Bojan Krkic earned Stoke City a draw at West Ham as the Potters extended their unbeaten run to six games.

Chances had been at a premium before the Hammers took the lead when Michail Antonio's header from a Dimitri Payet cross came off Stoke midfielder Glenn Whelan and beat keeper Lee Grant at his near post.
West Ham keeper Adrian might have conceded a penalty for a foul on Jonathan Walters but the referee played on and Bojan volleyed in from his team-mate's cross.
Stoke almost snatched a late winner but Adrian palmed a Charlie Adam free-kick wide.
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic decided to take action after an hour's play had produced only one real chance with Pedro Obiang's header smartly saved by Grant in the Stoke goal.
The Hammers boss brought on Ashley Fletcher and Edimilson Fernandes, moving Antonio up front - and the switch immediately paid off as the home side took the lead.
Antonio was unhappy not to be credited with the goal but Whelan admitted afterwards the ball had come off the back of his head.
Stoke boss Mark Hughes followed Bilic's lead with a double substitution, introducing Bojan and Peter Crouch. It was a move that produced similarly quick results as the West Ham defence was finally breached.
Adrian did not cover himself in glory, coming a long way out of his goal in a failed bid to stop a Walters cross from which Bojan, making only his seventh appearance in 2016-17, scored his second goal of the season.
"We went a bit more direct as we felt there was an opportunity there," said Hughes. "[Bojan has] been a bit frustrated as he hasn't had a lot of game time of late but he showed his quality."
The Hammers were playing their first game at their new home since the crowd trouble that marred their EFL Cup win over Chelsea.
The match appeared to pass without any incident as West Ham went four games unbeaten in all competitions at London Stadium.
However, Bilic's side have yet to hit the heights of last season and are nine points worse off than at the same stage of the 2015-16 campaign.
Although they improved after the break following a poor first half, they still lacked a cutting edge and managed only two shots on target compared with Stoke's four.
Only Hull City (13) have had fewer shots on target at home this season than West Ham (14).
West Ham's frustration at not being able to hold on for the three points will be heightened with tough-looking league fixtures against Tottenham, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool coming up next.
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic: "It's a frustrating result but it's a fair result. It's a mistake by Adrian.
"It looked like he was never going to get to the ball. We gave that goal away very cheaply. We were 1-0 up with 15 minutes to go. A very cheap goal has cost us a win."
Stoke boss Mark Hughes: "We felt we went behind against the run of play but we responded in the right manner.
"It's difficult to play on this pitch. It's slow and we had to change how we played a little bit.
"A lot was made of our so-called difficult start. We have come up against decent teams and haven't quite hit our levels.
"But we are now fully into our stride and where we want to be."
BBC Match Of The Day pundit Ian Wright: "West Ham goalkeeper Adrian has had a bit of a nightmare. For the goal, where's he going? What's he doing? For me, the goalkeeper has cost them the game."
Following the international break, Stoke are at home to Bournemouth at 15:00 GMT on Saturday, 19 November, while West Ham return to action at Tottenham for a 17:30 GMT kick-off on the same day.
Match ends, West Ham United 1, Stoke City 1.
Second Half ends, West Ham United 1, Stoke City 1.
Aaron Cresswell (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Peter Crouch (Stoke City).
Joe Allen (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Michail Antonio (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Allen (Stoke City).
Offside, West Ham United. Aaron Cresswell tries a through ball, but Michail Antonio is caught offside.
Attempt missed. James Collins (West Ham United) header from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Dimitri Payet with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  West Ham United. Conceded by Jonathan Walters.
Attempt missed. Jonathan Walters (Stoke City) header from very close range misses to the left. Assisted by Charlie Adam with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Stoke City. Conceded by Adrián.
Attempt saved. Charlie Adam (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, West Ham United. Sofiane Feghouli replaces Pedro Obiang.
Mark Noble (West Ham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mark Noble (West Ham United).
Charlie Adam (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Charlie Adam (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Stoke City. Mame Biram Diouf replaces Ramadan Sobhi because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ramadan Sobhi (Stoke City) because of an injury.
Pedro Obiang (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ramadan Sobhi (Stoke City).
Corner,  West Ham United. Conceded by Phil Bardsley.
Foul by Ashley Fletcher (West Ham United).
Charlie Adam (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Adrián (West Ham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal!  West Ham United 1, Stoke City 1. Bojan (Stoke City) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jonathan Walters.
Attempt missed. Michail Antonio (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Dimitri Payet with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  West Ham United. Conceded by Ryan Shawcross.
Adrián (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Walters (Stoke City).
Edimilson Fernandes (West Ham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Edimilson Fernandes (West Ham United).
Ramadan Sobhi (Stoke City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Stoke City. Peter Crouch replaces Wilfried Bony.
Substitution, Stoke City. Bojan replaces Glenn Whelan.
Foul by Dimitri Payet (West Ham United).
Ramadan Sobhi (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Aaron Cresswell (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the left wing.


The US representative to the United Nations has said that the US is no longer prioritising the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters on Thursday "we can't necessarily focus on Assad the way that the previous administration did".
Under President Barack Obama, the US said Assad must go and backed rebels fighting against him.
But US resources shifted after the rise of the so-called Islamic state.
"Our priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out," said Mrs Haley.
"Our priority is to really look at how do we get things done, who do we need to work with to really make a difference for the people in Syria," she added.
BBC State Department correspondent Barbara Plett Usher says Mrs Haley is stating something quite bluntly that has quietly been US policy for some time.
The battle against IS in Syria became the overriding priority in the last year of the Obama administration, says our correspondent.
And Russia's entry into the war in 2015 to bolster Mr Assad in effect closed off any remote chance of Washington helping the opposition to oust him.
Speaking during a visit to Turkey on Thursday, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Mr Assad's long-term future "will be decided by the Syrian people".
A representative for the Syrian opposition called Mrs Haley's announcement "unfortunate", adding that American representatives are sending "contradicting messages".
"We heard the spokesman for the White House contradict what Mr Tillerson just stated today in Turkey," opposition member Farah al-Atassi told reporters in Geneva.
"They clearly said Assad has no role in the transitional period."
President Donald Trump has vowed to work more closely with Russia, which has been supporting Mr Assad with its military might during the Syrian civil war.


David Jeffrey enjoyed his first win as Ballymena boss in a 3-1 victory over 10-man Warrenpoint Town while Dungannon Swifts defeated Coleraine 1-0.

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Johnny McMurray fired Town ahead before Allan Jenkins scored on the rebound from his penalty after Stephen Moan was red-carded for handling on the line.
Sky Blues substitute Willie Faulkner struck twice late on to clinch victory.
Swifts keeper Andy Coleman denied the Bannsiders before Matt Hazley's superb goal 10 minutes from time.
Coleman kept out efforts from Rodney Brown and Darren McCauley in the first half at the Showgrounds.
The visitors rarely threatened although Ryan Harpur wasted a good chance when he headed wide early in the second half.
Coleraine's Jamie McGonigle saw his shot cleared off the line by Dermot McCaffrey before Hazley won it with a stunning strike into the top corner.
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Dungannon midfielder Andrew Mitchell was sent-off for two yellows in the dying seconds but the win was secured and the Swifts moved up to seventh place in the Premiership.
Warrenpoint made a bright start at Warden Street and McMurray calmly slotted in the opener for the basement side.
The game turned on Moan's dismissal on 43 minutes after he handled from Johnny Taylor's header.
Jenkins saw his penalty saved by Jonathan Parr but he reacted quickly to net the rebound and equalise.
United squandered second-half chances while Warrenpoint remained a threat on the counter-attack.
Faulkner proved to be an inspired substitution by Jeffrey, who was in charge of the Sky Blues for the first time at the Showgrounds after he began his reign with a draw at Crusaders last weekend.
The substitute fired home in the final minute before sealing the points with a close-range finish in added time.


An airport that was closed after a private jet crashed killing three members of Osama Bin Laden's family has reopened.

The plane came down near Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire on Friday, killing the pilot and all three passengers.
The airport reopened at 08:00 BST after it was shut over the weekend to allow for investigations.
The Saudi Arabian embassy in London said it was working with the British authorities to repatriate the bodies.
In a statement, the Saudi ambassador to the UK, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud, offered condolences to the Bin Laden family.
The plane - an Embraer Phenom 300 - is reported to have belonged to an aviation firm owned by the Saudi-based family of the former al-Qaeda leader.
The plane, which was arriving from Milan, Italy, crashed into a British Car Auctions site at the airfield, exploding on impact.
The auction firm is contacting customers after about 30 vehicles were caught up in the blast.
Hampshire police said it believed three of the dead to be the mother, sister and brother-in-law of the owner of the aircraft, all of whom are from the Bin Laden family.
A force spokesperson said the Saudi Arabian nationals were visiting the UK on holiday.
Police are carrying out a joint investigation with the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB).
The airport, in Yateley, said the jet had crashed near the end of the runway while attempting to make a landing.


A few days ago it was just "Brussels gossip".

Yesterday she swore to be a "bloody difficult woman" - stern words.
But this morning, the chancellor and the Brexit secretary said the noises off out of Brussels and suggestions of an exit bill of 100bn euros were only "manoeuvring" and that the UK would not be pulled into "megaphone diplomacy".
By 15:30, the prime minister was standing at a lectern in Downing Street accusing some in Brussels of trying deliberately to interfere in the election, to make trouble for her politically at home, and of wanting the Brexit talks to fail.
She just used one of the most powerful microphones in the country for blunt diplomacy indeed.
It's worth pointing out she made careful aim at the EU institutions, rather than the individual leaders, with whom she'll have to deal one on one.
But forget that nuance for a moment - this was quite some statement, quite an accusation to make. It seems the prime minister is intent on playing the Brexit card for all it's worth in the next election.
It's no coincidence that the Tories want every UKIP voter to turn to them, no coincidence that many Labour seats were Out areas in the referendum, no small matter that in 71 Labour constituencies, the UKIP vote was bigger than the size of the eventual majority.
British prime ministers taking public aim at "Brussels bureaucrats" is hardly an original tactic from the playbook.
And do not, for one second, be surprised if come 9 June, IF Theresa May is back in power, her language starts to sound rather more conciliatory.
But words like this cannot be unsaid. What is perhaps more surprising is that Theresa May has gone full throttle at such an early stage in this election, and in a situation where the polls put her as the clear frontrunner.


