A video from a Montreal festival parade has gone viral with critics suggesting it shows the event's lack of diversity.

The clip shows a singer on a float pushed by four black men in khakis, as a white crowd dances around them in the Canadian city.
The video uploaded on Facebook was captioned (in French): "I'm not sure the organisers of the parade understood the concept of diversity."
The organisers called the outcry "unjust" and "exaggerated".
Saint Jean Baptiste Day, known as Fête Nationale or National Holiday, is marked throughout the Quebec province every 24 June, as a celebration of Francophone history and culture.
The Montreal event was themed on Quebec's history.
Maxime Laporte, president of the Société de St-Jean Baptiste de Montréal, told the CBC news network that it was a coincidence black men were pushing the float.
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The volunteers had been recruited from two local organisations: the Association for School Retention and the the Louis-Joseph-Papineau High School Sports Team.
"We need to look at this situation as a whole," Mr Laporte said. "It was a wonderful parade that represented [Montreal's] diversity. People need to make a better judgment call in these circumstances."
Local resident Félix Brouillet shot the video, which has been shared more than 12,000 times, attracting many outraged comments.
The Association of Muslims and Arabs for Secularism in Quebec also complained that it saw only black people - plus a couple of Asians and Arabs - pushing the floats.
"What do we say to the black child who is happy to go and celebrate the national holiday?" it asked on Facebook.
However, school football coach Steve Lubin, who knows some of the students participating parade, told CBC he thought the issue was overblown.
"When kids work hard, I don't see colour. I see participants. It just so happens that my kids were working hard and that white people happened to be sitting on the float. If it was the opposite, would we be having this discussion? I'm not so sure."
In statement on the festival's Facebook page, the organisers said the parade's eco-friendly vehicles were not motorised and so had to be pushed along.
"It goes without saying that these young people - who were proud to participate in the event - were not chosen according to the colour of their skin," it said.
They say it was their most diverse Fête Nationale to date.


Finlay Bealham is in line to make his Ireland debut against Italy on Saturday after being called up to replace prop Cian Healy on the replacements' bench.

The uncapped Connacht front-rower, 24, was called into Joe Schmidt's match-day squad on Friday after Healy withdrew because of a "mild hamstring strain".
Healy suffered the injury in training on Thursday and then underwent scans.
Canberra-born Bealham qualifies for Ireland through his grandmother, who hails from Enniskillen.
Leinster loosehead Healy missed the opening Six Nations games against Wales and France after undergoing knee surgery.
He came on as a replacement for the final stages of the defeat by England and has not yet been ruled out of the final Six Nations clash against Scotland on 19 March.
Bealham has played four times for Ireland Under-20s and twice for the Emerging Ireland side.
"It's a great opportunity for Finlay to get a taste of Test match rugby," said Ireland assistant coach Simon Easterby.
"He's impressed everyone, he's got down to his hard work, stuck at his job and now he's got an opportunity to show what he can do at the highest level."
Ireland are chasing their first win of the tournament in the Dublin clash with the Italians.
Simon Zebo was named at full-back in Schmidt's starting team for the match at the Aviva Stadium, with regular number 15 Rob Kearney ruled out through injury.
Ulster's Jared Payne returns to partner Robbie Henshaw in midfield after missing the loss at Twickenham two weeks ago with a hamstring problem.
Despite impressing against England, Stuart McCloskey misses out, with Fergus McFadden's ability to cover centre and wing earning him a place on the bench.
Ireland have won 21 of their 25 test meetings against Italy and the Azzurri's only win in Dublin was their 37-29 victory at the old Lansdowne Road in January 1997.
Ireland: Simon Zebo; Andrew Trimble, Jared Payne, Robbie Henshaw, Keith Earls; Jonathan Sexton, Conor Murray; Jack McGrath, Rory Best (capt), Mike Ross; Donnacha Ryan, Devin Toner; CJ Stander, Josh van der Flier, Jamie Heaslip.
Replacements: Sean Cronin, Finlay Bealham, Nathan White, Ultan Dillane, Rhys Ruddock, Kieran Marmion, Ian Madigan, Fergus McFadden.
Italy: David Odiete; Leonardo Sarto, Michele Campagnaro, Gonzalo Garcia, Mattia Bellini; Edoardo Padovani, Guglielmo Palazzani; Andrea Lovotti, Davide Giazzon, Lorenzo Cittadini; George Biagi, Marco Fuser; Francesco Minton, Alessandro Zanni, Sergio Parisse (capt).
Replacements: Oliviero Fabiani, Matteo Zanusso, Dario Chistolini, Quintin Geldenhuys, Abraham Steyn, Alberto Lucchese, Kelly Haimona, Luke McLean


A body found in a Glasgow park was a pensioner who had been missing from her home in Lanarkshire since last Monday.

Wilhelmina Rooney, known as Anne, 71, was last seen by her husband at their home in East Kilbride.
Police confirmed that her body had been found near Tynecastle Street, Glasgow, on Sunday, and said her death was not being treated as suspicious.
On Friday, members of Mrs Rooney's family made an emotional appeal for her return.
A large-scale search, involving police dogs and helicopters, had taken place.
Sightings of the pensioner were reported in East Kilbride and her bus pass appeared to have been used on Glasgow buses.


South Africa need a further seven wickets on the fifth day for a consolation victory in the final Test after reducing England to 52-3.

Needing 382 to win, or to survive four sessions to draw, England lost Alex Hales, Alastair Cook and Nick Compton inside 10 overs in Centurion.
Kagiso Rabada, who claimed 7-112 in the first innings, took two wickets.
Earlier, South Africa declared on 248-5, thanks to Hashim Amla's 96 and an unbeaten 78 from Temba Bavuma.
No side has chased more than 251 to win at SuperSport Park, and, given the uneven bounce on a deteriorating pitch, South Africa will reasonably expect to claim victory for a 2-1 series defeat.
Facing a formidable new-ball pairing of Rabada and Morne Morkel on an unpredictable pitch in gloomy light was not a scenario an out-of-form Hales would have relished.
The opener, who has scored one half-century in four Tests, was beaten by a fine delivery from Rabada that nipped back and kept low to trap him lbw for one.
When captain Cook pushed hesitantly back to Morkel, who took a sharp one-handed return catch, the tourists' slim hopes of avoiding victory diminished further.
Compton drove loosely at Rabada, a disappointing shot which was followed by the batsman's strange decision to use up one of England's two reviews when there seemed little doubt he had edged behind.
Although Joe Root and James Taylor added an unbroken 34 from 18-3, England must survive 98 overs on a final day which will begin half an hour early at 08:00 GMT.
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott told Test Match Special: "Do I have to talk about England's batting?
"The pitch was a handful but Hales failed the test again. Compton played a shocking shot."
England bowler James Anderson on TMS: "It will be a tough task to save the game tomorrow, but we will come with a positive attitude. We'll do our best to get something out of the game."
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: "England face an uphill battle to save this Test. They have 98 overs still to bat, with the second new ball available after 60 - if required."
James Anderson had Stephen Cook caught behind and trapped AB de Villiers lbw for a pair - his third consecutive duck - in the space of three balls after South Africa resumed on 42-1.
However, former captain Amla took his run tally for the series to 470 with another assured innings.
Having been struck painfully on the glove on Sunday evening, he was hit again but progressed serenely on a pitch with widening cracks.
Duminy made 29 before he too fell to an outside edge off Ben Stokes, and, although Amla and Bavuma added 117 in 37 overs, there was no discernible acceleration from South Africa despite a position of strength.
Chasing the four that would have taken him to three figures, Amla edged a drive off Broad, and skipper De Villiers declared during a 70-minute rain delay after tea.
There was some surprise at the length of time it took to reach the decision, but Rabada and Morkel made full use of the 21 overs possible before the close.


A former British government minister has joked that the Republic of Ireland could ask to rejoin the UK during a debate on the UK's EU membership.

Lord Lawson said it "would be great" if the Republic of Ireland said it had "made a mistake" in getting independence from Britain in 1922.
He is campaigning for the UK to leave the EU in the forthcoming referendum.
He made the joke while answering a question on the effect of a British EU exit (Brexit) on the Irish border.
Lord Lawson served as chancellor from 1983 to 1989, under former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
He is now chairman of the Vote Leave campaign group.
During a referendum debate at the foreign affairs think tank, Chatham House, Lord Lawson was asked about the security implications along the Irish border if the UK leaves the EU.
He said the UK had a "special relationship with the Irish Republic, for obvious historical reasons but also for reasons of sentiment".
He said both states worked together to tackle the threat from terrorism and added he believed that  "very close co-operation" would continue after the UK left the EU.
Lord Lawson then joked: "I would be very happy if the Republic of Ireland - I don't think it's going to happen - were to say we made a mistake in getting independence in 1922, and come back within the United Kingdom. That would be great."
When asked if a UK withdrawal from the EU would result the reinstatement of security checks along the Irish border, he said: "There are checks now because of the terrorist problem.
"That's one of the places where terrorists are checked. I'm not at all sure there needs to be anything further. I don't see why there should be."
However, earlier this week Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness warned the implications of a UK withdrawal from the EU would be "absolutely enormous" for Northern Ireland.
His Sinn Féin party, which is campaigning to stay in the EU, said an exit would "undoubtedly led to a reinforcement of the border and greater restrictions on the movement of people, livestock and goods from one part of this island to the other".


Shakhobidin Zoirov won Olympic gold for Uzbekistan as he defeated Russia's Mikhail Aloyan to win the men's flyweight boxing competition in Rio.

