Mr Hassan, who lived alone, died from neck and chest injuries
Two men have been found guilty of murdering a professional poker player who was lured into a honey trap for his winnings.
Mehmet Hassan, 56, from north London, was tied up and kicked to death in March last year.
Kyrron Jackson, 28, and his friend Nicholas Chandler, 29, both from London, were found guilty of murder.
Jackson's girlfriend Leonie Granger, 25, who met Mr Hassan at a casino, was found guilty of manslaughter.
Mr Hassan was bound with parcel tape and a neck tie and then kicked and stamped to death in his bedroom, the trial at Old Bailey had heard.
The attackers, who then ransacked his home looking for cash, were allegedly let in by 25-year-old care assistant Granger, who Mr Hassan had met at a Mayfair casino the month before.
Afterwards, while he lay dead in a pool of blood, all three defendants were filmed on Granger's mobile phone throwing £50 notes around and stuffing wads in underpants, the jury was told.
The defendants said the video was actually made four months earlier.
Mr Hassan was described as a professional gambler who sometimes won as much as £15,000 at a time.
The UN refugee agency says not enough is being done to save the lives of the increased numbers of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
A UNHCR spokesman told the BBC around 400 migrants were still missing after their boat capsized off Libya.
Libya's coastguard says it expects more attempted crossings later this week.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants have made the perilous crossing in recent years, fleeing poverty and conflict in Africa and the Middle East.
Hundreds more migrants rescued from boats in the Mediterranean are due to arrive in Sicily during the day.
Almost 10,000 migrants have been picked up in recent days, and more boats are heading for the Italian coast.
Italy's interior ministry has instructed officials throughout the country to be prepared to house the new arrivals, many of whom are children.
UN officials say well over 500 people have died since the start of the year, 30 times more than in the same period last year.
Over 280,000 people entered the EU illegally last year, many fleeing conflict in Syria and repression in Eritrea.
The Italian coast guard rescued 144 people from the capsized boat on Monday and launched an air and sea search operation in hopes of saving others.
Nine bodies have already been recovered, but no more survivors have been found since then.
Migrants in Libyan jail
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville is at a detention centre for would-be migrants in Misrata, Libya - among them this 14-year-old from Eritrea (below). "Is this a jail? Are we refugees?" some of the migrants ask. They say they have been held there for seven months.
Clear skies spell death for migrants
Last year, 170,000 migrants crossed the Mediterranean to Italy and as many as 3,500 died while making the journey, officials say.
The Italian government's maritime rescue operation was scaled back, amid concerns that it was encouraging migrant crossings, and a more limited EU border security operation took over.
However, the latest numbers show that the EU's policy of deterring people is not working, the BBC's James Reynolds in Sicily reports.
Shots fired
Meanwhile the EU's Frontex border agency said that people smugglers had fired shots into the air to warn away another coast guard vessel rescuing migrants.
The incident on Monday happened about 60 nautical miles off Libya after an Italian vessel and an Icelandic coast guard ship had rescued most of the 250 migrants on a tugboat.
Frontex says the incident shows that traffickers are running out of boats.
EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos told the European Parliament: "The unprecedented influx of migrants at our borders, and in particular refugees, is unfortunately the new norm and we will need to adjust our responses accordingly."
Since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has been without a stable government allowing trafficking networks to thrive.
On Friday, humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres announced it would operate a search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean between May and October.
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GP services are facing a crisis, with a third of doctors considering retirement in the next five years, a British Medical Association poll suggests.
The survey of more than 15,000 UK GPs also found over a quarter were considering working part-time.
And one in 10 said they were thinking about moving abroad.
BMA GP leader Dr Chaand Nagpaul said the findings showed some of the promises being made about doctors by politicians were "absurd".
Improving GP care has been one of the major themes of debate in the election, with the Conservatives promising seven-day access to services and Labour pledging a 48-hour waiting-time guarantee.
Policy guide: Health and care
This issue includes NHS funding, GP access and social care, particularly of older people.
The findings are in the second tranche of results from the BMA's poll of GPs, in which nearly a third of doctors in the UK took part.
Last week the BMA released figures suggesting excessive workloads were harming care. This batch of results focused on the effect those rising demands were having. It suggests:
34% of GPs are considering retiring from general practice in the next five years
28% of those working full-time are thinking about moving to part-time
9% are considering moving abroad
7% are considering quitting medicine altogether
They also cited various factors that had a negative impact on their commitment to being a GP, including:
excessive workload - 71%
un-resourced work being moved into general practice - 54%
not enough time with their patients - 43%
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Dr Nagpaul said: "This poll lays bare the stark reality of the crisis facing the GP workforce.
"It is clear that incredible pressures on GP services are at the heart of this problem, with escalating demand having far outstripped capacity.
"GPs are overworked and intensely frustrated that they do not have enough time to spend with their patients.
"In this climate, it is absurd that in the recent leaders' debate, political parties were attempting to outbid each other on the number of GPs they could magically produce in the next Parliament.
"Since it takes five to eight years to train a GP, it is not possible to create thousands of GPs in this timeframe."
Katherine Murphy, of the Patients Association, said: "We know from the many calls to our helpline that patients are not able to access GP services at times when they need to.
"What patients want is a clear and firm commitment that GPs now and tomorrow will have the resources to meet their needs.
"Anything less is just not acceptable.
"We need a 21st Century primary care service with access 24/7."
But a spokesman for NHS England said measures were being put in place to recruit extra GPs through the recently developed workforce action plan.
He said: "NHS England has invested £10m to kick-start the initiatives in the plan, which include incentives to recruit newly trained doctors into general practice, schemes to retain GPs thinking of leaving the profession and a new induction and returner scheme to encourage more GPs to return from to work after a period of absence working abroad or from a career break."
There are currently 9,000 GPs in training, although 14,000 doctors - about four in 10 - are over the age of 50.
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Miss Buckley's disappearance is said to be completely out of character
The search for an Irish student who went missing following a night out in Glasgow has been extended to sites across the north west of the city.
Karen Buckley, 24, from Cork, was seen leaving the Sanctuary nightclub with a man in the early hours of Sunday.
BBC Scotland understands he is 21-year-old Alexander Pacteau, who has already been interviewed by police but is not being treated as a suspect.
Miss Buckley's bag was found in Dawsholm Park on Tuesday.
Mr Pacteau said she had left the property at 04:00 on Sunday to make her way home.
