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Question: Northern Ireland's secretary of state has said a decision on tax devolution is likely to be delayed unless there is deal this week in cross-party talks.

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The parties are holding talks on flags, parades, the past and welfare reform.
The British and Irish prime ministers left talks in Belfast on Friday after the parties failed to reach agreement.
Theresa Villiers has now said it would be very difficult to devolve corporation tax before the General Election without a deal this week.
Speaking on BBC Northern Ireland's Sunday Politics programme, she said that if the legislation on corporation tax powers was not brought forward this week, it would be hard to get it through parliament before the election in May.
"What happens at the end of a parliament is, essentially, there is a wash-up stage where government and opposition discuss what can be speeded through so that it's done before dissolution takes place," Ms Villiers said.
"So it's not completely impossible that corporation tax could still be achieved in this parliament, with a later introduction after this week, but it becomes increasingly difficult."
Northern Ireland's Finance Minister Simon Hamilton said that this week's political talks were "crucial".
"Getting something agreed before the Christmas break is absolutely critical," he told BBC Radio Ulster's The Sunday News programme.
The Democratic Unionist Party MLA added that this week's discussions needed to focus on welfare reform.
Education Minister John O'Dowd, from Sinn FÃªin, said the prime minister needed to return to negotiations this week "with a sensible offer" in terms of finance.
"Money makes the world go round and sometimes it is a dirty word, but for us as elected representatives and executive ministers to deliver public services, stabilise our society and deal with the past, present and future, we need money to make that happen," he said.
Ulster Unionist Party leader Mike Nesbitt said the opportunity for Stormont to get corporation tax powers was slipping away.
"Corporation tax will fall I think if we don't agree it probably within 72 hours," he said.
SDLP assembly member Alex Attwood said the deadline should be the "end of the year" with regard to securing political agreement.
"Just as it was with the Haass talks, if it takes to the end of the year so be it," he said.
However, Alliance leader David Ford said setting the end of this week as the "appropriate timescale" for a deal was "entirely realistic".
Earlier this month, Chancellor George Osborne said a final decision on devolving corporation tax powers would depend on the outcome of Northern Ireland talks.
He said that if the Northern Ireland Executive could show it was "able to manage the financial implications" then the government would introduce legislation in this parliament.

Ms Villiers said significant differences remain between the political parties on the issue.
However, she said there was an acceptance that a broad approach was needed.
She said the talks would focus on welfare on Tuesday.
"While significant differences still clearly exist between the parties on what the right answer is, there is an acceptance that we need a broad approach which engages right across society if we are to see an end to paramilitary activity and an end to the control these organisations seek to exert over parts of the community," Ms Villiers said.
The secretary of state left the Conservative Party conference in Manchester and returned to Belfast for the talks.
On Sunday, she said a deal must be done in the coming weeks as the talks cannot continue until Christmas.
Last week, Prime Minister David Cameron set the end of October as a deadline.
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Question: Four cannabis farms have been found in flats at a tower block in Liverpool.

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Merseyside Police were called to Crete Towers on Jason Street, Everton, on Tuesday morning after someone noticed a strong smell coming from the building.
It comes two weeks after one of the biggest ever cannabis farms in Liverpool was found on the same street.
Police estimate the total crop had a street value of more than £1.3m and described the farms "a sophisticated and industrial-scale criminal set-up".
Det Insp Lee Wilkinson said: "This was an elaborate series of cannabis farms spread across four separate flats.
"We discovered a total of 339 plants but believe much more could have been grown."

The 37-year-old was arrested on suspicion of stealing from heritage and protected sites after the items were discovered at an address in Little Linford Lane, in September.
Objects were taken to a park to be destroyed.
Munitions had also been found in Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire.


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Question: Imagine having a virtual "tennis coach" that knows exactly where your racquet hits the ball.

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It counts forehands and backhands, serves and smashes. And when play is finished, the coach compares your stats with existing tennis data that it has easily to hand.
But this coach is not kitted out with tracksuit and trainers. Rather it relies on sensors and chips.
It sounds futuristic but technology like this is already available, embedded in one of the newer tennis racquets on the market - the Babolat Play Pure Drive.
Packed with sensors detecting string vibration and movement, the device works with a smartphone (over Bluetooth) or plugs into a computer (via USB). The company says it is the first connected racquet in the world.
"We integrated sensors inside the handle of the racquet, but it does not change the specification. And these sensors will analyse your tennis game, so your swing - your motion - and all this information will be collected by the racquet," Gael Moureaux, tennis racquets products manager at Babolat's HQ in the French city of Lyon, tells the BBC.
He adds: "During the development process of the racquet, we did a lot of lab tests with a lot of players around the world to make sure the data is accurate and to have the right data for the player."
Babolat's take on personal sporting analytics has the potential to greatly impact professional tennis.
That is because it is the first company to put a connected racquet through the International Tennis Federation (ITF) approval process.
The ITF, aware of the growing influx of hi-tech equipment into the sport, has set up a programme called Player Analysis Technology (PAT)  to regulate  such "virtual coaches" as the Babolat racquet.
It defines PAT items as being "any equipment that collects, stores, transmits, analyses or communicates information on player performance, and may be a standalone device or incorporated within existing equipment".
Successful approval from the ITF would mean that top players could use the French racquet in Grand Slam tournaments such as the French Open this spring at Roland Garos in Paris.
But why is an approval process needed at all?
A quick delve into tennis history shows technology consistently at the heart of the game, and innovation has generally moved at a quicker pace than the game's regulators can keep up with.
Over the past 50 years, wooden racquets were replaced by metal, then carbon fibre mixed with other materials, and now computer-connected models.
This time round the governing body wants to be calling the shots on where and how innovation can be used, as in the past it has found itself having to ban some products already on the market and in use, such as the so-called "spaghetti-strung" racquets (with double stringing).
Since the profound impact of the metal racquet, testing has been carried out with the idea of ensuring every player has a fair chance of winning - with approved equipment.
Machines at the ITF's high-tech lab at Roehampton, south-west London, strenuously test racquets and balls for approval on the court.
"One of the biggest revolutions in tennis was when a gentleman called Howard Head discovered you could make racquets with bigger faces and larger frames using a material other than wood," says Stuart Miller, of the ITF.
Players using metal racquets would have the advantage over equally skilled opponents using wooden frames.
This was because a metal racquet enabled the player to have a greater hitting area. They would be more likely to hit the ball and less likely to hit it on the frame.
"Eventually racquets became lighter and could be swung faster, generating the kind of serve speeds and spins that we're seeing in today's game," adds Mr Miller.
"That was a fundamental shift, and no matter how much some people would like to think that the wooden racquet has a place in tennis today, I'm afraid there's no going back now."
It is this delicate balance between tradition and technology that remains particularly relevant to the tennis world.
In conjunction with its PAT approval programme, the ITF has also brought in a new rule - Rule 31 - to reflect the growing use of connected equipment, and its possible role in tournament play.
The ITF's existing rules currently ban touchline coaching, and to now prevent hi-tech "coaching" - in this case players potentially studying their strokeplay data between games - the new regulation has appeared.
It states that a "player may not have access to data collected by Player Analysis Technology during play, except when play is suspended and coaching is permitted".
But despite the innovations coming thick and fast, one trainer does not think he is in danger of being upstaged by a smart racquet.
"I think that it's great for feedback but you still need someone to analyse it. At the end of the day it's the practice and the ability of someone that makes the player, not necessarily the equipment in their hand," says Nik Snapes, racquets manager and tennis pro at Roehampton Club.
With the player analytics revolution come the consequences that might arise from using this technology.
Approved devices need to be secure and protected against unauthorised access, to prevent "sporting espionage'" whereby data could be stolen. Knowing when an opponent's right hand gets tired during the second set would be a huge advantage.
Player analytics, like the metal racquet, is here to stay.
But though it will have a huge impact on the evolution of tennis, the game should remain as popular as ever - provided players have the opportunity to compete on skill and strategy alone.

