The Football Association's decision to clear Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho of making discriminatory comments to former club doctor Eva Carneiro has "appalled" a campaign group.

Women in Football said its language expert is certain Mourinho used abusive language towards a woman, contrary to the verdict of the FA's chosen expert.
"It's another example of the FA failing to tackle discrimination," it said.
"We are concerned by the serious flaws in the process of such investigations."
The FA studied footage from the 2-2 draw with Swansea on 8 August after a member of the public made a complaint.
It said it was "satisfied the words used do not constitute discriminatory language under FA rules".
Carneiro and head physio Jon Fearn were criticised by Mourinho for treating Eden Hazard with the side a man down.
The club doctor, 42, had her role downgraded before she decided to leave the club.
The Women in Football statement said: "Our own language expert made it abundantly clear that the abusive words used by Mr Mourinho on the touchline that day were specifically directed towards a woman, as indicated by the grammar of his sentence.
"Other Portuguese speakers we contacted in gathering evidence also emphasised this point. We therefore find it extraordinary that any expert or Portuguese speaker would report otherwise."
The FA said it had appointed an independent academic expert in Portuguese linguistics to analyse the footage of the incident, which included the audio recording.
It said in its statement: "Both the words used, as translated and analysed by the independent expert, and the video evidence, do not support the conclusion that the words were directed at any person in particular."


Bill Cosby's wife will not have to give evidence on Wednesday in a defamation case filed by seven women accusing the comedian of sexual assault.

Last week a judge rejected Camille Cosby's attempts to avoid testifying, after she claimed she was protected by a marital disqualification law.
But on Tuesday, he agreed to a postponement, saying it would be unfair to deny her the right to appeal.
However, if the appeal fails, a hearing should happen soon after, he added.
A lawyer for the women said he expected to eventually be allowed to question Mrs Cosby, who has been married to the comedian for more than 50 years is also his business partner.
Mr Cosby's accusers' legal claim alleges he and his representatives sought to tarnish their reputations after they went public with their claims of sexual misconduct.
The star has filed a counter legal claim, contending the women are "engaged in a campaign to assassinate" his reputation and character.
The 78-year-old is also seeking unspecified monetary damages and said the women inflicted emotional distress.
He has denied the accusations.
Last week, prosecutors in Pennsylvania charged the comedian with an alleged sexual assault in 2004. It is the first time Mr Cosby has been charged with any offence after months of accusations by dozens of women.
He is currently on $1m (Â£675,000) bail.


Woody Harrelson has been officially cast in the currently untitled Star Wars spin-off about the young Han Solo.

The film's co-directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, said they "couldn't be more excited to work with an artist with as much depth and range".
Donald Glover, who won a Golden Globe on Sunday for his US TV show Atlanta, will play the young Lando Calrissian opposite Alden Ehrenreich's Han.
Emilia Clarke will also appear in the film, scheduled for release in 2018.
The British actress is best known for her role as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones and also appeared in 2015's Terminator: Genysys.
Harrelson, best known for playing barman Woody in Cheers, was more recently seen as Haymitch Abernathy in the four Hunger Games films.
Lord and Miller, who also directed The Lego Movie, said Harrelson's "ability to find both humour and pathos, often in the same role, [was] truly unique".
The film-makers did not give any details about his role in the film - although they did reveal on the official Star Wars site that "he is also very good at ping pong".
Later this month, the 55-year-old plans to shoot a live movie that will be filmed in a single take in London and broadcast directly to US cinemas.
Harrison Ford played Han Solo in the original Star Wars film trilogy, returning to reprise the role in 2015's The Force Awakens.
Billy Dee Williams played Lando Calrissian in 1980's The Empire Strikes Back and 1983's Return of the Jedi.
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The first ever school governors' "strike" is being threatened in the escalating dispute over spending cuts.

School governors in West Sussex are writing to MPs to warn them they will refuse to sign off budgets or carry out their supervisory work.
They are backing local head teachers who have warned they might have to cut school hours because of cash shortages.
But the Department for Education says schools in England are receiving record levels of funding.
The letter from governing bodies says they have been in "shock and incomprehension" about what funding cuts will mean for schools.
Schools in West Sussex have been at the forefront of a national campaign over funding - with heads warning that they face cutting teaching staff, merging classes or reducing school hours.
School governors - including parents and representatives from the local community - do not get paid, but they have a responsibility of oversight for how schools are run, appointing staff and scrutinising school finances.
And governing bodies in West Sussex are warning that unless their "urgent concerns" about a lack of funding are addressed, they will withdraw their services.
This could cause administrative problems - but it will be seen as symbolic support for an increasingly vocal campaign over school funding.
The letter from governing bodies, usually seen as moderate voices, warns of the need for "direct action" over funding problems.
They warn that they cannot "sit idly by" as schools are put in an "impossible financial situation".
But governors say they will continue to work where there are any issues concerning child protection.
Head teachers in West Sussex have organised a Worth Less? campaign, highlighting their concerns about underfunding of schools in the local authority.
The heads of almost every state school in the authority signed a petition supporting the protest - and the campaigners are expecting a high level of support from governing bodies.
The National Governors Association is also calling on the government to increase overall funding for schools - but it is not offering its formal support for governing bodies withdrawing their services.
Last week it was revealed that £384m, earmarked for schools in England under academy conversion plans, had been taken back by the Treasury.
The National Audit Office has warned that schools face £3bn in spending cuts by 2020.
On Tuesday, Schools Minister Nick Gibb will face questions from MPs on school funding and questions about how it is to be redistributed under a new funding formula.
The Department for Education has said that the core school budget has been protected in real terms - and that funding for schools in 2016-17 is at record levels of more than £40bn.
The department has argued that the new funding formula will provide a much fairer basis for allocating funds to schools and will give head teachers more certainty over their future budgets and long-term planning.


With 90 days to go until Northern Ireland's first match in the Euros this summer, BBC News NI's Mark Simpson went on a French road trip to see what fans following the team in the group stages can expect.

There are only 600 miles between the first and last venue. Believe me, that is a good result, compared to some other teams. Russian fans have to criss-cross the country, clocking up around 1,200 miles. Northern Ireland fans are simply going in reasonably straight line, heading north from Nice to Paris, with a stop in the middle.
Fans are going to need patience and plenty of euros.
12 June - Nice: Northern Ireland v Poland
16 June - Lyon: Northern Ireland v Ukraine
21 June - Paris: Northern Ireland v Germany
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. There is a huge amount of information already available for travelling fans on the UEFA website.
So fill your boots. Or as they say in France, remplissez vos bottes.
Anyone who has been to France knows most people you encounter in the big cities can speak English, but it would do no harm to brush up on your French if you can. After all, if Northern Ireland get to the final, you will be there most of the summer.
The tournament kicks off for Northern Ireland in sunny Nice on Sunday 12 June, and if you are not going, or could not get a ticket, please stop reading now. The city ticks every box - the sun, sea, sand and the stadium. All you could ask for and more.
Very nice indeed. Ok, it is a pity it does not have more seats - only 35,000. In fact, it is the smallest ground at which Northern Ireland will play, but the fans are very close to the pitch and the atmosphere promises to be spine-tingling.
Bring your trunks, or your bikini. The fanzone is right beside the Mediterranean, at the seafront in the centre of Nice. It holds about 10,000 fans and buses will go from here to the stadium on match day. The stadium is relatively close to the city centre, and only four miles from the airport. It is perfect for a day-trip and that is what many fans are planning to do. One bit of advice - watch your wallets and purses. Pickpockets love crowds and they also tend to love Nice.
It is time to fold away your towel, rub in some after-sun cream and head to Lyon for the second game on Thursday 16 June. By train, it is reasonably straight forward, by road it is quite a trek. About five hours in a car, approximately 300 miles and more than 30 euros (£23) in tolls. However, at least that is the travel hassle all over for a while? Oh wait ...
Maybe we just caught it on a bad day, but the traffic in Lyon was horrendous. It took more than an hour to crawl from Lyon city centre to the stadium. In fairness, it is an out-of-town stadium. So as the Traffic and Travel folk like to say, 'please leave extra time for your journey'. On the plus side, it is a big, brand new stadium - 58,000 seats - the biggest at which Northern Ireland will play in the group stages.
No need for your swimming gear, unless you want to swim in the River Rhône. Actually, forget that, you are not allowed. The fanzone is at the Place Bellecour, right in the heart of the city and has room for  32,000 fans. Lyon is France's third largest city. What is the second largest? Keep reading...
All roads lead to Paris. Tuesday 21 June is the final group game. The good news for car drivers is that although it is another 34 euros (£26) in tolls and a four-hour journey, it is a straight road to the capital. Indeed, at one point the Sat Nav (if you're driving, don't forget to pack it) displayed the memorable instruction 'next turn in 188 miles'.
If the grass looks particularly green at the Parc des Princes stadium, it is all down to the Ballymena-born groundsman Jonathan Calderwood. For those fortunate to obtain one of the 48,000 seats, the advice is to arrive early. There will be a security cordon around the stadium which will be time-consuming. It will be the same at the other grounds, but Paris being Paris, it is likely to be particularly rigorous.
As you can imagine, it is the mother of all fanzones with room for 120,000 people. No prizes for guessing the location - beside the Eiffel Tower. If you cannot find it, your old geography teacher will be ashamed.
This is where it gets complicated. Even if Northern Ireland come third in their group, there is a good chance they will qualify for the knockout stages. There is also a reasonable possibility that they could end up back in Lyon. Please do not ask me to explain. Even Carol Vorderman would struggle to work out the Euro knockout venue permutations.
Money, phone, sun cream. Oh, and bring along your 'EHIC' card which entitles access to EU health care.
France's second largest city is Marseille, and it is hosting one of the semi-finals. It is just along the French coast from Nice. So if Northern Ireland fans are feeling excessively confident, they could leave their suitcases in Nice after the first game, travel light around the rest of France and then pick them up again before the semi-final in Marseille. Bon voyage.


