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Question: Jersey title-winners St Paul's were crowned Channel Islands champions for the fourth consecutive year thanks to a 3-0 win over Guernsey table-toppers Rovers.

Jack Cannon's strike midway through the first half put Saints ahead.
Joe Kilshaw tapped in after Michael Weir beat the offside trap, before Weir himself sealed the win late on.
Rovers were playing in their first Upton after clinching their first-ever Priaulx title on the final day.
St Paul's joint-manager Jordan Docherty told BBC Radio Jersey:
"It probably wasn't our greatest performance, but it was a hot day against tough opponents so I'm just glad to come out with the win, to be honest.
"It's always the biggest one to win, after you've won the league it's the one you next look forward to.
"To go through the whole [league] season unbeaten was a great achievement but to win this is the icing on the cake."
Rovers coach Jez Robin told BBC Radio Guernsey:
"We knew it was going to be tough on this surface where the ball moves quickly and they like to keep possession.
"We had to change things when we were chasing the game a bit later on and conceded the two goals but that was always going to be the risk.
"You're never going to be pleased when you lose the game but it's the next step in our progression and hopefully we can try again and be here next season with a bit of luck."

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The men's team beat Guernsey 4-3 after a dramatic injury-time winner in Fardhem while the women's side beat the Isle of Wight 4-2 at Stenkyrka.
The men will now play Greenland who knocked out Menorca on penalties while the women's side will play hosts Gotland after they defeated Jersey 2-1.
The Isle of Man topped the medal table after four days of competition.


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Question: A care home where faeces were found on a sofa and a window sill is among nine sites rated inadequate by inspectors.

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Walls and furniture at Lofthouse Grange and Lodge in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, were also stained, damaged and dirty, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said.
The watchdog has just released details of visits to 41 sites across the north of England.
Homes in Blackpool, Hartlepool, Keighley, Preston and Rotherham were also deemed inadequate.
The CQC said interactions between staff and residents were good when it visited Lofthouse Grange last year but identified several areas of the home that needed cleaning.
"The service was not safe. Many areas of the home were dirty and unhygienic. We found faeces under a seat on a settee, and faeces were also found on the window ledge in a small lounge," the report said.
"Furniture was stained and dining chairs were damaged. Walls in the dining rooms had food stains on them and food debris was found down the side of kitchen cabinets."
A spokeswoman for Orchard Care Homes, which runs the site, said a "robust" plan was in place to address issues highlighted in the report.
She added: "We are not complacent and will continue to monitor the home very carefully through our own rigorous internal inspection and compliance processes."
Other sites deemed inadequate included Royd Hill Nursing Home in Keighley, where inspectors found people were not being given enough fluids, and Orchard Lodge Care Home in Blackpool, where sliding bolts were discovered on the outside of bedroom doors.
The Spinney Residential Home in Leeds and Aadams Residential Care Home in Preston were both given the lowest rating for failing to protect people from the risk of potential abuse.
Following its inspection, Aadams management decided to close the home "in the best interests" of residents, the report said.
Of the sites recently inspected, 20 were given a "good" rating and 12 "required improvement".
Debbie Westhead, CQC deputy chief inspector, said: "Whenever we find a service to be inadequate, we will consider taking further action on behalf of the people who use the service."

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The 25-year-old comes from the large Cape Verdian community in Rotterdam and previously played at Feyenoord. He won caps for the Netherlands at under-17, U-19 and U-21 level.\nCape Verde\'s squad will be cut to 22 before the match in Praia on 26 March. 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Now those who support the government find themselves under attack even within their own families," Mr Carneiro says.\nBut he says Brazil has not yet become as divided as other neighbours in the region.\n"As lively as the debate here is, we are still moderate compared to what is going on in Argentina, Venezuela and Chile, for example," he says.\nMr Carneiro says that broader access to information and the internet have fanned the debate.\nBut he warns that the internet can also isolate people from opinions other than their own.\n"You tend to connect to your network of contacts and that defines the kind of information you receive," he says.\n"Add to that the fact that people rely less and less upon information provided by professional journalists, who are capable to moderate these topics more appropriately," he explains.\nTwenty-seven-year old actor Guilherme Carrasco Neto says he feels "cornered" when talking politics with his family.\nMr Neto is critical of the way Lula was taken away by police for questioning, which he says was an attempt to portray the ex-leader as a criminal.\nHe says his relatives gang up on him when he defends the former leader.\nHis mother is very critical of the Workers\' Party (PT) administration and while his father tries to tone down the debate when it gets too heated, Mr Neto says that when his brother and sister-in-law pitch in it is "overwhelming".\n"My brother is opposed to the policies of the Workers\' Party. I am not a party member, but I do respect the social advances brought about by their government," he says.\nMr Neto says that his sister-in-law is one of those who benefitted from Lula\'s policies.\nShe, too, was awarded a ProUni scholarship and got her degree in economics thanks to that scholarship.\nMr Neto says he often thinks of bringing this up in an argument with his anti-Lula sister-in-law but has so far refrained in order to avoid a row.\nMr Neto\'s older brother Daniel is 35.\nHe thinks Guilherme has a "romanticised view" of politics which he blames on his youth.\n"He [Guilherme] believes that capitalism and the market economy are bad," Daniel Neto says.\n"He thinks that businessmen must be regulated. We try to teach him that you can\'t produce if you don\'t make money.\n"Handing out money to people won\'t stimulate growth."\nDaniel Neto\'s view is typical of those who are critical of Lula.\nThey argue that the former president\'s popularity was propped up by the economic stability Brazil experienced during his two mandates from 2003 to 2011, a stability they say was fuelled by a boom in commodity prices rather than Lula\'s economic policies.\nWith the Brazilian economy going through its worst recession in two decades, Daniel Neto reckons that the only way out of the current political and economic crisis is to impeach Lula\'s protege and successor in office, President Dilma Rousseff.\n"This government is a total fiasco. We expected it to be bad but it\'s turned out worse," he says of Ms Rousseff\'s administration.\n"The corruption scandals and Ms Rousseff\'s incapacity to play the political game is ruining the country," he says.\nAnd as for Lula\'s generous social programmes, the former leader "only distributed the extra money that came in," he says.\n"He\'s a crook," he adds.'] == ['Represent the summary to retrieve the rest of the news story with more details', 'Sitting alongside his family, Vitor Ricciardi Chiarello is watching a TV report on the detention of former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.']

Shauna Higgin and Victoria Johnson both admitted two counts of ill treatment of residents at Ashbourne House Nursing Home in Middleton, Rochdale, last year.
The pair shared videos and images of themselves "harming" the therapy dolls.
Higgin, 20, of Middleton, was detained at a young offender institution for 13 months while Johnson, 23, from Oldham was jailed 12 months.
On sentencing at Manchester Crown Court Minshull Street, Judge Andrew Lowcock described the offences as "cruel" and said: "You treated [residents] as playthings, as the butt of your tasteless jokes."
The dolls are used as a therapeutic tool by residents who care for them like their own babies.
In one photo, titled 'Tug of War' Higgin, of Boarshaw Walk, pulls a doll off an elderly woman who holds on with her hands to stop it being snatched away.
On another occasion Johnson filmed Higgin throwing a doll to the floor and shouting "Die baby. Die."
The doll was also photographed in a variety of other positions such as being hung by its neck, in a tumble dryer, a cooking pot, submerged in a fish tank and being dragged along a corridor by Higgin.
A whistleblower sent the pictures to the Manchester Evening News and police were called in January.
The 29-bedroom nursing home which cares for people with dementia and Alzheimer's disease was placed in special measures earlier this year by the Care Quality Commission.
The CQC said in a statement after sentencing it was "pleased" with the outcome as it sends a strong message that abuse or neglect on vulnerable members society will not be tolerated.
Ashbourne House Nursing Home - run by Silverdale Care Homes Limited - has so far been unavailable for comment.
Two counts of wilful neglect or ill treatment by a case worker are to lie on file.


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Question: A prominent Irish republican convicted of tax evasion was treated unfairly, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has said.

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Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, the alleged former IRA "chief of staff", was found guilty at the Republic of Ireland's non-jury Special Criminal Court.
Mr Adams said: "All citizens have the right to be judged by a jury of their peers.
"It is extraordinary a case involving a failure to complete tax returns is heard before a non-jury court."
He added: "Tom Murphy's rights have been denied to him."
The three judges were told how Murphy had significant dealings in cattle and land and received farming grants, but failed to submit tax returns for nine years.
The prosecution was brought after an investigation by the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau.
Murphy, 66, who lives at Ballybinaby, Hackballscross, County Louth, on a farm that straddles the border with Northern Ireland, had denied the charges.
He was remanded on continuing bail ahead of sentencing in February.
Mr Adams, who represents North Louth as a TD, or member of the Irish parliament, said in a statement there could be "no equivocation" that "everyone has a duty to pay the taxes for which they are liable".
He said "many prominent public figures accused of tax irregularities, including TDs ... have not been treated in the same fashion as Mr Murphy.
"Neither have they been labelled as criminals by those media outlets currently writing lurid headlines about Mr Murphy."
Mr Adams said he considered Murphy to be a "good republican".
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said it was "unbefitting for the leader of a political party to continue to back a convicted criminal".
"The time has come for Gerry Adams to address the nature of his relationship with Mr Murphy and for Sinn Féin to face up to the issue of paramilitary criminality, across the island," he said.

