Shares in Japanese electronics firm Sharp have fallen by 6.5% on concerns a delayed takeover deal with Taiwan's Foxconn may fall apart.

It has been nearly a month since Sharp accepted Foxconn's more than 600bn yen (Â£3.7bn; $5.4bn) offer, but no final agreement has been signed.
According to reports, Foxconn is looking to reduce the price it pays.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei index, on which Sharp is listed, closed up 1.9% at 17,048.55 on Tuesday.
Elsewhere, Asian stock markets had a mixed day.
In South Korea, the Kospi index ended 0.35% higher at 1,996.81, while in Australia the S&P/ASX 200 shed 0.3% to close at 5,166.62 after data showed house price growth cooled in the final three months of 2015.
Stocks in China snapped their recent winning streak. Markets had rallied on Monday after China relaxed margin trading rules, but on Tuesday the Shanghai Composite closed down 0.6% at 2,999.36.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index ended the day down 17.40 points at 20,666.75.


Argos, the retail chain at the centre of a bidding war, has shown a fall in sales over the Christmas period.

Home Retail Group said that like-for-like sales at Argos fell 1.1% in the eight weeks to 27 February, compared to a fall of 2.2% in the previous quarter.
The electrical and homeware retailer is being targeted by both Sainsbury's and South African retailer Steinhoff.
Both companies have until 18 March to make firm bids for Argos.
Last month, a £1.3bn bid from Sainsbury's for Home Retail was trumped by Steinhoff's £1.4bn offer.
Home Retail recently sold its DIY chain Homebase to Australia's Wesfarmers last month for £340m, leaving Argos as its only remaining business.
Total sales at Argos rose 1.9% to £515m in the eight-week period as demand for furniture and sports goods offset lower sales of electrical goods, such as video games and tablet computers.
The company said Argos opened 90 new stores over the year, bringing the total to 845. The new openings held back the like-for-like sales total over the period, it added.
Chief executive John Walden, who said it had been "another rather eventful period" for the company, was pleased with the improvement in Argos' sales.
Shares in Home Retail closed down almost 0.5% at 179.1p, but have risen more than 80% this year following Sainsbury's interest in Argos.
The supermarket has argued that combining both chains would create a "world-leading" retailer bigger than rivals John Lewis and Amazon UK.
Retail analyst Nick Bubb said: "Home Retail claim that underlying like-for-like sales were broadly flat, once the cannibalisation from the infamous concession inserts in Homebase and Sainsbury are taken out. Gross margins were up, however, by 75 basis points and Home Retail's year-end net cash was strong."
Sainsbury's had offered about 167p a share for Home Retail, but will be forced to at least match the 175p-a-share all-cash offer from Steinhoff, which owns UK furniture retailer Harveys.
However, the supermarket may be reluctant to increase its offer to the level needed to win control of Argos.
Analysts have also questioned the wisdom of Sainsbury's acquiring the struggling retailer.


CCTV footage is being examined to try to confirm who was on a boat which overturned off Lowestoft on Monday.

Peter Chambers, 43, of Wellesley Road in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, died after he was found face down in the water.
Police have been unable to trace his next of kin and are asking for the public's help to find his family.
Two men from the Great Yarmouth area have been reported missing. Police are trying to determine if they were on the fishing trip with Mr Chambers.
An extensive search of the sea ended at 00:40 GMT on Tuesday, about 10 hours after Mr Chambers was found, but a shore search resumed later.
Mr Chambers had left Great Yarmouth harbour on Monday morning and his overturned speedboat was later discovered off Ness Point.
Attempts were made to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.


Prison officers at 31 jails in London and south-east England are in line for pay rises of up to £5,000, under a £12m package announced by the government.

The increase means new starters could receive up to £29,500 a year.
Ministers said they wanted to attract the "best talent". Prisons with recruitment issues are being targeted.
Jails have been hit by staff strikes and rising violence in recent months. A union welcomed the rise but said ministers were "papering over cracks".
The Prison Officers Association (POA) added that the government was dealing with "crisis management on a daily basis".
The pay increase applies to "band 3" staff, who make up the majority of front-line officers.
Prisons in London and the south-east, including Wormwood Scrubs, Pentonville, Belmarsh and Whitemoor, were chosen as they find it harder to recruit.
The Ministry of Justice said "thousands" of employees would benefit. The £12m package is an attempt to boost falling prison officer numbers.
On Thursday, it was revealed that, in 2016, the number of front-line staff in England and Wales fell by 347 (1.9%) to 17,888.
The leaving rate was almost 9% - almost double the level of four years earlier.
Steve Gillan, the general secretary of the POA, said it had been told about the increase on Tuesday, and that "not a lot of thought" had gone into the rise.
"We welcome any new money," he said, "but we're a national service and this only applies to 31 prisons [out of more than 100 in England and Wales].
"It doesn't apply to the operational support grades, so the lowest-paid people in the service are getting nothing.
"We pointed that out and there was a deathly silence."
Mr Gillan also said that pay was not the only concern of his members.
"The violence in prisons is out of control," he said. "The prisoners are in control, not the staff."
In November a government White Paper announced an extra 2,500 prison officers would be in place by the end of 2018.
That was on top of an extra 400 officers, to be in place by March this year.
The Ministry of Justice said it was "on track" to meet that target, with 389 job offers made to new recruits.
Justice Secretary Liz Truss said: "Prison officers do a challenging and demanding job day in and day out.
"I want front-line staff to know that their work, experience and loyal service is valued.
"We also want to attract the best new talent into the service, ensuring we recruit and retain the leaders of the future."
The 31 prisons affected are: Aylesbury, Bedford, Bullingdon, Coldingley, Cookham Wood, Downview, Elmley, Feltham, Grendon, High Down, Highpoint, Huntercombe, Medway, Send, Stanford Hill, Swaleside, The Mount, Woodhill, Brixton, Belmarsh, Isis, Pentonville, Rochester, Wandsworth, Wormwood Scrubs, Erlestoke, Lewes, Whitemoor, Chelmsford, Guys Marsh and Littlehey.


Most police forces in England and Wales have adopted new speeding guidelines that allow motorists to do up to 86mph and avoid points on their licence.

It means drivers can pay to do a speed awareness course instead, if caught at up to 10% above the limit plus 9mph.
At a meeting of the Association of Chief Police Officers in January, it was announced that 37 out of 44 forces had signed up to the new system.
Critics say the rules are a money-making exercise and allow law breaking.
Previously, only those travelling at up to 10% above the limit plus 6mph could be offered one of the courses.
But the amendments were agreed by chief constables at a meeting of the Association of Chief Police Officers in January.
For a 30mph zone, the upper limit for a speeding course would be 42mph.
This would rise to 86mph for motorways and other major roads, although the official limit remains the same.
Acpo said the figure at which a course could be offered was a decision for individual forces, and not all would make it available for higher speeds.
Drivers can only attend one speed awareness course, costing between Â£60 and Â£100, in a three-year period.
"There is evidence to show that if people are sent on educational courses, rather than being punished with a fine and penalty points on their driving licence, they are less likely to reoffend in the future," an Acpo spokeswoman said.
"Clearly if someone is breaking the speed limit outside a school when the children are coming out at 3.15pm, it's a no brainer and they would be punished. But if it is 3am and there's no-one on the streets, there is a degree of discretion."
But Joel Hickman, spokesman for road safety charity Brake, said the new proposals "sent out the wrong message" and were "simply a way of making money" - a charge denied by Road Safety Minister Mike Penning.
"Many people drive for work and would rather pay Â£100 to go on a course than accumulate points and risk losing their licence, so it is quite clear which is the greater deterrent to speeding," said Mr Hickman.
"It sends out a message that it's ok to speed, which it certainly is not. Speeding causes tragedy every day on British roads and results in a huge number of people being killed and seriously injured. It's also a factor in a quarter of all crashes.
"If you hit a child at 30mph, it's the equivalent of that child falling out of a three storey building. Driving at 42mph would mean that child having no chance of survival."
But Mr Penning insisted road safety is the government's "top priority". "We support the targeted use of educational courses where these are shown to have a positive effect," he said.
"The police are responsible for the administration of these courses but we are clear that course fees should not be used to raise revenue."
'Get-out-of-jail-free card?'
The Institute of Advanced Motorists said it supported "the widening of the bandwidths that allow drivers to choose a speed awareness course over a fine".
"We don't feel it gives a 'get-out-of-jail-free card' - drivers can only attend one speed awareness course in a three-year period, so repeat offenders will still be hit with points on their licence," said chief examiner Peter Rodger.
"Last year I was caught doing 68mph in a 60mph zone in Lincolnshire.
I was coming back to County Durham after visiting my family in Lincolnshire; it was a nice sunny day and I had the music on full blast but hadn't realised I'd gone over the limit.
The first I knew was when I got a letter from Lincolnshire Police telling me that I'd either have three points on my licence or I could choose to go on the course.
I decided to go on the course but had no idea what it would entail. It was about four hours and I found it really interesting.
I passed my test 23 years ago but there were lots of things I didn't know or had forgotten about.
I found it a positive experience on the whole and I'm definitely more aware of my speed now.
I was just a little bit over the limit but I think anybody who is hugely over should definitely be made to do the course, get fined and get points on their licence too."
But a spokeswoman for accident prevention charity Rospa said while speed awareness courses give people "a chance to reflect on why they speed", the new proposals "would need to be monitored to make sure they are having the same effect on higher-end speeders as on so-called 'accidental speeders'".
Police forces not signed up to the new guidelines are: Dorset, Durham, Hampshire, Humberside, Wiltshire, the Metropolitan Police and City of London. Five of these have their own speed awareness schemes.
At the start of the month, speed cameras across Oxfordshire were switched back on eight months after they were turned off.
Funding was withdrawn for 72 cameras and 89 mobile sites last August as part of budget cuts in the county.
But police said deaths and serious injuries on the area's roads went up following the cameras being switched off.
Money for the cameras to be introduced has come from speed awareness courses and backroom savings.


If you've ever woken up in the middle of the night and immediately checked your phone then you're not alone.

