All the reports from Saturday and Sunday's Premier League, Championship and Scottish Premiership fixtures.

Premier League
Manchester City 5-0 Crystal Palace
Bournemouth 2-2 Stoke City
Burnley 2-2 West Bromwich Albion
Hull City 0-2 Sunderland
Leicester City 3-0 Watford
Swansea 1-0 Everton
Scottish Premiership
Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2-1 Hamilton
Celtic 4-1 St Johnstone
Kilmarnock 0-1 Dundee
Motherwell 0-1 Ross County
Premier League
Liverpool 0-0 Southampton
Arsenal v Manchester United (16:00)
Scottish Premiership
Partick Thistle 1-2 Rangers
Hearts v Aberdeen
Championship
Aston Villa 1-1 Brighton
Brentford 1-3 Blackburn Rovers
Bristol City 0-1 Birmingham City
Burton Albion 2-4 Reading
Huddersfield Town 0-3 Cardiff City
Newcastle United 3-0 Barnsley
Norwich City 4-0 Queens Park Rangers
Nottingham Forest 3-0 Ipswich Town
Rotherham United 1-1 Derby County
Sheffield Wednesday 1-2 Fulham
Wigan Athletic 1-1 Leeds United
Wolves 1-0 Preston North End


England's Charley Hull and Scotland's Catriona Matthew are among seven players tied for the lead after round one of the Bahamas LPGA Classic.

Both shot a five-under-par 68, as did Paula Creamer, Alison Lee, Haru Nomura, Mika Miyazato and Ashlan Ramsey.
On an eventful day, American Michelle Wie was stung by a bee.
South Korea's Inbee Park, ranked second in the world, withdrew because of back pain after carding an 80, the second-worst round of her LPGA Tour career.


Stargazers in Scotland have been treated to a good view of Sunday night's lunar eclipse and "supermoon".

A supermoon occurs when the Moon is in its closest part of orbit to Earth, making it appear larger in the sky.
Added to this, an eclipse made it appear "blood" red - as it passed over Scottish landmarks, including the giant Kelpies.
From the UK, observers saw the Moon pass through the Earth's shadow in the early hours of Monday morning.
This phenomenon of the lunar eclipse and "supermoon" together was last observed in 1982 and will not come again until 2033.
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a hit-and-run in which a police officer was injured.

A silver Honda estate failed to stop after the collision on the junction of Oat Street and Cowl Street, Evesham, Worcestershire, at 13:20 GMT on Tuesday.
The officer was taken to hospital with minor leg and head injuries and the abandoned vehicle was found in Longford Close, Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire.
A 46-year-old Evesham man was arrested.
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A 49-year-old woman from the Evesham area was later arrested on suspicion of obstructing police, a spokesman said.


The death of an Italian man whose body was found at a house in Greater Manchester has "left an unbearable emptiness", his family have said.

Giorgio Roncari, who was also known as Giuseppe, was discovered in Blackburn Street, Salford, on 17 April.
Police said a post-mortem examination had failed to establish the cause of his death.
The 61-year-old's family said he had been a "loving uncle" and "a twin brother with a big heart".
Det Insp Andy Butterworth said a murder investigation was continuing and officers were "actively searching for those responsible for his death".


Two police officers have been stabbed in Brussels in a possible terrorist incident, Belgian prosecutors say.

One officer was stabbed in the neck and another in the stomach, while a third officer who arrived at the scene in Schaerbeek district suffered a broken nose, Belgian broadcaster VRT reports.
The attacker was shot in the leg and taken away by ambulance.
Authorities have named the attacker as "Hicham D", 43, of Belgian nationality.
Belgian media report that Hicham D is known to Belgian police and is believed to have links to jihadists who travelled to Syria to fight. He also served as a Belgian army officer until 2009.
"We have reason to believe that the incident was a terrorist attack," a spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor's office, Eric Van Der Sypt, said.
Belgian prosecutors said the officers had not suffered life-threatening injuries.
The attack happened near a main road in a region linked to previous terror attacks.
It comes just hours after commuters were evacuated from Brussels Nord station over a bomb scare.
Belgium has been on high alert following attacks in Brussels on the airport and the city's metro system in March, which killed 35 people and injured more than 300.
The attacks were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) militant group.


Nottinghamshire bowler Jake Ball will make his England debut in the first Test against Pakistan, which begins on Thursday.

James Anderson is not ready to return at Lord's after a shoulder injury, though captain Alastair Cook expects him to be fit for the second Test.
Ball has been picked ahead of fellow uncapped seamer Toby Roland-Jones.
"It's a very special moment for him," captain Alastair Cook told BBC Sport. "He's been very impressive this year."
Ball, 25, was in the squad for all three Tests during England's 2-0 series win over Sri Lanka this summer but did not play.
Anderson, England's all-time leading Test wicket-taker, has returned to training but Cook said there was a "high risk he could flare the injury up" if he played too soon.
The second Test begins at Old Trafford - home of Anderson's county side, Lancashire - on Friday, 22 July.
Joe Root will bat at three for England at Lord's, with James Vince and Gary Ballance at four and five respectively, but Cook said talk about the Yorkshire batsman's placing had become "a mountain out of a mole hill".
"To me, it doesn't really matter what number you bat at," added Cook. "He is a world-class player and one of the best all-round batsmen in the game."
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Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq has paid little attention to England's batting changes, insisting his side must focus on their own strengths.
"Sometimes when you have two or three batters struggling, that could be an area you can really exploit," he said. "But I think you need to focus on the whole batting line-up.
"England are really good, especially in the lower-middle order. They can really hurt you.
"It's obviously an advantage if one of the main bowlers of the opposition is missing, but at same time we know all their bowlers are really good in these conditions. We have to be really up to the mark."
Bowler Mohammad Amir returns to the ground at which, in August 2010, he deliberately bowled no-balls, for which he was later banned and jailed.
Cook played down Amir's return, while Misbah described it as a "big opportunity" for the 24-year-old.
The left-arm seamer took four wickets for Pakistan against Somerset last week.
"He is just focusing on what he has to come and do, and he's really responding well to that," said Misbah. "There are no worries for us."
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Mohammad Asif shared 31 England wickets with Amir in the 2010 Test series before being caught spot-fixing, and told BBC Sport he wishes he was bowling with him.
Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur said he would consider both Asif and former captain Salman Butt, who was banned and jailed over the same spot-fixing incidents, for selection.
"I guess the door's open for everybody," he added. "Once they've seen their suspensions, everybody would be available for selection. Whether or not their form is going to warrant them getting a gig, I'm not sure.
"For me, the other stuff is irrelevant. If they're eligible to play, and they're putting performances on the table, then we'll look at them"
England's one-day series against Sri Lanka this summer was disrupted by wet weather, but fans and players alike will hope the worst of the British summer is behind them.
Light wind and plenty of sunshine is predicted at Lord's on Thursday - it should remain dry and fine.
Spots of drizzle may appear throughout the weekend but, despite being cloudy and breezy, it is expected to mostly remain dry.
Mickey Arthur will be on BBC Radio 5 live on Thursday from 21:00 BST in a  Pakistan cricket special.