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The 23-year-old took gold with a unanimous points victory, with one judge giving him the win by 30-27 and the other two judges scoring it 29-28.
For Aloyan, a two-time world amateur champion, the silver was an upgrade on the bronze he won at London 2012.
Zoirov's gold medal was Uzbekistan's third of the Games.
And Fazliddin Gaibnazarov added a fourth shortly afterwards when he beat Azerbaijan's Lorenzo Sotomayor on a 2-1 split decision to win light-welterweight gold.
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It was a frustrating evening for Leicester fans on Wednesday, losing 1-0 to Champions League rivals Atletico Madrid in the quarter-final first leg.

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The only goal came after a controversial penalty when Marc Albrighton's foul looked to be outside the box.
Here's what some of the fans made of it.


A worker in an aquarium on the Pacific island of New Caledonia has been filmed hugging a leopard shark while taking a break from cleaning the tank.

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The very relaxed shark appears to be enjoying itself rolling over and enjoying a good scratch and hug.
A representative at the aquarium said the shark often engages with aquarium keepers in a harmless way.
Pictures courtesy of Aquarium des Lagons New Caledonia.


Mo Farah says he will overcome a leg injury to defend his 5,000m world title after winning the "toughest race" of his life to retain his 10,000m crown.

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The Briton, 34, was tripped and almost fell twice late on as he won the first medal of the 2017 World Championships in thrilling fashion at London Stadium.
"I hurt my leg and I'm going to see a doctor, a few stitches maybe," he said.
The 5,000m, which begins with heats on Wednesday, is Farah's final major track event before switching to the marathon.
"I've got a bad leg," he explained. "I've got such a long stride I got caught twice and at that point I was just trying to stand up.
"I am hurt. I just had to be strong. I've got a few cuts and bruises, just recover and get ready for the 5k. I've got enough days."
A relentless pace meant his time of 26 minutes 49.51 seconds on Friday was his quickest over 10,000m since 2011, yet it put him less than half a second ahead of Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei, with Kenya's Paul Tanui third.
BBC commentators Steve Cram and Brendan Foster believe the win - Farah's 10th global title - required the finest display of his career and Farah, who has now won six world titles over the two distances, said he "definitely agreed with them".
"It was one of the toughest races of my life," said Farah. "The guys gave it to me, it wasn't about Mo, it was about 'how do we beat Mo?'
"You had the Kenyans, the Ethiopians, the Ugandans, everybody working as a team against me. Fair play to them, they worked it hard and they chucked everything at me.
"At one point in the middle of the race I wasn't thinking I was going to lose, but I thought 'this is tough, this is tough'."
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Farah has not been beaten over 10,000m since 2011 - a run of nine races.
He completed the 5,000m and 10,000m double at the 2013 and 2015 World Championships and also secured long-distance doubles at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games.
"It was about believing in my sprint finish and knowing that I have been in that position before," he added. "It helped a lot having that experience.
"I just had to stay strong, believe in myself and think, 'I didn't work for nothing, I'm not losing in my home town. I can't'.
"I get emotional talking about it, but I owe it to the people in London, I owe it to the people in Great Britain and to have so many people supporting you, keeping you going, it makes the difference."


Consumer goods firm Reckitt Benckiser's shares rose 1.6% on Wednesday after the sale of its food unit.

US based McCormick & Co is paying $4.2bn for the business, which includes French's mustard.
Royal Mail was the biggest loser on the FTSE 100, falling 2.75%. Shares were up strongly on Tuesday after the company released a trading update.
The FTSE 100 rose steadily in afternoon trade, ending the day up 40.69 points or 0.55% at 7,430.91.
Aviva rose 0.4% after saying it would sell Friends Provident International, an insurance business focused on the Middle East and Asia.
The pound was little changed. Against the dollar, it was down 0.05% at $1.3034, while against the euro, it was 0.25% higher at 1.1315 euros.


Parkrun members in Fermanagh have launched a petition urging the National Trust to allow them to continue running on the grounds of Castle Coole.

The popular 5km (3.1-mile) running event has been held on the estate near Enniskillen for two years.
The Parkrun in Castle Coole was the only Northern Ireland run to take place on National Trust grounds.
In England and Wales 24 runs are hosted across various National Trust properties.
However, the National Trust in Northern Ireland has said the runs must stop, suggesting they were having an impact on conservation.
The petition to reconsider allowing the weekly run to continue has garnered over 300 signatures.
The relocation of the Saturday morning event was a joint decision made by the National Trust in Fermanagh and the Enniskillen Parkrun team.
On their Facebook page Enniskillen Parkrun said they are devastated to be leaving the Castle Coole estate, but that they did everything in their power to stay there. They also thanked the National Trust for providing a venue over the past two years.
Jim Chestnutt, manager of the National Trust in Fermanagh, said that the Parkrun at Castle Coole has grown a lot since it started and "the impact of it on conservation has the potential to become too great" for the welfare of the property.
Mr Chetsnutt added that: "Castle Coole runs at a deficit of Â£100,000 a year, that is a significant liability. Running the 5km meant extra staffing costs and facilities issues."
The estate, which usually charges entry to the grounds and house, waived the fee for those taking part in the weekly Saturday morning 5km.
Parkrun events worldwide are always held for free. The National Trust has denied asking runners to pay to use the estate.
Heather Harper, who started the petition to restore the run to the National Trust property, said that about 100 weekly runners "make sure only to use paths and tarmac roads on the estate".
"We're not running on lawns or anything - the impact can't be that great," she said.
"People travel to run with us in Castle Coole because it is so beautiful and many have joined the National Trust because of the run," she added.
"We are so hurt and upset that we have to leave. It seems that we can't get a straight answer on why."
A new venue for Enniskillen Parkruns has been found - they will be held at the Lakeland Forum from 3 September.
Ms Harper says she still hopes to use the petition to compel the National Trust in Fermanagh to reconsider.


Wind and rain has caused flash flooding and travel chaos across parts of England and Wales.

The main rail line to the South West has been washed away in several places following torrential downpours.
A ferry carrying nearly 150 people was stranded at sea for 26 hours before docking at Fishguard, Pembrokeshire at 11:00 GMT.
Elsewhere roads remain closed and trains cancelled. Floods sirens sounded in Yorkshire.
Weather warnings are no longer in place, although some flood warnings remain.
Squally weather is due to persist throughout Tuesday, with gusts of about 50mph (80km/h) expected to continue over higher ground and coastal areas in the South East.
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The Environment Agency has 17 flood warnings in place - meaning flooding is expected and immediate action is required - in England and Wales, with 103 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.
Met Office forecaster Greg Dewhurst said: "Throughout today the wet and windy weather within that low pressure area will slowly move into the North Sea.
"Behind this most places will still see showers, some heavy but getting lighter during the day."
A yellow warning of rain in force over a broad area of the North East was lifted at 06:00 GMT, along with a yellow warning of wind covering much of Cumbria.
In Stalybridge, Greater Manchester a family was rescued by boat when their 250-year-old cottage flooded. Andy Vaughan and his wife Shelley said they couldn't keep the water out.
Mrs Vaughan said: "Andy stood behind the door to try and to hold the door, but the force of the water, it was like the door exploded in.
Engineers in parts of Tameside have restored power to 16,000 properties but 500 remain without power.
The Well-I-Hole bridge in Greenfield, Oldham, has been shut amid concerns it was in danger of collapse.
Trains between Shrewsbury and Hereford were cancelled after part of a railway line became flooded.
Heavy rain caused flooding between Shrewsbury and Craven Arms, meaning all lines between the two stations were blocked.
In Yorkshire people living in the Calder Valley, including the town of Hebden Bridge which was devastated by flooding last Christmas, have been warned to expect the rivers to flood.
Two people have been rescued in Sleights near Whitby where heavy rain caused "large amounts of gravel" to be swept from the A169 down into the village, North Yorkshire County Council said. The road is closed.
In Devon the train line between Tiverton Parkway and Exeter St David's was severely damaged by floodwater and the Tarka line was closed.
Network Rail said there will be no trains in and out of Exeter St David's for 48 hours after part of the track at Cowley bridge washed away.
Rail passengers have been advised not to travel into and out of Devon and Cornwall unless necessary.
Businesswoman Jane Clemence, could not travel by train from Exeter to Bristol for a series of meetings.
She said: "They need to invest more into the trains and the transport system because that's the way forward."
The Environment Agency said it was preparing to put up temporary defences "where necessary" and that rivers had been cleared to make sure water could flow freely.
Motorists are being warned not to drive through floodwater, and residents in at-risk areas have been advised to contact their local councils for sandbags to protect their homes.
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A Scottish dairy has outlined plans to increase its margins next year, after reporting a slowdown in sales growth.

Stirlingshire-based Graham's The Family Dairy said sales rose slightly in 2015 to Â£86.5m, having shot up by 25% in the previous year.
Pre-tax profits, however, climbed by 21% this year to Â£1.6m.
The company said it aimed to boost margins in 2016 by increasing sales of its added value range of products.
It added that the move would help fund an increase in marketing activity "to boost awareness" of its brand.
Graham's said its spreadable butter was the "fastest growing brand in Scotland" but 96% of the spreadable butter market was currently non-Scottish.
It aims to grow market share by highlighting the provenance of its products.
The firm has invested Â£5m in the business, including at its dairy in Bridge of Allan, in order to increase its production capabilities for spreadable butter.
There has also been investment in its Nairn dairy, where it now produce a new range of yogurts.
The company is also expanding into cottage cheese, quark and sour cream, after recently acquiring the Glenfield Dairy in Fife from First Milk.
Graham's managing director Robert Graham said: "It's been an excellent year but we're not complacent and there's much we still need to do.
"For example, to us it's crazy that so much dairy produce bought within the UK isn't actually made here.
"Those sales don't benefit our local farmers and the extra mileage is no good for the environment either.
"It makes much more sense to back Scottish businesses and so that message will form a critical part of our plans next year."
He added: "We are proud of what we've achieved and the numbers are strong, but we want our margins to be stronger next year and in the years beyond, which is why we've invested so heavily in the business throughout 2015 - improving efficiencies and encouraging future growth."