People in the UK have never been more addicted to their smartphones, according to a report from Deloitte.
One in three adults check for messages at night, and admit their overuse is causing rows with their partners.
For some, Fomo - or the fear of missing out - leaves them in the grip of an addiction to their devices, according to the survey.
"What smartphones enable people to do is to keep tags of what's happening, what people are saying, what people are posting. You can do that throughout the day and what smartphones are encouraging people to do is to do that at night," Paul Lee, head of technology, media and telecommunications research at Deloitte told Today.
But Mr Lee said the overuse was a "temporary thing" driven by the relative newness of smartphones.
"We're getting used to how to use this tech which, let's remind ourselves, is just nine years old. When we have something new we tend to overreact to it," he added.
Deloitte's sixth annual Mobile Consumer Survey analysed the mobile phone habits of more than 4,000 UK consumers.
Four out of five UK adults now have a smartphone - equivalent to 37 million people - but despite their popularity, the report warned the smartphone market was reaching saturation point.
Growth in new users slowed to 7% in the year to June 2016, from 9% in the previous 12 months.
And according to the study, only a fifth of adults using feature phones said they planned to trade up to a smartphone.
"It is clear from our research that we are reaching an age of 'peak smartphone'," Mr Lee said.
"Given the market saturation, in the next 12 months, we expect smartphone penetration to rise modestly, perhaps by no more than two or four percentage points."
But while producers of some other handheld gadgets have struggled to persuade users to keep buying newer models, this is not a problem phone manufacturers will face, the report predicts.
"Smartphones will not suffer the same fate as tablets. The replacement market is likely to remain healthy, and given the sizeable base of existing owners, smartphone sales are likely to remain in the tens of millions for the foreseeable future," Mr Lee said.


A Russian coder has revealed how he discovered a way to delete any video on YouTube.

A demonstration of Kamil Hismatullin's technique, posted online, shows that once he had copied part of a video's web address he could use it to wipe the clip within half a minute.
Rather than exploit the hack, he instead reported it to parent company Google, which gave him a reward.
He joked, however, that he was tempted to wipe Justin Bieber's music videos.
"I spent six to seven hours [on] research, considering that [for a] couple of hours I've fought the urge to clean up Bieber's channel, haha," wrote Mr Hismatullin.
"Although it was an early Saturday's (sic) morning in San Francisco when I reported [the] issue, Google's security team replied very fast, since this vulnerability could create utter havoc in a matter of minutes in the bad hands.
"This vulnerability [might have been used] to extort people or simply disrupt YouTube by deleting massive amounts of videos in a very short period of time.
"It was fixed in several hours, Google rewarded me $5,000 and luckily no Bieber videos were harmed."
Mr Hismatullin wrote that he discovered the flaw while investigating YouTube Creator Studio, a service that lets video creators see analytics data about the clips they have uploaded via an app.
The facility allows any clip to be deleted if you type in both its event ID - which can be found in its web address - and a long string of letters and numbers known as an authentication token, which is supposed to act as a kind of password.
The problem the coder discovered was that the service was accepting any token for a takedown request, rather than requiring one that belonged to the account of the person who had uploaded the clip.
This meant Mr Hismatullin could simply copy a token from his own account and use it to delete others' videos.
The developer said that he had spent time searching for vulnerabilities in Google's products after previously having been given a $1,337 (Â£902) grant by the firm.
The search giant gives such payouts as part of a programme to encourage people who have previously reported flaws to hunt out more.
The scheme puts a cap on subsequent payments, limiting the bounty Mr Hismatullin received for his findings.
"To be honest I expected $15,000 to $20,000," he commented.
"I wanted to write a kind of 'complaint' to Google, but first I re-read [its] rules and understood that Google could not pay me more.
"Facebook has not got a boundary for maximum reward, so they can pay as much as they want."


Surely, by now, stock markets should be through the floor and sterling engaged in a gutsy grapple with the Zimbabwean dollar for the crown of least-liked currency on global markets?

It hasn't quite happened like that - despite some apocalyptic warnings before the referendum.
Today the FTSE 100 is up more than 2% and is now above its level for all of June save referendum day.
The FTSE 250 - a better barometer of British business health - is up nearly 2%, though still significantly lower than it was on referendum day, its highest for the year, when many market participants believed Remain would win on 23 June.
Government borrowing costs are falling.
And sterling has stabilised.
So, are investors now comfortable with the decision to leave the EU?
Crisis over, so to speak?
Many argue that would be a peculiar judgement to make.
Markets are built to discover prices, not to make political points.
The volatility in the markets in the run-up to the referendum and the fierce falls in its aftermath were clear signals of participants struggling to judge business and currency values given the uncertainty around the UK's economic future.
Also, that something markets thought was going to happen - a vote to remain in the EU - did not.
Hence a big sell-off and a significant decline in the value of sterling.
Big sell-offs present buying opportunities, and are therefore often followed by rises as investors look for bargains.
Bears are followed by bulls.
Exporting companies are also helped by a weaker currency as their products tend to become more competitive.
And for any businesses that earn revenues in dollars - such as some pharmaceutical and oil companies - a decline in sterling is positive for profits.
In uncertain times, price discovery can be a tricky business.
As UBS's Bill O'Neill said on referendum night, "markets are a discounting machine and they will overreact first, think later".
Well, they have now had time to think.
And many of the signals are rather better than some feared.
First, the market system has remained operational.
Mark Carney's statement early on Friday morning that the Bank of England stood ready to provide all necessary support maintained investor confidence that liquidity would not dry up.
Participants did not simply leave the field of play.
Second, as Samuel Tombs of Pantheon Economics told me, it has become clear that Britain is not heading for a "hard Brexit".
The invoking of Article 50 - which starts the two-year clock ticking on Britain's exit from the EU - may not happen for months.
And some big figures - like George Osborne, still of course the Chancellor of the Exchequer - have said that Britain should remain a member of the single market, an important point for many businesses that trade with the rest of the EU.
Yes, government borrowing costs are falling. But many argue that is down to a "flight to safety" - the purchasing of government debt - rather than a judgement on the future performance of the UK economy.
What the relief rally of the past two days is not telling us is that anything fundamental about the economics of Britain's decision to leave the EU has changed.
Consensus Digest, which brings together the economic judgements of the major forecasters, suggests that economic growth rates will fall over the rest of 2016 and 2017 as businesses delay investments.
We are yet to see much - if any - economic data about what has happened in the real world post the referendum.
Of course, that data - released over the next few months and years - may not be as poor as some predict.
Or it may be worse.
But, once we have some facts, we will at least be able to look through the gyrations of the markets and make a clearer judgement about the effects on the UK, European and global economies of the decision taken on 23 June.


1493 - Christopher Columbus visits the island and names it Dominica (Sunday Island).
Dominicans prepare for a storm on an island prone to hurricanes
BBC learning zone - tropical climate
1627 - England's King Charles I puts the Earl of Carlisle in charge of Dominica, but initial attempts at colonisation are fiercely resisted by the indigenous Carib community.
1635 - France claims Dominica, paving the way for French missionaries to colonise the island. However, resistance by the indigenous Carib Indians continues.
1660 - Britain and France agree to abandon Dominica and St Vincent.
1763 - Britain gains possession of Dominica in accordance with the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Seven Years' War. However, France continues to challenge this until 1805.
Britain establishes a legislative assembly, representing only the white population.
1831 - Britain confers political and social rights on free non-whites.
1834 - Slavery abolished.
1838 - Dominica becomes the first and only British colony in the Caribbean to have a black-controlled legislature.
1865 - Britain replaces the elected assembly with one consisting of one-half elected members and one-half appointed.
1896 - Britain re-establishes crown colony government over Dominica.
1951 - Britain declares universal adult suffrage established in Dominica.
1958-62 - Dominica a member of the British-sponsored West Indies Federation.
1960 - Britain grants Dominica self-government, with a legislative council and a chief minister.
1961 - Edward leBlanc, head of the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) becomes chief minister.
1974 - LeBlanc retires and is replaced as chief minister by Patrick John, also of the DLP.
Independence
1978 - Dominica becomes independent with John as prime minister.
1979 - Severe hurricane hits Dominica, causing widespread devastation.
1980 - Another hurricane hits Dominica; Eugenia Charles replaces John as prime minister - and becomes the Caribbean's first female prime minister, after her Dominica Freedom Party wins a convincing victory.
1981 - Two coup attempts, allegedly backed by Patrick John, foiled; John tried and acquitted; Dominican Defence Force disbanded.
1983 - Token Dominican force participates in the US invasion of Grenada.
1985 - John retried, found guilty and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.
1993 - Eugenia Charles resigns as DFP leader but continues as prime minister.
1995 - Edison James becomes prime minister following the victory of his United Workers Party (UWP) in the general elections; Eugenia Charles retires after 27 years in politics.
1998 - Government announces plans to make Dominica a principal provider of offshore financial services "not only in the Caribbean, but the world".
1999 - Hurricane Lenny causes widespread damage.
2000 January - Rosie Douglas becomes prime minister after his Dominica Labour Party ousts the United Workers Party in a closely contested election.
2000 October - Douglas dies. He is succeeded by Pierre Charles.
2000 December - Parliament approves amendments to the legislation allowing the state-owned National Commercial Bank to engage in offshore financial services.
2002 May - Prime Minister Pierre Charles tells Caribbean Development Bank that Dominica faces economic and financial crisis. Exports and tourism are down. Charles also cites effects of globalisation.
2004 January - Pierre Charles dies in office, aged 46. Education Minister Roosevelt Skerrit succeeds the late premier.
2004 March - Dominica cuts diplomatic relations with Taiwan in favour of ties with mainland China. China agrees to give aid worth more than $100m over five years.
2004 November - An earthquake damages buildings in the north of the island. Prime Minister Skerrit says repairs will cost millions of dollars.
2005 May - Roosevelt Skerrit and the governing Labour Party win general elections.
2007 August - Hurricane Dean wipes out 99% of Dominica's banana crop, putting further pressure on the island's struggling main industry.
2008 May - Chief Charles Williams, leader of ancient Native American Kalinago (Carib) tribe, asks legislators to pass law requiring ethnic Kalinagos to marry only each other for self-preservation.
2009 February - PM Roosevelt Skerrit says his government has secured $49m in grants from Venezuela as part of the ALBA trade group of left-wing Latin American governments.
2009 January - PM Roosevelt Skerrit and the governing Dominican Labour Party are re-elected with an increased majority in parliament.
2014 December - PM Roosevelt Skerrit is re-elected with a reduced majority in parliament.


