A police chief in the US state of Minnesota has resigned after one of her officers fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman.

Justine Damond was killed after she called the police to report a woman screaming outside her home in a quiet suburb of Minneapolis last week.
Police chief Janee Harteau had earlier said it "should not have happened".
The city's mayor accepted her resignation, saying she had lost confidence in Ms Harteau.
Ms Damond's death provoked outrage in her homeland, where Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called it "inexplicable" and "a shocking killing".
The 40-year-old yoga and meditation teacher, originally from Sydney, was shot when she approached a police car after reporting a suspected rape.
A lawyer for Ms Damond's family has called it "ludicrous" to suggest the two officers inside had feared an ambush.
Australia waits for answers in US shooting
Speaking at a news conference in Minneapolis shortly before her resignation was announced, Ms Harteau said the killing was "the actions and judgement of one individual".
Officer Mohamed Noor, who shot Ms Damond in the abdomen, has refused to be interviewed by investigators, as is his legal right.
Body cameras, which are worn by all Minneapolis police, had not been turned on at the time of the shooting and the squad car dashboard camera also failed to capture the incident.
Chief Harteau said the cameras worn by Officers Noor and Matthew Harrity "should have been activated".
Mayor Betsy Hodges said, in a written statement, that it was unacceptable for body cameras "to fail us when we needed them most".
Fred Bruno, the lawyer for Officer Harrity, has said: "It is reasonable to assume an officer in that situation would be concerned about a possible ambush."
However Robert Bennett, who represents Ms Damond's family, said she "was not a threat to anyone".
He told CBS News: "I think that [the ambush fear] is ludicrous. It's disinformation. It doesn't have any basis in fact."
On Wednesday, police released the transcript of two separate 911 calls Ms Damond made after hearing screams nearby.
"I'm not sure if she's having sex or being raped," she told the police operator, before giving her address.
"I think she just yelled out 'help', but it's difficult, the sound has been going on for a while," she continued.
Ms Damond called back eight minutes later to ensure police had the correct address.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman has said he will decide whether to charge the police officer.


God can chase away "the fear of terror" and "the economies of injustice", the Archbishop of Canterbury has said in his Christmas sermon.

The Most Reverend Justin Welby spoke about finding God in a world which "feels more awash with fear".
His sentiment was echoed by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Britain's most senior Catholic, at his midnight Mass.
In his homily at Westminster Cathedral he said there was "much anxiety about the state of the world".
Mr Welby delivered his sermon during a Eucharist service at Canterbury Cathedral on Christmas Day.
In the sermon, he told the congregation that the end of 2016 "finds us all in a different kind of world, one less predictable and certain, which feels more awash with fear and division".
He quoted Bank of England governor Mark Carney who said globalisation had for many brought "uncertainty" and "low wages, insecure employment, stateless corporation and striking inequalities".
He said: "That uncertainty of our world, our feelings tells us that our values are in the wrong place.
"Economic progress, technological progress, communication progress hasn't resulted in economic justice. It hasn't delivered glory for us."
By Martin Bashir, religious affairs correspondent
The traditional sound of Once in Royal David's City heralded the start of a solemn Midnight Mass at Westminster Cathedral.
Cardinal Vincent Nichol began his sermon by quoting the poet WB Yeats - referring to a turbulent year.
"Uncertainty on many levels in this country and in those major partnerships and neighbours that we haveâ€¦ so with Europe, America, the Middle East. It's an unsettling time," he said.
He argued the answer was neither materialism nor the pursuit of selfish interest but rather a renewed focus on the life of Christ.
"The birth of Jesus is a recorded fact, marked in time, as we heard in the Gospel," Cardinal Nichols said. "The life he holds out for us is not a theory or a philosophy or an ideal."
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, also addressed the uncertainty that has marked global politics, saying that anxiety about the future is a clear sign that we have placed our trust in the wrong things.
The archbishop drew on his personal experiences of meeting "persecuted believers" who, he says, have "seen the glory of God, a glory that chases away the fear of terror".
He added: "How then do we find glory? The only place and person who can bring glory to us is the child of Bethlehem who became the victim on the cross."
In a similar vein, Cardinal Nichols spoke at midnight Mass of a "deep and widening sense of uncertainty" felt by many people.
"Yes, we are anxious of the current instability in economic prospects and in the effectiveness of political structures," he said.
"But here we come to a deeper centre, to Bethlehem, to Him who shows us the foundations on which we must build, the priorities we must seek."
He urged Catholics to show compassion to "the homeless, the refugee, the victim of violence and human trafficking", and in particular, older people, who were too often left alone without human contact.
"Meeting this challenge requires a recognition that good care for the elderly and vulnerable is not only important but nothing less than a defining characteristic of our society," he added.
The Church of England's second most senior figure, Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu, also urged those worried about Brexit and the US presidential election to look to God.
Writing for the Yorkshire Post, he said: "In the midst of uncertainty and personal danger, I can testify to the fact that God will never leave us or forsake us. God will always show us a way."
Meanwhile, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland the Right Reverend Dr Russell Barr discussed the contrasts of Christmas, and how the promise of Christmas cheer was juxtaposed with "unspeakable human suffering in war-torn Aleppo or Yemen or South Sudan".


David Cameron says a deal struck with EU leaders will give the UK "special status" and he will campaign with his "heart and soul" to stay in the union.

The agreement, reached late on Friday after two days of talks in Brussels, gives the UK power to limit some EU migrants' benefits.
It also includes a treaty change so the UK is not bound to "ever closer union" with other EU member states, he said.
EU exit campaigners said the "hollow" deal offered only "very minor changes".
Mr Cameron is set to the announce the date of a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the EU after a cabinet meeting which is happening at 10:00 GMT - the referendum is widely expected to be on Thursday, 23 June.
Once the date is announced, ministers will be allowed to campaign for whichever side they want - one of Mr Cameron's closest political allies Michael Gove has already been named as supporting the Leave camp. Others, such as Iain Duncan Smith are expected to follow - but a question mark remains over which way London Mayor Boris Johnson will jump.
The key points of the deal are:
The prime minster had to make concessions to get a deal with the leaders of the 27 other EU members.
Mr Cameron had originally wanted a complete ban on migrants sending child benefit abroad but had to compromise after some eastern European states rejected that and also insisted that existing claimants should continue to receive the full payment.
On how long the UK would be able to have a four-year curb on in-work benefits for new arrivals,  Mr Cameron had to give way on hopes of it being in place for 13 years, settling for seven instead.
The agreement on renegotiating the UK's EU membership was announced by European Council president Donald Tusk, who tweeted: "Deal. Unanimous support for new settlement for #UKinEU."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel predicted the package of reforms would "elicit support in the UK for the country to remain in the EU".
Mr Tusk said it "strengthens Britain's special status", while EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker described it as "fair".
Mr Tusk added: "We didn't walk away from the negotiating table. We were willing to sacrifice part of our interests for the common good, to show our unity.
"I deeply believe the UK needs Europe and Europe needs the UK. But the final decision is in the hands of the British people."
The ink is hardly dry on the UK's EU deal, but immediately the focus has switched to the substance of what David Cameron has achieved and - possibly an awkward question - how many of his colleagues will argue against him.
The focus will move to whether the prime minister can keep his party politely together during a period of public disagreement.
The ability to restrict benefits to migrants is an important victory for Mr Cameron - ammunition for his argument that he has achieved changes to help reduce the number of EU migrants coming to live and work in the UK.
The proposals are complicated and do not exactly match the promises he made in the Conservative Party manifesto.
But with it - and the other commitments - it becomes harder for his critics to make the case that the agreement is flimsy and will change nothing.
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Mr Cameron said he had achieved the reforms he wanted, claiming they would put the UK "in the driving seat" of one of the world's biggest markets and create a "more flexible" EU.
"We have permanently protected the pound and our right to keep it," he added, saying that, for the first time, the EU "has explicitly acknowledged it has more than one currency".
The prime minister said he had also protected Britain from further political integration inside the EU, adding: "Let me put this as simply as I can: Britain will never be part of a European superstate."
Outlining his case to remain "in a reformed Europe", Mr Cameron said "turning our back on the EU is no solution at all".
"We should be suspicious of those who claim that leaving Europe is an automatic fast-track to a land of milk and honey," he added.
"The British people must now decide whether to stay in this reformed European Union or to leave. This will be a once-in-a-generation moment to shape the destiny of our country."
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn dismissed Mr Cameron's deal as a "sideshow" designed to "appease his opponents in the Conservative Party," adding that he had done nothing to protect jobs and fight low pay.
"We will be campaigning to keep Britain in Europe in the coming referendum, regardless of David Cameron's tinkering, because it brings investment, jobs and protection for British workers and consumers," he said.
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was now "more important than ever" that those who supported Scotland's continued EU membership made the case "as strongly as possible".
Eurosceptics have dismissed the reforms, saying they will not allow the UK to block unwanted EU laws or reduce migration.
Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the Vote Leave campaign, said Mr Cameron "will now declare victory but it is an entirely hollow one".
UKIP leader Nigel Farage tweeted: "This is a truly pathetic deal. Let's Leave the EU, control our borders, run our own country and stop handing Â£55m every day to Brussels. I believe in Britain. We are good enough to be an independent, self-governing nation outside of the EU. This is our golden opportunity."
As the EU summit was being concluded, another EU exit campaign, Grassroots Out, held a rally in Westminster.
Conservative MP David Davis said it was time for Britain "to take  control of its own destiny", while UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the cross-party campaign was "absolutely united in fighting to get back our democracy".
Mr Farage unveiled former Respect MP George Galloway as a "special guest" at the rally, describing him as a "towering figure on the left of British politics".


On Friday, Tsai Ing-wen became Taiwan's first female president.

