Actor Johnny Depp has been told he has until Saturday to remove his dogs from Australia or they will be put down.

Depp and his wife Amber Heard are accused of not declaring Yorkshire Terriers Boo and Pistol to customs officials when they flew into Queensland by private jet last month.
Australia has strict animal quarantine laws to prevent importing infections.
Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce said he understood the dogs were being sent back to the US.
"I personally as a minister don't have Mr Depp's phone number, nor does he have mine," Mr Joyce told the BBC.
"But my department is informed they are organising for the dogs to be sent back to the United States.
"I'd say that is the wisest move."
There has been no immediate comment from Depp or Heard.
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An online petition to save the "cute dogs" had received nearly 5,000 signatures by late on Thursday local time in Australia.
"Have a heart Barnaby! Don't kill these cute puppies," it appealed.
Mr Joyce said in an earlier interview: "If we start letting movie stars even though they've been the 'sexiest man alive' twice to come into our nation, then why don't we just break the laws for everybody?
"It's time that Pistol and Boo buggered off back to the United States."
The dogs' illicit entry appears to have been uncovered after a grooming salon on the Gold Coast posted pictures of them on its Facebook page.
Biosecurity officials visited the vast Gold Coast house Depp and Heard are renting on Wednesday.
"The dogs have been ordered into quarantine and the owners have been advised the dogs must be exported within 72 hours," said a statement on the agricultural ministry website.
There is a dog's breakfast of online stories, and commercial TV networks have sent choppers up in the hope of catching a glimpse of the Pirates of the Caribbean star and his customs-busting mutts.
Even the nation's venerable financial journal, The Australian Financial Review, has got in on the act.
Media interest in the story is so intense a mini-economy has sprouted up outside the estate with a catering van arriving to feed the press, according to the Courier Mail.
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Depp is in Australia shooting the fifth film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Dead Men Tell No Tales.
He had flown back to the US for surgery on an injured hand in March but returned in April.
News of the threat to the star's dogs quickly spread across social media, with hundreds of Australians taking to Facebook and Twitter to express their views.
"Seriously? Not just quarantined, but being put down? I get that Depp broke a law by not telling someone about his dogs but the response is death to the dogs? That's the largest overreaction ever," said Facebook user Alexis Rogers.
"They don't have to kill the dogs. They could just quarantine them," said Bree Graham MacTaggart.
Others, however, did not express much sympathy for Depp.
"We have strict quarantine laws for a reason," said another Anne Salathiel. "He should not have brought his dogs. He can afford to do it the right way."
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Grand Theft Auto's creator Take-Two Interactive has shut down three hugely popular tools that let players alter features and cheat at the game.

The modding tools Force Hax, Lexicon and Menyoo, which incurred a fee for subscribing, have been taken offline with all earnings going to charity.
The tools allowed players to give themselves endless amounts of money.
The news comes less than a week after legal threats forced the closure of a popular Russian toolkit for the game.
Open IV's Russian developers stopped distribution after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Take-Two.
The mod menus work by offering players multiple ways to cheat in the game, including gifting themselves rare items and endless money that are not easy to obtain.
In particular, Force Hax allowed users to carry out nefarious actions in another user's name, such as kicking other players out of GTA Online, freezing the game so it stops working, or deliberately killing or trapping another user to prevent them from playing the game.
The modding tool also enabled users to steal money from other players' accounts.
Force Hax's website now redirects to a blank webpage containing a single statement: "After discussions with Take-Two Interactive, effective immediately we are ceasing all maintenance, development and distribution of the Force Hax cheat menu services.
"We will be donating our proceeds to charity and we apologise for any and all problems Force Hax services have caused to the Grand Theft Auto Online community."
The statements posted on Lexicon and Menyoo are identical to the one posted on the Force Hax site.
Although GTA fans acknowledge that the three tools were enabling players to unfairly gain an advantage in the game instead of playing it in the correct way, they are angry that Open IV was shut down.
To them, it was designed to enhance the overall game experience by letting players customise objects, models and textures. Sadly, some malicious users sought to use the tool to cheat and harm other players, which is what prompted Take-Two to take legal action.
Fans have started a petition asking Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive to allow Open IV to continue distributing, saying that the software is only used to make the game more enjoyable. The petition now has almost 51,000 signatures.
"The future of GTA V mods feels shaky and uncertain right now, and players are expressing worry that their favourite tool will be next on the radar. After all, modding tools fuel everything from the ever-elusive Chiliad Mystery, to popular role-playing servers," writes Zach Zwiezen of video game website Kotaku.
"While taking down a mod menu like Force Hax is definitely a good thing, overall, Take-Two and Rockstar have an uphill battle to fight if they want to gain back the community's trust."


A police suspect who became stuck in waist-deep mud when he tried to run away from officers had to be rescued by firefighters and the coastguard.

Essex Police were called to a holiday park in St Osyth, Essex, after reports of an assault at 00:10 BST.
The suspect, a man in his 20s, ran off when they arrived and waded out into deep mud where he became stuck.
Two police officers managed to get him back to nearby marshland where he could not be moved "due to his size".
Sgt Alex Southgate, who was called to the scene near Point Clear, said the man had gone out into the mud after running across a beach and marshland.
"PC Richmond and I waded out into the mud to detain him and prevent him from sinking further," he said.
"We were able to get [him] back to the marshes but due to the onset of hypothermia, he collapsed and due to his size, sat heavy in the mud."
Coastguards arrived shortly after 01:20 but it was still difficult to move the man, an Essex Police spokesman said.
When firefighters arrived, the emergency services worked together and managed to move the man to an ambulance which took him to hospital.


Football in China is enjoying a boom as investors not only snap up overseas clubs but also lure big name players and coaches to the nation's Super League.

Its government wants to see China become a footballing superpower, and that means that as well as big stars, the nation is also hungry to acquire knowledge and expertise from overseas.
That provides numerous potential business opportunities, from the grass roots to top tiers of Chinese football, for British firms and clubs to get a foot in the commercial door.
A team of 11 Chinese sports firms is currently in the UK until 2 October, on a visit organised by the UK government's Department for International Trade (DIT).
They have been attending the Soccerex football business convention in Manchester  to make contacts and learn more about the game in the UK. All have different reasons for visiting this country.
"I want to learn about the best way of doing things from English clubs," says Weidong Yuan, a keen football player from the age of five.
He is general manager of Sports Leader, a firm which operates the biggest football centre in Beijing.
It provides numerous services to different levels of football teams, coaches and players, and also opportunities for Chinese football players to go abroad for high level training and study.
Mr Yuan already has some experience of British football, as he is a former youth coach at Championship club Newcastle United, and also studied and played in the UK.
"I am interested in how English clubs commercialise the assets at their clubs, to learn ways about running our football centre in Beijing more effectively commercially.
"I am also interested in learning about player rehabilitation, as I see an opportunity to introduce a rehabilitation facility into our centre," he says.
On this trip, with the other Chinese delegates, he will visit the Football Association's national training centre of excellence St George's Park,  and attend the Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City game on Sunday.
Mr Yuan says there has been a huge surge in interest in football in the past two years, after Chinese President Xi Jinping's declaration about making China the world's biggest sports economy by 2025.
"Previously football was only really followed by people like me who had played the game," Mr Yuan says.
"But since 2014 when the government said we need to pay attention to football, at grass roots as well as professional level, then things have changed.
"Now we are developing the 'hardware' of the industry, building up the clubs, players, finance.
"But we also need to pay attention to the 'software'…  for example there needs to be awareness of football culture and educating the fans, for example that you do not change your support to just back the winning teams.
"If Newcastle United was in China, then after being relegated the fans would have left them."
Charles Li is director of the Chinese FA's marketing department.
He says the growth of football in China can be put down to the moves to wean the country's economy away from exports and towards an internal consumer market.
"Many people now have enough income for things like overseas travel, and entertainment spending, and an important part of that is on sport.
"I am now talking to people in Europe about how we can market our football better.
"But it is not just our marketing people who can learn from overseas, our coaches and teams also need to gain experience internationally," he says.
David Ran is director of strategy and business development at Super Sports Media Group, which is the exclusive English Premier League broadcast rights holder in China.
He says the firm has brought England's top flight football league to more than 1.2bn Chinese viewers through its far reaching sports distribution network in China.
Despite the surge in interest in the sport, he says there is still a lot of growth to come in the Chinese football market.
"We want to learn more about football commercial opportunities off the playing pitch. We are still partly in the development stage," he says.
And what is the view from the British side?
Jeff Mostyn is chairman of Premier League club Bournemouth, and has already established football contacts with the country.
"We are exploring opportunities in China, with Chinese companies and Chinese Super League clubs, looking at potential collaborations, in particular on youth development and exchange of coaching expertise," he says.
He says that earlier this year, the club, in collaboration with Bournemouth University, hosted sixty Chinese coaches.
"They provided education, and we provided the ability for the coaches to get their FA Level One badges, which they did."
He says the Chinese are interested in using football to spread messages among people about not indulging in anti-social behaviour, and in adopting healthy diets and keeping fit.
Mr Mostyn will be visiting China in early October to get a better idea and understanding of the industry there.
"At the moment I am not convinced the infrastructure compares with Europe, and a lot of the money currently being spent is being put into the big name player acquisitions," he says.
Player signings by Chinese clubs that have grabbed the headlines have included big international names such as Ramires, Gervinho, Fredy Guarin, Jackson Martinez, Hulk and Alex Teixeira.
"At a very superficial level, anyone in the UK football industry looking at China would equate it with money, finance, revenues," says Trevor Watkins, Global Head of Sport, at UK law firm Pinsent Mason, which has two offices in mainland China and one in Hong Kong.
"That is what underpins business, and China represents one of the last untapped global markets for sport generally, and football particularly.
"At this point we have a confluence, because we also have a very clearly stated aim from within China that it is also going to use football to make an even greater name for itself on the global stage.
"What we are seeing now is people in the UK football industry and in China trying to join the dots, and bring the two sides together."


