Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says authorities do not know if a suicide bomber who attacked a Kurdish wedding killing 54 people was a child.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after Saturday's attack in Gazantiep that the bomber was 12-14 years old.
Turkey has linked the bomber to so-called Islamic State (IS), but Mr Yildirim said "a clue has not yet been found concerning the perpetrator".
His statement came as Turkey's military targeted IS militants in Syria.
Television reports said howitzers had been used against IS near the border town of Jarablus.
Turkish artillery had also hit US-backed Syrian Kurdish YPG positions north of Manbij in Syria, broadcaster NTV said.
A coalition including YPG has been pushing IS out of Syrian towns, including Manbij, recently.
Turkey views the YPG as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a Turkish-Kurdish rebel group fighting for autonomy since the 1980s.
Speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting on Monday, Mr Yildirim said the earlier statement identifying the attacker as a child was a "guess" based on witness accounts.
Most of the victims were children, media reports say.
Twenty-nine victims of the attack, which took place on Sunday, were under the age of 18, reports said, with one official saying 22 were under the age of 14.
Thirteen of those killed were women, Turkish media said. Sixty-six people are still in hospital, 14 of them in a serious condition, Dogan news agency reported.
One woman lost four children in the attack, the Haberturk newspaper reported. Emine Arhan told the title "if it wasn't for my only surviving child, I would have killed myself".
Another victim was a nine-year-old girl who had stayed on at the party to see the bride after her parents had left, according to the Vatan newspaper.
A disproportionately large number of women and children were killed in the attack because it targeted henna night, a part of the celebration attended mainly by women and children, says BBC Monitoring's Turkey analyst Pinar Sevinclidir.
Hurriyet newspaper said the type of bomb, which contained scraps of metal, was similar to those used in previous attacks on pro-Kurdish gatherings.
Prosecutors said a search was also under way for two people believed to have accompanied the suspected attacker to the wedding party but who left before the blast.
Gaziantep, near the Syrian border, is known to contain several IS cells.
In a defiant speech on Monday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said IS should be "completely cleansed" from the border area with Turkey.
He also announced that Turkey was recalling its ambassador to Vienna because of a demonstration in the Austrian capital by groups associated with the PKK.
Mr Cavusoglu accused Austria of "supporting a terrorist organisation which is attacking Turkey", according to Austrian paper Der Standard.
Ties between the two countries have been fraught over the past weeks, with Vienna warning that Turkey is heading towards authoritarian rule, and calling for its membership talks with the European Union to be ended.


Congo-Brazzaville, Guinea, Mali and Niger have agreed to divert a portion of state revenues from oil, gold, phosphate and uranium to a UN fund to fight childhood malnutrition.

From 2017, $0.01 (£0.07) from every barrel of oil and $0.60 from every gram of gold will go to pay for supplements.
The scheme is expected to raise about $100m a year.
Chronic malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa affects more than one in three children under five, the UN says.
The scheme called Unitlife, which will be managed by the UN children's agency (Unicef), was announced at the UN's annual gathering of world leaders in New York.
Ending hunger was one of 17 Sustainable Development Goals launched by at the UN on Friday.
The UN says it would take around $50bn over the next 10 years to reduce by 40% the number of children under the age of five whose growth is stunted from malnutrition.
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The UN's Philippe Douste-Blazy, who is leading the Unitlife project, said he hoped to gradually add more countries, like top oil producers Nigeria and Angola.
A similar scheme already takes 1 euro ($1.12; £0.74) per air ticket from countries signed up to the it to fund projects fighting HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis.
Mr Douste-Blazy wrote in the Huffington Post in February that he thinks the next micro-tax should go on financial transactions.


An animal lover was left horrified after a rat chewed off part of the legs of her 90-year-old pet tortoise.

Linzi James, of Pembroke, put the tortoise, called Mrs T, in her garden shed to hibernate where it was attacked by the rat.
She found the reptile on her lawn with injuries to her two front legs.
Rats attacking tortoises is not uncommon and in 2013 Britain's oldest tortoise, 130-year-old Thomas, died after a rat attack.


Aged only 28, Sir Nicholas Winton helped save nearly 700 Jewish children from Nazi death camps, earning him the nickname the "English Schindler".

Thursday is his 102nd birthday, which he will be celebrating with family and friends in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
One of the children he saved, 82-year-old Vera Gissing, said of his age: "It's absolutely amazing, he's been such a fantastic figure all through his life and so caring with everyone.
"He still has such incredible wit. It's amazing and very heart-warming to still be part of his life."
She added of the birthday party: "I think he will enjoy it, and I'm sure there will be lots of people there."
Mrs Gissing, originally from Prague, was 10 when she was helped by Sir Nicholas to flee Czechoslovakia just before World War II broke out.
In June 1939, shortly before her 11th birthday, her parents arranged to get Vera and her sister, Eva, on a special train to Great Britain, organised by Sir Nicholas's Czech Kindertransport.
"Nicky Winton came to Prague by chance," she said. "He was packing to go skiing in Switzerland with a friend of his.
"Then the friend phoned him up and said 'forget skiing, come to Prague, I've got something important to show you'."
This was in November 1938, and at that time there were masses of refugees who had fled to Prague from the Sudetenland.
It was part of Czechoslovakia which had effectively been presented as a gift by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to Adolf Hitler in September 1938.
It meant that Czechoslovakia was exposed to future invasions from Nazi Germany.
"There were so many people who had no clothing, no money and many children in makeshift camps," said Mrs Gissing.
"There was no one to help them."
When Sir Nicholas visited the camps he decided to take action.
"He could have put his hand in his pockets to give some money towards the upkeep of the children," said Mrs Gissing.
"But no, his motto was to think large. He decided there and then he would save as many young lives as possible."
Sir Nicholas was only in Prague for three weeks and had to organise the rescue in that time, including liaising with the British Home Office to organise permits for the children and finding homes for them.
"He had over 5,000 names on the list by the time he left Prague, and 669 children actually were saved," said Mrs Gissing.
Vera went to live with foster parents in Liverpool and later attended a school in Wales for Czech refugee children.
By the time she was repatriated to Prague in 1945 she knew that both her parents had perished in the Holocaust.
"But today there are about 5,000 of us who are alive thanks to him," said Mrs Gissing.
"We've had children, grandchildren and some of us even great grandchildren. What an incredible achievement."
A humble man, his story only came to light by chance 50 years later when his wife found papers relating to what had happened in a battered briefcase in his attic.
Sir Nicholas was knighted in 2002 for services to humanity.


A long-awaited report into an alleged culture of bullying at British Cycling will be published on Wednesday.

An investigation started last year after claims made by former Great Britain track sprinter Jess Varnish and other Olympians and Paralympians.
A draft report that criticised the organisation was leaked in March.
Co-commissioned by UK Sport and British Cycling in April 2016, the report was prepared by a panel of five led by British Rowing chair Annamarie Phelps.
Initial publication was pushed back because of the number of people wanting to speak to the panel and the legal obligation to give individuals criticised a right of reply led to further delays.
The general election, which was held on 8 June, added seven more weeks of delays.
The March leak, published in the Daily Mail, outlined a "culture of fear" at British Cycling, with some staff "bullied".
In response, British Cycling admitted it did not pay "sufficient care and attention" to the wellbeing of staff and athletes at the expense of winning medals.
The Manchester-based organisation was also said to have "sanitised" its own investigation into claims former technical director Shane Sutton used sexist language towards Varnish, who was dropped from British Cycling's elite programme last April.
Australian Sutton, who quit in the wake of Varnish's allegations, was found guilty of using sexist language towards her but cleared of eight of nine charges against him. He was also cleared of any bullying allegations.


A man has died apparently trying to clear a fallen tree as hurricane-force winds batter parts of the UK.

