The controversy surrounding the possible candidacy of Sheikh Salman for the Fifa presidency has intensified with the International Trade Union Confederation expressing "deep concern" over the Asian football chief.

Salman has been accused by Bahraini human rights groups of complicity in the detention and torture of footballers and other athletes in a crackdown launched by the Arab kingdom's rulers following pro-democracy protests in 2011.
Campaigners have called for him to be prevented from standing for alleged "crimes against humanity".
Although Salman, who denies the claim against him, is yet to declare whether he is a candidate, the 49-year-old says he has been urged to stand "by a growing number of senior football administrators, Fifa members and personalities of public life".
He became favourite after the campaign of front-runner Michel Platini was thrown into chaos when the Uefa president was suspended over a £1.3m payment made to him by suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter.
However, ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow said: "It's difficult to know how low Fifa politics can actually go. Football's governing body refused to investigate the allegations against Sheikh Salman from 2011, and it is inconceivable that someone who is facing such grave allegations of human rights violations could step into the void at the top of Fifa resulting from Swiss and US corruption investigations."
In 2013, three human rights organisations wrote to Fifa asking for Salman's nomination as head of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to be overturned. The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) wrote to the then-chairman of Fifa's Ethics Committee Investigatory Chamber Michael Garcia, calling for an investigation into the allegations concerning Salman.
It alleged that "At least six footballers from the Bahrain national football team were arrested, defamed and tortured following their public identification and humiliation by authorities, including the Bahrain Football Association (BFA). More than 150 athletes, coaches and referees were jailed after a special committee, chaired by the former BFA president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, identified them from protest photos."
Garcia's response to BIRD was that the Chamber's jurisdiction was limited to investigating violations by football officials of applicable Code of Ethics provisions, and that the Chamber would therefore take no action.
In 2013, Sheikh Salman, who denies any wrongdoing, said: "I just have one question: You talk about allegations, but the question is, do you have the proof? Somebody talks about the government, I don't think this is our business in football. If anybody has the proof that the Bahrain Football Association has violated the statutes of Fifa or AFC then present it. Otherwise we move on."
Salman was also asked about the allegations in this interview with the BBC's Mani Djazmi and insisted: "I follow the law and regulations".
Meanwhile, with Monday's deadline looming for candidates to officially announce their intention to run in the election (scheduled for 26 February 2016), global players' union Fifpro has published a check-list of criteria which it says all contenders for the job should meet, including "social wellbeing, fairness, democratic values and human rights."
In a statement, Fifpro said, "A clean break from the past is essential for Fifa to climb out of the toxic pit which continues to produce serious accusations of corrupt behaviour on almost a daily basis. At the same time, there is no doubt the present mayhem has left Fifa morally bankrupt.
"Fifpro has previously stated its dissatisfaction as having no confidence in Fifa's ability to reform from within. Individuals who have played a role in administering the game at the highest level are tarnished with the same brush, which is a sad reality for those who have displayed good intentions."
"Fifpro is afraid the current environment engulfing Fifa is not facilitating an effective election process and that it could produce an extremely harmful outcome."
All Presidential candidates will have to pass integrity checks before being allowed to take part in February's election.


The jury in the trial of an architect accused of murdering a childcare worker in the Republic of Ireland has retired to consider its verdict.

Graham Dwyer, 42, from the Foxrock suburb of south Dublin, pleaded not guilty to the murder of Elaine O'Hara.
The remains of Ms O'Hara, 36, were found in the Dublin mountains on 13 September 2013.
She was last seen on 22 August 2012, the day of her alleged murder, near Shanganagh cemetery in south Dublin.
The judge said 40 days of evidence, stretching back over five years, boils down to what happened in the three hours after Ms O'Hara vanished.
He told the seven men and five women they could take as long or as short a time as they needed to reach "a conscientious and properly considered verdict".


Margarita Mamun continued Russia's dominance of rhythmic gymnastics by winning individual all-around Olympic gold in Rio.

The 20-year-old's score of 76.483 saw her finish ahead of compatriot and world champion Yana Kudryavtseva (75.608) and Ukraine's Ganna Rizatdinova (73.583).
Russia have won every gold medal in the sport since Sydney 2000.
The team final takes place at 15:00 BST on Sunday.
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British artists have achieved their highest ever share of global album sales.

Figures from the British Phonographic Industry show UK acts gained 13.3% of worldwide sales in 2012, up from 12.6% the previous year.
Big selling albums from Adele, One Direction and Ed Sheeran contributed to the total.
The BPI confirmed Adele's 21 was the biggest selling album in the world for the second year running.
UK acts have claimed the world's top-selling album for five of the past six years.
Geoff Taylor, BPI Chief Executive, said: "Music is fundamental to Britain's identity as a nation and the world is singing with us."
One Direction's two albums - Up All Night and Take Me Home - were among the top five for 2012 in terms of global album sales.
In the USA, British acts accounted for one in seven of albums sold in 2012, their biggest share on record.
Adele, One Direction and Mumford & Sons claimed four of the five biggest-selling artist albums in America.
In the UK, British acts represented a 51.9% share of album sales.
Music executives have called on the government to support the UK music industry and its contribution to the economy.
"The time is right for Government to back innovative businesses like music that can lead the economy back to growth," said Geoff Taylor.
Speaking at a reception marking 40 years of the BPI, the Prime Minister David Cameron praised the industry.
"British music is enjoyed across the world and we will keep backing our creative industries that support jobs, create opportunities and contribute to the economy."
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UK employers are growing increasingly worried about the economy, new research has found.

A survey of 601 employers by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) found 31% expect the economy to worsen, with only 28% expecting it to improve.
Employers' confidence has worsened since the last survey in July.
REC chief Kevin Green said the decline should "raise a red flag" and called for greater clarity over Brexit.
"The jobs market continues to do well despite growing uncertainty," he said. "Businesses are continuing to hire to meet demand, but issues like access to labour, Brexit negotiations and political uncertainty are creating nervousness."
The REC's measure of confidence has turned negative in the space of a month. In July the number of those employers who felt confident about the economy outweighed the pessimists by 6 percentage points.
The fall is matched by declining consumer confidence. In June the market research group GfK's consumer confidence index fell to the level last seen in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote.
The REC's JobsOutlook survey showed that 40% of employers had no spare capacity and one in five planned to take on more permanent staff to meet additional demand.
However, their biggest problem was finding the right candidates, especially in the construction industry, for either temporary or permanent positions.
Mr Green said: "Employers in the construction sector are especially concerned as they rely heavily on EU workers to meet the growing demand for housing and to support the government's infrastructure plans.
"The added factor of dropping consumer confidence is putting some businesses on edge. If people reduce their spending, businesses will be impacted.
"The government must do more to create an environment where businesses have clarity. That means clearly laying out what Brexit plans look like and how employers can keep recruiting the people they need from the EU."
Labour MP Mary Creagh, part of the Open Britain campaign group, said the government's refusal to guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK was damaging business confidence.
"To protect jobs and our economy, they need to give citizens and businesses certainty that all EU workers living in Britain will have their rights guaranteed, and that Brexit will not be used as an excuse for a self-defeating crackdown on immigration from Europe," she said.
A government spokesperson said: "We recognise and value the contribution that EU citizens make to the social, economic and cultural life of the UK and that's why last month we outlined our offer to protect the rights of EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU."


Nearly £3.2m has been raised by Scots in this year's BBC Children in Need appeal.

Highlights from Scotland included a performance by Stevie McCrorie of The Voice and a specially commissioned sketch from the stars of TV comedy show Burniston.
Nationally the appeal raised more than £37m on Friday night, beating last year's total of £32.6m.
The money will be spent on children's projects across the UK.


The list of Germans named in the Panama papers makes for colourful reading.

Among the board directors and estate agents who appear to have benefited from shell companies established by Mossack Fonseca are members of the German nobility, recipients of the German honours system and a number of brothel owners.
The story may have cracked open a network of global corruption. But it is a big story for Germany too, not least because the data was initially obtained by one of the country's leading newspapers and because Mossack Fonseca was co-founded by Germany-born Juergen Mossack.
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Hundreds, possibly thousands, of Germans are named in the Panama Papers. So are the country's banks. Sueddeutsche Zeitung says "there is hardly a well known financial institution that doesn't appear".
And it is possible the revelations will shed light on one of the country's enduring corruption scandals.
Sueddeutsche journalists believe several former managers from manufacturing giant Siemens who were prosecuted for bribery a decade ago may have held on to some of their slush fund cash. The papers reveal that â‚¬3m ($3.4m; Â£2.4m) may have ended up in private accounts in the Bahamas and Switzerland.
Siemens has said it will investigate the matter and give a statement if new details come to light.
In a country where, as tax expert Stefan Bach says, "middle class people have a relatively high tax burden and working people have to pay their taxes", it is perhaps unsurprising that many are disgusted, if unsurprised, by the revelations.
"We cannot allow that one part of society works hard, sticks to the rules and pays taxes while another part of society cheats," Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel told one publication.
The German government wants a worldwide ban on offshore companies whose owners remain anonymous.
At a press conference on Tuesday, German Justice Minister Heiko Mass spoke about a planned new national transparency register that would oblige offshore companies to disclose the identity of their owners.
The new law has been planned for some time. The publication of the Panama Papers, Mr Maas said, proved how necessary such a move was.
But, when pressed, he admitted that Germany was in reality powerless to outlaw the creation of anonymous offshore companies. The government would, he said, urge further international cooperation and data sharing.


Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Moldova that it must take account of Russia's interests before developing closer trade ties with the EU.

