With the new year upon us, several of the BBC's experts have been asked to give their predictions on which stories to follow in 2015.

UK listeners can hear them making more forecasts on BBC Radio 4 at 13:05 GMT on Friday 2 January.
Lyse Doucet, chief international correspondent
2015 will be another year of global consequence in the Middle East and just beyond.
The year ended with major security challenges in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. This situation will be further aggravated in 2015. Better relations between Pakistan, India and Afghanistan will be essential but difficult.
2015 will be a critical year in the battle against Islamist groups on many fronts.
The US will strive to limit its military engagement but won't be able to pull away despite President Obama's best laid plans to do so.
In Iraq, the US will strive to strengthen Iraqi forces to take back iconic cities seized by the Islamic State group. Iraq will remain fragmented, as will Syria, where a deadly stalemate will continue.
Financial pressures stemming from a sustained slump in oil prices will not cause key players to abandon their allies but will increase pressure to find a way out.
Oil producers Russia and Iran - President Bashar al-Assad's key backers - will weigh new political approaches including the UN plan for a local "freeze" in Aleppo. The West, Arab states and Turkey will continue to back different forces, impeding any united opposition front. Assad's own forces are stretched, and strained.
2015 is a pivotal year on other fronts. There are reasons to believe a deal will be reached on Iran's nuclear programme. US Secretary of State John Kerry will try to revive Israeli-Palestinian talks after Israel's elections but there are too many tensions in the mix to make real progress possible.
This will be another year of global hand wringing over the inability of world powers to resolve many major crises. And, all the while, the armies of the desperate will continue to swell with ever more people forced to become refugees or migrants risking their lives at sea.
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Bridget Kendall, diplomatic correspondent
Western diplomats face two major challenges as 2015 dawns: how to contain contagion from Syria's collapse; and how to tackle a resurgent Russia.
On the first, in theory a nuclear deal with Iran could unveil a new paradigm in the Middle East, transforming Tehran from pariah into partner.
The West and Iran already share a common enemy - the IS jihadists currently dismembering Syria and Iraq. Both sides desire a deal, the West to avoid a nuclear-armed Iran, President Rouhani to get sanctions lifted.
But the window for compromise is closing: sceptical Republicans now controlling Capitol Hill encumber President Obama and Tehran conservatives would rather block than back a deal ahead of parliamentary elections.
Then there is what to do about Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, Iran's key ally, but unacceptable as part of any compromise in many Western capitals.
So the most likely outcome is continued mayhem, contained somewhat by air strikes, with the hydra-headed problem left for the next American president, while Iran seeks other ways to breach the stranglehold of sanctions.
Likewise a deal with Russia over Ukraine may appear preferable to an escalating conflict. And you might think Russia's economic worries would make Mr Putin more pliant.
But loss of trust on all sides makes a breakthrough unlikely. Kiev and Western powers now view Moscow with the utmost suspicion. And President Putin welcomes reduced contacts with the West as an opportunity for Russia to become more self-reliant.
A de facto border already divides Ukraine proper from the self-styled eastern enclaves next to Russia. Expect a broader barrier to take shape over 2015, reminiscent of the Iron Curtain, but virtual not actual.
The West will blame Russia. And Mr Putin will blame the West, while encouraging Russians to turn inwards, away from the malign influence of foreigners.
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Mark Mardell, presenter, Radio 4's The World This Weekend
The pressures of globalisation will mean fragmentation of our more integrated world.
The US will boom, Europe will stagnate or worsen, and China is the wild card. Inequality will rise, and no-one will know what to do about it. That will feed the feeling that politics doesn't work.
The conflicts of 2014 will deepen and probably worsen and new ones will erupt - both that, and the US election around the corner in 2016 will intensify the debate about Western intervention.
The next US president will have to work out if there is a middle way between Bush's adventurism and Obama quietism. Other countries may start to reflect that, prompting a better, less dangerous world.
Europe will have to decide if it wants to stick at its current borders - if Ukraine and Turkey will never join, the EU will have changed course. Like many other political projects the EU may start to deflate if it stops expanding.
The internet will become a philosophical battleground as it increasingly freaks out the gerontocracy, unnerved by a lack of control, faced by a younger generation who largely think the good of the medium outweighs the bad of any messages it may contain.
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Carrie Gracie, China editor
2015 will be dominated by the ongoing anti-corruption campaign, a drive to make the Communist Party fit for purpose, clearing President Xi's remaining political enemies from the field and scaring the bureaucratic machine out of its habits of self-serving greed and cynicism.
The "new normal" economics slogan is about weaning China off a high growth model after more then 30 years. Reform is more urgent than ever, but putting it off is making it ever harder.
Hong Kong's Legislative Council will or won't approve rules on electing the territory's next leader. Whichever way, the divisions exposed by the Occupy movement will be hard to bridge.
Clean air, soil and water go on being big challenges for the long term. Expect some progress on emissions pledges made during the Xi-Obama summit in November 2014, especially as we get closer to the big Paris conference in autumn 2015.
Prince William's visit at the beginning of March will be a moment to push public education on protecting elephants, rhino and species at home. Conservation is one of the few areas where NGOs are permitted to operate in China.
With China's tech market impossible to ignore, expect to see Mark Zuckerberg back in Beijing, working his Mandarin and making compromises for Facebook access. Watch China use its new leverage with the Californian tech companies to push harder for a stake in global internet governance.
Lots happening in terms of defence, for example China's nuclear armed submarines will become operational and its big defence companies will go looking for global arms sales.
Another year of energetic diplomacy by President Xi and Prime Minister Li to push China's geopolitics and commerce, particularly the Silk Road Economic Belt to control China's backyard: energy, transport and security dominance in Central Asia.
A tougher line from a Republican-controlled Congress may make US-China engagement bumpier than ever in 2015, while the US electoral cycle weakens President Obama just as President Xi cements his authority for year three of ten.
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Kamal Ahmed, business editor
Globally significant is the business power shift from west to east. Chinese companies and banks are all expanding rapidly westward, with many of these businesses not simply aping Western companies but beating them.
Alibaba (online commerce) is now closing in on US behemoth Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the world. 2015 could see it become one of the top ten most valuable businesses in the world.
China's move to significant global business player has been rapid, with it now the second largest foreign investor in the US behind Canada. It raises significant questions about the use of soft, economic and business power and how that plays into China's political influence across the globe.
The West needs money. China, a nation of savers with a $260bn trade surplus with the rest of the world in 2013, has it.
In 2015, the West will face many of the challenges experienced by African nations which have seen major levels of investment from China, often to service the latter's growing demand for food.
This raises challenges for Western businesses at just the time when the political discussion in many Western nations is more about de-globalisation and cutting businesses "down to size".
That's the anti-markets trend which has been strong in the West since the financial crisis, and will still be very visible throughout 2015.
Watch for significant developments in artificial intelligence and computers that think, fresh troubles in the eurozone and a major breakthrough in the hunt for an Ebola vaccine led by GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson.
There will be continuing good economic news from the US (still the world's global powerhouse), support for global growth from the commodities price squeeze and, in general, a more optimistic economic and business mood at the end of the year compared to the beginning.
Read more from Kamal Ahmed
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A new route between Dundee and Amsterdam Schipol Airport will be extended to a seven-days-a-week service due to popular demand.

The Flybe service, which launched in May, will begin operating on Saturdays from November.
The daily service is Dundee Airport's first non-chartered international route.
It is the fourth route Flybe has announced under the UK government's ??7m regional air connectivity fund.
A  spokesman for Dundee Airport operator HIAL said: "The plan is to move to seven days a week in November with the introduction of a Saturday flight.
"They are flying six days a week at present, following the introduction of the Sunday service three weeks ago, and the team are delighted with the response from the public to the additional flights.
"Dundee Airport manager, Derrick Lang, and his team are always open to adding new services and are in regular contact with partners and airlines to explore opportunities to bring more flights to Dundee."


The European Commission has called on Turkey urgently to address significant failings on human rights and democracy.

A delayed annual report on Turkish prospects for EU membership says there have been serious setbacks in the past two years on freedom of expression.
It also says the independence of the judiciary had been undermined and that new laws run against EU standards.
The report's publication comes at a time when the EU needs Turkey's help in trying to control the refugee crisis.
It also follows parliamentary elections in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) regained the majority it lost in June.
Responding to the report, Turkey's ministry for EU affairs called the comments "unfair and excessive", adding that they do not "duly reflect Turkey's reforms in these fields".
"Such comments overlook the balance between freedom and security which is a must for democracies where rules of law prevails," it added.
President Erdogan has stressed his support for a constitution centred on a strong presidency - something he says will be achieved in the next four years.
The report had been pushed back by several weeks because sensitive negotiations on the refugee crisis were taking place with leading Turkish officials, including the president, shortly before the 1 November elections.
The BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels says the Commission's report seems to pull few punches.
Although Mr Erdogan himself is not named in the report's key findings, there are fairly direct criticisms of Turkey's powerful president, our correspondent reports.
After several years of progress on freedom of expression, the report warns of "serious backsliding" over the past two years.
"Ongoing and new criminal cases against journalists, writers or social media users, intimidation of  journalists and media outlets as well as the authorities' actions curtailing freedom of media are of considerable concern," it says.
Changes to Turkey's internet law, allowing the authorities to block websites without a court order, were a significant step back from European standards, it adds.
The report says there has also been a severe deterioration of its security situation and that it is imperative that peace talks resume with the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), designated a terrorist group by the Turkish government and the EU.
Hundreds have been killed in fighting between Turkish security forces and PKK fighters in the country's east and south-east since a ceasefire collapsed in July.
Since the election, Mr Erdogan has pushed forward with plans to "liquidate" the PKK and to hold a referendum on a new constitution with increased presidential powers.
However, the AKP, with 317 seats in the 550-seat parliament is short of the 330 seats needed to hold a referendum.
The European Commission warns that the escalation in violence has given rise serious concerns over human rights violations, and that anti-terrorism measures taken in that context need to be proportionate.
It also says that the independence of the judiciary and the principle of separation of powers have been undermined since 2014, with judges and prosecutors placed under strong political pressure. The government's active pursuit of shadowy forces known as "deep state" is highlighted.
The influence by the executive in the investigation and prosecution of high-profile corruption cases continues to constitute a major concern for the Commission, which considers Turkey's track record inadequate in the fight against corruption.
Turkey applied for EU membership in 1987 and accession negotiations began in 2005, but only one of the 33 "negotiation chapters" has since been completed.


