Thailand has tightened border controls after former PM Yingluck Shinawatra failed to show up for the verdict in her trial over a rice subsidy scheme.

Deputy PM Prawit Wongsuwan said it was possible she had already fled.
Lawyers for Ms Yingluck, who is charged with negligence, said she was unable to attend court because she was ill.
But the Supreme Court issued an arrest warrant for her, confiscated her bail of $900,000 (Â£703,000) and delayed the verdict to 27 September.
Ms Yingluck has denied any wrongdoing in the scheme which cost Thailand billions of dollars. If found guilty, she could be jailed for up to 10 years and permanently banned from politics.
On Friday, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said all routes out of the country were being closely monitored.
"I just learned that she did not show up [at court]," he told reporters. "I have ordered border checkpoints to be stepped up."
Mr Prawit initially said he had no information on Ms Yingluck's whereabouts but as he left a meeting in Bangkok he said: "It is possible that she has fled already."
Earlier, Ms Yingluck's lawyer requested a delay in the ruling, telling the court that she had vertigo and a severe headache and was unable to attend.
But an official Supreme Court statement said it did not believe she was sick as there was no medical certificate and that the claimed sickness was not severe enough that she could not travel to court.
"Such behaviour convincingly shows that she is a flight risk. As a result, the court has issued an arrest warrant and confiscated the posted bail money," the statement said.
Asked by the BBC whether she was still in the country, Ms Yingluck's lawyer Norrawit Larlaeng said: "I don't know. I don't know."
Jonathan Head, BBC News, South East Asia correspondent
The possible fate of Thailand's first female prime minister had generated a great deal of debate and anxiety in the days leading up to this court hearing.
The military government had tried to prevent or discourage Ms Yingluck's supporters from coming to the Supreme Court in Bangkok, for fear of an angry reaction should she be convicted and imprisoned.
Her failure to turn up for the verdict now presents the authorities with another dilemma - sending police to arrest her might also provoke unrest.
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Ms Yingluck's brother, controversial former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, lives in exile after fleeing the country in 2008 to evade a jail term for corruption.
Friday's turn of events took many by surprise, including the hundreds of people who turned up outside the Supreme Court in Bangkok to support Ms Yingluck.
BBC Thai reporter Nanchanok Wongsamut, who was in court, said the announcement prompted shocked reactions in the room, and then a flurry of activity as journalists ran out to report the news.
But some supporters outside the court expressed understanding.
"The Thai prime minister has done her best, she has sacrificed a lot," said Seksan Chalitaporn, 64. "Now the people have to fight for themselves."
Ms Yingluck, who became Thailand's first female prime minister in 2011, was impeached in 2015 over the rice scheme by a military-backed legislature, which then brought the legal case.
The scheme, part of Ms Yingluck's election campaign platform, launched shortly after she took office.
It was aimed at boosting farmers' incomes and alleviating rural poverty, and saw the government paying farmers nearly twice the market rate for their crop.
But it hit Thailand's rice exports hard, leading to a loss of at least $8bn and huge stockpiles of rice which the government could not sell.
Though popular with her rural voter base, opponents said the scheme was too expensive and open to corruption.
During her trial, Ms Yingluck had argued she was not responsible for the day-to-day running of the scheme. She has insisted she is a victim of political persecution.
May 2011- Yingluck Shinawatra is elected PM, and shortly afterwards begins rolling out her rice subsidy scheme.
January 2014 - Thailand's anti-corruption authorities investigate Ms Yingluck in connection to the scheme.
May 2014 - She is forced to step down from her post after Thailand's constitutional court finds her guilty of abuse of power in another case. Weeks later the military ousts what remains of her government.
January 2015 - An army-backed legislature impeaches Ms Yingluck for corruption over her role in the rice scheme, which effectively bans her from politics for five years. It also launches legal proceedings against her.
August 2017 - Ms Yingluck fails to appear at court for the verdict, claiming ill health.
Ms Yingluck's time in office was overshadowed by controversy as well as strong political opposition.
The youngest sister of Mr Thaksin, she was seen by her opponents as a proxy for her brother, who was controversially ousted by the military in 2006.
Both siblings remain popular among the rural poor, but are hated by an urban and middle-class elite.
Their Pheu Thai party has - under various different names - won every election in Thailand since 2001.


Talk of a second successive European and Premiership double is "disrespectful" to other teams, says Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall.

The defending champions overwhelmed Muster 26-10 on Saturday to reach the European Champions Cup final.
Sarries have already qualified for the Premiership play-offs with two regular season matches remaining.
"We don't even talk about it - I think it is disrespectful to others to talk in those terms," McCall told BBC Sport.
Not since Leicester Tigers in 2002 has an English club completed a back-to-back European and domestic double.
Saracens now face Premiership games against Bristol and Wasps as they seek a home semi-final, before the European showdown with Clermont Auvergne in Edinburgh on 13 May.
Ahead of Saturday's game against already-relegated Bristol, the squad are spending two days in Barcelona, the latest of the famous Saracens team-bonding trips.
"We will make sure we will celebrate this, because it's a big game and we've done well. You have to to enjoy these," said fly-half Owen Farrell.
"The group just have to stay grounded and stay humble," added McCall.
"They are really frustrated about the try we conceded, because that shouldn't have happened.
"Alex Sanderson - who has done such a remarkable job defensively - is so cross that happened.
"Hopefully those are the standards we are going to need in the next four or five weeks. If we keep on showing that fighting spirit, we will be ok."
Scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth said: "We just want to improve and make sure we get better every week and every year. If you do that then you give yourself a chance."
Since becoming director of rugby at the end of 2010, McCall has led Saracens to three Premiership titles and one European crown.
But, after masterminding the comprehensive defeat of Munster, the Irishman played down the prospect of him coaching the national team in the future.
"I am unbelievably lucky to be at the club I am at. Sometimes in coaching you find yourself in the right place at the right time," he said.
"We have a phenomenal group of players, a phenomenal group of staff, it's a brilliant place to be, so I am very happy here."


League One club Chesterfield have signed Everton goalkeeper Connor Hunt in a one-month loan deal.

The 18-year-old joined the Premier League side from Blackpool this summer on a three-year contract.
Hunt, who was part of the Tangerines side which reached the third round of the FA Youth Cup last season, is yet to make his debut for the Toffees.
He was named among the Chesterfield substitutes for their League One match at home to Oldham on Saturday.


Ivanka Trump's brand is booming, says the fashion firm, as one estimate says sales have jumped five-fold.

Abigail Klem, president of the US first daughter's eponymous clothing line, says it has seen "some of the best performing weeks" in its history.
The reported sales surge comes amid an ongoing boycott targeting business interests of the fashion entrepreneur's father, President Donald Trump.
Last month several retailers dropped Ms Trump's label, citing falling sales.
In an interview with fashion magazine Refinery29, Ms Klem declined to cite specific sales figures, but research by a market analytics firm seems to support the claim.
According to Lyst, a London-based e-commerce website which tracks clothing retail, sales of Ivanka Trump products rocketed in February.
It says sales increased 346% from January to February this year and 557%, compared with average orders last year.
"To see such an extreme spike in one month is completely unheard of and came as a huge surprise to us," says Lyst's US spokesperson Sarah Tanner.
Ms Klem said that most products are sold to women in New York, California and Texas, and the average shopper earns between $60,000-100,000 per year (Â£50,000-Â£82,000).
She said the political controversy surrounding President Trump, and the boycott, may have helped his daughter's brand.
The reported sales surge comes after Kellyanne Conway, a counsellor to President Trump, was accused of breaking ethics rules by promoting Ivanka Trump products during a live TV interview from the White House.
The first daughter's perfume is currently highest ranked on Amazon.com, with many shoppers leaving pro-Trump comments.
"I bought this without knowing what it smelt like, and I didn't care! I support the Trumps! MAGA! Who needs nordstroms!" Dustin M wrote, in reference to Nordstroms, which was the first retailer to drop Ivanka's products.
"Oh and by the way, the smell is aweosme!"
Another apparently happy customer wrote: "Bought this as a gift for my wife, and to support Ivanka's position."


Belfast Giants ended a four-game losing run in the Elite League as they clinched a 6-3 away win over Edinburgh.

Blair Riley hit two of Belfast's goals with Chris Higgins, Mike Forney, Steve Saviano and Alex Foster also on target.
After Higgins' opener, Forney doubled the lead early in period two and while Mike D'Orazio replied, goals from Saviano and Riley left Belfast 4-1 up.
Michal Dobran and Ian Schultz replied for Edinburgh but late goals from Foster and Riley sealed Belfast's win.
After taking one point from Saturday's 3-2 over-time defeat by Fife Flyers, Belfast's weekend return keeps them in third place in the table although they are 12 points behind leaders Cardiff Devils.
The Giants, who do have two games in hand on the Devils, will be back in home action at the SSE Arena against Sheffield Steelers on Saturday night.


Health managers planning to close a hospital fertility unit have refused to put the service back out to tender.