It has never been a burning ambition of the cat-loving former law professor to be president, and she is virtually unique among East Asia's female leaders.
Unlike South Korea's President Park Geun-hye and the Philippines' former President Corazon Aquino, Thailand's former PM Yingluck Shinawatra, she does not follow a father, brother or husband who was in a position of power.
That is not unusual in Taiwan.
Many of Taiwan's female politicians, including former Vice-President Annette Lu, Kaohsiung City Mayor Chen Chu, and chair of the Kuomintang party Hung Hsiu-chu, rose to powerful positions without having come from a political family.  They have largely made it on their own.
Women also shine in Taiwan's parliament.  The island's women legislators are even seen leading the charge in Taiwan's infamous parliament scuffles.
Following January elections, it now has a record percentage of women legislators at 38%, putting Taiwan far ahead of Asian countries, the international average of 22%, and most nations, including the UK, Germany, and the US.
So why are only four of Ms Tsai's 40 cabinet members women?
The cabinet spokesman blamed it on a dearth of experienced women in her party because it has been out of power for so many years and on the fact that women were elected to other posts.  But he did admit that some women had turned down the offer of a job at the top table.
One of them, 65-year-old Ho Mei-yueh, a former economics minister, told me she had devoted 33 years of her life to government, putting her own needs second while also raising a family. She just wants some time to herself now. It's the perennial question of a work-life balance for many women.
"I had to work and look after the kids. The only person I could neglect was myself," said Ms Ho. "Would a man my age turn down the offer? Men, when they are young, they don't have to give so much of themselves, because the burden of taking care of the children does not fall on them. To many men, their job is their life."
Still, it is so natural in Taiwan to see women in politics that little fuss has been made about Ms Tsai's gender.
But take a closer look and it's clear that quotas are behind the relatively high percentages of Taiwanese women in politics. They stipulate that women must get half the "at-large" seats in the legislature and one out of every four seats in electoral districts in local council elections.
"It's in the constitution that there should be special positions for women. Only Scandinavian countries have adopted similar policies. It's certainly unique in Asia and other parts of the world," said Joyce Gelb, a New York-based professor, who has studied Taiwanese women's participation in politics.
What has also helped was a commitment to women's representation even in the early decades of the Republic of China's existence, a history of women's activism, as well as a society with many highly educated and professional women able to take up positions of leadership, scholars say.
Over the years, the number of women legislators has far exceeded the quota, leading some to argue it's no longer needed.
But Ms Tsai's inability to put more women in her cabinet shows quotas are still useful to balance the scale. In elections without quotas such as for city mayors or county magistrates the percentage of women elected is only around 15%. Far fewer women run in elections compared to men.
"When it's a one-to-one race, men still tend to fare better because of their prior experience and personal connections..We still do not sufficiently nurture women to go into politics and government," said Chen Man-li, the director of an alliance of women's groups and newly-elected lawmaker.
Women's groups say there is no doubt having women politicians makes a difference; it's easier to pass laws favourable to women, including on maternity leave and childcare.
Nathan Batto, a Taipei-based Academia Sinica scholar who has studied women's participation in politics, says that with quotas political parties pay more attention to grooming female politicians.
But still the greater challenge is changing society's views to make it easier for women to enter and crucially to stay in politics and that goes back to work-life balance.
"Women have a lot of obstacles in their way that men don't in developing their political careers," said Mr Batto. "They have to have their family and spouse's support. The approval of your spouse is usually more automatic for men than women."
Taiwan is leagues ahead of other places, but it's worth noting that none of the top four female political figures in Taiwan are married or have children.


The world's smallest penguins are being protected from foxes by a group of specially trained dogs.

The little penguins, also known as fairy penguins, grow to be about 30-40 centimetres tall and live by the coast of South Australia and New Zealand.
On Middle Island in Australia the colony of little penguins who live there were suffering badly from fox attacks.
At one point it got so bad that there were only around 10 penguins left.
A local farmer who used specially trained dogs called Maremma, to protect his chickens from the foxes decided to step in to help the penguins.
He started walking along the beaches with the dogs. Because the foxes didn't like the smell of the dogs, they stayed away, allowing the penguins to move about freely.
As a result, the little penguin population has increased, and the story has even been turned into a film.
Footage courtesy of ABC Behind the News (Australia)


A lion in a Chinese zoo was shot dead after it killed one of its keepers and escaped its enclosure.

The incident took place on Sunday in the eastern province of Shandong, at the Taian Tiger Mountain Park.
Authorities said the 65-year-old keeper was cleaning the enclosure when the lion bit him on his shoulders and neck. He died later from his injuries.
The lion was on the loose in the zoo for more than an hour before it was shot dead by police.
'Rusty and rotting'
Reports in Chinese media did not say how the lion managed to get out of its enclosure after the early morning attack.
Officials put up steel barriers at the park's entrance, while zoo staff as well as visitors who had arrived for a morning swim in a pond in the park were evacuated.
Beijing Youth Daily quoted a police spokesman as saying they mobilised local officers as well as special forces to the park.
The spokesman said they cornered the lion by a wall within the zoo grounds, and shot it dead to "ensure the safety of park visitors".
A reporter with news portal Youth.cn said that shortly after 08:00 local time, he heard a shot, then "continuous gunfire" 10 minutes later.
The park reopened for business in the afternoon.
The incident is currently the third most popular trending topic on the Chinese microblog network Weibo.
Many questioned if it was necessary to kill the lion and raised concerns about the safety and living conditions in zoos, which have been criticised by animal rights groups.
"What humans like about lions is their fierceness, but this has resulted in lions losing their freedom, being starved and living in bad conditions, and now this one has lost its life," wrote one Weibo user.
Others however argued that the lion needed to be put down as it had killed a man and posed a danger to others.
The Taian Tiger Mountain Park houses a range of animals including deer, pigs, camels and birds in wire cages. An undercover report by Iqilu.com last year found it was in "serious disrepair".
The news portal, which published pictures, said its reporter found some cages were "rusty and rotting, posing a safety issue". A park official told them that they would do a clean-up and necessary repairs.
Activists with China Zoo Watch last August uncovered widespread abuse of tigers in zoos, and also found some were being used in illegal animal shows, reported China Daily.


The Unite union has given Ford management a two week ultimatum to produce a five-year plan for its engine factory in Bridgend.

General secretary candidate Len McCluskey met managers and shop stewards at the plant.
It is five months since Ford announced cut backs on its planned investment in the new Dragon engine but it said 1,850 workers would not be affected.
Mr McCluskey told BBC Wales he hoped it would not come to industrial action.
But he said he wants assurances about its future and added that the union would do everything it could to save the plant.
"There is a fair amount of pessimism about what the company plans," said Mr McCluskey. "Is there a hidden agenda to close the plant?
"We want them to demonstrate that there isn't and that they're working hard for product replacement and we'll work hard with them."
A mass meeting will be held on 1 March if the union does not hear from the company.
Ford announced in 2015 that Bridgend would be making its new Dragon petrol engine, with the aim of producing 250,000 engines a year.
The Welsh Government promised Â£15m state aid on the condition 500 jobs would be secured.
And on Tuesday, Economy Secretary Ken Skates told the Senedd the Welsh Government would work with all stakeholders to ensure the factory had a future.
The plant currently makes 250,000 engines a year for Jaguar Land Rover and also 500,000 of Ford's own Sigma engines but it is due to stop producing both in 2018.
Last September, Ford announced Dragon production would be cut to 125,000 engines a year and investment would reduce from Â£181m to Â£100m.
It said there had been "fluctuations" in global demand, predicting that required numbers of the new engine would be "lower than originally planned". However, Ford said the 1,850 workforce would not be affected.
Bridgend has a capacity to produce three times what the original Dragon deal offered and concern by unions has intensified that it signals the start of a run down of the plant.
Mr McCluskey said it starts to raise "serious doubts" about whether a plant of this size could be sustained producing such small volumes.


Groups of Russia fans are being deported from France after repeated scenes of violence at Euro 2016.

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French police blamed 150 "well-trained" Russian hooligans for clashes before England played Russia in Marseille.
Six English fans were jailed on Monday for their roles in the disorder and Uefa has threatened to disqualify both teams if there is further violence.
Uefa gave Russia a fine and suspended disqualification for scenes inside the stadium after Saturday's 1-1 draw.
Alexandr Shprygin, head of the Russian Union of Supporters, said 29 fans were being escorted to the airport.
Shprygin claimed they had been held near Cannes and put on a bus, adding they had "violated no laws in France" and were "not involved in the events in Marseille or in the port or at the stadium".
Fellow passenger Sergei Gorbachev told the BBC that some of the fans on the bus had been separated from the rest, with police saying they were to be deported.
Russian supporters from the bus were later transferred to a Marseille police station where the fans were expected to be held overnight.
Thirty-five people have been injured - most of them England fans - while a total of 20 people were arrested after three days of disorder in Marseille.
Football Association chairman Greg Dyke expressed "serious concerns" about security in Lille, where England fans and Russian supporters are set to gather over the next three days.
Russia play Slovakia in the city on Wednesday, while England fans are expected to gather there ahead of Thursday's Group B match against Wales in the nearby town of Lens.
French authorities have already pledged to increase security in Lens, deploying 2,400 police, gendarmes, security guards and a riot squad.
Drinking alcohol in the streets has also been banned.
Up to 50,000 England fans are expected in Lens despite the fact that the 35,000-capacity stadium has already sold out.
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Dr Joel Rookwood, a senior lecturer in football business at Southampton Solent, says Russian hooligans will "prioritise fighting the English rather than watching their own team play".
"For these very violent hooligans, it is a sport," he told BBC Radio 5 live. "The battle for them is more significantly won off the pitch. They're very well organised and ruthlessly effective. They don't seem to fear the police."
Five England fans have been jailed for throwing bottles at police, while a sixth was jailed in connection with the violence.
Two Russians were arrested for invading the pitch.
The Kremlin said "riots" involving Russian fans were "absolutely unacceptable".