Miniature human kidneys have been grown in a Petri dish using stem cells as the starting point, report scientists in Australia.

The mini-kidneys, measuring up to 1cm, were the equivalent of the developing organ in a 13-week-old foetus.
The team say the findings, published in the journal Nature, could lead to new ways of testing drugs and eventually a way of replacing damaged kidneys.
Experts said there was still a long way to go.
The scientists were mimicking the process that takes place inside the womb when a single fertilised egg produces the whole array of precisely arranged tissues of the human body.
However, their starting point was human skin cells that had been chemically transformed into a type of cell capable of becoming any other - a stem cell.
The team used chemical signals to transform the stem cells into two types of cell.
One goes on to produce the structures that filter the blood and the other the collecting ducts that remove the waste.
When the two cell-types were brought together in a dish they grew and arranged themselves into the complex structure of a kidney.
The mini-kidneys are so small they cannot be termed organs. The "organoids" contained between 50 and 100 filters while an adult kidney has more than a million.
Prof Melissa Little, one of the researchers from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, told the BBC News website: "We've been able to show we can take human stem cells and in a dish make a structure like a small developing kidney.
"The aim in the very long-term is to see if we can recreate an organ that would be good enough to treat someone with kidney disease."
However, as the growing organoids do not have a blood supply there is still a long way to go before full-size organs can be grown in the lab.
"This is what we can get to in three weeks, but there is a limit to what you can grow in a dish without nutrients and oxygen," Prof Little added.
It marks the latest development in a process of growing organoids which has already seen the development of mini-brains and livers.
Prof Jamie Davies, from the University of Edinburgh, commented: "It is vital to emphasise that the result of this process is not a kidney, but an organoid -  it lacks large-scale features that are crucial for kidney function.
"There is a long way to go until clinically useful transplantable kidneys can be engineered, but [the study] is a valuable step in the right direction."
However, he said the organoids could be used to test the toxicity of new drugs and could mark a "major step" towards replacing animals in such experiments.
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Tesco is installing face-scanning technology at its petrol stations to target advertisements to individual customers at the till.

The technology, made by Lord Sugar's digital signage company Amscreen, will use a camera to identify a customer's gender and approximate age.
It will then show an advertisement tailored to that demographic.
Tesco says the screens will be rolled out across all 450 of its forecourts in the UK.
"It's like something out of Minority Report," said Amscreen's chief executive Simon Sugar, Lord Sugar's eldest son.
"But this could change the face of British retail, and our plans are to expand the screens into as many supermarkets as possible."
A Tesco spokeswoman said: "This is not new technology."
"No data or images are collected or stored and the system does not use eyeball scanners or facial-recognition technology", she added.
The length of someone's hair could be used to work out their gender, she said.
Privacy campaigners said companies had to tell their customers they were using the technology.
Nick Pickles, of Big Brother Watch, said: "If people were told that every time they walked into a supermarket, or a doctor's surgery or a law firm, that the CCTV camera in the corner is trying to find out who they are, I think that will have a huge impact on what buildings people go into."
Systems could only be "ethically deployed" if customers agreed to opt in to having their behaviour tracked, he added.
Philip James, joint head of technology at Pitmans law firm, argues that this technology is similar to the way social media sites tailor adverts to users based on the content of their profiles.
"The capture of facial signatures represents a potentially much greater infringement of customers' privacy in the absence of prior consent," he said.
The screens are expected to reach five million customers.


British number one Johanna Konta is "not 100% certain" if she will be fit enough to play at Wimbledon next week after suffering a back injury.

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Konta, 26, withdrew from her Eastbourne semi-final on Friday after a heavy fall in her win against Angelique Kerber.
The fifth seed needed lengthy treatment before recovering to beat world number one Kerber on Thursday.
"The most important thing is I rest well for the next 24 hours and then we'll see," she said.
Konta was set to play Czech third seed Karolina Pliskova in her hometown tournament in Eastbourne on Friday.
The world number seven is due to face Taiwanese player Hsieh Su-wei, who beat her at the French Open last month, in the first round at Wimbledon next week.
"The most important thing for me is to look after my health in general," she said on Friday.
"We made the decision based on the fact I'm still quite sore through my thoracic spine.
"Next week is Wimbledon but I make decisions for my health. I didn't sleep too well but I heard that's normal. It just didn't feel quite right.
"We're not 100% certain yet about the recovery time required. Things will become clearer in the next 24 hours of how we manage things."
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Micky Yule will represent Great Britain in powerlifting at this summer's Paralympics - yet it has been the flag of another country that has inspired him in his bid for qualification.

"My whole house is covered in Brazilian flags and I've been training with the flag right above me for about three years now," he explained.
"It's always there. I didn't want to forget where we were trying to go. Every time I trained, it was always there. It's the last thing I see before I lift or put the gym lights off."
It certainly worked, with Edinburgh-born Yule's inclusion in the squad for Rio confirmed on Monday.
Yule - who was a staff sergeant with the Royal Engineers in Afghanistan in 2010 when he lost both legs in an explosion - has had to work hard over a long period to secure his Paralympics debut.
The qualification period for Rio lasted almost two years, starting straight after the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
"I knew I had to lift at least another 15kg more than I had ever lifted before, so the pressure was on," he said.
"It all came down to a big competition in Malaysia and I just smashed it on the day. It was only the top eight in the world involved."
Yule impressed in that competition by qualifying in two weight groups - the 65kg and 72kg - and British Weightlifting had to decide which category to select him in.
They opted for the 65kg group, meaning Yule has to lose 6kgs of weight, which he jokes he's not overly happy about.
In the run-up to the Paralympics, he will compete at next month's Invictus Games in Florida, where he could be up against powerlifters who will also be in Rio.
Yule - ranked fifth in the world - finished fourth in the 70kg weight group at Glasgow 2014 despite being injured.
"The experience of Glasgow 2014 will be massive," he explained. "I feel brilliant from the experience I had at the Games and I'm not finished with the Commonwealth Games - it's an itch I've still got to scratch and it will bug me until the Gold Coast [in 2018].
"I'm going there [to Rio] to be top five in the world, but if any of those athletes who have been at numerous Paralympics make one mistake out there, I'm just going to snap it up. They had better be on their game when I'm lifting out there."
Confidence and motivation are not in short supply where Yule is concerned, and he is so focused that he will only allow himself to enjoy his Paralympics selection after Rio.
"I think emotions will be running high but it's just trying to keep those emotions in check," he added.
"I put about 190kg on the bar so I need to have total controlled aggression. Under the surface I'm just boiling - because I need to be aggressive to lift the weight - but it can't go so far that I lose my technique.
"I'm going to compete and compete well. I don't want to come back thinking I could have done 1kg more.
"After that, that's when I'll be able to absorb all the atmosphere and emotion of Rio."
The Paralympics run from 7-18 September.


A seven-year-old girl who became internationally renowned for tweeting about life in East Aleppo has posted a photo of her destroyed home.

On Tuesday, Bana Alabed posted the picture on Twitter saying she was "happy to be alive".
Bana, who tweets in English with the help of her mother, said her family had come under fierce bombardment.
Aleppo, once Syria's largest city, has been divided by clashes between government allied and rebel forces.
On Monday, government forces captured large swaths of rebel-held territory in the east of the city, following heavy bombing.
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Over the weekend, Bana's mother Fatemah, fearing for her life, had bid farewell to her Twitter followers.
But hours later, more tweets emerged saying the family was alive but their home had been destroyed.
Fatemah and her family were on the run following heavy bombings. "We are fighting for our lives. Still with you," she said.
Fatemah, who studied journalism and politics, has been active on Twitter with her daughter since September and has posted details of daily life in the besieged city.
In a conversation with the BBC, she explained that she had taught her daughter English and that Bana's tweets were genuine. "[Bana] wants the world to hear our voice," she said.
The family has dealt with constant food shortages, a lack of medical care, and continual bombardments. Fatemah told the BBC bombs are dropped "without any mercy".
Since the government's advancements in Aleppo over the weekend, some 16,000 civilians have been displaced according to the UN.
Aleppo was Syria's commercial and industrial hub before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011.
It has been divided in roughly two for the past four years, with the government controlling the west and rebels the east.


Bolivia's President Evo Morales has said he is still hopeful he can win a referendum which would allow him to stand for a fourth term in office.

With 82% of the votes counted, those opposed to the proposed constitutional amendment were leading by 8.4 percentage points.
Mr Morales said the votes were still trickling in from the countryside, where he enjoys greater support.
Observers said the count was slow but that there was no evidence of fraud.
Mr Morales, Bolivia's first head of state of indigenous origin, said he would respect the result of Sunday's referendum but accused right-wing sectors of waging a "dirty war".
An indigenous Aymara and former coca leaf producer, he took office in January 2006, and his current term ends in 2020.
The constitutional change would allow Mr Morales to run for re-election in 2019 and potentially remain in power until 2025.
The president urged all groups to have "serenity and responsibility" while they wait for the official results, and said he was "optimistic" that the votes from rural areas would give him a boost.
"They do not like us much in the city," he told a press conference on Monday.
Officials have not said when the final official results will be announced.
Pollsters suggested a victory for the "No" camp based on unofficial quick counts, prompting celebrations by "No" campaigners in various Bolivian cities.
Mr Morales is still a popular leader and the economy has grown steadily over the past decade.
But many - specially in the main cities - think Mr Morales should not be allowed to serve 19 consecutive years as president, analysts say.
Opposition leader Samuel Doria Medina urged Mr Morales to "recognise the results" and focus on solving Bolivia's problems in his remaining time in office instead of trying to run for another term.
Mr Morales also said that "life will go on" if he loses his bid.
"With my record, I can leave happily and go home content. I would love to be a sports trainer," he was quoted as saying in an interview (in Spanish) with the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
Observers say there is no clear successor to him if he fails in the referendum, and that the opposition lacks a single leader.
Despite a drop in the international price of oil and natural gas, the Bolivian economy has performed well in the past 10 years, growing on average 5% a year.
The government's socialist policies have also been successful in reducing extreme poverty.
But recent allegations that Mr Morales used his influence to favour a Chinese construction firm in Bolivia have damaged his approval ratings.
A former girlfriend of Mr Morales, Gabriela Zapata, holds an important position in the company, CAMC, which has secured more than $500m (Â£350m) in contracts with the Bolivian government.
Mr Morales rejected the allegations and said he had nothing to hide. He ordered an investigation into how the contracts were awarded.


