Four-time champion Tiger Woods will not take part in next week's Masters because of a back injury.

Woods, 40, has not played competitively since August and has had two operations in an attempt to cure the problem.
The American insists he is "making progress" in his recovery but has put no timescale on his return to action.
"I've decided it's prudent to miss this year's Masters," read a statement. "I've been hitting balls and training daily, but I'm not physically ready."
Former world number one Woods also pulled out of the tournament in 2014 with a back problem and finished in a tie for 17th last year.
"I've said all along that this time I need to be cautious and do what's best for my long-term health and career," he added. "Unfortunately, playing Augusta next week wouldn't be the right decision.
"I'm absolutely making progress, and I'm really happy with how far I've come, but I still have no timetable to return."
The 14-time major winner, who has slipped to 472nd in the world rankings, will attend the Champions Dinner at Augusta National on Tuesday.


The leader of Scottish Borders Council is to take to social media to discuss spending plans for the region.

The local authority approved a 3% council tax increase as part of its budget a fortnight ago.
Key investment areas include roads, bridges, schools, flood protection and economic development.
Leader David Parker is to take part in a Facebook and Twitter question and answer session on the plans between 18:00 and 19:00 on Thursday.
He said: "Earlier this month we agreed our revenue and capital plans for the next five and 10 years respectively.
"In addition to protecting frontline service, we have committed substantial funds to key infrastructure right across the Borders, regeneration of our towns and improvements in schools.
"These are being delivered despite decreasing public funding and increased demand for council services and I am interested to hear the views of Borderers on this budget, our priorities and about council services in general."


Anthony Joshua has "had it easy" so far in his career according to Dominic Breazeale, who he fights on Saturday at London's O2 Arena.

IBF heavyweight world champion Joshua, 26, is making the first defence of his title against the unbeaten American.
Joshua, who has won all 16 of his professional fights with knockouts, has only gone beyond three rounds once.
"I think Joshua's thinking of me as a stepping stone and he's going to be sorry about that," said Breazeale, 30.
Breazeale, who is an inch taller than Joshua at 6ft 7in, is a former Olympian and is ninth in the IBF rankings, below Britain's David Haye.
Londoner Joshua, 26, won the IBF title with a second-round stoppage of American Charles Martin on 10 April.
Of his 16 fights, the longest has been the seventh-round stoppage of Dillian Whyte in December, to win the British heavyweight title.
Joshua won Olympic super-heavyweight at London 2012, in an event where Breazeale lost in the first round.
Brezeale added:  "I think he's had it easy so far, fighting in the Olympics in his backyard, having the judges there in his backyard. Even as a professional, he fought a guy in Charles Martin that really didn't show up on fight night.
"Yes, he's got rid of a lot of his guys in the earlier rounds, but he hasn't been taken into deep waters. Do I want to see him go into uncharted territory? Of course, without a doubt.
"I plan on putting on some extreme pressure and taking Joshua to places he's never been."
Joshua's title defence tops the bill on a big night of British boxing at the O2.
George Groves and Martin Murray face each other in an eliminator for the WBA World super middleweight title, Chris Eubank Jr defends his British middleweight title against Wales' Tom Doran, and John Wayne Hibbert meets Andrea Scarpa for the vacant WBC Silver super lightweight title.
Whyte, unbeaten Birmingham star Kal Yafai, Olympic bronze medallist Anthony Ogogo, Conor Benn and Felix Cash are also in action.


Profits at two of the biggest oil firms, Exxon Mobil and Chevron, have dropped sharply, hit by the falling price of crude.

Exxon Mobil saw its profit fall 59% for the April to June period to $1.7bn (Â£1.3bn) from $4bn in the second quarter last year.
Meanwhile its rival Chevron posted its largest quarterly loss since 2001.
It reported a loss of $1.5bn in the second quarter compared with a $571m profit last year.
However, that is in line with analyst expectations.
Chevron's shares fell 2.3% while Exxon's shares were down 2.9%.
The price of Brent crude is down 16% from its 2016 high and 70% from its all-time high in 2014.
On Friday Brent crude dropped 1.3% to $42.66 a barrel, while US crude fell 1% to $40.73 per barrel.
The energy industry has been trying to cope with a new status quo of low oil prices and slowing demand. They are having to reconsider expansion plans and production levels.
Exxon has cut its spending plans by 38% but that was not enough to offset the dip in the price of crude oil.
The world's biggest oil firm also cut its oil production by 0.6% in the quarter to approximately 3.9 million barrels of oil equivalent per day.
"While our financial results reflect a volatile industry environment, ExxonMobil remains focused on business fundamentals, cost discipline and advancing selective new investments across the value chain to extend our competitive advantage," said Rex Tillerson, Exxon's chief executive officer.
Even Exxon's refining unit, which in the past has helped insulate the company from serious downturns in the market, fell 60% as stockpiles have risen and demand has fallen.
Meanwhile, Chevron cut its oil production by 3% to 2.53 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. Its oil and gas production unit saw a loss of $2.5bn.
Chrevon's chief executive John Watson said the results "reflected lower oil prices and our ongoing adjustment to a lower oil price world."
The company is looking to natural gas operations in China, Austria and Angola to help boost cash flow in the coming quarters.


Three men were arrested on suspicion of rape in Sweden on Sunday, following reports of an assault against a woman being live-streamed on Facebook.

Police in Uppsala were contacted in the morning by a woman who said she had seen a gang rape broadcast in a closed group on the site.
"You have been raped," one of the men said at the end of the video and then laughed, according to the viewer.
Police later confirmed they, and "many" others, had seen the footage.
The Facebook group is said to have several thousand members.
Police confirmed that they had found three men, aged between 19 and 25, and one woman at a local apartment.
The men were arrested on the spot.
Josefine Lundgren, 21, called the police when she saw the video.
Speaking to Swedish tabloid Expressen, she said she saw one of the men tear the woman's clothes off and lie on top of her.
She also said one of the men had a gun.
Facebook Live shows a count of other people simultaneously watching the broadcast and Ms Lungren said she could see 60 other people viewing.
"Three against one hahaha," one of the viewers wrote in the comments section underneath the video, she said.
Online witnesses told Swedish media they had also seen a second video where the same woman then denied being raped, but there was speculation as to whether or not she had done so under her own free will.
According to Sweden's state broadcaster SVT, the men were still filming the follow-up video when the police arrived.
Facebook started offering live-streaming features at the end of 2015.
It is now regularly used by news organisations for on-the-scene reporting, between friends and peers for fun, and by anyone wanting to share thoughts or events with a wide audience.
However, it has also captured various crimes and acts of violence.
Earlier this month, four people were charged for a hate crime in the US city of Chicago after a live-streamed video on Facebook showed a mentally disabled man being tortured.
In June 2016, Antonio Perkins, 28, also from Chicago, was shot dead while live-streaming a video of himself on the site.
Facebook Live also caught the aftermath of an incident in which a police officer shot and killed a man in St Paul, Minnesota in July 2016.
After this, the social network issued more details on its live-streaming policy, saying it would be treated the same as for other content.
The company said footage will not be removed simply because it is violent or graphic, but if it is shared to mock the victim or celebrate the violence it will be taken down.
They said live videos can be reported to a team, which is on call 24 hours a day. Reviewers in the team can interrupt a live stream if it breaches Facebook's community standards.
However, people complained when the Chicago torture video ran for 30 minutes, racking up thousands of views, before it was stopped.


Newcastle United striker Ayoze Perez admits "something must change" if they are to escape relegation this season.

The Magpies remained in the drop zone following their 3-1 defeat by Bournemouth at St. James' Park.
"In some moments we are not a team, we are not as one. Something has to change," Perez, 22, told BBC Newcastle.
"It's not enough - we have good quality in the dressing room, but during this season we have not shown it. We need to be a team."
The former Tenerife forward scored Newcastle's only goal in the 80th minute in a defeat that followed two wins and a draw in their three previous home games.
"We have been playing good football at home - winning games," the Spaniard continued.
"That has been key for us - playing at home.  I don't know what happened but we have to change something."
With only 10 games remaining Newcastle are level on points with Norwich, and a point behind 17th-placed Sunderland and safety.
"We have to think that we have 10 finals," said Perez. "It doesn't matter how, we have to be a team and try to get points as soon as possible because we are in trouble.
"It's our turn, we have to give [the fans] something special because Newcastle, the club, and the fans don't deserve the situation."
There has been widespread speculation about Steve McClaren's position as head coach since the defeat, but Perez insisted the players are behind him.
"He is our manager, we have to be with him," he added.
"If something changes, I don't know what's going to happen - but right now we are with him because he is our manager."


Downton Abbey's Jessica Brown Findlay has spoken about her struggles with body image, revealing that she's had an eating disorder since the age of 14.

The actress, who played Lady Sybil, said she "felt so alone", but decided to speak out and "held my head up".
She told The Daily Telegraph: "I've had an eating disorder since I was 14.
"I think we can feed certain ideas of what beauty is and what success is, and I just feel there has to come a time where those aren't the rules any more."
She added: "Then we can have a mature conversation about what that is about and about depression."
The actress is currently appearing in a theatre production of Hamlet, which "explores a lot about mental health", she said.
She has also starred in TV dramas Jamaica Inn and The Outcast, and is also about to be seen in Harlots on ITV Encore in the UK.
She told the paper she had come to the conclusion that "I'm not going to be a better actor if I'm a dress size smaller".
Asked why she had decided to talk about the subject now, the 27-year-old replied: "If you are lucky enough to speak and be heard, it might be something that could be useful to others.
"The more we have brave discussions like that, the easier it is to talk about things, and the less alone we can feel. It's certainly made me feel less alone."
She said she decided to talk more openly after having therapy, and after "looking at myself and deciding I was going to help myself feel safe and good and healthy, and talking about it".
She continued: "I felt so alone for so long, and I just hid. And then I started talking and held my head up and instead of saying sorry decided to tell myself that I matter."
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A British man has been stabbed to death in Peru after taking the hallucinogenic drink ayahuasca, police have said.