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Other than the odd lesson in PE at high school, I have no real experience of Tennis and I didn't have any particularly strong feelings about it beforehand. In fact, as far as I was concerned, this was a nice, leisurely sport, complete with strawberries, cream and the great British sunshine. Wrong.
Firstly, our lesson took place indoors on a chilly, overcast day in Yorkshire (despite the sun always shining in God's own county) and secondly- this is no 'leisurely' sport.
From our arrival at the John Charles Centre for Sport (one of the leading venues for disability sport in the UK), it was obvious that this would be no 'easy ride.' On the court opposite, a game of Visually Impaired tennis was taking place with one of the players ranked second in the whole country. Whereas, on our court, we were faced with Nick, who is currently training for a place in the Wheelchair Racing squad at Rio 2016. I don't know how we always end up in these pickles…
Hitting the ball is hard enough; let alone hitting it in the right direction, within the correct lines, over the net and on target. Throw in a Serve or two and it's enough to send you into a sporting frenzy! Having said that, I actually really enjoyed the session and could have happily carried on way into the night. I found it really quite addictive and even though I wasn't particularly any good, I was eager to improve and weirdly felt that I had some sort of potential.
What's great about Tennis too is that it's accessible to all. It was easy enough for myself and Goz to play together. It's also very flexible in that you can play as a team or as a soloist… I guess dependent on how social you're feeling on the day!
Although I have to admit, I do have a new-found respect for Tennis after discovering just how much skill is involved. At professional level, you clearly need a high level of fitness, coordination and tactical intelligence to succeed. However, at an amateur level, this is a really good fun sport that appeals to all ages, genders and abilities.
I genuinely really enjoyed myself during the session and am seriously considering this as a sport that I will continue for years to come. Who knows, this might not be the last time you see me with a racket and ball…
A friend once said to me that summer does not start until the Cricket season starts. Well not for me, it's all about the tennis!
So when I got to see Venus and Serena Williams playing a doubles match in the 2012 Olympics at Wimbledon, then watching Nicholas Taylor (the American player who uses his feet to serve) in the Paralympics at Olympic Park, it was humbling and inspiring and allowed me to think I could at least give it a try.
So its more than a bit of an understatement if I said I was looking forward to giving this sport ago.
Once we had been put through our paces with a warm up game with some more experienced disabled players. The aim was to stay within the outside tennis court lines, and try not to get caught by the player that was trying to chase you down, a bit like Tag.
Then we got a break down of the rules from the coaches, such as the 'two-bounce rule', which means as a disabled player I can allow the ball to bounce twice but must hit the ball before a third bounce. So if I play Andy Murray (in my dreams) he has one bounce, I have two.
My disability has affected my body in a way that my strength is diagonal so the top of my body is stronger on the left side and on the bottom part of my body I am stronger on my right side. This means I have always had to work around doing things someone else in a wheelchair may not have to think about. Why do I tell you this? My serve! I can't use my right arm to serve like a pro.
I also learnt that you have to be stationary when serving and that the ball cannot bounce before you hit it across the net. What I devised was to balance the ball on the racket, throw it up in the air and before it lands hit it over the net, well that was the plan. So when I finally got it over the net and the opponent player hit it back I felt like a double Wimbledon champion!
To round off our lesson we played the game champion, this was where one set of players were champion and everyone else had to beat them to get the tile champion from them. It was the best of three. I don't know what it is but the competitiveness always comes out and the fact is I want to win… No, I need to win! Coach, Ross and myself did win, with no thanks to me. Woooohoooo!
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Question: Several people have been killed in twin suicide car bombings in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, reports say.

The official Sana news agency said the attack took place in a residential area in Palmyra, a town about 220km (140 miles) north-east of Damascus.
One activist group said a military intelligence building had been targeted and that at least 19 members of the security forces had died.
Meanwhile, heavy fighting has been reported in the east of the capital.
The local authorities closed Abbasid Square, a major roundabout, and Fares al-Khouri Street after rebel fighters attacked army roadblocks with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, activists and witnesses said.
"The areas of Jobar, Zamalka, Zablatani and parts of Qaboun and the ring-road have become a battleground," activist Fida Mohammad told the Reuters news agency.
Other activists reported that a tank stationed at the al-Kabbas roadblock had been destroyed, that chants of "God is Greatest" had been broadcast from mosque speakers in Jobar, and that tanks stationed on the edge of the central district of Medan had shelled southern areas.
Sana said the army was "continuing its operations against the terrorists in Arbeen, Zamalka, Harasta and Sabina, destroying the criminal liars".
The violence is some of the worst to hit Damascus in several weeks.
The attack in Palmyra, which is known locally as Tadmor, occurred at about 06:00 local time (08:00 GMT), according to local activists.
The first bomber reportedly blew up his explosives-laden car next to back a wall of the military intelligence compound in the town. The second assailant is then said to have driven through the hole, detonating the bomb inside his vehicle and destroying parts of the facility.
Video footage purportedly showed a cloud of smoke rising from the town.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based activist group, said at least 19 members of the security services had been killed and many others injured.
Abu al-Hassan, one of the local activists, told Reuters that tanks stationed inside the intelligence compound had fired shells into an adjacent residential district following the attack, killing several civilians.
The SOHR said eight civilians had been injured, some severely, by heavy gunfire that followed the bombings.
Sana said several people had been killed and injured in the bombings, and that they had caused huge material damage.
There were protests in Palmyra at the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad in 2011, but the army has since tightened control of the town, which is situated near a major oil pipeline junction.
Situated at an oasis in the Syrian desert, Palmyra is known across the world as the home of the monumental ruins of a great Roman-era city that was one of the most important cultural cities of the ancient world.
It is also the location of an infamous jail where thousands of people were allegedly detained, tortured and executed after an uprising against the late President Hafez al-Assad in the 1980s by the Muslim Brotherhood.
In a separate development, the head of the main opposition alliance said the government had to start releasing detainees by this Sunday if it wanted to take up his offer of talks with Vice-President Farouq al-Sharaa.
"I need all the women to be released. If any woman stays in prison I consider the regime not responding for our initiative," Moaz al-Khatib, leader of the National Coalition, told BBC Arabic.
Last week, Mr Khatib announced he was "ready for direct discussions" as long as two conditions were met - the release of the 160,000 people he said were being held in prisons and intelligence facilities, and the resumption of the issuing of new passports by Syrian embassies.
Damascus has not yet responded to the offer, but the pro-government al-Watan newspaper said it was two years too late.

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Abdullah Mahmoud al-Khalidi was shot dead late on Monday in the capital's Rukn al-Din district, it said.
The attack appears to be the latest in a string of rebel attacks on high-level figures from President Bashar al-Assad's administration.
In July, a bomb killed the country's defence minister and Mr Assad's brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat.
"As part of their campaign to target national personalities and scientists, armed terrorist groups assassinated Air Force General Abdullah Mahmud al-Khalidi in the Damascus district of Rukn al-Din," the broadcaster said.
It added that he was one of Syria's foremost experts in aviation. He was also a member of the Syrian Air Force command, Agence France Presse reports.
The Free Syrian Army claimed that it was behind the attack, saying it had also killed an air force intelligence official in the same operation, AFP reports.
News of the attack came as violence continued in the capital and beyond.
Air strikes hit targets in Damascus and the wider province as well as the north-western province of Idlib and the central province of Homs, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The group said that jets had carried out at least six air raids on Damascus suburbs, including Rankous and Harasta, and that there were intense clashes in those areas as troops attempted to wrestle control from the rebels.
"Members of the Free Syrian Army are shooting at the planes without succeeding in shooting them down," Mohammed Saeed, an activist based in the Damascus suburb of Douma, told the Associated Press.
Activists also reported that the northern rebel-held town of Maarat al-Numan, on the route between Damascus and Aleppo, had also come under fire.
A government official said a car bomb had killed 10 people on the outskirts of Damascus, AP reports.
An opposition activist group, the local Co-ordination Committees in Syria, said that a total of 61 people had died in Syria on Tuesday, among them four women and three children.
It said that a total of 29 had been reported killed in Idlib province, most of whom died after the shelling of Maarat al-Numan.
A further 11 people died in Damascus and its suburbs, eight in Aleppo, six in Homs, six in Deraa and one person in Hama.


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Question: A Swedish top-flight fixture between Gothenburg and AIK has been postponed after an alleged match-fixing attempt.

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The Swedish Football Association claims an AIK player was "offered a considerable sum" if he contributed to losing Thursday's Allsvenskan game.
General secretary Hakan Sjostrand described it as a "very serious attack against Swedish football", adding: "We will never let this happen."
Police in Sweden have started an investigation into the allegation.
"It is ultimately not about a single match, therefore it is important we act forcefully," added Sjostrand.
"The starting point for all of our games is that they are safe and settled on sporting grounds. Based on the information we have, we cannot guarantee that."
The two sides have played eight games in the Allsvenskan this season, with AIK sixth in the 16-team table, five places above Gothenburg.
Radio Sweden's Spenser Bomholt, speaking to BBC World Sport Today:
"This has been the first instance of alleged match-fixing in the top league level that we have heard about - it has happened quite a bit in lower league football and in basketball. In 2016, the Superettan [second tier] had 43 instances of players participating in match-fixing, but for it to rise to this level is really quite surprising.
"The secretary general of the Swedish Football Federation say they have worked hard to educate players about what to do if they find themselves in this situation, and that's one of the reasons this was nipped in the bud."

Ostersunds were drawing 1-1 at Jonkoping Sodra in the closing stages of their Allsvenskan match when the intruder ran on to the field and grabbed Keita, who fell to the ground.
Players and security tackled the man, who was escorted away.
Keita was given medical attention before being led off the pitch.
The 29-year-old later told reporters he had been struck in the temple, saying: "I am shocked and angry. It is awful that something like this could happen."
Match delegate Nicklas Bengtsson said Keita was "not fit" to play on.
Ostersunds coach Graham Potter, a former West Brom player, added: "Keita is shocked. He's not doing so well."
Police said a 17-year-old male had been arrested.
"He is under arrest, we have informed the prosecutor of the arrest and interviews will be conducted with him about the suspected breaches of the law," Jonkoping police commander Peter Nordengard added.
This was the second time a game in the Swedish top flight had been abandoned this year.
In April, Gothenburg's match against Malmo was halted when a firework exploded at the feet of a substitute who was warming up.