Mr Putin was speaking at a summit in Belarus with leaders of ex-Soviet republics, including Moldova.
He said he wanted Moldova to postpone a free trade deal with the EU until 2016, as Ukraine had agreed to do recently.
Russia supports separatists in Trans-Dniester, a long strip of land that broke away from Moldova in 1992.
The pro-Russian separatists are heavily armed and the fighting in eastern Ukraine has raised concern that the frozen conflict in Moldova could similarly reignite.
The EU and US accuse Russia of sending troops and armour into eastern Ukraine to help the rebels there. Russia has repeatedly denied doing so.
Mr Putin warned that economic integration between some ex-Soviet republics and the EU could undermine their preferential trade ties with Russia. He is pushing for a Russian-led Eurasian economic union.
Moldova is one of Europe's poorest countries and has particularly close economic and cultural ties with neighbouring Romania, an EU member.
In June the EU signed far-reaching partnership deals with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
Moscow is worried that the Russian market could be flooded by cheap goods from the EU that would hit Russian producers.
Last month Russian pressure resulted in the EU and Ukraine agreeing to postpone until 2016 the free trade part of their new partnership agreement.
Russia persuaded the EU to include it in further discussions on the trade deal's possible impact on the Russian economy.
At the Minsk summit on Friday Mr Putin referred to that agreement with the EU and asked: "Where was Moldova? Why couldn't we build a relationship like that with Moldova?
"We wanted to, and asked many times for it. Unfortunately, we haven't heard a clear answer from our Moldovan friends...
"We have to resolve the existing differences and find compromise solutions," he said, adding that such compromises would help "all the member states of the CIS free trade zone" - that is, the ex-Soviet states with which Russia has preferential trade links.
Russia has selectively blocked imports of food and drink from Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine in recent years, moves seen by Western politicians as efforts to exert political control. Russia mostly justified the measures by alleging hygiene violations.


A mother and her son have been shot in Coleraine, County Londonderry.

A masked man entered a house in James Street at about 19:15 GMT on Sunday and shot a man in his 20s in the leg.
His mother, a woman in her 50s, was also shot in the foot.
Police said their injuries were not life-threatening. Insp Paul Patton appealed for anyone with information to contact police.


A man who placed bacon on the doors of a Bristol mosque has died in prison while serving a 12-month sentence.

Kevin Crehan was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court in July for racially-aggravated public disorder.
Rashers of bacon were placed on the door handles of the Jamia mosque in Totterdown in January.
A prison service spokesperson confirmed the 35-year-old's death on Tuesday at HMP Bristol and said an independent investigation was under way.
No other details were given.
Three other people also admitted taking part in the incident in January where a member of staff was also racially abused.
Crehan, 34, of Knowle, was jailed for 12 months and Mark Bennett, 48, of Patchway, for nine months.
Alison Bennett, 46, the wife of Mark Bennett, was given a six-month sentence, suspended for two years.
Angelina Swales, 31, from Brislington, was handed a four-month sentence, suspended for two years.
The prison service has declined to give any further details of the circumstances of his death.


A retired police officer has been jailed for 22 months for sexually abusing an underage girl 45 years ago.

John Peck, 80, was convicted at St Albans Crown Court of indecently assaulting the girl, when she was 14 and 15.
The victim, now 60, came forward in 2013 prompted by the Jimmy Savile case.
Peck, of Buxton Road, Waltham Forest, had worked in Welwyn Garden City. The woman told the court he kissed her and took her on car trips for sexual acts.
He had already admitted two charges of indecent assault, but was found guilty of a further five charges.
Judge Jonathan Carroll told Peck: "She was a child. You were an adult.  You showed manipulative and predatory behaviour."


A 72-year-old man has appeared in court charged with causing the death of a three-year-old girl.

John Place, from Sutton Coldfield, is accused of hitting Poppy Clarke in his Volkswagen Passat as she and her mother crossed Chester Road in the town.
He is also charged with causing serious injury to her mother, Rachel Clarke in the collision in June.
Mr Place, of Bakers Lane, was bailed by magistrates in Birmingham to appear the city's crown court on 5 January.


Lionel Messi scored twice as Barcelona brushed aside Sevilla to keep up the pressure on Real Madrid in the La Liga title race.

The hosts were in control from start to finish and opened the scoring through Luis Suarez's overhead volley.
Messi swept in a quick second from Suarez's cutback before making it 3-0 with a fierce volley.
Sevilla were reduced to 10 men in the 90th minute when Vitolo was sent for a second booking after a foul on Neymar.
Substitute Pablo Sarabia had Sevilla's two best chances with powerful long-range drives in the second half but the visitors never really looked like scoring.
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It was ultimately a routine win for Barcelona, who slowed the tempo after scoring their third, mindful of a packed April fixture list that includes the two legs of their Champions League quarter-final with Juventus.
The three points mean Luis Enrique's side go top of La Liga, although they will drop back to second if Real Madrid beat Leganes later on Wednesday.
Match ends, Barcelona 3, Sevilla 0.
Second Half ends, Barcelona 3, Sevilla 0.
Corner,  Barcelona. Conceded by Sergio Rico.
Attempt saved. Neymar (Barcelona) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Javier Mascherano.
Second yellow card to Vitolo (Sevilla) for a bad foul.
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Vitolo (Sevilla).
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Vitolo (Sevilla).
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joaquín Correa (Sevilla).
Sergio Busquets (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joaquín Correa (Sevilla).
Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joaquín Correa (Sevilla).
Foul by Neymar (Barcelona).
Vitolo (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Carles Aleñá (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Carles Aleñá (Barcelona).
Steven N'Zonzi (Sevilla) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lionel Messi (Barcelona).
Sergio Escudero (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matías Kranevitter (Sevilla).
Attempt missed. Stevan Jovetic (Sevilla) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Barcelona. Carles Aleñá replaces Ivan Rakitic.
Foul by Lucas Digne (Barcelona).
Mariano (Sevilla) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona).
Sergio Escudero (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Paco Alcácer (Barcelona) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Andrés Iniesta with a through ball.
Substitution, Barcelona. Lucas Digne replaces Gerard Piqué.
Substitution, Sevilla. Stevan Jovetic replaces Vicente Iborra.
Foul by Javier Mascherano (Barcelona).
Vicente Iborra (Sevilla) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner,  Sevilla. Conceded by Samuel Umtiti.
Sergio Busquets (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sergio Busquets (Barcelona).


Messaging service Telegram has promised to shut down terrorist-related channels after Indonesia's government partially blocked access to its platform.

The Ministry of Communication and IT blocked Telegram's web version on Friday and threatened to stop access to its app as well.
Jakarta claimed Telegram had been used to promote radicalism and to give instructions for carrying out attacks.
The firm's founder said he was  "upset" by the move.
In a note posted to his Telegram followers, Pavel Durov said his firm had now removed all terrorist-related public channels reported by the government.
It is now forming a team of moderators with knowledge of Indonesian language and culture to remove terrorist-related channels more quickly, he said.
"Telegram is heavily encrypted and privacy-oriented, but we're no friends of terrorists - in fact, every month we block thousands of ISIS-related public channels," Mr Duroy added.
The government's move comes amid increasing concern over the Islamic State's rise in Southeast Asia.
The group has claimed involvement in a string of attacks in Indonesia this year, and has fought running battles against the army at Marawi, on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.
Globally, Telegram has played a central role in Islamic State's communication strategy, in part because of a channel feature that lets users broadcast to an unlimited number of other users.
Although channels are routinely shut down, IS operatives set up lots of replica channels, which repeat or mirror the same content.


Same-sex marriages can go ahead in the Isle of Man following the granting of Royal Assent.

The Marriage and Civil Partnership Act is based on the same legal framework introduced in England two years ago.
It enables same-sex couples to marry in a civil ceremony or, subject to agreement, in a religious celebration.
Manx civil partnerships have been allowed since 2011 - the new legislation comes into effect on Friday.
Chief Minister Allan Bell described the move - which was backed by Tynwald in April - as an "historic moment" for the island.
"Recognition of marriage for same-sex couples shows just how far the island has travelled over the past 30 years," he said.
Homosexuality was only decriminalised on the Isle of Man in 1992 - a quarter of a century later than in England and Wales.
It is thought the island's first same-sex marriage is due to take place at the end of July.


People with a rare bone condition that can cause them to have hundreds of fractures during their lifetime are being urged to trial a new treatment.

Edinburgh researchers have received Â£1.5m to conduct the study, which will involve 390 people with a condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI).
The six-year trial will test the combination of two therapies used to treat a different bone condition.
Researchers will track the participants for up to five years.
About half of the study's participants will be treated with a drug called teriparatide followed by treatment with another drug called zoledronic acid.
The other half will receive standard care.
OI is caused by genetic mutations that lead to abnormalities in a component of bone called collagen.
People with the disease have extremely fragile bones that break easily, often from mild trauma or for no apparent cause.
Both teriparatide and zoledronic acid are established treatments for the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis but this is the first time they have been tested in combination as therapies for OI.
The study, led by the University of Edinburgh, will involve 25 hospitals in the UK and one in the Republic of Ireland.
It is being funded by The National Institute for Health Research Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme.
Prof Stuart Ralston, of the University of Edinburgh's centre for genomic and experimental medicine, said: "This is potentially a game-changing trial since it is the first study that had been specifically designed to investigate whether any treatment can prevent fractures in osteogenesis imperfecta.
"If the results are positive, it could herald a new dawn in the treatment of this rare but devastating condition."
Patricia Osborne, chief executive of the Brittle Bone Society, said "We have been supporting people with OI for 50 years and are pleased to see a potential new therapy being trialled that may improve the quality of peoples' lives".