Unais Gomes is said to have been attacked during a shamanic ceremony, which involved drinking the plant brew, near the city of Iquitos.
A Canadian man, who was also taking part in the ritual, has been arrested. Reports suggested he may have acted in self-defence, police said.
The Foreign Office confirmed a British national had died in Peru on Wednesday.
The incident is said to have happened at Phoenix Ayahuasca, an alternative health centre in the Amazonian jungle.
It describes itself as a "safe and supportive place to experience plant medicines and explore the true nature of the self".
Witnesses told police that Canadian national Joshua Andrew Freeman Stevens, 29, stabbed Mr Gomes in self-defence, local police chief Normando Marques told Reuters.
Mr Gomes, thought to be 26, is alleged to have attacked the Canadian man with a knife from the health centre's kitchen before being stabbed with the same weapon, another police source told the agency.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We can confirm the death of a British national in Peru on 16 December 2015.
"We are in contact with the local authorities and stand ready to provide consular assistance to the family at this difficult time."
Ayahuasca, also known as yage, is a blend of two plants - the ayahuasca vine and a shrub called chacruna, which contains the hallucinogenic drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT).
DMT - and therefore ayahuasca - is illegal in the UK, the US and many other countries.
Its effects include giving users a distorted view of objects or actual hallucinations. Scientific evidence of the clinical benefits of ayahuasca is limited but advocates say it has become increasingly popular as a tool to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and addictions.
Ayahuasca could have serious implications for somebody who has a history of mental health problems, warns the Talk To Frank drug advice website. It can also trigger these problems in those who are predisposed, but unaware of it.


Former Prime Minister David Cameron spent his first day out of power honouring two police officers murdered on duty four years ago.

Greater Manchester PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes were lured to a house in Mottram, Tameside on 18 September 2012.
Dale Cregan opened fire on the officers before throwing a grenade at them.
Mr Cameron attended the unveiling of a memorial stone at The Hub in Stockport Road in his first engagement since leaving Downing Street.
The memorial stone is less than a mile away from the scene of the attack.
Police Memorial Trust chairman Geraldine Winner, widow of former movie director Michael Winner, attended the service along with Greater Manchester's Chief Constable Ian Hopkins.
Mr Cameron said: "I spoke last night outside Number 10 Downing Street for the last time and I spoke about the extraordinary ethic of service in our country particularly our police, our intelligence, our armed forces.
He added the officers' murder had been "an act of pure evil" adding that it "shook the policing family to its very core".
"Our fallen heroes in the police exemplify the very best of us. To me they are the very epitome of service, bravery and sacrifice.
"This monument will ensure that their stories live on."
He added: "Fiona and Nicola are lights that will never go out. We are grateful of the service that they gave to the community. We will never let them be forgotten. We are so proud of them. May they rest in peace."
PCs Bone, 32, and Hughes, 23, were the 46th and 47th officers killed in the course of duty to be honoured by the trust since its formation 32 years ago.
Mr Hopkins said: "None of us will forget the morning of 18 September 2012 when PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes were brutally murdered doing the job they both loved so passionately.
Cregan, who was also convicted of two other murders, was told in June 2013 that he would spend the rest of his life in prison.


Ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone faces a new investigation into his comments about Hitler, Jeremy Corbyn says.

The Labour leader said that since being suspended on Tuesday night, Mr Livingstone had "continued to make offensive remarks which could open him to further disciplinary action".
These will now be considered by the party's ruling executive committee.
Mr Livingstone has continued to defend his comments about Hitler and Zionism and vowed to fight his suspension.
Following the panel's decision, he said he had been "suspended for stating the truth", criticised the disciplinary process, said his comments had been misreported by the media and repeated his view that Hitler "did a deal with the Zionists".
He also accused his critics of "lies and smears".
Mr Livingstone was suspended by Labour for two years - one year of which he has already served since making the original comments in April 2016.
But he has faced criticism from Jewish leaders and some Labour MPs, who say he should have been expelled.
Mr Corbyn, a longstanding ally of the former London mayor, said: "Ken Livingstone's comments have been grossly insensitive, and he has caused deep offence and hurt to the Jewish community.
"Labour's independently elected National Constitutional Committee has found Ken guilty of bringing the party into disrepute and suspended him for two years.
"It is deeply disappointing that, despite his long record of standing up to racism, Ken has failed to acknowledge or apologise for the hurt he has caused. Many people are understandably upset that he has continued to make offensive remarks which could open him to further disciplinary action.
"Since initiating the disciplinary process, I have not interfered with it and respect the independence of the party's disciplinary bodies. But Ken's subsequent comments and actions will now be considered by the National Executive Committee after representations from party members."
Speaking to BBC News, Mr Livingstone brushed aside questions about the new NEC investigation, saying the reason he had not been expelled was because Labour lawyers knew the party would not have a "cat in hell's chance" if he challenged them in the courts.
"A British judge is not going to say it's wrong to state a historical truth," he said.
Mr Livingstone said he stood by his original comments and said he "can't recall the numbers of people" who had approached him to offer support.
Challenged over the anger his comments have provoked, he added: "If anyone has been offended I apologise on behalf of those Labour MPs that lied in their tweets and their posts on their websites," going on to suggest that the "right wing Labour Party machine" had delayed the disciplinary hearing to undermine Mr Corbyn's local election campaign launch.
The row first erupted in April last year when Mr Livingstone was defending Bradford West MP Naz Shah over claims she had made anti-Semitic social media posts.
He said: "When Hitler won his election in 1932, his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel. He was supporting Zionism before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews."
The Chief Rabbi accused Labour of "failing the Jewish community" by not expelling him.
Ephraim Mirvis said the decision "yet again failed to show" that the party was "sufficiently serious about tackling the scourge of anti-Semitism".
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson said it was "incomprehensible" Mr Livingstone had not been expelled, while former leader Ed Miliband said he was "appalled" at the lack of remorse being shown.
Mr Watson said the ex-London mayor's behaviour "discredits the party I love... I am ashamed that we have allowed Mr Livingstone to cause such distress. This shames us all, and I'm deeply saddened by it."
Shadow attorney general Baroness Chakrabarti, who led an inquiry into claims of anti-Semitism in Labour, said she was "horrified" by the way Mr Livingstone had behaved in the aftermath of his suspension.
But in a statement after the hearing, four Jewish Labour Party members, who gave evidence in support of Mr Livingstone, said that "those claiming offence on behalf of all Jews have no justification for doing so", adding: "It is the verdict, not Ken Livingstone, that has bought the Labour Party into disrepute."
Prime Minister Theresa May will accuse Labour of "betraying the Jewish community in our country by letting Ken Livingstone off the hook" in a speech on Thursday.
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The RSPB Northern Ireland has confirmed that a red kite was been deliberately shot and killed in County Down.

The rare bird, which had been 'adopted' by pupils at Ballyclare High School, in County Antrim, was found in the Katesbridge area in May.
The current population of red kites in Northern Ireland is thought to stand at around 14 breeding pairs.
Pupils had given the bird the nickname Fawkes and were supporting an RSPB red kite re-introduction scheme.
Teacher Adrian Witherow said: "We are extremely disappointed about what has happened to Fawkes.
"Both the staff and pupils were fully behind the red kite re-introduction scheme and it is a real shame that the bird which we have followed for a number of years has been deliberately targeted."
He added: "RSPB NI has offered us the chance to adopt a chick born this year, which will be doing to show our ongoing support for the project."
The bird was found near a nest site usually occupied by a male and female known as Black K and Black M.
Worryingly, they have not been seen in recent months and their nest, which was freshly lined in preparation for breeding, has not been active for weeks.
Claire Barnett from RSPB NI said: "To lose any of our small red kite population is a real setback, but to find out that someone deliberately killed this magnificent bird of prey is beyond belief.
Ms Barnett added: "Like all wild birds, red kites are protected by the law and it is an offence to injure or kill one.
"We would also encourage the public to keep an eye out for Black K and Black M.
"Look for the tags on the underside of the wing and report any sightings to: redkiteni@rspb.org.uk"


Police in Bangladesh have filed charges against 13 men who allegedly filmed themselves laughing and jeering as they beat a teenage boy to death.

The charges were filed on Sunday in the northern city of Sylhet.
Samiul Alam Rajon was attacked last month after the men allegedly accused him of stealing a bicycle rickshaw van.
One of the attackers allegedly filmed the assault on his mobile phone. The footage showed the boy being tied to a pole and hit repeatedly with a rod.
The video, which was posted on the internet, showed the boy pleading for his life and crying for water, and screaming: "Please don't beat me like this, I will die."
An autopsy found that the 13-year-old had 64 separate injuries.
While suspected thieves are often attacked by mobs in Bangladesh, the brutality of this particular attack caused widespread outrage and led to police forming a special squad to investigate the killing.
Ten men have been arrested in Bangladesh since the 8 July attack and have confessed their roles in the crime, Detective Suronjit Talukder told the AFP news agency.
Another three who fled Sylhet have also been charged in absentia with murder.
They include Kamrul Islam, described by the Daily Star newspaper as the prime suspect in the case.
He was arrested in Saudi Arabia after officials there were reported to have been tipped off by members of the country's large expatriate Bangladeshi community.
A foreign ministry official said he hoped the charges would now lead to Saudi Arabia speeding up his repatriation, although so far it has yet to specify when exactly this will happen.
Thousands of people demonstrated in Sylhet and other parts of the Bangladesh over the killing. A Twitter page in Samiul Alam Rajon's honour has been set up.
The dead boy's father, Sheikh Azizur Rahman has said that he will not rest "until the culprits get proper punishment".
Samiul Alam Rajon's family say he was falsely accused to theft, and police say they found no evidence he stole the bicycle, AFP reported.


A father has told an inquest how he allowed himself to be stabbed to try to prevent his own son killing himself.