Tesco has sold Homeplus, its South Korean business, for £4.2bn as the troubled supermarket chain seeks to shore up its balance sheet.

The proceeds will be used to pay down debt and help revitalise its UK business.
Homeplus is being bought by MBK Partners, a South Korean buyout firm set up a decade ago.
It has partnered with a Canadian pension fund and Singapore's Temasek Holdings for the deal.
Dave Lewis, chief executive  of Tesco, said: "This sale realises material value for shareholders and allows us to make significant progress on our strategic priority of protecting and strengthening our balance sheet."
After tax and other costs the sale will produce £3.35bn in cash for Tesco and is expected to be completed before the end of the year.
Retail analyst Nick Bubb said the main aim was to reduce its debt mountain and avoid a rights issue. "Interestingly, however, Tesco say that the disposal will also give it the financial flexibility to buy some UK store freeholds," he added.
Bruno Monteyne, an analyst at Bernstein and a former senior Tesco supply chain executive, said the deal would allow the company to qualify for a top credit rating once more from the ratings firm Moody's in 2017-18.
The Homeplus deal is the first major disposal since Tesco reported a record pre-tax loss of £6.4bn for the year to February.
That compared with annual pre-tax profit of £2.26bn a year earlier.
It was the biggest loss reported by a UK retailer and one of the largest in the country's corporate history.
It's not quite money down the back of the sofa, but the chief executive of Tesco has been hunting for bits of the business he can sell ever since arriving at the beleaguered supermarket last year.
He needed to get rid of assets to fend off speculation that the supermarket's debt - which was standing at over £20bn - was becoming a problem. The South Korean sale goes some way to alleviating the business's balance sheet strain.
Speculation was growing that without significant sell-offs Tesco might need to raise fresh capital from shareholders - never a happy prospect.
Tesco's debt now stands at £17bn, including pension liabilities, so Mr Lewis still has some way to go.
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Tesco - the UK's biggest supermarket chain and the world's third largest retailer after Walmart and Carrefour - has faced challenges on several fronts in recent years.
Hard discounters such as Aldi and Lidl have been eroding the market share of the big four supermarket chains, while Tesco has struggled with excess floor space in out-of-town superstores.
Shoppers have moved away from doing one big weekly shop at such stores in favour of topping up more frequently from high street convenience stores.
Writing down the value of Tesco's property portfolio accounted for about £4.7bn of its record annual loss.
In July 2014 Tesco appointed Mr Lewis as chief executive to replace Philip Clarke and he started in October.
Before he took over, the retailer said in September that it had mis-stated profits by £250m - a figure that was raised to £263m a month later.
After an initial rise, shares in Tesco were down 0.4% in afternoon trading at 185.25p, valuing the company at just over £15bn. The stock has fallen almost 18% in the past 12 months.
Homeplus has 140 hypermarkets, 375 supermarkets and 327 convenience stores.
The BBC's Seoul correspondent Stephen Evans says it has been very successful and shaken up shopping in South Korea, providing local goods as well as some Tesco staples such as its own range of wine and tea.
The MBK Partners consortium said it planned to invest 1 trillion won (£546m) in Homeplus over the next two years to increase its competitiveness.


I watched the recent Times hustings on cycling with great interest.

Four years ago, this was where we saw Boris Johnson - the cycling mayor - booed by cyclists and his look of surprise is one I will not forget.
All the other candidates at the time had signed up to the London Cycling Campaign's 'Go Dutch' campaign for segregated bike tracks.
Cyclists were angry at the perceived lack of progress under Mr Johnson and that the infrastructure introduced in the first four years, was little more than "blue paint on the road."
This was the moment mass segregated cycling infrastructure began in London.
Mr Johnson switched policy from the first sub-standard - by his own admission - cycle superhighways, to segregated lanes.
He also appointed a cycling commissioner to drive through these changes.
Roll on four years and we now see a number of these segregated superhighways opening.
There has been what's called a "bikelash" against the changes, but they are opening - one on Blackfriars Bridge being the latest.
What strikes me now is how investment in cycling infrastructure has become mainstream policy in London politics.
All of the candidates differ in the amount they intend to invest in infrastructure, but most have signed up to a trebling of the number of segregated cycle superhighways.
All of the five main candidates have also committed to having a cycling commissioner.
This means whoever is elected, the transformation of London's streets towards segregated bike lanes and being more pedestrian- and bike-friendly, will not stop.
So that will also mean the "bikelash" opposition is not going away, and there's no doubt the question of increasing congestion will have to be addressed.
Some have talked about car workplace charging and road charging to deal with it.
What is clear though is that four years after the last cycling hustings, all the main mayoral candidates agree encouraging cycling is beneficial.
Cycling is now a mainstream policy in London politics. That is quite a story.


A top engineer has devised a formula to aid budding players of Poohsticks - the game first devised by Winnie the Pooh.

The formula uses area, density and a drag coefficient to help competitors find the perfect twig.
It was written by Dr Rhys Morgan, from the Royal Academy of Engineering, and is to accompany a new book called Poohstickopedia.
Visit England then compiled a list of the top places around the country to play the classic pastime.
PP = A x I x Cd
PP is Perfect Poohstick
A is Cross Sectional Area
I is density of the stick
Cd is the drag coefficient of the stick
Competitors might be helped by the maths behind the formula devised by Dr Morgan.
He concluded, PP = A x I x Cd where PP is Perfect Poohstick, A is cross sectional area, I is density of the stick and Cd is the drag coefficient.
Sheepwash Bridge in Ashford-in-the-Water in the Derbyshire Peak District is at the top of the list of places where the formula can be tested.
The game was first devised by Winnie the Pooh in AA Milne's book The House at Pooh Corner and involves dropping sticks from a bridge.
Competitors then cross to the downstream side of the bridge and wait to see whose comes out first.
Pooh Bear originally stumbled across the game when he dropped a pine cone in a stream in Hundred Acre Wood only for it to float away.
It is now a popular pastime as these two youngsters demonstrate on the River Test at Mottisfont near Romsey in Hampshire.
Pack Horse Bridge in Watendlath in the Lake District in Cumbria sits fourth on the Visit England list.
The National Trust house and gardens at Mottisfont, which date from the 13th Century, are fifth and Mathematical Bridge in Cambridge also provides another spot to play.
Thomas Telford was involved in the production of the 1813 cast-iron Cantlop Bridge over Cound Brook in Shropshire which sits at number 10 among the places to play Poohsticks.
In Milne's book The House at Pooh Corner, EH Shepard illustrated the chapter "in which Pooh invents a new game and Eeyore joins in", based on Posingford Bridge near Milne's home in Ashdown Forest, East Sussex.
The bridge fell into disrepair but was restored and reopened by the author's son Christopher Robin Milne in 1979.


Ding Junhui won the Shanghai Masters for the second time with a 10-6 victory over world champion Mark Selby.

England's Selby, 33, who beat Ding 18-14 in May's Crucible final, took a 3-1 lead before his Chinese opponent hit back, knocking in a 75 break for a 6-3 advantage going into the interval.
Back came Selby with a 76 and century before he levelled the match at 6-6.
But Ding, 29, took control once more, recording breaks of 97 and 63 en route to completing his win on home soil.
All results from the Shanghai Masters here.


Two teenagers accused of being part of a plot to kill a man told police they fled after seeing another man strike the victim with a metal bar, a court heard.

The boys are said to have murdered Craig Preston, 34, together with Shiraz Bashir, Leonie Mason and a third teen.
The first boy admitted punching Mr Preston three times before running away, Sheffield Crown Court heard.
All five defendants deny murdering Mr Preston, who was found dead last year.
The second teenager said he ran away when he saw Mr Bashir hit Mr Preston with the bar, the court heard.
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Prosecutors allege Mr Bashir, 42, and Ms Mason, 24, both of Holme Park Court, Huddersfield, plotted to kill Mr Preston, also known as Craig Nelson, because he was an "annoyance" to their relationship.
Mr Preston, who was also in a relationship with Ms Mason at the time, was beaten to death in a "brutal and senseless" attack before being dumped near the Woodhead Tunnel on 21 August, prosecutors have told the court. His body was found the following day.
Reading from a police interview, barrister Andrew O'Byrne QC said his client - the second boy - told officers he had been asked by the first boy to accompany him to a lay-by in Rotherham where the attack took place.
"He told me he had to do it," the boy told police.
"He told me that and asked would I come with him. I said 'Yes, because I want to know you are safe'."
The boy told police his friend had told him he had been "threatened" by Mr Bashir to take part in the attack.
He said that in the lay-by "Bashir opened the [car] door, grabbed [Mr Preston] and I jumped out and [the other boy] jumped out.
"As soon as I saw [Bashir] with a metal pole we just decided to chip and run."
For the first teenager, Aftab Jafferjee QC told the jury in his closing speech there was no "single rational motive" for his client to take part in the fatal attack on Mr Preston "if it was voluntary".
"We submit that whatever moral aspect there is for hitting [Mr Preston] he simply, on the evidence, is not guilty of murder or manslaughter and, in any view, this case does not come within a country mile of murder," he said.
The trial of Mr Bashir and Ms Mason and the three teenagers, who cannot be named due to their age, continues.


