The government should consider giving some women early access to their state pension if they accept lower weekly payments, a committee of MPs has said.

The proposal would apply to thousands of women who argue they were not given enough warning that the pension age was being increased from 60 to 66 by 2020.
The plan would help such women cope at no extra cost to the Treasury, the Work and Pensions Select Committee said.
The government has said women were clearly informed about the changes.
Ministers have been under pressure to put in place transitional help for the estimated 500,000 women born in the 1950s who have seen the age they can claim their pension rise by six years.
The BBC's personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz said so far the government had refused to budge on the issue, and recalculating pensions on the old basis could cost the taxpayer billions of pounds.
In an interim report, the committee suggested ministers should consider allowing women in the age group concerned to claim their state pension sooner than scheduled.
In return, they would get "slightly" lower weekly payments for the duration of their retirement, it said.
The scale of the reduction would be calculated to ensure that, on average, over the lifetime of the pensioners involved, there would be no additional costs to the public purse.
Labour MP Frank Field, the committee's chairman, said more work needed to be done before such a scheme was introduced, but he hoped the idea would "open up debate" among MPs from all sides.
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Conservative committee member John Glen added that it was necessary to find "transitional arrangements, but implemented in an affordable way".
"This report recommends a possible way forward which the government should now explore," he said.
Under the 1995 Pensions Act, the government decided that the pension ages of both men and women would be equalised by 2020. Previously, women retired at 60, while men retired at 65.
In 2011, state pension ages were raised at an even faster rate.
Some of those born between April 1951 and 1960 will not qualify for a pension until the age of 66.
More than 130,000 people have signed a petition calling for "transitional arrangements" to be put in place to help such women cope with the changes.
However, Pensions minister Baroness Altmann defended the government last month, saying letters sent to women informing them of changes to their state pension age were clear.
Adverts about the changes were also placed in papers and magazines, she said.


Josh Griffiths, the club runner who beat Britain's elite men in the London Marathon to qualify for the 2017 World Championships on his marathon debut, says he will continue to coach himself.

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Griffiths, 23, finished 13th overall in two hours 14 minutes 49 seconds, and was the first British man to finish.
The Swansea Harriers runner claimed an automatic qualifying place for August's World Championships in London.
"It's not something I planned but I can't wait to get started," he said.
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales, Griffiths added: "I currently coach myself and given my result, I might just keep doing what I'm doing because it seems to be working.
"I just love the challenge of it, I love pushing yourself and seeing how far you can take yourself."
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Griffiths, whose longest competitive distance was a half marathon before Sunday's race, initially aimed to reach the Welsh 2018 Commonwealth Games qualifying time of 2:16:00.
"It's almost a completely different event because it's double the distance [than a half marathon] and double the amount of time on your feet," he said.
"It just takes different training requirements and if you prepare then you can feel ready for it.
"My legs are a little bit sore but I'm still riding a wave a little bit, I still can't quite believe what has happened."
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Meanwhile, Griffiths' club-mate Matthew Rees stole the headlines as he helped exhausted runner David Wyeth cross the finishing line.
The Swansea Harriers pair took much of the media focus on the day that Mary Keitany won the women's race with the second-fastest time in history.
"It's great for the club and I know Matt, he's a great guy and I wouldn't expect anything less of him," Griffiths said.
"Everyone pushes to the limit, it's just those limits vary for different people.
"It's a very selfless act and you'd never know unless you were there. Hats off to him, it was a great thing to do."


How did a statue of a 19th Century politician on the front of a 14th Century college become such a 21st Century argument?

The decision by Oxford University's Oriel College to keep its statue of Cecil Rhodes was meant to draw a line under an angry dispute over emblems, cultural identity and how universities should deal with their own long histories.
Since the BBC website revealed in December that the college was consulting about whether to pull down the statue, there has been a constant bombardment of opinion, much of it aghast at the idea of "rewriting history" by getting rid of Rhodes and any uncomfortable links to a colonial past.
But don't expect the protest to disappear.
The Rhodes Must Fall campaigners attacked the college's announcement as "outrageous, dishonest and cynical" and promised to "redouble" their efforts.
Their indignation has been further inflamed by the college's promised six-month "listening exercise" over the fate of the statue not even making it to six weeks before it was prematurely ended with a statement put up on the college website on Thursday evening.
There is another reason that such disputes will continue - and that's because they are part of a much bigger international student movement, fighting over symbols, statues and language.
And through social media many of these ideas are being enthusiastically shared between campaigners.
The Rhodes Must Fall campaign at Oxford follows the Rhodes Must Fall student campaign in South Africa, which saw a Rhodes statue in the University of Cape Town being dragged off its plinth as a symbol of the imperial past.
Why is Cecil Rhodes such a controversial figure?
But the biggest outbreak of culture wars has been in the US, where dozens of universities have been gripped by battles over symbols, race and identity.
And the student protesters are often winning.
In Harvard, the term "house master" for those running college houses has been ditched, because of connotations with slavery and "human subjugation".
The university's law school is still weighing up a Royall Must Fall campaign, which wants to change the college's crest, which uses the coat of arms of the 18th Century Royall family who were notoriously brutal slave owners.
This week, Amherst College in Massachusetts accepted student demands and agreed to stop any links with Jeffery Amherst, an 18th Century general, accused of advocating deliberately infecting native Americans with smallpox.
Students had campaigned against the use of Lord Amherst as a symbol and unofficial mascot - and the college now says the campus hotel, the Lord Jeffery Inn, will also have to be renamed.
Earlier in this academic year, the president of the University of Missouri resigned amid student protests over the handling of racist incidents on campus.
These battles about race and identity - present and historic - have raged across campuses.
In Princeton, a school named after Woodrow Wilson has been the focus of protests and sit-ins, because of claims the former US president held entrenched racist views.
In Yale, there has been a campaign to rename Calhoun College, to remove links with John Calhoun, a 19th Century defender of slavery.
Fuelling the fire on these protests have been arguments over concepts such as "safe space" and "no platforming", where students have sought to prevent views or opinions that they deem offensive.
This has triggered furious arguments over free speech and the need for universities to be open to controversial views, even if they are uncomfortable, unpopular or even hateful.
The president of a university in Oklahoma thundered back: "This is not a day care, this is a university." And he accused students of becoming "self-absorbed and narcissistic" in their attitude towards any views they didn't share.
But these rows are showing no signs of stopping. They are a potent mix of identity politics, social media lobbying and consumer power.
In the UK, another dimension has been added by the government's drive against campus radicalisation, with bans on hate speech and extremist speakers - raising arguments about what is provocative and challenging and what is offensive and illegal.
Oxford is part of this global jigsaw. The university saw its new vice-chancellor, Louise Richardson, installed this month.
She argued in her inaugural speech that university needed to be intellectually stretching and meant students "engaging with ideas they find objectionable".
And statues too?


England stretched their winning run to 12 matches as they ran in nine tries against Fiji at Twickenham.

Jonathan Joseph, Elliot Daly, Semesa Rokoduguni, Teimana Harrison and Joe Launchbury gave England a big lead.
Fiji hit back as Nemani Nadolo, Leone Nakarawa and Metuisela Talebula scored either side of the break.
But further scores from Joe Launchbury (two), Joseph, Alex Goode and Rokoduguni saw England secure their biggest winning margin against Fiji.
England head coach Eddie Jones had promised "fish and chip" rugby - namely that the hosts would produce a traditional, structured game to play to their strengths and not let things get loose, which would benefit Fiji.
But, although they duly used the power of their driving line-out to score three first-half tries, they also showed plenty of ambition, with the 10-12 axis of George Ford and Owen Farrell combining well to release the backs.
The skilful and explosive Fijians finally came to life near the break, scoring three quick tries as England slipped below the standards they had set initially.
But in the end the hosts - who made five changes to their starting XV and brought on several youngsters from the bench in the second half - equalled their highest ever total against the visitors.
"It was good fish and chips," Jones told BBC Sport. "It doesn't mean fish and chips is basic. I thought we played some sparkling rugby, really good stuff. The ball movement, crispness of passing was fantastic."
Recalled centre Joseph opened the scoring inside the first few minutes, skipping over from Owen Farrell's nicely delayed pass, and Daly was next to cross, latching on to to Ford's long pass and leaving the Fiji defenders tripping over each other as he cruised over.
Rokoduguni then scored his first Test try, against the land of his birth, and two tries from driven line-outs, for Harrison and Launchbury, meant England were still scoring at better than a point a minute at the half-hour mark.
"George [Ford] and Owen [Farrell] were clever, they read the game well, read their defence well, which created opportunities for the outside guys," added Jones.
"Rokoduguni has definitely got a smile on his face. I'm really pleased for him because he worked hard to get this chance. He got a lot of reward for the hard work he's done."
Fiji had yet to make it into England's 22, denying the world class Nadolo and sevens star Nakarawa the chance to show what they could do.
And, when they did finally get down the other end of the pitch, the pair featured prominently before the former crashed over in the corner for their first try.
On the stroke of half-time it was Nakarawa showing his power and skill to stretch over despite the attention of a pack of England defenders.
And early in the second half full-back Talebula beat three men on his way to their third score.
But Jones was not too disheartened by the Fijians' fight back.
"We are a young team, in terms of only being together 11 games. We are not going to get everything absolutely right," he said.
England had been knocked out of their stride but they managed to regroup and pull away convincingly.
Goode scored his first Test try, courtesy of prop Mako Vunipola's perfect take-and-give pass, before Joseph picked off a speculative pass from Fiji's Cornwall-born fly-half Josh Matavesi to score an interception try to complete his brace.
And there was still time for Rokoduguni and Launchbury - the latter becoming only the second England second row to score two tries in a Test - to complete doubles of their own.
"Our control was pretty good, at certain times we wanted to join the party but our discipline was pretty good. We can't be too disappointed with that result," added Jones.
England welcome Argentina - who lost to a last-gasp Scotland penalty on Saturday - to Twickenham on 26 November.
England: Goode, Rokoduguni, Joseph, Farrell, Daly, Ford, Youngs; M Vunipola, Hartley (capt), Cole, Launchbury, Lawes, Robshaw, Harrison, B Vunipola.
Replacements: George, Marler, Sinckler, Ewels, Hughes, Care, Te'o, Slade.
Fiji: Talebula, Masilevu, Tikoirotuma, Vulivuli, Nadolo, Matavesi, Vularika; Ma'afu, Koto, Saulo, Ratuniyawara, Nakarawa, Waqaniburotu, Yato, Qera.
Replacements: Talemaitoga, Ravai, Atalifo, Soqeta, Dawai, Radrodro, Matawalu, Murimurivalu.