More high-tech engineering companies should be based in Wales to attract and retain engineers, particularly female ones, a leading academic says.

Wales has the lowest numbers of female chartered engineers in Britain - just 5.6% compared to 5.9% in England and 6% in Scotland, Engineering UK says.
Prof Karen Holford, a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said talent was being "wasted".
A Welsh government review is looking into the lack of women in the industry.
Prof Holford, who is the pro vice chancellor of Cardiff University's college of physical sciences, told BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales: "A lot of the big companies have their research and development bases elsewhere, and I think that's a big problem.
"One of the most fascinating things about engineering and science is the research and development you can do, so I would welcome more high tech research and development jobs for Wales."
Wales' lack of female engineers compares badly to both the rest of Britain and the rest of Europe. In Sweden, 25% of chartered engineers are female.
It is a problem the Welsh government is grappling with.
Julie Williams, the chief scientific advisor, has commissioned an independent report in to women in STEM - science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
A Welsh government spokesman said: "This review will examine why girls and women are currently underrepresented in these areas, explore what can be done to encourage and support them to pursue STEM opportunities as well as looking at how different organisations in Wales can help to address the problem."
The report is co-chaired by Prof Holford and its recommendations will be published early next year.
She believes it matters because Wales has a shortage of chartered engineers generally.
Prof Holford added: "We're wasting talent if we don't crack this.
"Engineering is one of the industries that will create jobs and growth for the nation. So it's critical that we get this right, and that we get the best engineers, the most talented engineers working and staying in Wales."
Eye on Wales is on Sunday, 29 November at 12:30 GMT on BBC Radio Wales.


Scotland assistant Mark McGhee insists the nation can still reach the Euro 2016 play-offs despite no longer having their destiny in their own hands.

The Scots, losers to Germany on Monday, need at least four points from their last two games and for other results to go their way to reach the play-offs.
Poland visit Scotland before Gordon Strachan's side travel to face Gibraltar in October's double-header.
"We will re-gather and do our utmost to win the two games," said McGhee.
"We still have a chance. We still feel there is enough in us to get six points from the two games to come.
"Then we have to see what happens elsewhere and that's the disappointing thing, that we're relying on other results."
Should Scotland take four points and Republic of Ireland lose to Group D leaders Germany and then Poland, Strachan's men would beat the Irish to the play-off spot.
Another scenario that would allow Scotland to reach the play-offs involves Poland losing to Scotland and Republic of Ireland and the Scots also beating Gibraltar.
Friday's 1-0 defeat in Georgia set Scotland back compared to their Group D rivals, who all won in Tbilisi and Scotland cannot catch group leaders Germany, who are on 19 points.
McGhee believes the Scots have shown enough quality in the campaign so far to be confident that Poland can be overcome at Hampden before the final tie away to Gibraltar.
He admits, though, that addressing the poor display in Tbilisi is more important than taking positives from a better performance in the 3-2 loss to the Germans.
"We feel we can win the two games despite the performance in Georgia and the result," he added.
"Ireland [have the numerical advantage], although they have two hugely difficult games. Would I rather be in our position or be in Ireland's position playing against Poland and Germany? I'm not sure. Maybe we can quietly think that we're in a better position because of that.
"You've got to discount everything you saw last night. They're the world champions, the game was a spectacle, it was a fantastic occasion to have them and if we'd beaten Georgia, it would have been a carnival night, despite the result.
"We forget that performance, we have to look more closely at the Georgia performance and improve on that to beat Poland. We've played Poland already, we drew with them over there and we've had other good results. It's the elements of those games that we have to take to the Poland game.
"It was a totally different set of circumstances [against Georgia], it's not the same thing. Goals change games and Georgia got the first goal, which was critical.
"Had we got the first goal it would have been different. But they got the first goal, they played 5-4-1, it allowed them to sit in and make it really difficult for us. We weren't good enough on the night, we didn't play well enough to break them down, which was disappointing, but losing the first goal was the critical moment."


The Grand Depart of the world's most prestigious stage race was hosted by Yorkshire as the Tour de France returned to England for the first time since 2007.

The opening stage took the 198 riders from Leeds to Harrogate via the Yorkshire Dales, while the second stage saw the peloton ride from York to Sheffield, via Holme Moss, before a third stage in England finished on The Mall in London.
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The 101st edition of the three-week race then headed to France, and finished in Paris on Sunday, 27 July after 2,277 miles and 21 stages, made up of nine flat stages, five hilly stages, six mountain stages with five altitude finishes, and one individual time trial.
Astana's Vincenzo Nibali took the race lead by winning in Sheffield and then stole a march on his rivals for the overall victory by mastering the cobbles on stage five.
He won two more stages on his way to becoming the first Italian winner of the race since Marco Pantani in 1998. This is the story of his victory.
Winner: Marcel Kittel (Ger/Giant-Shimano) - report: Cavendish crashes as Kittel takes yellow jersey.
A grand day out for around one million people in Yorkshire ends on a sour note as Mark Cavendish, Britain's big hope of a stage win, crashes 200m from the finish line. Germany's Marcel Kittel stays upright to win in Harrogate on a day when 42-year-old veteran Jens Voigt shows he still has the legs for a breakaway.
Winner: Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Astana) - report: Nibali wins to take yellow jersey.
Nine categorised climbs soften up the peloton, with the ascent of Jenkin Road in Sheffield seeing the main General Classification riders Vincenzo Nibali, Alberto Contador and defending champion Chris Froome racing to its summit. Peter Sagan, tipped by many to win the stage, races clear on the descent but he is caught. Nibali breaks clear in the final two kilometres to win as Yorkshire says goodbye to the Tour.
Winner: Marcel Kittel (Ger/Giant-Shimano) - report: Kittel triumphs again as Nibali stays in yellow
With the absence of the injured Mark Cavendish, Marcel Kittel looks nailed on to win the sprint finish on The Mall and the German does not disappoint. Britain's defending champion Chris Froome stays safe and remains two seconds behind race leader Vincenzo Nibali as the Tour leaves England and heads to France. But it will be back, says Tour director Christian Prudhomme.
Winner: Marcel Kittel (Ger/Giant-Shimano) - report: Kittel wins third stage of the race as Froome crashes
Marcel Kittel delivers a brilliant sprint finish to secure his third stage win of the race as the race as the race moves into France. Britain's defending champion Chris Froome crashes after just five kilometres, bruising his left hip and wrist. However he continues after receiving medical attention to reach the finish and remain two seconds behind overall race leader Vincenzo Nibali.
Winner: Lars Boom (Ned/Belkin) - report: Nibali in charge as Froome pulls out
A dramatic day in wet conditions sees defending champion Chris Froome, already suffering from a crash on stage four, abandon the race after crashing twice more - before the notorious cobbles.
Lars Boom, a specialist in the Paris-Roubaix classic, a one-day race which uses the same cobbled sections, breaks clear with about 4km to go and holds on to take the stage, but the real winner is Vincenzo Nibali who finishes 44 seconds ahead of Peter Sagan and 2min 37sec ahead of biggest rival Alberto Contador.
Winner: Andre Greipel (Ger/Lotto-Belisol) - report: More crashes as Greipel wins sprint finish
Crosswinds and rain combine to provide another tough day on the bike as several crashes litter the stage. Team Sky lose another rider as Xabier Zandio hits the deck and cannot continue. Alberto Contador's Tinkoff-Saxo team-mate Jesus Hernandez also crashes out. Andre Greipel sprints to his first stage win of the race as Vincenzo Nibali retains the overall lead.
Winner: Matteo Trentin (Ita/Omega Pharma - Quick-Step) - report: Trentin edges Sagan as Nibali retains yellow
A predictable opening 215km gives way to a chaotic finish as Matteo Trentin wins after a photo-finish in Nancy. Peter Sagan replicates his stage two tactics in Sheffield, racing clear off the final climb but is again caught. A drier day for the riders and the General Classification remains unchanged.
Winner: Blel Kadri (Fra/AG2R) - report: Kadri wins summit finish as Nibali tracks Contador
A rare breakaway victory for Blel Kadri delights French fans in the Vosges rain as he takes control of the King of the Mountains jersey. But the big battle in the peloton sees Alberto Contador claw three seconds back on rival and race leader Vincenzo Nibali in the contest for yellow. Nibali tracks the Spaniard and is content to finish in his wake. Team Sky's Richie Porte is up to third while Britain's Simon Yates impresses in the break.
Winner: Tony Martin (Ger/Omega Phama-Quick Step) - report: Martin storms home as Gallopin takes yellow
German Tony Martin, more famed for his time-trialling skills, powers away from the rest in a stage featuring six climbs. The general classification is shaken up with Vincenzo Nibali, who began the day in yellow, and main rival Alberto Contador allowing a 28-strong group to head out in pursuit. Frenchman Tony Gallopin takes advantage to supplant Nibali at the top of the overall standings on the eve of Bastille Day.
Winner: Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Astana) - Report: Contador withdraws as Nibali regains yellow
A day of high drama as Spanish contender Alberto Contador fails in his attempts to rejoin the race after a heavy fall. The two-time champion withdraws and is later revealed to have fractured his leg in the crash. Vincenzo Nibali takes full advantage, snatching back yellow with a commanding ride and moving more than two minutes clear of nearest rivals Team Sky's Richie Porte and Movistar leader Alejandro Valverde.
The first of the race's two rest days. Geraint Thomas tells us that he pulled his brakes and nothing happened on stage 10 and assesses the state of the race.
Winner: Tony Gallopin (Fra/Lotto-Belisol) - Report: France's Gallopin takes stage win
After winning the yellow jersey on stage nine and losing it on stage 10, Tony Gallopin's eventful Tour continues with a first stage win. The Frenchman seems doomed when his solo break is caught in the final five kilometres, but he kicks again to break clear of Peter Sagan, Michael Rogers and Michal Kwiatkowski. Vincenzo Nibali maintains his healthy lead of more than two minutes in the general classification.
Winner: Alexander Kristoff (Nor/Katusha) - Report: Sagan edged out as Kristoff wins first Tour stage
A bunch sprint and a first Tour victory for Katusha's Alexander Kristoff. The Norwegian edges Peter Sagan who continues to dominate the green points jersey classification but is yet to win a stage in the 101st edition of the race. No change in the overall standings with Vincenzo Nibali continuing to lead the way.
Winner: Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Astana) - Report: Nibali crushes rivals to win third stage
Is the Tour over? Italy's Vincenzo Nibali underlines his superiority with a commanding victory in the Alps that extends his lead in the race to more than three minutes over Spain's Alejandro Valverde. Team Sky's plan B, Richie Porte, loses nine minutes after struggling on the final climb in searing heat, so it's back to the drawing board for the British-based team.
Winner: Rafal Majka (Pol/Tinkoff-Saxo) - Report: Majka wins maiden stage as Nibali tightens grip
A superb solo ride up to the summit finish at Risoul gives Rafal Majka, a man who only found out he was making his Tour debut a few days before the race started, his maiden win. Vincenzo Nibali's excellent form in the mountains continues as he finishes second to put more time into his rivals and he is now four minutes, 37 seconds clear of Alejandro Valverde.
Winner: Alexander Kristoff (Nor/Katusha) - Report: Bauer broken by Kristoff's late spurt
Jack Bauer spends 220km in the break but slips from first to 10th in the final 20m as the sprinters time their race to the line to perfection. Katusha's Alexander Kristoff is the first over the line in sunny Nimes after rainstorms soak the peloton throughout the stage. No change in the overall standings with Vincenzo Nibali retaining his healthy lead.
The second and final rest day. Geraint Thomas says he thought his head was going to explode in Friday's stage in the mountains.
Winner: Michael Rogers (Aus/Saxo-Tinkoff) Report: Rogers wins maiden stage as Nibali retains lead
The peloton allows a 21-man breakaway to escape early in the race and it moves 12 minutes clear by the time they reach the final climb, Port de Bales, with 35km to go.
The breakaway then splits, with a group of five, including Michael Rogers and Thomas Voeckler, going clear before a burst of pace from Rogers with 4.5km to go proves decisive. The Australian goes on to win his first Tour de France stage while Vincenzo Nibali retains his lead in the general classification.
Winner: Rafal Majka (Pol/Saxo-Tinkoff) Report: Majka wins second stage of Tour with late breakaway
Italian Giovanni Visconti makes an initial break up the final ascent but settles for second after being caught by Poland's Radal Majka. The Tinkoff-Saxo rider claims his second win of the Tour and tightens his grip on the polka dot jersey, which is awarded to the race's King of the Mountains.
Vincenzo Nibali finishes third to extend his lead in the general classification to five minutes and 26 seconds over Alejandro Valverde.
Winner: Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Astana) - Report: Nibali wins stage to all but seal Tour
Vincenzo Nibali wins his fourth stage of this year's Tour in style to extend his overall lead to seven minutes and 10 seconds. The Italian again shows his superiority in the mountains by keeping a breakaway within striking distance over the iconic Col du Tourmalet before powering up the final climb to the summit finish at Hautacam, reeling in the remaining escapees before going clear himself to win by more than a minute.
Poland's Rafal Majka takes third place as the race leaves the Pyrenees, ensuring he will win the King of the Mountains jersey.
Winner: Ramunas Navardauskas (Lit/Garmin-Sharp) - Navardauskas wins stage as Nibali retains lead
Ramunas Navardauskas escapes in the final 12km of a wet and windy day to become the first Lithuanian to win a stage of the Tour de France.
The Garmin-Sharp rider bursts away from the front of the peloton just after the final survivor of a long five-man break had been caught and, helped by a crash in the final 3km that disrupts the sprinters' teams, stays clear.
Overall leader Vincenzo Nibali takes evasive action after being caught behind the crash but stays upright and keeps his commanding lead of the race.
Winner: Tony Martin (Ger/Omega Phama-Quick Step) - Nibali poised to win as Martin takes time trial
Triple world time trial champion Tony Martin takes his second stage win of this year's Tour with a dominant display in the Dordogne. The German finishes as the fastest man on the day by 99 seconds.
Vincenzo Nibali will ride into Paris as the champion elect after extending his overall lead by finishing fourth, faster than any of the men below him in the general classification.
The battle for the podium places is also settled. With Alejandro Valvarde unable to challenge, France's Jean-Christophe Peraud moves up to second, leapfrogging compatriot Thibaut Pinot.
Winner: Marcel Kittel (Ger/Giant-Shimano) - Nibali completes win as Kittel shines in Paris
Marcel Kittel underlines his sprinting prowess with a fourth stage win on this year's Tour and a second successive victory on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
Vincenzo Nibali stays upright to ensure his takes the yellow jersey and becomes just the sixth man to win all three Grand Tours. He also slows the peloton when second-placed Jean-Christophe Peraud crashes, allowing the Frenchman to get back to the main bunch, ensuring he does not lose any time.