Two mass graves have been discovered in Kenya's coastal Tana Delta region.

The number and identities of the bodies in the graves are unknown, police say. A court order to exhume the bodies has been requested.
More than 100 people have been killed in clashes in the area in the past month between farmers and cattle herders over land and water.
There are accusations that politicians have incited the violence ahead of elections next March.
The long-running conflict is between the Pokomo people - mostly farmers growing cash crops by the Tana River - and the Orma, semi-nomadic cattle herders.
But investors, both Kenyan and foreign, have been acquiring leases on vast tracts of land in the region for the purposes of large-scale cultivation of food and biofuel crops, says the BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse in Kenya.
Getting elected to office can mean gaining control of such lucrative deals, our correspondent says.
There are concerns that as Kenya approaches elections next March, that competition could lead to more of the widespread violence seen after the last poll in December 2007.
The graves were discovered in the village of Kilelengwani, which has been at the centre of the recent violence.
"We don't know yet whether they are attackers who died while in confrontation with security personnel, or were just victims killed by attackers during the clashes and buried," regional police chief Aggrey Adoli was quoted by Reuters as saying.
Mr Adoli said it was not yet known how many bodies were in the graves.


The UK could be poised for a second general election by Christmas if either Labour or the Conservatives try to form a minority government after 7 May, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has warned.

He argued that only another "stable and strong" coalition involving his party could save the country from a re-run.
He said "everybody knows that no-one will win this election", even if the two major parties fail to admit it.
"Politicians will have to work together to put the country first," he said.
Mr Clegg spoke out during a "two-day dash" from Land's End to John O'Groats in the final hours of the election campaign.
He said the hardening position of Labour and the Conservatives on coalition deals meant a minority government after 7 May would be more unstable - and "controversial" policies would cause it to fail.
"Everybody knows that no-one will win this election - even if David Cameron and Ed Miliband won't admit it publicly," Mr Clegg said during a campaign visit to Cardiff Central where the Lib Dems are fighting off a Labour challenge for the seat.
"The Liberal Democrats have shown that coalitions can be strong and stable. But instead of creating stability, Labour and the Conservatives will create a shambles.
"If they try to stagger through with a messy and unstable minority government instead of putting the country first, then they will risk all the hard work and sacrifices people have made over the last five years.
"The last thing Britain needs is a second election before Christmas. But that is exactly what will happen if Ed Miliband and David Cameron put their own political interest ahead of the national interest."
Earlier Mr Clegg told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was not in principle opposed to a referendum on EU membership - claiming other issues like the NHS and "balancing the books" were bigger priorities than the EU poll.
He also predicted his party would do "better than people think" on 7 May.
'I don't run a sect'
Insisting his MPs could be "the guarantors of stability at a time of great uncertainty", he insisted: "We'll do no deals, no pacts, no arrangements with either UKIP on the right or the SNP on the left.
"The great risk of not having the Liberal Democrats in Parliament, in government, is we lurch off into this blue-KIP alliance between David Cameron, UKIP, the DUP and the rest of them cutting, cutting, cutting way beyond what's necessary, or reckless borrowing as Ed Miliband and Alex Salmond are in some kind of deathly embrace on the left."
Main pledges
But Mr Clegg refused to be drawn on claims by Lib Dem peer Lord Scriven that David Cameron had privately told him before the election campaign that he did not believe the Conservatives would win a majority.
"In the same way I don't control the tweets of Liberal Democrats - I run a political party, I don't run a sect - I'm not going to provide a running commentary on private conversations," he said.
Describing the Conservatives as "panicky" about the outcome of the election, he added: "The claim they can win a majority by 23 seats is false - it's wrong - it's a big fat fib. They need to win 323 seats and I haven't met a senior Conservative who privately has ever admitted to me that they can do that."
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A construction training centre which aims to train more than 1,000 students a year is to be built in Swansea.

The £6.5m centre, at University of Wales Trinity Saint David's Waterfront campus, will open in 2018 and offer specialist training at all levels of the industry.
The Swansea hub will work alongside colleges across Wales.
Training body CITB said in the past apprentices had had to leave Wales to gain industry-recognised skills.
Mark Bodger, strategic partnerships director for CITB Wales, said: "The Construction Wales Innovation Centre (CWIC) will help ensure Wales has home-grown skills in place to meet the construction industry's current and future needs.
"CWIC will be a major step forward for the construction industry in Wales."
Some of the partner colleges in the "hub and spoke" training framework will include Coleg Sir Gar in Carmarthenshire, Coleg Ceredigion, Coleg Cambria in north east Wales and Coleg y Cymoedd in south east Wales.


