The owner of Great Yarmouth's indoor market has said the fire which destroyed the building may have started in an ice cream freezer.

An investigation into the seven-hour blaze at the Regent Superbowl and the indoor market on Friday is ongoing.
Fire investigators have confirmed it started through an electrical circuit or item.
Phil Thompson, who has run the market for four years, said it was a "relief" to know it was not started on purpose.
He said: "You're thinking the worst of everything, someone getting in and doing something but obviously that's not the case which is lovely, absolutely brilliant.
"But for a freezer to cause this devastation is absolutely terrible."
Mr Thompson said the ice cream freezer was on the first floor of the bowling alley.
He said CCTV footage shows the appliance going up in flames - but a spokesman for Norfolk Fire and Rescue service said the findings of the investigation were yet to be confirmed.
The blaze left 42 businesses at the indoor market homeless.
Great Yarmouth Borough Council is hosting a drop-in sessions on Thursday to hear what the traders need to operate.
Councillor Penny Carpenter, deputy leader of the council, said: "As a council we need to speak to the traders personally on a one-to-one to see exactly what their requirements are going to be and how we can assist them."
She said the council had been in contact with the liquidators of the BHS store to see if the newly-vacated property could be used as temporary premises.
At the blaze's height, the pillar of smoke billowing from the country's oldest working bowling alley could be seen up to 11 miles away.
Eighty firefighters worked to tackle it and spent hours damping down.
It is thought it could cost Â£1m to clear the site.


Baby goods retailer Mothercare has reported its first profit for five years, helped by improved online sales and lower costs.

For the year to 26 March, Mothercare reported a pre-tax profit of £9.7m compared with a £13.1m loss a year ago.
UK like-for-like sales rose 3.6%, with online sales jumping 15% from a year earlier.
The company said nearly 40% of its UK stores had now been revamped, prompting positive feedback from customers.
Despite the improvement, Mothercare's UK business still reported an underlying loss of £6.4m compared with a deficit of £18m the previous year.
Chief executive Mark Newton-Jones said: "The results highlight the significant progress we are making towards returning the UK to profitability.
"The look and feel of the store estate are driving like-for-like sales growth for a second consecutive year."
Like-for-like sales at Mothercare's international business fell 4.5%, and Mr Newton-Jones said conditions there "remain challenging... with economic and currency headwinds persisting".
Mothercare is in the process of selling international stores that have performed poorly, while looking to upgrade certain overseas locations as it has done so in the UK.


Police in California say they shot dead a Ugandan refugee when he pulled an object that turned out to be an e-cigarette from his pocket and pointed it at a police officer.

Dozens of demonstrators have taken to the streets of El Cajon, a suburb of San Diego, in protest at the killing of Alfred Okwera Olango, who was 38.
Mr Olango was killed on Tuesday after officers responded to a call from his sister who said that he needed help.
She said he was mentally unwell.
El Cajon police chief Jeff Davis said Mr Olango died after one officer fired an electronic stun gun and another officer simultaneously fired his firearm several times.
Police, who had already acknowledged that the object was not a weapon, confirmed on Wednesday that the object was a three inches (7.6cm) long silver vaping cigarette.
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Christopher Rice-Wilson of the civil rights group Alliance San Diego questioned why one of the officers felt non-lethal force was appropriate while the other did not.
In El Cajon on Wednesday, protestors blocked streets. Outside the police station they chanted "murder, murder". One banner read "no killer cops".
"That could be my little brother," campaigner Mallory Webb told the crowd.
"I don't know what to do," she added. "I'm scared to walk the streets every single day."
Agnes Hassan said she knew Mr Olango, whom she described as well-educated but mentally ill. Ms Hassan said she had spent time with him in a refugee camp en route to the United States.
El Cajon is a suburb of San Diego with a population of around 100,000 people, including a sizeable number of refugees, many of whom fled the wars in Iraq and Syria.
Police said the shooting happened outside a row of shops as they responded to a report of a mentally unstable person walking in and out of traffic.
The call was apparently made by the victim's sister who said he was "not acting like himself".
El Cajon police department spokesman Lt. Rob Ransweiler said two officers arrived at the scene at about 14:10 (21:10 GMT) on Tuesday and the shooting happened one minute later.
The department says the officers were confronted by a man who refused to comply with instructions to remove a hand from his pocket, paced back and forth, then rapidly drew an object from the pocket, placed both hands together and extended them in a "shooting stance".
When detectives arrived, police say a witness voluntarily provided a mobile phone video of the incident. Authorities released a single frame from it appearing to show the "shooting stance" but did not release the video itself.
Body cameras are on order for officers in El Cajon but have not yet arrived.
Another video posted on the internet which showed the aftermath of the shooting appeared to corroborate the police's account that they had ordered the man to remove his hand from his pocket.
"When he lifted his hand out ... he did have something in his hand but it wasn't no gun, and that's when they shot him," said a woman on the video.
Another woman, who identified herself as the victim's sister, shrieked and cried, telling officers that she had called them to help her brother.
"I just called for help and you came and killed him,'' she said.
Claims that Mr Olango had his hands in the air when he was shot have been disputed by the police.
This latest fatal shooting of a black man by police comes in a year when police violence against African Americans has divided the country and sparked numerous protests, some of which have turned violent, most recently in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Chief Davis has appealed for calm and is promising a thorough investigation into the shooting.
"This will be transparent,'' he insisted. "This will be looked at by multiple sets of eyes, and not just ours.''
As candles and flowers were laid at the scene of the shooting on Wednesday, Mr Olango's cousin Anthony Williams paid tribute.
"He was a cool dude, for real. He was no mean person, the whole picture how they got showing him pointing a gun, I don't believe none of that. That ain't him, I know for sure."


Celtic keeper Craig Gordon hopes extra homework on Brendan Rodgers' methods will pay off in his bid to reclaim a starting spot from Dorus de Vries.

Gordon, 33, could start Wednesday's Champions League group match against Manchester City after replacing De Vries at half-time against Kilmarnock.
The Dutchman suffered a chest injury but Gordon hopes he has done enough to persuade Rodgers to recall him.
"I spoke to him when he told me he was putting Dorus in the team," he said.
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"I have not spoken to him since then but I have just gone away and tried to work and also do my homework on what he likes his goalkeepers to do.
"I'm trying to improve my game so when I go back in the team that I can maybe adapt more to what he's looking for.
"I'm still learning. I want to do as well as I can at the things he is looking for me to do and if I can do that and keep the standard of my play up, then I give myself a chance of getting a run in the team."
De Vries, 35, has started Celtic's last four Scottish Premiership games and their opening Champions League drubbing at Barcelona, conceding 12 goals in five outings.
Scrutiny of his form continued after the Dutchman was beaten by Kilmarnock striker Souleymane Coulibaly's 40-yard strike in the first half on Saturday.
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Gordon, whose only action in the last month before Saturday was Celtic's League Cup win over Alloa, spoke to Rodgers again after the 6-1 rout about what he requires.
"He spoke to me at the end of the game on the pitch," the former Hearts and Sunderland keeper added on Celtic TV.
"He's looking for me to demand the defenders drop deeper to get on the ball.
"He wasn't happy with some of their positioning when I had the ball. It's little things like that that are going to help make sure we are all on the same page."


SeaWorld in the US state of California has said it will make changes to its shows involving killer whales.

11 November 2015 Last updated at 06:36 GMT
It follows years of pressure from campaigners who say the the animals don't belong in captivity.
SeaWorld say they work hard to look after their killer whales and treat them well.
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A company has been fined £120,000 after a worker was killed after becoming attached to a spinning pipe in a metal spraying booth.

Andy Fraser, 26, suffered multiple injuries at Gemini Corrosion Services Ltd in Montrose in September 2014, and died later in hospital.
A court was told Mr Fraser's death could have been prevented if guards had been fitted to the machine.
The firm provides specialist coating services to offshore oil companies.
Mr Fraser was operating a machine that took in lengthy metal pieces along a track before passing it across spray nozzles while the objects rotate.
Forfar Sheriff Court heard the piece being worked on had been treated beforehand giving it a surface texture "similar to coarse sandpaper".
Depute fiscal Gavin Callaghan said: "It would readily attach to fabrics such as the sweatshirt Mr Fraser was wearing under his overalls.
"It would attach in a similar way to velcro."
Mr Callaghan said a colleague passed the unit where Mr Fraser was working and realised something was wrong.
He said: "The other worker found Mr Fraser attached to a pipe being sprayed.
"He activated the emergency stop button but the pipe continued spinning.
"He went out and shouted for assistance and another colleague came and was able to turn the machine off."
The court heard that Mr Fraser was unconscious and emergency services were called.
Mr Callaghan said: "The air ambulance arrived and at that point he went into cardiac arrest.
"He responded to CPR after being given blood and was taken to Ninewells Hospital where he underwent emergency surgery, but died at 2am the following day."
HSE inspectors believe he had been attached to the spinning pipe for approximately two minutes before being found.
Mr Callaghan added: "No fixed or moving guarding had been fitted to prevent access to dangerous parts of the machine.
"Gemini relied on the operator remaining at the control panel away from the dangerous parts.
"If guards had been fitted the accident could have been avoided and the death would not have occurred."
Gemini Corrision Services Ltd, headquartered at Albyn Place, Aberdeen, admitted a charge under the Health and Safety at Work Act and the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations.
The date of the offence spanned from November 1 2005 to September 17 2014.
Defence advocate Barry Smith said: "Most importantly, may I say the company formally tenders its most sincere condolences to the family of Mr Fraser.
"There was a failure to guard against obvious risks from the machinery."
Sheriff Pino di Emidio imposed a fine of £120,000 and gave the company six months to pay in full.


A County Down farmer has described how he shot dead three dogs belonging to a hunt when they threatened his pregnant ewes.