Leaving the European Union could put tens of thousands of jobs in Scotland's financial sector at risk, the economic secretary to the Treasury has claimed.

Harriett Baldwin visited Edinburgh to warn industry leaders against "a dangerous leap into the dark".
However, Dr Gerard Lyons of Economists for Brexit said these were "misplaced fears" and insisted Edinburgh could remain a "strong financial centre".
Elsewhere in the referendum, Scottish Labour launched its pro-EU campaign.
Speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Ms Baldwin said being part of the EU gave Scotland access to a "financial services passport".
She said: "This means that if you're in the EU and you are a financial services firm, you can sell your services right across 28 countries, an area of 500m customers, and that's really important and really valuable.
"And it's not something that under any other kind of trade arrangement anyone has been able to achieve."
Asked if this was an example of the so-called "project fear" of negative campaigning, Ms Baldwin said it simply underlined the importance both of the sector and of EU membership.
She said: "I think we should celebrate the fact that our financial services sector is one of the great strengths of the UK economy.
"It employs directly a million people. 85,000 of them here in Scotland, and of course there are related financial and economic services which employ another million people. I think that's a really important component of our economy - it's something like 7% of the Scottish economy.
"We shouldn't underestimate the value of that passport we have into the European market."
Dr Lyons told the same programme that there was a "positive, longer-term case" for leaving the EU, with a more global approach to business.
He said: "In the last decade we've had globalisation, technical change and innovation - but the EU has gone in the opposite direction, controlling, regulating and centralising. There is uncertainty if we remain in the European Union as well as if we leave.
"When it comes to the financial sector, we have heard these fears before. We heard these fears about Edinburgh and London prior to the debate on the Euro, then it was said that if the UK didn't join the Euro we would lose out to the likes of Frankfurt, Amsterdam, even Paris, as financial centres.
"But the reality is that when one looks globally, there are very few countries that have big, strong financial centres. The UK is thankfully one of them, Now our competition is with the likes of America, with New York, with Singapore, with Hong Kong.
"So in terms of the UK we don't really have any major competitive financial centre against us in the rest of Western Europe
"So there's no doubt in my mind that despite the misplaced fears and the uncertainty that people keep talking about, Edinburgh as well as London will remain strong financial centres if we are to embrace Brexit."
Meanwhile, the Labour In for Scotland campaign was launched by Kezia Dugdale and Alan Johnson in Edinburgh.
Addressing Scottish voters, Mr Johnson said "you can keep your national identity and be part of something bigger", promoting the idea of being both Scottish and European.
Questioned about the idea that Scotland is more pro-EU than the UK as a whole, Ms Dugdale added that "if we believe we are more pro-European than our neighbours, then there may be a greater responsibility on us to make a positive case for Europe".
Responding, the Scottish Vote Leave campaign said there was "no left wing case" for remaining in the EU, describing it as "an organisation based on austerity which harms the poor".


Sprinter Kariman Abuljadayel became the first woman from Saudi Arabia to compete in the Olympic 100m.

The 22-year-old, dressed in a full-body kit and hijab, was unable to qualify, finishing seventh in her preliminary heat in a time of 14.61 seconds.
Afghanistan's Kamia Yousufi also raced in a hijab and full bodysuit, finishing last in her heat in 14.02secs.
Middle distance runner Sarah Attar was the first female track athlete to run for Saudi Arabia, at London 2012.
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Aged 19, she wore full clothing and a hijab as she finished last in her 800m heat in London, clocking two minutes 44.95 seconds in London - more than 43 seconds behind heat winner Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei of Kenya.
Attar is due to compete in the women's marathon at 13:30 BST on Sunday.
The Saudis lifted their ban on women competing in the Olympics in 2012.
Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani competed without a hijab in the judo competition in London, aged 16.


Great Britain's rhythmic gymnasts are set to compete at this summer's London Olympics after winning an appeal against their exclusion.

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In January, the team missed a target score set by British Gymnastics to prove they could compete at the Games.
But they argued the qualifying criteria had not been made clear to them and an independent arbitrator ruled in their favour following a hearing in London.
"It's been a tough journey but we're so happy," said gymnast Rachel Smith.
I am not persuaded that [the team knew] selection would be based only on the qualification stage
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"We want to prove to everyone that we do deserve to be there and to make the country proud."
British Gymnastics said in a statement it "will now nominate a rhythmic group to the British Olympic Association (BOA)". The BOA has in turn confirmed a British rhythmic gymnastics team will go to the Games.
There had always been a place available to Britain in the rhythmic gymnastics team event at London 2012, but British Gymnastics took the decision to impose a second, artificial standard for its team to hit.
Other sports have done the same in the run-up to the Olympics, in common with the BOA's policy of ensuring athletes are only sent to the Games if they prove themselves competitive at an international level.
The gymnasts' fate rested on their performance at January's Olympic test event inside London's O2 Arena.
However, while reporters had been briefed that GB's performance during day two's qualification stage was their do-or-die moment, the team - who proceeded to miss their target of 45.223 by just 0.273 marks - insisted afterwards they could still achieve the standard on day three.
British Gymnastics and the BOA repeatedly confirmed that, contrary to the gymnasts' belief, day three's results would not count towards their 2012 qualification. But the team's confusion had been readily apparent and independent arbitrator Graeme Mew agreed in his verdict.
"I am not persuaded," he wrote, "that [the team knew] selection would be based only on the qualification stage."
British Gymnastics argued that this had been the case as focusing the team on one day would replicate the pressure of competing at the Games, particularly as other teams at the test event were fighting to reach the Olympics based only on their qualification score, not day three's final - which was largely seen as an afterthought.
But Mew added: "The GB group, however, was in a different position. They were not competing with the other teams for a place. Rather, they were competing against the benchmark."
Excerpts from the written verdict of arbitrator Graeme Mew make clear that a poorly worded selection policy lay at the root of this dispute:
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British Gymnastics' chief executive, Jane Allen, has issued a statement in response to Monday's verdict in which she stands by the governing body's initial selection policy.
"British Gymnastics respects the rights of its athletes to appeal selection procedure," the statement read. "We were confident that we had put in place a transparent, fair and equitable selection policy and associated qualifying score to allow a rhythmic group to self-determine their nomination to the BOA and subsequent participation in the London 2012 Olympic games.
"The selection policy and its associated procedures have been thoroughly examined by an independent arbitrator and we accept his ruling."
The arbitrator concluded that the decision to exclude the gymnasts, while flawed, had been made "in good faith and in the belief that it was correct" by British Gymnastics, acting "in the best interests of its athletes and coaches".
Subject to ratification from the BOA, which has the final say in sending athletes to the Games though this should be no more than a formality, the team will now become the first ever to represent Britain in the Olympic rhythmic gymnastics team event.
Sarah Moon, the team's coach, told BBC Radio 5 live: "It's a huge relief."
She added: "It's fantastic news. The girls were really upset, they'd been told that was it and it wasn't enough, but they've been training hard and got themselves back together. This weekend we went to an international competition in Sweden and won it.
"Now we've got a lot of preparation competitions to attend - we'll be working hard on those and getting on with the job in hand."
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While Britain will now send a rhythmic gymnastics team to London 2012, the squad will not necessarily be identical to the one which competed in January's test event.
The final team will not be announced until early July, with a deadline of 3 July for British Gymnastics to nominate athletes for inclusion in Team GB.
Team GB already has representation in the individual event. Frankie Jones is likely to take up that berth, which was earned entirely separately to the place in the team event and has not been part of this dispute.
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After days of discord, South East Asian nations have released a watered down joint statement on the disputed South China Sea that avoids rebuking China.

The Philippines had pushed for the 10-member Asean group to mention an international tribunal's recent rejection of China's claims in the sea.
But Chinese ally Cambodia had blocked such a move, in what is seen as a diplomatic victory for China.
One Southeast Asian diplomat told AFP a "compromise" had been reached.
The statement says Asean remains "seriously concerned" over recent developments in the sea "which have eroded trust and confidence".
It does not mention China directly.
Asean foreign ministers were meeting for the first time since the ruling on 12 July by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which found there was no evidence that China had historically exercised exclusive control over the waters or resources in a case brought by the Philippines.
China, which claims almost all of the South China Sea, including reefs and islands also claimed by others, called the ruling "ill-founded" and said it would not be bound by it.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi are also in Laos for regional meetings.
Over the weekend it had been feared that Asean ministers would fail to issue a joint statement for just the second time in the grouping's history.
The last time was in 2012, and also stemmed from Cambodian opposition to language used about the territorial dispute.
Mr Wang had earlier praised Cambodia's support for China's stance, Xinhua news agency reported.
Beijing has in recent years provided generous aid packages and loans to Cambodia, one of the region's poorest countries.
Asean (the Association of South-East Asian Nations) is made up of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.
Along with the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei also have claims on the South China Sea, as does non-Asean Taiwan.


One-month-old conjoined twin boys who were evacuated from a besieged rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus have died, medics say.