Officers are continuing to search the park, which is a short distance from Mr Pacteau's flat, as well as other sites in the area.
Officers have said they are "gravely concerned" for the wellbeing of Miss Buckley, whose parents have flown to Scotland from their home in Ireland.
Her mother, Marian, told a news conference on Tuesday: "We just want Karen home safely, we are desperate. She is our only daughter, we love her dearly.
"If anybody has any information please come forward, we would dearly appreciate it."
Miss Buckley, whose disappearance is said to be completely out of character, was last seen on CCTV talking to a man who is understood to be Mr Pacteau outside the Sanctuary nightclub in Dumbarton Road.
The pair travelled in his car to his flat in Dorchester Avenue, in the Kelvinside area of the city. It is said that she left the flat at about 04:00 on Sunday and was planning to walk back to her flat in Hill Street, close to the city centre.
The two addresses are about four miles apart.
Police have stressed that the man is helping them with their inquiries, but is not a suspect at this stage.
The Sanctuary nightclub is located in the city's west end - an area popular among students The Police Scotland helicopter has been involved in the search.
A handbag which officers believe belongs to Miss Buckley was found in Dawsholm Park, near Dorchester Avenue, on Tuesday afternoon.
The entrance to the park remained cordoned off on Wednesday morning as dozens of officers continued searching the area.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "The search resumed at first light this morning with specialist search officers and air support in the area of Dawsholm Park and the north west of Glasgow."
The spokeswoman said there had been a good response from the public to appeals for help to trace Miss Buckley but has urged people to get in touch if they have any information relating to the investigation.
Miss Buckley moved to Glasgow in February and is a first year occupational therapy student at Glasgow Caledonian University. She was previously a nurse at the Princess Alexandria Hospital in Harlow, Essex.
She arrived at the Sanctuary nightclub with friends at about 23:45 on Saturday and at about 01:00 she told them she was going to the toilet. She failed to return and did not take her jacket.
Her friends have said Miss Buckley had had a few drinks, but was not drunk.
There was a heavy police presence in the park where the student's handbag had been found Dozens of officers are involved in the search for Miss Buckley
Speaking on Tuesday, Det Supt Jim Kerr, from Police Scotland's major investigations team, said: "We've traced the man she was with in Dorchester Avenue. He believes he was intimate with her at his flat consensually in the early hours of Sunday."
The police officer added: "From what we can see, she does not appear to be under duress, there's no signs of a struggle or reluctance on her part to leave the club.
"However, that does not mean that something untoward has happened to her at a later stage."
Miss Buckley is described as white and about 5ft to 5ft 2in tall. She has brown eyes and dark hair which had long black curly extensions in it.
When last seen, she was wearing a black jumpsuit with red high-heeled shoes and was carrying a black handbag.
Despite reports to the contrary, Ms Buckley has not been active on social media since her disappearance.
Ms Buckley spent several hours at Dorchester Avenue before leaving at 04:00 on Sunday A heavy police presence has been maintained in the area surrounding the block of flats
Police are also keen to find out more about a grey car that was seen on the roads between Milngavie and Drymen north of Glasgow between 11:00 and 15:00 on Monday.
Det Supt Kerr said: "The activity of this grey car on the Monday is something that we're a wee bit concerned about. This car has been seen at various locations on these roads and I want to know why."
He added: "We are gravely concerned that Karen has come to some harm, whether that is down to foul play, criminality or she has taken unwell or had an accident is obviously still to be established."
Her father John Buckley, 62, said the disappearance was "so out of character".
He said: "We are extremely concerned for her. We are desperate to get her back and safe with her family - she is our only daughter, we love her dearly and just want her to come home safe and sound."
Nick Clegg has said no party will win an outright election victory and warned voters they face a choice between the Lib Dems, the SNP and UKIP over who holds the balance of power.
Launching his manifesto, the Lib Dem leader said he would seek to form a "coalition with conscience" that would not "lurch off to the extremes".
He pledged £2.5bn more for education after 2017 to boost opportunity.
The Conservatives and Labour have both insisted they can win on their own.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who published his party's own manifesto on Wednesday, has rejected suggestions he has made approaches to the Conservatives about a post-election deal, saying he would "only be speaking to the British people" between now and 7 May.
'Brain and heart'
He suggested a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU would be the main "red line" in any negotiations with another party, saying it would have to be a "full, free and fair" vote rather than a "stitch-up".
Key priorities
Lib Dems
Main pledges
Balance the budget fairly through a mixture of cuts and taxes on higher earners
Increase tax-free allowance to £12,500
Guarantee education funding from nursery to 19 with an extra £2.5bn and qualified teachers in every class
Invest £8bn in the NHS. Equal care for mental & physical health
Five new laws to protect nature and fight climate change
Speaking in south London, Mr Clegg said no party would win enough seats to gain victory on 8 May and either the Conservatives or Labour would have to work with others if they wanted to take power.
He said the Lib Dems' "gutsy" decision to join the Conservatives in coalition in 2010 had been vindicated, saying they had turned round the economy and governed with "compassion and a sense of fairness".
Making the case for another coalition, Mr Clegg said a vote for his party would stop the Tories or Labour governing on their own, arguing the Lib Dems would "add a heart to a Conservative government and add a brain to a Labour one".
A "few hundred votes", he claimed, could make the difference between a "decent, tolerant and generous" government in the centre-ground and a "coalition of grievance" involving either the UKIP and SNP.
Mr Clegg said the manifesto was a blueprint for a "stronger economy and a fairer society"
Opinion polls suggest the SNP, whose former leader Alex Salmond is standing for Parliament, could make huge gains in next month's poll and Mr Clegg suggested it would be Mr Salmond, rather his predecessor at SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, who could end up "calling the shots".
"Somebody is going to hold the balance of power on May 8," he said. "It is not going to be David Cameron or Ed Miliband. It could be Alex Salmond, it could be Nigel Farage or it could be me and the Liberal Democrats.
"Only the Lib Dems can make sure the next government keeps Britain on track. Every Lib Dem you elect makes Labour's reckless borrowing less likely, makes George Osborne's ideological cuts less likely and every Lib Dem you elect is a barrier between Nigel Farage and Alex Salmond and the door to 10 Downing Street."
Announcing five key priorities on education, health, tax and the environment, he described it as a "programme for government not opposition".