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Question: Match report to follow.

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Match ends, Maidstone United 0, Tranmere Rovers 1.
Second Half ends, Maidstone United 0, Tranmere Rovers 1.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Harry Phipps replaces Joe Pigott.
Luke Pilling (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. James Divine replaces Adam Mekki.
Jack Flemming (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Jamie Coyle replaces Magnus Okuonghae.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Tom Coughan replaces Sam Ilesanmi.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Jack Paxman replaces Reece Prestedge.
Goal!  Maidstone United 0, Tranmere Rovers 1. Sam Ilesanmi (Tranmere Rovers).
Second Half begins Maidstone United 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
First Half ends, Maidstone United 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Jack Flemming replaces Eddie Clarke.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.

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Question: Less than 24 hours after the worst terrorist attack in Manchester's history, its people came together to remember the 22 victims who went to enjoy one of the city's favourite pastimes - going to a gig - but never came home.

Basked in early evening sunshine, the mood in Albert Square was sombre but strong. Manchester is a city of glorious, rebellious positivity and thousands were here to make that point in front of the cameras of the world's press.
While some had come to simply pay their respects to those killed and injured by an appalling act, others also wanted to stand firm in the face of horror.
"Love over hate, that's the message," said one woman, finishing off a poster of support, while in another corner of the square, the Manchester Sikh Community handed out free drinks, a gesture to "help the city at a time when things are bad".
As the Town Hall bells chimed six, the throng fell silent - ready, respectful, resilient - so that only the leaves could be heard blowing through the trees.
The silence held for a full five minutes before the Lord Mayor Eddy Newman began to speak.
His was a message of thanks for the emergency services and defiance in the face in the terrorism, words that were met with cheers and loud applause.
He was followed by others with equally unbending speeches.
The Bishop of Manchester, the Rt Rev David Walker, spoke of the city's unerring belief in diversity and unity and said those who would seek to destroy such things were "the very few, but we are the many, we are Manchester".
The victims of the attack, he said, were now "Manchester too", regardless of where they came from.
Greater Manchester Police's Chief Constable Ian Hopkins echoed those words and added the stories of those who came together in the aftermath; of the doctors who came in when they were off shift, the communities who opened their doors to the displaced and the emergency crews who worked tirelessly through the night.
And after the speeches and an impeccably observed minute of silence, an moment of release, as the thousands gathered broke into a chant of the city's name.
But shining out from the midst of it all was poet Tony Walsh's reading of his ode to Manchester, This Is The Place, that captured the moment best.
A run-through of what and why the city is so special, it was met with cheers and a simple ending which summed up the feelings of all those in the square.
"Choose love, Manchester", he said, to an enormous ovation.

Sorrell Leczkowski, from Adel in Leeds, was one of 22 people killed in the bombing on 22 May. Her grandmother and mother were also injured.
A private ceremony took place at the Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in Otley Old Road, Leeds on Monday.
Her grandfather, Michael Healey, said she was a "talented" girl who dreamed of becoming an architect.
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In a statement Sorrell's family said: "Sorrell was only 14, but she was our rock, she kept us all grounded.
"She was such a clever, talented, creative girl, there was nothing she couldn't do."
"She was going to be an architect and wanted to go to Columbia University in New York to study so that she could build hotels with slides coming out of the rooms and so that she could build her mum a house."
Sorrell, a Year Nine pupil at Allerton High School, her mother and grandmother were not at the Ariana Grande concert but had gone to collect her sister who was not injured.
Attacker 22-year-old Salman Abedi detonated a home-made bomb in the arena's foyer as crowds were leaving a performance by the US singer just after 22:30 BST on 22 May.
Twenty-two arrests were made shortly after the attack - all those arrested were released without charge.
About £28,000 has been raised in two online fundraising campaigns set up for Sorrell's mother and grandmother.


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Question: The governor of California has declared a state-wide drought, urging residents to conserve water in what could be the state's driest year on record.

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The declaration by Governor Jerry Brown also means farmers will receive aid and more firefighters will be employed.
Mr Brown faced pressure to declare the drought as the state's largest reservoirs are at record low levels.
The dry conditions have been blamed for a wildfire that destroyed five homes north-east of Los Angeles on Thursday.
In a press conference on Friday, Mr Brown called on residents to cut back "at least 20%" on their water usage but said the move was voluntary.
"We can't make it rain, but we can be much better prepared for the terrible consequences that California's drought now threatens," Mr Brown said in a statement.
He added the declaration was a way to focus Californians on how serious the drought conditions were.
"We are in a unprecedented, very serious situation that people should pause and reflect on how dependent we are on the rain, nature and each other," he said on CNN.
Previous extremely dry years led to catastrophic wildfire seasons in California in 2003 and 2007.
"People say that the fire season is starting early, but I guess you could say it never ended," Tom Scott, a natural resources specialist with the University of California told the Associated Press news agency.
"If you live in the backcountry, come July you probably should be thinking about putting your valuables in storage."
Farmers in the US largest farm state were already being hit hard.
"I am a fifth-generation cattle rancher, and it has never been this bad ever in my lifetime," said Kevin Kester, 58.
His family's records show the area's previous worst drought was in the 1890s.

Northern California could receive up to 15in (38.1cm) of rain over the next 16 days, with parts of the Sierra Nevada mountains getting up to 24in of snow.
The El Nino system, a warming trend in the Pacific Ocean, is expected to spur extraordinary weather across the US in the coming weeks and months.
The phenomenon is prompting warnings of flash floods and mud flows.
Light rain began falling across the region on Monday, but stronger storms are expected to hit the area on Tuesday, with at least two more systems expected on Wednesday and Thursday.
Much of the area in the storms path has fallen victim to wildfires in recent years, making the heavy rains more hazardous. After wildfires destroy vegetation, there is an increased risk of landslides and mudslides along sloped areas.
The concerns are shared in southern California, where wet conditions could put communities in the Los Angeles area at risk of flooding and susceptible to debris and mud flows. Between two and three-and-a-half inches of rain are expected through Friday in southern California.
Across the state, officials are issuing warnings for the storms and telling residents to clear gutters and anything that could hinder the flow of storm drains. Efforts are under way to shelter homeless people.
El Nino systems form every two to seven years when the warm waters of the central Pacific ocean expand towards South and North America. The current El Nino is the strongest since 1998 and is expected to be in the top three most powerful episodes ever recorded.
In recent weeks, the system has generated unusual weather across the US with unseasonably high temperatures in the northeast, uncommon winter tornados in the south, and a deluge of snow across the west.
The El Nino system has also generated intense flooding across South America, with Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil experiencing the worst flooding in 50 years, resulting the evacuation of more than 150,000 people.
In many ways the soggy deluge may bring some welcome relief.
California has been struggling with a four-year drought that has forced officials to enact a contentious water-savings plan. Residents have missed savings targets for at least two months in a row.
However, despite the forecast for heavy downpours, experts say the severity of the drought is such that one El Nino system will not be able to overcome it.


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Question: The public tram system in the Irish capital is facing a 10th day of shutdown as part of the long-running dispute over drivers' pay.

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Strike action will force up to 90,000 potential passengers on Dublin's Luas to make alternative travel plans.
Four more strikes are planned for later this month and there is no sign of an end to the dispute.
Luas operator Transdev said it has been fined almost 1m euros (Â£790,250) for not providing services on strike days.
But the company added that when the non-payment of wages and the 6.5% bonus are offset, it has lost about 400,000 euros (Â£316,000).
Transdev's chief executive Gerry Madden said the company and the drivers were still too far apart to begin talks, with the drivers seeking an increase of about 23% and the company offering about 13%.
One source on the drivers' side of the row has said there is a possibility of up to four 48-hour stoppages in June.
But they have stopped short of delivering on their threat to ballot for an all-out indefinite strike.

The deal would see Dublin Bus staff receive pay rises totalling 11.25% over three years.
This is more than the increase of 8.25%, as recommended by the Labour Court.
Drivers have been seeking a 15% pay rise over three years.
The latest deal would not be linked to additional productivity.
Strikes had been scheduled for 11 more days in October, including this Saturday, when Dublin face Mayo in the All-Ireland senior gaelic football final replay.
Under the proposal, staff will be expected to cooperate with the introduction of drug and alcohol testing at work.
Irish broadcaster RTÃ‰ reports that cooperation will also be expected on measures to reduce absenteeism.
The proposal also included items relating to scheduling, pensions, and other policies.
The ballot of Dublin Bus staff is expected to take about ten days.
Hundreds of thousands of people have already been disrupted by a series of strikes by bus drivers in September.


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Question: Brazil's President Michel Temer has been accused of pressuring a cabinet minister to engage in corrupt practices.