Dean Saunders, 25, from Basildon, had been sectioned and released from hospital before attacking two of his relatives in December 2015.
He was charged with attempted murder before being found dead from electrocution in his HMP Chelmsford cell on 4 January, the jury heard.
At an inquest into his death, his family said "he deserved better".
Mr Saunders' father Mark told the hearing at the Essex County Coroner's Court, in Chelmsford, his son had been a "typical loving boy" until December 2015 when he became mentally ill.
The family claim a decision not to detain him under the Mental Health Act and to withdraw continuous observation in prison contributed to his death.
In a written statement, they said: "Dean was a kind and loving man.
"We hope that the inquest will properly explore what went wrong with his care and ensure that there are changes so that this doesn't happen to another family.
"We want justice for Dean. He deserved so much better."
Mr Saunders told the inquest how after his son - who he described as "really paranoid, confused, frightened" - was released from hospital, he returned home with the family to Basildon.
He told how Dean went to the kitchen, picked up a knife and tried to attack his older brother Lee.
Mr Saunders said he managed to "rugby tackle" and initially disarm his son, who then returned to the kitchen to get another knife.
He told the court that when he approached him, his son held up the knife and said: "Don't come near me, I know what I have got to do."
Mr Saunders said the only way he could get near his son was to walk towards the knife.
"The knife went in," he said. "But it was the only way I could hold him.  I thought 'if I can keep the knife in me I can stop him taking it out and harming himself'."
Initially his son was on constant watch in prison but that was downgraded and he was not offered any medication other than sleeping pills, added Mr Saunders.
He said the family felt they had been "lied to and misled" all the way through.
The hearing continues.


At least 30 people have been killed on Myanmar's border with China, after clashes between ethnic rebels and the security forces.

Artillery and small arms fire were used in the town of Laukkai, in the Kokang region.
Fighting reportedly erupted after rebels dressed in police uniforms launched a surprise raid.
Five civilians, five police officers and at least 20 rebel fighters are said to have died.
The office of Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, said in a statement: "According to initial information, many innocent civilians including a primary school teacher... were killed because of attacks by the MNDAA armed group."
The Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) is a rebel group fighting Myanmar's armed forces in the region.
Officials said the attack was launched early on Monday, and targeted police and military posts. A separate group of fighters later attacked other sites in Laukkai.
Video shared on social media appeared to show parts of the town on fire on Monday afternoon, as civilians ran to safety.
An army source told the AFP news agency that the fighting was ongoing as darkness fell.
"Residents in town are fleeing. We do not know exact figures yet," the officer said.
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The Northern Alliance, a multi-faction rebel group which includes the MNDAA, confirmed on Facebook that its members were fighting in Laukkai.
It said the attack was carried out in "self-defence", citing operations by the Myanmar military since December.
The violence is among the worst to hit the Kokang region, in the northern part of Shan state, since 2015.
The worsening conflict in the borderlands has raised tensions between Myanmar and much larger China.
Kokang has close ties to China, with locals speaking a Chinese dialect and using the yuan as currency.
Ms Suu Kyi's government is desperate to end the decades-long violence, amid fears it could spark a new refugee exodus.


League One newcomers Plymouth Argyle have signed Portuguese midfielder Ruben Lameiras following his release by Coventry City.

Lameiras played 69 times for the Sky Blues after joining them in July 2015, scoring seven goals.
The 22-year-old moved to England at the age of 10 to join Tottenham's academy, and signed a professional deal in 2014.
He left Spurs the following year without making a senior appearance and had a short spell playing in Sweden.
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Oxford United have signed Dundee striker Kane Hemmings for an undisclosed fee on a three-year deal.

The 24-year-old joined Rangers aged 18 after starting out at Tamworth, and has also had spells at Cowdenbeath and Barnsley.
Hemmings scored 28 goals in 44 games in all competitions for the Scottish Premiership side.
"He is the proven goalscorer that we've talked about and he enjoyed a fantastic season," said boss Michael Appleton.
"There were a few clubs looking at him but we have talked to him, told him what we are about down here in Oxford and we are delighted to welcome him to the club."
Hemmings was on the four-man shortlist for PFA Scotland player of the year last season, along with club-mate Greg Stewart.
At the weekend, Dundee defender Darren O'Dea said the duo would be "virtually impossible" to replace in the short term.
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Five-in-a-row seeking Tyrone will meet Derry in the Dr McKenna Cup final in Armagh next Saturday after both earned comfortable semi-final wins on Sunday.

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Fermanagh led the Red Hands 0-3 to 0-0 but Connor McAliskey's goal helped Tyrone win 1-13 to 0-9 with Erne star Eoin Donnelly's red card a factor.
Ryan Bell's first-half penalty put Derry on the way to their 1-17 to 1-10 victory over Cavan at Armagh.
Killian Clarke hit Cavan's second-half goal but it was a mere consolation.
An upset looked on the cards early on at Clones as Fermanagh's 2015 All-Star nominee Sean Quigley hit the opening three points but after Mark Bradley opened Tyrone's account in the 16th minute, the Red Hands fought back to level at 0-4 to 0-4 by half-time.
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The half-time introduction of Sean Cavanagh, Mattie Donnelly and Ronan McNamee added further impetus to the Red Hand performance.
Frees from McAliskey and Bradley edged Tyrone two ahead before Fermanagh suffered a major blow when midfielder Eoin Donnelly - who had been arguably the best player on the pitch - was sent off after getting a second yellow card.
A Cavanagh point helped Tyrone extend their lead to five and any slim prospect of a Fermanagh fightback was ended when McAliskey volleyed to the net after the Erne keeper could only palm out a flicked Cavanagh effort.
Tyrone's Rory Brennan received a straight red card in the closing stages after a clash with Fermanagh's Ciaran Flaherty but it made no difference as the Red Hands held on for a comfortable win.
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Derry were equally emphatic winners at Armagh as they reached their first McKenna Cup decider in five years.
Damian Barton's side scored 1-4 in a six-minute spell in the first half to take control, man of the match Bell slotting a penalty after 21 minutes as he finished with 1-5, with all his points coming from play.
The sides were level four times in the first quarter, with Gearoid McKiernan's left-footed wonder point from near the touchline putting Cavan ahead 0-4 to 0-3 after 15 minutes.
From there, Derry completely took over and outscored the Breffni side by 1-7 to 0-2 in the 20 minutes before half time.
Derry dominated around the middle and broke forward in numbers, moving the ball at pace in an eye-catching display as James Kielt, Conor Kearns and Enda Lynn (two) also all scored from play.
Cavan manager Terry Hyland responded by bringing on Eugene Keating, who recently returned to the squad after opting out last year, and Niall McDermott to sharpen his attack for the second half.
The Breffni scored of the first three points after the break through Jack Brady (free) and Conor Moynagh but Derry never looked like being caught.
Cavan did score a goal in the 53rd minute with a tidy finish from Clarke but Derry continued to largely dominate with Bell and full-forward partner Cailean O'Boyle both scoring superb long-range points.
Seanie Johnston hit a late point, which was his first score since his return to the Cavan team for the first time since 2011 but Derry were comfortable winners.
Bank of Ireland McKenna Cup semi-finals
Tyrone 1-13 0-9 Fermanagh
Derry 1-17 1-10 Cavan


A £2m programme using sport to improve the lives of people with mental health problems has been announced.

It is hoped the scheme, run by charity Mind with funding from Sport England, will help 75,000 people.
They will be offered help to join sports clubs, take up a new activity or go to the gym as part of the project.
It will be launched in eight areas of England next year, with £1.5m of National Lottery funding from Sport England and £514,000 raised by Mind.
Mind chief executive Paul Farmer said physical activity could play a "key role" in recovery from mental health issues like anxiety and depression and in staying well in the long term.
"However, mental ill-health in itself can create significant obstacles that prevent people from taking up sport in the first place," he added.
"Feelings of low self-confidence, exhaustion or fear of crowded spaces can seem insurmountable when facing a mental health problem."
Grassroots sports body Sport England will help provide "bespoke sports programmes" that will help thousands of people "access sport as part of their recovery and ongoing health", said Mr Farmer.
Sports coaches taking part on the scheme will receive training to understand the issues faced by those with mental health problems.
The target is for 25,000 people to be helped in the first 15 months of the project.
Jack Holloway, who has experienced depression, told BBC Radio 5 live that taking up running had been hugely beneficial  but the idea "wasn't even on the radar" when he received counselling.
However, he said there was a danger of doctors recommending exercise as a fall-back option "if they have nothing else to offer".
There was no reason sport "shouldn't be the third prong or the second prong" of a comprehensive counselling approach, he added.
Sport England's director of community sport Mike Diaper said sport "has the power to improve lives".
He said: "There is compelling evidence that participation in sport and physical activity has a positive influence on mental wellbeing and mental illness.
"This includes enhancing day-to-day moods, reducing the impact of stress and enhancing self-esteem.
"That's why Sport England is committing National Lottery funding to this exciting and ground-breaking programme."
The project will also see support groups and taster sessions set up to help people make sport a part of their lives.
Participants will join the sports and mental health scheme through their local branch of Mind.
Sports Minister Helen Grant said: "This programme from Sport England and Mind will help people struggling with mental health problems use sport as a release and help put them on the road to recovery."


"When people ask me what I'd have been if I'd not been a cricket player, I say... a millionaire," laughs Lynne Thomas, who 44 years ago helped England to victory in the first ever cricket World Cup.