Holders Glasgow City and last year's runner's up Hibernian have both made it through to the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup.

Hibs trailed Celtic 1-0 at half-time, but the home side hit back through a 27-minute Abi Harrison hat-trick.
Stirling University held Glasgow for 54 minutes before Hayley Lauder, Sarah Crilly and two from Haley Rosen sealed the visitors' victory.
Elsewhere, Glasgow Girls beat Jeanfield Swifts 5-3.
Hearts Ladies against Hutchison Vale was postponed, with a date still to be re-arranged for the tie.
The semi-final draw will take place at Hampden Park on Monday.


How was the 2015 January transfer window for you?

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Some £130m was spent by Premier League clubs in the past month, with title rivals Chelsea and Manchester City the biggest spenders.
But which club got the best deal? What was the biggest surprise? Who is the happiest club? And who will have the biggest regret?
We asked former Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy, ex-Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas, BBC Radio 5 live's chief football reporter Ian Dennis and BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty to give their views.
Murphy:
"It's Wilfried Bony to Manchester City for me - he's a one-goal-in-two-games striker. It gives City more firepower and eases the burden on Sergio Aguero. It might, just might, give them an extra boost as they go for the league title."
Jenas:
"I would say for the amount of money they recouped, it's Chelsea's sale of midfielder Andre Schurrle. The Blues have done great business in the last couple of windows, with David Luiz and Juan Mata leaving and Cesc Fabregas and Diego Costa coming in. They've now managed to bring in winger Juan Cuadrado and sold Schurrle for barely any outlay."
McNulty:
"Manchester City's signing of Bony could be the one that swings the title their way. Expensive but a proven Premier League goalscorer who will give them something different. Everton might have pulled off a shrewd deal by signing winger Aaron Lennon from Spurs on loan."
Dennis:
"It's also Bony for me. He's proven at this level and could prove to be the difference in the title race when he returns from the Africa Cup of Nations. It's a very good acquisition for City."
McNulty:
"The biggest surprise has to be QPR manager Harry Redknapp not being able to do more business with the Hoops occupying such a lowly position in the league. He looked crestfallen as he told a tale of woe about his struggles to get deals over the line."
Dennis:
"Villa not being as proactive as they could have been. I know they brought in a couple of players, but two more might have given them more momentum. This is a team that is struggling to score. They came in late for Liverpool striker Rickie Lambert, but was it a question of too little, too late?"
Murphy:
"I'm a little surprised that Chelsea let Schurrle go. He's a talented player who scored goals for them. The fans also quite liked him I believe, and of course they're still involved in other competitions so they need a good squad. I guess when you look at Financial Fair Play (FFP) and how it impacts clubs, you understand why they had to do that."
Jenas:
"No surprises for me. A lot of clubs got into bad situations in the last couple of windows. That is the downfall of the whole situation. Because of FFP, a lot of hands are tied. This transfer window has been quite a disappointing spectacle."
McNulty:
"Chelsea will be delighted to bring in a player of Cuadrado's calibre for £23.3m and not getting hit in the pocket by virtually balancing the books with the sale of Schurrle to Wolfsburg for £22m. Manchester City will be delighted with the addition of Bony."
Murphy:
"I think West Brom will be reasonably pleased. They've got midfielders Darren Fletcher and Callum McManaman. They both know what it's like to play at this level. I didn't think they had a particularly poor team anyway, although more competition for places will improve the bunch, while Fletcher's knowhow will also help them."
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Jenas:
"Newcastle keeping hold of midfielder Moussa Sissoko is a definite plus for them. The other team that should be happy is Everton for bringing in Lennon. He can turn their season around. Lennon will fit into the way manager Roberto Martinez wants his team to play."
Dennis:
"Southampton for me. They made two good additions in full-back Ryan Bertrand, on a permanent deal, and midfielder Filip Djuricic from Benfica. Palace will be the other club pleased, having brought in seven new faces. Manager Alan Pardew's key strength is his motivational skills and the way he generates spirit in a squad, which we have already seen since he arrived at Selhurst Park."
Murphy:
"I think QPR and Aston Villa will both be disappointed they haven't brought in strikers. For the Hoops, it would have been someone to share the burden with Charlie Austin, and for Villa, a player to help score goals and bring some confidence to the club."
Jenas:
"I don't think any of the struggling teams could have tried any harder. They are in a relegation battle so it's tough to attract players. On top of that, financially the likes of the Baggies and Burnley are not massive spenders. What I'm trying to say is that you can't have any regrets when you can't do anything about it."
McNulty:
"Remains to be seen but the likes of Hull City and QPR might live to regret not doing more business if the lack of activity plays a part in a failure to retain their Premier League status."
Dennis:
"Newcastle losing out on Dele Alli to Tottenham. They were in pole position to sign the MK Dons midfielder. I believe a deal could have been done last week. He's a part of a rare breed of goalscoring midfielders. At £5m, the Magpies might regret they didn't act sooner."


Britain's America's Cup team, led by Sir Ben Ainslie, claimed a tight victory on the final day of the World Series event in Portsmouth.

Land Rover Bar, who started the day as leaders, won the first race before defending champions Oracle Team USA claimed victory in the second.
The Britons' second-place finish in a closely fought final race was enough to secure a one-point victory.
The result means that Ainslie's team are top of the 2016 series leaderboard.
Ainslie, who raced with Oracle at the last America's Cup in 2013, is leading the team's bid to become the first ever British winner of the America's Cup.
"I think that for a new team to be leading the World Series now is a good indication of how far we've come, but there's still a long way to go," Ainslie said.
"The guys did an incredible job with the boat handling and that's what really got us out of some of the tough situations."


Several popular web-connected baby-monitoring cameras lack basic security, researchers have warned.

Even the most rudimentary hacking attempts could give hackers access to the devices, US company Rapid7 said.
Babies could be watched, but the cameras could also be used as a springboard to attack other home devices.
The report highlights potential security problems with web-enabled devices in the "internet of things".
Baby-monitoring cameras work by filming a child at home and sending a video stream to a personal website or an app on a smartphone or tablet.
The Rapid7 researchers said they had found serious security problems and design flaws in all of the cameras they tested.
Some had hidden, unchangeable passwords, often listed in their manuals or online, that could be used to gain access.
In addition, some of the devices didn't encrypt their data streams or some of their web or mobile features.
"There's a certain leap of faith you're taking with your child when you use one of these,'' says Mark Stanislav, a senior security consultant at Rapid7.
Higher camera prices don't translate to higher levels of security, he said.
More expensive models come with extra features, potentially giving hackers more ways to access a camera or its video stream, he added.
The Rapid7 research looked at seven baby monitors made by six different companies.
The Philips In.Sight B120 baby monitor, which is about Â£60, had flaws that could allow a hacker to start a camera and watch a video stream online, and also hack into a connected home computer, the report said.
Philips said that the model had been discontinued. It added that its branded video baby monitors were now licensed to Gibson Innovations, which was aware of the problems and was working on software updates to fix them.
The researchers also tested the iBaby and iBaby M3S, Summer Infant's Summer Baby Zoom, Lens Peek-a-View, Gynoii, and the Trendnet WiFi Baby Cam TV-IP743SIC.
Summer Infant said it was reviewing the report's findings and would make sure that any necessary precautions were taken to protect its customers' security.
Gynoii said it wanted to work with Rapid7 to fix the issues with its camera.
Trendnet said that physical access to its camera would be needed to exploit the security bug, but it had prepared a patch and a software update would be available soon.


Derry City fell to a disappointing defeat as relegation-threatened St Patrick's Athletic came from behind to secure their first win in eight games.

Ronan Curtis headed Derry City into the lead three minutes before half-time.
St Pat's pulled level through Kurtis Byrne's 66th-minute penalty which had been awarded for hand ball against right-back Harry Monaghan.
Midfielder Graham Kelly netted the winner 13 minutes from time with a fine finish from Conan Byrne's pull back.
Derry, seeking back-to-back wins for the first time since winning their first four at the start of the Premier Division campaign, will be unhappy with their second-half display.
Victory at Richmond Park would have put them up two places into third and they seemed to be on course for all three points when Curtis netted a looping header with home keeper Conor O'Malley off his line.
But St Pat's came storming back in a spirited manner which belied their one-from-bottom league standing.
Derry protested when referee Ron Rogers gave the spot-kick for hands, but Monaghan got a yellow card and Byrne netted.
St Pat's scented a rare victory and they clinched it when Kelly finished emphatically in the 77th minute.


Aled Davies, Georgie Hermitage and David Weir all added to their gold medal tallies as Great Britain enjoyed another successful day at the IPC Athletics European Championships.