Nawras and Moaz Hashash were joined at the chest, with hearts in the same sac.
They were moved to a hospital in a government-controlled area on 12 August after doctors launched an appeal.
But on Wednesday, while waiting to travel abroad for surgery, the boys suffered heart failure and passed away, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent said.
The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), a charity which supports hospitals and clinics in rebel-held areas and refugees elsewhere, had complained that the twins were unable to leave the country because they were not given permission.
The SARC said approval had been given but the boys were too ill to travel.
Moaz and Nawras weighed less than 12lb (5.4kg) when they were born by caesarean section on 23 July at the Zahra hospital in Douma, a town in the eastern Ghouta region outside Damascus.
Douma has been completely besieged by government forces for two years and the undersupplied hospital was unable to provide the twins with the care they required.
There are conflicting reports about why it took almost three weeks for the boys to be evacuated.
The SAMS and doctors in Douma said the government only gave permission for an SARC ambulance to pass through the frontline because of a social media campaign they mounted, using the Twitter hashtag "#EvacuateTheTwins".
But the SARC insisted the authorities had approved an evacuation on 24 July, and accused medics in Douma of refusing to allow them out.
After they had been moved to a private hospital in Damascus, SAMS warned that no facility in Syria was able to provide the surgery the twins needed and that they continued to suffer while waiting to be transferred abroad.
Last week, the charity's Turkey advocacy manager Mohamad Katoub told the Wall Street Journal he was worried the transfer was being delayed because offers for treatment had come from the US and Saudi Arabia, both of which support the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad.
On Wednesday morning, Mr Katoub announced that the boys had died. "The whole world couldn't have the permission to evacuate them," he added.
He was later quoted by the pro-opposition website Enab Baladi as blaming "interference by the ministry of foreign affairs and its stalling of issuing a travel permit to any country to allow them to receive treatment".
The SARC said the twins had received treatment in intensive care while being "registered in the formal civil records and having passports issued for them".
But it added that the Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital in Rome had agreed to admit them and that "all formal leave approvals were signed in order to travel". "However, the bad general health condition [of the boys] was a hindrance."


Chris and Gabby Adcock won the English National Championships mixed doubles title for the third successive year.

The husband-and-wife team beat Christopher Coles and Sophie Brown 21-11 21-11 in the final in Derby.
It is the fourth occasion the top seeds have triumphed in the event overall, beating the record of Olympic silver medal-winning pair Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms, who won it three times.
Between them, the Adcocks have now won 10 English titles.
All five titles at the championships were won by the top seeds.
Rajiv Ouseph won his eighth men's singles title, beating Alex Lane 21-10 21-9, and in the women's final Fontaine Chapman triumphed after twice being a beaten finalist.  She beat training partner Chloe Birch 21-15 21-16.
In the men's doubles, Marcus Ellis and Christopher Langridge proved too strong for Peter Briggs and Tom Wolfenden with a 21-15 21-11 victory.
In the women's doubles, defending champions Heather Olver and Lauren Smith beat Brown and Kate Robertshaw in the closest final of the day, which ended 19-21 21-18 21-7.


Poole Pirates became the first team for 43 years to win three successive national titles as they beat Belle Vue Aces in the Elite League Grand Final.

After the first leg was drawn, Pirates secured victory with a heat to spare in Poole to win 92-90 on aggregate.
Belle Vue were the last British team to win three national titles in a row.
"Three titles in a row is something to be very proud of and the boys dug deep to get the win," Pirates manager Neil Middleditch told BBC Radio Solent.
Middleditch dedicated the victory to Pirates rider Darcy Ward, who is continuing to recover from serious spinal injuries sustained in a crash in Poland in August.
"It's 43 years since a side last won three titles in a row and 43 is Darcy's race number," he said.
"Four and three together is seven, which is the number of titles we've won in total, so it was written in the stars."
Following a 45-45 first-leg draw, Poole led the second leg throughout, but Belle Vue manager Mark Lemon said his team ran out of luck as they threatened a comeback in the closing heats before losing 46-44.
"It was a fantastic effort by our boys, I'm so proud of them," he added.
"The resilience and the way they kept on attacking and attacking, it's a real credit to them."


Strong smartphone sales have helped Samsung Electronics post its best quarterly results in more than two years.

Second-quarter operating profit jumped 18% to 8.1tn Korean won ($7.17bn; Â£5.46bn), in line with the company's guidance issued in July.
Operating profit at its mobile division soared 57% year-on-year to 4.3tn won.
That is mainly driven by strong sales of its Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge smartphone models.
Samsung predicts continued increase in demand for its smartphones and tablets in the second half of the year.
But the company also indicated that "market competition is expected to strengthen as other companies release new mobile devices".
Samsung is confident that the release of a new large-screen flagship smartphone in the third quarter will help maintain the track record of its smartphone sales.
Samsung's results are in contrast to rival Apple. Earlier this week, the US company reported a 15% drop in iPhone sales for the April-to-June quarter. And it also said it expected sales to fall again in the current quarter.
As for other divisions in the Samsung conglomerate, the company is forecasting a decline in TV demand for the second half of the year, citing "weakened demand in Europe and a prolonged economic slowdown in emerging markets".
The South Korean corporate giant also reported earnings growth in its consumer electronics division, which sells refrigerators, washing machines and air conditioning units.


(Close): After a strong start to the day, the FTSE 100 fell back to close little-changed, with mining stocks weighing on the market.

The FTSE 100 had been up more than 40 points at one point, but finished 5 points lower at 6,100.
Mining stocks saw the biggest losses, with Glencore down 5% and Anglo American dropping 4.5%.
The top rises included High Street stalwart Marks & Spencer and Primark owner AB Foods, both up about 3%.
Investors were cautious before a speech from US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen due later in the day.
Markets will be examining Ms Yellen's comments for clues as to when the Fed might next raise interest rates.


Peterborough United defender Miles Addison has signed a new one-month contract with the League One side.

The 26-year-old has made just one appearance since joining Posh in November, scoring in the 3-2 win over former club Barnsley.
Graham Westley's side currently have injuries to fellow defenders Callum Elder, Gabriel Zakuani and Kgosi Ntlhe.
Posh, currently sixth in the table, are at home against struggling Chesterfield on Boxing Day.


Social services in Northern Ireland have agreed to examine the handling of a child sex abuse case in the 1960s.

The case emerged during testimony of a 57-year-old woman at the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry.
As a young girl, she was put into the care of nuns at Nazareth House in Belfast on a number of occasions.
The inquiry heard she was returned to her parents, despite the authorities knowing that she was being sexually abused in her family home.
The girl was subjected to "serious physical and sexual abuse" at her home, the inquiry heard.
Joseph Aiken, counsel to the inquiry, said her statement outlined "very difficult home circumstances that characterised your initial few years of life".
"Your parents were known to the authorities, had been to court and the difficulties continued despite that," he told her.
In her statement, the witness asked: "Given that I was put back to my parents and abused again by my father, how did that come to pass?"
The Health and Social Care Board has undertaken to examine the circumstances of the case.
The woman also claimed that she was subjected to cruelty by two nuns during her time in care.
The HIA inquiry is currently examining abuse claims at Nazareth House and Nazareth Lodge.
The homes were run by the Sisters of Nazareth, who have made an apology to all in their care.
The inquiry was set up in 2013 to investigate child abuse in residential institutions in Northern Ireland over a 73-year period, up to 1995.


A lorry has crashed into a railway bridge emblazoned with "low bridge" warning signs in London.

The crash happened on the A205 South Circular in Tulse Hill, Lambeth, on Wednesday morning.
The driver was treated by paramedics after suffering a hand injury, police said.
Southern Railway said lorries hit the bridge roughly twice every month, causing cancellations and severe delays.
Road closures were in place and drivers were asked to avoid the area.
A spokesman from Southern Railway said: "The bridge was hit by lorries four times in September and has since been struck twice every month, causing more than 147 cancellations and delaying trains by over 73 hours in total."
The situation is so serious at Tulse Hill that Network Rail has now assigned response staff to monitor the bridge on location at peak times every week.
It has also installed a large steel protection beam, the large "low bridge" banner and CCTV.


A Dundee employment support group has gone into liquidation.

Claverhouse, which operated as a social enterprise and charity through the Claverhouse Group, Claverhouse Training and Claverhouse Services, has appointed liquidators from FRP Advisory.
The company had suffered from a fall in income in recent years, and anticipated "significant" losses over the next 12 months.
All 39 permanent staff and 13 fixed term staff have been let go.
As part of winding-up discussions, joint liquidators Tom MacLennan and Iain Fraser are talking with other contract providers who could take on the firm's work or the contracts of staff who have been made redundant.
Founded in 1981, Claverhouse provided the unemployed with training for work and interviews as well as work experience and job placement services. It worked both on a contractor and sub-contractor basis with the Scottish government, Dundee City Council, Skills Development Scotland and the BIG Lottery.
Mr MacLennan said: "Although Claverhouse has a long and proud record helping to train, support and place the unemployed in work, and had built an extensive network of partnership organisations across Tayside, the business is suffering from a reduction in income levels, is unable to finance the direct and overhead costs from operations and is therefore no longer financially viable.
"As a result, all 39 full-time staff have been made redundant with immediate effect and the short term contracts have been ended.
"Efforts are being made to relocate the services contracts and, where possible, any directly associated staff, and we will work with all contracting organisations to try and secure a positive outcome.
"It is hoped that as many employees as possible will gain employment in relation to certain contracts being taken over by other service providers. Support will be provided to all affected staff."


Two people have been seriously injured in a crash involving a motorcycle and a car in Sutherland.

The incident took place on the A9 just north of Dornoch Bridge at about 16:45 on Friday.
A motorcyclist and pillion passenger were taken to Raigmore Hospital for treatment. Their conditions are not known.
The road was closed for several hours to allow police investigations to take place.
Police have appealed for anyone who may have witnessed the accident to come forward.


Three men have been arrested in connection with continuing investigations into the manipulation of the Libor inter-bank lending rate.