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Brian Stack, chief prison officer at the high-security Portlaoise Prison, was shot in the back of the neck as he left a boxing match in 1983.
He was left paralysed and died 18 months later.
The issue was raised by Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin.
Mr Martin did so after it emerged, during Ireland's general election campaign in February, that Mr Adams had emailed Irish police commissioner Noírín O'Sullivan a list of four republicans who may have been involved.
The Sinn Féin leader said he had been given the names by Austin Stack, himself a senior prison officer and son of Brian Stack.
But Mr Stack, who with Mr Adams met a senior republican with knowledge of his father's murder more than two years ago, denies handing over any names.
The secret meeting took place after a journey in a blacked-out van.
In the Dáil (Irish parliament), Taoiseach Enda Kenny accused Mr Adams of knowing more about the murder, which is still being investigated.
Mr Kenny said he is to due to meet Austin Stack soon.
Mr Martin accused Mr Adams of withholding information about a murder and of "living in a parallel universe where rules apply to everyone" except republicans.
The Sinn Féin leader, in a brief comment, said he did not know who the killers were and had "acted in good faith" for the Stack family.
He accused Fianna Fáil of attempting to exploit the controversy in "a cynical and contemptible way".


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Question: A 38-year-old has been charged with attempted murder after a man was attacked at an Overground station in south-east London.

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Adrian Brown, of Brockley Rise, Forest Hill, was arrested after a man in his 40s was assaulted on a train at Forest Hill station at 13:20 GMT on Monday.
He was also charged with possession of an offensive weapon and assault by battery.
The alleged victim is in a serious but stable condition, police said.
Mr Brown was arrested at the station on Monday afternoon after British Transport Police received a number of calls from people at the scene.
Rail services were temporarily stopped on the line and roads around the station were closed while police carried out investigations.
Mr Brown will appear before Westminster magistrates on Wednesday.

The victim, aged in her 30s, was discovered at about 16:00 GMT on Monday afternoon.
She told officers she was also raped by her attacker and was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
A man was arrested at 22:00 on the same evening. He is also being questioned over the rape of a woman in Southey Road, Seven Sisters, on 11 March.


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Question: The Cuban government has eased travel restrictions for some of the country's best-known dissidents.

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Activists said seven members of a group known as the Black Spring were told they would be allowed to make one journey abroad for good behaviour.
One of the seven, Marta Beatriz Roque, said she believed the move was a concession ahead of next month's visit to Cuba by President Obama.
The US government has been pressing for more freedom for Cuban dissidents.
"It appears to be some kind of gift they want to present to Obama, but in reality it is nothing concrete because when we come back we will return to legal limbo," said Martha Beatriz Roque.
The decision to grant seven of the most high profile dissidents the right to travel, albeit for a single trip, serves several purposes.
First it gives the Cuban government a recent example of fairer treatment of dissident leaders on the island. Secondly, and perhaps most importantly to the Castro government, the dissidents may choose to stay in the United States, removing them from the debate inside Cuba altogether.
While human rights organisations generally welcome any easing of the restrictions on the group, some of the dissidents themselves have voiced scepticism at the move.
The thorny question of human rights in Cuba will inevitably be back in the spotlight of the world's media soon during President Obama's trip.
75 people were arrested in the Spring of 2003 during a crackdown on opposition activists.
Most were freed about five years ago on the condition that they moved abroad.
But eleven dissidents refused the terms of the amnesty and have remained in Cuba, though they have be allowed to serve their sentences outside of prison.
President Obama has said his trip to Havana on 21 and 22 March is aimed at pushing the Cuban government to improve conditions for its people.
In Washington, a White House spokesman welcomed the decision to let the dissidents travel outside Cuba.
When the thaw began in Cuba and the US's relations in December 2014, the Cuban government released 53 people considered by Washington as political prisoners.
But, according to the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation  (an independent human rights organisation considered illegal by the Cuban government),  Cuba has resumed detentions.
The Commission says on average more than 700 people were detained temporarily each month in 2015.

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Web users in Cuba are being diverted to another website, which accuses Ms Sanchez of having hidden political interests.
Ms Sanchez said her website, called 14ymedio, would provide daily news about the communist-run country.
She insisted it would not be a platform against the government.
But web users in Cuba reported that they were being diverted to a website calling itself "yoani$landia", which accuses Ms Sanchez of being "obsessed with money".
"This website is from a group of people who had enough of seeing Yoani Sanchez presenting herself as the Mother Teresa of Calcutta of Cuban dissidents," says an article on the site.
It adds that Ms Sanchez is "probably the richest Cuban on the island" and is funded by Spanish and Brazilian media outfits.
The editors of yoani$landia do not identify themselves, but they are believed to be Cuban government officials.
Cuban media, including the country's three national newspapers, are under strict state control.
But President Raul Castro has eased restrictions on dissidents in recent years, allowing opponents of the government - including Sanchez - to travel abroad.
In her blog published in the online paper's first edition, Sanchez says 14ymedio has been an obsession for her for more than four years.
She says she wants the paper to "contribute information so that Cubans can decide with more maturity their own destinies".
Its first edition also features a report from a Havana hospital, describing the work of nurses and other staff on night duty and the victims of violence they attend to.
It also showcases a lengthy interview with jailed opposition writer Angel Santiesteban.
But not all its contents is of a political nature.
There is also advice on how to deal with dry or damaged hair and a sports feature on why Cuban football is getting less coverage and state backing than baseball.
Sanchez achieved international recognition with her prize-winning blog Generation Y, in which she criticised the restrictions on freedom of speech and movement imposed on the island since the 1959 revolution.


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Question: Crystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce criticised the Premier League fixture scheduling after his "shattered" side were beaten at home by Swansea City.

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Palace were playing for the second time in three days and lost 2-1 to Swansea, who had an extra day between matches.
"The lack of energy the players had showed massively," said Allardyce.
"Some people say it's rubbish but it's not - the players were trying 100% but they were not physically able to reach their usual levels."
Angel Rangel scored an 88th-minute winner for Swansea after the Eagles lost 2-0 away at Arsenal on Sunday.
Allardyce, who remains without a win in his three games since replacing Alan Pardew at Selhurst Park, admitted he should have made more than two changes from the previous match.
"We struggled to keep up with Swansea - we hadn't recovered properly," added the former England manager. "I should have made more changes but I still don't know the squad too well.
"They are shattered. You can see it with your own eyes, you don't need to be a football manager."
Swansea first-team coach Alan Curtis, who picked the Swans team despite the appointment earlier on Tuesday of new manager Paul Clement, admitted fatigue had been an issue.
He said: "We had 24 hours more rest compared to them and that may have made a difference."
Allardyce's complaint was matched by Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, whose side also had a day less to prepare than opponents Bournemouth, before the two sides played out a 3-3 draw at the Vitality Stadium.
"We had three or four players we had to play tonight that we had to wait until the warm-up to see if they could play," said Wenger.
"That's the problem with only 48 hours between games - you have to play some players again.
"This complicates the job a lot, but we have to shut up and cope with it."
Wenger's opposite number Eddie Howe also conceded that the schedule had aided his team.
"I'm not going to deny it had an impact," said the Bournemouth boss, whose side took a 3-0 lead before the Gunners fought back with three goals in the last 20 minutes.
A study from BBC Sport showed that Premier League leaders Chelsea, who play at Tottenham on Wednesday, had the most rest during the Christmas and New Year period.
However, Blues boss Antonio Conte said comments from rival managers came because of their lower league positions.
"I can reply that I didn't do the fixtures," said the Italian.
"I think that now they are angry for our position, not for the fixtures. It's normal. This also happens in Italy. It's always because you stay at the top."