Chinese hackers are launching sophisticated ransomware attacks - in which they hijack machines and demand payment to decrypt them, according to reports.

Four separate security firms have spotted attacks they believe emanated from China in recent months, reveals Reuters.
There is speculation that the "skilled operators" could be state-sponsored hackers.
The Chinese government said it would investigate if there was reliable proof.
Dell SecureWorks investigated two ransomware attacks this year - one at a transportation company and one at a technology firm
In the second case, 30% of the unnamed firm's machines were captured by the hackers.
Phil Burdette, who heads an incident response team at Dell said: "It is obviously a group of skilled operators that have some amount of experience conducting intrusions."
Security firms Attack Research, InGuardians and G-C Partners said they had investigated three other similar attacks since December.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman told Reuters that it would not act on "rumours and speculation" but the ministry itself said that if there was reliable proof, it would treat the matter seriously.
The Chinese government pledged to oppose economic espionage in an agreement with the US last year, with some US firms since reporting a drop in the amount of hacking sourced from China.
It also wants deeper internet security co-operation with the US as hacking continues to be a sore spot in US-China relations.
If the government has reduced its support for economic espionage, that may mean hackers are looking for other means of supplementing their incomes, reports Reuters.
Recently security firms warned about a huge surge in junk mail messages containing ransomware, which was blamed on new malware hitting the market which can avoid being spotted by anti-virus software.
Ransomware has been around for years but better encryption techniques mean it is often impossible for victims to regain access to their files without co-operation from the hackers.
Many ransomware payments are made in the virtual currency Bitcoin, and few firms are open about such attacks.


Scottish isles have made it on to a TripAdvisor list of the UK's best islands for travellers compiled from tourists' reviews.

Arran has been put in fourth place, Skye fifth, mainland Orkney sixth and Lewis and Harris joint eighth.
Jersey, a British Crown Dependency, was rated by TripAdvisor as the UK's top island followed by the Isle of Wight and St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly.
No Scottish island made it on to a top 10 list of best European isles.
The top European island was Santorini in Greece.
Jersey is part of the British Isles but not the UK. However, it and other Channel Islands featured in TripAdvisor's search for tourists' favourite UK islands.
Last year, Lewis and Harris were jointly named as the best islands in Europe by the international travel website.
The isles also beat rivals in Thailand, Chile and Madagascar to be included in the site's top five islands in the world in 2014.
Orkney and Mull were also named in the European top 10 last year.


A primary school head teacher who used a spy pen to film pupils in the toilets at his school has been jailed for two years and eight months.

Ashley Yates, 45, of Filton, used the device to record images in the toilets of The Tynings Primary School in Staple Hill, South Gloucestershire.
He admitted six counts of voyeurism and three of making indecent images of children at Bristol Crown Court.
The offences relate to seven girls, two boys and six adults.
They came to light after a child found a pen inside a disabled toilet at the school and handed it in to a caretaker.
The court heard that in total the married father filmed 22 adults and nine children and had confessed to his wife that he was a "sexual monster".
The judge accepted that Yates' main sexual interest was in adults urinating, but said he must have realised that children were also going to be caught on his camera.
Judge Michael Longman described Yates' behaviour as "devious" and as a "significant" breach of trust.
During the investigation, additional adult victims were identified by police.
Det Insp Louise Boyce, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: "Yates totally abused his position of trust to feed his own personal desires.
"He set up the recording device in a toilet knowing that both children and adults would be using the facilities."
She added she had "no doubt" that Yates' crimes will have "a lasting impact on his victims and their parents".
A letter to parents on the school's website said: "These victims came to light after items were seized by police during the course of the investigation.
"If any further victims are identified during the course of the investigation they will be notified immediately."


Theresa May's Â£1bn deal with the Democratic Unionist Party to back her minority government has been branded "a bung" and "shabby" by opposing parties.

The Northern Irish party's 10 MPs will support the Conservatives in key Commons votes in areas such as the Queen's Speech, Budget and Brexit.
Labour warned it would undermine trust in the UK government over Northern Ireland.
But the Conservatives said they had a duty to form a government.
The Conservatives and the DUP have said the deal makes the restoration of the power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland - which collapsed amid a bitter row between the DUP and Sinn Fein about a botched green energy scheme - more likely.
Negotiations lasted 18 days after the general election on 8 June resulted in a hung parliament.
The support of the DUP, added to the Tories' 317 MPs, means Mrs May passes the 326 figure needed for an overall Commons majority under a "confidence and supply" arrangement planned to last until 2022.
After talks with DUP leader Arlene Foster at Number 10, the prime minister said the two parties "share many values" and the agreement was "a very good one".
Mrs May said it would would "enable us to work together in the interests of the whole United Kingdom, give us the certainty we require as we embark on our departure from the European Union, and help us build a stronger and fairer society at home".
Mrs Foster said she was "delighted" with a package that includes Â£1bn of new funding, plus more flexibility on almost Â£500m of previously announced funds, on infrastructure, health and education in Northern Ireland.
The agreement has prompted calls for more money for Wales and Scotland.
Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones called the deal a "straight bung" and said it "kills the idea of fair funding".
The Scottish National Party's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, said Scotland should get "its fair share".
"For years the Tories have been cutting budgets and services, but suddenly they have found a magic money tree to help them stay in power," he said.
Labour said the deal was "shabby and reckless" and would undermine the trust in the impartiality of the UK government which was vital to the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement.
Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said: "For the government to be putting such an agreement in jeopardy just to prop up this dismal prime minister is nothing short of a disgrace."
Sinn Fein said the DUP were effectively supporting continued austerity and cuts, as well as "a blank cheque for a Tory Brexit which threatens the Good Friday Agreement".
However, First Secretary of State Damian Green said only the Conservatives had "the ability and legitimacy to lead the government our country needs".
"As the party with the most seats at the general election, the Conservative Party had a duty to form a government," he added.
"It is right that we talked to other parties to seek to ensure that the government can provide the competence the country needs at this crucial time."
Mr Green said the agreement should help to break the deadlock at Stormont which has meant there has been no power-sharing executive since elections in March.
The DUP has said that if there is not a devolved government, Westminster would still administer the financial package for Northern Ireland.
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said any extra money for Northern Ireland was a good thing, and the restoration of power-sharing was the only way to ensure it was fairly distributed.
"We may be able to say well done Arlene, when we have the executive in place," he said.
The DUP and Sinn Fein have been holding talks at Stormont in attempts to restore power-sharing, with negotiators working into the night on Monday.
The leaders of all the main political parties in Northern Ireland are expected to be involved in round-table discussions on Tuesday.
A sitting of the assembly has been scheduled for Thursday at noon which could involve the election of a first minister and deputy first minister - but only in the event of a deal.
Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney has warned that the parties must be close to an agreement by Tuesday night, and both the DUP and Sinn Fein would have to be "willing to move towards each other's position".
Northern Ireland has been without a power-sharing executive since March, and without a first and deputy first minister since January.
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Portuguese defender Fabio Cardoso has become Rangers' fourth summer signing as manager Pedro Caixinha revamps his squad.

The 23-year-old signed a three-year contract after joining for an undisclosed fee from Vitoria Setubal.
"I have to adapt to the new country and the new way of living. I am going to be successful though," he told Rangers TV.
"I will do my best to help me and my team-mates win. A club as big as Rangers has to win."
Cardoso, a former Portuguese Under-21 international, made 23 appearances for Vitoria Setubal last season, having moved to the club from Benfica.
He becomes the second Portuguese centre-back to move to Rangers this summer after full international Bruno Alves joined from Cagliari.
They have been joined at Ibrox by midfielder Dalcio, on loan from Benfica, and former Aberdeen captain Ryan Jack.
Cardoso said of Alves: "He is an amazing player and is one of the best defenders from my country. I know with him I will learn a lot.
"I met Caixinha for the first time in the airport and I spoke to him a lot.
"I like him and what he had to say and he is the right person to put Rangers where it belongs, which is first place.
"I am very happy to be here. For me, this is the best club in Scotland and I will do my best to help us make history together."
Mexican midfielder Carlos Pena and his compatriot, striker Eduardo Herrera, are awaiting the outcome of a work permit hearing by the Scottish Football Association and are also expected to join the club.
Caixinha thinks Cardoso is a future full international.
"Everyone describes him as having potential to be one of the centre-halves of the future with the national team," he said.
"We believe in him and he can perform on the right or on the left, which is good in a centre-half.
"We try to organise the centre-halves by thinking about them as a double and we have four very good centre-halves who can perform together or independently.
"Fabio is 23, so having an experienced player around like Bruno Alves is good - he is a player whose one main characteristic is leadership - so Fabio will feel comfortable and grow and learn from him."


Four men have been sentenced for their role in the murder of a 20-year-old man who was "cruelly" stabbed to death.

