Reigning champions Spain avoided the ignominy of finishing their World Cup campaign bottom of Group B with victory over Australia in Curitiba.

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Goals from David Villa, Fernando Torres and Juan Mata prevented La Roja from suffering a third successive loss for the first time since 1991.
Villa scored the opener when he flicked in Juanfran's cross, before Chelsea's Torres fired in the second.
Mata slid in the third from fellow substitute Cesc Fabregas's lofted pass.
"Australia looked like they were trying to play with high energy levels but after Spain went 1-0 up it was like a friendly match and they sort of petered out.
"I'm glad it stayed at 3-0 because it could have been four, five or six and that would not have reflected just how well Australia played in this tournament."
The result means Spain finish third in the table with three points after one win and two defeats, while Australia finish bottom.
During the opening 30 minutes, Vicente del Bosque's Spain played like a side bewildered by the events of their opening two games.
Their play was characterised by misplaced passes, uncertainty in defence and a lack of bite in the final third.
But the reliable Villa, whose inclusion was one of seven changes, eased those concerns with a familiar flicked finish nine minutes before the break to cap a move that was typical of Spain in their glory years of 2008, 2010 and 2012.
Andres Iniesta threaded a pass down the right to overlapping full-back Juanfran. The Atletico Madrid played squared to Villa, whose clever finish outfoxed keeper Mat Ryan.
It was the 32-year-old's ninth goal in World Cups and his 59th in total in what will be his 97th and final game for Spain. Villa was later substituted, head bowed, and was consoled by his team-mates on the bench.
The European side improved tenfold after the break as Australia - with eight of their starting XI aged 26 and under - tired as they attempted to break up Spain's trademark tiki-taka exchanges.
After increasing the pressure, Del Bosque's men eventually doubled their lead in the 69th minute when Iniesta's ball split the defence and found Torres, who sidefooted in. That was the Chelsea forward's first World Cup goal since 2006.
The final goal of Spain's campaign came eight minutes from the end. This time it was Fabregas who was the provider.
The Chelsea midfielder, who had a falling out with Del Bosque during the build-up to the match, played a lovely lofted ball to Mata at the far post. The Manchester United player barely looked up before poking the ball under the body of Ryan.
Manchester City's David Silva, who was also a substitute, went close with a drilled shot in stoppage time as his side bid farewell to a disastrous Brazil 2014 campaign with a flourish.
Match ends, Australia 0, Spain 3.
Second Half ends, Australia 0, Spain 3.
Attempt missed. Sergio Ramos (Spain) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Mile Jedinak (Australia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
David Silva (Spain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mile Jedinak (Australia).
Attempt blocked. Juan Mata (Spain) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Francesc Fábregas.
Attempt missed. David Silva (Spain) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Juan Mata with a cross.
Matthew Spiranovic (Australia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
David Silva (Spain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matthew Spiranovic (Australia).
Attempt missed. Matthew Spiranovic (Australia) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.
Corner,  Australia. Conceded by Sergio Ramos.
Hand ball by Mark Bresciano (Australia).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Matthew Spiranovic (Australia) because of an injury.
Substitution, Spain. David Silva replaces Xabi Alonso.
Goal!  Australia 0, Spain 3. Juan Mata (Spain) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Francesc Fábregas with a through ball.
Foul by Xabi Alonso (Spain).
James Troisi (Australia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Fernando Torres (Spain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alex Wilkinson (Australia).
Corner,  Spain. Conceded by Ryan McGowan.
Corner,  Spain. Conceded by Matthew Spiranovic.
Offside, Spain. Juanfran tries a through ball, but Francesc Fábregas is caught offside.
Attempt missed. James Troisi (Australia) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Mark Bresciano.
Substitution, Australia. Mark Bresciano replaces Oliver Bozanic.
Corner,  Spain. Conceded by Jason Davidson.
Goal!  Australia 0, Spain 2. Fernando Torres (Spain) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Andrés Iniesta with a through ball.
Foul by Francesc Fábregas (Spain).
Matt McKay (Australia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Spain. Francesc Fábregas replaces Santiago Cazorla.
Sergio Ramos (Spain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sergio Ramos (Spain).
Ben Halloran (Australia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Australia. James Troisi replaces Tommy Oar because of an injury.
Juanfran (Spain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jason Davidson (Australia).
Foul by Juan Mata (Spain).
Ben Halloran (Australia) wins a free kick on the right wing.


John Sheridan says Notts County's 4-0 loss at Blackpool was the worst of his managerial career, and that his side would not have beaten a pub team.

Notts, who have won just once in their past six League Two matches, face National League side Boreham Wood in an FA Cup first-round replay on Tuesday.
"We were totally inept," Sheridan told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"We could be playing the Red Lion on Tuesday and if we play like today any team will beat us."
With County already 3-0 down against the Seasiders, they were reduced to 10 men in the 79th minute after Vadaine Oliver was shown a straight red card for a challenge on Tom Aldred.
Sheridan admits they could have lost by "seven or eight" and was left "a very angry man" at full-time.
"I've been a manager for probably over 500 games now and that is probably the worst performance under my management," the former Oldham, Chesterfield, Plymouth Argyle and Newport County boss said.
"That is harsh for me to say, but I will not accept anything that went on today.
"We were a shambles. We didn't deserve anything and we didn't create a chance. If we are not at the races and perform like today we won't win any games for the rest of the season.
"I hope they realise they need to step up big time - if they don't, then there is something wrong with them."
Alan Smith, the 36-year-old former England, Leeds, Manchester United and Newcastle forward, was one player that drew some praise after the loss at Bloomfield Road.
"Smudge does all right for me. He is the only one that has a bit of fight about him," Sheridan said.


Moves to strengthen the use of the Welsh language in health and social care - previously criticised by a doctors' group - are being unveiled.

The Welsh government wants Welsh speakers to be able to express their health needs in their first language.
But the British Medical Association (BMA) has said the Welsh language should not be a priority when delivering health care.
The strategy is being launched by the Welsh government on Wednesday.
The BMA said it was in favour of the Welsh language but felt that money spent on the NHS should be spent on health care.
Concerns have also been raised that targeting Welsh-speaking staff could hinder recruitment.
But Health Minister Lesley Griffiths said the Welsh government wanted to make sure patients and their families felt they were "able to use Welsh when being assessed and receiving treatment or care".
"We all feel more comfortable discussing personal health and emotional matters in our first language," she said.
• Creating a systematic approach to Welsh language services as an integral element of service planning and delivery
• Building on current best practice and planning, commissioning and providing care
• Increasing the capability of the workforce to provide Welsh language services in priority areas and language awareness among all staff
• Creating leaders who will foster a supportive ethos within organisations, so that Welsh speaking users receive language sensitive services as a natural part of their care
• Providing education, learning and development programmes which reflect the services' responsibility to plan and provide Welsh language services
• Ensuring that all national strategies, policies and leadership programmes mainstream Welsh language services
SOURCE: Welsh government
"This framework is a key step to increasing not only the physical and mental wellbeing of Welsh speakers who need access to health and social care services, but also their emotional wellbeing."
Gwenda Thomas, deputy minister for social services, said many Welsh speakers could only express their care needs effectively in Welsh.
"For example, people suffering from dementia and people who have a stroke often lose a grasp of their second language," she said.
"Children under the age of five can often only speak their first language."
The strategy says the challenge of addressing the shortage of Welsh speaking staff must be overcome.
"It is no easy task and requires strong leadership from human resources departments," it said.
"It is worth considering whether language skills could be identified in the same way as gender balance is considered within staff teams in service areas such as home care, stroke and dementia services."
Cymdeithas yr Iaith (the Welsh Language Society) supported the plans and said during the consultation that the BMA had to realise that "not being able to express yourself and therefore potentially not receiving the appropriate treatment is the same as other examples of bad service - like not being able to have a hospital bed or a shortage of staff".
Welsh language commissioner Meri Huws has backed the "fundamental principles" of the scheme saying it was a "valuable opportunity to reinforce Welsh language services in those areas".
However, she also raised some concerns such as questioning whether there was a "strong enough long-term foundation" because the strategy worked on the basis of three-year action plans.


Bristol City have signed midfielder Gary O'Neil on a free transfer from recently relegated Norwich City.

The 33-year-old, who made 27 Premier League appearances for the Canaries in 2015-16, has signed a two-year deal.
The former Middlesbrough and West Ham United man, who began his career at Portsmouth, has won promotion from the Championship with four different clubs.
"Gary is a really good signing for us, who adds everything we need to our midfield," head coach Lee Johnson said.
"He may have just turned 33, but he's still fully mobile and very fit. He's a really good decision maker who can be a coach's eyes and ears on the pitch."
O'Neil helped QPR to promotion via the play-offs before his move to Norwich in 2014 and has played more than 200 top-flight games.
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When he was appointed chief constable in 2003 Sean Price described the Cleveland force's sometimes troubled history as a "poison chalice".

He was referring to the long-running Operation Lancet inquiry into alleged police corruption, which led to former Det Supt Ray Mallon - popularly known as  "Robocop" - being asked to resign.
Less than 10 years into the post Mr Price himself became the subject of an inquiry. He was found guilty of gross misconduct and has now been dismissed.
Born in 1957, Sean Price attended Liverpool Bluecoat School, then gained a BSc at Queen Mary's College, University of London.
He joined Merseyside Police in 1979 straight from university and within a few years was promoted to the rank of chief superintendent.
Notable postings included head of drug squad operations, and head of the unit responsible for the wholesale restructuring of Merseyside Police.
In 1998 Mr Price moved to Nottinghamshire, where he was responsible for all uniform and CID operational policing within the county.
Before his promotion to deputy chief constable in 2001, he gained a masters degree in criminology from the University of Cambridge.
At Cleveland Police he promised to deliver "citizen focused neighbourhood policing", even spending some time on the front line himself.
He introduced the "Putting People First" programme and received the Queen's Police Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2005.
Cleveland Police was named Force of the Year in 2011.
Married to a police officer, Mr Price's recreations as listed in Debretts include cycling, cooking, reading, and playing musical instruments (badly).
The former chief constable remains on bail as part of Operation Sacristy, a corruption investigation relating to individuals with past and present associations with Cleveland Police Authority.
Mr Price said: "As chief constable I have been, and remain, immensely proud of the achievements of Cleveland Police and the dedication of its officers and staff.
"On a personal note, I continue to deny any wrongdoing in this or any other matter."


