Nigeria petrol prices set to rise

Fuel shortages have caused long queues at the pumps

Nigeria has decided to allow petrol prices to rise by two thirds, in a bid to ease crippling fuel shortages.

Petroleum Minister Ibe Kachikwu said a litre of petrol would now cost a maximum of 145 naira (£0.50), up from about 86.5 naira.

As retailers get more money, the government aims to further cut back on costly subsidies.

Fuel shortages have seen Nigerians paying up to 250 naira a litre on the black market.

Despite being one of Africa's largest oil producers, Nigeria has to import fuel to meet demand.

Nigerian refineries are dilapidated and work at a fraction of their capacity.

"The main reason for the current problem is the inability of importers of petroleum products to source foreign exchange at the official rate due to the massive decline of foreign exchange earnings of the federal government," Mr Kachikwu said.

"We expect that this new policy will lead to improved supply and competition and eventually drive down pump prices," he added.

Sanders aims for West Virginia win

Polls show Mr Sanders (right) leading in West Virginia as Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton set their sights on the general election

The US states of Nebraska and West Virginia hold primary votes on Tuesday, with Bernie Sanders still battling to slow Hillary Clinton's march to the Democratic nomination.

Mr Sanders is expected to perform well in West Virginia, despite Mrs Clinton's huge lead in overall delegates.

"We're going to fight for the last vote," Mr Sanders said on Monday.

Mrs Clinton, and Republican nominee presumptive Donald Trump, are already looking ahead to the general election.

Tuesday's primaries will be the first since Mr Trump's last remaining rivals left the race last week.

Mr Trump is now trying to unite the Republican Party after a contentious primary season.

Many top Republican leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, have declined to support Mr Trump's candidacy, saying the New York businessman does not represent conservative values.

Mr Trump will meet Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Mr Ryan on Thursday in hopes of resolving their differences.

Analysis: Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America reporter

Mr Trump has been supportive of West Virginia's ailing coal industry

Tuesday's primaries in West Virginia and Nebraska may serve as a useful measure of the bedrock resistance to Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee.

Will voters in these two states head to the polls and, despite the fact that Mr Trump is now the only candidate left standing, vote for a candidate like Ted Cruz, who has dropped out but is still listed on the ballot?

Or will the party faithful who normally turn out for down-ballot races outside the spotlight of a contested presidential primary make peace with the brash New Yorker as their standard-bearer?

Mr Trump himself told attendees at a West Virginia rally last week that they should "stay home" on Tuesday and "save their vote" for the autumn general election campaign. It may be the first time in modern US politics that a candidate has actively tried to discourage supporter turnout. In earlier contests a groundswell of new voters powered Mr Trump to wins across the US. He appears content now to coast the rest of the way to the nomination in July.

Chances are he will do so easily. But Mr Trump could be giving his opponents in the party, of which there are still many, an opportunity to sting him a few times before he officially wraps things up.

Some Republicans are concerned that Mr Trump will negatively affect other races, hurting the party's chances of retaining control of Congress.

Mr Trump is deeply unpopular among key voting blocs including women, Latinos and African Americans.

On the Democratic side, Mrs Clinton is on the defensive in West Virginia because of comments she made during a town hall meeting in March.

Addressing environmental issues, she said she wanted put coal companies out of business.

Battered by dwindling demand and new environmental rules, coal companies are among the top employers in West Virginia.

Mrs Clinton later said she misspoke and that she wanted to bring new industries to the state.

Mr Sanders' message of economic fairness has also resonated in West Virginia, one of the poorest states in the country.

While a win in West Virginia will not derail Mrs Clinton's path to the Democratic nomination, Mr Sanders' continued success will give him leverage to influence the party's platform.

Facebook dodges facial-recognition ban

Facebook has adapted Moments to work around EU and Canadian privacy laws

Facebook has launched its facial-recognition-powered photo-sharing app in the EU and Canada.

The program - Moments - was released in some countries in 2015, but withheld elsewhere because of local data privacy rules.

The company has created a different version of the software to get around these restrictions.