Alan Sloane said he was within his rights to shoot the hounds on his land near Rathfriland.
He said one of them was closing in on a group of 15 pregnant sheep in the corner of a field when he shot it.
The other two were in an adjacent field with pregnant mares and Mr Sloane's Â£1,200 ram when they were shot.
They were among a pack of 10 hounds which Mr Sloane said came onto his land.
The hunt was chasing a stag in the area when the incident happened.
Mr Sloane said he had exchanged words with members of the hunt who were angry that he had killed the hounds.
Two ewes which were involved subsequently aborted four lambs.
Mr Sloane said he fears he may suffer further financial loss as more of the ewes give birth.
He believes the cost could run to a four-figure sum and he is planning legal action.
He said he had not given permission for the hunt to be on his land.
He called the police and a council dog warden.
The warden was able to identify the dogs which were chipped.
The Countryside Alliance said it was investigating the incident.
A spokesman said he could not comment on it until he had received the report.
He said the alliance had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ulster Farmers' Union four years ago about access to farm land.
The spokesman said this was the first incident since that agreement.


Gary Hooper scored twice in two minutes as Sheffield Wednesday came from a goal down to win at Birmingham City.

Clayton Donaldson's goal in first-half injury time gave City the lead as he slotted home after Michael Morrison had charged down a Tom Lees clearance.
But Hooper smashed home the equaliser off the crossbar following neat play between Atdhe Nuhiu and Barry Bannan.
The striker got the winner soon after as he finished from close range from Fernando Forestieri's pass.
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The win, which saw Wednesday move back into the Championship play-off places, came at a big cost to Carlos Carvalhal's side as they lost three players to injury.
Kieron Lee was hurt in the warm-up and replaced by Vincent Sasso before Keiren Westwood and Sam Hutchinson clashed with one another as the Wednesday defence blocked an eighth-minute City attack.
Westwood was stretchered off after receiving lengthy treatment on the pitch with a suspected concussion, while Hutchinson's knee injury meant he could not continue despite staying on for a few minutes after play was eventually restarted.
Birmingham manager Gary Rowett:
"To go in 1-0 up at half time I was really pleased but felt we should have done a little more to stop the game becoming too open at times.
"When you have the attacking players Sheffield possess you know they only need one chance.
"In the second half we had another great chance when Donaldson missed from close range."
Sheffield Wednesday coach Lee Bullen:
"Hooper's first goal was fantastic. Some of the one-touch play on a difficult pitch was sublime.
"To go and get the second goal a few minutes later made us ecstatic.
"We were hindered losing two players so early in the game but we have a very good squad."


The world's thinnest tall building opens on Thursday offering views of up to 26 miles of Sussex coastline.

The 531ft (161m) British Airways i360 viewing tower stands on the site once occupied by the entrance to Brighton's ruined West Pier.
Visitors ascend 450ft (137m) in a 360-degree curved-glass pod.
But it has divided local opinion, with some declaring it "a total monster" others praising it as "world-class, stunning architecture".
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Valerie Paynter, of the saveHove campaign, said it was "like something springing horribly out of the earth in a horror movie".
But Glynn Jones, chairman of the West Pier Trust, thought the "vertical pier in the sky" showed "the city is, once again, embracing and celebrating world-class, stunning architecture".
The tower affords visitors views from Bexhill in East Sussex to Chichester in West Sussex with the South Downs to the north.
Chief Executive of i360, Eleanor Harris, claimed the tower would transform Brighton's tourism prospects.
She said: "We have built the world's first vertical cable car, the world's tallest moving observation tower, the world's most slender tower.
"We are putting Brighton on the map and promoting the city around the globe."
Architect David Marks said: "This is the culmination of a 12-year journey that started on a kitchen table and ends 138 metres above Brighton and Hove beach.
"We feel incredibly happy and proud on behalf of the hundreds, if not thousands, of people that worked to bring the project to reality."


A UK academic has spent the last four days in detention at an airport in Thailand over a dispute arising from a UN report he wrote nine years ago.

Agricultural consultant Wyn Ellis was stopped at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport and told he had been reported as a threat to national security.
It is a twist in an extraordinary saga which shows problems over protecting intellectual property in Thailand.
It also highlights the dangers of exposing well-connected Thai officials.
Dr Ellis, who has been working with the UN on sustainable rice production, was stopped at immigration at the airport.
In 2008, Dr Ellis, who is originally from Swansea, spotted a dissertation on promoting organic agricultural products, in particular asparagus, that seemed familiar.
On reading it, he realised a lot of it had been copied from a report on a year-long study he had conducted for Thailand's International Trade Centre two years earlier.
On further investigation he realised that nearly all of the dissertation had been copied from other sources; only in 14 pages out of 161, he says, could he not find clear evidence of plagiarism.
The dissertation had been submitted by Supachai Lorlowhakarn - director of Thailand's National Innovation Agency (NIA), an organisation that promises to promote and protect intellectual property - for his PhD at Thailand's elite Chulalongkorn University.
Dr Ellis filed a complaint, accusing Mr Supachai of stealing intellectual property, and asking the university to reject the dissertation.
Nothing happened, and Mr Supachai was allowed to graduate.
But a great deal happened to Dr Ellis.
The NIA director filed nine lawsuits against him, including charges of criminal defamation, which carries a possible two-year prison sentence.
He received death threats, had rocks thrown through his car windows and found military personnel stalking his home.
An American journalist, Erika Fry, who wrote about his case for a Thai newspaper, had to flee the country in July 2010 after Mr Supachai filed a criminal defamation charge against her.
She says her paper failed to defend her.
The university did eventually begin an investigation into Mr Supachai, but only in 2010.
The Times Higher Education exposed the delay in the investigation in April 2012, and in June 2012 Mr Supachai was stripped of his doctorate.
Shortly afterwards he was convicted of criminal forgery of Dr Ellis' employment contract.
Despite all this, NIA continued to employ him up to February this year.
Dr Ellis eventually won seven of the nine cases against him, settling the other two out of court, but the last case did not finish at the Supreme Court until May 2014.
Now he has discovered that Mr Supachai had asked the Immigration Department back in 2009 to blacklist him.
Despite a letter from the NIA retracting that request, Dr Ellis finds himself in a detention cell at the airport, wondering when he will be freed.


The bodies of three Brazilian tourists have been retrieved after their boat capsized on the River Paraguay.

Brazilian and Paraguayan officials said that 13 people had managed to swim ashore, but 11 are still missing and presumed dead.
The Paraguayan vessel, Dream of the Pantanal, sank during a heavy storm on the Brazilian border.
Officials said it was carrying 11 Paraguayan crew and 16 Brazilian tourists.
"Four teams comprising a total of 21 firefighters, including 14 divers, have been mobilised," a Brazilian rescue official told the AFP news agency.
Aldo Saldivar of Paraguay's National Emergency Secretariat said the tourists had been on a fishing expedition to the Pantanal.
The area, which stretches across areas of Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia, is one of the world's largest freshwater wetlands.
The boat sank in a storm on Wednesday afternoon between the towns of Carmelo Peralta in northern Paraguay and Porto Murtinho, in Brazil's Mato Grosso do Sul state.
Most of the victims came from the same Brazilian town, in Parana state.
They had rented the boat and had spent 10 days together, fishing in the Pantanal area.
The boat capsized less than 48 hours before the planned end of the excursion.


Ospreys will be boosted by six Wales squad members for their Pro12 match with Edinburgh on Friday, 3 March.

Fly-half Sam Davies is released with Rhodri Jones, Rory Thornton, Olly Cracknell. Nicky Smith and James King.
They will return to the Wales camp on Sunday to prepare for the Six Nations game with Ireland on 10 March.
The other Welsh regions play on Saturday and will not receive players from Rob Howley's squad, with Wales playing just six days later.


US First Lady Michelle Obama has told pupils at a girls' school in east London that education is the "ultimate key" to their success.

Greeted by screams and cheers, she talked about her own working-class background in Chicago in a speech at Mulberry School for Girls.
The visit is part of her global initiative to promote female education.
Accompanied by her two daughters, she also met Prince Harry at Kensington Palace and had tea at Downing Street.
Mrs Obama told pupils at the school in Tower Hamlets the world needed "more girls like you to lead our parliaments, our courtrooms and universities".
In a speech, she said: "With an education from this amazing school you all have everything, everything you need to rise above all of the noise and fulfil every last one of your dreams.
"And it is so important that you do that, not just for yourselves but for all of us. Because you all have a unique perspective, you have a unique voice to add to the conversation."
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This was a very personal - and at moments, emotional -  speech, delivered directly to the girls at Mulberry School rather than for the ranks of cameras at the back of the room.
The school is in an area of high deprivation. Most of its students are from the Bangladeshi community and, for most, English is an "additional" language.
The First Lady compared her upbringing with theirs. As a black teenager on the south side of Chicago she remembered people telling her not to set her sights too high. She broke down the barriers to success.
She urged the schoolgirls in east London to do the same and to fulfil their dreams.
The "ambitious, confident and principled" students at the Mulberry School were inspired.
The question is whether Mrs Obama's message will be heard in those parts of the world where girls don't go to school at all.
In her address, Mrs Obama spoke of her own upbringing, saying in her youth there were few black women in positions of power.
But she said her parents realised education was the "ultimate key" to success and she could be successful if she worked hard at school.
She said: "Through it all my parents fully expected us to do both: to achieve our dreams and be there for our family.
Mrs Obama also met International Development Secretary Justine Greening and Education Secretary Nicky Morgan. They announced the UK would be backing Mrs Obama's Let Girls Learn initiative to improve access to education in countries such as Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Earlier the first lady, accompanied by her daughters Sasha, 14, and Malia, 16, and mother, Marian Robinson, met Prince Harry for tea at Kensington Palace.
Their meeting came two years after the prince attended a mother's day tea for military mothers with Mrs Obama in the US.
A Kensington Palace spokesman said: "They discussed their shared interest in support for veterans and their families. Prince Harry was also interested to hear from the First Lady about the Let Girls Learn initiative."
They later spent about 45 minutes with Mr Cameron and wife Samantha in Downing Street, where they arrived in a seven-vehicle convoy.
Writing in the Financial Times, Mrs Obama said figures which suggested more than 62 million girls across the world did not go to school were a "heartbreaking injustice".
Forced marriages, early pregnancies, abuse and sexism were some of the obstacles to education faced by girls around the world, she said.
"That kind of life is unthinkable for the girls in our lives, so why would we accept this fate for any girl on this planet?" she wrote.
The US party will fly on to Italy after the London trip to meet US armed services families based in Europe, and to continue to promote Mrs Obama's work to encourage healthy eating among children.