There will be "no third person" in the relationship between Theresa May and Donald Trump, Downing Street has opined, intentionally or not, echoing that famous phrase of Princess Diana's describing the difficulties in her marriage.

Nigel Farage clearly is hoping to be a giant gooseberry in the relationship between the prime minister and the president-elect. But can he take a role? Should he? And does his grinning picture outside the Trump Towers' golden lift actually create any problems for Mrs May?
As the PM prepares to give her first big foreign policy speech at the Guildhall, Mr Farage's antics are clearly deeply annoying for Number 10. One source said they were "maddening".
Mrs May's team had no prior knowledge of the meeting, and found out the same way as everybody else, when Mr Farage turned up at Trump Towers in New York, before posting a picture with a smile as wide as Mr Trump's ego after their meeting, and later apparently enjoying a cigarette break on the balcony of the his penthouse.
Just at the moment, when Mrs May's government is trying to get to grips with a new administration - a largely unexpected one - across the pond, Mr Farage pulls off one of his biggest achievements in a career of winding up Conservatives.
But let's be clear. Despite a few MPs suggesting the contrary, it is about as likely as Mrs May taking selfies with 10-year-old Barron Trump on the patio outside the Cabinet Room that she will end up giving Mr Farage an official role.
But right at the time when Number 10 is trying to organise its visit to Washington DC, after being the ninth seat of government to receive a call from Trump Towers, Mr Farage's mini-break certainly looks bad for Mrs May, implying that he has more clout than she does, that it's the UKIP leader, not the prime minister, in charge of our ties with the US.
It matters not, perhaps, because it was Mr Farage, or because of the temporary story about the embarrassment. But because the relationship between the UK and the US matters enormously, and like any diplomatic tie, it is created and maintained through the painstaking application of protocol.
The Farage-Trump visit demonstrates, as one diplomat put it, that Mr Trump is "deeply unorthodox", that he is not interested in sticking to any convention.
That was, after all, a huge part of his political appeal for those who backed him. But for Mrs May, as she embarks on building a relationship with Trump and his team, there's no predicting what he will do.
And she has also been criticised from the left, for refusing to condemn some of his most controversial beliefs.  The prime minister finds herself with no map, little guide on how her most important ally will behave.
Whether or not Mr Farage keeps popping up, that's a problem she could do without.


Potential locations for a new Portishead rail station are being discussed in a public consultation.

Proposals to re-open the line are part of a Â£100m investment in the local area's rail infrastructure.
It was originally closed in 1964 and the revamp is part of the MetroWest Phase 1 project, being overseen by the West of England Partnership.
The project team has identified three potential station locations and is asking for comments.
North Somerset Council will use responses to decide later this year where the station will be located.
The three locations under consideration are east of Quays Avenue, across Quays Avenue and between Serbert Road and Harbour Road.
The MetroWest Phase 1 project aims to reopen the Portishead line to passenger train services by Spring 2019.
The line will restore the rail link between the town and Bristol city centre.
Leader of North Somerset Council, Nigel Ashton, said: "There is still a lot to do before we could confirm re-opening the Portishead line, but we are making progress.
"Considering the viable options for a station is an important part of the project."
The proposals can be viewed and comments submitted online at the project website.
Two exhibitions are also being held at Portishead Methodist Church on 24 and 28 June.


France has again been stunned by a jihadist attack, after knife-wielding men burst into a church, killed an elderly priest and took hostages.

Here is what we know.
Two men entered the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a suburb of Rouen, during morning mass on Tuesday 26 July at about 09:25 local time.
Inside was the priest - 86-year-old Fr Jacques Hamel - as well as three nuns and two parishioners, according to prosecutor Francois Molins.
One of the nuns, Sister Danielle, said the men, armed with knives, forced the priest to his knees before cutting his throat.
"They recorded it," she told French radio. "It was like they were performing a sermon in Arabic around the altar. It was horrific."
While they were attacking the priest, Sister Danielle was able to escape and raise the alarm.
When police arrived they tried to negotiate with the attackers, who Mr Molins said had lined up three hostages in front of the door as human shields to prevent police storming the church.
The three - two nuns and one parishioner - exited the church, followed by the attackers, one of whom was carrying a gun, who charged police shouting "Allahu akbar" (God is great), Mr Molins added. The pair were shot dead by police.
One of the attackers had fake explosives in a backpack. It would take hours for police to ensure the area was safe.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said two of its "soldiers" had carried out the attack.
The perpetrators have been named as Adel Kermiche and Abdel-Malik Petitjean, both 19.
Both attackers were known to the French security services, having tried to reach Syria to join IS and been turned back.
Kermiche was awaiting trial on terror charges. He was barred from leaving his local area and was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet when he died. However the bracelet was deactivated for a few hours each morning, Mr Molins added.
Petitjean had been identified as a potential security threat and the French security services held a so-called S file on him.
Kermiche lived in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray with his parents. A schoolmate of his described him as a normal teen who became radicalised after the 2015 attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine.
"We tried to reason with him, but every time we tried to reason with him he would reply with some verse from the Koran, he would invent things," Redwan told Reuters news agency.
Petitjean was from a town in eastern France near the German border. Little detail has emerged about his radicalisation but sources close to the investigation have told French media that anti-terrorism police had been looking for a man who looked like Petitjean in the days before the attack.
They had received a tip-off from a foreign intelligence agency, which had warned of an imminent attack and supplied a photograph, but no name, of the likely assailant.
Those who knew Jacques Hamel have described a kind and generous man. He was semi-retired, and was filling in for the regular priest, Father Auguste Moanda-Phuati, at the time of the attack.
Born in 1930 in Darnetal, Seine-Maritime, Hamel was ordained in 1958 and celebrated his golden jubilee - 50 years of priesthood - in 2008, according to the parish website.
"He was a man who was always there for others," Philippe Maheut, the vicar general who helps oversee the parish, told France 24.
"He was not responsible for the parish, but he was always on hand to celebrate baptisms, marriages, funerals and to meet people. He was someone who was very active."
Mohammed Karabila, the president of Normandy's Regional Council of the Muslim Faith, who worked with Father Hamel on an interfaith committee, described him as "a man of peace" who "dedicated his life to his ideas and religion".
One of the worshippers in the church at the time was also badly wounded. They have not been identified.
Tributes paid to priest who dedicated life to church
Vowing to fight IS "using all means possible", French President Francois Hollande said: "To attack a church, kill a priest, is to profane the republic."
But with France already on high alert following the Bastille Day lorry attack in Nice, his opponents have accused the government of not doing enough to keep French citizens safe.
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy, expected to bid again to lead France, said the government needed to "thoroughly change" its strategy against IS.
The leader of the far-right National Front Marine Le Pen, who is also expected to run for the presidency, said both men's parties had failed on security, tweeting that it was "revolting" to see them argue.
The fact that the attackers targeted a church fulfils grim threats against what IS terms "crusaders", and for some marks a dangerous first for Islamist militancy.
"What we have seen is people who are remotely radicalised, becoming remotely operationalised, and selecting targets that hitherto we thought they wouldn't," Haras Rafiq from the think-tank, The Quilliam Foundation, told the BBC.
"They have selected a target that is going to be virtually impossible to defend and patrol in the western world."


Australian scientists hope a drug that mimics part of a shark's immune system may help treat an incurable lung disease.

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) scars lung tissue, causing breathing to become progressively harder.
It kills more than 5,000 people each year in the UK alone, according to the British Lung Foundation.
Researchers hope a new drug, inspired by an antibody in the blood of sharks, can begin human trials next year.
The drug, AD-114, was developed by researchers at Melbourne's La Trobe University and biotechnology company AdAlta.
Initial testing successfully targeted fibrosis-causing cells by creating a human protein that imitated the shark's antibody, according to Dr Mick Foley, from the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science.
"Fibrosis is the end result of a lot of different insults and injuries," he told the BBC.
"This molecule can kill the cells that cause fibrosis."
IPF symptoms include shortness of breath, especially during exercise, which gradually gets worse, and a persistent dry cough.
There is currently no cure so treatment focuses on trying to relieve symptoms and slow its progression.
The US Food and Drug Administration this month designated AD-114 an "orphan drug" - a move which gives tax breaks to companies attempting to find treatments for diseases.
Dr Foley, who is also AdAlta's chief scientific officer, said the company had raised A$10 million (Â£6m; $7.5m) since being listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in August.
It intends to use the money to take the drug to human trials in 2018.
AD-114 does not involve injecting shark blood, which the human body would reject, Dr Foley said.
In laboratory tests, the drug also showed potential to treat other forms of fibrosis.
This included, for example, people suffering from liver disease and age-related eyesight degeneration, Dr Foley said.
He added no sharks had been harmed in the process. A single blood sample was extracted from a wobbegong shark at Melbourne Aquarium, .
"It would be very nice to say one day that 'this person is alive because of what the sharks told us,'" Dr Foley said.
Reporting by the BBC's Greg Dunlop


Scotland's public spending was almost £15bn more than its tax revenue in the last financial year, new figures show.