Ahmed Mohammed, known as Mudi, died in hospital after he was attacked in Crondall Street, Moss Side, in March.
Abdirashid Boos, 23, of Broadfield Road, was found guilty of murder and jailed for life with a minimum of 23 years at Manchester Crown Court.
Three other men were also sentenced for assisting or encouraging an offender.
The court heard Mr Mohammed was standing with friends when he was approached and stabbed by Abdirashid Boos.
Boos, who was joined by Johnson, had earlier parked up in a hire car and set upon the group, shouting and swearing at them.
After the stabbing, the men drove off before the killer's brother, Abdirahman Boos, arranged for them to get out of Manchester.
They travelled to Cheshire Oaks before ending up in Liverpool. Adnan Mohammed later set fire to the get-away car.
The following day the brothers travelled to Leeds and met Adnan Mohammed.
The three men were arrested and officers seized tickets to Amsterdam which had been booked for the following day.
Further inquiries then led to the arrest of Johnson.
After the sentencing, Mr Mohammed's family said listening to the "cruel and callous" circumstances of their son's death had been "the hardest thing we have had to endure".
They said: "We take comfort from the fact that the evidence acknowledges that Mudi was a greatly respected young man, a caring and loving soul, who always put others before himself.
"We came to court to seek answers from those who have been accused of this sickening crime but none of them have shown any remorse towards Mudi or his family."
Det Insp Kev O'Regan, of Greater Manchester Police, praised the family's "courage" in facing "every parent's nightmare".


Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey has apologised after an advert for a white supremacist group appeared on the social media platform.

The advert promoted an article headlined, "The United States was founded as a white people's republic."
Mr Dorsey tweeted that the firm had "made a mistake" and blamed an automated system.
However, according to reports, Twitter had originally said a screenshot of the advert appeared to be fake.
When the ad was first brought to Twitter's attention by writer and musician Ariana Lenarsky, a spokesperson told the website Motherboard that the screenshot she provided looked "either old or photoshopped".
Ms Lenarsky said she would leave the site until the firm apologised.
"Acknowledgement from [Jack Dorsey] & [Twitter] is great, but it really isn't over," she has now tweeted.
"We must continue to hold feet to the fire on this stuff."
The Twitter account of the group behind the ad, known as New Order, has now been suspended.
Last year, a right-wing activist claimed he had been able to promote a tweet which began "whites need to stand up for one another" using Twitter's advertising tools to target specific users, reported Slate.
This week Twitter announced new tools for tackling abuse, which includes hate speech, on its platform.


England captain Alastair Cook says Australia remain favourites to claim the Ashes despite his side's superb first-Test victory in Cardiff.

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Cook's side carry a 1-0 lead into the second Test at Lord's on Thursday, after last week's 169-run victory.
But Cook said: "Australia are still probably favourites, they've only got to retain, I suppose.
"But series are not played on paper, it's what people deliver. And it's always nice to be underdogs isn't it?"
England, who are taking precautions over the fitness of all-rounder Moeen Ali before the second Test, were hammered 5-0 by Australia in the last Ashes down under in 2013-14.
But, following the departure of coach Peter Moores in May, they have undergone an overhaul both on and off the pitch.
Under the interim leadership of assistant coach Paul Farbrace, they played positively in the drawn Test series and victorious one-day series against New Zealand.
Victory in new head coach Trevor Bayliss's first match in charge gave them the early advantage in the Ashes series.
Cook is keen for his side to continue in that positive vein against an Australia side that is likely to feature a number of changes, with wicketkeeper Brad Haddin absent for personal reasons while reports suggest all-rounder Shane Watson will be dropped.
"I think it is important that we don't sit back and protect the lead," Cook told BBC Sport. "We can't do that, certainly not against Australia.
"We have made a big effort with this series not to worry about what Australia do. It is about our attitude and approach. If we can get near the standards of Cardiff we will be a tough team to beat."
England have won the past two matches between the two at Lord's, following Australia's 75-year unbeaten run at the home of cricket.
England's only injury concern is over Moeen, who has felt some soreness in his side following the first Test.
Moeen played a key role in the victory in Wales, scoring a brisk 77 at number eight in the first innings and taking five wickets in the match.
Cook told BBC Sport: "He has come through training and fingers crossed he will be fine, which is great news for us.
"He is fine but you always want to be careful and head into an Ashes Test match with people fully fit."
Uncapped Yorkshire leg-spinner Adil Rashid is on standby should Moeen fail to prove his fitness.
In the absence of Haddin, the uncapped Peter Nevill takes over as wicketkeeper.
"I am confident with Nev coming in that we have the wicketkeeper spot covered," captain Michael Clarke told BBC Sport. "He is a fighter and has had a great year back in Australia.
"He deserves his opportunity. He won his spot on form and that is why he is in the squad. I have every confidence he will walk out there and make runs."
Clarke also expects seam bowler Mitchell Starc to be fit to play, despite suffering an ankle strain that required pain-killing injections in the first Test.
Clarke said: "He took eight wickets. He bowled on one leg in the second innings and still took three wickets. He is a wicket-taker. But all our bowlers need to be more consistent."
Watson, who was lbw in both innings of the first Test for scores of 30 and 19, is reportedly set to be dropped, with Mitchell Marsh taking his place.
However, Clarke said he does not yet know the XI, adding: "Whoever is picked needs to perform, like the rest of us."
The 34-year-old added: "We were outplayed in all facets in the first Test. We have taken the positives and we come here to Lord's and start afresh.
"We have played some really good cricket over the last couple of years and the boys are full of confidence.
"We know how we can play if we are at our best and the boys just need to find that consistently over the five days. We need to bat for long periods, have really good intent with the ball and execution over long periods."
The pitch at Cardiff was slow, which many felt helped England as it negated the Australian pace attack.
Both captains expect a similar surface at Lord's, with Cook saying: "Normally a Test wicket here is a pretty good wicket. We are in England and I don't think it will be travelling through like Perth."
Clarke said: "I think it will be a little bit tacky to start and seam around early so it will be difficult to bat on. But it does look like a pretty good wicket. Generally at Lord's, once the sun comes out, it is a good wicket to bat on."
Players will also have to contest with the Lord's slope, with batsmen requiring judgement on which balls to play and leave and bowlers requiring greater discipline with their line.
Only Mitchell Johnson of the Australia bowling attack has played at Lord's before and his record is poor, conceding 200 runs in 38.4 overs (taking three wickets) in the second Test in 2009.
England's James Anderson is the record wicket-taker on the ground with 75 in 17 matches, with Stuart Broad the fourth highest (61 wickets in 14 Tests).
Unlike Cardiff, where rain threatened to affect the final day - should the game have gone that far, the forecast for Lord's is good, with BBC Weather stating Thursday will be "a dry and fine day... with bright or sunny spells developing as cloud breaks and winds staying light". It is a similar picture across the five days.
One of the net bowlers for England in the build-up to this Test is the son of India great Sachin Tendulkar, the leading Test run-scorer in history.
Arjun Tendulkar, 15, who is hoping to forge a career in the game, helped put the England batsmen through their paces during practice on Wednesday.


The authorities in the Colombian capital, Bogota, have begun demolishing a notorious district in the centre of the city called the Bronx.

The area had become a focus for drug addicts, criminals and prostitution.
Bogota's mayor said the area would be turned into a new commercial sector.
In May security forces sent in to clear the area found scores of children who had been forced into prostitution, and hundred of drug addicts.
They also discovered a tunnel used by traffickers which ran from a house to a local shop.
Local people argue the problem of street crime has not been solved as many of the former dwellers of the Bronx are now roaming around the centre of town or have been starting to concentrate in other areas of the capital, the BBC's Natalio Cosoy reports from Bogota.


George North returns to the Northampton side for the first time since suffering a head injury on 3 December.

Saints were not punished for allowing the winger to return to the field after the tackle, though a concussion panel ruled he should not have played on.
Gloucester make eight changes, with the game coming just five days after their defeat at Harlequins.
Captain Greig Laidlaw and back row Ross Moriarty are among those rested, while Andrew Symons makes his full debut.
World Rugby last week asked for more information from the Rugby Football Union about Northampton's "apparent non-compliance" with concussion protocols relating to North's latest head injury.
The 24-year-old Wales international previously suffered four head blows in five months between November 2014 and March 2015, leading to a spell on the sidelines that lasted from 27 March until 29 August 2015.
He replaces Juan Pablo Estelles in the side, with Harry Mallinder on the bench and fly-half Stephen Myler picked for his 300th Saints appearance.
Charlie Sharples misses out for the hosts with a knee injury, while Salesi Ma'afu starts in the front row against his old club and scrum-half Willi Heinz skippers the side.
The teams are level on 24 points in the Premiership table, with Gloucester one place below their opponents because of winning fewer matches.
Gloucester: Hook; Halaifonua, Symons, Twelvetrees, May; Burns, Heinz (capt); Hohneck, Hibbard, Ma'afu, Savage, Thrush, Ludlow, Kvesic, Morgan.
Replacements: Matu'u, McAllister, Afoa, Galarza, Moriarty, Laidlaw, Scott, Purdy
Northampton: Foden; Pisi, Burrell, Hanrahan, North; Myler, Groom; Waller, Haywood, Brookes, Lawes, Day, Wood (capt), Harrison, Picamoles.
Replacements: Clare, Waller, Hill, Ratuniyarawa, Gibson, Kessell, Mallinder, Estelles.
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Head teachers representing some 3,000 schools in England have written to their local MPs and ministers calling for a rethink on school finance plans.