A man has been charged with murder after a teenager died from stab wounds in Nottingham.

Matthew Rothery, 18, was found at an address in Woodborough Road, Mapperley Park, at about 01:00 BST on Good Friday.
He was taken to hospital in Nottingham but died shortly afterwards.
Nathan Towsey, 20, of Braunton Crescent in Mapperley, has been charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place.
He is due before Nottingham Magistrates' later.


Steve Rotheram will be Labour's candidate in next year's Liverpool City Region mayoral election.

The Liverpool Walton MP beat the city's elected mayor Joe Anderson and fellow Merseyside MP Luciana Berger in a vote of Labour members in the region.
Mr Rotheram is the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Jeremy Corbyn and a close ally of the Labour leader.
His friend and fellow MP Andy Burnham won the Manchester mayoral nomination for Labour on Tuesday.
The Liverpool City Region comprises the city and St Helens, Knowsley, Sefton, Wirral and Halton in Cheshire.
The other parties have yet to decide their candidates for the election, to be held on 4 May 2017.
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Mr Rotheram, a former Lord Mayor of Liverpool, said: "I am extremely grateful to the thousands of party members who have chosen to place their trust in me and I am determined not to let them down."
Steve Rotheram's victory in Liverpool further strengthens Jeremy Corbyn's grip on the Labour Party.
He's a parliamentary aide to the Labour leader, who was one of the first to congratulate him.
Mr Rotheram won almost 60% of the vote in the second round to secure Labour's nomination.
Given Labour's grip on local politics, he's almost certain to become the first elected mayor of the Liverpool City Region, giving Mr Corbyn an important ally in a powerful devolved role.
Mr Rotheram also has impeccable credentials to lead a city fiercely proud of its own identity. Born in Knowsley, educated locally and a former city councillor, his local popularity helped him to turn his Liverpool Walton seat into the safest in the country at the last election.
He is also a die-hard Liverpool FC fan.
The 54-year-old said he had "travelled the length and breadth of our city region", speaking to people who shared his ambition to "build a city region that utilises the energy, the talents, the ideas and the hopes of all our people".
"I will put social justice at the heart of my administration; something which I've been passionate about all of my political career," he said.
"I'll stand up for ordinary people and be a real champion for Merseyside and Halton on the national and international stage.
"Devolution presents us with a unique opportunity to make decisions locally, in the interests of local people, to ensure each person within our six districts has the best chance in life."
There were gasps from his supporters as Steve Rotheram was declared Labour's candidate for the Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor.
He vowed to reunite the party locally after what has been a prickly election campaign.
Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson had made no secret of his desire to be Metro Mayor - and lobbied hard for the role to be created in the first place. He will now remain as Mayor of Liverpool, after being re-elected for a second term in May.
There is a possibility that in February 2017, Liverpool city council could vote to abolish the role of city mayor, but that would require a two thirds voting majority by members of the council to change the system.
This would mean a return to the old system of Leader and Cabinet.
He added it was "right" that he had thrown his support behind Mr Corbyn despite backing Mr Burnham in Labour's leadership contest last year.
The MP said: "People will know that I didn't support Jeremy Corbyn - I supported my best mate, Andy Burnham, and I did everything I could to get Andy elected.
"When the result came out in September 2015, we got whacked, it was overwhelming the support for Jeremy and therefore it was right that people got behind the leader of the Labour Party. The most important thing in this has to be the Labour Party, we are all members."
Mr Corbyn said: "Congratulations to Steve Rotheram on being selected as Labour's candidate to take our message for social justice to the people of Merseyside.
"Steve is a tireless campaigner and advocate for the region, and as mayor would do everything possible to minimise the impact of Tory austerity."
Mr Anderson, who offered his "sincere congratulations" to Mr Rotheram, said he was "heartbroken" at the result.
His post as Liverpool's directly-elected mayor is unaffected by the new city region mayor system.
Turnout in the Labour poll was 72.8%.
Ms Berger dropped out after the first round of voting, which saw Mr Rotheram win 2,029 votes, Mr Anderson 1,641 and Ms Berger 1,202.
In the second round Mr Rotheram picked up 2,670 votes to Mr Anderson's 2,042 after Ms Berger's votes had been re-allocated.
Former bricklayer Mr Rotheram, who was elected to the Commons in 2010 after serving eight years as a Liverpool city councillor, pledged to work for a "North West Powerhouse" with Mr Burnham.
Mr Rotheram has been a prominent Hillsborough campaigner.
He attended the 1989 FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield and exchanged a ticket for the Leppings Lane terraces, where fans were fatally injured, for a seat in the stand 15 minutes before kick off.


Popular products including Marmite and Pot Noodles have been disappearing from Tesco shelves amid a dispute between the supermarket and supplier Unilever.

The row developed when Unilever, which faces higher costs after the fall in value of the pound, attempted to pass them on in higher wholesale prices.
Tesco said only: "We are currently experiencing availability issues on a number of Unilever products."
"We hope to have this issue resolved soon," the company added.
However, it did not indicate when that might be.
Sterling has dropped by 16% against the euro since the UK's Brexit vote.
Unilever is the UK's biggest food and grocery manufacturer with many famous brand names.
Among those currently absent from Tesco's website are Marmite spread, Surf washing powder, Comfort fabric conditioner, Hellmann's mayonnaise, Pot Noodles and Ben & Jerry's ice cream.
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Who should absorb the increase in costs as a result of the weaker pound? It's the question that retailers have consistently been asked these last few months as import prices start to rise.  Now that debate has exploded into the open with a stand-off between Britain's biggest consumer goods company and its largest retailer, Tesco.
Household staples, from Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Pot Noodles to Persil and Dove soap, are at stake. The extra spice to this story is that Tesco's boss, Dave Lewis, spent most of his career at Unilever before being poached by Tesco.
In the cut-throat world of grocery shopping, retailers are reluctant to pass on price rises to shoppers. But many suppliers are already seeing input costs rise because of the fall in the pound, although many will also have hedged their currency positions until at least the start of next year. So who ultimately takes the hit?
One grocery insider says in the case of Unilever, the weak currency was a smokescreen to raise prices, as some of the products are made in the UK.
Whatever the truth, this relationship is too important for the two sides not to reach a deal in the end. Will the other big grocers follow suit?
Unilever has declined to comment.
But the former head of rival firm Northern Foods, Lord Haskins, told the BBC's Newsnight that Brexit had caused "a huge wobble" in the market, which was already suffering tensions because of the rise of online shopping and discount supermarkets Aldi and Lidl.
"Undoubtedly what Unilever is doing is justified in terms of the economics of it, but Tesco's worried that Aldi may not follow suit," he said.
"They will have to follow suit, because the costs as a result of devaluation are too big for any company to carry."
Lord Haskins, who wanted the UK to remain in the EU, forecast that food price inflation would hit 5% in about a year's time.
He added: "The moment the great British public realises that there's a real cost to pay for Brexit, then the government will have to take account of that."
The former boss of Sainsbury's, Justin King, has given an indication of the problem, saying that shoppers should expect higher prices because supermarkets will not be able to absorb the extra cost of imported goods.
According to media reports of a conference speech by Mr King, he said: "Retailers' margins are already squeezed. So there is no room to absorb input price pressures and costs will need to be passed on.
"But no one wants to be the first to break cover. No business wants to be the first to blame Brexit for a rise in prices. But once someone does, there will be a flood of companies, because they will all be suffering."
Leading retail analyst Richard Hyman told the BBC: "This shines a light on something that is going to be happening all the time.
"The problem is that retailers can't just put up their prices and get away with it.
"Oversupply of retailers means that for the past 24 months there has been food price deflation. What makes them think they can just push prices higher?" he added.


Britain's Andy Murray saw off Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in straight sets to win the Dubai Championships for the first time.

The world number one dropped his first two service games but recovered to win 6-3 6-2 in one hour and 14 minutes.
It is Murray's first tournament win of 2017 and the 45th of his career, which will see him extend his lead over Novak Djokovic at the top of the rankings.
"I'm obviously very happy to do it here for the first time," said Murray.
"It's been a good start to the year."
Murray went into the final with a 12-1 record against Verdasco, but the Scot made a slow start to the final, losing his first two service games and throwing in four double faults.
However, Murray managed to get himself level at 3-3 and was rarely troubled again.
Verdasco, 33, let a 40-0 lead slip in game eight, firing a forehand wide on break point and Murray served out a set in which his returning ability had made up for some erratic serving.
The Briton's game came together in the second set and a forehand pass gave him the early break for a 2-1 lead.
When Murray ran down a seemingly hopeless point to force another break point at 4-2 it was as good as over for Verdasco, and the top seed ended with the kind of clinical service game he had lacked at the start.
The final proved a far more straightforward contest than his quarter-final against Philipp Kohlschreiber, which saw Murray save seven match points and win an epic 31-minute tie-break.
"Often when you get through matches like that it settles you down for the rest of the tournament," said Murray.
"It's been quite a few late finishes this week. Maybe the last couple of matches, I didn't start as well as I would like. It's been the same for all the players, a bit tricky with the rain. Once I got going today, I was moving well and I finished strong."
Any major celebrations will have to wait as Murray heads to the airport and a 16-hour flight to Los Angeles, with the Indian Wells Masters getting under way next week.
Murray, who will play his first match in the Californian desert next weekend, hopes to improve on a relatively modest record of just one final appearance back in 2009.
Last year, he lost in the third round at both Indian Wells and two weeks later at the Miami Masters.
"I struggled at Indian Wells and Miami last year, I didn't play so well," he said. "This year has given me great momentum."
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
Despite dropping his opening two service games, this turned into a straightforward win for Murray.
A first title of 2017 takes Murray over 2,000 points clear of Novak Djokovic at the top of the world rankings, and means he is extremely unlikely to be overtaken by anyone until at least the French Open.
Murray's form in Dubai this week suggests not only has he got over his bout of shingles, but also that the defeat to Mischa Zverev at the Australian Open is no indication of a deeper malaise.