The dead man, believed to be in his 70s, was killed after the tree brought down power cables in Wiltshire.
Gusts of over 100mph were recorded as Met Office "red warnings", the first of the winter, were issued. Sixteen severe flood warnings remain in place.
Power and transport networks have been badly hit, in what has been called an "almost unparalleled natural crisis".
Residents in many parts of the UK have been warned not to go out.
Wiltshire Police say the dead man was killed in a suspected electrocution in Bremhill, a village between Calne and Chippenham, on Wednesday afternoon.
Severe flood warnings remain for Berkshire, Surrey and Somerset, which have already been hit by severe flooding, with hundreds of homes evacuated.
Surrey Fire & Rescue said it had rescued 250 people from the floods on Wednesday.
A total of 850 people have been rescued in the county since Sunday.
As of 21:00 GMT on Wednesday, about 115,000 homes in parts of England and Wales were still without power.
The figure included about 52,000 in mid and north Wales, and 23,000 in south Wales.
About 13,000 homes in the West Midlands were still without power while 10,000 homes in Cheshire, 2,500 homes in the Wirral and 5,500 homes in north Shropshire were without power.
Some 3,000 homes in south-west England remained without power.
Phil Davies, network service manager for Western Power, said his engineers were facing the most difficult conditions they had ever seen.
The Met Office said a wind gust of 112mph was recorded at Great Dun Fell, in the Pennines - the strongest wind gust on land of the recent storms.
Gusts of 92mph were recorded at Mumbles Head, South Wales. Winds of 96mph winds were recorded at the Needles, off the Isle of Wight.
A train travelling from London's King's Cross to Edinburgh, which became stranded on the North York moors between Darlington and North Allerton, started moving again at about 00:45 GMT, East Coast has said.
The train, which set off from London at 18:30 GMT, was being hauled to Edinburgh by another locomotive, spokesman Nick Wood added.
He said taxis would take passengers home when they arrived at their stations.
"Obviously we appreciate it's hardly ideal for all of our passengers being stuck on board and appreciate all their patience."
He said Network Rail engineers were hoping to fix the problem overnight so that services could run as close to normal as possible on Thursday morning.
Passenger Carol Machin told BBC Radio 5 live earlier: "There's electrical line here, there and everywhere.
"It's just frustrating because the weather's shocking and you just want to get home at this time of night when you've come from London - it's a long journey."
Electric power cables and trees have been brought down by winds of up to 94mph, blocking roads in Devon and Cornwall.
A section of the west coast main line in Lancashire was closed between 19:00 and 21:00 GMT, while the M6 at Thelwall Viaduct was closed in both directions between junctions 20 and 21. The M62 was also shut both ways between junction 22 and 23.
At Crewe railway station about 500 passengers were evacuated and taken to a nearby hotel after roof panels fell on to overhead lines and caused a fire, leaving trains stranded outside the station.
Becky Kelly, a BBC producer who was on one of the halted trains, said: "I was stuck on a train going to Liverpool and we were told very quickly to evacuate and we were rushed off the train and rushed outside the station. Then fire and police arrived.
"We were told overhead power cables had gone on fire."
The station was later opened to allow stranded passengers to get off their trains.
West Country rail services have been severely affected by the severe flooding, while services in Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Sussex, Kent and Surrey have been heavily disrupted.
Virgin Trains has advised all passengers not to attempt travel and there are major disruptions for other rail services, with severe delays between Reading and London due to flooding near Maidenhead. Most of Virgin's west coast main line services were suspended.
The rare Met Office red warnings, of wind posing a "risk to life", expired at 21:00 GMT. Before Wednesday, the last red warning was issued in January 2013 as heavy snow hit Wales; before that, a red warning of wind was issued in January 2012 in Scotland.
Meanwhile, motorists have been advised to avoid the A9 in Scotland after several stretches were affected by snow and ice.
The road was closed at Dalwhinnie after an accident between a van and a lorry, with emergency services also dealing with a number of other incidents.
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By Roger HarrabinEnvironment analyst
Is this an unprecedented crisis? It depends how you measure it.
Certainly the rainfall in January across southern England is unprecedented in records stretching back to 1766. The soaking January was preceded by a wet December and followed by the start of a wet February. Storm has followed relentless storm in a way that makes the Met Office suspect manmade climate change is at play.
The rains have soaked the rocks and levels of water in boreholes are unprecedented as is the duration of the flooding, especially on the Somerset Levels.
But in terms of damage to life and property, well these floods are by no means unprecedented.
The Environment Agency says 5,800 properties are flooded since the start of December. A handful of people has died from weather-related incidents.
Compare that with 2007 when 55,000 homes were flooded. Or 1946-47 when 100,000 properties were inundated as snow melted.
Or 1607, when more than 2,000 people died when a storm swept up the Bristol Channel.
The comparisons aren't completely accurate because flood defences have increased over the years.
The Environment Agency says for instance that they have defended 1.3 million homes that otherwise would have been flooded this year.
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As well as 16 severe flood warnings, the Environment Agency has also issued about 400 less serious flood warnings and alerts, mostly in southern England and the Midlands.
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homes flooded since 29 January
2,500 homes at risk
30,000 sandbags distributed
5,800 homes flooded since Dec
Â£630m economic damage
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Germany's Volkswagen became the world's biggest-selling vehicle maker in the first half of the year, overtaking Toyota for the first time.

VW sold 5.04 million cars between January and June - slightly more than the 5.02 million sold by Toyota.
The Japanese company said on Tuesday its sales fell 1.5% compared with 2014, as growth in emerging markets slowed.
VW has long aimed to beat Toyota and has done so three years ahead of its 2018 target.
Toyota will announce first-half results on Tuesday next week, while VW releases its figures for the period on Wednesday.
Stefan Bratzel, head of Germany's Center of Automotive Management, said: "VW is snatching the sales crown in difficult times with major car markets in decline. They will need to withstand the slowdown in China if they want to keep the top spot."
VW's success has been propelled by soaring sales in China, a market that now accounts for a third of its total, as well as a recovery in Europe.
The company, which also owns Audi and Porsche, this year aims to "moderately" exceed the 10.1 million cars it sold in 2014.
Toyota sold 10.23 million vehicles in 2014, but expects the total to slip to 10.15 million this year.
General Motors held the global sales crown for more than seven decades until being surpassed by Toyota in 2008.
GM regained the top spot in 2011, when Toyota's production was hurt by the earthquake and tsunami in north-eastern Japan.
Toyota became number one again the following year and has held the title since.
In another development, Ford has announced that it sold 3.26 million vehicles globally in the first half of the year.
The US company reported a 10% rise in pre-tax profit to $2.9bn for the three months to 30 June, with revenue coming in about $2bn higher than expected at $37.3bn.
Wholesale sales in North America rose by 56,000 to 816,000 vehicles, where Ford generated the bulk - $2.6bn - of its profits. In Europe, losses were halved to $14m as sales rose by 13,000 to 389,000.
Mark Fields, Ford's chief executive, said: "We delivered an outstanding second quarter, a great first half of 2015, and we are confident the second half of the year will be even stronger."


Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Front, has been ordered to stand trial in October on charges of inciting racial hatred.

The charges relate to her comments made in 2010 comparing Muslims praying in the streets to the Nazi occupation of France in World War Two.
The European Parliament paved the way for her prosecution in 2013 by removing her immunity as an MEP.
Ms Le Pen has defended her remarks and called the charges "intimidation".
She will appear in court in Lyon on 20 October, according to French media reports.
Lyon is where, in December 2010, Ms Le Pen told FN supporters that the sight of Muslims praying in the street was similar to the Nazi occupation in World War Two.
In her speech, broadcast by French media, she said that France had initially seen "more and more veils", then "more and more burkas" and "after that came prayers in the streets".
She said: "I'm sorry, but some people are very fond of talking about the Second World War and about the occupation, so let's talk about occupation, because that is what is happening here...
"There are no tanks, no soldiers, but it is still an occupation, and it weighs on people."
Praying in the streets was banned in Paris in 2011 in response to growing far-right protests.
In the same year France became the first EU state to ban public wearing of the face-covering Islamic veil (niqab).
France is home to the largest number of Muslim residents of all EU member states.
By some estimates, as many as six million French people, or just under 10% of the population, are Muslims, and many have origins in France's former North African colonies.
An initial investigation was launched following's Ms Le Pen's speech, made as she was campaigning to become FN leader, but it was later closed with no result.
A complaint by an anti-racist association then led to a judicial enquiry in January 2012.
Ms Le Pen was charged in July 2014 after her immunity as a member of the European Parliament was lifted following a vote.
The European Parliament stripped her father, the FN's founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, of his immunity in 1997 and he was later fined by a German court for playing down the Holocaust.
He had dismissed the Nazi gas chambers as "a detail" in WW2 history.
His daughter, who has tried to steer the party away from its racist and anti-Semitic past, is widely expected to run for French president in 2017.


Oxford United have signed striker George Waring on a one-month emergency loan from Premier League Stoke City.

The 21-year-old made 19 appearances during a loan spell at Barnsley last season and scored six goals.
"George has been on a lot of people's radar for a while. He is a good player and has a physical presence," boss Michael Appleton told the club website.
"He provides us with a different sort of threat and a bit more competition for places over the next month or so."
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In the four years that the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, it was responsible for one of the worst mass killings of the 20th Century.

The brutal regime, in power from 1975-1979, claimed the lives of up to two million people.
Under the Marxist leader Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge tried to take Cambodia back to the Middle Ages, forcing millions of people from the cities to work on communal farms in the countryside.
But this dramatic attempt at social engineering had a terrible cost.
Whole families died from execution, starvation, disease and overwork.
The Khmer Rouge had its origins in the 1960s, as the armed wing of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - the name the Communists used for Cambodia.
Based in remote jungle and mountain areas in the north-east of the country, the group initially made little headway.
But after a right-wing military coup toppled head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1970, the Khmer Rouge entered into a political coalition with him and began to attract increasing support.
In a civil war that continued for nearly five years, it gradually increased its control in the countryside.
Khmer Rouge forces finally took over the capital, Phnom Penh, and therefore the nation as a whole in 1975.
During his time in the remote north-east, Pol Pot had been influenced by the surrounding hill tribes, who were self-sufficient in their communal living, had no use for money and were "untainted" by Buddhism.
When he came to power, he and his henchmen quickly set about transforming Cambodia - now re-named Kampuchea - into what they hoped would be an agrarian utopia.
Declaring that the nation would start again at "Year Zero", Pol Pot isolated his people from the rest of the world and set about emptying the cities, abolishing money, private property and religion, and setting up rural collectives.
Anyone thought to be an intellectual of any sort was killed. Often people were condemned for wearing glasses or knowing a foreign language.
Hundreds of thousands of the educated middle-classes were tortured and executed in special centres.
The most notorious of these centres was the S-21 jail in Phnom Penh, Tuol Sleng, where as many as 17,000 men, women and children were imprisoned during the regime's four years in power.
Hundreds of thousands of others died from disease, starvation or exhaustion as members of the Khmer Rouge - often just teenagers themselves - forced people to do back-breaking work.
The Khmer Rouge government was finally overthrown in 1979 by invading Vietnamese troops, after a series of violent border confrontations.
The higher echelons of the party retreated to remote areas of the country, where they remained active for a while but gradually became less and less powerful.
In the years that followed, as Cambodia began the process of reopening to the international community, the full horrors of the regime became apparent.
Survivors told their stories to shocked audiences, and in the 1980s the Hollywood movie The Killing Fields brought the plight of the Khmer Rouge victims to worldwide attention.
Pol Pot was denounced by his former comrades in a show trial in July 1997, and sentenced to house arrest in his jungle home.
But less than a year later he was dead - denying the millions of people who were affected by this brutal regime the chance to bring him to justice.