Police have detained 55 people after protests over rising food prices in Azerbaijan.

At least one person was treated in hospital and several were hurt as police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters in Siyazan.
The demonstrators were angry at worsening economic conditions sparked by the fall in the price of oil.
Azerbaijan's economy is heavily dependent on oil. Nearly half its GDP in 2014 came from the oil sector.
Oil prices have slumped by 70% in the past 15 months, down to $31 a barrel on international markets.
Azerbaijan's currency, the manat, has also fallen dramatically in value.
The interior ministry said the protests were organised by the opposition and religious extremists.
The government has ordered a cut in the price of flour in response to the crisis, effective from Friday, according to Reuters news agency.
VAT was being waived on wheat imports and the sale of bread and flour, it said.
In a further move to prop up the faltering manat, Azerbaijan's central bank has banned the sale of foreign exchange in bureaux de change run by commercial banks, Reuters adds.
Azerbaijan's economy, heavily dependent on oil revenue, has been shaken by decreasing oil prices on the world markets. Small businesses have suffered enormously in recent years because of bribes allegedly demanded by officials. Corruption has been a major hurdle for businesses in Azerbaijan, according to the International Monetary Fund.
Azerbaijan's local currency, the manat, was almost equal to the euro at the start of last year but was devalued against the dollar in February 2015.
In December 2015 the Central Bank unpegged the manat from the dollar, and an immediate price hike followed. This heavily affected low-income families. Many others with large bank loans suffered too.
Azerbaijan imports even most of the basic consumer goods and, although some agricultural products are produced locally, raw materials for their production are brought in from abroad.
Despite recurrent warnings from international and local analysts about the expected effects of oil dependency, the Azerbaijani government has done very little to improve other industries.
In a country where media are under strict control, critical voices are met with force.
Discontent was relatively low during the oil boom, but now the volatile currency means that price increases affect almost everyone.
And as the range of people who suffer increases, it may prove difficult for the government to appease the wider public.


Four-times Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah has won the Great North Run, becoming the first man to achieve three consecutive wins.

Fresh from winning two gold medals at the Rio Olympics, he pulled away in the last mile to win the half marathon from Newcastle to South Shields.
Tens of thousands of people are taking part in the 36th annual race.
The main race was started by Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha and County Durham bronze medallist Amy Tinkler.
Live Great North Run updates.
The 13.1-mile run, has grown from 12,000 runners in 1981 to 57,000, many of whom raise money for charities.
Beginning in Newcastle, the half-marathon course finishes at South Shields and takes in iconic sights including the Tyne Bridge.
The men's wheelchair race was won by Mark Telford and the women's race by Vivian Cheruiyot.
The event also featured participants from 178 UN member states, more than any other running event in history, organisers say.
Rock bands Kaiser Chiefs and Kodaline, which has a band member taking part in the run, will perform at the inaugural "run, rock and raise" event at the Newcastle Metro Arena, with charities benefitting from the money raised.
The run completes a weekend of events including the Great North 5K, mini and junior Great North Run and the Great North City games, which took place on Tyneside on Saturday.
Earlier on Sunday morning, paralysed woman Claire Lomas who started her Great North Run on Wednesday wearing a "bionic suit" completed the route in South Shields.


Impostors who wear military medals they are not entitled to should be liable to criminal charges, MPs say.

The Commons Defence Committee said it was "insulting" and damaged the integrity of military honours.
MPs urged support for a private member's bill which would make wearing unauthorised medals a criminal offence, punishable by prison or a Â£5,000 fine.
The Ministry of Defence said misusing medals for financial gain could already be punished as fraud.
The unauthorised wearing of medals was previously made illegal by Winston Churchill after World War One.
But when the new Armed Forces Act came into force in 2006, provisions relating to military decorations were not carried over.
The Ministry of Defence, which gave evidence to the committee, argued that there had been problems with the way the original legislation was drafted.
Anyone improperly using medals for financial gain would be caught by the Fraud Act which carried higher penalties, said the MoD.
The defence committee's report, entitled Exposing Walter Mitty, said such laws were "commonplace" in other countries and that the unauthorised wearing of medals constituted "a harm that is worthy of specific criminal prohibition".
Explaining the title of the report, the committee's chairman Julian Lewis, said: "Those who seek public admiration by pretending to have risked their lives are contemptible fantasists who need to be deterred."
The committee said the impersonators damaged the bond of trust and respect between the public and the armed forces.
"We conclude that there is a tangible and identifiable harm created by military impostors against members of society who should rightly be held in its highest esteem," it added.
"Therefore, we believe that specific prohibitions to mitigate this harm are justified."
Mr Lewis said while other countries have sought to maintain sanctions to deter and punish these fraudsters, the UK has "foolishly disposed of them".


A woman has admitted battering an eight-year-old boy and piercing his skin with a knife after being reported to police by a worried neighbour.