However, the draw did extend Chelsea's lead at top of the Premier League to nine points.
Liverpool keeper Mignolet made up for his first-half embarrassment when he was beaten by David Luiz's superb free-kick from 25 yards.
Georginio Wijnaldum's close-range header in the second-half gave Liverpool a draw they fully deserved, ending a run of three home losses in a row.
However, it could have been much better for Chelsea and worse for Liverpool when Costa went to ground 14 minutes from the end.
Referee Mark Clattenburg pointed to the spot but Mignolet dived low to his right to save the Spain striker's spot-kick.
Arsenal 1-2 Watford: Arsenal's Premier League title hopes suffered a huge blow with a shock home defeat as Watford secured their first top-flight win over the Gunners since 1988.
Bournemouth 0-2 Crystal Palace: Crystal Palace finally earned a Premier League victory under Sam Allardyce as goals by Scott Dann and Christian Benteke secured the points against Bournemouth away at a rain-swept Vitality Stadium.
Burnley 1-0 Leicester City: Burnley secured their fifth home Premier League win in a row with victory over Leicester at Turf Moor, thanks to Sam Vokes' late goal.
Middlesbrough 1-1 West Bromwich Albion: Middlesbrough came back from a goal down but were left frustrated as a hard-working West Brom claimed a point at the Riverside Stadium.
Swansea City 2-1 Southampton: Swansea boosted their Premier League survival hopes and secured back-to-back wins for the first time this season with a spirited victory over Southampton.
Sunderland 0-0 Tottenham: Title-chasing Tottenham had to settle for a point at the Stadium of Light as Sunderland climbed off the bottom of the table with a hard-fought draw.


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Question: The girlfriend of a man accused of killing his teenage stepsister has been jointly charged with her murder.

Body parts belonging to Becky Watts, 16, were found at a house in Bristol in March.
Shauna Hoare, 21, has been charged alongside her boyfriend Nathan Matthews, 28, Becky's stepbrother.
New forensic tests had helped to establish the circumstances around her death and led to new evidence in the case, police said.
The pair also face further new charges, including conspiracy to commit false imprisonment, preventing lawful burial and possession of a prohibited weapon.
They have also been charged with four counts of making indecent images of children.
Mr Matthews, from Warmley, has also been charged with sexual assault and voyeurism, in allegations not related to Becky.
He faces a fresh charge of perverting the course of justice and is due to stand trial in October.
Det Supt Liz Tunks said it had been a "meticulous and exhaustive" investigation.
"Our thoughts and sympathies are with Becky's family," she said.
"This has been a very difficult time for them and they have had to endure yet more pain as we have worked to understand the full circumstances surrounding her death."
Four others - Karl and Donovon Demetrius, both aged 29, Jaydene Parsons, 23, and James Ireland, 23 - are all charged with assisting an offender.
Becky was last seen at her family home in Crown Hill, Bristol, on 19 February.
Her body parts were found at a house in the Barton Hill area of the city on 2 March.

Brayden Dillon was asleep in his family's Sydney home in April when a masked gunman allegedly broke in and shot him in the head.
Conrad Craig, 26, was arrested earlier this week and charged with murder.
A 30-year-old woman was charged with murder on Wednesday, the same day Brayden's family held a vigil for what would have been his 16th birthday.
Police have described the shooting as "execution style" and said it happened after the gunman had entered the home and threatened Brayden's mother.
The teenager's stepfather and young step-siblings were also in the house at the time.
The woman will appear in a Sydney court on Thursday.


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Question: The Syrian opposition is heightening the rhetoric against Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia group allied to Bashar al-Assad's embattled regime.

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It has been accused of recently launching a ground incursion into Syria and of having previously sent fighters over the border to help the regime crush the opposition.
Hezbollah is not the only Lebanese party suspected of getting involved in the conflict.
Its arch-rival in Lebanon, the Future Movement of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, has also been accused of supplying the Syrian rebels with arms and money.
But according to Hezbollah's detractors, the party's involvement in Syria now goes well-beyond logistical support.
"For months Hezbollah has been shelling targets in the Syrian governorate of al-Qusair from Hermel in Lebanon," says Louai al-Meqdad, a spokesman for the Free Syrian Army, the armed group battling President Assad.
Mr Meqdad is referring to a group of towns in Syria just across the porous border with Lebanon. Passage from one side to the other is as natural as the blood ties that bind residents on either side together.
Overlooking al-Qusair from the Lebanese side is a string of towns with a large Hezbollah support base. The Syrian opposition has accused Hezbollah of using the towns as a base to send fighters into Syria.
"Now they have gone further," says Mr Meqdad. "They've actually taken positions in some border towns inside Syria."
According to Mr Meqdad, the Syrian regime seems to have handed over operations in al-Qusair to Hezbollah so its own troops can be redeployed to Damascus where they are more urgently needed.
"Al-Qusair will be the graveyard of Hezbollah if they ever think of invading it," he adds.
It is easy to see why the area is so fiercely contested.
According to Hilal al-Khashan, professor of political science in the American University of Beirut, the battle for al-Qusair is vital.
"It's the most strategic junction in Syria. Whoever controls it controls the road to Damascus and Homs," he says.
"It's also a very important supply route for the rebels. Through it, supporters of the opposition in Syria are supplying rebels with ammunition."
Little evidence has emerged of any military involvement on Hezbollah's part, but opponents have pointed to the funerals of several of its fighters last year.
The party said they died while "fulfilling their Jihadi duty", without specifying the nature of the duty or where the deaths occurred.
Soon after, Hezbollah's leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, offered a narrative of Hezbollah's involvement in Syria rooted in the complex history of Lebanon's relations with its neighbour.
Before the border between Lebanon and Syria was drawn, large Lebanese families owned land in areas inside what was later to become Syrian territory.
These farming communities, numbering about 30,000, remained in Syria after the border was drawn, but retained their Lebanese nationality. Most of them are Shia Muslims and many are members of Hezbollah.
"When the conflict started in Syria, armed groups attacked some of these residents. Many of them fled the area but others decided to stay and to defend their lives, their homes and their honour," Nasrallah said.
"We didn't give them any instructions to stay or to leave. They decided to take up arms to defend themselves and this has nothing to do with fighting with the regime against the armed groups. It's an act of self-defence."
He repeated that narrative this week, denying reports that Lebanese residents of border towns in Syria had taken control of Sunni towns in the area.
"These are all lies with no supporting evidence at all. Actually the opposite is happening," he said.
Hezbollah's Al Manar TV channel has been highlighting the plight of the "forgotten" Lebanese residents of the Syrian border towns, but many remain unconvinced.
"Anyone familiar with Hezbollah's organisation would know that its members couldn't have simply acted independently. They must have received orders from the party," says Professor Khashan.
The party, he says, has little choice. "They are damned if they do, damned if they don't. They know that in both cases, when the regime in Syria falls - and that's a matter of time - the rebels will come after them."
In a speech in October, Sheikh Nasrallah said the Syrian regime did not need Hezbollah to fight with it.
"They haven't asked us to do it and we haven't taken such a decision so far."
Four months later Hezbollah's narrative remains unchanged, amid a fierce media onslaught by the Syrian opposition.
But regardless of whether or not the battle in al-Qusair is being directed by the party, it is certainly dragging Lebanon deeper into the Syrian war.

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"He is a martyr. May his soul rest in peace," Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said, indicative of the esteem in which the late sheikh was held in Iraq.
For many Shia there, Sheikh Nimr was an icon for his vocal support for anti-government protests by fellow Shia in Sunni Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province.
No wonder they took to the streets of Baghdad in their thousands after Sheikh Nimr, along with 46 other people, was executed on 2 January, all convicted of terrorism.
With the devastating civil war in Iraq between Sunnis and Shia in 2006-2007 still fresh in people's minds, his execution threatens to inflame Iraq's sectarian tensions.
Two Sunni mosques have been attacked and two people killed in apparent retaliation for Sheikh Nimr's death.
Leading Shia political and military figures in Iraq openly bear animosity towards Saudi Arabia.
They are particularly critical of Riyadh's ultra-conservative form of Islam, which they perceive as the nucleus of the extremist ideology of al-Qaeda and its splinter groups, like the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS).
"This is an ideological battle with Sunni extremists that must be fought to the end," Jaafar al-Husseini, spokesman for the Shia Hezbollah Brigades militia, told me.
The Iranian-backed group is one of several militias that constitute the backbone of nearly 120,000 volunteers, mainly Shia and known as the Popular Mobilisation (PM) forces.
Able-bodied Shia men took up arms against IS in response to a fatwa (edict) by Sheikh Sistani in June 2014 as large parts of the Iraqi army collapsed in the face of the IS advance.
The massive force of Shia volunteers has become the most successful example of boots-on-the-ground in Iraq.
And despite accusations by international human rights groups of human rights abuses against Sunnis, the Popular Mobilisation forces remain hugely popular in Shia-majority areas.
"We should not have any relations with Saudi Arabia," Mr Husseini said in a decisive tone.
The growing Saudi-Iranian crisis has put Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi between a rock and a hard place.
He is a strategic ally of Tehran and trade volume between both countries reached a staggering $18bn (Â£12 billion) last year.
But the prime minister, who quickly condemned Sheikh Nimr's execution, is also keen on cementing ties with Riyadh and navigating a middle ground between both neighbours.
"Mr Abadi is extremely cautious in this crisis," says Hussein Allawi, professor of National Security at al-Nahrain University in Baghdad.
"He wanted to appear as a neutral negotiator when he sent his foreign minister to Tehran where he offered to mediate.
"Iraq needs all neighbouring countries to support it in its war against Daesh (Islamic State) and will not turn into another battleground of a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
"He needs to not alienate the Sunnis and to be fully committed to reinvigorating the Sunni Awakening Councils."
In 2007, the US created militias of Sunni tribal volunteers, known as Awakening Councils, to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq's Anbar province and elsewhere.
They provided them with arms and salaries to be on the side of the Shia-led government of Nouri al-Maliki, rather than al-Qaeda.
Ghassan al-Ithawi, spokesman for anti-IS tribal fighters in Anbar, believes Mr Abadi's approach in tackling the Saudi-Iranian crisis will attract broad support among Sunnis.
"We need the Saudis in the reconstruction process of Anbar when we win the war against Daesh," he said. "Sectarianism plays well into the hands of IS."