Several children have been injured after an inflatable slide was blown away in strong winds at a Fife gala.

Police said one adult and four children - the youngest being six - were injured at the Cupar Children's Gala. One child and the adult were taken to hospital.
The inflatable was blown about 150 yards into the crowd on Saturday afternoon.
Organisers said every safety precaution was risk assessed and the situation was being investigated.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "The incident happened at a fete in Duffus Park around 2.15pm this afternoon when the inflatable was blown around 150 yards into the crowd."
Most of the injuries were said to be minor and were treated at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service.
"One child and the adult have been taken to hospital for further tests," police added.
Relatives were visibly distressed as emergency crews delivered first aid at the scene.
Organisers for the Cupar Children's Gala posted a statement on Facebook thanking those who had helped and supported at the event after the accident.
It continued: "Every safety precaution was risk assessed and fulfilled by the committee and service providers prior to the gala commencing and during the event.
"Unfortunately, due to adverse weather conditions, out with our control, an emergency situation did occur. The incident is currently being investigated and any findings will be announced once available."


Unemployment in Wales has risen slightly since the end of 2016, figures released on Wednesday have shown.

The official statistics showed the rate at 4.4%, up 0.1% since December while the UK rate has remained the same at 4.8%.
Office for National Statistics figures showed 66,000 people over age 16 in Wales are out of work.
But First Minister Carwyn Jones said there were 24,000 more people in employment in Wales than 12 months ago.
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said it was "great" that Wales had begun 2017 with higher levels of employment than a year ago.


The British government's response to claims that British troops abused and unlawfully killed civilians in Iraq was inadequate, the High Court has ruled.

Lawyers representing 180 Iraqi civilians had called for a full public inquiry in Britain.
The court stopped short of ordering such an inquiry, but said there should be a series of further investigations into the allegations.
It said "a new approach" to the inquiry into the allegations was needed.
The allegations of mistreatment include sexual abuse, food, water and sleep deprivation, prolonged solitary confinement, mock executions and being denied clothes.
The Ministry of Defence set up the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT) to investigate the claims - but lawyers for the Iraqis had claimed it was not independent.
Although two judges in London rejected that accusation, they concluded that the present IHAT investigation "does not fulfil" the UK's human rights obligations under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
That article covers the duty to investigate suspicious deaths.
The judges, in their ruling, said: "Although we are satisfied... that IHAT has now been structured in such a way that it can independently carry out its investigative and prosecutorial functions, the task of investigating and inquiring into the very large number of deaths occurring at many different times and in different locations requires a new approach if it is to be achieved in a timely, cost-effective and proportionate manner that discharges the very important investigative duties imposed upon the state."
Speaking about the allegations, the judges said "what happened is often unclear and the subject of dispute.
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This is a judgement that has enabled both sides to claim victory.    The High Court has not supported the idea of a full-blown inquiry into allegations by the Iraqis of "systemic abuse".
But nor, by any means, does it let the Ministry of Defence off the hook. It's particularly concerned about deaths in custody - the Iraqis say there were at least 12 - which have not been properly investigated almost a decade after many of them took place.
The delay is, it says, "a source of great and increasing concern".  It wants to see what would be, in effect, a series of mini-inquiries similar to coroners' inquests, calling for "a full, fair and fearless investigation accessible to the victim's families and to the public into each death".
The court suggests that the most serious claims of mistreatment should then also be fully examined.
"Many of the incidents occurred several years ago; the Iraqi witnesses are largely residents of Iraq. Some incidents have been the subject of prosecution and more may be."
After the ruling, Ministry of Defence said it welcomed the court's finding that IHAT was independent and "carries out its duties with competence and integrity".
A spokesperson said: "We are also pleased that the court has agreed that the Secretary of State was justified in concluding that a single comprehensive public inquiry into allegations of abuse in Iraq should not be established. This would have led to unnecessary expense and unacceptable delay.
"The IHAT continues to make progress in its task of investigating allegations which have been made against British troops serving in Iraq."
The Ministry of Defence has paid out more than Â£16.76m to settle 267 claims of mistreatment and unlawful detention, with 134 cases still being negotiated.
Phil Shiner, of Public Interest Lawyers, who represent the Iraqis, also reacted: "The court has expressed its very serious concerns about allegations in these cases of the most serious kind involving murder, manslaughter, the wilful infliction of serious bodily injury, sexual indignities and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
"It has found that the Ministry of Defence have not complied with international and domestic law requiring there to be proper public scrutiny of these cases and the systemic issues arising from them.
"My clients welcome the public inquisitorial process that will now follow."
Two public inquiries have already been launched into similar abuse claims.
The first inquiry was into the death of 26-year-old hotel worker Baha Mousa in UK military custody in September 2003. It concluded in September 2011, with inquiry chairman Sir William Gage blaming "corporate failure" at the Ministry of Defence for the use of banned interrogation methods in Iraq.
Sir William said a "large number" of soldiers assaulted Mr Mousa and the other detainees, and he added that many others - including several officers - must have known what was happening..
And the ongoing Al-Sweady inquiry is looking at allegations that the human rights of a number of Iraqi nationals were abused by British troops in the aftermath of a firefight in 2004 near Majar al Kabir.
The judges said the Baha Mousa Inquiry cost Â£25m, and the Al-Sweady Inquiry has cost Â£17m so far.


Environmental campaigners have said they fear the level of pollution in east London could get worse with plans for new river crossings.