Two people have been injured after a head-on crash on the A90 at Bridge of Don.

Police Scotland said they were called to the scene, near the Murcar roundabout, at about 09:15 on Saturday morning.
A spokesman said the drivers of both vehicles had been taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The road was closed northbound for several hours to allow officers to deal with the aftermath of the crash.
Police have appealed for witnesses.
Sgt Steve Manson said: "A southbound grey Vauxhall Astra motor car and a northbound silver BMW 320 motor car collided head-on resulting in the drivers, and only occupants, of both vehicles having to be cut free by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
"Both were taken to hospital with serious injuries."


Europe's bid to defend the Ryder Cup could be hit this week by the sort of Tour Championship curse that undermined the United States before their most recent defeat at Gleneagles.

Two years ago the American team travelled to Scotland in the knowledge that they would not be fielding their strongest possible line-up.
At the time, the most in-form US player was Billy Horschel. He had not been selected because the team was picked before his late surge through the PGA Tour play-offs, culminating in Tour Championship victory at East Lake.
Chris Kirk was similarly inspired, winning the Deutsche Bank Championship, finishing fourth at the season finale and second to Horschel in the play-off standings. He too was absent from the American team.
The US have ensured they don't suffer a similar fate this time by introducing what is unofficially known as the "Horschel rule".
It means one more wildcard decision still remains. It will not be made before the conclusion of the Tour Championship, with the recipient heading to the Ryder Cup the following week.
And come next Monday it could be Europe feeling as though they are travelling to an away Ryder Cup without their strongest line-up.
This is because Paul Casey has been the continent's most consistent recent force and Russell Knox is also in strong Stateside form. Both are playing to a standard that would make them big assets to skipper Darren Clarke's team.
But neither player is in the continental line-up even though they, along with Rory McIlroy, are the only Europeans competing in the PGA Tour finale.
Casey is ineligible for the Hazeltine match because he is not a member of the European Tour. Having played in three Ryder Cups, including Europe's 2004 and 06 victories, the Arizona-based Englishman would have brought welcome experience.
Now aged 39, he has been runner-up in the past two play-off events and was a combined 33 under par for those tournaments.
Currently fifth in the FedEx Cup, he knows victory in this week's 30-man Tour Championship would guarantee the $10m (£7.6m) play-off jackpot as well as plenty of headlines.
Casey can argue that his prominence, as the PGA Tour season reaches its climax, vindicates his decision to turn his back on the European circuit. He has followed a settled American-based schedule which has enabled him to maximise time with his family.
"Not being part of the Ryder Cup is a by-product of making that decision," Casey said.
"It was never part of that decision. I'm going to watch it with a sort of sadness that I can't be part of that."
Clarke was powerless once Casey turned his back on his native Tour. For months he has known that he will be without a player who is showing the standards that helped him to climb to number three in the world back in 2009.
With five rookies qualifying for his team, Clarke felt obliged to go for the experience of Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer for two of his three wildcard picks. He also preferred debutant Thomas Pieters which meant Knox misses out.
The 31-year-old joined the European Tour after winning last November's WGC Champions in Shanghai because it was clear the US-based Scot stood a chance of qualifying for the Ryder Cup.
Although he ultimately did not make Europe's automatic list, he now has a realistic chance of landing the play-off title this week.
Supremely accurate off the tee, such a key attribute in Ryder Cup foursomes, Knox also possesses a sure putting touch and sits eighth on the FedEx Cup list.
Victory at East Lake, combined with play-off leader Dustin Johnson finishing outside the top three and Patrick Reed and Adam Scott worse than second, and the Inverness man would take the vast spoils on offer.
He would also pile pressure onto Clarke.
Knox's prime motivation at the moment is to prove the skipper wrong by winning the American circuit's season-long shoot-out.
Although Clarke is a canny and shrewd interviewee, his week as Ryder Cup captain would, inevitably, begin with awkward questions over his wildcard picks.
A similar scenario beset US skipper Tom Watson two years ago. The then-65-year-old had completed his team three weeks earlier and was subsequently haunted by Horschel's absence.
"As much as you want to have the hottest players on your team, sometimes it just doesn't happen that way," Watson told reporters when he arrived at Gleneagles.
"I texted him and said, 'Horschel, damn you, you're a day late but not a dollar short.'"
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Yes, he deflected a negative storyline with a nice turn of phrase but the scenario became one of a number of factors that combined to undermine the veteran's captaincy.
This week might be one of those rare occasions where Clarke could be forgiven for not rooting for European success at an American showpiece event. Unless, of course, it is provided by McIlroy, who will be such an important influence in the continent's Hazeltine line-up.
Having brilliantly edged out Casey in Boston at the beginning of the month, the Northern Irishman is sixth in the FedEx Cup. Victory at East Lake would almost certainly give him the play-off title, one of the few accolades missing from a glittering golfing CV.
Were the four-time major winner to win in Atlanta, the in-form Johnson would have to finish worse than runner-up to deny McIlroy the $10m (£7.6m) jackpot.
Such a triumph would give European golf a huge pre-Ryder Cup boost but it is much harder to make a similar case if, instead, one of its other two representatives prevail.
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Wigan moved off the bottom of the Championship table as Will Grigg's late goal gave them victory over Wolves.

The striker latched on to a long ball with two minutes remaining and rounded Wolves goalkeeper Carl Ikeme.
Ex-Wolves striker Adam le Fondre had put Wigan ahead early on, turning in Max Power's cross from close range.
Prince Oniangue equalised for the visitors before the break with a low finish from 18 yards, before substitute Grigg's cool finish won it for Wigan.
The victory for Gary Caldwell's side was their first in nine league matches, their last win coming against Blackburn on 13 August, and sends them up to 21st.
Wolves went into the match following back-to-back wins against Newcastle and Brentford, but failed to produce the same attacking threat at the DW Stadium.
Le Fondre, who spent last season on loan at Molineux, became the third ex-Wolves player to score against his old side in Championship this campaign when he converted the simplest of chances from six yards.
After Congo captain Oniangue slotted into the bottom corner, Danny Batth almost added another for the visitors early in the second half, but his header was cleared off the line.
With the game heading towards a draw, Northern Ireland forward Grigg held off a weak challenge from Batth to give the Latics their second league win of the season.
Match ends, Wigan Athletic 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1.
Second Half ends, Wigan Athletic 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1.
Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  Wigan Athletic 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jake Buxton.
Attempt saved. Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by David Perkins.
Foul by David Perkins (Wigan Athletic).
David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
David Perkins (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by George Saville (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Michael Jacobs replaces Nathan Byrne.
Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ola John.
Foul by William Grigg (Wigan Athletic).
Silvio (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Ola John replaces Prince Oniangué.
Yanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Offside, Wigan Athletic. Jake Buxton tries a through ball, but Yanic Wildschut is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Gladon.
Prince Oniangué (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Prince Oniangué (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Foul by Dan Burn (Wigan Athletic).
Paul Gladon (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Shaun MacDonald (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Gladon (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Nick Powell replaces Jordi Gómez.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. William Grigg replaces Adam Le Fondre.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. George Saville replaces João Teixeira.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Paul Gladon replaces Ivan Cavaleiro.
Attempt missed. Nathan Byrne (Wigan Athletic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Stephen Warnock with a cross.
Foul by Dan Burn (Wigan Athletic).
Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Max Power (Wigan Athletic).
Romain Saiss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic).
Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by João Teixeira with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by David Perkins.
Romain Saiss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card.
David Perkins (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.


Most UK fire services would have automatically sent a high ladder to Grenfell Tower had the fire happened in their area, BBC Newsnight can reveal.