Welshman Davies won his second gold in Italy with an F42 discus world record after his shot success on Sunday.
Hermitage also won gold number two with a world record in the T37 200m.
Weir claimed his third gold, again leading home team-mate Richard Chiassaro, this time in the T54 800m.
There was also a superb silver for London 2012 double bronze medallist David Devine in the T13 1500m after over three years out injured and for veteran Graeme Ballard (T36 100m), while Stephen Miller (F32 club) and Isaac Towers (T34 200m) took bronzes.
Davies had a best throw of 54.14m, beating his previous record of 49.59 and his winning margin in the event, which is not part of the Rio programme, was more than eight metres.
"I am absolutely delighted with that result," said the 25-year-old. "To throw a personal best on the main stage is something every athlete wants to do. For me, I was even more shocked because I haven't been doing too much discus this year as I have been focusing on the shot put for Rio, but I know there is a lot more in the tank.
"I know I can throw a long way but the fact that I am surprised myself is very exciting."
Hermitage followed up her T37 400m success with another superb performance, clocking 27.21 to beat France's Marie-Francois Elie's 28.35 set at the 2013 Worlds in Lyon.
"I'm just so happy to get the world record and win a second European gold medal," she said. "The 400m on Monday was very pressurised but the 200m isn't a Rio event for me, however it is something I still really enjoy. I went into it a lot calmer and more relaxed so maybe that helped."
Devine was overhauled late on in his race by Poland's Lucasz Wietecki but the 24-year-old Liverpudlian, who only returned to training in December, had mixed feelings on his comeback.
"It is obviously great to win a medal again but I'm a little disappointed that I wasn't strong enough to hold on for the gold," he said.
"I've only only raced three times since London so it is bound to take some time to get race fit. Give me a couple of months and I'll be able to hold them off.
"There have been so many times when I have wanted to quit but my mum and dad told me I couldn't because I had too much talent and was too good to give in."


Whether or not Usain Bolt did get caught out criticising these Commonwealth Games - the reporter insists, the athlete vehemently denies - the subsequent headlines were another indication that life for the Jamaican sprinter is not like that for any other athlete.

Ever since that golden 12-month period from August 2008 to August 2009 - four major finals, four gold medals, four astonishing world records - Bolt has been a man out on his own, just as he was in carving up 100 metres in 9.58 seconds and 200m in 19.19.
Different league, different rules. Wherever Bolt goes, normal goes out of the window.
There is the big stuff: a million requests for the 80,000 tickets for 2012's Olympic 100m final, an appearance fee 10 times that of his fellow sprinters, a sportswear sponsorship deal that reportedly pays him more than £2m a year in retirement, let alone the £6m each year while he is still running.
Then there is the day-to-day weirdness: being paraded round tracks before competitions astride a giant rocket, a world championships being halted so the entire stadium could sing him Happy Birthday, being asked about the Gaza crisis and Scottish independence in news conferences while posing alongside a giant anthropomorphic thistle.
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What else sets him apart is how much he enjoys being the centre of such relentless attention.
One of the saddest aspects of Tiger Woods's comparative fame is how miserable he makes being Tiger Woods appear. Bolt utilises that same weight of public pressure to drag out his best.
In the weeks before London 2012, he had been beaten by rivals and doubted by critics. By his own admission, he was only 95% fit. Then, at the centrepiece of the biggest sporting occasion on the planet, he ran the second fastest 100m of all time to retain his Olympic title in unprecedented style.
Just as in overcoming a naturally sluggish start and coping with an abnormal curvature of the spine which once made him injury-prone, Bolt has had to work on that ability to flourish in the spotlight.
As a precocious 15-year-old, it was almost too much for him. Going to the World Juniors in 2002 as the home-grown darling of the Kingston crowd, he was so intimidated by the expectations of his fellow Jamaicans that he broke down in tears and told his parents he wanted to pull out.
The footage of his victory, over rivals three years older and in physical maturity, is the moment the kid became the clowning man: crowd going crazy, Bolt - initially stunned - suddenly deciding to salute them, watching the delighted reaction and metamorphosing as he does so.
"That was, and will always be, my greatest moment," he has said.
In the decade that has followed, Bolt has become a must-see show, a one-off marvel to catch before it is too late.
No matter that each performance may last less than 10 seconds. Unlike any other superstar sprinter, unlike Carl Lewis or Michael Johnson, he stretches a short into an epic - play-acting in his warm-up, talking to the TV cameras, posing on the blocks, dragging the stadium's attention with him on laps of honour, borrowing phones to set up selfies and signing everything offered.
Because it is an experience to tell the grandchildren about, because there are a finite number of opportunities to witness the greatest athlete that has ever lived do what no athlete has ever done before, everyone wants to be involved.
How does he cope? On the road, as he is for most of an injury-free summer, he is shielded by long-time agent Ricky Simms, the 37-year-old Irishman who first met him just after those World Juniors.
It is close to Simms' office in south-west London that Bolt usually bases himself in summer, training at Brunel University in Uxbridge and St Mary's in Twickenham and using Heathrow airport for the short hops to big-money meets around Europe.
London being indifferent London, he can run without attention and pop into the Chinese takeaways of Teddington without being asked to sign more than the bill.
At home in Kingston he shares his five-bedroom house with his half-brother Sadiki and childhood best friend NJ. His PlayStation and Call of Duty provide an escape, the two men a comfort blanket of normality.
When even that gets too much, he goes back to the rural north-west of Jamaica and the tiny town of Sherwood Content, where he grew up and where parents Jennifer and Wellesley still live.
Out come the dominoes, out comes the Guinness. For a man who has made a living from doing the impossible, it is both mundane and understandable.
Being the fastest human being who ever lived can still be onerous. In the athletes' village at big events, even surrounded by other world-class sportsmen, he is almost a prisoner of his room.
Here in Glasgow, as in London, he has not even been able to go to the canteen for food. "That's nothing new," admits Jamaican press attache Laurel Smith.
"He doesn't want to create disturbance. So what the management team is basically instructed is that he has what they call in Jamaican terminology, a bagman.
"He will go first, check out what is on the menu, report back to Usain, he makes the selection and then the bagman goes down and gets it and brings it back to his room.
"Because if he goes in at particular times, the canteen would have a couple of hundred people and it would create a disturbance. They have to be very mindful of that so the best method is to get his bagman to bring his meal to his room."
Bolt changed his sport. Without Usain there would be no Mobot, no Yohan Blake growing his nails and inserting plastic fangs as 'the Beast', no prime-time slots for a sport that had been on the decline.
Because Bolt, probably, saved his sport too. He came in after almost every record-breaking sprinter - Justin Gatlin, Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery - had been busted for doping. He stands clean as his rivals - Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell - go the same way.
When he runs, promoters sell out stadiums. When he doesn't, the fans stay away. The attendance at the Diamond League meet in Rome this year was 35,000 down on the year before. The reason? In 2013 Bolt was there; in 2014, he stayed at home.
The Bolt effect can be felt everywhere. It has made his rivals faster, according to a study that analysed every international 100m race since 1888. It changed the UK tax system, when Chancellor George Osborne granted a one-off amnesty to bring the Jamaican to last summer's London Grand Prix. It has even boosted tourism to his home country.
"The impact of Bolt's performance at the London Olympics will have an effect on the island for many years," Jamaican tourism minister Wykeham McNeill has said.
It should be too much for a 27-year-old to take. But only once has he cracked, when he false-started at the 2011 World Championships under intense pressure from training-partner Blake.
There have been no sex scandals a la Woods, no gambling exposes of the sort that hit Michael Jordan.
Bolt is not Muhammad Ali. He has not taken the same radical political stance nor gambled his sporting career on a point of principle. Sport is different now. Few have.
But he has shared Ali's ability to transcend his sport, and he has sucked in the world's willing attention in just the same way. And he has done so with remarkably few problems.


Birds make their homes in all sorts of locations  - here is Newsround's pick of some of the more unusual places they've chosen...

1) A post box
A pair of blue tits appear to have moved into a post box in Essex. Royal Mail has put up a notice asking people to use other post boxes in the area instead after the birds were spotted inside.
1) Town Christmas tree
It's not just post boxes. Last year a 10 metre tall Christmas tree in Kent had to wait to be taken down thanks to a dove nesting in its branches.
Council workers discovered the bird when they started taking down the tree's decorations.
The collared dove had settled into her festive home and laid eggs, so work was immediately stopped so that she wouldn't be disturbed.
2) In the middle of a footpath
Or why not just in the middle of a path?
A footpath in Norfolk unveiled by Sir David Attenborough was forced to close just three days after opening, because a bird made its nest there.
An oystercatcher liked "Attenborough's Walk" so much that it decided to move in.
3) Cathedral Christmas tree
Christmas trees seem to be popular - this robin made its home in one that stood inside Liverpool Cathedral.
It's thought it got into the branches while the tree was being stored outside and staff at the cathedral only noticed the robin after the tree was put up inside.
4) Cathedral spire
It's not just inside, at Norwich Cathedral a breeding pair of peregrine falcons nested on its spire outside.
They originally made their home there back in 2011 and must have liked it so much they decided to stay put!
Here's a clip of them in 2014 with their recently hatched chicks.


Manchester United came from behind and survived Chris Smalling's sending-off to beat Crystal Palace and win the FA Cup at Wembley through Jesse Lingard's extra-time strike.

