial of Wongso, dubbed by some as the "Coffee Killer", attracted intense public interest in Indonesia as well as Australia, where Wongso and Ms Salihin had met and lived for several years.
Wongso denied all the charges and her lawyers have said they will appeal against the verdict.
Prosecutors argued she had decided to kill Ms Salihin after the latter had advised her to break up with her boyfriend.
Defence lawyers had argued that police never found cyanide in Wongso's possession, and she had never been seen spiking the coffee.
Australian police agreed to assist Indonesian police with their investigation after receiving assurances that she would not be handed the death penalty.
People had been queuing outside the Jakarta central court from before dawn to get a seat to witness the verdict in this murder trial that gripped the nation. Some in the crowd had travelled from other islands just be here.
Hundreds missed out on a seat and crowded around monitors watching events inside the court. Five hundred riot police were deployed to control the crowd.
Court waiting rooms were turned into TV studios. The entire month-long trial has been broadcast live on all the major stations.
The families of both the victim, Ms Salihin, and the accused have given long, passionate and tearful interviews. The broadcasting commission has criticised a number of stations, accusing them of a conducting a media trial.
Across the archipelago it is hard to find someone who does not have a strong opinion on whether Jessica Kumala Wongso is guilty or not of murdering her college friend by slipping cyanide into her coffee.
Wongso, 28,  and Ms Salihin, 27, became friends when they were both studying at a design college in Sydney.
On 6 January, the two met for coffee at an upscale cafe in a mall in Jakarta, together with another college friend.
Wongso had texted earlier to say she would order drinks for all of them.
CCTV footage broadcast during the trial showed Ms Salihin arriving with the other friend and sitting down with Wongso, then taking a sip of her coffee. Within minutes Ms Salihin is seen slumping in her seat.
An autopsy later found cyanide in her stomach.
The trial has played out in packed courtrooms for the past month. Among those present on Thursday was Erikson, who had travelled from North Sumatra to Jakarta to hear the verdict.
"We have never had such an open and public court case..." he told the BBC. "The court case has created so many unanswered questions in my mind. How are we going to know the truth unless we see it for ourselves?"


A fifth public consultation into the future of secondary education in Haverfordwest will take place after a Pembrokeshire council vote.

The amended proposal is for one new English-medium school with a sixth form and this would involve merging the town's two existing schools.
Previous proposals, which involved centralising sixth forms to a new centre at Pembrokeshire College, were met with a series of protests.
The consultation will begin next month.
A final decision on the new school is then set to go back before the council in July.


US president Barack Obama has said that the Star Wars character he'd most like to be is Han Solo.

When asked in an interview which character he'd pick, he said: "I gotta go with Han Solo, he is a little bit of a rebel".
He admitted that he hadn't seen the new Star Wars film, but said that his favourite of the series was the very first film.
The president was interviewed by three YouTube vloggers on Friday.
He also gave his opinion on how should a dog wear trousers, the debate that has divided the internet.
Obama thought that they'd just wear them on two legs, saying that there was "too much fabric" on the four legged option.


A pensioner reported a dead body in a house to police days after killing an elderly man, a court has been told.

The High Court in Glasgow was told Richard Cassidy, 70, phoned emergency services claiming to be "John".
During the 999 call played to the court, he reported a dead body at David Farish's address in Tweedbank and said "the man deserves some dignity".
Mr Cassidy denies murdering Mr Farish and a further charge of attempting to defeat the ends of justice.
He also denies two charges of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner.
The jury heard in joint evidence that Mr Cassidy struck Mr Farish, 75, on the body with a knife and caused his death on 16 February last year.
The call to the emergency services was made on 18 February.
Before calling any witnesses, advocate depute Angela Gray read a joint minute of evidence to the jury.
This included that Mr Cassidy caused the death of Mr Farish at his home at Broadlee Bank in Tweedbank and that he phoned 999 two days later.
Kevin Lowry, 50, a service advisor for Police Scotland who took the 999 call, gave evidence.
Ms Gray told Mr Lowry: "The person who made the call is the man sitting here in the dock, Richard Cassidy.
"But at the time when you receive a 999 call you won't know who the call is from."
The witness confirmed that was correct.
The call was played to the jury. Mr Cassidy provided Mr Farish's address and, when asked what happened, said: "There's a dead body."
He was asked for his name and said: "My name is John. The man deserves some dignity."
Mr Cassidy said nothing else and Mr Lowry was heard confirming that the call had been terminated.
Mr Cassidy denies the charges against him and the trial before judge Lord Summers continues.