A section of the embankment of the River Arno in central Florence collapsed on Wednesday morning, sending part of the road and at least 20 parked cars into a newly formed ditch.

The collapse took place very close to the famous Ponte Vecchio, a medieval covered bridge over the Arno.
The hole is about 200m (650ft) in length and 7m (23ft) across.
Firefighters believe the chasm has been created by the failure of a large water pipe beneath the surface.
Florence's Mayor Dario Nardella tweeted (in Italian) that no-one had been harmed in the incident on Lungarno Torrigiani.
He appealed to motorists to remove their cars from the nearby area, and said the water supply to part of the city centre was cut off.
Regional paper Corriere Fiorentino reports that thousands of residents are without water.
The first sign of the problem came not long after midnight, when the police were called, the mayor told Italy's Ansa news agency.
The major collapse took place at 06:14 local time, Mr Nardella said.


For the second time this year we have mild deflation - or prices falling at an annual rate of 0.1%.

Does this mean the risk has increased of pernicious deflation - or endemic price falls that would dissuade us from spending and investing today, in the hope of picking up bargains tomorrow?
Are we on the brink of much lower growth, lower wage rises and an increase in the real (or inflation-adjusted) burden of the country's huge debts?
Certainly it would be foolish to discount this risk as nugatory, but also to overstate it.
The new trend that matters, the main contributor to inflation going from zero (or "noflation") to negative, is that clothing and shoe prices rose at their slowest rate between August and September since 2008.
To be clear, clothing prices are not falling. But a pronounced slowdown in their rate of growth - from 4% to 2.8% - failed to offset the deflation we've experienced for some time in food and energy.
So could this softness in the clothing market be suggestive of a disturbing weakening in the economy - at a time when much of the rest of the world, especially China and the emerging economies, are experiencing marked slowdowns?
Well I have talked to major clothing retailers this morning and they largely blame this erosion in their pricing power on our Indian summer.
When you can go outside in a T-shirt, as was possible in London this morning, people aren't buying winter coats or jumpers.
But there are other signs that growth may be moving down a gear: unemployment has stopped falling; surveys of service companies and manufacturers suggest the last three months of the year may see a gentle reduction in the rate of expansion.
None of this means the recovery is over.
The return to mild deflation is probably not the canary in the coalmine, squeaking "recession now".
But it does tell us that growth remains fragile.
And it also suggests that although the governor of the Bank of England may be right that the decision on whether to end the era of almost-zero interest rates may come into sharper focus at the end of the year, he and his colleagues are likely to delay that first rise in the cost of money for some months yet.
PS: John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn may be among the small number celebrating signs of a weakening economy - in that maybe it makes their flip-flopping on whether to support the government's deficit-reduction legislation seem a bit less arbitrary and capricious.


Delays in releasing elderly patients from hospital could continue for up to five years, NHS England boss Simon Stevens has warned.

So-called bed-blocking is estimated to cost the service about £820m a year.
A recent report by the National Audit Office said delays in discharging patients from hospitals in England had risen by nearly a third over two years.
Mr Stevens told MPs the number of blocked beds may not reach zero soon because of social care pressures.
Bed-blocking occurs when a patient is deemed medically well enough to be released from hospital, but something else delays their discharge.
More than a million days of bed occupancy were lost to other patients last year.
The main reasons were delays in getting a home care package or nursing home placement.
A senior Department of Health official, John Rouse, also told the public accounts committee there was an unacceptable variation in performance, but that more than 40% of local authorities providing social care had reduced delays.
The department has previously said the issue would be tackled as councils get £3.5bn more for adult care by 2020.
Across England, the audit office found that for every 100 beds, three days of use were taken by patients who no longer needed to be in hospital between March 2015 and February 2016.
It represented a rise of almost one third on the same period two years earlier.
Analysis of figures showed 26 trusts where there were at least five days of delayed discharge for every 100 beds in 2015-16.
This was out of a total of 148 acute trusts surveyed.


The EU Commission is taking Germany to court because the carmaker Daimler is still using a coolant chemical deemed harmful to the environment.

Daimler uses the refrigerant, called R-134a, in the air-conditioning units of Mercedes cars.
The Commission says Germany failed to apply an EU directive called MAC, which requires the use of a refrigerant "with less global warming potential".
Daimler says the new chemical, R1234yf, catches fire more easily.
The court case comes as German car firm Volkswagen remains under huge international pressure over its failure to comply with car emission standards.
According to the Commission, Daimler's safety concerns about R1234yf "were not shared by any other car manufacturer and were rejected by Germany's Federal Motor Transport Authority (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt, KBA) and the [Commission's] Joint Research Centre".
If Germany loses the case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) - the EU's top court - it could be liable for a big fine.
The MAC Directive - short for mobile air-conditioning systems - says fluorinated greenhouse gases with a global warming potential (GPW) higher than 150 must no longer be used.
Since 2011 MAC systems in cars have had to comply with the directive.


Huddersfield Town beat Sheffield Wednesday on penalties to reach the Championship play-off final.

Terriers keeper Danny Ward saved from Sam Hutchinson and Fernando Forestieri in the shootout to give Town a 4-3 win.
Steven Fletcher put the Owls ahead when he headed home Barry Bannan's cross but the visitors levelled when Collin Quaner's cross was turned in by Nahki Wells via a deflection from Tom Lees.
Town will now face Reading at Wembley for a place in the Premier League.
It had always looked possible that the tie would go the distance after Sunday's opening leg between the two sides had ended scoreless, with the Owls failing to manage a single shot on target.
Despite losing Ross Wallace to injury early on, the hosts made a bright start to the second leg and sub Adam Reach forced a sharp save from Terriers keeper Danny Ward at his near post.
However, Town had the best chance in the first half but Izzy Brown's shot hit the outside of the post after Wells had found the Chelsea loanee with a low cross.
Wednesday opened the scoring when Bannan, who was given a far more free role compared to the first game, sent a perfectly-measured cross to the back post where Fletcher rose above Christopher Schindler to head in.
After initially being rocked, Town responded well and got a deserved equaliser when Collin Quaner got on the end of a neat ball from Brown and squared a low ball across the face of goal, which Lees inadvertently diverted in to level the tie with 15 minutes to go.
Both teams had chances to win it in extra time but Wales international Ward saved well from Jordan Rhodes and Wells fired into the side netting after a mishit-shot broke to him.
Town eventually prevailed when Liverpool loanee Ward dived to his right to keep Forestieri's effort out and set up an appearance against the Royals at Wembley on Monday, 29 May.
Huddersfield Town finished last season with a 5-1 home defeat by Brentford to finish 19th in the second tier.
Boss Wagner, who had joined in November 2015, subsequently carried out a major overhaul of the squad in the summer to bring in players who could execute the pressing game he wanted the side to play.
Loanees Aaron Mooy, Ward and Brown, along with Germany-born imports Chris Lowe, Michael Hefele and Elias Kachunga, have all been integral to the Terriers' success.
Wagner, who joked prior to the game that "everyone knows Germans are able to win penalties", has maintained all campaign that his team were underdogs for promotion - but they are now just 90 minutes from reaching the Premier League for the first time in their history.
He said after the game: "Everyone knows most pundits said we would be in relegation trouble or we'd get relegated and now we're one step away from the Premier League. We are the small dog, the terrier, but we have belief.
"Now we are in the final the fairytale goes on and we want to write the last chapter at Wembley."
This was the second successive season that Sheffield Wednesday had reached the Championship play-offs under Portuguese head coach Carlos Carvalhal, following defeat by Hull City in last season's final.
Despite leading Wednesday to a fifth-place finish this campaign, questions have been raised about his position amid speculation linking former Newcastle and Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew with the club.
Carvalhal said that now was "not the time" to discuss his future after what he called a "heartbreaking" defeat.
When he took over in 2015, Thai owner Dejphon Chansiri said he wanted promotion back to the Premier League within two years and he may now look to make a change in the summer.
Match ends, Sheffield Wednesday 1(3), Huddersfield Town 1(4).
Penalty Shootout ends, Sheffield Wednesday 1(3), Huddersfield Town 1(4).
Penalty saved! Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the centre of the goal.
Penalty saved! Jack Payne (Huddersfield Town) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  left footed shot saved  in the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Sheffield Wednesday 1(3), Huddersfield Town 1(4). Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Sheffield Wednesday 1(2), Huddersfield Town 1(4). Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Goal!  Sheffield Wednesday 1(2), Huddersfield Town 1(3). Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal!  Sheffield Wednesday 1(1), Huddersfield Town 1(3). Nahki Wells (Huddersfield Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal!  Sheffield Wednesday 1(1), Huddersfield Town 1(2). Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Sheffield Wednesday 1, Huddersfield Town 1(2). Michael Hefele (Huddersfield Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty saved! Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Sheffield Wednesday 1, Huddersfield Town 1(1). Chris Löwe (Huddersfield Town) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty Shootout begins Sheffield Wednesday 1, Huddersfield Town 1.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Sheffield Wednesday 1, Huddersfield Town 1.
Chris Löwe (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday).
Attempt blocked. Nahki Wells (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jack Payne (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday).
Attempt missed. Jordan Rhodes (Sheffield Wednesday) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Barry Bannan with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Nahki Wells (Huddersfield Town).
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Jordan Rhodes (Sheffield Wednesday) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Sam Hutchinson with a cross.
Foul by Jonathan Hogg (Huddersfield Town).
Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Barry Bannan.
Attempt blocked. Tommy Smith (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonathan Hogg.
Attempt missed. Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Tareiq Holmes-Dennis with a cross.
Foul by Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield Town).
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Nahki Wells (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Tareiq Holmes-Dennis (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Atdhe Nuhiu replaces Daniel Pudil.
Corner,  Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Jack Hunt.
Second Half Extra Time begins Sheffield Wednesday 1, Huddersfield Town 1.
First Half Extra Time ends, Sheffield Wednesday 1, Huddersfield Town 1.
Attempt blocked. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sam Hutchinson.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Tareiq Holmes-Dennis replaces Rajiv van La Parra.
Attempt saved. Jordan Rhodes (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kieran Lee.
Corner,  Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Christopher Schindler.