Cornish Pirates head coach Ian Davies has admitted his final home game in charge of the side, against London Welsh on Sunday, will be "emotional".

Davies has spent seven years with the club but will leave at the end of the season because of  budget cuts.
Coaches Alan Paver and Gavin Cattle will take joint charge at the Mennaye Field for the 2016/17 campaign.
"It's helped them having me here and it's certainly energised me having those guys," Davies told BBC Cornwall.
"They're still learning their trade and they're going to make mistakes, but then everybody makes mistakes - you don't improve unless you make a few errors.
"They are fantastic individuals and they're going to be fantastic coaches. Hopefully they've seen me as a good mentor who's helped them in some way."
The match itself is a dead rubber, with both teams safely in mid-table, although Pirates have the incentive of possibly above the Exiles.
Davies will take up a new post as head of rugby at Christ's Hospital School in Sussex.
"I suppose post-match on Sunday will be quite emotional, but at the moment we're determined to try and get that win," he added to BBC Radio Cornwall.
"There are lots of guys who are going to be pulling on the Pirates shirt for the last time at home as well, and the focus is certainly on those guys."


This was a question Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to travel into space, often faced from admirers at home after he returned to Earth in 1984.
"I would say, no, I hadn't met God," he says.
More than three decades later, fact and fiction blur easily with his modern-day fans when they meet Mr Sharma, 68.
"Now many young mothers introduce me to their kids and tell them, 'this uncle has been to the Moon!'".
But Mr Sharma can never forget the hysteria after he returned from space. He criss-crossed the country and lived in hotels and guest houses. He posed for pictures and gave speeches. Elderly women blessed him; fans tore his clothes and sought autographs. Politicians paraded him in their constituencies for votes; and authorities sent him on holiday to a national park in searing 45C (113F) temperatures.
"It was completely over the top. It left me irritated and tired. I had to keep a smile on my face all the time," he recounts.
Mr Sharma wears his achievements and fame lightly. He joined India's air force at 21 and began flying supersonic jet fighters. He had flown 21 missions in the 1971 war with Pakistan before his 23rd birthday. By 25, he was a test pilot. He travelled into space at 35, the first Indian and the 128th human to do so.
"I had pretty much done it all before I went into space. So when the opportunity came, I went along. It was that simple."
What is easily forgotten is that Mr Sharma's feat was possibly the only silver lining in what was one of independent India's worst years ever.
1984 saw the Indian army storm the Golden Temple in Punjab to flush out Sikh separatists and the revenge killing of prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.
The anti-Sikh riots, the country's worst religious rioting after Partition, convulsed Delhi. And, before the year had ended, thousands of people in the city of Bhopal had been killed after toxic gases leaked from a chemical factory, the world's worst industrial accident.
In a wounded nation, a young pilot shone as an unlikely beacon of hope.
Mrs Gandhi was pushing for an Indian in space before the 1984 general elections, and dialled her closest ally and space race leader, the Soviet Union, for help. The latter asked for a list of candidates.
Mr Sharma was picked to undergo a battery of gruelling tests from a reported shortlist of some 50 fighter pilots. Among other things, he was locked up by the air force in a room with artificial lights at an aerospace facility in Bangalore for 72 hours to test for "latent claustrophobia". In the end, two of them were selected for the final training in Russia.
More than a year before the launch, Mr Sharma and Ravish Malhotra travelled to Star City, a high-security cosmonaut-training facility some 70km (43 miles) from Moscow, to train for space flight as there were no such facilities at home.
It was bitterly cold. He trudged in the snow from one building to another - "It was very Dr Zhivago".
He had to learn Russian quickly as most of the training was in that language. Six to seven hours of language classes every day meant that he had mastered enough Russian in three months. He was put on a carefully controlled diet of local food, capped at 3,200 calories a day. Olympic trainers tested him for strength, speed and endurance, and how his chest stood up to punishing G-forces.
Midway through the training, he was told he was the chosen one, and Mr Malhotra would serve as backup.
"It wasn't such a big deal, it wasn't very tough," says Mr Sharma, modesty.
But many, like science writer Pallava Bagla, believe Mr Sharma's feat was a "huge leap of faith".
"He came from a country which didn't have a space programme. He didn't dream of becoming an astronaut. But he travelled to an alien environment, endured a harsh climate, learnt a new language, and trained hard. He's a real hero."
On 3 April, a Soviet rocket carrying Mr Sharma and two Russian astronauts, Yuri Malyshev, 42, and Gennadi Strekalov, 43, left Earth from a spaceport in the then Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.
"The take-off was boringly routine. We were over-trained by that point," Mr Sharma recounts.
"I was the 128th human in space. So I didn't really sweat about it."
Two years later, in 1986, the Challenger space shuttle broke apart over a minute after its launch, killing all seven US astronauts in flight. Mr Sharma is now among the more than 500 fortunate people who have travelled into space since Yuri Gagarin's single orbit of Earth in 1961.
The media gushed how the joint flight was the high noon of the Soviet Union-India friendship. Soviet news agency Tass filed a report saying Mr Sharma's mother, a teacher, had developed a "general interest" in the Soviet Union after her son was chosen for the flight in 1982. "The mission," says Mr Sharma, "was scientific in content, but with a political end at home."
Tragically, Mrs Gandhi would be murdered within eight months, and her son, Rajiv, would sweep the polls at the end of the year on a sympathy wave for his mother. The space flight wasn't needed to fetch votes for the ruling Congress party.
Mr Sharma and his fellow astronauts spent nearly eight days in space: grainy TV images from the time show the three men, in grey jumpsuits, floating around in the Salyut 7 space station, and conducting experiments.
He became the first human to practice yoga in space - using a harness to stop him from floating around - to find out whether it could better prepare crews adapt for the effects of gravity. He spoke to his family once on a live link with 2,500 people in the audience in a Moscow auditorium.
When Mrs Gandhi asked Mr Sharma, on a hazy live link, how India looked from space, he delivered a line in Hindi which would have easily become a viral tweet today.
"Sare Jahan Se Acha [The best in the world]", he said, quoting from a famous poem by Mohammad Iqbal, which he had recited every day in school after the national anthem.
"It was top of recall. There was nothing jingoistic about it. India does look so picturesque from space," Mr Sharma told me.
"You've got this huge coastline, the lovely blue ocean on three sides. Then there are the dry plateaus, forests, river plains, golden sands of the desert. The majestic Himalayas looked purple because sunlight cannot get into the valleys. Then there were snow capped mountains. We've got everything."
The New York Times presciently wrote that "India is not likely to have its own manned space programme for a long time, if ever, and Mr Sharma's flight may well be the last by an Indian for a long time." Thirty-three years later, Mr Sharma remains the only Indian to travel to space.
India plans to put a citizen into space using an Indian rocket from Indian soil one day. It has already developed a space flight suit for potential astronauts, and successfully tested a crew module dummy flight in the atmosphere. But money is scarce, the home-made launch rocket has to be made flight-ready, astronauts have to be trained and launch facilities built or upgraded.
After his space flight, Mr Sharma returned to his life as a jet pilot. He flew Jaguars, and the India designed fighter jet Tejas. Then he switched gears, working as the chief operating officer of a Boston-based company which made software for manufacturing planes, tanks and submarines.
Eight years ago, the space hero retired and built himself his dream home, with sloping roofs, solar-heated bathrooms, harvested rainwater, handmade bricks excavated from the plot, and a sunlit study stacked with his favourite books and music. He lives with his interior designer wife, Madhu, and their pet dog, Kali. A Bollywood biopic is "in the works", with star Aamir Khan rumoured to play the astronaut.
Would you like to return to space again? I ask.
"I would love to," he says, looking out to the hills from his sprawling balcony.
"But this time I would like to go as a tourist and savour the beauty of Earth. There was too much work when I went up there."
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Sri Lanka's victory over India in the World Twenty20 final on Sunday rounded off a captivating tournament littered with outstanding individual displays.