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Question: A convicted killer who is being blamed for the 1998 murder of Surjit Singh Chhokar has admitted assaulting the victim but denied stabbing him.

Andrew Coulter, 35, admitted in court he had served six years for killing another man in an unrelated attack.
He also admitted to hitting Mr Chhokar with a home-made bat on the night he died but denied fatally stabbing him.
Mr Coulter's uncle, Ronnie Coulter, 48, denies murdering Mr Chhokar. He has blamed his nephew and another man.
He has lodged a special defence blaming Andrew Coulter and David Montgomery over the death of Mr Chhokar in Overtown, North Lanarkshire, in November 1998.
The murder trial, at the High Court in Glasgow, has already heard that Ronnie Coulter, from Wishaw, was tried and acquitted of murdering 32-year-old Mr Chhokar in 1999.
His nephew Andrew Coulter and David Montgomery were tried and acquitted of the murder in 2000.
The court previously heard from Mr Chhokar's partner at the time of his death, 56-year-old Elizabeth Bryce.
She told the court that Andrew Coulter had broken into Mr Chhokar's flat in nearby Gowkthrapple and stolen and cashed a giro cheque for just over Â£100.
Mr Bryce said when she had raised the matter with Mr Coulter, he had replied: "If anything happens to me, Chhokar is getting it."
Andrew Coulter gave evidence on Monday as the trial entered its second week.
Before starting his evidence, judge Lord Matthews told Mr Coulter that he did not have to answer any questions that might incriminate him in Mr Chhokar's murder.
Mr Coulter told the court that he had killed a man, Patrick Kelly, by stabbing him in the leg on 11 September 1999.
He was originally charged with murder, but convicted of culpable homicide and sentenced to six years detention.
The witness also admitted being jailed for six months in 2006 for possession of a knife.
He said that on the day Mr Chhokar died, 4 November 1998, he was looking for money to buy alcohol.
The witness said that he broke into a flat at Caplaw Tower, Gowkthrapple, which turned out to be Mr Chhokar's, and took a giro cheque he found there.
He told the court that he then cashed the cheque, after his uncle had forged Mr Chhokar's signature on it.
Later that day, Andrew Coulter said he had spoken to Ms Bryce, who had learned of the giro theft.
Mr Coulter said that when police involvement was mentioned, he told her that, if that happened, Mr Chhokar would be "getting it".
When asked by prosecutor Alex Prentice QC what that meant, Mr Coulter replied: "Battered".
Mr Coulter later admitted that he went to meet Mr Chhokar later that night amid the row over the stolen giro.
He said he was accompanied by his uncle, murder accused Ronnie Coulter, and David Montgomery.
The witness told the jury that he took a bat with him made out of an old table leg, which had been filled with lead and covered in tape.
He said: "I took the bat. If I couldn't talk to Chhokar, I was going to hit him with it."
The court has heard that before the three men set off to see Mr Chhokar there was discussion about what they were going to do to him.
When asked what this involved, Andrew Coulter answered: "Breaking his legs. I was trying to act the hard man."
Mr Coulter told the court that he, Ronnie Coulter and David Montgomery - known as Chez - arrived at Ms Bryce's house in Garrion Street, Overtown, at about 23:30.
They had driven to a nearby street and then climbed over the back fence into the garden of the house.
As Mr Chhokar arrived home from his shift at a local restaurant, the three men walked down the garden path towards him.
Andrew Coulter told the jury he told Mr Chhokar not to get the police involved and Mr Chhokar had swung a bottle at him.
He added: "He swung the bottle at me and missed me. I struck him with the bat on his arm."
Andrew Coulter said he then slipped and fell to the ground and his view of the street was impeded by the garden gate.
He added: "David went to pick me up and I did not see where Ronnie was."
Asked how Mr Chhokar appeared, Mr Coulter said: "He looked all right he didn't seem to be injured or nothing. He was walking. Liz Bryce came out shouting, and me and Chez ran."
He said the last time he saw his uncle, Ronnie Coulter, was seconds before he fell.
Andrew Coulter added: "Ronnie just disappeared."
When asked what he thought had happened that night Andrew Coulter said: "Nothing. That was it. Just assault."
When asked if Mr Chhokar appeared injured in any way, he replied: "No. He didn't look as if he was injured in any way. I think I said to Chez that Chhokar would have a a sore arm in the morning with the bat."
Andrew Coulter told the jury: "I never stabbed him."
He also said that he never saw anyone else stab Mr Chhokar, saying: "I never even saw anyone hit him, bar me."
The witness also said that he did not see Ronnie Coulter or David Montgomery carrying any weapons.
Ronnie Coulter denies murdering Mr Chhokar by repeatedly attacking him with a knife or a similar weapon and a further charge of forging Mr Chhokar's signature on a Â£100 giro cheque.
He also denies breaking into Mr Chhokar's home at Caplaw Tower, Gowkthrapple, on the day of his death and stealing a cooker and attempting to defeat the ends of justice by destroying or disposing of a knife and clothing.
The trial before Lord Matthews continues.

Stephen "Aki" Akinyemi died after a fight with businessman Arran Coghlan at the latter's Cheshire mansion in 2010. Mr Coghlan was cleared of his murder.
A fresh inquest heard Mr Coghlan was acting as a peacemaker in a row which involved a man called Philip Atkinson.
David Mason QC told London's Royal Courts of Justice: "They both had Porsches with the number plate 'Aki'."
Mr Coghlan told a previous inquest in 2011 that Mr Akinyemi pulled a gun on him and that it went off during a struggle.
At the time, Cheshire coroner Nicholas Rheinberg recorded an open verdict, saying he had "difficulty" accepting Mr Coghlan's version of events.
At Monday's hearing, Mr Mason, representing Mr Coghlan, claimed that Mr Akinyemi was at Mr Coghlan's home because he was "upset that another man was using the same nickname".
Mr Akinyemi's brother John told the inquest he did not think his brother would have been "bothered with that" and said the only reason he wanted to see Mr Coghlan was simply because "he was his friend".
He said he did not know whether his brother carried weapons.
Coroner Bernard Richmond QC asked whether he would be shocked if the inquest heard that weapons had been discovered.
Mr Akinyemi replied: "It would be a bit of a shock but, generally speaking, nothing shocks me. It would be something I have learned."
Stephen Akinyemi was arrested in connection with the murder of Chinaedu Iheagwara, 34, in 2002.
When pressed about any comments his brother had made about this shooting and his arrest, John Akinyemi repeatedly said: "I cannot remember."
He later said: "He made out like he was being troubled for something he did not do and he did not want to talk about it."
After Mr Coghlan was initially accused of murdering Stephen Akinyemi, the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the charge because it could not prove Mr Coghlan, who suffered stab wounds, was not acting in self-defence.
It was the third time he had been cleared of murder.
In 1996, he was cleared of murdering alleged gangland enforcer Chris Little, who had been shot dead at the wheel of his Mercedes two years earlier.
In 2001, another drug dealer David Barnshaw, 32, was kidnapped, forced to drink petrol and burned alive in the back of a car in Stockport, Greater Manchester.
Mr Coghlan was acquitted of leading the gang that tortured and killed him when it emerged that police failed to pass on important information about another possible suspect.
The inquest continues.