The amount spent per head was £1,400 per person higher than the UK figure, according to the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) bulletin for 2014-15.
The deficit ran to almost 10% of Scotland's output - nearly double the level for the UK as a whole.
Ministers insisted the foundations of the Scottish economy remained strong.
The figures reflect a sharp drop in the calculation of oil and gas tax revenues that might have been credited to Scottish government income.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: "Taken in the context of the wider economic environment, which has been impacted by muted global demand, falling oil prices and more difficult conditions for manufacturers, the economy has remained resilient with record levels of employment, positive economic growth and growing exports.
"This shows the foundations of Scotland's economy are strong and that we have a strong base to build our future progress upon."
The Scotland Office Minister Andrew Dunlop said: "These figures show that Scotland is facing challenging economic times, in particular because of the drop in oil price, and demonstrate the value of the broad shoulders of the United Kingdom.
"The UK and Scottish governments both have a responsibility to work hard and support the Scottish economy in difficult global conditions, and that is exactly what we will continue to do."
£68bn
Total expenditure
£11.5bn Health
£7.6bn Education and training
£2.8bn Policing
£2.7bn Transport
The annual GERS figures, which are produced by Scottish government economists, independently of ministers, also showed;
The GERS figures are widely used to inform the debate about Scotland's potential for independence or for the full range of tax-raising powers.
They looked much more positive when oil and gas tax revenue was in the billions. But with the fall in the price of oil and gas, as well as high levels of investment, producer profits have plummeted, and taxes with them.
Excluding North Sea revenue, the deficit ran to £16.7bn, or 11.9% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is the key measure of total economic output.
Including a geographic share of offshore tax revenue, the 2014-15 deficit was £14.9bn, or 9.7% of GDP.
For the UK, the equivalent measure was a deficit of £89bn. That was 4.9% of GDP.
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In actual money spent, Scottish revenue including a share of oil and gas tax was £53.4bn, while expenditure on all aspects of government activity in Scotland, both devolved and reserved, ran to £68.4bn.
The scale of the deficit looks less daunting when capital expenditure is removed. That is sometimes done to measure spending without the investment element that provides longer-term returns.
On that measure, the current spending deficit for 2014-15 was £11.9bn, according to GERS - or 7.8% of GDP, compared with a UK figure of 3.3%.
As a benchmark of a sustainable level of deficit, the rules for eurozone membership require deficits to be no more than 3% of GDP.
On Wednesday afternoon the Scottish government admitted it got a key figure wrong in its GERS report.
It explained that the online document was updated to rectify an overstatement of oil revenues in one calculation which had been designed for international comparison.
This change does not affect the over totals.
GERS: Extracts from Table E.2 (figures rounded to the nearest £100). The numbers listed refer to the difference compared with the rest of the UK.


More than 400,000 Syrian refugee children of school age living in Turkey are not attending school, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.

The report interviewed 50 families and found that, on average, their children had lost two years of school.
The main issues facing the children are language barriers, financial difficulties and integration problems.
There are around two million Syrian refugees living in Turkey, 708,000 of whom are of school age.
The Turkish government formally granted Syrian children access to public schools in a 2014 policy. One of the barriers facing Syrians is a lack of information about this policy, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.
"Failing to provide Syrian children with education puts an entire generation at risk," said Stephanie Gee, Bernstein fellow in the refugee rights programme at HRW.
"With no real hope for a better future, desperate Syrian refugees may end up putting their lives on the line to return to Syria or take dangerous journeys to Europe."
The campaign group has called for "urgent financial and technical support" from the international community, warning that failure to act would have "a ruinous effect" on a generation of Syrians.


The head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, says there has been a "dramatic improvement" in the eurozone recovery over the past two years.

Speaking at a forum in Davos he said: "Risks have decreased across the board both for core eurozone countries and the periphery".
Mr Draghi said that so far the recovery had been driven by exports, but demand was picking up with domestic consumers.
However he warned that the recovery was still fragile and uneven.
On the subject of inflation, Mr Draghi said he was confident that in the medium term the eurozone would achieve its 2% target.
Currently, eurozone inflation stands at 0.8% - and there are fears that it could fall further - or even turn negative. That is known as deflation and means prices would actually begin to fall.
Mr Draghi reassured the audience that eurozone policymakers were watching the inflation rate carefully, and he admitted that the "longer this period lasts - the higher the risk" to the recovery.
During his speech, Mr Draghi said he thought the cause of low inflation lies in the fact that the region has been emerging from a banking crisis.
He noted that the inflation rate was not much lower than the rate in the US.
Mr Draghi also said that the European Central Bank (ECB) could not claim all the credit for the eurozone recovery, explaining that the decision by European leaders to create a banking union had played a large part.
"Markets vastly underestimated the amount of political commitment," to a recovery, he said.
European leaders recently agreed to create a common fund that would help the process of closing down a failing bank in the future.
The plan would involve European banks putting 55bn euros ($75bn; Â£46bn) into a fund over 10 years, to avoid using public money for a bank bailout.


The alleged torture of the so-called Hooded Men was "on the scale of a war crime", Belfast High Court has heard.

The 14 men were held without trial during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
They claim to have been subjected to "deep interrogation" in 1971.
A barrister representing the men said their alleged treatment fell within the definition applied to international atrocities dealt with at The Hague.
He also insisted any ministerial involvement in the case should become the subject of criminal proceedings.
He said: "If one doesn't prosecute people at the highest level, it gives rise to a greater sense of impunity."
In 1978, the European Court of Human Rights held that the UK had carried out inhuman and degrading treatment on the men.
However, the court fell short of defining this treatment as "torture".
Surviving members of the group are taking legal action in a bid to secure an independent and human rights-compliant investigation into what they claim they were subjected to.
Action is being taken against the chief constable, secretary of state and the Department of Justice over alleged failures to properly probe and order a full inquiry.
Five techniques are said to have been used against the group as part of "deep interrogation" -
"It's difficult to see how torture in the context one is talking about, people detained by the State in the circumstances they were, is any less serious than torture inflicted in a wartime situation," the barrister representing some of the men said on Wednesday.
"Where one is looking at allegations of torture, which is an issue in this case, one is at the level of a war crime."
The case continues.


Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took his 13th five-wicket haul as he helped India bowl South Africa out for 184 on the second day of the first Test.

The tourists began the day on 28-2 but struggled against the slow bowlers with AB de Villiers (63) one of only three batsmen to reach double figures.
Ashwin, who took the new ball, was backed up by fellow spinners Ravindra Jadeja (3-55) and Amit Mishra (2-35).
The home side ended the day on 125-2 in Mohali, an overall lead of 142.
To add to the Proteas' woes, star paceman Dale Steyn did not take the field because of a groin problem.
That left the tourists - already without Steyn's regular new-ball partner Morne Morkel and all-rounder JP Duminy for this Test - a bowler short.
India opener Shikhar Dhawan bagged a pair after he fell to Vernon Philander without scoring for the second time in the game.
But Murali Vijay (47) and Cheteshwar Pujara (63 not out) steadied the innings with a second-wicket partnership of 86, before Vijay was superbly caught at short leg by substitute fielder Temba Bavuma, on for the injured Steyn.


Independent school head teachers have said there was a "major problem" with an exam taken last summer.

They have published a report saying the results of the IGCSE in English language were flawed and pupils received unfair grades.
The exam board, Cambridge International Exams, said it was "confident" in the accuracy of the results.
Exam regulator Ofqual said the exam results were reliable and pupils had received "appropriate" grades.
The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) and Girls' School Association said an "unprecedented number" of schools had come forward with concerns about the results.
The report said the exam results "cannot be trusted" and there had been a "large-scale award of false grades" for the IGCSE English language paper taken by pupils in May 2015.
The independent schools' groups said there had been problems with the grade boundaries and the results had been "exceptionally out of line" with expectations, with pupils forecast to get top grades receiving U grades.
Leicester Grammar School headmaster Chris King, who chairs the HMC, said they were publishing the report after months of "fruitless formal appeals".
"Yet again, schools have known that students have been graded unfairly but have been unable to gain justice for pupils under the current system," he said.
But the claims about the IGCSE were strongly rejected by the exam board.
Roderic Gillespie, director of assessment at Cambridge International Examinations, said the independent schools' report was "flawed" and had been based on a "small sample of self-selecting schools unhappy with their results".
"There is no evidence in the report to justify re-grading the exam papers," he said.
Ofqual said it had checked the schools' claims but remained unconvinced by the evidence.
"It is unreasonable for any study to make assertions about an entire cohort of students based on the results of an unrepresentative sub-set of schools," said an Ofqual spokesman.
The exam watchdog said it was "satisfied that the grade boundaries were suitable".
Last year saw a record number of grades being changed after pupils appealed against results.
There were more than 90,000 GCSE and A-level grades changed in 2015, almost twice as many as three years before.


Nintendo have released their brand new game, Pokémon Go, on mobile devices around the world.

15 July 2016 Last updated at 07:58 BST
Hundreds of millions of people had already been catching the virtual creatures since it was first launched 20 years ago.
Pokémon Go is a new version of the game, that players can use for the first time on their mobile phones and devices.
Players search the real world using satellite location to find Pokémon near them, and use augmented reality to see and capture them.
Hayley has been checking it out.


A pedestrian was knocked down by a moped gang riding along the pavement on London Bridge after police had earlier tried to stop them.

The three mopeds were travelling south on the bridge when they mounted the east pavement and hit the woman at about 00:40 BST.
City of London Police said they had tried to stop the group in Gracechurch Street but lost sight of them.
The woman was taken to hospital where she was treated for a leg injury.
A spokesperson for the force said officers were not pursuing the gang along the bridge at the time but had been monitoring them on CCTV.
"The City of London Police is investigating this incident and anyone with information is asked to contact 101," the force said.
Security barriers were installed alongside the pavements on London Bridge following June's terror attack.