On Sunday, a BBC Test Match Special selection panel of Jonathan Agnew, Vic Marks, Simon Mann, Alison Mitchell and Stephen Brenkley, the Independent's cricket correspondent, convened to pick their team of the tournament.
There was plenty of deliberation, and a fair bit of disagreement, but here is their final XI.
Runs: 166, Average: 55.33, Strike Rate: 158.09
Hales makes the cut on the strength of one innings - but what an innings it was. The Nottinghamshire opener smashed an unbeaten 116 off 64 balls to drive England to a six-wicket win over eventual champions Sri Lanka in the group stage. The tabloids dubbed it a 'Hales Storm' while captain Stuart Broad called it one of the best innings he had seen.
Runs: 200, Average: 40.00, Strike Rate: 123.45
A consistent performer at the top of the order for India, with only one failure in six innings. He scored back-to-back fifties in the group-stage wins over West Indies and Bangladesh and frequently flourished alongside Virat Kohli.
Runs: 319, Average: 106.33, Strike Rate: 129.14
Player of the tournament by a distance, Kohli mixed grace and timing with moments of explosive power. He scored four half-centuries in total and led a superb run chase with an unbeaten 72 against South Africa in the semi-final, only to be let down by his team-mates in the final when he scored 77 of his team's 130 runs.
Runs: 129, Average: 32.25, Strike Rate: 163.29
Relieved of wicketkeeping duties, De Villiers was a demon in the field and produced one of the innings of the tournament against England. His 69 off 28 balls featured some incredible pieces of improvisation, including a reverse sweep to the boundary off a 92mph delivery from Chris Jordan, and proved the difference between the teams as South Africa reached the last four at England's expense.
Runs: 147, Average: 36.75, Strike Rate: 210.00
"The Big Show" lived up to his nickname with some thrilling batting in an otherwise lacklustre Australia side. He struck 12 sixes in only four innings and top-scored with 74 off 33 balls against Pakistan. He also proved his all-round qualities with some handy spells of off-spin.
Runs: 101, Average: 101.00, Strike Rate: 224.44
The ultimate finisher, West Indies' smiling assassin scorched 101 runs at a barely believable strike rate of 224.44. His finest hour came against Australia when he made James Faulkner pay for his pre-match outburst against the Windies by cracking consecutive sixes to complete a six-wicket win with two balls to spare.
Runs: 50, Average: 50, SR: 125.00, Catches: 3, Stumpings: 3
The Indian skipper chipped in with a couple of twenties with the bat, but was hardly needed as Sharma and Kohli did most of India's donkey work in a cruise through the group stage. But he marshalled his troops with characteristic authority in the field and was sharp and decisive behind the stumps.
Wickets: 12, Average: 11.27, Economy Rate: 5.65
A key performer in the tournament's most miserly bowling attack, Ashwin was man of the match against Australia, when he took 4-11 and bowled the dangerous Maxwell with a perfect carrom ball. Fought a losing battle in the final when India were let down by their batsmen, and by the time he was clubbed for the winning six by Thisara Perera, the game had gone.
Wickets: 11, Average: 10.27, Economy Rate: 5.65
Badree was at the forefront of a leg-spinning renaissance in the tournament, along with Amit Mishra and Imran Tahir, and had an influence on every Windies match. He finished joint-second in the wicket charts with Ashwin, taking four against Bangladesh and 3-10 in the 84-run demolition of Pakistan that took West Indies to the semi-finals.
Wickets: 6, Average: 15.33, Economy Rate: 4.60
Two West Indies bowlers in the team of the tournament and both of them are spinners - how times have changed. Narine further enhanced his status as a T20 phenomenon as he tied down opposition batsmen with his extraordinary variety of deliveries. Despite frequently bowling in the six-over powerplay and towards the death, his economy rate of 4.60 was comfortably the best in the tournament.
Wickets: 5, Average: 22.00, Economy Rate: 6.11
An essential part of Sri Lanka's beautifully balanced attack, Malinga ended up captaining his team to the title after Dinesh Chandimal was banned and subsequently dropped himself. As a bowler, he burst into life in the semi-finals when he bowled Windies openers Chris Gayle and Devon Smith in the space of four balls. Delivered yorkers to order at the death and helped restrict India to an under-par 130 in the final.
Wickets: 9, Average, 17.00, Economy Rate: 7.98
The South Africa paceman delivered the over of the tournament to beat New Zealand but was significantly more expensive than Malinga thereafter. He conceded 44 runs against England and 36 in 3.1 overs against India in the semi-final when he proved powerless to stop Kohli steering India into the showpiece.
The official ICC men's team of the tournament contained eight of the XI chosen by TMS. It was (in batting order):
Rohit Sharma (India), Stephan Myburgh (Netherlands), Virat Kohli (India), JP Duminy (South Africa), Glenn Maxwell (Australia), Mahendra Dhoni (India, capt & wk), Darren Sammy (West Indies), Ravichandran Ashwin (India), Dale Steyn (South Africa), Samuel Badree (West Indies), Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka). 12th man: Krishmar Santokie (West Indies).
The ICC team of the women's tournament was (in batting order):
Suzie Bates (New Zealand), Charlotte Edwards (England, capt), Meg Lanning (Australia), Sarah Taylor (England, wk), Stafanie Taylor (West Indies), Deandra Dottin (West Indies), Ellyse Perry (Australia), Natalie Sciver (England), Salma Khatun (Bangladesh), Poonam Yadav (India), Anya Shrubsole (England).


London has been selected to host a race in the debut Formula E series, which will see electric cars race around major world cities.

Rome, Miami, Beijing and Rio de Janeiro are also among the eight cities so far named as sites for races in 2014.
Alejandro Agag, chief executive of Formula E Holdings, said it was currently working on "the feasibility and design of the street circuits".
London Mayor Boris Johnson said it was a "scintillating concept".
In total 10 cities will host the first championship and formal agreements will be finalised by July.
The race will feature cars that are powered only by electric energy.
Mr Johnson, said: "Zero emission world class motor racing is a scintillating concept and I am hugely keen that London be involved in the birth of Formula E.
"It has the potential to highlight the impressive strides being made in the manufacture of electric vehicles and hosting a street race could also be of considerable economic benefit to our city."
Mr Agag said: "The fact that cities from all over the world are interested in the FIA Formula E Championship is extremely heartening and shows a global commitment to clean mobility and sustainability.
"They will all be in city centres, easily accessible by public transport, and will feature some of the most beautiful and well-known landmarks as a spectacular backdrop for the races."


The business model that has underpinned maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia for the past few years has effectively been broken, according to the Operation Commander of the European Union Naval Force (EU Navfor) in the region, Rear Admiral Duncan Potts.

He told the BBC that a number of factors had led to Somali pirates being "contained and restrained", and that a combined naval forces raid on one of their land bases back in May had had a profound effect in discouraging pirates from putting to sea.
But he warned that progress against piracy was fragile and still reversible.
The statistics show a dramatic reduction in pirate attacks off Somalia.
In 2011, according to EU Navfor Somalia, there were 151 verified attacks on sizable ships, with 25 vessels being successfully pirated.
So far this year, the number of attacks has shrunk to 31, with just five ships captured, the last one in May.
"October and November would normally be two of the busiest months for maritime piracy as they come between the two monsoon seasons," said Admiral Potts, "but this year they have been surprisingly quiet."
He puts the drop in piracy down to four factors:
On 15 May, EU Navfor conducted their first and only raid on a Somali pirates' land base.
It lasted just a few minutes, with a helicopter crew launching from a ship just offshore and raking beached and unmanned pirate speedboats - known as "skiffs" - with machine-gun fire.
Fuel stores and other equipment were also fired on, but EU Navfor says there were no casualties on either side and there were no European "boots on the ground".
"Surveillance by our reconnaissance aircraft shows this had a significant psychological effect," said Admiral Potts.
Somali pirates are probably now under more pressure than at any time in the last five years and the risk-reward ratio for putting to sea and raiding commercial shipping is now far less favourable than it used to be.
But Admiral Potts is under no illusion that the problem is already solved and knows it could still return.
In fact, there have been signs of renewed activity this week.
As ever, the source of the problem is on land, and until Somalia can reach a certain level of stability and prosperity, the spectre of piracy is likely to hover over its coast for years to come.


The Irish police, An Garda Síochána, has been dogged by scandals in recent years.

Allegations about the abuse of the penalty points system, raised by two whistlebowers, eventually led to the resignation of the then Garda commissioner Martin Callinan in 2014.
Since then, an alleged smear campaign against one of the whistleblowers, as well as news that almost one million recorded breath tests did not take place and that a separate error caused almost 15,000 wrongful traffic convictions, have resulted in increasing pressure on the current commissioner Noirín O'Sullivan.
Strain shows on Irish police in crisis
An interim report on gardaí terminating penalty points, in many cases for no stated reason, is sent from Garda headquarters to then justice minister justice Alan Shatter. It follows allegations made by two officers described as whistleblowers - former Garda John Wilson and Sgt Maurice McCabe.
Sgt McCabe is ordered to cease using the Garda computer system at Bailieborough in County Cavan after he had looked at files linked to the alleged wiping of driving penalty points of well-connected people by other officers, mainly in 2007 and 2008.
A subsequent internal Garda investigation failed to interview the sergeant.
A report by the public spending watchdog, the Comptroller and Auditor General, found that the Irish state had lost significant revenue because of irregularities in the penalty points system.
The head of the force, Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan, tells the Dáil's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that he personally finds what Garda whistleblowers have been saying as "quite disgusting".
Sgt Maurice McCabe gives evidence in private to the Dáil PAC about the cancellation of penalty points.  The committee finds him to be credible.
Martin Callinan resigns as Garda Commissioner shortly after two cabinet ministers, Eamon Gilmore and Leo Varadkar, call on him to withdraw his comment that Garda whistle-blowers were "disgusting".  Deputy Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan succeeds him, initially on an acting basis.
Ireland's Justice Minister Alan Shatter resigns following receipt of a report into allegations made by the whistleblower Sgt McCabe.
The report compiled by the barrister, Sean Guerin SC, criticises the Garda treatment of Sgt McCabe and recommends a Commission of Investigation into the affair. Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald agrees to such an enquiry which carries out its work in private.  It's led by the former High Court judge, Kevin O'Higgins.
The O'Higgins report upholds a number of Sgt McCabe's complaints about serious failings and commends him, but also notes he was prone to exaggeration on occasion. He also finds no evidence to substantiate claims of corruption by gardaí.  Commissioner O'Sullivan says she "never had regarded Sgt McCabe as malicious".  But, despite her public praise, opposition politicians say leaked documents show her lawyers challenged his "credibility and motivation" right to the end. Earlier suggestions of "malice" seem to have been based upon senior Garda officers' reports to the commissioner of their interviews with Sgt McCabe but he was able to debunk their assessment because he had secretly recorded his interviews.
Supt David Taylor, the former head of the Garda press office, makes a "protected disclosure" under whistle-blower protection laws saying that he was directed by senior Garda officers including, Martin Callinan and Nóirín O'Sullivan to blacken Sgt McCabe's name.  Commissioner O'Sullivan strongly denied involvement in any campaign of spreading smears.  Justice minister Fitzgerald asks retired Judge Iarfhlaith O'Neill to compile a report to her on whether the matter requires further investigation.
Judge O'Neill recommends in an unpublished report that a Commission of Investigation should carry out a private enquiry into who was telling the truth about what Supt Taylor had to say.
February 2017
The Irish government announces that Supreme Court judge, Peter Charleton, will the head the inquiry that will have to look at Commissioner O'Sullivan's mobile phone and text records.  She resists calls to stand aside for the duration of the inquiry saying that she was innocent and had done nothing wrong.
It publicly emerges under Dáil privilege that senior Garda officers are accused of spreading a false smear that Sgt McCabe had been linked to a case of child sex abuse.  It also emerges that the alleged victim was a daughter of one of the officers disciplined because of Sgt McCabe.  It was a false claim with no evidence to support it.  RTÉ's Prime Time programme reports that the state's child protection agency, Tusla, had created a file on Sgt McCabe and on his family after an employee copied and pasted an allegation of child sex abuse against someone else into the McCabe file.  Tusla says it was an "error".
February 2017
The McCabe family reject apologies and say they intend to sue the state.  The government also announces a sworn public inquiry to be headed by Judge Charleton after the McCabe family say they are totally opposed to another private investigation.  The announcement is made in the midst of a political crisis that temporarily threatens a general election and seems set to result in Enda Kenny's period as taoiseach coming to an end.
27 February 2017
The Disclosures Tribunal - set up to investigate the alleged smear campaign against Sgt McCabe - opens its first public sitting. Chaired by Supreme Court judge Peter Charleton, it will examine allegations that senior police officers were involved in the smear campaign. The tribunal is scheduled to report in nine months, and provide an interim report to the Irish government in three months.
The Garda publishes a report on financial irregularities at its training college.
The force's internal audit section examined financial transactions over a number of years at the college in Templemore, County Tipperary. Its report revealed that money was being spent on gifts and entertainment, and identified a non-transparent system of accounting.
It emerges that almost one million drink-driving tests recorded by gardaí did not actually take place.
Labour Party leader Brendan Howlin calls for Commissioner O'Sullivan to be replaced after officers admitted to a data "discrepancy". Senior police admit it was likely some of the 937,000 non-existent tests were simply made up by officers.
In addition, they have admitted a separate error that caused almost 15,000 wrongful traffic convictions. About 14,700 people had been prosecuted without a fixed-charge notice first being issued - which was required to bring them before the courts.
Officers now have to appeal all those convictions; have the court-imposed penalties removed; and the state has to cover all costs.
The government announced two investigations into the Garda, while at the same time reaffirming its confidence in Commissioner O'Sullivan.
Appearing before an Irish parliamentary justice committee, Commissioner O'Sullivan acknowledges gardaí may have acted dishonestly by inputting false breath test figures into the force's computer system.
She said gardaí have still not established the reasons why almost one million false breath tests were recorded. Ms O'Sullivan said she apologised "for the grave mistakes and wrongdoing during the last decade that have led to the two controversies we are here today to discuss" - the other being the wrongful traffic convictions.
A few days before the commissioner appeared, Micheal Martin, the leader of the Republic's Fianna Fáil party said Ms O'Sullivan should consider her position.
On 12 April, Sinn Féin is to table a Dail motion of no confidence in Commissioner O'Sullivan's leadership of the force with a vote the following day.