Former Culture Minister Marcelo Calero said Mr Temer asked him to help another minister in a personal business deal.
He said he was asked to allow construction of luxury apartments in a historic district of Salvador.
Mr Calero, who resigned last week, had previously blocked the plans. President Temer has denied the allegations.
However, he admitted talking to Mr Calero about the project.
A spokeswoman for Brazil's public prosecutor told Reuters an investigation into Mr Temer may be launched.
Brazil's 'scandalous' corruption deal
The president has vowed to clean up corruption in Brazil, but has lost three ministers to corruption allegations.
The scandal involves government secretary Geddel Vieira Lima, who had bought a property in Salvador in Bahia state.
Barely six months after coming to power, and still with his legitimacy being questioned by many, this is the second major corruption scandal to rock Michel Temer's government.
This time the president himself is implicated in allegations.
Marcelo Calero, who is making these allegations, is a career diplomat and an outsider to mainstream politics.
The  government said Mr Calero misunderstood some of the conversations and that no pressure was meant in any of them.
But critics ask: why would the Brazilian president bring up a personal business deal of one of his key allies in the first place?
Brazil's opposition - still bitter about the demise of President Dilma Rousseff in an impeachment process fuelled by Mr Temer's allies - is already calling for the new president to be removed from power.
Mr Calero's ministry vetoed the construction, on the grounds that the proposed building was on a heritage site.
He told the police both the president and the minister had pressured him to overturn the decision.
Earlier this week, an ethics panel decided to open an investigation into Mr Lima over the allegations, before the president's alleged involvement came to light.
Despite pressures to sack Mr Lima, Mr Temer said the minister will keep his job.
Mr Temer came to power earlier this year, after former President Dilma Rousseff was impeached during a lengthy political crisis that gripped the country.
She was accused of manipulating the budget, but maintained her innocence and said that her political opponents has carried out a "parliamentary coup".
Mr Temer has since tried to maintain a stable government, but has been plagued with corruption allegations against his own party.

Cunha was found guilty of corruption, money laundering and tax evasion.
He led the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff and was one of Brazil's most powerful politicians before his arrest in October.
Judge Sergio Moro said he should be held in custody even while appeals are under way.
Judge Moro argued that, even though Cunha no longer held political office, there was a risk he could continue engaging in corruption, intimidation and extortion.
Who is Judge Sergio Moro?
"There is no bigger crime than that of trying to use one's parliamentary mandate and the sacred trust the people place in it to obtain personal gain," Judge Moro said.
Cunha, from the centre-right PMDB party, was expelled from the Brazilian Congress in September 2016.
Just last year, Eduardo Cunha was seen as perhaps the most powerful politician in Brazil.
Many blame the downfall of former President Dilma Rousseff on a personal vendetta between the two. But now both Cunha and Rousseff seem to be part of Brazil's political past.
Cunha's work helped establish his PMDB party in power. But he lost all his influence when his own colleagues turned on him due to the various corruption investigations into his affairs.
His conviction may serve as a warning for the current speakers of both Houses - Rodrigo Maia, in the Lower, and Eunicio Oliveira, in the Senate.
Both men have also been mentioned in the Petrobras probe, which is still looking into the alleged participation of hundreds of politicians in corruption.
A house ethics committee found he had lied about having secret bank accounts in Switzerland, something the Swiss authorities confirmed he had.
He was arrested a month later in connection with a major investigation into corruption at state oil giant Petrobras, dubbed Operation Car Wash.
Judge Moro said Cunha had received bribes worth $1.5m (Â£1.2m) for his role in an oil exploration contract Petrobras struck in the African nation of Benin.
He has been held at a federal police prison in the city of Curitiba since his arrest in October.


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Question: A volunteer fireman who subdued a teenage gunman outside a South Carolina school has been described as a hero.

Police say the teenager killed his father and then drove to Townville Elementary School, opening fire outside the building.
Two young students and a teacher were injured, police said.
Fireman Jamie Brock was one of the first on the scene and "took down" the unnamed boy before he could go inside the school, local authorities said.
The incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon at the school, about 100 miles (160km) north-east of Atlanta.
Officials say the boy shot his father, 47-year-old Jeffrey Osborne, at home and then drove two miles to the school, where he parked and began shooting with a handgun.
One student was shot in the foot and another in the leg, police said. A female teacher was shot in the shoulder.
It was then that Mr Brock, a volunteer fireman of 30 years experience, apprehended the teenager, Anderson County Sheriff John Skipper said.
Scott Stoller of Anderson County Emergency Management said he was "absolutely a hero".
He "wants to remain humble and quiet about it" as he believes "he did nothing any of the other volunteer firefighters wouldn't have done'', he said.
Officials are investigating the teenager's motive, but say there is no evidence of links to terrorism or racism.
The boy reportedly called his grandparents in a distressed state early on Wednesday afternoon. They arrived at his house to find their son - his father -  dead.
The emergency call from the primary school was made very shortly afterwards, police said.
According to US reports, one of the injured students remains in a critical condition. The teacher and the other student have been released from hospital.
The school has cancelled classes for the rest of the week.
"We are heartbroken about this senseless act of violence," local school superintendent Joanne Avery told US media.

Dressed in a flak jacket, Chris Harper Mercer brought six guns to Umpqua Community College in Roseburg and opened fire on Thursday morning.
He was killed by police in a gun battle and another seven weapons were found at his home. All 13 were bought legally.
Police have released the names of the victims, who ranged in age from 18 to 67. The oldest was a teacher.
Survivors have been telling their stories.
Medicine student Sharon Kirkham told the BBC her friend Kim died in her arms after being shot three times.
"I heard her gasping for air, but I couldn't save her," she said.
President Obama reiterated his anger at gun violence at a press conference on Friday, calling on the public to press their politicians to support reform.
"You've got to be a single issue voter on this, because that's what happening on the other side," he said, referring to the National Rifle Association's lobbying power.
Mr Obama said the NRA were "effective but don't represent the American people".
Mercer enlisted in the army in 2008, but was discharged after less than a month in basic training, for reasons unknown.
It is unclear why he carried out the killings. Two victims have said religion was an issue - the gunman asked his victims to state their religion and shot dead the Christians.
His father, Ian Mercer, said he was "just as shocked as everybody" by his son's actions.
People in the tight-knit community of Roseburg have been lining up all day to give blood at a specially organised blood drive.
"My cousin Becky works in the science department and was in the building next door to where it happened.
"She was on lockdown for an hour and said it was terrifying. Giving blood is the least we can do," said 30-year-old Abby Watson.
Tanya Talbot, 22, felt similarly compelled.
"My best friend's sister is in surgery. She's expected to be OK, but I had to do something. It doesn't seem real," she said.
Everyone I've met so far in this small city knows someone affected by the tragedy.
In an online profile appearing to belong to the gunman, he listed hobbies including the internet and "killing zombies", described his politics as "conservative, Republican" and said he was spiritual but not religious.
His social media profiles also suggested he took a keen interest in other mass shootings.
"The more people you kill, the more you're in the limelight," he said in one post, referring to Vester Flanagan, who shot and killed two journalists during a live broadcast in Virginia in the summer.
Local police in Douglas, Oregon, have refused to say the gunman's name because they say it will only encourage others.
Many online discussions about the killings have preferred to focus on Chris Mintz, a student and army veteran who is recovering after taking seven bullets while trying to stop the gunman.
Should media name mass killers? - the copycat killing phenomenon
Army vet 'hero' in Oregon shooting - the man that tried to stop the attack
US gun violence in numbers - Shootings have become increasingly commonplace.
What we know about Chris Harper Mercer - The alleged gunman reportedly supported the IRA.
Oregon shooting: The '4chan' thread - Did the gunman give a warning on the internet?


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Question: A tropical species of shark has been found on the UK coastline for the first time in recorded history, marine experts said.

A Crocodile Shark carcass was discovered on a beach at Hope Cove near Plymouth and was reported to the National Marine Aquarium.
Experts think the animal, normally found in tropical waters, may have died from the shock of UK's colder seas.
It is commonly found in Brazil and Australia growing to about 1m (3.3ft).
Steven Greenfields spotted the shark washed up on the beach while walking with his family.
Mr Greenfields said: "We regularly visit this beach and have never seen anything like this before. My whole family was stunned as the animal had really unusual features but was unmistakably a shark.
Because it was so unusual we consulted our local aquarium to confirm what species it was."
James Wright, curator at the National Marine Aquarium, said: "This species has never been recorded in the UK before, as it is normally found in deep waters during the day in tropical climates, such as Brazil and Australia, then coming shallower at night to feed.
"With the Crocodile Shark accustomed to much warmer waters, travelling so far and reaching colder waters would have caused a shock to its system and account for the cause of death.
"We would urge the public to share any other unusual sightings with us or The Shark Trust, so we can monitor any trends."
Paul Cox, managing director of the Shark Trust, said: "Any information that we can get is useful so it's great that this one has been reported and identified."