London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced "dirty" diesel double-decker buses will be phased out from the capital's current bus fleet from 2018.

It comes as the mayor unveiled London's first double-decker hydrogen bus.
Mr Khan also said all new single-decker buses operating in central London would be electric or hydrogen.
City Hall believes "greener" buses will reduce air pollution in the capital, long exposure to which is estimated to cause 9,400 premature deaths a year.
The mayor wants all London buses to meet the Ultra-Low Emission Zone standard by the end of 2020.
At least 20 new hydrogen buses will take to London's streets as part of a Â£10m part-European Union (EU) funded project supporting hydrogen technology.
Transport for London (TfL) will also provide at least Â£5m in funding.
The new hydrogen double-decker buses will be trialled on London's roads next year while a further 300 "zero emission" buses will be on London's streets by 2020.
Eleven other major cities - including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Cape Town - also plan to phase out diesel buses by the end of 2020.
Paris, Madrid and Mexico City have committed to removing diesel buses from their cities by 2025.
Mr Khan, said: "I want London to become a world leader in hydrogen and electric bus technology.
"Transforming London's bus fleet by accelerating the introduction of zero-emission buses is important and I plan to work with bus manufacturers, other cities, the European Commission and the C40 Climate Change Leadership Group of Cities to move this agenda forward."


A Jamie Vardy lookalike said he was left "broke" amid claims his agent scammed him out of appearance fees.

Postman Lee Chapman found fame after he was pulled on to the team coach as Leicester City celebrated their Premier League title win in May 2016.
But he now claims lookalike appearance fees were not paid and blames agent Jamie Austin for the Vardys blocking him on social media
Mr Austin has not answered the BBC's requests for a response.
The morning after the Foxes victory parade, "Chappy" appeared on breakfast TV and pictures of him with goalscorer Vardy featured in national newspapers.
But by August, he was back delivering mail in Leicester.
Mr Chapman, who is not certain how much he lost, said: "I could've stayed at Royal Mail and got more money.
"I've had to work six days a week non-stop, overtime, you name it, to get back to where I wanted to be."
In emails seen by the BBC, Mr Austin claimed to be co-director and owner of Lookalikes, an agency run by David Beckham impersonator Andy Harmer.
In fact, Mr Austin had been hired to look after the firm's social media - but further emails appear to show he had edited invoices in order to have Mr Chapman's fees paid into a separate account, which he controlled.
Mr Chapman added: "It's the reputation I'm bothered about. I don't really give two monkeys about the money."
The Vardys also blocked Mr Chapman on Twitter, leaving him "heartbroken", and Mr Austin is understood to have sold the story to the Sun for Â£750.
Mr Chapman admitted he was naive to let Mr Austin have full access to his social media, but said: "When you're a postman and then, all of a sudden, you're dragged into the public eye, you just don't know do you? You don't know nothing."
Following the Sun article, Mr Chapman said he was regularly abused both on and offline.
One tweet read "That Jamie Vardy lookalike needs to die ASAP".
He said he was even threatened while on his delivery round by a man blaming him for Vardy mulling a move to Arsenal.
Mr Chapman's concerns grew when he revealed how little he had been paid to fellow Lookalikes employee and George Best impersonator, Mark O'Hare.
He said he feels "violated" by Mr Austin, who is also known as James Austin and Jay Austin.
Mr Austin was convicted in 2008 in his hometown of Weymouth, Dorset, for using his grandparents' identities to commit a fraud totalling tens of thousands of pounds to pay off gambling debts.
He was also jailed for two years in 2012 for a number of other offences, after he was arrested for passing fake notes at Royal Ascot.
Despite the problems, Mr Chapman said there is little he would change, especially sharing the celebrations with Vardy.
"That was more important to me personally than Leicester winning the league - not many people get to celebrate winning a title with their team," he said.
"That'll stay with me forever. That was one of the highlights of my life."
Mr Harmer said Mr Austin just looked after the social media for his Lookalikes brand and that he was never a co-owner.
He also told the BBC he had no idea of what was going on until Mr O'Hare and Mr Chapman alerted him.
Mr Chapman reported the allegations to Greater Manchester Police, which decided no further investigation will take place at this time, the BBC has been told.
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When you're caught up in a showbiz world, there's so much glitz and glamour it can sometimes mask the true motives of those people who claim to be helping you with your career.
You are propelled into a new world where you don't know the rules of engagement and you are particularly vulnerable to being exploited.
The very people who are around you have a vested interest in making you believe you have a great career ahead of you. That can be extremely attractive to someone who's been living a normal life.
It can be a particular problem in the lookalike industry - when someone looks like someone else, there's an expectation about them, a blurring of boundaries.
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Mystery shoppers will test taxis drivers for the remaining Rugby World Cup games in Cardiff following claims people have been refused fares.

Cardiff council has announced the initiative to ensure short-distance fares are being accepted, in the wake of three sex attacks in the city.
The city's taxi association has denied claims some drivers have turned people away for short-distance taxi trips.
Trading Standards Officers will pose as the mystery shoppers, the council said.
Residents, visitors and commuters have been advised to use the taxi ranks at Greyfriers Road and Lower St Mary Street on Thursday night.
Councillor Jacqueline Parry, licensing committee chairwoman, said: "I read with interest the recent media reports on taxi drivers and claims that people are being refused because the fare is too short.
"We take these matters very seriously. Taxi drivers should be ambassadors to our city and complaints will be investigated.
"If you are getting a taxi from a taxi rank, the light is on, and the fare starts and ends within Cardiff, the driver has to take you home and must use the meter. It is as simple as that."


India says it has arrested a rebel leader in connection with the killings of 20 of its soldiers in an ambush on a troop convoy in north-east India.

Khumlo Abi Anal of the separatist National Socialist Council of Nagaland has been held in what is the first arrest in the case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said.
The ambush occurred last month near the border with Myanmar in Manipur state.
Indian army attacked rebel camps inside Myanmar days after the attack.
Indian authorities said at the time that troops had destroyed two rebel camps in Myanmar and "returned safely", but Myanmar denied the reports.
The NIA said in a statement that  "investigation has revealed that the accused [Khumlo Abi Anal] was extensively involved in the conspiracy to attack the army personnel".
Last month's attack took place in the state's Chandel district, close to the border with Myanmar.
Police said rebels used rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles to target the soldiers.
There has been a fresh surge in attacks on Indian troops along the border with Myanmar after a number of rebel groups joined hands and formed a new coalition in India's restive north-east.
Manipur has been relatively peaceful in recent years and the attack took authorities by surprise.
Along with other north-east Indian states, Manipur is poorly developed and has long complained of neglect by the federal government, fuelling unrest, correspondents say.


Children as young as 10 are being sexually exploited in Stoke on Trent, according to a city council report.

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9 October 2014 Last updated at 07:55 BST
Figures suggest that in 2012, more than 200 young people across both Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent were  "at risk" of exploitation.
BBC Midlands Today's Liz Copper has this special report.


US markets were mixed on Wednesday, as gains in health care and technology stocks were offset by declines in the energy and financial sectors.

Nike shares also climbed 2% amid reports that the firm would start selling its wares on Amazon.
The Dow Jones fell 0.27% to 21,410.03 and the S&P 500 index dipped 0.06% to 2,435.61.
But the Nasdaq, where many health and tech stocks are listed, climbed 0.74% to 6,233.95.
Republicans are preparing to release proposals to overhaul the US health care system. Early reports suggest rules focused on the cost of prescription drugs may be in line with industry proposals.
Shares of drug company Merck climbed more than 1.4%, while Pfizer stock increased about 0.95%.
In the energy sector, investors are grappling with the effect of increases in supply, which has reduced oil prices.
ExxonMobil shares declined 1.06%, while Chevron fell about 1.9%.


A proposed new law to combat modern-day slavery needs to be strengthened, with more attention given to victims of trafficking, MPs and peers have said.