The women's game beat the men onto the global crease, with their inaugural World Cup in 1973 coming two years before the first male event.
Not only was batswoman Lynne, now 77, part of that wider trailblazing moment for sport, she played her part on the pitch too, scoring 263 runs in four innings, and making the first World Cup century.
What makes her and the England team's victory the more remarkable is that they played and promoted the women's game in the 1960s and 1970s for no financial reward, in fact their love of cricket left them regularly out of pocket.
By way of contrast, when England take to the field in Sunday's sell-out 2017 final at Lords they will be playing for a cool $660,000 (Â£512,000). Even the losing team will collect $330,000. It is all part of an ICC pot of $2m prize money this year.
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"It is great for the girls that they can now make a career out of cricket if that is what they chose to do in life," says Lynne, who combined playing cricket for England with playing international hockey for Wales, and holding down a full-time job as a PE teacher.
"I am pleased for them. When I was playing I never imagined that one day it would be something that could provide a living."
The inaugural Women's World Cup was the result of the vision of the late Rachael Heyhoe Flint and a Â£40,000 backing from businessman Sir Jack Hayward, both from Wolverhampton (the latter went on to own football club Wolves).
Organised as a round robin event, England - whose team included nine teachers - beat Australia in the final deciding match on 28 July 1973.
"We didn't get given any medals for winning the World Cup, although we were introduced to Princess Anne," recalls Lynne of that historic day at Edgbaston.
"We drove ourselves to all of the England games in the tournament, and after the game against Australia I had to be back at work in south Wales on the Monday."
It was the same story throughout her cricketing career - playing solely for the glory of winning, and for meagre playing expenses, interspersed with bouts of fundraising to keep the women's cricket show on the road.
"I can tell you exactly about our finances - we paid for everything," she recalls of an international career that saw her play 10 Tests, and 12 one day internationals for England over a 13-year period.
"We paid for our playing kit, our playing equipment, and most of the cost of our tours."
To raise money towards the cost of those overseas tours. cricketing legend Rachael Heyhoe Flint organised fund raising across England, and beyond.
And that meant a lot of travelling for Lynne, the sole Welsh player in the England team.
"Those games covered the whole of England," she says. "We also played a fund raising game in Edinburgh one time. We played there on the Sunday, and drove back on the Sunday night.
"We worked, most of us had jobs, and had to be back at work on the Monday. It was pure dedication."
The Women's Cricket Association - all volunteers - who ran Women's Cricket at the time, also paid a small amount towards the cost of overseas tours.
Lynne went on a four-and-a-half month tour of New Zealand and Australia in 1968-69, and fortunately her understanding employers Neath Girls Grammar School gave her the time off with pay.
She also went on tour to the West Indies in 1971, when Sir Jack Hayward stepped in to fund the fares of the travelling party.
"When we were away on tour we only stayed in hotels when we played Test matches, when we played friendly matches we were put up to stay with local families," recalls Lynne.
Lynne got interested in cricket through father Raymond, a keen village cricketer and member of Dafen cricket club in Llanelli.
"From the age of six I used to watch him play every weekend. When I got to eight or nine I got my own cricket bat from Woolworths and would play with a tennis ball.
"There was no girls' cricket when I was growing up, I played in a boys team at Christchurch church in Llanelli."
She went on to play for Cardiff, Sussex Women, Glamorgan Women and West Counties Women.
"For the first couple of my playing years I didn't have a car, and friends would have to drive me around," says Lynne, a full MCC member.
"Then I managed to buy a little Singer Chamois car. I would drive thousands of miles each year playing cricket and hockey."
Lynne Thomas on cricket pioneer Rachael Heyhoe Flint
"She was wonderful person and a tremendous captain. She had a very good rapport with people from all levels of society.
"She was a good leader, and we would have done anything for her. She was one of the girls - on and off the field.
"She fought for women's sport, truthfully and in an honest way. She started it all off, if it wasn't for her the present day women would not enjoy a cricket career, and we wouldn't have had the World Cup in England this year."
Lynne, who with her team-mates were belatedly awarded winners' medals this summer, will be at Lord's on Sunday for the culmination of a tournament which she says "will have helped spread the game around the world".
During the 1973 event she and Enid Bakewell put on 246 - an English opening partnership record that stood until Sarah Taylor and Caroline Atkins made 268 at Lord's against South Africa in 2008.
"I was at Lord's when our record was broken, and we were interviewed in the pavilion for three-quarters of an hour by the media," she says. "But when we broke the record in 1973 nobody knew we had done it, not even ourselves.
"It was only decades later that my niece read about it in the Guinness Book of Firsts. We just played for the love of if, and did not worry about records."
She adds: "It was the same all through my career -  in fact we paid out for the pleasure of playing, it was all about money going out, not coming in."


A body has been found during a search of Glen Coe for a hillwalker who was reported missing last week.

Edward Davies, 39, from Hampshire, has not been in touch with his family or friends since Sunday 8 May.
Extensive searches involving mountain rescue teams, search dogs, police and a helicopter have been made since he was reported missing the following Wednesday.
Mr Davies, an experienced hillwalker, had planned to climb Sgurr na h-Ulaidh.
In a statement released on Tuesday, his family said they still held "every hope" of him being found alive.
They have been told by police of the discovery of the body.


Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney says he is "honoured" to be level with Sir Bobby Charlton as the club's all-time leading goalscorer - but wants to break the record soon.

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His FA Cup strike against Reading took Rooney, 31, to 249 goals in 543 games, reaching the landmark 215 matches and four seasons quicker than Charlton.
"It's a proud moment," he said.
"We've got two home games coming up this week so hopefully I can get the next one in one of those."
United play Hull City in the first leg of their League Cup semi-final on Tuesday (20:00 GMT kick-off), before taking on Liverpool in the Premier League at 16:00 on 15 January.
"This club is a huge part of my life and I'm honoured to be up there alongside Sir Bobby," said Rooney after Saturday's 4-0 win over the Royals at Old Trafford.
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United manager Jose Mourinho said: "A more special day will arrive. It was great but I want one more goal. He is an amazing guy in the group and we all want him to do it. To have Wayne as the top scorer in a club like this is magnificent for him."
Reading boss Jaap Stam, who played 127 times for United, added: "Wayne has been a great player from the beginning. He is a player who works very hard for the team and you could see that in the game. With the quality he has as an individual and the quality players he is playing with, it makes him an outstanding player.
"It is not surprising he has scored this many goals. Even when they are 4-0 up, he is still sprinting and running for the ball."
In 2015, Rooney surpassed World Cup winner Charlton's England scoring record of 49 goals and has since taken his international tally to 53.
The United landmark comes during a season in which the England captain has been left out of the starting line-up for both club and country, his record-equalling goal being just his fourth of the campaign.
Former United manager David Moyes, now at Sunderland, added: "First of all it's congratulations. To even get mentioned in the same breath as Sir Bobby Charlton, who for so many people is a great for what he did with England and Manchester United, is an achievement.
"You have to give Wayne Rooney credit for the limelight he has had to work under and the pressure people continually put on him.
"He has had a great career. It comes to an end at some time in football and sometimes you drop off a little bit but Wayne was always going to break the records in my eyes. The times I have worked with him he was always very good. A great player, a great trainer and someone who always wanted to go about his business well."
The signs were there from the very start that Rooney's could be a stellar Old Trafford career.
In his first game following a £27m move from Everton in 2004, he scored a hat-trick against Fenerbahce in a 6-2 Champions League win.
He has not looked back since, reaching double figures in every season at the club, including a career-high 34 in all competitions in 2009-10 and 2011-12.
Rooney and Charlton are ahead of some of the finest players that Manchester United and British football has known.
Charlton, who came up through the United youth system, spent 17 years at Old Trafford before finishing his career with spells at Preston and Irish side Waterford United.
And despite his consistency over such a long period, he never managed to hit the 30-goal mark in a single season, coming closest when he struck 29 times during his third season at Old Trafford.
Despite Rooney's scoring bursts, his goals have not come at the fastest rate. Tommy Taylor, who was a two-time title winner with United in the 1950s, holds that honour, just ahead of former Netherlands international Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Rooney's ratio of 0.459 goals per game puts him eighth on the list, while Charlton (0.328) does not even make the top 10.
Phil McNulty, BBC Sport's chief football writer
Rooney has secured his place in Manchester United history and Old Trafford's hall of greats with his record-equalling goalscoring feats.
However, he will have to resign himself to never being held in the same esteem, and place of legend, as the likes of Charlton, George Best and Denis Law.
Indeed, despite his lofty place in United's record books, the 31-year-old will never be revered by United's supporters in the same manner as the maverick Old Trafford catalyst Eric Cantona, the great leaders Roy Keane and Bryan Robson, and brilliant home-grown products such as Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville.
This may seem brutally unfair given his contribution to United's successes, but there are several factors at work when his place in the club's historical affections is measured.
Rooney was an expensive import from Merseyside, while Charlton, who survived the 1958 Munich air disaster, led United to their first European Cup in 1968 and stands alongside his great mentor Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson as an iconic Old Trafford figure.
Best and Law came alongside Charlton as United's 'Holy Trinity' as the club emerged from the tragedy of Munich, while Cantona was the great transformer in the early 90s and the likes of Robson and Keane were world-class players and warriors.
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Rooney's chequered history with the club and its fans will also have an impact on his legacy when his contribution to United - a truly great one when judged solely in a football context - is reflected upon.
In many eyes, Rooney will never quite be forgiven for the episode in October 2010 when he decided he wanted to leave, then further strained his relationship with club and fans by issuing a statement which effectively said United lacked ambition and questioned the quality of his team-mates.
This was resolved within days when he signed a new five-year-contract, but the memory has lingered for many. There was another disagreement late in the 2012-13 season as Ferguson prepared for retirement and made it clear Rooney again wanted to leave - a claim that led to the player being jeered by some fans as he collected his title winner's medal at Old Trafford.
Fans and those who record history and legends take these matters into account.
What must also be remembered is that Rooney has had a stellar United career littered with trophies, brilliance and game-changing moments. He fully deserves to be remembered as one of the greats of Old Trafford.
There will, however, be many more remembered before him.


England will hand seven players their first starts when they play a South American representative side on Sunday.