A Newsnight investigation last week revealed the London Fire Brigade failed to dispatch a high "aerial" ladder immediately to the west London blaze.
But 31 of the 44 UK fire services with high-rise blocks would have sent a high ladder, the programme has learned.
The Home Office said it was up to each fire authority to manage its resources.
Last week's investigation found that a high ladder had not been included in the London Fire Brigade's "predetermined attendance" plan and it took more than 30 minutes for such an appliance to arrive at the 24-storey west London tower.
The London Fire Brigade is one of several services which has changed its procedures since Grenfell and will now automatically send high ladders to tower block fires as an interim measure.
Newsnight's latest findings came after the programme requested the predetermined attendance plans - or PDAs - for high rise fires from every fire service in the country.
The PDAs detail what each service will do automatically in the moments after a fire is reported.
They show that a 70% of the fire services in the UK which have high-rise blocks in their regions would automatically have dispatched a high ladder to a tower blaze before the Grenfell disaster.
Since then, four services, including London, have altered their plans.
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However, Newsnight's research reveals that nine brigades still would not immediately send an aerial ladder to a tower blaze.
The investigation also shows significant variations in the number of response vehicles dispatched by services across the country.
In Kent, three fire engines would be sent to a reported fire in a tower block, with no high ladder. Fire services in Hampshire and Surrey - for the same fire in the same tower - would send six fire engines and a high ladder as first response.
A fire engine is expected to carry five firefighters.
Manchester, Humberside, London and Warwickshire have all increased their PDA with fires in tall buildings to include a high ladder since Grenfell.
But Leicestershire, Lancashire, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands, Kent and Essex fire services will still not automatically send a tall ladder to a fire in a high-rise building unless specifically requested.
The figures have led to calls for the government to implement mandatory minimum requirements for fire services attending high-rise fires.
Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack told Newsnight: "It was absolutely indefensible before Grenfell Tower to have such a postcode lottery of how we respond to fires in residential blocks of flats. After Grenfell Tower it's completely outrageous."
Referring to the Grenfell Tower disaster, he added: "An aerial appliance applying large quantities of water to the outside of the building could have made a big difference. It clearly did make a difference when it arrived."
A Home Office spokesperson said: "It is the responsibility of each fire and rescue authority to manage their resources across prevention, protection and operational response to meet local risk."
"Local areas consider risk through their Integrated Risk Management Plan and over the past 10 years there has been a 52% decrease in the total number of fires attended by fire and rescue services."
Newsnight requested PDAs for tower block fires from all 52 fire services in the UK.
Every service responded and all bar one sent details to the BBC. Seven brigades have no high rise tower blocks in their area.
Last week, a London Fire Brigade spokesman told Newsnight: "It is important to understand that fires in high-rise buildings are nearly always dealt with internally, not usually needing an aerial appliance.
"The fundamental issue of high rise safety remains that buildings are maintained to stop fires spreading."
The spokesman said: "An 'interim' change to pre-determined attendance for high rise buildings was introduced in direct response to the government's action to address concerns of cladding on buildings.
"The brigade's pre-determined attendance to high-rise buildings had already been increased in June 2015 from three fire engines to four as part of our ongoing review of high rise firefighting."


Scotland has the highest level of public library use in the UK, new research has suggested.

Exactly half of the 1,000 Scots asked by the Carnegie UK Trust and Ipsos Mori said they had visited a library within the past year.
They found that families with young children, occasional readers and those who were "just about managing" financially were most likely to visit.
However, Scotland also saw the sharpest drop in library use since 2011 at 11%.
The five-year UK-wide study found that more than three-quarters (77%) of people said the facilities found at public libraries were important for their communities, while 37% said they were important for them personally.
Almost three-quarters (71%) of families with children aged five to 11 visited libraries last year, up 3% on 2011.
A total of 61% of people in the second lowest socio-economic group reported using a library at least once a month, while occasional readers - those who read a book every two or three months - rose about eight percentage points to just under 60% in 2016.
Across the British Isles, high levels of library use were also seen in Ireland, while the lowest recorded use was witnessed in Northern Ireland.
In England, many more people who read books infrequently were now found to be using libraries than previously. Young people aged 15-24 years tended to be the most likely to use a library, while over 55's were the least likely to use one.
The report also found the vast majority of those surveyed in Scotland (82%) were against replacing all library employees with paid staff, while 58% favoured the use of volunteers in conjunction with existing employees.
The most popular suggested improvements to libraries in Scotland were more events, better information on services, and a cafe or coffee shop.
Martyn Evans, chief executive of Carnegie UK Trust, said: "It's extremely promising that there's been a rise in library use in Scotland amongst households with primary school aged children, as well as an increase in frequent use among a key socio-economic group.
"However, we know that the future success of public libraries depends on how effectively they respond to the changing needs of their communities.
"Local authority budgets are under severe pressure. All of us who value libraries' rich and varied contribution to our wellbeing must provide clear and compelling evidence of their impact if future investment is to be secured.
"We also know that the public want libraries to do even more."
Pamela Tulloch, chief executive at the Scottish Library and Information Council, said: "It is clear from the research that public libraries in Scotland have an enduring place in people's hearts and that they are highly valued services.
"We need to ensure that libraries continue to prosper and deliver against key policy goals and wellbeing. The trust's recommendations set out a way in which we can all work towards a thriving future public library service."


Social network Twitter went offline for many users on Tuesday, with web visitors being greeted by an error page.

Some mobile users were also unable to read or post tweets to the network, which has over 300 million active members.
Twitter chose to communicate the problem via a tweet, in which the firm said it was aware of the problem.
Some users took to Facebook to complain.
A spokesman for Twitter said that a tweet from the company's @support account read: "Some users are currently experiencing problems accessing Twitter. We are aware of the issue and are working towards a resolution."
The issue began shortly after 0800 GMT, according to Down Detector.
For some, the site continued to be intermittently accessible for several hours while the issue persisted.
"I've had to talk to real people and that's a little bit frightening," joked social media consultant David Schneider.
"Genuinely, I didn't know where to get my news from, I usually put a tweet out in the morning."
Mr Schneider, who runs consultancy That Lot told the BBC that he did feel there was a genuine sense of community on Twitter which he missed.
"I just hope we'll get through the trauma," he joked.
The fault would probably seem like an "unwelcome headache" for Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey, according to consultants Frost & Sullivan.
There were also issues with Twitter's application program interface (API), which allows websites and apps to connect to Twitter, principal analyst Sheridan Nye told the BBC.
"The loss of the micro-blogging site's APIs multiplied the issue for all manner of developers, companies and organisations," she said.
Ms Nye added that there could be serious consequences for some businesses if downtime went on for long periods.
"Any company that was in the process of launching a new digital product would have lost valuable marketing insight," she said.
Recently launched apps might not have been able to take advantage of live feedback on the site, Ms Nye said - something which Barclays took advantage of following the launch of the bank's PingIt payments app last year.
"Barclays found out that under-18s were annoyed that they couldn't use the service - so Barclays quickly modified the service to allow them access," Ms Nye said.


Britain's Emma Thompson has been named the year's best film actress by the influential National Board of Review.

The two-time Oscar winner was honoured for her role as author PL Travers in Saving Mr Banks, a dramatisation of the making of Disney's Mary Poppins.
Her, about a man who falls in love with a computer's voice, won best film.
Spike Jonze's quirky romance was also awarded the best director prize by the New York-based collective of film historians, student and academics.
The National Board of Review (NBR) is one of the first groups to name its picks in what is shaping up to be an unpredictable film awards season.
Earlier this week, the Gotham Independent Awards gave its best film prize to the Coen brothers' musical drama Inside Llewyn Davis, while the New York Film Critics Circle favoured 1970s crime yarn American Hustle.
Nebraska, about an elderly father and his middle-aged son taking a 750-mile road trip, saw Bruce Dern and Will Forte named best actor and best supporting actor respectively.
Octavia Spencer was named best supporting actress for true-life drama Fruitvale Station, which also saw its director Ryan Coogler and lead actor Michael B Jordan honoured.
Gravity's ground-breaking special effects saw the space saga recognised with a creative innovation award, while Hugh Jackman thriller Prisoners received the best ensemble prize.
The NBR also released its Top 10 of the year, a list that includes such other Oscar-tipped titles as 12 Years a Slave, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and The Wolf of Wall Street.
The latter film received the best adapted screenplay prize, with an additional honour going to director Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio for their "career collaboration".
Inside Llewyn Davis was recognised in the best original screenplay category, while Sarah Polley's family portrait Stories We Tell was crowned best documentary.
The winners will have the opportunity to collect their prizes at the NBR's annual awards gala, to be held in New York on 7 January.
The awards season continues this weekend with the European Film Awards in Berlin on Saturday and the British Independent Film Awards in London on Sunday.


Northern Ireland households have, on average, the lowest incomes of any UK region, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest.

The ONS has published data covering the effects of taxes and benefits on household incomes in 2014.
The figures show the average household in NI paid £12,000 in taxes and received £13,000 in direct and indirect benefits.
Average earnings are £25,540 giving a final household income of £26,500.
The UK average final income is just under £32,000 and the highest average is in London at almost £39,000.
The figures also show that on average Northern Ireland households pay the second lowest amount in direct taxes, such as income tax, at £5,458.
However, they pay the second highest amount in indirect taxes, such as VAT, at £6,501.
Northern Ireland households are not, on average, the largest recipients of direct benefits - four other regions have higher average benefit incomes.


Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart has confirmed he will leave Torino after a season-long loan at the Italian club.

Hart, 29, joined the Serie A club in August after being told he was free to leave City by manager Pep Guardiola.
Torino head coach Sinisa Mihajlovic said last month he wanted to keep Hart but the club could not afford him.
"Thank you Torino, I am so proud to have played for your special football club," the England goalkeeper wrote on social media on Monday.
"I will come back to see you all one day so it is bye for now, enjoy an amazing summer."
He added: "The way you have treated me and my family is something that we will never forget.
"I will forever support Torino for the rest of my days. I have met so many special people and this has been one of the greatest experiences of my life."
Torino ended their season with a 5-3 victory over Sassuolo on Sunday to finish ninth in Serie A.
And president Urbano Cairo admitted earlier this month that he "didn't expect so many mistakes from Joe Hart".
Hart has said he is "surplus to requirements" at Manchester City and is expected to leave the club for good in the summer despite having two years left on his contract.
He has won 68 England caps and has been linked with various Premier League and European clubs.
But Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said last month he was not interested in signing Hart.
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The El Niño weather phenomenon has reached its peak according to scientists and is set to decline over the next few months.