They say a new national funding formula, which should give underfunded schools more cash, ignores inflationary cost pressures faced by all schools.
The heads come from 14 local council areas and represent 1.5 million pupils.
The letter comes as the government's consultation period for the new school funding formula closes on Wednesday.
The letter has been signed by primary, secondary and special school heads from a number of counties in England including West Sussex, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Devon and Cornwall.
The letter says the new funding formula does not offer "meaningful solutions" to current and future school finances and "attempts to ignore inflationary cost pressures that all schools are enduring".
"School leaders simply want a reasonable settlement that sees every child in every school adequately funded," it says.
The Department for Education said school spending was at record levels, but that the system for distributing that money was "unfair, opaque and outdated".
A DfE spokeswoman said: "We are going to end the historic postcode lottery in school funding and, under the proposed national schools funding formula, more than half of England's schools will receive a cash boost.
"We are consulting schools, governors, local authorities and parents to make sure we get this formula right, so that every pound of the investment we make in education has the greatest impact.
"We recognise that schools are facing cost pressures, which is why we will continue to provide support to help them use their funding in cost-effective ways, including improving the way they buy goods and services."
Jules White, head teacher of Tanbridge House School in Horsham, West Sussex, has mobilised the campaign.
He told the BBC he had expected to be better off  under the new funding arrangements, but has had a nasty shock.
"I was told I'd get £180,000 more with the new formula - which was very welcome.
"But then when I saw what I have to pay out from September - National Insurance costs, teachers' pay and running costs of the school, I found I'd be spending £220,000.
"So even with a new deal for the school - we'll be £40,000 worse off."
Mr White said school leaders cared deeply about their students and their families and were reluctant to speak out, but the fact that they were doing so showed the gravity of the situation.
"Why would we be doing this if it wasn't true? Why would I be telling you... that things are this bad unless I had to? And they are so bad, we're not sure we can cope going forward."
The head teachers' letter is also critical of the government's push to open more grammar and free schools in England.
It says: "To make matters worse - far worse - the Department for Education continues to divert significant monies to capital and revenue funding such as free school provision and grammar school expansion.
"At the same time, our schools simply do not have adequate funds to provide the education that every child in our care needs and deserves.
"To see such ill-judged spending being prioritised in a time of austerity is unacceptable.
"The disconnect between a department making decisions that seem to entirely ignore the wishes and needs of dedicated and committed school leaders provides significant and tangible cause for concern."
The consultation period on the funding formula ends on Wednesday, 22 March.


Survivors of one of the biggest bushfires in Australian history are suing a power company for negligence.

The case centres on the most deadly blaze on Black Saturday, on 7 February 2009, when wildfires swept across several areas in the state of Victoria.
This fire, in the Kilmore East area north of Melbourne, killed 119 people and destroyed more than 1,000 homes.
The plaintiffs say SPI Electricity failed to adequately maintain its power lines - claims the company denies.
The case is expected to last at least nine months. There are about 10,000 plaintiffs, led by Carol Matthews, who lost her 22-year-old son in the fire.
A 2009 Royal Commission found that the fire began when an electricity line failed between two poles. Contact between the live conductor and a cable stay supporting the pole caused arcing that ignited vegetation, the report said.
The plaintiffs accuse SPI of failing to maintain its equipment adequately.
"This fire was entirely preventable," their lawyer, Robert Richter, told the court. "With known and reasonable steps taken in time, SPI could and should have prevented it."
He rejected SPI's stance that a lightning strike damaged the power line's infrastructure.
The group are also suing maintenance firm Utility Services Corporation Limited over its inspections of the power line.
A total of 173 people died in the Black Saturday fires.


The future of an Aberystwyth care home will be decided in September.

Earlier this month Ceredigion council cabinet opted to look for a private firm to run the nursing dementia home at Bodlondeb Care Home in Penparcau.
But after four councillors wrote to the council saying they wanted residential care to remain alongside the nursing dementia beds, a scrutiny committee reviewed the decision.
It has voted to ask the full council to make the decision.


This morning's economic growth figures confirmed that the UK economy has returned to its pre-recession peak from 2008.

In other words, the economy is producing more than it has ever produced before - so should we not feel more prosperous than ever before?
The trouble is that overall gross domestic product (GDP) is not necessarily what makes us feel prosperous.
Since 2008, the population has grown by more than 2.5 million and the number of people in work has gone up by 1.1 million. That means that while GDP has returned to its pre-crisis level, GDP per head and GDP per worker are still well below that level, which means that productivity is also down.
Lower productivity is reflected in a fall of about 9% in average earnings since 2008, adjusted for inflation.
GDP is not the only measure that has recently returned to pre-recession levels. The employment rate rose to 73.1% between March and May this year, rising above its 2008 level for the first time.
Interest rates are still at the low rate of 0.5% - in January 2008 they were at 5.5%, so if you have had a mortgage over that period you should be feeling better, while net savers may be feeling worse.
Whether you're feeling better may have something to do with which sector you work in. It is the service sector that has dragged GDP above its 2008 level - if you work in manufacturing or construction you're still considerably below that point.
The real household income figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies don't make terribly cheerful reading for anyone.
The income of the median household (that's the household for which half of households have a higher income and half have a lower one) has fallen by about Â£20 per week, after adjusting for inflation, since 2008.
The household at the 90th percentile (that's the one for which only 10% of households have a higher income) has seen its income fall by about Â£60 a week. At the other end of the spectrum, the household at the 10th percentile has seen a Â£2 per week increase.
So there is room for celebration, with the UK economy growing faster than its competitors and more people employed than before the recession.
But falling GDP per head, real incomes and average earnings mean that many households are not yet feeling the benefits.


Portsmouth have released nine players, but defender Adam Webster has been offered a new deal at Fratton Park.

Assistant manager Gary Waddock, head of player recruitment Andy Melville and first-team coach Paul Hardyman have also left their positions at the club.
Dan Butler, Ben Chorley, Tom Craddock, Joe Devera, Danny East, Wes Fogden, Nicky Shorey, Bradley Tarbuck and Ryan Taylor are leaving the League Two side.
Midfielder Ben Close's contract has been extended for another year.
Ex-Oxford United boss Waddock was caretaker manager of Pompey at the end of the season, having joined as Andy Awford's assistant in December 2014.
Melville has also departed, as part of new boss Paul Cook's shake-up as has lead strength and conditioning coach Louis Langdown.
Cook left League One play-off semi-finalists Chesterfield to join Portsmouth on 12 May. and is set to confirm the rest of his backroom staff in the near future.
"The club would like to thank all of them for their contribution to Pompey and wish them well for the future," said a statement.


A frozen food company has been granted a licence to continue to dump shellfish waste into the sea in Ceredigion, despite opposition.

Quay Fresh and Frozen Foods Ltd in New Quay can deposit up to 450 tonnes of clean, crushed whelk shells into the sea for a year.
Residents had complained the waste caused injuries when it washes up on to the beach.
But Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said it did not have an unacceptable impact.
The company had applied to dump 2,000 tonnes of shells, which are produced when it processes its foods, every year for the next three years.
But a one-year licence was granted for the reduced amount and NRW said it had given the firm advice on alternative ways to dispose of or reuse the waste.
Eleanor Smart, of NRW, said of the decision: "The surveys and public consultation showed that depositing the whelk shells does not have an unacceptable impact on the environment, or pose a significant risk to human health.
"However the shells do cause a nuisance which can affect other uses of the beach and sea, and this is why we have reduced the quantities permitted for disposal, as well as the duration of the licence."


National League side AFC Fylde have signed goalkeeper Jay Lynch from Salford City on a two-year deal.

Lynch, 24, was named National League North Goalkeeper of the Year last season, helping Salford finish fourth while champions Fylde were promoted.
He twice won promotion with Salford and made more than 100 appearances after joining from Accrington in 2014.
Lynch is Fylde's fifth summer signing prior to their first season in the fifth tier.


Britain's Chris Froome retained the overall leader's yellow jersey after a closely fought team time trial on stage nine of the Tour de France in Brittany.

Froome's Team Sky were last out on the 28km route and finished in second, 0.62 seconds slower than BMC Racing.
The 2013 champion now leads BMC's American rider Tejay van Garderen by 12 seconds in the overall standings.
Froome gained more time on two-time winner Alberto Contador, Nairo Quintana and defending champion Vincenzo Nibali.
Italian Nibali was the day's biggest loser in the battle between the so called 'big four' with his Astana team finishing 35 seconds adrift of the winners. He now trails Froome by two minutes and 22 seconds.
"I am surprised he's lost so much time already," said Froome.
"I certainly didn't expect it. I thought he was going to be the one guy from the main contenders who would gain time in this first phase of the race.
"Nibali and Quintana have lost substantial time already so the pressure is on them to be attacking as we go into the climbs."
Quintana picked up valuable time on Contador and Nibali as his Movistar team finished just four seconds off the pace. He now trails Froome by one minute, 59 seconds.
Contador's Tinkoff-Saxo squad finished 28 seconds behind BMC, to leave him 63 seconds behind Froome. The Spaniard is looking to become the first man since Marco Pantani in 1998 to win the Tour and Giro d'Italia in the same year.
Van Garderen, who was fifth last year, and in 2012, is positioning himself as a rider Froome will need to keep an eye on when the race resumes in the Pyrenees mountains on Tuesday after Monday's rest day.
The American said it would be "a tall order" for him to win the Tour but added "everything's clicking and it's all about momentum".
The 22 teams in the race set off at five minute intervals from Vannes and Team Sky were level with BMC, the team time trial world champions, at the 10km time check.
Froome, the 2012 Olympic time trial bronze medallist, put in several big turns on the front of the Team Sky train as they moved one second ahead of BMC at 20.5km and five seconds clear at the bottom of the 1.7km climb to the finish in Plumelec.
However, with the clock not stopping until the first five riders crossed the finish line, the British-based team blew their advantage.
They had just five riders left on the ascent and Irish rider Nicolas Roche was clearly struggling in the closing stages, so much so that Froome had to ease off and shout encouragement.
While that undoubtedly cost Team Sky the stage win, they had the consolation of retaining the yellow jersey.
A Geraint Thomas column assessing the opening week of this year's Tour will be on the BBC Sport website from Monday morning.
Stage nine result:
1.  BMC Racing (US)   32mins 15secs
2.  Team Sky (GB)           +01sec
3.  Movistar (Spa)             +04secs
4.  Tinkoff - Saxo (Rus)      +28secs
5.  Astana (Kaz)          +35secs
General classification:
1.  Chris Froome (GB) Team Sky                   31hrs 34mins 12secs
2.  Tejay van Garderen (US) BMC Racing              +12secs
3.  Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing            +27secs
4.  Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff - Saxo             +38secs
5.  Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff - Saxo           +1min 03secs
6.  Rigoberto Uran (Col) Etixx - Quick-Step      +1min 18secs
7.  Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar            +1min 50secs
8.  Geraint Thomas (GB) Team Sky                 +1min 52secs
9.  Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar                +1min 59secs
10. Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Etixx - Quick-Step Same time
Selected other:
13. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana +2mins 22secs


The strain of alcohol abuse on public services in the Highlands and Islands is being highlighted by health professionals and the police.