It comes after a bidder to run University Hospital of Hartlepool's fertility services was rejected, despite already running services there.
Hartlepool Borough's council asked the area's clinical commissioning group (CCG) to explore with the bidder how it could reach the required standard.
But, the CCG said it could not lawfully treat one bidder differently.
Care Fertility, which operates 15 clinics across Britain and supports fertility services in Hartlepool, said in January it was "disappointed not to be awarded the contract".
The council's audit and governance committee asked the CCG to discuss with the firm how it could reduce risks highlighted in its rejected tender.
The CCG said this was not "reasonably practicable".
"It is simply not the role of the CCG to guide bidders to make successful tenders," it said.
It would be an "unusual and unwelcome" precedent for the CCG to advise bidders and would lead to accusations of unfairness if it did not do the same for all other bidders in the future, it said.
It also said re-tendering would take too long, could increase clinical risk and prolong the gap in the delivery of the service and there was "no guarantee that the outcome would be any different".
Last year, the council was granted a High Court injunction to stop the unit's closure, after which it was announced an alternative provider would be sought to run fertility services, including IVF.
The CCG had said it could not recruit enough staff to keep the unit going.


Three-time world champion Mick Fanning says he will return to the World Surf League full-time in 2017 for the first time since being attacked by a shark.

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The Australian, 35, only competed in five events last year after a "tough" 2015 left him "exhausted".
He survived a shark attack at a tournament in South Africa and missed out on a fourth world title following the death of his brother Peter.
Surfing is among five sports confirmed for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
"It was nice to have 2016 off somewhat and decompress but I'm excited to put the singlet on again," said Fanning. "Let the show begin. It's going to be an incredible year.
"2015 was a tough year. A lot happened to me on camera and in my personal life. I just felt exhausted by the end of it."
The 11-stop WSL Championship begins on the Gold Coast of Australia from 14-25 March.


The cost of first and second class stamps are each to rise by 1p from 30 March, Royal Mail has announced.

This will take the price of a first class stamp to 63p and a second class stamp to 54p.
Royal Mail said it had thought "carefully" about the change and its impact on customers who have been facing tough economic conditions.
The company said stamp prices in the UK were among the best value in Europe.
Other price changes will mean the cost of sending a large letter will increase by 2p to 95p for first class and by 1p to 74p for second class.
The cost of sending a second class medium parcel would drop, Royal Mail said, and a price cut for second-class small parcels that was introduced as a Christmas promotion will continue.
From 30 March, second class medium parcels weighing up to 2kg will be priced at Â£4.89, which Royal Mail said represented a saving of up to Â£3.11.
However, there has been criticism of the complexity of parcel costs.


A collection of prehistoric stones thought be about 54 million years old has been stolen from a former museum site, police have said.

About 24 of the rocks, known as Hertfordshire Puddingstone, were removed from the former St Albans Museum grounds.
It is thought they were taken from the garden between the 3 and 14 April.
Hertfordshire Police said the theft of the rare rock was being treated as a heritage crime.
PC Sean Lannon said Hertfordshire Puddingstone was "one of the world's rarest rocks" and part of the county's heritage.
"We are doing all we can to ensure that these stones are returned to the museum," he said.
The force has appealed for witnesses or anyone who may have been offered the rocks for sale to come forward.
Hertfordshire Puddingstone is a naturally occurring conglomerate consisting of rounded flint pebbles bound in silica cement, found mostly within the county.
It is thought to have originated from deposits laid down millions of years ago and is called puddingstone because the flints resemble the plums in a Christmas pudding.
Most of the rocks taken came from the site of the Seventh Day Adventist Church during the late 1970s.
St Albans Museum in Hatfield Road closed earlier this year ahead of its move to a new site in the Town Hall which is due to open next year.


The numbers involved within the EU referendum can be bewildering even for keen enthusiasts.

On any given day we're told the UK could be £4.2bn a year better off if we leave. Although, we're also told, each household could be at the same time £4,200 worse off if we cancel our membership.
I'm sure you get the idea.
The numbers being used within the national debate are huge and the most typical call from voters is simply: "Will I be better or worse off if we leave or stay in the EU?"
But when it comes to jobs and trade, what do the numbers mean to Yorkshire and the Humber region?
International trade is important for the regional economy because very simply the more we buy and sell to countries around the world the stronger our economy becomes and the more jobs it can support.
Our best estimates suggest that somewhere between 250,000 and 350,000 jobs in the region are linked to companies exporting goods and services to other EU member countries.
Out of the 2.5m jobs that exist in the region that means around 10 -15% of them are linked to trade with the EU.
Those campaigning for the UK to stay in will claim these jobs are dependent on membership.
That's just wrong as none of these jobs are directly dependent on the political institution that is the European Union or the 751 MEP's that sit in Brussels. Instead these jobs rely on the trade that takes place between the individual nations who make up the European single market.
No-one is saying that if we vote for Brexit in June that we will stop all trade with Europe. The debate instead is focussed on under what terms future trade would be conducted.
Stuart Turner, who runs online food company Sushi Sushi in Barnsley, says the uncertainty of leaving the EU is something his business doesn't need:
"We really shouldn't be rocking the boat.
"I can export food products to people across Europe without any problems. I fear that coming out will cause us so many problems. I really don't think we should turn our back on Europe, in fact I think we should be focussing more on it more".
The amount we trade with the European Union member countries is also central to the debate and it is both correct and incorrect at the same time to describe the EU as being Yorkshire and Humber's biggest export partner.
Confused? Let me explain.
In 2015 our region exported goods and services to the other 27 EU member countries that were collectively worth £7.8 billion.
That means in total 46% of everything that we made which then left the region and went overseas, went to a fellow EU member country.
This makes the EU as a group our most valuable export partner. But when you break it down country by country the picture is a bit different.
On an individual country basis our single biggest export partner was the USA.
In 2015 we exported goods and services across the Atlantic worth £3.7bn.  That's over three times as much as we exported to our single biggest EU partner Germany, who in 2015 bought products from Yorkshire that came to a total value of £1.2bn.
Furthermore, when you look at which export markets around the world are becoming more important to us, you can make the argument the EU is becoming less important.
Over the last four years the value of our exports to the EU has fallen by 10% from £8.6bn to £7.8bn. Some of this can be explained by the recent poor performance of the European economy owing to a recession and the Greek debt crisis.
But at the same time the value of our exports to North America have grown by 47%.
Charles Watkinson, who runs Corrocoat, an engineering and chemical manufacturer in Leeds, believes the regional economy would thrive if the UK was free from the rules of the single market economy:
"My company exports 68% of our products globally and only 10% of that goes to Europe.
"I've had several experiences of dealing with Brussels that have just left me completely frustrated. I think the EU is preventing us from doing things and I want to see us able to negotiate our trade deals."
So would our regional economy be better or worse off in or outside the EU? Would Yorkshire and the Humber see jobs being lost or created? Would we trade more with Europe or less?
These are impossible questions to answer. Should we vote to leave, so much would depend on what we negotiated with the remaining EU countries. Would we get a free trade deal? If we stay in will the EU impose more rules on businesses?
These are questions voters will have to answer by themselves in a ballot box on 23 June.


US country music star George Hamilton IV has died in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 77.

The singer and guitarist, who began performing as a teenager in the 1950s, had suffered a major heart attack at the weekend.
After an early foray into pop, Hamilton became a country stalwart, scoring 40 hits in the 1960s and 70s.
He was inducted into Nashville's  Grand Old Opry in 1960 and continued to work until shortly before he was taken ill.
In the later phase of his career, Hamilton, who was born in North Carolina, concentrated on gospel music and making recordings of inspiration recitations, a type of spiritual song.
He also became a regular guest singer with evangelist Billy Graham on his many rallies around the world.
His most recent album, made in 2010, was a gospel-influenced collection featuring a host of guest artists.
International ambassador
At the start of his career in 1956, Hamilton had a top five hit in the US with A Rose and A Baby Ruth, which led to tours with pop idols Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers.
But he was steered into the world of country music, after being mentored by Chet Atkins.
In the 1970s, he exported the music of Nashville around the world, becoming an international ambassador for the genre.
Hamilton became the first country musician to perform in the the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia; he made his first visit to the UK in 1967.
He was a regular visitor to Scotland, and in 2004 produced an album of songs called Hamilton's Other Country.
In the 1990s, he made a foray into stage work, playing the narrator in a production of Pasty Cline The Musical for five years, including a run in London's West End.
Hamilton is survived by his wife Tinky , two sons George V and Peyton and daughter Mary.


Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan have said they are "totally committed" to party unity in a statement following their meeting.

The two are trying to find common ground after Mr Ryan said he could not endorse the presumptive Republican nominee.
He has said the businessman lacked conservative principles.
"We had a great conversation this morning," the two wrote in a joint statement.
"While we were honest about our few differences, we recognise that there are also many important areas of common ground."
They said they would be having "additional discussions" but think they can unify the party and win the election.
At a press conference following the meeting, Mr Ryan said he was "very encouraged" by what he heard from Mr Trump.
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Mr Trump arrived for the meeting at the Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters in Washington amid protesters brandishing placards.
Paul Ryan sounds like a man trying to make peace with his shotgun marriage. Sure, the circumstances are unfortunate, but maybe life together won't be that bad.
The House speaker, who once condemned Trump's proposed Muslim ban as "not conservatism", now says there are "core principles" of conservatism that tie them together. They both love the Constitution, it seems, and they're all about the separation of powers between the branches of government.
Beyond that? Who knows. Mr Ryan declined to go into details during his Thursday press conference, instead talking about the processes being started, seeds being planted and differences being bridged.
It was not the endorsement, full-throated or otherwise, that Mr Trump desires, but it was a first step toward the reconciliation of a party that desperately wants to win back the White House in November.
If Mr Ryan eventually makes peace with what he called a "whole new wing" of the Republican Party that Mr Trump represents, this desire for power - for a prize that has been denied Republicans for two straight presidential elections - will be the driving force behind it.
Afterwards, RNC chairman Reince Priebus, who mediated the talks in his office, said it was a success.
In December 2015, Mr Ryan harshly criticised Mr Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the US.
He said it was "not what this party stands for and more importantly it's not what this country stands for".
But on Wednesday, Mr Trump appeared to soften, saying it was "just a suggestion".
Mr Ryan, who ran as 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's vice president, clashes with Mr Trump on many issues, including religious freedom and trade.
He has remained popular on Capitol Hill, after being urged to take over as Speaker of the House of Representatives in the autumn.
Many who view him as a more electable figure than Mr Trump have urged him - in vain - to run for president.
But more Republicans are throwing their support behind Mr Trump, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The New Yorker is one of the least politically experienced nominees in US history, having never held elected office.
That outsider status has appealed to voters who feel let down by Washington.
A recent Gallup Poll shows that two in three Republican-leaning voters view Mr Trump favourably.
But protests have plagued his campaign, with particular focus on his plan to build a wall on the Mexican border and deport 11 million undocumented immigrants.
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The US is to ban its citizens from travelling to North Korea.