The head of Saudi Arabia's religious police has said there is a pressing need to employ more women in the force.

Speaking to the official Saudi Gazette newspaper, Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said he hoped a recruitment drive would take place soon.
Saudi's religious police enforce the kingdom's strict Islamic laws, including dress and prayer times.
Correspondents say the introduction of women could be a sign of the king's cautiously reformist agenda.
Earlier this month, Mr Sheikh announced that he would curb the powers of the religious police, known as the "mutawa".
He himself was appointed in January to deal with growing public anger about excessive behaviour by the force.
Recently, a mobile phone clip of a religious policeman ordering a young woman to leave a mall because of her make-up went viral on the internet.
There is no indication that the introduction of women into the religious police would necessarily make the rules any less strict, but it would boost the presence of women in public life.
The sanctioned duties of the mutawa, officially known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, include preventing women driving, enforcing modest dress codes, policing bans on public entertainment and making sure all businesses close for prayers five times a day.
Although Saudi Arabia remains a deeply conservative country, King Abdallah has recently introduced some cautious political and social reforms.
In September 2011, he announced that women would be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections.


Of all the reasons why Iran needs to ensure the success of its nuclear deal with world powers, one is linked to its very survival.

The statistics are stark. On the World Health Organisation's list of the world's top 10 most polluted cities, four are in Iran.
"To improve the quality of our air, we need new technologies," Vice-President in charge of the environment, Masoumeh Ebtekar, tells me soon after she arrives in Paris for the COP21 climate change talks.
Not only that, she claims Iran could quadruple its cuts of greenhouse gas emissions with new technologies once there is a complete lifting of sanctions under the landmark nuclear deal signed with world powers in July.
Her adviser Majid Shafiepour, who heads Iran's delegation to the COP21 talks, sketches a sweeping graph showing what Iran can achieve if it is "business as usual" - and a more ambitious plan boosted by sanctions relief.
Even before Iran has fulfilled its side of the bargain with a significant dismantling of its nuclear programme, the potential in its new international engagement is already clear.
"There's been a lot of willingness among European countries like France and Italy as well as the private sector to come to invest in green technologies," Mrs Ebtekar says when we sit down for an interview in the graceful premises that have been Iran's official residence in the French capital for more than a century.
She cites a long list of sectors from solar and wind power, to irrigation and waste management.
Iran is already working on its own programme to enhance the quality of fuel used by vehicles in all major cities but she points out that "if sanctions are lifted, Iran can move ahead more quickly".
In the capital Tehran, air quality in the sprawling city of 12 million is said to be improving but suffocating smog occasionally shuts offices and schools and in past years caused thousands of deaths.
In a recent article for the UK's Guardian newspaper, environmental expert Kaveh Madani and political analyst Nazanin Soroush say reports suggest that that Iran's petrol carries ten times the level of contaminants of imported petrol. As for diesel, it contains 800 times the international standard of sulphur.
In the run up to this major round of climate talks, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei set out an ambitious 15-point environment plan calling for greater engagement and awareness from every level of government and society.
Earlier this year Iran's most powerful figure took aim at land-grabbing - which he said was reaching "mountain-grabbing" proportions and causing rampant deforestation and environmental destruction.
Now there is talk of another revolution by the woman who played a key public role as a student spokesperson after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. This time, it is in agriculture.
"We need a total U-turn in agricultural policy," is how Mrs Ebtekar summarises the challenge.
What experts describe as Iran's self-inflicted water shortage stems from exploiting 97% of its surface water - in contrast to an international standard of 40%. A change would mean educating farmers and providing incentives for a more efficient use of water.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani recently warned that water shortages were now a national security issue.
Of 32 provinces, 13 face a "critical water situation".
Water mismanagement and drought have also brought Lake Urmia, once the Middle East's largest salt water lake, to the brink of disappearance.
Dust storms are another scourge. In February, daily life came to standstill across Khuzestan province in the south-west because dust pollution reached 66 times permissible levels.
Former Agriculture Minister Issa Kalantari, who still serves as an adviser, famously sounded a dire warning that if Iran did not change course, large parts of the country would be uninhabitable in two decades.
Asked about reports earlier this month that Iran, under political pressure from hardliners, was slowing the disabling of centrifuges which play a key part in the enrichment of of nuclear fuel, Mrs Ebtekar emphasised that the programme was proceeding as agreed in the nuclear deal.
"There is a certain group in Iran that has criticised the nuclear deal from the beginning and has concerns," she explains. "I think it's important for people to understand how important it is for our country."
"I think it's also important for the international community to understand we are also under pressure. We should all work together to make sure it moves ahead," she added.
While the world keeps a close eye on progress in the nuclear deal, Iran is also realising it has its own obligation to itself to safeguard its very future.


The Rohingyas - a distinct Muslim ethnic group who are effectively stateless - have been fleeing Myanmar for decades.

20 May 2015 Last updated at 00:46 BST
But why are thousands now stranded at sea? And how are Myanmar's neighbours responding?
BBC News explains, in 90 seconds.
Produced by Mohamed Madi
Sources: UN and International Organization for Migration


Wakefield's much-travelled back Jordan Tansey has been released by the Super League club by mutual consent.

Leeds-born Tansey, 29, who joined Wakefield midway through the 2015 season, has not featured this season.
But he did play two games out on loan with Huddersfield Giants.
Having begun his career with hometown club Leeds in 2006, he has since gone on to play for Sydney Roosters, Hull FC, Dewsbury, Crusaders, York City Knights and Castleford.


Lewis Hamilton said he had faith in his Mercedes team despite admitting that he did not agree with their strategy in the Mexican Grand Prix.

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The world champion was second to team-mate Nico Rosberg after disputing a decision to stop for fresh tyres, feeling it denied him a chance to win.
Hamilton said: "I didn't agree with the decision but the team make decisions and I abide by them most of the time.
"We'll have a chat when I get back. I have full confidence in those guys."
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Hamilton's race engineer Peter Bonnington told Hamilton over the radio that the decision to make an extra pit stop was made on "safety" grounds because of tyre wear.
But Hamilton said: "There was no risk, there was nothing for me to lose. We have won the constructors' championship, the team have won, so let me take a risk, let's go for it. But we did what we did and we still got the one-two."
Hamilton had trailed Rosberg for much of the race, unable to get close enough to try a passing move.
He questioned the decision to go into the pits because staying out would have meant he retained the lead, with Rosberg needing to close an 18-second gap in 24 laps to catch and then overtake him to win the race.
The team made the call because it is standard practice to do so in the circumstances.
The two Mercedes drivers had enough time to stop for fresh tyres and rejoin still in first and second places, thus reducing the risk if there was a late-race safety car - as indeed there was six laps after Rosberg's stop when Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel crashed.
Team boss Toto Wolff said: "We had the margin for a safety stop and Lewis's tyres were more marginal than Nico's so we decided to do those.
"It was clear he was questioning it because he saw an advantage. If he didn't do that, he wouldn't be a racing driver.
"Finally it is clear the team knows what is happening out there on track and everything is cool."
Wolff added: "We would not have risked a team result."


I'm really happy and excited for Dan Evans, who is getting closer and closer to the top of the game.

I've known him a long time. I first met him when we played a Davis Cup tie probably nine, 10 years ago. You spend a week together in the build-up and since then I've seen him a lot at various events.
He used to have a reputation of maybe not working that hard but every time I have been on the court with him, he has been fantastic.
He's a natural competitor. Once you get him on the match court, he always tries his best and gives his best effort and I really respect that.
Away from the court, he's a pretty relaxed guy. He doesn't take himself too seriously and he likes to have a good time, but when he's playing, he's focused. He's a very talented player.
I haven't spoken to him loads about his tennis. He has a team around him that is doing such a fantastic job.
If he keeps doing what he's doing, who knows where he could end up? It's exciting to see how good he is going to be. We still don't know what his limit is.
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It's a really promising time to be part of British tennis. A number of players are close to the top of their game and that's really good.
I definitely think that having a number of different players, with different personalities and backgrounds and playing styles, is really positive. I hope it keeps going that way.
A lot of kids might watch tennis and hate watching me. But some might love watching Johanna Konta, or Dan, or Kyle Edmund or Heather Watson.
The more choice there is, the more role models people have to look up to and that is a really positive thing.
There was a moment of panic when I went over on my ankle during my match against Andrey Rublev. You don't know how bad it is until you get up and you're also a bit shocked about going over.
Once I got up and started moving around, it was still a bit concerning because it was sore. I'm walking around on it fine now - it's sore, but it's OK.
For now, it's all about icing it and keeping it elevated. I had an ice bath after the game and I'll be keeping it cool for the next few days. It's all good.
Facing Rublev did give me a few flashbacks to when I was first starting out.
I played Rafael Nadal when I was 19 at the 2007 Australian Open. Going out for the first time against one of the top players does influence the way you play.
I expected Rublev to come out going for his shots, because he had nothing to lose. He got off to a pretty quick start but once I settled down, I played some good stuff.  He's a good player though and definitely one to watch in the future.


A new chair has been appointed to the criticised Southern Health NHS Trust.

Tim Smart replaces interim chair Mike Petter after a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report found the trust was "continuing to put patients at risk".
Southern Health failed to adopt safe bathing guidelines for two-and-a-half years after Connor Sparrowhawk died following an epileptic seizure in 2013, the report found.
Mr Smart said reviewing the capability of the trust's board was a priority.
During an urgent question in the House of Commons on Tuesday Fareham MP Suella Fernandes said "serious changes in the leadership" were needed.
Mr Petter's departure was followed by the resignation of Mark Aspinall, one of 13 public governors for the trust.
In his resignation letter, Mr Aspinall said there was an "apparent lack of drive and determination" to improve the situation at the trust.
Former hospital chief executive Mr Smart said: "Two of my immediate priorities are to make sure that the quality and safety of our services improve and to make sure the Board functions more effectively.
"The Care Quality Commission has identified some serious issues which need to be resolved quickly and effectively. I assure everyone that as Chair I will always act in the best interests of the population we serve."