In other election news:
UKIP pledges to employ 6,000 former army veterans in the police, prison service and Border Agency and spend 2% of output on defence
Labour launches what it calls its women's manifesto, with a pledge to allow working grandparents to share unpaid parental leave
The SDLP, which had three MPs in the last Parliament, publishes its general election manifesto
Former Cabinet Secretary Lord O'Donnell says civil servants will be preparing for "all sorts of outcomes" to the election, telling the BBC that minority government can be "made to work"
The latest TNS opinion poll gave the Conservatives a two-point lead over Labour while a YouGov poll gave Labour a one-point lead over the Conservatives
Putting education at the heart of its plans, Mr Clegg said that once the deficit has been eliminated in 2017-18, funding for two to 19-year-olds would increase in line with economic growth.
This, he said, would ensure the amount of money per child was protected over the course of the Parliament, amounting to an extra £2.5bn.
Analysis by Sean Coughlan, BBC education correspondent
The Liberal Democrats are trying to stake out a claim to be the party that makes education a spending priority, by the promise of an extra £2.5bn.
Their education-friendly image had taken some hard knocks from the tuition fee U-turn and being in a coalition government that frequently clashed with the teachers' unions.
But they have put forward a spending plan which they hope will out-flank both the Conservatives and Labour.
Labour pledged to protect school budgets against inflation, while the Conservatives' offer was to protect per-pupil spending at a time of rising pupil numbers.
The Liberal Democrats' pitch is to combine both - promising to protect per-pupil spending in real terms , including for an extra 460,000 pupils.
But there is a tough warning from the Institute for Fiscal Studies that school costs are rising much faster than inflation and a looming school funding shortage will face whoever wins the election.
Mr Clegg said the extra cash was the equivalent of 70,000 teachers and 10,000 learning support assistants and amounted to £2.5bn more than Labour and £5bn more than the Conservatives would spend.
The extra funding, the Lib Dems say, will help limit class sizes and increase the availability of one-to-one tuition.
The Conservatives have said they would protect the budget for 5-16 year-olds in cash terms, so that funding rises in line with pupil numbers but not in line with inflation or economic growth.
'Not modest'
Labour, on the other hand, has said it would ensure the budget for infants and pupils under the age of 19 increased in line with inflation but not in line with increases in pupil numbers or economic output.
The Lib Dem manifesto also includes pledges on balancing the books "fairly" by 2017-18, raising the threshold at which people start paying tax to £12,500 and "parity of esteem" between mental and physical health services in the NHS.
Schools minister David Laws, who helped write the document, said there was "nothing modest" about its commitments and they were underpinned by "sensible and cautious" assumptions about budgets, including a contingency fund in the event of lower-than-expected growth.
A Conservative spokesman highlighted the drop in per-pupil funding during the first phase of the Lib Dem education plan, when the budget would be linked to inflation.
"The Conservatives are the only party who are prepared to protect the money that schools get for each pupil," he added.
Labour said the Lib Dems had "broken their promises and backed the Tories all the way".
Unveiling its own plans on Wednesday, UKIP also called for a five-year ban on unskilled migrants coming in to the UK and £12bn for the NHS.
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UKIP would make working people better off through a "low-tax revolution", Nigel Farage has said as he launched his party's election manifesto.
It would keep workers on the minimum wage out of tax, raise the 40p tax rate threshold to £55,000, introduce a new 30p tax band and scrap inheritance tax.
He said UKIP was the only party with a "credible plan" for immigration and a positive vision for the country.
The Conservatives have said there is a "£37bn black hole" in UKIP's proposals.
But Mr Farage said his was the only party with fully costed plans, which have been verified by independent economic think tank, The Centre for Economic and Business Research.
Key priorities
UKIP
Main pledges
Rapid referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union
Control immigration with points system, limit of 50,000 skilled workers a year and a five-year ban on unskilled immigration
Extra £3bn a year for the NHS in England
No tax on the minimum wage
Meet Nato target of spending 2% of GDP on defence, and look to increase it "substantially"
The party's proposals also include an increase of up to £3bn extra a year in NHS funding, a commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defence and a five-year ban on unskilled immigration.
UKIP, which wants to quit the EU, has said it will hold an in/out referendum "as soon as possible" in the next Parliament.
Mr Farage said his was the only party which had the "self confidence and belief in the nation" that the UK should govern itself, make its own laws and negotiate its own international trade deals.
'Big tax giveaway'
Setting out the party's election offerings at a hotel in Thurrock, Essex, the UKIP leader said politics had become dominated by giant corporate business interests while ordinary people had been "left behind" with "nobody to speak for them".
But he added: "UKIP has a plan, we genuinely want to make working people better off. And we will do that by leading the charge and making the argument for a low tax revolution.
"We genuinely want to make work pay and for people to have incentives to do better. And we believe that will unleash a kind of economic dynamism that has not been seen in this country in a long time."
Mr Farage said he was proposing an £18bn "big tax giveaway", paid for by cutting £32bn a year from government spending.
This would including cutting foreign aid spending, leaving the EU, scrapping the HS2 rail link and changing the Barnett funding formula for the nations.
UKIP's policies also include:
Introducing a points-based immigration system
Funding 6,000 new jobs for armed forces veterans, in the police, the prison service and at the UK border
Cutting foreign aid by £9bn
Scrapping hospital parking charges
A new 30p tax band for those earning between £45,000 and £55,000 a year
Removing stamp duty on the first £250,000 for new homes built on brownfield sites
A cut in business rates for small businesses
On immigration, Mr Farage said the only way for the UK to control its borders was by leaving the European Union.
Dismissing the Conservatives' approach for a renegotiation of Britain's terms of membership of the 28-member bloc, Mr Farage said there was "no third way".
"We want our country back, and then and only then can we actually control our borders," he told the gathered media and party supporters.
Suzanne Evans, who wrote the manifesto, said UKIP was "the only party with the money"
The party is proposing an Australian-style points-based immigration system, which the party leader said would be ethical, fair and in the interests of the UK.
Foreign criminals would not be allowed into the country and all migrants would need to have insurance to access the health system, Mr Farage said.
Migrants would not be allowed to claim benefits in the UK unless they had paid into the system for five years and obeyed the law, under UKIP's plans.
The resulting "big reduction in numbers" coming to the UK would relieve pressure on schools, hospitals and houses, said Mr Farage.