The 13ft-long (4m) fish discovered at Freshwater East caused a stir among locals, as it was originally thought to have been a swordfish.
It has since been identified as only the third blue marlin to be found in the UK, and the first full one to be recovered.
The museum said it hoped it would now be studied by its research department.
After it was discovered, the fish was inspected by Milford Haven Coastguard and Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority, before it was reported to the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme.
A day later experts from the Natural History Museum's department of life sciences came to collect it.
Senior fish curator Oliver Crimmen said staff were delighted by the find.
"The flies had started to take an interest in it but we were amazed it was in such good condition," he said.
"I'm hopeful it will go to our research department and provide us with a valuable subject for science," he added, saying he hoped it might eventually go on display at the museum.
Blue marlin spend most of their life in the open sea, far from land, and are more often associated with warmer waters.
Two of the three which have washed up in the UK were found in Pembrokeshire - the first in Saundersfoot in 2008, but it was not good enough to be preserved.


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Question: Nigeria says the number of people who lost their lives in an assault by Boko Haram militants on the town of Baga last week was no more than 150.

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The defence ministry said this figure included "many of the terrorists" who had attacked the town in Borno state and faced resistance by troops.
Local officials earlier estimated the number of deaths at as many as 2,000.
Nigeria has often been accused of underestimating casualty figures to downplay the threat of Boko Haram.
The ministry dismissed higher estimates for deaths at Baga, in north-east Nigeria, as "speculation and conjecture" and "exaggerated".
It said the army was taking "necessary actions" to restore law and order there, but gave few details about the operation to recapture the town from the Islamist insurgents.
Earlier, the Catholic Archbishop of Jos, in central Nigeria, accused the West of ignoring the threat posed by Boko Haram.
Ignatius Kaigama said the world had to show more determination to halt the group's advance in Nigeria.
His warning came after at least 23 people were killed at the weekend by three female suicide bombers, one reported to be 10 years old.
In neighbouring Cameroon, the military said it had repelled an attack by Boko Haram insurgents on one of its northern bases.
A military source told the BBC that the insurgents had come in over the Nigerian border. In the exchange of gunfire, the army said one soldier and several insurgents were killed.
Archbishop Kaigama told the BBC's Newsday programme that the slaughter in Baga had shown that the Nigerian military was unable to tackle Boko Haram.
"It is a monumental tragedy. It has saddened all of Nigeria. But... we seem to be helpless. Because if we could stop Boko Haram, we would have done it right away. But they continue to attack, and kill and capture territories... with such impunity," he said.
Analysis
By Will Ross, BBC News, Lagos
The violence is relentless and increasingly shocking.  If it is true that a 10-year-old girl carried the explosives which killed at least 19 people in Maiduguri on Saturday, it throws up a list of unanswerable questions. For example, was the girl aware of what she was doing?  Was she drugged or brainwashed and did she trigger the bomb or was it done remotely?
Sometimes Nigeria's military has recorded successes. It managed to prevent the jihadists from taking over the Yobe state capital Damaturu on Friday night - the gun battle lasted for hours.
But the military faces a mountainous task trying to protect civilians from the bombers and gunmen who are spread over a large area of the north-east and although officials don't like to hear it, they have often been overpowered and failed to protect civilians.
The world is slowly waking up to express shock at the latest violence but beyond condemnation and limited help with training, it seems there is little or no appetite to become more deeply involved in this conflict.
Archbishop Kaigama said facing down Boko Haram required international support and unity of the type that had been shown after last week's militant attacks in France.
"We need that spirit to be spread around," he said. "Not just when it [an attack] happens in Europe, but when it happens in Nigeria, in Niger, in Cameroon.
"We [must] mobilise our international resources and face or confront the people who bring such sadness to many families."
A French-led initiative has called for Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad to contribute 700 troops each to a multinational force against Boko Haram, but no country has implemented the plan.
Who are Boko Haram?
Why Nigeria has not defeated Boko Haram
Boko Haram in numbers

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A US law prevents the government from selling arms to countries which fail to tackle human rights abuses.
Mr Buhari met President Barack Obama in Washington on Monday to seek further assistance.
Boko Haram has killed some 10,000 people since 2009 and has also kidnapped hundreds of girls and women.
Last month, human rights group Amnesty International said that some 8,000 men and boys had died in Nigerian military custody after being detained as suspected militants.
The military rejected this allegation, Nigeria's president promised an investigation but there have been no further details.
The US has previously promised some $5m (Â£3.2m) in military assistance to the regional coalition helping to fight Boko Haram, which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
However, Mr Buhari heavily criticised the US, especially the Leahy Law, which links military sales to human rights.
The Nigerian military did "not possess the appropriate weapons and technology which we could have had if the so-called human rights violations had not been an obstacle," he told the United States Institute of Peace on Wednesday.
"Unwittingly, and I dare say unintentionally, the application of the Leahy Law Amendment by the United States government has aided and abetted the Boko Haram terrorists."
In the latest suspected Boko Haram attack, at least 29 people were killed in bomb blasts at two bus stations in the north-eastern city of Gombe on Wednesday.
At least 11 people were earlier killed in the Cameroonian town of Maroua, just over the border from Gombe.
Boko Haram last year seized a huge area of north-eastern Nigeria, before being beaten back by a regional coalition, including Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
Mr Buhari was elected in March, partly on a pledge to defeat Boko Haram.
Why Boko Haram remains a threat
Who are Boko Haram?


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Question: The UK economy grew by just 0.3% at the start of the year, the slowest growth rate since the first three months of 2016, according to official figures.

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The Office for National Statistics said that the slower pace in the January-to-March period was due mainly to the service sector, which sank to 0.3% growth against 0.8% at the end of 2016.
In the last quarter of 2016, gross domestic product increased by 0.7%.
Friday's figure is a first estimate and could be revised in the coming months.
Economists had been expecting GDP growth to slow as consumers reined back spending in the face of rising inflation, but they had pencilled in a higher figure of 0.4%.
Chris Williamson, chief economist, IHS Markit, said: "The message is clear: the start of the year saw the weakest pace of growth for a year as rising prices have started to hit household spending."
The main drag on the service industry, which accounts for about 78% of the UK economy, came from the hotels, restaurants and the distributions sector, which fell by 0.5%, as increasing prices from rising inflation applied the brakes to retail trade,
The ONS said that output in the construction sector was also dragging on GDP after expanding by 0.2% in the first three months of the year following 1% growth in the fourth quarter of 2016.
Industrial production expanded by 0.3% over the period, with manufacturing increasing by 0.5% thanks to a jump in motor vehicle output, while agriculture growth eased to 0.3% in the first quarter from 1% in the final quarter of 2016.
Consumers have been feeling the pinch since the beginning of 2017, with inflation sitting at its joint highest level for more than three years at 2.3% in March.
The squeeze on household spending power has led to weaker retail sales, which recorded their biggest fall for seven years in the three months to March.
Nancy Curtin, chief investment officer at Close Brothers Asset Management, said the data would add to uncertainties.
"With the General Election just around the corner and Brexit negotiations afoot, any dip in the economy risks bringing further caution and uncertainty to businesses, which has a knock-on effect when it comes to investment and employment.
"However the chancellor, with better than expected Budget tax receipts in his pocket, has room for manoeuvre and should be able to pre-empt any further slowdown which should help with business confidence," she said.
Suren Thiru, head of economics at the British Chambers of Commerce, said the data confirmed his group's own survey that businesses were starting to feel the pressure.
"It is increasingly likely that the slowdown in the first quarter is the start of a sustained period of more sluggish growth. Inflation is expected to continue to rise, increasing the squeeze on consumer spending power and firm's profit margins, pushing growth lower," he said.
Despite the service sector slowdown, other economists pointed to more positive signs.
Lee Hopley, chief economist at EEF the manufacturers' group, that "even with the pace of expansion dropping, we shouldn't be too hasty in dialling up the despair about the outlook for the UK economy.
"There are clearer signs that the consumer is wavering as inflationary pressures have picked up, but the production related sectors of the economy are forging ahead thanks to an improving global picture and the more competitive pound.
"Manufacturing also saw another solid quarter with output increasing by 0.5% and official data indicating that this positive trend was fairly broad based across sub-sectors."
The caution among consumers was underlined on Friday in separate figures from the British Bankers' Association. These showed British banks approved the fewest mortgages in four months in March and consumer credit growth slowed.
Banks approved 41,061 mortgages for house purchase last month, down from 42,247 in February, the BBA said. Annual consumer lending growth slowed to 6.1% from 6.5% in February, easing further from October's 10-year high of 7.2%.
On the face of it today's preliminary growth estimate is unadulterated bad news. The slowdown was especially sharp in services - the sector that represents four fifths of the economy.
Within that sector, it was retail slamming on the brakes. Normally, fuelled by cheap consumer debt, retail spending is the accelerator.
If you're a pessimist, this is proof that the gloomy Brexit predictions are coming true. The drop in the pound drove up the cost of imports and that's feeding through to rising inflation (latest figure is 2.3%). Compare that with pay rises (latest figure is 2.2%). The squeeze on living standards is back and so is the tight-fisted consumer.
If you're an optimist though, it's only the worst growth since "early 2016". As a shocking statistic, that's pretty underwhelming. And we've been told for years that the sickness that caused the economic crash was an imbalance - an over-reliance on consumer spending and an under-reliance on productive industry. Now, manufacturing is growing, with the automobile sector - stimulated by a weak pound - driving it. To a pessimist, the weak pound is a sickness. To an optimist it's the cure.