But it acknowledged the new edition required "a little bit of work" for users to get the most out of it.

Moment's core features are that it automatically groups together photos featuring the same friend or friends, and then makes it easy to share the pictures with them if they have installed the same app.

In the original version, the snaps are automatically tagged with people's names, because Facebook is able to match them to other photos in its wider database.

But data protection watchdogs in the EU and Canada had expressed concern their citizens would have no way to opt out of the process.

To address this, the adapted app now links together photos of similar-looking faces but requires the user to identify who they are.

Moments is not the only app to use facial recognition to sort images.

Google Photos is the most popular alternative to do so.

But the search giant has yet to extend the facility to Europe, to avoid falling foul of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.

EU and Canada-based users will have to manually identify each of their friends

'Private' sharing

Facebook has not disclosed how many people have signed up to Moments since its release on the US's iOS and Android stores 11 months ago.

However, the company has said more than 600 million pictures have been shared via the app so far.

"Our primary purpose is to solve a problem that we know that people have, where they never get the photos that their friends take of them," the app's product manager Will Ruben told the BBC.

"We view that as a pretty different type of sharing than might happen on Facebook, where people share photos more broadly with a large group of friends or even publicly.

Moments allows its users to keep track of whom they have shared their pictures with

"Moments is closer to the type of sharing that might happen these days on Whatsapp or other [private] messaging apps - but it places the photos together into a collection."

Users decide which photos are shared with the people labelled in them, and can withdraw access at a later point.

They can also use the app to turn selected photos into slideshows that can be shared to their Facebook wall and elsewhere.

Local matches

The technique - which Facebook refers to as "facial clustering" - still relies on some processing being done beyond the user's handset, but Facebook said it had taken great lengths to comply with the EU and Canada's privacy rules.

Google's Photos app also identifies different friends - but the facility is not offered in Europe

"A cropped low-resolution of the photo is uploaded [to the cloud] so that your phone gets a numerical representation of that face," Mr Ruben said.

"But that number is not stored anywhere on our servers, and it is only used to compare against the other photos on your phone.

"No comparison is being done on the server."

Copies of the images are, however, stored at Facebook's data centres as soon as they are shared with someone else.

"Facebook has notified this office of the Moments app and advised us that within the EU version of the Moments app they do not control or initiate the use of any feature recognition technology," said a spokeswoman for the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.

"Consideration of this development is ongoing and we will more closely look at the technical details of the app following its release."

Limited labelling

Mr Ruben said Facebook believed the original version of Moments remained the "best version" but the new edition was still "easy to use.

"You don't need to label all the faces on your phone," he said.

"The idea is to share with the people closest to you, so usually it's just the top 10 people or so."

Moments allows its users to keep track of whom they have shared their pictures with

One industry-watcher said the lack of auto-tagging might slow the app's adoption.

"Any additional effort that people have to put into a service creates a barrier," said Ben Wood, from the tech consultancy CCS Insight.

"The seamless experience in other markets is therefore more compelling.

"However, once people invest a little time, they will see the benefits, and it could catch on, on that basis."

Facebook's use of facial recognition has, however, caused controversy in the US.

Last week, a US judge refused to block a class action case in which it is claimed the technology violates Illinois's Biometric Privacy Act.

The law states biology-based identifiers - including facial maps and fingerprints - cannot be collected without their owners' explicit consent.

Google is also being sued over the matter.

Being overweight 'now less unhealthy'

By Jane Dreaper

Obesity can increase the risk of heart disease and diabetes

Being overweight may not be as unhealthy as it was 40 years ago, Danish research suggests.

The study found the "moderately" overweight now had lower rates of early death than those who were normal weight, underweight or obese.

The work, published in JAMA, looked at many thousands of people's height, weight and death rates at three different time periods since the 1970s.

A UK doctor said it did not mean being overweight was healthy or desirable.

And advice about preventing obesity should remain.

Measuring obesity

A person's body mass index (BMI) is calculated by dividing their weight in kilograms by the square of their height in meters.