'Independently verified'
BBC UKIP campaign correspondent Alex Forsyth said the launch showed the party was trying to broaden its appeal and convince voters of its credibility, while maintaining its focus on the EU and immigration.
A Conservative spokesman said UKIP's numbers did not "add up", adding: "We all know that Nigel Farage doesn't have a credible plan for Britain - he just makes it up as he goes along."
Earlier, UKIP's campaign chief Suzanne Evans told BBC Radio 4's Today programme all of the figures had been independently verified by economic think tank, The Centre for Economic and Business Research.
The manifesto launch came as one of the party's senior figures, immigration and economic spokesman Steven Woolfe, admitted to disagreements Ms Evans over the party's immigration policies.
Mr Woolfe confirmed to BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast reports in the Telegraph he said Ms Evans "didn't seem to understand" the policies were true, but that he had made the comments "weeks ago" and he was now "absolutely onboard" with his colleague.
Despite a slight dip in some recent polls, UKIP has been polling ahead of the Liberal Democrats and is hoping to add to the two MPs it gained in by-elections following defections from the Conservatives.
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Google's rivals have accused it of unfairly prioritising its own services in its results
The European Union has filed a complaint against Google over its alleged anti-competitive behaviour.
The competition commissioner said she had issued a "statement of objections", stating that the firm's promotion of its own shopping links amounted to an abuse of its dominance in search.
Margrethe Vestager said Google now had 10 weeks to respond.
The firm said it "strongly disagreed" with the allegations and looked forward to making its case.
Ms Vestager also revealed that she had launched an investigation into whether the way Google bundled apps and services for its Android operating system was unfair.
And the commissioner said the EU would continue to monitor other activities by Google that its rivals had complained about.
The EU has objected to the way Google promotes results from its own shopping service
It follows a five-year investigation into the company and marks the start of a formal legal process that could ultimately lead to billions of euros of fines.
Google accounts for more than a 90% of EU-based web searches.
'Preferential treatment'
The European Commission has investigated the antitrust allegations - made by Microsoft, Tripadvisor, Streetmap and others - since 2010.
Among their complaints was an objection to Google placing adverts from its Shopping service ahead of others' links in relevant searches.
Ms Vestager said the Commission's preliminary findings supported the claim that Google "systematically" gave prominence to its own ads, which amounted to an abuse of its dominant position in search.
"I'm concerned that Google has artificially boosted its presence in the comparison shopping market with the result that consumers may not necessarily see what's most relevant for them, or that competitors may not get the the commercial opportunity that their innovative services deserve," she told a press conference in Brussels.
Ms Vestager said that she was not seeking a wider redesign of Google's search results or asking it to change its algorithms.
But she added that the case could set a precedent that would determine how the EU handled other complaints about Google favouring its own mapping, hotels and flights services.
Google has rejected the idea its Shopping service distorts the market.
"While Google may be the most used search engine, people can now find and access information in numerous different ways - and allegations of harm, for consumers and competitors, have proved to be wide of the mark," wrote its search chief Amit Singhal on the firm's blog.
Google pitches its shopping service as a "matchmaker" between products and customers
"It's clear that: (a) there's a ton of competition - including from Amazon and eBay, two of the biggest shopping sites in the world and (b) Google's shopping results have not the harmed the competition.
"Any economist would say that you typically do not see a ton of innovation, new entrants or investment in sectors where competition is stagnating - or dominated by one player. Yet that is exactly what's happening in our world."
Many of Google's rivals welcomed the EU's action.
"Google's abuse of dominance distorts European markets, harms consumers, and makes it impossible for Google's rivals to compete on a level playing field," said lobbying group Icomp.
"We see this statement of objection as a crucial first step towards ensuring that European consumers have access to vibrant and competitive online markets."
Google suggests that services including eBay ensure it does not distort the shopping search market
Android inquiry
The EU has also launched a separate investigation into Google's Android operating system, used by smartphones and tablets, which will focus on three topics:
claims that Google requires or incentivises manufacturers to pre-install its own search engine, apps and other services and exclude rival products
allegations that Google unfairly insists its services are bundled, meaning some cannot be pre-installed without including the others
complaints that the firm is hindering manufacturers from developing alternative versions of Android, which is open source. These are commonly known as "forks", with Amazon's Fire OS and Xiaomi's Mi being two examples.
"These issues are distinct from the Google comparison shopping case and the investigations will of course be different," Ms Vestager said.
Google says the way it distributes its apps ensures that Android smartphones offer a "great" experience
In response, Google stressed that Android devices could be offered without its services.
"It's important to remember that [our partner agreements] are voluntary - you can use Android without Google - but provide real benefits to Android users, developers and the broader ecosystem," said lead engineer Hiroshi Lockheimer.
"Our app distribution agreements make sure that people get a great 'out of the box' experience with useful apps right there on the home screen. This also helps manufacturers of Android devices compete with Apple, Microsoft and other mobile ecosystems that come preloaded with similar baseline apps."
Complex subject
Google could ultimately face huge fines and be ordered to reshape its business in Europe because of the shopping complaint.
Some searches cause Google Shopping's ads to be offset to the side of the screen
In recent years, the Commission has imposed antitrust penalties on other tech giants, ordering Intel to pay €1.1bn (£793m; $1.2bn) in 2009, and Microsoft €516m in 2013.
However, Ms Vestager said she was "open" to Google's response, and would listen to its case before deciding how to proceed.
One independent expert said that the matter could take years to resolve.
"I can't see that this will be a fast process given the complexity of the subject matter, what's at stake and the likely level of the fine," said Paul Henty, a lawyer at Charles Russell Speechlys who has previously worked for the European Commission.
International inquiries
The EU's investigation is not the only one Google is facing.
Investigators at India's Competition Commission delivered a report last week after carrying out a three-year probe into claims of unfair business practices.
Their counterparts in Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Taiwan and Canada have also opened investigations.
However, the US Federal Trade Commission dropped its own probe at the start of 2013 after Google made several non-binding commitments.
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The Green Party launched its General Election manifesto with a call for a "peaceful political revolution" to end austerity and tackle climate change.
It pledged to stop the "creeping privatisation of the NHS" and increase the minimum wage to £10 an hour.
Leader Natalie Bennett and Caroline Lucas, the party's only ever MP, unveiled a plan to help the two million children growing up in cold homes.
They want an insulation programme for the worst-affected nine million homes.