Researchers say there is a 50:50 chance that it will be replaced by a La Niña event before the end of this summer.
La Niña which involves a cooling of the Pacific Ocean, usually brings wetter conditions to Asia, Africa and Latin America.
These events can typically last twice as long as an El Niño.
While the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) reports that the El Niño event has reached its apex, it is still having a significant influence on the global climate.
In combination with human induced warming, global temperatures in January were the hottest for the month since records began in 1880. The data also showed the biggest divergence yet seen from the long term record.
"In meteorological terms, this El Niño is now in decline. But we cannot lower our guard as it is still quite strong and in humanitarian and economic terms, its impacts will continue for many months to come," said Petteri Taalas from the WMO.
"Parts of South America and East Africa are still recovering from torrential rains and flooding. The economic and human toll from drought - which by its nature is a slowly developing disaster - is becoming increasingly apparent in southern and the Horn of Africa, central America and a number of other regions," he said.
While the El Niño did bring some relief to drought-hit California, there have been concerns that it has tapered off in recent weeks.
But in the wake of El Niño, experts believe there is a good chance that a La Niña will arrive later this year .
"Most models indicate that El Niño will weaken, with a transition to neutral during the late spring or early summer 2016," according to the US Climate Prediction Centre.
"Thereafter, the chance of La Niña conditions increases into the autumn," they concluded.
According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), there is a 50% chance of a La Niña this summer. They say that there is an 80% chance of it happening by the end of this year.
Not every weather centre is on the same page when it comes to predicting the appearance of the event that's also termed El Viejo (the old one) or the Anti-El Niño .
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology says that based on 26 El Niño events since 1900, around half have been followed by a neutral year while 40% have been followed by La Niña. They argue that international climate models right now suggest that there won't be a follow-on La Niña this year.
If forecaster are a little uncertain of the arrive of a La Niña, they are all remaining tight-lipped on the more important question of how powerful it is likely to be.
La Niña often improves fishing conditions in the Pacific Ocean off South America, thanks to the upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich waters.
It is also associated with heavier monsoons in South-East Asia, but it has also caused significant flooding in Australia in the recent past.
Another outstanding question is the impact of climate change on La Niña. A study last year suggested that extreme events were much more likely in a warming world.
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Notts County have signed midfielder Michael O'Connor on a two-year deal, making him the third player to move to Meadow Lane from Port Vale this summer.

O'Connor, 28, links up with ex-Vale team-mates Carl Dickinson and Richard Duffy at Notts, all of whom were to be out of contract this week.
The Northern Ireland international had been at Vale Park since July 2014, scoring 12 goals in 76 games.
"It's going to be exciting," O'Connor told the club website.
"I've signed a two year deal and in that time I don't just want to get the club into League One, I want to get them into the Championship."
The former Crewe, Lincoln, Scunthorpe and Rotherham player lives in Lincolnshire and had previously said he would consider a move closer to home.
The Magpies finished 17th in League Two last season, having gone through four different caretaker or permanent managers, but appointed Oldham boss John Sheridan this summer.
Sheridan had already signed five players before completing the O'Connor signing, following the lifting of the transfer embargo last month.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


Farming leaders have raised concerns about the amount of foreign lamb found by secret shoppers sent to supermarkets in the Lothians and Borders.

NFU Scotland carried out the checks at Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Marks and Spencer stores.
President Nigel Miller said sheep farmers needed a "confidence boost" that their product was "valued".
He said a "retailer commitment" to Scots lamb could help drive an improvement in the industry's fortunes.
The union said it was a "hugely challenging" for sheep farmers with sales slow in autumn and no pre-Christmas rise in prices.
It has been carrying out regular checks on supermarket commitment to home produced lamb over the past six months.
It found Morrisons had continued to stock only Scottish or British lamb.
The union also highlighted branding efforts by Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury's.
However, it criticised Tesco and Asda, which it said had "some Scottish or British produce" but still had "substantial quantities of New Zealand and Australia lamb".
Source: NFU Scotland
Mr Miller said: "This is a time when sheep farmers need a confidence boost from their major customers - the UK supermarkets - with a clear signal that their product is wanted and valued.
"Morrisons show what can be achieved with 100% commitment to Scottish or British produce in the stores we visited, with packs of lamb being sold at shop shelf prices that are comparable to its competitors.
"That contrasts starkly with the volume of New Zealand and Australian lamb that has stubbornly remained on the shelves of Tesco and Asda even during our peak marketing season in Scotland, when our lamb is at its freshest and tastiest."
He said there was a "genuine opportunity" for supermarkets to increase their stocks of Scots lamb.
"With lambing only a few months away, that would send out a positive signal to producers and help lift some of the gloom generated by one of the more difficult seasons on record," he said.
A Tesco spokesman defended the company's policy on which lamb it stocks.
"We are committed to offering our customers the best local and regional produce Scotland has to offer," he said.
"That includes stocking 100% Scotch lamb in our Finest range in our Scottish stores, from June to December, when Scotch lamb is in season and using Scotch lamb year-round for our core Tesco-branded lamb products."
A statement from Asda said: "We are committed to buying Scottish lamb wherever we can - in fact around 60% of our current range is from Scottish farms."


Triple Paralympic medallist Ollie Hynd is determined to break a world record at the Rio Games in September.

The 21-year-old won SM8 200m individual medley gold, 400m freestyle silver and 100m backstroke bronze at London 2012.
Hynd clinched three golds at the IPC Swimming European Championships earlier this month and twice topped the podium at the World Championships last year.
"It's frustrating to have been so close to a world record twice and it's a prize dangling there for Rio," he said.
"A lifetime best performance is the big target. If you go on to the biggest stage and deliver that then you can't complain, whatever medals come."
Kirkby-in-Ashfield swimmer Hynd qualified for Brazil after impressive performances at the British Para-Swimming International Meet in Glasgow last month, which doubled as the Paralympic trials.
The Nova Centurion athlete will be joined by a host of other medal winners from London, including Ellie Simmonds, Sascha Kindred, James Crisp and Charlotte Henshaw.
He added: "With a big training block coming up, if I'm swimming this fast now, it's quite exciting to think what I can do in a couple of months time."
Fellow Nottinghamshire swimmer Henshaw will be competing at her third Paralympics, having taken a a silver in the SB6 100m breaststroke four years ago.
"I always wanted to go to one, so to go to three games is incredible," she said.
"I have got targets that I want to achieve in terms of times I want to swim, but really want to come out of the race feeling I have left everything in that pool."


John Sheridan celebrated his first win in four attempts as Newport County manager as Wycombe fell to a third successive League Two defeat.

The league's bottom club took the lead when Marcus Bean scored an own goal after being hit by an attempted clearance inside the six yard box.
Lenell John-Lewis and Zak Ansah went close before Scott Boden's low drive secured the win a minute from time.
Wycombe's best efforts came from Max Kretzschmar and Garry Thompson.
Only an inferior goal difference now keeps Newport on the foot of the table as their second win of the season moves them level on points with Yeovil and Dagenham and Redbridge.
Newport manager John Sheridan told BBC Radio Wales:
"It's not going to do us any harm coming to one of the top teams in the division and putting on a performance like that.
"We were well worthy winners and I'm just pleased for everyone involved because they haven't won many games.
"It's a good feeling for the fans that we brought here and I've already started to think about Saturday's game."


The protest that has erupted in a village in China's Guangdong province has grabbed headlines around the world, but the issues at the heart of the dispute are alarmingly commonplace.

Every year, China is plagued by tens of thousands of "mass incidents" - a catch-all phrase that the government uses to describe riots, protests and strikes.
Many are about land rights. Villagers often accuse local officials of taking their land without offering proper compensation.
But corruption in local government - an issue China's top leaders readily admit to - is only one part of the problem.
China's property laws also seem to create conflict because they largely deprive farmers of the right to control the land they work.
And if there are disagreements, they can easily result in angry demonstrations, organised by villagers who often feel they have no other option.
The stand-off between local people and the authorities in the village of Wukan over land rights is a common dispute.
Some believe the central problem is that there is no private land ownership in China - it is all, in effect, owned by the government.
Farmers are simply allocated land for a set period of time.
Eva Pils, an associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said this puts too much power in the hands of local governments.
"This can lead to corruption and abuse of power," said Ms Pils, who has studied the issue.
One problem is the level of compensation given to farmers for expropriated land, which is based on the amount of money a farmer can earn from it - not on the higher value local officials get when they sell it.
Ms Pils said some Chinese researchers have estimated that villagers can get as little as 5% of the value of the land in compensation.
This seems an obvious source of discontent among villagers.
But persuading local governments not to sell off farmland is tricky, partly because they get so much of their income from it.
Economists estimate land sales account for up to a third of local government revenue.
Some local authorities, such as in the city of Chengdu, have begun programmes that give farmers more legal rights over farmland.
This allows them to benefit if their land is earmarked for development.
China's land ministry believes this is a key part of protecting farmers' rights.
"The lack of legal proof on rural land ownership has left farmers' interests poorly protected," said an article on this issue published by China's state-run news agency Xinhua.
The ministry uncovered 37,000 cases of illegal land use in China in the first nine months of this year, according to Xinhua.
But why do so many land disputes result in conflict with the authorities?
The answer to that question may lie in China's determination to maintain social stability by cracking down on anyone who could undermine it.
The Communist Party believes this is an essential tool in maintaining power.
Yu Jianrong, one of China's leading rural researchers, said that in many cases this means "normal expressions of public will are branded as illegal behaviour".
Farmers who complain about land grabs often find no sympathy from the local authorities, the courts or the police - and sometimes are themselves accused of stirring up trouble.
"Rigid stability is about defining absolute social calm as the objective of governance," wrote Mr Yu in an article carried by the China Media Project, a Hong-Kong-based centre that monitors the media in China.
"[The authorities see] each and every act of resistance as disorder and chaos, all to be struck down and suppressed through whatever means possible."
In these circumstances it is not hard to see how minor disputes over land can quickly spiral out of control.
It is difficult to calculate exactly how many "mass incidents" occur in China every year because the government is reluctant to release figures.
A report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released this year quoted figures of up to 60,000 a year, but it only referred to data for the decade between 1993 and 2003.
Other Chinese academics suggest there could have been up to 180,000 mass incidents last year.
Whatever the figures, the fact that the government is coy about releasing them suggests they are embarrassingly high.