Plans for vehicle crossings at Silvertown and Gallions Reach have been put forward.
Tests in the proposed-crossing areas in east London, conducted on behalf of Friends of the Earth, found some pollution levels exceeded EU limits.
Transport for London (TfL) said the schemes would bring economic benefits.
The tests for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) were carried out by residents using diffusion tubes on behalf of Friends of the Earth in June.
The results showed that half of the 32 locations tested exceeded the EU level of 40 micrograms per cubic metre of air.
Newham Way on the A13 was the worst location - registering a level of 61.
Jenny Bates from Friends of the Earth said: "Allowing any new road river crossing or City Airport development as proposed would be a traffic-generating, congestion-worsening, air quality-deteriorating disaster.
"Instead a package of non-road alternatives such as DLR (Docklands Light Railway) extensions, ferries and cheaper bridges for walkers and cyclists must be considered."
Currently, the only crossings for cars and lorries between Rotherhithe and Dartford are the Blackwall Tunnel and Woolwich Ferry.
In a statement, TfL said: "With London's population set to grow to 10 million by the early 2030s new river crossings in east London are crucial to manage demand.
"Providing the Silvertown Tunnel as an additional river crossing would reduce the time vehicles currently spend queuing in traffic - helping to reduce vehicle emissions while saving people and businesses time and money."
Plans put forward for new a Thames crossing include building a new road tunnel linking Silvertown to the Greenwich Peninsula, a ferry at Gallions Reach linking Thamesmead and Beckton or a proposed fixed bridge at Gallions Reach.
Consultations on the schemes will begin later this year.
TfL added that since Boris Johnson began his term as London Mayor emissions of NO2 were down by an estimated 20% due to measures brought in, including tighter emission standards for lorries.


M&G Investments has followed two major finance firms and suspended trading in the UK's biggest commercial property fund following the Brexit vote.

Firms said high levels of uncertainty caused by the referendum have led to investors rushing to withdraw funds.
M&G closed the doors on its Â£4.4bn fund after Aviva and Standard Life halted trading in similar schemes.
Regulators have put such schemes under review amid warnings that commercial property was a key risk to the economy.
M&G, part of UK insurer Prudential, said it had seen a "marked increase" in customers trying to pull out of the portfolio - which includes retail and office space - after the referendum result.
As with Aviva and Standard Life, the firm said investors would be better protected by preventing any further withdrawals.
Aviva, the UK's biggest insurer, earlier halted its Â£1.8bn property trust, a day after Standard Life blocked access to its Â£2.9bn fund.
Laith Khalaf, an analyst at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "The dominos are starting to fall in the UK commercial property market, as yet another fund locks its doors on the back of outflows precipitated by the Brexit vote.
"It's probably only a matter of time before we see other funds follow suit."
It takes time to sell commercial property to meet withdrawals, particularly as investors have been heading for the door in the run up to the EU referendum and in the aftermath, he said.
The last time Standard Life stopped investors taking money out of its UK real estate fund was during the financial crisis in late 2008, while Aviva has never previously done so.
Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, said the regulator was in close contact with many of the firms.
"I think it does point to issues that we need to look at in the design of these things because it comes back to my fundamental point about holding illiquid assets in open end funds that revalue and are required to be revalued," he said.
The Bank of England is also monitoring the behaviour of investors in the funds, as it sees commercial property as a key risk to UK financial stability.
There are approximately 50 UK property funds in total, with fund managers Henderson and Legal & General also big players.
The suspensions come amid widespread falls in property-related shares since the referendum result.
Housing firms Berkeley Group, Barratt Developments and Persimmon all fell more than 7% on Tuesday, while shares in commercial property firm Land Securities lost nearly 4%.
Shares in the UK's biggest house builders have now dropped more than 30% since 23 June.


Teenage violinist Ziyu He has won the prestigious Menuhin prize at a ceremony in London's Royal Festival Hall.

The 16 year old from China was the only male finalist in a field of 22.
He received a first prize of Â£10,000, plus a one-year loan of the Antonio Stradivari's Schneiderhan violin, dating from 1715.
The junior leg was won by Yesong Sophie Lee, aged 12, from the US. Both winners got to perform with the Philharmonia Orchestra at a gala concert on Sunday.
The biennial Menuhin Competition has established the careers of many of the world's most renowned players, including Ray Chen, Tasmin Little and Julia Fischer - all of whom sat on this year's jury.
Musicians accumulate years of performing experience before entering the contest, despite their young age.
Ziyu began studying the violin at the age of five under the guidance of Professor Xiangrong Zhang in China, and previously won the Eurovision Young Musician contest, representing Austria, where he studies at the University Mozarteum and Leopord Mozart Institute.
Lee made her solo debut with the Seattle Symphony when she was eight years old and has gone on to perform with many orchestras.
Her prize totalled Â£5,000, plus the one-year loan of a Guarneri del Gesu violin.
Both of the winners will now be catapulted into the classical music stratosphere, playing at several major music festivals over the coming year, including performances with the Konzerthaus Orchestra at the Menuhin Homage in Berlin and a UK tour in July 2016.
The winner of the audience vote, German teenager SongHa Choi, will perform live on Tuesday's edition of BBC Radio 3's In Tune, from 1630 BST.
The competition was founded by virtuoso violinist Yehudi Menuhin in 1983. This year's contest marked the 100th anniversary of his birth.


German prosecutors are examining the case of an 87-year-old Nazi suspect accused of involvement in mass murder at the Auschwitz death camp.

The former SS man is not German, nor is he living in Germany.
He was allegedly a camp guard in 1944, when about 344,000 Jews from Hungary were murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers in occupied Poland.
Prosecutors in Weiden, Bavaria, are to decide whether to charge him and try to bring him to Germany to face trial.
The man is believed to have lived in the Weiden area before going abroad after World War II.
German officials have not named him, but the Sueddeutsche Zeitung news website says the suspect is believed to be a Slovak now living in Philadelphia, in the US.
The chief prosecutor at Germany's office investigating Nazi war crimes, Kurt Schrimm, said details on the suspect came to light during the high-profile Demjanjuk investigation.
In March this year Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, found guilty for his role as a Nazi guard at the Sobibor death camp, died aged 91. He had been sentenced to five years in prison by a German court in May 2011.
Auschwitz was the biggest Nazi death camp where more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered.