Introducing the manifesto at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston, east London, Ms Bennett said it represented a "genuine alternative" to "business as usual politics".
She said she wanted to "take back" the NHS and the railways from the private sector.
The 84-page manifesto, entitled "For the common good" sets out the Greens' main policy pledges, including:
Creating one million jobs that pay at least a living wage
60% rate of income tax
A new wealth tax on the top 1%; a "Robin Hood tax" on the banks
Banning fracking; investment in renewable energy
Scrapping university tuition fees
Cutting rail fares by 10%
Abolishing the bedroom tax
The Greens are fielding a record number of candidates - 571 - on 7 May and claim a surge in membership numbers to 59,000 - more than UKIP and the Lib Dems.
Ms Lucas said a free nationwide insulation programme to tackle cold homes, specifically in areas blighted by fuel poverty, would help two million children.
She also called for extra £1.3bn on the NHS budget to deal with the associated costs of cold homes.
Key priorities
Green
Main pledges
End austerity and restore the public sector, creating jobs that pay at least a living wage
End privatisation of the National Health Service
Work with other countries to ensure global temperatures do not rise by more than 2C
£85bn programme of home insulation, renewable electricity generation & flood defences
Provide 500,000 social homes for rent by 2020 and control rent levels
Return the railways to public hands
"We believe if we invest in insulating people's homes, we can get their fuel bills down on a permanent basis," Ms Lucas told BBC Radio 4's Today programme
"It would also get our climate-change emissions down and could create hundreds of thousands of jobs.
"And crucially, for every £1 invested in this programme, it's estimated that £1.27 comes back to the economy in terms of the benefit in jobs and reduction on the NHS bill."
Ms Lucas said the government had "a woeful record on energy insulation", with the installation of energy-efficient measures in UK homes falling by 80% over the last two years.
The Green Party has called for a "progressive alliance" with the SNP, if it has MPs at Westminster in the next Parliament.
Ms Lucas ruled out backing a Conservative government, but said Green MPs could support a minority Labour administration on "a case-by-case basis".
The Green Party's manifesto is full of big promises: a pension of more than £300 a week for a couple, renewable energy taking over from fossil fuels, a million new public sector jobs.
But they are having difficulty defending their numbers robustly. They claim they'll raise a massive £30bn extra from clampdowns on tax avoidance; very very optimistic. And the man behind the manifestos numbers, Brian Heatley, told me they couldn't really be sure how much their new wealth tax would raise because it hasn't been tried before.
In one sense, refreshingly candid. In another way, extremely problematic for a party that wants to be taken seriously on a tax that they need to raise £20bn.
The Greens also say they would carry on spending more each year than the government gets from revenue. Does that mean deficits for ever? The party won't say.
In other news, Natalie Bennett has told Newsnight they don't want to ban the Grand National after all - more straightforward than working out government spending.
"That would give us a real opportunity to push Labour on the policies we know the public wants and which are at the heart of our manifesto," she said.
"Whether that's scrapping nuclear weapons or reversing the privatisation in our NHS, whether that's returning local schools to local control or bringing rail back into public ownership."
'Scrap road building'
Recently, Ms Bennett said the party's policy of a Citizens' Income of £72 a week for every adult in Britain would feature in the manifesto, but that it would take longer than one parliament for it to be implemented.
The cut in public transport fares would be paid for by scrapping new road-building programmes, while the party is also expected to pledge free social care for the elderly.
At the weekend, Ms Bennett said the 60% top rate of tax would apply to people earning over £150,000 and that it would raise £2bn a year.
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Iraqi government forces regained control of the northern city of Tikrit earlier this month
Islamic State (IS) has lost more than a quarter of its territory in Iraq since the US-led coalition air campaign began in August, a Pentagon spokesman says.
Col Steve Warren said it was too early to say the tide was turning, but that air strikes and Iraqi ground forces had "unquestionably inflicted some damage".
IS took over large swathes of northern and western Iraq last June.
The announcement came ahead of talks between Iraq's prime minister and President Barack Obama in Washington.
Before leaving for the US, Haider al-Abadi made clear that he wanted the coalition to step up its air campaign against IS, which advanced across Iraq last June after routing the country's security forces.
Col Warren told a news conference in Washington on Monday that IS had lost approximately 25% to 30% of its territory in Iraq in the past eight months, which equated to 12,950 to 15,540 sq km (5,000 to 6,000 sq miles).
Coalition and government forces had "unquestionably inflicted some damage on [IS] and have pushed [IS] back in a somewhat meaningful way", he said.
A Pentagon map showed the jihadist group had "lost large areas where it was once dominant" and the frontline had been pushed either west or south, depending on location, in the provinces of Irbil, Babil, Baghdad and Kirkuk, Col Warren added.
"Among other strategic infrastructure and sizeable towns where [IS] has lost territory are Mosul Dam, Zummar and the vicinity of Sinjar Mountain."
The corridor north of Tikrit had been "substantially retaken by friendly forces" and the city was expected to be cleared of militants "relatively soon", he said.
An international coalition has been bombing targets in Iraq since the middle of 2014 Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi wants the coalition to step up its air campaign
The town of Baiji and the nearby oil refinery, Iraq's most important, is still contested, and will continue to be the focus of air strikes.
Mr Abadi also announced last week the launch of a new offensive to drive IS out of the country's biggest province, Anbar, west of Baghdad. However, IS responded by overrunning two districts on the outskirts of the provincial capital, Ramadi.
The Pentagon said Islamic State's area of influence in neighbouring Syria, where coalition air strikes began in September, remained largely unchanged, with its gains in Suweida, Damascus Countryside and Homs provinces offset by losses in the provinces of Aleppo and Hassakeh.
An Alaska Airlines plane declared an emergency and made a priority landing in Seattle after taking off with a worker trapped in the cargo hold.
The pilot of flight 448, bound for Los Angeles, was alerted by the sound of banging "from beneath the aircraft", an Alaska Airlines statement said.
Once back on the ground, the baggage handler emerged from the pressurised hold, saying he had fallen asleep.
He "appeared OK" but went to hospital as a precaution, the airline said.
Alaska Airlines later said the worker had passed a drugs test and been released from hospital.
The Boeing 737 aircraft had taken off from Seattle with 170 passengers on board, and was airborne for 14 minutes.
According to Alaska Airlines, the worker's team leader had noticed that the man was missing before the plane took off.