A Denbighshire bowls centre shutdown after the trust running it ran out of money will reopen.

North Wales Bowls Centre, Prestatyn, closed earlier this year when Clwyd Leisure Ltd went into administration.
But it was refurbished over the summer and Denbighshire council has announced it will reopen and run it from October.
Councillor Huw Jones said the revamped eight green centre said there was a great deal of public support to reopen the bowls centre.
"The bowls centre forms part of our vision for developing leisure facilities along the coast and we believe that the refurbishment of the bowls centre will be a catalyst for further investment by partners along the coast," he added.


Robert Thornton boosted his Premier League survival chances by taking three points from his two matches in Liverpool.

Playing twice having missed an earlier round through illness, the Scot beat Michael Smith and then drew with group leader Michael van Gerwen.
Those results put Thornton one point ahead of Smith and Dave Chisnall.
Two of that trio will exit the competition when the 10-man field is cut to eight in Cardiff on 31 March.
Van Gerwen, Phil Taylor and Gary Anderson are in a three-way tie at the top of the table after Taylor drew with Peter Wright and Anderson defeated Chisnall.
Adrian Lewis occupies fourth spot following his win over Raymond van Barneveld.
Michael Smith 5-7 Robert Thornton
Gary Anderson 7-4 Dave Chisnall
Adrian Lewis 7-5 Raymond van Barneveld
Phil Taylor 6-6 Peter Wright
Michael van Gerwen 6-6 Robert Thornton


Two in five council areas in England will not have enough primary school places for the number of children by September 2016, say council leaders.

The Local Government Association (LGA) said pressure from a rising population was reaching a "tipping point".
Time was running out to avert a "national crisis" over a lack of places, it warned.
A Conservative spokesman said the government had created over 440,000 places and must "stick to the course".
The rising number of pupils needing primary places has seen many schools having to expand and add extra classes, particularly in London and some of England's major cities including Manchester and Bristol.
The LGA said schools were "reaching their limits and could soon run out of space and money for extra places".
It warned that whoever formed the next government after the general election would have to tackle an escalating shortage of places.
"Britain is in the grips of a baby boom. We'll have the biggest population in Europe by the end of the century and clearly that's having a lot of pressure on school places," said David Simmonds, the chairman of the LGA's children and young people board.
The local authorities' organisation said that, over the next decade, there would need to be places for an extra 880,000 pupils at a cost of Â£12bn.
Mr Simmonds told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "For all the extra children coming through the system we are in a situation now where we are looking at buying land, building completely news schools and that is clearly going to be expensive and the biggest challenge that the new government will have in its education in-tray."
He said recruiting more teachers had not been a problem so far but that in some areas it was "becoming more difficult".
In autumn 2016, the LGA says there will be a shortage of places for pupils wanting to start primary school in two in five authorities.
The following year half of local authorities will be facing a shortfall, says the LGA. By autumn 2018, this will have risen to three in five, according to the councils' forecast.
To prevent pupils being left without places, the LGA says the next government will need to commit sufficient funding and give councils the flexibility to create new schools where they are most needed.
The LGA has been critical of the emphasis on opening free schools, when, the councils argue, they are better placed to make strategic decisions about where new places should be created.
"As we approach a new parliament, the next government must commit to fully fund the creation of all new school places and give councils the powers to open new schools once again, before time runs out and we are faced with a national crisis," said Mr Simmonds.
"Councils face an uphill battle creating places where they are needed when their hands are tied by red tape and they are short of money to do so."
Russell Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said there was a need for "unified local planning" to ensure that even with different types of state school there would be enough school places in each area.
Labour's Tristram Hunt blamed the government for "ploughing hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money on free schools in areas where there are no shortages of school places".
He said the pressure on places was contributing to larger class sizes and children having to travel further to school.
The Tory party spokesman said: "The last Labour government failed to plan for the future, cutting funding for 200,000 school places during a baby boom. By contrast, this government has created over 440,000.
"As part of our long-term economic plan we are providing the best schools and skills for young people so that they can fulfil their potential and get on in life, and we must stick to the course."
UKIP's deputy leader and education spokesman, Paul Nuttall, said: "The more people we have living in this country, the more pressure there is on services."
Natalie Evans, director of the New Schools Network which supports the opening of free schools, said that the free schools that are open or are approved will create nearly a quarter of a million extra places.
She said that local authorities already have the power to set up new schools to tackle shortages.
"They just have to partner with an academy or free school to then run them. It is very welcome that nearly a third of councils have already done so creating over 80 new schools."


Barnsley winger Adam Hammill has signed a two-year contract after helping the club to the Championship.

The 28-year-old joined the Tykes for a third spell in November and scored nine goals in 34 competitions.
The former Liverpool trainee scored at Wembley as the Oakwell side won both the Johnstone's Paint Trophy and the League One play-off final.
"I'm absolutely delighted. I've listened to my heart," Hammill told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"The affinity that the fans have for me was one of the main reasons for staying.
"Taking that team spirit that we have here forward I am sure we will have a really impressive season."
The new deal will keep him at Oakwell until the summer of 2018.


The eurozone is not viable in its current form, one of the UK's most successful fund managers has warned.

Neil Woodford, who set up his own investment firm last year, said the concept was "fundamentally flawed" and he expected the "stresses and strains" in the area to continue to increase.
"In a very simple sense pretending that Greece was Germany is a fundamental error," he told BBC World News.
He also said uncertainty over Britain's EU membership could hit the UK economy.
The Conservative Party has promised to hold an in-out referendum on the UK's continuing membership of the EU if it wins this year's general election.
The referendum would be held only after David Cameron, if he is still prime minister after May, had attempted to renegotiate the terms of the UK's membership of the EU.
"The likelihood of a referendum, I think, will put a brake on external investment, international investment in the UK... it will create uncertainty," Mr Woodford told the BBC's Hardtalk programme.
Mr Woodford is considered in the industry as one of the country's best-performing fund managers.
He gained fame during his 25-year career at Invesco Perpetual, for taking a long term view on investments.
One of the best-known examples of his strategy was refusing to invest in the dotcom boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Neil Woodford made his reputation with Invesco Perpetual, but left last year to launch his own investment fund: Woodford Investment Management.


Leeds Rhinos reached the Challenge Cup quarter-finals with a thumping victory over League One side Barrow Raiders.

Joel Moon scored a first-half hat-trick as Leeds dominated from the start, with Matt Parcell, Ash Handley and Ryan Hall also crossing for 32-4 at half-time.
Handley, Parcell and Rob Burrow completed braces after the break, while Stevie Ward, Liam Sutcliffe and Keith Galloway added further scores.
Luke Creswell and Jarrad Stack ran in consolation tries for Barrow.
The Raiders top the third tier having won all seven of their matches in the league this season, and they had managed 13 victories from 13 games in all competitions prior to Sunday's hammering by Leeds.
But they were always well short against the 13-time winners, who also landed 20 points courtesy of Sutcliffe's boot.
Rhinos are currently fourth in Super League with nine wins from 13 games.
Leeds Rhinos: Golding, Briscoe, Handley, L. Sutcliffe, Hall, McGuire, Moon, Galloway, Parcell, Baldwinson, Ferres, Ward, Singleton.
Replacements: Burrow, Cuthbertson, Jones-Buchanan, Mullally.
Barrow Raiders: Fieldhouse, Cresswell, Morrow, Litherland, Fleming, Charnock, Ashall, Bullock, Mossop, Walker, D. Toal, Stack, Aspinwall.
Replacements: Abram, Dawson, Duerden, Brennan.
Referee: Jack Smith (RFL)


Norwegian international Stefan Johansen says joining Celtic represents a "big step" up in his career.

The 23-year-old Stromsgodset midfielder has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal for an undisclosed fee.
Johansen said he was looking forward to playing in a better league in front of the club's "unbelievable" supporters.
The Glasgow club said on their website: "Celtic would like to welcome Stefan and wish him all the best for his career in the Hoops."
Johansen was part of a Stromsgodset side that edged out Rosenborg by one point to win the Norwegian league, scoring four times in 27 appearances during the campaign.
Celtic is one of the biggest clubs in Europe, I'm happy to be here
The midfielder said he expected a higher standard of football in Scotland's top flight.
"The league is better, of course; the clubs in Norway are not even close to being like Celtic," added the Norwegian international.
"It's a fantastic club and I've watched videos about the supporters and you see how much the club means to them.
"I'm looking forward to playing in front of them.
"It means a lot and I'm very happy to be here. It's a fantastic club and I've spoken to some of the guys in the national team about the city.
"Everybody has positive things to say about it and the fans are unbelievable. Celtic is one of the biggest clubs in Europe. I'm happy to be here."
Johansen will wear the No.25 jersey, previously worn by Shunsuke Nakamura and Lubo Moravcik.
"It's an important number," he told the club's website. "But I want to be a player who can improve my game and do my best and succeed, so I'm looking forward to wearing that number.
"But, most of all, I'm looking forward to wearing the Celtic jersey because it's a very important thing for me.
"Celtic fans are known everywhere as being the best in the world, so I'm looking forward to playing for them and I hope I can give something back to them and keep on winning trophies with Celtic."
The midfielder is Neil Lennon's first signing of the January transfer window.


A new report has been published detailing the advantages of enhancing and extending the Borders Railway.