Peterborough United fans have raised more than £100,000 for a statue to memorialise their former manager.

Chris Turner died in April 2015 aged 64, after being diagnosed with a form of dementia in 2006.
He spent nine years as a player with Posh before winning back-to-back promotions as manager in the early 1990s.
Sculptor Sean Hedges-Quinn has created a statue which will be unveiled at the club's London Road ground.
Images of the bronze statue will not be released ahead of its unveiling on 1 September.
When fundraising began in November 2015 fans said they wanted it "to have a large plinth, all lit up and covered in granite and very tall, because Chris Turner was a very tall man".
They also hoped it would depict Turner's face as it was "when we won at Wembley, absolutely laughing his head off and having the time of his life".
The original fundraising target of £80,000 has been passed and the total stands at just over £100,000.
The surplus will pay for landscaping the area around the club's North Stand where the statue will be placed, and its maintenance.
Turner was a defender with Peterborough United from 1969-1977, and later played for Luton, Cambridge United, Swindon and Southend before retiring in 1984 and going on to manage both Cambridge and Peterborough.
Before his death, Turner's wife Lynne said doctors told her his dementia was "caused by heading too many balls".


As he talks about his frugal life of cheap oats and relative solitude in a small town in the Bavarian mountains, Robbie Simpson sounds more like a wannabe Bear Grylls than a marathon runner from Banchory.

On Sunday, Simpson will be in the field in London along with 40,000 others.
Last year he finished ahead of all bar 17 of them, which wasn't a bad effort for a man who runs up hills for a living instead of running on roads and who, to add to the task, spent much of the week leading up to London in his bed only half-alive following food poisoning.
Simpson's tale is an unconventional one. This weekend is about London, but there's a bigger picture. He sees the world athletics championships in the summer, he sees the Commonwealth Games next year.
What he also sees, of course, are many elite Scottish and English marathon runners ahead of him. He's the underdog, but he's comfortable with that.
"I'm based in south Germany most of the time, just on the border with Austria," he says. "It's a town called Mittenwald between Innsbruck and Munich. Mittenwald means middle of the forest and that about sums it up.
"I had a choice of living with friends in a city somewhere and doing a job I didn't like or moving somewhere like this and doing everything I ever wanted to do. Yeah, there's not many people around. There's not many comforts, but this is perfect for me.
"I train better when it's hard. I get on with it better when it's just me and the pain of the training. The Kenyans do the same, even the most famous and the richest ones. They don't live with their families when they're training, they move into the mountains and live in huts with no electricity and just sleep on horrible hard mattresses on the floor.
"They do it for weeks. Eat simple food and train. They say you can't train hard when you're comfortable.
"These guys, by Kenyan standards, are really wealthy. They own loads of property but they say if you surround yourself with comfort you lose the hunger. It's difficult to get up at 5am to run 20 mile runs when you're in luxury."
Now 25, this life was set in train when he was a kid trying to find a sport that suited him. He tried javelin and the magic didn't happen. Shot put - same story. Track running - boring.
Around the age of 12 he ran up a hill in Banchory and something clicked.
Through his teens he raced in Aberdeen and Inverness, Balmoral and Bennachie, Torlundy and Tillicoultry. Then it got serious and the meetings got more exotic - La Montee du Grand Ballon in France, Zurcher Silversterlauf in Switzerland, Grunder Stadtlauf in Germany.
"There's a man called Bert McIntosh who owns a plant hire company at home," Simpson explains. "He's in his 70s now and loves his triathlons. An amazing person.
"He sponsors local schools, local events and local athletes. He's been very generous to me and I've needed his help because there's not a lot of money to be made in what I do. If you win a small race you get a few hundred euros, a middle-ranking race might get you a thousand or 1,200, a bigger race about 1,800 euros.
"When I finished university and went hill running full-time I'd saved up enough cash to get me through a summer, but beyond that Bert backed me and helped me pay the rent and survive.
"You learn very quickly how to live cheaply. I can get by on 10,000 euros a year on food, rent, travel - and there's a fair bit of travel. You add in whatever prize money you get and that's how I do it."
In his world there are a couple of races in the year that offer a relative jackpot - the illustrious Jungfrau Marathon in Switzerland is one of them. Last September, Simpson won it - prestige and pounds, about seven thousand of them.
"Mountain racing is so unpredictable," he says. "On the road, whoever has the best times previously normally wins, but in the mountain races there are so many uncertainties - the weather, the terrain, the steepness of the climb. Every mountain is different.
"When I first started it was just about racing in Scotland and Ben Nevis was a memorable one. Then I ran Mount Snowdon in Wales and it was my first breakthrough race. I was 18 - the youngest in it. I thought I was just competing for the experience and I ended up winning.
"It was misty and wet and windy and stormy - brilliant. I didn't even know I'd won. I presumed there was a guy ahead of me but I couldn't see him because of the mist, but there was nobody there.
"Then I started racing a lot in Norway and Switzerland and it's all bouldery and snowy. Jungfrau was my biggest day ever. I did it for the first time in 2012 and I made the top-10 and was thinking that this was a race you dream about winning. About 4,000 people enter.  It's a full marathon but the first half is mostly flat and the second half you start climbing uphill and you finish just below the Eiger.
"That was a huge day. I didn't exactly make London Marathon type money but what I got was nearly enough to keep me going for a year."
London is a major goal but it's also a means to an end. He has a massive, almost insurmountable, job on his hands to break into the British team for the Worlds in the summer and his task in trying to run fast enough to make the Scotland team for Gold Coast 2018 is also a mammoth one.
Callum Hawkins is a certainty for that team. His brother, Derek, and the Scottish-Eritrean, Tsegai Tewelde, are the hot favourites to take the other spots. Not that Simpson is lying down.
"I ran 2.15.38 in London last year but to put myself in the frame for the Commonwealth Games I need to go under 2.15.30," he says.
"Scotland has plenty of good marathon runners at the moment. A lot of the other guys come from track and road backgrounds and they've been doing it for years, but for me it's harder. Coming from mountain running, I don't have that same speed in my legs.
"I can go up steep hills but I can't run forever on a flat road at a fast pace. That's what I've spent the last few months working really hard to improve. It's a big challenge."
One thing is obvious about Simpson - big challenges are what he basks in.


A paralysed man has been able to feed himself by using his thoughts to send messages from implants in his brain to ones in his arm.

Bill Kochevar, who was paralysed in a cycling accident, said he was "wowed" to regain control of his right arm.
Researchers say this is the first time anyone has been able to restore brain-controlled reaching and grasping in a person with complete paralysis.
But the technology is a long way from being used outside the lab.
"I think it's pretty cool I get to be the first one in the world to do it," said Bill, who was 53 when he took part in the study.
He had been paralysed for eight years after he cycled into the back of a mail van while taking part in a 150-mile bike ride and couldn't move his body from the shoulders down.
For the study, he had surgery to place sensors in the motor cortex area of his brain, the area responsible for hand movement.
He then spent four months using the sensors to command movements of a three-dimensional virtual arm.
After this, he had 36 electrodes implanted in his arm and hand to electrically stimulate his hand, elbow and shoulder muscles.
The researchers used a decoder to translate his brain signals into commands for the electrodes in his arm.
He was then able to intuitively command his arm to move.
"I was making it move without having to really concentrate hard at it. I just think 'out' and it just goes," he said.
"This research has enhanced my ability to be able to do things.
"I'm still wowed every time I do something amazing. I ate a pretzel, I drank water.
"One day they had some mashed potatoes and, low and behold, I was able to eat the mashed potatoes really well."
He has also been able to scratch his head and face using a modified loofah on a stick.
Previous research has seen a system with electrodes on the skin (rather than implanted) help people move their hands.
Other studies have also seen participants controlling robotic arms using their brain signals.
But researchers believe this study "represents a major advance" with potential for future uses outside the lab.
"Although similar systems have been used before, none of them has been as easy to adopt for day-to-day use and they have not been able to restore both reaching and grasping actions," said lead author Dr Bolu Ajiboye from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
He acknowledged that the research was at an early stage but "we believe that this neuro-prosthesis could offer individuals with paralysis the possibility of regaining arm and hand functions to perform day-to-day activities, offering them greater independence.
"With further development, we believe the technology could give more accurate control, allowing a wider range of actions, which could begin to transform the lives of people living with paralysis."
Commenting on the paper that is published in the Lancet, Dr Steve Perlmutter of the University of Washington in the US, agreed the study was "groundbreaking" but warned that the "treatment is not nearly ready for use outside the lab".
"The study is a proof-of-principle demonstration of what is possible, rather than a fundamental advance in neuro-prosthetic concepts or technology.
"But it is an exciting demonstration nonetheless, and the future of motor neuro-prosthetics to overcome paralysis is brighter."


San Francisco International Airport are using a pig to soothe passengers who are feeling nervous or stressed about flying.

7 December 2016 Last updated at 14:26 GMT
Check out LiLou - a Juliana breed therapy pig who wears a pilot's hat and "Pet Me" badge around the airport.
She is the latest in a group of animals, such as dogs, cats and rabbits, who all work at the airport to greet passengers.
San Francisco Animal Assisted Therapy run the program at the airport.
Video from San Francisco International Airport.