Chester top scorer Ross Hannah struck twice to help his team come from behind to finish their season with a third straight win against Gateshead.

The Heed led when right-back Ryan Higgins failed to clear CJ Hamilton's cross and sub Rob Ramshaw tapped in.
Kane Richards nodded in to level before Higgins' low long-range shot gave Chester the lead two minutes later.
But Rooney teed up Hannah, who was set up by Tom Shaw for a second before Dan Johnson scored from Ramshaw's cross.
Following their season-closing three victories, Chester finish 17th in the National League table, six points clear of trouble.
Neil Aspin's Gateshead ended up in ninth, 13 points adrift of a play-off place.
Hannah's 22-goal tally was beaten by only three other National League strikers, Cheltenham's Dan Holman and Grimsby's Padraig Amond, who both scored 30, and Barrow's Andy Cook (24).
Chester caretaker manager Jon McCarthy told BBC Radio Merseyside:
"I'm really pleased for the players. They can go and enjoy their summer now and the club can get on with what they have to do.
"But I wanted it for the fans too. We wanted to thank them after a frustrating season. We wanted a performance, and it came in the end.
"We talked about having a little bit more desire than them. We were quite ruthless. There was no sentiment or young players and we kept the same team and we knew Craig Mahon and Ross Hannah would want to come on.
"It is just playing more 4-4-2 than 4-2-4. It's about bringing wide players into deeper positions which actually gives them more of the ball, rather than them going and marking the full backs. It just makes us so much tighter."


Doctors should be on the look out for the emergence of meningitis in Ebola survivors across West Africa, says the World Health Organization.

The news comes after experts in London diagnosed the condition in a British survivor months after she recovered from the Ebola virus.
Scientists say meningitis - a serious brain infection - is rare after Ebola, but may be going undiagnosed.
They are reassuring people that it causes no infection-risk to the public.
There are around 17,000 people who have survived the Ebola virus, most in the worst-affected countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
After patients recover they can go on to suffer from joint pains, eye problems and fatigue.
Scientists believe this happens because the virus can persist and grow in parts of the body that natural immune defences cannot easily get to - such as the eye.
But speaking at a news conference at the Royal Free Hospital in London experts said they have now confirmed that it can also stay on in the brain and lead to meningitis - many months after patients have recovered from their initial illness.
In this case the virus is cleared from a survivor's blood but persists and later multiplies in the brain and spinal cord.
Dr Daniel Bausch, from the World Health Organization,  described the health and social problems survivors face as "an emergency within an emergency".
But he warned: "In West Africa of course it is much harder to know [about meningitis cases] as we don't have the means to really detect this very easily.
"So it is possible there could have been patients in West Africa who had meningitis and people didn't attribute that to Ebola or didn't think about Ebola or test for Ebola.
"This of course raises this on the radar for us in that we need to be on the look out for this in patients in Europe and America and as well as of course the many, many more patients in West Africa."
Doctors at the Royal Free Hospital diagnosed meningitis in British nurse, Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted Ebola while volunteering in Sierra Leone in 2014.
She recovered from the virus but returned to hospital in October 2015 after she developed symptoms of meningitis.
Signs and symptoms of meningitis can include headaches, fever, agitation, drowsiness and sensitivity to bright light.
Ms Cafferkey has been treated with an experimental anti-viral drug and is improving. She will remain in hospital for some time.


"There's a handshake on the 18th green but maybe not a kiss!"

Scott Henry and his fiance Kylie Walker are pretty competitive out on the course. That's because they are both professional golfers.
The pair are due to be married on 29 December to tee up a special 2017 for Henry in particular, who regained his European Tour card through a "pressure-packed week" at qualifying school after a three-year absence from the top tier.
Less than two weeks after tying the knot, he'll be 10,000 miles away preparing for the BMW South Africa Open
"Christmas is taking a bit of a back seat," Henry told BBC Scotland. "Getting married will kick the year off perfectly and my soon-to-be wife will come to South Africa with me, but I couldn't get away with taking her to a golf tournament for a honeymoon.
"We'll sort a honeymoon for February once we know what I'm doing tournament-wise."
Walker, 30, is a two-time winner on the Ladies European Tour and the upcoming wedding day will be one of those rare times when they are in the same place at the same time.
"We've had our moments over the years when it's not been that easy because of spending time apart," said Henry.
"She could be in America and I could be in China and trying to speak on the phone is not easy.
"But it's a great thing because she understands the ins and outs of it, the stresses and the disappointments, and knows what to say and when to say it. I hope I say the right things to her as well.
"When we get home we've got so much more to talk about. We've got so much in common away from the game that we hardly talk golf at all.
"I'm very competitive and so is she, which has led to a few arguments in the past when we have been out playing! There have been a few sticky moments over the years!"
As well as marriage, Clydebank-born Henry will soon turn 30 and it has led him to reflect on the positive input from both his parents.
His dad Allan played a pivotal and very practical role in introducing Scott to the game of golf as a four-year-old.
"My dad made my first set of golf clubs for me," explains Henry. "He basically cut them down because at that time there was no kids clubs around.
"He's cut them down and made me a little bag. Even just to think of that now - the effort that took him to give me an opportunity to play.
"But not just lessons in golf, lessons in life and manners and how you conduct yourself. All that stuff has come from him.
"My mum and dad have sacrificed so much for me. Even now, sometimes you need to be brought down a peg or two and my dad's more than capable of doing that."
Henry has learned significantly from his previous experience as a rookie on the European Tour in 2013 and "100% believes he is going to be a winner" on the circuit before too long.
"It's just the buzz," he said. "Great courses, great events, big crowds and some of the best players in the world - that's where I want to be.
"It doesn't make me nervous, it just makes me excited."
Perhaps Henry will be more nervous as he walks down the aisle next week.


Police failed to investigate properly the killing of a Belfast man who was stabbed to death 22 years ago, a police ombudsman's investigation has found.

Patrick Sullivan, a republican, was killed after confronting anti-social behaviour in west Belfast in 1992.
The police ombudsman has identified a number of failings in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) investigation.
These included failing to investigate blood found at the scene and making no attempt to trace potential witnesses.
Mr Sullivan, 25, was a member of the republican splinter group, the Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO).
The west Belfast resident also spent some time serving with the French Foreign Legion before returning to west Belfast.
He was stabbed in the neck and back in the February 1992 attack and died from his injuries.
Another west Belfast man was later convicted of his manslaughter but the Sullivan family have always believed more than one attacker was involved.
They lodged a complaint about the RUC's handling of the case with the Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and have now welcomed the watchdog's findings.
In a statement issued through their solicitor, they said they were "outraged that key investigative lines of inquiry were not adequately pursued, including failures on forensics witnesses and retention of exhibits".
The victim's brother, James Sullivan, said they wanted "justice" for their brother and felt vindicated by the ombudsman's report.
"It's taken 22 years to get here," he said.  "It's been a long time but it's been worth it."
The police ombudsman's investigation identified a "failure to follow evidential lines of enquiry related to blood samples found at the scene, failure to properly challenge inconsistencies in accounts, and no evidence of attempts to trace potential witnesses".
Mr Sullivan's clothes also went missing after the initial RUC inquiry and could not be located.
Five retired RUC officers were contacted by the police ombudman's office, as part of the watchdog's investigation.
Two of the five former officers gave statements.  None of them accepted responsibility for any failings in the RUC inquiry.
In a statement, a spokesman for the police ombudman said "no police criminality was identified, and as all officers attached to the original investigation are now retired no misconduct action can be considered".
The victim's family statement said they now intend to "sue for damages for the unjustified failings in the original RUC investigation".


Needle bins to allow injecting drug users to safely dispose of used syringes have been installed in five public toilets in Belfast city centre.

The council said it took the measure due to the number of needles found by cleaners and members of the public.
The first bin was installed on the Dublin Road at the end of 2014.
Since then, four more have been put in public toilets in Custom House Square, Lombard Street, the Gasworks site on the Ormeau Road and the Antrim Road.
The needle bins are small silver plaques sited on the wall with the words "sharps disposal" on them.
There is a hole in the middle to allow people to dispose of used needles in a secure container.
The council said they are also designed to be used by people with medical conditions such as diabetes.
The initiative was welcomed by Jake, a former injecting drug user, who spoke to the BBC.
"It's a safe place to dispose of any sharps so there's no debris left around in toilets and public places - it's really quite a progressive move," he said.
"I think people have this image of injecting drug users as dangerous criminals, and we're not.
"We're just normal people who use drugs and we want to keep people as safe as possible.
"Our drug addiction is our own, and if we can protect the general public from harm then that's a very positive thing."
Sinn FÃ©in councillor Stephen Corr, chairman of the council's health and environmental services committee, said they were responding to public demand.
"Unfortunately we have a drug issue here in Belfast, and we want to have a safe mechanism to deal with these needles and sharps," he said.
Mr Corr said the bins may be put in other toilets in the city, including in parks.
"We're keeping an eye on it to see if any other hotspots for drug taking emerge in the city - we will act where we have to," he said.
"We will keep an eye on other parks like Botanic and Ormeau as that seems to be where users are gravitating towards."
"If we need to put them in there, we will do it to respond to the need where appropriate."


The success of Britain's Olympic and Paralympic stars is to be celebrated with events in Manchester and London, Theresa May has announced.

