People have called her Braveheart, Fearless and India's Daughter, among other things, and sent up a billion prayers for a speedy recovery.

When the unidentified woman died in a Singapore hospital early on Saturday, the victim of a savage rape on a moving bus in the capital, Delhi, it was time again, many said, to ask: why does India treat its women so badly?
Female foetuses are aborted and baby girls killed after birth, leading to an appallingly skewed sex ratio. Many of those who survive face discrimination, prejudice, violence and neglect all their lives, as single or married women.
TrustLaw, a news service run by Thomson Reuters, has ranked India as the worst G20 country in which to be a woman. This in the country where the leader of the ruling party, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, at least three chief ministers, and a number of sports and business icons are women. It is also a country where a generation of newly empowered young women are going out to work in larger numbers than ever before.
But crimes against women are rising too.
With more than 24,000 reported cases in 2011, rape registered a 9.2% rise over the previous year. More than half (54.7%) of the victims were aged between 18 and 30. Most disturbingly, according to police records, the offenders were known to their victims in more than 94% of the cases. Neighbours accounted for a third of the offenders, while parents and other relatives were also involved. Delhi accounted for over 17% of the total number of rape cases in the country.
And it is not rape alone. Police records from 2011 show kidnappings and abductions of women were up 19.4%, women being killed in disputes over dowry payments by 2.7%, torture by 5.4%, molestation by 5.8% and trafficking by an alarming 122% over the previous year.
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has estimated that more than 100m women are "missing" worldwide - women who would have been around had they received similar healthcare, medicine and nutrition as men.
New research by economists Siwan Anderson and Debraj Ray estimates that in India, more than 2m women are missing in a given year.
The economists found that roughly 12% of the missing women disappear at birth, 25% die in childhood, 18% at the reproductive ages, and 45% at older ages.
They found that women died more from "injuries" in a given year than while giving birth - injuries, they say, "appear to be indicator of violence against women".
Deaths from fire-related incidents, they say, is a major cause - each year more than 100,000 women are killed by fires in India. The researchers say many cases could be linked to demands over a dowry leading to women being set on fire. Research also found a large number of women died of heart diseases.
These findings point to life-long neglect of women in India. It also proves that a strong preference for sons over daughters  - leading to sex selective abortions - is just part of the story.
Clearly, many Indian women face threats to life at every stage - violence, inadequate healthcare, inequality, neglect, bad diet, lack of attention to personal health and well-being.
Analysts say deep-rooted changes in social attitudes are needed to make India's women more accepted and secure. There is deeply entrenched patriarchy and widespread misogyny in vast swathes of the country, especially in the north. And the state has been found wanting in its protection of women.
Angry citizens believe that politicians, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, are being disingenuous when they promise to toughen laws and speed up the prosecution of rapists and perpetrators of crime against women.
How else, they ask, can political parties in the last five years have fielded candidates for state elections that included 27 candidates who declared they had been charged with rape?
How, they say, can politicians be believed when there are six elected state legislators who have charges of rape against them?
But the renewed protests in Delhi after the woman's death hold out some hope. Has her death come as an inflexion point in India's history, which will force the government to enact tougher laws and people to begin seriously thinking about the neglect of women?
It's early days yet, but one hopes these are the first stirrings of change.


Bristol Flyers secured the last spot in the BBL Play-offs with victory against Leeds Force in the final game of their debut top-flight season.

Flyers went into the closing weekend in the final post-season place, although Manchester Giants could have gone above them with two wins from three games.
But Giants lost to Newcastle Eagles, Sheffield Sharks and London Lions, Flyers beat fellow rookies Force.
"It means everything," said Flyers guard Greg Streete.
"We don't want to be waiting on other teams' results, we want to know we are in the top eight because we put ourselves there.
"It sends a clear message to the rest of the league that we are a legitimate club and we are here to win."
With several injury concerns and having already clinched the title, BBL Championship winners Eagles rested key players and fell to Cheshire Phoenix and Leicester Riders.
Glasgow Rocks were the other big winners of the final weekend, prevailing in the three-way battle for fifth position by overcoming Surrey United, Force and Plymouth Raiders.
Rocks meet Phoenix in the Play-offs, after the Cheshire club marked the final league game at Northgate Arena with victory against Sharks.
Worcester Wolves beat Durham Wildcats on Sunday and welcome London in the Play-offs after the capital club finished sixth following a weekend win against Giants - while Wildcats forfeited their final away game having been involved in a road traffic accident.
Raiders edged United on Friday as they finished in 10th position.
The BBL Play-off final on 10 May will be shown live on the BBC Sport website and BBC Red Button.
Sheffield Hatters and Nottingham Wildcats will renew their rivalry in Sunday's first-ever WBBL Play-off Final, after coming through their respective semi-finals against Barking Abbey Crusaders and Leicester Riders.
Hatters have already beaten Wildcats into second place in the WBBL Championship and WBBL Trophy.


Northern Ireland goalscorer Gareth McAuley says Thursday's 2-0 Euro 2016 win over Ukraine - their first at a European Championship - was "massive".

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Winger Niall McGinn also netted as Northern Ireland recovered from their opening defeat by Poland to remain in contention for a place in the last 16.
"People had written us off, nobody gave us a chance," said defender McAuley. "It's a very special moment.
"We weren't at it against Poland and we wanted to put it right."
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The 36-year-old West Brom player became the second-oldest goalscorer at a European Championship by putting Northern Ireland ahead with a 49th-minute header, before substitute McGinn added the second in injury time.
It was Northern Ireland's first victory at a major tournament finals in 34 years - since beating hosts Spain at the 1982 World Cup - and the result means Michael O'Neill's side can still progress as a best third-placed team at least.
They face Germany in their final Group C game and, with Ukraine having been eliminated, Northern Ireland will qualify for the knockout stages with a win in Paris on Tuesday.
"We let ourselves down against Poland in terms of the intensity we wanted to play at so we had a point to prove to ourselves," said McAuley.
"It was a wonderful team performance and we are delighted for everyone, especially the supporters.
"We have something to play for in our last game against Germany, which is what we wanted. We can take a lot of confidence into that game."
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O'Neill made five changes for his side's second group game, including leaving striker Kyle Lafferty on the bench, and the Northern Ireland boss acknowledge it was a gamble.
"There was some risk attached to changing the team but it was a fantastic performance from the entire side," said the 46-year-old.
"I couldn't have asked any more. The players gave every last ounce of passion and energy and the supporters were magnificent - everything that is good about Northern Ireland was in that stadium.
"We have given ourselves a great chance of finishing third and we will try to nick a point, maybe more, against the Germans.
"I'll let the players enjoy this and then our minds will switch to Germany. We won't underestimate them."


The controversial M4 relief road could cost Newport docks £30 million in investment, the port's boss claims.

Matthew Kennerley, director of  Associated British Ports (ABP) in south Wales is "concerned" about the route.
The Welsh government plans to address M4 traffic problems with a new 14 mile road from Magor to Castleton, including a bridge over the docks.
Mr Kennerley believes if the bridge is not high enough it will cost Wales' busiest commercial port "huge sums".
Currently the port handles 1.85 million tonnes of goods a year, said to be worth £186m annually to the Welsh economy.
But Mr Kennerley thinks a bridge could potentially prevent about 60% of ships from entering the north docks, making a kilometre of quayside redundant.
He also believes a bridge would stop larger cranes from moving around the docks, with companies then tempted to use Bristol docks instead.
First Minister Carwyn Jones addressed concerns in the assembly recently and said officials have met ABP officials a number of times.
He said the height of the bridge will be examined to allow the docks to carry on working as normal.
"The M4 project will vastly improve motorway capacity and resilience across the south of Wales, benefitting not only the port of Newport but also the ABP operations in Swansea, Port Talbot, Barry and Cardiff," Mr Jones added.
The road could be built by 2022 and the latest projections indicate it will cost less than the £1bn initial estimates.
It will cross five sites of special scientific interest and Friends of the Earth Cymru failed in a  legal challenge to force Welsh ministers to reconsider the route.


Pope Francis has condemned the killing of 16 people, including four Catholic nuns, at an old people's home in Yemen.