Three vice presidents of the National Union of Students have accused their president of "anti-Semitic rhetoric".

Malia Bouattia wrote in 2011 that Birmingham University was "something of a Zionist outpost".
Now a letter signed by 44 student leaders says: "Jewish students have not felt safe participating in our national movement."
Ms Bouattia says she will do everything in her power to ensure Jewish students are safe.
Her election as NUS president in April is one of the reasons referendums were held in a number of universities on whether to disaffiliate from the NUS.
Only Newcastle, Hull, Lincoln and Loughborough voted to leave.
In an open letter, the student leaders warn that disaffiliation campaigns will continue unless the concerns of Jewish students are properly addressed.
The letter, which does not mention Ms Bouattia by name, says: "NUS' leadership has rightly come under increased scrutiny for its attitude towards Jewish students."
Richard Brooks, a vice-president of the NUS who signed the letter, said they wanted the thousands of Jewish students about to start university to feel the NUS movement was a "place for them".
"It is for Jewish students to define what anti-Semitism is," he told BBC Radio 4's The World At One.
"It is obviously a very challenging and nuanced argument but when a number of Jewish students over a consistent period of time say they do not feel safe participating in student politics and in the student movement, I think we have to take that really seriously and listen."
He said comments on social media or the tone of rhetoric in student politics made Jewish students feel unsafe or at least unwelcome.
Michael Segalov, a journalist who was on the NUS National Executive Committee until three months ago, said it was "simply untrue" to suggest everyone felt unsafe or uncomfortable.
"Malia is the most committed person I have even seen within this movement to fighting racism and fascism in whatever form it takes," he said. "It's been a priority of her work for years."
In a statement issued in response to the open letter, Ms Bouattia said: "I support my colleagues in the NUS leadership in calling for assurances that Jewish students will be safe on campus and I will do everything in my power to ensure that is the case.
"My priorities for the year ahead include a focus on inclusion, tackling hate crime on campuses and ensuring that all marginalised and oppressed groups feel safe in the movement.
"I look forward to working with my officers and NEC colleagues to continue to listen to Jewish students and support them in being part of NUS."
Ms Bouattia, the first black Muslim to hold the post of NUS president, has repeatedly denied charges of anti-Semitism, saying Zionism, religion and ethnicity must "not be seen as one and the same".
This week she refused to apologise for her past comments about Birmingham University.
But she told the Today programme: "I would certainly review my language and would definitely want to explain the political context which I was discussing.
"I absolutely was not saying the things that it's been interpreted as."


A cascade of ceramic poppies has been displayed in Liverpool ahead of Remembrance Sunday.

6 November 2015 Last updated at 13:21 GMT
The "weeping window" was first put on display last year at the Tower of London, with those flowers now draped down St George's Hall.
The exhibition is part of a tour of the poppies across the UK which will last until 2018 before they become permanently based at the Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester.
This time-lapse footage shows how the display in Liverpool was put together.
Video courtesy of Andy Shukie Photography.


Derbyshire were right to let Mark Footitt leave despite the bowler having a year left on his contract, according to chief executive Simon Storey.

Footitt, 29, has joined Division One side Surrey on a four-year deal, citing a desire to play top-tier cricket and enhance his England chances.
Storey told BBC Radio Derby: "There is no point in holding on to a player that doesn't want to be here.
"The challenge to find a replacement is a big one."
Footitt joined Derbyshire in 2010 and claimed 251 wickets in 64 first-class appearances at an average of 25.
His form earned him a call-up to the England set-up during this summer's Ashes and he felt he needed to leave the county to remain in the reckoning for a Test cap.
"We felt Mark could have achieved all his England ambitions with Derbyshire. We respect his decision but our ambition is to produce England players and hold on to our players when they get in to the England side," added Storey.
"Mark made some terrific progress since he joined five years ago We take a big sense of satisfaction of the progress he has made."
Meanwhile, fellow pace bowler Ben Cotton, 22, has signed a one-year contract extension with the county.
The University of Derby graduate took 32 wickets across all formats last season.


Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the country's biggest lender, has posted a 2% rise in annual profit to a record A$9.2bn ($7.1bn, Â£5.4bn).

The results of the biggest bank by market value are closely watched as an indicator of the Australian economy.
Last week the central bank cut interest rates to a record low to tackle weak inflation and spur growth.
Australia has been struggling with slowing growth amid a global slump in commodity prices.
Commonwealth Bank's cash profit rose 3% to A$9.45bn, largely in line with analysts' expectations. The results mark the seventh consecutive annual record.
Many Australian banks use the cash profit measure rather than net profit as their preferred performance measure.
The cash profit numbers strip out one-off items, including those that may distort a bank's performance in a given period.
Australia's banking sector is also facing tightened capital requirements and regulations adding to costs.
The lenders are also under political pressure to move away from aggressive sales tactics and reform corporate behaviour in the wake of several scandals including insurance fraud and interest rate-rigging.
Chief executive Ian Narev said Commonwealth Bank was aware of the "combined impact of weaker demand, strong competition and increasing regulation", noting cautious optimism about the outlook for the bank.
"An ongoing focus on productivity and credit quality will be important. But we remain positive about Australia's economic prospects," he added.
Australia's top lender by assets, National Australia Bank, reports results on 15 August.


In our series of letters from African journalists, veteran Ghanaian journalist Elizabeth Ohene ponders whether Ghana's new satellite will change attitudes towards science.

We do not like science very much in this country.
We prefer to ascribe spiritual and miraculous explanations to all things that happen in our lives. Accidents, deaths, ill health, passing and failing exams, finding a partner, wealth, poverty, good fortune - none of them have scientific explanations.
The rest of the world has probably heard that Ghana has successfully launched its first satellite into space. It certainly made headlines on the BBC, but you would have missed it completely if you were depending on the news outlets in our country.
I concede I have not been following the news very keenly in the past three weeks, for reasons we had better not get into, and therefore would admit it was likely I would miss some stories.
But I imagined the launch of our first satellite would be such big news it was unlikely to pass me by.
When I heard the news on BBC radio I immediately switched to a local station, but there was no mention of the story.
I checked the websites of my favourite local stations and there was no mention. When the story eventually appeared, it was to report that President Nana Akufo-Addo had congratulated the All Nations University on the launch of GhanaSat-1.
The next morning there was no mention of the story in either of the two widely-read daily newspapers that I buy. There was nothing vaguely interesting or attractive about the story as reported on their websites either.
It was obvious that apart from the official congratulatory statement there was no local flavour to the story as carried in the Ghanaian media for the first three days. The language of the reports sounded like scientific mumbo-jumbo to be understood only by nerdy scientists.
Elizabeth Ohene:
I had dared to even imagine that maths and science were getting a grip on the popular imagination
Here is a statement from the report on the website of one of our local radio stations: "Ghanasat-1 is of Cube Standard shape with a dimension of 100mm x 100 mm and was launched by Nasa to the International Space Station via Space X CRS Flight 11 on 3 June, 2017 at the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, USA and then released into orbit using Japan KIBO on board the ISS."
Make of that what you will but I certainly could not understand a word of it.
There was no mention that All Nations University in Koforidua is not exactly one of the fancy universities in Ghana. There was no word about the $500,000 (£380,000) reported cost of the project, the kind of money that is routinely reported as embezzled by officials.
I must say that social media did its bit and there was enthusiasm on Facebook and Twitter about the launch but it took until Monday morning for the newspapers and many of the radio stations to wake up to the story after the launch on Friday morning.
I confess I was saddened and put it all down to our national antipathy towards science and maths.
And yet the week before, the entire country had been caught up in genuine excitement over the National and Science and Maths Quiz. This is an annual quiz contested by secondary schools and this year it had been particularly keen.
I was caught up in the general enthusiasm that greeted the competition and I had dared to even imagine that maths and science were getting a grip on the popular imagination and would eventually manifest in our everyday lives.
The final between three schools was carried live on radio and television and the viewing and audience figures challenged the most popular telenovelas on our television sets.
But I am cheering up slowly and something tells me that the local media will catch up and accord the satellite launch story the importance it deserves.
The project coordinator of the launch has certainly hit the right note by placing the satellite right in the midst of the things that currently capture the imagination of the people.
He says the satellite will be used to monitor illegal mining, or galamsey as we call it. Galamsey guarantees the front page.
The satellite might not have made it to the front pages on its launch but if it is going to monitor illegal mining, then GhanaSat-1 is guaranteed to stay on the front pages forever.
We might yet accord science the importance it deserves.
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Yellowstone National Park rangers have put down a grizzly bear that killed a hiker and ate part of his body.