The three men - aged 33, 41 and 47 - have been taken to a London police station for interview.
The Serious Fraud Office has issued search warrants for three properties in the South East of England - one in Surrey and two in Essex.
All three men are British nationals living in the UK, a statement said.
One of the men is said to be a banker, with the other two having worked for an inter-dealer broker.
In July, the SFO said it had formally launched a criminal investigation into the rigging of inter-bank lending rates.
These are the first arrests since the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission began looking into Libor fixing it suspects took place in the Autumn of 2008.
As well as dozens of individuals, a number of major banks are also being investigated by regulatory authorities in the UK and the US over attempts to manipulate the rate, one of the most important in the UK economy.
Bought in in the 1960s, the daily Libor rate is calculated from banks' estimates of how much it costs them to borrow from other banks, and is used as the basis for some retail bank and mortgage rates.
Since then, until the credit crisis at least, it has been used as the benchmark essentially used to judge just about any financial product based on cash deposits and lending.
In June, Barclays bank was fined Â£290m for attempting to manipulate the rate.
A report written by the Financial Services Authority's managing director Martin Wheatley in September said the Libor system was broken and in need of a complete overhaul, including criminal prosecutions for those who try to manipulate it.
Mr Wheatley said bankers guilty of fixing Libor in the future could be jailed.


Crime in rural parts of England and Wales cost more than £800m last year, a survey of 17,000 people suggests.

The National Rural Crime Network said its poll found the average cost to victims was £2,500 for rural households and £4,000 for rural businesses.
These crimes, which include theft of tractors and livestock, cost 21 times more than previous estimates, it said.
The Home Office said crime had fallen by 25% since 2010, with rural areas less likely to be affected than towns.
The National Rural Crime Network (NRCN), which was formed by police and crime commissioners to highlight crime in rural areas, said the estimated figure of £800m was based on the average cost of crimes reported in its survey, multiplied by the total number of crimes in rural areas reported from May 2014 to April 2015.
It also took into account the fact its survey suggested that 27% of crimes were not reported in rural areas.
The insurance company NFU Mutual had previously estimated the cost of rural crime in the UK to be £37.8m in 2014.
Julia Mulligan, chair of the NRCN and police and crime commissioner for North Yorkshire, said: "Some of the findings in this report make uncomfortable reading but it is vitally important for the reality of rural crime to be fully acknowledged and acted upon.
"Its actual scale is clearly much greater than we had previously known; £800m is a big number. The low satisfaction rates also need to be a wake-up call for police forces in rural areas and everything should be done to harness the opportunities presented."
The survey found 39% of people in rural areas rated the police as good or excellent compared with 63% across England and Wales.
It also found the two greatest concerns to the rural community were road safety (63%) and fly-tipping (61%).
Among seven recommendations made, the NRCN said there needed to be a review of the funding formula for police resources in the countryside.
The NRCN said policing for sparsely populated areas was "relatively expensive on a per capita basis", which meant resources were under "even greater pressure".
In July the government announced it would launch a consultation on reforming the Police Allocation Formula, which uses data including population density to determine how much police forces receive.
The NRCN said that police, government and other authorities should work together better. It also called for police resources to be better targeted to "ensure the assessment of threat, risk and harm is as applicable to rural communities as urban".
A Home Office spokesman said police and crime commissioners have a "strong voice in determining how police resources are allocated to tackle the crimes that matter most to them".
They added: "This government welcomes the work the National Rural Crime Network is leading to ensure police forces respond to crime in rural areas with the same dedication as crime in urban areas. We trust reports like this will help PCCs hold their forces to account for the services they offer."
The Home Office highlighted the Crime Survey for England and Wales and the Commercial Victimisation Survey which both suggested crime in the countryside was lower than in urban areas.


Judging from the number of times they have been summoned to the polls in recent years, Egyptians would seem to have an enthusiastically democratic system.

Judging from the comments of most analysts, Egyptians have returned to an authoritarian past in which a parliament exists simply to give a participatory veneer to a profoundly authoritarian presidential system.
The results of Egypt's just-concluded parliamentary elections suggests the cynics have the weight of the evidence on their side.
True, opposition parties have been banned, manipulated, or marginalised. Those with deep pockets and support from key state actors (such as the security services) will populate much of the body.
But the result is not a simple return to the past. There are reasons to believe Egypt's parliamentary life will be a bit more bumpy than the past for three reasons.
This will make the parliament a headache for the president.  It will not be an Achilles heel, however, since steps are being taken to forestall an overly oppositional body.
Indeed, the electoral system looks to have been designed to produce a body that if unruly is ultimately loyal.
Key state bodies (the military, security forces, religious establishment and judiciary) have considerable constitutional and legal insulation from the parliament.
The head of the loose coalition of loyal parties is a security official; a major general from the army was slotted to serve as secretary-general of the parliament, responsible for overseeing parliamentary staff and operations, until he was forced to resign this week for lacking the requisite qualifications.
And if all else fails, the constitution can be amended to strengthen the president - an idea that has been floated (even by President Sisi himself) in recent weeks.
Egypt's past presidents have generally ruled by controlling politics.
Mr Sisi, by contrast, seems to wish to rule without it - to have state bodies do what they are supposed to do and for citizens to do what they are told.
The parliament, therefore, has been an afterthought. And it will behave like one.
In Egypt today, as the new regime's economic, security, and administrative performance produce increasing grumbling, the parliament is likely to provide some space for debates and posturing but unlikely to do much to correct performance.
Nathan J Brown is a non-resident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at the George Washington University.


Two US sisters discovered dead while on holiday in the Seychelles died of excess fluid in their lungs, according to police on the Indian Ocean resort.

The bodies of Annie Marie Korkki, 37, and 42-year-old Robin Marie Korkki were found by hotel staff last week in their luxury villa at the tropical resort.
Post-mortem examinations have determined the Minnesota natives died from "acute pulmonary edema".
Cerebral edema, or fluid on the brain, was also cited in Anne Korkki's death.
The police report said no "no visible signs of injuries" were found, adding that the investigation continues and toxicology tests are pending.
The sisters were discovered on 22 September by a hotel employee who tried to wake them at the $2,000-a-night Maia resort on Mahe, the Seychelles' main island, the hotel said.
Dr Patrick Lank, a Northwestern Medicine assistant professor of emergency medicine in Chicago, said edemas are commonly seen in drug overdoses.
But fluid on the lungs can also be caused by viral infections or by living at altitude, though the Seychelles is not situated at elevation.
"Two people at the same time is odd," Dr Lank told Associated Press. "It suggests more of a toxicologic or environmental cause, or a potential infection if they're travelling together."
Both sisters worked in banking. The LinkedIn account of Robin Korkki, who lived in Chicago, Illinois, lists her as a commodities trader.
Her younger sister, who was based in Denver, Colorado, worked at JPMorgan Chase, according to her Facebook page.
The day before their bodies were discovered, the pair had been drinking at the resort and had to be helped to their rooms by staff at 20:15, according to local media.
The women's brother, Chris Korkki, of Lakeville, Minnesota, told CBS station WCCO-TV his sisters were outgoing, generous, kind and "lived life to the fullest".
An itinerary found at the hotel indicated the sisters had been touring Africa since 1 September.
Before arriving in Seychelles on 16 September they had toured Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar.


Eurozone finance ministers say they expect to hear new proposals from Greece after the country voted to reject the terms of a bailout.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her French counterpart Francois Hollande also called on Greece to make "serious" proposals.
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras is due to address a summit of eurozone leaders on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Greek banks are to stay closed on Tuesday and Wednesday.
They had been due to reopen on Tuesday but the head of the Greek banking association, Louka Katseli, said the period had been extended following talks on Monday.
In another development, the European Central Bank (ECB) said it would maintain emergency cash support for Greek banks, which are running out of funds and on the verge of collapse.
However, BBC economics editor Robert Peston says banks have been told to lodge more collateral with the Bank of Greece as security against the €89bn (£63bn) of emergency lending.
This reduces the amount of spare cash that the banks have, he adds, and one of the big four Greek banks is understood to have already almost run out of cash.
Greece's Economy Minister, Georgios Stathakis, had earlier told the BBC that the ECB had to keep Greek banks alive for seven to 10 days so that negotiations could take place.
Among the German tourists taking photographs outside the Reichstag in Berlin I met Peter.
The Greeks, he told me, "aren't willing to pay back their debts and I'm not very happy about it. I want Greece to think of the whole of Europe and not just themselves".
It's a commonly held view here. Greece may push for a debt cut or restructuring - especially after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that is exactly what the country needs - but it simply won't wash in Berlin. Angela Merkel ruled out that approach earlier this year, and today her vice chancellor echoed her.
Greece must successfully institute reform first, said Sigmar Gabriel. To offer debt relief now, he said, would destroy the eurozone.
Eurozone finance ministers are to meet on Tuesday followed by a full summit of eurozone leaders.
Mr Tsipras has noted that a recent IMF assessment confirmed that restructuring Greece's debt of more than €300bn (£213bn; $331bn) was necessary.
But Germany's economy minister warned against any unconditional write-off of Greece's debt, saying it would destroy the single currency.
"I really hope that the Greek government - if it wants to enter negotiations again - will accept that the other 18 member states of the euro can't just go along with an unconditional haircut (debt write-off)," said Sigmar Gabriel, who is also Germany's vice-chancellor.
"How could we then refuse it to other member states? And what would it mean for the eurozone if we'd do it? It would blow the eurozone apart, for sure," he added.
Greek officials named Euclid Tsakalotos to replace outspoken Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, who resigned on Monday.
Greece's financial future was thrown into even greater uncertainty after Sunday's referendum in which 61% of voters rejected the latest terms of an international bailout.
Last week, Greece ordered banks to close after the ECB froze its financial lifeline following the breakdown of bailout talks in Brussels.
Capital controls have been imposed and people are queuing to withdraw their limit of €60 a day.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, said the result of Sunday's referendum was "very regrettable for the future of Greece".
"For recovery of the Greek economy, difficult measures and reforms are inevitable. We will now wait for the initiatives of the Greek authorities," he said.
After talks in Paris, Mr Hollande and Mrs Merkel said the door was still open for debt negotiations, but detailed proposals from Greece were needed.
"It is now up to the government of Alexis Tsipras to make serious, credible proposals so that this willingness to stay in the eurozone can translate into a lasting programme," Mr Hollande said.
Mrs Merkel added:  "It will be important tomorrow that the Greek prime minister tells us how things should proceed and what precise suggestions he can submit to us for a medium-term programme that will lead Greece to prosperity and growth again."
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano said "the ball is in the Greek government's court" adding that any help for Greece "has to be accompanied by responsibility".
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte struck a tougher tone, saying Greece would have to accept "deep reforms" if it wants to remain in the eurozone.
At an earlier news conference in Brussels, the European Commission vice-president for the euro, Valdis Dombrovskis, said the Greek government needed to be "responsible and honest" with its people about the potential consequences of the decisions it was facing.
But he said the stability of the eurozone was not in question, adding: "We have everything we need to manage the situation."
What happens next?
Hours after the referendum result, Yanis Varoufakis resigned as finance minister, saying that eurozone finance ministers, with whom he had repeatedly clashed, had wanted him removed.
His replacement, 55-year-old economist Euclid Tsakalotos, was Mr Tsipras's lead bailout negotiator.
Greece's last bailout expired on Tuesday and Greece missed a €1.6bn payment to the IMF.
The European Commission - one of the "troika" of creditors along with the IMF and the ECB - wanted Athens to raise taxes and slash welfare spending to meet its debt obligations.
Greece's Syriza-led left-wing government, which was elected in January on an anti-austerity platform, said creditors had tried to use fear to put pressure on Greeks.