A man has been assaulted at his home in Londonderry's Waterside area by two masked men.

The attackers forced open the door of a house at Moore Street at about 20:00 BST on Thursday and assaulted the 23-year-old man.
He did not need hospital treatment. Police said the men gave the appearance of being armed, although no weapon was seen.
No reason for the attack was mentioned. It is believed they left in a vehicle.
Police have appealed for witnesses.


A dog has been photographed apparently riding on the back of a motorcycle in Gloucestershire.

The picture, which appears to show a collie travelling through Bishop's Cleeve while strapped to the top-box, has been widely shared on social media.
Gloucestershire Police said they were investigating.
"We are making further inquiries in relation to the registered driver of the vehicle and whether he has broken the law in any way," a spokesman said.
Sue Hyde posted on BBC Radio Gloucestershire's Facebook page, saying: "I have been on the road for 30 years and have seen some stupid things - this is by far the stupidest!"
Scarlett Belladonna commented: "Depends how fast they were travelling, distance, how used the dog is to this form of transport... certainly not worse than people caging their dogs all day in tiny crates, or leaving them trapped in hot cars."
And Phil Lockwood wrote: "There's several bikers that do this with smaller dogs all over the country, don't recommend it but don't see anything wrong with it neither."


An 82-year-old man has been jailed for life for murdering his partner and her daughter who he shot at close range at his puppy farm in Surrey.

John Lowe, who killed Christine Lee and Lucy Lee in February, was given a minimum sentence of 25 years.
The jury at his Guildford Crown Court trial was told Lowe wanted the women "put down".
Surrey Police has apologised for returning Lowe's confiscated guns to him seven months before the shooting.
Sentencing Lowe, Mr Justice Singh praised the "extraordinary courage" of Lucy Lee after she returned to face her killer after making a frantic 999 call.
He said that, having heard the evidence, he had come to the "clear conclusion" the 82-year-old had intended to kill both of the women.
"You shot Lucy Lee in the back of her head after she made the 999 call, then reloaded your gun and pursued her outside the cottage, with the intention of making sure that this time she died," he said.
In a victim impact statement Stacy Banner, Lucy Lee's sister, said she was "haunted by what Lowe has done".
She said Lucy was the "big sister who comforted and preceded me" and the murders had left her struggling to eat and sleep.
Outside court, she said: "I'm relieved it's over. He's never getting out."
Ms Banner has criticised police for returning guns to Lowe just months before he carried out the shootings.
Surrey Police has admitted the decision "was flawed and did not meet national standards".
Three Surrey Police employees are being investigated for gross misconduct by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) over the decision to return the weapons.
Christine Lee's sister, Julia James, said she felt "despair, physically and emotionally" since the death of her two relatives.
"I miss them more than I can say," she said.
At the start of the hearing, prosecutor Mark Dennis QC said Lowe's advanced age should not "dramatically" reduce his sentence and the "starting point" for a double murder of this kind would be a minimum of 30 years in jail.
Surrey's Police and Crime Commissioner Kevin Hurley said as the trial was now over the inquiry could focus on why Lowe was given back his guns.
Factors which would be investigated included whether the decision had been made because of "human error by negligence, as a genuine mistake, or as a result of funding cuts to backroom staff", he said.


The female ward at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) in India's capital Delhi is home to about 80 women with mental health problems.

Photographer Cheena Kapoor spent months documenting the women on the ward. Mental illness is "not the only war the women fight here - the stigma of social acceptance and gender discrimination is a major cause of their trauma", she says.
"The male ward is always filled with anxious faces waiting for the sons to return home, while the daughters are so easily forgotten."
These are some of their stories:
Vaishnavi remembers helping her father on the farm in her village in the Garhwal region of the northern state of Uttarakhand when she was six years old. She said she got distracted by ripe mangoes and a couple of hours later, could not find her father anywhere. She was brought to the hospital by the police, and has been there for 22 years.
The hospital has failed to find her home despite several attempts.
Most patients on the ward are admitted by their families or picked up from the streets by police.
Bhavna wasn't happy with her advertising job as it used to stress her out. She started exhibiting psychotic symptoms after the death of her father and was admitted to the institute 10 years ago. Her mother still sends her a box of sweets every Diwali through her driver, Alok uncle.
Bhayna is one of 22 long-stay patients, who have been on the ward for more than two years. Her fellow patients suffer from a range of illnesses, including depression, anxiety and panic attacks.
Some have fully or partially recovered but remain on the ward because their families have abandoned them.
Kunti contracted HIV after she was raped, which led her friends to abandon her. This institute has been her "home" for three decades now.
Lali has been at IHBAS for over 20 years. Other patients remember her arriving dressed in a sari as a young girl from Nepal. She suffered a miscarriage two days later. She was brought to the ward by the police. She refuses to share her story with anyone.
Chhaya died before these photos were published - she was 68 and had spent 30 years on the ward. No one came to her funeral.
Razia's mother died while giving birth to her. A few years later her father died too. Her siblings realised she had mental health issues when she started to do all the household chores, dressed in traditional marriage attire. They brought her to the ward three years ago.
Razia still dreams of getting married and leading a "normal" life.
Anu was beaten, accused of being shameless and threatened with death because she dared to initiate sex with her husband of two years.  A wife suggesting sex is still a taboo in certain regions - the husband is expected to lead. She developed mental health issues soon after.
Aruna, who cannot speak, was found on the streets of Delhi 19 years ago by police. She is notorious for her playful antics and is often chased by other patients because she hides their personal belongings.
Vimal (left), a mother of two, was kidnapped from her village, raped and thrown on the streets of Delhi with 100 rupees in her pocket. She bought a cigarette pack with the money and left it where her assaulter dumped her.
She remembers her children, but cannot recall the name of her village.
The hospital, funded by the Delhi government, is now planning to open a half-way home called Saksham (capable) for its long-stay patients.


Major Tim Peake has announced he is set to go back into space on a new mission.

26 January 2017 Last updated at 17:07 GMT
He will go to the International Space Station some time before 2024.
He did some pretty cool stuff on his last trip, including running a marathon but what do kids think he should do on his next trip?
Here's what they said.


Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri was one of Saddam Hussein's most trusted allies, and one of his most ruthless enforcers.

He was the most senior figure to have evaded capture following the US-led invasion of the country, and most recently was the leader of the militant Naqshbandi Order.
The militia, which included loyalists of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath Party, played a key role in a Sunni rebellion which helped Islamic State seize large swathes of Iraq in the summer of 2014.
After Saddam Hussein's execution in 2006, the Baath Party named Douri - by now in hiding - as its new leader.
The US military, which marked him as the King of Clubs in its deck of playing cards featuring former members of the regime, later said Douri was the "single most significant regime figure" still at large.
They accused him of co-ordinating some of the attacks on US-led forces and offered a $10m reward for his capture.
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri was one of the key plotters in the coup that brought the Baath Party to power in 1968.
In later years, he served as Saddam Hussein's number two in the powerful Revolution Command Council, as vice-chairman.
Douri was deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and held a senior post on the committee responsible for northern Iraq when chemical weapons were used in 1988, killing thousands of Kurds.
War crimes charges were issued against him in Austria.
When the first Gulf War broke out in 1991, The New York Times newspaper quoted Douri as warning the Kurds not to cause trouble.
He allegedly reminded them of the chemical attack with the words: "If you have forgotten Halabja, I would like to remind you that we are ready to repeat the operation."
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri was born the son of an ice-seller in 1942 near Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's home town.
He joined the Baath Party, rising swiftly through the ranks after the coup. In the 1970s, he served as both agriculture and interior minister.
He travelled abroad frequently as the Iraqi leader's envoy and was sent to woo neighbouring states during the pre-war stand-off with Washington.
At the 2002 Arab summit in Beirut, Douri broke the ice by publicly shaking hands with the Kuwaiti foreign minister - whose country Iraq invaded in 1990 - and embracing the Saudi crown prince, whose kingdom Saddam Hussein had threatened to attack.
Douri had several narrow escapes - one an assassination attempt in Karbala in 1998, and managing to avoid arrest in Vienna in 1999 for suspected crimes against humanity while on a private visit for medical treatment.
He was also reported killed several times in the years following 2003, but each proved to be false.
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri's daughter was briefly married to Saddam Hussein's elder son, Uday, who - together with his brother Qusay - was killed by US forces in Mosul in July 2003.
Four of Douri's nephews were captured in January 2004, two months after the arrest of his wife and daughter.


Boys don't like reading books that have girls as the main characters - and that "makes it harder for girls to be equal", says the new Children's Laureate Lauren Child.