Officials killed the bear on Thursday after tests confirmed it had eaten part of the man's body and hid the rest.
It is not normal behaviour for bears to feed on humans, park officials said.
"If a bear consumes an individual, it's not allowed to remain in the population," park spokeswoman Amy Bartlett said. "It's not a risk we're willing to take."
Two of the female bear's cubs also fed on the man, but the park does not plan to kill the cubs. Instead the animals will be transferred to a zoo.
"Cubs can adapt to a facility much easier, and there is no danger of them learning humans are food," Ms Bartlett said.
Lance Crosby, 63, of Billings, Montana, was hiking alone without bear spray last week when he was attacked by the 259-pound grizzly.
The park rules say people should hike in groups and always carry bear spray - a form of pepper spray that is used to deter aggressive bears.
His body was found on Friday in the Lake Village section of the park in northwest Wyoming. A post mortem examination found that Crosby tried to fight back.
The park's decision to kill the bear has come under intense criticism because Crosby - who worked at Yellowstone as a nurse - did not follow park policies during his hike.
Yellowstone has received hundreds of calls and letters denouncing the decision since the bear was captured last weekend.
Three people have been killed by grizzly bears in the park since 2011. However, bears who attack humans are not automatically put down. Often, female bears are protecting their young when they attack.
"Had this bear just had a defensive attack, we would probably be looking at a different outcome," Ms Bartlett said.


A retired farmer believes a wallaby is living wild in the Scottish Borders after capturing footage of a mystery animal on film.

Jim Shanks set up a specialist wildlife camera amid rumours that a large cat was on the loose near his home between Hawick and St Boswells.
After three weeks, he finally caught two photographs of an animal about the size of a dog, with a very long tail.
"I'm pretty certain it's a wallaby," said Mr Shanks.
The former cheesemaker, from Belses, said a neighbour had seen a similar-looking animal crossing the road close to their homes.
Before setting up the camera, he had been concerned the mysterious creature could pose a threat to farm animals.
However wallabies, which are primarily found in Australia, are herbivores - mainly eating grass and plants.
Mr Shanks, 68, said: "I got a lend of a camera from a friend and I had it going for three weeks and I had just about given up looking.
"Then I left it for five or six days and I had 100 or so pictures of rabbits, squirrels, badgers and deer.
"But then there were two pictures of this animal. It was quite a bit of fun to find."
A colony of wallabies live on Inchconnachan, an island in Loch Lomond, after Lady Arran Colquhoun introduced them in the 1920s.


Russia operated a state-sponsored doping programme for four years across the "vast majority" of summer and winter Olympic sports, claims a new report.

It was "planned and operated" from late 2011 - including the build-up to London 2012 - and continued through the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics until August 2015.
An investigation commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) says Russia's sports ministry "directed, controlled and oversaw" manipulation of urine samples provided by its athletes.
It says Russian athletes benefited from what the report called the "Disappearing Positive Methodology", whereby positive doping samples would go missing.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach described the commission's findings as a "shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and on the Olympic Games" and pledged to enforce the "toughest sanctions available" against those implicated.
The IOC will decide on Tuesday about any "provisional measures and sanctions" for the Rio Olympics, which start on 5 August.
A mind-blowing level of corruption within both Russian sport and government that goes right to the field of play
The commission, led by Canadian law professor and sports lawyer Dr Richard McLaren, looked into allegations made by the former head of Russia's national anti-doping laboratory.
Grigory Rodchenkov claimed he doped dozens of athletes before the 2014 Winter Olympics, which were held in Sochi, Russia.
Rodchenkov - described by the Kremlin as a "scandalous" former official - also alleged he had been helped by the Russian secret service, the FSB.
He claimed they had worked out how to open and reseal supposedly tamper-proof bottles that were used for storing urine samples so the contents could be replaced with "clean" urine.
McLaren sent a random amount of stored samples from "protected Russian athletes" at Sochi 2014 to an anti-doping laboratory in London to see if they had scratch marks around the necks of the bottles that would indicate they had been manipulated.
McLaren said "100% of the bottles had been scratched" but added that would "not have been visible to the untrained eye".
He said he had "unwavering confidence" in all of his findings.
The damning report does not make any recommendations, but will fuel calls for a complete ban on Russia from the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Wada has recommended the IOC "decline entries, for Rio 2016, of all athletes" submitted by the Russian Olympic Committee and the Russian Paralympic Committee. Russian government officials should also be banned from this summer's Games, it said.
Wada president Sir Craig Reedie called the "scope and scale" of the findings a "real horror story".
President Vladimir Putin made the Sochi Games a showcase event and spent more than $50bn (£37.7bn) staging them.
On Monday, Putin said officials named in the McLaren report would be suspended, pending a thorough investigation.
But a statement released by the Kremlin criticised the report as "accusations against Russian athletes" based on the the testimony of "a person with a scandalous reputation".
It also warned of a "dangerous recurrence of interference of politics in sport".
Putin has asked Wada to provide "more complete, objective, evidence-based information" to Russian investigators.
BBC sports editor Dan Roan:
"How could all this have gone on under the noses of the IOC and Wada for years, in a Wada-accredited lab? Why did it take a whistleblower to unearth the corruption? And will this scandal split the Olympic movement beyond repair?"
BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent Richard Conway:
"It's a lot worse than people were expecting. I've read through some of the report and 580 positive tests were covered up across 30 different sports. We are into the world of James Bond-style espionage."
United States Anti-Doping Agency chief Travis Tygart:
"The McLaren Report has concluded, beyond a reasonable doubt, a mind-blowing level of corruption within both Russian sport and government that goes right to the field of play… and most importantly, our hearts go out to athletes from all over the world who were robbed of their Olympic dreams."
British Olympic 400m silver medallist Roger Black on BBC Radio 5 live:
"It's about as bad as it could possibly be. I'm not naive, I know certain people will take drugs, but I've always said this is a minority of people. The problem now, when you're looking at a Russian athlete, is you won't be thinking that."
Britain's marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe on BBC Radio 5 live:
"I think that a level of institutionalised doping, of institutionalised cheating and fraud to sport, which has done such damage to every sport globally has to be punished strongly. Unfortunately there will be some innocent athletes from Russia that will suffer from that ban."
British European 10,000m champion Jo Pavey on BBC Radio 5 live:
"It's just awful. You feel sorry for any clean athletes in Russia who have put their hearts and souls into qualifying for the Olympics. At the same time, so many are in this system that a strong message needs to be sent out."
Lord Coe, president of the IAAF, athletics' world governing body:
"The institutionalised and systematic doping in Russian athletics is the reason the IAAF suspended, and then upheld the suspension of, Russia Athletics Federation's membership and consequently the exclusion of their athletes from international competition."
UK Anti-Doping chief executive Nicole Sapstead:
"Now is the time for the entire sporting community to come together to find a way forward and ensure the right processes, legislation and safeguards are in place to protect the rights of all athletes to clean, fair and honest competition."
International Paralympic Committee president Sir Philip Craven:
"We are truly shocked, appalled and deeply saddened at the extent of the state-sponsored doping programme implemented in Russia ahead of Sochi 2014. The findings of the McLaren Report mark a very dark day for sport."
UK sports minister Tracey Crouch:
"Professor McLaren's report has exposed the extreme lengths some will go to in order to cheat. This shocking report is a wake-up call to the sporting world."
Bill Sweeney, British Olympic Association chief, and Ben Hawes, chair of the BOA Athletes' Commission (joint statement):
"This report realises the worst fears of clean athletes everywhere."
Gary Anderson, coach of the British bobsleigh team, told BBC Radio 4's PM:
"At Sochi, we were beaten to a medal by two Russian sleds. The revelations are greater than we anticipated so there's a lot more questions to be asked."
The report said Russia's "Disappearing Positive Methodology" worked when analysis could be done at the Moscow laboratory.
But at an international event - such as London 2012, the Athletics World Championships of 2013, or the Swimming World Championships of 2015 - Russia had to adapt its methods.
The report found:
It was "inconceivable" that Russia's sports minister, Vitaly Mutko, was not aware of the doping cover-up scheme, according to the report.
Mutko has been in position since 2008. He is a member of the executive committee of football's world governing body, Fifa, and chairs the organising committee of the 2018 World Cup, to be held in Russia.
The report claimed Mutko personally intervened to cover up a doping case of "at least" one overseas football player in the Russian league and that 11 positive tests by Russia footballers disappeared.
However, it was Mutko's deputy, Yuri Nagornykh, who was advised of "every positive analytical finding" from the Moscow laboratory from 2011 onwards - in "total violation" of Wada rules - and decided who to protect.
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The commission was set up to look into Rodchenkov's claims that he doped dozens of athletes, including at least 15 medallists, in the build-up to Sochi.
He claims this was the result of an elaborate and orchestrated plot with the Russian government, which exploited its host status to subvert the drug-testing programme. The country's government has repeatedly denied the claims.
Rodchenkov, now in hiding in the US, also alleges he doped athletes before the 2012 Olympics in London, the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow and the 2015 World Swimming Championships in Kazan.
Yes. The country's track and field athletes are barred from competing in Rio after the body that governs world athletics, the International Association of Athletics Federations, voted in June to maintain a global competition ban on the All-Russia Athletic Federation (Araf).
Araf hopes to overturn the suspension and will find out by Thursday if its appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport has been successful.
Whatever happens, a small number of Russian athletes who can prove they are clean will be allowed to compete at the Rio Games under the flag of the IOC.


Sebastian Coe has pledged to set up athletics' own anti-doping body within 100 days if elected president of the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Coe is running against former Olympic pole-vault champion Sergey Bubka.
The vote takes place on 19 August.
"My 100-day plan seeks to put in place important changes that will secure a brighter future for athletics globally," Coe said.
He added: "I am convinced that athletics can reclaim a new golden era, but to deliver this ambition I believe that we must have the right IAAF structures and resources in place, including a fully independent anti-doping agency for international level athletics."
Coe had previously cited the creation of athletics' own anti-doping body when launching his election manifesto in December.
But the pledge to make it a priority was one of eight unveiled by London 2012 Olympics chief Coe, also including the formation of a group to examine the athletics calendar and the creation of a department to advise on engagement with young people.
"We must also look creatively at the global athletics calendar, the way we present our sport and engage effectively with young people," the double Olympic gold-medallist added.