There will be a parade through the streets of Manchester and another event in the capital in October.
The prime minister said: "It will be a celebration fit for heroes - and rightly so, because that is exactly what they are."
Manchester City Council said the area "couldn't be more thrilled".
Deputy leader Sue Murphy said: "We will be sure to show our athletes the meaning of celebration.
"The city has been a medal factory, pumping out golds as the home of British cycling and British Taekwondo.
"It's fantastic to see the product of years of hard work and training at the centres of excellence in east Manchester."
The decision to stage the parade in the north of England follows calls for it to be held outside the capital to reflect the contribution made by athletes from across the UK.
Meanwhile London mayor Sadiq Khan said he was delighted there would be a further event in the capital to mark the achievements of Britain's competitors.
"Our athletes have performed heroics in Rio and their exploits have gripped the entire nation," he said.
"My team will continue to work with the government and sports chiefs to help develop plans for wonderful celebrations."
The success of Scotland's Olympians and Paralympians will also be celebrated with a special homecoming event at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh on 28 September.
Manchester is certainly basking in a golden glow from Rio with a host of the medal winners living and training in the area.
Mrs May said: "For the past fortnight, the people of the United Kingdom have been filled with pride as we've watched our Olympians take victory in so many sports with power, grace and control.
"In every discipline and at every stage, Team GB have shown the world what we're made of: determination, dignity and true sportsmanship.
"They haven't just made history; by showing just how far talent and hard work can take you, they have inspired the next generation.
"They have also shown the importance of supporting elite sport and that is something this government remains wholly committed to."
Smaller parades are expected to be held for individual athletes in their home towns.
The town council in Stone, Staffordshire, has said it will hold a parade for K1 slalom gold medallist Joe Clarke, 23, who will be hoisted aloft in his kayak on 29 August.
ITV is also planning to switch off all seven of its channels for an hour on 27 August to encourage people to take part in sport as part of the I Am Team GB campaign.


Martin O'Neill has revealed that Sir Alex Ferguson was instrumental in him taking over as Celtic manager in 2000.

O'Neill, now Republic of Ireland boss, told BBC Scotland Ferguson recommended him as successor to Kenny Dalglish.
Celtic under O'Neill won seven trophies and reached the 2003 Uefa Cup final.
"I got a call, initially from Alex Ferguson, saying would I have an interest - that essentially the owner Dermot Desmond would like to speak to me," O'Neill said.
"I consequently found out - Dermot knew Sir Alex very well at that time but didn't know me at all - and really Sir Alex was the one that actually recommended me for the job.
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"I went to see Dermot and the board members in London and for once in my life I must have done alright at the interview."
Ferguson was in the middle of his highly successful and lengthy spell in charge of Manchester United at the beginning of the millennium.
O'Neill had been at Leicester City for five years and says he was not looking to leave, having just guided the club to European qualification by winning the League Cup for the second time in four seasons.
But he did have a clause in his contract allowing him to speak to other clubs and the lure of Celtic proved too great to resist.
"Definitely sad to leave Leicester," he added. "I had a few moments of anxiety about it, but it was Celtic I was going to.
"Childhood days, naturally from where I was you were either Celtic or Rangers, brought up in Northern Ireland, and of course I was heavily into Celtic.
"So this opportunity to go and manage the club was something I didn't feel I could possibly turn down. Plus the fact they were in a bit of difficulty - I think Rangers had won the league by about 20 points and were really dominating Scotland.
"So here was this opportunity - a fantastic club, playing second fiddle to Rangers for some time and an opportunity to turn the tables."
O'Neill's family also encouraged him to make the move, while a poignant memory also played a role.
"I remember the words of my father who did say 'if you ever get the opportunity to play for Celtic, then go and take it'," added O'Neill, who left Celtic in 2005.
"Unfortunately he wasn't around the time I was going to go and manage them.
"I think there's always a wee bit too much made of making people proud but I think if my father had been around, I think he would have been, he would have been absolutely delighted."


The funeral is to be held later for a Glasgow couple who died in a minibus crash in Saudi Arabia.

Mohammad and Talat Aslam had been on a pilgrimage at the time of the crash and are to be buried in the city of Medina.
Four members of a family from Manchester were also killed in the accident, on the motorway between Mecca and Medina.
The Aslams have five adult children. Some of them have travelled to Medina for the funeral.
Family friend Salma Raja said Mrs Aslam had been a lively, exuberant person.
Speaking ahead of the funeral, she said: "She used to solve everyone's problems. Anyone who came to her, she never said no.
"She was such a lovely person, I can't tell you, she was very, very good. She was never sad.
She added: "Mr Aslam was great as well. He was a serious kind of a person.
"Talat was more bubbly and outgoing. He was moren you could say intellectual, very, very intelligent.
"And he was a very good businessman as well."


Donald Trump has dismissed Barack Obama's time in the White House as a "disaster" after the US president said he was not fit to succeed him.

"He's been weak, he's been ineffective," Republican candidate Mr Trump said of Mr Obama in a Fox News interview on Tuesday.
Mr Obama has questioned why Mr Trump's party hasn't disowned him.
Mr Trump has also turned on two senior figures in his own party who have publicly criticised him.
In an interview for the Washington Post, he refused to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain, who are up for re-election in November.
Amid the feuding within Republican ranks, prominent party donor and fundraiser Meg Whitman has publicly endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton, saying Donald Trump's "demagoguery" had undermined the national fabric.
"To vote Republican out of party loyalty alone would be to endorse a candidacy that I believe has exploited anger, grievance, xenophobia and racial division," she wrote on Facebook.
"Trump's unsteady hand would endanger our prosperity and national security. His authoritarian character could threaten much more."
In other developments:
French President Francois Hollande joined the chorus of criticism on Tuesday, saying that Mr Trump made people "feel nauseous".
He warned that a Trump presidential election victory could herald  a very strong turn to the right around the world.
Speaking to Fox, Mr Trump said Mr Obama had been "the worst president, maybe, in the history of our country".
Mr Trump has also been condemned for his comments that appeared to back the Russian annexation of Crimea.
But he retorted: "I believe I know far more about foreign policy than he [Mr Obama] knows.
"Look at Ukraine. He talks about Ukraine [and] how tough he is with Russia. In the meantime they took over Crimea."
Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton, his one-time secretary of state, had "destabilised the Middle East" while putting the "country at risk" with Mrs Clinton's use of a private email server, he said.
Mr Trump is under fire for attacking the parents of a dead US Muslim soldier after they criticised him at the Democratic convention last week.
At the convention, Khizr Khan, whose son died while serving in Iraq, criticised Mr Trump's plan to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the US.
Mr Trump responded by attacking the couple - who are called in the US a "Gold Star" family, the term for families that have lost a close relative in war. Democratic and Republican leaders as well as veterans' groups quickly condemned him.
"The Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president and he keeps on proving it," Mr Obama said on Tuesday.
"The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that made such extraordinary sacrifices... means that he is woefully unprepared to do this job."
New York Representative Richard Hanna became the first Republican member of Congress to publicly say he would vote for Mrs Clinton.
Mr Hanna said Mr Trump's comments about the Khan family had been the deciding factor.
Until recently, many Republicans opposed to Mr Trump had stopped short of supporting Mrs Clinton, saying they would vote for a third party or "write-in" candidate.


Members of a Denbighshire town's chamber of trade have been banned from an indoor market in a row over the products being sold.

Ruthin Chamber of Trade claim products sold in the market are similar to those being sold by shops on the high street.
It wrote to market bosses and asked if the issue should be considered when stalls were let.
But it sparked an angry response and committee members have been banned due to the "audacious interference".
The website of the chamber of trade, which is made up of local business people who pay an annual Â£15 subscription, says the group was set up to "create a spirit of goodwill, friendship, and unity amongst the business community".
The letter said: "All the traders in the shops and in the market are finding it difficult enough without the added challenge of direct competition in a small town," the letter said.
"The chamber would appreciate your consideration in this matter."
Market managers Tony and Sue Shaw, in their reply to the chamber, said competition was good for customers and that they were "appalled" by the attempt to interfere with the running of the market.
"We have been in business for over 40 years and need neither advice nor help from you or your committee to run our thriving business," they said.
"Due to your audacious interference and to underline our strength of feeling at your interjection, we have no alternative but to bar you and your committee members from Ruthin Indoor Market with immediate effect."


Greg Tansey's late strike rescued a 2-2 draw for the Scottish Premiership's bottom club Inverness, who fought back from two goals down against Dundee.