A special committee of parliamentarians said it backed the Slavery Bill's aims but urged major changes, including more protection for children, enhanced legal support and compensation for victims.
It also said criminal offences should be simplified to help get convictions.
Traffickers and slavemasters face possible life sentences under the plans
Home Secretary Theresa May announced plans to crack down on human trafficking and other forms of modern-day slavery last August.
The Modern Slavery Bill, which was published in November, aims to consolidate the offences used to prosecute those who enslave others into a single act.
Under the government's plans, those convicted of the most serious offences could get a maximum life sentence, up from 14 years at the moment, while a new post of anti-slavery commissioner will be created to hold law enforcement and other organisations to account.
A special committee set up to scrutinise the bill said it was right that the government had recognised the "heinous crime" of slavery. which it said could take a multitude of forms - including forced prostitution, forced labour, domestic servitude in the home, and forced criminal activity such as marijuana farming.
But it said sweeping changes were needed to the legislation to make it more effective, including simplifying the number of proposed criminal offences into six categories: slavery of children and adults, child exploitation, exploitation, child trafficking, trafficking and facilitating the commission of an offence of modern slavery.
The committee also calls for:
Labour MP Frank Field, who chairs the committee, said the legislation was "ground-breaking" and would influence the fight against modern slavery around the globe.
But he said parts of the bill needed to be totally rewritten, not simply amended.
"The shift to the focus on victims is not only the morally right thing to do in and of itself, it is essential if we are to get the prosecutions necessary to try to end this evil," he said.
"The world is watching: we have to get this right.
"In the 19th Century British politicians sought to abolish the international slave trade and end one of the most deplorable practices in history. Their hard-fought victory remains one of our Parliament's finest achievements.
"We must not betray that legacy - or the victims of slavery.
"We must make life as difficult as possible for today's slave masters and traffickers, and the position of the victims of slavery must be transformed."
Crossbencher peer Baroness Butler-Sloss said the bill as it stood "overlooked the position of victims both as victims in need of support, but also as essential to getting convictions".
"Unless and until the protection of victims, and the provision of support and services to them, are put on a statutory footing at the heart of this legislation, there is a risk that we will turn victims into criminals," she said.
"Apart from the fact that this would be morally wrong, it is also self-defeating."
Children's charity Unicef also urged the government to strengthen the proposals in its bill, by including measures to provide trafficked children with legal guardians.
"Even when trafficked children are identified they remain vulnerable and separated from their families. They face frightening interviews with various authorities and don't always receive the protection they need," the charity said.
Unicef UK's deputy executive director Anita Tiessen said legal guardians would ensure the victims were "protected by law and have a chance to rebuild their lives".
"Guardians must be independent, established in law and given legal powers so that children get the support they need to stay safe," she added.
The committee's report has been endorsed by Hollywood director Steve McQueen, whose film 12 Years A Slave won the best film at last month's Oscars and drew attention to the historical legacy of slavery.
"They have listened to the evidence and considered it with great care," he said.
"Their recommendations are humane and principled.
"More than that they have grasped the complexity of contemporary trafficking and forced labour in the United Kingdom and have set forth clearly the fundamentals of what is necessary to tackle it effectively."


International scepticism and condemnation have greeted North Korea's claim to have successfully carried out an underground hydrogen bomb test.

If confirmed, it would be Pyongyang's fourth nuclear test since 2006 and mark a major upgrade in its capabilities.
But nuclear experts have questioned whether the size of the blast was large enough to have been from an H-bomb.
South Korea called the test a "grave provocation" but said it was difficult to believe it was from such a device.
China, North Korea's main ally, said it "firmly opposes" the test, saying it was carried out "irrespective of the international community's opposition".
Suspicions first emerged when an earthquake was registered near the Punggye-ri nuclear site in North Korea at 10:00 Pyongyang time (01:30 GMT), with the tremors rattling Chinese border cities.
Hours later, in a surprise announcement, a newsreader on North Korean state TV said: "The republic's first hydrogen bomb test has been successfully performed at 10:00 am on January 6, 2016."
Hydrogen bombs use fusion to create a blast far more powerful than a more basic atomic bomb, which use fission.
Bruce Bennett, an analyst with the Rand Corporation, was among those casting doubts: "The bang they should have gotten would have been ten times greater than what they're claiming.
"So Kim Jong-un is either lying, saying they did a hydrogen test when they didn't, they just used a little bit more efficient fission weapon - or the hydrogen part of the test really didn't work very well or the fission part didn't work very well."
Despite North Korea's claims, experts are sceptical that North Korea can make a nuclear weapon small enough to fit on a missile.
Observers agree a nuclear explosion of some kind took place and it seems to have been a bit bigger than the last test in 2013, but not nearly big enough to be a full thermonuclear explosion - an "H-bomb" - as Pyongyang claims.
North Korea has a determination to defy both world opinion and heavy sanctions to reach its nuclear goal. Crucially, its main ally, China, has proved either unwilling or unable to help.


Michael Conlan's second professional contest will be staged in Chicago on 26 May with an opponent yet to be confirmed.

The 25-year-old super-bantamweight from Belfast will fight at the 9,500-capacity UIC Pavilion.
Conlan, a former world amateur champion and London Olympics bronze medallist, impressed on his professional debut in New York on St Patrick's Day.
He stopped American Tim Ibarra inside three rounds at Madison Square Garden.
More than 5,000 Irish fans were at the famous New York venue to cheer on the highly rated Conlan.
Conlan forced referee Benjy Esteves Jr to step in when a powerful right hand had his American opponent on the ropes.
He was joined on his walk to the ring by UFC champion Conor McGregor.


Petitions would need at least 50 signatures before being considered by the assembly, under new proposals.

Currently, petitions to the Welsh Assembly need 10 names or more before they can be considered.
One calling for Cardiff Airport to be renamed after Princess Diana gathered just 16 signatures.
Mike Hedges, petitions committee chairman, said raising the limit would require petitions to generate interest "beyond family and friends".
At the moment, petitions must pass a range of criteria before they are considered by the assembly petitions committee.
But they have to be deemed "admissible" - asking for action within the Welsh Government's control, among other reasons -  to make it that far.
Some quirky submissions which have previously been rejected include calls for T plates for tourist drivers, banning bicycles in public spaces and a Welsh pound.
Mr Hedges said the petitions committee agreed 50 signatures would be needed.
The idea emerged from a report in the last assembly term which said an increase "may help discourage a small number of petitions that could be better dealt with as constituency cases or which are nonsensical or submitted as a joke".
Mr Hedges told BBC Wales there had been "one or two frivolous" petitions.
"You would have to get something that could generate interest over and above your family and friends," he said.
The proposals have been sent for a final decision by senior AMs on the cross-party assembly business committee.
The recommendations being put forward also include automatically considering large petitions of at least 5,000 for debate in the Senedd.


A shopping centre in Malaysia has apologised for throwing away 600kg of Sarawak laksa, a spicy noodle soup, after breaking the country's record for popular street food.

Social media users slammed the decision to get rid of the food, equivalent to 1,500 regular sized bowls.
The Plaza Merdeka in Kuching cited safety reasons for the move.
But it said the wastage was an "unfortunate oversight and misjudgement".
It took 15 cooks and 18 hours to prepare the dish.
100kg laksa paste
225kg rice noodles
90kg prawns
1,008 eggs
90kg bean sprouts
80kg chicken
Cheah Kheng Mun, the shopping centre's general manager, told reporters they could not "simply give away" the laksa because they had been advised to maintain the soup gravy at a certain temperature.
He also revealed that the giant bowl of laksa had started to give off an odour.
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After being flooded with angry comments on its Facebook page, the shopping mall issued an apology.
"We are very grateful to the public for pointing out the issue of food wastage. We would not try to justify ourselves in this respect. We apologize for the oversight and misjudgement," it said.
The angry comments included Justin Lim, who wrote: "To the organiser who throws away a few hundred kilos of meat, prawns, veg and over a thousand eggs, please google "famine" first and then after that live in shame for the rest if your life."
Shar Izat Kasumajaya said: "All that the organisers thought of was acquiring the record. There are hundreds of thousands of people living under the poverty line. To throw away the equivalent of 1,500 bowls of food is just wrong. It's shameful. It's foul."
But some other users, such as Patricia Kim, hoped the apology would put an "end to the saga".
Celebrity chef Datuk Redzuawan Ismail, better known as Chef Wan, took part in the event.
Originally from the Sarawak state on the Borneo Island, the eponymous dish is a spicy rice noodle soup.
Official figures show that 15,000 tonnes of food is discarded in Malaysia every day, even though 3,000 tonnes of it is still good for consumption.


A refusal by Facebook to delete photographs of a murdered woman posing with her killer ex-boyfriend is causing her father to "feel sick".

Images of Hollie Gazzard with Asher Maslin, who stabbed her 14 times in February last year, are still viewable on Miss Gazzard's Facebook profile.
Nick Gazzard said the nine pictures were causing distress and attempts to have them removed had failed.
Facebook told the BBC it was unable to help in this circumstance.
According to the social media website, its policy is that when a profile is memorialised following someone's death, any changes are not able to be made.
Hollie Gazzard, 20, was brutally stabbed while working at Fringe Benefits and La Bella Beauty salon in Gloucester. She later died in hospital.
Five months after her murder, Maslin was sentenced to life in prison for carrying out the attack.
"It makes me feel sick when I look at those photos, and to be truthful I try not to go into her Facebook site as I get quite distressed by it" said Mr Gazzard.
Of the nine images, most are only viewable by those who were Facebook "friends" with Holly before her death.
The online profile was frozen after her death, with Mr Gazzard adding it was a "real shame" family and friends could not view it without seeing those nine pictures.
Gary Rycroft, chair of the digital assets working group of the Law Society, advised Mr Gazzard to write to Facebook withdrawing the copyright of the photographs, which were taken by Hollie, and asking for the specific pictures to be removed.
For the full story, watch Inside Out West on BBC One (West) at 19:30 GMT or via the iPlayer for a month afterwards.


Chelsea's N'Golo Kante is currently the "best central midfielder in the world", says Blues legend Frank Lampard.