A man accused of murdering his love rival has told a court how he "collapsed" after his wife admitted she had been having an affair.

Taxi firm boss Nasser Rezaie, 63, of Petersfield in Chelmsford, is accused of murdering Allan Frampton in May.
Mr Rezaie told Chelmsford Crown Court he noticed his wife's behaviour had changed when he returned from a trip to Iran in 2013.
He denies murder but accepts killing the 60-year-old divorced grandfather.
He argues his actions were a result of losing control and were not premeditated.
Mr Rezie told the jury his wife Jane had started wearing false eyelashes and making regular trips to the hairdressers when he returned from Tehran.
She admitted the 10-month affair with Mr Frampton, who rented a car workshop unit from the couple's taxi firm, after a confrontation with Mr Rezaie in June last year, he said.
The court previously heard Mr Rezaie made threats to kill Mr Frampton over the phone, which were recorded by Mrs Rezaie.
The jury was told he repeatedly ran over Mr Frampton with his silver Mercedes in Osea Way in Chemsford 11 months later.
Mr Frampton, a mechanic, died at the scene from multiple injuries.
Mr Rezaie broke down in tears as he told the court how his relationship with his children suffered following the breakdown of his marriage.
He said they were angry with him and admitted he had written "terrible things" in a series of Facebook posts in June and July 2014.
He also described how his business, Ali's Taxis, had suffered after the breakdown of his relationship with his wife, and alleged she had run up debts of Â£176,000 which he had to pay off.
The trial continues.


Former world snooker champion Terry Griffiths is confident fellow Welshman Mark Williams can win another ranking title.

Williams, a two-time world champion, has not won a ranking event since February 2011 and failed to qualify for this year's World Championship.
But Griffiths believes Williams, who he used to coach, can add to his tally of 18 ranking titles.
"He's a really tough great match player and he's still got it in him," he said.
"I think he can still win tournaments - he says he can't - and if he won one more tournament I think he would win a few."
Williams' last ranking title came at the German Masters in February 2011, when he beat Mark Selby in the final.
He reached the final of the China Open early in April, losing to Selby.
The 42-year-old was one of five Welsh players who missed out on a place at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield after losing in the last qualifying round.
Griffiths, the 1979 champion, is not concerned Ryan Day is the only Welshman competing for this year's world title.
"It's disappointing that all five lost but I don't think that'll ever happen again," Griffiths told BBC Wales Sport.
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"I think there's still plenty in Michael White, Jamie Jones and Daniel Wells who hasn't had a bad season.  I feel they can do better. "
Griffiths is also upbeat about Day's prospects as the world number 16 prepares to start his campaign against Chinese qualifier Xiao Guodong.
If Day wins he will face defending champion and world number one Selby in the second round but Griffiths feels the 37-year-old from Pontycymer near Bridgend could cause an upset.
"Ryan's had a really great season," Griffiths said.
"He came really close to beating Barry Hawkins in the World Grand Prix final in Preston in February.
"He's been playing great snooker and if he can produce that here you never know what's going to happen."


At least 24 people have been killed in the Sudanese capital Khartoum in clashes sparked by cuts in fuel subsidies, medical sources say.

The director of Omdurman hospital told the BBC his staff had seen 21 bodies.  Three others died at another hospital.
Earlier police fired tear gas at protesters. The unrest began on Monday when the government lifted fuel subsidies to raise revenue.
Sudan's economy has been in trouble since South Sudan ceded in 2011.
Osama Mortada of Omdurman hospital told the BBC's Arabic Service that 21 people sent to his hospital had died, and that about 80 were injured.
"All have gunshot wounds, some in the chest," he said.
Also on Wednesday, sources at Khartoum Bahari hospital told the BBC that the facility had received three bodies "shot by live bullets earlier today".
Groups of anti-government demonstrators set fire to a university building and several petrol stations in Khartoum.
They blocked a main road to the airport and burnt a number of cars, witnesses say.
Correspondents say the Sudanese government's latest austerity measures have almost doubled fuel prices and hit the poor hardest.
Sudan had experienced an oil-fuelled economic boom until South Sudan became independent, taking 75% of its oil reserves.
The government reduced some fuel subsidies in July 2012, prompting several weeks of protests and a security crackdown.
The demonstrations began south of Khartoum and have now spread to the capital and other cities.
Officials have condemned the protests as acts of sabotage, describing them as "premeditated", according to the Associated Press news agency.
The Sudan Media Centre quoted Al-Zubair Bashir Taha, the governor of Gezira, south of Khartoum, as saying that aside from police stations, riots there targeted power and gas stations, banks, shops and private property.
Politicians, including President Omar al-Bashir, have defended the austerity drive, saying the only alternative would be economic collapse, local media said.
In a statement released in Arabic, the US embassy in Khartoum called for calm.
"We call on all sides not to resort to force and to respect civil liberties and the right to peaceful assembly," the statement said.
The embassy said it had received "regrettable reports of serious injuries and attacks on property during demonstrations which turned violent".


People in Beverley have welcomed the news that the East Yorkshire town is to host the start of the 2016 Tour de Yorkshire cycle race.

Stephen Parnaby, Conservative leader of East Riding of Yorkshire Council, said the announcement was "great news for the town and the wider East Riding".
The authority said it was spending about £100,000 on hosting the event.
The organisers of last year's inaugural race said it  brought £50m into the region's economy.
The three-day event was launched by tourist body Welcome to Yorkshire after the county hosted the Tour de France Grand Depart in 2014.
More than 1.2m people lined the 320-mile (515km) route.
Mr Parnaby said last year's event had attracted thousands of spectators to the East Riding.
"The council feels that the investment made by the authority, circa £100,000, to bring part of the race here is money well spent and will provide opportunities for local traders to capitalise on increased spending and help boost the East Riding economy," he said.
Others in Beverley have also welcomed the race's arrival.
Local amateur cyclist Ed Neilson said he hoped having the start of the race would encourage other cyclists to visit the town.
"It's nice to see Beverley getting some recognition," he said.
"I think that a few people felt it missed out a little last year, because it wasn't shown on the telly."
Garry Payne, who owns a cycling cafe, said it was "fantastic news" for fans that they would get a chance to get up close to the riders.
He said: "It's so colourful and the riders will be signing autographs, and they're a lot more accessible than what it was last year when they literally whizzed by in the flash of an eye."


The mother of a missing RAF serviceman Corrie Mckeague says she believes his body may be found when a massive landfill site is searched.

Twenty-three-year-old Mr Mckeague, from Dunfermline in Fife, vanished while on a night out with friends on 24 September in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
A bin lorry made a collection in the area just after the last sighting.
Mr Mckeague's mother Nicola Urquhart welcomed the decision of Suffolk Police to search the landfill site in Milton.
The bin lorry's route to the site appeared to coincide with the movements of her son's phone.
Mrs Urquhart told the BBC: "Commonsense suggests that the most likely place Corrie ended up is the landfill site or the incinerator."
Suffolk Police said the preparatory work at the landfill site at Milton, Cambridgeshire, was going to take longer than previously expected.
Some 8,000 tonnes of bulk material need to be removed to allow safe access to where the search needs to take place.
Mrs Urquhart said she was hoping a deadline of Saturday at 17:00 GMT for a Â£50,000 reward would encourage someone to come forward with information about what happened.
"If Corrie is in the landfill site they will still get the reward if they can tell me how he ended up there," she said.
She added she would be joining members of the Suffolk lowland search and rescue (SULSAR) and other local groups to also search areas of land near Bury St Edmunds.
Police said a further potential witness, a cyclist, had been traced but officers renewed appeals for any information to locate the two remaining individuals seen on foot in the area where Corrie was last seen.
They are trying to trace an older man and a person seen walking through the Brentgovel Street area of Bury St Edmunds early on 24 September.


A man who was attacked in his home in Lanarkshire with a hammer and an axe was the victim of mistaken identity, police believe.

The 33-year-old was assaulted by three men who burst into his house in Rannoch Drive at about 03:15 on Saturday.
He was treated in hospital for his injuries and later released. The attackers fled in a black car.
Police Scotland said the victim was not believed to have been the intended target for the assault.
Det Con Graham McAdam added: "I do not believe that this was a random attack however I think that the 33-year-old man was not the intended target and that he was the victim of mistaken identity.
"I urge anyone who has any information that could assist our enquiries to contact Wishaw CID immediately via 101. Alternatively calls can be made via Crimestoppers where anonymity can be maintained."


Two people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a two-year-old girl was found dead at an address in Stoke-on-Trent.

A 22-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman have been held following the discovery at Packett Street, Fenton.
Staffordshire Police was called to the scene at 10:00 BST. A force spokesperson said post-mortem tests would take place on Wednesday.
Formal identification of the child has yet to take place.
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Scenes of crime officers have been examining the property and an alleyway behind it.
Det Insp Dan Ison said: "Our thoughts are with the little girl's family at this time.
"This is a very distressing incident and we are doing all we can to support those affected."
West Midlands Ambulance Service said crews found a child "who was sadly confirmed deceased".
A spokesman said: "They also treated a woman at the scene before she was transported to Royal Stoke University Hospital."


Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has called a snap election for 18 June, when her centre-left coalition is expected to face a tough challenge from the opposition.