Set-piece headers from Marcus Haber and Darren O'Dea gave the visitors a half-time lead.
Billy McKay pulled one back from the penalty spot after the break, and had a second spot-kick saved by Scott Bain.
His blushes were spared by Tansey, who rifled home from the edge of the box after Bain again denied McKay.
For the opening half hour, Inverness looked to have reacted to stinging criticism from boss Richie Foran and adapted well to a new formation with two up front.
They were hungry and creative and came close when Carl Tremarco struck the post from close range.
A quick-thinking Iain Vigurs free-kick released McKay, his cut-back was put home by a Dundee defender but McKay was ruled offside just when home supporters sensed a positive afternoon ahead.
Henri Anier was also denied by the excellent Bain as Inverness ploughed forward.
It went badly wrong with well executed goals and superb goalkeeping extending Inverness' winless run, despite fighting back from two goals down.
Dundee rode their luck a little early on but went ahead thanks to a superb delivery from Cammy Kerr straight into the path of Haber who powered his header home.
Their second was simple. Tom Hateley's corner was headed in by an unruffled O'Dea.
They got to half-time then handed Inverness a lifeline when Julien Extabeguren was unnecessarily penalised for holding.
McKay scored the penalty and was offered another chance when Anier went to ground. This time the superb Bain smothered it and Dundee looked good for the win.
They had a number of fabulous chances to extend their lead. Paul McGowan hit a post, then blazed over when clean through on goal before Henrik Ojamaa saw his close-range effort kicked clear.
Bain did well to save again from McKay but the rebound fell for Tansey and he coolly found the corner.
Inverness' winless run has now reached 13 and they face a very tough run of fixtures following their Scottish Cup fifth-round tie at Celtic next weekend.
Foran will be pleased with many elements of this display. It's results they need, though, and they're looking ever more fragile.
Inverness assistant manager Scott Kellacher: "We asked the boys to be brave, get on the ball, pass it and that's exactly what they did. We need to defend balls into the box better but apart from that the heads never went down.
"The boys did great, terrific. They just keep going. The amount of chances we've created today, we need to start taking them if we're going to win games.
"We'll keep going. It's a special group. they've been through good times, they've been through bad.  We need to keep believing in ourselves and hopefully we can turn it around."
Dundee manager Paul Hartley: "There were chances at both end. At 2-0 we looked comfortable. We give a needless penalty away to give them a lifeline but after that we still had great opportunities. We should have killed the game off.
"Scott (Bain) is a real class act. His form has been excellent of late. I was pleased with how we performed in the final third today.
"We create chances. I think Ojamaa and Haber had a good understanding. The pleasing aspect is we created. The disappointing thing was we should have seen the game out. That's something we've got to look at."
Match ends, Inverness CT 2, Dundee 2.
Second Half ends, Inverness CT 2, Dundee 2.
Back pass by David Raven (Inverness CT).
Foul by Billy McKay (Inverness CT).
Marc Klok (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Gary Warren (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee).
Substitution, Dundee. Faissal El Bakhtaoui replaces Henrik Ojamaa.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Liam Polworth replaces Iain Vigurs.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Jake Mulraney replaces Billy King.
Substitution, Dundee. Marc Klok replaces Tom Hateley.
Attempt saved. Billy McKay (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal!  Inverness CT 2, Dundee 2. Greg Tansey (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Billy McKay (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Ross Draper (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Darren O'Dea (Dundee).
Carl Tremarco (Inverness CT) is shown the yellow card.
Carl Tremarco (Inverness CT) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Attempt saved. Ross Draper (Inverness CT) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Penalty saved! Billy McKay (Inverness CT) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the bottom right corner.
Penalty Inverness CT. Henri Anier draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Julen Etxabeguren Leanizbarrutia (Dundee) after a foul in the penalty area.
Billy King (Inverness CT) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kevin Holt (Dundee).
Attempt missed. Paul McGowan (Dundee) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Ross Draper (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Jamie McCart (Inverness CT).
Henrik Ojamaa (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Paul McGowan (Dundee) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Billy King (Inverness CT) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Paul McGowan (Dundee).
Attempt missed. Cameron Kerr (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Billy McKay (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Henrik Ojamaa (Dundee).
Billy McKay (Inverness CT) is shown the yellow card.
Corner,  Inverness CT. Conceded by Cameron Kerr.
Corner,  Dundee. Conceded by Iain Vigurs.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Carl Tremarco (Inverness CT) because of an injury.
Paul McGowan (Dundee) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.


Within a week of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of north-east Japan, more than 100,000 Japanese servicemen and women were involved in rescue efforts on the ground.

The government says they saved 19,286 lives - almost as many as those who have died or are still missing following the disaster.
Under the post-war constitution, Japan is not allowed to have offensive military forces.
Its Article 9 declares "the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes".
So the stated purpose of the military - known as the Self Defence Force (SDF) - is "to preserve Japan's peace, independence and safety".
It impressed the public in the aftermath of the March quake last year.
"I saw their trucks yesterday heading to the northeast. I wanted to scream - good luck!" one tweet from sacura_haruca said on 14 March.
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"I'm on the brink of tears looking at the photos of the Self Defence Force," said another, named immoyabletype. "The non-combat army - they are super cool."
And that is the image that the Japanese government is keen to portray - a home-based army which poses no threat to anyone abroad.
But there are contradictions. The SDF - described in the constitution as "the minimum level of armed strength for self-defence necessary" - is the world's sixth-best funded army, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Its budget is capped at 1% of Japan's gross domestic product but when the country is the world's third-largest economy, this small proportion of it is still 4.6 trillion yen ($55.9bn; Â£35.8bn).
Its servicemen are highly trained and the hardware they use is sophisticated.
"The quality of its operations in the areas of surveillance, disaster relief, mine sweeping and reconstruction are the world standard," says Assistant Professor Ken Jimbo from Keio University.
Roughly two-fifths of the budget is spent on ground forces and the rest split between maritime and air forces, according to Professor Christopher Hughes of the University of Warwick.
"Since the end of the Cold War, Japan's security policy has been shifting to increase its capability to defend itself outside its own territory and to send the force further afield," he says.
"It denies itself the most powerful weapons so it doesn't have offensive capabilities - such as ballistic missiles - but Japan's maritime SDF, for example, is one of the leading navies in the world after the US," he says.
Whether the military is battle-ready is another question. After all, since the end of World War II, no Japanese soldiers have engaged in actual combat.
Assistant Professor Jimbo says Japan's readiness depends on the scale of any attack.
"For example, the Self Defence Force can operate missile defences against North Korea's missile attacks or limited landing operations against Japan."
"But if the situation becomes more complex and with higher intensity, this is where the US-Japan alliance comes in," he says.
Under the decades-old Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security, the US guarantees Japan's security in the event of a military attack.
Japan, in exchange, hosts US troops in the country - mainly Okinawa - spending 188 billion yen ($2.3bn, Â£1.45bn) annually.
The evolution of SDF operations has for many years been closely tied to US policy. Only 20 years ago, it was not allowed to deploy overseas at all.
Today SDF personnel are in places like Haiti, helping local people recover from the earthquake. They are also off Somalia to protect vessels from pirates and even deployed for a short time to Iraq.
The change began in 1992 when lawmakers passed the Peacekeeping Operations Law to allow Japan to participate in United Nations operations abroad, in response to criticism for failing to send troops during the first Gulf War.
A decade later in 2003, the Iraq War began and the US asked its allies for help.
The government passed a special law allowing a limited deployment - a controversial move that many thought was unconstitutional.
In the end, nearly 1,400 SDF personnel were sent to Iraq between March 2003 and February 2009 to take part in reconstruction work.
Major General Goro Matsumura led the third deployment of 600 soldiers, in 2004.
"More than 90% of my team members had never been deployed overseas," he tells the BBC.
"Before we left, we had no idea what it was like on the ground so many of them expressed their concern but once we got there we were warmly welcomed, so we were relieved."
For many, it was the first time they experienced the possibility of being attacked.
"There were two incidents where we came under rocket fire at night in October and November - though luckily they didn't explode," Maj-Gen Matsumura says.
He says he was under unspoken pressure not to lose anyone on the ground.
"No Self Defence Force personnel have ever been injured or killed on missions so I needed to be well prepared not to let any accidents happen in Iraq."
Associate Professor Narushige Michishita of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies says the deployment was "more a politically important symbolic gesture to the United States and other allied nations than a real military contribution".
He described it as an "important learning process" for the SDF but says "because the right to use force was restricted, the significance of their contribution was also limited".
Amid concern over China's military spending and US realignment in the region, the debate over the constitution rumbles on.
Some lawmakers say it should be changed to allow Japan more freedom to act on the international stage.
"What kind of a fool keeps the same constitution that occupation troops forced upon us 65 years ago," asks Tokyo Mayor Shintaro Ishihara. "We should ditch the current constitution and start afresh."
Assistant Professor Jimbo, however, says a few changes should suffice.
"Japan needs to lift rules such as the prohibition on exercising collective self-defence (defending other allied forces)," he said.
"For example in Samawah [in Iraq], Dutch, British and Australian forces who shared responsibility for the area pledged to help the Self Defence Force in case of an emergency but not vice-versa."
But there is low public support for changes to the status quo.
So for now the contradictions will remain for the modern, well-funded army that prefers to stay within its own borders.
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A Swedish court has rejected an appeal by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange against his arrest warrant for alleged sex offences.

The warrant was issued by Sweden in 2010 on two allegations of sexual assault.
Mr Assange denies the assault claims and has been living at the Ecuadorean embassy in London since June 2012.
Swedish investigators are now likely to proceed with plans to travel to London to question Mr Assange.
The Supreme Court said it saw "no reason to lift the arrest warrant", since moves to question Mr Assange in London were already in place.
Mr Assange's lawyer, Per Samuelson, told Reuters."We are of course disappointed and critical of the Supreme Court's way of handling the case.
"This decision has been taken without letting us close our argument."
The 43-year-old Australian has been living in a small suite of rooms in Ecuador's embassy since requesting asylum in 2012 to avoid extradition.
Mr Assange denies the allegations of sexual assault, made by two women he met during a trip to Sweden in August 2010.
He claims they are part of a plot to extradite him to the US because of Wikileaks' publication of thousands of classified US documents.
But the former computer hacker has not been charged with any crime in the US and the Americans have not issued the UK with an extradition request.


New Crystal Palace boss Sam Allardyce says he has emerged from one of the "darkest moments" of his career in losing the England manager's job.