Child, who wrote the Charlie and Lola and Clarice Bean series, was speaking after her appointment was announced in Hull.
She is the 10th person to be the official champion of children's books.
Child will hold the title for two years and takes over from Chris Riddell.
While girls are happier to read about boys, she is worried about why most boys are more reluctant to read books or watch films about girls.
"I don't know if it's just in our culture, or whether it's a boy thing, that they find it very hard to pick up a book or go to a film if a girl is the central character," she told BBC News.
"I don't know where that comes from but it worries me because it makes it harder for girls to be equal."
Sales figures back up the notion that books with girls as main characters are less popular than those about boys, she said.
Child has just published the last Ruby Redfort book. Ruby began as a character in her Clarice Bean series, but Child decided to give the fictional spy her own spin-offs after getting "a lot of letters from girls - and some from boys".
She said: "You could quite easily change Ruby's name to a boy's name and just changing a few details in the book and it would work just the same.
"But still parents will come up to me and say, 'Do you write books for boys as well?' This is a book for boys. We do still have those problems. It does concern me."
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Another problem is the fact there are so few Asian and black children on the covers of picture books and on screen, she said.
"They're not present enough. And if they don't feel they're represented in a book, or a film, or a TV programme, then how can they feel an equal part of society?
"That really is important. I see it more and more because I have a daughter adopted from Mongolia and we're watching all kinds of programmes and the characters are mainly white Caucasian.
"It's that look - it's very often long blonde hair, blue eyes. She's not seeing herself. And very often, if you do see a child, it's about an issue. It's not about just being a child."
Child was appointed Waterstones Children's Laureate at a ceremony in Hull, which is UK City of Culture 2017.
The Laureate is chosen by a panel of judges from the book world, who also consider names put forward by children who can vote online.
The author said she wanted to use the position to "shine a light on children's books and illustration", which she said is always seen as "a poor relation" to adult literature.
She also voiced concerns about library closures.
Child said: "There are many children who don't have access to books and they don't have access to books in their schools because a lot of schools don't have libraries.
"If we value literacy as much as we say we do and as much as we should, then children need that opportunity. So I worry about the haves and have-nots and giving children the opportunity to try things out."
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Republicans are scrambling to shore up their Obamacare repeal legislation as congressional misgivings mount after a damning forecast on the bill's impact.

Some 22 million Americans would lose health insurance over the next decade under the plan, said the non-partisan Congressional Budgetary Office (CBO).
Susan Collins of Maine is the latest Republican senator to come out against the proposal.
Republicans can afford to lose just two votes in their 52-seat Senate majority.
The Better Care Reconciliation Act would slash taxes on the wealthy, while cutting healthcare for the poor and nursing home residents.
Not currently. Senator Collins, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin signalled on Monday that they would vote against even debating the bill.
Senator Collins, a moderate Republican, tweeted that the measure would "hurt most vulnerable Americans" in rural Maine, where "hospitals are already struggling".
Nevada Senator Dean Heller, another moderate Republican, who faces re-election next year, said on Friday he would vote no.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who wrote the bill, wanted it passed before the 4 July holiday, but that timetable is looking increasingly optimistic.
Two other conservative Republican senators - Ted Cruz and Mike Lee - said last week they were not ready to vote for the bill, but were open to negotiation.
With not a single Democrat supporting a bill they have derisively labelled "Trumpcare", the margin of error is diminishing for Mr McConnell.
But the arm-twisting will continue - Vice-President Mike Pence is hosting several Republican senators for dinner on Tuesday.
It is worth remembering that political last rites were prematurely pronounced on the House of Representatives' version of the Obamacare repeal plan after it was withdrawn on 24 March.
But six weeks later Republicans in the lower chamber reintroduced a slightly revised bill, which was narrowly passed.
The 49-page CBO analysis said 15 million more people would be uninsured by next year alone under the Senate bill, largely because the unpopular Obamacare penalty for not having insurance would be eliminated.
Another seven million would lose coverage over the next decade, it predicted.
There were some positive points: the legislation would decrease federal deficits by $321bn over a decade, the budget office said.
It also found that average insurance premiums would be lower in 2020, but only because medical coverage would be much skimpier.
The Senate bill makes it much easier for insurance companies to withhold minimum health benefits, such as maternity or mental healthcare, the budget office said.
Meanwhile, low-income and older people would be priced out of the market, the CBO predicted.
For example, a 64-year-old with an annual income of nearly $57,000 would pay a premium of about $20,500 a year in 2026, triple the amount expected under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
President Trump pledged during the election campaign that he would not cut Medicaid, a health programme for low-income patients.
However, the Senate bill slashes more than $770bn from Medicaid, leaving 15 million fewer people covered, according to the CBO.
The budget office also notes the Senate plan scraps a key Obamacare regulation, paving the way for insurance companies to overcharge the government for certain plans.
The White House disputed the figures, saying: "The CBO has consistently proven it cannot accurately predict how healthcare legislation will impact insurance coverage."


Authors from most Commonwealth countries have been sidelined from the Man Booker longlist, after the prize was opened up to American writers.

Australia's Richard Flanagan is the only non-British representative of the Commonwealth on the 13-strong list, while US novelists fill four spots.
Former winner Howard Jacobson is in the running again, but some high-profile names, including Ian McEwan and Donna Tartt failed to make the list.
The winner will get Â£50,000 in October.
Flanagan is nominated for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a haunting account of the Australian servicemen who, as Japanese prisoners of war, were forced to build the so-called Burma railway.
The author, from Tasmania, wrote the book in tribute to his late father who survived the experience - but thousands more did not.
Considered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation, his other works include The Sound of One Hand Clapping and he also co-wrote the script for the Baz Luhrmann film, Australia.
He is up against best-selling authors including David Nicholls, whose upcoming novel Us is about the "the bond of marriage and the demands of parenthood".
Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell gets his third Booker nomination for The Bone Clocks which follows the story of Holly Sykes, who runs away from home in 1984 and 60 years later can be found in the far west of Ireland, raising a granddaughter as the world's climate collapses.
Only three women make the longlist, including Scotland's Ali Smith, for her inventive new novel How To Be Both.
The book tells two interlinking stories, one about a renaissance artist in 15th Century Italy, the other about a child of the 1960s - and the reader can decide which half to read first.
The American newcomers are represented by Joshua Ferris, Karen Joy Fowler, Siri Hustvedt and Richard Powers, while Joseph O'Neill - born in Ireland, raised in the Netherlands and living in New York - is described as "Irish/American" by the Booker panel.
His latest novel, The Dog, is about a man who flees his position in a Manhattan law firm after a bad breakup with a colleague. Settling in Dubai, he lives a luxurious existence, but must come to terms with alienation and vulnerability.
Fowler, who is best known for her light-hearted novel The Jane Austen Book Club, is nominated for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, about an ordinary Mid-western family: two parents and three children - one of whom turns out to be surprisingly special.
Ferris's third novel, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour looks at atheism through the eyes of a dentist, who spends the day looking at death and decay, but cannot find solace in religion.
The longlist also includes a crowdfunded novel by first-time author Paul Kingsnorth.
The Wake, set just after the Battle of Hastings, depicts guerrilla warfare against the Norman-French invaders in the Lincolnshire fens, and uses a semi-invented language "intended to convey the feeling" of Old English.
It was picked up by the small and relatively new publisher Unbound, who encouraged readers to pledge money towards its release - eventually securing enough to get the book printed.
"One of the things that makes me so happy being on the longlist is that this book is a collaborative venture," he told the BBC.
The prize has gone global and the longlist reflects that change - but only up to a point.  There are four Americans, alongside Joseph O'Neill who lives in New York,  but was born in Ireland. Richard Flanagan, from Tasmania, flies the flag for Australia and Niall Williams is Irish.
But there are no Indian or African authors and that will raise eyebrows among those who feared writers from some Commonwealth countries might get squeezed out by the new rules.
Five Britons make the list, including the former winner of the prize, Howard Jacobson. David Mitchell and Ali Smith have both been shortlisted in the past. And David Nicholls, the author of the phenomenally successful One Day, is also longlisted for his new novel Us.  It is one of five books on the list which won't be published until September.
There are some notable absentees. No room for the American Donna Tartt as well as high profile British authors including Ian McEwan, Will Self and Martin Amis.
Announcing the longlist, chair of the judging panel, AC Grayling said: "This is a diverse list of ambition, experiment, humour and artistry. The novels selected are full of wonderful stories and fascinating characters.
"The judges were impressed by the range of issues tackled - from 1066 to the future, from a PoW camp in Thailand, to a dentist's chair in Manhattan; from the funny to the deeply serious, sometimes in the same book."
The shortlist of six books will be announced on 9 September, followed by the main prize on 14 October at a ceremony to be broadcast by the BBC.
Last year, the Booker was won by New Zealand's Eleanor Catton for The Luminaries.
At 28, she was the youngest-ever winner and said her life had been changed by the award.
"I've been given opportunities to travel and to see my book read by such an astonishingly wide readership all over the world," she said.


An Islamist militant shot dead by French special forces two weeks ago after he attacked a Jewish supermarket has been buried near Paris.

Police sources said Amedy Coulibaly had been buried in the Muslim section of the Thiais cemetery, outside the city.
Seventeen people died in three days of violence in Paris that began with an assault on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on 7 January.
Two other attackers, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, are already buried.
Coulibaly, 32, killed four people and held a number of others hostage at a Jewish supermarket in eastern Paris on 9 January.
Police also believe he killed a policewoman in the Montrouge area of the French capital a day earlier.
Coulibaly is believed to have had a long history of criminal activity - including drugs offences - and links to at least one of the Kouachi brothers.
Earlier, France's top legal authority ruled that it was lawful to strip a dual national convicted of terrorism offences of his French nationality.
Ahmed Sahnouni, a Moroccan naturalised by France in 2003, had challenged the stripping of his citizenship.
Mr Sahnouni's lawyer argued that stripping his bi-national client of French citizenship created a two-tier system, with some Frenchmen "more French" than others.
But the Constitutional Council ruled that the move was justified by the seriousness of the need to tackle Islamist extremism.
Sahnouni was jailed for seven years in 2013 for terror-related activities. A dual citizen, he is now due to be extradited to Morocco on completing his sentence.
Under French law, nationals can be stripped of their naturalised citizenship if they are convicted of "terror acts", but only if the move would not make them stateless.
A poll published in a French newspaper several days ago suggested 81% of French people wanted dual nationals convicted of terrorism offences to have their French passports taken away.
It also suggested 68% believed French citizens involved in violent jihad abroad should not be allowed to return to France.
For those convicted of terrorism offences with only French nationality, the government is looking at reviving the status of 'national disgrace', used for collaborators after World War Two, the BBC's Lucy Williamson reports from Paris.
Under this label, convicts would be stripped of some of their civic rights.
The controversial suggestion is part of a large package of measures, outlined this week by Prime Minister Manuel Valls, to boost security in the wake of this month's attacks.