"The choice is clear, the time is right," Mrs Thorning-Schmidt said.
The opposition centre-right bloc, led by former PM Lars Loekke Rasmussen, has been leading in the opinion polls.
But it would likely need the support of the anti-immigrant Danish People's Party to push laws through parliament.
Reacting to the decision to hold the vote in 23 days' time, UK PM David Cameron cancelled plans to travel to Copenhagen on Thursday at the start of a tour of several European capitals.
Declaring the election date, Mrs Thorning-Schmidt said her government had succeeded in bringing about economic recovery.
"Denmark is back on track, we are out of the crisis. It's time to ask the Danes if they want to maintain this direction," she said.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt became Denmark's first female prime minister in 2011, as head of the Social Democrats, ending 10 years of centre-right rule.
She has pledged to raise welfare spending, while Mr Rasmussen's Venstre (Liberal) party wants limits on public sector growth.
Welcoming the early vote, he promised to focus on creating jobs in the private sector.
The vote had to be held before 14 September under election regulations.
Although the Liberals had been ahead in the polls, the Social Democrats have been catching up in recent weeks and some surveys have them overtaking Mr Rasmussen's party.
Support for the Danish People's Party has also been rising amid tensions over immigration.


Manchester United goalkeeper Victor Valdes has had his loan spell with Belgian club Standard Liege terminated.

Spaniard Valdes, 34, has made eight appearances for Liege since joining in January, helping them win the Belgian Cup final in March, but is currently injured.
In a statement, Liege said they had decided to play their younger players for the rest of the season.
Valdes' current contract with United will expire this summer.
Former Barcelona player Valdes clashed with United manager Louis van Gaal in July before a proposed move to Turkish club Besiktas collapsed the following month.
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A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the death of a vulnerable woman in a bath has heard that she was found with scalds on about 90% of her body.

Forensic pathologist Dr Julie McAdam told Glasgow Sheriff Court that the cause of 50-year-old Margaret Gilchrist's death was "unascertained".
She said scalding could have killed her or it could have happened after death.
Ms Gilchrist died at her home in Glasgow - where she was cared for full-time - on 26 September 2013.
She had severe learning difficulties from birth, was registered blind and had epilepsy.
The FAI at Glasgow Sheriff Court had previously heard that Ms Gilchrist was found dead in the bath after being left for a short time by her carer.
Dr McAdam told the inquiry that her body was scalded all over - about 80% to 90% - in a way that was consistent with it being partly immersed in water.
She said it was also apparent that parts of her body were scalded in the water after she died.
Dr McAdam said that if Ms Gilchrist had sustained this amount of scalding while she was alive, that could potentially have killed her.
She said she could not be certain, however, whether this had happened.
The pathologist also said that Ms Gilchrist had a propensity for seizures, although she had not experienced one in many years.
Dr McAdam said that if Ms Gilchrist had suffered a seizure it could have rendered her unconscious, meaning she did not struggle or try to get out of the bath.
She said that may have played a role in her death.
The pathologist also told the court that Ms Gilchrist could have died from the scalds themselves.
She said shock from the pain of extremely hot water could have made Ms Gilchrist unconscious, then the scalding would have killed her.
The inquiry before Sheriff Lindsay Wood continues.


Belfast councillor Ruth Patterson has said she will not appeal her expulsion from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).

Party leader Peter Robinson revealed on Saturday that DUP officers unanimously decided to expel her for allegedly bringing the party into disrepute.
The decision followed her public criticism of the selection of Emma Pengelly as an MLA for South Belfast.
Ms Patterson told the BBC she stands over her criticism of the party.
Ms Pengelly, a former adviser to Mr Robinson, was chosen by the party ahead of Ms Patterson in September to fill the South Belfast assembly seat vacated by Jimmy Spratt.
The party used the co-option system, which allows parties to replace departing MLAs with a party colleague without a by-election, to put Ms Pengelly in place.
Thirty days after her appointment as an MLA, Ms Pengelly was handed a role as a junior minister in the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister.  She has defended the system that allows for co-option.
Ms Patterson also said she had major difficulties with the party's decision to return to the Northern Ireland Executive after the publication of a report on paramilitaries last month.
She confirmed she received a letter from the party on Friday telling her she had been expelled.
But she said: "I stand over my criticism over the appointment.
"I wanted to do the job and had hoped to get the seat.
"You have to earn your stripes in a political party."
Asked if he was concerned that Ms Patterson would join the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV), Mr Robinson said: "It might give the TUV some cause for concern."
But she said she intends to continue her political career on Belfast City Council as an independent unionist.
"A weight has been lifted. My spirit is free and the shackles that have bound me have gone.
"I bear no ill will to Peter Robinson or the party that I have loved for 20 years."
Ms Patterson said she does not intend to join the TUV or any other political party.
"I have always said that if I leave the DUP I will not be going anywhere else," she added.
"I will be an independent unionist until I decide to stand down."


Mothers of premature babies are calling for their statutory maternity leave to be extended.

The 52 weeks of maternity leave kick in for the mothers of premature babies the day after a baby is born.
As a result, women can lose weeks of bonding at home if their child arrives early and goes on to spend weeks in hospital before being allowed to leave.
MPs will now debate whether to allow a leave extension, following a campaign by London mum-of-two Catriona Ogilvy.
Mrs Ogilvy began her fight to increase leave after her first son, Samuel, was born 10 weeks prematurely.
"I am so glad it is finally coming to Parliament," she said. "We will need to secure a full debate, hopefully before Christmas, but this is a good step."
Mrs Ogilvy's baby boy had to be resuscitated for six minutes after he was born in 2011 and it was six days before she was able to hold him.
"I went home the day I gave birth and I was still in a state of shock," she said. "Within hours my baby was whisked away and two hours after that I went to see him.
"Only when I got into bed that night did I feel empty. No baby in or out. I felt loss."
It was then eight weeks before the 35-year-old was able to bring him back home to Norbury, south London, and that was still two weeks before his due date.
Mrs Ogilvy had to go through it all again when her second son, Jack, was also born prematurely and needed to spend two weeks in hospital.
The former neonatal worker was surprised to discover the statutory maternity leave had kicked in straight away.
"It was a complete shock to the system," said Mrs Ogilvy. "Having worked there, I thought I knew all there was to know, but all those families were using their maternity leave sat in a hospital.
"It really kicks in when you get home and you can be a mum to your baby for the first time. Then all that time is taken away from you and you have to go back to work when they are so tiny. It is a bitter pill to swallow."
The couple are among thousands to go through the same experience.
Up to 40,000 babies are born prematurely in the UK every year and the average stay in hospital for each child is eight weeks.
Mrs Ogilvy was inspired to launch the Smallest Things campaign with an online petition supporting an extra week's leave for every week parents of premature children have to spend waiting in hospital for their child to be allowed home.
It now has more than 100,000 signatures.
Statutory maternity leave is a right for mothers to take time off after they have a baby and to receive payment from their employers.
Her local MP, Labour's Steve Reed, has tabled an early motion for the longer pay period, which will be debated in Parliament on Wednesday.
"No parent should be left alone to deal with the emotional and financial stress of balancing employment and care for a baby born too soon or too sick," he said.
"This is a small change but one which will bring a serious improvement to the lives of thousands of families."
But the Department for Business said the system was already fair.
A spokesman said: "The UK's maternity system is one of the most generous in the world. The current system strikes the right balance between the needs of new mums, including those whose baby has been born prematurely, and employers."
Karen Stirrat had her triplets Caleb, Poppy and Alicia, 13 weeks early.
She told BBC Breakfast of the nightmare she faced travelling between the hospital and home.
"Caleb came home at six weeks, but for the girls it was 12 weeks then 13 weeks," she said. "At that point that's even more stressful, having to go back and forth to hospital.
"Then you are left with all the hospital appointments, like now there are appointments every three weeks for injections over the winter. You can't really hold down a full-time job and everything else."
Caroline Davey, chief executive of baby charity Bliss, criticised the "one-size-fits-all system" and said the cost of having a premature baby in hospital can be up to Â£230 a week for travelling parents.
She said: "Premature babies often develop slower and so at the time the mother needs to go back to work the baby might not yet be ready for childcare.
"It would be fairer for everyone to get 12 months at home or 12 months from due date would make sense also."
But lawyers have warned that the extension of leave could hit businesses hard.
Aye Limbin Glassey, employment law partner at Shakespeare Martineau, said: "While this would be popular with parents, it would place considerable pressure on some employers - particularly smaller businesses that might struggle to keep jobs open for workers for a longer period of time and would undoubtedly feel the added financial strain.
"We recommend that employers treat the issue with sensitivity and, where possible, consider flexible working requests. There is a clear business reason to do so [and] they need to be aware that they could lose valuable members of staff."


Television viewers of the Premier League clash between Arsenal and Tottenham were left frustrated as a power cut hit the north London stadium.

BT Sport confirmed a power outage caused a brief loss of pictures and sound in the dying minutes of the game at White Hart Lane.
The match, touted as the biggest north London derby of a generation, finished 2-2.
BT apologised and said it was "investigating the root cause".
A spokesman said: "We are sorry for the temporary loss of picture and sound. This was due to a loss of power at the stadium."
BT Sport quickly displayed a technical fault message on screen, and when the pictures returned - initially without accompanying sound - it was just in time for fans to see a last-ditch tackle from Tottenham's Kevin Wimmer which prevented Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey from scoring a potential winning goal.
After the match, presenter Jake Humphrey told viewers: "What a pleasure that was, apart from the couple of minutes that you lost and apologies again for that."
The draw earned Arsenal a vital point as Spurs missed the opportunity to go top of the Premier League.
Fans took to Twitter to vent their frustration at missing the crucial minutes of added time.


Opener Rob Newton has signed a new two-year deal at Northamptonshire.

The 27-year-old, who emerged through the club's academy, scored 827 runs in County Championship Division Two last season, at an average of 48.64.
He has also been in good form in 2017, scoring five fifties and a century in four-day games and 234 runs in seven appearances in white-ball cricket.
"I've been here since I was 13 so it's great to be able to continue my career with Northants," Newton said.