A teenage boy has died in hospital after he was knocked down in a hit and run in Coleraine.

He was Reece Meenan, 13, from the Coleraine area.
The incident happened on Newbridge Road at about 18:30 GMT on Saturday.  Police said the car failed to stop at the scene and it was found several hours later in Magherafelt.
A 23-year-old man who was arrested has been released on police bail pending further enquiries.
Reece, a third year student at Loreto College in Coleraine, would have celebrated his 14th birthday next week.
School principal Michael James said Reece was "was an extremely likeable and popular pupil" who "participated fully in school life".
"Two years ago, he was a vital member of the Year 8 soccer team, which won the  league and this year was a key member of the Year 10 Gaelic squad, which is due to play in the semi-final of the cup.
"Reece was beginning to develop as a student and was carefully considering his options for the future, with his passion for sport at the forefront of his career aspirations"
Mr James said Reece was a "lively boy with a good sense of humour".
"He will be desperately missed by his teachers and fellow students alike".
DUP MLA Maurice Bradley said the death had caused shock in Coleraine.
He said his thoughts were with the Meenan family and described the death as  a "great tragedy".
Sinn FÃ©in MLA Caoimhe Archibald said Reece's family had been left "devastated" by his death.
"Nothing anyone can say at this point is going to help with what they are going through," she said.
"The loss of a young person in such terrible circumstances is so difficult to come to terms with".
The teenager represented local soccer and GAA clubs in Coleraine.
On their Facebook page, Bertie Peacock Youth FC said Reece will be "sadly missed by all at our club, especially the kids who knew him best".
Reece also played for Eoghan Rua GAA club who described the loss of the "lively young footballer" as "untimely and tragic."
Police have appealed for witnesses to contact them.


League One side Southend United have re-signed striker Theo Robinson from Lincoln City for an undisclosed fee on a two-and-a-half-year contract.

The 28-year-old scored seven goals in 21 appearances for the Shrimpers during a loan spell at Roots Hall in 2009.
The former Derby County and Doncaster Rovers player has scored 71 goals in 313 career league matches.
Robinson had helped the Imps to the top of the National League and into the fifth round of the FA Cup.
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A man has been charged with attempted murder after a man suffered serious head injuries in an attack in County Down.

The victim, aged in his 40s, was assaulted at Scarva Walk in Banbridge at about 16:00 BST on Friday.
A 20-year-old man is accused of attempted murder, assaulting police, theft and causing criminal damage.
Another man, aged 22, has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent and theft.
They are due to appear in court in Newry on Monday.


A cyclist who died six days after colliding with a coach while taking part in the Tour De Yorkshire Sportive has been identified.

David Worthington, 51, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire, was badly injured in the crash near Wortley on 30 April and died on 6 May.
South Yorkshire Police said Mr Worthington had been taking part in the amateur cycling event when the collision happened in Finkle Street Lane.
The force has appealed for witnesses to come forward.
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BP will not use the Super Puma 225 and L2 helicopters until the root cause of last year's fatal crash is known.

The helicopters were grounded after an accident off the coast of Norway killed 13 people, including Iain Stewart from Aberdeenshire, in April 2016.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the Norwegian authorities have allowed flights to resume if new safety conditions are met.
BP said it will wait for the completion of the AIBN and Airbus investigation.
Total E&P UK also confirmed that they have no immediate plans to bring the Super Puma models back into service and said the Sikorsky S92 helicopter fulfilled its operational requirements.
Unite said it was "very disappointed and very angry" that the CAA made its decision to lift the ban before knowing the cause of the crash.
The union's regional organiser in Aberdeen, Tommy Campbell, said: "we need to know the root cause analysis of the accident in Norway last year and we still haven't got the answers to that so we think it's very inappropriate that the ban should be lifted."
Yesterday a North sea offshore worker, who wished to remain anonymous, told BBC Scotland that he would dread travelling in the helicopters again and he would not be able to tell his family if he had to fly in one.
But the CAA said that helicopters would not begin flying immediately and that a plan of checks, modifications and inspections will be undertaken before any flights take place.
These include:
CAA head of airworthiness John McColl said: "This is not a decision we have taken lightly. It has only been made after receiving extensive information from the Norwegian accident investigators and being satisfied with the subsequent changes introduced by Airbus Helicopters through detailed assessment and analysis."