It proposes the line between Edinburgh and Tweedbank should be improved and extended via Hawick to Carlisle.
The report, produced by the Campaign for Borders Rail (CBR), said that could provide a "new strategic link" in the national network.
Extending the line is already being examined as part of a wider study of transport issues in southern Scotland.
"We believe that the Borders needs a through route to the south to maximise the region's economic potential," the CBR report states.
"For Hawick, a rail link is vital."
The Summary Case for a New Cross-Border Rail Link adds: "CBR is committed to making the case for further rail-led economic and social regeneration of the Borders and a transformative new cross-border rail link."
Now it is time for Hawick and other communities in the southern Borders to benefit directly.
The briefing sees the vision for an extended Borders Railway as an "exciting opportunity".
"This document will help inform the debate on preparing for the proposed railway through the Scottish Borders to Carlisle and beyond," said Allan McLean, chairman of the CBR.
"The economies of Edinburgh, Midlothian and the northern Borders have all gained demonstrably from the opening of the Borders Railway.
"Now it is time for Hawick and other communities in the southern Borders to benefit directly."
The briefing document sets out the CBR's commercial, social and economic cases for a new railway linking the existing Tweedbank terminus to the West Coast Main Line at Mossband, just north of Carlisle.
"The completed railway would allow through trains between Edinburgh and Carlisle, serving intermediate settlements including Hawick," the report states.
"Communities not directly served would benefit from access by connecting bus services and park and ride stations."
The report claimed that extending the railway was the "only realistic proposal" to adequately address economic and social problems faced by the Scottish Borders and release the route's full potential.
It said detailed studies indicated benefits for passengers and freight that could be realised by the investment.
The report has been presented to Transport Minister Humza Yousaf.
Earlier this year it was announced a new study would look at the possibility of extending the Borders Railway.
The findings will feed into the Scottish government's nationwide strategic transport projects review.


Much of the response to the government's childhood obesity plan for England has been critical.

Even one of the big supermarket chains has suggested it does not go far enough.
One senior health source, though, made the point that if a year ago the government has said it would introduce a sugar levy and a product reformulation plan there would have been a positive reaction from campaigners.
It has to be said that one campaigning charity, the National Children's Bureau, argued that "now, at last, we have a plan for reducing obesity early in life".
But the overwhelming view of health think tanks, medical leaders, local government and charities is that the published plan is a missed opportunity.
They have noted what is not in the document, especially the proposals by Public Health England covering restrictions on TV advertising of unhealthy foods and curbs on supermarket cut-price promotions.
It's not often that a business calls for more regulation in its sector - but that's precisely what Sainsbury's has done.
Mike Coupe, chief executive of the supermarket chain, says there should be a tougher regime including compulsory targets for sugar and mandatory traffic light labelling.
The government plan involves a voluntary 20% sugar reduction scheme over four years.
Leading retailers, it seems, would rather have a regulatory level playing field than comply with a voluntary scheme which some competitors might be less scrupulous about.
The government argument is that the plan to get manufacturers to reduce sugar content in food and drink products is significant.
The Treasury Minister, Jane Ellison, said on the BBC's Today programme that the plan might sound technical but it was an important step.
"It's not as iconic, for example, as talking about everyday things that everyone understands around advertising but it is nonetheless the thing that every expert, not just in this country but around the world, recommends as the most effective," she said.
But it's a voluntary scheme, monitored by Public Health England with progress reports every six months.
The penalties for non-compliance are not clear.
The document simply states: "If there has not been sufficient progress by 2020 we will use other levers to achieve the same aims."
Ministers are anxious to highlight the promotion of physical activity in schools in the package of measures, though it was made clear at the time of the Budget that the proceeds of the sugar levy would be used on funding school sport.
Currently, primary schools in England are required to provide two hours of PE a week.
This will be extended to 30 minutes a day of PE and "active play".
Media speculation that the plan involved OFSTED ratings of school sports provision, though, proved inaccurate.
Perhaps the most damning criticism of the plan has come from Sarah Wollaston, chair of the Commons Health Select Committee and a Conservative MP.
In a BBC 5 live interview she took a swipe at the prime minister, referring to her speech on the steps of Downing Street about inequality in society.
Wollaston said: "If you say you're going to tackle the burning injustices of health and inequality then you shouldn't, as the first litmus test of that, put the interests of advertising and marketers ahead of the interests of children".  Ouch!
Theresa May has taken her own judgement on the appropriate balance between government and voluntary action.
She seems to have taken the view that the sugar levy is a big enough piece of state intervention in itself.
But she will have to defend the obesity plan when parliament resumes and rebut the wide range of criticism, including on her own benches, in the Commons.


A man who died after being hit by a car was "kind and generous" and a "loved son", his family has said.

Alan Strong, 52, was struck as he was walking along Littleton Road, Salford, at about 18:00 BST on 30 April and died later in hospital.
The car was later found on Dalton Drive in Pendlebury.
A 26-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene. He was released on bail.
A statement from Mr Strong's family said: "Alan was a loved son to Norma and the late Norman. He was kind and generous, especially to those in need.
"He had a fondness for the elderly and children alike. He will be sadly missed by family and friends."


It was, said Alex Salmond, as he unveiled a stone monument at Heriot-Watt University, his administration's "biggest achievement".

The abolition of tuition fees certainly set Scotland on a different path, and the monument has locked the SNP into its flagship policy.
There's no doubt it has saved hundreds of thousands of students from repaying debts out of their graduate salaries.
But, as a detailed analysis published today shows, there is little evidence it has propelled many more working class Scottish students into university.
The research was commissioned by the Sutton Trust in England, which has long scrutinised social mobility.
In itself, that raises interesting questions about why this kind of work is not being funded within Scotland.
The research, compiled by academics from the University of Edinburgh, points out that middle-class Scottish students leave university with less debt than any group in the UK.
They do not pay tuition fees, and unlike the poorest students, it's the bank of mum and dad that's likely to pick up the costs of rent, food, books and bills.
Not surprisingly it seems to have been a popular policy.
But most of the progress in helping poorer students into higher studies in Scotland has been in Further Education colleges.
Some transfer to university, but quite often have to repeat a year, suggesting it's not an easy experience.
And pressure will build in the system as the number of total number of university places is limited by government.
Today's report warns that it's the disadvantaged that lose out most from that limit - when competition for places is stiff, middle-class elbows tend to be sharper.
The wealthiest students in Scotland are four times more likely to go straight to university than those from the poorest families.
It's a gap that is bigger than any other part of the UK.
There has been a scheme to ring-fence some places at elite Scottish universities for poorer students, which has been successful.
That comes to an end this year, with the places being absorbed into the total, as agreed at the outset with the government.
Last autumn, the Commission on Widening Access in Scotland warned the inequality in universities was "unfair, damaging and unsustainable".
The Scottish government has accepted something needs to be done.
Plans for a Commissioner for Fair Access are expected soon with details of how universities can be held to account.
Of course without a further increase in the number of places letting more disadvantaged students in can only come at the expense of the better off.
No wonder the National Union of Students is calling for more places, and in Scotland that could only be done by more direct funding.


Scottish Cup holders Hibernian face Aberdeen at Hampden on Saturday in the first of this season's Scottish Cup semi-finals.

Hibernian are on a high after clinching the Scottish Championship title, while Aberdeen are well placed to finish second in the Premiership.
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Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho says he and Zlatan Ibrahimovic will not go "crying to the media" about the two controversies involving the Swede in the 1-1 draw with Bournemouth.

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Bournemouth defender Tyrone Mings, 23, landed on the United forward's head with his studs, but said afterwards the collision was "unintentional".
Moments later, Ibrahimovic caught Mings in the face with his elbow at a corner.
"He jumped into my elbow," said the former Paris St-Germain striker, 35.
Both players could face retrospective action if referee Kevin Friend says he did not see either incident.
"Zlatan is a big man," added 54-year-old Mourinho.
"We are from that generation of street football and football for big guys. We are not the kind of generation who goes to the media and cries about what happened.
"What counts is the result. Nothing else matters for us."
Listen: My son was shocked to see Zlatan's elbow - fan calls 606Relive the 1-1 draw at Old Trafford
44 mins: Mings slides into a tackle on Wayne Rooney, also taking out Ibrahimovic. The Bournemouth defender gets to his feet and then hurdles Ibrahimovic, landing on the Swede's head with his right boot.
45 mins: United win a corner which is swung in to the far post where Ibrahimovic and Mings challenge for the high ball.
Ibrahimovic catches Mings with his right elbow after winning the header, the Bournemouth defender going down to the ground clutching his head.
Referee Kevin Friend points for a Bournemouth goal-kick.
Bournemouth skipper Andrew Surman pushes Ibrahimovic in the chest, earning a second yellow card from Friend.
45+1 mins: The referee has a conversation with Ibrahimovic and United skipper Rooney, then sends off Surman before restarting play after a lengthy delay.
Referee Friend will send his report of the match to the Football Association on Monday.
Players can be charged only if a referee says he did not see an incident.
Deliberate elbows and stamping are both red card offences, so would result in three-match bans if either Ibrahimovic or Mings were charged and found guilty.
Bournemouth assistant manager Jason Tindall said his players felt Ibrahimovic had elbowed Mings, although he had not seen the incident.
Ibrahimovic disagreed: "You have the TV, you can see the images. I jump, I jump high and I protect myself. Mings jumps into my elbow.
"I'm not someone who attacks someone off the field. It is not my intention to hurt someone."
Former Ipswich defender Mings was making only his fifth Premier League start after suffering with injuries since joining Bournemouth in an £8m deal in July 2015.
And he said he was relishing facing former Barcelona, Inter Milan and Paris St-Germain striker Ibrahimovic before the game at Old Trafford.
"It was a good battle, you know what you're going to get playing against him. I enjoyed the battle all day," said Mings, 23.
"What he possesses in height, in strength, I also possess. We had to ride a lot of storms but we stood up to the test very well.
"I've watched him growing up through his career and dreamt of days like this."
Manchester United captain Rooney appeared to insinuate Mings intentionally stamped on team-mate Ibrahimovic.
"I don't think the referee has seen Tyrone Mings try to stamp on Zlatan's head. I was right there," said the England international, 31.
"That's wrong in football. Everyone likes tackles in the game but to try to stamp on a player's head - there's no room for it."
Former Tottenham striker Garth Crooks on BBC Final Score:
"Zlatan Ibrahimovic is insulting people's intelligence when he says Mings jumps into his elbow.
"I think that comment is going to get people at the FA's backs up. He shouldn't have said anything."
Former England midfielder Steve Stone on BBC Radio 5 live:
"When Ibrahimovic jumped up for that header he was looking at Mings and not the ball.
"He's led with his elbow and he knew exactly what he was doing. The referee has made a complete mess of that."
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A planning application for a second reservoir in Somerset has been submitted to the local authority.