He called Friday's gun attack in Aden an "act of senseless and diabolical violence".
Reports said the attackers pretended they were visiting their mothers to gain access to the home.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, though Yemeni officials have blamed so-called Islamic State.
In a statement, the Vatican said two of the nuns killed were Rwandan, one was Indian and one was from Kenya.
They were working as nurses at the home and had been serving breakfast to its 80 residents when the attack occurred.
All the victims were shot in the head and had been handcuffed, the Associated Press reported, citing the brother of a victim.
The nuns were from the Missionaries of Charity congregation, which runs the home and was founded in Calcutta by Mother Teresa.
Pope Francis "prays that this pointless slaughter will awaken consciences, lead to a change of heart, and inspire all parties to lay down their arms and take up the path of dialogue", Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin said.
"He sends the assurance of his prayers for the dead and his spiritual closeness to their families and to all affected from this act of senseless and diabolical violence."
Missionaries of Charity spokeswoman Sunita Kumar said members were "absolutely stunned" by the killings.
The nun in charge managed to hide and escaped unharmed.
Yemen is engulfed in a brutal civil war between Iran-backed Zaidi Shia Houthi rebels in the north and the Saudi-Arabia backed government in the south.
Islamic State and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) have both taken advantage of the war to gain ground in the country.
More than 6,000 people have been killed and 2.4 million people displaced in Yemen's war, the UN says.
Forces loyal to the government and southern militias regained control of Aden in July, aided by Saudi-led coalition air strikes and troops.


A 12-year-old boy has been left in a critical condition after being hit by a car in Greater Manchester.

The boy was crossing Bolton Road, Radcliffe, shortly before 23:00 GMT on Friday when he was hit by a blue Toyota Aygo
He was taken to hospital and he is undergoing surgery for "potentially life threatening" injuries.
No arrests have been made and police are appealing for anyone with information to contact them.
Sgt Mark Thomas said: "Although the collision happened quite late at night, Bolton Road is a very busy main road so it is possible there may have been other vehicles around at that time or other pedestrians who witnessed the incident."


The Miami Heat failed to qualify for the NBA play-offs despite victory in the final match of the regular season.

Miami beat the Washington Wizards 110-102 but needed the Chicago Bulls or the Indiana Pacers to lose their final game to qualify from the Eastern Conference.
But Chicago defeated the Brooklyn Nets and Indiana beat the Atlanta Hawks with both opponents resting players.
The top eight sides in the Eastern and Western conferences qualified for the play-offs, which start on Saturday.
Eastern Conference (brackets denote regular season final standings):
Western Conference:


The head of India's governing BJP party, Amit Shah, has reportedly rebuked four BJP politicians for making controversial statements about beef.

One of them had remarked that those eating beef should be executed, even though it is not illegal.
In recent weeks three Muslim men have been killed by Hindus accusing them of eating or smuggling beef.
Most Hindus believe cows are sacred but many do eat beef, as do Muslims and Christians.
Another of those believed to have been scolded by Mr Shah had dismissed the lynching of a Muslim man accused of eating beef as an "accident".
Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched in the town of Dadri in the province of Uttar Pradesh last month.
In the past week two other Muslims have been killed in Hindu nationalist violence over the issue.
Angered at this and other Hindu nationalist trends, in recent weeks more than 20 Indian writers have relinquished their literary awards.
They allege India's secular nature is under threat from the Hindu nationalist BJP government, the BBC's Charles Haviland reports.
But Prime Minister Narendra Modi says his administration is not to blame for the deaths and has accused the opposition of indulging in what he calls "the politics of polarisation".


A Hull gallery is searching for vintage hand-made suits worn by Hull's trawlermen from the 1950s to the mid-1970s.

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They are wanted for an exhibition at the Artlink Gallery to celebrate the extravagant fashions worn by the men.
The trawlermen were known as the "three-day millionaires" because after three weeks at sea they had just three days ashore to spend their wages.
Textiles expert Claire Day has been researching the look for a new exhibition about a fashion specific to Hull.
Some trawlermen bought traditional suits, but others would ask for extravagant details and colours - including half-moon pockets, Spanish waistbands, bright fabrics and coloured linings, made at tailors like Waistells on Hessle Road.
The exhibition wants to track down an original - in particular, a powder blue suit.


State schools in England will have to find £3bn in savings by 2019-20, says the public spending watchdog.

Schools face 8% budget cuts and about 60% of secondary schools already have deficits, warns a funding analysis from the National Audit Office (NAO).
The Department for Education is about to launch a new funding formula, which will see 10,000 schools gaining money and similar numbers losing.
To ease the transition, those losing will have annual cuts limited to 1.5%.
Education Secretary Justine Greening will reveal later on Wednesday how the different funding rules will be applied - with suggestions that it could mean reduced budgets for schools in inner London.
It is likely to mean bigger budgets for areas which have been less well-funded - with areas such as Barnsley and Plymouth highlighted as currently getting less than Hackney or Coventry.
"These historic proposals will mean schools are funded according to the needs of their pupils, not their postcode," says Ms Greening.
The government's new national funding formula is designed to stop inequalities which see schools in different parts of the country, with similar intakes, receive different levels of per-pupil budget.
It will mean reallocations of funding rather than extra investment overall.
The NAO report highlights shortages in the current budget.
It says that schools are not prepared for the "scale and pace" of the cuts facing them.
Five head teachers' and teachers' unions have issued a joint statement saying schools face the "biggest real-terms cuts in a generation".
Malcolm Trobe, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: "We are deeply concerned that the life chances of young people are being put at risk by the government's under-funding of education."
Ann Lyons, head teacher at St John Fisher Catholic Primary School in north west London, said that the school is already struggling to maintain services and is cutting activities.
"We've been relatively well protected but we are now at the stage we're at breaking point and the only way some schools are going to manage this significant cut in real terms is through staff cuts - and that's going to add to workload," she said.
Sean Maher, head teacher of Richard Challoner School in Kingston, said he feared that the hard work of school staff was concealing the extent of the financial difficulties.
"So teachers strive harder, support staff plug gaps and leaders try to sleep at night whilst trying to solve a problem that is not of their making."
The NAO report says funding is not keeping pace with increased pupil numbers and rising costs of national insurance and pension contributions - and the budget gap will have reached £3bn by the end of the decade.
The overall budget is protected against inflation, but the NAO report says that rising numbers of pupils will mean schools will face cuts in real-terms per-pupil income.
The report says that about 60% of secondary schools are in deficit, and forecasts shortfalls averaging £326,000 by 2020.
There is also a warning that the Education Funding Agency, part of the Department for Education, is not intervening rapidly enough when there are financial concerns about schools.
School leaders have warned of deepening financial problems - with head teachers in West Sussex threatening that this could mean cutting school hours.
Almost every state school head in the local authority had written to the Prime Minister Theresa May in the autumn warning of the "dire financial position".
"Schools are struggling to function adequately on a day-to-day basis, and, in addition, we are severely hampered in our ability to recruit and retain staff, work with reasonable teacher-pupil ratios and to buy basic equipment," said the letter from more than 250 heads.
A joint statement from heads' and teachers' unions - ASCL, NAHT, NUT, ATL and Voice - says that schools "urgently need additional investment".
"We are already seeing job losses, increased class sizes and cuts to courses in our schools and colleges," it says.
A Department for Education spokesman said that currently "schools have more funding than ever before for children's education, totalling over £40bn".
He added that the national fair funding formula would "give head teachers certainty over their future budgets, helping them make long-term plans and secure further efficiencies".
Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said: "This is the reality: the Tories are cutting school budgets.
"All we have seen from this government is six years of turmoil in our schools and nothing to show for it."
Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh said the government had "completely the wrong priorities".
"It is a disgrace that while schools face a severe funding crisis, £240m is being spent on expanding grammars," he said.


Gwent Police has said it has been told to prepare for cuts of 25-40% ahead of the UK government's spending review.

Police and crime commissioner (PCC) Ian Johnston said the Home Office cuts may affect the ability of his force to deal with a Paris-style attack.
Gwent Police said it will be expected to save Â£65m by 2021, and was likely to lose 300 officers by 2018.
Senior figures at the North Wales and Dyfed-Powys forces gave warnings about cuts in September.
In an email to staff, North Wales Chief Constable Mark Polin said cuts of 25-40% had been suggested to his force.
Dyfed-Powys PCC Christopher Salmon raised concerns about a change in the funding formula which he claimed would favour urban forces over those serving largely rural areas.
Earlier in November, South Wales PCC Alun Michael invited public comments on his policing plan for the region, warning that "further deep cuts" in Home Office funding seemed "inevitable".


A building has partially collapsed and another is on fire in New York City after an apparent explosion.

Emergency services are on the scene and say at least one person is critically injured.
Live footage showed flames and smoke pouring out of a five-floor building, and the fire brigade spraying the building.
The area in Manhattan's East Village - close to New York University - is being evacuated.
Emergency services started received calls reporting the fire around 15:15 local time (19:15 GMT).
Several callers reported hearing an explosion, and more than 100 fire fighters have been sent to the scene, the New York Times reported.
As many as six people have been injured, including one who is said to be in critical condition, local news station WABC reported.
Fire brigades began spraying the flames, but had to retreat after the flames became too intense, the local station reported.
The station said that there are fears that the other building could collapse as well, and it's not clear if anyone has been trapped in the building or rubble.
A year ago a gas explosion razed two buildings leaving eight people dead in nearby East Harlem.