Construction output rose 1.6% compared with the same month last year, and by 3.9% compared to February 2015, the Office for National Statistics said.
Private sector house building grew 2.3% in March, after five successive months of contraction.
UK construction growth slowed at the end of 2014 and remained sluggish through the start of this year.
Overall, output in the first quarter of 2015 was down 1.1% compared to the last quarter of 2014.
"Following the fall in output over January and February, today's figures represent encouraging news," said Gareth Hird of property consultancy McBains Cooper.
"However, it would be premature to call this a recovery just yet. In all likelihood it is fragile at this stage," he said.


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Question: Chancellor George Osborne avoided questions on his Conservative Party leadership ambitions, saying his current job was "all-consuming".

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Mr Osborne is seen as one of the frontrunners to replace David Cameron, who has said he will not seek a third term as prime minister.
He did not deny being a contender during an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg in Berlin.
But he said he was "very focused" on the UK's EU renegotiations.
This involves "delivering the best possible deal for Britain, the best possible economic plan for Britain, and getting all those decisions right", he added.
Asked "what's wrong with being ambitious", the chancellor said he was "ambitious for Britain", listing his current roles and adding: "That is a huge task. I'm extremely honoured that I've been asked to undertake it, but it's all-consuming."
Mr Osborne was one of three possible replacements tipped by Mr Cameron when he announced he would not seek a third term, along with Home Secretary Theresa May and London Mayor Boris Johnson.
He is in Berlin to set out the UK's economic demands ahead of a planned in/out referendum on membership of the European Union.

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The former Liberal Democrats president said he did not have the energy to "give any head space" to what happens after the general election.
Mr Farron was criticised by party grandee Lord Ashdown after saying the Lib Dems had been "tarnished" by entering a coalition with the Tories.
But Mr Farron said he was focused "entirely" on the election.
At the Lib Dem conference last month, Mr Farron - seen by some as a frontrunner to succeed Nick Clegg - was quoted in the Mail on Sunday suggesting the party's brand would be tainted for a generation by governing with the Conservatives.
That prompted Lord Ashdown to say Mr Farron lacked judgement and needed to show "a little more patience".
But Mr Farron told Sky News' Murnaghan programme: "My focus is entirely on making sure myself and my colleagues up and down the country win as many seats as possible because that's what matters for Britain."
Asked if he would stand to replace Mr Clegg if he was no longer leader, Mr Farron replied: "The election we're facing in 32 days' time is the biggest one for this country for many years - the hardest and toughest one for the Liberal Democrats in a generation.
"If I give any head space whatsoever to what happens afterwards then that is foolish and disloyal and I haven't got the energy for that."
Mr Clegg heaped praise on Mr Farron last week as he distanced himself from "bickering" by other senior colleagues and urged an end to the criticisms.
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Question: US actor and karate expert Jim Kelly, who starred with Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon, has died at the age of 67.

Kelly became famed for his cool one-liners and fight scenes as the charismatic Williams in the 1973 martial arts classic.
His other films included Black Belt Jones, Three the Hard Way, Golden Needles and the Black Samurai.
Marilyn Dishman, Kelly's ex-wife, said he died on Saturday of cancer at his home in California.
Enter the Dragon is considered to be one of the most popular kung fu films of all time, it was Lee's first film in the English language and was released days after his death at the age of 32.
In the 1980s, Kelly re-trained as a professional tennis coach.
In an interview with the LA Times in 2010, Kelly said: "I broke down the colour barrier - I was the first black martial artist to become a movie star. It's amazing to see how many people still remember that, because I haven't really done much, in terms of movies, in a long time."
He added: "I never left the movie business. It's just that after a certain point, I didn't get the type of projects that I wanted to do. I still get at least three scripts per year, but most of them don't put forth a positive image.
"There's nothing I really want to do, so I don't do it. If it happens, it happens, but if not, I'm happy with what I've accomplished."
Kelly was born in Kentucky and began studying martial arts there in 1964 before moving to California.
By the end of the decade, he was teaching at his own karate school before being sought out by Enter the Dragon producer Fred Weintraub, who had heard about his karate skills.

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The US actor played Paul, a member of Kiefer Sutherland's blood-sucking gang, in the 1987 horror comedy film.
In a statement, his "heartbroken" family said he died on Tuesday "from the genetic liver condition alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AAT)".
The message describes McCarter as a "loving son, brother, father, uncle, cousin, nephew and friend".
The Facebook statement added: "We appreciate your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time."
Born in 1963 in Philadelphia, McCarter was a high school athlete and model before landing his best-known screen role.
As blond-haired "lost boy" Paul, he met a grisly end after being knocked by a dog into a bath full of garlic-infused holy water.
Unlike some of his co-stars, who included Jason Patric, Corey Feldman and the late Corey Haim, McCarter did not go on to pursue a full-time acting career.
Instead he worked in the telecommunications industry while also making music and occasionally appearing at horror conventions.
According to People magazine, the father-of-one died from liver failure at his home in Tampa, Florida, after having been admitted to hospital earlier this year.
Actor Alex Winter, who played vampire Marko in The Lost Boys, paid tribute to his former co-star on Twitter.
"RIP Brooke McCarter and condolences to the family," he wrote. "We had some very very good times together back in the day."


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Question: There has been a setback in a plan to inspect all 2,100 boilers in the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.

The Department for the Economy has been unable to appoint a company to carry out the work "as none of the bids fully met all of the tender requirements".
The programme of 100% inspections had been due to start this week.
The move is seen as part of an attempt to crack down on abuse of the scheme and reduce an overspend initially put at Â£490m.
A spokesperson for the department said it "is now considering other options" for taking forward the inspections.
The RHI scheme was set up in 2012 in a bid to encourage energy production from renewable sources.
However, overly generous subsidies for the fuel used to power wood pellet boilers meant it was oversubscribed and costs spiralled out of control.
A row over a public inquiry into the scandal led to the collapse of the coalition government, led by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn FÃ©in.
The issue has not yet been resolved and Northern Ireland has remained without a devolved government since January.
The department advertised the inspection contract in March, with the tender thought to be worth in the region of Â£2m.
It involves 1,200 site visits and could ultimately lead to numerous court actions to claw back money paid to some claimants.
The department is now seeking "constructive feedback" from companies who expressed an initial interest in the contract, but who did not submit a bid.
The companies have been told one of the options may involve a re-tender of the contract.
It is unclear what impact the set-back will have on the department's intention to have been presented with a final report on inspections by December.

The UK government has approved design changes to the proposals by Chester-based Lateral Power.
Plans for a biomass plant at the site were first put forward in 2009 and a licence was granted in 2012.
The factory could create 400 new jobs with an extra 600 in the construction phase.
A spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), which first granted permission for the plant in 2011, said ministerial consent had been given to allow for some technological changes to the biomass generating station at Penrhos Works.
The plant is expected to generate 299MW of electricity, which is enough to power about 300,000 homes.
Anglesey Aluminium smelting works shut in 2009 with the loss of nearly 400 jobs.


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Question: Bradford Bulls head coach James Lowes threatened to quit rugby league after his side failed to win promotion back to Super League through the Million Pound Game.

The Bulls were condemned to a second year in the Championship after Wakefield won the play-off game 24-16.
Lowes, who also works as England assistant coach, said defeat may force the Bulls to become a part-time club.
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"If this is the future of rugby league I won't be in it," he said.
"I just don't think it's the way forward for the game.
"We've got 17 blokes down there who could potentially lose their jobs in one game after they've worked so hard to put themselves in a good position.
"It's not guaranteed that we will remain full-time unfortunately. Marc [Green, Bulls chairman] is fantastic, but we're limited by a budget."
It is the first season that the play-off has been introduced to decide the final Super League spot.
Bradford earned their place in The Qualifiers - a group of eight teams consisting of four Super League and four Championship sides competing for four top-flight spots at the end of the season - by finishing second in the Championship after 23 games.
Wakefield coach Brian Smith said Super League's split format is a disadvantage to those teams outside the Super 8s.
"It's like going to the Olympics in the 400m and starting at the 450-metre mark," said Smith.
"From within it's thoroughly debilitating. It's almost impossible to talk about next season.
"The other eight clubs have been able to have a running start on us and they're going to get another running start next season.
"It's so much harder for clubs that don't have the finances to compete with those at the top."
All four Super League teams that featured in The Qualifiers have maintained their Super League status, with Wakefield joining Hull KR, Widnes and Salford.

He submitted an early guilty plea for the Grade B charge in Salford's 14-42 win against Batley Bulldogs.
Hull KR's Jamie Peacock has also been charged for contact with a referee but the club say he will not face a ban.
The Grade A charge was issued against Peacock following the 23-22 defeat against Huddersfield Giants.
The winner of Saturday's Million Pound Game will retain their Super League status and secure their place in English rugby league's top flight for 2017, while the loser will drop to the Championship for next season.


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Question: Protesters have thrown eggs and stones at the Russian embassy in Kiev to demand the release of hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko.