Sea Trust volunteers believe they have seen a shark attacking an adult porpoise off the Pembrokeshire coast.

The team was at Strumble conducting a porpoise survey on Friday when it witnessed the attack.
Sea Trust director Cliff Benson said: "The most likely candidate would be a mako shark."
A mako shark - a cousin of the great white - was caught in 2013 by a crew fishing near Milford Haven.
A mako-type mackerel shark was also recovered on Barmouth Beach, north west Wales, in December 2014.
Mr Benson said: "Several porpoises were in the rough water of the tide race quite a way out when suddenly we noticed a lot of white water as something biggish appeared to be thrashing about on the surface.
"It was too far to tell what the something was but it looked quite violent.
"I moved over to our telescope but the main action seemed to have stopped, although what looked like the head and shoulders of an adult porpoise were moving as if held up by something beneath, pushing it along.
"It appeared and disappeared a couple of times and I just made out a red stain in the surf just before it finally went down below the surface.
"It is difficult to be absolutely certain, but I think what we witnessed was a porpoise being attacked and held in its jaws by some other animal until it was dead or sufficiently subdued to be swallowed beneath the surface."
He said sharks were not uncommon in Welsh waters.
"A 10ft long mako shark was washed up on a beach in Barmouth, north Wales recently in which the remains of a porpoise were found," Mr Benson said.
"They have also been caught alive in Pembrokeshire waters by shark anglers, along with big blue and porbeagle sharks.
"In the end it has to be recognised that sharks are a natural part of the food chain here off the coast of Wales. Sea Trust believes they should be celebrated along with all our amazing sea life."


A body has been recovered in the search for a canoeist who got into difficulty in Snowdonia, police have said.

Emergency services were called at 14:50 BST on Tuesday to a river at Aberglaslyn, near Beddgelert.
Formal identification is expected to take place later today. Specialist police are supporting the man's family.
Ch Insp Mark Armstrong said: "Our sympathies go out to the family and friends of the person involved."
He said the operation to recover the body had been complex and involved police, North Wales Fire and Rescue Service, Aberglaslyn and Ogwen mountain rescue teams and the regional police underwater search teams.


Dozens of people turned out to protest against plans to close beds in community hospitals across Devon.

About 270 organisations and individuals have submitted views on NHS plans to reorganise community health services in the county.
The protest took place at NHS offices in South Molton where a committee was considering the impact of the plans.
Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) proposes providing more care at home.
Campaigners say inpatient beds at places like Torrington Community Hospital are "vital".
The report suggests closing inpatient beds and minor injuries units at some of the area's 19 community hospitals.
It does not say which hospitals will be affected but Torrington is expected to be included.
Those hospitals would become so-called health and wellbeing hubs, offering more day services and clinics. This is already happening at Budleigh Salterton and Moretonhampstead Hospitals.
David Clinch, from campaign group Save the Irreplaceable Torrington Community Hospital, said: "We believe in care at home but we also believe the trust should retain the beds because both types of care are needed.
"In end-of-life care the hospital beds have been used for many years. We see those beds as being vital. We want enhanced care and the 10 beds retained."
Many of those who responded to the CCG's consultation welcomed the chance to stay at home for their care, and supported more integrated healthcare and personalised healthcare budgets.
Ottery St Mary Town Council wrote: "We do question whether 'Hospital at Home'  is a viable concept where there is no person in the home effectively to provide 24/7 patient support.
"It does seem clear that community hospital beds will continue to be needed  in increasing numbers as the local population ages."
The CCG's governing body will meet on Wednesday to discuss how the feedback can be incorporated into its plans.


Drivers warned not to stop for unmarked police cars after two van robberies have now been told they should pull over.

The vans were stopped and stolen on the M11 and M25 by fake officers in an unmarked car using blue lights.
Essex Police advised motorists they would only use unmarked car to pull over drivers in an emergency.
They now say the risk to motorists is low. Officers will return to using unmarked cars, which may stop vehicles.
The thieves, dressed in police uniforms and, in one case, carrying a handgun, drove a silver Ford Mondeo equipped with blue flashing lights and targeted van drivers.
DCI Stuart Smith of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate said: "My team of detectives have reviewed the circumstances of both incidents and alongside the intelligence have concluded the risk to motorists in cars is low.
"That does not mean that the only risk is to van drivers, but the only vehicles which have so far been stolen are vans."
His advice to van drivers is to "remain alert and vigilant and try and establish whether unmarked vehicles are genuine with our control room whilst remaining compliant with the police vehicle".
Ch Insp Nick Lee, head of roads policing, added: "The law states that you cannot use your mobile phone whilst driving, however, we have discretion we can apply and if someone is in genuine fear of their life we would take a sensible approach in those circumstances."
Essex Police issued the new guidance because there had been "no further reports of vehicle robberies in the county".


Sussex have re-signed South African all-rounder David Wiese as their overseas player for the remainder of the season.

The 31-year-old replaces batsman Ross Taylor, who left Hove last month to join up with New Zealand for their Test series in Zimbabwe.
Wiese played four T20 Blast matches and one in the One-Day Cup during a short stint with Sussex earlier this season.
He is available again following a spell in the Caribbean Premier League.


Captain David Gray believes the inspirational qualities of manager Neil Lennon can help Hibernian upset the odds against rivals Hearts in Sunday's Scottish Cup fifth round tie.

And the defender reckons his cup holders can go into the Tynecastle match with confidence, despite being a league below the Premiership side.
"He played and managed at the very top level," Gray said of Lennon.
"We do get inspiration from him and he'll have us ready."
Hibs go into the match top of the Championship table, while Hearts are fourth in the top flight.
Their respective positions in Scottish football's current pecking order will, however, have little bearing on Sunday's derby as far as Gray is concerned.
"The form book often goes out of the window in derbies." he told BBC Scotland. "The times we've done well against Hearts since I've been at the club, they were well clear at the top of the Championship the season we were there and we still managed to get good results against them, so it's all about who turns up on the day."
Hearts added nine new faces to their squad in January but Gray refuses to read too much into how that will impact the match. And with good reason.
"We were in a similar situation two seasons ago when Alan Stubbs came in as manager to rebuild the side then," he said.
"I was one of the players who'd never played in a derby so I don't think that really counts for much.
"And they signed a lot of experienced players. I'm sure they'll be well used to playing in derbies - although this one might be a wee bit different."
Gray, who scored the winner as Hibs beat Rangers in last season's final to end a 114-year wait to lift the Scottish Cup again, says Sunday's match gives the club even more focus in their promotion chase.
"These are the games that we've missed this year and games that we want to get back as soon as possible with us getting promoted," he added. "That is our main objective but at the same time we're all looking forward to this weekend."
"It's been such a long wait for the club to get it (winning the Scottish Cup), so it would be great to keep hold of it for another season for sure."
Easter Road assistant boss Garry Parker is relishing his first taste of the Edinburgh derby, and agrees with his skipper that a Hibs triumph would not represent a major shock.
"They are the Premiership team so they are the favourites, but it's a game of football and the best team will come through," Parker told BBC Scotland.
And Parker jokes that his players could have an unusual price to pay should they come up short at Tynecastle.
"People have been talking about it all the time," he said. "We've even got the kit people saying if we don't win we've got to wash our own kit."