Oscar Pistorius's lawyers have failed to block an appeal by prosecutors against the South African Paralympian's acquittal on murder charges.

He was cleared of murder last year but was sentenced to five years in jail for the lesser charge of culpable homicide.
Prosecutors are seeking a murder conviction after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
On Friday, the Johannesburg High Court rejected the application by the defence team to stop the prosecutors' appeal.
After a short hearing, Judge Thokozile Masipa said procedure did not allow her to grant or refuse the application.
"In my view, to entertain this application will be tantamount to reviewing my own decision," she said.
"For one thing there is really nothing new in the submissions by counsel for the applicant."
The double amputee athlete was acquitted by Judge Masipa of both premeditated murder and the lesser murder charge of dolus eventualis, also known as common-law murder in September last year.
In South African law, this charge applies if the accused knew they might kill someone but still went ahead with their course of action.
Pistorius says he shot Ms Steenkamp accidentally, after mistaking her for a burglar.
Prosecutors are pushing for the appeal because they believe that a full bench of judges in the Supreme Court of Appeal will agree with them that Judge Masipa misinterpreted the principles of dolus eventualis and will both convict him of murder and impose a longer sentence, says the BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg.


Meet Dougie, the three-year-old miniature donkey who thinks he's a dog.

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Unlike most farm animals he doesn't live outside but is free to wander around inside the home of his owners.
He also spends time with the family dog and loves watching sport on TV.
Watch BBC Look North's Ian White report on a day in the life of Dougie.


Former US President Jimmy Carter has said that his brain cancer is gone.

"My most recent MRI brain scan did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots nor any new ones," Mr Carter said in a statement.
The 91-year-old first announced the news during a Sunday school class in Plains, Georgia.
Mr Carter, who was president from 1977 to 1981 and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, revealed his illness in August.
Doctors have been treating four small melanoma lesions on his brain.
Last month, Mr Carter said he was responding well to treatment and there were no signs of further cancer growth.
Jill Stuckey, a member of the congregation at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper that Mr Carter had been teaching the class of about 350 people when he made the announcement.
"He said he got a scan this week and the cancer was gone," she said.
"The church, everybody here, just erupted in applause."
Mr Carter revealed in August that cancer initially found in his liver had spread to four spots on his brain. The lesion on his liver was removed on 12 August.
After leaving the White House, Mr Carter founded the Carter Center, which focuses on human-rights efforts and political mediation.
He has remained active with the centre ever since.
Mr Carter - a Georgia Democrat - won the Nobel Peace prize for his commitment to finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts and his work with human rights and democracy initiatives.


North Korea has released a new set of photos of Kim Jong-un and party and military leaders.