Some of the quirkier snippets from the news in Africa that have been covered this week:

1) Namibia's rugby-playing dentist looks after his teammates' teeth
PJ van Lill, who has given his teammates dental examinations in the past, started in their opening World Cup match against favourites New Zealand, which they lost 58-14. The lowest-ranked team in the tournament also includes engineers, diamond traders, farmers and construction workers.
Find out more
2) The UK's ban on khat reportedly cost Kenya Airways $5m (Â£3m)
The airline said shipments of the stimulant accounted for 10% of its total cargo revenue and it used to ship more than 2,000 tonnes a year to London.
Find out more
3) Goodluck Jonathan wanted to go into hiding after his election defeat
Nigerian media say the ex-leader and his wife intended to go into hiding for 12 months, after he became the first sitting president to lose an election. It was only the death of a respected politician's wife which forced him to reconsider.
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4) The name of Ghana's top undercover reporter is inspiring new language
Anas Aremeyaw Anas' name has taken on different meanings after he exposed the country's biggest ever judicial scandal.  To go undercover can now be "to anas", while to be caught in the act is "to be anased".
Find out more
5) Burning ivory doesn't necessarily destroy it
It would take around a week to reduce a male elephant tusk to ash by burning it, even if it was exposed to 1,000C heat. According to one expert,  "ivory doesn't catch fire the way you might imagine but rather just chars on the outside".
Find out more


The San Diego Chargers will stay in the California city next season and hope to agree a new stadium deal, says owner Dean Spanos.

The Chargers have until January 2017 to decide whether they will relocate to Los Angeles or stay in San Diego.
Spanos has agreed to share a proposed stadium in the southern California city of Inglewood with the St Louis Rams.
But he said: "My focus is on San Diego. This has been our home for 55 years and I want to keep the team here."
San Diego's 70,000-capacity Qualcomm Stadium was opened in 1967.
It has held three Super Bowls, the most recent in 2003, and the NFL has told the Chargers they will not host another unless they move to another venue.


A man has been rescued after he fell down Symonds Yat Rock in the Forest of Dean.

Seventeen firefighters, including rope rescue specialists, were called to the scene at about 2025 BST on Tuesday.
An ambulance service spokesman said he had fallen about 50ft (15m), but tumbled in three stages.
The 48-year-old man, from Herefordshire, was then taken to hospital with suspected spinal injuries and severe concussion.
Firefighters from the Gloucestershire and Hereford and Worcester services, ambulance crews from West Midlands and Great Western ambulance services, police and mountain rescuers attended.
A spokesman from the West Midlands Ambulance Service said the rescue had involved getting the man from the bottom of the 50ft drop to the top. He was taken to Hereford County Hospital.
"Considering he'd fallen 50ft but he had fallen and tumbled in three stages he came off pretty OK," the spokesman said.
"Considering the distance he'd fallen, he was very lucky indeed."


US President Barack Obama has ordered the creation of a programme that would allow the government to sanction foreign hackers.

The US Treasury will now be able to target those attempting cyber attacks on US assets and infrastructure.
Mr Obama said cyber-threats are "one of the most serious economic and national security challenges" that the US faces.
The White House did not announce any new sanctions, only the authority to impose them when it deems necessary.
In January, the US imposed new sanctions on North Korea in response to a cyber-attack against Sony Pictures.
The new programme is the product of an executive order issued by the president on Wednesday.
The authorisation gives the US Treasury Secretary - in coordination with the Attorney General and Secretary of State - the ability to sanction "individuals or entities" that pose a cyber threat to the "national security, foreign policy, or economic health or financial stability of the United States," Mr Obama said in a statement issued by the White House.
Mr Obama created the new authorisations because of the "unusual and extraordinary threat" from cyber-attacks that the US faces from beyond its borders, the White House said.
"Today's Executive Order allows us to expose and financially isolate those who hide in the shadows of the Internet to conduct malicious cyber activities," US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said.
Officials at the White House and the Treasury Department stress that the tool will not be used to target free speech on the internet or to curtail digital innovation.
They also say that this new authority will not replace traditional law enforcement responses to cyber threats. Instead, it is another tool for combating the threats when they originate from places with weak cyber security laws, or that have otherwise eluded traditional responses.
Mr Obama's Special Assistant and Cyber Security Coordinator Michael Daniel said the tool is "not one that we are expecting to use every day, in most cases our diplomatic and law enforcements tools will be the ones we turn to first."
US officials are particularly concerned with cyber threats originating from China and a select few other countries, that they say are capable of mounting large-scale cyber attacks. They fear that these attacks could shut down the electrical grid or other critical systems.
In recent years, several major US retailers have been victims of data breaches that compromised the financial data of customers.
In December, Sony Pictures was initially forced to pull its comedy The Interview from theatres after hackers released the personal data of its employees and embarrassing emails written by executives. The hackers also threatened violence at cinemas. Sony eventually decided to release the film in theatres and online.
The White House blamed North Korea for the attacks on the movie studio and later imposed sanctions on the reclusive country.


Minding has been named Horse of the Year at the Cartier Racing Awards.

The five-time Group One winner in 2016 triumphed as her Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien dominated the event celebrating the best of European flat racing.
O'Brien was given the order of merit and his horses Found and Order Of St George won the older horse and top stayer categories.
Stablemate Churchill was leading two-year-old colt, while Minding also won the three-year-old filly prize.
Minding's victories included the 1,000 Guineas, Oaks, Nassau Stakes and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.
Jockey Ryan Moore said he had been "very lucky" to ride "consistent and honest" Minding during 2016.
O'Brien was responsible for five of eight award winners after orchestrating an incredible 1-2-3 in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in October, led by Found.
Two-Year-Old Colt: Churchill
Two-Year-Old Filly: Lady Aurelia
Three-Year-Old Colt: Almanzor
Three-Year-Old Filly: Minding
Sprinter: Quiet Reflection
Stayer: Order Of St George
Older Horse: Found
Horse of the Year: Minding - owned by Derrick Smith, Sue Magnier & Michael Tabor
Award of Merit: Aidan O'Brien
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Female suicide bombers in Nigeria are now carrying babies to avoid detection in their attacks, authorities warn.

An attack in the town of Madagali on 13 January saw two women detonate their devices, killing themselves, two babies, and four others.
They had passed a vigilante checkpoint, mistaken for civilians because they were carrying infants.
Female attackers have been seen before, but officials said the use of babies could signal a "dangerous" trend.
The insurgent group Boko Haram is widely suspected of having carried out the attack.
Four women attacked Madagali located in Adamawa State, which was recaptured from Boko Haram in 2015.
Two were stopped at a security checkpoint, and detonated their devices, officials said.
The two women carrying infants, however, were not stopped, and exploded their own devices past the security point.
Boko Haram is known for using women, including young girls, as suicide bombers.
The Nigerian government has been fighting the group in a major counter-offensive, recapturing much of their former territory.
But the insurgents have ramped up their suicide bombings in response.
In early December, two female suicide attackers killed at least 45 people in the same town, after they detonated their devices in a busy market.
A similar attack killed 25 people a year earlier.


Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich dropped points for the first time this season as Cologne fought back to hold them 1-1 at Allianz Arena.

Joshua Kimmich's header gave Carlo Ancelotti's side the lead after 40 minutes but Anthony Modeste volleyed in a cross to level just after the hour.
The visitors could even have won it in the second half but Yuya Osako was adjudged offside with his late effort.
Bayern stay top of the Bundesliga, with Cologne four points behind in fourth.
The draw, which stretched Cologne's unbeaten league run to 11 games, came three days after Bayern lost 1-0 to Atletico Madrid in the Champions League.
"We are disappointed, but have nothing to worry about," said Ancelotti, whose side came into the game having won their first five league matches this season.
"We must not forget that our start to the season was really good. The last two games were not good. But confidence in my players is great."
Match ends, FC Bayern München 1, 1. FC Köln 1.
Second Half ends, FC Bayern München 1, 1. FC Köln 1.
Attempt missed. David Alaba (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Salih Özcan (1. FC Köln).
Attempt missed. Simon Zoller (1. FC Köln) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Artjoms Rudnevs following a fast break.
Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Frederik Sörensen (1. FC Köln).
Attempt missed. Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Thomas Müller with a cross.
Substitution, 1. FC Köln. Artjoms Rudnevs replaces Yuya Osako.
Juan Bernat (FC Bayern München) hits the left post with a left footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Xabi Alonso.
Attempt blocked. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Juan Bernat.
Offside, 1. FC Köln. Yuya Osako tries a through ball, but Anthony Modeste is caught offside.
Offside, FC Bayern München. David Alaba tries a through ball, but Juan Bernat is caught offside.
Corner,  FC Bayern München. Conceded by Frederik Sörensen.
Attempt missed. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Thomas Müller with a cross.
Foul by Rafinha (FC Bayern München).
Anthony Modeste (1. FC Köln) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Mats Hummels (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Arturo Vidal with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  FC Bayern München. Conceded by Jonas Hector.
Attempt saved. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Xabi Alonso with a cross.
Corner,  FC Bayern München. Conceded by Marcel Risse.
Attempt missed. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Xabi Alonso with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  FC Bayern München. Conceded by Dominique Heintz.
Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Salih Özcan (1. FC Köln).
Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Anthony Modeste (1. FC Köln).
Attempt missed. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Juan Bernat with a cross.
Offside, 1. FC Köln. Salih Özcan tries a through ball, but Yuya Osako is caught offside.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. David Alaba replaces Kingsley Coman.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Arturo Vidal replaces Renato Sanches.
Corner,  1. FC Köln. Conceded by Xabi Alonso.
Simon Zoller (1. FC Köln) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Javi Martínez (FC Bayern München) is shown the yellow card.
Javi Martínez (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simon Zoller (1. FC Köln).
Corner,  FC Bayern München. Conceded by Timo Horn.
Frederik Sörensen (1. FC Köln) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Renato Sanches (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the left wing.


Since Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced on 17 June that his government had decided to build a 175km-long (109 miles) steel barrier against illegal migrants, another 57,000 have entered the country.