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Allardyce stood down from the England role in September after only 67 days in charge, following a newspaper sting.
The Football Association is yet to receive full disclosure of the Telegraph's 10-month investigation into football corruption.
The newspaper passed on its evidence to the City of London Police first.
Allardyce has been told by police that he will not face any criminal investigation - but there remains the possibility of an FA disciplinary process, once the organisation is given access to all the evidence.
BBC Sport understands Palace - and chairman Steve Parish - are relaxed about the situation and would deal with it if necessary in the future.
"Moving on for me is taking this job," said Allardyce, who replaced the sacked Alan Pardew on Friday.
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The former Bolton, Blackburn, Newcastle, West Ham and Sunderland boss takes charge of his first game for the struggling Eagles against Watford on Boxing Day (12:30 GMT) - with a remit of keeping his new club in the Premier League.
He told Sky Sports: "The first four weeks was something that was one of the darkest moments in my career, certainly the early reaction which was a bit hysterical to say the least, looking back on it.
"I'm talking about me and my wife and my family, we all had to deal with that problem - my children, my grandchildren at school.
"But eventually time passes by, you overcome those adversities and you move on."
Allardyce left the FA by mutual agreement after only one match in charge of the national side, following a Daily Telegraph investigation claiming he offered advice on how to "get around" rules on player transfers.
The FA said Allardyce's conduct "was inappropriate". The 62-year-old did apologise but also said "entrapment had won".
Allardyce had been appointed England manager after saving Sunderland from relegation last season, while his new side Palace are 17th - one point outside of the relegation zone after a run of one win in 11 games.
"You've got to do it, it's part of the quick process to try to turn around a difficult situation at the moment," he added.
"It's not as difficult as the position Sunderland were in."
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Athlete Richard Buck has announced he is retiring from athletics to pursue a career as an actor.

The international 400m runner from York was part of Great Britain's gold-medal-winning relay team at the European Indoor Championships in 2013.
The 28-year-old has recently divided his time between running and filming but has now announced he is leaving the athletics track for good.
He will take up a place on an acting course in Birmingham in September.
Buck, whose personal best of 45.61 secs was set in 2012,  said his last scheduled race was on 5 August in Copenhagen.
He is also running on 18 July in Loughborough, "which looks like being my last international UK-based race, unless I get any offers to run elsewhere," he said.
"I will be seeing this season through to the end before hanging up my spikes."
In a statement, Buck said: "In accepting this place on the Acting Masters at Birmingham School of Acting, I will also be retiring as an athlete.
"It was always my plan to run through until Rio 2016 or London 2017, however, I always said that I'd be flexible to other opportunities which came my way.
"Although this has been a tough decision, I feel that it is the right one. I believe you've got to give yourself entirely to your pursuits, and so I had to make my decision."
Buck lost his funding from UK Athletics in October 2011 and took up shop work to make up the Â£20,000 for training camps.


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A disused Victorian sewage pipe has become the centrepiece of the North Sea’s "first snorkel trail”.
The trail – backed by North Norfolk District Council – will stretch 50m (150ft) out into the waters off Sheringham and feature ropes, life buoys and information signs
The idea was proposed earlier this year by divers Dawn Watson and Rob Spray.
Mr Spray said: “I think people just wouldn’t believe just how colourful it is. As you swim along the pipe it is deep reds and verdant greens and crabs and lobsters and fish. And it is just on the edge of the beach."


Ospreys ended their Anglo-Welsh Cup campaign with a bonus-point win at Wasps.

But the Welsh team were beaten to the semi-finals by Exeter who won 35-7 at Bristol to top Pool 2.
Jay Baker went over twice for the visitors with Kieron Fonotia and Hanno Dirksen also touching down.
But Ospreys' hopes of reaching the knock-outs did not materialise, ending Welsh interest in the 2016-17 cross-border competition.


Former Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley, has died aged 88.

Baroness Eileen Paisley said her husband died on Friday morning and the family was heartbroken.
Mr Paisley moved from a political "never man" to Northern Ireland's first minister.
He ended up leading a power-sharing executive at Stormont - although he had supported the strike to bring one down 30 years earlier.
In her statement, Baroness Paisley said: "Although ours is the grand hope of reunion, naturally as a family, we are heartbroken," she said.
"We loved him and he adored us and our earthly lives are forever changed."
Baroness Paisley said that his funeral would be private.
Prime Minister David Cameron said Mr Paisley was "one of the most forceful and instantly recognisable characters in British politics for nearly half a century".
He said he was a controversial politician but his contribution in his later years to stability in Northern Ireland was "huge".
"In particular, his decision to take his party into government with Sinn Féin in 2007 required great courage and leadership, for which everyone in these islands should be grateful," Mr Cameron said.
"Ian Paisley will be remembered by many as the 'Big Man' of Northern Ireland politics.  He will be greatly missed."
Ed Miliband, Leader of the Opposition, said Mr Paisley was "a towering figure in Northern Ireland politics for decades".
"His decision to take the DUP into a power-sharing partnership with Sinn Féin was the ultimate act of political courage and reconciliation,"he said.
First Minister and DUP leader Peter Robinson said that during the height of the Troubles, the "sure and certain ring" of Ian Paisley's voice had a "special resonance" with the people of Northern Ireland.
"I don't think that there's anyone who has had more influence in Northern Ireland over the years," Mr Robinson said.
"Even those who thought the least of his politics thought the most of him as a person."
He said those who knew Ian Paisley knew his priority was his faith - above all else in life.
"In terms of Ian Paisley's political contribution, I think there are many people who look at his early days in the context of the more stable and peaceful society that we have today.
"The Ian Paisley of those days was an Ian Paisley that was keeping together a unionist community that felt it was under fire, that it had no friends to help it constitutionally, that its representatives were being picked off, there was genocide along the border," he said.
However, former Alliance Party leader John Cushnahan said that while he sympathised with the family, he was astonished at the "rewriting" of Ian Paisley's political contribution.
"While I welcome the fact that he ultimately embraced power sharing, it was too little too late and should not be used to excuse the pain and suffering that he inflicted on the people of Northern Ireland for the majority of his political life," he said.
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Mr Cushnahan said that his life was "punctuated with nakedly sectarian acts and deeds".
He said the 1974 power sharing executive in Northern Ireland had been brought down by "a combination of increasing IRA violence and the fascist UWC strike led by Ian Paisley and loyalist paramilitaries".
"Tragically thousands more people were to lose their lives or suffer serious injury before Sinn Féin and the DUP  embraced what already been on offer in 1974. The belated conversion of both should not result in an attempt to naively rewrite history."
Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin, who was Ian Paisley's deputy first minister in the Northern Ireland Assembly, said he had learned of the death with deep regret and sadness.
"Over a number of decades we were political opponents and held very different views on many, many issues but the one thing we were absolutely united on was the principle that our people were better able to govern themselves than any British government," he said.
"I want to pay tribute to and comment on the work he did in the latter days of his political life in building agreement and leading unionism into a new accommodation with republicans and nationalists."
Loved and loathed, admired and feared, the life of the man known simply as "Big Ian" is the story of Northern Ireland's transition from violence to peace.
Some will remember him for a single word - "Never!" - rarely spoken, usually bellowed.
He was, for years, the symbol of unionist defiance and, occasionally, menace.
Others will reflect, instead, on what was to become a routine but nonetheless extraordinary sight.
The sight of him sharing a smile and a laugh with the man who had been his bitter enemy - Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness.
Read more: Ian Paisley: From Dr No to Dr Yes
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair said Mr Paisley was "a man of deep convictions".
"The convictions never changed. But his appreciation of the possibilities of peace, gradually and with much soul searching, did. He began as the militant. He ended as the peacemaker," he said.
President of Ireland Michael D Higgins said Mr Paisley was "a man of deep convictions".
"His early career was characterised by an uncompromising position of a constitutional kind.  However, his embracing of the change necessary to achieve a discourse that might lead to peace was of immense significance, as was his commitment to building relationships in support of that peace," he said.
Former Irish prime minster Bertie Ahern described Ian Paisley as "a big man with a big heart".


Elvis Presley has broken the record for the most number one albums by a solo artist.

The late singer's new album The Wonder Of You has beaten competition from Lady Gaga and Michael Buble to become his 13th album to top the chart.
Before now, Elvis and Madonna were tied record holders with 12 number one albums each to their names.
His ex-wife Priscilla Presley told the Official Charts Company he would have been "so thankful" for the achievement.
She said: "I am incredibly proud of all he has accomplished and so grateful to the UK fans who have kept his legacy alive with all of their support.
"I hope they continue to listen and love his music as much as I do."
In Elvis's newest album, his original vocal performances are accompanied by music from The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
The singer, who died in 1977, is now second only to The Beatles, who have 15 number one albums to their name.
This week's top four albums were all new releases - with Michael Buble's ninth album Nobody But Me debuting at number two.
Lady Gaga's fourth solo album Joanne entered the chart at number three. All her previous solo albums have reached the top of the chart.
Leonard Cohen's You Want It Darker landed at number four, while last week's number one WALLS by Kings of Leon, dropped to fifth place.
Further down the top 10, Status Quo's Aquostic II - That's A Fact debuted at seven, while a new deluxe edition of Sia's This Is Acting helped the album climb 35 places to number eight.
Korn's 12th album The Serenity Of Suffering debuted at number nine, giving the band their first UK top 10 album since 2002, and the cast recording of the new David Bowie musical Lazarus was new at 10.
Other new entries included Jimmy Eat World's Integrity Blues (number 21), The Pretty Reckless's Who You Selling For (23), and Melanie C's Version Of Me (25).
The top five of the singles chart remained entirely unchanged this week - with Little Mix's Shout Out to My Ex hanging on to the top spot.
Clean Bandit landed the highest new entry at number seven with Rockabye, which features Sean Paul and Anne-Marie.
Further down the chart, Drake scored his 20th top 40 hit with Fake Love, which was new at number 37.
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A Russian spy ship has sunk off the Turkish coast after being breached in a collision with a freighter, with all its crew rescued, the Turkish coastal authority says.