Ukrainian forces have launched a full-scale military operation against pro-Russia separatists in the east, hours after a ceasefire ended.

Rebel bases and strongholds are under attack from aircraft and artillery.
The 10-day ceasefire ended on Monday evening, with President Petro Poroshenko saying "criminal elements" had thwarted the chance for peace.
Russia condemned Ukraine's operation, with President Vladimir Putin vowing to continue to protect ethnic Russians.
Ukraine's parliamentary Speaker Oleksander Turchynov told MPs on Tuesday:  "I can inform you that in the morning the active phase of the anti-terrorist operation was renewed.
"Our armed forces are carrying out strikes on terrorist bases and checkpoints."
President Poroshenko went on television on Monday night saying: "We will attack, we will free our land."
The president had come under pressure from protesters in Kiev, who urged a renewal of the operation against the separatists.
Russia's foreign ministry condemned the Ukrainian operation, calling for a "real, not fake, ceasefire".
Mr Putin on Tuesday vowed he would continue to defend ethnic Russians abroad, using all means available from humanitarian aid to "self-defence".
"Under threat in Ukraine are our compatriots, Russian people, people who feel themselves part of the wider Russian world," he said.
Mr Putin accused Mr Poroshenko of issuing only ultimatums and said the West was using the Ukraine crisis to destabilise the whole region as part of a policy to "contain" Russia.
Both sides in Ukraine had accused each other of violating the truce, during which frequent clashes were reported.
One separatist leader in the east vowed to continue fighting until all Ukrainian troops had left.
The "prime minister" of the self-declared Luhansk People's Republic, Vasiliy Nikitin, told the Interfax news agency: "All calls for our fighters to lay down arms can only be discussed after Ukrainian troops withdraw."
A four-way teleconference on Monday between Mr Poroshenko, Mr Putin, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had raised hopes the truce would be renewed.
But Mr Poroshenko said in his address: "The decision not to continue the ceasefire is our answer to terrorists, militants and marauders."
Ukraine and some Western powers accuse Russia of arming the separatists - a claim Russia denies.
The trigger for the current crisis was whether Ukraine should lean more towards Russia or the EU.
The refusal of Mr Poroshenko's predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych, to sign an EU deal late last year - under pressure from Russia - led to protests in Kiev and his eventual overthrow.
Russia has since annexed Ukraine's Crimea region, and separatists in the east declared independence from Ukraine.
President Poroshenko signed a landmark EU trade pact last Friday.


Bolton Wanderers chairman Ken Anderson says he is to meet with businesspeople from the Far East who are interested in investing in the club.

The Trotters are currently top of League One, having been relegated from the Championship last season.
"We've had two or three serious people, all from overseas - China and Malaysia in general - that have talked to us," Anderson told BBC Radio Manchester.
"We've said that we are happy to meet them when they're next in the UK."
Anderson's Inner Circle group and former striker Dean Holdsworth's Sports Shield consortium completed a £7.5m takeover in March, after the club had amassed debts of over £170m.
"Our aspirations are hopefully to get up this season, and then if we can get up we know that to compete with the Derbys, the Aston Villas, the Newcastles, and even when you look at what Forest and Bristol City are selling players for, we're going to need more money if we really ever think we're going to get back into the Premier League," added Anderson.
A host of English clubs have been taken over or heavily invested in by business people from Asia in recent years, but Anderson says if he does allow foreign investors to come in, he will not give up his stake in Bolton.
"I have no intention to sell my shares, the club's not for sale," he added.
"If people want to come in we'll issue new shares, I'm not looking for them to invest money that goes into my pocket, it's to go into the club."
Bolton are still under a transfer embargo that was placed upon the club in December last year for failing to comply with Financial Fair Play obligations.
It means the club are unable to pay any fees for players and the Football League keep a close eye on Bolton's dealings.
"We've now got over one of the hurdles on the embargo, which is that we are no longer in breach of the salary cap," said Anderson.
"We've brought 12 players in over the window and to have managed to do that and still be complying with the salary cap embargo, we've done very well.
"I would have liked to have had it gone by now, but there's been factors that we didn't know about when we came in that we're still working with.
"But over the last two months we've got a working relationship with the EFL and we've managed to bring the players in despite having an embargo."


Two people have appeared in court after drugs with an estimated street value of about £40,000 were seized on the A90 near Stonehaven.

Police Scotland said crack cocaine said to be worth £20,000 and cannabis of a similar value were found.
Andrew Curphey, 36, of Liverpool, faced drugs and driving charges at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, and a teenager who cannot be named faced drugs charges.
Both made no plea and were released on bail.
The recovery was made on Wednesday afternoon.


News of the world's second-largest economy, China, cutting interest rates on Friday resulted in mixed trade in the region on Monday.

The People's Bank of China cut its one-year benchmark interest rate to 4.35% after markets had closed on Friday.
It also cut the ratio of Chinese currency it expects its banks to hold.
In reaction to the move, the Shanghai Composite closed up 0.5% at 3,429.58, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index ended down 0.2% to 23,116.25 points.
The government is hoping that looser monetary policy will shore up economic activity to help it achieve its 7% growth target for this year.
Last week, China said its economy grew at an annual pace of 6.9% in the third quarter of the year, the weakest rate since the global financial crisis.
"The market was slightly buoyed by [China's] central bank's rate cut," said Zhang Qi, an analyst at Haitong Securities in Shanghai.
"Medium and small companies and securities companies were relatively dynamic," he said.
"But the market appeared to be in correction after it rose a lot in October, and some investors sold stocks on the short-lived rise from the rate cuts."
Shares of China Reinsurance - the country's biggest reinsurer - rose as much as 3% in its trading debut in Hong Kong. The firm's $2bn initial share sale was one of the largest in the city so far this year.
Australia's benchmark index, the S&P/ASX 200, finished the day down just 0.07% at 5,348.00, while South Korea's benchmark Kospi index closed up 0.38% at 2,048.08.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stayed in positive territory throughout the day and closed up 0.65% at 18,947.12.
Longer term
Last week, news that the European Central Bank (ECB) was considering more economic stimulus pushed shares in Asia higher.
And despite mixed trade on Monday, analysts said China's interest rate cut was likely to put further pressure on the US Federal Reserve to hold off raising rates at its meeting this week - which should boost investor sentiment globally.
"China's central bank has trumped the ECB with an actual physical move to policy - cutting the one-year lending and deposit rate by 25 basis points (bps) and slashing the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) by 50 bps," said Evan Lucas from IG Markets.
"It also added further cuts to lending rates and the RRR for certain institutions [the co-ops]," he said.
The estimated cash released from these policy changes in China is likely to be between 600bn yuan and 700bn yuan in liquidity ($93.75bn-$109.3bn; Â£61.2bn-Â£71.3bn).
"Considering [China's core inflation] reads and the industrial production reads over the past quarter, this should be no surprise," Mr Lucas said. "In fact, the surprise is that it's taken this long for the [People's Bank of China] to pull the trigger.
"What might be missed by the headline reads is that the PBoC has abolished the deposit rate ceiling - this is a big step forward in liberalising the interest rate market and shows China is very much committed to its goals of liberating the financial system," he said.


Former Sunderland manager David Moyes behaved "entirely inappropriately" when he told BBC reporter Vicki Sparks that she might "get a slap", an independent panel ruled.

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In a ruling released by the Football Assocation, a commission chaired by barrister Craig Moore accepted Moyes' comments were "attempted humour".
However, it said his actions were "wholly unacceptable".
He was fined £30,000 by the FA in June. The ruling has now been published.
Moyes' comments came following the Black Cats' home draw against Burnley in the Premier League in March.
The Scot was asked by Sparks if the presence of Sunderland's owner Ellis Short had put extra pressure on him.
Moyes responded to Sparks' question about Short's presence by saying "no", but after the interview added she "might get a slap even though you're a woman" and told her to be "careful" next time she visited.
Both Moyes and Sparks were laughing during the exchange and the former Everton and Manchester United manager later apologised to Sparks, who did not make a complaint.
Moyes, who resigned as Sunderland boss in May, subsequently expressed "deep regret" for his comment.
"That's certainly not the person I am," he said. "I've accepted the mistake. I spoke to the BBC reporter, who accepted my apology."
The report said: "It is no answer for Mr Moyes to say that his comments were intended as mere banter, or a joke, and were not to be taken seriously.
"We are satisfied from his oral evidence to us that he was at least irritated by what he considered to be a 'rude' question and that he wanted to convey the sense to Ms Sparks that, in asking it, she had crossed what he regarded as an acceptable boundary.
"When Ms Sparks asked him whether he felt under any additional pressure due to the presence of the club owner at the match, it was a reasonable question for a journalist to ask and one that he might have anticipated. It did not merit any censure.
"We find that the threat of physical violence was not one that a reasonable person viewing the video footage would seriously consider Mr Moyes would carry through with. Instead, the implication of his comments was that Ms Sparks had had her 'card marked'.
"We accept that Mr Moyes attempted humour, but it was still his intention to convey a point to Ms Sparks, which he succeeded in doing, and in an entirely inappropriate way.
"It is wholly unacceptable for a high profile Premier League manager whose statements/opinions are closely scrutinised, to threaten physical violence towards a journalist in the terms used by Mr Moyes, or at all."
During the hearing, Moyes' lawyer Paul Gilroy QC, tried to have the case thrown out because of "fundamentally prejudicial" comments made by FA chairman Greg Clarke in the days after incident became public.
Gilroy said that when Clarke told reporters that "the disciplinary team will crack down on people who break the rules" and "will decide whether the rules have been broken and what an appropriate sanction should be" it meant Moyes would not be treated fairly.
But the panel said Moyes had a "fair hearing, free from any bias on the part of the commission".