Scotland's politicians used their education and schools policies as a campaigning platform while out on the Holyrood election trail.

Party leaders were out and about from the Borders to Stornoway as they highlighted their education policies with two weeks to go until May's election.
Nicola Sturgeon said raising educational attainment should be the next government's "number one priority" while campaigning in Dumfries.
The SNP leader said if re-elected as first minister, she would seek to give parents and teachers a greater say over key decisions in schools.
Ms Sturgeon said she wanted every child in Scotland to have "the benefit of a world-class education".
She said: "The most significant investments the SNP will make in the next term will be in our young people. From the earliest years until adulthood, improving Scotland's education system should be the number one priority of the next Scottish government."
Kezia Dugdale challenged Ms Sturgeon to match her pledge to protect schools, colleges and universities from cuts.
Campaigning in Stornoway, the Scottish Labour leader said the SNP manifesto had not committed to above-inflation increases in the education budget.
She said: "In her manifesto yesterday, Nicola Sturgeon offered protection for the NHS budget, but not for education.
"This is not a technical detail - if the SNP leader does not make this commitment in simple terms, it means she plans to cut education spending in real terms."
Ruth Davidson said there would be "more money in the system" for education under her plans.
Visiting a nursery in Edinburgh, the Scottish Conservative leader said ending the council tax freeze would allow local authorities to spend more on schools.
She also said any increases in the devolved budget as a result of rising education spending in England should be allocated to Scottish education.
The Tories want to free up extra cash for further and higher education by charging university graduates a contribution towards the cost of their tuition.
Willie Rennie called for the "immediate publication" of a national survey of schools attainment in Scotland, accusing the SNP of "jiggery-pokery".
The Scottish Lib Dem leader said the results of the annual Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy are usually published in March or April, but this year have been put back until 31 May - after the Holyrood election.
Mr Rennie said: "It seems convenient that we're being expected to wait more than a month longer than ever before to get sight of the most up-to-date statistics on literacy and numeracy. But that is the kind of jiggery-pokery we've come to expect from the SNP.
"The results of the last two of these surveys have shown overall literacy and numeracy standards are slipping and the attainment gap is widening."
Sarah Beattie-Smith joined activists in Dunbar to discuss environmental policies.
The Green transport and infrastructure spokeswoman underlined her party's commitment to protecting Scotland's "natural treasures" while campaigning alongside party activists.
She was marking John Muir Day, which celebrates the life and work of the Scottish-born naturalist and conservationist.


The World Alternative Games and bog snorkelling championships take place in Powys from Friday.

Activities also include wife carrying, husband dragging, gravy wrestling, Russian egg roulette, backward running, worm charming and ditch racing.
The games, in Llanwrtyd Wells, continue every weekend until 29 August.
Bog snorkelling has taken place in the town for 31 years and in 2012 other activities were added as a Wales-focused alternative to the Olympics.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said it was "a credit to Wales" which "puts a smile on faces".
There will be 60 different activities and the bog snorkelling takes place on 28 August.


An ex-radio disc jockey accused of raping a 15-year-old girl with Jimmy Savile raped another teenager after promising her fame, a court has heard.

Ray Teret is said to have placed a magazine advert seeking "the next teenage pop sensation", and allegedly raped a girl who responded at his flat.
The 72-year-old, of Altrincham, Greater Manchester, denies 18 rapes and a string of other sex offences.
He is on trial with two other men at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.
Alan Ledger, 62, also from Altrincham, denies a series of assaults.
Also standing trial is William Harper, 65, of Stretford, who denies one count of attempted rape.
Mr Teret's alleged victim went "into a bit of lockdown" and submitted to sex with him after he gave her red wine for the first time and she became drunk, the court heard.
Prosecutor Tim Evans said the DJ had earlier collected the 17-year-old from her family home in "a big send off", saying she needed to be in the "bright lights of Manchester".
The attack is alleged to have taken place in the mid-1990s when Mr Teret was in his mid-50s.
After the alleged rape, Mr Teret gave the 17-year-old Â£40 to buy a new dress, the jury was told.
The court heard that, despite his promises, the girl - hoping to make it as a singer - was not found "a jot of work".
The former Radio Caroline DJ also denies an attempted rape, two other serious sexual assaults, 11 indecent assaults and two counts of indecency with a child.
The offences relate to 17 different girls and date back to 1962.
The court also heard how one complainant aged 12 or 13 met Mr Teret regularly at his flat.
Mr Evans said that on one occasion Mr Teret committed a serious sexual assault on her while his co-defendant Alan Ledger, at the time a club DJ, held down her hands.
The complainant later told police of a wall in Mr Teret's flat with graffiti on it which contained names, messages and phone numbers.
The prosecutor said the jury would hear that, years later, the police were able to find such a wall and photographs of it would be shown during the trial.
The court also heard the girl, who is said to have had sex with Mr Teret until she was 15, was encouraged to introduce her friends, also complainants, to Mr Teret.
One of those friends went on to be abused at the age of 13 by Mr Teret and Mr Ledger, according to the prosecution.
Mr Evans said this complainant was another "young, naive, vulnerable" girl who was "to a greater or lesser extent starstruck and charmed".
Another complainant said she was raped aged 13 by Mr Teret and that on a separate occasion Mr Harper - a DJ and presenter who went by the stage name of Tony Grey - attempted to rape her.
Mr Evans said the girl was sent by Mr Teret on "a false errand" to collect a book from the home of Mr Harper who tried to have sex with her before it is said his mother interrupted him.
The prosecution also outlined a string of other alleged offences by Mr Teret, including the rape of a 13-year-old girl he met while compering a talent show and the indecent assault of a 15-year-old in his car.
When interviewed by police following his arrest, Mr Teret said teenage girls did nothing for him, the court heard.
But Mr Evans told the jury: "In light simply of the evidence you will hear in this case, the Crown say that young teenage girls, far from doing nothing for him, were consistently pursued by him through the '60s and '70s."
Some of the three men's alleged victims had had counselling, Mr Evans told the jury, while some had not.
"But each was to a greater or lesser extent affected by what they say Mr Teret and these other defendants, and other men not on trial, did to them all those years ago," he added.
The trial continues.


A former dentist who conned patients out of more than £1m has been sentenced to six years in prison.

John Hammond duped 22 patients at the former Park House Dental Practice, in Loughborough, Leicestershire, into investing into a non-existent property scheme.
The 69-year-old, now of Oakwood Drive, in Clydach, Swansea, falsely promised them a lucrative return.
He pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation and money laundering.
Hammond, formerly of Wymeswold, in Leicestershire, appeared at Leicester Crown Court via video link.
His scam was uncovered after one victim exposed him on the BBC One programme The Sheriffs are Coming, which highlights rogue traders, the court heard.
Prosecutors said Hammond targeted long-standing patients and promised them guaranteed loans and profitable returns with 10% interest.
Many of his victims described him as "robbing Peter to pay Paul" targeting new patients to pay off interest of earlier clients.
One victim David Smith said: "One elderly lady of 93 was duped out of £60,000, she needed that money for a care home and it just never happened."
Prosecutor Kevin Barry said Hammond used the proceeds of his fraud for his own personal use rather than to invest in commercial properties as promised to the investors.
"He used it to fund a standard of living his victims could only dream of; expensive school fees, lavish holidays for the whole of his extended family and mortgages for some," Mr Barry said.
In a statement, Det Sgt Mark Tuttle, of Leicestershire Police, said: "Hammond was in a position of trust and he abused his position for his own personal gain, he had no regard for his patients and targeted those who he believed may be able to invest large amounts of money.
"He is a greedy and manipulative individual who didn't care about the effect his actions would have on the victims, some of whom were elderly."
The court heard, Hammond had a debt of over £5m after he was declared bankrupt in 2013.
In June 2015, Hammond was struck off as a dentist by the General Dental Council for professional malpractice relating to work he carried out at the Loughborough practice.


Tennis star Andy Murray and an islands council have exchanged tweets about what is dubbed as Scotland's most remote tennis court.

Responding to a tweet from a fan about Bunabhainneadar tennis court on Harris, Murray asked if the place was real.
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar messaged the former Wimbledon champion to say that it was an actual place and that he should ask his mother Judy.
She played tennis on the privately owned court last year.
The comhairle confirmed the tweet had been sent to the tennis player.
Following Murray's Wimbledon win, the owner of Bunabhainneadar tennis court said the Scot would have to pay to play there, but rival Roger Federer could play for free because he was a Federer fan.
Murray will face Philipp Kohlschreiber at the Madrid Open later on Wednesday - just two days after beating him in the Munich Open final.
Murray won his 32nd ATP title - and first on clay - with a gripping three-set victory over the German on Monday.
The British number one is also building up to the French Open later this month.


The head of Cologne's police force is leaving his post "to restore public trust in the police" following scores of attacks on women in the city on New Year's Eve.