• Underweight: below 18.5

• Normal: 18.5 to 24.9

• Overweight: 25 to 29.9

• Obese: greater than 30

In the mid-1970s, those with the lowest death rates were a normal weight and the obese faced a 30% higher risk of early death, the doctors, from Copenhagen University, found.

But now the threat to people's survival from being obese was now almost negligible

The authors say the most likely explanation is that health systems are now much better at treating obesity-linked conditions, such as high cholesterol and blood pressure.

Lead investigator Prof Borge Nordestgaard said: "Our results should not be interpreted as suggesting that now people can eat as much as they like, or that so-called normal-weight individuals should eat more to become overweight.

"That said, maybe overweight people need not be quite as worried about their weight as before."

The Danish researchers say their work shows a need to update the global categories that define excess weight, which are now two decades old.

But that idea was rejected by a British expert in metabolic medicine.

Prof Naveed Sattar, from the University of Glasgow, said: "These data are of interest, but they do not change advice we have been giving on obesity and its treatment and prevention.

"The current findings do not mean that being overweight is protecting you from death, far from it.

"Obesity and overweight categories also signal risks for many diseases - such as type-2 diabetes, liver disease, cancers, sleeping problems, multiple pregnancy complications, to name but a few.

"Although we can manage many of those much better these days, such complications also impair quality of life and self-esteem, as well as increase health costs for societies.

More than 100 Earth-sized planets found

Nasa's Kepler telescope has discovered more than 100 Earth-sized planets orbiting alien stars.

It has also detected nine small planets within the so-called habitable zone, where conditions are favourable for liquid water - and potentially life.

The finds are contained within a catalogue of 1,284 new planets detected by Kepler - which more than doubles the previous tally.

Nasa said it was the biggest single announcement of new exoplanets.

Space agency scientists discussed the new findings in a teleconference on Tuesday.

Statistical analyses of the expanding sample of worlds helps astronomers understand how common planets like our own might be.

Dr Natalie Batalha said the calculations so far suggested there could be tens of billions of potentially habitable planets in the Milky Way.

"If you ask yourself where is the next habitable planet likely to be, it's within about 11 light-years, which is very close," said Dr Batalha.

Astronomers said they consider planets that are 1.6 times Earth's radius or smaller are likely to be rocky, and may therefore be potential targets in the hunt for life.

Future telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope could analyse the light from the atmospheres of exoplanets for potential markers of biology.

Lead author Timothy Morton said the overwhelming majority of exoplanets found by Kepler fell into the super-Earth (1.2-1.9 times bigger than the radius of Earth) and sub-Neptune sized (1.9-3.1 times bigger than Earth's radius).

He noted that planets in this size range had no known analogues in our Solar System.

Kepler employed the transit method to detect planets orbiting other stars. This involves measuring the slight dimming of a star's light when an orbiting planet passes between it and the Earth.

The same orbital phenomenon was involved when Mercury passed across the face of the Sun on Monday 9 May.

Spanish journalists freed in Syria

Angel Sastre, Antonio Pampliega and Jose Manuel Lopez were freelance journalists reporting on the war in Syria

Three Spanish journalists who were kidnapped while working in Syria last year have been released and are due to return to Spain, the government says.

Antonio Pampliega, Jose Manuel Lopez and Angel Sastre disappeared from the northern city of Aleppo 10 months ago.

Parts of Aleppo are controlled by rebel groups including so-called Islamic State (IS), who have kidnapped and killed journalists in the past.

It is not yet clear who kidnapped Mr Pampliega, Mr Lopez and Mr Sastre.

The Spanish government statement said that the men were safe and well, and waiting in Turkey to be brought back to Spain.

The statement said allies including Turkey and Qatar were instrumental in freeing them.

Elsa Gonzalez, the president of Spain's federation of journalists, said the news was a cause for "joy and emotion".

Previously, in 2014, two Spanish journalists were freed after being held for six months by IS.

The media rights group Reporters Without Borders ranks Syria as the most dangerous country in the world for journalists.

Scores of journalists, both foreign nationals and Syrian, have been killed there.