She is on trial in Russia after being captured while fighting pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
Ms Savchenko is accused of directing artillery fire that killed two Russian journalists - a claim she denies.
Later on Sunday, Ukraine's embassy in Moscow was also pelted by eggs as dozens of people rallied outside.
Relations between Ukraine and Russia have deteriorated following Moscow's annexation of the Crimea peninsula in 2014 and its support for pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.
On Sunday, several thousand people began the protest in Kiev's central Maidan Square, before hundreds of protesters moved on to the embassy several kilometres away.
Demonstrators were later seen throwing eggs and stones at the embassy and removing a security camera.
The Russian embassy has formally complained to Ukraine about separate attacks on its property overnight on Saturday.
Three cars were "seriously damaged" by unknown assailants, who also set off smoke bombs, embassy spokesman Oleg Grishin said.
Police described the case as hooliganism.
Ms Savchenko, 34, has become a heroine in Ukraine and is seen as a symbol of the country's resistance against Russia.
She began a hunger strike without water on Friday to protest against the sudden adjournment of her trial the previous day, as she was about to deliver a closing statement.

Sentsov, 39, was arrested in May 2014 during a protest against Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula two months earlier.
He pleaded not guilty and his family say he will appeal. The trial has been condemned by the US, EU and other film directors.
Russia denies accusations that he is a political prisoner.
Another Crimea activist, Alexander Kolchenko, who was being tried with Sentsov and also denies the charges against him, was sentenced to 10 years.
After the verdict was read out, both defendants sang the Ukrainian national anthem in the military court in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
The EU's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said the case breached international law, while the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, said the process had been a "farce".
Sentsov, best known for his 2011 film Gamer, was accused of setting up a terrorist group. Prosecutors say he was involved in two attempted arson attacks in the city of Simferopol, ordered by extremist Ukrainian group Right Sector.
The Ukrainian government says he is being punished for being a Crimea-based pro-Ukrainian activist.
The director has rejected the authority of the court - one of two military courts in Russia - and has said he was beaten in jail for 24 hours in an attempt to force a confession.
But investigators refused to open a case on his allegations of torture, suggesting that his bruises were self-inflicted and that he was keen on sado-masochism, his lawyer said.
Oleg Sentsov is one of a number of Ukrainian figures held by Russia. Military pilot Nadiya Savchenko is also facing trial in southern Russia, accused of killing two people.
Both have been described by the US as Ukrainian hostages held by Russia.
Last week Russia sentenced Estonian security official Eston Kohver to 15 years in prison for spying in a case that sparked a diplomatic row.
The case against Sentsov is primarily based on evidence given by two men who have already been convicted and given seven-year jail terms.
Human rights groups condemned the verdicts, and UK Europe Minister David Lidington said he was "deeply concerned" at the sentencing of Sentsov and Kolchenko.
Meanwhile Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wrote on Facebook: "Hang on in there, Oleg. Time will pass, and those who organised this kangaroo court will find themselves in the dock."
A petition calling for Sentsov's release has been signed by top directors including European film-makers Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and Agnieszka Holland, and there has been a growing chorus of protest within the Russian film-making community.
He has also attracted support from celebrated Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov, who has close ties to President Vladimir Putin and has openly backed Russia's annexation of Crimea.


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Question: Supporters of Scottish independence now have a "golden opportunity" to re-cast their economic case in the wake of the Brexit vote, according to one of the most senior critics of the 2014 plans.

Sir Nicholas Macpherson has proposed a separate Scottish currency.
He also suggested that a big shift in tax and spending would probably require low taxes and a smaller, more efficient state sector.
Sir Nicholas was the top civil servant at the Treasury in Whitehall.
In that role, he took the unprecedented step two years ago of publicising his advice to ministers about the risks of the UK breaking up.
He is now an academic at King's College London, and writing in the Financial Times, he set out ways in which the case for independence within the European Union could now be significantly stronger.
Sir Nicholas argued that supporters of independence should plan for a separate Scottish currency with a central bank to back it up.
Over time, that could lead to convergence with the euro currency, though the experience of Sweden shows that could be avoided.
He repeated his view from 2014 that the Treasury would not have done a deal on sharing control over sterling with an independent administration at Holyrood.
But he said an independent Scotland in Europe would "have no interest in seeking to tie its currency to a country that wishes to put more distance between itself and the EU".
Other economists have warned of the problem facing an independent Scotland if it broke away from use of sterling currency, given that it sells far more into the English, Welsh and Northern Irish markets than it does to the rest of the world.
The former Treasury mandarin suggested an independent Scotland could poach financial services work from London, though it might lose the headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland. That would mean a reduced state exposure to the risks carried by RBS.
Sir Nicholas repeated his warnings of the 2014 independence plans being over-optimistic about tax revenue, particularly from oil production.
But he said the work is being done to build credibility for the Scottish government's financial management, with its own independent fiscal council.
He wrote: "There is now a much better opportunity for informed debate about public finances, taking into account changing North Sea oil production levels and wider demographic trends.
"The Scottish government can strengthen its credibility by setting out long-term plans for public services, public investment and social security, in particular pensions.
It also has a chance for major tax reform, aimed at attracting inward investment and highly skilled migrants, but as that would mean low business and income tax rates, "it may also point to a smaller, more efficient state".
Scottish Finance Secretary Derek Mackay said they were "quite remarkable comments" from someone who had previously been a "fierce critic" of independence.
"I think that confirms much of what the SNP government had been saying about the economic strength that Scotland had and also the economic opportunity we now have in trying to continue Scotland's place within Europe," he told the BBC.
"I think there's a number of people that have reconsidered their position in light of the Brexit vote and how Scotland has voted with such a huge margin to remain within the EU."
But Mr Mackay added that he disagreed with Sir Nicholas's suggestion to make Scotland a low tax, small state economy.
Labour MP and former Scottish shadow secretary Ian Murray said the Financial Times article just piled "uncertainty on top of the uncertainty".
"What Sir Nicholas Macpherson has actually done is just reopened all the arguments from 2014 about currency, about central banks and the economic arguments for independence - which is much, much weaker today than it was indeed in 2014, and much weaker today than the day before the referendum on the European Union."
He said the proposals would mean an independent Scotland operating with a different currency to its biggest trading partner - the UK - and "slashing public services to pay for it".

The first minister said her cabinet will also begin "laying the groundwork" for delivering their election manifesto pledges over the next Parliament.
It came after Willie Rennie accused the SNP of taking Scottish votes to remain in the EU for granted.
The Scottish Lib Dem leader said that could risk a growth in the leave vote.
Ms Sturgeon was addressing the party's National Council in Perth, where she praised activists for helping to secure an unprecedented third term in office.
She will lead a minority government at Holyrood, having won 63 of 129 seats in the chamber, and is due to set out her next programme for government on Wednesday.
She said: "The new-look team of SNP ministers have already hit the ground running, and this week we will set out our early priorities for government - and front and centre of this will be securing Scotland's continued membership of the EU in the upcoming referendum.
"I passionately believe in the positive, progressive case for EU membership.
"The social protections and benefits that membership has given us - from maternity rights, to workers' rights, to freedom of movement - are almost so ingrained in our daily lives that it is easy to take them for granted."
Opinion polls have consistently suggested that the EU is far more popular in Scotland than it is elsewhere in the UK.
Earlier in a speech to his party members, Mr Rennie accused the SNP of making a "sloppy assumption" that Scots are firmly in favour of EU membership.
He said that Liberal Democrats across the UK were working alongside people from other parties as part of Stronger In, despite disagreeing with them on many other political issues.
"Meanwhile, the SNP has refused to join any other campaign yet have daily opinions about how the official In campaign is operating," he said.
"When the SNP are not criticising the official campaign, they are postulating about the consequences of a Brexit for Scottish independence.
"The SNP should ditch the criticism and the self-interested commentary. Instead they should work with other pro-Europeans to win the case for Remain."
Mr Rennie's comments echo those of Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale when she formally launched the Labour In for Scotland campaign earlier this month.
Ms Dugdale said at the time: "If we believe that we are, as a nation in Scotland, more pro-European than our neighbours across the United Kingdom, then perhaps there's a greater responsibility on us in Scotland to make the positive case for Europe.
"I wish the SNP would do more of this because all I've heard them do so far is be really negative about how the campaign has been rather than set out the arguments from their perspective about why we should remain part of the European Union."
On Friday, Jim Sillars - a former SNP deputy leader who is campaigning in favour of Brexit - accused the party's current leadership of living in "a parallel universe" by campaigning to remain in the European Union when they want to take Scotland out of the United Kingdom.
Mr Sillars, a long-standing critic of the SNP leadership, claimed there was a "glaring contradiction" in rejecting a union of 60 million people only to embrace a union of 500 million people as he called on SNP and other independence supporters to vote for Brexit in a speech for the Scot.Leave campaign in Orkney.
Responding to Mr Sillars, an SNP spokesman said: "An independent Scotland would have a seat and a voice at the EU's top table - something we are currently denied.
"Independence and interdependence go hand in hand in the 21st century, as proven by the fact that many of the EU's member states are smaller than Scotland and many have only become independent in recent decades."
Ms Sturgeon will be in London on Monday to campaign with Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood and Green MP Caroline Lucas on the "progressive case for EU membership", in a visit which will also see her meet newly-elected London Mayor Sadiq Khan to discuss areas of mutual interest.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, the Scottish government will propose a debate on Scotland and the EU, to make the case for a vote to remain.