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Kante, 25, scored as Antonio Conte's side beat Manchester United 1-0 on Monday to reach the FA Cup semi-finals.
Former England captain Alan Shearer, a BBC Sport pundit at Stamford Bridge, said: "I think you are looking at the Football Writers' player of the year and the players' player of the year."
Lampard described Kante as a "driving force" as Chelsea chase a Double.
The France international, who arrived in a £30m deal from champions Leicester last summer, has been a key figure as the Blues have moved 10 points clear at the top of the Premier League.
The energy he has is staggering. He has stood above everybody else this season
Kante's goal on Monday was just his second of the season - both of them against United.
Former Red Devils defender Phil Neville, who was working alongside Shearer and Lampard, described the Frenchman as the "most effective midfielder in Europe at the moment".
He added: "I don't see anyone with the influence he has on a team. He's a number six, an eight and a 10. He breaks up play and then sometimes he finishes it off too."
On naming Kante as his man of the match, BBC summariser and former Arsenal defender Martin Keown said: "Man of the match? It's men of the match. He was everywhere."
Kante's midfield battle against France team-mate Paul Pogba, who cost United a world-record £89m fee in August, was one of the key sub-plots from the quarter-final tie at Stamford Bridge.
Kante's all-round performance, capped by his match-winning goal, drew praise from most observers, while Pogba struggled to impress in a frustrating evening for his team.
"Kante was perpetual motion, starting attacks, breaking up moves and crowning another magnificent performance with the winning goal, emphatically drilled past De Gea. Pogba simply could not get into the game," Phil McNulty, BBC Sport's chief football writer, said in his match report.
"Chelsea's fans revelled in Pogba's struggles as they chanted 'what a waste of money' - no such charges will be levelled at Kante, who looks a £30m bargain."
Kante had 91 touches against United, only bettered by team-mates Cesar Azpilicueta and Eden Hazard, and made more tackles and clearances (four of each) than any other Chelsea player.
He also won more 50-50 duels with an opponent (78.6%) than any other outfield player.
Chelsea defender Gary Cahill: "N'Golo has been fantastic. His performance level is right up there.
"You saw what he did last season but he has kicked on again this season.
"He is a humble guy off the pitch and works hard. He is so important, especially to us at the back.
"He's been a tremendous addition to the squad."
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Keith Gray: Kante = 1/3 of the price of Pogba, but 3x the player on tonight's performance.
Joel Upward: Kante is MOTM tonight by a long way, he is the equivalent of three players and is all over the pitch, great viewing for a neutral.
James: £30m for Kante or £90m for Pogba? Know who I would want in my side.
Johnny Magrinho: Sad thing is if Kante didn't score tonight he wouldn't be getting so much attention. The best and only DM in the Prem right now.
Garrett: As much as you like Kante's performance, Iniesta is king of the midfield. Will take someone special to topple him.


What is thought to be the lower leg bone of a fossilised mammoth has been found on a beach in North Norfolk.

The bone, now being cleaned ahead of tests, could be between 500,000 and two million years old.
Archaeologists Dan Chamberlain and Russell Yeomans made the find near West Runton where a full mammoth skeleton was unearthed in 1990.
Fossils are often found as cliffs crumble between Sheringham and Happisburgh.
The cliffs are the raised bed of a fresh water river that existed long before the ice ages and contain the fossilised bones of many now extinct animals that roamed the area, the archaeologists said.
The bone will be dated and tested by experts at Norfolk's archaeological unit.


A Parliamentary worker has told how she was separated from her two-year-old son for hours as Westminster was in lock down during Wednesday's terror attack.

Plaid Cymru assistant Rhian Medi Roberts' son Owain was kept in the parliamentary nursery while she was ordered to stay in her office.
She said she rushed to him when workers were "freed" hours later but she knew he was safe.
MPs, peers and staff returned to work on Thursday.
"I rushed over to the nursery as soon as we were 'freed'. But I knew him to be safe, and would be happy with his friends and carers, who were fantastic," Ms Medi said.
"Also, I knew from the constant email updates from the nursery that they fed the children a lovely dinner, which they would enjoy."
She said the children were kept in a corridor during the incident because the nursery windows overlooked the scene of the attack.
Ms Medi said nursery workers kept them entertained with activities such as painting and she was confident they would not have been aware of what was happening.
"He had a normal, happy day. Although he would have probably heard the gunshots, the crash, I'm quite confident he hasn't been badly affected by it," she said.
"None of the children, as far as I know, have been."
Ms Medi, who works for Arfon MP Hywel Williams, said she was first made aware of what was happening when she heard shouting and commands being given.
She said she looked out of her window to see "five of six" police cars with their sirens on heading towards Westminster Bridge before she was told to remain in her office.
Eight arrests in London and Birmingham have been made since the attack which left four dead, including the attacker.


A new study suggests some phones perform better when held in one hand rather than the other.

9 September 2016 Last updated at 17:53 BST
Prof Gert Pedersen from Aalborg University said phones had their antennas located where people naturally place their hands, affecting communications.


Former Arsenal striker Marouane Chamakh has become Cardiff's City third free-transfer signing in the past 24 hours.

Chamakh, who was released by Crystal Palace at the end of last season, had previously attracted interest from Bluebirds boss Neil Warnock.
The Moroccan, 32, has signed a deal until January to reunite with Warnock, who managed him at Selhurst Park.
"I'm so happy to be here and work with the manager again," Chamakh said. "I'm happy and proud to work with him here."
Chamakh joins Sol Bamba and Junior Hoilett as Warnock bolsters a squad second bottom of the Championship.
The ex-Bordeaux striker thinks Cardiff can improve quickly under their new manager.
"Cardiff are a side that should be on top and I think we can improve going forward," he said.
"I'm looking forward to meeting with my new team-mates and getting started. I can't wait to score for my new team."
Warnock added: "We've signed Marouane on a short-term deal until January to assess his fitness.
"He's a versatile player with pedigree and somebody who impressed me during my time at Crystal Palace."
Chamakh, who has made 65 international appearances for Morocco, had a trial this summer with West Brom.
Bamba, 31, has signed until 2018 and joins ex-QPR winger Hoilett at the Bluebirds.


For years, ministers and policymakers have argued over the response to extremism because they have never been quite clear how to define it.

Now, after many years of behind-the-scenes wrangling, a Conservative home secretary is nailing her colours to this particular mast.
There are three prongs to her planned changes to how the government tackles extremism:
The first two are General Election manifesto pledges so their future is down to you and the ballot box.
The decision to bring extremism strategy into the Home Office is already policy - and it is about more than rearranging the machinery of government: It’s a symbol of the tensions inside Whitehall over whether every previous attempt to combat extremism has been a muddled flop.
Labour sent extremism to the Department of Communities because it was wedded to a holistic - perhaps utopian - effort to create cohesive communities.
Its return to the Home Office ultimately means extremism will first and foremost be a security issue. The idea that radical and extreme ideology forms part of a “conveyor belt” towards terrorism will be firmly and finally embedded in policy.
The banning orders are a new idea.
The government can already ban organisations linked to terrorism - meaning actual violence or its incitement. This power has been used to proscribe 74 organisations - everyone from the IRA to Muslims Against Crusades, the group that staged demonstrations against soldiers returning from Afghanistan.
These counter-extremism banning orders go further. They would allow ministers to outlaw a group if it:
If such banning orders came in, they could lead to a considerable curtailment of public or online comment and campaigning.
Far-right groups prone to marching near mosques while chanting “Muslim bombers off our streets” could be a thing of the past. Hardline Islamist groups that declare they want the “black flag of Islam” flying over Downing Street may disappear from view.
These banning orders would work hand-in-hand with proposals to restrict individuals under “extremism disruption orders”.
You can decide for yourself whether supporters of such groups would change their minds just because they can no longer say what they think in public.
The extremism disruption orders, or “Exdos”, would operate in the same way as an Asbo.
The authorities would have to prove to a judge in a civil court that somebody’s behaviour needs to be restricted for the greater good.
The court could impose conditions including banning someone from speaking in public, in social media or on the news. There could be restrictions on who they could associate with and bans on them taking a position of authority, such as becoming a school governor.
Just as with Asbos, the individual could face prosecution for breaching the Exdo.
Is any of this workable?
The experience of Asbos is that they can be very hard to obtain and to enforce because of the sheer effort required to gather enough evidence to satisfy the courts.
Judges are never reluctant to jail violent criminals who pose a danger to the public: these people have either pleaded guilty to a crime or been found guilty by a jury of their peers.
But courts have often struggled with Asbos because they don’t involve a criminal allegation.
Given the police and MI5 are pre-occupied with dealing with terrorist threats, who would gather and present the evidence? Given the bile that is regularly spouted on Twitter, how many of these people would be subject to the restrictions?
If some of the evidence were drawn from intelligence assessments, would MI5 and police counter-terrorism teams suddenly allow their secrets into the courts? That’s very unlikely - raising the possibility of secret hearings.
The closest comparable powers are police bail conditions imposed on someone who is under investigation.
Last week the controversial Islamist preacher and political activist Anjem Choudary, and his associates, were arrested as part of an investigation into their activities. Almost all of the men were later bailed - but police have banned them from talking to each other or proselytising on the streets.
It’s not stopped the men speaking to the media or online - within hours of his release, Mr Choudary met me on a London street to denounce Parliament's decision to join military action in Iraq.
Which brings us to the most controversial question about this package: Does it undermine the very values the government is setting out to defend?
The former Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC says that he is concerned that extremism powers could result in people being prosecuted for having a point of view. He warns that could fuel resentment and the Home Secretary would have to convince MPs why extremists could not be prosecuted under existing hate crime laws.
The proposed restrictions on speaking in public are far, far wider than the 1980s broadcasting ban on Sinn Fein.  They would almost certainly come under immediate legal attack on the basis that English law protects free speech, as does, to some extent, the European Convention of Human Rights.
The move also runs contrary to a policy position that’s less than a year old. Last December, the government’s Extremism Taskforce, chaired by the PM, said:  "While protecting society from extremism, we will also continue to protect the right to freedom of expression."
Critics will say that the government's position has now been ditched - and the home secretary is arguing that the only way to protect our democracy is to prevent free speech.


UN human rights experts have called on the United Arab Emirates to release the prominent activist Ahmed Mansoor.

Mr Mansoor, 47, was taken away in the early hours of 20 March by security agents, who broke into his home.
His whereabouts are unknown, but state media reported that he was being held on charges of spreading sectarianism and hatred on social media.
The UN experts said they regarded his detention as a "direct attack" on the work of human rights defenders.
"Mr Mansoor's outstanding work in the protection of human rights and the advancement of democracy, as well as his transparent collaboration with UN mechanisms, is of great value not only for the UAE but for the whole region," they emphasised.
The experts urged the authorities to reveal Mr Mansoor's whereabouts, warning that the fact he was being held at an unknown location "puts him at serious risk of ill-treatment and torture".
Last Tuesday, the official WAM news agency quoted the public prosecutor as saying Mr Mansoor was being detained "pending further investigation".
He was accused of using social media "to publish false and misleading information that harm national unity and social harmony and damage the country's reputation".
An electrical engineer and poet, Mr Mansoor has campaigned for freedom of expression, civil and political rights in the UAE since 2006. He has faced repeated intimidation and harassment as a result, according to fellow activists.
In 2011, Mr Mansoor was convicted of "insulting officials" and sentenced to three years in prison, although he was released after eight months.
Two years ago, he was given the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders by 10 of the world's leading human rights organisations.