NHS Highland's director of public health has said alcohol-related problems in the region are far worse than she had expected.
Dr Margaret Somerville has been in the job since February after moving to Scotland from England.
Following the release of her first annual report, she said alcohol, smoking and obesity were the three main risky behaviours that challenged local health services.
She told BBC Radio Scotland: "We have a particular concern with alcohol in Highland.
"We are not seeing alcohol consumption coming down despite a lot of work."
Dr Somerville added: "Alcohol is clearly part and parcel of Scottish culture.
"We are not here to say to people they shouldn't drink at all, but it is to say be aware of how much you drink and encourage responsible, safe drinking."
She said staff were dealing with liver complaints and nerve and brain damage as well as victims of drink-fuelled violence.
Alcohol abuse also challenges policing in the Highlands and Islands.
Northern Constabulary's public performance reports record a rise in incidents of drunkenness.
In 2005-06 there were 729 incidents, 873 in 2006-07, 866 in 2007-08 and 914 in 2008-09.
Chief Constable Ian Latimer's most recent report on crime figures for the force area give an insight into the dark side of boozing.
In Shetland - one of Northern's command areas but not part of NHS Highland - he reported that violent crime had increased since 2009.
Mr Latimer said detection rates were high, at 95%, but noted crimes were happening in private homes away from the public gaze.
He said: "This is an early indication that the pattern of drinking within the populous is moving from drinking within licensed premises to drinking/partying within the home and may be linked to the increase in noise calls from domestic dwellings."
Targeting pubs and clubs in an effort to curb street violence saw 27 fewer victims of drink-related crime in Orkney during September this year, the senior officer said.
However, 13 out of 23 reports alleging domestic abuse between 1 July and 30 September on the islands were found to involve alcohol.
In Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, Mr Latimer said visible policing outside pubs and clubs was believed to have led to a "marked downturn" in street violence.
His report also outlined operations to tackle underage drinking in Lochaber and said the abuse of alcohol among young people on the Western Isles was "problematic".
Another command area - Inverness, Badenoch, Strathspey and Nairn - had experienced an increase in incidents of drunkenness between April and September this year.
There were 236 cases, 47 more offences for the same time in 2009. The rise has been attributed to pro-active work by police officers.
Booze has been an age-old problem for police and health professionals in the Highlands and Islands.
Hugh MacKay was a police officer working in the Highlands and Islands from 1963 to 1998.
He told the BBC Scotland News website: "It was apparent to me right through my service that drink was the substance that caused most of the criminal conduct in society - particularly the disorderly behaviour and violence aspect of it."
The former superintendent added: "We would monitor the people we were arresting and noted whether or not they had been drinking.
"Quiet consistently 90% had been."


Israel has urged thousands of people in east and north Gaza to leave their homes as it continues air strikes.

An Egyptian truce initiative on Tuesday failed to halt rocket attacks on Israel by Hamas militants and other groups.
Israel, which had its first fatality on Tuesday, said senior Hamas militants had died in strikes on Gaza overnight.
Palestinian officials say at least 211 people have died in Israeli raids, including 10 killed overnight and four children who died later on Wednesday.
An Israeli man was killed by a mortar shell fired from Gaza near the northern border with Israel.
Israel launched its Operation Protective Edge on 8 July. Its stated objective is to halt Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, but the United Nations says the majority of those killed in Gaza have been civilians.
Twenty-four hours on from the first faltering attempts at a ceasefire, the conflict between Israel and Hamas grinds on to a grimly familiar pattern.
Israel says its warnings are to avoid civilian casualties in planned raids but they'll spread further fear, anger and uncertainty in Gaza where civilians will feel there are no real places of safety now.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now faces a dilemma. There are right-wing members of his cabinet demanding a ground offensive and he doesn't want to look weak in domestic politics. But the risks for him are significant. Ground fighting may cause huge numbers of casualties, alienating Israel's allies, and trap him into a long campaign without a clear exit strategy.
Instinctively he seems to feel that Israelis would prefer to see Hamas diminished and the rocket fire ended through the air campaign. Ground fighting would mean Israeli casualties too.
But if air power doesn't prove decisive, the political pressure for him to go further will grow.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) dropped leaflets and used recorded telephone messages to warn some 100,000 residents of Gaza to leave their homes before 08:00 (05:00 GMT) on Wednesday.
The warning came as militants continued to fire rockets at Israeli cities, the IDF said, adding that its Iron Dome missile shield had intercepted 10, including four launched at Tel Aviv.
The military said militants had fired more than 150 rockets into Israel on Tuesday, and more than 1,260 since Operation Protective Edge began.
The air force and navy had carried out strikes on 96 targets in Gaza on Tuesday, and more than 1,750 in the past eight days, it added.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas had "shut the door to a diplomatic solution" and bore "sole responsibility for the continuation of the violence".
The Egyptian-backed truce was to have started on Tuesday morning, after it was approved by Israel's security cabinet.
The ceasefire should have been followed by a series of meetings in Cairo with high-level delegations from the two sides.
Israeli attacks were halted for six hours, but resumed amid continuing rocket fire directed at Israel. Among those reported killed overnight was a five-month-old baby.
Later on Wednesday, Palestinian medics said four children had been killed in an air raid west of Gaza City.
Hamas - which is designated a terrorist organisation by Israel and the US among others- said the terms of the ceasefire did not address concerns over the economic blockade of the Gaza strip, which has caused severe economic hardship for many Palestinians.
Senior Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan told the BBC the group had only heard about the truce initiative through the media, and that a ceasefire could not be put in place without the details of any agreement being known.
The armed wing of Hamas, the Izz al-Din Qassam Brigades, dismissed the initiative, saying its battle with Israel would "increase in ferocity and intensity".
Mr Netanyahu has come under criticism in Israel for accepting the truce initiative. His office announced that deputy defence minister Danny Danon had been sacked for comments branding the PM a "failure".
Israel has mobilised tens of thousands of troops on the border with Gaza amid speculation a ground invasion could be launched.
The UN says at least 1,370 homes have been destroyed in Gaza and more than 18,000 people displaced in recent hostilities.
The International Red Cross warned that repeated bombing was devastating Gaza's "fragile water infrastructure", with hundreds of people left without water.
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For the first time a supercomputer based in the Middle East has entered the top ten list of the most powerful computers on the planet.

The Shaheen II is based at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Kaust) in Saudi Arabia.
The Cray XC40 computer is the seventh most powerful machine in the world, said the Top 500 organisation that monitors high-performance machines.
China's Tianhe-2 retained its position at the top of the supercomputer list.
Shaheen II's place on the list was revealed in the Top 500's latest release of its biannual rankings.
The Shaheen (Peregrine Falcon) II has a peak number-crunching capacity of 5.536 petaflops making it, said the Top 500, "the highest-ranked Middle East system in the 22-year history of the list and the first to crack the Top 10".
Kaust has spent about $80m (Â£51m) buying, installing and operating the Cray machine which is about 25 times more powerful than the machine it is replacing.
The machine uses 200,000 processors arranged in more than 6,000 nodes, has 17.6 petabytes of storage and 790 terabytes of main memory. By contrast, China's Tianhe-2 has a peak processing ability of 33.86 petaflops spread across 16,000 nodes.
A petaflop is equal to about one quadrillion calculations per second. One estimate suggests it would take a human about 32,000,000 years to complete the same task.
The machine, based in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia is being used for research projects modelling turbulence in engines, atmospheric dynamics, and renewable energy grids.
Industrial partners of Kaust are also planning to use it to help refine their search for minerals and fossil fuels and in the processing of raw materials.
In a blog entry detailing the latest list, the Top 500 organisation said the rate of growth in global computing power was slowing down. This was because relatively few new massive supercomputers had been switched on in the last few years. Many of those at the top of the list were installed and first operated in 2011 and 2012, it said.


Shares in Australia's biggest supermarket chain Woolworths have risen as much as 5% in Sydney on media reports of a possible takeover.

The Australian newspaper reported fresh rumours that US private equity giant KKR had a bid that could be "almost ready" for consideration.
It would be one of the biggest deal in Australia's corporate history, the newspaper said.
The news comes amid turbulent times for the supermarket chain.
Woolworths' media team made no comment in relation to the takeover rumours, while KKR's media team in Australia was unavailable for comment.
Earlier this month, Woolworths announced that its chief executive, Grant O'Brien, was stepping down after nearly four years.
The firm also said it had plans to cut about 1,200 jobs. The changes are aimed at cutting millions of dollars in costs and improving sales after Woolworths' first-half profits fell.
The retail giant has been up against rivals such as Coles and Aldi and it has been trying to win more customers with improved stores and competitive pricing.
Woolworths recently cut its profit guidance for the year to June 2015.


UKIP AM Mark Reckless has confirmed he is joining the Conservative group in the Welsh Assembly.