Air strikes in Aleppo have killed dozens of people in recent weeks, in the worst phase of violence the city has seen since the start of the Syrian civil war more than five years ago.

But a truce was called on Wednesday, bringing some respite to the city.

Afghanistan fuel tanker crash kills 52

The buses were full of passengers

Two buses and a fuel tanker have collided on a major highway in Afghanistan killing 52 people.

An official told the BBC that 73 people injured in the accident had been taken to hospital in Ghazni province.

All three vehicles were set ablaze after the collision on the main road linking the capital, Kabul, to the southern city of Kandahar.

Accidents are common in Afghanistan where roads are often in a poor state and traffic rules rarely enforced.

The crash reportedly happened at 06:30 local time

People nearby came to help deal with casualties

Mohammadullah Ahmadi, the director of the provincial traffic department, said the crash was caused by reckless driving, the Associated Press news agency reports.

He said local residents helped fire fighters and first responders pull survivors from the wreckage.

Jawed Salangi, spokesman for the governor of eastern Ghazni province, told the BBC's Mahfouz Zubaide that he had seen documents showing that altogether there were 125 passengers travelling on the buses.

According to the Efe news agency, the collision happened at about 06:30 local time (02:00 GMT).

Afghanistan fuel tanker crash kills 52

The buses were full of passengers

Two buses and a fuel tanker have collided on a major highway in Afghanistan killing 52 people.

An official told the BBC that 73 people injured in the accident had been taken to hospital in Ghazni province.

All three vehicles were set ablaze after the collision on the main road linking the capital, Kabul, to the southern city of Kandahar.

Accidents are common in Afghanistan where roads are often in a poor state and traffic rules rarely enforced.

The crash reportedly happened at 06:30 local time

People nearby came to help deal with casualties

Mohammadullah Ahmadi, the director of the provincial traffic department, said the crash was caused by reckless driving, the Associated Press news agency reports.

He said local residents helped fire fighters and first responders pull survivors from the wreckage.

Jawed Salangi, spokesman for the governor of eastern Ghazni province, told the BBC's Mahfouz Zubaide that he had seen documents showing that altogether there were 125 passengers travelling on the buses.

According to the Efe news agency, the collision happened at about 06:30 local time (02:00 GMT).

Handless girl wins US handwriting award

Anaya Ellick's mother Bianca says her daughter has "persevered"

A seven-year-old student born without hands has won a US national handwriting contest.

Anaya Ellick from Chesapeake, Virginia, does not use prosthetics. To write, she stands to get the proper angle, holding a pencil between her arms.

Her principal, Tracy Cox from Greenbrier Christian Academy, describes her as an "inspiration".

"She does not let anything get in the way of doing what she has set out to do," says Ms Cox.

"She is a hard worker and has some of the best handwriting in her class."

The girl reportedly beat 50 other competitors to get the special-needs category prize at the National Handwriting Contest.

This category rewards students with an intellectual, physical, or developmental disability.

Competition director Kathleen Wright told ABC News that her "writing sample was comparable to someone who had hands".

This is what her winning entry looked like:

Sponsors of the contest Zaner-Bloser said they planned to award each student $1,000 (£690).

They tweeted a picture of the student, happily holding her trophy.

Having no hands was also not an obstacle to 30-year-old pilot Jessica Cox.

In 2013, we reported on her inspirational example. Also born without hands, she has been able to drive a car, fly a plane and play piano - all with her feet.

Leicester win Premier League title

Footage uploaded to Twitter shows the moment Leicester players watching the match at home celebrated winning the title

Leicester City have won the Premier League title in one of the greatest sporting stories of all time.

Tottenham's 2-2 draw at Chelsea on Monday confirmed a stunning achievement for Claudio Ranieri's side.

Leicester started the campaign as 5,000-1 outsiders for the title after almost being relegated last season.

But they have lost just three league games in what has been described as a "fairytale" and the "most unlikely triumph in the history of team sport".

Closest challengers Spurs, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United and last year's champions Chelsea, have all failed to match the Foxes' consistency across the season.