The BBC spoke to US-based North Korea expert Michael Madden about what the pictures tell us, after the recent and rare party congress.
"Kim Jong-un is putting himself on the cover of the party newspaper, warts and all," says Mr Madden, of the photo of the leader.
But he says media reports that this is the first time North Korea has released unedited images of its leaders are "nonsense".
For example, a group of photos released in 2009 showed some senior officials with dilated pupils, as if they had been drinking.
There are none in the released images. The highest position held by women at the moment in North Korea is party department director or vice-director.
Mr Kim's sister Kim Yo-jong, for example, is vice-director of the propaganda department.
"Realistically, women - as department directors and deputy directors - have more power than some of the vice-chairmen, because they handle the day-to-day running of the departments.  They are Kim's eyes and ears in the political system," says Mr Madden.
It's also believed to be the women who handle the wealth of the Kim family.
"North Korea is a patriarchal culture, but in a totalitarian system, being able to wield power as gatekeepers or financial functionaries is more powerful than sitting on a political bureau, you have realistic powers day-to-day."
But, says Mr Madden, women made up 10% of the delegates at the party congress - not a huge number but a significant advance on the last congress in 1980.
Kim's sister given key N Korea post
Other than its youthful head, North Korea's leadership is notable for its age. Many officials are in their 80s.
An exception is No Kwan-chol, a three-star general and member of the political bureau at the age of 35.
Not much is known about him, but he rose to prominence under Mr Kim.
There are a few of these "millennials" coming up through the lower ranks of the party and military and poised for future power, says Mr Madden.
This is Ri Yong-gil, a three-star general and a member of the political bureau. Last February, he was widely reported as being dead. South Korean sources said he had been executed for "conspiracy".
"We have to take rumours about dead North Korean officials with pinch of salt," says Mr Madden. It's not hard for poorly sourced information to be aired.
"Some of these officials who disappear from state media are sent away for a few months for re-education, what we might call corporate training. Sometimes they are destined for high office, or a new job."
Given the timing of his disappearance from the public eye, he says - during a period of particularly high tensions at the border with the South - he had likely been sent away to deal with the issue.
He has, however, been demoted from his four-star general post, for unclear reasons, and his new job wasn't listed.  "This demotion by epaulette" is standard practice under the leader and Gen Ri might yet see his star restored.
The photos - and state media's reporting of them - have to be seen in the context of a party congress which reset North Korea's political system, says Mr Madden.
In a change from his father's time, Mr Kim is asserting the dominance of the party over the military. He has "concentrated a lot of political power in the hands of six or seven officials".  In all state media reporting the party officials appear before military officials.
Many of them have been given two or even three titles. This is a sign that there is a specific power cohort and they are going to have a lot more power than they did before the congress.
Though it might appear superficial  and cosmetic to observers, "in North Korea, the form and the content are inseparable".
North Korea's rare congress - what is it for?
Primarily North Koreans, so they know that "if this guy shows up where you work you might want to pay attention to him".
The names might not mean a lot to the North Korean population, "but it does establish who the top people are in the regime. It's subtle message to people of who is in the know".


A man in Brazil has killed his ex-wife, his son and 10 other people celebrating the arrival of the new year.

The unidentified man was carrying several firearms when he stormed the family house in Campinas, some 100km (60 miles) from Sao Paulo, police said.
Another three people were wounded. The man killed himself afterwards.
The murder occurred just before midnight, police said. Neighbours had heard blasts but thought they were fireworks.
They were alerted after one of those injured escaped to a neighbour's house to plead for help.
"When we opened the gate to go into the street to see the fireworks, the celebrations, a wounded person came into our yard. He entered, asking for help,'' the neighbour, Christiano Machado, said.


Three hundred workers at a construction equipment firm in Wrexham will work shorter hours to save colleagues from compulsory redundancy.

JCB Transmissions announced three weeks ago 290 jobs were at risk, blaming a global downturn in the market.
But a flexible working pattern for shop floor employees has been put in place until the end of February 2016 to save more than 100 jobs.
GMB members voted in favour of the proposal following a ballot on Friday.
JCB chief executive Graeme Macdonald said: "Our shop floor colleagues are to be applauded for their actions."


Smacking has no place in modern society, Wales' children's commissioner Sally Holland has said.

Dr Holland reiterated her call for a smacking ban in the wake of plans for parental discipline to be devolved to the assembly.
The move, if passed, would make it possible for AMs to pass to outlaw smacking in Wales.
Welsh Labour has promised to seek cross-party support to end the defence of reasonable punishment.
New powers in the Wales Bill, due to be approved by the House of Lords on Tuesday, would clear up the assembly's power to change the law and introduce a ban by removing the defence.
Dr Holland told BBC Radio Wales' Jason Mohammad programme: "Most of us of a certain generation, including myself, were smacked as children.
"What I would say is it just doesn't have a place in modern civilised society.
"And I see this really as a human rights issue, because all we are trying to do is give children the same rights against being hit as adults have."
Dr Holland said Wales had been "going around circles" debating the issue for years and hoped to see a ban in the next couple of years.
She added that she did not expect to see a wave of parents being criminalised - and that there would be a "high bar" for prosecutions when children had been persistently harmed.
AMs voted against a smacking ban in Wales in 2015.
Since then, the Children's Secretary Carl Sargeant said he hoped "to take forward, on a cross-party basis, legislation that will remove the defence of reasonable punishment".
One man in Carmarthen told BBC Radio Wales the best way of disciplining children was to take things like iPads away from them.
A woman said smacking "in the right way" was a good thing.
"When I was young, if I did something wrong [and] then I had a smack, then I knew not to do it again," she added.


Google has said it is "thinking deeply" about ways to improve search, after criticism over how some results - including ones discussing the Holocaust - were ranked.