They are still a long way from winning it, but Manchester City's progress to their first Champions League semi-final is not just a giant step forward for the club, it should supply manager Manuel Pellegrini with enormous personal pride.

Pellegrini will not admit it, of course. He seemed to enjoy deflecting questions about what Tuesday's win over Paris St-Germain meant to him - and for his future - preferring to talk about the club's prospects instead.
The 62-year-old Chilean has done that a lot since City announced to the world at the start of February that he is making way for current Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola in the summer, handling any praise or criticism that comes his way with the same quiet dignity.
On Tuesday night he was given congratulations by the media for his achievements, which surely deserve more credit given the unique circumstances he finds himself in.
His replacement has already been named and has been given the brief of winning Europe's elite club competition, but it is still possible that Pellegrini could win it first - and beat his successor along the way.
Win or lose, Tuesday night was always going to be seen as one of the games that will define Pellegrini's time at City, along with the silverware he has collected.
Defeat would have ended his final chance of adding to his haul of trophies, which stands at one Premier League title and two League Cups and is viewed by some as a modest showing from three seasons at a club of City's means.
An exit would also have increased the volume of those voices that believe the club's faltering form in the Premier League in recent weeks has been down to the announcement Pellegrini is on his way out.
Instead, victory keeps alive City's chances of the type of triumph that their wealthy Middle Eastern owners surely envisaged when they bought the club in 2008.
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And even if he falls short, Pellegrini is already responsible for the sort of landmarks he knows he was expected to reach when he was appointed in 2013.
City are now into a European semi-final for the first time since 1971, when they lost to Chelsea in the last four during their defence of the now obsolete Cup Winners' Cup - which remains their only continental trophy to date.
Pellegrini had already taken them out of the Champions League groups for the first time in 2013-14, then helped them win their group for the first time this season and has continued to lead them into uncharted territory in the knockout stages.
"I came to City because I had good performances in Europe, so to leave this club without taking them to a new state would have been a bad thing for me," the Chilean conceded after Tuesday's victory.
"It is very important to me to be in the semi-finals because that is my job."
Given his side scored a record 151 goals in all competitions in his first season in charge and are also known for some chaotic defending, a 1-0 win with one shot on target was an unlikely way to register such a significant European victory.
An exciting attack and an occasionally disastrous defence is the way Pellegrini's City sides will be remembered.
On Tuesday, however, his team - and some of his signings - showed they are capable of disciplined defence too.
Not that it affected his attacking philosophy. Pellegrini said before the game that he would not change his style to protect the advantage City held with the away goals they scored in last week's 2-2 first-leg draw in the French capital.
We should not be surprised that it worked. While the Champions League semi-finals are new territory for City, Pellegrini has been there before.
It is 10 years since he took Villarreal to the last four, where they narrowly lost to Arsenal after missing a last-gasp penalty that would have forced extra time.
He came within seconds of returning in 2013 with Malaga, when it took two stoppage-time goals by Borussia Dortmund to steal victory in their quarter-final.
His success and style of play - the Daily Telegraph described it as "death by beautiful geometry" during City's title-winning season of 2013-14 - surely makes him a catch for Europe's leading sides when he leaves Manchester behind.
Whatever his long-term future holds, Pellegrini does not want to talk about it yet.
"I am not thinking about it. I don't want to link anything that has happened with this win with the future and another job that happens for me," he said.
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In the short-term, City - and Pellegrini's - chances of winning the Champions League will be clearer once Wednesday's quarter-finals are completed and Friday's draw is made.
He would not entertain the thought of City meeting Guardiola's Bayern Munich side - who play Benfica on Wednesday - before the season is out, asking: "This is interesting for who? The media?"
Instead, as usual, he was concentrating on his own team. Before those semi-final first legs take place, City play three Premier League games and Pellegrini says his focus is on those to ensure they finish in the top four and are back in Europe's top tournament next season.
Could they win it this time though? On the back of their performance against PSG, even Pellegrini dares to dream.
"In the semi-finals you know you have to play against a very big team," he said. "But playing the way we did here, we have a lot of chance against anyone."


Great Britain's women can reinvigorate hockey at home if they emulate the 1988 men's side by winning Olympic gold, captain Kate Richardson-Walsh believes.

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Her team face the Netherlands in Friday's final looking to follow Sean Kerly's side, the champions in Seoul.
"You saw what happened to hockey in the country after that - it really picked up," said Richardson-Walsh, part of a team who won bronze at London 2012.
"It picked up after London too, and hopefully the same will happen again."
Britain's women are chasing their first gold, 28 years after the men beat West Germany 3-1 to win their second and most recent Olympic title, with two goals from Imran Sherwani and one from Kerly.
"I remember my parents getting up to watch the 1988 final, but I was only eight - I was a little too young," Richardson-Walsh said.
Friday's final, which starts at 21:00 BST, will be the 36-year-old's final game after playing 374 times for Great Britain and England.
She will also be playing alongside partner Helen - the pair married in 2013.
"It will be really special to be in a final with her," said the captain.
"We have been through ups and downs - some of the best and worst times over the last few years.
"For Helen to come back from back surgery twice, to get over that and play again and reach an Olympic final, it's great."
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Melvyn Bragg has accused the National Trust of "bullying" after it bought a tranche of land in the Lake District - but not the farm that sits on it.

The trust angered farmers when it paid £200,000 above guide price for the land at Thorneythwaite Farm in Borrowdale.
The broadcaster said the higher bid made it impossible for local farmers "critical to the preservation" of the Lake District "to get a look in".
The National Trust said it was the best way to secure the landscape's future.
Thorneythwaite Farm's private owner put it up for auction in two separate lots, with a guide price £750,000 for the land and £800,000 for the farm and buildings.
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The trust's offer of £950,000 for the land sparked criticism from those who wanted it to remain as a working farm.
The Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association said on Twitter: "Another farm lost. Hopes that the farm could be taken on by a new young fell farmer have been dashed."
In a letter to the Times, Lord Bragg said: "The National Trust.... behaved very badly. It put in a bid which was way above that which was reasonable for the land, thus making it impossible for local farmers to get a look in.
"It was a nasty piece of work. Had a billionaire bullied his way into this disgraceful purchase there would have been a deserved outcry."
The National Trust said it prioritised the purchase of the land as it did not have the funds to buy both - although it was aware that was the preferred local option.
It said it offered the higher price to avoid the risk of "gazumping" - a risk it would have faced if the auctioneer decided to package the two together for a price the trust could not afford.


A man who helped his daughter return her foetus's remains to Northern Ireland in a picnic cooler bag said the experience was "horrendous".

It happened after the woman had an abortion in England.
Her father told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme it had been a "traumatic day and night".
He said he and his wife had travelled to England the day after his daughter with the cooler bag.
"We got the foetus and we put it into the cool bag and started driving at two o'clock in the morning up the motorway," he added.
"Then the phone rang that she (his daughter) had collapsed and been rushed to the hospital.
"We had to turn the car, drive for 20 miles... turn back down the motorway to go down and see how she was.
"We didn't know whether she was alive or dead. We got to the hospital and she was being looked after really well.
"I had to sit in the car with the engine running to keep the cool bag cool.
"I tried to sleep for a few hours because I knew I was going to be driving immediately and I hadn't slept for nearly 24 hours.
"At six o'clock in the morning we headed home and eventually got to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast about eight o'clock to hand that over to the doctor."
Paediatric pathologist Dr Caroline Gannon has resigned over interventions by Northern Ireland's attorney general, John Larkin, on abortion laws surrounding fatal foetal abnormality.
She said the final straw was having to advise the woman and her partner to use a picnic cooler bag to return the remains.
Mr Larkin has said the law surrounding fatal foetal abnormality is under consideration.
"The legislation can be changed if those MLAs -  who vote when this does come round - can picture their own daughter," the woman's father said. "I wish this on no-one.
"Mr Larkin, I don't know if he has a daughter, I would hope he would never have to go through what my daughter and her husband went through, what my wife and I have gone through.
"It was horrendous."
The man said he "saw nothing wrong in what he did" and hoped that there would now be a change in legislation "because at least something good would have come out of the the most awful experience".
He added that he thought it was "amazing" that his daughter "was able to get on with her life and get back to her work" but acknowledged she was "still burdened by the whole thing".
"We pray every day that she will have the child that she longs for," he said.