A man has been detained by police following an armed manhunt after a woman died in Kent.

Police carried out searches across the county and on the rail network after a suspicious death was reported at a property in Benenden on Thursday.
Kent Police named the woman as Caroline Andrews, 52, and said they were now treating her death as a murder.
Officers said the detained man, 54, was found in the London area and taken to hospital for treatment to injuries.
"A post-mortem examination of Mrs Andrews took place earlier today and the death is now being treated as a murder enquiry," a Kent Police spokeswoman said.
A police cordon remains in place outside the property, which is off the village's main street.
Mrs Andrews worked as a supply teacher at Benenden CE School in the village.
Head teacher Gill Knox said staff had been left shocked and saddened.
She said: "Caroline and her family live in the village and are well known to the school.
"Caroline has been a loved and well-respected supply teacher here for a number of years, who has enriched the lives of the many children she has taught.
"At the present time, we cannot comment on what has happened but our thoughts and prayers are with her family, and all who knew her and will miss her."
Neighbour Derek Catlin described Mrs Andrews and her family as "normal, very pleasant people".
He said Thursday was quiet in the village but police arrived at about 16:30 GMT with "an accumulation of police vehicles - probably three police cars".
Another Benenden resident, Karen Callaghan, said: "It's very sad for the village. Everyone knows everyone round here. The locals have been here a long time."
During the search, armed officers boarded a train in Gillingham.
Armed police held a train at Gillingham station for more than 90 minutes from about 21:00 GMT on Thursday.
Footage showed officers walking down the carriage holding guns, with one distressed passenger demanding to be let off.


A married police officer has been sacked for having a sexual relationship with a vulnerable victim of domestic abuse whose case he had worked on.

PC Christopher Lintern began the secret affair in 2015, six weeks after the police investigation ended, a force misconduct hearing was told.
It found he abused his position to establish an "improper relationship" which amounted to "serious corruption".
The victim said she was a "willing and equal partner in the relationship".
During the hearing, held on Friday, the panel heard Mr Lintern sent the woman a picture of his penis taken from a toilet cubicle while on duty at Bristol Crown Court as a witness in an attempted rape trial.
Panel members saw written evidence from Mr Lintern, who did not attend, in which he claimed the relationship was not an abuse of his position but a "workplace affair".
He said the woman, named only as X, "was not vulnerable" at the time when they met, and while he accepted his action was misconduct he denied it amounted to gross misconduct.
The panel concluded that while X did not regard herself as vulnerable, the officer had enough information "to reach a proper assessment that she was a vulnerable victim".
The report added: "The improper relationship with PC Lintern and subsequent investigation has caused X significant setbacks.
"While she was not aware of the impropriety of his actions and the certainty that they would lead to investigation if discovered, PC Lintern was, or should have been."
The woman's violent partner was later convicted and had a restraining order imposed on him.
Deputy Chief Constable Gareth Morgan said: "I welcome the decision of the independent misconduct panel to dismiss Christopher Lintern with immediate effect.
"He has betrayed the trust placed in him by the public and exploited a vulnerable victim of crime. There is no place for him in policing.
The panel resolved to dismiss PC Lintern without notice due to gross misconduct.


Crewe extended their unbeaten run to five matches as the relegation battlers held Walsall to a draw.

Tom Bradshaw missed several chances for the visitors early on, including an effort which hit the home crossbar.
However, Bradshaw gave the promotion hopefuls the lead with a penalty following a George Cooper handball.
Crewe drew level when Brad Inman nodded in after Semi Ajayi headed on David Fox's free-kick and the home side held on for a point.
Walsall head coach Sean O'Driscoll told BBC WM:
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"I'm just really pleased with the level of performance once again. We could've been out of sight in the first 10 minutes, but that's a different Crewe side to what you usually see.
"Defensively, we were excellent. Yes I'm disappointed in the result, in the sense that we did enough to warrant getting more than a point."


New Colchester United boss Tony Humes has insisted the club's reliance on youth will continue.

The U's have cut their wage budget in favour of directing funds towards the academy, which Humes managed until replacing Joe Dunne as boss this week.
Colchester have yet to win a game this season, but five academy products have featured for the side in that time.
"That's the philosophy of the club, to continue to bring young players through. That won't change," he said.
"I would imagine that's one of the reasons I've been put in the role, because of my knowledge of what is coming through the system. I won't be afraid to put them in."
Macauley Bonne, Alex Gilbey, Frankie Kent, Sammie Szmodics and Drey Wright were all given first-team chances this term by Dunne, who left the club by mutual consent on Monday.
Defender Tosin Olufemi broke into the senior side last term, but he suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon in the summer.
Former Ipswich and Wrexham defender Humes, 48, arrived at Colchester as head of youth in 2009 and will take charge of his first game as manager against Walsall on Saturday.
"It's something I've never done before. I'm sure there will be nerves and excitement," he said.
"We want to implement what we've done over the last few days."


It would be unfair to brand manager Ray McKinnon a failure should he fail to win Dundee United promotion, chairman Stephen Thompson has said.

But Thompson hopes that Saturday's Irn Bru Cup final win over St Mirren can be the catalyst for a Premiership return.
When asked if missing out would mean failure, he said: "That's probably a bit unfair on Raymond. It's his first year at the club.
"He had a huge task on his hands and we've got eight games left."
United, relegated at the end of last season, have slipped 14 points behind Scottish Championship leaders Hibernian after a run of four league defeats and a draw.
They lie in fourth place but could yet win promotion via the play-offs in what is McKinnon's first season in charge after joining from Championship rivals Raith Rovers last summer.
"The task was probably bigger than he thought it was, but we are where we are and we'll see where we go in the weeks ahead," Thompson told BBC Scotland in his first media interview in 10 months.
"I know it's the Challenge Cup, it's not a League Cup final or Scottish Cup final, but it's still a trophy and there were over 3,000 fans there at the weekend and they were delighted.
"A lot of fans were happy at the weekend just to get a bit of fun back again, a bit of success, and hopefully it's the turning point for Raymond and the players to push on for the remaining eight games of the season."
Thompson was speaking after a club annual meeting on Monday that he admits "was slightly difficult".
"It was what I expected, but the results in the last year weren't the best and it's the costs of relegation at the end of the day," he said.
"The losses we made last year were quite substantial and there are lots of reasons behind that.
"The top line was down £1.2m in income, we had redundancies and we also spent a lot of money trying to stay in the league.
"So people are perhaps not happy with that, but you've got to remember the previous year was also one of the most profitable in the history of the company."
Thompson, who inherited control of the club from his late father, has faced calls from fans to leave the club but stresses that no potential buyer is on the horizon.
"I made it clear at the agm that there has been no formal approach for the club - to buy the club or speak to the club," he said.
"If anyone has a properly funded proposal, the board and the majority shareholders are here to listen - come and speak to us about the ownership of the club.
"There's nobody come forward in the last year.
"Nobody has come in here and said 'we'll give you a pound and we've got £2m to run the club for X number of years'.
"There have been groups formed, I get that, they are entitled to do that, but is the best way not to engage?"
McKinnon has admitted that United's chances of winning the title probably ended on the day they lifted the Challenge Cup as Hibs extended their lead with a 2-1 win over second-top Falkirk.
However, United can narrow the gap on third-placed Greenock Morton should they beat Ayr United at Tannadice on Tuesday evening.
"We never give up, but you can see it's going to be very, very, very difficult," McKinnon said of their title chances.
"But we just need to concentrate on what we do and keep working on performance levels and, wherever we finish up, we have to take it from there.
"You would rather be going into the game on the back of a cup final win than a defeat.
"You can certainly see a spring in their step in training and it might just be the perfect tonic for us for the rest of the season."


A road in Somerset could be raised in a bid to protect a village from future flooding, the county council has said.

Muchelney was cut off by flood water for two months earlier this year and residents were reliant on tractors and boats to bring in supplies.
The proposed scheme would raise the first 500m of the Drayton Road from Muchelney by 60cm.
The plans are part of the 20-year Flood Action Plan with the council hoping it will secure access in future floods.
A council spokesman said the exact cost of the scheme "will not be known" until tenders for the work have been received.
Conservative councillor Harvey Siggs, cabinet member for Highways and Transport said: "Being cut off for so long had a massive impact on the community which is why this is one of the first actions in the plan being addressed.
"All solutions are expensive, and while no decision has been made this is our preferred option.
"Compared to the other options, this is relatively affordable and, depending on other factors like the weather, could be completed this year."
A decision on whether to proceed with the preferred scheme would be taken "before the end of July", the council said.


As many as 20,000 attendees at a Pokemon Go festival in Chicago are being offered refunds after technical glitches meant fans were mostly unable to catch anything - let alone “them all”.

Disappointed fans will also be offered $100 in the form of the app’s in-game currency, Pokecoins.
The event on Saturday had been touted as a chance for fans to come together and catch some of the rarest monsters on the hugely successful app.
But fans booed and chanted “fix our game!” and “we can’t play!" as executives from Niantic, the game’s creator, attempted to explain the problems.
At one point a bottle was thrown at a presenter on stage - it missed.
Pokemon Go was launched last summer and has since been downloaded over 750 million times, reportedly making more than $1bn in revenue. The game required players to walk around the real world in order to find monsters in different locations.
On Saturday, in Chicago’s Grant Park, fans had hoped to find some species of Pokemon that were otherwise not available or extremely rare.
Tickets to the event sold out within around 10 minutes of going on sale, leading to many tickets being resold at almost 10 times their face value.
But the festival succumbed to a combination of overwhelmed mobile networks, and several bugs that Niantic admitted were “on our side”.
“We know that this is not the day that we had all envisioned,” Mike Quigley, the firm’s chief marketing officer, told angry attendees.
“But we appreciate your patience.”
As well as the technical problems, long lines prevented many ticket holders from getting into the event for more than three hours.
“This is the worst time I have ever had doing anything,” tweeted one fan, who later left.
In an attempt to fix the issues, the company increased the radius of the event by a further two miles, meaning players could leave Grant Park in order to try and connect to the game and get access to the rare creatures.
And just before 6pm local time, attendees were told they would all get a Lugia - a Pokemon that had not been available on the game before, an announcement that drew big cheers from an otherwise dejected crowd.
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Three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome rejected a therapeutic use exemption to treat a medical condition during his 2015 win on moral grounds.