If approved by Sedgemoor District Council, Bristol Water's £125m proposal will see a 9,400 million litre reservoir built close to the existing Cheddar Reservoir.
The company said it was needed to meet growing demand for water, and hopes it can be operational by 2025.
Two public consultations into the plans have taken place this year.
Project spokesman Jeremy Williams said the majority of respondents were "more than satisfied" with the plans.
"We believe that, apart from providing vitally needed water supplies, it will also offer major recreational and conservation benefits."
But farmer Sarah Parsons said the reservoir would be detrimental to wildlife and plants.
Her family farm is on the proposed site of the reservoir, which she says is prime agricultural land.
"It's going to have a disastrous effect on the flora and fauna of the area," she said.
Plans for the new reservoir include a visitor centre, swimming and water sport facilities, as well as a cafe and picnic areas.


This isn't something you'd see everyday!

17 June 2017 Last updated at 10:30 BST
People on the island of Fanoe, off the south west coast of Denmark, are getting to enjoy the sight of thousands of kites taking to the skies.
Only around 2,700 people live there, but around 5,000 kite flyers from around the world have come for the special event on the island's beach.
The 700m beach is known for being very windy, and there is lots of space to fly the kites which come in many different shapes, colours and sizes.
The special event lasts for three days, ending with a big party where the kites are auctioned for charity.
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A convicted sex offender allegedly caught trying to pay US undercover officers for sex with a boy has denied a series of sexual assault charges.

Paul Charles Wilkins, 70, of Littleport in Cambridgeshire, travelled to California in January to "engage in illicit sexual conduct" with boys aged 10 and 12, US officials claim.
Wilkins has denied four charges, the US District Attorney's Office said.
He was jailed in the UK in 2011 for possessing indecent images of children.
He admitted 16 charges and was jailed for 56 months at Cambridge Crown Court, the Crown Prosecution Service for the East of England said.
Wilkins, who holds dual UK and US citizenship, was on probation when he left the UK on 31 January.
He had set up an online site enabling him to arrange to meet boys, but was caught in a sting operation in Palm Springs, California, by undercover Homeland Security Department special agents.
He had allegedly paid one agent $250 (Â£170) to have sex with a nine-year-old Mexican boy.
In February Wilkins was charged with travelling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with boys, which carries a statutory maximum sentence of 30 years, and attempted sex trafficking.
In June further charges of transporting and possessing indecent images of children were added.
Earlier this month Wilkins "was arraigned on that indictment... at which time he pleaded not guilty to the charges", a spokesman from the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California (Los Angeles), said.
Wilkins, described by US Attorney Eileen M Decker as a predator, was initially expected to face trial in the US on 19 July.
That trial date has now been moved to 15 November.
Wilkins was detained as part of Homeland Security's Operation Predator, an international initiative to protect children from sexual predators.


About 20 prisoners were involved in a "disruption" after food was thrown at a member of staff.

The incident happened during "the serving of lunch" at Wayland Prison, Norfolk, on 6 May, according to an internal prison report seen by the BBC.
"One offender threw his food at staff," the report says, and then others tried to stop him being "restrained".
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said staff "successfully resolved" the incident and no-one was injured.
Wayland Prison is a category C all-male training prison in Griston, near Thetford.
The report into the disruption said: "Approximately 20 offenders were involved in an incident on the servery. One offender threw his food at staff, was restrained.
"Several other offenders attempted to stop staff dealing with the incident and several others formed a line across the dining hall, inciting further disruption.
"Additional staff were called and offenders were eventually locked up."
The MoJ said some of the prisoners were transferred to other facilities as a result, but would not provide further details.


A statue of the Marvel superhero Captain America is to be erected in a New York park.

The company has commissioned a 13-ft (3.96m) bronze statue which will be housed in Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
It will be unveiled at the San Diego Comic Con later this month before being placed in the park from 10 August.
A sketch of the statue released by Marvel shows the character holding his signature shield in the air.
Marvel's senior vice-president of licensing, Paul Gitter, told USA Today the pose was "symbolically chosen to showcase the impressive strength of Captain America and his stoic form".
The figure will also bear the superhero's quote "I'm just a kid from Brooklyn" - said in the 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger.
However, some fans have pointed out the original comic book character was actually from Manhattan's Lower East Side.
In the comics, the superhero was the son of Irish immigrants - a similar background to that of co-creator Jack Kirby, who was the son of Austrian-Jewish immigrants living in the same area.
Nicholas Slayton tweeted: "Come on guys, Cap's from the Lower East Side, not Brooklyn."
Ronald Pollock wrote: "Kind of weird how there's going to be a Captain America statue in Brooklyn but Jack Kirby originally had him born in the Lower East Side."
But writing for pop culture website The Mary Sue, Teresa Jusino said film fans would consider Brooklyn the character's home.
"In the [Marvel Cinematic Universe], Captain America's Lower East Side childhood has been erased in favour of a Brooklyn upbringing," she wrote.
"For many who haven't read the comics, that's the Cap they know. So, it makes a certain amount of sense that this statue would appeal to those people, rather than to comics fans."
Earlier this year, Captain America: Civil War took $181.8m (Â£139.9m) at the US box office on its first weekend of release - the fifth biggest opening weekend of all time.
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A federal court in the United States has sentenced Gen Mauricio Santoyo, who was President Alvaro Uribe's security chief, to 13 years in jail for links with paramilitaries.

The retired police general pleaded guilty to links with the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC).
The group is accused of mass killings in Colombia and is on the US list of terrorist organisations.
Gen Santoyo was also fined $125,000 (Â£74,400).
From 2002 to 2005, Gen Santoyo served as security chief for then-President Uribe.
Another close aide of the former president, Mario Uribe, was found guilty last year of having links with the AUC.
But Alvaro Uribe denies any link with the organisation, which led a campaign against left-wing rebels and people suspected of collaborating with them.
Gen Santoyo handed himself to the US authorities in July.
In his plea agreement, he said he took bribes from the AUC from 2001 to 2008 in exchange for tipping them off ahead of police operations against them.
Some of the operations also involved US drug enforcement agents.
Gen Santoyo initially rejected the charges of conspiring to smuggle drugs into the US, but eventually pleaded guilty.
The Eastern District Court of Virginia, in Alexandria, ruled that he must pay $125,000 for the drug smuggling charges.
As part of a 2003 peace deal brokered by Alvaro Uribe's government, most paramilitary leaders surrendered and demobilised tens of thousands of their men in exchange for reduced jail terms and protection from extradition.


Papua New Guinea has repealed its controversial Sorcery Act but has expanded its use of the death penalty.

Under legislation passed in parliament on Tuesday, killings linked to allegations of witchcraft will now be treated as murder.
The death penalty will be applied to more crimes, including rape, and more methods of execution have been approved.
Amnesty International condemned the move to toughen penalties.
"Papua New Guinea has taken one step forward in protecting women from violence by repealing the Sorcery Act, but several giant steps back by moving closer to executions," Amnesty's deputy director for the Asia-Pacific Isabelle Arradon said in a statement.
In parts of Papua New Guinea, deaths and mysterious illnesses are sometimes blamed on suspected sorcerers, usually women. But officials say accusations of witchcraft are used to justify violence.
The repeal of the 1971 Sorcery Act, which acknowledged the accusation of sorcery as a plausible defence in murder cases, came after a series of brutal public killings.
In February, a 20-year-old mother accused of sorcery was burned alive in a village market. Two months later, a woman accused of black magic was beheaded.
Sorcery-related killings will now be treated as murder and the death penalty will be applicable, local media said.
Ms Arradon called the repeal of the act "long overdue" but accused the government of "attempting to end one of form of violence by perpetrating state-sanctioned violence".
Lawmakers have also approved legislation allowing the death penalty to be applied to aggravated rape - gang-rape, the use of a weapon, or rape of a child - and armed robbery, PNG's The National reported.
Parliament approved several methods for applying the death penalty, the Post Courier reported, including hanging, lethal injection, firing squad and electrocution.
Penalties for kidnapping, theft and white-collar crime were also toughened, with longer jail terms prescribed.
The laws were tough but reflected crime levels and community demands, The National quoted Justice and Attorney General Kerenga Kua as saying.
Papua New Guinea has not carried out an execution since 1954, despite parliament's decision to reintroduce the death penalty for murder in 1991. At least 10 people are currently on death row, Amnesty said.
PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neil announced plans to begin implementing the death penalty and to increase prison sentences for violent crimes last month, saying "draconian" measures were needed.
His move followed a number of high-profile crimes in the Pacific nation, including the gang-rape of a US academic in April.


Details have been released of an ambitious asteroid-hunting mission that a Californian non-profit organisation hopes to launch later this decade.