Forest fires in Indonesia are causing concern for the safety of hundreds of orangutans that live there.

10 October 2015 Last updated at 14:26 BST
The fires have been burning across the country in south-east Asia for weeks and the special rehabilitation centres where the orangutans live are under threat.
The orangutans get food and medical care from teams at the centres and can't just be moved to a different part of the forest. It needs to be a specially protected area.
Teams looking after the animals are working hard to find new homes and are confident they'll find them soon.
Watch Martin's report to find out more...


England keeper Carly Telford says Notts County Ladies players feel abandoned by owner Alan Hardy after being liquidated on the eve of the new season.

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Telford admits players were initially "wary" of being released as early as December, when taken over as part of Hardy's purchase of Notts' men's side.
"To leave it this late, we are all now left in a boat sinking quite quickly," she told BBC East Midlands Today.
Hardy says he "left no stone unturned" to try to save the club from folding.
A number of players had been housed in club-funded accommodation as part of their contracts with the Women's Super League One side, who finished sixth last season.
"No player will be evicted from the houses. If it takes three months, four months, five months, I will personally stand by their houses," Hardy added.
"I'm absolutely devastated and gutted that we have to say goodbye to the club, but I can't afford it."
Notts' players were told the WSL 1 club would cease to exist only moments before Friday's announcement and just two days before their first scheduled league game of 2017, away to Arsenal on Sunday.
A winding-up petition against the women's team had been adjourned twice, in February and March, with the English top-flight side owing debts to Revenue and Customs.
Notts and Wales midfielder Angharad James told BBC Radio Wales: "It's a devastating day. We were only told five minutes prior to it going out on social media. It is not a good day for women's football all round.
"We're jobless and we're homeless. As cliche as that sounds, it's the truth. We've got to deal with it now and hopefully things will come into place.
"We knew there were issues at the start of the season, with regards to finances at the women's side, but we'd been told that was all going to be sorted and that the majority had been sorted.
"From our perspective we knew nothing else. We had signed players; we bought new players in from other clubs. So everything looked fine.
"The majority of clubs will be full now and will have blown their budgets as well. We're hoping that some clubs might still have room for players. It might be that I don't have a club for six months and I'll have to find another job."
A statement from the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) said: "The decision to put the club into the hands of a liquidator just days before the start of the season is clearly devastating for our members and the WSL 1 as a competition.
"The PFA has been in contact with our delegate at the club and provided information to our members on the impact of the club's actions on their contracts.
"We have also been in discussions with the FA and FAWSL to ensure that players can register with other clubs outside of the transfer window given the exceptional circumstances the players find themselves in due to no fault of their own.
"We will continue to provide support and guidance in an attempt to obtain the best possible outcome for our members."
A Football Association spokesperson said: "The FA is aware of the situation and is liaising with all involved parties.
"Our priority is the welfare of the players and we will work closely with them, the PFA and wider stakeholders to support them through this time."
England boss Mark Sampson has been in touch with Notts' England players to offer support, the BBC understands.
Telford, who has made seven senior appearances for England and is part of the squad for Euro 2017, added: "I'll have to sort something quickly because there is the Euros to prepare for and finding a club to keep playing football.
"I feel just a bit numb. At first I was in shock, it didn't seem real.
"Then you look around the room seeing people are upset, people crying, livelihoods ruined, people homeless and jobless."
Notts players have also been critical of Hardy for not meeting them in person on Friday to deliver the news of the club's liquidation himself.
"Time is a great thing, and I deeply regret not being able to be there," local businessman Hardy added to BBC East Midlands Today.
"Very rarely do my family take priority over football but they have been away for 10 days and unfortunately I had to collect them from Gatwick Airport at 10:00 BST this morning. It is unfortunate that it coincided with this day."
Many of the players could now face difficulty finding new clubs so close to the new season, as other WSL 1 sides may well have allocated their budgets for the Spring Series.
WSL clubs are allowed to register up to 40 players in their squad for the campaign.
"To leave it so late and leave girls in the predicament he has is the hardest thing," Telford continued.
"We get his situation, he doesn't see it as a feasible business. But to leave it this late when the takeover was done so long ago, to now come to the conclusion two days before kick-off that he doesn't want to do it anymore is heartbreaking.
"He could have released us, got rid of us when the takeover was happening. We were wary of not being kept on then. We could have gone in the transfer window, found another club and settled."
Hardy responded: "We were having conversations and meeting with the big universities to see what sponsorship and support they could give us.
"I was optimistic as long as I could be and I always hoped something would be around the corner, but eventually I arrived at dead ends everywhere and that was a very sad day for me."
BBC broadcaster Jacqui Oatley told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"I'm not surprised that it's happening but I'm very surprised by the timing. You don't expect it to happen two days before the start of the Spring Series.
"I know that most parties involved thought they would at least be OK for this season. It is a very big shock for everybody.
"Just when you feel (the women's game) is making progress, it's a huge shock."


Tim Farron has said he is to step down as leader of the Liberal Democrats, less than a week after the election.

In a statement, he said he was "torn between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader".
He said he should have dealt "more wisely" with questions relating to his faith during the election campaign, including his views on gay sex.
Possible successors include former ministers Sir Vince Cable, Jo Swinson, Sir Ed Davey and Norman Lamb.
Church leaders praised Mr Farron. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said he was "honourable and decent".
The acting Bishop of London, Pete Broadbent, said "no-one should have to choose between their faith and politics" and it was "deeply regrettable" he felt the need to quit.
In a hastily-arranged statement, and surrounded by his close colleagues, Mr Farron insisted his decision to step down was voluntary and that he retained the support of his party, which he had been proud to lead for nearly two years.
But he said he could no longer reconcile his strong Christian faith with his responsibilities as leader of a liberal party.
"The consequences of the focus on my faith is that I have found myself torn between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader," he said.
"A better, wiser person may have been able to deal with this more successfully, to remain faithful to Christ while leading a political party in the current environment.
"To be a leader, particularly of a progressive liberal party in 2017 and to live as a committed Christian and to hold faithful to the Bible's teaching has felt impossible for me."
He said he was passionate about defending the rights and liberties of people who believed differently to him, but said he had been the "subject of suspicion" because of his own beliefs.
While questions about his faith were legitimate, he said they "distracted" from the party's election campaign.
During the campaign, he was asked repeatedly in media interviews to clarify his views on gay sex but did not, to begin with, answer directly.
He later insisted that he did not believe it was a sin and that, while he believed political leaders should not "pontificate on theological matters", it was right to address the subject as it had become "an issue".
Earlier on Wednesday, shadow home affairs spokesman Lord Paddick himself quit, citing concerns about Mr Farron's "views on various issues".
As the party does not currently have a deputy leader, Mr Farron will remain in place while an election is held to choose his successor.
Mr Farron succeeded Nick Clegg in 2015 after the party's disastrous election result, in which it lost nearly 50 seats.
Having not served in the coalition government, he positioned himself to the left of Mr Clegg and sought to rebuild the party at grassroots level.
The party increased its tally of seats from nine to 12 at last week's election, but its vote share fell from 7.9% to 7.4%.
They were hoping to make significant headway on the back of a pledge to hold a second EU referendum.
Despite winning back seats in the south of England lost in 2015, and making gains in Scotland, the party's national performance was patchy.
It lost its last remaining seat in Wales, Mr Clegg was defeated in Sheffield, and 375 of the party's candidates lost their deposits after getting less than 5% of the vote.
Senior party figures and Church leaders praised their outgoing leader. Mr Clegg said it must have been an "agonising" decision for him to make.
He tweeted: "I'm sure I was not alone in being moved by the way Tim spoke about the struggle he found in balancing his faith and his politics."
Willie Rennie, the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, said Mr Farron had been a "dynamic and inspirational" leader who helped the party bounce back from the "dark days" after the 2015 election.
"I believe he still has a big role to play in British politics," Mr Rennie added.
But former Lib Dem official Miranda Green criticised Mr Farron for making his statement on the same day as the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy in London, in which at least 12 people have died.
She said the timing showed the Lib Dem leader was "myopic and self-obsessed".