Woking climbed out of the National League drop zone with victory at Eastleigh, despite playing with 10 men for most of the second half.

The Spitfires made a strong start but were unable to make it count with Bondz N'Gala among those to see good chances saved by Michael Poke.
Gozie Ugwu punished the hosts for their early profligacy, nodding home Dennon Lewis' cross from close range in the 16th minute to notch his 12th goal of the season.
Garry Hill's side, who beat Torquay last time out, went down to 10 men when Lewis saw red for a second yellow in the 68th minute, but they came through a nervy finish unscathed as Eastleigh pushed for a late winner.
Woking are now up to 19th, two places and a point above the relegation zone.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Eastleigh 0, Woking 1.
Second Half ends, Eastleigh 0, Woking 1.
Hakeem Odoffin (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card.
Max Kretzschmar (Woking) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Woking. Max Kretzschmar replaces Charlie Carter.
Substitution, Woking. Jake Caprice replaces Macauley Bonne.
Second yellow card to Dennon Lewis (Woking) for a bad foul.
Dennon Lewis (Woking) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Mekhi Leacock-McLeod replaces James Constable.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Sam Muggleton replaces Michael Green.
Second Half begins Eastleigh 0, Woking 1.
First Half ends, Eastleigh 0, Woking 1.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Mikael Mandron replaces Tyler Garrett.
Charlie Carter (Woking) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Woking. Ismail Yakubu replaces Brian Saah.
Goal!  Eastleigh 0, Woking 1. Gozie Ugwu (Woking).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


Olivier Ntcham says fellow Frenchman Moussa Dembele helped convince him to make his move from Manchester City as he joined Celtic for around £4.5m.

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The midfielder revealed he had spoken first to the Celtic striker before signing his four-year contract.
"Moussa told me the club was good, it was fun here," said his fellow 21-year-old, who spent the last two seasons on loan with Genoa in Serie A.
"I'm very happy to be here and it's a new challenge for me."
Ntcham never made the breakthrough into the senior side at the Etihad but did make 41 appearances during his two-year spell in Italy, 22 of them starts.
Genoa finished 11th in his first campaign in Serie A, but the Frenchman made only 10 starts as the Red and Blues ended last season in 16th place, two spots above the relegation zone.
He now hopes to mirror the success of compatriot Dembele, whose stunning debut season in Scottish football following his transfer from Fulham has led to him being linked with a move to some of European football's biggest clubs.
The France Under-21 striker was a team-mate of Ntcham's earlier in their international age-grade careers, recalling: "I was maybe 14 when we played together."
And the new arrival hopes Dembele sticks around to help him adapt to life in Scotland.
"He knows not all clubs are in the Champions League, so if you play in the Champions League, it's always good to stay," said Ntcham.
"That's why I chose to come here."
Ntcham revealed he held talks with Celtic back in January and says a desire to play regular first-team football was a key factor in his decision to leave England's top flight and join Brendan Rodgers' squad.
"I spoke with Brendan before," he said. "In January, Celtic was already there for me when I was in Italy, so that's why I came here.
"He said to me: 'You have to play because, if you don't play, you don't improve. You have to play because in Italy you don't play a lot'.
"It wasn't a tough decision for me. It was a normal decision because at Manchester City I play three years there and sometimes it is better to leave. Football is like this sometimes."
Ntcham moved to City's youth ranks in 2012 from the Le Havre academy in his homeland and has represented France at every youth level from under-16s upwards.
Asked what kind of player Celtic fans can expect, he said: "I am a powerful player and technical as well I think."
Ntcham becomes Rodgers' third summer signing following the arrival of Jonny Hayes from Aberdeen and Kundai Benyu from Ipswich Town.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


On the night that Jumai was kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, she called her dad.
She was in the back of a truck, packed in with her schoolmates as men with guns tried to take them away. Her father, Daniel, told her to jump out of the van - but then the line crackled and the signal dropped.
He ran out of the house to try to find phone signal. When he called back, a man answered: "Stop calling, your daughter has been taken away". Daniel realised then that her fate was "in the hands of God". The next day he tried to call again but the line was dead.
Although some families of the missing girls were happy for us to use their photos and names, we have changed the names of Jumai and her father to protect their identity.
Until the girls were taken, the area around Chibok had been relatively peaceful. Islamist militant group Boko Haram had attacked villages further north and east but this busy market town had escaped.
Daniel, who lives in the nearby town of Mbalala, sent his daughter off to school on 14 April 2014 to sit the first of her final exams.
But late that night, in one of the most organised attacks of its insurgency, Boko Haram stormed the school compound and kidnapped Jumai, along with 275 of her classmates.
His daughter never managed to jump off the truck, like some girls who managed to escape. But Daniel has not yet given up hope that he will get her back. The two were very close.
"I understood her the best," he says. "She worked harder than any of her three brothers and she rode a motorcycle like a man."
A few months ago, Daniel decided to try his daughter's phone number again. A man's voice answered:
"This phone belongs to my wife, what do you want?"
"Who are you?" Daniel replied.
The man said: "Who are you?" Daniel ended the call.
A few days later he called the number again. Again the man answered.
"Why are you calling this number?" he asked.
Daniel lied: "I am calling you because I knew you from Maiduguri" - the largest city in Borno state.
"If you did know me you would not dial this number," the man replied.
He called himself Amir Abdullahi - addressing himself as a militant leader. After that, Daniel didn't call again.
Jumai is from Mbalala, a town about 11km south of Chibok and one of the worst-hit by the kidnapping. Twenty-five girls went missing from Mbalala alone.
Once a busy market town, where traders went from as far as Kano to buy beans and livestock, now the stalls are empty. The wooden bones of market stalls still fill the main square.
These days the army restricts everything people do here - they can't buy food in bulk or even cooking gas, generators can't run at night, so people just go home to darkness.
With no schools and no work to do, young people no longer stay here if they have the choice. Boys leave to find work elsewhere, girls of age get married as soon as they can.
Plying the little trade they can, women sell homemade snacks from plastic tubs at the side of the road.
When she wasn't at school, Maryam Abubaker used to help her mum sell these snacks, bean cakes and noodles. On the day that Maryam was kidnapped, just before she headed off to school, she was helping her mum at the stall.
"She made $50," her mum told us. "She is a great businesswoman. She was very lazy on the farm, but she was great with customers."
That was the last moment that Binti had with her daughter.
Maryam's best friend was her half-sister Hansatu. They did everything together, they shared the same friends and even made matching outfits for each other.
Hansatu loved fashion and wanted to be a designer. Just before she was kidnapped, she begged her mum to buy her a sewing machine.
After she disappeared, her younger brothers and sisters would see the clothes she left behind, they would ask where she had gone and when she was coming back. Eventually her mother bundled the clothes into a bag to stop the questions.
She shows us the outfit that Hansatu was supposed to wear on her friend's wedding day, a few days after the exam, which never happened.
"I am going to keep it until they come back," she says.
These belongings are the little that these parents have left to hold on to. Since their daughters were taken, they've received no information from the government on where they might be.
The last president refused to engage with the parents but even the new administration has done little to try to track them down. The truth is, no-one has any real idea where they might be.
For the family of Grace Paul, one photo is all they have to hold on to. Grace would be 19 now. She was a lovely singer, according to her dad. She loved maths and wanted to be a doctor.
The family have entrusted their last photo of her to their neighbour Aboku Samson to make copies of it for them.
The girls at Chibok secondary school represented the most ambitious young people in their village.
In a country where less than half of young people finish secondary school, they were the few in their community pushing for an education. And some had to fight for it.
Aisha Greman was 17 when she was kidnapped. Her father says she refused to get married while she was at school, though she was asked.
She was a hard worker and wanted to get to university so she could be a health professional.
Jinkai Yama was the oldest in a family of four girls. She desperately wanted to join the army and was a proud member of the cadettes girl's brigade.
Her three younger sisters ask about her all the time. Last month, when there were reports that a girl from Chibok had been caught alive in Cameroon, they were convinced it was her. But the girl turned out to be from Bama, a town much further north.
Whenever it is dark and raining outside, Jinkai's father closes his eyes and tries to imagine where his daughter is. Like many of the parents here, he has almost given up hope.
He and his wife don't believe the government is doing anything to find them. If they did, her mother says, they would have sent a team to Cameroon straight away. Instead, it took three days.
The mistrust is so deep that conspiracy theories abound.
Jumai's father Daniel believes his daughter's phone number is key to his daughter's whereabouts but thinks the government can offer him no help at all. He refuses to hand over the number to them.
The army seldom come to Mbalala, but every Sunday they pass through to shoo small traders away from the marketplace. The region is under lockdown after a series of suicide attacks. They are afraid of any place that people might gather.
When we visited, the army told us to watch out, that anyone could be a suicide bomber. By that, they even meant girls. Over the past two years, many of the suicide bombers used by Boko Haram have been girls.
They've attacked refugee camps and market places all over the region. In February, they attacked the market in Chibok town, just down the road, killing 13 people.
This fact hasn't escaped the parents here, though it can't be easy for them to accept. One mother told us how she felt about these accusations - that her daughter could be a killer. She refuses to believe it.
"I gave birth to that baby," she said. "Even if she comes to me with a gun in her hand, let her kill me, but I will still welcome her."
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Violence is on the rise at a riot-hit jail because of a high volume of illegal drugs inside, inspectors say.