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Former Leicester, Everton and England strikerGary Lineker described his hometown team's achievement as "the biggest sporting shock of my lifetime".

The Match of the Day presenter had suggested the Leicester players were on the "edge of sporting immortality" last month.

He told BBC Sport: "I can't think of anything that surpasses it in sporting history. It is difficult to put over in words.

"I got emotional. It was hard to breathe. I was a season ticket holder from the age of seven. This is actually impossible."

After Leicester drew 1-1 at Manchester United on Sunday, Tottenham needed to win all three of their remaining league games to catch the Foxes.

But their title hopes were ended when they squandered a 2-0 lead to only draw at London rivals Chelsea.

Match of the Day pundit and former Newcastle United, Blackburn Rovers and England strikerAlan Shearer said Leicester's achievement was "the biggest thing ever in football".

Shearer, who won the Premier League in 1995 with underdogs Blackburn, told BBC Sport: "For a team like Leicester to come and take the giants on with their wealth and experience - not only take them on but to beat them - I think it's the biggest thing to happen in football."

Gianni Infantino, president of football's world governing body Fifa, said Leicester's "beautiful story" was a "fairytale".

The East Midlands club was also quick to hail the achievement of Ranieri and his players, saying they "have captured the imaginations of football fans around the world with one of the most brilliant and unlikely sporting triumphs ever seen".

Sports data analysts say Leicester are set for a potential £150m boost for winning the title, coming from Premier League prize money, Champions League participation cash and increased match-day revenues from ticket and hospitality sales.

'A sporting miracle'

"In terms of domestic football, Leicester City winning the Premier League is the greatest achievement ever and I think it will never be surpassed," former Leicester midfielder Robbie Savage told BBC Sport.

"It is incredible. This is a turning point in Premier League history."

Lineker was sceptical at the start of the season - and even in December promised to present Match of the Day in his underwear if Leicester did win the league

Leicester East MP Keith Vaz said: "This is the greatest day in the history of this city. It's the top, absolutely the top to win the English Premier League, the best league in the world. It's a miracle and what Claudio Ranieri has done with this amazing team."

Former Foxes manager Martin O'Neill, who led the club to their previous highest Premier League finish of eighth in 2000, said: "Not only is it a brilliant story, but it gives everyone that little bit of hope again that romance has not left football.

"It's been the talk of Europe, there's no question about that. Everything about this season has been remarkable."

Snooker player Mark Selby, a Leicester fan, clinched his second World Championship title a little over 10 minutes after his hometown team won the Premier League crown. "To be Premier League champions is a fantastic achievement and I want to say well done to Claudio and the boys," he said.

Even Prime Minister David Cameron passed on his congratulations, saying it was "an extraordinary, thoroughly deserved, Premier League title".

Mark Selby had double reason to celebrate his World Snooker Championship win

How have they made history?

It is Leicester's first top-flight title and the club, owned by Thai billionaire businessman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, have also qualified for next season's Champions League group stages for the first time.

The Foxes started the season among the favourites for relegation and only the three promoted sides - Watford, Norwich and Bournemouth - were longer odds for the league title.

Ranieri, who took over from the sacked Nigel Pearson in the summer, was seen as an uninspired choice by some fans and pundits after his predecessor had overseen a run of seven wins in nine games as Leicester escaped relegation in 2014-15.

The Italian's previous job ended abruptly when his Greece side lost to European minnows Faroe Islands during Euro 2016 qualifying.

Yet the charismatic 64-year-old's team - assembled for less than £30m and playing pacy, direct, counter-attacking football - has confounded the experts.

Savage added: "I'm speechless, it is unbelievable. I've seen England win the Ashes and get OBEs and MBEs. This Leicester team's achievement is greater than any of that. They should be recognised in the honours list."

Comparison with other sporting shocks

• Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest side were promoted to the top flight, won the league and then won two European Cups in consecutive seasons between 1976 and 1980.

• Baseball's Boston Red Sox finally triumphed in the 2004 World Series - 86 years after their last win.

• Unseeded 17-year-old German Boris Becker became the youngest player to win the Wimbledon tennis tournament with victory in 1985.