A special prosecutor in Montenegro has charged 14 people, including two Russians, with plotting to overthrow the government last October.

The Russians, identified as Eduard Shishmakov and Vladimir Popov, are at large. They are suspected of being state intelligence agents.
Russia has called the allegations absurd. Montenegro is close to joining Nato - a move criticised by Russia.
Two pro-Russian opposition leaders and nine Serbs are among the 14 indicted.
Those leaders are Andrija Mandic and Milan Knezevic - MPs in the Democratic Front Alliance. Mr Mandic called the charges politically motivated and said they were aimed at weakening the opposition.
The 14th person on the list of those charged is a Montenegrin.
The alleged plot dates back to a series of arrests hours before Montenegro's parliamentary elections in October 2016.
At the time, Serb paramilitaries and Russian nationalists were blamed.
Nato membership remains highly controversial in the small Balkan country, which became independent in 2006.
Serbia and Montenegro - both bombed by Nato planes in the 1999 Kosovo war - were originally one country after the break-up of Yugoslavia.
Montenegro country profile
Russia rejects claim of Montenegro plot
Rumours and spies in the Balkans
The opposition says the alleged plot was really a "false flag" operation by the Montenegrin authorities, intended to boost support for Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic. His ruling Democratic Party of Socialists won the election.
According to special prosecutor Milivoje Katnic, a terrorist attack was planned in order to destabilise Montenegro, seize power and block the path to Nato membership.
On Tuesday President Donald Trump approved ratification of Montenegro's Nato membership. The process is almost complete for Montenegro, poised to become the 29th Nato member.
This week, a White House official, speaking anonymously, cited "credible reports" that Moscow had backed a plot against Mr Djukanovic.
Russia's Foreign Ministry has condemned Montenegro's Nato accession, saying "it runs counter to the core interests of the people of that country and is damaging for the stability of the Balkans and Europe as a whole".
It accused Washington of pursuing "the logic of confrontation in Europe, where new dividing lines are being drawn".


Employers in some parts of the UK are almost twice as likely to offer work experience compared to other areas of the country.

A survey of 18,000 businesses shows one in five says nothing could persuade them to offer work experience.
That's despite two thirds claiming experience is vital when it comes to hiring new staff.
The survey was carried out by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, a government-funded organisation.
It says the problem has left many young people trapped in a cycle where they can't get a job without experience but can't get the experience to get a job.
Unemployment may be gradually falling but, of almost 2 million people in the UK without a job, 40% are under 25.
Dame Fiona Kendrick is the chief executive of Nestle UK and Ireland and is one of the authors behind this report.
"The areas where employers are least likely to offer any form of experience of the workplace are also where youth unemployment is high," she says.
Areas with the fewest opportunities for work experience include Hull and Northern Lincolnshire, Leicester, Sheffield and Cumbria.
Liverpool, Birmingham and Solihull all have a much higher number of businesses offering experience and also happen to have significantly lower levels of youth unemployment.
Almost 40% of employers who didn't offer work experience said it was because they didn't have any suitable roles to offer.
A quarter said they didn't have the time or resources.
Employers also reveal that they prefer to recruit young workers via word-of-mouth recommendations, meaning young people without connections are at a disadvantage.
Michael Davis is the chief executive of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
He says: "Young people are already facing increasingly difficult conditions finding their way into the workplace, and the news that these factors can be further compounded based simply on location is disheartening."
The organisation is calling for all schools and colleges in the UK to set up links with at least one local business.
UK employers are also being asked to take the lead in a new government-sponsored careers company which aims to build links between schools and businesses.
In response, Employment Minister Esther McVey told Newsbeat: "This Government is giving young people the experience they need to get the job they want and, having increased employment by 1.75m since 2010, that's what we'll continue to do.
"We've hugely expanded our work experience scheme, helping employers across the country offer almost a quarter of a million work experience placements.
"We are also working with businesses to help them create their own training and work experience schemes so more people get the chance to get their foot in the door to the career they want."
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A ban on chemically transforming underground coal into synthetic natural gas has been imposed.

Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant has imposed a moratorium on underground coal gasification (UCG).
Mr Sargeant said this forms part of a "precautionary approach" towards the development of unconventional oil and gas resources, which includes a temporary ban on fracking.
Any council not proposing to refuse an application must refer it to ministers.
Mr Sargeant said: "The direction has been issued to require that any planning application connected to the gasification of coal must be referred to Welsh ministers where local planning authorities are minded to approve them."
It applies to any onshore application registered on or after 25 March and Mr Sargeant said it was to "avoid any ambiguity".
A study by Duke University in the US suggested synthetic natural gas emits seven times more greenhouse gases than natural gas and almost twice as much carbon as a coal plant.


Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has told the BBC she believes a UK party led by Jeremy Corbyn can win a general election.