Helen Stark, 28, attacked the child over several days at a house in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire.
When police arrived she claimed the boy's injuries were accidental but later admitted guilt after doctors saw bruises, swelling and scratches on him.
Sentence on Stark was deferred and her bail was continued.
Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard that when police confronted Stark she claimed that the witness who reported her was mistaken and she had been trying to stop the boy banging bottles of juice on the floor.
Doctors who examined the child found extensive bruising to his head, neck, back and arms, along with swelling and various scratches and cuts "highly suggestive of non-accidental injury.
Stark, of Lesmahagow, South Lanarkshire, admitted assaulting the boy by repeatedly striking him on the head and body with her hands, presenting a knife, holding it against him and puncturing his skin.
She repeatedly seized him and threatened violence, grabbed him by the hair and repeatedly struck his head against a door and window sill, all to his severe injury.
Jennifer Bain, defending, said Stark had a psychiatric problem involving unstable mood disorder, was possibly bipolar, had post-traumatic stress disorder and had been on medication for eight years.
Stark had experienced "a distressing incident when a fellow inmate set fire to herself in her cell and is extremely concerned about returning to where she witnessed the event," Mrs Bain added.
But Sheriff Elizabeth McFarlane told Stark: "I find it galling to be told you were distressed by the incident in prison and yet you were not distressed by the injuries you caused to an eight-year-old boy."


A Glasgow betting shop customer has still to claim a £1m prize on the Irish Lotto, Ladbrokes has said.

The bookmaker firm said the winning ticket for Saturday night's draw had been placed at a branch in Westmuir Street, in the city's Parkhead area.
The winning numbers - 14,18,25,27,33,44 - were put on with a £12 stake. The prize totalled £1,018,020.
Ladbrokes said the customer may be unaware they had won and their cheque was waiting to be picked up.
The betting firm said the lucky punter was "Scotland's third betting millionaire inside a week" following the £33m Lotto win in Hawick and a £2.2m jackpot landed by an online casino player in Tayside.
Alex Donohue, of Ladbrokes, said: "Scotland is on a winning streak at the moment but the country's latest millionaire may still be none the wiser.
"It's a life-changing sum of money and we've got a cheque ready to hand over to the lucky recipient, so we'd suggest everyone looks down the back of the sofa for the winning ticket."


A 10-year-old boy who died in Miami last month is believed to have overdosed on the powerful opioid fentanyl, officials have said.

Preliminary toxicology reports show Alton Banks had a mix of the painkiller and heroin in his system after he collapsed at a local pool.
Officials said they do not believe the boy was exposed to fentanyl at home but could have ingested it elsewhere.
Alton could become one of the youngest victims of the opioid crisis.
"At this point, we have every reason to believe that their preliminary findings are that it was a mixture of heroin and fentanyl that killed this little boy," said Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle.
"We don't believe he got it at his home," she added. "It could be as simple as touching it. It could have been a towel at the pool."
Police said Alton could have come into contact with the illegal drug on his walk home in Overtown, a poor, high-crime neighbourhood that the Miami Herald newspaper described as "ground zero" for the city's opioid epidemic.
Alton returned home after the pool on 23 June, when he began vomiting and was later found unconscious. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's Office is still conducting tests and is expected to issue a final report determining how the boy died.
Ms Fernandez Rundle said she commented on the preliminary findings due to the unusual nature of the boy's death and to solicit tips.
Alton's mother, Shantell Banks, told the newspaper her son was a "fun kid" who loved the NFL Carolina Panthers football team and wanted to be an engineer. She was informed of the preliminary findings last week.
Of the 853 people in Florida who died from fentanyl or a related strain in the first half of 2016, only nine were under the age of 18, according to state records.
More Florida residents died of opioid abuse in the Miami-Dade county last year than there were homicides, the Miami Herald reported.
Fentanyl is an extremely strong, synthetic painkiller that is prescribed for severe chronic pain and is often used to treat cancer patients.
But more recently the drug, which is considered to be 50 times stronger than heroin, has made headlines amid the country's devastating opioid epidemic.
Drug dealers often sell heroin cut with fentanyl on the streets while police have warned the painkiller is so powerful that even touching it could be toxic.
However, the American College of Medical Toxicology issued a statement last week saying: "Incidental dermal absorption is unlikely to cause opioid toxicity."
"To date, we have not seen reports of emergency responders developing signs or symptoms consistent with opioid toxicity from incidental contact with opioids," the board wrote.
But two months ago a policeman in Ohio said he accidentally overdosed on fentanyl after a drug arrest.
East Liverpool Police Department's Chris Green said he was exposed to fentanyl while searching the car of two suspected drug dealers.
Mr Green was wearing the required gloves and mask to conduct the search, but later brushed off white powder on his shirt with his bare hand.
Shortly after he passed out and was transported to the hospital.


When Brexit happens, the UK will suddenly have a major land border with the EU - the frontier between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

No-one really knows how that's going to work.
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On Saturday in Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will engage in the richest fight in history at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

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So much has been said about the numbers involved that it is sometimes difficult to remember there are other things at stake - namely the WBC, WBA and WBO welterweight titles and the title of best boxer of the modern era.
It is a fight everyone has an opinion on and BBC Sport has pooled the thoughts of boxers past and present, including some of the sport's greatest names.
"A turtle is only vulnerable when he sticks his head out - when he senses danger, he goes back into that shell. You can beat that shell up, but you're not hurting him. Pacquiao has to trick Mayweather out of that shell, make him think he's there for the counter. When he's not - 'bang' - capitalise on his mistake.
"Pacquiao has to make Floyd become the aggressor, something he's not comfortable with. He has to make Floyd bring the fight to him, let his hands go while Manny's letting his hands go and see who lands first. That's fun for us.
"Counter-punchers aren't good at catching up, we wait for you to come knocking at the door, we don't come to you. So counter-punchers need their opponents to be aggressive and then take advantage of slow feet and slow hands. It won't be a landslide win for Mayweather, it will be a hard-earned win. "
"I can see how Manny Pacquiao is able to beat Mayweather - work the angles, high work-rate, volume of punches, fast hands, back Floyd into a corner or onto the ropes. Just outwork Mayweather and win round after round after round.
"Mayweather will put on a defensive masterclass, behind the shoulder, slipping and sliding, ducking and diving and not getting hit. He's a defensive genius, a magician in the ring. But Pacquiao should punch the shoulder, punch the arms, hit him round the back of the head, in the kidneys, take anything he can.
"Mayweather is just too good at adjusting, changing his style, adapting to what's in front of him. If there's ever a time for Mayweather to lose, that time is now, he's an ageing athlete. But I'm going for a close Mayweather points win."
"Pacquiao needs to pressurise Mayweather and land punches with speed, power and accuracy. But Mayweather uses distance very well, is hard to hit and lands with counter-punches.
"I don't think it affected him when I knocked him out. I want Manny Pacquiao to win this fight, my heart is with Pacquiao as a boxer. But Mayweather wins because he's got such a difficult style."
"Manny has to be aggressive and Floyd's planning for him to be aggressive. Is Floyd going to match aggression with aggression, or is he going to use tactical boxing? He can do either. Manny can do one thing, Floyd can do two. Floyd will determine how the fight starts and how it ends.
"Manny's game plan has to be pressure, pressure, pressure. Floyd has never fought an opponent like Manny who throws so many punches, has power in both hands and is a southpaw. No-one has pressured Mayweather like Pacquiao will.
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"Manny can be reckless and that's what Floyd will be planning on. He got reckless against Marquez when he had the fight won, went for the knockout and got knocked out himself. Hopefully he will have learned from that and be reckless at the right time. It's going to be a very good fight - I'm not sure who is going to win."
"Both fighters still have so much to give and on Saturday I'm sure they're going to produce something very special for the fans.
"This is going to be a tremendous match-up.
"Manny has hand speed and fast feet, and that will cause Floyd some problems early on. But as it progresses, I expect Floyd to make the adjustments he tends to make to counter that before pulling away on the scorecards."
"Pacquiao has all the attributes to beat Mayweather - if anyone is going to beat Mayweather it will be someone with similar hand speed who is a southpaw. Pacquiao will definitely cause problems, it will be Mayweather's toughest task yet.
"But after a few rounds, Mayweather will do what he does best and suss things out. He always manages to adapt his style for the opponent he's facing and always finds a way to win. Love him or loathe him, he's a genius.
"I'm picking Mayweather to win on points. It will be a very close fight, nip and tuck, with almost nothing in it. But Mayweather will finish with his nose in front."
"Mayweather has a couple of ways to win the fight: as a counter-puncher, wait for Pacquiao to make mistakes and make him pay for those mistakes; or just box him, dance around, do what he does best. He's a little bit more versatile than Pacquiao.
"As for Pacquiao, if he can be the man who beat Oscar De La Hoya and Miguel Cotto, we're talking about a very interesting, physical fight.
"I think there will be a couple of surprises for the fans, in terms of knockdowns. But there could be dominance from Mayweather."
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"Floyd can't fight the way he's been fighting if he wants to beat Pacquiao. He has to go forward and throw punches.
"Pacquiao throws over 100 punches a round. Floyd, in his last fight, threw 38 punches a round.
"Mayweather can't be on the ropes against a guy like Pacquiao. It's not going to work out. I think that it's going to be a great fight.
"I like Pacquiao, although I'm not saying Floyd can't win. But he's got to change the way he's been fighting."
"Manny chucks a lot of shots and comes from awkward angles, which Mayweather won't be used to, especially from a southpaw stance. Pacquiao is a very active fighter, he'll pressure Mayweather and make him uncomfortable.
"But Mayweather is just too clever, his defence is great and he'll find a way to win. It's got points written all over it, although if Manny thinks he's losing the fight and starts getting desperate late on, I can see him getting knocked out."
"It's going to go to the end because they'll be so careful. Pacquiao understands that he could get knocked out and Mayweather will be thinking: 'Pacquiao has knocked out a lot of guys.'
"Mayweather is a defensive genius. But he's not an offensive machine. So I think Pacquiao will win. He's smart and he's the underdog - he'll feel the crowd pulling for him. I've got a feeling he can win it by one round."
"It can be a very boring fight, with Mayweather just picking at Pacquiao, or it could be a very exciting fight if Mayweather stands more flat-footed.
"I almost knocked Mayweather out straight out of the gate - that would be a good tip for Pacquiao, he can't give Mayweather a chance to get comfortable or to pick up on his rhythm.
"If he is going to win against Mayweather, it's going to have to be in the first three or four rounds, tops. But Mayweather is the best in the world at avoiding punches, so I would have to go with Floyd."
"There are two scenarios: Pacquiao can push the pace and make Floyd fight. If he's in great shape, it can be an exciting fight; or Mayweather can figure him out and box him the whole night and have an easy win. He's going to fight in spurts and put the rounds in the bag. Nothing is going to change.
"The question is, can Pacquiao keep his composure and focus in the ring? He's going to have trouble hitting Floyd, so he has to stay calm and not get frustrated. He's going to throw five and six-punch combinations and maybe only one punch is going to land. If he gets frustrated, Mayweather will capitalise."
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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has signed a new six-year deal, with the club's owners saying it would have been "irresponsible" not to offer him a long-term contract.