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As Wembley was awash with growing speculation this this would be Louis van Gaal's final match as United manager - with BBC Sport understanding he will be replaced by Jose Mourinho next week - he was able to add English football's most glamorous cup to his honours list.
United looked on course to end the season empty-handed as well as missing out on Champions League football when substitute Jason Puncheon's powerful far-post finish put Palace ahead with 12 minutes left.
It was harsh on United, who had hit the woodwork through Marouane Fellaini and Antony Martial, but they responded within four minutes with a brilliant run from Wayne Rooney that ended with Juan Mata scoring from close range.
United lost Smalling to a second yellow card for hauling back Yannick Bolasie in extra time - but Lingard took the trophy to Old Trafford when he lashed home a first-time strike from Damien Delaney's half-clearance after 110 minutes.
All the messages in and around Wembley before and during this FA Cup final pointed to this Wembley showpiece marking the end of Van Gaal's largely undistinguished two-year spell in charge.
When his expected replacement with Mourinho is confirmed, the 64-year-old Dutchman can at least take pleasure and credit for returning United to trophy-winning ways for the first time since the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013.
And this was another performance in a manner that has become their FA Cup template this season, driving on through periods of adversity to eventually come out of the other side victorious, something for which Van Gaal deserves praise.
They won at West Ham in a quarter-final replay then survived a comeback from a resurgent Everton to win the semi-final with Antony Martial's late winner.
And here they shrugged off Smalling's red card to show real resilience and character.
It was a victory that clearly meant so much to Van Gaal as the normally impassive manager raced from his seat in the technical area to celebrate Lingard's winner.
In what appears to be his last act as manager, it was one that illustrates he will leave on a high.
This was another day of FA Cup heartbreak for Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew, whose day will be remembered as much for his rather eccentric dance moves when Puncheon put his side ahead as well as a third final defeat.
Pardew was a member of the Palace side that lost in a replay to United at Wembley in 1990 and was in charge of West Ham when they were hit by Steven Gerrard's famous late equaliser in Cardiff that set the stage for Liverpool to beat the Hammers on penalties after a 3-3 draw.
For four minutes here he must have thought the tide had turned but it was not to be - and the music stopped for the dancing Pardew when Lingard's crisp finish flew past helpless Palace keeper Wayne Hennessey.
Rooney led Manchester United up the Wembley steps to collect the FA Cup and add a missing medal to his collection - a richly deserved accolade.
The England international may not have been at his best but it was his intervention when United had their backs to the wall and trailed that dragged them back into a cup final they were in danger of losing.
He drifted past four Palace players and took on two more before crossing to the far post, where Fellaini touched on for Mata to score. It was a momentum-shifting moment.
Rooney may have his critics but he proved once again he retains the ability to influence the big games.
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Referee Mark Clattenburg was the villain of the piece for Crystal Palaces fans for his poor application of the advantage rule in the first half that stopped a promising position involving Connor Wickham when he was clear after being fouled by Smalling.
Clattenburg pulled play back and infuriated Pardew a second time when Joel Ward carried on in a promising position despite being fouled by Marcos Rojo, only to be stopped in full flow by the official.
There was no doubt about Smalling's dismissal. He had to go for a crude drag back on Bolasie when he was beaten for possession and resorted to rugby methods.
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal, speaking before BBC Sport broke the news of Mourinho's expected appointment: "It is fantastic to win this title for the club, for the fans, and also for me because I now have won the cup in four countries, and not many managers have done that.
"We had 10 players, and we have played Tuesday evening also, but we have deserved it I think."
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Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew: "My players gave everything. Everything. And they deserved to win but the game is like that.
"We had a couple of decisions that went against us, big time. Connor was through, Wilfried had a penalty but I'm not going to bleat. It was a great performance from both teams, great final."
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Match ends, Crystal Palace 1, Manchester United 2.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Crystal Palace 1, Manchester United 2.
Offside, Crystal Palace. Wayne Hennessey tries a through ball, but Damien Delaney is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Joel Ward.
Offside, Crystal Palace. Adrian Mariappa tries a through ball, but Damien Delaney is caught offside.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match David de Gea (Manchester United) because of an injury.
David de Gea (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace).
Attempt saved. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Joel Ward.
Hand ball by Yannick Bolasie (Crystal Palace).
Michael Carrick (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace).
Attempt missed. Mile Jedinak (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Wilfried Zaha.
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal!  Crystal Palace 1, Manchester United 2. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Michael Carrick (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jesse Lingard with a cross.
Michael Carrick (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James McArthur (Crystal Palace).
James McArthur (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James McArthur (Crystal Palace).
Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Antonio Valencia.
Attempt saved. Dwight Gayle (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Wilfried Zaha with a through ball.
Second Half Extra Time begins Crystal Palace 1, Manchester United 1.
First Half Extra Time ends, Crystal Palace 1, Manchester United 1.
Second yellow card to Chris Smalling (Manchester United) for a bad foul.
Foul by Chris Smalling (Manchester United).
Yannick Bolasie (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Antonio Valencia (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Wayne Rooney.
Michael Carrick (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yannick Bolasie (Crystal Palace).
Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by David de Gea.
Attempt saved. Yannick Bolasie (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United).
Mile Jedinak (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wayne Rooney (Manchester United).
Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Pape Souaré.


Militia fighters in DR Congo have decapitated about 40 police officers in an ambush in the central province of Kasai, local officials say.

Fighters from the Kamwina Nsapu group attacked a police convoy.
Six policemen who spoke the local Tshiluba were freed, but the rest were killed, Kasai Assembly President Francois Kalamba said.
The unrest in Kasai began last August, when security forces killed the Kamwina Nsapu leader.
Friday's attack targeted a police convoy travelling between Tshikapa and Kananga.
The state Governor Alexis Nkande Myopompa said an investigation had been launched into the killings.
The UN says 400 people have been killed and 200,000 displaced in the Kasai region since Jean-Pierre Pandi, the Kamwina Nsapu leader, was killed.
This came two months after Kamwina Nsapu launched a bid, in June 2016, for him to be officially recognised as a local chief and for state bodies to withdraw from the region.
Why have 10 mass graves been found in Kasai?
The UN says it has identified 10 mass graves where those killed in the unrest have been buried, as well as another seven suspected mass burial sites.
Two UN experts, an American and a Swede, were kidnapped in the area two weeks ago with four Congolese colleagues and are still missing.
DR Congo is in a state of increasing political uncertainty as President Joseph Kabila remains in power beyond the end of his mandate ,which expired last December.
Elections are now due to be held before the end of this year, but no firm date has been set.


Birds have been the latest casualty of the bad weather, giving animal rescue service GSPCA its busiest new year.

The service has rescued 10 birds from the shores since 1 January, an increase of 300% on last year.
Geoff George, acting chief officer, said: "The stormy weather has led to casualties and we are expecting more problems as the weather gets worse."
The rescued birds included a cormorant, a kestrel, a snipe and a gannet named Balthazar.
All of the birds are currently under heat lamps or in intensive care units and GSPCA hopes to release them back into the wild as soon as the weather improves.


Ed Joyce has stepped down as Sussex captain following relegation from County Championship Division One.

The 37-year-old Ireland batsman has skippered the Hove side for the last three and a half seasons.
"The time is right to hand over the reins to a new captain and whoever that is will have my support," he said.
"My increasing commitments with Ireland and the stage in my career I'm at meant that the job became more a burden than a challenge to be relished this year."
Joyce took over the Sussex captaincy in the middle of 2012, replacing Michael Yardy.
The top-order batsman led the side in the County Championship and One-Day Cup this year, with Luke Wright skippering the side in the T20 Blast.
Joyce scored 786 first-class runs at an average of 31.44 as Sussex's five-year stay in the top flight came to an end.
"We've had a very tough year in 2015 but despite this, we've received overwhelming support from the majority of fans," Joyce added.
"I'm very determined to get back to scoring lots of runs and helping us back into the first division of the Championship.
"We have so much talent in the dressing room and so many good people throughout the club that I'm certain we'll bounce straight back from this season."
Meanwhile, Sussex bowlers George Garton and Matt Hobden have been selected to take part in the Potential England Performance Programme this winter.


A pilot managed to glide his single-engine aeroplane to safety after the propeller fell off at 2,000ft (610m).

The man was flying between Bodmin and Roche in Cornwall when he made the emergency landing at a country club near Polzeath on Wednesday.
The club was evacuated during the landing. The pilot later had a glass of water there, said witnesses.
The propeller landed 10ft (3m) away from a builder in Polzeath who said he was "lucky to be alive".
The pilot, Nick Chitterdon, said the aircraft is a vintage 1936 plane.
"When the propeller went there was a loud bang and it disappeared to the left.
"I switched the fuel off and started looking for field to land in. I then remembered a private airstrip at a nearby golf course and it took sometime to glide down."
The propeller landed in a building site near Polzeath only feet away from delivery driver Paul Stembridge.
He said: "I was working away and I heard a big crash behind me. I turned around and there was a big propeller about 10ft behind me.
"It was a matter of milliseconds - if it had gone a bit further that would probably have been my lot."
Eva Davies, one of the directors at The Point at Polzeath Club, where the aircraft landed, said: "We had a phone call from the fire service who told us to evacuate the building, which included the restaurant, golf club, health club, gym, changing rooms and swimming pool.
"The aircraft was spotted by a few golfers as it came in. He was gliding down straight on to our airfield.
"Although he landed safely, within five minutes we had six fire engines, three police cars and ambulance here. They didn't know if he was injured.
"The pilot then came in and had a glass water."
A Devon and Cornwall Police spokesman said: "Thankfully, he was obviously a very skilled pilot.
"The pilot has recovered the plane, and the propeller which landed in New Polzeath has been recovered by the police."
A spokesman from Bodmin Airfield said pilots were trained to glide in aircraft before "going solo" to prepare them for such incidents.
The plane was an Aeronca. The incident has been reported to The Air Accidents Investigation Branch.


Part of a Swansea University campus was evacuated on Thursday after the discovery of "unstable" chemicals.

The university said the move at Singleton Park was "precautionary".
South Wales Police received a call at about 13:30 BST after concerns about the safe storage of chemicals before a controlled explosion took place.
Nobody was injured and a police spokesman said a cordon erected was precautionary while the chemicals were removed.
Student Alex Jones said there was "some panic" at the start of the incident and lectures were moved away from the area to other buildings.
South Wales Police said the incident was not treated as suspicious and there was no risk to the public.
The university said the controlled explosion was carried out by the Royal Logistics Corps bomb disposal unit after the chemicals "had become unstable".


Twitter has agreed to remove a flood of anti-Semitic tweets circulating on its service in France.

The offensive messages are circulating labelled with the #unbonjuif (#agoodjew) hashtag.
The tweets are being removed following the threat of legal action by a Jewish student group.
The Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) was planning to get a court injunction to make Twitter remove the offensive tweets.
The decision to remove the tweets emerged from a meeting between Twitter's senior management, the UEJF president Jonathan Hayoun and the group's legal representatives. During the meeting the UEJF handed over a list of the posts it wants removed.
Over the past few days the #unbonjuif hashtag has been one of the most popular phrases on Twitter among French-speaking users of the service. Many of the tweets bearing the tag contain offensive comments.
The UEJF had scored an "important victory" over Twitter on the issue, Stephane Lilty, the student body's lawyer told AFP. It has also pressed Twitter to reveal the names of those abusing the hashtag. Twitter has yet to issue an official comment about the matter.
The decision to remove the messages comes soon after Twitter shut down an account used by a German neo-Nazi group based in Hanover. The block was imposed at the request of German police. Facebook and YouTube have also agreed to block the group's accounts.
The block was carried out using a novel feature called "Country Withheld Content" it introduced earlier in 2012. This means users in Germany will be unable to see messages posted by the account but they will be visible in other nations.