Only people with long memories have clear recollections of simpler times when Professor Robert McKenzie's swingometer could tell the story of successive general elections.

Our part of the country has long been a two-party affair to a greater extent than anywhere else in the country, so a straightforward device pointing this way and then that was almost invariably quite good enough to do the job.
But what, I ask myself, would we need to visualise the infinite variety of 2015?
The best idea I have managed to come up with so far goes like this.
Imagine you suspend a needle from a thread above a table on which you position magnets of varying strengths and political colours in a circle.
They symbolise the interactions between the parties in each constituency.
Lower the needle towards the centre of the table and see which way it points. [Don't worry, BBC graphics designers, I'm not seriously thinking of doing this. Not yet at least!]
But the important point here is that the composition of the different magnets and their respective strengths would be very different from one constituency to another.
In this era of multi-party politics, every single seat is more or less a law unto itself.
Take for example two of our key local marginals, Dudley North and Solihull.
In the Black Country seat, Labour are defending a majority of just 649.
In 2010 their closest challengers were the Conservatives. This time, though, with nine seats on the local council its is UKIP who are breathing down Labour's neck.
Solihull is another key Conservative target. The Liberal Democrats had a majority over them of just 175 last time round. But since then, the Green Party has established itself as a real force in the town, thanks to a potent combination of green belt and housing issues.
Extreme examples though they may be, these two constituencies reinforce the point that whether or not UKIP or the Greens succeed in winning seats themselves, or even come close to doing so, they will undoubtedly have significant and differing impacts on the established parties from one seat to another.
Like a collection of by-elections perhaps?
That may be overstating it. But I am becoming increasingly convinced that this election offers us regional and local broadcasters a unique opportunity to explore the local dynamics of individual seats and to explain the possibility that in the shake-out of seats between the biggest parties it is not unreasonable to envisage gains and losses in both directions.
And what does this tell us about those headline national poll ratings pointing to a hung Parliament, in which the two biggest parties in lock step with each other followed by UKIP, the Liberal Democrats and then the Greens?
Or, about those "percentage swing to win or lose" statistics which have been calculated in a predominantly two-party environment?
All it tells us is how little they tell us.
"Never assume" said the recently-departed doyen of cricket commentators Richie Benaud.
In an election as unpredictable as this, maybe the assumptions about a hung Parliament are themselves suspect. Maybe the answer lies not in the macro but in the micro.
In this contest so full of unexpected twists and turns, how surprising would it really be if the result itself were to spring the biggest surprise of all?


A flock of decorated model sheep has invaded the Lake District in a bid to raise £1.3m for charity.

Made from glass-reinforced plastic, 60 life-sized ewes have formed an art trail in unexpected places between Keswick and Windermere.
Each sculpture is sponsored by a local business and decorated by an artist.
The Lake District Calvert Trust said locals and tourists had been sharing photos of the "beautiful ladies" via social media every day.
The Go Herdwick project is part of the trust's 40th anniversary to raise funds for a new facility at its Old Windebrowe site.
The 60 ewes, inspired by London and Bristol's Shaun the Sheep figures, will be joined by 50 lambs to coincide with the reopening of the A591 in May.
The trust's business manager, Justin Farnan, said: "The closure of the A591 could have been seen as a setback for us, but it will be open for the majority of the trail.
"We are very pleased that Go Herdwick will be able to help drive tourist footfall to places such as Grasmere, both before and after the road is reopened, and that we can give something back to the wider community in what has been a difficult time for many businesses and residents."
The Herdwicks will be rounded up and auctioned for the trust in October.
The charity, which provides outdoor holidays for people with disabilities, will use the money to develop the Grade II-listed building at Old Windebrowe into a rehabilitation centre for people recovering from strokes and for those with brain injuries.
Herdwick sheep are native to the Lake District and often graze at heights of about 3,000ft (915m).
Recognised as one of the hardiest British sheep breeds, in 2013 it was awarded protected status by the European Commission.


Dundee United midfielder Cammy Ballantyne has been called up to the Scotland Under-21 squad ahead of Tuesday's match against Estonia.

He replaces Zak Jules, the defender on loan at Motherwell from Reading who withdrew on Saturday.
Ballantyne becomes the 11th new face in Scot Gemmill's much-changed squad for the friendly at Paisley 2021 Stadium.
The 19-year-old has played 25 times this season on loan to League Two side Montrose, scoring once.
Ballantyne, who has previously been capped at under-17 level, has made two appearances for United, coming on as a substitute against Partick Thistle and Kilmarnock in the final two fixtures of last season.
Goalkeepers: Ryan Fulton (Liverpool, loan to Chesterfield), Devlin Mackay (Kilmarnock, loan to Berwick Rangers), Jack Ruddy (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
Defenders: Alex Iacovitti (Nottingham Forest), Jamie McCart (Celtic, loan to Inverness CT), Jordan McGhee (Hearts, loan to Middlesbrough), Liam Smith (Heart of Midlothian), Greg Taylor (Kilmarnock)
Midfielders: Cammy Ballantyne (Dundee United, loan to Montrose), Chris Cadden (Motherwell), Liam Henderson (Celtic), Stephen Mallan (St Mirren), James Jones (Crewe Alexandra), Dominic Thomas (Motherwell, loan Queen of the South), Ruben Sammut (Chelsea), Joe Thomson (Celtic, loan to Queen of the South)
Forwards: Ryan Hardie (Rangers, loan to Raith Rovers), Jack Harper (Malaga CF), Oliver McBurnie (Swansea City), Paul McMullan (Celtic, loan to Dunfermline Athletic), Lewis Morgan (St Mirren), Craig Wighton (Dundee)


Grimsby Town have signed former York City midfielder Anthony Straker on a deal until the end of the season.

Straker, 27, has been without a club since leaving York in January, where he made 27 appearances.
He began his career at Crystal Palace and helped Aldershot Town win the Conference title in 2008, before moving to Southend United.
Grimsby are currently third in the National League, having lost only one game in the league since October.


Britain's Becky James bounced back from a serious knee injury and a cancer scare to take silver with a late surge in the Olympic women's keirin in Rio.

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Elis Ligtlee of the Netherlands led from the front to win gold, with Australian Anna Meares in third.
James, 24, missed the London Games and then had the best part of 18 months out with injury and health issues.
"I was so desperate for that medal," the Welsh star told BBC Sport. "I can't believe it happened."
She was last with one lap to go but found a way around the outside to force her way into second on the line to win Britain's fourth medal on the track.
It was a second medal in two Olympic kierins for GB after Victoria Pendleton won the event in London, where it made its debut.
The silver medal came just minutes after Laura Trott became the first British woman to win three gold medals as she won team pursuit gold with Joanna Rowsell-Shand, Elinor Barker and Katie Archibald in a new world record time.
Abergavenny-born James, who was watched by her boyfriend George North, the Wales and British and Irish Lions rugby player, told BBC One: "I came in with good form and I love the keirin and I love racing.
"Once I got through the first round, I just wanted to enjoy the day.
"It was so special, I have 10 of my family here. My mum has never been on a long-haul flight before.
"I have had so much support from British Cycling, it has been a tough two years and I couldn't have done it without everyone's help."
North later tweeted: "Words can't describe how proud I am! Everything she's been through. What an absolute hero."
James underwent an operation in 2014 to remove potentially cancerous cells following a routine smear test.
That scare was followed by keyhole surgery on a shoulder injury and then months of rehabiltation for a long-term knee injury.


A post-mortem examination is expected to be carried out later on the body of a woman found in a Dublin woodland.

The body was found on Monday during a planned search by Gardaí (Irish police) investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Linda Christian.
Ms Christian has been missing from Blanchardstown since 24 June.
Gardaí have not yet made public the identity of the body which was discovered in undergrowth in Coolmine Woods shortly after 14:00 local time.
The scene, between Clonsilla Road and Snugborough Road, was cordoned off and the state pathologist was notified.
According to Irish broadcaster RTÉ, Gardaí have committed "all of the resources of a murder inquiry" to the case as they await confirmation of the cause of the woman's death.


Lots of places across the UK are set for some super sunny weather this weekend - what are you planning to do to make the most of it?

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About 70 human skeletons have been uncovered by archaeologists during a dig at a former factory in Peterborough.