Klopp joined Liverpool in October, initially agreeing a £15m deal to 2018 that has now been extended until 2022.
"His leadership will be critical to everything we hope to achieve," said Liverpool's owners.
Klopp took Liverpool to the League Cup and the Europa League finals last term.
The 49-year-old German had previously guided Borussia Dortmund to two Bundesliga titles and the 2013 Champions League final.
"The ideas and plans he has for the football infrastructure excite us," added Liverpool's principal owner John Henry, chairman Tom Werner and Fenway Sports Group president Mike Gordon.
"We believe it benefits the organisation to have Jurgen committed to Liverpool for a sustained period, to make sure he is here to oversee this development.
"When you have an individual of Jurgen's quality in the building it makes perfect sense to secure that person for the long term.
"To not do so would be irresponsible."
Klopp replaced Brendan Rodgers with Liverpool 10th in the Premier League table.
They finished eighth and were beaten on penalties by Manchester City in the League Cup final before losing 3-1 to Sevilla in the Europa League final in Basel.
"We are very much at the beginning of our journey," said Klopp.
"I am the first to recognise that with this great commitment comes a great responsibility.
"There is much to do and much to achieve and we look to do this by being the most completely together group anywhere in the world."


A second paralympic gold medallist from Team Ireland has confirmed he was not invited to an event to mark the re-opening of Windsor Park stadium.

"I wasn't ever contacted and neither was my agent about the situation or the event taking place," Michael McKillop told Radio Ulster's Talkback.
Fellow gold medallist Jason Smyth earlier questioned why he did not get invited.
The Irish Football Association said it did not intend to cause any offence.
The Lap of Legends event on Saturday night was organised to mark the redevelopment of the Belfast stadium. It is the home ground of the Northern Ireland football team.
The BBC understands that Olympic boxers Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan, both from Team Ireland, did not receive invitations. Both said that if they had been invited, they would have considered going.
McKillop, who has won four gold medals at three Paralympic events, said: "It's really unfortunate. It's very disappointing on my part because I represent the island of Ireland and I always state that whenever I compete.
"I would have loved to have attended. I'm a massive sports fan and I've been to many Northern Ireland matches in the past.
"You could say it's coming down to politics and who you compete for and that's really unfortunate because I've always represented the island. Politics should never come into sport. It's a sad scenario people have found themselves in."
The IFA suggested that he had been invited via his agent.
However, McKillop said that, when he did not receive an invitation, his agent contacted the IFA on Friday to ask them why not.
Then, the IFA explained it was an oversight and he was welcome to come along by which stage, he had already made other plans.
Smyth, the five-times gold medallist from County Londonderry, also represents Team Ireland.
He tweeted at the weekend that only in Northern Ireland does "the colour you wear mean more than what you achieve".
He tagged Sinn FÃ©in's Martin McGuinness in the tweet and asked: "Do you think we will ever move on?"
In a later interview with the BBC, Smyth said there were four paralympic gold medallists from Northern Ireland - himself, his Team Ireland colleague Michael McKillop along with Team GB's Kelly Gallagher and Bethany Firth.
Bethany Firth and Kelly Gallagher were invited to the event.
"My question was - what is the difference between those two girls being there and us two not," Smyth said.
In a statement, the IFA said: "The idea of the Lap of Legends was to bring some famous fans from the world of sport, TV and music together in one place along with other supporters and the football family to celebrate the opening of the new National Football Stadium at Windsor Park.
"There was a short 20-minute window in which to stage the event, so we were limited in terms of the number of people that we could invite.
"We did not intend to cause any offence to Jason or anyone else who was not part of the pre-match event.
"The Irish FA would be delighted to welcome Jason to the National Football Stadium at Windsor Park in the future."
Sports Minister Paul Givan said that should be the end of the matter.
"I have no doubt whatsoever that the IFA had absolutely no intention of causing offence to anybody," he said
"So we shouldn't allow this to overshadow what was a very successful occasion."
You can listen back to the interview with Michael McKillop on Radio Ulster's Talkback .


Proposals for a new administrative region for southern Scotland could bring millions of pounds of extra European funding, it has been claimed.

At the moment Scotland is divided into four areas but the Scottish government is consulting on creating a fifth.
It would include Dumfries and Galloway, the Borders, South Lanarkshire and East, South and North Ayrshire.
South of Scotland Alliance chairman Colin Smyth said the move could bring additional funding to the area.
The alliance - made up of Dumfries and Galloway Council, Scottish Borders Council and Scottish Enterprise - is behind the proposal for the extra region.
European statisticians currently divide Scotland into four large regions - Eastern, North Eastern and South Western Scotland plus Highlands and Islands - to inform regional policy development and determine regional funding.
The Scottish government has now proposed creating the fifth region which would cut the size of South Western Scotland by over a third - stripping out around 833,000 people and combining them with 113,000 from Eastern Scotland.
Mr Smyth said it could have a major impact on southern Scotland.
"This will have a massive benefit to Dumfries and Galloway and that is why this is something that the council, through the South of Scotland Alliance, has actually been lobbying for for some time," he said.
"The final decision will be made by the UK government but we want to keep the pressure on to make sure this is a proposal that is adopted.
"It will make a significant difference to our area - it will take it up to a whole new level when it comes to EU funding.
"We will be able to secure funding that we have missed out on in the past."


Unfair childcare policies which restrict access for pre-schoolers should change, a think-tank has said.

Reform Scotland said parents should be able to use their government-funded nursery provision at all nurseries which meet the required standards.
It has called for the introduction of a "virtual voucher" to help parents access their full entitlement.
The Scottish government offers all three and four-year-olds 600 hours of funded nursery provision per year.
However, many parents cannot find suitable places at council nurseries.
Some local authorities allow parents to use their child's entitlement to attend a private "partnership" nursery while others, such as Glasgow, limit the number of "partnership" places available.
Reform Scotland wants parents to be able to use their "virtual vouchers" at all nurseries which meet Education Scotland and Care Inspectorate standards.
In a briefing note on the issue, Reform Scotland said: "It is unfair on both parents and children for the Scottish government to set a policy, but allow local authorities to restrict the ability of parents to access that vital provision.
"It is not an excuse to argue that you have provided enough places in local authority nurseries if parents are unable to access those places because the hours or location on offer make it impossible to take up."
Research director Alison Payne said: "This is not about the private sector versus the public sector but acknowledging that most council nurseries do not provide the full-time care that working parents need, and therefore for all children to be guaranteed to receive government-funded nursery provision the money must follow the child.
"We have a simple suggestion - if an independent nursery meets the Education Scotland and Care Inspectorate standards, parents should by right be able to take their full government-funded entitlement there as a 'virtual voucher'.
"This is not radical and already happens in some areas in Scotland. However, Reform Scotland believes that this should extend to all working families in Scotland."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "The Children and Young People Act set out to significantly expand free childcare provision and increase flexibility, year on year.
"Local authorities are now required to consult with groups of parents at least once every two years on patterns of childcare provision that would best meet their needs, which will introduce a greater level of flexibility and choice to the system as we work with local government to further develop and expand provision."
A spokeswoman for Fair Funding For Our Kids, a parent-led campaign group, said: "There are parents in our group who have turned down work because they cannot get the childcare their children have been promised. We estimate thousands of kids in Scotland are missing out but the Scottish government has been slow to act."
"Many of the proposals from Reform Scotland are practical and could make a difference almost immediately. We hope Angela Constance will give them serious consideration."
Scottish Conservative young people spokesman Liz Smith said: "It is abundantly clear that many state-funded nurseries are not able to provide parents with sufficient flexibility when it comes to nursery place provision.
"We have seen several parents groups across Scotland expressing very considerable concern about this situation and about the ongoing concern that children whose birthdays fall in the 'wrong' time of year do not get the same provision as others.
"This discrimination needs to stop."


Fierce clashes have been reported near Aleppo in northern Syria, as government forces try to surround rebels holed up in the strategic city.

Monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said about 120 fighters on both sides had been killed around the town of Ratyan on Friday.
As many as 20,000 refugees fleeing the fighting have gathered at a border crossing with Turkey.
Turkey says it is prepared to help the refugees but the frontier is shut.
In the past few days, the Syrian army backed by Russian air power has made a series of gains in Aleppo province.
Syrian state TV said on Friday that pro-government forces had seized Ratyan, just north of Aleppo city.
Rebel chief Hassan Haj Ali told Reuters the town had not yet fallen but there were "very heavy battles".
"The regime is now trying to expand the area it has taken control of," he added.
"Now the northern countryside [of Aleppo] is totally encircled and the humanitarian situation is very difficult."
Earlier in the week, the Syrian government claimed a major victory by breaking the rebel siege of two towns in Aleppo province, severing an opposition supply line from Turkey to Aleppo city.
"It feels like a siege of Aleppo is about to begin," said David Evans, a spokesman for aid group Mercy Corps.
Before the civil war, Aleppo was a key commercial centre and home to more than two million people. Since 2012 it has been divided into rebel- and government-held areas.
The UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said up to 20,000 people fleeing the fighting in Aleppo province had gathered at the Bab al-Salam border crossing on the Turkish border.
March 2011: Anti-government protests erupt across Syria, but Aleppo is initially untouched as a result of a state crackdown
February 2012: As the rebellion turns into a conflict, clashes between rebels and the government are reported with increasing frequency in Aleppo province
July 2012: The battle for Aleppo begins. Rebels make swift advances, but are unable to consolidate their gains and the city becomes divided
2013: The government begins bombarding rebel districts with barrel bombs, causing thousands of casualties
September 2015: Syria launches a fresh offensive in the wake of Russia's intervention in the conflict
February 2016: The government captures towns north of Aleppo, threatening to encircle the city
Aleppo profile
It said between 5,000 to 10,000 refugees had also fled to the nearby city of Azaz.
"Humanitarian organisations are responding to the needs of those displaced, but ongoing military conflict is making access to populations in need increasingly difficult," the UN's Linda Tom told AFP news agency.
In a televised speech, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey would not leave refugees "without food or shelter" but he would not say if they would be allowed in.
Nato has accused Russia of "undermining" Syrian peace efforts through its strikes, which it says are mainly aimed at opposition groups. Russia insists it only targets what it calls terrorists.
On Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Russia of being engaged in an "invasion" of Syria, saying it was trying to create a "boutique state" for ally President Bashar al-Assad.
Mr Erdogan said Russia and the Syrian government were together responsible for 400,000 deaths in Syria.
On Thursday Russia accused Turkey, key backer of Syria's opposition, of preparing a ground invasion, an accusation Mr Erdogan called "laughable".
Turkey and Russia have been embroiled in a row since Turkey shot down a Russian jet it accused of violating its airspace in November.
Why is there a war in Syria?
Anti-government protests developed into a civil war that, four years on, has ground to a stalemate, with the Assad government, the Islamic State group, an array of Syrian rebels and Kurdish fighters all holding territory.
Who is fighting whom?
Government forces concentrated in Damascus and the centre and west of Syria are fighting the jihadists of Islamic State and al-Nusra Front, as well as less numerous so-called "moderate" rebel groups, which are strongest in the north and east. These groups are also battling each other.
More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed and a million injured. Some 11 million others have been forced from their homes, of whom four million have fled abroad - including growing numbers who are making the dangerous journey to Europe.
How has the world reacted?
Iran, Russia and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are propping up the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France. Hezbollah and Iran are believed to have troops and officers on the ground, while a Western-led coalition and Russia are carrying out air strikes.


New Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has made just one change to the party's frontbench team at Holyrood.

Hugh Henry has stood down as justice spokesman and has been replaced by Graeme Pearson.
Ms Dugdale revealed the line-up in Edinburgh, just days after she secured the leadership of the party.
Her rival for the top post, Ken Macintosh, has been given the community spokesman role, covering housing, local government and planning.
She has also maintained a gender-balanced team, with five women joining her, alongside six men.
Ms Dugdale said: "I am excited about the future. We all know the big task that faces Scottish Labour in the months and years ahead, but we're up for it. My new team has a good mix of experience and vision to start the task of renewing Scottish Labour.
"The most important goal of any party must be to ensure that the life chances of our young people are determined by their potential, work rate and ambition, not by their background. These values will drive my team in every portfolio."
Ms Dugdale succeeded former MP Jim Murphy, who resigned in June after Labour lost 40 of its 41 Scottish seats at Westminster.
If Labour's new team looks a lot like the old team assembled by Jim Murphy, when he was leader, then that's because it is.
The names and faces are mostly the same.
One exception is that Hugh Henry has stood down as justice spokesman, to be replaced by former police chief, Graeme Pearson.
Mr Pearson supported Ken Macintosh for the leadership but that has not prevented either of them making the frontbench.
Kezia Dugdale says she doesn't bear grudges.
She has retained Jenny Marra, Iain Gray and Jackie Baillie in the key roles of health, education and finance.
However, their remits have been expanded and their job titles rebranded to reflect Labour values - equality, opportunity, public services.
The new leader wants her team to champion what the party stands for in the run up to next year's Holyrrood elections while also holding SNP ministers to account.
Leader - Kezia Dugdale
Deputy Leader - Alex Rowley
Covering policy and strategy
Equality spokeswoman - Jenny Marra
Covering health, equalities, welfare, care and social inclusion
Opportunity spokesman - Iain Gray
Covering schools, childcare, skills, lifelong learning, sport, science, workplace issues
Justice spokesman - Graeme Pearson
Covering justice and policing
Public Services and Wealth Creation spokeswoman - Jackie Baillie
Covering finance, infrastructure, business, delivery of public services, tourism
Community spokesman - Ken Macintosh
Covering housing, local government, cities, planning, island communities
Environmental Justice spokeswoman - Sarah Boyack
Covering transport, environment and rural affairs, land reform, climate change, energy (including oil and gas)
Democracy spokeswoman - Claire Baker
Covering constitution, Europe, culture, power in society
Reform spokeswoman - Mary Fee
Covering party and parliamentary reform
Business Manager - James Kelly
Chief Whip - Neil Bibby


A collapse in the eurozone would create the "ideal recipe for an increase in extremism and xenophobia", Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has warned.

As the Greek debt crisis continues, he told the German newspaper Der Spiegel the single currency could not survive through "fiscal discipline alone".
But he admitted the coalition had at times been too "dogmatic" in its own rhetoric on cutting spending.
Labour warned it would be "incredibly dangerous" if Greece left the eurozone.
The country is due to hold a second general election next month, after parties were unable to form a coalition government following an inconclusive result earlier this month.
There is widespread speculation that it will leave the eurozone, amid opposition to German-led demands that it cuts public spending, and default on its debts.
At the Nato summit in Chicago, Prime Minister David Cameron said he believes the Greek elections amount to a referendum on Greece's membership of the euro.
He said: "We now have to send a very clear message to people in Greece: there is a choice. You can either vote to stay in the euro, with all the commitments you've made, or if you vote another way you're effectively voting to leave."
Gavin Hewitt: Dangerous days
He warned that the eurozone had to prepare "decisive contingency action" for a possible Greek departure from the single currency.
Several eurozone economies are currently in recession, as is the UK's.
In recent days US President Barack Obama has asked European countries to focus on "jobs and growth", while French President Francois Hollande has made similar recommendations.
Speaking to Der Spiegel, Mr Clegg called for greater integration by eurozone economies, saying: "You have to have something which creates a fiscal accompaniment to monetary union.
"Whilst I have a huge amount of sympathy with German taxpayers and German politicians who are reluctant, understandably because Germany is the paymaster of the European Union, to entertain these ideas, I fear that they are unavoidable.
"It is not sustainable to believe that the eurozone can thrive through fiscal discipline alone - it also has to, at some level, include an ability to either share debt or to deal with shocks in one part of the system or the other through fiscal transfers."
He warned that the crisis could result in electoral success for the far right and far left unless Europe's leaders acted decisively, saying: "This cannot carry on, because the combination of economic insecurity and political paralysis, we know this from the history of our continent, is the ideal recipe for an increase in extremism and xenophobia."
Labour has criticised the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition for being too fixated on cutting public spending, while lacking a "credible" plan for growth.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls told the BBC: "The problem is David Cameron, for the last two years, has been supporting the German position which is now an increasingly isolated position.
"[This is] a very different position from the Obama/Hollande view that we need a more balanced plan on austerity: medium-term, tough decisions, but a plan now on jobs and growth.
"Unless there's a change in Germany, we aren't going to see this crisis resolved and I don't think David Cameron's posturing today helps at all. I just think it makes things worse."
Mr Clegg denied that the coalition parties were "austerity fanatics", but admitted: "Maybe our rhetoric has been too dogmatic in the early stages because we needed to persuade people it was necessary."
He added that, when the government was told the economic growth predictions had been lowered, it had done "something completely different" and decided "we're going to take two more years to do this".
Mr Clegg said: "So we've actually enlarged the time, far from going too fast we've actually said 'Okay we're going to take this quietly and steadily'."
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said: "Nick Clegg is warning, as I did months ago, that the failures of EU leadership and policies is leading to a growth of extremism.
"What did he think would happen when his beloved European Union is designed to specifically strip away national democracies and leave people impotent over their own futures?  If you remove their ability to decide democratically then you leave people with fewer legitimate ways to express their opposition to the status quo."


On 1 March about 27,000 Iraqi troops commenced their attack on Tikrit, a city 150km (93 miles) north of Baghdad that has been occupied by Islamic State (IS) since June 2014.