The Sentinel infrared telescope would be put in space to find and track potentially hazardous rocks near Earth.
The B612 Foundation project will cost several hundred million dollars, and big donations are being sought from around the world to fund the exercise.
Mission team members include former astronauts and senior Nasa officials.
Renowned manufacturer Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation has already sketched an early design for the telescope.
The foundation has been working for almost 10 years to try to raise awareness of the dangers that lurk in space, and has conducted technical studies on how one might deflect an asteroid on a collision path with Earth.
But it says there is an urgent need to identify where all the dangerous rocks are, and the time has now come for the private, philanthropic sector to take on the task.
"All of us have come to realise in the last several years that the human environment is not only land, water and air, but is also space," said Rusty Schweickart, the Apollo 9 astronaut and chairman emeritus at B612.
"All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc. And among them, with our Sentinel mission, will be a satellite that provides public safety in the sense of enabling the prevention of asteroid impacts and devastation in the future."
On average, an object about the size of car will enter Earth's atmosphere once a year, producing a spectacular fireball in the sky.
About every 2,000 years or so, an object the size of a football field will impact Earth, causing significant local damage.
And then, every few million years, a rock turns up that has a girth measured in kilometres. An impact from one of these will produce global effects.
Current surveys suggest we have probably found a little over 90% of the true monsters out there, and none look like they will hit us.
It is the second category that the foundation's mission will seek to investigate. The vast majority of these rocks await discovery.
"We've found a bit less than 1% of the objects out that that can do harm," explained Schweickart.
Ed Lu, former shuttle astronaut and CEO of the foundation, added: "Eventually we will have to deflect an asteroid; we know that. Because essentially, we're playing cosmic roulette. We're flying around the Solar System with these other objects and the laws of probability eventually catch up with you."
The Sentinel telescope will lean heavily on hardware that has already been proven on previous Ball designs, such as Nasa's Kepler planet-hunter and its Spitzer infrared space observatory.
From its position close to Venus's orbit, it will be able to look out and build maps of the space environment in Earth's neighbourhood.
Its infrared detectors will be sensitive to wavelengths of light in the range from five to 10.4 microns. It is in this range that the asteroids will glow brightly.
During the 5.5-year mission, the telescope would expect to catalogue 500,000 new asteroids, including more than 90% of those large enough to cause a 100 megaton impact should they strike Earth (in other words, objects that are 140m wide or larger).
But the Sentinel would also expect to find about 50% of the rocks down to a diameter of 30m - the sort of object that in 1908 laid waste to a vast swathe of forest at Tunguska in Siberia.
The hope would be that the data returned by the telescope would allow the orbits of all these asteroids to be determined for about the next 100 years. We would then have sufficient time to develop a mitigation strategy if any of the objects are considered to have a high probability of hitting our planet.
A launch for the Sentinel telescope is being targeted for 2017 or 2018. The group hopes to use the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which recently made history by sending the first privately developed cargo ship to the International Space Station.
Nasa has a direct involvement by allowing its antenna network to be used to receive all of the Sentinel's data, but the US space agency will not be funding any part of the venture.  That will require donations.
The foundation says the project would cost no more than setting up a museum, an opera theatre, or academic building - all of which succeed in attracting the support of private benefactors.
"There's a long tradition of funding large telescopes philanthropically," Lu told BBC News.
"If you look at the major telescopes put up over the past 100 years, they are dominated by privately funded endeavours - the Keck telescope, the Lick Observatory, Mount Palomar.
"The difference is that our telescope is not going to be sitting on a mountaintop but will be orbiting the Sun."
B612 takes its name from the asteroid home of the Little Prince in the children's short novel Le Petit Prince written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
The foundation has no formal connection with Planetary Resources, the American company which in April announced its intention to spearhead a robotic asteroid mining industry.


Marcus Olsson's first Derby County goal settled a lacklustre East Midlands derby and consigned Nottingham Forest to a sixth defeat in eight games.

An intense match delivered plenty of endeavour but was short on chances and quality until Olsson's 79th-minute curling strike past Dorus de Vries.
Forest, with Paul Williams in interim charge, edged a goalless first half.
But the Rams, inspired by half-time input from new football adviser Harry Redknapp, improved after the break.
Olsson's fine first-time hit from Tom Ince's pass ensures Derby stayed fifth in the Championship.
Derby 1-0 Forest as it happened
Forest's high-tempo, high-pressing game worked perfectly in the opening 25 minutes, forcing error after error from the Rams, which in turn got the home crowd agitated and restless.
Redknapp trudged from his seat in the stands towards the dressing room at the break, and whatever he and head coach Darren Wassall said worked a treat.
Derby could barely put a foot right in the opening 45 minutes, but started to win the midfield battle and looked the more threatening of the two sides after half-time.
The inescapable truth is of a derby match offering plenty of blood and thunder and very little in the way of quality or goalmouth incident. If bone-crunching challenges, blocked shots, misplaced passes and numerous free-kicks is your thing, then it was ideal.
Sadly, there was precious little else to talk about.
Ince looked lively for the hosts, with a couple of surging runs that came to nothing, while a fierce low strike that went straight at Reds goalkeeper De Vries early in the second half was the first effort on target.
Forest had looked comfortable but, aside from a couple of long-range efforts, they were also poor in the final third and they had no way back into things after Olsson's moment of quality.
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Derby head coach Darren Wassall: "I wanted Harry in the dressing room before the game, at half-time and at full-time. He chose to sit in the directors' box because he hasn't seen us play recently and he gets a better view.
"Harry's input is just as much as anyone else's and I welcome that because if he can improve us in our promotion push by three or four per cent we will be delighted.
"I thought we deserved to win. The first half was even-steven but in the second half, if anyone was going to win it it was going to be us."
Nottingham Forest interim manager Paul Williams: "I think it had 0-0 or a draw written all over it.
"For the majority of the game I was very pleased with how the players performed. We know we need to be scoring more goals, but in terms of closing people down and being brave with the football I can't ask for any more.
"The pressure is on me now as to how we are going to create and score goals. We will be working at that over the next two weeks and the onus is on me to try to come up with something to score goals."


Lewis Hamilton is capable of winning up to six Formula 1 world championship titles in his career, says former driver Sir Stirling Moss.

Hamilton recorded his 32nd grand prix success on Sunday which saw him overtake Nigel Mansell as the all-time British record holder for race wins.
"I can't see any reason why he can't get four or five or six championships," Moss told BBC Radio 5 live.
"He is as good as we've got, and we're very lucky to have him."
Moss, 85, is widely regarded as the greatest driver never to win a world title.
He came closest in 1958, when he lost out to Ferrari's Mike Hawthorn by a single point, despite winning four races to his rival's one that season.
Moss added: "Hamilton looks to be unassailable, quite frankly. He's up with Jimmy Clark, and people like that."
The late Jim Clark won two championship titles in 1963 and 1965, as well as 25 grand prix races, the fourth highest of any British driver.
But Moss believes 2008 champion Hamilton, 29, will move even further clear at the top of the all-time British standings.
"He is that good," he said. "The cars are that reliable these days, therefore one can judge a man by his talent - his enormous talent. He's exciting to watch."


Family members of the 329 passengers and crew who died when a bomb exploded on board Air India Flight 182 off the Irish coast in 1985 have gathered at Ahakista in west Cork to mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy.

The memorial service is being attended by Canadian Minister for Justice Peter MacKay and Indian Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan is representing the government.
The flight was en route from Toronto to Delhi when the explosion happened mid-air about 120 miles off the south-west coast of Ireland.
It was one of the worst aviation disasters in history and Canada's worst terrorist attack.
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Relatives of loved ones who lost their lives have gathered in a memorial garden at Ahakista.
For relatives - mostly Canadians of Indian extraction - south-west Ireland remains a place of pilgrimage.
A memorial service is held every year to remember those who died.
The bomb was placed in the suitcase of a man who had checked in his luggage but did not board the flight.
The attack was the work of Sikh militants who wanted to strike at the Indian government after the Golden Temple at Amritsar - the most important shrine in Sikhism - was stormed by troops in June 1984.


Keeping a diary helps boost children's writing skills, according to research from the National Literacy Trust.

And children's author Jacqueline Wilson agrees diary writing "increases your fluency and helps you become more comfortable at expressing yourself".
The Tracy Beaker author says she herself wrote a diary from the age of seven or eight and continued through her childhood and into her teens.
She is backing a campaign for children to be given diaries this Christmas.
Ms Wilson told BBC Breakfast she thinks writing a diary has a massive advantage over social media when it comes to expressing innermost thoughts and feelings.
The point is diaries are "not for sharing", she argued.
"You don't care how many people like it. It's just for you. You can write anything you want down."
A diary entry could be an account of your day, what you really feel about people you absolutely love, or people you hate, your hopes and ambitions, she said.
And if you are really into sport you can use the diary for detailed accounts of matches you have watched, she suggested.
Tracy Beaker is partly written in diary form and Ms Wilson says she still uses her teenage diaries as a source of inspiration in some of her writing... even though "they are terribly embarrassing to look back on... you care so passionately about things."
Other famous diaries in children's literature are:
For older readers there are the works of Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, Virginia Woolf and Anne Frank - and on a rather more frivolous note: Bridget Jones.
Data on more than 3,000 eight-to 11-year-olds, collected by the charity, suggests that pupils who keep a diary are almost twice as likely to write above the expected level for their age (27.1%), compared with children who do not (15.5%).
The main attraction of writing a diary is being able to choose the subject matter and 82% of girls and 76% of boys told the researchers that writing is more fun if they are allowed to decide what to write about.
The research also found:
National Literacy Trust director, Jonathan Douglas, said the charity was "encouraging parents, families and anyone buying a gift for a child or young person this Christmas to give the gift of a diary.
"You'll be giving them a platform to express themselves through words and the tools to become a better writer and do well at school. And you never know - your child could produce the next Diary of a Wimpy Kid!"