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement that the ban would be published next week in the Federal Register, to come into effect 30 days later.
US officials linked the move to the death of jailed American student Otto Warmbier.
Once the ban is in effect, US citizens will need special validation to travel to or within North Korea.
Mr Warmbier travelled to North Korea with Young Pioneer Tours. He was arrested in 2016 for trying to steal a propaganda sign and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was returned to the US in a coma in June and died a week later.
Koryo Tours and Young Pioneer Tours, who both operate in North Korea, revealed on Friday that they had been told of the upcoming ban by the Swedish embassy, which acts for the US as Washington has no diplomatic relations with Pyongyang.
Rowan Beard, of Young Pioneer Tours, told the BBC the embassy was urging all US nationals to depart immediately.
He said the embassy was trying to check on the number of US tourists left in the country.
Ms Nauert's statement said: "Due to mounting concerns over the serious risk of arrest and long-term detention under North Korea's system of law enforcement, the Secretary has authorised a Geographical Travel Restriction on all US nationals' use of a passport to travelling through, or to North Korea.
"Once in effect, US passports will be invalid for travel to, through, and in North Korea, and individuals will be required to obtain a passport with a special validation in order to travel to or within North Korea.
"We intend to publish a notice in the Federal Register next week.
"The restriction will be implemented 30 days after publication."
Rowan Beard said that the 30-day grace period would "give leeway for any [Americans] currently in the country as tourists or on humanitarian work".
Simon Cockerell of Koryo Tours told the BBC the agency would still conduct tours and take Americans until the ban came into effect.
"If their country allows them to go, we will take them," he said.
Mr Cockerell added: "It's unfortunate for the industry but also for North Koreans who want to know what Americans are really like."
After the death of Mr Warmbier, the China-based Young Pioneer Tours announced it would no longer take visitors from the US to the country.
There has been movement towards a ban for a while in the US, which increased with the Warmbier death.
In May, two congressmen introduced the North Korea Travel Control bill to cut off the foreign currency the country earns from American tourists.
The House foreign affairs subcommittee is scheduled to take up the draft legislation on 27 July but it would still have to go to the Senate. So there could be an executive order.
Apart from the treatment of Americans in North Korea, tension has been increasing over Pyongyang's nuclear programme.
This month North Korea announced it had successfully tested what it said was its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the latest in a series of tests in defiance of a UN ban.
Its range has been disputed, but some experts said it could reach Alaska.
The US and South Korea then conducted a ballistic missile drill and issued a stark warning to the North.
Some are suggesting the US is using the date the ban is set to be announced - 27 July - to cloud North Korea's Victory Day on the same day.
North Korea only relaxed its rules for American visitors in 2010.
The state department does not keep a record of the number of American tourists.
Tour operators suggest that up to 1,000 visit every year.
Otto Warmbier, 22, was an economics student who was arrested on 2 January 2016 and confessed to trying to take a propaganda sign from a hotel.
He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour.
In June, North Korea said he had been in a coma for a year after contracting botulism.
He was flown back to the US on 13 June but died a week later without regaining consciousness.
His family rejected North Korea's version of events, saying he had been subjected to "awful torturous mistreatment".
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The US has in the past accused North Korea of detaining its citizens to use them as pawns in negotiations over its nuclear weapons programme.


Surgeons are set to carry out the first penis transplant in the United States, in a bid to help wounded war veterans.

The 12-hour operation will involve stitching key nerves and blood vessels to restore urinary - and ultimately - sexual function.
It follows the world's first successful penis transplant, in South Africa, last year.
The team at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) plan to operate on 60 veterans as part of a trial.
The first procedure will involve a penis donated by a young deceased donor, with his family's permission.
And according to the team at JHU the hope for the veteran is that sensation will return within six to 12 months.
Depending on the extent of the injury and success of the operation, there is a chance patients will be able to father their own children.
But scientists say as only one successful transplant has taken place before, they will take care to ensure there are realistic expectations.
Like other major transplant surgery the operation carries risks, such as infections or bleeding during the procedure.
And the side-effects of taking life-long anti-rejection drugs will need to be weighed up too.
Patients will also be screened extensively to make sure they can cope with the psychological impacts of surgery.
There have been concerns with other complex operations - hand and face transplants for example - that patients may find it difficult to accept the donated organs as their own.
Carisa Cooney, clinical research manager at JHU, said the team had spent many years preparing for the operations and discussing the ethical issues.
She added: "For the right patients this can really improve their quality of life and help them re-enter society."
Veterans will be monitored for five years and scientists will gather evidence to consider whether transplants should be offered more widely.
Recent research involving young military personnel suggests 7% suffer genital injuries in combat.
Many are due to blast injuries from improvised explosive devices which are being increasingly deployed.
And though protective gear exists, researchers say some soldiers choose not to wear it as it can get in the way of them moving around quickly.
Only two other penis transplants have previously been reported.
One took place in China in 2006. Accounts suggested the operation went well, but the penis was later rejected.
The other operation took place in South Africa, involving a young man who had been left with just 1cm of his original penis as a result of a botched circumcision.
His medical team said there was extensive discussion about whether the operation, which is not life-saving in the same way as a heart transplant, was ethical.
Recent reports suggest the transplant was successful and he has had a child.


A firefighter who hanged himself "couldn't function" after one of his colleagues died tackling a blaze in Manchester, an inquest has heard.

The widow of Lee Gaunt said her husband had predicted something "catastrophic" would happen hours before the death of Stephen Hunt in 2013.
Mr Gaunt was found hanged at Stalybridge Fire Station in October.
Caroline Gaunt said that following his colleague's death her husband "went into meltdown".
She told the hearing the fatal fire in Manchester's northern quarter had "changed his life and mental state completely".
Ms Gaunt said her husband "could see all the failings on that job" and felt "somehow he had contributed" and should have raised his concerns.
When he returned home after the blaze he was distressed and said he felt the incident was being managed badly, she added.
The next morning he discovered his colleague had died.
Ms Gaunt told the inquest her husband subsequently suffered nightmares and was suicidal.
She said he had sought medical help and, two weeks before he took his own life, had told a station manager he was suffering from stress.
The inquest also heard Mr Gaunt had been informed he might be called as a witness at the inquest into the death of his colleague.
Peter O'Reilly, of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, said his colleagues had been "devastated" by Lee's death.
He said: "We have tried to encourage all our staff to look out for and look after each other, ensuring support is available for anyone who needs it."


Coleraine restored their pride as they responded to last week's 7-0 Europa League rout in Norway by earning a 0-0 home leg draw against FK Haugesund.

The home side had the better chances as Darren McCauley went close early on before having another effort tipped on to the crossbar before half-time.
Eoin Bradley volleyed the ball into Haugesund's net in the second half but the effort was ruled out for offside.
Coleraine's Jamie McGonigle also tested Haugesund keeper Helge Sandvik.
The Bannsiders were without injured trio Lyndon Kane, David Kee and Gareth McConnaghie, while central defender David Ogilby missed the game because he is on holiday.
Haugesund will face Lech Poznan in the second qualifying round after the Polish club overcame Pelister of Macedonia 7-0 on aggregate.


Spain has banned short-selling of shares to try to limit price moves after markets fell sharply on fears the country may need a full bailout.