A Northern Ireland-based photographer has literally gone to the ends of the Earth to highlight the "inhumane" effects of climate change.

Joyce Ferder Rankin travelled from the Arctic to Antarctica and back again over a four-year period from 2011 to 2015, capturing stunning polar images.
An exhibition of photographs from her journey has opened in Portstewart.
She decided to showcase "the beauty of what we are losing" rather than the ugly effects of human destruction.
The trip brought her up close and personal with polar bears - getting within 7ft (2.1m) of the fierce creatures to record their fight for survival on a shrinking hunting ground that is melting into the sea.


A Japanese court has begun hearing the case of a man who developed leukaemia after working as a welder at the damaged Fukushima nuclear site.

The plaintiff, 42, is the first person to be recognised by labour authorities as having an illness linked to clean-up work at the plant.
He is suing Tokyo Electric Power Company, which operates the complex.
The nuclear site was hit by the earthquake and tsunami in 2011, causing a triple meltdown.
It was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. An exclusion zone remains in place around the site as thousands of workers continue clean-up efforts.
The man, from Japan's Fukuoka prefecture, was a welder for a sub-contractor.
He spent six months working at Genkai and Fukushima No 2 nuclear plants before moving to the quake-hit Fukushima No 1 plant, where he build scaffolding for repair work at the No 4 reactor building. His cumulative radiation exposure was 19.78 millisieverts.
This is lower than official limits - Japan currently allows workers at the damaged plant to accumulate a maximum of 100 millisieverts over five years. A dose of 100 millisieverts over a year is seen as enough to raise the risk of cancer.
But in October 2015, a health ministry panel ruled that the man's illness was workplace-related and that he was eligible for compensation.
"While the causal link between his exposure to radiation and his illness is unclear, we certified him from the standpoint of worker compensation," a health ministry official said at the time.
The man is now suing Tepco and the Kyushu Electric Power Company (Kepco), which operated the Genkai plant, for JPY59m ($526,000, £417,000).
"I worked there [Fukushima No 1 plant] because of my ardent desire to help bring the disaster under control but I was treated as if I was a mere expendable labourer," Kyodo news agency quoted him as saying.
"I want Tokyo Electric to thoroughly face up to its responsibility."
When he filed the suit late last year, his lawyers said he had been "forced to undergo unnecessary radiation exposure because of the utilities' slipshod on-site radiation management".
Tepco and Kepco have asked the court to reject the suit, questioning the link between his radiation exposure and leukaemia, Kyodo reported.
Tens of thousands of workers have been employed at the Fukushima site since the disaster in March 2011. Late last year the government said estimates of clean-up costs had doubled to JPY21.5 trillion ($188bn, £150bn).


More cruise ships could be set to visit the Dorset coast, following the approval of plans to extend facilities at Portland Port.

The port's board has given the go-ahead for the upgrading of its berth to accommodate ships of more than 340m (1,115ft) in overall length.
General manager Ian McQuade said it meant the port could target "the ever increasing range" of cruise customers.
The new facility is due to be finished in time for the 2017 season.
The 9.6m-deep main cruise berth at Portland is due to handle about 5,000 passengers on board Holland America Lines and the TUI Group vessels later this year.
Costa and Saga cruise ships are also due to visit the port.
Portland is one of three ports on the south coast that can already accommodate vessels up to 300m (985ft) alongside.
Mr McQuade said the further extension would put it among a "unique group of ports".


Guernsey vice-captain Josh Butler says they are awaiting permission from Leicestershire to allow Will Fazakerley to play in World Cricket League Five.

Seam bowler Fazakerley, 19, made his first-class debut earlier this month and has been named in Guernsey's squad.
"We probably won't know for another couple weeks yet," Butler told BBC Radio Guernsey.
"Being a contracted player for a professional side he's controlled by them, so it's a tough one."
Butler continued: "He's a key player for us, so we're hoping he's available."
Guernsey will come up against Italy, Cayman Islands and Qatar in the group stages of the tournament in September, which will take place in South Africa.
Their 14-man squad, led by director of cricket Ashley Wright, includes skipper Jamie Nussbaumer and Matt Stokes, as well as World Cricket League debutants Matt Breban, Dec Martel, and Ben Fitchet.
"A lot of our players are very experienced, but they're all still very young as well," added Butler. "The main aim has to be promotion for us."


Britain's Gordon Reid is on course for an Australian Open double after winning through to the final of the men's wheelchair doubles at Melbourne Park.

The 24-year-old Scot is already into the final of the singles, where he will face Belgian Joachim Gerard.
Reid and Japan's Shingo Kunieda beat Gerard and Argentina's Gustavo Fernandez 7-6 (7-3) 6-2 in the semis.
They will now meet French top seeds Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer in Saturday's final.
Reid, who ended partner Kunieda's nine-year unbeaten run in the singles competition with a 6-3 7-6 (7-1) victory in the quarter-finals, is second on court six against Gerard with his doubles final following at the end of the day.


Liverpool's nightmare January reached rock bottom as they were dumped out of the FA Cup in the fourth round by Wolverhampton Wanderers at Anfield.

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Jurgen Klopp's side have won only one game out of eight since the turn of the year - an unconvincing third-round replay win at League Two Plymouth - and the loss at home to a team lying 18th in the Championship leaves Liverpool's season at a tipping point.
Wolves' victory also left Liverpool contemplating the damaging statistic of three successive Anfield losses for the first time since October 2012, the league defeat by Swansea followed by their EFL Cup semi-final exit at the hands of Southampton.
Klopp's Liverpool were riding a wave of Anfield optimism backed up by thrilling attacking football in the early months of the season - so what has gone so badly wrong?
Liverpool saw in the new year celebrating a victory over Manchester City at Anfield that left them in second place in the Premier League just hours before 2016 became 2017.
Klopp and his players celebrated extravagantly in front of the Kop after beating a City side regarded as title rivals. There has been nothing to celebrate since.
The last time Liverpool lost three games at home in succession it was to Arsenal and Manchester United in the Premier League and Udinese in the Europa League at the start of Brendan Rodgers' reign - and the last time Klopp suffered a similarly miserable fate was in April 2007 when he was in charge of German side Mainz.
Liverpool's struggles started when they were held 2-2 at Sunderland on 2 January and momentum has been totally lost since.
Klopp's side were deservedly beaten by Southampton over two legs and he cannot make any serious complaints about fixture overload because the lengthy trip to Plymouth for that third-round replay was  a product of selecting a scratch side for the first game at Anfield.
Liverpool performed creditably in a 1-1 draw at Manchester United but the past seven days have been easily the worst since Klopp took over from Rodgers in October 2015.
They close January 2017 facing Premier League leaders Chelsea at Anfield on Tuesday. It is Liverpool and Klopp's last chance to salvage comfort and hope from a dreadful month.
Liverpool, so full of threat and intensity until the turn of the year, have looked laboured and lacking in threat and confidence in January.
The most obvious mitigating circumstance has been the loss of leading scorer Sadio Mane to the Africa Cup of Nations with Senegal. The £34m summer signing's stock has risen higher than Anfield's new main stand in his absence.
Liverpool won 15 out of 21 games with Mane but only three out of 10 without him. They lost five out of 10 without him and only one out of 21 when he was in the side. The statistics speak for themselves.
Mane offered width, menace and the sort of pressing on opposing defenders that Klopp sets such store in. And most of all he offered goals, nine of them in the Premier League before he left for the Africa Cup of Nations.
This cannot be offered as the sole excuse for Liverpool's collapse, with Klopp still able to call on Daniel Sturridge and Divock Origi, as well as being able to use Roberto Firmino, with eight league goals, as the point of Liverpool's attack.
There is no question, however, that Origi's confidence has fallen through the floor and Sturridge's more languid style simply does not fit the Klopp template. Mane could not have gone on international duty at a worse time.
Liverpool's all-action style was one of the trademarks of Klopp's credo as a manager. He wants a fiercely physical "gegenpressing" approach, pressuring the opposition into submission.
It is a style that makes strong demands upon his players and they have been carrying out his orders to the letter - but is it starting to catch up with Liverpool?
In the Premier League this season, Liverpool have covered 2,579.5km, more than any other team. That's more than 200km further than one of their direct rivals, Manchester United.
Klopp dismisses suggestions he has run his players into the ground and left them exhausted so early in the season - and he would appear to be right. Even through a hectic January, Liverpool remain the team to cover the most distance in the league.
So if they are still outrunning all of their top-four rivals, there are other factors he may point to for this loss of form.
Philippe Coutinho, Liverpool's most creative attacking force in the early phase of the season, is still working his way back after a seven-week absence with an ankle injury, while there is the curious case of defender Joel Matip.
Matip was sidelined with an ankle injury after an impressive start to his Liverpool career following his summer arrival from Schalke - but his return was then delayed after confusion about his eligibility following his decision not to play for Cameroon in the Africa Cup of Nations.
He was back for the midweek loss to Southampton but Liverpool have not lost a game he has started in the Premier League, testimony to his importance. Matip has figured in 13 Premier League matches in all and Liverpool have lost two out of nine without him.
All can be offered up as reasons for the sudden downturn in Liverpool's fortunes - but the bottom line is both Klopp and his players have lost the assured touch that accompanied them until the new year.
Sturridge's contribution to Liverpool's latest Anfield misery was a 25-minute appearance as a substitute for Firmino - but there is no doubt the England striker is increasingly under the microscope.
The 27-year-old was expected to assume a greater share of responsibility in Mane's absence but, like so much of his career under Klopp, it has simply not happened for him.
The big chance, or chances, came and went for Sturridge in the second leg of the EFL Cup semi-final when two opportunities he would surely have converted with ease in full confidence were badly missed.
And as Klopp has suggested, it is Liverpool's wastefulness in front of goal that is costing them dear. They are still creating chances, but Sturridge and his team-mates are not taking them.
Sturridge's style, relying on instinct and a glorious natural talent, also seems to be an uneasy fit with what Klopp requires. Despite words of support from his manager, he now seems incapable of operating at the level of full-throttle intensity demanded by the German.
The statistics again back up the theory. He recovers possession less often than any other Liverpool player and wins fewer duels against opponents than any other outfield player at Anfield. These are two key components of the classic Klopp tactical plan.
Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher delivered a forensic critique of Sturridge's current status in his role as a Sky Sports pundit after the loss to Southampton.
"Sturridge is not the player to run in behind," said Carragher, "so you can forget about him replacing Mane. All he does is come to feet now.
"More often than not you cannot question his finishing but he doesn't do anything else in a game now, whereas he did when he first arrived.
"That's the case with that type of striker now. If they're not a target man or don't run in behind, everything has got to be put on a plate.
"So when he doesn't score you're basically down to 10 men because they're not offering anything else whatsoever."
Klopp has been supportive of Sturridge but the recent Liverpool troubles have underscored the impression that he is starting to look like a square peg in a round hole at Anfield.
Liverpool's manager said it himself after suffering Anfield's displeasure in the wake of the humiliating home defeat by Wolves, accepting he was "100% responsible."
Former Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson, who was an Anfield, told BBC Radio 5 live moments after Wolves' win: "At 1.20pm today, Klopp found himself at his lowest point since he became Liverpool manager."
Klopp's popularity has soared from the moment he arrived at Anfield in October 2015 after his sabbatical following his departure from Borussia Dortmund.
It was enhanced by taking Liverpool to cup finals in his first campaign, even though they lost on penalties to Manchester City in the League Cup final and were well beaten by Sevilla in the Europa League final.
There is no doubt, though, that he has not covered himself in glory in this unexpected fall from grace.
Klopp has endured scrutiny with some of his selections, including his ploy of leaving the influential Georginio Wijnaldum out of the EFL semi-final second leg loss to Saints. Instead he employed the midfield duo of out-of-form Emre Can and captain Jordan Henderson to little or no effect.
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Liverpool's manager has been playing with fire in the FA Cup this season and got his fingers badly burned against Wolves.
Klopp fielded a second-string side in the third-round tie at home to Plymouth and had to settle for a draw, adding an extra game Liverpool would not have relished.
And at Anfield on Saturday, even after the EFL Cup exit to Southampton left the FA Cup as Liverpool's main hope of a trophy, Klopp made nine changes. He tempted FA Cup fate and fate could not resist.
Surely after the disappointment of going out to Southampton one step from Wembley, this was an occasion to ditch that policy in favour of trying to keep Liverpool on track for a trophy?
Klopp could not even offer up the demands of European football as a reason for resting many of his stars, with Liverpool free from that obligation this season.
Yes, Chelsea come to Anfield in the Premier League on Tuesday but the FA Cup fourth-round tie had suddenly assumed a significance Klopp did not appear to fully grasp.
BBC Sport's Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker made his feelings clear when he said: "Don't get Klopp playing the reserves with no European football. Shows a lack of knowledge of the depth in English football and respect."
This week's events should not disguise the fact that the huge majority of Liverpool supporters are happy the club is in safe hands with Klopp. He retains the affection of the club's fanbase.
Liverpool's owners, Fenway Sports Group, share that view after awarding him a six-year extension to his contract in July last year.
What is in no doubt is that this has been a dreadful week for him and Liverpool - and some of the wounds have been self-inflicted.
Liverpool's goal at the start of the season would have been a top-four place. This was a feat many thought would prove beyond them.
Klopp perhaps raised expectations almost too high with Liverpool's results and thrilling performances earlier this season. This has made the fall from a height even more painful and surprising.
He still has that top-four objective well within reach but he will want marksman Mane back as soon as possible and he will need to work on regaining the confidence and impetus that has been lost.
Liverpool can still achieve big things - but trophy hopes look to be over for another season.