According to US campaigners, the Yulin dog-eating festival in China, notorious for its animal cruelty, will this year be banned from selling dog meat.

Yet doubts remain over what has been said, and some vendors told the BBC they had heard nothing about a ban.
Eating dogs is not illegal in China but the annual festival in Guangxi draws widespread domestic and international opposition each June.
The dogs, often stolen pets or working dogs, are brutally killed, critics say.
It is estimated that in Yulin's heyday a few years back, some 10,000 dogs and cats were killed and eaten during the 10-day Lychee and Dog Meat Festival - some still with their pet collars on.
But numbers have been falling in recent years as opposition grew in China and internationally.
Several animal rights activist groups are saying that vendors and restaurants have been told no dog meat will be allowed to be sold during this year's festival nor in the days running up to it.
California-based campaign group DuoDuo said they had heard this from "several reliable sources in Yulin", calling it "a crucial domino on the road to topple the dog meat industry".
The Humane Society International said that "if this news is true as we hope, it is a really big nail in the coffin for a gruesome event that has come to symbolise China's crime-fuelled dog meat trade".
Peter Li, China policy specialist at HSI, told the BBC the authorities had already tried to discourage the practice, but that this year, they would be fining those found violating the ban.
The rule will affect dog meat retailers, market traders as well as restaurants, he said. But it will be temporary - meaning most dogs could be killed ahead of the event - and is not being announced officially.
"There is still resistance among the dog meat traders against any drastic rules," said Mr Li.
"Across the country, they promoted dog eating as a national tradition and Chinese food culture.
"This is not true but still, local authorities in Yulin will be hesitant to do something drastic because of social stability concerns. They'll be worried it will cause social disturbance."
The activists are attributing the change in policy to a new Communist Party secretary of Yulin, Mo Gong Ming.
He reportedly wants to burnish Yulin's image and establish it as a city of culture - which would be hard if each year pictures of graphic animal cruelty hit the global headlines.
But reports of a ban seem to have come as a surprise to people in Yulin.
"Banning the sales of dog meat? I've not heard of it," the owner of a popular dog meat restaurant in the city told the BBC.
"Whoever wants to eat will continue to eat. Why is dog meat any different from other meat anyway?"
The US activists said that only some retailers and restaurants had been notified so far, but other vendors the BBC spoke to reacted the same way and said they were confident they could continue to sell dog meat.
Several local government officers also said they had not heard anything about a ban.
A Chinese activist who travels to Yulin each year to protest against the festival told the BBC she had heard rumours of a ban, but that no-one knew where the information had come from.
Last year the government banned the killing of dogs out in the open, itself a huge step to take.
BBC staff in Beijing say the latest reports have not appeared in Chinese media - even though it would be very good international PR for the city - and point out that the dog festival is a huge revenue-earner for Yulin, so banning it entirely would be devastating for the economy.
While the tradition of eating dog meat dates back some 500 years in China, South Korea and other countries, consumption has never been as widespread as with other meats.
City officials have been trying to distance themselves from the festival, pointing out that it is staged by private businesses not the authorities. A crackdown on something that's not illegal is hard to pursue.
Animal rights groups have tended to focus on the fact that many of the dogs are thought to be stolen from homes or farms, loaded on trucks and driven to the north-west, where dog meat is most popular.
"There are no dog meat farms in the country," says Mr Li, adding that experiments with farms in the 1990s proved unprofitable.
The pro-dog meat camp has also tended to exploit general nationalist sentiments by blaming Western cultural imperialism for the backlash, Mr Li explains.
Last June, a petition signed by 11 million people around the world was handed to Yulin's government, calling for the event to be banned.
But things are changing at home too, as there is an increasingly powerful community of animal lovers in China.
"There are 150 million dogs in China," Mr Li explains. "So one in every 10 Chinese has a dog. And 40% are thought to be household animal, pets." Fewer than 5% of people in China are frequent dog meat eaters, he says.
Animal rights activists like him hope that eventually, dog meat will fall off the menu altogether.


Newcastle United midfielder Jack Colback says the camaraderie within the squad is the best it has been "by miles" during his time on Tyneside.

The Magpies currently sit third in the Championship table, having won seven of their 11 league games this season.
It follows an overhaul of the squad by manager Rafael Benitez, following relegation from the Premier League.
"Sometimes you get that group which have the right mentality," Colback, who joined Newcastle in June 2014, said.
"All the lads are good lads, we all get on and we fight for each other.
"It's the best it has been by a mile, I think it's what the club was missing."
Such a turnover of players - 12 new arrivals - has freshened up the squad for a Championship promotion push and followed the exits of international players such as Moussa Sissoko, Georginio Wijnaldum and Daryl Janmaat in the summer.
Matt Ritchie stepped down a league from Bournemouth for £12m, Dwight Gayle came in from Crystal Palace for a reported £10m, while Ciaran Clark and Issac Hayden are among the other signings to have impressed.
"The likes of Dwight and Matt have dropped down to play at this club, at this level. It's the size of the club, the potential which brings players like that here," Colback added to BBC Newcastle.
"Everyone wants to do well for each other, which is important."


Militants have attacked an Indian army camp in Indian-administered Kashmir with gunfire and grenades, killing one border guard and wounding another.

Indian troops returned fire from the camp in the garrison town of Baramulla, 50km (30 miles) north-west of Srinagar, the main city in Kashmir.
The camp is the local headquarters of a counter-insurgency military unit.
Sunday night's attack came three days after India's army said it had carried out a "surgical strike" in the region.
The army said it had destroyed "terrorist launching pads" used by militants with support from Pakistan, but the Pakistani military disputed this.
The Indian assault followed the deadliest attack on one of its bases in Kashmir in years. On 18 September, militants entered an army base in the town of Uri and killed 18 soldiers.
India 'launches Kashmir border strikes'
India accuses Pakistan of arming and training insurgents fighting for Kashmir's independence from India or its merger with Pakistan, a claim Pakistan denies.
Disputed Muslim-majority Kashmir has been a flashpoint for decades and has sparked two wars between India and Pakistan, which both control parts of the disputed territory but claim it in full.
Relations between India and Pakistan have sharply deteriorated since the attack in Uri earlier this month.
Pakistan says India's stance is a "blatant attempt" to deflect attention from human rights abuses in the region.
More than 80 people, nearly all anti-government protesters, have died in more than two months of violence against Indian rule.


Danske Bank has revised down its economic growth projections for Northern Ireland in 2016 and 2017.

The bank said the revisions reflect Brexit-related uncertainty, lower investment levels and higher inflation in the medium term.
The bank expects the local economy to grow by 1% this year and by 0.5% in 2017.
It had previously forecast growth of 1.6% this year and 1.9% in 2017.
The bank's chief economist, Angela McGowan, said she is stressing that uncertainty surrounding the forecasts is "higher than usual" as EU withdrawal negotiations are only set to begin early next year.
She cautioned that while the initial shock of the referendum result appears to have faded and given way to a more stable picture, that may be temporary.
"The withdrawal from the EU has not yet happened and Brexit uncertainty could hit sentiment, growth and financial markets again when Article 50 is finally triggered."
Last week, the Bank of England indicated that it is ready to upgrade its short-term growth forecasts for the UK economy.
The bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) expects that in the third quarter of this year (July to September) growth will be between 0.2% and 0.3%, compared to its August forecast of 0.1%.
Looking at 2017, the MPC says it is harder to make a judgement.
Ms McGowan said there is "no doubt" that the lack of clarity around future trade relations, access to skills, the border and future funding streams will all negatively impact investment and recruitment in the year ahead.
She said that should be balanced with the fact that "policy levers will be used to offset some of this damage and the weak pound should lift exports".
"The forthcoming Autumn Statement should be one of the most interesting for years," she added.


David Cameron has urged Londoners not to elect Labour's Sadiq Khan as their next mayor, claiming they will become "lab rats" for party leader Jeremy Corbyn's economic experiments.