Spain's market regulator blocked the practice for three months to try to restore order after sharp falls in bonds and shares.
"Short-selling" is a way that traders can make money by betting on falling share prices.
Italy has also banned short-selling of financial stocks for one week.
Short-selling is a technique used by investors who think the price of an asset, such as shares, will fall.
They borrow the asset from another investor and then sell it in the relevant market. The aim is to buy back the asset at a lower price and return it to its owner, making a profit along the way.
In a statement, Spain's CNMV regulator
 said it was imposing the ban in order to maintain market order: "The situation of extreme volatility across the European markets could interfere with their smooth functioning and the normal course of their activities."
It is not the first time that such a curb has been used by regulators. Almost a year ago, France and Belgium joined Spain and Italy in a ban on short-selling financial stocks to try to stabilise bank shares which had fallen sharply.
Markets have had a turbulent few days on fears that Spain's indebted regional governments will push the country towards a full bailout.
On Friday, Valencia, one of the country's 17 regions, asked the central government for a financial lifeline, and on Sunday, the Murcia region said it was considering following suit.
Shares in Europe fell when trading got underway on Monday, with Spain's main share index, the Ibex, down 5% at one point. It recovered slightly to close down 1% but Germany's Dax ended the day down 3%.
The US share markets opened with a downward jolt and the euro hit a new two-year low against the dollar.
Spain's economy minister denied the country needed more help.
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Luis de Guindos said: "We have made important economic reforms and we just reached an agreement with our regional partners over the recapitalisation of the banks, and from there we have done all what we could to establish the bases of a return to a healthy growth for Spain's economy."
Mr Guindos is due to meet his German counterpart in Berlin on Tuesday.
Markets remained unsettled. The yield on Spain's 10-year bonds reached a new euro-era high of 7.56% before falling back to 7.39% in late afternoon trading.
The bond yield indicates the interest rate the government would have to pay to borrow new money, and acts as a measure of investor confidence in Spain's creditworthiness.
Spain has already asked for and been granted a 100bn-euros bailout for its banks, so far avoiding asking for the same sort of national bailout that was needed by Greece, the Republic of Ireland and Portugal.
However, on Friday the Valencia region said it would be the first region to seek financial help from an 18bn-euro fund set up to help the country's regions.
By Andrew WalkerBBC World Service Economics correspondent
A yield, or interest rate, of 7.5% on 10-year bonds takes Spain even further into the danger zone.
Higher borrowing costs can make the difference between a debt situation that is a problem and one this is ultimately unsustainable.
But the impact on the interest bill is slow. It's like turning an oil tanker.
When governments borrow they generally do by selling bonds - which are a promise to repay - and the interest rate is fixed for the lifetime of each batch of bonds. Each time Spain goes to the market for new money, the interest rate it pays then feeds into its total borrowing costs.
The general trend is upwards and that means the tanker is gradually turning towards the rocks. The eurozone has to decide whether to grab the wheel, giving a new bailout to keep those borrowing costs from rising further.
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On Sunday, Murcia's government said: "Regarding the liquidity fund provided by the state, the regional government has repeatedly stated that it is studying whether to apply for it."
There is speculation that other regions are also considering seeking assistance, creating further pressure on central government finances.
There was more bad news for Spain on Monday when the Bank of Spain said the country's economy contracted by 0.4% in the three months to the end of June, having shrunk by 0.3% in the previous quarter.
Eurozone jitters also spread to Italy, which is also struggling with high debts. The main Italian share index closed down 2.7% with banks being the worst hit. UniCredit and Intesa Sanpaolo were among six Italian banks suspended from trading after their share prices fell sharply.
On the currency markets, the euro fell to a two-year low against the US dollar, at $1.2082 at one point on Monday and an 11-year low against the Japanese yen, 94.37 yen, its lowest level since November 2000, before recovering slightly.
The price of oil has also fallen by nearly 3%, a sign that markets think there will be waning demand for oil as a result of worsening economic prospects.


Three years ago, an 83-year-old man called the then Indian cricket captain "immoral".

Prabir Mukherjee was the curator at Eden Gardens, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). India were playing England and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni had suggested a spinning track be prepared for the Test match.
Pitch preparation is not an exact science; in the past, "spinning" tracks have been prepared where the seamers have run through the Indian batting, while "flat" tracks have been prepared where the fast bowlers have wreaked havoc.
The Indian curator's favourite technique for a spinning track is to leave it underprepared.
Spin has been India's strength for so long that it is a cliche now.
Yet visiting spinners have often been more successful than India's best - from Richie Benaud and Ashley Mallett to Lance Gibbs and Derek Underwood, and more recently, Monty Panesar and Graeme Swann.
It is neither illegal nor unethical to prepare a wicket to suit the home team's bowlers. It would be foolish to do otherwise.
If Jim Laker could claim 19 wickets on a dry Old Trafford wicket nearly half a century ago, part of the credit should go to his captain Peter May, who persuaded the groundsman into not watering the pitch in advance.  Was that unethical? Or illegal?
The illegal and the unethical co-exist in sport. On the cricket field, it is illegal to overstep when bowling - umpires call a 'no ball' immediately - but it isn't unethical.
It is unethical to claim a catch when you know that the ball has hit the ground, but it isn't illegal.
No-one minds a three-day Test as long as the battle between bat and ball is fascinating.
The curator is subject to a set of opposing demands. A quick win for the home side versus a full five-day match which is what television demands. The latter are often boring run feasts. The toss can ruin the best-laid plans of curators.
Had South Africa made in the first innings the same score they did in the second, Nagpur might have had a different story to tell in the ongoing series against India. South Africa made more in the fourth innings than India did in the third.
The tracks at Mohali and Nagpur for the current series have not been minefields or square turners.
True, they aided spin early, but they were the allies of batsman willing to stay and play. That 40 was the highest score in four innings at Nagpur was not so much an indictment of the pitch as of the batsmen's technique.
No-one expects tracks in seamer-friendly England to be like the pace-friendly ones in Australia or South Africa. Cricket's - in fact, any sport's - charm lies in the variety and range of its settings. Conditions change, challenges differ. Overcoming the opposition by conquering the conditions is the essence of the game.
Uniformity - of pitches, grounds, weather - is neither possible nor desirable.
The South Africans have had to deal with difficult pitches, not impossible ones.
Batting techniques have been tested, and not just those of the visitors. Indians, who presumably ought to be happier in home conditions have displayed the same lack of technique. The shorter formats have formalised the habit of hitting your way out of trouble. Test cricket demands greater discipline and more respect for the essentials of batsmanship.
When Indian leg-spinner Narendra Hirwani claimed 16 wickets in his debut Test in Chennai, the visiting captain, Viv Richards of the West Indies told the Indian team: "Come home, we'll show you," he said.
The message holds good in all sport: home rules apply.
Suresh Menon is Editor, Wisden India Almanack


Police in Latin America and Europe have arrested 25 suspected members of the Anonymous hacking group, according to Interpol.

The authorities in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain carried out the arrests and seized 250 items of IT equipment and mobile phones, Interpol says.
Those arrested are aged between 17 and 40.
The operation follows cyber attacks on Colombian and Chilean websites.
Interpol says the websites of the Colombian Ministry of Defence and the presidency, Chile's national library, and the Chilean electricity company Endesa were attacked.
Spanish authorities say four people were arrested as part of the operation in Spain, in Madrid and Malaga.
Two of them remain in custody, while the other two, including a minor, were released on bail.
Spain's interior ministry said that one of the four arrested was the alleged manager of Anonymous' computer operations in Spain and Latin America.
Anonymous is a loose international network of online activists which describes itself as an "internet gathering". Its protests often take the form of disrupting websites and services.
Many Anonymous protests tackle issues of free speech and preserving the openness of the net.


A father of three choked to death as he tried to eat a McDonald's cheeseburger in one mouthful, an inquest has heard.

Darren Bray, 29, of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, blacked out as he ate the 99p burger following a night out with friends in October 2015.
Cardiff Coroner's Court heard Mr Bray, who had been drinking, but not enough to affect his judgement, died from a blockage to his airway.
A death by misadventure conclusion was recorded.
The hearing was told Mr Bray said "watch this" to his friends as he squashed the burger in half and put it in his mouth.
Friend Sam Bisgrove said: "I could see him trying to cough it up and he was making horrible coughing noises.
"I tried to hit his back to help him clear his airway."
Paramedics arrived and performed CPR on Mr Bray, who was at a friend's house in Barry, but were unable to restart his heart and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Dr Rhiannon Trefor told the hearing there was an 8cm by 5cm (3in by 1.9in) ball of food stuck in his throat.
"He would not have been able to breathe... with that in his airway," she said.


Like many good ideas, the way the NHS and care sectors in the London borough of Sutton are working together more closely is a relatively simple concept.

When a care home resident needs to go into a hospital, a red bag is packed for them.
It contains their details, vital information about their health conditions, supplies of medicine, and a change of clothes for when they are ready to be discharged.
"You would not believe how many people face delays simply because clothes can't be found for them," says Mary Hopper, a senior NHS manager in Sutton. "You have staff going to lost property trying to find them something to fit."
The initiative also sees a member of the care home staff visiting the patient in hospital within 48 hours of admission.
And this all helps doctors and nurses treat them more effectively.
The result is older people are spending less time in hospital - eight days, which is four fewer than before the scheme was set up.
That is good for the individual and good for the health service.
But the red bag scheme is just one of the ways the NHS and care homes are working together.
GPs have also been employed to carry out regular visits of care homes, with each resident now receiving six-monthly check-ups.
A pharmacist is on hand to visit homes to carry out medicine reviews.
And district nurses have been used to train care home staff in dementia, falls and diabetes.
It certainly seems to be working.
Since the project started a year ago, there has been a 10% drop in visits to A&E.
Those running care homes are, unsurprisingly, full of praise.
Patricia Fyfe, the manager of St Jude's care home, says it has been really "eye-opening" to see what can be achieved through collaboration.
Sutton is not the only area where the NHS is forging closer links with care homes.
It is one of six "vanguard" areas in England given funding to explore new ways of working.
This has been done in recognition of the fact that the NHS has - in the words of Ms Hopper - turned its back on the care sector.
She says the closure of many long-stay hospitals 20 years ago means the responsibility for caring for sick older people has increasingly fallen on the care sector - with little input from the NHS.
The sentiment is one the care sector wholeheartedly shares.
Prof Martin Green, of Care England, which represents providers, says there is no reason why residents in care homes should get an "inferior" service to the one someone in their own home would get.
But all the evidence suggests they do.
The Care Quality Commission looked at the issue a few years ago and found most of the 81 care homes it asked did not receive regular visits from GPs.
The result has been that care home managers have had to pay GPs retainers to ensure they visit - with reports that some are as high as Â£20,000 a year.
So what is the solution?
If the experience of Sutton - and the other places doing good work in this area - is anything to go by, it is forging a shared approach.
Ever since the separate systems of social care and health care were created after World War Two, they have been treated as distinct services - one run by councils at a local level, the other organised centrally by government.
But, increasingly, as the population ages, that is looking out of date.
The government has set up a shared pot - called the Better Care Fund - to encourage local government and the NHS to work together.
The fund is worth just over Â£5bn this year - but that is less than 5% of the combined health and care budgets, which is why some people want the government to go even further and merge the two sectors completely.
Such a radical move is probably some way off yet, if it is to happen at all, but what is certain is that the futures of the two sectors are inextricably linked.
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A woman has died after falling from a horse on a Gower beach.