Searching for "did the Holocaust happen?" returned a top result that claimed it did not, as Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr reported.
Now, the ranking has changed for US users.
The page - from white supremacist site Stormfront - remains top in the UK.
"This is a really challenging problem, and something we're thinking deeply about in terms of how we can do a better job," said a Google spokesman.
"Search is a reflection of the content that exists on the web.
"The fact that hate sites may appear in search results in no way means that Google endorses these views."
Regarding the recent change in rankings on the Holocaust query, editor of news site Search Engine Land Danny Sullivan, believes this was due to external parties' attempts to influence the ordering of results.
Mr Sullivan met Google executives and engineers last week to discuss the issue of questionable result ranking, which also affects other queries about, for example, ethnic minorities.
"I'm as horrified and disappointed by the results as many people are," he told the BBC.
However, he said Google - which processes five billion searches a day - was keen to come up with a solution that was broadly applicable across all searches, rather than just those that have been noticed by users.
"It's very easy to take a search here and there and demand Google change something," explained Mr Sullivan, "and then the next day you find a different search and say, 'why didn't you fix that?' "
Ms Cadwalladr has accused Google of disseminating "hate speech".
Other result rankings that she questioned include those for "are women evil?" and "are muslims bad?".
The BBC has also found that some additional queries, including ones without negative terms, also produce controversial answers.
For example, searching for "are black people smart?" in the UK returns a "featured snippet" at the top of the results that claims "black people are significantly less intelligent than all other races".
Mr Sullivan added that it was far more common for users to search for simple terms, such as "Holocaust" rather than "did the Holocaust happen?" and that the phrasing of the question also affected result rankings.
He added, however, that Bing - Microsoft's search engine - seemed to be doing "a better job" with these sorts of queries, though it was "not immune" to the issue.
"It seems to be rewarding Wikipedia more than Google does," he said.
Some of the concern around the impact that Google search results have on people's perceptions and beliefs stems from research that shows young people, in particular, are increasingly trusting of the site.
An Ofcom report last month found that the proportion of 12 to 15 year-olds turning to Google for "true and accurate information about things that are going on in the world" had shot up to 30% this year, compared to 17% in 2015.
More than a quarter of eight to 15 year-olds surveyed believed that if Google lists information then it can be trusted.
It was important to note that there is no such thing as an "impartial" or "neutral" algorithm, according to Prof Mark Graham at the Oxford Internet Institute.
"There is no correct answer to some issues," he said, but added that Google was still in a position of responsibility.
"Absolutely they should face scrutiny because they occupy this position of immense power - they mediate a vast amount of the world's digital information," he told the BBC.
"I don't think it's good enough to just point to their algorithms and say, 'Well, this is the most popular, this gets the most clicks'."
As for tackling the proliferation of hate speech, Prof Graham pointed out that many countries around the world have guidelines over what is and is not acceptable - guidelines that Google could, potentially, adopt.
"They don't have to build those ideas from scratch," he said.


British IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon has died following a massive accident at the Las Vegas Indy 300.