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500 BC - Thracian tribes settle in what is now southeastern Bulgaria. They are subsequently subjugated by the Macedonian king Alexander the Great and later by the Roman Empire.
Volunteers re-enact the liberation of Sofia from the Ottoman Empire. It was previously ruled by the Romans
681 - Bulgarian state established.
890s - The earliest form of the Cyrillic alphabet - later versions of which are now used in dozens of Slavonic languages - is created by Bulgarian scholars.
1018-1185 - Bulgaria is part of Byzantine empire.
1396 - Ottoman Empire completes conquest of Bulgaria. Next five centuries are known as era of the "Turkish yoke".
1876 - Nationwide uprising against Ottoman rule is violently suppressed.
1878 - Treaty of San Stefano - signed by Russia and Turkey at the end of their war of 1877-78 - recognises an autonomous Bulgaria.
1878 - Treaty of Berlin creates much smaller Bulgarian principality. Eastern Rumelia remains under Ottoman rule.
1886 - Eastern Rumelia is merged with Bulgaria.
1887 - Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha elected prince.
1908 - Bulgaria declares itself an independent kingdom. Ferdinand assumes title of tsar.
1914-18 - World War I. Bulgaria allies itself with Germany. Some 100,000 Bulgarian troops are killed, the most severe per capita losses of any country involved in the war.
1939-45 World War II - Soviet army invades German-occupied Bulgaria in 1944. Soviet-backed Fatherland Front takes power.
1946 - Monarchy abolished in referendum and republic declared. Communist Party wins election. Georgi Dimitrov elected prime minister.
Todor Zhivkov was the Soviet bloc's longest-serving leader
Bulgaria's ex-communist leader dies
1947 - New constitution along Soviet lines establishes one-party state. Economy and industry sectors nationalised.
1954 - Todor Zhivkov becomes Communist Party general secretary. Bulgaria becomes staunch USSR ally.
1971 - Zhivkov becomes president.
1978 - Georgi Markov, a BBC World Service journalist and Bulgarian dissident, dies in London after apparently being injected with poison from the tip of an umbrella.
1984 - Zhivkov government tries to force Turkish minority to assimilate and take Slavic names. Many resist and in 1989 some 300,000 flee the country.
1989 - Reforms in the Soviet Union inspire demands for democratisation.
Zhivkov ousted. Multiparty system introduced. Opposition Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) formed.
1990 - Economic crisis. Communist Party reinvents itself as Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and wins free parliamentary elections.
President Petar Mladenov resigns and parliament appoints UDF's Zhelyu Zhelev.
BSP government collapses amid mass demonstrations and general strike.
1991 New constitution proclaims Bulgaria a parliamentary republic and provides broad range of freedoms.
UDF wins election.
1992 - Zhelev becomes Bulgaria's first directly-elected president. UDF government resigns. Lyuben Berov heads non-party government.
Todor Zhivkov sentenced to seven years in prison for corruption in office.
1993 - Mass privatisation programme.
1994 - BSP returns to power in general election.
1995 - BSP's Zhan Videnov becomes prime minister.
1996 - Financial turmoil. Petur Stoyanov replaces Zhelev as president.
Bulgarian Supreme Court overturns Zhivkov's conviction.
Videnov resigns as prime minister and chairman of the BSP.
1997 - Mass protests over economic crisis. Opposition boycotts parliament and calls for elections.
Interim government installed until elections, when UDF leader Ivan Kostov becomes prime minister.
Bulgarian currency pegged to German mark.
1999 - Protracted demolition attempts on marble mausoleum of first communist leader Georgi Dimitrov become national joke.
2000 - Post-communist prosecutors close file on Georgi Markov case. In December Markov is awarded Bulgaria's highest honour, the Order of Stara Planina, for his contribution to Bulgarian literature and his opposition to the communist authorities.
2001 June - Former King Simeon II's party, National Movement Simeon II, wins parliamentary elections. Simeon becomes premier in July.
Simeon II of Bulgaria served as Tsar between 1943 and 1946, when he was forced into exile. In 2001 he returned to become prime minister
2001 November - Thousands march through Sofia on 100th day of Simeon's premiership, saying he has failed to improve living standards.
Socialist Party leader Georgi Parvanov wins presidency in an election with the lowest turnout since the fall of communism. He vows to improve people's lives and to speed up EU and Nato entry.
2001 December - Parliament agrees to destroy Soviet-made missiles by late 2002, ahead of Nato membership.
2004 March - Bulgaria is admitted to Nato.
2005 August - Socialist Party led by Sergei Stanishev tops the poll in general elections. After weeks of wrangling the main parties sign a coalition deal under which he becomes prime minister.
2005 December - Bulgaria's contingent of 400 light infantry troops leaves Iraq. In February 2006 parliament agrees to dispatch a non-combat guard unit.
2006 December - Bulgarian officials condemn death sentences handed to five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor by a Libyan court. The six were found guilty of deliberately infecting Libyan children with the HIV virus.
2007 January - Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union, raising the EU membership to 27.
2007 June - The European Commission calls on Bulgaria to do more to combat corruption.
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were condemned to death by a Libyan court for allegedly infecting children with HIV. They were later released
2007 July - The death sentences against six foreign medical workers in the HIV case in Libya are commuted to life in prison. They are repatriated to Bulgaria under a deal with the European Union.
2008 February - European Commission interim report says Bulgaria and Romania have failed to show convincing results in their anti-graft drives.
2008 March - European Union freezes some infrastructure subsidies over corruption in the traffic agency.
2008 April - European Union calls on Bulgaria to take urgent action after two prominent gangland killings, including a senior figure in the nuclear industry.
Interior Minister Rumen Petkov resigns over police officers accused of passing state secrets to alleged crime bosses.
Government reshuffled in order to combat organised crime and wave of contract killings. Ambassador to Germany, Meglena Plugchieva, appointed deputy prime minister without portfolio to oversee use of EU funds.
2008 July - European Commission suspends EU aid worth hundreds of millions of euros after series of reports criticise Bulgarian government for failing to take effective action against corruption and organised crime.
EU pressed for reactors to close at Kozloduy nuclear plant
2008 September - European Commission permanently strips Bulgaria of half of the aid frozen in July over what it says is the government's failure to tackle corruption and organised crime.
2009 January - Russia's gas dispute with Ukraine cuts supplies to Bulgaria, resulting in a severe energy shortage lasting several weeks and widespread anger at the government's energy policies.
2009 June - Workers rally to protest at government's handling of economic crisis.
2009 July - General election is won by the centre-right GERB party led by Sofia mayor Boiko Borisov.
2010 January - Boris Tsankov, a prominent crime journalist who specialised in reporting on the mafia in Bulgaria, is shot dead in Sofia.
2010 June - EU expresses concern over reliability of Bulgarian national statistics and says these may have to be subjected to EU scrutiny.
2010 July - Former PM Sergei Stanishev is accused of failing to return files containing state secrets relating to security and organised crime after losing the 2009 election, and is charged with mishandling classified documents.
2010 September - EU calls on Bulgaria to take urgent action to tackle crime and corruption.
2010 December - Government-appointed commission finds that 45 senior Bulgarian diplomats were secret service agents during the communist era.
France and Germany block Bulgaria from joining Schengen passport-free zone, saying it still needs to make "irreversible progress" in fight against corruption and organised crime.
2011 September - Anti-Roma demonstrations in Sofia and elsewhere following the death of a youth who was hit by a van driven by relatives of a Roma kingpin.
2011 October - Rosen Plevneliev, from the centre-right GERB party of Prime Minister Borisov, beats the Socialist candidate in the presidential election.
2012 January - Bulgaria becomes the second European country after France to ban exploratory drilling for shale gas using the extraction method called "fracking" after an overwhelming parliamentary vote.
2012 July - A suspected suicide bomber kills five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver on a bus in the Black Sea resort of Burgas.
2013 January - A controversial referendum on whether to build a second Bulgarian nuclear plant is invalidated by low turnout.
2013 February - The Bulgarian authorities say the Burgas suicide attack was most likely the work of the Lebanese group Hezbollah. Hezbollah itself denies the allegation.
Prime Minister Borisov resigns after 14 people are injured in clashes with police at anti-austerity protests.
2013 March - After failing to persuade any of the leaders of the main political parties to form a government, President Plevneliev appoints a caretaker cabinet headed by Marin Raikov, the ambassador to France. He is tasked with organising fresh elections.
2013 May - The centre-right GERB party of former prime minister Boiko Borisov narrowly beats the socialist BSP in parliamentary elections, but falls well short of a majority. The Socialists provide parliamentary support for a technocratic government headed by Plamen Oresharski.
2013 June - Tens of thousands of protestors take to the streets for five days over the appointment of controversial media mogul Delyan Peevski to head the national security agency. Parliament reverses the appointment but anti-government demonstrations continue.
2013 July - Weeks of protests over official corruption culminate in a blockade of parliament and clashes with the police.
2014 January - Transitional curbs on Bulgarians' right to work and receive benefits in some EU members in place since Bulgaria joined the bloc in 2007 lapse.
2014 June - Banking crisis. Rumours of liquidity shortfalls cause panic and runs on major banks.
2014 July - Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski steps down after little more than a year in office, paving the way for a snap election due in October 2014.
2014 October - Low turnout of about 50% produces parliament divided between a record eight parties.
2014 November - Boyko Borisov returns to premiership as his GERB party forms coalition with fellow centre-right Reformist Bloc.
2014 December - Russia scraps plans for South Stream gas pipeline because of EU opposition. The project planned to pump Russian gas across the Black Sea through Bulgaria, bypassing Ukraine.
2015 January - Bulgaria says it will extend a controversial fence along its border with Turkey by 80 kilometres to help stem the flow of illegal immigrants.