• Chain-smoking rookie reserve John Daly won the 1991 US PGA golf championship after being drafted in as a late replacement.

• Undisputed, undefeated boxing heavyweight champion of the world Mike Tyson was knocked out by flu-ridden 'stooge' Buster Douglas in Tokyo, 1990.

Putting Leicester on the map

Phra Prommangkalachan is one of half a dozen Thai Buddhist monks who have been making regular trips to England to bless Leicester's pitch over the past three years

Leicester's title triumph is expected to generate millions of pounds in additional income for the local economy with tourism boosted by the club's higher global profile.

Kasabian, the Leicester-born platinum-selling, stadium-filling rock band, will play two gigs at the Foxes' King Power Stadium on 28 and 29 May, saying it will be "the biggest party the city has ever seen". Guitarist Serge Pizzorno said: "It feels like we're almost centre of the universe."

Mayor of Leicester Peter Soulsby has kept celebration plans secret, but said: "Twelve months ago we were re-interring the remains of the last king of England to die in battle [Richard III] and we were worried about our football team.

"We had the eyes of the world upon us and frankly we thought that it could not get any better, or bigger. Well, it has.

"I don't believe in miracles but this is as near as it gets.

"We've had media interest from across the world. We were on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, I've spoken to two German television crews in the last few days, Chilean television and Italian television twice. It really has attracted worldwide attention beyond anything that we fully understood."

Chairman Srivaddhanaprabha bought the club in 2010 for £39m and, after Leicester were promoted from the Championship in 2014, said he would spend £180m to get them into European competition in three years.

According to BBC South Asia correspondent Jonathan Head, the Thai businessman's travel retail group King Power has "hit the jackpot" and can now start to "tap into a bottomless well of passion in this football-mad nation of 68 million people".

A team of bargain buys and cast-offs

Leicester's story is epitomised by 29-year-old striker Jamie Vardy. Released by Sheffield Wednesday at 16 for being too small, he rose through non-league football until Leicester paid Fleetwood Town £1m for him in 2012.

He is now an England international, second in the Premier League's scoring charts this season and was named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year on Monday.

Meanwhile, Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year Riyad Mahrez, 25, was bought for just £400,000 from French second-tier side Le Havre in January 2014.

Only 14 players have made more than a dozen league appearances - illustrating how settled the side has been - and Ranieri's preferred starting XI cost an estimated £22m, less than a 10th of what is arguably big-spending Manchester City's first-choice line-up.

Leicester's record £8m signing Leonardo Ulloa is usually a substitute; Manchester City's record signing is £55m Kevin De Bruyne

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The key stats

Kasper Schmeichel has marshalled a defence which has helped Leicester win 14 games by a one-goal margin, including seven 1-0 victories

• Since the Premier League began in 1992-93, only Blackburn Rovers have managed to take the title away from either Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea or Manchester City.

• Leicester's highest previous top-flight finish was second in 1928-29.

• Ranieri - known in England as 'The Tinkerman' after his spell as Chelsea boss more than a decade ago - has made just 27 changes to his line-up across the entire Premier League season. The next lowest is Bournemouth (50).

• At 42.3%, Leicester have the lowest average possession figure of any Premier League champion since 2006-07.

• Of Leicester's 22 wins this season, 19 have come despite having a lower share of possession than their opponents.

• At the start of April, Leicester were seven points clear at the top of the Premier League. Exactly one year earlier, they were bottom of the table, seven points from safety.

The games that shaped Leicester's season

Jamie Vardy (22 goals, six assists) and team-mate Riyad Mahrez (17 goals, 11 assists) have both been involved in 28 goals each - the joint most in the Premier League

Leicester 3-2 Aston Villa, September 2015: The Foxes score three times in the final 18 minutes to move second in the table.

Stoke 2-2 Leicester, September 2015: Another comeback maintains the Foxes' unbeaten start to the season.

Leicester 1-1 Manchester United, November 2015: Jamie Vardy scores in his 11th consecutive game - a new Premier League record.