England face the Consur XV in a non-cap game in Uruguay, before Tests against Argentina on 8 June and 15 June.
Luther Burrell, Stephen Myler, Kyle Eastmond, Jonny May, Kearnan Myall, Henry Thomas and Billy Vunipola are the new faces, while Tom Wood is captain.
"This tour is about giving players opportunities to show their talent," said head coach Stuart Lancaster.
"The players understand this responsibility and are looking forward to the challenge.
"Everyone involved will need to hit the ground running in Uruguay because we expect the Sudamerica side to play with a lot of skill and physicality in front of a passionate home crowd. It is England's first ever match on Uruguayan soil and should be a great occasion for all concerned."
Centre Burrell and fly-half Myler come into the side eight days after being part of the Northampton team beaten in the Aviva Premiership final.
Eastmond (Bath Rugby), Myall (unattached), Thomas (Sale Sharks) and Vunipola (London Wasps) all came off the bench in England's 40-12 win against the Barbarians on Sunday.
Replacement hooker Rob Buchanan (Harlequins) will make his first appearance should he be used from the bench.
England: Ben Foden (Northampton Saints); Jonny May (Gloucester Rugby), Luther Burrell (Northampton Saints), Kyle Eastmond (Bath Rugby), David Strettle (Saracens); Stephen Myler (Northampton Saints), Richard Wigglesworth (Saracens); Joe Marler (Harlequins), David Paice (London Irish), Henry Thomas (Sale Sharks), Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints), Kearnan Myall (Unattached), Tom Wood (Northampton Saints, captain), Tom Johnson (Exeter Chiefs), Billy Vunipola (London Wasps).
Replacements: Rob Buchanan (Harlequins), Alex Corbisiero (London Irish), Paul Doran Jones (Northampton Saints), Dave Attwood (Bath Rugby), Matt Kvesic (Worcester Warriors), Lee Dickson (Northampton Saints), Freddie Burns (Gloucester Rugby), Jonathan Joseph (London Irish).


President Donald Trump has said he wouldn't want a "poor person" holding a top economic post in the White House.

Mr Trump said his wealthy appointees, such as Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross (net worth: $2.5bn Â£2bn), had "brilliant business minds".
"That's what we need," he said at an Iowa rally. "And I love all people, rich or poor.
"But in those particular positions, I just don't want a poor person. Does that make sense?"
For many Americans, the answer is, basically, yes.
The president "should have worded that better", said Michael Washington 42, of Brooklyn, an assistant manager at a messenger service in New York.
Mr Washington said he disliked the implication that poor people are stupid.
But, he added, "it makes sense to hire someone rich because they're business-minded. I would agree with that".
American attitudes toward the poor have shown signs of improving.
About two-thirds of Americans think the poor are hard-working, up from half in 1985, according to a 2016 survey conducted for the Los Angeles Times.
And about 55% of Americans believe the poor and non-poor have job skills that are "pretty much the same", up from 44% in 1985.
Caitlin Quigley, 27, who works at a charity in New York, said Mr Trump's conflation of wealth with talent rankled.
"Just because a person's rich doesn't say anything about their capabilities or qualifications or how they'd help us and represent us," she said.
But Mr Trump's belief that success and talent can be measured in dollars has a long tradition in American life, particularly among conservatives, said historian Nancy Isenberg, a professor at Louisiana State University and the author of White Trash: The 400-year Untold History of Class in America.
"The truth is that this is something that Americans are quite comfortable with," she said. "We talk about equality but we're quite comfortable with class hierarchy."
Even with evidence that social mobility is falling, the up-from-your-bootstraps belief that wealth is a sign of merit holds strong in the US.
In a 2014 survey by Pew Research Center, about 57% of Americans disagreed with the idea that success is determined by outside forces.
That was a higher percentage than in almost any other country of 44 included (in the UK that percentage was 55%).
In the same survey, nearly three-quarters of Americans said it is important to work hard to get ahead in life (that percentage was 60% in the UK).
Mr Trump has "an obscure way of saying things", but he also has a point, said George Paragon, 46, of Yonkers, who works in human services.
"We wouldn't want a shoemaker to fly a plane," he said.
Susana Navas, 64, of the Bronx, a financial supervisor, said she sees risks in plucking policymakers from the ranks of the mega-rich.
"They don't know much about the people's economy," she said. "They know about being rich."
Studies suggest that the rich pay less attention to others and have less empathy.
They've also been found to be more likely to ascribe identity and status to inherent traits.
Indeed, Professor Isenberg said the president's proposals - which include tax cuts for the rich and a reduction of health assistance for the poor - are more telling about his attitudes to poverty than Wednesday's remarks.
"The healthcare bill has a lot more to say about his disregard for the poor and indifference than this comment," she said.


A large billboard has been puzzling residents of a County Down town, and commuters on the main route between Bangor and Belfast.

The poster with the phrase #prayforjosh appeared in Holywood by the A2 within the last week.
It is part of a social media campaign supporting 13-year-old Joshua Martin, from Donaghadee, County Down.
Life took a dramatic turn for the teenager when he was diagnosed with cancer on Christmas Eve.
He was due to have an operation on his appendix at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
However, doctors instead discovered and removed a large primary cancer and five smaller growths.
The news shocked Josh's family, but since his diagnosis they have received lots of support from people all over the world.
It began as a hashtag on Facebook and Instagram by Bangor Elim Church, where Josh's father is on the pastoral staff, and has since gone viral.
The church's senior pastor, Gary Beattie, said he was amazed by how many people have supported Josh and his family so far.
"We were in total shock when he was diagnosed, and really the family just wanted support from people and to ask people to pray for Josh," Gary said.
"It certainly isn't a campaign as such, we just put the hashtag on our Facebook posts to get some of our congregation thinking about him. We had no idea that it would take off.
"We would use social media quite a lot because we have quite a young congregation, and we've been posting updates about Josh from his family.
"The update was shared 948 times and it's been seen by over 79,000 people. It's absolutely phenomenal.
"We thought there had been a mistake, but you can look at the views and where they've come from, and there are people all over the world supporting him, which is great."
But how did a social media hashtag lead to the appearance of the massive billboard?
Gary said that last week a mystery donor paid for the sign and it was erected at Holywood playing fields.
"We do not know where it came from, we didn't put it there, but it means a lot to have such support," Gary said.
There has also been a huge outpouring of support on Twitter for the Bangor Grammar pupil, with his classmates using the now-global hashtag for their friend.
As Josh's family and friends continue to support him in his recovery, it now seems there will be people all over the world will be following suit, thanks to the kindness of County Down strangers.


Turkey's president says all suspected coup plotters and "terrorists" will have to wear an almond-brown uniform when they appear in court.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said jumpsuits would be worn by those accused of involvement in the July 2016 coup plot.
Other "terrorists" would wear jackets and trousers. That term is used for followers of US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen and for Kurdish rebels.
Last month a defendant wearing a "Hero" T-shirt appeared before a judge.
Police later detained nearly 30 people for wearing T-shirts with the word "hero" on them, the CNNTurk news channel reported.
"There will be no more coming into court wearing whatever they want," Mr Erdogan said in a speech in the eastern town of Malatya.
On the 15 July anniversary of the coup attempt, he demanded a prisoner uniform "like in Guantanamo". The US prison for alleged jihadists makes inmates wear bright orange jumpsuits.
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Mr Erdogan says Turkey must root out all the "Gulenists" blamed for the coup plot in which at least 260 people died. Rogue officers tried to topple him and bombed parliament in a night of bloodshed.
He said defendants were "lying all the time" in court.
More than 50,000 people have been detained and 150,000 public servants suspended from work in a post-coup purge.
There has been strong international criticism of the sweeping crackdown, enacted under a state of emergency.


A row over a teenager girl's religious conversion has sparked clashes in the Chitral region in north-west Pakistan.

The teenager, named as Rina, is from the Kalash minority, a tribe which worships several gods and goddesses.
She converted to Islam earlier this week, but clashes erupted on Thursday amid a row over whether she had been forced to convert, and whether she had subsequently given up Islam.
Dozens attacked her home with sticks and rocks before being dispersed.
Police were forced to fire shots into the air to break up the crowd, before taking Rina from her home in Kalash Valley to a safe place in central Chitral.
On Friday, following meetings with elders on both sides, Rina told reporters she converted to Islam of her own free will, and would move in with her Muslim relatives.
At a press conference, her family and Kalash and Muslim community leaders said the violence had erupted over a misunderstanding.
This had happened when, after converting to Islam and spending a night with a Muslim family at a religious seminary, Rina went home and put on traditional Kalash dress - consisting of a robe embroidered with cowrie shells and embroidered headgear, they said.
This had offended local Muslims who believed this meant Rina had reverted to her Kalash faith, they added.
"I wore the robe after a Muslim relative told me I was still a minor and could dress up in our traditional attire; she told me I could revert to Muslim shalwar-kameez dress once I had grown up, so I wore the dress," Rina said.
A senior district official who requested anonymity told the BBC that Rina may or may not have stated what actually transpired but it certainly helped prevent an escalation of the violence.
"There has been no communal violence here before, so perhaps she just got scared and was probably advised by both the authorities and the local elders neither to admit to having been forced into conversion, if that were to be the case, nor to whether she actually repented and went back to her own religion, because both statements would anger the Muslims," he said.
Although religious tolerance in Pakistan has declined, Thursday's violence shocked many because Kalash Valley has not experienced such clashes before.
Conversions to Islam are not uncommon among the Kalash, especially among young women who fall in love with Muslims.
"Most of these converts are school- or college-going girls who come under the influence of Islamic content in educational curricula," said Saifur Rahman Aziz, Chief Editor of the Chitral Times.
He said this increased rate of conversions was causing problems to the Kalash community because many Kalash women who married Muslim men were subsequently divorced and ended up living with their parents.
Kalash activist Luke Rehmat told BBC that out of a total population of over 12,000 in the Kalash valley, only about 4,000 now adhered to the Kalash religion, a polytheistic faith derived from Indo-Aryan tradition.
The Kalash people


With Germany hosting England in an international friendly on Wednesday, we've scoured our picture archive for some of the more obscure German players to feature in the Premier League.

It's not meant to be easy - we think anyone getting more than 70% has either done a reverse image search or has a great career ahead of them in pub quizzes.
Let's get started and see if you know you can accurately tell Stefan Malz from Stefan Schnoor.
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Public transport workers are to take part in a second strike that will affect all bus and rail services in Northern Ireland, the union Unite has said.