The South Wales East AM will sit as a Tory but will not join the party.
Conservative group leader Andrew RT Davies welcomed a "hard-working and dedicated" AM, saying it made his party the official opposition to Labour.
But Gower MP and ex-AM Byron Davies said allowing Mr Reckless into the group was "not a particularly bright idea".
When questioned about Andrew RT Davies' leadership of the Tory group on BBC Radio Wales, the Gower MP said "we have to live with that".
With regard to how the Tory group should work with Mr Reckless, he said: "I would be very, very cautious about how they deal with him."
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: "Mark Reckless is not a member of the Conservative Party. There are absolutely no plans for him to become a member of the Conservative Party."
A Conservative Party spokesman said: "Decisions about who sits with the Conservative group in the Welsh Assembly are a matter for the group in the Welsh Assembly."
In a statement, Mr Reckless said he had been "thoroughly impressed by the performance and discipline of Andrew RT Davies and the Welsh Conservative group".
He said Theresa May's leadership as Prime Minister had been "exemplary" and that she had been "steadfast in her position to deliver on the wishes of the people of Wales and the United Kingdom" in relation to Brexit.
Assembly Presiding Officer Elin Jones said the former UKIP AM could be a member of the Conservative group.
Andrew RT Davies said Mr Reckless had "proven himself to be a hard-working and dedicated AM who has been an effective representative for the South East Wales region".
"He will now be able to continue this work as part of a strong and united team which will be the official opposition in the assembly," he added.
Mr Reckless told BBC Wales he knew there was still "bad blood" from the time he quit the Tories to join UKIP.
"It's not for me to waltz back into the party with any sense of entitlement," he said.
"I want to focus my efforts here with some humility."
UKIP assembly group leader Neil Hamilton accused his former UKIP colleague of showing "weakness of character".
"He didn't have the courtesy or the courage to speak to me about any doubts he had about his future in UKIP or what he might get from the Conservative Party," he told BBC Wales.
"Fundamentally he was elected to the assembly not as Mark Reckless but as a UKIP candidate for the South East Wales region.
"He's betrayed the trust of all of those who selected him in the first place to be a candidate and all of those who worked to get him elected to the assembly.
"He's got no mandate to sit in the assembly as a member of the Conservative group."
UKIP chairman Paul Oakden said it was "incumbent on Mark Reckless to relinquish a position he has only by virtue of a UKIP mandate".
"The position should go to the next UKIP candidate on the regional list," he said.
Mr Reckless was Conservative MP for Rochester and Strood when he defected to UKIP in 2014.
He voluntarily quit the seat to fight and win it in a by-election for UKIP, but lost it at the 2015 general election.
There is no requirement under assembly rules for either regional or constituency AMs to stand down when they leave the party they were elected to represent.
Mr Reckless told BBC Wales he would "love to be able to put my decision to the electorate" as he did in 2014, but said assembly rules regarding members elected via a regional list prevented this.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said the changing arithmetic in the Senedd - with Plaid now the third-biggest party - would mean "very little in actual fact".
She added:  "We've got a strong team of assembly members all of whom are working very hard for the constituencies they represent, and for Plaid Cymru as a whole.
"We are putting the Welsh national interest at the top of the agenda at every opportunity. We might be a smaller team but we certainly are a very effective team."
Analysis by BBC Wales political correspondent Tomos Livingstone
Normally the defection of a politician from one party to another prompts a stream of abuse from the member's former home and the sound of champagne corks popping at their new abode.
There's been plenty of the former from UKIP now that Mark Reckless has left, but not everyone in the Conservative Party is celebrating today's development.
Mr Reckless made the opposite journey in 2014, and anger at that decision is still plain for all to see.
That's why the South Wales East AM is going to be a Conservative AM, but not, rather oddly, a member of the Conservative Party.
Has Andrew RT Davies therefore performed a coup, defying the wishes of Welsh Conservative MPs who think he's mis-read the party mood, and making his group the second-largest in the Senedd?
Or has he needlessly made some powerful enemies who might want to re-visit the whole affair in the weeks and months ahead?
This could be the beginning of the story rather than the end.


As Australia gets used to another prime minister, here are 11 things you may not have known, or perhaps have forgotten, about the member for Wentworth, Malcolm Turnbull.

1. He has political lineage. George Lansbury, a British politician and social reformer who led the UK Labour Party from 1932 to 1935, is Mr Turnbull's great-great-uncle.
2. Also a family history in entertainment. British actress Angela Lansbury, famed for her role in the US TV series Murder, She Wrote, is a distant relative...
3. ...and Oliver Postgate, the late creator of much-loved British children's shows including Bagpuss, The Clangers and Ivor the Engine, is a cousin.
4. Bruce Turnbull brought up his son Malcolm single-handedly after his wife, Coral Lansbury, left the family when Malcolm was nine years old.
5. Mr Turnbull invested A$500,000 ($355,000; Â£231,000) in Australian internet provider OzEmail in 1994 and sold his share five years later for A$57m, making him one of the richest ever Australian politicians.
6. Working for Australian media mogul Kerry Packer, Turnbull visited Hugh Hefner's Playboy headquarters in Chicago in the 1970s to obtain the rights to bring the controversial adult magazine to Australia.
7. Famed editor of the Sunday Times Harold Evans offered Mr Turnbull a job at the paper in 1975, warning him not to finish his law degree. "Don't do law",  Evans reportedly told him. "Terrible things could happen. You could become a judge, or worse, a politician!"
8. Australian businesswoman and former Sydney Lord Mayor Lucy Turnbull is married to Australia's new leader.
9. Mr Turnbull's beloved Maltese terrier, Mellie, carved out her own profile with a popular online blog. Sadly, Mellie passed away in 2011. The blog lives on with JoJo and various guest blogs from doggy friends.
10. Like his predecessor Tony Abbott, Mr Turnbull is a keen swimmer. He is a member of Sydney's exclusive early morning, winter swimming club, the Bondi Icebergs.
11. The public face of the republican movement in the late 1990s, Turnbull savaged John Howard as "the prime minister who broke this nation's heart" when a referendum to ditch the monarchy failed.


Residents of Los Angeles' most famous neighbourhood woke up on New Year's Day to find the world-famous Hollywood sign had been changed to read "Hollyweed".

Local media reported that police were treating the incident as minor trespass and were investigating.
The sign on Mount Lee is made of 45-foot (13.7m) tall letters.
Voters in California approved the legalisation of marijuana in a ballot held at the same time as the presidential election - on 8 November.
The prank has not caused lasting damage to the sign, however, as parts of both "O" letters were covered by tarpaulins to make them look like a lower-case letter "E".
The Los Angeles Times reports that a single person was recorded on security cameras climbing the sign to hang the materials.
A similar prank took place in 1976, to mark a relaxation in the state's marijuana laws.


College lecturers across Scotland are set to consider taking industrial action over pay.

Their headline pay offer is worth 1% - but some want big rises to even out inequalities between different colleges.
The row comes amid continuing debate over the impact of a huge shake-up in the college system.
Overall budgets have fallen, colleges have merged and there are far fewer part time students.
National pay bargaining has been re-introduced for college lecturers for the first time in decades.
But according to the EIS Further Education Lecturers' Association (FELA) there are still widespread disparities between pay at different colleges.
The union argues staff at some colleges are receiving £7,000 a year less than others doing the same job somewhere else.
The union wants all unpromoted lecturers to earn up to £40,386, amounting to an uplift of between 3.3% and 25% across the best and worst-paying colleges.
The EIS FELA will decide what steps to take next at a conference later this month. But general secretary Larry Flanagan believes industrial action is likely unless progress is made.
He said "Scotland's college lecturers deserve a fair pay award.
"It is simply unacceptable for the management side to drag the pay round for almost a year, only to then offer exactly the same cash-terms percentage pay rise that was previously proposed and rejected. It is also extremely disappointing that the final offer reinforces the pay imbalance across the sector.
"The pay gap is already extremely wide, amounting to almost a £7,000 difference in some cases, for lecturers doing the same job in different colleges.
"This is not what Scotland's further education lecturers hoped for or expected from a return to national bargaining, and the management across the sector must now rethink both their negotiation tactics and their unrealistic pay offer. The Scottish government should also now take action to ensure a satisfactory outcome to this process."
The threat of a national pay dispute comes at a time when the whole college sector is under scrutiny.
Colleges have gone through a huge shake up in recent years. A series of mergers to create what have been dubbed "regional supercolleges" led to 1,000 job losses.
Earlier this week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon argued colleges were now "fit for the future" when she opened City of Glasgow College's new riverside campus.
But critics contend that there is little evidence to suggest the mergers have actually benefited students. Colleges now focus primarily on recognised qualifications, mostly for young people, but there are far fewer part time places.
Earlier this month, members of the governing body at Glasgow Clyde College were fired by Education Secretary Angela Constance. There had been a longstanding row at the college where the principal was suspended in February.
There have also been concerns about the pay offs at some colleges. A particular concern involves the former Coatbridge College where there have been allegations of collusion.
John Doyle, the college's former principal, and John Gray, the former chairman of the college board, defended themselves at Holyrood's Public Audit Committee on Wednesday.
Mr Doyle, who earned £116,000 a year by the end of his service, received 30 months' pay in total. Mr Doyle and six others shared half of a £1.7m severance pot between them.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she was personally "appalled" by the pay-offs, which Auditor General Caroline Gardner described as one of the most serious failures in governance she has ever encountered.
Mr Doyle told MSPs his reputation had been unfairly trashed.


As the UK votes to leave the European Union, the BBC takes a look at how the key figures on each side of the UK's EU referendum performed.