News of the impending barrier along Hungary's border with Serbia spread rapidly among the diverse groups of migrants travelling northwards through the Balkans, or still hesitating before setting out on the journey from northern Greece or western Turkey.
But the immediate effect seems to be the opposite of what the Fidesz government intended.
Before the announcement, 500 people a day were walking through the narrow bottleneck of woods close to the E75, the main Belgrade to Budapest motorway. Now the daily average is 1500.
The Dunaferr steel mill in Dunaujvaros in central Hungary has not seen so much media interest since communist times.
The city around it was a model Soviet settlement built after World War Two on the banks of the Danube, originally called Stalinvaros - Stalin-town.
Iron ore is still brought here on barges up the Danube, from Ukraine and Russia.
Forty-four inmates from the nearby Palhalmai jail, in grey prison uniforms and heavy, steel-capped boots stack giant girders, labouring under the watchful scrutiny of prison guards.
Despite the television cameras, many look glad to have a change from the boredom of prison life, showing off their physical strength, and stealing a wink at female reporters.
This will be the skeleton of the border fence. In another factory nearby, unseen by journalists, more inmates put together coils of of razor-wire - 'Nato wire' as it is known in Hungarian - for assembly down on the southern border.
It is 34C and the local Fidesz MP Denes Galambos, trapped in his business suit, looks more uncomfortable than most of the prisoners.
Hungary has no choice but to build this "temporary barrier", he says.
The main attraction of Hungary to most asylum seekers is that it belongs to the Schengen zone of border-free countries at the core of the EU.
Once here, there are no more border controls to reach Western Europe, with the exception of Britain and Ireland.
Using prisoners to build the barrier, and unemployed people and soldiers to fix it in place along the border, is the government's way of telling voters that it is trying to both protect them from migrant "hordes", and keep costs down.
Already estimated at â‚¬100m (Â£70m), Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that every penny spent on it hurts him.
"The real threat is not from the war zones, ladies and gentlemen, but from the heart of Africa," he said in his 25 July speech at Baile Tusnad in Romania.
The barrier is his contribution to protecting the European identity, he said, as well as the Hungarian one.
Originally planned for completion by November, Mr Orban now wants it finished by the end of August. That would require 6km a day.
An army officer overseeing construction at Morahalom, not authorised to speak on the record, said the coils of wire could be in place by then, but not the stanchions (fence posts), even at the current, frenetic rate.
Earth-moving machines have already carved a brown scar through the woods from Tiszasziget, a village on the border just south of Szeged, at one end of the border with Serbia, to Hercegszanto at the other end.
I asked government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs how effective he really expected the fence to be.
Surely determined asylum seekers will just go round your fence and enter Hungary over the 443km-long Romanian border, I said. Or across the 329km long border with Croatia?
"If necessary, we will build barriers there too," he said. Busy times beckon for the prisoners in Steelville.


Two peregrine falcon eggs have been spotted on the roof of a Nottingham building as the protected birds' breeding season begins.

The eggs are in a nest on the ledge of the Newton Building at Nottingham Trent University which is being filmed by a Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust webcam.
A wildlife trust spokesman said the eggs were the first in the East Midlands so far this year.
Falcons have been nesting on the building for about 13 years, he said.
"It is always great news that a pair are back using the nest site - it is so important to have such a long successful nesting site," trust spokesman Erin McDaid said.
Peregrine falcons are a protected species and cannot be trapped or shot. A male peregrine falcon found dead at Derbyshire Wildlife Trust's headquarters in Belper earlier this year had been shot in the shoulder, tests revealed.
The Nottingham birds are the first in the East Midlands to lay, beating pairs nesting on cathedrals in Derby and Norwich, Mr McDaid said.
"We have had a huge level of interest on social media over the weekend so it looks like the pair will have a huge following again this year.
"It is great to see them back and see them using the nest. We just have our fingers crossed that the eggs haven't arrived too early."
Three chicks died on the same site in 2012 after severe cold weather.


The number of beds available at a community hospital in the Borders has been cut by almost a quarter.

The move followed a decision by the Duns Medical Group, a local medical practice, to withdraw in-patient bed cover at The Knoll.
There are now 18 beds available at the Duns hospital, down from its previous capacity of 23.
Cover for the remaining 18 beds is to be provided by the Merse Medical Practice.


Helen Zille, former leader of South Africa's main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), has publicly apologised for her tweets saying there were some positive aspects of colonialism.

She said her comments in March were "insensitive to South Africans".
Ms Zille will step down from all party leadership positions but remain the premier of Western Cape province.
The row threatened the DA's popularity, which is trying to extend its appeal among black people.
Party leader Mmusi Maimane said the deal will help DA focus on the 2019 general election.
He said the party chose to avoid a protracted legal battle and instead seek reconciliation.
Ms Zille had tweeted that colonialism was not only negative:
The comments caused public outrage forcing her to apologise at least three times with the DA bowing to political pressure to suspend her last week.
She said in an interview last week with BBC Focus on Africa that her comments on the legacy of colonialism were not any different to views expressed by among others, including former South African President Nelson Mandela and former Zambian leader Kenneth Kaunda.
She also said that similar views appear in textbooks used in South African schools.
Ms Zille said in the interview that her critics had to be consistent in their criticism and should not victimise her.
But today at a press conference with Mr Maimane she said she apologised "unreservedly".
Ms Zille read a prepared statement saying her comments were "indefensible" and "insensitive to South Africans who suffered from colonial oppression".
Helen Zille looked like a naughty school child sitting next to her headmaster as she apologised for her controversial tweets.
The apology and the deal that will see Ms Zille relinquish her party leadership positions has somewhat restored Mmusi Maimane's authority as leader.
There is however no doubt that this controversy damaged the DA's long-term project to unseat the governing African National Congress (ANC) in 2019.
Many black South Africans who backed the DA after becoming disillusioned with the troubled ANC felt offended by Ms Zille's earlier attempt to defend the tweets.
The question is whether black DA voters, who were ridiculed for being subservient following Ms Zille's tweets, will continue to support the party.
She also said she had "undermined" Mr Maimane saying that he is the leader of the party and "we must all get behind his leadership".
BBC's Southern Africa correspondent Karen Allen reports that Ms Zille, who was a key figure in the anti-apartheid movement, has been accused by critics of damaging his leadership.
Mr Maimane said he found his colleague's tweets offensive but added that she should continue with her government job - running the Western Cape Province.


After days of severe flooding, aerial footage from the skies above Selby and York shows that the flood waters are starting to get lower.

29 December 2015 Last updated at 15:35 GMT
December has already seen communities in Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Yorkshire devastated by record river levels.
Although many people in these affected areas are now trying to clean up, a BBC crew aboard a helicopter captured pictures of a waterskier taking to the flooded rivers around Cawood, in the Selby district of North Yorkshire.


An unmanned rocket heading to the International Space Station has exploded shortly after blasting off.

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29 June 2015 Last updated at 07:53 BST
No one was onboard and no was was hurt.
The craft, an American Falcon-9 SpaceX rocket, was carrying supplies of food and equipment to the astronauts on the space station.
US space agency Nasa say the astronauts who were waiting for the supplies still have plenty to keep them going.
An investigation is underway to find out what went wrong.


Premier League champions Chelsea have signed Germany defender Antonio Rudiger from Roma on a five-year contract for an initial fee of £29m.

Rudiger, 24, completed the transfer one week after helping world champions Germany win the Confederations Cup.
"It's a great feeling because not every player has the opportunity to join a huge club like this," said Rudiger.
The fee for Chelsea's first major signing of the summer could rise to £33.3m with add-on clauses.
"Antonio is still young but is experienced at club and international level and possesses all the requisite attributes to thrive in the Premier League," said Chelsea's technical director Michael Emenalo.
"He is a player of proven quality."
Rudiger will wear the number two shirt left vacant after Branislav Ivanovic's departure to Zenit St Petersburg in February.
Because he was set to take a break after his involvement in the Confederations Cup, Rudiger is unlikely to be involved when the majority of Antonio Conte's squad return to pre-season training on Monday.
Rudiger played for Borussia Dortmund at youth level before moving to Stuttgart in 2011.
He made his Bundesliga debut in January 2012 and clocked up 66 appearances in Germany's top flight before moving to Roma in 2015.
Rudiger made 30 Serie A appearances in 2015-16 as Roma finished third and a further 26 in 2016-17 as they were runners-up to Juventus.
He also played six Champions League games in 2015-16 as Roma reached the last 16.
In addition, Rudiger has made 17 appearances for Germany, including a 1-0 win friendly win over England in March, but was ruled out of Euro 2016 after tearing cruciate knee ligaments.
Chelsea continued a summer trend among Premier League clubs by announcing the signing with an elaborate video on their Twitter feed.
In the video, a young boy visiting Chelsea's club shop asks his dad for a shirt with Rudiger's name on the back.
His dad tells him he cannot have the name of a player Chelsea have not signed and recommends David Luiz or Eden Hazard instead.
"Dad, I want Rudiger!" says the boy, to which the shop assistant goes into a stock room and asks the player, wearing a number two Chelsea shirt, if that's OK.
"No problem," he says. "I'm a Chelsea player now."
Mani Djazmi, BBC World Service reporter
Like his inexperienced team-mates, Antonio Rudiger grew into the Confederations Cup. By the time of Germany's victory, he looked a seasoned international in a team whose players' mutual understanding seemed flawless.
He was strong and composed in the German defence which, like Chelsea's under Antonio Conte, featured three central defenders, although Rudiger can also play at right-back.
In the final, as Chile's relentless, marauding attackers tested Germany's defensive nerve, he stayed strong, not least when an impeccably-timed challenge denied Charles Aranguiz in the early stages.
It's not often that football managers commit to direct comparisons of players, but Germany coach Joachim Low has likened Rudiger to Bayern Munich's Jerome Boateng.
Rudiger will be hoping that his assured performances at the tournament will help him earn a place alongside Boateng and Mats Hummels at the 2018 World Cup.
But the 24-year-old's history of knee operations - he has had three - along with his eight yellow cards and two reds in all competitions for Roma last season, and his self description of being a hard tackler suggests he will not always be available for Conte.
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China has warned citizens travelling to Singapore to be careful of shopping scams, following a tourism controversy in the South East Asian city.