The finds were made by a team from Durham University, which is surveying the site on Midland Road before it is redeveloped for houses.
The remains are believed to date to the medieval period, but could be Roman.
Developers Westleigh plan to build 70 homes on Midland Road once the archaeologists complete their dig.
Dr Rebecca Casa-Hatton, lead archaeologist at Peterborough City Council, said: "At the moment we presume they may be medieval but we can't discount they may be late-Roman.
"It's very, very crowded so the cemetery would have been extensive."
She added archaeologists were expecting to find human remains in this area because of similar late Roman or medieval burials uncovered during the building of the railway line during the 19th Century.
"Hopefully, this excavation will shed light on the period of these burials and the burials found in the general area," she said.
Gary Turner, head of investment and partnership at Westleigh, said: "The discovery was made about six weeks ago and since then we have obtained a licence from the Ministry of Justice to exhume the remains.
"Once removed, the remains will be analysed to unlock further details on their history."


Kumar Sangakkara struck a brilliant second century in the match for Surrey to set up a fascinating final day against Middlesex at Lord's.

James Franklin's 112 had earlier helped Middlesex post 411 to earn the hosts a first-innings lead of 98.
Toby Roland-Jones (3-39) made inroads, but Sangakkara's elegant and patient innings prevented a second collapse.
The Sri Lankan finished unbeaten on 116, as he passed 20,000 first-class runs, and the visitors closed on 194-4.
Middlesex captain Franklin brought up his first hundred since June 2015 by swiping Tom Curran away for four towards the third man region, but fell for 112 after top-edging a full delivery from Stuart Meaker (4-92).
A quick-fire 30 from Roland-Jones propelled the hosts past 400 - and secured maximum batting bonus points - only for Surrey to wrap up their local rivals' innings just 10 balls after lunch.
Following the early loss of opener Mark Stoneman, taken well by Adam Voges at slip, Roland-Jones trapped Rory Burns lbw for just 10 to put Middlesex firmly in the ascendency.
It brought Sangakkara, who had held together Surrey's first innings, to the crease and the 39-year-old edged his first ball off Steven Finn agonisingly short of third slip.
However, it was the last aberration from Sangakkara as he complied another classy innings - sharing a 123-run third-wicket partnership with Scott Borthwick (49) - before bringing up his 60th first-class century with a hard-run three off Ollie Rayner.
A couple of late wickets left Middlesex with just enough hope of pushing for victory on the final day, with the immovable Sangakkara once again looking to be Surrey's main hope of escaping with a draw.
Middlesex head coach Richard Scott told BBC Radio London:
"Toby Roland-Jones is so whole-hearted. He's a warrior. He just keeps on running in day in and day out. At the moment, he's the first name down on our team sheet, to be honest.
"His new ball spell was superb and he all but bowled Sangakkara first ball too. Then there was his batting. He came in and upped the tempo to make sure we got a decent first innings lead.
"As for James Franklin, that was a class hundred. He played brilliantly towards the end of day two, giving us fresh impetus in partnership with Dawid Malan and the confidence to go on and get that lead. His innings and his four wickets in Surrey's first innings are major contributions."


About 20km (12.5 miles) south of Lens, where Wales play England in Euro 2016 is another foreign field, Arras.

In the western part of the town in the Faubourg-d'Amiens cemetery is a memorial to the missing: 35,000 soldiers who were killed in the last two years of World War One. Their bodies were never found but their names are inscribed, row by row.
Among them is that of the Welsh footballer James "Ginger" Williams. A hundred years ago this month, he was blown up by an exploding mine, aged 30.
Williams was at his peak as a footballer when war intervened in 1914. But he soon found himself occupying a very different front line to the one he was familiar with on the football field.
The game has changed a lot since the early 1900s but Wales fans might be familiar with the narrative: Energetic, journeymen footballers from lower rung clubs giving their all for the red shirt alongside a sprinkling of more gifted stars.
Williams was one such unremarkable footballer. A stocky forward, he played alongside fellow north Walian, Billy Meredith - one of the superstars of the early 20th Century - to win his two caps.
While he was not of Manchester United star Meredith's quality, Williams, from Buckley, had proved more than useful. He scored 58 goals for Crystal Palace in the Southern League, mostly as an inside forward.
His attitude to the game was reflected in his nickname - "the Palace terrier".
Busy and tenacious, when switched to centre forward, he scored five goals in a game against Southend at Sydenham in 1909 causing "as much surprise as delight" for the 7,000 crowd. As one local newspaper described it "Williams had fine support and was in his element".
Williams transferred across south London to Millwall but had only a few months at his new club when war was declared.
He was in the right place to become one of the first to join what became known as the Footballers' Battalion - the 17th, Middlesex Regiment.
This particular "pals" battalion was set against a background of growing criticism that matches were still being played, while young men were going off to war.
Within four days of the launch at Fulham town hall in December 1914, Williams had added his name.
Recruitment posters were soon being displayed outside stadiums encouraging supporters to follow the players in joining up.
More than 120 players alone would sign up with the battalion by the following spring, and while training for war at home were given Saturdays off to play for their clubs.
Other Welshmen to enlist included Cardiff City's Fred Keenor, just 20, who would suffer a gunshot wound to his thigh at the Somme in July 1916.
He was one of the lucky ones. Keenor got to go home and resume a career that would see him lift the FA Cup in 1927 - Welsh club football's greatest triumph - and win 32 Wales caps.
Cardiff team-mate Lyndon Sandoe, a full back in his early 20s, became company sergeant major.
His honours on the front line would eclipse anything he ever managed on a football pitch.
Sandoe was decorated three times for gallantry, including a distinguished conduct medal for "splendid coolness and fearlessness at all times under intense fire of every description".
James Williams's service record notes that stocky frame: 5ft 5ins tall and with a 37in waist. Eleven months after enlisting, he shipped across to France, leaving a three month old son Kenneth with his wife Sarah in New Cross.
It appears Williams was seconded to the Royal Engineers in the spring of 1916 and died on 5 June. His body was never recovered but his name is there at Arras.
Palace and Millwall staged a benefit match for his widow and son.
His name is also on a plaque remembering Millwall players who died in the war; his family had a large photograph of "John Will," as they called him, wearing one of his Welsh caps on the wall.
OTHER WELSH FOOTBALLERS WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR ONE
Robert "Bobby" Atherton. Born Bethesda, Gwynedd; nine caps for Wales, died 19 October 1917, aged 41.
An inside right, his clubs included Hibernian - he was captain and memorably lifted the Scottish Cup in 1902 and also led them to the league title. Retired from playing, Atherton moved back to Edinburgh, where he joined the Merchant Navy as a steward. The SS Britannia carrying iron bound for France was sunk by U-Boat in the English Channel with the loss of 22 crew.
Frederick "Fred" John Griffiths. Born Presteigne, Powys; two caps for Wales. Killed 30 October 1917, aged 44.
A goalkeeper, he won both his Wales caps - against Scotland and England in 1900 - while playing for Blackpool. He went on to play for clubs including Preston and West Ham.
His great-grandson Stewart Woodland, who lives in Australia, has spent eight years researching Fred's story.
Fred was born in Harper Street in Presteigne, the son of a coal merchant and played for his local club and occasionally for Knighton.
Hs burly 6ft 2in, 15st physique saw him work part-time in the metal-working and blacksmithing industries before he launched himself into the world of professional football at the age of 21.
Stewart says Fred found himself playing for Tottenham Hotspur in an epic series of FA Cup ties against Southampton in 1901 but despite losing a second replay in a heavy snowstorm it was reported Fred's display was such he was carried "shoulder high" by supporters from the station afterwards.
Injury cut short his professional career at the age of 33 and he moved to Shirebrook in Derbyshire, where he helped train the local side. He also worked as a bar manager at the village's Station Hotel and by the outbreak of the war also had his own pork butchery business.
After joining up he rose to the rank of sergeant in the 15th Battalion Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment and was killed during the Battle of Passchendaele during the "big push".
Fred is buried in Dozinghem military cemetery, south of the village of Westvleteren in west Flanders, near the French frontier.
He left a widow Elizabeth and six children.
"The news of Fred's death caused general sorrow in Shirebrook, where 'Griff', as he was more intimately known, had a wide circle of friends," said Stewart.
Fred's granddaughter June Woodland has been to pay her respects.
"I feel so proud of him in all he achieved in his life and the ultimate sacrifice he gave," she said.
"It was such an emotional time when I went to visit his grave. I wish I had known him".
George Griffiths. Born Chirk, near Wrexham 1865; one cap for Wales; died 7 July 1918, aged 53.
Played for his local club Chirk - who were a strong amateur side, winning the Welsh Cup and producing 20 Welsh internationals around the turn of the 20th Century.
His granddaughter Barbara said George and his brother Peter both played for Chirk. "There is a story that they began playing football at school and were trained by the head teacher," she said. "He made them play with a plimsoll on their strongest foot in order to encourage them to use both feet!"
Griffiths worked as a miner before the war and had moved to Leigh in Lancashire, where he had eight children.
As inside left, he played for Wales once against Ireland in 1887, a 4-1 defeat.
A veteran of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, he was discharged from the Royal Army Service Corps in 1917 after an accident involving his knee - he already had signs of arthritis - and died at home in Leigh a year later. He may also have suffered from the effects of gas but there is nothing on his Army medical record and he died of stomach cancer. Nevertheless, he was given a military funeral.
William James Jones. Born Penrhiwceiber, near Aberdare; four caps; died 6 May 1918, aged 41.
Became the first player from the South Wales League to represent Wales in 1901, while a player with Aberdare Athletic. He also played briefly for West Ham, then a Southern League club. He joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers in Tonypandy and was killed in Macedonia - now northern Greece. His body was not recovered but he is remembered on a memorial there.
Leigh Richard Roose. Born Holt, near Wrexham; 24 caps; died 7 October 1916.
One of the most flamboyant personalities of his era - Roose made headlines on and off the pitch as a goalkeeper for clubs from Wrexham, Stoke City to Aston Villa.  This son of a pacifist minister always wore the shirt of his old university Aberystwyth under his jersey. Ambitions to become a doctor were diverted by football and a love of the London life. Girlfriends included music hall star Marie Lloyd and he wore Savile Row suits. Roose once hired a train at huge expense so he could get to an away match in Birmingham on time.
He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, and latterly the Royal Fusiliers, for whom he earned the Military Medal during his first engagement with them.
Roose's abilities as a goalkeeper to throw a ball it appears extended to grenades.
"Though nearly choked with fumes with his clothes burnt [he] refused to go to the dressing station," says the citation. "He continued to throw bombs until his arm gave out, and then, joining the covering party, used his rifle with great effect."
But just weeks later L/Cpl Roose was killed in the final stages of the first battle of the Somme at Gueudecourt, one of 190 dead or missing that day.
About 10 miles north of Lens, is another Welsh football connection with the war.
Although not a footballer, Lord Ninian Crichton Stuart at least had a claim to fame in that he was the first to kick a ball at Cardiff City's stadium in 1910.
The second son of the third Marquess of Bute had stood as a guarantor for Â£90 so Cardiff City could rent their new ground from the local authority.
He was an important figure in helping the then Riverside club move to grander surroundings and turn semi-professional.
Club historian Richard Shepherd said: "The club had agreed a lease with the corporation but had to find a number of benefactors - and these had to be in place for the start of the 1910/11 season," he said.
"One of the benefactors withdrew at the last minute and Lord Ninian offered to fill the gap. He was particularly well known in Cardiff and added a lot of credibility to the club."
Ninian Park was subsequently named after him and he was invited to ceremoniously kick off Cardiff's opening match with Aston Villa.
Ninian - also a Cardiff Conservative MP - was already commanding officer of the 6th Glamorgan Welch Regiment and when war was declared, more than 840 men and officers - mostly from Swansea and Neath - volunteered and headed for France under him as Lieutenant Colonel.
At the Battle of Loos at the start of October 1915, after a decision to evacuate when ammunition ran out near La BassÃ©e, Ninian was shot dead as he stood on the fire step to rally his men.
He was 32. Even after his death, his bequests helped the club.
Although Cardiff City now has a new stadium nearby, his contribution was such that one of the stands is named after him and the Ninian gates moved across the road.
Around 2,000 of Britain's footballers are estimated to have served in the war, while the Footballers' Battalion alone lost 900 men.
Some clubs suffered deeply. Heart of Midlothian in Edinburgh lost seven members of their first team. But Clapton Orient, who as a club provided an astonishing 41 players and staff, could be considered fortunate to lose only three at the Somme.
Of the Welsh internationals who died, only a couple were household names and all but John "Ginger" Williams had already retired from the game.
But those Wales supporters, who were gathering in Arras before the match, might care to imagine the rubble of the town a century ago and just a short distance away, where former heroes played their part and paid the ultimate price.