The team leader had called into the cargo hold and rung the worker's mobile phone but did not get an answer.
"His co-workers believed he finished his shift and went home," the airline said.
The airline said the worker, employed by Menzies Aviation, started work at 05:00 local time and was due off at 14:30, but fell asleep in the cargo hold. The compartment was pressurised - so survivable at altitude - and was temperature-controlled.
One passenger, Marty Collins, told a local Seattle TV station that passengers had not heard the banging.
She said: "Nobody on the plane heard anything like that, nobody knew why we were turning around. They just said we were fine and we weren't in any danger."
Later, Ms Collins said passengers were told "there was someone in the cargo hold and he's been escorted off and taken away".
The Clydesdale Bank has been fined £20.7m by the City regulator for "serious failings" in the way it handled complaints about Payment Protection Insurance (PPI).
The fine is the largest of its type imposed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
As many as 93,000 customers may be entitled to refunds or additional compensation, the FCA announced.
The Clydesdale apologised, and said it had now changed its procedures.
The fine relates to a policy change in May 2011, which meant complaint handlers did not take all relevant documents into account when assessing whether customers had been wrongly sold PPI.
The bank - which has 2.5 million customers in the UK - also provided false information to the Financial Ombudsman Service between May 2012 and 2013.
In a small number of cases, bank employees "altered certain system print outs" to make it look as though Clydesdale held no relevant documents.
"The fact that Clydesdale misled the Financial Ombudsman by providing false information about the information it held is particularly serious," said Georgina Philippou, acting director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA.
Staff also deleted information about PPI sales from customer records, the authority said.
It added that the practices had not been authorised by managers.
The Clydesdale, which is headquartered in Glasgow, said 180,000 files were now being reviewed to see if customers may be due compensation.
After apologising for the mistake, it said it had already made changes.
"As soon as this issue was discovered, we took immediate steps to stop it; we made the regulator aware and rapidly introduced strict new monitoring procedures to prevent any recurrence," said acting chief executive Debbie Crosbie.
The Clydesdale, together with its sister brand Yorkshire Bank, has set aside £806m to deal with PPI mis-selling.
In total, £18.5bn has now been paid out to customers of all banks and credit card firms who were wrongly sold PPI since January 2011.
The insurance was supposed to cover mortgage or loan repayments in the event of redundancy, but for many people the insurance was not necessary.
The bank was previously fined £8.9m in September 2013 after miscalculating the mortgage repayments of more than 42,000 customers.
The UK's inflation rate remained at a record low of 0% in March, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Cheaper clothing and footwear, offset by a rise in petrol prices, helped to maintain the rate at 0% for a second month, official figures show.
The figure was the lowest rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation since estimates of the measure began in the late 1980s.
It means the cost of living is broadly the same as it was a year earlier.
However, the ONS said that if the rate of inflation was calculated to two decimal places, prices were 0.01% lower than a year before - the first fall on record for the CPI measure.
One of the main reasons the CPI rate remained broadly unchanged was rising petrol and diesel prices between February and March, the ONS said.
But an overall fall in fuel prices over the past year has been a major contributor to low inflation, it added.
The CPI figure leaves inflation well below the Bank of England's 2% target.
There had been speculation that the CPI rate - as measured to one decimal place - would fall below zero in March, and there remains a possibility that the rate could fall in the coming months.
However, few economists think the UK is at risk of the type of entrenched deflation that Japan has suffered from.
"Inflation should start to pick up in the second half of the year, especially as the downward pressure from lower oil prices eases," said Rain Newton-Smith, director of economics at the CBI business group.
She added that falling prices had benefitted households, and lower oil prices had been good for businesses in general. However, North Sea oil firms had taken a hit from the fall in the price of crude.
Martin Beck, senior economic adviser to the EY ITEM Club, said he continued to expect the Bank of England "to wait until early 2016 before raising interest rates".
In March, inflation as measured by the Retail Prices Index (RPI) fell to 0.9% from 1.0% the previous month, the Office for National Statistics said.
Like CPI, RPI inflation is calculated from a sample of retail goods and services. However, RPI is calculated differently and includes data such as mortgage repayments.
David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto.
The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people".
He pledged to take minimum wage workers out of tax, double free childcare to 30 hours a week and boost home ownership by extending the "right to buy".
Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".
The Conservative launch in Swindon came the day after Ed Miliband put forward Labour's version - promising to improve the lives of Britain's workers and not to pay for any policies through additional borrowing.
The main Conservative pledges in the 83-page document include:
Extending the right-to-buy scheme to housing association tenants in England.
Taking workers on the minimum wage out of income tax by increasing the personal allowance
30 hours free childcare for three and four-year-olds, "worth £5,000 a year"
Lifting the inheritance tax threshold on family homes to £1m by 2017
No above-inflation rises in rail fares until 2020
An extra £8bn a year for the NHS by 2020
Opening 500 more free schools
An EU referendum by 2017
Plans to build 200,000 starter homes
In his speech, Mr Cameron said the Conservatives would build on the "solid foundations" laid by his government since 2010, proclaiming that Britain was "on the brink of something special" and warning that Labour would take the UK "back to square one".
"We are the party of the working people offering you security at every stage of your life," he said.
His goal over the next five years, he said, was to "turn the good news on our economy into a good life for you and your family".
The 83 page document was launched at a event attended by senior Conservatives
"They're about realising the potential of Britain, not as a debt-addicted, welfare-burdened, steadily declining, once great nation, which is what we found. But a country where a good life is there for everyone willing to work for it."
Mr Cameron said the Conservatives had a track record of supporting working people, having taking thousands of people out of income tax altogether by raising the personal allowance to £10,600 - and with the aim of extending this to £12,500 by 2020.
A future government would go further, he said, by passing a law ensuring that no-one working 30 hours on minimum wage rates would pay income tax.
Analysis by political editor Nick Robinson
This week of political cross dressing goes on.
David Cameron tried to re-brand the Conservatives as the party of working people - the day after Ed Miliband claimed that Labour was the party of economic responsibility.
It is not just the language that has changed it is the tone.
Today the Tory leader tried to re-discover the rhetorical "sunshine" he was once associated with - with his promise to deliver "The Good Life" in a country which he claimed was on the "brink of something special".
So, gone is the "age of austerity". Gone too the warnings of red flashing lights on the dashboard. Gone all talk of difficult decisions.