Singapore has been gripped by the plight of a holidaying Vietnamese factory worker scammed of two months' wages when trying to buy an iPhone 6.
The case and subsequent attempts by Singaporeans to help him have made headlines regionally.
Singapore has long prided itself on being a safe tourist-friendly spot.
An advisory posted on China's Consular Services website noted that there had been "many cases last year" where Chinese tourists were cheated when buying electronic goods.
It said that Chinese tourists who wish to buy mobile phones or other expensive electronic devices in Singapore should first check if the shops they are patronising have had complaints lodged against them.
The Consumer Association of Singapore maintains a list of errant retailers.
China is the fastest growing source of tourists to Singapore, which is also popular with other Asian visitors.
Earlier this week, Singaporean media reported a case where Vietnamese tourist Pham Van Thoai was tricked into signing a phone warranty contract at a mobile shop in a well-known electronics shopping centre,.
The same shop had previously made the news for refunding a Chinese tourist hundreds of dollars in coins.
Concern had already been mounting in Singapore of persistent tourist scams.
But Mr Pham's case provoked nationwide sympathy and outrage at the shop when newspapers published a photo of him sobbing and a video of him  begging on his knees for a refund, filmed by shop staff, surfaced online.
Though he called in the police and consumer association officials, he still lost S$550 (Â£266; $440) - the equivalent of more than two months' worth of wages - and left without a phone.
The incident sparked concern about consumers' rights and apparent damage to Singapore's image as a tourist destination.
Frustrated at the lack of punishment, some netizens have named and shamed the shop's owner and published online his personal details, including his address, phone numbers and photos of him posing shirtless.
Others donated to a crowdfunding campaign started by a Singaporean to reimburse Mr Pham, which has gathered nearly US$12,000. "This is not okay. This is not right. We are not a nation of thieves and cheats," the campaign website said.
Mr Pham however has reportedly said a Singaporean businessman gave him money for a phone, and declined to accept more donations.
The response has been widely covered by Vietnamese media, as well as other South East Asian news outlets, and has drawn appreciative comments from the Vietnamese.
"Thank you Singaporean people... I really admire your kindness and devotion to foreigners like us," said one on Facebook.


With leaders Chelsea being toppled by Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge, is it any surprise that my Team of the Week is dominated by Eagles?

But it wasn't only a good weekend for Palace - Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool kept up the chase at the top, while Arsenal and Manchester City played out an entertaining draw.
At the bottom, Hull joined Palace in earning a big win.
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Three first-half saves by Wayne Hennessey set the tone for an outstanding victory by Crystal Palace over Premier League leaders Chelsea. Prior to the arrival of Sam Allardyce, I've seen Palace capitulate having gone 1-0 down away from home. Not so anymore.
I sat behind the dugout at Stamford Bridge and marvelled at the performance by the manager. I saw Allardyce tell Luka Milivojevic in no uncertain terms not to stick his foot where it didn't belong after a first-half tackle on Eden Hazard. The message being that with 11 men on the pitch Palace had a chance of winning this match and the manager wasn't prepared to countenance any self indulgence from any player who might undermine his plan.
With Milivojevic firmly back in his box it was left to Hennessey to continue performing in the second half as he did in the first, demonstrating superb goalkeeping with confidence and stature. It worked.
This player is fast becoming a favourite of mine. Fernandinho can play full-back or in midfield and wherever he plays these days, he's as safe as houses.
The difficulty the Brazilian has is he and the team are missing a fit Vincent Kompany. I have no doubt that if Kompany plays, Shkodran Mustafi doesn't win the header that produces the Arsenal equaliser and City go on to win.
What is also clear to me is that City are getting better under Pep Guardiola and whilst there will be changes of personnel next season, Fernandinho will be part of Guardiola's future.
As for Arsenal, I was perplexed by the muted reaction of their players when Theo Walcott equalised. Muted celebration when you equalise in a game like this? Strange.
You would have got odds of 11-1 for Crystal Palace to win 2-1 away at Stamford Bridge. The bookies are notorious for giving nothing away, which gives you an indication of the enormity of their victory against Chelsea.
The man responsible for thwarting most of the advances from the league leaders, and has done so for Palace since his arrival on loan to the Eagles, has been Mamadou Sakho. He has been immense for Palace who, despite Chelsea's many chances, failed to take advantage of them largely due to the out of form Diego Costa.
Allardyce must be congratulated for getting Sakho to Palace. Since his arrival the Eagles have not stopped soaring. If there was a tackle or header to be made he won it and at no stage did the defender look in the least bit fazed by the pressure posed by the Blues, who have an impeccable home record.
The big question for Allardyce and Palace is can they lure the Frenchman away from Liverpool (who still retain his contract) and get him to play for Palace on a permanent basis? If Liverpool were to get a top four place, and their chances seem to improve with every game, I can see Jurgen Klopp seriously thinking about retaining the services of the player to bolster his squad.
What a wonderful finish by Eric Dier. He might have been a tad fortunate the way the ball fell for him in the Burnley penalty area, but there was nothing remotely lucky about the way the defender tucked it away.
Dier's progress for club and country has been meteoric, although this season we've seen the occasional glitch here and there, especially in the Champions League games at Wembley.
Nevertheless, the defender strikes me as a solid individual with leadership qualities, the sort of defender a manager can depend upon in a crisis.
His goal against Burnley will do his confidence a power of good. I've not seen Dier smile in an interview for a long time. It's always good to see a player with a smile on his face.
His touch with his right foot was measured, but the finish with his left was deadly. If you are going to open your Premier League account this was the way to do it.
I didn't know an awful lot about Robertson before this game although I had seen him play before. However he looks like one of  those cultured left-footers who has the ability to manipulate the ball in tight situations.
I can't really commend Robertson's performance without talking about the efforts of Hull's manager Marco Silva. The response he has got from his players has been quite remarkable not to mention their level of performance since he took over from Mike Phelan. This victory over West Ham has given Hull a real chance of survival in the Premier League.
As for West Ham I am delighted that the club have finally released a statement supporting their manager and removing any speculation concerning Slaven Bilic's immediate future at the club.
Bilic has handled the difficult transition of moving to a new stadium brilliantly. He rid the club of the poisonous Dimitri Payet and almost certainly guaranteed the club another season in the best league in the world. I should think West Ham did have 100% in faith in Bilic. Now all they have to do is show it.
With no Harry Kane to look to for inspiration, Spurs gave the mantle to Dele Alli in the attempt to keep the pressure on Chelsea and it's working.
His performance against a Burnley side who have taken big scalps at Turf Moor this season epitomised a young lad who appears fearless on the ball.
The 20-year-old moves gracefully over the ground and his general awareness is outstanding. The way he found Son Heung-min for Tottenham's second goal was quite brilliant. The only feature I don't like about Alli's game is his obsession with making contact with his opponent in the opposition's penalty area and making out he's been impeded.
Penalties should be awarded, not prized out of referees. If he wants to be a Steven Gerrard or Frank Lampard, he must eradicate that from his game and promote the things that make people want to pay good money to see him. That way he can be anything he wants to be.
That was a world-class ball from Kevin de Bruyne for Leroy Sane to score Manchester City's opening goal against Arsenal. To hit a defence splitting 60-yard, first-time ball takes some doing.
For one hour, De Bruyne was the best player on the park. He hit the post with David Ospina beaten and he was instrumental in City's second goal.
Arsenal, meanwhile, should be concerned. They are fighting for a top-four position and an FA Cup final place and, for some inexplicable reason, their fans seemed to be subdued for long periods against City.
The Arsenal players showed real backbone to bounce back in this game on two occasions. There is still a lot to play for and the team deserves their wholehearted support regardless of what some fans might think of their manager.
It's great to see Philippe Coutinho back in sparkling form again. Regular readers will know that it has been N'Golo Kante, Eden Hazard and Coutinho who are my three Premier League stars competing for the player of the season award.
Had it not been for his injury sustained earlier in the year, Coutinho might have canvassed enough votes to render himself the clear favourite to receive the prestigious award, as opposed to Kante or Hazard who have both had injury-free seasons.
Coutinho's goal against Everton was simply superb in a Merseyside derby that snapped, crackled and popped. That said, Ronald Koeman's disapproval of the Liverpool bench's insistence that the referee must issue a card every time a foul is committed was justified.
Ross Barkley made two poor challenges and was lucky to stay on the pitch but that was the decision of the referee. Please let us not descend to coaching staff trying to get players sent off. Referees don't tell them how to do their job.
If Leicester City's game against Stoke was anything to go by, then the Foxes really should have dispensed with the services of Claudio Ranieri much sooner. Central to this performance was Demarai Gray, who appears to be becoming a driving force behind Leicester revival.
Gray produced two glorious saves from Stoke keeper Lee Grant and was a constant menace throughout the game. The Potters were in similar battling mood as they were against Chelsea two weeks ago, when Phil Bardsley seemed determined to get a second yellow card regardless of the cost to his team or their future fixtures.
Similarly Ryan Shawcross's tackle on Gray reminded me of Manchester United's Nobby Stiles' tackle on Eusebio in the 1968 European Cup final at Wembley. Shawcross seemed so concerned about Gray's pace and willingness to run past players and, like Bardsley, took it upon himself to take the player out regardless of the consequences.
Fortunately, Shawcross only received a yellow card. It should have been a red just for the cheek of it!
It's been some time since I picked Christian Benteke in my Team of the Week, but it's good to see him back. The former Liverpool striker led the line for Crystal Palace beautifully against Chelsea and gave David Luiz and Gary Cahill a torrid time in every department.
If he wasn't challenging them in the air and putting them under pressure he was heading away corners in his own penalty area. However, it was his partnership with Wilfried Zaha that really excited me. These two boys were responsible for Chelsea's demise with great link play and two sensational goals.
It was Palace's second goal and the chip over an advancing Thibaut Courtois by Benteke that was pure genius. It wasn't just about the skill but the way the striker held his nerve and waited for Courtois to go to ground before he chipped him that was most impressive.
A beaming Allardyce came into the press room and said "I bet you weren't expecting that?" He got that right as well.
What a week Wilfred Zaha has had. He scored a sensational goal for Ivory Coast in midweek and continued in the same vein against Chelsea. It wasn't just Zaha's confidence on the ball that was so impressive - we know he can play - but his overall contribution to the collective team effort was outstanding.
There is a lot of talk about the Ivorian joining Spurs in the summer. An attractive move for the player I must admit. Who wouldn't want to add the possibility of playing Champions League football to his international career?
However, may I suggest that Zaha, having had a disappointing period at Manchester United, takes a pause before considering White Hart Lane. Another season at Crystal Palace under the tutelage of Allardyce may be more beneficial to his overall development.
Spurs have enough Fancy Dans in their line-up without adding to them. Palace, on the other hand, are in desperate need of flair and exuberance in an otherwise functional, but effective outfit. Still, if Zaha insists on a move to the Lane, who could blame him?