The coastguard was called to Llangennith beach at 08:45 BST on Sunday along with an ambulance crew and the air ambulance.
Police are not treating the death as suspicious and the coroner has been informed.
A spokeswoman said: "South Wales Police can confirm the sudden death of a 51-year-old female."


Two comprehensive schools in Powys could close as part of an overhaul of secondary education in the county.

The council is considering plans to close Gwernyfed and Brecon high schools and replace them with a Â£50m education campus in Brecon.
Under the plans, Welsh-medium education would be provided at a bilingual school in mid Powys, currently Builth Wells High School.
The measures are to address falling school rolls and financial pressures.


Southampton forward Manolo Gabbiadini remains sidelined with a groin strain picked up at Tottenham last month.

Sofiane Boufal is a doubt after pulling a muscle in training but Uruguayan defender Martin Caceres is fit and could make his debut.
Palace are without Scott Dann, who suffered knee ligament damage during the win at Chelsea.
James Tomkins and Patrick van Aanholt are also out but Loic Remy has returned to training and may feature.
Tony Husband: "A Crystal Palace fan cut my hair last week and when I suggested Sam Allardyce would steer them to safety he warned me to take a look at their daunting fixture list.
"Palace still have to play Spurs, Arsenal, Liverpool and both Manchester clubs. So the barber's point, with no disrespect aimed at Southampton, was that three points is a must on the south coast.
"However, that was before the Eagles' stunning win at Chelsea. The low-scoring Saints will want to avoid going the same way as the champions-elect and need a performance in front of their home fans.
"If Palace win, my barber will be singing while he's trimming next time around."
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Southampton manager Claude Puel: "It's important to have a good focus and concentration against a strong Palace team.
"It's also important that we score goals from different areas. It is not just the work of the strikers, but the work for all."
Crystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce: "You'd hope we could target a point, given the form we're in.
"We have to be at 100%. Every player was at their top level on Saturday.
"I told the boys to enjoy the [Chelsea] victory at home. There's no real time to celebrate. There's still a way to go."
I think Palace's unbeaten run will continue when they go to St Mary's but they might have to settle for a point.
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More people have died on the Welsh coast in August than in any other month of the year, figures have shown.

According to the RNLI, there have been a total of 16 deaths in that month over the past five years.
The charity said the number of near-fatal incidents was also highest in August, with Welsh crews launching their lifeboats the most that month.
The RNLI is calling on the public to "respect the water" this summer as part of a drowning prevention campaign.
Last August, crews in Wales launched their lifeboats for 278 emergencies - 23% of their total annual launches and the highest number between 2012 to 2016.
Over the same period, RNLI lifeguards responded to the most beach incidents in August than any other year - 690 cases, which accounted for 55% of their total annual incidents.
Helen Church, RNLI community safety partner for Wales, said: 'With summer holidays upon us and hopefully some hot weather, our fantastic beaches are naturally a draw for many people.
"But sadly this also means more people tragically losing their lives or getting into serious danger at the coast.
"We need to start a national conversation that encourages people to fight their instincts around water."
The charity has also raised concerns people do not know they should dial 999 to request help if they saw someone fall into open water.
It has previously issued advice on how to avoid cold water shock.


Aston Villa have signed France under-21 international defender Jordan Amavi on a five-year deal.

The 21-year-old full-back joins Tim Sherwood's side from Nice for an undisclosed fee.
Villa have seen midfielder Fabian Delph join Manchester City for £8m, while Liverpool are in pursuit of £32.5m-rated Villa striker Christian Benteke.
But Sherwood said: "Jordan has been one of the outstanding players in Ligue 1 and can become even better."
The Villa boss told the club website: "There were a lot of clubs after him this summer so we are really pleased to welcome him."


On 7 October 1946 a male presenter introduced the very first episode of Woman's Hour.

Created as a time-filler for housewives, its early broadcasts were criticised for being "patronising" and obsessed with the routine of domestic chores.
Three months after the programme's launch, the first female presenter was at the helm and the show went on to become a Radio 4 staple - the longest-running radio magazine programme in British broadcasting.
From how to cook with whale meat to contraception and "the perfect affair", the shifting nature of its subjects shines a light on the changing nature of the issues affecting women.
"Good afternoon and welcome to our first Woman's Hour...  it's your programme, designed for you," were the first words of the first Woman's Hour.
Life at the end of World War Two was bleak and women were responsible for helping restore the nation's morale.
Focusing on the housewife, early episodes were about rebuilding the home.
Topics such as "mother's midday meal" - herrings, kippers or a baked potato - and "putting your best face forward", wearing lipstick, powder and a headscarf, were the norm.
Norman Collins, who commissioned the programme, said: "I always visualised the poor, wretched housewife, her morale probably at the lowest, at around two o'clock in the afternoon, when she had the washing up and lunch to do."
One of the advantages of radio was that during the programme, women could complete their chores at the same time as listening.
Other programmes for this decade also emphasised women's place in the home, with titles including Giving the Wife a Hand and What Not to Wear.
Guests included Elisabeth Lutyens, pioneering woman composer, and performer Dame Edith Evans.
Groundbreaking moment: When the word "vagina" was used in 1946, in an item about women's health, there was uproar and for decades the term "birth canal" was used instead.
During a decade of firsts many women began thinking about taking up a part-time job, but would their husbands help out?
A builder's handyman, on Woman's Hour on 22 June 1958, described his family's daily routine and juggling housework with his wife's part-time job office cleaning.
He said: "I don't think I'd stop my wife going out to work at all; she likes going to work and she's happy doing the work. While that runs that way I don't think I'd ever try and stop her."
Without his wife's income, he said, the family would have to go without a few luxuries such as the TV and his cigarettes.
Helping out around the house was "quite a simple job for any man to do" - he cleaned the windows, did repairs and even turned his hand to sewing when he had to, because his wife didn't like it.
His wife woke up at half past five in the morning, leaving him to get their daughter ready for school.
The handyman described his daughter as "very handy" in helping to cope when his wife wasn't there.
Other episodes in the 1950s touched on equal pay but titles like Hooray for Being a Housewife still existed.
Guests included singer Vera Lynn and Nancy Astor, the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons.
Groundbreaking moment: Breast cancer was discussed for the first time, with a personal story about an operation in 1954.
In 1967 the Abortion Act was passed, changing the lives of many women - and the doctors who carried out the terminations.
One doctor, who appeared on Woman's Hour on 19 June 1969, said: "You have to be honest with yourself that you're doing right.  I must admit that once or twice these decisions have brought me near tears."
In 1966 three girls had an abortion at her surgery, but the first four days of 1967 had seen four girls turn up to have a termination, and since then three more had arrived.
It's the "in between cases that are so worrying" for those in the medical profession, as there are so many factors to consider when signing off on a termination, she said.
"It's a decision which means ending the life of an unborn baby and I sometimes wonder if we're preventing a genius - a Michelangelo or a Leonardo da Vinci - being born."
Doctors were faced with a "girl wracked with tears and a quaking boyfriend" on a daily basis, and if couples decide to have sex they should take steps to "prevent a pregnancy or face the music".
Other programmes from this decade delved into issues of contraception and the sexual revolution.
"I wonder if you can imagine what it's like to be born into the wrong body," a guest asked Woman's Hour on 18 September 1974.
Starting life as a female, but never being happy in that gender, the "courageous" interviewee sought help and advice from doctors, psychiatrists and priests.
Reprimanded for "walking like a man", despite not knowing any different, he said: "I felt completely wrong."
After a five-month stay in a psychiatric hospital, the psychiatrist's parting words were: "Goodbye my dear - enjoy being a woman."
He later joined one of the services, but said "it was a struggle... obviously my medical records were against me" and after two years he was medically discharged.
Various psychological tests later, it was decided he was a homosexual.
"I was very unhappy with that label," he said, suggesting that nobody really understood his situation.
Other episodes during the decade looked at women's hopes, fears and aspirations, and the decline of the institution of marriage.
Guests included then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to the US Congress.
Groundbreaking moment: Stephen Bonarjee, in charge of radio current affairs, suggested Woman's Hour needed more women with direct experience of motherhood on its staff.
"The women have come to the front and they are determined they're not going to be pushed back into the kitchen sink any more," a 1988 programme was told.
Miners' wives had been made politically active by the 1984-85 miners' strike and ensured their families were fed and supported, despite the uncertainty of their husbands' jobs.
Women were "realising the potential they've got", said Eileen Wilkinson, who formed the Thornhill Women's Support Group.
Mrs Wilkinson said she didn't think things "would ever return back to normal" and it had shocked men that the women "were brainier than they thought they were".
Women would not be content to leave this independence behind, with talks of charity work and support for the Labour movement.
Husbands had come to accept what their wives were doing, she said, as "there's no way" they could be stopped and many women felt it was now "their turn".
Other programmes also reflected a new-found confidence in getting involved in matters outside the home, with one episode called My Mind Said I Could Do It.
Guests included US talk show host Oprah Winfrey and Winnie Mandela, then wife of South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela.
Groundbreaking moment: The first Man's Hour was broadcast on 1 April 1986, with segments on redefining masculinity and knowledge of women's functions.
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman," US President Bill Clinton infamously told reporters in 1998.
Monica Lewinsky, a young intern and the woman in question, told Woman's Hour her version of events the following year.
"He loses the smile, the eyes become intense, there's an animalistic stare, you feel like he's undressing you with his eyes and it's powerful," she said of their early meetings.
Claims that she was "shameless", or somehow to blame for an affair that led to the president being impeached, were not something she accepted.
"I come from a generation of women that need to be more comfortable with our sexuality... I don't think I'm a 'hussy'," she said.
Neither did she accept she should not have been in another relationship at the time.
"It's interesting from a woman's perspective how I'm questioned about this, yet the president was already involved in at least one other relationship - with his wife."
One regret, she said, was for the Clintons' daughter Chelsea and "how painful this has been for her".
Other programmes in the 1990s reflected a change in women's attitudes and a shift towards taking control.
Guests included Stella Rimington, the first woman to head MI5, and the UK's first astronaut Helen Sharman.
"It's seen that you must be perfect at everything, you must be wonderful," Nigella Lawson told Woman's Hour in 12 October 2000.
Her book How to Be a Domestic Goddess, published that year, was accused of romanticising a previous era when women were stuck in the kitchen.
That, she said, was a "misunderstanding", as people presumed she was writing about the "joys of housework and how domestic life is the only true and proper way for a woman to achieve anything worthwhile".
Instead, she was arguing for choice, and the idea that women were "allowed to do a bit of everything".
"If I bake a cupcake, how many points does it knock off my IQ?" she asked.
Ms Lawson said baking was "comfort cooking" and that it made you feel good about yourself.
Empowerment and life choices were themes throughout the programme in the noughties.
Guests included Jane Juska, author of A Round Heeled Woman, and Harry Potter creator JK Rowling.
Groundbreaking moment: Edwina Currie gave her reaction to John Major's "shame" over their four-year affair and explained why she decided to reveal the infidelity.
"The marriage is destroyed, or at the very least rocked, but can an affair save a failing marriage," Woman's Hour listeners were asked at the start of an episode on 26 March 2010.
After a slew of celebrity infidelities, affairs were a recurring theme and their impact on ordinary relationships something to consider.
Sarah and Peter, a couple who have been married for 13 years, talked to the programme about moving on from infidelity after Sarah met a man on a dating website.
"I was just looking for something to hit the refresh button," she said.
Sarah lied about attending pilates classes to carry out the affair every Wednesday night.
After being discovered, she felt guilty, but when the couple spoke about it they realised it brought them back together.
The pair agreed that marriage was a "deeper love than just who you've slept with".
"It was improving my situation at home, I was happier, I was more relaxed, less stressed.
"The children were happier, Pete was happier. So I didn't feel guilty about it because it was actually giving something to the relationship."
Other episodes in the 2010s nodded towards high-power roles for women and a nonchalance towards discussing taboo subjects.
Guests included Anne Darwin, wife of canoe conman John Darwin, who faked his own death at sea in 2002 in a bid to claim a life insurance payout.
Groundbreaking moment: The 2015 Woman's Hour Power List included transgender activist Caitlyn Jenner.
Woman's Hour celebrates its 70th birthday on Monday 10 October with a special programme in front of a live audience, from 10:00 BST on BBC Radio 4, or listen again via the website.


Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has taken to Twitter to express his disappointment at being "detained" by US authorities at Los Angeles International Airport.

It is not clear why Khan was detained, or for how long.
In 2012, Indians reacted angrily after Khan was detained for 90 minutes at the White Plains airport near New York.
And in 2009 Shah was detained for two hours at Newark airport and released after India's embassy intervened.
Khan, who flew into Los Angeles on Friday, tweeted:
But, the actor added, there was a brighter side to the "detention":
Although there was no comment from immigration officials, the US State Department's assistant secretary on south and central Asian affairs, Nisha Biswal, tweeted to Khan, saying she was "sorry for the hassle", adding that US diplomats also face this situation.
Some Indians wondered why one of Bollywood's biggest stars was routinely detained at US airports.
In 2012, the actor arrived on a private plane and was on his way to Yale University for a function when he was stopped.
An Indian government minister said at the time that this "policy of detention and apology by the US cannot continue".
US customs and border protection authorities later expressed "profound" apologies for the incident.
Khan had later made light of the incident and joked about it.
"Whenever I start feeling arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to America. The immigration guys kick the star out of stardom," he told a gathering of students at Yale University.
Khan has appeared in more than 70 films and is considered one of India's most recognisable and popular celebrities.


A week-old truce in Syria brokered by the US and Russia appears close to unravelling, with alleged violations by government and rebel forces mounting.

A US-backed rebel group in the divided northern city of Aleppo said the initiative had "practically failed".
The Syrian military said its seven-day "regime of calm" had expired and did not say if it would be renewed.
US Secretary of State John Kerry, however, described the cessation of hostilities as "holding but fragile".
He said US and Russian officials were meeting in Geneva on Monday to discuss developments.
Earlier, Russia's defence ministry said rebel violations had made it "pointless" for Syrian forces to uphold the truce.
"Considering that the conditions of the ceasefire are not being respected by the rebels, we consider it pointless for the Syrian government forces to respect it unilaterally," Lt Gen Sergei Rudskoi said in a televised statement.
The Syrian military said on Monday that rebel groups, which it referred to as "terrorists", had failed to commit to any provisions of the deal.
The army said last week that its "regime of calm" would last until midnight on Sunday and then possibly be renewed. But the latest statement made no mention of a renewal.
Mr Kerry denounced the Syrian declaration, saying: "It would be good if they didn't talk first to the press but if they talked to the people who are actually negotiating this."
The BBC's James Longman in Beirut says there were never high hopes for the cessation of hostilities, but after just one week it looks to be in serious trouble.
"I believe that practically it has failed and has ended," Zakaria Malahifji, head of the political office of the Aleppo-based rebel group Fastaqim, told Reuters news agency.
Asked whether he expected aid to be delivered to the 250,000 people living in the city's besieged rebel-held east - a key part of the truce deal - Mr Malahifji said: "There is no hope. It has been a number of days of procrastination. Every day there is a pretext."
The UN's aid chief, Stephen O'Brien, said on Monday that he was "pained and disappointed" that a 20-lorry aid convoy destined for eastern Aleppo was still stuck on the border with Turkey because it had not received necessary permissions and safety guarantees from the Syrian government.
A number of leading rebel factions also warned that if the government pressed ahead with its plan to evacuate more rebel fighters from the besieged Homs suburb of al-Wair, it would "have clearly ended its commitment to any proposed truce".
A pro-government Lebanese TV channel reported that the rebels and their families had left on Monday, but a local official later told Reuters that the evacuation had been postponed until Tuesday.
The truce was dealt another blow on Saturday when warplanes from the US-led coalition against so-called Islamic State (IS) accidentally bombed Syrian troops in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour.
Officials said the strikes killed more than 60 soldiers. President Bashar al-Assad called them the "latest example of flagrant American aggression against Syrian army positions in the interests of the terrorist organisation Daesh [IS]".
On Monday, the UK confirmed that British aircraft - believed to be unmanned, remotely-piloted Reaper drones - had been involved in the strike, along with jets from Australia and Denmark.
A statement said the UK was "fully co-operating with the coalition investigation" and stressed that it "would not intentionally target Syrian military units".
Syria government warplanes meanwhile bombed rebel positions in Hama province, killing dozens of jihadist fighters, state media reported.
In another development, Turkish-backed Syrian rebel forces might extend their zone of control in northern Syria and seek to capture the IS stronghold of al-Bab, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.
Mr Erdogan told a news conference in Istanbul that 900 sq km (350 sq miles) of IS territory had been cleared since last month, and that he envisaged the "safe zone" eventually extending up to 5,000 sq km.


Greater Manchester Police's (GMP) website was attacked on Wednesday, the force said.

The site was unavailable for more two hours from 20:00 BST in a "malicious attempt to disrupt services", GMP said.
Deputy Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said they were treating it as a "denial-of-service attack" and apologised for any inconvenience caused.
A person has claimed responsibility on Twitter for causing the website crash, a GMP spokeswoman said.
Det Ch Con Hopkins said the force's website server was not connected to other police computer systems and contained only information which was already in the public domain.
"We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible," he said.
Those carrying out a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack flood their target with large amounts of traffic in an attempt to render their website unreachable.


The first stage of what will become Scotland's largest street art project has begun.