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The Briton, who rides for Team Sky, was granted TUEs twice previously, in May 2013 and April 2014, to treat asthma.
Froome was told he had a condition that required a TUE during the 2015 Tour.
However, he said: "I didn't feel having a TUE in the last week of the Tour was something I was prepared to do. It did not sit well morally with me."
In 2013 Froome's TUE allowed him to use prednisolone for his asthma for a week before winning the Criterium du Dauphine - a week-long race in June which is usually a good indicator of form leading into July's Tour de France - while in 2014 he took it for a week during the Tour de Romandie, as he defended his title.
Britain's most decorated Olympian Sir Bradley Wiggins, who retired in December, and Team Sky have come under scrutiny for Wiggins' use of TUEs and the contents of a medical package he received in 2011, after his confidential medical information was leaked by hackers 'Fancy Bears'.
TUEs allow the use of otherwise banned substances if athletes have a genuine medical need, and Wiggins, an asthma sufferer, said he sought them to "put himself back on a level playing field".
Froome told BBC Sport it was "healthy" to be asking questions about why Wiggins was granted a TUE to take anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.
There is no suggestion that either Froome, Wiggins, British Cycling or Team Sky have broken any rules.
British Cycling has been unable to provide paperwork to prove the contents of a medical package delivered to Sir Bradley Wiggins in France in 2011, according to MP Damian Collins.
Team Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford told MPs earlier in December the package used by Wiggins contained a decongestant but did not have supporting documentary evidence.
Froome, who says he is aiming to win a fourth Tour de France title this year, added: "The fact that we're having that debate about authenticity means there's a problem with the system.
"I think Wada [the World Anti-Doping Agency] need to tighten their regulations around TUEs, so they're not something that we question, their legitimacy.
"It's not good for sport in general," he added. "The fact that we're discussing the validity of results, that brings it back to the authorities, it is something they need to tighten up on so that there aren't questions being asked anymore."


Civilians fleeing Falluja, an Iraqi stronghold of the so-called Islamic State (IS), are being shot as they leave, an aid agency says.

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said families it had interviewed described people being shot dead by IS as they crossed the Euphrates River.
The NRC, that runs refugee camps near Falluja, said up to 50,000 people remained in the city.
Iraq's army began the fight to retake the city late last month.
Falluja lies just 50km (30 miles) west of Baghdad and has been held by IS since 2014. It is one of two remaining IS strongholds in Iraq.
Shakir al-Essawi, the head of Falluja's regional council, told Reuters people were trying to cross the Euphrates in refrigerators, cupboards and barrels.
"Our biggest fears are now tragically confirmed with civilians being directly targeted while trying to flee to safety," said Nasr Muflahi, the Iraq country director of the NRC, in a statement which said "armed opposition groups" were behind the shooting.
"This is the worst that we feared would happen to innocent men, women and children who have had to leave everything behind in order to save their lives."
Falluja: Embattled city of mosques and minarets
Final push for Falluja some way off
Islamic State group: The full story
Iraq's army said on Sunday it had all but encircled Falluja, with only the western bank of the Euphrates not under its control.
The latest area secured by Iraq's military, with the help of US-led air strikes, was the southern district of Naymiyah, Associated Press reported.
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said last week that the offensive had been slowed down to protect people still inside Falluja.
Other Iraqi officials have said IS is offering stiff resistance as troops push towards the city centre.
In other developments:


Spiders - love em or hate em, there's a good chance there's a few in your house this autumn.

30 September 2014 Last updated at 07:08 BST
As the summer draws to a close spiders often head indoors to escape the chilly weather.
Experts say that this year, they might be even bigger than usual, because the recent mild weather has meant there are more insects for them to eat.
But not everyone's a massive spider fan, and when there's a hairy arachnid poised above your bed when you're about to turn out the light, sometimes you've just got to send them packing!
So if you've ever wondered what's the best way to get rid of the critters - without hurting them - spider expert Simon Garrett, from Bristol Zoo, has the top technique.


(Close): US stocks ended sharply higher on Friday after official figures showed the US labour market rebounded last month.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that US firms created 223,000 new jobs in April, while the unemployment rate dropped to a seven-year low of 5.4%.
The Dow Jones jumped 267.05 points, or 1.49%, to 18,191.11.
The S&P 500 index rose 28.10 points to 2,116.10, while the Nasdaq added 58.00 points to finish at 5,003.55.
April's strong jobs increase followed a rise of just 85,000 jobs in March, when cold weather was blamed for hurting the US economy.
"This is one of the most encouraging jobs reports that we have seen in years, because it shows that the recovery in the US labour market is no flash in the pan," said Ranko Berich, head of market analysis at Monex Europe.
"Last month's figures were well below expectations, leading many to worry whether the cold winter would lead to a permanent slowdown in jobs growth. April's report puts these worries to rest," he added.
However, some analysts said the US Federal Reserve would want to see more signs that the recovery was being maintained before raising interest rates.
US benchmark interest rates have been near zero since late 2008 when the central bank slashed rates during the financial crisis.
US fast food firm Bojangles made a strong start when it debuted on US markets on Friday. Shares in the firm rose over 40% after initially pricing at $19 per share, which valued the restaurant firm at $680m.
Shares in credit card firm Visa were the day's biggest winner on the Dow Jones, rising over 4% after Bloomberg reported that it was in talks to buy its former subsidiary, Visa Europe.
But online staffing firm Salesforce.com suffered the opposite fate.
Shares in the company rose sharply earlier in the week amid rumours that the firm was going to be acquired by Microsoft.
But they declined by nearly 3% on Friday after online publication Recode said that Microsoft denied the reports, citing unnamed sources.


A homeless man accused of killing a man in his own flat was "petrified" when the attack was carried out, a court has heard.

The body of David Miller, 56, was found at his home in Northampton last June.
Ian Cuthbertson, 49, Michael Hallett, 37, Joseph Catlin, 30, and Zena Kane, 35, all of no fixed address, deny murder.
The court heard Mr Cuthbertson had gone to the flat for "a bath, a change of clothing and to watch TV".
Mr Miller had been stabbed multiple times and crude attempts had been made to destroy his body during the attack at Patterdale Walk, Boothville, Northampton, on 14 June 2016.
He had been partially-dismembered.
Summing up at Northampton Crown Court, prosecutor Peter Joyce QC said the defendants had acted like "a pack of wolves".
He said the only possible verdicts were guilty of "murder, murder, murder, murder".
He told the jury: "It is not argued that what happened to David Miller wasn't murder.
"The question is whether one or all of these four defendants took part."
He called the killing of Mr Miller "a team job", saying that was why none of the accused had given evidence during the trial.
Mr Joyce dismissed a statement to police by Mr Cuthbertson - in which he denied he had been at the scene - as "lie, after pathetic lie, after pathetic lie".
He also accused Ms Zane of "crocodile tears" and "hypocrisy".
Solicitors for all four of the accused are due to sum up their defences on Monday.
The case continues.


The owner of a farm where a microlight crashed killing two people has said the men had "no chance" of survival.

The small aircraft came down in a field at Steve Powell's farm at Cwmbach, Builth Wells, Powys, just before 12:00 BST on Sunday.
The men from Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, have been named locally as Scott Penlington and Nick Jefferies.
Mr Powell said the aircraft appeared to have "fallen out of the sky into our field".
"It is a terrible tragedy and we've never had anything like this before," he added.
"The police are examining the wreckage but we don't know exactly what happened."
Dyfed Powys Police said recovery work has now been completed and the emergency services left the scene on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the Independent Air Accidents Investigation Branch, which is leading the investigation, said the wreckage was being recovered to its headquarters at Farnborough for a more detailed examination.
He added safety recommendations may be issued to prevent similar accidents in the future, if any issues were identified.
One Direction singer Harry Styles is a family friend of Mr Jefferies after he once dated his daughter Emilie, also 22.
They remained friends with her father taking him up in his single-engine two-seater Cosmik plane.


A giant Chinese container ship has become the first vessel to move from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean via the newly-enlarged Panama Canal.

The ship was greeted with fireworks and cheers from a crowd that had gathered at the Cocoli locks to celebrate.
The Panamanian President, Juan Carlos Varela, described the waterway as a route that would unite the world.
The president thanked the nearly 30,000 people who had worked on the canal's expansion.
Construction on the new lane for the canal, which runs for 77km (48 miles), began in 2007 and was due to finish in 2014.
But strikes and disputes over costs delayed the $5.2bn (£3.8bn) project.
Panama Canal expansion prompts safety concerns
The original Panama Canal was first used in August 1914. It was built by the US and handed over to local control in 1999.
The expansion allows a new, much-larger generation of container ships to pass through the isthmus.
Some 35 to 40 vessels transit the waterway everyday.
Panama hopes the expansion will increase the revenues it gets from the canal, reported to have been $2.6bn (£1.9bn) in 2015.
But the canal could face competition from a new passage in Nicaragua.
The controversial 278km (172 mile) scheme, being built by a Chinese firm, will be longer, deeper and wider than the Panama Canal.
Its construction started in 2014 and it is estimated to cost $50bn (£32bn).