Safety at HMP Birmingham is at risk as a result, they said, after the 12-hour disturbance involving hundreds of inmates last December.
The riot had a "profound" effect on staff who were in shock but committed to moving on, inspectors said.
G4S, which runs the jail, said the findings were a "fair assessment" of challenges it faced.
February's inspection was carried out to check on how prisoners were being housed after 500 were moved after the riot and not to look at why it happened, chief inspector of prisons Peter Clarke said.
The findings come as wings of the jail that were damaged in the riot have fully re-opened to inmates.
The inspection followed an assessment by the Independent Monitoring Board last October that said an "urgent" solution was needed to stop prisoners taking psychoactive drugs.
But, inspectors said illegal drugs were still widely available in February, with 52% of inmates saying said it was easy to get them - including psychoactive substances like Spice.
This was up from 37% at the last inspection, in 2014, which said conditions had improved at the Category B jail.
One in seven inmates also said they had developed a drug problem at the prison and nurses treated prisoners under the influence of those substances on 52 occasions in January.
The use of mobile phones and drones to arrange and deliver drugs was "a significant threat".
Violence had increased "substantially", much of it linked to the drug use, and some prisoners felt unsafe, inspectors said.
The disturbance took much of the newer accommodation out of use, leaving more than 900 prisoners in older Victorian accommodation.
Despite improvements to some internal communal areas, many of the showers, stairways and sluices were dirty, along with cramped cells, many having broken windows.
However, security processes in the aftermath of the riot were "broadly proportionate".
Inspectors praised many positive interactions between staff and prisoners and said healthcare was generally good and community rehabilitation projects were working better than in other jails.
Prison director, Richard Stedman, said: "We are resolute in our determination to move on, make progress and not be defined by December's disorder and this week the prison returns to its full operational capacity."
Michael Spurr, HM Prison and Probation Service chief executive, said "There remains more to do to provide purposeful activity and to tackle violence and illicit drug use, but the staff and the leadership team deserve credit for the commendable way they have responded to the challenges to date.
Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said the prison was in the headlines for "all the wrong reasons last year" and remains a hotbed of violence.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Prisons


Four men charged with attempting to murder two former leaders of the Ulster Defence Association are to stand trial in Glasgow next year.

Anton Duffy, 38, Martin Hughes, 35, Paul Sands, 31, and John Gorman, 57, are alleged to have planned to kill Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair and Sam McCrory.
Mr Duffy and Mr Gorman are also accused of planning to murder former Barlinnie Prison governor Derek McGill.
The four men deny all the charges. Their trial was set for April 2015.
Judge Lord Boyd set the date at the High Court in Glasgow after hearing that the trial is expected to last for 10 weeks.
Three other men - Craig Convery , 37, Gary Convery, 34, and Gordon Brown, 29, - will also go on trial accused of allegations linked to the terror plans.
It is alleged that Mr Duffy, Mr Hughes, Mr Sands and Mr Gorman, along with un-named individuals, plotted to kill Mr Adair and Mr McCrory between August 2010 and October last year.
All four also face another charge of joining others with the "intention of committing acts of terrorism".
This includes claims that contact was made with Republican movements, the Real IRA and the IRA.
The charge alleges there was a plan to identify individuals and premises "to be the target of action" causing serious harm.
Mr Hughes, Mr Sands and Mr Gorman further face a separate charge of intending to assist Mr Duffy in acts of terrorism.
Mr Craig and Gary Convery are accused of directing others to commit serious offences such as drug dealing, possession of firearms and those under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
This includes instructing individuals in the sale and transportation of a number of deadly weapons such as revolver guns and rifles.
Mr Brown is also charged with agreeing with the Converys to help in the "commission of serious organised crime".
One accusation states he met with Mr Duffy and handed money over to him.
The trio are also accused, along with Mr Duffy, of possessing an assault rifle at an address in Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Craig Convery faces a final charge under the Proceeds of Crime Act of having Â£5,660 in money on 12 September last year.
All seven accused deny all the charges against them.


Britain's Johanna Konta has risen to a career-high fourth in the women's rankings after Wimbledon, while Andy Murray remains men's world number one.

Konta, 26, is the fourth British woman to break into the top five, following her run to the Wimbledon semi-finals.
She matches the achievement of Virginia Wade, Sue Barker and Jo Durie, the last British woman in the top five in 1984.
Murray, 30, lost in the Wimbledon quarter-finals but retains top spot ahead of Rafael Nadal.
The Spaniard could overtake Murray at the pair's next tournament, the men's Rogers Cup in Montreal, which begins on 7 August.
However, the Scot's Wimbledon campaign was hampered by a hip injury and he has yet to confirm whether the recovery process will alter his plans for the rest of 2017.
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Konta further established her credentials as a Grand Slam title contender by reaching her second major semi-final at Wimbledon, and she now heads to the United States and her best surface - hard courts.
The British number one is next due on court at the women's Rogers Cup, which starts in Toronto on 7 August, having chosen not to defend her title at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, California.
Konta beat Venus Williams to win her first WTA title in Stanford last year, and could suffer a dip in her ranking as a result.
The world rankings work on a 52-week rolling system, which means success in one year can mean pressure 12 months later as those points are defended.
Konta enjoyed a strong second half to 2016, narrowly missing out on a place at the WTA Finals for the top eight players, and that will be a major goal in the months to come.
Another tilt at a Grand Slam title will begin on 28 August at the US Open, where Konta has reached the fourth round for the past two years.
Konta will pick up her racquet and get back on the practice court having finished Wimbledon at the top of the aces charts and fourth for first-serve returns.
But, while the foundations of her game are strong, Williams exposed some areas for improvement in their semi-final.
"Jo's got a great game," said former British number one Sam Smith.
"She's an excellent athlete and mentally she's a top, top player. If I know anything about Jo, she is going to learn so much from that match against Venus, and apply it."
Konta failed to break into the top 100 in the early years of her career, with a fragile mentality and unreliable forehand two of the major factors.
Her work with both mental and tennis coaches in recent years has proved remarkably effective, and she held up under huge pressure as her Wimbledon run garnered nationwide attention.
Konta's forehand stood up well during tense three-set wins over Donna Vekic, Caroline Garcia and Simona Halep, before Williams broke it down and drew 16 errors in the semi-final.
It was notable both Williams and Garbine Muguruza also struggled with their forehands at key moments in the final, but the Spaniard managed to cut the errors from six in the first set to one in the second.
Williams also dismantled the Konta second serve, making her intentions clear from the opening moments when she stood inside the baseline and dispatched a second-serve return, while the Briton missed service returns at key times in both her semi and quarter-finals.
"Jo didn't use the body serve enough and she can improve her second serve," said Martina Navratilova, a nine-time Wimbledon singles champion.
"She can use her hand more and make that ball jump. She's tall enough and got a nice motion that I think she doesn't take full advantage of.
"But that forehand has got to be more steady, although she's improved it, and the transition game, moving to the net.
"Also the backhand slice, she doesn't use it at all. Her backhand is fantastic but the slice would give it more variety and put the opponent off balance."
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Murray's future is far less certain as we await an update on his injured hip and the rehabilitation plan.
The Briton limped his way through four rounds at Wimbledon before it became "a little bit too sore", and Sam Querrey proved too strong, in their quarter-final.
"Murray and his team have obviously been trying to manage something," said former world number one John McEnroe.
"We don't know exactly what it is, how serious it is, and how much time he'll take off remains to be seen.
"He clearly wasn't moving well, he couldn't push off and lost a lot of speed on his serve."
A team meeting was planned for last Thursday, and a plan of action is expected after consultation with doctors.
Asked whether he would have attempted to play had it been anywhere but Wimbledon, Murray said: "I was in good enough shape to go very deep in the tournament and almost managed to get through to the semi-finals.
"Any Slam, I would have taken that with how I was feeling before the tournament started. I would have been out there for a Slam."
Murray refused to be drawn on the specific nature of the injury beyond confirming he has dealt with it since his early 20s, and "wear and tear" made it an ongoing issue.
The recovery plan could mean anything from a few weeks' rest and physiotherapy, to a much longer lay-off or even surgery.
"I'd say the US Open would be 50/50 at a guess," Giles Stafford, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon specialising in sports-related hip disorders, told the Press Association.
Murray, then aged 26, ended his 2013 season in September to have back surgery and returned at the start of 2014, but spent the year climbing back up the rankings as he rebuilt his form and confidence.
He is next scheduled to play in Montreal in three weeks' time, followed by the Cincinnati Masters the following week and, after a week off, the US Open.
Murray could lose his number one status to Nadal should he skip Montreal but, after eight months in top spot, the ranking is not his priority.
"I haven't played well enough this year to deserve to stay there for much longer," he said.
"If it doesn't happen by the end of Wimbledon, it will happen by the end of the US Open."
If and when he does return this year, Murray will head into the latter stages of the season with a 25-10 record, as opposed to 41-6 after Wimbledon last year.


The head of BMW in the UK has thrown further doubt over whether BMW will build an electric version of the mini in the UK.

Speaking to the BBC at the Geneva Motor Show, Ian Robertson, said: "Somewhere around the middle to the third quarter of this year we will decide where to build the electric mini and we have said all along that we would like to see the UK have tariff free access to the single market.
"It's not the only consideration, but it is a consideration."
By car production standards, that is a very imminent decision and here's the obvious point - BMW will not know whether they will have tariff-free access to the EU at the moment they have to make that decision.
In fact, Theresa May has said more than once that she would prefer to have no deal with the EU rather than a bad deal and is prepared to walk away from negotiations.
No deal means falling back on international rules set by the World Trade Organisation and that could mean tariffs on finished cars of up to 10%.
No one - least of all the UK government - wants to see that, but if you are serious about walking away then it is a possibility that the board of BMW must consider when making up its mind in the next few months.
Not everyone thinks tariffs spell the end of the world for UK production.
Carlos Tavares, the boss of PSA said there may be a strong rationale for keeping some production on the UK side of the post-Brexit fence.
But there is a catch. That only makes sense if you can source parts in the UK. Currently 75% of the parts for an Astra come from the EU.
As Ian Roberston from BMW said, the UK's component supply industry has not kept pace with manufacturing and reversing that will be "a challenge".
According to PSA, BMW and Nissan - that is a challenge where the government can help.
Protecting car manufacturing plants that are uncompetitive is not.
According to Carlos Tavares: "Everywhere around Europe people are looking to be protected. The only true protection is performance."