Ms Dugdale, who backed Owen Smith for the leadership, said last month she did not think Mr Corbyn could "unite our party" or "lead us into government".
However, she said his re-election should be a "new beginning".
Mr Corbyn saw off challenger Owen Smith with 61.8% of more than half a million votes, to be re-elected Labour leader.
Ms Dugdale called on the party to "harness the energy and enthusiasm of its movement" and turn it into real change for people.
The Scottish Labour leader, who has recently secured more autonomy for the party north of the border, added: "Jeremy can unite the Labour Party, but he needs to want to unite it.
"That means he needs to work with both the party across the country and MPs to provide an effective opposition to the Tories in Westminster.
"It will be a difficult task for Jeremy, but not an impossible one. Likewise, the Parliamentary Labour Party must recognise that a divided Labour Party serves no-one.
"We can't fight the Tories when we are fighting each other."
Chairperson of Scottish Labour for Jeremy, Neil Findlay, described the result as "fantastic".
He said activists in Scotland had played a role in securing support for the re-elected Corbyn.
He said: "They've put a huge effort in to turn the support that we knew was there for Jeremy into votes and I'd like to thank every single one of them."
The Scottish secretary of the Unite union Pat Rafferty said it was time for Labour supporters to unite behind Mr Corbyn.
He said: "Unite members decided to back Jeremy's campaign because they know that we need a different kind of politics and a different kind of economy, in Scotland and right across the UK.
"For too many people in Scotland, finding a job is an uphill task, made harder by unjust sanctions that can leave them destitute and reliant on foodbanks."
He added: "Now that the contest is over, we look forward to people uniting behind Jeremy and opposing the austerity cuts that have been made in Westminster and handed on by Holyrood."
In Glasgow, about 20 supporters of Jeremy Corbyn gathered at a pub to celebrate his re-election.
They applauded in The Dram as the result was declared from a special conference in Liverpool.
But rival parties claimed Labour would still be bitterly divided, despite the ballot result.
SNP Business Convener Derek Mackay also congratulated Mr Corbyn on his victory, but accused the party of "overlooking" its duties as the official opposition.
He said: "Jeremy Corbyn should be congratulated for his victory, but it is unforgivable that Labour have overlooked their duties as official opposition at such a critical time to spend the summer tearing themselves apart."
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson also offered Mr Corbyn her congratulations but said she thought the result would be greeted with "utter dismay by thousands of moderate voters across Scotland and the rest of the UK."
She added: "This result now leaves Scottish Labour hopelessly divided."
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said his party could offer an alternative to voters who had "no confidence in Mr Corbyn's left-wing lurch."
Patrick Harvie, the Scottish Greens' co-convener, said: "The re-election of Jeremy Corbyn must be taken as the moment for Labour to unite not only among themselves, but with other progressive forces in the fight against the Tories' austerity economics."


Wolves squeezed past League Two Crawley to reach round two of the EFL Cup.

Championship side Wolves went in front through Joe Mason, who turned in a rebound after Jed Wallace hit the post.
But Enzio Boldewijn, who had earlier seen an effort blocked on the line by Conor Coady, headed the equaliser for visitors Crawley from a corner.
Coady touched in Jon Dadi Bodvarsson's knock-down to secure victory, while Crawley's Mark Connolly was sent off for a second bookable offence late on.
Match ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 2, Crawley Town 1.
Second Half ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 2, Crawley Town 1.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) because of an injury.
Second yellow card to Mark Connolly (Crawley Town) for a bad foul.
Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Mark Connolly (Crawley Town).
Corner,  Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Yusuf Mersin.
Joe Mason (Wolverhampton Wanderers) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by David Edwards.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. David Edwards replaces João Teixeira.
Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town).
Substitution, Crawley Town. Matt Harrold replaces Jason Banton.
Corner,  Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Mark Connolly.
Attempt blocked. João Teixeira (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Goal!  Wolverhampton Wanderers 2, Crawley Town 1. Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kortney Hause with a headed pass following a set piece situation.
Hand ball by Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town).
Corner,  Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Mark Connolly.
Attempt blocked. Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Jack Price with a cross.
Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Enzio Boldewijn (Crawley Town).
Foul by Kortney Hause (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Lewis Young (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Bobson Bawling replaces Adi Yussuf because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Adi Yussuf (Crawley Town) because of an injury.
Lee Evans (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adi Yussuf (Crawley Town).
Attempt blocked. Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Price.
Attempt missed. James Collins (Crawley Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Adi Yussuf.
Foul by Lee Evans (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Enzio Boldewijn (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by João Teixeira with a cross.
Attempt missed. Kortney Hause (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Jack Price with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Lewis Young.
Attempt blocked. João Teixeira (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Joe Mason.
Attempt missed. Mark Connolly (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Adi Yussuf with a headed pass.
Corner,  Crawley Town. Conceded by Kortney Hause.
Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adi Yussuf (Crawley Town).


Security is to be increased at the Cheltenham Festival after footballers were pictured apparently urinating into a glass at the 2016 event, Cheltenham racecourse have confirmed to the BBC.

MK Dons midfielder Samir Carruthers and Northampton Town loanee James Collins apologised after appearing to relieve themselves on a balcony.
"We don't want this showpiece event linked with drunken culture," festival director Ian Renton told The Times.
"When a line is crossed we will react."
Stephen Atkin, chief executive of the Racecourse Association, told BBC Radio Gloucestershire: "That sounds like a perfectly sensible way forward for Cheltenham.
"They would have been entitled to expect a more proactive performance from the hospitality people. But clearly the ultimate responsibility lies with Cheltenham, so they're taking it into their own hands.
"The vast majority of race-goers are extremely well behaved. We were lucky on this occasion that nobody was affected by their behaviour but it is not a risk that Cheltenham would want to take.
"There's a lot going on at the moment to make sure that everybody has an enjoyable time but people don't go too far."
In March, Bristol City's Luke Ayling apologised for any embarrassment caused to his club after being photographed with Carruthers and Collins.
Cheltenham Festival cancelled a booking from a sports management company after the incident.
The four-day Cheltenham Festival is one of the highlights of the horse racing season.


Drivers in England, Scotland and Wales caught using a mobile phone for the first time will automatically receive penalty points, under government plans.