Unite said the 24-hour strike was being planned for Wednesday 6 May.
Last month, public transport workers took part in a one-day strike involving education, administration and health service staff.
It caused disruption across many areas of Northern Ireland.
Unite said the second strike would affect Ulsterbus, Metro and NI Railways services.
Its regional secretary Jimmy Kelly said workers were taking industrial action in response to proposed cuts to Translink's bus and rail services.
He said: "The proposed cuts will impact the most vulnerable people in our society - including the old and infirm, those with families, the working poor, those living in isolated, rural communities who are dependent on public transport.
"These cuts will compromise the integrity and inter-connectivity upon which Northern Ireland's public transport system rests.
"Our drivers and engineers are concerned that cuts to 'non-economic' services presage moves to break up and contract out profitable routes - a move that would undermine the 85% of routes that are non-profitable."
Unite added that it will be working with other trade unions that represent Translink staff to take forward the industrial action.


Glasgow Warriors have switched their final European Champions Cup match against Racing 92 to Kilmarnock FC's Rugby Park.

The Warriors' Scotstoun pitch was deemed unplayable for their Pro12 game against Edinburgh on 2 January, resulting in a switch to Murrayfield.
The club say there is a "high risk" of a similar waterlogged surface for the Racing fixture on 23 January.
Glasgow travel to Northampton for their penultimate pool game on Sunday.
Gregor Townsend's side need to win that match and the clash with a Racing side featuring World Cup winner Dan Carter to stand any chance of progressing to the quarter-finals. They lost the reverse fixture 34-10 in Paris.
Rugby Park, which has an all-seated 18,128 capacity, hosted Scotland's autumn Test win over Tonga in 2014.
Around 6,650 tickets have already been sold for the clash with the Top 14 leaders, and Glasgow will make an additional 7,500 match tickets available
The club insist that following "unprecedented rainfall and flooding over the past few weeks", the decision to move the match will give the Scotstoun pitch the best chance of recovering ahead of their next scheduled home game against Munster on 20 February.


A huge blaze which gutted a former cotton mill continues to pose a danger to the surrounding area, fire crews have said.

Witnesses saw flames leap up to 200ft (60m) in the air and said the front of the building, in Oldham, had collapsed.
About 100 nearby homes were evacuated as up to 80 firefighters tackled the fire, which broke out at 04:15 GMT.
Hundreds are unable to return home since the fire is "still alight" and the mill "structurally unstable".
Earlier, it took fire crews nearly seven hours to bring the flames under control with the heat from it being felt 1,640ft (500m) away.
Witnesses saw flames leap up to 200ft (60m) in the air and said the front of the building had collapsed.
Eyewitness Sarah Jones told the BBC: "I was woken by two loud bangs that I thought were gunshots but they were explosions."
Firefighters initially tackling the fire - which started on the top floor of the mill - were forced to withdraw as part of the building on Cardwell Street collapsed.
A GMFRS spokeswoman said that while it remains their "number one priority" to allow nearby residents to return home, they cannot do so while the area remains so dangerous.
Local residents had suggested homeless people have been seen using the mill for shelter in recent days.
But Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said there was "nothing to suggest" anyone was caught up in the blaze.
An emergency "rest centre" has been set up in the nearby Honeywell Centre for those forced out of their homes.
As of 17:00 GMT, 70 firefighters and 14 engines remained at the scene along with Greater Manchester Police and Oldham Council officials.
GMFRS said it managed to stop the flames causing electricity blackouts to 2,500 homes and averted gas explosions.
Gas, propane and oxygen cylinders were covered with water to prevent them exploding and an electricity sub-station was found in the mill's courtyard.
Area manager Warren Pickstone said: "If that would've gone down, approximately 2,500 properties would have lost their electricity.
"We made sure that we kept that at bay."
The BBC has learnt the former textile mill is owned by kitchen businessman Vance Miller, who was the subject of a failed Trading Standards prosecution in 2010.
The site has previously been damaged by fires. In 2009 nearby homes had to be evacuated following an explosion  and there was another blaze at the building three months ago.
In November, two homeless men died in a blaze in a derelict building in Manchester's Chinatown.
The deaths of Wayne Bardsley, 51, and James Evans, 57, are being treated as murder by Greater Manchester Police.


West Ham boss Slaven Bilic would not be interested in becoming England coach, insists Hammers co-chairman David Gold.

Bilic, 47, has been in charge at West Ham since last summer and guided them to seventh place in the Premier League.
Coach of Croatia from 2006 to 2012, he has been mooted as a replacement for Roy Hodgson, who quit on Monday.
But Gold said: "I don't believe he would be the slightest bit interested in taking on England. I don't believe he will be tempted away by anything."
Gold, who took charge at West Ham with David Sullivan in 2010, added: "I don't believe either the FA will come for him, as they have been down the foreign manager route and it hasn't worked.
"England is simply not part of Slaven's mission. We have backed him 100% and he us. Our commitment to each other is total.
"This is his club and he is on his way to great thing at the Olympic Stadium."
Bilic coached Croatia to a 3-2 victory at Wembley in November 2007 that ended England's hopes of qualifying for Euro 2008 and led to Steve McClaren's dismissal.
Hodgson resigned after England were knocked out of Euro 2016 by Iceland.
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Arsenal Ladies recovered from 3-1 down at half-time against Liverpool Ladies to draw an eight-goal thriller in the Women's Super League One Spring Series.

Alex Greenwood scored straight from a Liverpool corner before Chloe Kelly levelled for Arsenal from close range.
Natasha Harding then diverted in a Sari van Veenendaal clearance and a Caroline Weir header extended Liverpool's lead.
Arsenal hit back to lead with two from Danielle Carter and Jordan Nobbs' shot, but Gemma Bonner's header made it 4-4.
The result leaves Arsenal with two draws from two league games so far in 2017, while Liverpool - who have played an extra game - remain unbeaten and go top.
Centre-back Bonner's late equaliser from a corner ensured the first 4-4 result in the history of the Women's Super League - founded in 2011 - and the highest scoring draw ever in either WSL 1 or WSL 2.
Match ends, Arsenal Ladies 4, Liverpool Ladies 4.
Second Half ends, Arsenal Ladies 4, Liverpool Ladies 4.
Corner,  Arsenal Ladies. Conceded by Alex Greenwood.
Substitution, Liverpool Ladies. Kate Longhurst replaces Shanice van de Sanden.
Attempt missed. Fara Williams (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner,  Arsenal Ladies. Conceded by Alex Greenwood.
Substitution, Arsenal Ladies. Fara Williams replaces Daniëlle van de Donk.
Goal!  Arsenal Ladies 4, Liverpool Ladies 4. Gemma Bonner (Liverpool Ladies) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Alex Greenwood following a corner.
Corner,  Liverpool Ladies. Conceded by Dominique Janssen.
Goal!  Arsenal Ladies 4, Liverpool Ladies 3. Jordan Nobbs (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Danielle Carter.
Attempt missed. Danielle Carter (Arsenal Ladies) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Liverpool Ladies. Jessica Clarke replaces Niamh Charles.
Attempt missed. Jordan Nobbs (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Shanice van de Sanden (Liverpool Ladies) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Alex Greenwood (Liverpool Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Shanice van de Sanden (Liverpool Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Daniëlle van de Donk (Arsenal Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Katie Zelem (Liverpool Ladies).
Goal!  Arsenal Ladies 3, Liverpool Ladies 3. Danielle Carter (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Leah Williamson.
Substitution, Arsenal Ladies. Heather O'Reilly replaces Chloe Kelly.
Substitution, Arsenal Ladies. Jodie Taylor replaces Carlotte Wubben-Moy.
Goal!  Arsenal Ladies 2, Liverpool Ladies 3. Danielle Carter (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jordan Nobbs.
Substitution, Liverpool Ladies. Katie Zelem replaces Casey Stoney.
Corner,  Arsenal Ladies. Conceded by Casey Stoney.
Sophie Ingle (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Leah Williamson (Arsenal Ladies).
Second Half begins Arsenal Ladies 1, Liverpool Ladies 3.
First Half ends, Arsenal Ladies 1, Liverpool Ladies 3.
Goal!  Arsenal Ladies 1, Liverpool Ladies 3. Caroline Weir (Liverpool Ladies) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Niamh Charles.
Attempt saved. Daniëlle van de Donk (Arsenal Ladies) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Niamh Charles (Liverpool Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Goal!  Arsenal Ladies 1, Liverpool Ladies 2. Natasha Harding (Liverpool Ladies) with an attempt from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Corner,  Liverpool Ladies. Conceded by Sari van Veenendaal.
Attempt saved. Niamh Charles (Liverpool Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Daniëlle van de Donk (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Goal!  Arsenal Ladies 1, Liverpool Ladies 1. Chloe Kelly (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Foul by Carlotte Wubben-Moy (Arsenal Ladies).
Shanice van de Sanden (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Anna Patten (Arsenal Ladies) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Corner,  Arsenal Ladies. Conceded by Shanice van de Sanden.


A total of 1,300 Hampshire police officers were paid the wrong amount this month.

Half were underpaid and half were overpaid through H3, a joint system between the county council, fire and police services.
A spokeswoman for the partnership apologised for the error. Hampshire Constabulary said the problem had been rectified.
Hampshire Police Federation described the system as a "nightmare".
Chairman John Apter said of the error, reported in the Southern Daily Echo: "We have had a catalogue of problems with this system.
"They were very quick to deal with the issue and put it right but this is not an isolated problem."
He said the system was a "nightmare" and there came "a point where you have to put it out of its misery".
Hampshire Constabulary started using H3 in November 2014 with Hampshire County Council and Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service.
It was launched to "deliver back office efficiencies through the use of new technology and business processes" for 80,000 employees.
Police staff were paid on Monday and money for those who were underpaid was transferred on Tuesday.
Staff affected were sent a first class letter, which Mr Apter estimated cost £800.
Unite, which represents about 1,000 people within the county council and police and fire services, said members had been reporting problems with being paid the correct salary on time.
"We're long past listening to the time-worn previous excuse of 'teething problems' and are now advising our members that if they are underpaid they should raise this as a formal grievance with the county council."
H3 said the problem arose from processing unsocial hours.
The overpayments were for less than £100 and no underpayment was greater than £155.
A spokeswoman said: "Payroll error rates have been consistently low (at 0.1%) during the first 12 months of operation."
Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Hayes said he would be asking the county council to investigate.