The Buckinghamshire-born star, 33, was one of 15 drivers involved in a crash at the second corner on lap 13 of the season-ending race.
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Wheldon, who began IndyCar racing in 2002, was series champion in 2005 and won the Indy 500 in 2005 and 2011.
He had been without a permanent race seat this season but was bidding to win a $5m jackpot by winning in Las Vegas.
The accident at the oval-shaped track happened when a number of cars came into contact on turn two, sending several of them airborne, smashing into the outside wall and catch fence. The cars were traveling at speeds of over 200mph.
With cars burning and debris littering the track, the race was red-flagged.
It was the first-ever death at the circuit in its 40-year history.
Wheldon was airlifted to the nearby University Medical Center where he was joined by his family - including his wife Susie and two young sons Sebastian and Oliver - but his death was announced to his fellow drivers in a meeting back at the track.
On Monday, Clark County coroner Michael Murphy announced that autopsy results showed Wheldon was killed by blunt trauma to the head.
It was the first IndyCar fatality since 2006, when Paul Dana was killed during the warm-up for the season-opening Toyota Indy 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Wheldon had started the race at the back of the field and had made up 10 places in the first 12 laps before the crash.
IndyCar chief executive Randy Bernard said: "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family."
IndyCar bosses decided to end the Las Vegas race following the crash. Instead, the drivers took part in a five-lap salute, with Wheldon's number 77 the only number on the scoreboard.
Organisers also played the song Danny Boy, followed by Amazing Grace, as crew and mechanics stood around the track.
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Wheldon, who was driving for Sam Schmidt Motorsports on Sunday, had failed to secure a regular ride this season after being replaced by JR Hildebrand at the Panther Racing team.
Despite that, Wheldon put together a deal with Bryan Herta Autosport for the Indianapolis 500, a race he ended up winning after Hildebrand crashed going into the final turn.
Wheldon then took up Bernard's offer to pay $5m (£3.1m) to any non-regular series driver who won the season finale at Las Vegas.
There were 34 cars entered in the Las Vegas race - one more entry than was the case at the far bigger Indianapolis 500 circuit.
Earlier in the week, drivers had voiced concerns about speeds of close to 225mph being reached at the track during practice.
"I'll tell you, I've never seen anything like it," said driver Ryan Briscoe.
"The debris we all had to drive through the lap later, it looked like a war scene from Terminator or something. I mean, there were just pieces of metal and car on fire in the middle of the track... just debris everywhere."
Former IndyCar and Formula 1 driver Mark Blundell was at the circuit and witnessed the accident.
"IndyCar racing is dangerous," he told the BBC. "The difference [between IndyCar and Formula 1] is that you are running four cars wide, only inches apart from each other doing 220mph.
"When there is a problem, it normally turns out to be a big problem because a small error can be quite costly."
He was six years old when I first met him. Right now I'm numb and speechless. One minute you're joking around in driver intros and the next he's gone
The Briton also suggested the Las Vegas track was not big enough for the number of cars - 34 - that were competing on Sunday.
Consequently, when there is an accident it can, he said, result in "something quite catastrophic".
He added: "That's what you saw today - 15 cars out in one go and unfortunately the loss of Dan Wheldon, a guy who was a huge talent.
"He never quite got to the upper echelons of Formula 1 but was very well-known and very well-respected.
"He was a very accomplished driver who still had a huge career in front of him. It's big loss to British motorsport."
The scrapping of the race meant Scotland's Dario Franchitti secured a third straight series crown, as title rival Will Power was also caught up in the accident.
But Franchitti's only thoughts were for Wheldon and the 38-year-old was in tears in his car before setting off on the five-lap salute.
"Right now I'm numb and speechless. One minute you're joking around in driver intros and the next he's gone," said Franchitti.
"He was six years old when I first met him. He was this little kid and the next thing you know he was my team-mate.
"We put so much pressure on ourselves to win races and championships and today it doesn't matter."


Apple chief executive Tim Cook has repeated his opposition to US President Donald Trump's travel ban.

He was speaking after he collected an honorary doctorate at the University of Glasgow.
Earlier Mr Cook visited an Apple store in Glasgow, where staff gave him a tartan scarf and a drawing.
His comments on the presidential decree targeting seven predominantly Muslim countries came in a Q&A session at the university.
Responding to questions from students and staff, Mr Cook said: "I wrote this letter, you probably read about it unless you're living underground, about the most recent executive order that was issued in the US.
"We have employees that secured a work visa, they brought family to the US, but happened to be outside the US when the executive order was issued and all of a sudden their families were affected.
"They couldn't get back in. That's a crisis. You can imagine the stress.
"If we stand and say nothing it's as if we're agreeing, that we become a part of it. It's important to speak out."
Mr Cook has taken a strong stance on user privacy and other issues which have at times brought him into conflict with the US authorities.
Since taking the helm of the company, Mr Cook has led the introduction of new products such as the iPhone 7, iPad Pro and Apple Watch.
He is also leading a company-wide effort to use 100% renewable energy at all Apple facilities.
In 2015, the 56-year-old became an honorary patron of Trinity College Dublin's Philosophical Society and gave a talk to students.
The embroidered picture presented by the Apple store staff shows Mr Cook waving and the words: "Welcome Tim."
It also features saltire flags and the Loch Ness monster.
He said: "That's great. I recall looking for the Loch Ness monster in 1984.
"Everything is right but the colour of the hair."


A man and a woman have been critically injured in a three-car crash in County Down.

The collision happened on the A21 Bangor to Newtownards dual carriageway, near the Green Road junction, at 19:40 GMT on Thursday.
A number of people were taken to hospital after the crash. The road was closed overnight but has now reopened.
Insp David McClements appealed for anyone who witnessed the collision to contact police.