More than 60 street and graffiti artists will team up at Edinburgh's New Waverley construction site to produce one of the largest public artworks of its kind in the UK.
It will combine permanent art with "an ever-changing tableau of graffiti art".
The Canongate Plot's first stage at The Arches is inspired by fireworks and Bonfire Night.
The artists began spraypainting on Sunday with the first stage due for completion on Monday.
The project is spearheaded by Work In Progress Edinburgh (WIPE), a community arts partnership made up of local residents and artists.


Motherwell have signed Stephen Pearson until the end of the season - the midfielder's third spell at the club.

The 34-year-old has recently returned from a spell with Atletico Kolkata, where he won the Indian Super League.
"Everyone knows the affiliation I have with the club," said Pearson. "I thoroughly enjoyed my time here.
"It is a good place to come and work so it ticked all the boxes for me and hopefully it suits Motherwell in the short term."
Pearson returns to Scotland with an Indian Super League winner's medal and plenty of fond memories.
"It was very good. I went out and did pre-season in Madrid for a month and then we flew for the season beginning in October and finished the season off just before Christmas," he said.
"We managed to win the league, which was great.
"So it made up for the big decision to go out there in the first place, it kind of justified that by coming back with a winner's medal."
The Indian Super League has only been around for a few years, with the short season and long distance travel notable elements of the experience for Pearson.
"This will only be the fourth year [of the Indian Super League] coming up now, so it is still in the early stages. It is a good competition, only over a short period of time, so the games are thick and fast with lots of travelling - that is one of the things I found quite difficult, the travelling side of it.
"But I could not speak highly enough of the league. Everybody out there is superb. They try to be as professional as possible. They have got a lot of experience and big names out there and they are trying to build up grass-roots level and start from the bottom."
Pearson also believes the lure of lucrative contracts in India will encourage other players to try their luck over in the sub-continent.
He said: "It is certainly a place you will see a lot of players trying to get to. There is a lot of money there, especially for the foreign players who come in. You're allowed 15 foreign players, and 15 local players. But you can only have five foreign players in the starting team at one time - I think they might be reducing that to encourage the progression of the Indian lads."
However, Pearson says Indian football still cannot compete with the money being splashed by clubs in China.
"I think the money that is getting thrown around in China is just on another level at the minute," he said.
"In India they do try to pay the foreign players well because it is only a short time that they are out there and they want to get the best players to come and help the Indian players develop.
"They are passionate about it and everything they do, they give it their all."
In terms of his ambitions with Motherwell for the rest of the Premiership season, Pearson added: "I am just looking forward to helping the team out, contribute as much as I can between now and the end of the season and help this club finish as high up the league as possible."


Violent riots on the streets of South Africa in recent weeks have seen foreigners killed, shops looted and thousands left homeless.

Foreigners are accused of taking jobs from locals in a country where unemployment remains high; proof of the chasm that remains between rich and poor.
So 21 years after Nelson Mandela pledged to liberate all South Africans from the continuing bondage of poverty and deprivation, why does their country remain one of the most unequal societies on the planet?
The World Service Inquiry hears from four expert witnesses.
University of Cape Town economics professor Murray Leibbrandtworks for the unit which carried out the first national survey of inequality in 1993, at the request of the incoming African National Congress (ANC).
"It's a humbling story. South Africa started the post-apartheid period with very high levels of inequality that we can easily understand, because this was apartheid South Africa. We had a government that was directed to addressing that inequality, especially its racial dimensions.
"We've seen some changes in the racial composition, but we still have incredibly high levels of inequality. At best, they're the same as they were in 1994. Some estimates have them marginally higher.
"The fact that inequality has gone up within racial groups isn't in and of itself a bad thing, but it just seems that we've generated a society that itself generates inequality.
"It's always going to be the labour market that transforms a society, but it has really underperformed in South Africa over the post-apartheid period: job creation isn't very high.
"Even if we grow at 2 to 3% it's largely not through creating a whole lot of jobs. The services sector has grown. That's a skill-intensive, not particularly employment-intensive sector. It's about the mismatch and the structure of our growth.
"Brazil managed to create a large number of semi-skilled and unskilled jobs, or jobs that were in the same zone as the young people who were coming out of school, so they included a whole lot of society that had previously not been included.
"That's the key thing in South Africa - you need that process of inclusivity that somehow Brazil got right. That's the missing link."
Yoliswana Dwane co-founded the social movement Equal Education.
"I come from a township in the Eastern Cape called Dimbaza. I remember being crammed into a classroom, about a hundred students in one room.
"There are still some schools that are overcrowded. Learners have to fight over furniture or access to a desk, and they don't concentrate, especially where kids have to use bricks as a chair.
"We have about 400 schools that are made of mud; lack of electricity in about 3,000 schools; lack of water in about 2,000 schools; lack of connectivity; and also  inappropriate structures, schools that are falling apart. Those conditions pose a danger to the lives of children. A young learner from Limpopo died because he fell into a pit latrine."
South Africa spends a bigger share of its GDP on education than any other country in Africa. That has got more children into schools, but the quality of education is often poor:
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"The apartheid system was geared towards making black people inferior. Education was one way of disempowering an entire black nation, not allowing black people to enter into certain areas of the economy, starting from Bantu education in 1953."
The Bantu system segregated black and white children, and aimed to prevent black children from being educated to aspire to positions they could not then hold. Those  children are now parents and teachers themselves:
"The South African curriculum says that parents should be involved in their children's education. Kids are given exercises to work out at home, but parents are not in a position to help.
"The average teacher is 40 years old, and the majority were taught under Bantu education. A regional study identified teachers who are not themselves able to do maths exercises for Grade 6.
"It starts with political will, because we know what the challenges are, but in order to change the problems that we face, we don't only need to accept that we have a problem, but rather have political will.
"Promises are being made [by the government], but young people in this country are angry. They are angry because they are not getting jobs. I think it's because of the disconnect between the political elite and those who are facing the real challenges on the ground."
Andrew Feinstein: ANC's economics policy has devastated the country
Andrew Feinstein was an ANC member of parliament between 1994 and 2001. He resigned after the ANC refused to allow an independent investigation into a large arms deal.
"As the winds of change stirred in South Africa, so the business community continued to play the political game. The big corporations were very involved in the transition. I worked as a facilitator in the constitutional negotiations: we were funded by the hundred largest corporations in South Africa.
"As soon as the ANC leadership was released from jail - and this includes Nelson Mandela - they heard the same message from these people, that there was a way in which one prospered and survived in today's world.
"You limited the role of government in the economy, you restricted government spending and you allowed the private sector to flourish because that is where jobs and wealth were going to be created.
"It has worked for a lot of countries but the problem with those sort of formulae - and I say this as someone who's played an important role in economic and financial policy after 1994 and therefore is somewhat culpable in this as well - is that these approaches to economic policy disregard the unique circumstances of particular countries. South Africa was particularly unique at this time for a whole range of reasons.
"There was, as one writer put it, 'a struggle for the soul of the ANC', and the reality is the technocrats won."
In return for large loans, the ANC government agreed to keep spending and taxes low and not to protect its own industry.
"This was absolutely devastating. The clothing and textile sector in South Africa employed well over 300,000 people in 1994. A few years after that - because of the flood of cheap imports from various parts of the world - there were maybe 50,000 people employed.
"This economic compromise ensured that the business community today - 20 years after our democracy started - is still entirely dominated by the white community with a handful of exceptions of the black elite.
"For my last couple of years in parliament, I began to see the impact that these economic policies were having on the nature of the ANC, and I began to get the impression we were serving our own interests as a very small ruling elite, rather than the interests of the broader population.
"Unless a meaningful opposition to the ANC develops, I can't see those changes taking place. It's going to take something of a political earthquake for that to happen.
Mcebisi Ndletyana: Corrosive effect of patronage politics
Mcebisi Ndletyana is head of political economy at the South African think tank MISTRA.
"We identified patronage politics as something that has a corrosive effect because people get into politics for material benefits, and individuals that are ill-prepared for positions are nominated purely because they provide benefits in return.
"So a councillor, for instance, during the course of her tenure, would ensure that she builds a group of supporters who would support her when the next round of elections comes. So it's a set of clients that you nurture - you take care of them, and when the party has nominations, those people whom you'd been taking care of vote for you against the other guy.
"People who are poor tend to be open to using all manner of ways to eke a living, and they support certain candidates as long as that candidate gives that person something in return, regardless of whether or not that candidate is fit for office.
"One of the rallying cries of the anti-apartheid struggle was 'liberation first and education later', and a lot of people took that slogan quite literally. They dropped out of school, went to the bush to train and came back to liberate South Africa as guerrillas. So they had then, in 1994, valid expectations of employment from an organisation they'd served, from the country for which they had given up their youth and sacrificed a lot.
"Because they can't get jobs anywhere else, they become quite protective of those jobs, so what most have tended to do is to build a nest in case they don't make it back to public office.
"You need to make it possible for people to become self-sufficient. They have nothing, so they are willing to do anything to get something to eat. If they can fend for themselves, there's no need to enter into some kind of relationship with a politician.
"Education obviously gives you skills to get a job, but once you have that education, you need to find a job, so our economy has got to create jobs, but fundamentally, most importantly, it's education."
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Older teenage girls are the group most at risk of being victims of sexual abuse, crime data analysis suggests.