The US neurologist Michio Hirano, who offered to treat terminally ill Charlie Gard, is due to meet the infant's medical team in London on Monday.

The High Court has resumed hearing a request to consider fresh evidence that experimental therapy offers a 10% chance of Charlie's health improving.
He has a rare genetic condition and is under the care of Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) doctors who argue that his brain damage is irreversible.
Further tests might settle the dispute.
In April, Mr Justice Francis ruled that life support should be removed and Charlie should be allowed to die with dignity.
He has a rare genetic condition called encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDDS) for which there is no known cure.
He cannot move, he is on life support, his heart, liver and kidneys are affected and it is unclear whether he feels any pain.
Charlie's parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, from Bedfont in west London, have lost a succession of court cases to overturn the judge's ruling.
The US President Donald Trump and Pope Francis have offered them support, along with New York physician Dr Hirano who has waived his anonymity and offered to treat Charlie in the US.
The case has returned to the High Court following reports of new data from foreign healthcare experts who suggest nucleoside therapy might improve Charlie's condition.
Mr Justice Francis said he intends to give his ruling on 25 July, after GOSH medics and Dr Hirano have had a chance to meet and discuss Charlie's care.
The size of Charlie's skull remains in dispute.
GOSH doctors previously said its size indicates a lack of brain function, but a lawyer for the family disputed the measurements and the judge said it was "absurd" the discrepancy was undermining the science of the case.
GOSH's lawyer said an MRI scan would allow for more accurate measurement but it would not be for therapeutic reasons. She also said an electroencephalogram (EEG) brain scan might detect whether Charlie was experiencing internal seizures that doctors were currently unaware of.
The judge said any tests would require the parents' consent and must be carried out prior to the medical experts' meeting on Monday.


Chelsea winger Eden Hazard has said he would "listen" if Real Madrid offered him a deal, but added that he could stay with the Blues "for many years".

Hazard, who broke his right ankle on Sunday while training with Belgium, has been heavily linked with the Champions League winners.
"We all have dreams. It could be Spain, it could be staying with Chelsea," he told the Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper.
"But it's not something I'm thinking about right now. We'll see."
Real beat Juventus 4-1 on Saturday to win Europe's top competition for a 12th time and claim a third Champions League crown in four years.
Hazard added: "If I would ever join Real Madrid, I could end up on the bench too. I just want the best solution for myself."
The 26-year-old, who joined Chelsea from Lille in June 2012, helped the Stamford Bridge side to win the Premier League title last season.
When asked if he could leave Chelsea, he said: "In football you never know, but at the moment it's not something that's on my mind.
"I'm a Chelsea player. I still have a contract for three years. We'll see."
On the subject of being offered a new deal by Chelsea, he continued: "They haven't offered me anything yet, but it could happen. We'll see after my holidays.
"The last few years everyone was talking about PSG [Paris St-Germain], this year it's about Real Madrid, next year it will be another club."


One of the world's top paragliders has braved freezing temperatures to fly under the incredible natural light display.

28 January 2016 Last updated at 12:28 GMT
The Aurora Borealis (known as the Northern Lights) are spectacular splashes of coloured lights in the sky that look like special effects, but are caused naturally by particles from the sun hitting the Earth's atmosphere
Horacio Llorens wore a wetsuit and battery-heated gloves to protect him from the cold, but he still had to overcome snow storms, low visibility, and even the wires on the glider freezing.


(Open): US stocks opened lower as worries about the state of the global economy continued to rattle investors.

Shortly after trading began the Dow Jones was down 173.24 points, or 1.1%, at 16,106.85.
The S&P 500 index fell 16.71 points to 1,922.05, while the Nasdaq was 31.97 points lower at 4,720.78.
Shares in Caterpillar fell 7% after the construction and mining equipment maker warned of falling revenues and announced thousands of job cuts.
The company cut its forecast for revenues this year by $1bn to $48bn, adding that sales in 2016 would be about 5% lower.
Caterpillar - which has been hit by the downturn in the mining and energy sectors -also said it would cut up to 5,000 jobs by the end of 2016, and could shed 10,000 posts by 2018.
Later on Thursday, investors will be keeping a close eye on a speech being given by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen on inflation.
It will be Ms Yellen's first speech since the Fed decided to hold US interest rates at its meeting last week, and will be scrutinised for any clues as to the timing of a rate rise.


Rescuers are trying to save a pod of whales that are stranded on a beach in India.

12 January 2016 Last updated at 16:48 GMT
Fishermen were able to get many of the short-finned whales back into the sea but some died.
The whales started beaching themselves on Monday afternoon.
Not much is known about why the whales were so close to the shore but it is thought that they may have lost their way. Marine biologists say events like this are very rare.


Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and his wife, actress Isla Fisher, have donated £670,000 ($1m) to two charities.

The couple have given £335,000 to Save The Children to help vaccinate against measles in northern Syria.
They are also giving the same amount to the New York-based International Rescue Committee, run by former UK foreign secretary David Miliband.
This will fund education, health care, shelter and sanitation for refugees in Syria and neighbouring countries.
More than 250,000 people have been killed since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011 and more than 11 million others have been forced from their homes.
Mr Miliband said those caught up in the conflict were "victims of terror".
He added: "Sacha and Isla's donation is a great expression of humanity, and a challenge to do more for the most vulnerable.
"I hope it is an example to many others seeking practical ways of making a difference during the Christmas and new year season."
Justin Forsyth, CEO of Save the Children, said Syria's health system had collapsed and deadly childhood diseases such as measles had returned, threatening the lives of many children.
"By allowing us to make their generous donation to Syrian children public, Sacha and Isla are helping highlight the tragedy of the issue today," he said.
"These are desperate times for Syrian families facing bombs, bullets and torture in Syria. The couple's donation will save many thousands of lives and protect some of the most vulnerable children."


Stevie Mallan scored the winner as St Mirren moved away from relegation danger in the Championship by beating Queen of the South.

Mallan struck in the 25th minute, finishing with his right foot into the bottom right corner.
In a match of few chances, home goalkeeper Jamie Langfield parried a Jake Pickard header and then tipped a header from the same player over.
St Mirren's second win in a row moves them up a place to seventh place.


The Wills Memorial Building will not be renamed despite campaigners claiming it is named after a slave trader, the University of Bristol has announced.

Henry Overton Wills III became the university's first chancellor after gifting it Â£100,000 in the 1870s.
Campaigners claim it was "slave-profited money" and the Wills Building name should be revised.
But a university spokesman, said it was not "appropriate" to rename it "or any other university buildings".
The Wills family founded WD and HO Wills in 1786, shipping tobacco from the New World into Bristol.
When the university was struggling, Henry Overton Wills stepped in with a gift that would now be worth almost Â£10.5m.
Despite the family investing "heavily in the institution", campaigners say it was "slave-profited money" and the funding does "not justify the means of slavery".
They claim the university should not be glorifying someone who "profited so greatly from such an immoral practice".
But a university spokesman said without major contributions from the city's "commercial families" the institution "would not have flourished".
"In our view, it is important to retain these names as a reflection of our history," he said.
"We cannot alter the past but we can enable reflection upon it and add to knowledge about slavery past and present."
Bristol's Colston Hall announced in April that it would be ditching the "toxic" name it shares with 17th Century slave trader Edward Colston.
Bristol Cathedral was also considering removing a large stained-glass window dedicated to the merchant, following criticism from anti-racism campaigners.


A football team who suffered a 43-0 defeat at the weekend have withdrawn from the league they were playing in.

Caerphilly Castle Ladies' results in the Women's Welsh Premier League will be wiped out.
This season the side, whose first team walked out last summer, also found themselves on the wrong end of 36-0, 28-0 and 26-0 scorelines.
The Football Association of Wales (FAW) said the club had taken the move "with regret".
SOURCE: Welsh Premier League
The team, known as the Castle, found themselves in the headlines following the latest defeat, which meant the side had let in 219 goals and scored just one in 10 games.
Club officials had said earlier this week they were putting a "brave face" on the results and had no intention of giving up, but the statement issued through the FAW indicated the club will focus on bringing on youth players.
It said: "With regret, the club has decided to withdraw its membership from the Welsh Premier Women's League with immediate effect.
"Caerphilly Castle is very proud of its tradition of nurturing young footballing talent over the years but the club has found it difficult to compete at the highest level of Welsh Women's Football this season.
"The committed officials of the club fully intend to continue their passion of developing players throughout the different age groups and hope to return to the Welsh Premier Women's League as soon as possible."
The senior team's results will be wiped from the records, but the club wished the 11 sides remaining in the league luck for the rest of the season.
In terms of numbers participating at all levels, Caerphilly Castle rival Cardiff City for the title of biggest women's club in Wales.
They finished mid-table in the last two Welsh Premier League seasons, and in 2010 lifted the Welsh League Cup.


An American freed last week after five years in a Cuban jail will receive $3.2m (£2m) from the US government.

The US Agency for International Development said it had reached a deal with the company that employed Alan Gross at the time of his arrest.
His release triggered an announcement from the US that it was seeking to restore Cuba relations after 50 years.
Mr Gross was trying to set up internet access for the island's small Jewish community under a USAID programme.
He was arrested, accused of subversion and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
USAID said it had reached agreement with Development Alternatives Inc of Bethesda, Maryland, in an attempt to head off further claims.
A spokesman later said the sum was $3.2m.
Mr Gross, 65, and his wife filed a suit against the US government for negligence, saying he had been sent into a situation known to be dangerous.
But in November a federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of that suit, saying the government was immune from any claim arising in a foreign country.
Relations between the US and Cuba have remained frozen since the early 1960s, when the US broke off diplomatic relations and imposed a trade embargo after Cuba's revolution led to communism.
But President Barack Obama said the US was looking to open an embassy in Havana in the coming months, as part of the wider effort to bring Cuba out of isolation.
Mr Gross's release was part of a deal that included the return from the US of three Cubans convicted of spying.
An unnamed spy imprisoned in Cuba went the other way, back to the US.