A lost pony has been handed in to a police station near Reading after it was found wandering alone near a busy motorway.

Officers at Wokingham Police Station said the horse was found near the A33, close to junction 11 of the M4.
In a tweet, police said the horse was "the strangest thing ever booked into Found Property."
It is currently being cared for by staff at the station while they wait for its owner to collect it.


Feta cheese makers and many politicians in Greece feel sour about an EU free trade deal with Canada which they believe threatens the uniqueness of the protected brand.

The status of distinctive European foods is one of the toughest issues in such deals - and the Canada agreement could serve as a model for an even bigger EU trade deal with the US.
Feta is among 145 iconic food and drink names covered by an EU Protected Geographical Indication. The special status prevents other manufacturers in the EU copying the original, traditional product and marketing it like the original.
The list includes many other cheeses such as Italy's Parmesan and Gorgonzola, various hams such as Bayonne (France) and Parma (Italy), and some beers such as Bayerisches (Germany) and Ceske (Czech Republic).
The EU-Canada deal, clinched in October after more than four years of hard bargaining, still has to be ratified by the parliaments of all 28 member states, each government and Canada's 10 provinces. So the deal is unlikely to take effect until 2015 at the earliest.
And trouble is maturing in the Greek parliament.
Feta is a national symbol in the country worst hit by the eurozone crisis, where national pride has taken a battering. A court ruling in 2005 gave Greece a monopoly on the name in the EU.
The white salted cheese, made from sheep's milk or a sheep-and-goat milk blend, matures in brine and its flavour ranges from mild to sharp. Production of genuine feta is restricted to certain parts of Greece - Crete, for example, cannot call its cheese "feta".
The feta industry accounts for more than 70% of Greek cheese exports and - unlike much of the struggling Greek economy - it is expanding. Some 300,000 Greek livestock farmers earn a living from feta.
The leftist Syriza bloc, the main opposition group, rejects the EU-Canada deal.
"A Syriza-led government will veto the agreement," says Thanassis Petrakos, a Syriza MP.
Many analysts expect that Greece will hold snap elections in 2014, and recent polls suggest it will be a close race between Syriza and the ruling conservatives, like the last polls in 2012.
A bipartisan initiative by deputies opposed to the deal has been signed by a third of the 300-member parliament.
Michalis Arvanitis is a feta producer running an export-oriented dairy near Thessaloniki, in northern Greece.
Canada is an important market - and the new deal means not only the removal of import tariffs but also additional safeguards for Greek feta.
But Mr Arvanitis says his genuine feta should not have to compete with Canadian imitators.
"The EU should have fully protected its heritage instead of flouting its own rules to secure a lucrative trade deal," he argues.
"Geographical indications are not a whim - they guarantee quality and preserve traditional recipes and flavours."
Eleftherios Gitsas, deputy chairman of the Greek Association of Livestock Farming, calls it "an onerous deal, a black day for Greece". "It will set a dangerous precedent," he warns.
Canada argues that "feta" is a generic name and under the trade deal Canadian producers can still market their cheese as "feta". In Canada locally made feta dominates the market.
But new Canadian brands of "feta" will have to call their cheese "feta-style" or "imitation feta" and cannot evoke Greece on the label, such as using Greek lettering or an image of ancient Greek columns.
Shepherd Gourmet Dairy is a major Canadian feta producer based in Ontario. Company president Stewart Cardiff says relabeling is not even his top concern.
"The Canadian dairy sector is not among the beneficiaries, because of the opening up of the dairy market to European imports," he says, referring to the provision that European producers will be able to more than double their tariff-free cheese exports to Canada.
For Parma ham, the agreement solves a long-standing dispute. It lifts a 21-year ban, so now genuine Parma ham will be sold under its original name - Prosciutto di Parma - in Canada. But it will have to co-exist with "Parma ham" marketed by Maple Leaf, which registered the trademark in Canada.
As for Parmesan cheese, Italy will have sole rights to the name Parmigiano Reggiano in Canada, though imitation Parmesan can still be labelled "Parmesan" in English and French.
The European Commission sees the trade deal as a big win for Europe's Protected Geographical Indications (GIs), which account for 15% of the EU's total food and drink exports.
"For the first time, trademarks and GIs will be able to co-exist," says Commission agriculture spokesperson Roger Waite.
"The deal is a significant improvement on the status quo - not what we wanted originally, but a good compromise."
His optimism is echoed by Leana Pignedoli, a senator for Italy's centre-left Democratic Party, who has long fought for the protection of "Made in Italy" products.
"We are talking about dozens of excellent European products entering the Canadian market, some for the very first time," she says. "European products can win the challenge of competition on their own. They do not need a victory by decree."


Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta has won dozens of awards during his ballet career, including the Olivier for outstanding achievement in dance for his performances at Sadler's Wells in 2007.

But his latest accolade is a first: The 39-year-old has been named on the Waterstones 11, an annual list of the most promising debut novels.
His novel, Pig's Foot, is set in Cuba and charts the island's history from the 19th Century to the present, through the war of independence, dictatorship and revolution.
It is actually his second book - following his autobiography, No Way Home, in 2007.
There, he told of his upbringing as one of four children in a cramped Havana apartment (although he had seven other siblings), before his father sent him to ballet school aged nine, mainly out of fear he was becoming a delinquent.
He went on to win the Gold Medal at the Prix de Lausanne in 1990, and danced with the English National Ballet, the American Ballet and the Royal Ballet.
As his novel was added to the Waterstones shortlist. Acosta discussed his conversion from ballerino to biro.
Hello, Carlos. Congratulations on the nomination.
Thank you, I'm very surprised myself!
You've won many prizes before - but for dancing. How does it feel to be recognised for your writing?
I was very surprised, because I began writing it with very low expectations. I didn't think anybody was going to care.
I didn't think I had it in me to actually create a whole world that made sense, with all these separate characters. So I was very surprised when Bloomsbury read it and decided to take it on.
What do you make of the reaction?
Like I say, I'm a dancer. I'm not going to pretend to be a writer. I mean, I can maybe tell a story for you to have fun, and slide through this story and these characters and this world I've created. But I'm never going to be Gabriel Garcia Marquez or people who do something to push the boundaries of literature. They did it from when they were young. They write to live.
Your first book was an autobiography, and your ballet Tocororo was loosely based on your story. How difficult was it to make the transition into writing fiction?
I didn't expect anything by it. I just wanted to write something by the name of Pig's Foot, which is Pata de Puerco in Spanish. I liked that title and I began asking myself what it could be. And then I imagined that it could be a hamlet or a little village in the remote regions of Cuba, really disconnected from everybody. And maybe place the beginning in the 1800s when the Cuban and the Spanish War, The 50 Years War, was happening.
So I began writing and writing and after three years I had a sort of story that made sense, a bit. And a few people here and there started to work with me and to pull the text into shape. That's how I did it.
The book was originally written in Spanish. What was the process of translating it like?
It's been a great, great pleasant experience. Frank Wynne is a wonderful translator.
Wynne has won awards for the English translations of Atomised by Michel Houellebecq and Holiday in a Coma by Frederic Beigbeder.  Did you let him just get on with it, or did you supervise the translation?
I read [the translation] and I'm still reading it and making some adjustments and things. Frank is just brilliant but there are a few things in terms of Cuban slang and things like that, that we need to type up. It's only normal.
I'm very pleased to read it in English to see the voice and it really reads great. He's done an magnificent job.
It's interesting that you came up with the title first. Often it's the last thing an author writes.
I didn't even know how you write a book. Sometimes people have an outline, a backbone where you have these characters and you'll connect events here - so you know what's going to happen. I didn't have any of that. I just had the title.
I didn't know how you did it. I just did it.
This is my first book. Maybe if I ever decide to ever write another, I will have learnt something.
So you have no plans for a sequel?
No, no, no. I have a one-year-old daughter. No time to sleep, no time to write. But in the future, maybe. Who knows? We'll see.


Pregnant women in Scotland should be allocated a primary midwife, providing care before, during and after the birth of their child, a review has found.

The proposal is one of 76 recommendations from an expert group looking at maternity services.
Caesarean sections should only be offered for clinical reasons, the review suggests.
Between three and five neonatal intensive care units across Scotland would care for seriously ill babies.
These would be supported by other special care units, the report said.
The review, announced in 2015 and chaired by NHS Forth Valley chief executive Jane Grant, has been examining best practice and current services.
The expert group's recommendations include:
Health Secretary Shona Robison said the proposals would improve a system that was already providing an "exceptional  maternal and neonatal service".
She said she hoped the recommendation on continuity of midwifery care would be adopted quickly.
"This move will help build relationship-based care between women and midwives, and will improve outcomes for women," she said.
"Changes to birth rate, demographics and best practice, as well as advances to clinical care, means the services we provide to women and babies must be adapted and updated.
"The clinical evidence shows us that, for the most critically-ill babies, delivering highly-specialist care in up to five enhanced neonatal intensive care units in Scotland will ensure better outcomes for them and their families."
Mary Ross-Davie, director for Scotland at the Royal College of Midwives, welcomed the report, describing it as a "defining moment" for maternity services.
She said: "The plan has the potential to revolutionise maternity care, to deliver safer and better services for women, babies and their families, and to improve the health of our population.
"What is so important is that this puts women and their families at the centre of care. The focus on continuity of care and carer - that is the woman seeing the same midwife or small group of midwives - is very welcome.
"There is very strong evidence that better continuity of care leads to better outcomes for the mother and baby."
Maternity services came under the spotlight last week when it emerged women in labour could not be admitted to a Glasgow  hospital due to overcrowding.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde apologised after five women arrived at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and had to be diverted to other hospitals or had their planned procedures delayed.
The health board blamed a higher than normal number of admissions.
In November a BBC investigation revealed that Scotland's maternity hospitals recorded more than 25,000 adverse incidents since 2011.
The most serious cases included the deaths of 26 newborns and 79 stillbirths. Three mothers also died.