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Question: Saudi Arabia's new leader, King Salman, has announced a raft of changes to the royal line of succession.

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Prince Nayef, who was also deputy prime minister and interior minister, had left the country for a holiday and medical tests late last month.
UK PM David Cameron praised the prince's "dedication" and US President Barack Obama focused on his role in fighting terrorism.
He was named crown prince last year succeeding Sultan bin Abdul Aziz.
The succession in Saudi Arabia still passes among the sons of former King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, who established the modern kingdom during his reign from 1932 to 1953. So far, five brothers have become kings and about 20 are still alive.
King Abdullah, who is 88 years old, had a back operation last year.
Next in line is expected to be Prince Nayef's 76-year-old brother, Prince Salman, who was appointed defence minister in November after spending five decades as governor of Riyadh.
The new crown prince must be approved by the Allegiance Council, a 34-strong assembly of King Abdul Aziz's sons and some of his grandchildren.
Obituary: Prince Nayef
A statement from King Abdullah published by the official SPA news agency, said Prince Nayef had died on Saturday "outside the kingdom" and would be buried on Sunday after Maghreb (sunset) prayers in Mecca.
Unconfirmed reports said Prince Nayef had been receiving medical treatment since May at a hospital in the Swiss city of Geneva.
On 3 June, the deputy interior minister said the prince, who was 77 or 78, was in good health and would return "soon".
Saudi Arabia is expected to declare a period of mourning following Prince Nayef's burial.
The prince was a member of the influential group known in Saudi Arabia as the "Sudairi Seven", which was made up of the sons born to King Abdul Aziz and his favourite wife, Hassa bint Ahmed al-Sudairi.
The kingdom's interior minister since 1975, he led the crackdown on al-Qaeda's offshoot in the country after 11 September 2001.
Personally committed to maintaining Saudi Arabia's conservative traditions based on the Wahhabi doctrine of Islam, he was seen to be more conservative than King Abdullah.
But in 2001, Prince Nayef supported a move to issue women with their own identity cards, a decision which gave women more freedom in many financial and legal transactions, says the BBC's Shaimaa Khalil in Cairo.
He adopted a more stern tone to the Arab Spring, denying claims that it could move to Saudi Arabia, our correspondent adds.


Question: US retail sales rose 0.2% in August, helped by spending on cars, restaurant meals, groceries and clothing, the US Commerce Department has said.

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Core sales - which strip out spending on cars, petrol, building materials and restaurants - rose 0.4%.
But separately, factory production slipped in August, falling a sharper than expected 0.5%.
The Federal Reserve has a mixed picture of the US economy ahead of a rate-setting meeting later this week.
Manufacturing output fell last month as car production jammed on the brakes, after a rise of 0.9% in July. Excluding cars, factory output was unchanged.
The US manufacturing sector has been struggling, faced with a strong dollar and slack oversees economies.
A drop in mining production combined with the drop in factory output left overall industrial production down 0.4% during the month.
But retail sales figures, boosted by rising employment, suggest that a recent stock market sell-off had little impact on consumer spending.
"Today's data are positive news for final demand in the third quarter and should give the Fed more confidence in the spending outlook," said Laura Rosner, an economist at BNP Paribas in New York.
Car dealers and restaurants have especially reaped the benefits of around 2.9 million jobs being added to the economy over the past year.
Sales at car dealers and parts shops have risen 5.7% during the past 12 months, as many people in the US are replacing their older vehicles.
Nearly a fifth of all retail sales tracked by the government come from the car industry.
Purchases at restaurants and bars increased 0.7% in August and have soared 8.2% this year.
Around 372,000 workers have been taken on in the sector over the past year to satisfy demand.
Sales also improved last month at grocers, clothes shops, sports stores and online retailers.
On Wednesday and Thursday the Federal Reserve will meet to decide whether to raise interest rates from near zero.
There is never a risk-free time to raise interest rates, BBC economics editor Robert Peston said.
"In the opaque globalised financial world, they [the Fed] know that all sorts of bubbles and market distortions have been created and pumped up by the steroids of super-cheap dollar debt - but they can't be certain of the scale or even the precise location of these unhealthy imbalances," he said.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 187.03 points to 17,908.28.
The S&P 500 climbed 20.70 points to 2,082.42, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 58.68 points to 4,554.72.
Shares in JP Morgan climbed 4.2%, despite reporting a first quarter drop in profit to $5.52bn from $5.91bn a year earlier.
The news lifted shares of other US banks.  Bank of America gained 3.9% and Wells Fargo was up 2.6%. Both banks report their earnings on Thursday.
Cable and wireless company Verizon fell 1.3% after 40,000 workers walked off the job. Verizon and labour unions have failed to reach a deal for a new contract and the strikes attracted the attention of presidential candidates.
Investors mostly ignored lacklustre US data suggesting the economy had stumbled in the first quarter.
US retail sales fell 0.3% in March as households cut back on purchases of cars and spending in restaurants, the Commerce Department said.
In a separate report, the Labor Department said its producer price index slipped 0.1% last month after dropping 0.2% in February.


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Question: Details of harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA on suspected terrorists have been made public by the US Senate Intelligence Committee.

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Former US President George W Bush said the CIA had saved lives by using "enhanced interrogation techniques" to acquire information from suspects but insisted: "This government does not torture people."
President Barack Obama, however, condemned the CIA interrogation programme as a "dark and painful chapter" in US history and signed an executive order banning the techniques on his second day in office.
Shortly after the attacks on 11 September 2001, the CIA drew up a list of new interrogation techniques that included sleep deprivation, slapping, subjection to cold and simulated drowning, known as "waterboarding".
Waterboarding involves a prisoner being restrained on his back with their feet at a level higher than their head, or tied upside down. A cloth is placed over the prisoner's face or pushed into their mouth. Sometimes plastic film is used.
Water is then poured on to their face and into their nose and mouth. The prisoner gags almost immediately as the water starts entering the lungs.
As they start to feel they are drowning, they typically panic and struggle, and their body goes into spasm. Waterboarding can result in brain damage, broken bones and psychological damage.
The report also details an "aggressive phase of interrogation" for detainee Abu Zubaydah where he was confined to a coffin-sized box for a total of 266 hours. He was kept in an even smaller box for 29 hours.
It also describes the use of sleep deprivation for up to 180 hours, painful stress positions, sexual threats and humiliation.
The controversial methods were used by CIA interrogators at secret locations across the world, known as "black sites".
Torture is defined by the UN Convention against Torture, which the US has signed, as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person" in order to get information.
The US legal code defines torture as an action "specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering", while the US Constitution bans "cruel and unusual punishment".
Human rights groups and several foreign governments say the CIA programme included torture.
But the US government under Mr Bush did not agree and made a distinction between "torture", which it accepted is banned by US and international law, and "enhanced interrogation techniques".
However, President Barack Obama halted the programme when he took office in 2009, and acknowledged that many of the measures amounted to torture. "I believe that waterboarding was torture and, whatever legal rationales were used, it was a mistake," he told reporters.
In April 2009, President Obama released a series of legal memos written between 2002 and 2005 by lawyers under the Bush administration that sought to justify the use of waterboarding and other methods.
The memos argued that the methods were not "cruel, inhuman or degrading" under international law and highlighted safeguards, such as conducting the interrogations under the supervision of a physician or psychologist with the authority to stop it.
One memo said waterboarding would only be used when the CIA had "credible intelligence" that a terrorist attack was imminent and there were "credible indicators" that the subject possessed "actionable intelligence".
Former CIA lawyer John Rizzo authorised the programme. Speaking to BBC Newsnight earlier this year, Mr Rizzo said capturing and interrogating terrorists was better than killing people through drone strikes.
The CIA used "enhanced interrogation techniques" for several years but it is unclear how many detainees were subjected to the methods. Only three people are believed to have been subjected to waterboarding.
According to ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou, al-Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah "broke" within half a minute of being waterboarded. Abu Zubaydah said later he had made things up to satisfy his interrogators.
A justice department memo reported by the New York Times in 2009 revealed that CIA interrogators had used the waterboarding technique 83 times on Abu Zubaydah and 183 times on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who planned the 9/11 attacks.
The third person known to have been waterboarded is Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the 2000 attack on the USS Cole.
The practices were brutal and produced little intelligence of value, a leaked White House memo said in July 2014.
The arguments over waterboarding reflect all arguments about similar methods. Do they produce information or lies? Can the information be obtained by other means? And are they counter-productive?
The Senate committee concluded that the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining co-operation from detainees.
It also criticised the CIA for allowing two psychologists, who had no background in counter-terrorism and who were hired to develop procedures, to assess the effectiveness of their own programme.
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The UN and human rights groups have called for the prosecution of US officials involved in the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques".
Ben Emmerson, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism, said in a statement: "As a matter of international law, the US is legally obliged to bring those responsible to justice."
Critics of the programme have called for George W Bush himself to be investigated, alongside former Vice-President Dick Cheney, former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and ex-CIA Director George Tenet.
However, President Obama has previously stated: "Those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the department of justice... will not be subject to prosecution."
There have been previous investigations but they have not resulted in any prosecutions.
In 2012, US Attorney General Eric Holder looked into CIA interrogation practices overseas but said the evidence was not "sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt".
17 September 2001: President Bush authorises CIA to detain suspected terrorists
August 2002: Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi terror suspect, subjected to persistent "coercive interrogation", including waterboarding
November 2002: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri transferred to CIA custody and subjected to waterboarding.
March 2003: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, suspected 9/11 mastermind, captured - later waterboarded 183 times
2 November 2005: Washington Post reveals existence of global CIA interrogation programme
8-9 November 2005: CIA authorises destruction of "coercive interrogation" videotapes
September 2006: President Bush publicly acknowledges the programme for the first time
March 2008: President Bush vetoes legislation to limit CIA interrogation techniques.
January 2009: President Barack Obama bans the CIA's detention authority and limits interrogation to techniques authorised by the Army Field Manual.