Using the Crime Survey for England and Wales, the Children's Society estimated that 50,000 girls aged 16 and 17 were sexually assaulted last year.
This group does not have the same legal safeguards as those who are younger because they are able to consent to sex, the charity said.
It is calling for changes to the law to give them more protection.
Only one in 10 of the allegations identified by the Children's Society was reported to police.
The charity said half of those who did not report it either did not consider it worth reporting, feared going to court, or did not want the perpetrators punished.
There was a perception in some cases that once a girl turned 16 she had chosen to put herself in exploitative situations or could "look after" herself, it said.
The charity said "dangerous inconsistencies" in the law needed to be removed to help older teenage girls get the support and legal protection they need.
It called on the government to make sure police have the means they need to protect 16 and 17-year-olds from sexual exploitation, and that consent to take drugs and drink alcohol was never confused with consent to engage in sexual acts.
Chief executive Matthew Reed said: "Too many children are being left to suffer sexual exploitation in silence.
"Despite 16 and 17-year-olds being at the highest risk, they often receive the least support.
"These young people are still children and the government must make sure that the police and other agencies have the means they need in order to keep them safe."


Hundreds of people attended a memorial service to mark the 29th anniversary of the Bradford City football stadium fire, in which 56 people died.

The fire broke out during a match between Bradford and Lincoln at the Valley Parade stadium on 11 May 1985.
The fire is thought to have been started by a lit cigarette dropped under the all-wooden stand, igniting litter underneath the steps.
A 30-minute service was held in the city's Centenary Square at 11:00 BST.
The event, which is held every year, was led by the chaplain to Bradford City, the Reverend Andy Grieff.
The city hall bells played Abide with Me and You'll Never Walk Alone at the start of the service, which was attended by relatives and friends of those who lost their lives or were injured.
The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Khadim Hussain, laid a wreath on behalf of the city and district.
People have also been paying tribute on Twitter, including Fifa president Sepp Blatter who tweeted: "My thoughts this morning are with those who lost loved ones in Bradford, 29 years ago today."
The day of the disaster started out as one of celebration as Bradford players paraded the old Division Three championship trophy around the ground before kick-off.
It marked Bradford City's return to the second tier of English football for the first time since before World War Two.
Fifty four Bradford City supporters and two Lincoln City fans lost their lives, with many more injured.


Islamist protesters killed a taxi driver who tried to drive through a demonstration in Egypt, officials say.

Witnesses told the state-run al-Ahram newspaper that he was dragged from his vehicle after running over one of the protesters at the rally on Monday in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura.
A preliminary medical report said he died from a deep cut to the neck. A photo of his body was posted online.
The interior ministry said that police had arrested 10 suspects.
The protester who the taxi driver is said to have run over was in a critical condition in a hospital in Mansoura, al-Ahram quoted a Facebook page called "Al-Azhar University in Mansoura" as saying.
The protesters were reportedly supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
Security has deteriorated in Egypt in the nearly three years since the uprising that forced President Hosni Mubarak to resign. There were a number of lynchings during Mr Morsi's one-year rule.
In June, four Shia Muslims were lynched by a mob apparently led by ultraconservative Salafist clerics in a village outside the capital, Cairo.
Three months earlier, vigilantes hanged two suspected thieves in a rural Nile Delta village as a crowd of thousands watched.


A driver repeatedly punched a traffic warden in the head after he found a parking ticket on his car, a court heard.

Joseph Smart, 41, wrongly assumed it was handed out by civil enforcement officer Joanna Morton.
He admitted assault causing actual bodily harm on Miss Morton and assaulting a police officer with intent to resist arrest at Exeter Crown Court.
Smart, of Wellington Street, Teignmouth, was jailed for 52 weeks.
Miss Morton said she was "petrified and terrified" and screamed during the assault, which left her with injuries to her forehead and ear.
"I had not even issued him with the parking ticket. I cannot believe he was so violent towards me," she said.
Smart, who had been drinking, then spat in the face of a police officer who arrested him, the court heard.
The attack happened near Teignmouth seafront in March.
Judge Francis Gilbert said Smart had previous convictions for violence, particularly against the police.
Pedestrians and a motorist helped Miss Morton following the assault.
William Parkhill, defending, said Smart had "got the wrong person" after his car was given a ticket.


Abiola Dauda's fifth goal of the season was enough to give Hearts victory and send Aberdeen crashing to only a second home defeat of the campaign.

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The Nigerian took advantage of a blunder by Dons keeper Adam Collin to give Robbie Neilson's side a third win this year against Derek McInnes' team.
Collin spilled Alim Ozturk's free-kick on a night when there were precious few clear-cut chances for either team.
The setback means Aberdeen cannot match last season's points tally of 75.
Amazingly both these teams will be in action in just seven weeks' time when the Europa League qualifiers get underway, nearly a fortnight before the European Championship final in France.
In the early exchanges it seemed like the Hearts players' minds were already on their short summer break with a real lethargy about their play.
There were no such problems for Aberdeen as they played with pace and an aggression McInnes felt they lacked when losing at Tynecastle in the Scottish Cup and Premiership earlier this year.
Niall McGinn and Jonny Hayes stretched the visitors in wide areas but the Dons struggled to capitalise with midfielder Kenny McLean forced to play up front while Adam Rooney and Simon Church sat out injured.
The Dons hogged the majority of possession and flashed a few inviting balls across the face of the penalty area but failed to create much in the way of clear scoring chances.
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McGinn did try his best with a free-kick from a central position but it dipped too late to test Hearts' young goalkeeper Jack Hamilton.
It actually took Robbie Neilson's side fully 34 minutes to pose the first problem for the Dons defence when they finally strung some passes together in an attacking area.
The ball eventually broke back to Prince Buaben, who bent a 25-yard drive towards the left-hand post and Collin was forced into a full-length dive to push the effort to safety.
But the goalkeeper was badly at fault when he allowed Ozturk's free-kick to squirm into Dauda's path for the only goal of the game.
And Aberdeen - runners-up in the Premiership for a second year running - could not recover against third-placed Hearts.


â€‹The oldest tiger in the UK has died aged 22 at a wildlife park in Lincolnshire.

Woodside Wildlife Park said: "It is with great sadness that we must announce the passing away of Tango the tiger."
The park asked people to share their memories and photographs of Tango, who was moved to Lincolnshire in 2014 after being rescued from a German circus.
Tango and his partner were saved hours before they were due to be put down.
On his 20th birthday, Tango was given a cardboard birthday cake filled with meat to celebrate his milestone.
Speaking at the time, Ben Pascoe, head keeper at the park, said: "He's the equivalent of about an 80-year-old man and I don't know of any 80-year-old men that are still running about."
Tigers usually live to about 16, and occasionally into their late teens, he said.
The world's oldest known tiger, Flavio, a male Siberian/Bengal tiger, died at Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida, in 2014. Staff at the centre said he was aged 25.


Cars were swallowed up when a large sinkhole opened up in a restaurant car park, in Mississippi in America

9 November 2015 Last updated at 07:22 GMT
Onlookers described how they were eating their meals when the lights suddenly went out and they heard a loud crash.
Tests are going to take place to find out why the ground opened up swallowing 12 cars.
The large hole measured 120m long and 11m wide.
Luckily no one was hurt.


Outsourcing company Capita is to create 100 new jobs at its call centre in Moray.

Capita, which provides back office services, said it would begin recruitment for the new roles at its Forres centre later this month.
The new posts will help a major energy company's customers inquire about their bills, make payments, set up direct debits and get refunds.
All the new staff should be in place by February 2012.
Local managing director Bruce MacLeod said: "When Capita was considering where to expand its contact centre operations it looked at a number of possible options.
"That it chose Moray is recognition of the exceptional customer service the local people of Moray deliver to our customers."
Capita employs 45,000 people worldwide, with nearly Â£3bn of turnover.
The company also signed a new contract with DVLA this year.


A man who ordered cannabis on the "dark web" and planned to deal the drug to clear his debts has been jailed for six months.

Mark Dornan, 22, was arrested after officers from the UK Border Force intercepted a parcel sent from Belgium.
The parcel was opened at a Royal Mail depot in Coventry and found to contain over half a kilo of the Class B drug.
Police obtained a search warrant and raided Dornan's home in Raploch, Stirling on 8 April.
Stirling Sheriff Court was told officers found a shoebox in his bedroom containing digital scales, almost Â£570 in cash, and a card containing notations.
They also found a message on a phone about an agreement to supply someone with a half-ounce of the drug for Â£125.
Dornan, a plasterer from Raploch, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of herbal cannabis.
Defence agent Frazer McCready said his client, a father-of-one, had no criminal record.
Mr McCready said: "He was having financial difficulties, and was clearly beyond his means.
"Unfortunately rather than go to some sort of debt counselling, as he is now doing, he foolishly decided to embark on this exercise with regard to his debts by involving himself in the supply of cannabis.
"Clearly that type of drug was going to be intercepted, and it was.
"There were consequences immediately."
Sheriff Wyllie Robertson told Dornan that despite the fact he had no offending history, he had "no alternative" but to impose the jail sentence, because of the value of the drug involved.


Free car parking at Isle of Man's airport will come to an end next year, the Manx government has announced.

From 5 January, a tariff of £1 will be introduced for the first hour of car parking replacing the current 30 minutes without charge.
The changes are expected to generate an annual income of about £75,000 for the island's infrastructure department.
Minister, Phil Gawne said the prices "compare favourably" to the majority of other airports in the British Isles.
He added that drivers will still be able to drop passengers off at the front of the terminal building.
Short stay parking will be charged at a tariff of £2 between 61 and 120 minutes, £2 for up to two hours, and £3.50 for up to four hours.