The assault is the first attempt to evict IS from a major urban centre that they have controlled and fortified, a test case for the planned operation to retake Mosul - the Iraqi capital of the IS caliphate.
The Tikrit operation will be scrutinised to shed light on two main uncertainties.
Can predominately Shia volunteer forces play a productive leading role in operations within Sunni communities? And can the Iraqi military dislodge IS defenders from fortified urban settings?
The assault has been billed as a joint operation involving the Iraqi army, the paramilitary federal police, the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF), and the predominately Shia Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU), the volunteer brigades and militias that have been formally integrated into the security forces since June 2014.
The one element conspicuously absent from the mix is the US-led international coalition.
No requests for coalition air strikes have been made by the Iraqi government, a common feature of operations led by the PMUs. Indeed, some 18,000 PMU fighters are providing the bulk of the troops for the assault.
The PMU are led by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was labelled by the US as a "specially designated global terrorist" in 2009 for his part in attacks on US forces and other targets.
He and many other PMU commanders have worked intensively with Iran's Revolutionary Guard, and continue to draw Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah advisers into their operations.
The apparent exclusion of coalition support by Iranian proxies was confirmed by Gen Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, who stated on 3 March that the battle had seen "overt conduct of Iranian support, in the form of artillery and other things".
Though Tikrit itself has been largely depopulated, the behaviour of the predominately Shia PMU forces - who are not subject to Iraqi military discipline - will be closely watched as they clear IS fighters from rural Sunni communities.
If the attack on Tikrit is successful it may increase the likelihood that Iraq will replicate the model further north in Mosul, deploying PMU units to bolster the Iraqi military effort to retake the city of one million, the capital of Sunni Iraq.
This might again preclude or complicate international support for the operation.
Though the battle of Tikrit will provide many insights into the offensive urban warfare capabilities of Iraqi government forces, it is a stretch to say that the Tikrit operation is an accurate predictor of the outcome of a battle for Mosul.
Tikrit is relatively close to Baghdad, and Iraq forces have been operating in Tikrit's vicinity since August 2014.
In contrast, Mosul is 350km north of Baghdad, and about 150km north of the most advanced Iraqi army outposts at Beyji. Just projecting Iraqi forces up to Mosul and supplying them will be a major logistical challenge.
Tikrit is also small - the city itself is only 15sq km versus the 400sq km sprawl of Mosul city.
Ammar Hikmat, the deputy governor of Salahuddin province, where Tikrit is the provincial capital, told the Associated Press that soldiers had found about 100 mines and bombs on a single 8km stretch of road.
IS is likely to contaminate many areas within Mosul in this fashion, creating a mass of explosive hazards and buildings to be painstakingly cleared.
And urban Tikrit is almost wholly depopulated whilst IS has deliberately kept over 750,000 citizens in Mosul.
There is no guarantee that Mosul's independent-minded citizenry, which is well over 65% Sunni Arab, will welcome PMU forces. The PMUs could also get bogged down in indecisive operations in Tikrit and other areas short of Mosul.
These outcomes could throw the weight of the operation on the US-supported Iraqi army, which is marginally better respected by Mosul's citizens.
The operational concept outlined by a US official in a much-discussed 19 February briefing suggested that eight Iraqi army brigades would take the lead in liberating Mosul.
Preparing Iraqi army units for the Mosul battle is potentially the slowest aspect of the effort to liberate the city and could stretch into the summer, derailing a possible start date for the operation in April or May.
The Iraqi army remains in very poor shape, boasting a frontline combat strength of about 48,000 troops versus nearly 210,000 at the height of its effectiveness in 2009.
The Mosul fight is scheduled to draw at least three of the army's stronger remaining brigades north from Baghdad, halving Iraqi military strength in the capital.
This will leave Iraq's government centre largely secured by the Shia PMUs and ministry of interior units, which are also led by Iranian-backed fighters with connections to Iran's Revolutionary Guard that span decades.
One of the unintended consequences of the fight to retake Mosul could be a critical weakening of state control of the security portfolio in Baghdad itself, a situation that may prove difficult to remedy in future years - as history has shown in other regional capitals such as Beirut and Tripoli, Libya.
Dr Michael Knights is the Lafer Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He has worked in all of Iraq's provinces, including periods spent embedded with the Iraqi security forces. His recent report on the Iraqi security forces is available via the Washington Institute website.


Wales lock Cory Hill is the Dragons' new captain for the 2017-18 season.

Hill was Wales' vice-captain on their summer tour victory against Tonga in June before being chosen as a replacement for the British and Irish Lions' trip to New Zealand.
The 25-year-old did not play for the Lions, but will succeed back-rower Lewis Evans as Dragons skipper.
"He [Hill] is the outstanding leader in the group," Dragons head coach Bernard Jackman told BBC Wales Sport.
"He has a similar mindset to me - he is honest, wants to get better quickly and is willing to put the hard work in.
"His experiences with high performance teams like Wales and the Lions have just reinforced the habits he has naturally.
"He is just no-nonsense and if you look at Valleys rugby it has always been based around that.
"The abrasiveness style of play and character and we have gone away from that. We need to get that back."
Hill won his first international cap against Australia in November 2016.
"It was a really proud moment when Bernard (Jackman) asked me to take over the captaincy," said Hill.
"I thought that Lewis (Evans) did a fantastic job, despite the difficult season that we had previously and having spoken to him I know that he is backing me, and with his experience he will be great to have around.
"I am looking forward to working with Bernard and the rest of the coaching team and I can't wait for the new season to begin."


A man who was jailed for life for murdering a shopkeeper who he claimed had "disrespected" Islam has failed to have his minimum 27-year jail-term cut.

Sunni Muslim, Tanveer Ahmed, 32, from Bradford in Yorkshire, stabbed 40-year-old Asad Shah outside his store in Glasgow's Shawlands area on 24 March.
He said Mr Shah, a member of the Ahmadi sect, not recognised by all Muslims, had falsely claimed to be a prophet.
Appeal judges have now ruled Ahmed's jail-term was legally sound.
Why was Asad Shah murdered?
In July, Ahmed pleaded guilty to the religiously-motivated murder at a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow.
The following month he was given a mandatory life term and told he must serve a minimum of 27 years before he can apply for parole.
Ahmed's advocate Gordon Jackson QC argued that trial judge Lady Rae acted wrongly when she imposed the sentence.
Mr Jackson said that the exact circumstances of the murder meant that his client should have received a lesser sentence.
The lawyer pointed to two other cases which Lady Rae presided over - the prosecutions of Alexander Pacteau, the man who killed Irish nursing student Karen Buckley and John Leathem, the shopkeeper who killed teenager Paige Doherty.
Mr Jackson argued that Ahmed waited for the police to come to arrest him by sitting at a bus stop close to the murder scene.
He also said that his client admitted his guilt.
The advocate said that both Pacteau and Leathem had tried to escape detection for their crimes.
Mr Jackson compared the minimum sentences given to the two men - Pacteau was given 23 years and Leathem was given 27 years.
He said that his client should receive a lesser sentence.
However, Scotland's most senior judge, Lord Carloway, rejected Mr Jackson's arguments.
He ruled that the religious feeling which motivated Ahmed to kill Mr Shah meant that Lady Rae was entitled to impose the sentence.
Lord Carloway said: "The court is not satisfied that the starting point in this case was too much.
"The court is not of the opinion that the sentence imposed in this case was excessive and in way amounted to a miscarriage of justice.
"The appeal against sentence is therefore refused."


Five allegations of historical sex abuse have been made against a Shropshire GP who died 17 years ago.

One alleged victim told the BBC he felt "dirty and embarrassed" after being regularly assaulted at a surgery in Whitchurch in the 1970s.
"Tom", not his real name, said the abuse was carried out between the ages of nine and 13 when his mother was in the room and later when he was alone.
He said he had spoken out because he wanted others to come forward.
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A second alleged victim, who also wanted to remain anonymous, said he was abused by the same GP during the same era, from the age of 13 until about 18.
He said he had buried what happened for many years believing he was responsible and only talked about it five years ago during counselling.
"Tom" said it had taken 40 years to talk about what happened. He said he remembered coming home from the GP's surgery feeling "dirty, embarrassed and used".
"The first time I was examined I was nine-years-old and my mother was in the room and I was taken behind a big old heavy hospital-type screen."
He said things moved on "systematically" and things got "more intense" once he was examined on his own while his mother waited outside the room.
"I didn't know any different. I thought that's how doctors are, that's what doctors do, and it was only when it stopped happening that I thought, I started to wonder," he said.
"Tom's" story first appeared in the Whitchurch Herald but he has since spoken to other people who also claim they were sexually abused by the GP.
They include boys, girls and young women, said Victoria Neale from Hudgell Solicitors.
She appealed for anyone else to come forward.
West Mercia Police said it had received five reports of non-recent sexual offences in Whitchurch and investigations were ongoing.


Sir Winston's Churchill's granddaughter has visited the funeral train used to carry the coffin of the former prime minister and wartime leader.

Lady Charlotte Peel was 10 years old when she joined family mourners on the train during the state funeral in 1965.
The refurbished train is on show at the National Railway Museum in York to mark the 50th anniversary of the funeral.
Lady Peel said the train had brought back memories that the "whole day was enveloped in sadness for us".
She said her family were proud of her grandfather and "how he gave strength to people in the war".
Winston Churchill was appointed prime minister in 1940 during World War Two.
Lady Peel recalled the day of her trip on the train in 1965 as "grey and cold" and described a "nation's outpouring of grief" on the death of her grandfather.
While looking at the faces of people lined up silently along the train route it had "dawned on me what an amazing man he must have been."
However, it was "lovely" to see the "beautifully restored" train.
"He was a sweet grandfather. His eyes always sparkled when we came into the room," she added.
The locomotive that pulled the funeral train is displayed along with the parcels van that carried the coffin and the carriage that carried his family.
1874 - Born in Blenheim Palace on 30 November
1900 - Elected to Parliament for the first time
1908 - Marries Clementine Hozier in Westminster
1915 - Forced to resign from the Cabinet in disgrace after disastrous World War One Gallipoli campaign
1940 - Appointed prime minister with Britain again at war with Germany in World War Two
1945 - Loses the general election to Clement Attlee's Labour Party despite leading the nation to victory in the war
1951 - Returns to Downing Street again as prime minister after securing a narrow majority
1955 - Retires as prime minister due to ill health
1965 - Dies aged 90


Former England wicketkeeper Matt Prior says he does not hold a grudge against ex-team-mate Kevin Pietersen.

In his autobiography written last year Pietersen ridiculed Prior, labelling him 'The Big Cheese'.
Pietersen accused Prior, who announced his retirement from cricket aged 33 on Thursday, of being a backstabber, a bully and bad for the team environment.
Prior said neither he nor other team-mates recognised that description, but added: "It's water under the bridge."
Prior, who won the Ashes three times, continued on BBC Test Match Special: "It was a very tough time, to hear things said about you and hear yourself described a certain way, which you didn't recognise and your team-mates didn't recognise, was tough to deal with."
"But I'm not the kind of person to hold grudges. It's time for everyone to move on."
Batsman Pietersen, 34, who has been told he will not be selected for England over "trust issues", tweeted Prior to "wish him all the best" after his announcement.
"Kevin tweeted me on Thursday, which was a very nice touch," added Prior, who won 79 Test caps.
Former England wicketkeeper and Surrey coach Alec Stewart told TMS: "You don't want to read those type of things from within a dressing room about someone I have huge respect for in Matt, and I have huge respect for Kevin as well.
"I hope in the future they can shake hands, have a cheese sandwich and get on with life as it should be, as two former team-mates."