Russia confirmed earlier that the hull of the Liman, part of its Black Sea Fleet, had sustained a breach, with crew working to keep it afloat.
The cause of the collision is unclear but fog was reported in the area.
The ship hit a Togo-flagged boat carrying livestock, Turkish media say.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim called his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, to express his sadness over the collision, sources in the Turkish prime minister's office were quoted by Reuters news agency as saying.
The Russian Black Sea Fleet (BSF) passes through the Bosphorus Strait for deployments in the Mediterranean, notably in Syria.
All 78 crew aboard the Liman were safely evacuated, the Turkish coastal authority said in a statement (in Turkish) on its website.
It collided with the Youzarsif H freighter, reportedly 29km (18 miles) from the Turkish town of Kilyos on the Black Sea coast just north of the city of Istanbul, and had sunk by 14:48 (11:48 GMT).
It was not clear whether either vessel was heading to the Bosphorus Strait at the time, Reuters news agency reports.
The BSF said the Russian crew had followed all the rules of sailing and manoeuvring and it suggested the incident had been caused by the other ship, Russia's Interfax news agency reports.
A former commander of the fleet, Adm Viktor Kravchenko, told Interfax the event was "out of the ordinary".
"There have been collisions but I do not remember a case like this, of a vessel, a warship sinking after it," he said.
The freighter reportedly sustained minor damage in the incident.
Built in Gdansk, Poland, the Liman was launched in 1970, when it served with the USSR's Northern Fleet before joining the BSF in 1974, according to the kchf.ru naval website (in Russian).
Based at Sevastopol in Crimea, the territory annexed from Ukraine by Russia in 2014, it was a regular visitor to the Syrian port of Tartus for decades, the site notes.
In 1999, the Liman made international headlines when it was deployed to the Mediterranean to monitor Nato operations against Yugoslavia.


Over the past few months, thousands of migrants and refugees have been travelling to Europe.

20 October 2015 Last updated at 07:40 BST
Many are trying to escape from countries affected by war such as Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea.
Some say they're coming to Europe looking for better opportunities for their children. But some European countries are struggling to look after so many new people.
Leah's travelled to Germany to meet some of those migrants hoping to start a new life.


On-loan winger Justin Carney scored twice on his return to Castleford and Josh Griffin also ran in two second-half tries as Salford won comfortably.

Salford led 8-4 at the break thanks to Greg Johnson's first-half try.
After his first-half score for Cas, Denny Solomona ran in two more after the interval to complete his hat-trick and make the last quarter interesting.
But, for the second time, centre Griffin and Carney scored within five minutes of each other to seal victory.
Carney, who left Cas for Salford on a season-long loan, was in the sin-bin after just five minutes following a set-to.
But the Australian winger kept his cool after returning to the field to help Salford secure their first win at Castleford since 2004.
Gareth O'Brien enjoyed a perfect afternoon with the boot, but there was one setback as the visitors lost stand-off Robert Lui with a knee injury.
Luke Gale was the other Tigers scorer, kicking two of his three conversions.
Castleford head coach Daryl Powell:
"There are too many poor things in our game at the moment.
"There's a lot of injuries in Super League this year and we're getting belted with our fair share.
"We've got a lot of outstanding rugby league players sat on their backsides at the moment.
"Rugby league is a game for tough men and we're going to have to be tough over the coming weeks."
Salford head coach Ian Watson:
"Justin Carney has been great this week. He's a big player for us. I spoke to him all week about him playing here and he was adamant that he wanted to play.
"We spent a lot of time speaking about situations exactly like what happened. It's an experience this game for him. It's probably something he's never faced in his life before.
"To be fair to him, all week he's been really good and said the right things, but the emotion kind of got to him. Jake Webster has slapped him across the face and then he's lashed out again. He made a mistake but he's a genuinely good guy.
"We haven't seen the game out over the last few weeks so it's pleasing to come to Castleford and get such a massive result. They're a good team."
Castleford: Dorn; Monaghan, Crooks, Webster, Solomona; Hampshire, Gale; Lynch, Milner, Jewitt, McMeeken, Cook, Massey.
Replacements: McShane, Boyle, Springer, Maher.
Salford: O'Brien; Carney, Sau, J Griffin, Johnson; Lui, Dobson; Kopczak, Lee, G Griffin, Murdoch, Jones, Lannon.
Replacements: Flanagan, A Walne, Tomkins, Joseph.
Referee: Phil Bentham.


Japanese fans who watched their team play the US in the Women's World Cup final on Monday on their commute or followed on social media were disappointed by their loss, writes the BBC's Yuko Kato in Tokyo, but also full of respect and appreciation.

Immediately after the game, former Manchester United player and member of the men's national team Shinji Kagawa said it all, tweeting: "Thank you for always being so courageous. You make me proud as a fellow Japanese. To everyone in Nadeshiko Japan, thank you so much for your hard work."
Nadeshiko - a pink flower often associated with the traditional concept of Japanese female virtue - has been the team's nickname since 2005.
Kana Ohyama, a former national volleyball player tweeted: "Every Nadeshiko is just too fabulous. Too awesome."
Writer and editor Yumi Toyozaki tweeted: "The U.S. was a really good team. Well done, Nadeshiko. Thank you for bringing us along all the way to the finals!"
Another fan, azukKI, tweeted: "People on my feed are more moved than disappointed, and I'm welling up."
She also echoed another popular sentiment among Japanese fans: "Everyone was so cool, so awesome. Everyone was like Furiosa. #MadMaxBrain."
The film Mad Max: Fury Road is becoming a bit of a cult phenomenon in Japan, especially on social media, and so the sight of tough and capable women fighting their hearts out on the football pitch seems to have caught the imagination of people.
The Nadeshiko Japan had a tough act to follow: themselves.
The 2011 women's football World Cup in Germany took place just four months after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of the country, and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Many people were downcast amid a daily barrage of reports about death, radiation, and fear for the future.
But then the Japanese women played their hearts out, against a much bigger, stronger US team. They just kept running and running, and then won.
By doing so, they secured a special place in the hearts and minds of the Japanese public, and the love and support was rekindled by their advance this time.
Homare Sawa, who was the captain four years ago, was named the 2011 Fifa Women's World Player of the Year, and since then has become a national hero.
She re-joined the national team at the last minute in May, and this World Cup was said to be her last.
The expectation and sense of trust when she entered the game in the second half was palpable on social media.
Football illustrator @riota2gaoe tweeted an image of Sawa that captured the country's imagination after the victory four years ago.
Former team-mates commented from the public broadcaster NHK's studio "now everyone will be watching her".
The image of Japan's legend Sawa tackling America's legendary player Abby Wambach was met with oohs and aaahs; seeing them shake hands and embrace after the match also made many fans extremely emotional.
Women's football in Japan first gained national recognition in the 2004 Athens Olympics.
They gained much attention when they reached the semi-finals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which was also fought and lost against the Americans. And in 2011, they became national heroes.
There are two women's football leagues in Japan with 32 teams. They are popular locally and enjoy a close relationship with the community, but only a handful of players are fully professional.
According to the Japan Football Association, in 2013 there were 30,000 registered female football players in the country.
In contrast, the US in 2007 had 1.7m registered female players. In England, according to The Football Association, as of September 2014, there were 2.6m women and girls playing football.
Some pundits say the reason the Japan national team does well is precisely because not many girls and women play football and therefore they lack the opportunity to be in a strong female team during school.
Those girls that are really passionate about playing football will often have no other choice but to practice and compete with boys and men, which is how the previous captain Sawa and the current captain Miyama trained during primary and secondary schools.
And their stories became widely known after their 2011 victory.
A popular manga (comic) series by Akimi Yoshida called, Umimachi Diary (Sea Town Diary), which has been turned into a film with the English title Our Little Sister, features a teenage girl who plays football in a boys team.
She is actually much better than the boys, and has to deal not just with family issues and the usual teenage issues, but also figure out if she really is passionate enough about football to try and become a serious player.
The comic series is still being written in a monthly magazine and whether or not the little sister, Suzu, decides to pursue football is a major plot line, so no spoilers here.
Nevertheless, the image of the Nadeshiko yet again fighting and running till the very end, gaining the respect of their peers, may inspire young girls like Suzu around the country to think, yes, this is what I want to do.


A family - including a baby - have escaped injury after fire broke out in the early hours of the morning in their Scottish Borders home.

Emergency services were called to the blaze in the Bridgegate in Peebles at about 02:50.
Firefighters using breathing apparatus were able to extinguish the fire.
The baby was checked over by ambulance staff for suspected smoke inhalation but did not require hospital treatment.


Sandi Toksvig, food writer Prue Leith and comedian Noel Fielding will join Paul Hollywood when The Great British Bake Off returns in the autumn.

Channel 4 announced the show's new line-up ahead of its first series since leaving the BBC.
"I could not be more delighted by who will be joining me on the show," said Hollywood, the only holdover from the BBC's version.
Leith said she was "so thrilled to be joining... the biggest show on TV".
"I cannot wait to see what the real stars of the show - the bakers - are going to create for us," the restaurateur and novelist went on.
The 77-year-old had previously revealed she would "love" to take over from Mary Berry as a judge on the baking competition.
"It is an extraordinary honour to part of this national treasure of a show," said Toksvig, who will co-present the show with The Mighty Boosh's Fielding.
Fielding himself said Bake Off was "one of his favourite shows" and that landing the job was "a dream come true".
Channel 4's Jay Hunt said Leith and Hollywood had "huge amounts of expertise", while Toksvig and Fielding would bring "plenty of fun and warmth".
"It's just the sort of innovative line-up audiences expect from Channel 4," the channel's chief creative officer continued.
The BBC lost the contract to broadcast Bake Off last year after Love Productions, the makers of the show, signed a three-year deal with Channel 4.
Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, the programme's previous co-hosts, declined to follow it to its new home, while Berry said she was "never asked".
The show made its debut on BBC Two in 2010, moving to BBC One in 2014.
Earlier on Thursday, BBC director general Tony Hall admitted he was "very upset to lose the Bake Off".
"We'll just have to pick ourselves up, and we are doing, and coming up with new things too," he told young reporters taking part in this year's BBC News School Report.
The news has certainly divided opinion among fans on Twitter.
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The shocking images of two Air France executives with their shirts ripped off running from a crowd of angry workers poses yet again the question of industrial relations in France: how did they get to be so bad?