West Bromwich Albion have signed Wigan winger Callum McManaman for a fee of about £4.75m.

The 23-year-old has signed a three-and-a-half year contract at The Hawthorns and is new manager Tony Pulis's first signing.
"I'm delighted we've got Callum and I believe he will be an exciting addition," Pulis said.
"Callum is a player who can improve our options and I am really looking forward to working with him."
McManaman was Wigan's joint top-scorer this season with five goals in his 23 appearances and scored twice in the top flight for the Latics in 2012-13.
After his release by Everton, Huyton-born McManaman joined Wigan in 2007 and had a loan spell at Blackpool before his first-team breakthrough at the DW Stadium.
He was named man of the match when the Latics beat Manchester City in the 2013 FA Cup final.
McManaman is the second player to leave the struggling Championship side on Wednesday - after Adam Forshaw left to join Middlesbrough.


Ariana Grande has confirmed she'll host a special concert in Manchester this Sunday to remember the victims of last week's attack.

The star has asked acts including Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and Niall Horan to perform.
The One Love Manchester concert is taking place at Old Trafford Cricket Ground.
Twenty-two people died in an attack after her show last Monday in Manchester Arena.
Ariana is offering fans who were at the show free tickets.
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The rest of the tickets will raise money for the "We Love Manchester Emergency Fund", set up by Manchester City Council with the British Red Cross.
Ariana previously said in an open letter on social media that she'd return to Manchester for a benefit concert.
She wrote: "We won't let hate winâ€¦ Our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder and to live more kindly and generously than we did before.
"Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy. So that is what it will continue to do for us. We will continue to honour the ones we lost, their loved ones, my fans and all affected by this tragedy."


West Ham have signed Argentine forward Mauro Zarate on a three-year contract from Velez Sarsfield.

The 27-year-old will join with a further one-year option when the international transfer window opens next month.
The former Lazio forward scored four goals while on loan for Birmingham in the Premier League in 2008.
He said: "I hope I will bring goals to the squad. I will also bring dribbling skills and other attacking qualities."
Zarate was top scorer in Argentina last season with 20 goals in 35 matches in all competitions.
However, this second stint at Velez Sarsfield followed a controversial four-year spell at Lazio.
In 2010, while serving a two-match suspension at the Biancocelesti for insulting a referee, he was photographed giving a fascist salute amid the 'Ultras' section of fans. Zarate's spokesperson later claimed the player was unaware of the significance of his actions.
In April last year, Zarate was spotted on holiday in the Maldives when he was supposed to be in Argentina receiving medical treatment. At the time, he was not training with Lazio's first team because of disciplinary issues.


MPs are set to receive a £7,000 pay rise after the body responsible for setting their pay and expenses stuck by its recommendation for a 10% increase.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority said there appeared to be no "material" reason to alter its proposal, first put forward in 2013.
Unless "new evidence" emerged, MPs' pay will rise from £67,060 to £74,000.
David Cameron opposes the move but has said he will not block the increase, saying MPs' pay is a matter for Ipsa.
Ipsa was handed control of decisions over MPs' pay and expenses in the wake of the 2009 expenses scandal. It does not need to get the agreement of Parliament to bring in the changes.
The UK's 650 MPs are currently paid £67,060. Their pay would rise to £74,000 under Ipsa's final plans.
The PM has previously urged the watchdog to scrap the above-inflation increase, which was initially proposed to address complaints that pay had fallen behind the rest of the public sector.
But in its final consultation on the proposals, Ipsa restated its intention to press ahead with the increase, saying there appeared to be no "material" reason to change the recommendations.
Unless "new and compelling evidence" emerged by the end of June the pay rise - to be backdated to 8 May - would be confirmed, it said.
Ipsa said that due to cuts in pensions and expenses - such as a ban on claiming for evening meals - the overall package of changes would not cost taxpayers "a penny more".
Ministers are set to benefit from the increase to MPs' pay - as only the government element of their salaries has been frozen for five years under plans announced by David Cameron in the wake of the Conservatives' election victory.
Commenting on the final proposals, the PM's spokeswoman said: "Throughout this process and debate, the prime minister has been absolutely clear that he doesn't agree with the proposed increase.
"But ultimately it is up to Ipsa as an independent body to decide MPs' pay and it is for them to make their determination."
She added that Mr Cameron's focus was on areas where he had the power to bring down the cost of politics, including proposals for boundary changes to reduce the number of MPs at Westminster.
A Labour Party spokesman said: "It would feel wrong if Ipsa proposed an increase in MPs' take-home pay at a time when so many people are struggling."
Meanwhile, TaxPayers' Alliance chief executive Jonathan Isaby said the pay rise was "inappropriate", and criticised the watchdog as "out of touch" and "not fit for purpose".
"Ipsa spent £70,000 on a consultation which showed the public believed the current pay level to be broadly fair, yet have ignored the findings. MPs shouldn't be divorced from the same pay restraint as everywhere else in the public sector," he said.
GMB union general secretary Paul Kenny said: "We trust that none of the MPs accepting this pay rise as public servants will have the audacity to oppose the recommendations of pay review bodies or decent pay rises for public sector workers."
Labour MP John Mann said the decision showed "Westminster still doesn't get it".
He added: "At a time when the chancellor is asking every government department to cut billions more from their budgets, and public sector employees have been offered a 1% pay increase, this decision needs stopping."


The manhunt has grown for the suspected killer of six people near Philadelphia, officials in the US state of Pennsylvania say.