Although the programme's existence has been well-known for years now. the level of detail contained in the 480-page summary offers a new insight into the work of the CIA.
It also probes the extent to which the programme was accepted at the highest levels of government.
The authors of the report describe how Mr Bush began to set the foundation for a secretive detention programme within a week of the terrorist attacks.
They wrote: "September 17, 2001, six days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W Bush signed a covert action Memorandum of Notification (MON) to authorize the director of central intelligence (DCI) to 'undertake operations designed to capture and detain persons who pose a continuing, serious threat of violence or death to U.S. persons and interests or who are planning terrorist activities.'"
One of the biggest questions about the CIA detention programme is who knew what - and when - about the harsh treatment of detainees and the use of "enhanced" interrogation methods.
The report says: "The CIA did not brief the leadership of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques until September 2002, after the techniques had been approved and used."
Former CIA officials - those who were involved in the programme - agree on the timing of their briefings to Congress about the programme.
Yet the former CIA officials describe things a bit differently. Several years ago John Rizzo, the former acting general counsel of the CIA, told me that the leaders of Congress knew exactly what the CIA officers were doing with the detainees at the black sites - and didn't object.
President Bush has said that he supported the harsh interrogations. He wanted to protect the US from another al-Qaeda attack.
Yet the report states he was not always enthusiastic about the tactics: "According to CIA records, when briefed in April 2006, the president expressed discomfort with the 'image of a detainee, chained to the ceiling, clothed in a diaper, and forced to go to the bathroom on himself.'"
One of the most important case studies in the report is the one about a Saudi-born detainee named Abu Zubaydah - one of the first prisoners to be subjected to waterboarding.
The report provides new details about his treatment and says CIA officers concluded that he "should remain incommunicado for the remainder of his life".
This could have given the CIA officials more freedom to subject him to harsh treatment, since they believed he would never have a chance to provide an account of what happened to him.
Zubaydah, who was captured in Pakistan in 2002, is now held at Guantanamo's Camp Seven, an area that is off-limits to journalists.
John Rizzo, formerly of the CIA, has acknowledged that videotapes made of the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah were "tough to watch".
Yet the report reveals new details about what the videotapes portrayed - and why they were disturbing.
In a heavily redacted section, the authors write that during one interrogation Zubaydah became "unresponsive, with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth".
The videos have been destroyed. As of this date, the Senate report provides the most comprehensive account of what the videos showed.
Democratic Party Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is the first woman to hold the vaunted position of overseeing 16 intelligence agencies.
The California native, born in 1933, attended Stanford University and began her career in politics in 1969 when she was elected to the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors.
During her career, Ms Feinstein has championed legislation banning the manufacture, sale and possession of military-style assault weapons as well as bolstering security measures at more than 300 US seaports.
She has also been a staunch critic of US intelligence over-reach, publicly criticising the National Security Agency's monitoring of the national leaders of American allies.
But her most high-profile fight of late was the committee's six-year review of thousands of CIA documents, which concluded the rendition, detention and interrogation practices of the George W Bush administration were ineffective.
Libyan Islamist Abdul Hakim Belhaj told the BBC two years ago that he had been tortured:
"I was kidnapped at Bangkok airport and my family and I were tortured by the CIA and of course this continued when I was handed to the Libyan authorities.
"I was tortured but what was more agonising is what happened to my ill and pregnant wife back then.
"When we were detained in Bangkok airport we stayed for days in a small cell that was very crowded. My wife was brutally tortured. I was beaten, hanged from a wall. I was put under so much psychological pressure during my interrogation. "
As ex-CIA lawyer John Rizzo wrote in his book, "the bipartisan leadership of Congress (the so-called Gang of 8) had been briefed by the CIA on the newly approved techniques, including waterboarding, and expressed no concern whatsoever".
His account raises questions about the congressional leadership. Why didn't they say at the time that they believed the harsh interrogation methods were wrong?
Members of Congress could have told Rizzo and the other CIA officials that they didn't want the detainees to be treated like this.


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Question: Police hunting for a "dangerous" convicted murderer who breached his prison release licence believe he has travelled to London.

William Kerr, 53, absconded from a bail hostel in Hull following his release on 23 January.
He was jailed for life in 1998 for the murder of Maureen Comfort in Leeds.
North Yorkshire Police said Kerr, who speaks with a Scottish accent, needed to be arrested and returned to prison "as a matter of urgency".
A spokesperson said he was known to have links to Humberside, as well as West Yorkshire and London.
Ms Comfort, 43, was strangled to death at her flat at Cromwell Heights, where she had lived alone, in 1996.
Her body was found in a cupboard in her bedroom by her family after they became concerned they had not heard from her.
Two years later Kerr was found guilty of her murder at Leeds Crown Court.
Police issued a recent photo of Kerr and urged people to "keep an eye out for him".
Det Insp Eamonn Clarke said: "To assist our already extensive efforts to trace William Kerr, I am urging people to keep an eye out for the man in the photographs.
"We believe he is now in the London area and he may be trying to book into a hostel or other accommodation using a false name as he has done previously.
"We ask that you do not approach Kerr, as he is considered dangerous."
Det Insp Clarke urged Kerr "to do the right thing and hand yourself in to the police".
North Yorkshire Police said it was leading the hunt for Kerr as his probation officer was based in Selby but there was "no evidence at this time to suggest that he is currently in North Yorkshire".

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Isaac Parker, 59, is serving a sentence for sexual offences and robbery.
He went missing from the open prison on Saturday morning, triggering police to warn the public not to approach him if they spotted him.
Parker - who has links to the Reading and Oxford areas - was arrested later on Saturday.


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Question: Athletes were stopped from training in Rio's Olympic diving pool as work to turn the water blue again continued.

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The pool turned a murky green on Tuesday with Games organisers blaming chemical levels in the water.
Britain's Tom Daley was among the divers questioning why the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre was closed on Friday as they turned up to practise.
Officials said training was cancelled as "the water must be still for the pool to return to its blue colour".
"Hopefully that means we haven't been diving in anything too bad the last couple of days," tweeted Daley, 22.
The Rio 2016 Olympic Organising Committee added in a statement that athletes could perform dry training at a section of the venue with trampolines, platforms and harnesses.
Venue organisers told BBC Sport the water colour would "take time to fix fully, but conditions are improving".
"The bottom of the tiles became very dirty which we're in the process of cleaning, whilst the water itself is being treated and filtered," officials at Maria Lenk added.
"Again, there's no risk to the athletes and colour-wise it is better than yesterday."
Conditions were fine for Daley's bronze medal-winning performance alongside Dan Goodfellow on Monday, but the water changed colour following the women's competition a day later.
Swimming's world governing body Fina said the water tanks had run out of some of the chemicals used in the water treatment process.
It stressed that there were no health risk to the divers.
The water appeared more blue than green when GB's Rebecca Gallantree and Grace Reid featured in the women's 3m springboard preliminaries on Friday, as Reid progressed to the semi-finals.
Daley is due to compete in the men's 10m platform, which begins next Friday.
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Windsurfer Wonwoo Cho was taken to hospital during the event, with Danny Ok claiming the cause was "probably from the water" at Guanabara Bay.
Cho returned to competition a day later and finished 14th out of 28 - his second best finish of the regatta.
Rio 2016 organisers said: "There is no direct evidence to suggest the illness was caused by contact with water."
The statement added: "From a field of 326 athletes and 68 technical officials on the water, the International Sailing Federation (Isaf) medical team has received only two medical cases over the first five days of competition.
"Isaf have confirmed this number is significantly below the average for a regatta of this size. From a field of 326 athletes it is normal for some athletes to experience illness when travelling and competing in new environments."
In July, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said cleaning up the polluted Guanabara Bay - the venue for the Olympic sailing and windsurfing competitions - remained a serious challenge.
Sailors in the area have reported seeing pollution, including furniture and floating animal carcasses, while nearly 70% of sewage in the Brazilian city is spilled raw into its waters.
Bach said some measures to clean the waters had already started, while others "will be applied to the bay just before the Olympics to make sure there is the safety and the health of the athletes".
The authorities in Rio initially promised that 80% of the bay would be cleaned up in time for the Games, which get under way on 5 August 2016.
But they have admitted more recently that those targets would not be met.
Earlier this month United States rowing officials refused to blame the water when 15 junior team members fell ill at a test event.