The University of Papua New Guinea has obtained an injunction to stop protests after a number of people were hurt when a demonstration turned violent.

Police opened fire as students were trying to march from their campus in the capital, Port Moresby, towards parliament.
Police say 23 people were hurt.
The students want Prime Minister Peter O'Neill to stand down to answer corruption allegations, which he denies.
Mr O'Neill is also facing a possible no-confidence motion in parliament.
On Thursday, protest leader Noel Anjo told Reuters news agency that the students' demonstrations would continue despite the ban.
"We're not going to give up," he said. "The students are not going to give up until and unless the prime minister resigns or surrenders himself to police and is arrested and charged. This fight will continue."
The court order also bans students from boycotting classes, which they have been doing for the past five weeks.
A statement by Mr O'Neill's office said an investigation was under way to determine to what extent the protests were "promoted by individuals outside the student body".
"The inquiry will also seek to uncover the source of external funding that has underwritten student protest in recent weeks," the statement said.
In 2014 a warrant was issued for Mr O'Neill's arrest, in an investigation into whether he authorised millions of dollars in illegal government payments to a large legal firm.
He has consistently evaded the warrant with court orders, and disbanded the anti-corruption watchdog.
Thousands of UNPG students have been boycotting classes for five weeks, demanding he resign. Classes were officially suspended last month.
In May, Mr O'Neill responded to a petition from students saying that he would not be resigning.
He said the corruption allegations against him were of "questionable political intent", as reported by ABC.
Papua New Guinea was ranked one of the most corrupt countries in the world in 2012 by Transparency International.
According to the World Bank, 70% of the country, the most linguistically diverse in the world, lives in poverty.
The country's higher education minister, Malakai Tabar, welcomed the injunction, Australia's ABC News reported.
"The overwhelming majority of students simply want to go to class, sit their exams and proceed to the next semester," he said, while blaming the violence on "thuggery".
Police commissioner Gari Baki said 23 students were injured, four seriously, local news site EMTV reported. He said an investigation would determine if they were shot.
A handful of police officers were also injured, he added.
Footage obtained by the BBC appeared to show a large crowd of students at the campus running away as shots and tear gas were fired.
Images circulating on social media also showed injured students being carried away.
Opposition MPs had told parliament on Wednesday that four people were killed, but the government and hospitals have denied there were any deaths.


Outspoken theatre and film director Kirill Serebrennikov has been charged with large-scale fraud by Russia's investigative committee.

He pleaded not guilty in court to embezzling 68m roubles (Â£880,000; $1.1m) of state funding awarded for a theatre project, officials said.
Serebrennikov is a vocal critic of censorship in the arts in Russia.
His ballet on the life and work of Rudolf Nureyev was pulled this year amid controversial circumstances.
The Bolshoi theatre argued the production was not ready for public performance but it was widely believed that the ballet was considered too risquÃ©  for contemporary, conservative Russia, reports the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow.
There may also have been concerns about staging a production linked to a figure known to be under investigation and facing criminal charges.
The director was charged after appearing in court on Tuesday. "He didn't admit guilt during questioning," said Svetlana Petrenko, a spokeswoman for the investigative committee (SK), seen as similar to the American FBI.
Kirill Serebrennikov is director of the state-funded Gogol Centre and he was taken in for questioning after his flat was raided in May. The Gogol Centre was also searched, and two other theatre directors and an accountant were arrested.
The case has shaken Russia's arts world, where people fear it is a move meant to silence Serebrennikov. This has been denied by President Vladimir Putin.
At the centre of the case is funding awarded from 2011 to 2014 for a theatre project known as Platform, which aimed to make contemporary dance, music and theatre popular.
A former accountant who worked with Serebrennikov, Nina Masliayeva, has given evidence against him as part of a pre-trial deal with prosecutors. Two other theatre directors, Alexei Malobrodsky and Yuri Itin of Seventh Studio, have denied involvement.
If found guilty of embezzlement, Serebrennikov could face up to a decade in jail, Russian media report.
He has described the situation he faces as "absurd and schizophrenic". In a Facebook post in June, he appealed to supporters to prove that the funding had been spent on productions.
"It is particularly important to remember the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which we performed at Platform more than 15 times... It was nominated for all sorts of theatrical awards... Now the SK investigators tell us that it does not exist and it never did."


Actor Ralph Waite, best known for playing John Walton Sr - Papa Walton - in the long-running TV show The Waltons, has died at the age of 85.

"Ralph was a good honest actor and a good honest man," said Michael Learned, who played his on-screen wife Olivia.
"He was my spiritual husband. We loved each other for over 40 years. He died a working actor at the top of his game.
"He was a loving mentor to many and a role model to an entire generation."
An ordained Presbyterian minister, social worker and former Marine, Waite turned to acting in the early 1960s, starring on Broadway opposite Faye Dunaway in Hogan's Goat.
Small screen roles followed, working alongside the likes of Paul Newman and Jack Nicholson in films such as Cool Hand Luke and Five Easy Pieces.
But it was with The Waltons, which began in 1972, that Waite found global fame.
The actor, already in his mid-40s played Depression-era homesteader John Walton - the father of seven, living in rural Virginia, who worked hard to look after his family while imparting wisdom and authority to his homespun brood.
"I am devastated to announce the loss of my precious 'papa' Walton," said Mary McDonough, who played daughter Erin Walton. "I loved him so much; I know he was so special to all of us. He was like a real father to me. Goodnight Daddy. I love you."
The show was an unexpected hit. Running for nine seasons, it prompted a series of movie spin-offs and found viewers around the world.
"Somehow, we struck a vein in the life of the world," Waite, who directed 16 episodes of the series, said in an interview last year with local paper The Lancaster News.
He once recalled a woman who told the actor she was inspired to go to college by the paternal figure of John Walton, Sr.
"She said, 'Now, I'm a lawyer and I don't think I would be if I hadn't seen that show,'" Waite said. "I'm still amazed by that. It happens all the time. The whole thing is still amazing."
The actor received an Emmy nomination for his role in The Waltons, and another for his performance in the 1977 mini-series Roots, playing Slater, the first mate of a slave ship.
In 1975 he founded the Los Angeles Actors Theatre, donating $50,000 to get the company off the ground.
Simultaneously he ran for Congress in California three times as a Democrat - albeit unsuccessfully - and, mindful of his own struggles with alcohol, became involved in an alcohol and drug recovery programme.
He remained a working actor until late last year, starring in '90s big screen hits such as Cliffhanger and The Bodyguard.
Last year Waite starred in the crime series NCIS, playing the father to Mark Harmon's protagonist. He also made recent appearances in Bones and US soap Days of Our Lives, as Father Matt.
He was married three times, and is survived by two daughters from his first marriage.


The winners of the annual RAF Photographer of the Year competition have been announced. There were more than 800 entries submitted by RAF personnel, including both professional RAF photographers and amateurs.
Members of the public can vote for their favourite picture on the competition's website.


A man has been shot in the leg at a nightclub in Birmingham.

The shooting happened at the Second City Suite in Sherlock Street, in the city centre, on Saturday evening.
The victim, aged 30, is in a stable condition in hospital, the West Midlands force said.
Two men, aged 18 and 22, have been arrested on suspicion of assault and two others, aged 26 and 31, remain in custody on suspicion of firearms offences.
Det Supt Tom Chisholm said: "This is a fast-paced inquiry, we have spoken to a number of witnesses and there is CCTV coverage in the area.
"I would urge anyone who has not yet spoken to us and has information which would assist to come forward as soon as possible."
Officers have cordoned off the area around Sherlock Street and Hurst Street and are examining the CCTV footage.


There's only one bar in Cerezales del Condado, a village of just 30 people in northern Spain and it sells "almost exclusively" Mexican beer.