Read Nick's full blog
But Mr Miliband said the Conservatives had "absolutely no idea" how this and other spending commitments would be funded.
"The reality about the Conservatives is that they are the party not of working people, from first to last and always, they are the party of the richest in our society and that is absolutely the case with what they are saying today," he said.
And the Lib Dems said the Tories' plans were a "total con" because there were no details of future cuts to public spending and welfare:
"Until they answer the question of who pays, people will just see this manifesto as a combination of secret cuts and unfunded spending commitments," said economy spokesman Danny Alexander.
In other election news:
The Green Party launches its manifesto, pledging to "take back" the NHS from the private sector and build 500,000 social rented homes
The Liberal Democrats highlight their own housing policies, which involve the government commissioning the building of new homes, and a pledge of at least 10 new garden cities in England and 300,00 new homes a year.
Nick Clegg has told the BBC he will not work with the Conservatives after the election if they insist on £12bn of welfare cuts
The latest Ashcroft and Populus opinion polls put both the Conservatives and Labour on 33%
The UK's inflation rate remained at zero in March
A key pledge of the Conservative manifesto is the extension of right to buy, a flagship policy of Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s, for tenants of housing associations - private, not-for-profit bodies that provide low-cost housing.
At the moment, council house tenants in England can buy their home at a discount of up to £103,900.
Key priorities
Conservative
Main pledges
Eliminate the deficit and be running a surplus by 2018-19
Extra £8bn above inflation for the NHS by 2020
Extend Right to Buy to housing association tenants
Legislate to keep people working 30 hours on minimum wage out of tax
30 hours of free childcare per week for working parents of 3&4-year-olds
Hold a referendum on Britain's EU membership
Under current rules, about 800,000 housing association tenants have a "right to acquire" their homes under smaller discounts, but the Conservatives would offer those people the same reductions as for those in local authority homes.
And they would extend the scheme to those who currently have no purchase rights at all, estimated to be about 500,000 people.
The move would be funded by new rules forcing councils to sell properties ranked in the most expensive third of their type in the local area, once they become vacant, with every house purchased replaced "on a one-for-one basis".
Critics say councils started or acquired less than 2,300 homes using the proceeds of right-to-buy sales between 2012 and 2014 despite the fact that more than 24,000 houses were sold during that period.
Ruth Davison, from the National Housing Federation - which represents housing associations - said it was "the wrong solution" to the UK's housing shortage as it would benefit "some of the most securely housed people in the country on the lowest rents".
"You can no more force housing associations to sell their assets at less than they are worth than you could force Tesco to sell their assets or Cancer Research," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"Housing associations would have to be fully recompensed for any sale. There will be a cost to the taxpayer - at a conservative estimate £5.8bn".
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Ed Miliband has said Labour will "change the way the country is run and who it is run for" as he launched the party's election manifesto.
Saying he had been tested as opposition leader and was "ready" for power, Mr Miliband said Labour would be a "party of change and responsibility".
He ruled out a "shopping list of proposals", guaranteeing all policies would require no extra borrowing.
But the Conservatives said Labour could not be trusted on the economy.
The manifesto sets out Labour's main policy pledges, including:
A £2.5bn fund for the NHS paid for largely by a mansion tax on properties valued at over £2m
Twenty-five hours of childcare for working parents of three and four-year olds and a new right to before and after-school help, paid for by rise in bank levy
Freezing gas and electricity bills until 2017, so they can only fall not rise
Banning some zero-hour contracts and raising the minimum wage to £8
Scrapping winter fuel payments for the richest pensioners, capping child benefit rises and cutting ministers' pay by 5%
A 50p tax rate on incomes over £150,000 a year and abolishing non-dom status. Rises in VAT and national insurance ruled out
A cut in tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000
A one-year freeze in rail fares, paid for by delays in upgrades to A27 and A358 roads
Speaking in Manchester, Mr Miliband said the first page of Labour's manifesto "sets out a vow to protect our nation's finances; a clear commitment that every policy... is paid for without a single penny of extra borrowing".
Labour would not promise anything it could not fund, he said, contrasting this with the Conservatives which he described as the "party of sums that do not add up and commitments that cannot be kept".
Mr Miliband said spending would be cut outside "protected" areas such as education and health
He added: "The plan we lay before you is no less ambitious because we live in a time of scarcity.
"It is more ambitious because it starts from a clear commitment to balance the books and more ambitious because it does not stop there.
"It meets the scale of the challenges we face today with not one policy funded by extra borrowing."
Mr Miliband said Labour would put the interests of working people ahead of powerful vested interests, promising to raise the minimum wage to £8 by 2020 and require the wealthiest in society to pay more in tax.
He said he would not seek to "carry on from where the last Labour government left off" but would "seek to solve the challenges of our time".
Addressing criticism of his leadership and suitability to be PM, which the Conservatives have made an election issue, he said: "Over the last four-and-a-half years, I have been tested.
"It is right that I have been tested for the privilege of leading this country.
"I am ready. Ready to put an end to the tired old idea that as long as we look after the rich and powerful we will all be OK.
"Ready to put into practice the truth that it is only when working people succeed, that Britain succeeds."
In other election news on Monday:
The Liberal Democrats are launching a "five-point plan", aimed at consumers and commuters, with proposals such as to end above-inflation rail fare rises and force energy firms to allow customers to change supplier within 24 hours
One hundred small business owners, some of which used to support Labour, have written a letter to the Sun saying they intend to vote Tory
The Green Party calls for a "review" of horse and greyhound racing as it launches a national poster campaign
Ed Miliband and Nigel Farage will be at opposite ends of the platform during the BBC's election debate on Thursday
Labour has opened up a three-point lead over the Conservatives, according to the latest YouGov poll which puts Ed Miliband's party on 36%
Key priorities
Labour
Main pledges
Responsibility "triple lock": fully funded manifesto, cut the deficit every year, balance the books as soon as possible in next parliament
Extra £2.5bn for NHS, largely paid for by a mansion tax on properties valued at over £2m
Raise minimum wage to more than £8ph by 2019
No rise in VAT, NI or basic and higher rates of income tax
Access to wraparound childcare for parents of primary school children
Freeze energy bills until 2017 and give energy regulator new powers to cut bills this winter
With political parties under increasing pressure to explain how they will fund their pledges, the Institute for Fiscal Studies complained on Sunday that they were making "lots of promises" without producing much detail on how to deliver them.