The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse is to begin hearing directly from victims and survivors.

A pilot phase of the Truth Project, part of the inquiry headed by New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard, will begin in Liverpool next week.
Victims and survivors will be able to share their experiences in a private session or via a written statement.
Justice Goddard said it would help the inquiry understand why many crimes went unreported and undetected for so long.
The pilot scheme is part of the independent inquiry launched by Home Secretary Theresa May, looking at how institutions and organisations, including the BBC, police, armed forces, schools and children's homes, handled abuse claims.
Justice Goddard will visit organisations supporting victims and survivors of child sexual abuse to hear how they hope the inquiry can provide an opportunity to share their experiences.
Any allegations of ongoing abuse uncovered during the Truth Project will be referred to police, but the private sessions are not part of a legal process. A series of public hearings, when witnesses will give evidence under oath, will be held separately.
The identities of victims taking part will be kept private.
Speaking at the launch, Justice Goddard said: "It will help us gain a better understanding of the patterns of abuse, and will assist in explaining why many crimes went unreported and undetected for so long, often leaving other children at risk of abuse in later years.
"If you have suffered, because any organisation within England or Wales has failed in its duty to protect you as a child from sexual abuse, we want to hear from you."
The first institutions publicly named as under investigation by the inquiry will be announced at the end of the month.


Scots most content with their working hours and daily commutes live in the Highlands and Islands, according to the Bank of Scotland's Happiness Index.

The index attempts to quantify how happy people are with their lives.
New research of its results suggests people living in the Highlands and Islands scored the highest, followed by those who stay in Fife.
Workers in Aberdeen, South Scotland, Glasgow and Mid Scotland scored the lowest on the index.
People who worked part-time were most likely to be happy in their job, according to the research.
A previous result from the index suggested the happiest people in Scotland were women aged over 65 who live in the Highlands.


Jeremy Corbyn has urged Scottish voters to help Labour oust the "vicious" Tories from government.

The Labour leader told the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) that the election would be "the people versus the powerful".
And he pledged to repeal the Trade Union Act as part of his campaign to "stand for the many, not the few".
Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader and Scottish first minister, also addressed the conference on Monday.
She insisted that the election in Scotland is a "two-horse race" between her party and "hard-line Tories".
And she argued that the bigger the Tory majority, the more they will think "they can do anything to Scotland and get away with it".
Meanwhile, the Scottish Conservatives have claimed that a vote for either Labour or the SNP will threaten the Union between Scotland and the rest of the UK.
And the Scottish Liberal Democrats said they were the only party that was campaigning to "keep Scotland at the heart of the UK and the UK at the heart of Europe".
The UK will go to the polls on 8 June after Prime Minister Theresa May announced plans for a snap election last week, which was subsequently endorsed by MPs by 552 votes to 13.
Opinion polls released over the weekend suggested that Labour remains in third place in Scotland, well behind the second-placed Conservatives - with the SNP continuing to hold a large lead over its rivals.
But despite his party also appearing to trail the Conservatives across the UK, Mr Corbyn used his speech to the STUC to insist that he is campaigning to win the election.
He told delegates in Aviemore: "This is a general election, it is not a referendum. Only Labour can form a government and offer an alternative that will transform the lives of people in Scotland.
"The truth is that the Tories and the SNP are obsessed with their power struggles against Brussels and Westminster when the energy should be used to change and transform our economy, to ensure that no-one, and no community, is left behind."
Mr Corbyn pledged that "one of the very first things we will do when forming our Labour government" will be to repeal the "Tory Trade Union Act".
Among other measures, the controversial legislation introduced by David Cameron's government brought in a threshold for workers voting in strike ballots for action to be legal.
Mr Corbyn went on: "Let no-one be in any doubt: we are in this election to win it and we will fight for every seat in every corner of this islands."
The Labour leader painted the Conservatives as the "party of privilege and the richest", and said Labour was instead "standing up for working people to improve the lives of all".
He added: "Only us or the Tories can form a government and I implore people in Scotland to fight for the party of progress and not the vicious Tory party."
A Labour government under Mr Corbyn would also carry out an inquiry into the practice of blacklisting, and into the "Battle of Orgreave" in the miners' strike, where striking workers clashed with the police.
He also pledged to make jobs "better and more secure" with a real living wage of Â£10 an hour by 2020 and stronger rights at work, and to "upgrade our economy to create wealth for all".
Mr Corbyn was due to make a speech in Dunfermline later on Monday, where he was to again rule out any sort of post-election deal with the SNP - who he accused of "systematically forgetting the day job" and obsessing about independence.
In her own address to the STUC congress, Ms Sturgeon said the Conservatives' vision for the UK should be "ringing alarm bells" across Scotland.
She said that Tory "hardliners" had taken over the party and now wanted to take the country in a direction that "UKIP could only have dreamed of" a few years ago.
Ms Sturgeon said: "The Tories have taken an extreme position - demanding an end to any opposition at Westminster if they win the election.
"The bigger the Tory majority the more they will think they can do anything to Scotland and get away with it.
"That will mean more cuts, more attacks on low-income families and a hard Brexit. Only the SNP has the strength to stand up to the Tories and make Scotland's voice heard."
Ms Sturgeon also suggested Theresa May had chosen to call a snap general election before alleged Tory expenses fraud in 2015 "catches up with her".
She added: "Whatever our politics, we should all stand up against that rightward drift of the country that the Tories are determined to effect."
And the first minister stressed that the Scottish government wanted to work with trade unionists to "build a fairer country".
Elsewhere, the Tories turned their fire on Mr Corbyn, who they claimed would "roll over" and allow Ms Sturgeon a second independence referendum.
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said: "The choice for Scottish voters at this election is between the Conservatives standing up for the Union and focusing on getting the best deal in the Brexit negotiations, or Jeremy Corbyn and the SNP putting our nation's future at risk.
"Corbyn couldn't be bothered to campaign in the independence referendum and he has already said he would do a deal with the SNP. And the last time he was in Scotland he said he was 'absolutely fine' with a second referendum.
"On top of that, there's no way he could get a good deal from the other European leaders.
"Only the Conservatives can bring the SNP's nationalist caravan to a halt and provide the leadership we need to get the best possible deal out of Europe."
Scottish Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: "We stand to keep Scotland at the heart of the UK and the UK at the heart of Europe.
"Every vote that goes to the Liberal Democrats is a vote against a Tory hard Brexit, it's a vote against the division of another independence referendum and it is a vote for an open, tolerant and united Britain."


Montenegro's veteran Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic is stepping down, the country's ruling party says.

The move follows parliamentary elections which the Democratic Party of Socialists won but without an absolute majority 10 days ago.
The party has nominated his deputy, Dusko Markovic, to take over.
Mr Djukanovic has governed Montenegro either as prime minister or president for most of the past quarter of a century.
He had presented the election as a choice between partnership with the European Union or becoming a Russian colony. Since splitting from Serbia in 2006 Montenegro has forged close ties with the EU and Nato, both of which it aims to join.
The opposition accuses Mr Djukanovic of corruption and cronyism, which he denies. They deny his claims that they get funding from Moscow.
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Mr Djukanovic's resignation was announced by party officials on Wednesday, with no reason given.
The nomination of his deputy is expected to be approved by a party committee meeting later in the day.
The DPS won the 16 October election but with 36 out of 81 seats, forcing it to seek coalition partners.
The poll in the small country of some 630,000 was overshadowed by the arrest of 20 Serbians accused of plotting anti-government attacks.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic at first questioned the timing, but earlier this week said Serbia had detained several people with foreign links accused of spying on Mr Djukanovic.
However, he insisted they had "nothing to do with the Serbian state", without giving further details.
Mr Djukanovic was the youngest prime minister in Europe when he took power in 1991 at the age of 29.
He has since served as either prime minister or president for a quarter of a century, bar two interruptions in 2006 and 2010.
Many Montenegrins were unhappy that Mr Djukanovic was taking the country into Nato.
They remain angry that Nato bombed Serbia and Montenegro in 1999 as part of a strategy to halt the killing and expulsion of ethnic Albanians in Serbia's then southern province of Kosovo.
Montenegro has in recent years seen an influx of Russian money, homebuyers and tourists.


Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has been given a second Football Association charge in a week following his dismissal during Saturday's 0-0 draw with Burnley.

Mourinho, who on Thursday was charged over comments he made about referee Anthony Taylor, was sent to the Old Trafford stands by Mark Clattenburg.
He is accused of using abusive or insulting words to the officials in or around the tunnel area at half-time.
He has until Friday to respond.
The FA have acted after considering Clattenburg's match report - possible punishments include a warning, fine, touchline ban or stadium ban.
Mourinho appeared to be upset when United were not awarded a penalty during Saturday's match, after Jon Flanagan challenged Matteo Darmian inside the Burnley box.
The 53-year-old emerged for the second half but was escorted to a seat in the stands before being moved a second time, this time to the directors' box. He declined to speak to the media after the match.
United are eighth in the Premier League and without a win in their past four games.
Mourinho, 53, had been given a deadline of 18:00 GMT on Monday to respond to the first charge, which was issued after the Portuguese said it would be "difficult" for Manchester-based official Taylor to referee United's game with Liverpool on 17 October.
Managers are not supposed to speak about referees prior to matches.
Mourinho was given a one-match stadium ban and fined £40,000 in November 2015 after the FA backed referee Jon Moss' claims that the then-Chelsea manager refused to leave the officials' changing room and verbally abused him and his colleagues at half-time of a defeat at West Ham.
Mourinho was also fined £50,000 for claiming that referees were afraid to award penalties against his side last season after the Blues were beaten 3-1 by Southampton in October.
At the time Mourinho was warned a similar incident over the next 12 months would result in an automatic stadium ban, but that sanction recently expired.