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Question: A judge in Pakistan has dismissed an application for bail from the father of Samia Shahid, who was allegedly killed in a so-called "honour killing".

Her former husband, Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel, is accused of murder and is reported to have confessed to strangling her with her scarf.
Chaudhry Muhammad Shahid, her father, is being held as an accessory to her murder.
A lawyer for Samia's father said he intended to lodge an immediate appeal.
At a hearing in the Punjab city of Jhelum,  Samia's uncle and the policeman who headed the original investigation were granted bail.
They were being held on suspicion of falsifying and withholding evidence in the case.
Both men will be released subject to the payment of bonds.
Ms Shahid, 28, from Bradford, died in July in northern Punjab.
She had been visiting family in the village of Pandori when she died, and her relatives initially said she had suffered a heart attack.
Her second husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazim, believes she was the victim of a so-called honour killing as her family did not approve of their marriage.
A post-mortem examination confirmed she died as a result of being strangled.

In its annual report the commission said 900 more women suffered sexual violence and nearly 800 took, or tried to take, their own lives.
In 2014 about 1,000 women died in honour-related attacks and 869 in 2013.
Correspondents say a large number of such crimes go unreported in Pakistan.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said there is no place in Islam for killing in the name of family honour.
"The predominant causes of these killings in 2015 were domestic disputes, alleged illicit relations and exercising the right of choice in marriage," the report said.
Most of the 1,096 victims were shot, the report said, but attacks with acid were also common.
Among the cases highlighted in the report are a man who shot dead his two sisters in Sargodha, Punjab, because he believed they had "bad character" and three teenage girls killed by their male cousin for "dishonouring" their family in Pakpattan, Punjab.
The report said that 88 men were also the victims of honour killings last year.
In February, Punjab, the country's largest province, passed a landmark law criminalising all forms of violence against women.
However, more than 30 religious groups, including all the mainstream Islamic political parties, have threatened to launch protests if the law is not repealed.
Religious groups have equated women's rights campaigns with promotion of obscenity. They say the new Punjab law will increase the divorce rate and destroy the country's traditional family system.
Among the most infamous cases of honour killing in Pakistan was the stoning to death of Farzana Parveen in 2014 outside the High Court in Lahore. She had married against her family's wishes.
Her father, brother, cousin and former fiance were all found guilty of murder. Another brother received a 10-year jail sentence.
The issue of honour killings in Pakistan inspired a documentary film, A Girl in the River - The Price of Forgiveness, which won its creator, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, an Oscar at this year's Academy Awards.
In her acceptance speech, she said it was after seeing the film that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had vowed to change the law on honour killings.


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Question: The UK government has started selling off internet addresses that it no longer uses.

The first group of 150,000 addresses has been snapped up by a Norwegian firm called Altibox for about Â£600,000.
The addresses are becoming valuable because the net has almost outgrown the addressing scheme it adopted in the 1970s.
If the UK government sells off all the surplus addresses it owns it could get up to Â£15m.
However, some fear that as the addresses are shared out more widely, data could go astray.
The surplus addresses are part of a much bigger block of 16 million addresses given to the Department of Work and Pensions in 1993. Earlier this year, the DWP started a project to see how many of these IP addresses could be freed.
An official report produced before the DWP began its investigation suggested that 70% of the massive block was used for the UK government's internal network, leaving about five million free for disposal.
A government spokesman said: "Government periodically reviews all its assets to consider their financial value, including options to release income from those that are not used to their fullest potential.
"The scope of the value of these assets is commercially sensitive and protected by standard legal confidentiality agreements."
The addresses are known as IP Version 4 (IPv4) addresses and are valuable because of a hard limit in the numbering system they use. This caps the total number of IPv4 addresses at 4.3 billion. In practice there are fewer available because some are reserved for other uses.
The net is in the process of moving to IP Version 6 (IPv6), which has an almost inexhaustible supply of addresses. However, technical incompatibilities between the two versions means many firms are seeking to expand their existing IPv4 networks instead of switching.
Regional caches of IPv4 addresses have all but run dry, meaning many firms have to look elsewhere for them, said Sandra Brown, president of address broker IPV4 Market Group.
Trading in IPv4 had been brisk in Europe, said Ms Brown, because the organisation that oversees net addresses in the region had approved policies that allowed transfers. In the busiest months, about two million IPv4 addresses were being traded in Europe.
"Supply has met demand but we are reaching a point where supply is about to fall short and we have seen prices escalate because of that," she said.
Each individual IP address was worth up to $11 (Â£7), she said, but prices were lower when big deals were done.
Trading was likely to continue for years as firms were only slowly migrating to IPv6.
"Most of the people I talk to say it will take five to 10 years to convert," said Ms Brown.
That might spell trouble, said Doug Madory from network specialist Dyn, because there were concerns about what happened when that finite stock of addresses was divided very finely.
"People typically try to deal with addresses in contiguous blocks to keep the binary math from getting unwieldy leading to errors," he said.
"As you slice it thinly the number of routes gets larger and larger and it's computationally expensive to look up where each packet has to go."
In addition, he said, delays in transferring ownership had already led to some data going astray.
"We see this as a transition period," said Andrew de la Haye, chief operating officer of the Ripe agency that oversees net addresses in Europe.
He added that some European companies were analysing how they use IPv4 as a way to help them move to the larger addressing system.
"It's a bit early to say but I have spoken to a few of our members and they are freeing up IPv4 address spaces to fund their IPv6 migration," he said. "The long-term strategy should be IPv6."

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This week the American agency which oversees net addresses in the region gave out the last block of these vital net components.
It said companies in North America should now accelerate their move to the latest version of the net's addressing system.
Now Africa is the only region with any significant blocks of the older version 4 internet addresses available.
The older addressing system, called IPv4, was created when the net was being set up in the 1970s. The system can support up to 4.3 billion addresses but the massive growth of the online world has swiftly depleted this.
The successor addressing system, known as IPv6, can handle a vast amount of addresses and is unlikely to ever run out. IPv6 has been available since 1999 but only now are large numbers of firms starting to use it.
"Organisations should be prepared to help usher in the next phase of the internet by deploying IPv6 as soon as possible," John Curran, head of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (Arin) told tech news site The Register.
Shifting to IPv6 can be tricky for some ISPs because, for the time being, they have to support both old and new addressing schemes. Running both and translating from one to the other can break some services and introduce delays that irk customers.
Afrinic, which hands out net addresses in Africa, currently has about 2.3 million IPv4 addresses left and these look set to run out by early 2019, statistics suggest. Stocks of IPv4 addresses ran out in other regions several years ago.
Axel Pawlik, managing director of Europe's net address administrator Ripe NCC, said Arin exhausting its stock of IPv4 addresses was a "landmark moment in the history of the internet".
"This means that organisations across North America can now only obtain IPv4 addresses by trading for them," he said. "For networks looking to grow, this will increasingly create pressure in the immediate future. "
The steady depletion of IPv4 addresses has kicked off a market in buying and selling chunks of addresses that large or defunct companies no longer use.
The Arin depletion might spark a significant rise in prices, suggests research by the IPv4 Market Group which acts as a broker for firms with addresses to sell.
The sale of several big blocks of addresses from very large companies including Merck, Lilly, Dupont and Nortel could spell problems for anyone looking to buy a significant number of addresses, it said. The lack of single big blocks would  probably drive prices upwards as anyone requiring lots of addresses would have to get them from several sources, it said.
In May, the UK's Department for Work and Pensions started selling off some IPv4 addresses it owned and got about Â£7 for each of the 150,000 it sold.
Arin's announcement came as BT, the UK's biggest ISP, unveiled that it planned to enable its entire network for IPv6 by the end of 2016.


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Question: Six people have been arrested following counter-terrorism investigations into online fraud.

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A Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command-led operation resulted in two men - aged 35 and 32 - being held in north Manchester and Bury respectively.
Both men were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit fraud.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said two men and two women have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud.
In the Met-led operation, officers searched two properties, as well as another house and a business address in Manchester.
Both men arrested were detained for questioning.
GMP said the other arrests were part of a separate investigation, and would not reveal the ages or addresses of the four being detained.

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The teenager was one of five men held in the raids on Thursday - four have since been released on bail.
All five were held on suspicion of supporting proscribed organisations.
The 19-year-old is also being questioned on suspicion of preparing or assisting in the preparation of a terrorist act.
Two of the arrested men have been named as Rofi Islam and Sajid Idris.
Officers from the North East Counter Terrorism Unit and the Wales Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit (WECTU) executed six search warrants on Thursday.
WECTU said the investigation "does not concern any immediate threat to public safety".
Thursday's arrests were not linked to two men charged with offences on Wednesday.
Police said the arrests were linked to the Grangetown area of Cardiff and were part of a wider counter-terrorism investigation in Wales, but are not linked to brothers Aseel and Nasser Muthana who went to fight with IS in Syria.
The raids in Grangetown were within a few streets of each other.