The county cricket season starts on 10 April and the BBC Sport website will broadcast live commentary of every match under a new deal with the ECB.

The agreement covers all games in both divisions of the LV County Championship and the FL t20 and YB40 competitions.
The commentaries will stream online, but there will also be increased coverage on Radio 5 live sports extra.
"There is a big appetite for county cricket coverage," said head of radio sport and sports news Richard Burgess.
"This broadcast partnership between the BBC and the ECB means that the entire season will now be available to audiences.
"The BBC has a long-standing commitment to cricket commentary, and this is a great opportunity to further raise the profile of the sport and promote the game at county level through BBC Sport's multi-platform capabilities."
The new agreement comes into force for the opening day of the County Championship on 10 April.
As in previous years, there will be regularly updated scorecards for every game on the BBC site, which will also carry the latest news and local radio interviews from around the county circuit.
ECB chief executive David Collier said the new deal was a "fantastic boost" for county cricket.
He added: "With a new domestic playing schedule due to start in 2014, we are keen to promote the county game to the widest possible audience and are delighted that the BBC will be providing such comprehensive coverage of all our county competitions, and seeking to recruit a new generation of broadcasting talent.
"This is great news for all followers of county cricket nationwide, and for the 18 first-class counties who will undoubtedly benefit from wider levels of media exposure."
Meanwhile, BBC Test Match Special will be providing full coverage of this summer's international fixtures, featuring the Ashes Tests against Australia, on Radio 4 LW and 5 live sports extra.


Chris Coleman still shudders at the mere mention of Serbia.

It is four years since Wales were mauled 6-1 in Novi Sad, but it only takes a word for the humiliation to come flooding back.
It was a fourth loss in Coleman's fourth game in charge of his country, the worst start by any Wales manager in history.
It was Wales' heaviest defeat for 16 years, no mean feat for a nation which had languished outside of the world's top 100 for much of that time.
All this - and the nightmare of the game itself - is indelibly etched on Coleman's mind.
The wretched defending, the fury of the travelling Welsh fans, the loneliness of the walk from the pitch back to the changing room - it is all as vivid as ever.
"They [the fans] paid a lot of money and travelled a long way to watch a shambles and that was my fault. I had to take responsibly for that," says Coleman.
"I've never been afraid of criticism - my skin's thick enough to accept anything that comes my way. There's nothing worse than when you feel like you've let your country down and I did that in a big way.
"It still haunts me, to be honest.  But I think that's quite good for me as well. You never want to experience that ever again."
The thrashing in Serbia was a nadir for Coleman and his players, who drew a line under the embarrassment and vowed never to plumb such depths again.
They beat Scotland in their next match and, after an uplifting end to their ultimately unsuccessful 2014 World Cup qualifying, Wales have since risen to historic new highs.
In qualifying for Euro 2016, Wales reached their first major tournament for 58 years, and once they were in France, a string of stirring displays saw them reach a maiden semi-final before bowing out to eventual winners Portugal.
On Saturday, they continue in their quest to qualify for the 2018 World Cup when they host Serbia in Cardiff.
Serbia are top of Group D with seven points from their first three matches, while Wales are two points behind in third place.
When the draw was made for the qualifying groups, Coleman says he "had a right smile on my face".
"The last two times we played them [Serbia] we conceded nine goals - we've also got a bit to thank them for," he adds.
"Sometimes you need an electric prod and that certainly came from them."
By his own admission, Coleman was "hanging on" to his job and some players' international futures were in doubt after such a damaging defeat.
However, Coleman persevered and his stock is at an all-time high, with his nomination for Fifa's men's coach of the year award crowning a remarkable year.
The players also stuck it out and, of the 11 who started in the 6-1 defeat in 2012, seven are in the squad for Saturday's match at Cardiff City Stadium.
"It's not the success that you learn from and that shapes you, it is the defeats," Coleman says.
"It's how you get through those tough times - that's what hardens and shapes you. I have seen the players grow up a hell of a lot.
"We have to have a high level of focus and our energy levels and our concentration has to be tip-top. It wasn't for the last couple of games."
After an opening 4-0 win over Moldova and a creditable 2-2 draw in Austria, Wales' qualifying campaign hit an unexpected snag with October's 1-1 home draw against Georgia.
That result has increased the pressure of what was already shaping up to be a significant match against Serbia, who seem to be realising the potential which they have failed to fulfil so badly in recent years.
Appointed in May, manager Slavoljub Muslin has at his disposal a squad of genuine international quality and strength in depth, featuring Premier League players such as Chelsea midfielder Nemanja Matic and Southampton winger Dusan Tadic.
Tadic scored his first goal for Serbia in the 2012 thrashing in Novi Sad, and Coleman has warned Wales they must improve to avoid another defeat to their familiar foes.
"For myself and for the players, we have to get back to doing what we do best - and that means our concentration levels have to be absolutely fantastic," he says.
"They will be against Serbia, who are very aggressive offensively. They take chances, so this is going to be a tough test for us."


A shopping outlet had to temporarily close after roads around an Oxfordshire town became gridlocked by Black Friday shoppers.

Thames Valley Police warned motorists to avoid Bicester Village after roads into the market town became completely blocked with cars.
Supt James Templer described it as a "one in, one out situation".
The force was working with Bicester Village to "try and alleviate the pressure", he added.
Bicester Village, which is open until midnight as part of Black Friday, has apologised for the inconvenience and advised shoppers to come in the evening instead.
It tweeted in the afternoon that access to the site was closed due to congestion, but was later possible after it set up a temporary car park.
Shopper Natalie Taylor, 33, travelled from south east London with her 16-year-old son.
She said: "It's so packed, there's queues for almost every shop. I've never seen so many security guards in such a small space.
"Most people like myself are surprisingly calm, however there's a few who aren't.
"The shops are messy, overcrowded and the car park has been permanently full since 11.30GMT at least.
"We have literally had to queue for everything, from the shuttle bus, to the shops, and the restaurants.
"It's not an easy shopping day."
Police, who are working with Oxfordshire County Council and the Highways Agency to solve the situation, said the scene was "very busy".
"After this has finished we will need to work with Bicester Village and others to see how we can learn from what happened today," Supt Templer said.
"No one sets out to create traffic congestion but it's clearly been far busier than Bicester Village thought it was going to be."
He advised residents to approach Bicester from the north or east.
The A41 and the A34 northbound from Peartree Roundabout are described as stationary.
The M40 is also affected, with very slow moving traffic between junctions 10 and 9 southbound.


Less than two months ago, Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, spelled out his position on Iraq.