Speaking at a rally for Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith, the prime minister warned about the dangers of a Labour victory for the capital's economy.
Mr Goldsmith said his Labour rival was "Mr Corbyn's man" in City Hall.
But Mr Khan said he was "no patsy" to Mr Corbyn and would stand up to him.
It is 100 days until London elects a new mayor to succeed Boris Johnson, who is stepping down after eight years.
The vote will be a key electoral test for Jeremy Corbyn and Labour, for whom the capital was one of the few bright spots in last year's dismal general election defeat. Last May, Labour won four seats from the Tories in London and hope to win back City Hall for the first time since 2008.
Addressing a rally of Conservative activists, Mr Cameron sought to frame the election as an early verdict on Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party as well as a choice between Mr Goldsmith and Mr Khan.
"Zac Goldsmith can be a great mayor. You've got the man and the plan, think for a moment about the alternative," he said.
"Sadiq Khan nominated Jeremy Corbyn to be leader of the Labour party and he doesn't regret it.  Never mind the fact he (Mr Corbyn) wants to give the Falklands back to Argentina or he thinks that nuclear submarines should patrol the Atlantic without any missiles.
"His policy is to bring back and legalise secondary strikes and flying pickets. Just think what the first Corbyn-elected Mayor would be like for our economy, for our city. You do not want to be lab rats in the first Corbyn economic experiment in public life".
Ahead of the rally, the Conservatives launched a poster campaign depicting Mr Goldsmith as "your man in City Hall".
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Mr Khan said he would stand up to the Labour leader over the issue of Trident renewal and Mr Corbyn's plans for a "Robin Hood" tax on financial transactions, which Mr Khan opposes.
"That is the job of the Mayor of London: not to be a patsy or a spokesperson for George Osborne and David Cameron - as Mr Goldsmith is being - or Jeremy Corbyn or the party, but to be London's advocate to their party and the government."
While he said he did not regret nominating Mr Corbyn for leader - and therefore allowing him to get onto the ballot paper - he said he would have his "own mandate" if he was elected.
"There will be occasions when frankly speaking I disagree with Jeremy," he said, citing his support for Gatwick expansion and pro-business agenda.
He said he wanted to build the broadest electoral alliance: "When you meet and study the best mayors from around the world they are not tribal. What they try and do is to reach across the entire city."
The Liberal Democrats, UKIP, the Green Party and the English Democrats are also fielding candidates in May's election while former Respect MP George Galloway is also standing. The Conservatives and Labour won 84% of the vote between them in the first round in 2012.


Hideki Matsuyama of Japan became the first Asian winner of a World Golf Championships event as Britain's Rory McIlroy finished fourth.

Matsuyama shot a six-under 66 in the last round of the WGC-HSBC Champions to finish seven clear of Sweden's Henrik Stenson and American Daniel Berger.
His 29 birdies at Sheshan International was three short of the PGA Tour record.
Finishing on 23 under par, his total was also just one shot off the 72-hole record score at the Chinese course.
The win will lift Matsuyama to a career-high sixth in the world rankings.
Northern Irishman McIlroy carded a 66 to finish tied with American Bill Haas and will move up one place to second when the rankings are published on Monday.
Scotland's defending champion Russell Knox fell away in the final round, shooting a two-over-par 74 to end up ninth alongside Spaniard Sergio Garcia.
Englishmen Ross Fisher, Paul Casey and Matthew Fitzpatrick all posted final rounds of under 70 to finish seventh, 12th and 16th respectively.
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An ex-council chief has been appointed to head a probe into why a crematorium failed to recover ashes from baby cremations for more than a decade.

The investigation into Emstrey Crematorium in Shrewsbury will be led by former Dorset County Council chief executive David Jenkins.
It comes after the BBC found just one out of 30 sets of ashes were given to babies' families since 2004.
The inquiry, commissioned by Shropshire Council, is due to begin on Wednesday.
But parents said they should have been consulted over the appointment.
"All we are asking for is a fair hearing," said Glen Perkins, founder of the Action for Ashes campaign group, which called for the inquiry.
Mr Perkins's four-month-old daughter Olivia was cremated at Emstrey Crematorium in December 2007 but the family was told by the funeral director there would be no remains.
He said he did not trust the council investigation to be truly independent or rigorous.
"I think the hardest thing to presume is that we will get an answer about what happened to Olivia," he said.
"I don't think I will ever know.
"I can look at her picture but I can't go where she should be and that hurts."
Mr Jenkins, a solicitor who has led reviews of other authorities and public service organisations, was recommended for the role by the Local Government Association.
The inquiry findings are due to be published in April.
Shropshire Council leader Keith Barrow said: "I'm really pleased that David has agreed to chair the inquiry and I'm confident that he is the right person to carry out this very important role.
"He has all the right experience and qualifications and, importantly, is independent."
Emstrey Crematorium has been managed by Co-Operative Funeralcare on behalf of Shropshire Council since 2009.


Too many magistrates in England and Wales are "old and white", one of the youngest justices in the country says.

Alex Yip is working to get younger people and ethnic minorities to become magistrates and wants firms encouraged to give staff time off to volunteer.
"I work with a lot of very talented people but they are old and white," the 34-year-old said.
MPs are calling for urgent action over figures that show 86% of magistrates are aged 50 or over and 89% are white.
A report by the Commons justice committee said there were "serious" problems with diversity at a time when the numbers volunteering were falling.
Mr Yip became a magistrate in November 2009 and is now working with the Magistrates' Association to try to bring more young people into the role.
He said: "It has always been surprising for people when they find out I am a magistrate."
Comparing himself with his colleagues, he added: "I look like I have just come out of university."
Mr Yip, who is also a councillor in Birmingham, thinks the time commitment is a big turn-off for younger people.
He said: "Young people are focusing on work, building their careers, starting families and trying to pay off their mortgages.
"I am fortunate being self-employed that I have more choice in what I can do with my time, but a lot of people feel they have to focus on what is urgent in their lives.
"They have to put food on the table."
He thinks appealing to employers is a key way of recruiting more people from all backgrounds.
"You do have to commit a lot of time [13 days a year plus training] but a lot of people don't realise that employers are obligated to give you that time," he added.
"I think we need to raise awareness and point out that having an employee that is a magistrate is good for their company."
Magistrates are volunteers and pass the most serious of crimes to crown court level, but continue to deal with more minor crimes, including minor assaults, motoring offences and theft.
To become a magistrate, you have to:
There were around 30,000 magistrates in England and Wales in 2006, but this total has since fallen to 17,552.
It is believed this is partly due to the number of older magistrates retiring - they must retire at 70 - but the MPs' report also said there was disillusionment with the system, which led to people stepping down from the bench sooner.
Statistics from the committee for 2016 show that there is a close split in the gender of magistrates - 53% are women - but diversity is still lacking when it comes to age, race and disabilities. Only 4% of magistrates identify themselves as disabled.
The Commons justice committee called on the government to make its recommendations on diversity and recruitment a reality.
The report also supported an increase for magistrates' sentencing powers from six months to 12 months' custody for a single offence and called on the Ministry of Justice to ensure that at least 90% of court users can reach the nearest magistrates' venue by public transport within one hour.
A Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said: "We welcome this report and will consider its recommendations carefully."
Source: Commons Justice Committee 2016


US President Donald Trump urged the Mexican president to stop publicly saying he would not pay for a proposed border wall, according to transcripts.

Mr Trump admonished Enrique Pena Nieto for publicly denouncing the wall during a 27 January phone call, transcripts obtained by the Washington Post show.
"You cannot say that to the press," he reportedly told him.
Transcripts of his first call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull were also published.
In a rancorous call, President Trump tells him it was the "worst" conversation he had that day, and one with Russian President Vladimir Putin was more pleasant.
Mr Trump launched his presidential campaign on a promise to build a wall along the US southern border and vowed to make Mexico pay for the project.
But the transcripts show the US president acknowledged the funding would come from other sources, saying the money "will work out in the formula somehow".
He added: "If you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the wall then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore because I cannot live with that."
The House of Representatives approved $1.6 billion towards the border wall last week, and the federal government has been viewing proposals submitted by construction contractors.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the highest ranked congressional Republican, also released a video this week of his visit to the southern border, saying "it's time for The Wall".
Here are some key quotes, with analysis by the BBC's Anthony Zurcher.
TRUMP: "I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den."
AZ: Donald Trump lost New Hampshire in the general election, but he won its Republican primary last February, which cemented his status as the front-runner for the party's nomination. While he was campaigning there he acknowledged the state's opioid addiction epidemic, but never in such derogatory terms.
TRUMP: "You have some pretty tough hombres in Mexico that you may need help with, and we are willing to help you with that big-league. But they have to be knocked out and you have not done a good job of knocking them out."
AZ: The "tough hombre" line had leaked - and been roundly derided as insensitive - shortly after the president had his conversation with Mr Pena Nieto. Now it can be viewed in context, which doesn't do much to help the president appear diplomatic.
TRUMP: "Your words are so beautiful. Those are beautiful words and I do not think I can speak that beautifully, okay? It would be great to put those words at the end of the statement."
AZ: During the campaign, Mr Trump once boasted: "I know the best words." Perhaps the president is acknowledging that, in Mr Pena Nieto, he's finally met his match.
TRUMP: "This [refugee resettlement deal] is going to kill me. I am the world's greatest person that does not want to let people into the country."
AZ: Mr Trump apparently walked into his phone call with Mr Turnbull with no clear understanding of the details of the refugee resettlement agreement, aside from what "somebody" told him the day before.
TRUMP: "I guarantee you they [refugees] are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people."
AZ: The refugees in question were being detained, not imprisoned - a key difference. And, as Mr Turnbull points out, the US did not agree to admit all 1,250 individuals, but rather to screen them and then admit only those who would pose no threat to the "milk people".
TRUMP: "I have had it. I have been making these calls all day and this is the most unpleasant call all day. Putin was a pleasant call. This is ridiculous."
AZ: There were news reports after the conversation that Mr Trump's interactions with Mr Turnbull were less than cordial. The president and the White House denied it, but the transcript tells a different story. The line about Vladimir Putin is just the icing on the cake.