But its beer is not the only thing that Cerezales owes to influences from the other side of the Atlantic.
Fresh drinking water, the restoration of its church, a chapel and the cemetery, as well as the redevelopment of a public square and a street lined with 92 cypress trees are just some of the things paid for by a fortune made in Mexico
Antonino Fernandez was born in Cerezales in 1917. He left Spain after the civil war in the 1930s and became the general manager of the largest brewer in Mexico, Grupo Modelo (now owned by the Belgian firm Anheuser-Busch InBev) where he worked from 1971 until 1997.
He eventually became the company's honorary chairman and died, aged 98, on 31 August this year. It had been 70 years since he left Spain for Mexico.
Mr Fernandez is credited with boosting one of its best known brands, Corona beer.
"He came from a family of farmers and was also a local policeman in Leon. He then married Cinia, a niece of Pablo Diez one of the founders of Grupo Modelo, who was also from Leon," says Pilar Infiesta, editor of the Diario de Leon newspaper.
"He went to work in Mexico - he was 'a hard worker'."
As elsewhere in Spain, the benefactor of Cerezales is referred to as "an Indian". It's a term used for those who emigrated to Latin America and came back - albeit temporarily - after having made their fortune.
Sometimes, these so-called Indians are seen as almost mythical figures who embody the dream of those who left - and who even today still do leave to "do the Americas".
In other words, to try to make their fortune.
The mansions these people built, with large gardens dotted with palm trees, hark back to their experiences in Latin America. They can be seen in several Spanish towns, mostly in the north of the country.
Some of these wealthy emigrants became patrons and carried out philanthropic work in their home towns. Mr Fernandez was one of them.
In Cerezales there's a street named after him.  There's also a modern art centre that's hosted exhibitions by artists such as Richard Serra and Eduardo Chillida.
It's been redeveloped from the shell of the former school which fell into disuse as the population dwindled. Currently there are only two children in the village.
"At some of our events we attract [from outside] six, seven or eight times the amount of people who live here," said Alfredo Puente, the Foundation's curator.
"Our activity is closely linked to a view that Fernandez always held about having been forced to leave school sooner than he wished. At that time children left school at 13".
Those who knew Mr Fernandez claim his public image does not fit the stereotype of a pretentious person, often associated with those who have made their fortune abroad, the so-called 'Indians'.
"He was an austere person. He was not the typical millionaire who showed off with yachts, houses or ranches. He was a very discreet and simple person," Pilar Infiesta says.
"The things he held close were Leon and Mexico because he always had 'a Mexican heart' and was so thankful to that country for his vast fortune.
"He also spoke about God a lot as well as Isabella I, Queen of Castile. He wanted to get her made a saint. He spent a lot of money on making the case for her to be elevated to sainthood. But nothing has happened yet," she adds.
However, the influence of Antonino Fernandez - who died without any children - not only affects Cerezales. There's a modern day dilemma.
After his death this summer, in Mexico City - 9,000 km away from Leon - the local press wrote about the fortune left by the businessman and how the distribution of his wealth could be beneficial to Mexico.
"The lawyers are on the case in Madrid. But they've been very discreet. Some of the relatives, who tend not to speak publicly, said that his fortune will be more than $200m or more," says Pilar Infiesta.
"The whole process could take six or seven months. Antonino had 13 brothers and sisters, so imagine all the nephews who are descended from them.
"A few years ago he gave them all some money. Now, as the lawyers go through his last will and testament, they're finding that he's not forgotten any of them.
"The amounts they will inherit vary but everyone will get something," she adds.
Despite the media hype, in Cerezales the exact terms of the inheritance is not something people know that much about.
"The issue of inheritance is a family matter. They are the only ones who know anything about it. We have no idea," says Maximino Sanchez, president of the neighbourhood council.
"What's been important for us is how he's never forgotten this place.
"There are several nephews who have a house here and when they are on holiday they come back. But for most of the year there's no family of Don Antonino here in town," he adds.
Mr Sanchez also runs the village's one bar - La  Cantina - whose name is a tribute to the Hispanic-Mexican businessman, he says. And, he adds, the investments Antonino Fernandez made in his hometown were "his best legacy".


Tour guides at Shakespeare's Globe in London are to take industrial action after talks to resolve a pay dispute broke down.

The Bectu union said industrial action was "the only option left open" and that strike dates would be publicised to avoid inconveniencing visitors.
According to The Stage, 38 tour guides at the venue are Bectu members.
A Globe spokeswoman told the paper the venue had "made all reasonable efforts to avert industrial action".
According to The Stage, tour guides had been seeking a pay increase that would have raised their hourly rate from £11.24 to £13.50 an hour.
The two parties met at Acas - the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service - earlier this month but were unable to reach agreement.
"We had hoped that management would take seriously the opportunity we offered to them to avoid conflict," said Bectu's Pat Styles.
"Unfortunately, management representatives failed to grasp this opportunity, preferring instead to first offer our members what was effectively an insulting cut in pay and then refusing to accept various solutions we offered to them."
"The Globe maintains that a benchmarking exercise is the only viable means of establishing an appropriate rate of pay for guides that is consistent with our organisational policy to pay at industry median levels," the popular tourist attraction's spokeswoman told The Stage.
"We are still open to further consultation... and will in any case be undertaking a salary benchmarking exercise for all Globe staff, including the guides, over the summer as originally planned."
The Globe's representative is quoted as saying that audio guides will be made available on days when there is a strike.
The news follows an announcement on Tuesday that workers at the Royal Opera House in London are to vote on whether to take strike action over pay.


A train ticket between two towns just 64 miles apart has been offered for £10,000 by a rail operator's website.

The direct Taunton-to-Trowbridge trip was apparently advertised at the price by Great Western Railway (GWR), from 22 May through to 14 July.
It means the journey costs £156-per-mile and passengers cannot travel via Bristol.
A GWR spokesman blamed an IT problem for the expensive fare and has since corrected the error.
"We are aware of an IT glitch which has published fares for a first class journey that does not exist," the firm said.
"Anytime single fares between Taunton and Trowbridge are available from £12.70."
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The ticket has also been available for 20 June on the website for Trainline, which stressed train fares were set by the rail industry not them.
"On quick investigation, the anomaly fare also appears on GWR's own retailing channels so it would appear that this is a fare setting anomaly, rather than a Trainline tech issue," a spokesman said.
Consumer expert Martin Lewis told BBC Radio 5's Adrian Chiles these sort of mistakes happen all the time and it is probably a database error.
"If something doesn't look right stay clear," he said.
"In an automated world mistakes happen."


It was the first Democratic debate in more than a month, and it comes on the eve of a New York primary that could either cement Hillary Clinton's lead or give the Bernie Sanders campaign a new, fighting chance at the nomination.

In other words, there was a lot on the line when the two candidates took the stage in Brooklyn on Thursday night.
Here are four things we learned after a contentious two hours of head-to-head political brawling.
From the opening moments of the debate, the two candidates were at each other's throats. Mr Sanders backed away from earlier statements questioning Mrs Clinton's qualifications to be president, but he derided what he said was her lack of judgement.
"I question a judgement which voted for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country, voted for virtually every disastrous trade agreement which cost us millions of decent-paying jobs," Mr Sanders said. "And I question her judgment about running super-PACs which are collecting tens of millions of dollars from special interests, including $15m from Wall Street."
Mrs Clinton responded by pointing to Mr Sanders' poorly received interview with the New York Daily News last week.
"Talk about judgment and talk about the kinds of problems he had answering questions about even his core issue, breaking up the banks," she said. "I think you need to have the judgment on day one to be both president and commander-in-chief."
The sharper tone - which stands in stark contrast to earlier, more genteel debates - shouldn't come as much of a surprise, of course. Both candidates, and their supporters, have been ramping up their rhetoric for weeks now.
And while the language stayed above-board during Thursday's debate, it was hardly a picnic. "If you're both screaming at each other," debate moderator Wolf Blitzer said during one heated exchange, "the viewers won't be able to hear either of you."
The overarching theme of the debate, once again, was the difference between Mr Sanders' progressive idealism and Mrs Clinton's political pragmatism.
"It's easy to diagnose the problem; it's harder to do something about it," Mrs Clinton said at one point. She dismissed a piece of environmental legislation that Mr Sanders "introduced that you haven't been able to get passed".
On topic after topic, from the environment to health care to financial reform, Mrs Clinton cautioned that big ideas were fruitless without realistic chances of implementation.
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Mr Sanders, for his part, continued to paint in broad strokes: "History has outpaced Secretary Clinton," he said of her support for a $12/hour national hourly minimum wage when many in the party are rallying behind $15.
When asked about global warming, he said: "We've got to get beyond paper right now. We have got to lead the world in transforming our energy system."
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Gun control is the one issue where Mrs Clinton can batter Mr Sanders from the left, and she did so once again on Thursday. She pointed out that she and her opponent have "a serious difference", and when the Vermont senator let out a chuckle, she pounced.
"It's not a laughing matter," she said. "Ninety people on average a day are killed or commit suicide or die in accidents from guns; 33,000 people a year. I take it really seriously, because I have spent more time than I care to remember being with people who have lost their loved ones."
Mrs Clinton went on to criticise Mr Sanders for voting against a key gun-control law in the 1990s and supporting legislation that would shield firearm manufacturers from lawsuits by victims of gun violence.
"We hear a lot from Senator Sanders about the greed and recklessness of Wall Street, and I agree we've got to hold Wall Street accountable," Mrs Clinton said. "Well, what about the greed and recklessness of gun manufacturers and dealers in America?"
Mr Sanders responded by noting that he receives a negative rating from the National Rifle Association - and making a pitch as someone who could break through the acrimony in the gun debate.
"Because I come from a state which has virtually no gun control, I believe that I am the best qualified candidate to bring back together that consensus that is desperately needed in this country," he said.
That's probably not enough to satisfy a Democratic Party that wants action, not conciliation, after every high-profile episode of gun violence in the US.
Mrs Clinton's 2003 vote to authorise the Iraq War may haunt her for the rest of her political career. It cost her dearly in her nomination race against Barack Obama in 2008, and Mr Sanders has brought it up again and again in 2016.
On Thursday night he linked it to her support for US military action in Libya in 2011 and said it was part of a hawkish pattern.
"The New York Times told us it was Secretary Clinton who led the effect for that regime change," he said of Libya. "And this is the same type of mentality that supported the war in Iraq."
Mrs Clinton explained that the US did the best it could in Libya, but the nation would not allow western ground troops to secure the peace after Muammar Gaddafi was killed.
"The Libyan people deserve a chance at democracy and self-government," she continued. "And I, as president, will keep trying to give that to them."
She added that the current chaos in Syria is a result of the US not taking firm action early to remove Bashar al-Assad from power before the civil war spun out of control.
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The two also clashed on Israeli-Palestinian relations, with Mr Sanders saying that Israel's response to attacks launched from Gaza was "disproportionate".
"I believe the United States and the rest of the world have got to work together to help the Palestinian people," he said.
Mrs Clinton countered: "I don't know how you run a country when you are under constant threat, terrorist attacks, rockets coming at you. You have a right to defend yourself."


US Secretary of State John Kerry has expressed concern to Moscow over reports of Russian military build-up in Syria, the state department says.