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Question: A seven-year-old cyclist has died following a crash with a car in North Somerset.

The girl died after the collision on the A371 between RAF Locking and the Helicopter Museum which happened just before 15:00 BST.
Police closed the road for several hours. It has since reopened.
An Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said: "Our thoughts are with her family at this tragic time." The force appealed for witnesses to contact them.

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The 21-year-old was arrested after Chase Tate was found dead on the A1104 at Miles Cross Hill, Ulceby Cross, on Saturday.
Lincolnshire Police, which said Mr Tate was hit by a car, is still appealing for witnesses to the incident.
The body of Mr Tate was found by a member of the public.


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Question: A second man has been arrested over a street stabbing in Glasgow which left the victim in a critical condition.

A 34-year-old man was seriously injured in Ashgill Road, in the city's Milton area, at about 00:25 on 23 July.
Police previously said that he had been attacked by four men and the incident was being treated as attempted murder.
A 28-year-old has been arrested and is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday. A 27-year-old man was arrested last month.

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Patrick Adams, 59, and Constance Adams, 55, were arrested by Dutch police on Friday on suspicion of carrying out an attempted murder in Islington in 2013.
They will now be extradited for police questioning in England.
In December 2013, a 51-year-old man was shot in the chest after being approached by a man and woman as he sat in a car on St John Street.
He was taken to an east London hospital where he required treatment for his injuries for more than a month.


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Question: Georgia Taylor-Brown says she hoped she 'made Manchester smile' after winning her maiden Triathlon World Cup event in Madrid.

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Manchester-born Taylor-Brown, 23, was competing almost a week after the arena attack that killed 22 people in her home city.
"When you come away with flowers and a sticky face, it's been a good day," she tweeted. "Hope I made Manchester smile."
America's Taylor Spivey was second.
Taylor-Brown finished in a time of two hours, eight minutes, five seconds - 51 seconds ahead of second-placed Spivey.
She held her own in the swim, finished in a leading pack of eight after 20km on the bike and increased a slender lead over four laps in the run.
"It was one of the hardest races I've ever done in my career, but also one of the best ones," added the 2012 European junior champion.
"I loved the atmosphere, the hilly circuit and I just tried to save some energy during the bike for the run course, which I knew it was going to be also really hard."

Stanford finished 11th on her return to action in the World Series on Sunday, 11 June.
That race in Leeds was 2013 world champion Stanford's first Olympic distance race since finishing fourth at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
She tweeted: "Disappointed to have to withdraw from European Champs."
Stanford added: "Good luck all of @BritTri racing. But for me now is 'ahead only'."
The Swansea-born athlete had been been feeling unwell since competing at a World Series event in Yokohama in May.
Stanford won the Chengdu World Cup sprint distance event in the same month.
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Question: Plaid Cymru is not performing as well as it could be and needs to "raise its game" in the assembly, one of the party's AMs has said.

Simon Thomas' comments follow fresh questions about the party's leadership.
Speaking at the National Eisteddfod on Anglesey, AM Rhun ap Iorwerth said he would consider succeeding Leanne Wood.
Another of the party's AMs, who did not want to be named, called for a leadership contest claiming Ms Wood had "lost authority in the group".
Speaking to BBC Wales' Newyddion 9 programme, Mr Thomas said he would like his party to "concentrate on the leadership question they do have, which isn't a question around one person as leader, but the question of 'are we performing as well as we could be as an assembly group?'"
"I don't think we are so we all have to raise our game," he said.
Mr Thomas, who represents Mid and West Wales, also said it was expected that questions around leadership arise between elections.
"That's not saying anything in favour or against any person, it's just obvious it's going to be part of the discussion," he said.
"If anyone thinks they could do a better job as leader than Leanne Wood, they should stand using the party's procedures rather than say things anonymously."
According to the Plaid Cymru constitution, the leader must face re-election every two years. This usually happens unopposed.
The next opportunity to stand against the current leader will be next year.

The former Tory MP has denied a suggestion by a senior UKIP source that he will try to change party rules giving UKIP leader Nigel Farage sole power to appoint the leader in Wales.
Current UKIP rules allow different politicians to lead the assembly group and the party in Wales.
A source close to Mr Gill said he was confident most UKIP AMs would back him.
Mr Hamilton and Mr Gill were among seven new UKIP AMs elected on Thursday.
Gareth Bennett, Mark Reckless, David Rowlands and Mr Gill took the oath of office at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay on Saturday.
Mr Hamilton and another newly-elected AM - Caroline Jones - were present but were not sworn in.
Party sources expect Mr Hamilton to make the leadership challenge on Tuesday to Mr Gill, who was appointed UKIP Wales leader by Mr Farage in 2014.
Mr Hamilton and Ms Jones are expected to take the oath on Tuesday morning, after attending a meeting of UKIP's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) on Monday.
At the meeting they will stand down from the NEC, which is required under UKIP's rules now that they have become elected politicians.
A senior UKIP source suggested Mr Hamilton might use the meeting to attempt to change party rules stating that UKIP's national leader has the sole power to appoint the party's leader in Wales.
Mr Hamilton has denied he has such a plan.
Earlier on Saturday, Mr Hamilton told BBC Radio Wales that UKIP AMs would agree next week who should lead their group.
He stressed that Mr Gill was not automatically in charge and said there were "many people in UKIP" with the right skills for the the job.
"We're going to have a collective discussion when we all meet together and we'll come up with a decision as to which of us is likely to be the most effective leader in the assembly," he said.
Asked if he would be the best candidate, Mr Hamilton added: "I, of course, have a lot of parliamentary experience and so has [fellow UKIP AM and ex-Tory MP] Mark Reckless.
"I've been around in politics for a very long time at quite a high level, and we have many people in UKIP who've got the kind of skills which will be advantageous to a leader.
"But I'm not going to pre-empt the discussions that we will have, probably on Tuesday."
First Minister Carwyn Jones is spending the weekend preparing to form a new government, after Labour won 29 of the 60 seats, losing just one to Plaid.
The new assembly is expected to hold its first meeting next week.
Discussions are ongoing between the parties to decide who should be presiding officer and deputy presiding officer, and take charge of assembly proceedings.
The Conservative assembly group will meet on Monday to discuss strategy, after a disappointing election under Welsh leader Andrew RT Davies.
The party failed to win any target seats and lost three to fall into third place behind Plaid Cymru.
Monmouth AM Nick Ramsay said the Conservatives' problems could not be "brushed under the table" and the leadership needed to be discussed.
He called it a "difficult" campaign but backed Mr Davies.
"The 11 of us that are now left need to look at where we go from here," he said.
"[We need to] decide how we get there and then look at all issues, including the leadership, but other issues as well such as the strategy the group adopts."
A Welsh Conservative spokesman described the campaign as "very positive" and "ambitious" with "great ideas".
"There's a fifth party in play now, which has affected everyone else," he said, referring to UKIP.
"We've proven we can challenge in key seats next time around."
Plaid Cymru AM Rhun ap Iorwerth said his party would be "constructive but playing the crucial role of a strong opposition" to Labour.
"We will use that wisely to put forward a vision for the country which is as clear now as it was the day before the election," he said.
Kirsty Williams, the only surviving Lib Dem AM, has resigned as leader of the party in Wales after it lost four of its five Senedd seats.
Labour looks likely to form another minority Labour administration after an election in which only one constituency changed hands.
And yet, the election has revealed a big change in Welsh politics - a change that has arrived in Cardiff Bay in the form of seven UKIP AMs who won seats on the regional lists.
They say they want to shake the place up. But Nigel Farage also says they want to play a constructive role.
I'm not sure how you achieve both.
Either way, there's a question facing UKIP - who will lead them in Wales?
Nathan Gill was appointed UKIP Wales leader by Nigel Farage in 2014 - a job he's compared to "herding cats".
It sounds as though Neil Hamilton - the former Tory MP whose political career has been re-booted by this election - would be only too happy to relieve him of his duty.
But his elevation is unlikely to heal rifts in the party. Even the suggestion that he could be a candidate in this election caused a row in UKIP's ranks.