The state interior minister said on Friday that he had placed Wolfgang Albers in temporary retirement.
The police's handling of the night's events has been sharply criticised.
The violence outside the main railway station has sparked a debate about Germany's open door policy on migrants.
Gangs of men described as of North African and Arab appearance were reported to be behind the attacks.
A large group, numbering around 1,000, had gathered inside and in front of the station in the western city.
Victims described chaos as the men carried out dozens of sexual assaults and robberies with little apparent response from the authorities.
Federal authorities say they have identified 18 asylum-seekers among 31 suspects linked to crimes committed in Cologne on New Year's Eve.
Earlier, Mayor Henriette Reker had spoken out against Mr Albers, saying "the relationship of trust with the police leadership" was substantially shaken, according to German media.
The police chief has been accused of holding back information about the attacks, in particular about the origin of the suspects.
The interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ralf Jaeger, said his decision to remove Mr Albers would not affect the continuing investigation into the events of 31 December.
"People rightly want to know what happened on New Year's Eve, who the perpetrators are and how such events can be prevented in future," he said.
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The state police in Cologne have recorded 170 complaints of crimes, 117 of which involve sexual assault. There were two allegations of rape.
Two men, aged 16 and 23 and apparently of North African origin, arrested overnight on Thursday in connection with the sex attacks, have been released without charge, according to German media.
Cologne police say they are currently investigating 21 people in connection with the sexual assaults. It is not known how many of these are asylum seekers.
The federal police - responsible for the station itself but not the area nearby - released information on their investigation on Friday.
"Of the 31 suspects whose names are known, 18 have asylum seeker status," federal interior ministry spokesman Tobias Plate told reporters.
The suspects include nine Algerians, eight Moroccans, four Syrians, five Iranians, two Germans and one each from Iraq, Serbia and the US, he said.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has condemned the violence, saying Germany should examine whether enough was being done to ensure foreigners convicted of crimes in the country are deported.
She said "clear signals" had to be sent to those not prepared to abide by German law.
In a separate case, police have arrested four Syrians, aged between 14 and 21, over the suspected gang rape of two teenage girls in the southern German town of Weil am Rhein on New Year's Eve, according to German media.
The attack is not believed to be connected to the events in Cologne, the police statement said.
The identification of the attackers in Cologne as North African or Arab in appearance has caused alarm in Germany because of the influx of more than a million migrants and refugees in the past year.
Officials have warned that anti-immigrant groups have been trying to use the attacks to stir up hatred.
Similar attacks to those seen in Cologne were also reported in Hamburg and in Stuttgart.
Police in several other European countries have also received complaints:
Facebook user Israa Ragab: "Every time I watch the TV and hear them saying the suspects could be from North Africa or Arabs I feel so ashamed and disgusted"
Deutsche Welle Arabic journalist Nahla Elhenawy: "The ugliness of our region is reaching Germany"
@Farcry99 on Twitter: "Will Europe regret receiving people who suffer from religious and political repression?"
Arab social media fury at Cologne attacks


An art dealer has admitted intentionally selling fakes of paintings by a famous Cornish artist for tens of thousands of pounds.

David Carter, 58, of Prospect Close, Hayle, pleaded guilty to seven counts of fraud at Truro Crown Court.
He dishonestly claimed the works, which sold for up to £50,000, had been created by celebrated painters such as Alfred Wallis.
An investigation was launched after a complaint to trading standards.
Carter bought the works from websites called "any old tat" and "credit crunch my ass"  for hundreds of pounds between 2009 and 2011, the court was told.
Alex Greenwood, prosecuting, said: "Nothing compatible with acceptable provenance was obtained by the defendant, he knew that. The paintings were bought for a fraction of the sale price.
"The valuing of those works are multiples of their true value, which he knew. It was dishonest, false and misleading."
Carter ran Hayle Art Gallery in Cornwall and claimed to have "expertise in the field in particular Cornish artists"
An investigation by Cornwall Trading Standards found Carter bought six paintings advertised as by artist Alfred Wallis from the websites.
He put the paintings up for sale despite questioning the seller about their authenticity saying "they seem genuine but if they are I'd be very surprised".
Carter bought one painted glass fishing float, allegedly by Wallis and described by an expert as "maritime bric-a-brac" for £316.77 and tried to sell it for £60,000.
The court heard in 2011 he took part in a BBC programme called "Hidden paintings of the South West" where he was made aware reputable experts believed some of his Wallis paintings were fake.
Speaking outside court, Carol Gasser, who bought the painting "Boats leaving Newlyn harbour" for £5,000 said: "I was bitterly disappointed. I loved it when I bought it but I was thoroughly disappointed when I found out it was a fake."


A total of 341 schools across Wales are set to get superfast broadband, Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has announced.

The £5m project is being funded by the Welsh Government.
Orders for the new service are being placed, with the first delivery expected later this year.
Ms Williams said "I am committed to making sure all our schools have the infrastructure needed to prepare pupils for the modern world."
The new service should provide an immediate increase in speed.
Minimum broadband connections are currently of 10Mbps for primary schools in Wales and 100Mbps for secondary schools but some are not able to upgrade the speed of their services because of technical limitations.
"Superfast" is defined as providing download speeds of more than 24Mbps.
Ms Williams added: "Making sure every school, no matter where they are based, has access to superfast broadband remains a priority for me.
"It is simply unacceptable for a school to be at a significant disadvantage due to poor internet speeds."


A man has been convicted of the murder of a woman who was stabbed multiple times and bludgeoned with a claw hammer in an attack "bordering on sadism".

Kelly Pearce, 36, was stabbed in the face and neck 40 times and suffered skull and brain damage in the assault.
Anthony Ayres, 49, of Fairlop Avenue in Canvey, was found guilty of her murder at Chelmsford Crown Court.
The judge said it was an attack of "extreme brutality".
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The court heard Ayres launched a "frenzied attack" on Ms Pearce on 19 November, leaving her with fatal neck wounds.
Cairns Nelson QC, prosecuting, said Ms Pearce, of North Avenue, was murdered in the bathroom of a flat belonging to one of her friends, Joseph Withers.
Ayres told the court he was not in a relationship with Ms Pearce but they had casual sex.
Judge Maura McGown told him: "Kelly's life was blighted by drugs in recent years, but we heard she was fun, kind and with a warm-hearted personality.
"You set about an attack of extreme brutality bordering on sadism".
In a statement read out in court, Ms Pearce's mother, Lynn Wallings said her life had been "shattered forever" on the her daughter was killed.
She said she now found it "difficult to smile, laugh or live with any sense of happiness".
With regards to Ms Pearce's son, she said: "I don't know how Josh will ever come to terms with the death of his mum an I know there will be a huge void in his life.
"Instead of being with her laughing and asking for her guidance, he will now only have memories."


Wales started their 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign in confident fashion as they convincingly beat Moldova.

The Euro 2016 semi-finalists initially faced spirited Moldovan resistance but led 2-0 at half-time thanks to goals from Sam Vokes and Joe Allen.
Gareth Bale seized on a woeful pass for the third, then netted a last-minute penalty for his second of the night.
Wales' win puts them top of Group D on goal difference ahead of Austria.
Chris Coleman's men travel to Vienna for their next World Cup qualifier on Thursday, 6 October.
As the group's top seeds, Coleman's side had been expected to make light work of Moldova, who are ranked 154 places below them in the world rankings.
After a cagey first half hour they eventually did so with a flourish, becoming the first team to score three or more goals against the eastern European minnows since England's 4-0 victory in 2013.
Having led Wales to a first major tournament semi-final at Euro 2016, Coleman said he was "desperate" to follow that achievement by qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
The former Fulham manager and his players want to ensure their summer exploits in France were not a one-off but a springboard to sustained success.
They were backed by a typically vociferous Cardiff City Stadium crowd of 31,731, close to capacity once again as a nation basks in its greatest footballing era.
And although it came against limited opposition, this opening victory was an encouraging start as Wales aim to end an absence from World Cups that stretches back to 1958.
"That was the perfect start," former Wales international John Hartson said on Radio 5 live. "Moldova were awful, it was a comfortable win as you will see and great start to the qualifying campaign."
There was a familiarity to Wales' initial inability to break Moldova down; struggling to unlock a deep and tenacious defence as they had done against Andorra and Israel during their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign.
Moldova had lost 14 of their past 20 games but they are seldom pushovers and have conceded only 26 goals in the process.
However, Wales' domination of possession and territory eventually paid dividends after 38 minutes when Bale's arcing cross was headed in by Vokes.
Five minutes later, a weak attempted clearance from Moldova goalkeeper Ilie Cebanu found its way to Allen, who scored his first goal for Wales with a drilled half-volley from the edge of the penalty area.
Bale claimed Wales' third goal in comical circumstances, as he latched on to a terrible backpass from Moldova's Ion Jardan before clipping the ball neatly beyond Cebanu.
The Real Madrid forward scored his second in added time, converting a penalty after he had been brought down to move within four goals of Ian Rush's Welsh record of 28.
Wales' next fixture could be the toughest of their qualifying campaign, away against Group D second seeds Austria on 6 October.
Austria won 2-1 in Georgia on Monday and, with Serbia and the Republic of Ireland drawing 2-2 in Belgrade, this group is expected to be wide open.
Sterner challenges await Coleman's side but this victory - their biggest winning margin in a competitive game since 2003 - will lift hopes of qualifying for a first World Cup in 60 years.
Match ends, Wales 4, Moldova 0.
Second Half ends, Wales 4, Moldova 0.
Goal!  Wales 4, Moldova 0. Gareth Bale (Wales) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty Wales. Gareth Bale draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Andrian Cascaval (Moldova) after a foul in the penalty area.
Offside, Wales. Gareth Bale tries a through ball, but Andy King is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Hal Robson-Kanu (Wales) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Gareth Bale (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrei Cojocari (Moldova).
Joe Allen (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aleksandru Gatcan (Moldova).
Hal Robson-Kanu (Wales) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Andrian Cascaval (Moldova).
Foul by James Chester (Wales).
Igor Bugaev (Moldova) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Moldova. Maxim Mihaliov tries a through ball, but Eugeniu Sidorenco is caught offside.
Substitution, Moldova. Maxim Mihaliov replaces Alexandru Dedov.
Emyr Huws (Wales) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Igor Armas (Moldova).
Substitution, Wales. James Collins replaces Ashley Williams.
Attempt missed. Andy King (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Emyr Huws.
Attempt missed. Igor Armas (Moldova) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Ion Jardan.
Substitution, Moldova. Igor Bugaev replaces Radu Ginsari.
Substitution, Moldova. Eugeniu Sidorenco replaces Eugeniu Cebotaru.
Substitution, Wales. Hal Robson-Kanu replaces Sam Vokes.
Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Emyr Huws.
Corner,  Wales. Conceded by Alexandru Epureanu.
Corner,  Wales. Conceded by Alexandru Dedov.
Corner,  Wales. Conceded by Alexandru Epureanu.
Attempt blocked. Andy King (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Joe Allen with a headed pass.
Substitution, Wales. Emyr Huws replaces Joe Ledley.
Foul by Joe Ledley (Wales).
Radu Ginsari (Moldova) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Moldova. Ion Jardan tries a through ball, but Radu Ginsari is caught offside.
Joe Ledley (Wales) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Andrei Cojocari (Moldova).
Joe Ledley (Wales) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Andrei Cojocari (Moldova).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Sam Vokes (Wales) because of an injury.