Leicester 2-1 Chelsea, December 2015:Defending champions Chelsea are left just a point above the relegation zone as Leicester return to the top of the table.

Tottenham 0-1 Leicester, January 2016: Rivals Spurs are beaten by a late Robert Huth header. Two further FA Cup games between the teams in the same month see Spurs go through after a replay.

Manchester City 1-3 Leicester, February 2016:Nearest rivals Manchester City are comprehensively beaten by another superb away performance. Riyad Mahrez becomes the first player to reach double figures in terms of both goals (14) and assists (10) in the Premier League this season.

Leicester 1-0 Southampton, April 2016: A fifth 1-0 win in their past six games puts Leicester seven points clear of nearest rivals Spurs with only half a dozen games left.

Leicester 4-0 Swansea, April 2016: Despite top scorer Jamie Vardy being suspended and Tottenham chasing hard, Leicester show no signs of pressure with a routine victory to go eight points clear with three games to go.

'The biggest sporting upset of all time' - the odds

BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty was one of hundreds of journalists and pundits to predict a lowly finish and probable relegation for Leicester in his season preview.

At the start of the season, 47 people placed a bet with Ladbrokes for Leicester to win the title at 5,000-1, around half of whom chose to cash out early.

One Leicester fan took £72,000 from a £50 bet, when he would have won £250,000.

Joe Crilly, from bookmakers William Hill, described Leicester's title win as "the biggest sporting upset of all time", while Ladbrokes' Alex Donohue said it was his company's "biggest payout by a distance".

Crilly added: "It is not just a one-off like Japan beating South Africa in the rugby (which was 200-1), it has been a sustained effort over a full season and one which we, as bookmakers, continued to believe was impossible until just a few weeks ago.

"The Foxes only became odds-on favourites for the first time at the end of March when they moved five points ahead at the top of the table, such was the scepticism with which we viewed Leicester's ability to continue their title push. It is quite simply incredible."

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Leicester's season on social media

And these are the 10 most discussed Leicester moments of the season on Twitter:

• Danny Welbeck scores a dramatic last-minute winner to give Arsenal a 2-1 win over Leicester - 51,000 tweets per minute (14 Feb, 2016).

• Jamie Vardy breaks the record for goals in consecutive Premier League games by scoring against Manchester United - 33,000 (28 Nov, 2015).

• Robert Huth scores his second to put Leicester 3-0 up at Manchester City - 31,000 (6 Feb, 2016).

• Riyad Mahrez puts Leicester 2-0 up against Manchester City at Etihad Stadium - 24,000 (6 Feb, 2016).

• Vardy puts Leicester 1-0 up from the spot against Arsenal at Emirates Stadium - 24,000 (14 Feb, 2016).

• Mahrez scores a wonder goal to put Leicester 2-0 up against Chelsea - 22,000 (14 Dec, 2015).

• Arsenal's Theo Walcott equalises against Leicester with 20 minutes to play - 19,000 (14 Feb, 2016).

• Vardy opens the scoring for Leicester at the King Power against Chelsea - 18,000 (14 Dec, 2015).

• Vardy breaks away to put Leicester 2-0 up against Sunderland - 18,000 (10 Apr, 2015).

• West Ham shock the King Power with two goals in two minutes, before Leonardo Ulloa equalises with a controversial penalty at the end - 17,000 (17 Apr, 2016).

'Jamie Vardy's having a party'

The popular chant from Leicester fans - that striker Vardy "is having a party" - was never more true as the forward held a get-together at his home for team-mates to watch the Tottenham game.

Supporters also gathered outside the star's home, while many more filled the city's bars and pubs, or took to the streets to celebrate the historic moment.

Supporters gathered outside Jamie Vardy's house to mark the occasion as the players celebrated inside - once the final whistle had blown

The east Midlands city's pubs and bars were packed with fans, singing and chanting - and celebrating as Chelsea equalised to send the title Leicester's way

Many fans poured out onto the city's streets to celebrate once their title win had been confirmed, with some supporters gathering at the club's King Power Stadium to join in the party atmosphere