British judoka Gemma Gibbons, who won a -78kg silver medal at London 2012, has retired at the age of 30.

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Gibbons famously marked her Olympic semi-final victory by mouthing 'thank you mum' in memory of her mother, who died in 2004 from leukaemia.
She is also the only British women to win a medal at the Tokyo Grand Slam after taking a bronze in the prestigious season-ender in 2015.
"I'm looking forward to my next career as a PE teacher," said Gibbons.
"At the age of six, when I first stepped onto the mat, I couldn't have dreamt what was to come.
"Medals, the best memories and friends, and even a husband, I feel extremely lucky.
"I can't explain how much I've loved having the job 'judo player' but I feel I've given the sport I love everything I have to give.
"I'll be hoping to share the wonderful sport that has helped shape me into the person I am today with the many young people I encounter."
Gibbons, who is married to Scottish two-time world bronze medallist Euan Burton, failed to qualify for Rio 2016.
Instead Wales' Natalie Powell was Britain's representative in the weight division, finishing seventh.


Many historians say it was the battle that cost Germany the Second World War.

Dunkirk, directed by the acclaimed Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar), tells the epic tale of the chaotic evacuation of British and French Allied troops from Northern France in 1940.
Ahead of its public release on 21 July the movie has received excellent reviews from critics.
If you compare Dunkirk's score on the review aggregator website metacritic.com with the scores of other films, it ranks among the top five Oscar best picture nominations of the past 21 years, and among the top 10 war movies of all time.
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Winston Churchill, Britain's Prime Minister during World War II, called it a "miracle of deliverance" in his famed We Shall Fight on the Beaches speech in 1940.
He was praising the remarkable evacuation of 338,226 British and French troops from the beach and harbour at Dunkirk.
Initially it was thought the Germans would reach the beach within two days, allowing time for only 45,000 troops to be brought to safety.
But thanks to a combination of German confusion and Allied bravery, enough British and French troops were saved to see out the rest of the war.
Allied victories
636 naval ships survived
198,229 British troops saved
139,997 French troops saved
262 Enemy planes claimed
After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the British sent in troops to defend France. However, as Nazi Germany moved forward into Belgium and the Netherlands in May 1940, the allies made a near-fatal error.
The French-German border was defended by a series of barriers and weapons called the Maginot Line, but the area to the north was only blocked by a forest.
The forest was thought to be too thick to require heavy defence, but the Germans found a way through.
They marched around the back of the Allies in France and forced them over into Belgium, where they were faced with more Germans to the north.
The only option left was to retreat to Dunkirk, where they could be taken back to England.
With the majority of Britain and France's entire armies in one area - surrounded by the Germans - this could have been the turning point of the war.
And then, for reasons that are still mysterious, Hitler ordered his troops to halt.
The Allies were gifted with time. Naval ships, vehicles, passenger ferries, fishing boats, yachts and boats owned simply for pleasure were assembled.
A handful of civilians even joined the mission, sailing out into the Channel voluntarily.
Over the course of nine days this fleet, supported by British planes overhead, was able to rescue most of the troops.
The film may become a huge success, but the reality of Dunkirk was, as Winston Churchill described it, a "colossal military disaster".
Allied losses
297 naval ships
106 planes
108,111 troops
2,472 guns
84,427 vehicles
77,318 tonnes of ammunition
"Wars are not won by evacuations," Churchill said. That may be true, but it is hard not to see Dunkirk as a pivotal moment in the war.


Donald Trump's executive order on immigration to the US from countries in the war-torn Middle East is causing panic among refugees.

Tom Jensen, an immigration lawyer in Washington DC, spent a good portion of his day Wednesday on the phone to a frantic client in Iraq.
Jensen was trying to show the man - an Iraqi national who sold supplies to the US military for many years during their time in Baghdad - how to buy a plane ticket online. The man has never flown before.
The man - whom Jensen does not want to name - and his family earned admittance to the US under the Special Immigrant Visa programme, reserved for Iraqi and Afghan nationals who worked for the US military during the conflicts there, often as translators and interpreters. Jensen's client had been threatened repeatedly, first by insurgents and then by the so-called Islamic State, and Jensen briefly lost touch with the family after they fled.
In December 2016, after a three-year process, the man and his family were finally approved for resettlement in the US. They are scheduled to board a plane for the US on 7 February.
But on Wednesday, after a draft copy of President Donald Trump's executive action on refugees and immigration from predominantly Muslim countries was leaked to the press, panic erupted around the globe among refugees, their families and advocates.
Jensen's client considered spending considerable money to buy next-day tickets for himself, his wife and his three children in an effort to outrun President Trump's pen.
No such order was signed on Wednesday or Thursday, and Jensen's client ultimately decided to wait.
"[I'm] feeling frustrated and a little embarrassed, actually, that our government would jerk people around like this," says Jensen. "A guy who risked his life to help the US military during the war - I feel like we owe him."
President Trump finally signed the executive order late Friday afternoon.
It differs slightly from the draft version, though the basic tenets remain the same. The order, titled "Protecting the Nation From Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nationals", has many immigration lawyers scrambling to figure out what will come next.
The most dramatic provisions listed in the draft version suspend all refugee admissions for four months, indefinitely bar entry for Syrian refugees, and suspend all visa entry into the US from several countries for 90 days. Those countries have predominantly Muslim populations, and are reported to be Syria, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Sudan and Yemen.
Becca Heller, director of the International Refugee Assistance Project, spent her Wednesday answering a flurry of emails and phone calls from all over the country.
"Everyone is panicked. No one knows what this means," says Heller. "We have clients whose lives are seriously at risk, who are days away - approved, given visas and simply awaiting travel dates.
"Many of these people are at risk because of their ties to America - either because they have family here or because they worked with American forces."
Sari Long is another immigration lawyer who has been working for months to reunite an Iraqi family - the father entered the US in 2012 under a Special Immigrant Visa for his years of work as an interpreter for both Army soldiers and Marines, and later for American civilian contractors. He has been trying to bring over his wife and sons for years.
Long says she doesn't know if the family would fall under the 90-day ban on visa entry from Iraq, or if they will be classified as "refugees" instead of "immigrants", and have to wait 120 days.
There is also confusion as to what will happen to immigrants and refugees who are already on flights to the US.
Will they be immediately returned to their countries of origin, or given a kind of amnesty?
"They have tickets to fly - we don't know what to tell them," says Long. "We have no information."
Despite the frenzied rumours of what may be to come, Kay Bellor, vice-president of programmes for Lutheran Immigrant Refugee Services, a refugee resettlement agency, says that all of their clients who were booked to enter the country this week have arrived without incident.
She is hoping that her agency will eventually return to business as usual after the Trump administration has a chance to review the vetting processes.
"I was actually working in the US refugee programme on 9/11 and that was just horrific ... and we got through it," says Bellor.
"I think we will get through this. What we've seen of an executive order does not do away with the US refugee programme or the American commitment to refugees. I'm a 'glass half full' kind of person."
However, she, like other refugee advocates, frets that closing the country to refugees and especially to former allies who assisted in US conflicts is actually a threat to national security.
"I think it's really going to hurt our standing in the world," says Heller. "Whatever our next foreign policy adventure is, we're going to need local buy-in. If we abandon our allies on this, we're going to have trouble finding new allies."


Millwall continued their League One promotion push as Chris Taylor's early goal wrapped up three points against Sheffield United.

The hosts went ahead in just the second minute when Steve Morison crossed to Taylor, who finished from close range.
Billy Sharp could have levelled when he linked on to Matt Done's cross but keeper Jordan Archer caught his header.
Paul Coutts forced Archer into a low near-post save after the break but Millwall held on to win.
That win keeps the Lions fifth in League One, six points off second-placed Wigan while Sheffield United slip a place to 12th.
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Millwall manager Neil Harris told BBC Radio London: "We weren't brilliant at times. We played well and should have been out of sight by half-time.
"At this stage of the season it's about getting points on the board. We defended our box really well. I thought the centre-halves were outstanding."