Even allowing for the ubiquity of cameras and their tendency to dramatise events that maybe went unseen in the past, these scenes were disturbing.
Among the Paris commentariat, there is general agreement. "The uncontrolled excesses sum up better than any speech the social blockage which afflicts the country," said Le Figaro.
Financial daily Les Echos said: "A few hundred hotheads have broken a symbolic barrier: the one separating a modern society where conflicts are settled through dialogue, and a culture where what counts is brute force."
But the truth is that mob violence is far from a new phenomenon in France.
The question is whether today's conditions are making it worse.
Recent years have seen regular reports of workers "kidnapping" bosses in order to exert pressure during negotiations.
In 2014, for example, it was two managers at Goodyear in Amiens who were "bossnapped" for more than a day, after the plant was threatened with closure.
Sometimes the workers have trashed management offices; sometimes - especially when a factory is being shut - they have gone further and smashed machinery.
One practice - documented at a factory in Auxerre - was to force the manager to take part in a demonstration against his own policies: a kind of humiliating symbolic confession.
If some of this is redolent of the French Revolution - with its jeering abuse of the class enemy - then that is no coincidence.
French political and social culture is still strongly under the influence of 1789-93, though of course with an admixture since of conservative counter-currents.
Memories of the Revolution have been relived at regular intervals: the uprisings of 1830, 1848, the Paris Commune of 1871; the bitter divisions over church and state at the start of the 20th Century; the undeclared civil war in World War Two; the street clashes of May 1968.
May 1968 became synonymous with chaos and revolutionary zeal, as students in Paris, initially angered by university reform, challenged the status quo, erecting barricades round the Sorbonne university.
The violence police used to suppress the protesters brought French workers on to the streets in their support. As the protests grew, the country was almost brought to a standstill.
In a "back me or sack me" speech on 30 May, President Charles de Gaulle called a snap parliamentary election. The June poll resulted in a resounding victory for the Gaullist conservatives, which ended the crisis and restored the president's authority.
In the longer run, however, the 1968 revolt helped undermine the legitimacy of General de Gaulle, who stood down the following year.
In a way that would surprise people in the UK - where a free-market culture has taken root over the past 25 years and business leaders are heroes - in France the language of class war is still very much alive.
In some companies, union notice-boards carry posters that can be quite alarming to the unprepared: cartoon caricatures of bosses - fur coats, cigars, dollar bills tumbling from waistcoat pockets - not much different from what would have been on display in the 1930s.
Strikes and protests are universally described in the media as being conducted by such-and-such a group of workers "en colere [angry]" - the description implicitly conceding the justice of their cause.
Society's failure to ever completely disavow arguments against wealth accumulation results in public behaviour that may be frowned upon, but never quite prohibited.
Farmers in Brittany set fire to tax offices; taxi drivers beat up Uber drivers and block the Paris ring road; travellers burn tyres on the motorway to Lille; migrants storm fencing at Calais.
Time and again, police are under orders not to stop the disruption, but just to limit it.
Again, this is a legacy of Revolution.
The danger of genuine violence can never be discounted in France, so the authorities understandably err on the side of appeasement.
But the effect is to legitimise actions that in other countries would incur the full force of the law.
In the same way, the state is expected to step in to resolve disputes, and often does so with offers of public money - even though this merely whets the appetite of future demonstrators.
But if workers' protests have long been part of the French way of life (the first bossnapping was more than 100 years ago), can it be argued that they are getting worse?
The answer is yes.
One reason is the general social climate in France.
Today, the French talk of "economic crisis" as a fact of life. There is mass unemployment, and people live on very low incomes.
Politics changes nothing, so the mood favours dissent.
Secondly, there is the effect of social media, which exaggerates grievances and whips individuals into states of righteous hatred.
And thirdly - and linked to these - is the sidelining of the official union representation.
Unions - paradoxically - are weak in France, in the sense that membership levels are low.
They are strong only in the sense that the law accords them a central place in the running of workers' lives.
They are thus part of the "system" - and the system is one that many working people feel has failed them.
So these people take direct action, outside of official union channels.
And unions - desperate to catch up with la base (the grassroots) - find themselves justifying behaviour they would otherwise have condemned.
This is what happened at Air France.
After the attack, one member of the CGT union said the violence suited management because it distracted attention from the real issues.
Worker-manager tensions are nothing new, and one should never forget that countries all over the world - not least the US - have seen outbreaks in the past of workplace violence and repression.
If the outside world is shocked by the Air France incident, some would say it is because the rest of the world has found new ways of dealing with labour conflict.
Others might say the rest of the world is docile: at least in France workers still fight the fight.


Afghanistan has hanged six Taliban inmates in the first executions since Ashraf Ghani became president in 2014.

The group "perpetrated grave crimes against civilians and public security", the presidential palace said.
President Ghani has pledged a tougher response to the Taliban after an attack in Kabul last month left 64 dead.
Meanwhile Taliban fighters have attacked police checkpoints on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, the main city in Helmand province.
The assaults bring to an end a lull in fighting during the annual opium harvest in Helmand, a Taliban stronghold.
The Taliban said it overran two checkpoints, killing 15 security officers. But police said 14 fighters were killed before the group was driven off.
Opium provides the Taliban with one of its main sources of income and last week a US general warned a bumper crop this year could fuel attacks.
Two of those executed were involved in the killing of former President Burhanuddin Rabbani in 2011, Afghan television reported.
All of those hanged were tried and convicted in accordance with the law, the presidency said.
After the attack in Kabul last month, one of the worst in Afghanistan  for years, President Ghani promised to "show no mercy" punishing the Taliban, vowing to enforce legal punishments including executions.
Peace efforts stalled this year after the Taliban refused to participate in new talks with the Afghan government until foreign forces left the country.
The militants have been waging an insurgency against the Afghan government since being ousted in 2001.
Nato ended its combat mission in Afghanistan in December 2014, leaving a 13,000-strong residual force used for training and counter-terrorism operations, including 9,800 US troops.


Germans should be prepared for further attacks carried out by small groups and radicalised "lone wolves", Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has warned.

Five people were wounded, two critically, by a 17-year-old who went on the rampage on a train in the southern state of Bavaria on Monday.
The attacker, who arrived in Germany in 2015 as an unaccompanied migrant, was shot dead holding an axe and a knife.
A video emerged in which he said he was a soldier of so-called Islamic State.
Mr de Maiziere said the teenager had been "incited" by IS propaganda but there was no evidence that he was following the militant group's orders.
Witnesses said the attacker, Muhammad Riyadh, screamed "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) three times, and IS has claimed the teenager as a follower through its news agency. A hand-painted IS flag was found in his room.
However, he was unknown to German intelligence and no concrete link has yet been established with IS.
The government was doing all it could to prevent such attacks, the minister said, but there could be no guarantee.
The interior minister described Monday night's axe attack in Wuerzburg as "perhaps half-way between running amok and terror".
"In Germany we must also expect attacks by small groups or radicalised 'lone-wolf' attackers," he said.
Of the five people wounded, four were a family from Hong Kong and German officials said on Wednesday that two remained in a critical condition.
A man of 62 and his daughter's boyfriend suffered severe head wounds and are being treated in intensive care.
"The assailant started attacking my sister's boyfriend and when my mother and father saw they tried to get in the way and got hurt," Silvia Yau told Hong Kong's Apple Daily.
The mother and daughter were also wounded but their 17-year-old son escaped unhurt.
There was no indication that the family had been targeted specifically because they were Chinese.
Muhammad Riyadh had only just moved to a foster family in Wuerzburg from a refugee centre at Ochsenfurt south of Frankfurt.
He was described as a quiet boy who had had a work placement in a bakery and had not displayed any radical behaviour.
But questions have now been raised about whether he was really from Afghanistan. A Pakistani document was found in his room, reports said.
It is common knowledge that Afghan refugees are more likely to be given asylum in Germany than irregular migrants from Pakistan, so there have been many cases of migrants pretending to come from Afghanistan.
Several clues to his origin have emerged from the video he filmed before he attacked the regional train near his home.
His use of the Pashto language suggests he at least spent some time in Pakistan, because of his choice of words.
When speaking of Syria, Riyadh chose Sham, the word used in Pakistan. In Afghanistan, Pashto speakers would say Suria.
His choice of term for Army is also key. He says Fauj, which is common in Pakistan, rather than Aurdu, the word used in Afghanistan.
Many Afghans have lived in Pakistan for years, particularly since the rise of the Taliban. So Riyadh could well have spent all his life in Pakistan, despite being ethnic Afghan.
Last year Germany registered more than one million migrants, including more than 150,000 Afghans, although the number has slowed dramatically this year since new EU measures were taken to stop the flow.
95,985
UAMs applied for asylum in Europe, including Norway and Switzerland in 2015
290%
increase on applications in 2014
10,040 unaccompanied children applied for asylum in Germany in 2015
50% of all UAMs who came to Europe last year were from Afghanistan
15,500 unaccompanied children were registered in Bavaria, southern Germany in March 2016
1/2 were from Afghanistan