The majority of people in EU-aided areas of Wales backed Brexit because funding was not enough to solve their problems, a think tank has claimed.

The Bevan Foundation said EU structural funds of £4bn over 20 years were a "drop in the public spending ocean".
Aid was "swimming against the tide" of a single market which caused Wales to lose manufacturing jobs, it said.
Foundation director Victoria Winckler called for government action to promote growth outside south east England.
Writing to mark the six month anniversary of the EU referendum, Ms Winckler said the majority vote in Wales for Brexit had been greeted with "widespread disbelief".
Referring to one commentator's headline, she wrote:  "The turkeys didn't vote for Christmas - they voted for the better future that the EU had failed to deliver."
She dismissed explanations ranging from "the failures of the remain campaign itself to the weakness of Welsh media to the nature of devolution to Wales".
"In fact, the explanation is much simpler - EU funds simply didn't do what they were supposed to," she wrote.
Blaenau Gwent - which saw the biggest majority in Wales for Brexit - saw a fall in jobs over 16 years, while other leave-voting areas such as Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly and Torfaen had seen "barely perceptible" growth, she added.
"If these towns were 'showered with cash', it appears to have gone straight down the drain," said Ms Winckler, who originally helped secure EU aid for west Wales and the valleys while working in local government.
Even so, Wales' EU structural funds were "tiny" at £200m a year, she claimed, compared to the £9bn spent on the 2012 Olympics and the £14.8bn Crossrail project in London.
She also pointed out that EU aid was given to create jobs "at the same time as the EU single market encouraged job loss", with some of the new jobs being filled by migrant workers.
"The irony of EU money being used to help to create jobs that were then filled by workers from elsewhere in the EU was not lost," Ms Winckler wrote.
While it was "highly unlikely" the UK government would make up for the lost EU funding in full, she argued that an "effective UK regional policy" was more important.
"It will also need a radical programme in Wales to create 'better jobs closer to home'," she added.


Earlier this week then-Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho was asked about his Christmas card list.

"To Big Sam the Christmas card is not big enough," he said. "I really enjoy writing a message to a good guy."
It will have to be posted rather than hand-delivered now. Mourinho was sacked on Thursday, two days before Sam Allardyce's Sunderland side take on Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
Mourinho has time for Post Office queues. The defending champions don't.
Their record is as follows:
And, as history shows, there can be several twists and turns between such a poor start and a team's fate in May.
Manager Sean Dyche was nicknamed the "ginger Mourinho" by Burnley's fans after guiding the Clarets to the top flight, but he was working with a far skinnier budget.
His biggest signing as he strengthened his squad for top-flight life was George Boyd,a £3m capture from Hull.
Otherwise he relied mainly on a core of players who had finished second in the Championship the previous year with Jason Shackell marshalling the defence, Scott Arfield providing threat from midfield and Danny Ings showing a clinical edge up front.
A run of six league games without a goal towards the end of the season left Burnley with too much to do and they were relegated with two games to go despite a 1-0 win away to Hull.
Malaysian businessman Tony Fernandes took over the club in August and spent big to ensure that QPR's return to the Premier League for the first time in 15 years lasted more than a season.
He succeeded. Just. And not by much.
Despite investing heavily in Shaun Wright-Phillips and Anton Ferdinand in August, and once again in Nedum Onouha, Dijbril Cisse and Bobby Zamora in January, the Hoops scraped to safety, staying up by a single point despite an injury-time capitulation that delivered the title to Manchester City on the final day.
The spending continued, but the results only got worse. The following season, despite the wages and transfer fees spent on Christopher Samba, Jose Bosingwa, Stephane Mbia, Julio Cesar and Esteban Granero, they finished rock bottom.
A season that owner Mike Ashley described as "catastrophic for everybody".
Manager Kevin Keegan resigned in frustration in September after James Milner was sold to Aston Villa and only Spanish striker Xisco transpired from his promises of high-quality replacements.
Joe Kinnear arrived as interim manager, launched into an X-rated tirade at his doubters, mistakenly pronounced Charles N'Zogbia's surname as "Insomnia" and then was forced to give up his role as he had a triple heart bypass.
Alan Shearer took over but could not keep a team containing names such as Michael Owen, Obafemi Martins, Fabricio Coloccini and Damien Duff from the drop. Ashley put the club up for sale. He still remains in charge.
Legendary playmaker Matt Le Tissier's final season, the club's first at St Mary's Stadium - and Southampton looked set to mark both with relegation.
The Saints lost nine of their first 12 matches, but were gradually revived when Gordon Strachan replaced Stuart Gray as manager in October.
With Latvian striker Marian Pahars scoring 14 league goals, ably assisted by James Beattie with another 12, the Saints climbed to a relatively lofty 11th, nine points clear of the drop.
Manchester City's season began dismally and ended in farce.
Alan Ball's side took just two points from their first 11 games, but heading into their final game - at home to Liverpool - they knew a win would probably be enough to keep them up.
However, late in the game with the two sides level at 2-2, City heard and believed a rumour that relegation rivals Southampton were behind in their own game against Wimbledon.
Based on this information Steve Lomas kept the ball in the corner flag in an attempt to secure the point that would keep City up.
Unfortunately, it was false.
Southampton were still level and City still needed a win. Niall Quinn, who had been substituted off earlier in the game, sprinted down the touchline to tell his team-mates as the truth belatedly emerged. But it was too late for City to save themselves.


Labour officials are "rigorously, robustly and fairly" verifying that those applying to vote in its leadership contest do support the party, its interim leader says.

Harriet Harman said infiltrators were "not clever" but the party's safeguards would ensure the "result will stand".
BBC News understands 3,000 applications have been rejected. But there have been claims some are being blocked unfairly.
Labour peer Lord McConnell said the situation was a "shambles".
Andy Burnham earlier warned "several thousand" Tories might have registered.
Mr Burnham, Jeremy Corbyn, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall are standing for leader.
More than 120,000 people have signed up to vote, along with more than 189,000 members of unions and other affiliates, bringing the electorate to more than 600,000.
New regulations allow members of the public to sign up to vote as a "registered supporter" for Â£3.
Mrs Harman told the BBC: "Because this is the first time we have operated these new rules for electing a Labour leader we have acted constantly on legal advice...
"I am absolutely certain that no court would decide that we had done anything other than apply the rules in a rigorous, fair, robust and even-handed way. So whoever is elected, they will be legally elected."
Mrs Harman said some Tory supporters were aiming to get a vote.
"That is dishonest and that is shameful for people who purportedly believe in democracy and support democracy," she said.
Concerns have been raised over the voting process after:
Michael Dugher, Mr Burnham's campaign chairman, suggested not enough was being done to address the issue of infiltrators.
Mr Burnham's team have written to Labour's general secretary claiming "a Conservative MP, Conservative media commentators, and Conservative councillors" had all been rejected.
Ms Cooper said the party should make sure processes are "robust", but she wanted as many people as possible to take part.
A spokesman for Mr Corbyn, who polls suggest is the frontrunner, said he had confidence in the management of the election.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions, Mr Corbyn rejected the suggestion it had been a "summer of blood" for Labour and said the campaign had been "good for democracy and for the party".
But Labour's former First Minister of Scotland, Lord McConnell, described the situation as a "shambles" and said it had been a mistake to allow people to continue to register to vote in the contest throughout the summer.
He said: "This is a ridiculous situation and I cannot believe that when the initial decision was made in May to open up the membership in this way over the summer that somebody at a higher level in the party, or somebody in one of the three main campaigns didn't express some concerns.
"It seems I think in many ways to encapsulate what's wrong with the running of the Labour party over recent years and why we're in this mess in the first place."
Responding to suggestions Mr Burnham or Ms Cooper could appeal against the result of the vote, Lord McConnell said he would be "amazed" if the contest had not been legally checked and said it was unlikely it would be run again.
Labour says all applications to join as a full member, affiliate, or a supporter are assessed by a verification team.
The party says it has 40 staff in Newcastle and 30 at its London HQ working to check applications and anyone who does not support Labour's "aims and values", anyone not registered as an elector at the address they have given or anyone previously excluded from the party would be rejected.
MPs, local constituency parties and regional offices are carrying out checks and providing further information.  Applicants' social media accounts are also being looked at.