Two months before winning three Paralympic medals, Jessica-Jane Applegate could not breathe properly.

"It turned out that during training my throat was collapsing," the British swimmer told BBC Radio Norfolk.
The 20-year-old said she could not train and was worried she would not be able to compete at September's Rio Paralympics.
But after a career-saving operation nine weeks before the Games, she won two silver medals and a bronze.
Applegate had been struggling with breathing problems for more than a year that she put down to asthma or a chest infection.
"It got to the stage that I couldn't even train, I was just so tired all the time, and was stressing that I didn't even want to swim anymore," the Great Yarmouth athlete said.
"I didn't want to carry on because I was just in pain, and I didn't want to swim if I couldn't swim very well.
"I didn't want to be anywhere near a swimming pool because it was stressing me out, as I only had Rio around the corner."
Applegate, who swam in the S14 Paralympic classification for those with an intellectual disability and won a gold at London 2012, had breathing problems when she was younger before they subsided.
The speed she was swimming at and the pressure of the water caused her throat to, in effect, collapse.
It meant Applegate, who also competes locally in able-bodied events, needed an operation to solve the laryngeal problem.
"I really didn't think I was going to be [in Rio], which made me very sad because I'd put all this hard work in and it wasn't even worth it, everything had just been binned," she said.
"I had to make the decision to carry on as I was or just put my health first and try to be able to breathe in the pool."
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Despite overcoming this adversity, the competitor in Applegate was still disappointed in her result.
"I just really like winning. I was absolutely gutted when I didn't get at least one gold medal, but I obviously understand that I couldn't," she said.
"My drive is winning, winning anything, even beating my team-mate in the pool at training, who's a boy.
"It just feels great when you know you've worked so hard for that one moment, and that feeling at the end is brilliant."


Pakistan's Yasir Shah has risen to the top of the Test bowling rankings following his 10-wicket haul against England in the first Test.

The 30-year-old, who has usurped England's James Anderson, becomes the first leg-spinner to head the rankings since Australia's Shane Warne in 2005.
He is the first Pakistan bowler to top the list since Mushtaq Ahmed, also a leg-spinner, in 1996.
Anderson, who missed the hosts' 75-run defeat at Lord's, drops to third.
The Lancashire bowler, who is expected to be included for Friday's second Test at his home ground after recovering from injury, has also been overtaken by India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.
Yasir's rise completes a remarkable entrance to Test cricket, which has seen him take more wickets (86) in his first 13 matches than anyone else in history.
He is on course to break the record for the fastest bowler to 100 Test wickets - currently held by England's George Lohmann, who reached the landmark in 16 matches in 1896.
Australia captain Steve Smith continues to lead the batting rankings, with England's Joe Root fourth.
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A legal challenge to the way the PSNI has investigated a murder linked to a loyalist supergrass has been rejected.

Catholic voluntary worker Peter McTasney was shot dead by the UVF at his home in north Belfast 25 years ago.
Lawyers for Mr McTasney's family argued the PSNI was reluctant to investigate because of fears of revelations about Special Branch agents.
Former UVF commander Gary Haggarty has been charged with the killing.
He agreed to become what is called "an assisting offender", a modern day supergrass.
The former Special Branch agent is facing a total of 212 charges, and has also made allegations about serious criminal activity by the police officers to whom he reported.
The lawyers representing the McTasney family claimed the police had delayed the investigation because they feared what Haggarty might reveal.
But their bid to challenge the PSNI for unlawfully failing to investigate within reasonable time was refused.
"For the court to conduct an investigation under the guise of judicial review proceedings at this stage would at best be premature," the judge said.
The judge concluded that there was "simply insufficient evidence to argue that there has been unreasonable delay in this matter".
Mr McTasney was murdered in the Bawnmore estate in February 1991 in front of his three-year-old daughter.
A Police Ombudsman report identified the murder as one of 10 linked to a UVF unit operating out of the Mount Vernon estate.


Hull City have appointed former Sunderland boss Steve Bruce as their new manager on a three-year contract.

The Tigers had been managerless since sacking Nick Barmby last month.
Bruce said: "I'm looking to bring back the Premier League days if we possibly can, that's the reason I'm sitting here, for the challenge of it.
"There were a few weeks of talks and negotiations and I'm now relishing the challenge of getting the club back to where it wants to be."
Barmby was removed from his position at the KC Stadium after less than six months in charge following comments he made to the media.
Bruce, who has also managed Wigan and Birmingham in the Premier League, has been out of the game since being sacked by the Black Cats in November 2011.
After a successful playing career that saw him win three Premier League titles with Manchester United, Bruce stepped into management with Sheffield United in 1998 but moved on to Huddersfield just one year later.
Brief spells with the Latics and Crystal Palace followed before he took over at St Andrews, leading Blues to the Premier League in his first season.
He returned to the DW Stadium in November 2007 to replace Chris Hutchings and helped them to safety and a 14th-place finish before guiding them to 11th in his only full season.
Niall Quinn appointed him as Sunderland manager for the start of the 2009/10 campaign and, having finished 13th and 10th in his first two seasons, he was relieved of his duties after a poor start to the 2011/12 season saw the side record just two wins in their first 13 matches.
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Former Hull midfielder Bryan Hughes, who played alongside and under Bruce for Birmingham, told BBC Radio Humberside: "I think it's a fantastic appointment, I really do.
"He's shown what his capabilities are as a manager and he's done it at the top level as well as getting promotion from this division.
"When I played under him he just gave everyone a belief that they could do well and he's great to work with.
"I think Hull have done really well to get him. It's a real coup."
Bruce has gained promotion from the second tier twice in his managerial career, helping Birmingham to promotion in 2002 and 2007.
The 51-year-old's son Alex, who was released by Leeds at the end of the 2011/12 season, said on Twitter: "Pleased to see Dad back in work with Hull City. Big challenge for him and I know he's looking forward to it, I'm sure he'll be a success!"
The Tigers, who were relegated from the Premier League in 2010, finished 8th in the Championship in 2011/12, seven points off the play-offs.


Damage to the West Stand at Windsor Park was caused by circumstances including building work at an adjacent leisure centre, a Stormont committee has heard.

Cracks were discovered last month, following Northern Ireland's game against Finland when 4,000 spectators filled the stand.
The stand will be demolished.
Dr Denis McMahon of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) said it had been a "very unlikely scenario".
"There was undoubtedly a situation where a set of circumstances came together that were undoubtedly very worrying," he told the DCAL committee.
Rory Miskelly, who is overseeing the stadium project for the department, said: "The unique set of circumstances include after the match and prior to the incident, the ongoing work on the Olympia leisure centre site, which is immediately adjacent to the boundary of the rear of the West Stand."
He said there were a series of inspections prior to the Northern Ireland match, including a report by a structural engineer, which they assumed were correct.
"Subsequent to that the combination of ongoing work, potential weather and other matters, all of which are the subject of various technical reports and insurance matters," he said.
It emerged at the hearing that both the Windsor Park work and the leisure centre upgrade are both "coincidentally" being carried out by the same contractor, Newry-based firm O'Hare and McGovern.
Mr Miskelly told the committee: "There is an interface in physical terms but it is a separate contract, it is a separate client.
"There is commonality in some of the parties, in that the contractor is the same on both sites, but from an assurance and insurance portfolio, both projects stand on their own merits."


A large fire at a church in Edinburgh is being treated as suspicious.

Emergency services were called to the vacant St Paul's on Muirhouse Avenue at about 21:30 on Sunday night.
At its height, about 20 firefighters were battling the flames. No one was injured.
A police cordon was set up and Pennywell Road was closed as investigations into the cause got under way. Anyone with information is being asked to contact police.
John Hanlin, of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, said: "Crews were faced with a well-developed fire on arrival.
"The initial firefighting efforts were by teams using breathing apparatus and a line of hose which helped prevent further fire spread.
"We used the two height appliances for water towers to tackle the fire externally and managed to bring it under control.
"The cause of the fire is unknown at this time. A joint investigation by police and specialist fire investigators has been arranged and will take place today."
Police want to speak to a number of youths in connection with the incident, who are believed to have been loitering near the building less than an hour before the fire started.
Pennywell Road and Muirhouse Avenue were temporarily closed but have now reopened.
A part of the pavement on Muirhouse Avenue will remain cordoned off until the safety of the building has been investigated.
Insp Alan Carson, of Police Scotland, said:  "This was an appalling attack on a religious building which, despite its closure, was still of importance to the local community in Muirhouse. It was a reckless act which could well have resulted in serious injury or worse.
"We are eager to talk to anyone who may have witnessed anything suspicious around the church on Sunday night.
"We are particularly keen to trace a group of youths who were seen near the church less than an hour before the fire was reported.  Tracing these young people would significantly help us with our enquiries."