Previously, motorists in some police force areas could avoid points by taking a remedial driving course.
But ministers believe it is not a tough enough measure to deter people from using a hand-held phone while driving.
They have also confirmed plans to raise fines for offences from Â£100 to Â£200 and penalty points from three to six.
The scrapping of the driving course option is among several measures announced in a government response to a consultation on punishments for drivers caught using hand-held phones.
The government first announced in September that it was going to increase fines and double penalty points.
Details of the new measures, which are due to take effect next year, follow the jailing last month of lorry driver Tomasz Kroker, who killed a mother and three children while distracted by his phone.
Ministers will also launch a consultation on dangerous driving offences by the end of the year.
Speaking during a visit to India, Mrs May said she wanted to make using a mobile phone at the wheel as socially unacceptable as drink-driving.
She said the government would work with the public to "raise awareness" of the dangers of driving and dialling.
She said that punishments for drivers who killed and maimed people because their attention had been on their phone should be made to "fit the crime", as a deterrent to other motorists.
The number of fines issued for motorists caught using a mobile phone illegally has plummeted by 84% since 2011.
Some 16,900 drivers were handed fixed-penalty notices in England and Wales last year, compared with 123,100 in 2011, Home Office data shows.
Motoring groups believe the decline is due to a 27% fall in the number of full-time dedicated roads policing officers in England and Wales (excluding London) between 2010 and 2015.
Department for Transport figures show that a driver being impaired or distracted by their phone had been a contributory factor in 440 accidents in Britain last year, including 22 which were fatal and 75 classed as serious.
Mrs May said: "Sadly, we have seen too many times the devastating and heart-breaking consequences of using a mobile phone while driving.
"A moment's distraction can wreck the lives of others forever.
"We are determined to make our roads safer by taking action against those who flout the law and put other people at risk."
Steve Gooding, director of motoring research charity the RAC Foundation, said: "By ruling out courses and doubling the fine, ministers are reflecting public concern and showing they want to stamp out a potentially lethal activity before it becomes entrenched behaviour for a growing number of drivers."
The measures will not affect Northern Ireland, where drivers are currently given three penalty points and a Â£60 fine for the offence.
The Department for Infrastructure has said there are no plans to change this, but it "will continue to monitor changes being made in Britain to see what can be learned".


The son of Leeds owner Massimo Cellino has been suspended from all football-related activities for three matches and fined by the Football Association for comments he made on social media.

Edoardo Cellino, a club director, was fined £5,000 for using abusive and/or insulting and/or improper language.
It was an 'aggravated breach' as his comments referenced a disability.
He was warned by the FA about his future conduct and must also complete an education course.


The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are on a two-day visit to Northern Ireland.

They have visited a Catholic Church in north Belfast, as part of its 200th anniversary celebrations.
St Patrick's on Donegall Street has been at the centre of disputes in relation to loyalist band parades.
In 2012, a loyalist band marched in a circle outside the church, playing a song perceived to be anti-Catholic.
A small group of people staged a protest outside the church against the Royal visit. They included relatives of those killed in Ballymurphy in 1971.
In Ballymurphy, west Belfast, 11 people were shot dead by paratroops. Prince Charles is colonel-in-chief of the Parachute Regiment.
Patrick Doherty, whose father, Eddie, was killed in Ballymurphy, said he felt "stabbed in the back by Sinn Féin" over the Royal visit.
As they arrived at the church, the Royal couple was greeted by a range of dignitaries, including the first minister and deputy first minister.
Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson said Buckingham Palace had shown "great leadership".
"I think the palace have played an extraordinary role in terms of reconciliation relating to both within Northern Ireland, and between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic, between those of us on the island as a whole and those in Great Britain," he said.
The historian, Prof Eamon Phoenix, gave a brief history of the parish and its significant contribution to the life of Belfast.
The Royal couple also viewed the church's most treasured artwork, the Madonna of the Lakes altarpiece, painted and gifted to the parish by Sir John Lavery, who also painted Queen Victoria and King George V.
Aran knitwear was presented to the Royal couple as gifts for their grandchildren George and Charlotte
The heir to the throne also visited the East Belfast Network Centre.
The Prince's Regeneration Trust helped give the community centre in east Belfast, a £3.6m facelift.
Prince Charles said: "Having met several people here today who were at school here I am even more delighted and thrilled that I have had a chance to see this building restored back to life and being used in such an incredible, valuable and worthwhile way.
"The fact that it is working so well to bring members of both communities together in such an effective way is even more encouraging."
The Duchess of Cornwall attended a cross-community lunch and went to see the work of a credit union.
The duchess made a solo visit to the Skainos Centre, another cross-community project, in the east of the city.
After icing a cupcake during the visit, the duchess told guests that the real culinary skills lay with her son, celebrity chef Tom Parker Bowles.
Community worker Jackie Upton said: "She said hers were not as good as her son's."
Michael Wilson, catering manager at the Skainos Centre, said: "The duchess's cupcake was very good but she could maybe do with a little more practice. If she ever wants to volunteer at the centre, she'd be more than welcome.
"It was fantastic to see her."
Ms Upton, 53, a Protestant outreach worker, received a china plate from the Royal Collection to be used during the first cross-community Big Lunch next month.
Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall later had a private audience with First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness as well as with Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers.
The meetings took place in the Royal quarters at Hillsborough Castle.
Afterwards, Mr McGuinness, of Sinn Féin, said:  "My participation and willingness to participate in these (visits) is, on the basis, that they have clearly made, in my opinion, a huge contribution to supporting the peace process and, what I think is an exciting stage of the peace process, the reconciliation process.
"I have said previously peace-making is difficult, it's not easy, but if we are serious about peace, if we are serious about reconciliation, rising above old enmities is absolutely vital and essential in my view.
"It's obvious to me from my engagement with both Prince Charles and his mother that we are dealing with people who are 100% behind the peace process."
The visit to Northern Ireland comes a day after the Royal couple visited Mullaghmore, where Lord Mountbatten, the prince's great-uncle, was murdered.
On Thursday evening, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall hosted a reception at Hillsborough Castle for 100 invited guests.
The event was an Ulster-Scots themed evening of dance, singing and poetry.
The Royal couple began their four-day visit to the island of Ireland on Tuesday.
Prince Charles met and shook hands with Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams at a reception at National University of Ireland Galway.


Gritters have been blessed by clergy including the Bishop of Lincoln as part of preparations to make Lincolnshire's roads safer this winter.