Mae GE Aviation wedi dewis Cymru fel lleoliad ar gyfer gwaith cynnal a chadw i'r peiriannau jet mwyaf, a mwyaf effeithlon yn y byd.

Daw hynny yn dilyn penderfyniad gan y cwmni i fuddsoddi £15m yn y cynllun, gyda Llywodraeth Cymru hefyd yn cynnig grant o £5m.
Bydd y gwaith yn cael ei wneud ar safle GE Aviation yn Nantgarw, Rhondda Cynon Taf, sydd eisoes yn cyflogi 1,400 o bobl.
Mae disgwyl iddyn nhw gyflogi 65 o bobl yn ychwanegol er mwyn gallu gwneud gwaith atgyweirio ar yr injan GE9X.
Daeth y cyhoeddiad yn dilyn cyfarfod rhwng y Prif Weinidog Carwyn Jones ac uwch-swyddogion y cwmni yn ystod ymweliad â phrifddinas yr Unol Daleithiau, Washington DC.
Bydd y cyllid yn cael ei ddefnyddio i wella cyfleusterau'r safle yn Nantgarw a gwella sgiliau'r gweithlu presennol dros y pum mlynedd nesaf er mwyn sicrhau eu bod yn barod i gynnal a chadw'r GE9X pan fydd cwmni awyrennau Boeing yn dechrau eu defnyddio.
Dywedodd rheolwr gyfarwyddwr GE Aviation yng Nghymru, Lan-Chun Lindsay, ei fod yn "ddiwrnod gwych i Gymru, yn enwedig i'n cymunedau ar draws y Cymoedd".
Ychwanegodd Mr Jones bod sicrhau ymrwymiad gan gwmni o faint GE Aviation "o bwysigrwydd strategol enfawr i economi Cymru".
"Mae'n newyddion hynod o dda bod y buddsoddiad yma'n mynd i gryfhau ei chynaliadwyedd tymor hir, cadw maint y cyfleuster a sicrhau y bydd yn parhau yn gystadleuol," meddai.


A French TV station has pulled an advert boasting about the number of women among its presenters after the ad was widely criticised as sexist.

The ad shows a family home in disarray - untidy bedrooms, a smoking oven, a man's shirt aflame on the ironing board - and asks: "Where are the women?"
The answer, of course, is "on France 3". "Most of our hosts are hostesses," reads the ad's closing tagline.
The clip was met with dismay and ridicule after its release on Twitter.
The idea behind the ad - that professional women are neglecting their household duties - "does not seem like a good way to promote professional equality", tweeted France's women's minister, Pascale Boistard.
Ms Boistard mentioned the new head of France 3, Delphine Ernotte, by name. Ms Ernotte, the company's first female chief, apologised for the ad, saying she had not seen it ahead of its release, and ordered it to be pulled.
The campaign was supposed to last three weeks but the ad will now not reach a television screen in France.
Ms Ernotte has a reputation for being tough on sexism. In her previous role as head of the phone company Orange, she levied €10 (£7.30; $11.20) fines for sexist remarks made in executive committee meetings, Le Monde reported.
Ms Boistard went on to thank Ms Ernotte on Twitter for her quick reaction in pulling the ad.


MK Dons boss Karl Robinson says he feels he can get the players he needs despite having one of the lowest budgets in the Championship in 2015-16.

The Dons were promoted to the second tier for the first time last season.
"We have a wage cap and have always had one. I can well assure you our budget will be in the bottom three next year," Robinson told BBC Three Counties Radio.
"The chairman's trying to build a sustainable club and the way he's doing it has been sensational."
Robinson, whose only signing so far this summer has been Joe Walsh from Crawley, added: "We've been criticised for not spending a great deal but we've managed to achieve our goal of reaching the Championship.
"We know next year is going to be even harder - we believe that we can recruit the players we need but we'll never spend the money other Championship teams are doing."
Robinson's side are being linked with re-signing former loanees Will Grigg from Brentford and Chelsea's Lewis Baker, but the 34-year-old says the decision over the players' future is not theirs.
"We'd like Will Grigg, but what we want and what we can get are two different arguments. We know we're going to be bringing in strikers - we've already earmarked one or two.
"We'd love Lewis Baker. But he's not our player, so wherever he goes next season, we hope it's us, but it's out of our hands.
"I think we need six or seven - I'd like to sign some of my own. I'd like to bring in players who are 21, 22, 23 and bring them on, some experienced players and then add some young loans."
Goalkeeper David Martin, who made 47 appearances for MK Dons last season, is out of contract this summer, but his manager believes he will sign a new contract at Stadium:MK.
"I'm very confident we'll get Dave done. He got married two weeks ago and is away on his honeymoon," Robinson added.
"He had a tremendous season last season, kept an enormous amount of clean sheets and will have to do that again, even more so, in the Championship. Once we sit down and have a conversation, I'll be very surprised if we don't get that done."
Robinson was also quick to play down any heightening of expectations next season, adding staying up would be classed as successful.
"People are liking us to Wolves and Bournemouth - we're not on the same hemisphere as these teams," he said. "We can't do what these teams have done.
"We're going into a Championship with a different way of doing it, but we'll do it our way. Our way is a way our fans know, and hopefully the football club can again turn one or two heads."


Flood victims have reacted angrily to the government's efforts to prevent flooding, with some describing it as "shockingly disappointing".

A report outlined £12.5m for temporary defences after a review was commissioned following the floods across northern England last December.
Bob Deacon, whose home in Hebden Bridge was flooded, said: "It's abysmal. It's really shocking."
Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom said it would "strengthen defences".
About 16,000 houses were inundated during the wettest Christmas in a century.
The National Flood Resilience Review recommended measures including barriers and high-volume water pumps to be held at seven strategic locations around the country.
Mr Deacon, who chairs the Hebden Bridge Partnership, which was set up to improve the town, said flood-hit communities in West Yorkshire focused on solutions involving changes to the management of the moorland.
"There are only two sentences about all that - on the last page," he said.
"An opportunity has simply not been taken to assess this impact."
He said he had hoped the review would look at measures to force water companies to take on a legal responsibility to reduce flood risk.
"As a policy issue, it's simply not there. It's quite shockingly disappointing," he said.
About 90% of affected businesses had reopened and many installed flood resilience measures paid for by money raised locally, he said.
Leeds City Council leader Judith Blake said the city was "barely mentioned in this report".
"What we can't have is a repeat of what happened with the cancelled flood defences in Leeds in 2011," she said.
Brenda Pollack, campaigner at Rewilding Britain, which wants to restore natural habitats and wildlife, said opportunities to reduce flood risk naturally had been missed by the government.
"Restoring natural, varied landscapes helps absorb flood waters and is more cost effective than expensive flood barriers and defences," she said.


The Ashley Madison dating site had "inadequate" security systems and used fake icons to make people think it was safe, reveals a report.

The Toronto-based firm's security systems were investigated by privacy watchdogs in Canada and Australia.
The attack on Ashley Madison in July 2015 took data on millions of users.
Avid Life Media, which owns Ashley Madison, has already said it will abide by the report's findings to improve the way it handles data.
Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner (COPC) and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner started an investigation into how Avid Life Media handled customer data soon after the attack.
The report released this week revealed that Avid Life violated privacy laws in both countries thanks to the lax way it oversaw data that users surrendered to it when they signed up.
"Privacy breaches are a core risk for any organisation with a business model based on the collection and use of personal information," said Daniel Therrien, Canada's privacy commissioner, in a statement.
He said that although the site billed itself as "100% discreet" it did not do enough to protect personal data because well-known security safeguards were "insufficient or absent".
"Handling huge amounts of this kind of personal information without a comprehensive information security plan is unacceptable," added Mr Therrien.
The failings found in the report included system passwords being held in plain text on easy-to-access internal servers and in emails and text files that were regularly passed around within the company. Avid also did little to properly authenticate who was accessing its systems remotely, said the report.
"Ashley Madison's shortcomings were generally avoidable through relatively straightforward measures," said Marc Dautlich, an information law expert at Pinsent Masons. "And the cost of the consequences which it has now incurred are far greater than the cost of prevention would have been."


A canal bridge in Blackburn has received a wallpaper makeover as part of a project to celebrate the town's industrial heritage.

Wallpaper maker Graham & Brown created the artwork after adopting a stretch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
The attraction, on Sour Milk Hall Bridge, is a replica of an illustration by London designer Lizzie Mary Cullen, displayed in the company's foyer.
The project was supervised by the Canal and River Trust.
Ian Brown, a director at Graham & Brown, said the company wanted to celebrate Blackburn's "proud past".
"As a business we are inspired by creative design and the bridge supplied us with a large blank canvas to work on," he said.
"Blackburn is a town with a proud past, and the canal is a legacy of the times of the industrial revolution."


A famous downhill race in the Skiing World Cup has been cancelled - because there has been too much snow.

Saturday's race at the Lauberhorn course in Wengen, Switzerland, was dropped after more than 40cm (16in) of snow fell overnight.
Crews worked through the night but were unable to prepare the piste in time.
After a dry start to the ski season in December, resorts are now dealing with heavy flurries as a cold snap grips Europe.
The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km per hour (100 miles per hour).
The heavy snow was accompanied by powerful winds, complicating preparations, and eventually forcing organisers to admit the race could not be held safely.
More snow is forecast to fall during the weekend, but in much lighter flurries, and slalom events on Sunday are still expected to take place.
Tickets for Saturday were being refunded on-site until 17:00 local time.
The Europe-wide cold snap has caused significant problems across Europe, including power cuts to nearly 350,000 homes in France and many traffic accidents.
It is thought the current cold weather has killed about 65 people across the continent so far.