Iran was against US intervention, he said, and the world should respect the results of Iraq's April election which saw victory for Nouri Maliki's alliance.
But the ayatollah has been overtaken by events.
The past week has seen the US launch air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in northern Iraq, while in Baghdad Mr Maliki has failed in his bid to return to the prime minister's office.
Although this all goes contrary to Iran's stated wishes, officials in Tehran have said almost nothing.
"Iran's silence shows they are happy with what's happening in Iraq," says Ghassan Attiyah, president of the Baghdad-based Iraqi Foundation for Development and Democracy.
Mr Attiyah says that Iraq's new Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has strong ties to Iran and for this reason the Iranians have not tried to block his nomination.
"They were not happy with Maliki from the beginning but they accepted him because the Shia bloc supported him in parliament," he says.
"But when he started losing and alienating Kurds and Sunnis, Iran didn't like it."
Iran has also confounded expectations that it would issue an angry condemnation of the US air strikes this week on IS positions in northern Iraq.
In fact, in a striking change of tone, an advisor to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that Iran and the US should work together to counter IS in Iraq.
Observers say the realisation that the militants are now just 25km (16 miles) from Iran's western border may well have influenced thinking in Tehran.
It is clear that the threat posed by the Islamic State is another factor in Iran's decision not to actively oppose the appointment of Mr Abadi as Iraq's new prime minister.
Unlike US President Barack Obama, Iran's president has yet to congratulate Mr Abadi on his appointment.
But in a phone call on Monday to congratulate another newly elected leader in the region, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said a government must be formed in Iraq "as soon as possible", and that Iran would support "the person who is approved by the majority of Iraqi lawmakers".
It was the first clear indication that Iran was not intending to stand firmly behind Mr Maliki as it has done for its other regional protege, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
There was more bad news for Mr Maliki on Tuesday when the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, also voiced support for the move in Baghdad to choose a new prime minister.
Mr Shamkhani's call for all Iraqi groups and coalitions to keep united and work together to protect national unity seemed like a coded message to Mr Maliki that his time was running out.
The hardline Javan newspaper, affiliated to Iran's Revolutionary Guard, adopted a similar tone.
In an editorial, it called on him to show "selfless compliance" to the Iraqi president's decision.
The final nail in the coffin was Ayatollah Khamenei lending his support to Mr Abadi's appointment on Wednesday.
"I hope the designation of the new prime minister in Iraq will untie the knot and lead to the establishment of a new government and teach a good lesson to those who aim for sedition in Iraq," Ayatollah Khamenei said in a speech to foreign ministry officials and diplomats.
"Maliki won't leave easily," says Mohsen Milani, the Iranian-born director of the Center for Strategic and Diplomatic Studies in Florida.
"But if both Iran and the US support the new government, he has to go."
Mr Maliki said Mr Abadi's nomination was a "violation of the constitution" but for Iran what is important at the moment is to see a unified Shia bloc in Iraq and a new government formed without further delay.
And if Mr Maliki cannot deliver either of these things, then as far as Iran is concerned, his time is up.


Harry White converted a late penalty as Solihull Moors ended a three-game losing run with victory over Braintree at Cressing Road.

The hosts went closest to making the breakthrough in the first half when Lee Barnard's header hit the crossbar on 16 minutes as Solihull struggled to clear their lines.
But the visitors finished off a game of few chances when White slotted home from 12 yards - his team's first goal in four games - four minutes from time, after Andy Brown had been brought down by Ian Gayle.
Solihull remained 15th in the National League despite the win, although they now have a nine-point cushion over Braintree in the relegation zone.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Braintree Town 0, Solihull Moors 1.
Second Half ends, Braintree Town 0, Solihull Moors 1.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Jack Midson replaces Ian Gayle.
Goal!  Braintree Town 0, Solihull Moors 1. Harry White (Solihull Moors) converts the penalty with a.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Claudio Dias replaces Lee Barnard.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Eddie Jones replaces Omari Sterling-James.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Sam Matthews replaces Monty Patterson.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Harry White replaces Akwasi Asante.
Second Half begins Braintree Town 0, Solihull Moors 0.
First Half ends, Braintree Town 0, Solihull Moors 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


At least 800,000 pharmacies in India are on a one-day strike, demanding an end to online drug sales which they say is affecting their business.

The pharmacies say that online drug retailers are putting customers at risk by failing to follow existing rules.
The government says it is in the process of drawing up guidelines to regulate online drug sales.
A number of companies are selling drugs online to tap a market which is estimated to be worth $10bn (Â£65m).
Although the pharmacies will be shut, customers will be able to buy emergency drugs using special telephone numbers printed on posters and newspapers.
"It is going to be a 100% strike. Approximately 800,000 chemists will be on strike,"  All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists chief JS Shinde told AFP news agency.
"Our own investigation has shown that anti-pregnancy pills, sleeping pills and steroids are being sold freely online."
Mr Shinde said 40-50% of the business of India's bricks-and-mortar sellers had been affected because of online drug sales.
"We want the government to close down all illegal online pharma companies immediately."
India's health ministry said it was drawing up plans to regulate online drug sales.
"A sub-committee has been constituted to look into the matter, which has so far undertaken only preliminary discussions with the stakeholders to ascertain their views," the health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.


An ex-council boss who forced teenagers to engage in sex acts to get grant payments has been jailed for 16 years.

Roger Dodds, 81, also abused colleagues while working for Sheffield City Council's education department between 1975 and 1993.
The council has been accused of failing to act and moved Dodds to a position working with schools after complaints. It said it was now "deeply sorry".
In December Dodds admitted indecently assaulting four men and a young boy.
In a statement read out in court, one of Dodds' victims said the abuse made him feel such "shame and disgust" he was unable to tell anyone for 20 years.
"His left hand started to feel its way into my right jeans pocket. When that started to happen, I just became frozen and unable to move."
Anonymous victim
In the 1970s Dodds, of Cotswold Road, Sheffield, was responsible for providing grants to college and university students.
The court heard he had used his position to abuse teenagers, forcing students to engage in sexual acts in order to get grant payments.
He also indecently assaulted colleagues.
The court heard Dodds had shown no remorse.
Dodds had known the athlete Sebastian Coe, the court was told, and had lured a child victim by telling him he could meet him, although the meeting never happened.
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His offending went unchallenged despite his victims alerting his employers and two separate internal investigations held into allegations made against him.
In the 1980s he was investigated by Sheffield City Council following complaints from colleagues but was moved to a different council post, working with schools.
Further allegations in 1993 led to a second council investigation after which Dodds was allowed to take an early retirement package with an enhanced pension.
One employee said hearing about the complaints gave him the courage to tell managers about the abuse he had been subjected to.
The five victims were at Sheffield Crown Court to hear him sentenced.
In an impact statement read out in court, one victim said he was just 17 when he was abused by Dodds which had left him feeling such "shame and disgust" he was unable to tell anyone for 20 years.
He said: "I went in complete trust to the council buildings to pick up expenses that I needed.
"What happened to me in those council offices shaped my view about myself and other people."
One victim told the BBC he held the council responsible for the abuse he suffered.
"I was the victim of a really horrible man," he said.
"The council are so responsible. I even think at times the council are more responsible than he was. They allowed it to happen. Everyone knew. Everyone in the council knew but they chose to do nothing about it."
Another victim, Richard Rowe, who waived his legal right to anonymity, said he was subjected to "terrifying" assaults over an 18-month period.
However, he said when he told council colleagues what was happening, he was told to stay quiet.
Another man said he believed more victims might still come forward.
"We are just the tip of the iceberg," he said.
Dodds was initially arrested and interviewed in May 2008 following complaints. However, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided to take no further action against him.
Those earlier complaints were reviewed by the CPS following a new allegation in 2014 and a decision was made to charge him with all the complaints in 2016.
Sheffield City Council said it welcomed the fact Dodds had been brought to justice.
Jayne Ludlam, executive director for Children, Young People and Families, said the authority's thoughts were with the victims.
She added: "We are deeply sorry that Dodds committed these offences while working at Sheffield City Council decades ago.
"We are glad to see that, finally, such cases of historic abuse are coming before the courts, justice is being done, and victims are having their voices heard.
"Despite the fact that this happened more than a quarter of a century ago, we have accepted responsibility and would never defend the indefensible."
South Yorkshire Police said Dodds' sentencing marked the culmination of a lengthy police investigation into his behaviour over several decades.


Computing giant Apple is expected to publish another record-breaking set of earning figures after the Christmas period.

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But the company's stock price has fallen and investors are worried.
The BBC's North America technology reporter Dave Lee has been finding out why.


Tens of thousands of people have been protesting in Budapest over Hungary's controversial new constitution, a day after it came into force.

The country's governing Fidesz party pushed the law through parliament in April after winning a two-thirds majority in parliamentary elections.
Opponents say it threatens democracy by removing checks and balances set up in 1989 when Communism fell.
The EU and US had also asked for the law to be withdrawn.
The dispute has cast doubt over talks on a new financing agreement with the EU and IMF, seen as vital for market confidence in the central European country.
But the economic crisis facing Hungary overshadows both the government's policies and the opposition protests, says the BBC's Nick Thorpe in Budapest.
Fidesz won the elections promising to create a million workplaces - but there has been no growth so far.
And as the public mood worsens, so do the country's ratings, and the chances of attracting foreign investment, and creating more jobs, our correspondent says.
Several centre-left opposition parties joined in the protests on Monday evening, held near a gala event organised by the government to celebrate the new constitution.
By Nick ThorpeBBC News, Budapest
The governing Fidesz party controls 68% of seats in parliament, but the streets now belong to the opposition.
Nearly every day there are new demonstrations against one aspect or another of government policy - the new constitution, economic policy, the centralisation of the state media, or the closing of an opposition radio station.
One of the main speakers at Monday night's rally, Peter Konya, likened the government to the Titanic ocean liner, and the protesters to the iceberg which sank it.
But the economic crisis facing Hungary overshadows both the government's policies and the opposition protests. Fidesz won a landslide victory in 2010 promising to create a million workplaces.
But their attempts to generate growth have so far ended in failure. And as the public mood worsens, so do the country's ratings, and the chances of attracting foreign investment, and creating more jobs.
Protesters chanted slogans denouncing the centre-right Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, and carried placards denouncing his "dictatorship" as officials arrived for the event.
"Viktor Orban and his servants turned Hungary from a promising place to the darkest spot in Europe," said Socialist MP Tibor Szanyi, quoted by AFP news agency.
Aspects of the new constitution and accompanying laws which have come in for criticism include:
But Fidesz says the new constitution, or basic law, improves the legal framework of life in Hungary.
"Despite political debates we think it is an important value that for the first time, a freely elected parliament created the Basic Law," said Fidesz MP Gergely Gulyas, quoted by the Reuters news agency.
Mr Gulyas co-wrote the new law and shepherded it through parliament.
According to a December opinion poll, popular support for Fidesz has fallen to 18%, although it still leads the other parties.