Schools shuttered and and public buildings increased security as police search for Bradley William Stone, 35.
Mr Stone is suspected in the killing of his ex-wife Nicole Stone, her mother, her grandmother, her sister, her sister's husband and their daughter.
He may be armed and dangerous, authorities warn residents.
"We are accessing every possible resource... to find Mr Stone. We will find Mr Stone," Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman told reporters on Tuesday.
Authorities from multiple agencies are engaged in the hunt, searching the suspect's car, home and phone for clues to his current whereabouts, she added.
The search has also spread to nearby Bucks County, where a man wielding a knife and fitting Mr Stone's description - red hair and wearing military fatigues - unsuccessfully attempted a carjacking before being chased into a wooded area.
The shootings in Souderton, Lansdale and Harleysville began at about 04:00 local time (09:00 GMT) on Monday.
The first took place at the home in Souderton of Mr Stone's former sister-in-law, Patricia Flick. She was killed along with her husband, Aaron Flick, and the couple's daughter, Nina, 14. The couple's 17-year-old son, Anthony Flick, was badly wounded.
He is currently in very serious but stable condition in hospital, authorities said.
The next shooting was at a house in nearby Lansdale where Nicole Stone's mother, Joanne Hill, and grandmother Patricia Hill were killed.
Nicole Stone was later killed at her home in Harleysville. Neighbours reported seeing Mr Stone fleeing with their two children and raised the alarm.
The children were found safe a short distance away, and Mr Stone's current wife and infant child were also secured.
Reports said the shootings may have been triggered by a custody dispute.
Mr Stone had reportedly filed an emergency motion to the court earlier this month, although those records are currently sealed.
"[Nicole Stone] would tell anybody who would listen that he was going to kill her and that she was really afraid for her life," Evan Weron, a neighbour in Harleysville, told the Associated Press news agency.
Police surrounded a home in Pennsburg on Monday, where the suspect is a resident, and called out by megaphone: "Come to the front door with your hands up. You're under arrest."
But Ms Ferman later told reporters police were still searching for Mr Stone in a number of different locations.


An air cargo company in Malaysia says it owns three Boeing 747 jets which officials said were left unclaimed at Kuala Lumpur airport.

Swift Air Cargo says it has been trying to retrieve them, but Malaysia Airports disputes its paperwork.
Malaysia Airports took out a newspaper advert this week seeking the planes' owners. It has said it has identified "multiple owners" of the planes.
The airport group has not yet responded to Swift's claims.
The BBC's attempts to reach Malaysia Airports for comment have been unsuccessful.
The group previously said the planes have been parked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport for more than a year, and that the jets had to be claimed within 14 days.
Swift Air Cargo released a statement saying it purchased them from a Hong Kong company in June, and had been meeting with Malaysian airport officials since then to collect them.
Chief executive officer Blue Peterson claims that Malaysia Airports has refused to give him access to the planes, saying they needed to verify his paperwork.
He told the BBC that officials wanted to see his registration papers. "But the planes have yet to be registered as they must first undergo maintenance checks. And I can't even go on the property to look at my own planes," he said.
The planes were last registered in Iceland under one of its previous owners, Air Atlanta Icelandic, but were subsequently deregistered in 2011 and 2012, according to Malaysian media reports.
Malaysia Airports' managing director Badlisham Ghazali told reporters on Thursday that the group has identified the multiple owners of the planes but it was "difficult to trace them".
The group says it will auction off or scrap the aeroplanes if they are not claimed by 21 December.


The Information Commissioners' Office (ICO) says it will be writing to 1,000 companies involved in buying and selling personal data to check they are acting lawfully.

The firms are all thought to play a role in compiling and trading lists of names and numbers used by cold callers.
The ICO also said it would announce three fines this week.
One penalty will be for a company that sent more than one million text messages about PPI claims.
Another fine is being levied against a second company that was cold-calling individuals in a bid to sell them so-called "blocker" software it claimed could prevent similar unwanted calls in the future.
Once the latest fines are applied, the ICO said the penalties imposed in the past four months alone would be Â£1m.
The ICO expects the companies to set out exactly how they comply with the law, including what data they shared.
It will also ask for a list of the companies they recently worked with.
Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said the sector had prompted 180,000 complaints a year from consumers.
"That information has helped us to make some big breakthroughs in the nuisance calls business, alongside the intelligence we build up from elsewhere, from whistleblowers for instance, or from the network providers," he said.
"We see clear patterns building up and can identify who ... the truly bad actors are. This enables us to execute search warrants, and to drag people before the courts."
Bolton-based personal injuries claims group Direct Assist, which was the subject of more than 800 complaints to the ICO, went into liquidation in the summer after being fined Â£80,000 for making unsolicited calls.
However, Mr Graham conceded: "There's a danger that where we remove one of the hydra's head, two grow back in its place".
Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer group Which?, welcomed the ICO response, but called for further action to eliminate nuisance calls.
"We now need to see much tougher penalties for senior executives of companies making unlawful calls, including board directors being held personally accountable." he said.


Nigeria internationals Elderson Echiejile, William Troost-Ekong and Imoh Ezekiel have joined Turkish Super Lig clubs.

Left-back Echiejile, 29, has joined Sivasspor from French side Monaco on a season-long loan.
Defender Troost-Ekong, 23, has left Belgian club KAA Gent for Bursaspor on a three-year deal.
Striker Imoh Ezekiel, also 23, has penned a three-year deal with Konyaspor from Qatari club Al-Arabi.
The move to Turkey is Echiejile's third loan switch since joining Monaco from Portuguese club Braga in January 2014.
He has previously played on loan at Belgian club Standard Liege and Spanish side Sporting Gijon.
Capped 51 times by Nigeria, Echiejile helped the Super Eagles to their third African title in 2013 and played at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Troost-Ekong, who joined Gent in July 2015, moves to Turkey in search of regular first-team football.
He played the 2015/16 season on loan at Norwegian club FK Haugesund, but only made eight appearances for Gent last season.
He started his career with the Tottenham Hotspur youth side before returning to the Netherlands to join Groningen in 2013 and played on loan at Dordrecht.
He was a former Netherlands youth international before switching allegiances to represent the country of his father at senior level.
Troost-Ekong won Olympic football bronze with Nigeria at the 2016 Rio Games and has 10 caps for the Super Eagles.
Ezekiel, who began his professional career at Belgian side Standard Liege, is delighted with his return to European football.
"I thank Konyaspor for the opportunity to come here and I hope to make a significant contribution," Ezeikel, who scored 38 goals in 104 games for Standard Liege, told BBC Sport.
Despite sealing a big-money move to Qatar in 2014, the striker had previously returned to Belgium for loan spells with former club Standard Liege and giants Anderlecht.
Ezeikel made his debut and lone appearance for Nigeria in a friendly against Mexico in March 2014.


The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have marked Easter Sunday by attending a church service in Sydney.

William and Catherine were greeted by cheering crowds outside St Andrew's Cathedral in the city centre.
While at the cathedral, they signed the First Fleet Bible, which was brought to Australia in 1788 and bears the names of other members of the royal family.
The couple then moved onto Taronga Zoo, where Prince George was introduced to a bilby, a rabbit-like marsupial.
Bilbies, which hide in burrows during the day and have large ears to pick up the sounds of insects and long noses to sniff out seeds and bulbs, were once common in Australia.
But there are now only 10,000 left in the wild because of the threat from non-native species like foxes and cats.
Dressed in a blue striped shirt, blue shorts and black shoes, the young prince looked excited to meet the native animal, which was named George in his honour.
He was handed a toy version, throwing the gift to one side.
William and Catherine also unveiled a plaque at the bilby enclosure, which was paid for by the Australian government to celebrate George's birth.
Earlier, the private church service was also attended by Australian prime minister Tony Abbott.
Archbishop of Sydney the Most Reverend Dr Glenn Davies and Dean of Sydney the Very Reverend Phillip Jensen met William and Catherine on the cathedral steps before the service began.
The bible had previously been signed by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh as well as the Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales in 1983 on their visit to Australia with an infant William.
William and Catherine also signed the prayer book of the First Fleet - the 11 ships that carried Europeans to Australia in the 1780s.
Catherine wore a dove grey Alexander McQueen coat and Jane Taylor hat for the service, while her husband wore a suit.
After the service, they spent time speaking to members of the cathedral choir and children who had gathered nearby to see the royal couple.


Long delays in the time it takes to buy a house or flat could be reduced, under government plans for homebuyers in England and Wales.

Currently it can take up to three months between an offer being put in and contracts being exchanged.
During that time, buyers can be "gazumped" by others - meaning their offer is trumped by a rival purchaser.
The government is planning to start an inquiry into the selling process within the next few weeks.
"When you ask agents from around the world, they can't understand why in Britain it takes so long to sell a house," said Martyn Baum, president of the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA).
"In the United States, it takes just three or four weeks," he told the BBC.
Consumers currently spend Â£270m a year on failed housing transactions, according to figures from the Treasury.
As announced in the March Budget, the enquiry will examine how to make the process "better value for money and more consumer-friendly".
One option might be to adopt some aspects of the house-buying system in Scotland.
Once an offer is accepted north of the border, it becomes a binding deal as soon as the contracts, known as missives, are agreed - making the process much quicker.
Sellers also have to produce a home report, which includes a survey and energy performance certificate.
This prevents each buyer having to commission their own survey.
Another possibility might involve the buyer putting down a deposit or bond, to discourage them from backing out.
A spokesperson from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) rejected the suggestion that the Scottish system might be adopted wholesale in England and Wales.


Everton midfielder Leon Osman hopes striker Romelu Lukaku will return to the club after impressing on a season-long loan from Chelsea.

Lukaku scored 16 goals as the Toffees finished fifth to qualify for Europe for the first time in five years.
Osman, 33, is desperate for the Belgium international to be back at Goodison Park in time for his testimonial game against Porto on Sunday, 3 August.
"It would be good to have Romelu back - we know the quality he's got," he said.
"There might be a bit more to do to get him back here but it would be great if he could come back in time to play in the game."
Everton's only signing of the summer is Gareth Barry, who also spent last season on loan with the club, although they are close to completing a deal for Ferencvaros midfielder Muhamed Besic.
Osman hopes manager Roberto Martinez can make further signings.
"We try not to be distracted by speculation, but sometimes you can't help but hear the rumours about who the manager wants to bring in to the club," he said.
"Besic should be completed in the next few days and we're aware of the rumours about a couple more coming in. It would be good if any new arrivals could play in my testimonial."