Boris Johnson
Vote Leave's big signing - made as the transfer deadline loomed - was a predictable hit with the home fans, showing he had lost none of his sparkle in front of goal. There were blunders, such as his public spat with Barack Obama after he made a dig at the US president's "part-Kenyan" ancestry, and comparing the EU to Hitler, which led some to question his judgement. But as with so many things he has done over the years - such as getting stuck on a zipwire ahead of the Olympics - none of it seemed to harm his public appeal. As a dry run for a Tory leadership contest things could have gone better for the former London mayor, but he ended the campaign as the star Leave performer in the big TV debates and there's no arguing with the result, which leaves him as bookmakers' favourite to succeed David Cameron as UK prime minister.
Michael Gove
Vote Leave's other star striker - the cerebral, mild-mannered Michael Gove - coped relatively well with being thrust on to the big stage of the TV debates, even revealing a little of his personal back story to ginger up the dry economic arguments. A late excursion into Hitler analogy territory  - comparing Remain's experts to Nazi sympathisers -  was probably not his finest hour, however. He generally avoided the blue-on-blue aggro that Boris Johnson attracted, and was always courteous about the PM. After the Leave side won he is widely seen as well placed to get one of - or the - top job in the Conservative Party.
Nigel Farage
There was plenty of fun - boozy antics on the battle bus and a bizarre clash with Bob Geldof on the Thames - and the usual dollop of controversy, with his "Breaking Point" refugee poster. The UKIP leader also did well enough in a TV special with David Cameron. But Vote Leave's unsubtle attempts to sideline Nigel Farage took the shine off what should have been his finest hour. Members of both official campaigns - and the Archbishop of Canterbury - attacked him over his immigration focus - but that may well have added to his appeal among voters and certainly helped keep the issue at the forefront of many voters' minds.
Andrea Leadsom
A little-known junior minister who looked as though she had been drafted in to play a supporting role to Boris Johnson in the big ITV debate - her job was to hit back at the attacks on Mr Johnson from Nicola Sturgeon and the rest of the all-female Remain panel while he laughed them off . Andrea Leadsom gave such a good account of herself she was back centre stage for the BBC's big Wembley debate. She may still be unknown to many voters, but her calm and rational explanation of the economic case - for as a former banker she knows her stuff - made her a valuable addition to the Leave team and promotion seems to be on the cards.
Gisela Stuart
As one of a handful of Labour MPs to back Vote Leave, Gisela Stuart was always going to be kept busy, but even she might have been surprised by how much of a high profile she had during the campaign. Often given equal billing with household names like Boris Johnson, with whom she struck up an unlikely battle bus partnership, the previously relatively obscure German-born backbencher came across as thoughtful and measured, a useful counterpoint to Johnson's bluster in the two TV debates she took part in with him and Andrea Leadsom.
Chris Grayling
For a man who was straining to be let off the leash ahead of the campaign, Chris Grayling had a surprisingly low-key, restrained referendum, largely refraining from "blue-on-blue" attacks. He was also one of the few Vote Leave spokesmen to share a platform with Nigel Farage. The Commons leader was not picked much when it came to the big set piece media events, however.
Priti Patel
Much-hyped ahead of the campaign, the referendum was seen as a chance for the long-time Eurosceptic to shake off her somewhat "robotic" image and stake a claim for a big job in the party in the future. Ms Patel started as the most high profile female campaigner on the Leave side  and - true to form - never strayed off message, although she may have upset some government colleagues by blaming the shortage of primary school places on immigration. She was on the back-up panel for the big BBC debate, which had Leadsom and Stuart on the main stage.
Iain Duncan Smith
He was as mad as hell and he wasn't going to take it any more. Iain Duncan Smith set new standards in "blue-on-blue" conflict as he stormed out of the cabinet - ostensibly over Budget benefit cuts - and let David Cameron and George Osborne have it right between the eyes. A died-in-the-wool Eurosceptic from way back he seized his moment with the zeal of a man who had no career left to lose, even if he was largely kept out of the main action by cautious Vote Leave managers.
Penny Mordaunt
Another rising Conservative star who gambled her future career prospects on a Leave victory, Penny Mordaunt succeeded in raising her profile without upsetting the PM too much, even when she appeared on the same platform as him (minutes before he took to it) at a Buzzfeed/Facebook debate.
David Cameron
The prime minister certainly led from the front, even if his refusal to go head-to-head with Leave opponents on TV created a new definition of the word "debate". He gave typically polished performances when fielding questions from the public but his entreaties to Remain in the EU began to take on an increasingly desperate feel as polling day approached. With four days to go, he admitted in a BBC Question Time debate that the public were "confused" by the EU debate and that he needed to do more to convince them. An appeal to the public in Downing Street suggested he knew his career was riding on the outcome of the vote. Within a couple of hours of the result being declared, he was announcing his resignation.
Jeremy Corbyn
Seen as a reluctant Remainer, the Labour leader entered the fray relatively late with a heavily-caveated endorsement of Britain's continued membership. His typically frank admission that migration could not be controlled if Britain remained in the EU was a gift to the Leave campaign. His refusal to share a platform with David Cameron will have gone down well with some Labour voters and his lack of love for the EU may have been in tune with how many felt but it left a bit of a hole at the heart of the Labour In campaign. It remains to be seen what the wider Labour Party thought of his campaigning efforts, but it's fair to say that many of the party's MPs - admittedly never fans of his - were less than impressed.
George Osborne
The chancellor - who it is said was very much against the idea of a referendum in the first place - majored in dire warnings of the economic consequences of Brexit, which got the backs up of Brexit-backing Conservative MPs, further damaging his dwindling hopes of succeeding David Cameron. Arguably the final straw, for many, was his proposed "emergency" Brexit Budget, with its Â£30bn of spending cuts and tax rises, which backfired horribly when Tory MPs said they would vote it down. Winning the referendum would have been his justification. Losing it means that he has gone from one of the favourites to one of the rank outsiders to succeed David Cameron as Conservative leader.
Theresa May
Theresa May insisted in an interview with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that she had not been "quiet" during the campaign, but she had a much lower profile than any of the other Remain supporters in the Cabinet. She caused a brief ripple when she suggested EU free movement rules should be revised but that was about it. Before the campaign she had been tipped by some to back Brexit. She didn't, but her low profile meant she avoided overly alienating Leave Conservatives and it leaves her as the Remainer seen as having the best chance of becoming Conservative leader.
Sadiq Khan
The new London mayor had a good campaign, managing to share a platform with both Jeremy Corbyn and David Cameron - and taking the fight to his Tory predecessor  Boris Johnson in the BBC's Great Debate at Wembley, an occasion when most of the UK saw him in action for the first time. No longer an MP, Sadiq Khan can't stand for the Labour leadership but he has emerged as a big figure in the party, offering an alternative to the direction Jeremy Corbyn is trying to lead the party.
Nicola Sturgeon
Scotland's First Minister gave a typically polished and professional performance in the main ITV debate, although she surprised some with personal attacks on Boris Johnson, and the issue of when she would push for a second Scottish independence referendum hung over the SNP's campaign. Not as central a figure as during the election - partly a result of the consensus for Remain among the main leaders in Scotland, perhaps - but Remain won in Scotland and she says that a second independence referendum is on the table given that the country now looks set to be taken out of the EU against its will.
Ruth Davidson
The closest thing to a breakout star during the referendum campaign, the Scottish Tory leader showed why many had seen her as a dark horse contender for Tory leadership with her fluent and passionate advocacy of Britain's EU membership in the BBC's Great Debate at Wembley. It will be interesting to see how she recovers from being on the losing side of the argument.
Sir John Major
Sir John Major was the mouse that roared - the "grey man" of British politics launched the most vicious attack of the campaign in an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, branding Boris Johnson a "court jester," attacking Leave campaign "lies" and suggesting the NHS was as safe with them as a "a pet hamster would be with a hungry python". Oh yes.
Lord Rose
The former Marks and Spencer boss was nominally the captain of the Remain team but he was sent for an early bath following a string of blunders, including forgetting the name of the campaign in a live TV interview, appearing to suggest that being in the EU cost more than it was worth and, most damagingly, that if Brexit led to higher wages it would necessarily be a good thing.


Police are hunting for a man after two people suffered serious injuries in a street attack in Cardiff.

Two men are believed to have been attacked with a knife during a disturbance involving a group of men in Canton on Saturday at about 21:00 GMT.
Two men, aged 22 and 23, were taken to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales with injuries to their torsos.
The attack happened outside Tesco store near the Ivor Davies pub on Cowbridge Road East.
The suspect, who fled the scene, is a black man, approximately 5ft 5in tall, who was wearing a dark hoodie and dark trousers.
Det Chf Insp Jason Redrup, said: "The two male victims are very lucky that their injuries were not more serious due to their location on the body."


A takeaway restaurant has been fined £10,000 for selling "lamb" doner kebabs that contained beef and chicken.

Seavan Fried Chicken and Pizza House, in Fratton Road, Portsmouth, was also prosecuted after rat droppings were found in the cellar store and frozen meat was poorly stored.
Company director Binai Ali pleaded guilty at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court to a total of 10 offences.
The city council said the business was "an imminent risk to public health".
Out-of-date equipment and rubbish were also stored in the cellar - which hampered cleaning - and the cellar steps were found to be greasy and broken.
The company was fined a total of £10,000 and a £100 victim surcharge, while 34-year-old Ali was fined £1,500 and ordered to pay costs of £1,176, and a victim surcharge of £20.
A spokeswoman for Portsmouth City Council, which brought the prosecution, said: "The condition of the business presented an imminent risk to public health and voluntary closure was necessary until the hygiene standards were improved.
"The court commented that these were serious offences and that there was a danger to public health."


India's Bihar state has announced tough measures like fines and jail terms to stop cheating in school exams.

The government announced on Tuesday that a fine of 2,000 rupees (Â£20; $29) would be imposed on students who cheat.
Students will also be barred from taking exams and anyone helping them cheat will be charged and sent to jail.
Last year, the government was embarrassed after parents and friends of students were photographed climbing school walls to pass on answers.
An estimated 1.5m students will take their school leaving exams in Bihar in February and March.
The tests are seen as crucial for a successful career.
About 300 people, mostly parents and relatives, were arrested last year in Vaishali district, Bihar after photographs showed blatant cheating emerged in the media.
Students were seen copying answers from smuggled-in note sheets, and police posted outside test centres were even seen being bribed to look the other way.
But Bihar Education Minister Ashok Chaudhury said that his government was determined to avoid cheating this year.
"This time we are determined not to allow something like that to happen again and have taken several decisions to ensure a cheating-free examâ€¦ cheating will not be tolerated this time," he told The Hindu.
Lalkeshwar Prasad Singh, an official in the education department, said CCTV cameras would be installed in most schools.
"Live stream from some exam centres with a tainted record will be monitored by senior officers," he said.