The police have confirmed that the body recovered from the River Foyle in Londonderry on Tuesday is that of 18-year-old Dean Millar.

The teenager was last seen alive in the Brandywell area of the city on 11 March.
His family had been searching the river since his disappearance.
Dean's uncle, Paddy McDaid, said the family were "holding up well, given the circumstances".
"There were mixed emotions this morning when we got the word," he told BBC Radio Foyle.
"There was happiness that Dean had been found, but at the same time we're thinking about what's coming ahead now in the next 24 to 48 hours right up to his burial.
"Everyone that has helped us out along the way, we've taken great comfort from them.
"People we didn't even know put their own daily lives on hold to come and help us."
The body of another man, Jack Glenn, was recovered from the River Foyle in March.
A joint search had taken place along the banks of the River Foyle for both men for a number of weeks.
Jack's grandfather said he felt a huge sense of "relief" for the Millar family.
"It's a bittersweet moment, but at least they have his body now and they can lay him to rest," he told the BBC's Evening Extra programme.
"I have been talking to Dean's grandparents - there has been contact between the families and a sharing of grief.
"The mothers met up on the banks of the river and they shared their common goal - to get both their sons back out of the water. Thankfully, now that's been done."


Hundreds of protected pangolins were found on a Chinese fishing vessel that ran aground last week on the Tubbataha reef, Philippine officials say.

The vessel's hold contained at least 400 boxes of the dead animals, also called scaly anteaters, officials said.
The pangolin is highly prized for its meat and scales in China, and for its supposed medicinal properties.
Twelve Chinese fishermen have been detained. In January a US navy vessel also ran aground on the same reef.
The Chinese vessel crashed into the Tubbataha reefs in the Sulu Sea, a Unesco World Heritage site, on 8 April.
"We found 400 boxes containing anteaters aboard the vessel, and we are now  determining where these came from," coast guard spokesman, Lt Cdr Armand Balilo, told AFP news agency on Monday.
Pangolins sell for hundreds of dollars per kilogram in China and are protected in many Asian countries.
The 12 Chinese fishermen, currently detained on Palawan island, could be fined or jailed if they are found guilty of poaching. They also face attempted bribery charges.
More charges may be brought following the discovery of the pangolins.
The boat is the seventh Chinese fishing vessel caught in the area since 2002, according to a statement from Tubbataha Reefs National Park.
The USS Guardian also struck the reef south-east of Palawan island on 17 January.
The ship was dismantled to minimise damage to the reef and the US has apologised for the accident. Four navy officers on the minesweeper were relieved of their duties.
The Philippines and China have territorial disputes in the South China Sea, and engaged in a lengthy stand-off over the Scarborough shoal last year.
However, the Tubbataha reefs lie within Philippine territory, and are not considered a disputed area.
According to Unesco, the Tubbataha Reefs National Park is home to a great diversity of marine life. Whales, dolphins, sharks and turtles are among species found there.


X Factor winner Ben Haenow says he didn't see bruises or scratches on judge Mel B during Sunday's final.

The former Spice Girl missed Saturday's show due to ill-health.
But some viewers became concerned when she returned for Sunday's Wembley final without her wedding ring.
Others claimed bruising was visible on her face as well as scratches on her body.
Speaking to Newsbeat about the judge's absence, Ben Haenow said the acts were told that Mel B wouldn't be there earlier in the day.
"They said she was not well enough to come down and we know for sure that Mel would definitely want to be there if she could. So our hearts went out to her then."
When she returned for the live finals on Sunday, he says she seemed better.
"She looked fine. She looked good. She looked in good spirits. She looked OK.... I think she's definitely recovering."
When asked if he had noticed any bruising on the judge during Sunday's show, the 29-year-old said he didn't see anything unusual:  "No not from me. No I didn't see anything of that kind. I mean she looked fine when she was there."
There is still no comment from Mel B but her husband Stephen Belafonte has taken to Twitter to deny online accusations that he had hit her.
The couple married in secret in June 2007 in Las Vegas.
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Champion Kell Brook will defend his IBF world welterweight title against American Errol Spence Jr.

The fight will take place in the Briton's home town of Sheffield in May, with Sheffield United's Bramall Lane as a possible venue, according to reports.
Brook's promoter Eddie Hearn announced on Twitter that terms for the fight had been agreed.
Brook, 30, has not fought since he was defeated by middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin in September.
He underwent surgery on a broken eye socket sustained during that fifth-round stoppage by the Kazakh - Brook's first defeat in his 37th professional fight.
After jumping up two weight divisions to face Golovkin, Brook has elected to return to welterweight and face mandatory challenger Spence, 27.
Brook claimed the IBF belt with victory over Shawn Porter in August 2014 and has since defended his title three times against Jo Jo Dan, Frankie Gavin and Kevin Bizier.
Spence is unbeaten in 21 professional bouts, with 18 knockout victories.
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Former soap-actress Tracy Brabin has been selected as Labour's candidate for the Batley and Spen by-election prompted by the killing of Jo Cox.

The Coronation Street, EastEnders and Emmerdale star was chosen as the party's candidate ahead of fellow nominee Jane Thomas.
Mrs Cox, who was MP for Batley and Spen, was shot and stabbed in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on 16 June.
The by-election will take place on 20 October.
Ms Brabin was born in Batley and worked with Mrs Cox on her campaign to save the town's library.
She played Tricia Armstrong in Coronation Street in the 1990s before appearing as Roxy Drake in EastEnders and Carole in Emmerdale, and has also written for shows including Family Affairs, Tracy Beaker and Hollyoaks.
Ms Brabin, who was selected at a hustings event on Friday, said she was "humbled and privileged" to have the chance to succeed Mrs Cox.
"Jo was my inspiration. I intend to do her proud," she said.
"Obviously no-one wanted this, but I'm the only person on the ballot paper that can stand up for everyone in Batley and Spen.
"I'm hoping people will put party politics to one side and we can work together."
Meanwhile, the husband of Mrs Cox has had a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington DC.
Brendan Cox, who took his two children, wrote on Twitter that he and the president had "talked about Jo" and "fighting extremism".
He praised President Obama as being "excellent with the kids", adding that "the kids gave him their best drawings".
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