Campaigners have lost a long-running legal battle to save Abergavenny's historic livestock market from closing and being moved 10 miles away.

Keep Abergavenny Livestock Market (Kalm) wanted to keep the 150-year-old market near the centre of town.
But a High Court judge rejected claims Monmouthshire council acted unlawfully.
The council will open a new market near Raglan and has already agreed to sell the old site with planning permission for a supermarket and library.
A judicial review heard Kalm had many complaints about Monmouthshire council's decision to grant planning permission in June last year to Optimisation Developments Ltd.
The market is on a 1.9-hectare site and has the Abergavenny Conservation Area on three sides.
Kalm arguments included the claims that demolition would seriously affect the local economy and threaten to contaminate the River Usk.
But all complaints were rejected by Mrs Justice Nicola Davies, who said the council had take all conservation, environmental and socio-economic issues properly into account when reaching its decision.
"It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that this challenge is in reality an attack upon the planning merits of the decision of the council in granting planning permission... misplaced forensic criticism has been levelled at decisions made when no issue was taken at the time objections were made," she said.
Concluding that there were no grounds for planning consent to be challenged, she added: "No evidence has been adduced to identify any real risk to the River Usk as a result of the proposed remedial measures."
The livestock market dates from the early 1860s.
The court heard the council has committed itself to maintaining a livestock market within the county boundaries for at least 50 years.
Monmouthshire council deputy leader Bob Greenland said most people accepted that market had "grown to such an extent that it cannot be contained on the restricted town site".
He said: "Selling the site to Morrisons gives local people the chance to shop here rather than travel miles to other centres.
"It also helps the council defend against the threat of a superstore on the outskirts of the town and the proceeds from the sale will pay for the new market as well as give a much-needed boost to our plans to rebuild our secondary schools.
"This scheme also brings with it in excess of 200 jobs for local people which are much needed."


As a review of care standards at a cardiac ward at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children finds parents were let down, one family recount the death of their "perfect son" and describe how their refusal to remain quiet caused other families to speak out.

Four-year-old Sean Turner, from Warminster in Wiltshire, died at the hospital in March 2012, six weeks after receiving corrective heart surgery.
Having been returned to Ward 32 - a specialist heart unit for children - the day after the operation, his parents, Steve and Yolanda, became worried Sean was "deteriorating".
As their concerns grew, Sean's parents asked for him to be transferred to intensive care but were told by medical staff it was not possible as he was "not sick enough".
Parents 'let down' by children's hospital
"We started to become scared and worry about the care he was receiving. Sean seemed so unwell and nobody really seemed to be getting on top of what was wrong," Ms Turner said.
Sean had to go back into theatre as he had a build-up of fluid around his heart and on his lung and his parents expected him to go back into intensive care.
They said they were surprised when he was returned to Ward 32 instead.
Just a few days after being told their son was "not sick enough", they say, a doctor told them Sean was the "illest child in the hospital".
He vomited constantly and was unable to eat. He was so dehydrated he would grab wet wipes, intended for washing, and try to suck out the moisture.
Only when he had a cardiac arrest in his father's arms, four days after the operation, was Sean allowed to return to intensive care.
He died six weeks later.
The experience left the Turners distraught and frustrated. When a coroner ruled the hospital had not failed Sean, they campaigned for an inquiry.
In the following weeks they came to believe the hospital "didn't want to be honest" with them and accused bosses of a "cover up". This feeling was made worse when having specifically asked if there were other families who had lost children on the ward, they were told there were not.
Then they "stumbled across" the story of Luke Jenkins, from Cardiff, who died on Ward 32 a few weeks after Sean.
Yolanda Turner said: "We were just shocked that their experience on the same ward was identical to ours."
After the inquest, when Sean's case became public, the couple were "inundated" with messages.
They said about 35 families contacted them to say they too had lost a child at the hospital.
Damien Girley and Amie Fenlon's son Tommy died on his second birthday while awaiting a heart operation.
His parents said the procedure was delayed and then cancelled.
Ms Fenlon said: "We weren't told how seriously Tommy needed the operation. I'm angry.
"We should have been told all these things and it could have made a difference, and he still could be here today."
After the death of Sean, Mr Turner contacted NHS England's medical director, Bruce Keogh, via Twitter and pleaded with him to intervene.
He agreed to meet with the Turners and other concerned parents.
The Turners said after meeting the Jenkins family, they pressured the Care and Quality Commission (CQC), which made an unannounced inspection and discovered the ward failed to meet safety standards for staffing levels, training and support and patient welfare.
Mr Turner said: "We want nothing more than for Bristol to be the safest cardiac centre in this country."


Frustration is growing in parts of rural Nepal over the pace of relief efforts, with some badly-affected villages yet to receive any assistance.

Survivors in some areas told the BBC that they were angry that neither food nor medicine has reached them.
The UN has appealed for $415m (Â£270m) to help provide emergency relief over the next three months.
Meanwhile, a teenage boy has been rescued alive after spending five days trapped under rubble in Kathmandu.
Crowds cheered as the boy was brought blinking into the daylight, a BBC reporter at the scene says.
Officials say Saturday's quake killed more than 5,500 people, and injured at least 11,000.
The UN says more than eight million people have been affected by Saturday's 7.8-magnitude quake and some 70,000 houses have been destroyed.
The government says it has been overwhelmed by the disaster.
In several villages north-east of the capital, Kathmandu, no buildings have been left untouched and bodies are still lying under the rubble, the BBC's Richard Galpin reports.
There has been no help from the government or aid agencies even though supplies could easily be brought in by road or by helicopter, he says.
"We will die if there is no help from the government or other organisations," Dhan Bahadur Shresta, a resident of Deupur Sipaghat Kavre village, told our correspondent.
"We will starve to death and could get diseases like cholera and dysentery and there could be an epidemic."
Some helicopter crews who have managed to land in isolated communities have been faced with desperate villagers pleading to be airlifted to safety.
In the village of Sangachowk, angry villagers blocked the main road with tyres and stopped trucks of rice and other aid headed for other areas, Reuters news agency reported.
The villagers also reportedly blocked a convoy of army trucks loaded with relief supplies, leading to a tense standoff with armed soldiers.
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"Although I am heartened and encouraged by the progress of the response to date, efforts need to be maintained and stepped up to ensure vital assistance reaches all the affected, especially those in the remote areas," said the UN's resident co-ordinator for Nepal, Jamie McGoldrick.
There were more angry scenes in Dolakha, east of Kathmandu, when residents smashed the windows of a local administrative building, Chief District Officer Prem Lal Lamichhane said.
"Over 200,000 people are homeless. We've been told that materials are on their way, but we haven't received them yet," he added.
Despite extensive damage, experts say the number of casualties in many villages was lower than feared because people were working outdoors at the time the quake struck.
In Kathmandu, riot police clashed on Wednesday with protesters angry at a lack of transport out of the city and delays in distributing aid. Thousands were waiting for buses to take them to rural areas.
"We've been left starving in the cold and the best this government can give us is this queue," said one resident, Rajana, as she queued for a bus to her home village.
Witnesses said a truck carrying drinking water was forced off the road and protesters climbed on top of it, throwing the bottles into the crowd.
Columns of riot police stood behind rolls of razor wire as protesters surged into the street.
However, there have been some signs that parts of the capital are returning to normal.
Some people have decided to return to their homes, having spent several nights in the open. Cash machines have been refilled and some shops and street vendors have once again started trading.


Police in 60 French cities have taken part in rallies to demonstrate against what they call a rise in anti-police violence - only to be met with a fierce counter-protest in Paris.

Police say there has been an escalation of violence in protests against labour reforms over the past two months.
As officers protested in Paris, they were targeted by counter-demonstrators.
Groups say police have themselves acted violently towards them.
As hundreds of police gathered for a rally at the Place de la Republique in Paris on Wednesday, hundreds of the counter-demonstrators defied a ban on marching.
While some chanted "Everybody hates the police" and "Police everywhere, justice nowhere," French media said up to 15 youths attacked a police car with iron bars before throwing a petrol bomb at the vehicle.
Two police officers who were inside the car fled before it was attacked, media said.
Paris prosecutors say they have opened an investigation into attempted manslaughter.
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French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 350 police officers had been injured over the past two months. The violence has been blamed on small groups of "casseurs", or troublemakers.
"Anti-cop hatred comes from a small portion of the population," Jean-Marc Falcone, general director of the police, told Europe 1 radio. "But these 10% are very violent."
"Since the first demonstration on 9 March, we notice that they [the police] generate the violence," one labour reform protester, Vanina Giudicelli, told the Associated Press. "We have been sprayed by gas, hit with batons, arrested."
She called the police demonstration "a real provocation".
France's Socialist government pushed through the labour reforms last week, saying they are essential to help cut high levels of unemployment.
The changes to the labour laws make it easier for employers to hire and fire, but opponents fear they will also enable employers to bypass workers' rights on pay, overtime and breaks.