US media reports said Russia has sent advisers and hardware to Syria, in what Washington fears is an expansion of its support for President Bashar al-Assad.
Any such development would "escalate the conflict", Mr Kerry told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
Russia has been a key ally of Syria throughout its four-year civil war.
The New York Times cited US officials as saying Russia had despatched an advance military team to Syria, as well as housing units and an air traffic control centre to an airfield.
The officials quoted admitted they were unsure of Moscow's intentions, but said the deployments could enable Russia to use the airbase to facilitate supply of military gear or to launch air strikes against Mr Assad's enemies.
Mr Kerry made his concerns over the reports known to the Russian Foreign Minister in a phone call.
"If such reports were accurate, these actions could further escalate the conflict, lead to greater loss of innocent life, increase refugee flows and risk confrontation with the anti-Isil coalition operating in Syria," the state department said, using an alternative acronym for Islamic State (IS).
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday it was "premature" to talk about Moscow getting involved in direct fighting.
Russia and the US disagree sharply on Syria. While Russia has backed the Syrian government, and provided it with arms, the US wants to see the removal of President Assad.
In the latest fighting on the ground, at least 47 people died in fierce clashes between IS militants and other rebels in the northern town of Marea.
At least six members of Syria's security forces were shot dead in the south-western city of Sweida, after a prominent cleric in the minority Druze community died in a car bomb blast.


A cat was believed to have been thrown in front of a moving car and killed in Hull, prompting an RSPCA investigation.

A witness reported a male in a blue hoodie throwing a cat on Holderness Road at about 03:00 BST on Saturday.
The animal charity appealed for any further witnesses and warned pet owners in the area to be vigilant.
A spokesperson said: "This must have been very distressing for both the owner and for anyone that witnessed the incident."


A woman who lost her university ID in New York City has been found - thanks to a tweet from actor Tom Hanks, who found it in Central Park.

Lauren Whitmore, a senior at Fordham University, has been identified as the woman in the ID photo by a CBS station.
Ms Whitmore was jogging in Manhattan's Central Park on Monday when she lost the card.
She said if Mr Hanks, star of Castaway and Forrest Gump, wants to return it she will "surely meet him to do that".
Mr Hanks knows what it is like to be reunited with lost items by the kindness of strangers.
He tweeted in March that someone had found his credit card on the street and returned it.


The coach of Olympic breaststroke champion Ruta Meilutyte says he would not be surprised if her Russian rival Yulia Efimova competes at Rio 2016.

Efimova is barred after the IOC said Russian athletes with previous doping bans could not compete.
"It seems to me extremely clear, she won't be there," said Jon Rudd.
"But if our international federation is allowed to become involved and manoeuvre around that ruling, then it wouldn't surprise me if she is there."
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided not to bar the entire Russian team from the 2016 Olympics, despite evidence of a state-sponsored doping programme in a report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Association (Wada).
Rudd, who is also the coach of British 50m record holder Ben Proud, says he is unsure whether Fina, swimming's governing body, is strong enough to implement bans on athletes from influential nations.
Efimova was suspended for a second time earlier this year after testing positive for meldonium, but the case against the four-time World Championship gold medallist was dropped earlier this month.
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"I really want to believe in Fina," Rudd told BBC Sport.
"I'm a swimming coach at international level working with international athletes, I want to feel that my and our world governing body has got our backs - that when somebody is doing something that they shouldn't do, that our federation says 'we're not having that'.
"That hasn't been the case, so I'll be extremely happy if Fina redefine themselves now, here's an opportunity for them.
"The IOC, in their weak decision (not to ban the entire Russian team from Rio 2016) have handed an opportunity to Fina for them to regain some credibility.
"Whether that happens or not, watch this space, but at this moment in time I'm not holding my breath."
Rudd says that the IOC missed out on a chance to clean up sport for future generations by not banning the entire Russian team from Rio.
He added: "In 50-100 years' time, people would be saying 'do you remember back in 2016, when sport was rotten, and the IOC made a stand and they made that decision and Russia didn't go, and by 2020 when we all went to Tokyo, sport was a completely different thing and the world cleaned up its act?'
"It needed that stand to do that, to make everybody sit up and say: 'wow these guys mean business'.
"It may not be the only opportunity, as I don't know that this issue is finished, you've got some very powerful people now speaking about their opinions and beliefs on this IOC decision.
"There's undoubtedly going to be controversy at the Olympics, then post-Olympics there could be another opportunity where I think the IOC will reflect and say 'maybe we weren't strong enough'.
"It's an opportunity lost and I seriously hope it's not the only one."
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Scotland has voted against independence from the United Kingdom in an historic referendum.

Almost 85% of the electorate turned out to vote, an unprecedented proportion in recent decades.
The overall result was reached by simply adding together all ballots but data from the 32 Scottish council areas reveal differences in voting patterns.
The overall result was slightly wider than predicted with 55% No to 45% Yes but the split varied across areas.
The closest result was Inverclyde with 50.1 No to 49.9% Yes.
The most emphatic No vote was Orkney where 67.2% voted against independence, followed by Scottish Borders and Dumfries & Galloway.
Dundee was the most pro-Yes with 57.4%, followed by West Dunbartonshire and Glasgow, which has an electorate of half a million people.
John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said the result was not as close as opinion polls had been predicting.
"That is not uncommon in these referendums where people are being asked to make a big change. They often draw back at the last minute," he said.
An extraordinarily large turnout of 84.6% is the highest seen in recent decades. The last UK general election to come close was in 1951 with 83.9%.
To beat it means looking back to 1910 when women did not have the vote and many men were also disenfranchised.
Glasgow had the lowest turnout at 75%, followed by Dundee on 78.8%.
The highest was East Dunbartonshire at 91% with East Renfrewshire and Stirling also nudging over 90%.
The European election in May 2014 gives some indication of party political support across Scotland although the turnout was much lower than that for the referendum.
In May, the SNP had the largest vote share overall with Labour second.
In the referendum, three of the four areas to vote Yes had backed Labour in the European election.
Dundee was the exception, backing the SNP in May and voting Yes in the referendum.
Professor of politics at Edinburgh University, Charlie Jeffrey, said party loyalties did not seem to have mattered in the referendum vote.
He said: "We have seen results in Labour strongholds like Glasgow and North Lanarkshire where there has been a 'Yes' vote, and in SNP strongholds like Angus and Perthshire there has been a 'No' vote.
"What we have found is a very strong correlation between the Yes vote and a higher level of unemployment.
"But also a slightly less strong relationship between the more British you feel, the less likely you are to vote 'Yes'.
"These seem to be more significant influences than political party in the outcome."
The latest annual unemployment figures show North Ayrshire the worst affected with a rate of 13.5% of the adult population. This area returned a narrow No vote of 51%.
Neighbouring East Ayrshire has the second-highest unemployment rate with 11.4% and Dundee - which voted Yes - is third with 11.3%.
At the other end of the scale, Shetland, which voted strongly No, has the lowest unemployment with 3.2%, followed by Aberdeenshire on 3.3%.
Some 109,533 youngsters aged 16 to 17 registered to vote after being given the chance to do so for the first time.
A snap poll by Lord Ashcroft asking voters how they had cast their ballots found this age group had voted overwhelmingly for independence, with 71% for Yes.
However among the wider 16-24-year-old age group the Yes vote was 51%, according to the poll.
Glasgow is the area with the biggest total population in Scotland and also has a high number of  teen voters. Figures from the 2011 Census show the city had more than 18,000 people aged 13-15.
Depending on when their birthday falls, these youngsters will now be aged 16-19.
At the other end of the demographic spectrum is Scotland's rising older population. The proportion of people aged 65-plus now stands at 16.8%, slightly more than the proportion of under 16-year-olds.
Unsurprisingly, the issue of pensions consistently registered as one of the key issues in the independence debate.
Those areas with a relatively older population are the places where "No" did well.
The Lord Ashcroft overnight poll of 2,047 voters found that 73% over 65s chose No.


Libyan Islamist commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj has resigned his military post in a bid to enter politics.

Mr Belhadj, a key brigade leader in the 2011 toppling of Col Gaddafi, plans to run in elections next month.
He is a former member of an Islamist insurgent group which sought to overthrow Gaddafi in the 1990s.
Mr Belhadj is currently taking legal action against the UK  authorities, alleging they were complicit in his 2004 rendition to Libya.
He claims he was interrogated by agents from countries including Britain and United States while detained in Libya.
Mr Belhaj said he had handed in his resignation on Monday night, telling AFP news agency that it was "now time to turn to politics".
He said he quit as head of Tripoli's Military Council in order to compete in the elections next month as leader of The Nation party, which will be launched next week.
The polls see Libyans elect a 200-member Constitutional Assembly, which will draft a constitution setting out a political framework for the country after more than four decades of rule under Muammar Gaddafi.
Mr Belhadj told the BBC his message to other rebels and militiamen is to rebuild a new Libya, and that they need to join the state's security or civil institutions to do so.
Many rebels who fought to oust Gaddafi have been drawn into official security entities, but many more remain aligned to strong regional brigades, presenting a security challenge for the ruling National Transitional Council.
The BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says Libyans have mixed views on Mr Belhaj's decision.
Some are wary of ex-military personalities joining politics altogether, she says, but others hope Mr Belhadj's move will encourage other rebel strongmen to abandon their guns and join Libya's political process to rebuild the country.
Meanwhile, Libyan political analyst Sami Khashkhousha told the BBC he believed Mr Belhadj's chances in politics were remote, saying liberal parties are likely to be more successful.
"The influence of Islamists on the future politics of Libya has been blown out of proportion by the media," he said.
Mr Belhadj was imprisoned in Libya following a secret rendition he claims the CIA carried out from Bangkok in 2004.
Earlier this year Mr Belhadj alleged that British ex-foreign minister Jack Straw and the UK government's various spy agencies were complicit in his rendition to Libya, where he says he and his wife were tortured.
Mr Belhadj told the BBC he is not asking for money, he only wants a formal apology.
Gaddafi was killed in October 2011 after a Nato-backed uprising forced him from power.