Labour is aiming for a budget surplus in current spending "as soon as possible in the next Parliament".
Its manifesto commits a Labour government to what it calls a "budget responsibility lock".
This would "guarantee" that every policy is paid for without additional borrowing and would, in future, require all the major parties to have their tax and spending plans audited by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility before a general election.
Earlier, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls said Labour would "do what it takes" to support the NHS but would not make any promises which could not be met.
Analysis by political editor Nick Robinson
Labour are already briefing that reassurance about the party's greatest perceived weakness - their seriousness about tackling the deficit - will feature on page one.
The prominence they're giving to their promise to be prudent is new. The detail which we have so far been told about is not.
So, today I'll be looking to see what eye-catching, vote-attracting, focus-group-tested pledges the party will add to its retail offer.
Much more importantly than the promises and the slogans, though, will be seeing whether Ed Miliband's manifesto paints a picture of the radical change he wants to produce in this country.
He and his allies have always seen himself as being in the mould of an Attlee or a Thatcher. If so, today's manifesto should tell us a lot more about what the next five years of a Miliband-led Britain could be like. Read Nick's blog in full.
Both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have pledged to eliminate the current deficit by 2017/18.
However, while Labour promises to reduce the deficit during every year of the coming Parliament, the party offers no deadline, saying it would commit to achieving a budget surplus "as soon as possible" between 2015 and 2020.
Senior Conservatives said Labour's track record was one of economic mismanagement, with London Mayor and Conservative candidate Boris Johnson describing Mr Miliband and Mr Balls as the "Thelma and Louise of British politics".
And deputy Lib Dem leader Malcolm Bruce said Labour had a "mountain to climb to establish their economic credibility".
UKIP and the SNP also attacked Labour's plans. UKIP's Nigel Farage said there was no detail about how the deficit would be cut, while the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland would see further budget cuts under Labour.
The Conservatives and Greens are due to launch their manifestos on Tuesday, followed later this week by the Lib Dems and UKIP.
Several manifesto pledges made in 2010, including a Conservative plan to raise the inheritance tax threshold and a Lib Dem commitment for a "mansion tax" on £2m properties, did not make it into the coalition programme the two parties agreed on after the two parties went into government together.
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Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has set out for a tour of key states, at the start of her campaign to become the first woman US president.
She is taking a road trip to meet small groups of voters in Iowa, having announced her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination on Sunday.
She had been expected to declare her candidacy for months.
Mrs Clinton ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 but lost to Barack Obama.
'Listening tour'
A few hours into her journey from New York to Iowa, Mrs Clinton tweeted: "Road trip! Loaded the van & set off for IA. Met a great family when we stopped this afternoon. Many more to come. -H."
Mrs Clinton is expected to officially kick off her campaign with a rally in mid-May
Mrs Clinton's team said she would spend the next few weeks building up grassroots support in the early Democratic primary states.
Her first rally, to officially kick off her campaign, is not expected until mid-May. But her trip to Iowa is to be a "listening tour" where Mrs Clinton will meet voters at low-key events.
Later this week, she is expected to meet groups of students, teachers and small business owners.
On Sunday, Mrs Clinton launched her campaign website and declared in a video that she was running for president.
"Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times," she said, "but the deck is still stacked in favour of those at the top.
She added that she wanted to be a champion for "everyday Americans".
The video features a number of Americans talking about their hopes and aspirations.
Analysis: Gary O'Donoghue, BBC News, Des Moines, Iowa
The launch of Hillary Clinton's campaign for the presidency was meant to be low-key. It was meant to reflect the idea that it was all about ordinary Americans and the everyday concerns of the middle class.
But whether she likes it or not, Mrs Clinton is a huge name in politics and reinventing herself as the embodiment of change won't be easy.
True, she is unlikely to face any stiff competition from her own side for the nomination, but Republicans have been unrelenting in their attacks on her and that will only increase.
She will also have to find a convincing vision for America that will capture the imagination of the voters. Elections are usually about the future and Mrs Clinton has to prove that she's not all about the past.
How Twitter reacted
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Mrs Clinton, 67, has already had the backing of Mr Obama, who said on Saturday that she would make an "excellent president".
But the attacks from Republicans have already started.
Jeb Bush, former Florida Governor and brother of George W Bush who expected to stand as a Republican candidate, tweeted: "We must do better than Hillary."
In his own online video on Sunday, he focused on foreign policy, saying: "We must do better than the Obama-Clinton foreign policy that has damaged relationships with our allies and emboldened our enemies."
Another Republican presidential contender. Rand Paul, also criticised Mrs Clinton for her handling of a September 2012 attack on a US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in which the US ambassador was among those killed.
He also said questions remained about funds received by a charity set up by Mr and Mrs Clinton.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio is expected to announce his candidacy for his party's nomination at an event in Miami later on Monday.
Police say Carwyn fell 160ft (49m) after straying off the piste
Pupils are to be offered support at a Powys school following the death of a seven-year-old classmate while on a family skiing holiday.
Carwyn Scott-Howell, from the village of Talybont-on-Usk, near Brecon, fell to his death in the French Alps on Friday.
Special support is to be offered to school children and staff at Ysgol Y Bannau in Brecon on Monday.
A family tribute said Carwyn was an "adorable, caring person".
Head teacher Emyr Jones said: "We are all grieving.
"Normally, children would be coming back full of excitement about what's happened with their families over the two weeks [Easter holidays].
"Unfortunately, I'm sure many of them will have heard the sad news of losing Carwyn over the weekend."
Ysgol Y Bannau head teacher Emyr Jones said the school will support its pupils
Mr Jones added: "Our role as a school will be to support the children to come to terms with what has happened and to respond to their needs during the day.
"We are all grieving and Powys [council] staff will be in to support not only us as members of staff but also here to support the children as well."
The Foreign Office said the accident happened in Flaine, 38 miles north west of Chamonix.
Police said Carwyn fell 160ft (49m) after straying off the piste.
A family statement said Carwyn was a 'daring, outgoing, determined little boy'
Michel Ollagnon, police commander for the south-eastern town of Bonneville, said the family were making their last descent of the mountain when Carwyn's mother stopped to help his sister who had fallen.
It is thought he wandered off from the rest of the family who then lost sight of him.
Local authorities in France are investigating the accident.
The Foreign Office said it was providing consular assistance to the family.