A French teenager who used a history exam to send a political message has not been rewarded by the examiners.

Faustin, a student at a lycÃ©e in Laval, north-western France, decided to shun questions on post-war German politics and China's international relations.
Instead, Faustin penned a screed about the plight of homosexuals detained and tortured by authorities in Chechnya.
But on Wednesday the baccalaureate student received the results: two out of 20 points.
The teenager, who identifies as gender-neutral, will have to take a re-sit.
"I am absolutely not surprised," Faustin told followers on Twitter.
"I expected it - the important thing was... to talk about what's going on over there."
LGBT activists revealed that more than 100 men were being held in a camp in Chechnya in April - and that some had died after being tortured - because they were gay or suspected of being gay.
The news triggered international protests and moves to smuggle victims to safehouses, with some countries offering visas to allow them to escape.
Faustin's highlighting of the issue divided Twitter. It was applauded by some.
But others saw the action as ill-thought-out.
In the essay, Faustin compares international responses to the revelations of homosexual persecution in Chechnya.
The essay ends: "Dozens of homosexual men have been killed in these Chechen camps and outside [the camps] too, like adolescents who committed suicide because their family threatened to kill them because they were gay."


A US man who sent more than 27 million spam emails to Facebook users has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

Sanford Wallace, 47, is nicknamed the "Spam King" and last year pleaded guilty to federal charges including fraud and criminal contempt in connection with using electronic mail.
Wallace, who is from Las Vegas, also faces a fine of $310,000 (Â£218,500).
The messages were sent to Facebook users in 2008 and 2009.
An FBI investigation resulted in Wallace's prosecution after he turned himself in, in 2011.
"Wallace illegally obtained, stored, and exploited Facebook user account information and earned money by redirecting users to other websites," a statement from the US Attorney's Office said.
Wallace tricked users into visiting websites after gaining access to people's Facebook accounts and then using those accounts to send spam messages to friends.
He earned money by sending users to these destinations and stored email addresses and passwords in order to continue sending spam.


An inquiry into the Glasgow bin lorry crash has heard how one survivor was thinking "please don't let me die" as she was dragged under the vehicle.

Alix Stewart recalled the experience in a victim statement which was read to the inquiry at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
The teenager suffered injuries including a broken spine and lost an ear in the crash on 22 December.
Statements from other survivors spoke of permanent disfigurement and ongoing physical and psychological trauma.
Six people died and 15 were injured in the crash in Glasgow city centre.
You can follow live updates from court on our Scotland Live page and by following BBC reporter Philip Sim on Twitter.
The fatal accident inquiry (FAI), which is drawing to a close at Glasgow Sheriff Court, is looking at the health of the bin lorry driver Harry Clarke, 58, the bin lorry and its route.
On Tuesday, victim statements from some of those who survived the crash were read in court.
Alix Stewart, who was 14 at the time of the crash, was meeting friends in Royal Exchange Square when she was hit by the bin lorry and dragged under it to George Square.
A statement written by her father Colin detailed how she suffered a catalogue of injuries including a broken collar bone, ribs, femur and three spinal bones.
Her right ear was also torn off and all the skin was "scraped off her back" leaving her with a "road tattoo" - permanent scarring with grit from the road embedded under the skin.
Her father told how the 14-year-old had been picked for the Scottish basketball team only days before the crash.
She did not play the sport for seven months and was off school for an extended period, but has since returned and has also been picked for the Scotland team once again.
Mr Stewart said his daughter does not remember being hit by the lorry but can remember being dragged along the road and thinking "please don't let me die".
Mr Stewart's statement read: "She has returned to George Square only once since and she told me she wouldn't go back.
"She is also anxious when she sees a bin lorry and starts shaking. I also shiver."
A statement was also read from Irene McAuley, who was 18 at the time of the crash.
She lost teeth and broke her ankle and had six months of physiotherapy.
Her statement said she needed a bone graft in her jaw as she hit her head on the kerb and may need another graft in future.
Ms McAuley said the crash will affect her for the rest of her life and she still has nightmares.
The court then heard a statement from Marie Weatherall, who was 64 at the time of the crash. She suffered a broken arm and shoulder.
She said she was a "keen walker" before the crash but now had difficultly walking any distance.
Mrs Weatherall said the crash had taken away a lot of her confidence and motivation and she thinks about those who died "all the time".
Elaine Morrell, who was 49 at the time of the crash, also had her statement read.
She suffered a serious eye injury and had facial surgery and a metal plate implanted.
She said she still cannot go back to George Square or go to her office which overlooks the crash scene.
The inquiry has already heard that Mr Clarke was unconscious at the wheel of the Glasgow City Council bin lorry when it veered out of control on Queen Street before crashing in George Square.
It has also heard that he suffered an earlier blackout at the wheel of a stationary bus in 2010 when he worked for First Bus as a driver.
This episode and his history of dizziness and other ailments were not disclosed to Glasgow City Council and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).
On Tuesday, a minute read to the court stated that Glasgow City Council would have been unlikely to have employed Mr Clarke if it was aware of the blackout, if his licence had been suspended at the time and if he had disclosed the incident in his application.
The inquiry continues.
It is highly unusual for victim impact statements to be heard at the end of a fatal accident inquiry (FAI), particularly those of people injured in an accident.
Sheriff John Beckett QC asked for the statements to be read out as part of a "joint minute" - evidence agreed by all parties at the Glasgow bin lorry inquiry.
He had requested additional evidence to be gathered from four of the 15 people injured by the runaway vehicle.
Their cases had been highlighted during the FAI.
The extra statements were gathered by police over the weekend.
Although it is not part of normal procedure at an FAI, some legal experts say they have been presented by the Crown as part of its wider remit to represent "the public interest".
Victim impact statements can be heard at the end of criminal cases, prior to sentencing.
The judge or sheriff must take them into account when deciding on what sentence the accused should receive.
But it is not part of the role of an FAI to apportion blame.
Normally the only people entitled to be represented at an inquiry are the employers involved, relatives of the deceased, the Health and Safety Executive and anyone likely to be criticised during proceedings.
Some FAIs, such as those into the 2004 Stockline disaster in Glasgow and the Piper Alpha inquiry in 1988, were heard by judges rather than a sheriff.
They were able to take a wider view, as they were established under different legislation.


The outgoing chair of the Ulster Orchestra, Sir George Bain, says the organisation's future is more secure than it has been for a very long time.

The orchestra was on the brink of closure two years ago because of funding cuts.
However, it received a last-minute deal from Stormont and Belfast City Council.
Sir George, who is stepping down as chair later this week, said the orchestra's financial situation has greatly improved.
"Two years ago, to use an accounting term, we weren't sure we we were going to be able to say it was a going concern - that is that you could look ahead 12 months and say you were going to be solvent," he said.
"This year, already, we know that we're going to be getting funding from government sources that will make our future secure."
The orchestra is the only full-time professional orchestra in Northern Ireland.
It plays the majority of its concerts in Belfast's Ulster Hall and the Waterfront Hall.


Ulster's hopes of securing a place in the quarter-finals of the European Champions Cup were dashed on Sunday.

The Irish province were hoping to go through as one of the three best pool runners-up but results on the final weekend went against them.
Stade Francais beat Leicester with a bonus point to pass Ulster's tally of 18 and progress to the last eight.
It means there will be no Irish team in the quarter-finals for the first time since the 1997/98 season.
Leinster finished bottom of Pool Five while Munster, who beat Treviso on Sunday, ended in third place in Pool Four.
Toulon and Northampton joined Stade as the runners-up going through to the last eight.
On Saturday, Ulster trounced French side Oyonnax 56-3 at the Kingspan Stadium and hoped it might be enough to get them into the knock-out stages.
But ultimately their failure to get a bonus point in their win away to Oyonnax or in either of the meetings with Saracens has proved their downfall.
"We were relying on other people to do a job for us, but I am proud of what the guys delivered on Saturday to keep us in the hunt right until the finish," said Director of Rugby, Les Kiss.
"The games against Saracens were critical. We should have got a point out of one of them, that is for sure."
Ulster must now focus on the Pro12. They are currently in sixth place and play bottom side Treviso away on Saturday.


German police should "if necessary" shoot at migrants seeking to enter the country illegally, the leader of a right-wing populist party has said.

Frauke Petry, head of the eurosceptic Alternativ fuer Deutschland (AfD) party, told a regional newspaper: "I don't want this either. But the use of armed force is there as a last resort."
Her comments were condemned by leftwing parties and by the German police union.
More than 1.1 million migrants arrived in Germany last year.
Also on Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said most migrants from Syria and Iraq would go home once the wars in their countries had ended.
She told a conference of her centre-right CDU party that tougher measures adopted last week should reduce the influx of migrants, but a European solution was still needed.
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Police must stop migrants crossing illegally from Austria, Ms Petry told the Mannheimer Morgen newspaper (in German), and "if necessary" use firearms.
"That is what the law says," she added.
A prominent member of the centre-left Social Democrats, Thomas Oppermann, said: "The last German politician under whom refugees were shot at was Erich Honecker" - the leader of Communist East Germany.
Germany's police union, the Gewerkschaft der Polizei, said (in German) officers would never shoot at migrants.
It said Ms Petry's comments revealed a radical and inhumane mentality.
The number of attacks on refugee accommodation in Germany rose to 1,005 last year - five times more than in 2014.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.


The former manager of a Reading shopping centre who stole £3,245 from his employer has been given a suspended prison sentence.

Stephen Fawke, 60, of Amazon Close, Basingstoke, was sentenced on Friday to one count of theft.
Reading Crown Court heard the sentence related to fraud committed at Broad Street Mall between 2005 and 2013.
Mr Fawke was given a 12 month prison sentence, which was suspended for one year.
He was also ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work and to pay £3,000 in compensation.