The prime minister of New Zealand has said Britain's position is stronger if it remains in the European Union

At a meeting with David Cameron, John Key said: "If we had the equivalent of Europe on our doorstep ... we certainly wouldn't be looking to leave it."
Mr Cameron described the comments as "important". New Zealand wants to sign a free trade deal with the EU.
The Vote Leave campaign said it was safer to take back control of UK trade deals from "bureaucratic Brussels".
Mr Key made his comments while meeting Mr Cameron at a nuclear security summit in Washington. He stressed that it was for the "British people to decide" on the outcome of the EU referendum on 23 June.
But he added:  "We certainly think it's a stronger position for Britain to be in Europe."
He said New Zealand wanted a free trade agreement with Europe because of its "huge amount of middle income consumers".
Will Straw, executive director of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign, said the remarks "underlined the vital importance to British consumers and businesses of the UK's access to Europe's single market, which is the best free trade deal available to the UK."
"Our membership of the EU gives us clout across the world," he said.
But Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliott said "Britain doesn't have a free trade deal with New Zealand - one of its closest allies - because we've handed control of trade policy to the EU.
"Even if the EU managed to eventually negotiate a deal with New Zealand, John Key has been clear that his country would keep the deal in place after we Vote Leave, torpedoing one of the Remain campaign's key scare stories. "
On Twitter, others questioned whether Mr Key was best placed to comment after backing ultimately unsuccessful efforts to change New Zealand's flag - which includes the Union Jack.
UKIP's communications chief Gawain Towler tweeted: "What is it with John Key - first he tries to change the NZ flag - loses, then says he would join the EU if he could!"


France's foreign minister has said the reported $10bn (£6bn; 7.3bn euros) fine being faced by banking giant BNP Paribas in the US is "not reasonable".

Media reports have suggested the bank might have to pay the fine over allegations it broke trade sanctions against Sudan, Iran and Cuba.
The US Justice Department is currently looking into the claims.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said a fine of the size suggested would be "an extremely serious problem".
Speaking on the France 2 television channel, he added it would be an example of an "unfair and unilateral decision".
"The fine has to be proportionate and reasonable. These figures are not reasonable," Mr Fabius said.
His warning comes just two days ahead of Barack Obama's visit to France, where the US President is set to hold bilateral talks with French President Francois Hollande.
Mr Fabius said that if a fine of the reported scale was imposed, it would hit BNP Paribas' funds and result in fewer loans for French businesses.
"It's an extremely serious question that the Americans must handle in a spirit of partnership and not unilaterally," he added.
In April, BNP Paribas said it had already set aside $1.1bn to cover the cost of the violations.
At the time, the bank wrote in a document: "A high degree of uncertainty exists as to the nature and amount of penalties that the US authorities could impose on the bank following completion of the ongoing process: there is the possibility that the amount of the fines could be far in excess of the amount of the provision."
If approved, and if BNP admits to criminal wrongdoing, the settlement would be the largest criminal penalty in US history, surpassing oil giant BP's $4bn agreement with the US Department of Justice in 2012.
US regulators have recently stepped up their actions against banks that violate laws against money laundering and tax evasion, amongst other violations.
Earlier in May, Swiss bank Credit Suisse agreed to a $2.6bn penalty and admitted criminal wrongdoing in helping "tax cheats" avoid paying US taxes.
To date, the largest fine levied against a bank by US regulators for sanctions violations was the $1.9bn HSBC paid in 2012.


UKIP leader Nigel Farage says he is frustrated he cannot make sweeping changes to the way the party makes policy and recruits members.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he wants to slash joining fees from Â£30 to Â£10 and let members vote online to decide policy.
Mr Farage said: "I'm frustrated that this idea which has been around for a long time hasn't been put into action.
"And frankly I don't have the power and ability to do this myself."
Leading figures in UKIP suspect he is set to rebrand the party after the EU referendum in June.
Some also believe he could try to launch a new political movement.
The UKIP leader is an admirer of the anti-establishment activist Beppe Grillo whose Five Star Movement has become a major force in Italian politics, driven in part by engaging with voters online.
Some of Mr Farage's colleagues suspect he could use voter data collected by the Leave.EU referendum campaign and funds from its backer Arron Banks to embark on a fresh political project.
Mr Banks himself has been quoted suggesting UKIP could be rebranded or disbanded.
One UKIP politician said: "That is clearly the strand of thinking at the top.
"They're not particularly interested in winning the referendum and they'd rather replicate the SNP scenario which is lose the primary objective of the party but create such a sense of grievance you win in the polls and do rather well."
Another said rumours of a move of this sort had circulated for months, and added: "It would be very interesting how UKIP supporters would take a view of Nigel planning to disband the party with a clickocracy."
A recent report suggesting there could be a secret post-referendum plan has prompted intense discussions between senior UKIP figures about the possibility of radical change.
Sources close to Mr Farage insist there are no such plans, but acknowledge the party's structure and direction is a constant source of debate.
His critics believe he is planning an upheaval to protect his position after the referendum, which will be held on 23 June on whether the UK will remain a member of the European Union or not.
They accuse him of seeking a flood of new members, like those who flocked to vote for Jeremy Corbyn during Labour's leadership election, to strengthen his support.
Many in UKIP, including some vigorous supporters of Mr Farage, think a leadership contest after the referendum is inevitable.
Internal tensions were heightened after the former deputy chairwoman Suzanne Evans was suspended.
Responding to the story, Ms Evans tweeted: "Policy can't be made at the click of a mouse. It's far, far more complex than counting a set of instant opinions."


National flags from around the world were fluttering gently in the shadow the of the iconic Harland and Wolff cranes in east Belfast on Saturday.

They represented the 42 nations competing in the International Association of Ultra Runners 24-hour World Championships.
Hundreds of young and not so young runners from around the globe are competing in the event at Victoria Park.
They set off at midday.
Many of them hope to keep on running, or walking, or doing whatever it takes, to continue circling the course until midday on Sunday.
Among those limbering up on Saturday were athletes from Brazil.
The Finnish runners and coaches were in a last-minute team bonding huddle, the American team were high-fiving.
Voices and accents from across the world echoed around the calm setting of the tree-lined park along the Connswater river.
Richard Avery from New Zealand was counting down the last few minutes.
"We've been in Europe for a month now, well over the jet lag and ready to go. Can't wait," he said.
Harvey Lewis, USA, said  "It's exiting to be here in Belfast. It's amazing to see all the different athletes."
Thomas Craig had less of a trek as he is from Larne in Northern Ireland.
He has completed the event twice before. He had worked out his tactics to get through this event.
"Twenty-five minutes running, five minutes walking, twenty-five minutes running, five minutes walking, and just keep progressing that and, fingers crossed, I don't blow up and I keep doing that!"


Cardiff will be at "its busiest ever" as the Principality Stadium hosts the Champions League final on 3 June.

Up to 170,000 football fans will be travelling to the city for what will be the single-biggest sporting event of 2017.
There will be extensive road closures for safety reasons and to manage the volume of visitors.
About 1,500 officers from across the UK will police the event.
Supt Steve Furnham, the overall lead for planning and safety, spoke at a briefing on Friday and described the final as "unlike anything they have had to deal with before".
He said since Cardiff was announced as hosting the event, "the world has changed dramatically".
"We've all seen the atrocities on mainland Europe in Berlin, Nice, Paris and the terrible events in Westminster two weeks ago," he said.
Supt Furnham said there would be "significant changes" in and around the city, with counter terrorism measures in place and planned.
"There will be a ring of steel, significant road closures to ensure the safety of people," he said.
The Football Association of Wales (FAW) said airports, trains and roads will all be at their busiest from as far reaching as London, Birmingham and Gloucester, as well in nearby Bristol, Newport and the Valleys.
Additional train and bus services are being put in place and there will be changes to local public transport services.
The FAW recommends avoiding travelling to Cardiff on 3 June unless the journey is essential.
"If you do need to travel, or are keen to soak in the atmosphere, please note your journey may be longer than usual, so head out early and plan ahead," it said.
The Champions League finalists will not be known until two weeks before the match and, as teams are knocked out, police will adapt their plans.
"It won't be like normal events, like the rugby, 95% will never have been to Cardiff before and, if it's two continental teams, there will be a language barrier as well," added Supt Furnham.
Running alongside the final, a family Champions Festival will be held in Cardiff Bay from 1 to 4 June. The free event is expected to attract more than 200,000 people.
A large stage will be situated in Roald Dahl Plass with a global and local artists, DJs and bands set to perform throughout each day.
A floating pitch will be installed and will host the Ultimate Champions Match on 2 June, featuring legends of the game.
It will also host walking football, refugee teams from Cardiff, Swansea and Newport, a deaf football friendly international, learning disability and youth age groups matches.
The Wales Millennium Centre will host the Champions Gallery from 31 May, which will celebrate Welsh grassroots football and communities as well as the elite level of the game.
A UEFA and FAW legacy pitch will be installed in Grangetown, Cardiff.
The all-weather pitch, which will be free for the local community to use, will be officially opened on 2 June.
It has been gifted to the city to improve "social cohesion, health and wellbeing".
Jonathan Ford, chief executive of the FAW, said: "One of the FAW's key strategic objectives is to attract major football finals to Wales, and to use those finals to inspire increased participation in the sport and the many cultural and health benefits associated with it.
"While many hundreds of millions of people worldwide will watch the men's and women's finals on TV, the people of Wales will have opportunities to engage with and enjoy all the associated events."
The women's Champions League final will be on 1 June at Cardiff City Stadium at 19:45 BST.
The Champions League trophy will travel to Cardiff from the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, on 21 April.
Wales football legend Ian Rush and First Minister Carwyn Jones will accompany the trophy on its journey to Wales.