It is the latest unusual blessing for the Right Reverend Christopher Lowson, who has also blessed church toilets.
"Gritters and toilets are really important parts of our lives," he told BBC Radio Lincolnshire.
All 43 of Lincolnshire's gritters were blessed by various clergy at the county's eight depots earlier.
The Right Reverend Lowson said: "Toilets is probably the strangest thing [I've blessed] but it's actually making the point that God is not just interested in what you might think of as holy stuff, but the whole of life."
Talking about the first time he blessed toilets, he said: "As we finished, the toilet flushed and this rather embarrassed man came out of it with the congregation standing with the bishop in the middle of them.
"So the toilet was blessed in several ways really."
Gritters are not the only vehicle to have been blessed.
Last year, the Bishop of Chelmsford blessed the Queen's Bentley when it failed to start following a Sandringham church service.
The car then burst into life and the Queen said: "Don't let it stop."
An air ambulance was blessed by Exeter Cathedral's Dean, and the Bishop of Plymouth blessed a new lifeboat.
In 2011, the Bishop of Wakefield blessed keen churchgoer Mandy the Yorkshire Terrier.
The vicar of St Anne in the Grove, Southowram, noted that Mandy "seems to know that a different code of behaviour is needed in church".
"One of the reasons we've never had a real live donkey for Palm Sunday services is a worry about what it may deposit on the floor but with Mandy, we've never had a problem," the vicar said.


Egypt's highest court has overturned a death sentence against ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Morsi had been condemned to death for his part in a mass prison break during the 2011 revolution.
He was elected president in 2012, but removed by the military a year later after street protests against his rule.
Morsi has separately been sentenced to life in prison for terrorism offences, and still faces trial on other charges.
Tuesday's ruling by the Court of Cassation means Morsi will be retried over the prison break.
The court also annulled death sentences for five leaders of his banned Muslim Brotherhood movement, including its supreme guide Mohammed Badie, convicted in the same case.
Twenty-one life sentences for other members were also overturned.
Morsi escaped from Wadi Natroun jail in January 2011 and was convicted of colluding with foreign militants in a plot to free imprisoned Islamists.
The death sentences were approved earlier this year by Egypt's highest religious authority, the Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam.


Two men have been arrested over the fatal stabbing of a father of two who was attacked while on a night out in north London, police have said.

Romeo Nkansah, a Dutch national living in Holloway, was with friends when he was stabbed in the early hours of 29 May in Greenland Road, Camden Town.
A row broke out between the 37-year-old and a group of men, police said.
Met Police arrested the men, aged 21 and 19, on Thursday on suspicion of murder. They remain in custody.
Mr Nkansah was pronounced dead in the hospital. A post-mortem examination found he died from a single stab wound.
An altercation took place after the victim and his friends chatted to a group of women during the night out, police said.
Appealing for witnesses and information Det Ch Insp Jamie Piscopo said police want to speak with "two women in particular that we believe Romeo was trying to talk to".


For months journalists like me have been speculating on whether Tokyoites are really that enthusiastic about getting the Olympics.

Well today we got our answer. As the announcement came through from Buenos Aires, venues across the city burst into uproar.
I was at the Komazawa Gymnasium in the west of the city where a couple of thousand Olympic enthusiasts had stayed up all night. Japanese people are, by nature, quite reticent, but not this morning. As Jacques Rogge read out the name of the winning city they went berserk, jumping and shouting, crying and laughing.
A few hours later, standing in the rain in Shibuya, the city's busiest shopping district, I questioned early morning shoppers coming out of the train station. The ecstasy may have been more subdued, but the sentiment was the same.
Hard as I tried I couldn't find anyone who thought it was a bad idea. So much for my journalistic cynicism.
Economists say Tokyoites have good reason to be cheerful. There's a lot of building to be done, and a lot of money to be spent.
Like any Olympics, the centrepiece will be an extravagant stadium. Tokyo's has been designed by British architect Zaha Hadid. Its futuristic curves fit nicely with Tokyo's Olympic slogan: "Discover Tomorrow."
But it comes at a huge price: more than $1.5bn.  That is just a small part of the $8bn that will be spent on refurbishing old stadiums and building new ones. So it's all good news for Japan's construction companies, who have long been suckled on the teat of government spending.
But all this money going it to Tokyo may be less good news for other parts of the country, particularly the Tsunami ravaged north-east coast. In many areas re-construction has still barely begun.
And then there are the people of Fukushima. A friend of mine who was born there could hardly contain her fury this week when she heard Japan's Olympic committee chief Tsunekazu Takeda reassuring the IOC about Fukushima.
"Fukushima is a long way away," he said. "It is no threat to Tokyo."
"No threat to Tokyo maybe," my friend said. "But what about the people who live in Fukushima?"
About 100,000 people are still unable to go home because of the nuclear disaster that struck the Fukushima Daiichi plant more than two-and-a-half years ago. Many feel that the rest of Japan is already forgetting about them, and that the Japanese government only cares about getting the other nuclear power plants back on line.
If there is one positive thing for the people of Fukushima to come from the Olympic decision, it is that the world is now watching even more closely to see what goes on there. The Japanese government has seven years to contain and neutralise the disaster properly.


British businessman Shrien Dewani has been cleared of murdering his wife during their South Africa honeymoon, after the judge threw out the case.

Judge Jeanette Traverso said the evidence presented by the prosecution fell "far below the threshold" of what a reasonable court could convict on.
She said the evidence of the prosecution's main witness was "riddled with contradictions".
Anni's family said they had been failed by the justice system.
Announcing her ruling, the judge said the only reason not to grant the application would be in the hope that Mr Dewani would implicate himself if he gave evidence.
But to do so would be a "manifest misdirection", she said.
Mr Dewani, from Bristol, was extradited to South Africa this year to face trial accused of planning the murder of his wife in November 2010.
He listened intently as key evidence against him was criticised by the judge as she gave her ruling over almost three hours.
Mr Dewani, 34, went straight down to the cells to prepare for his release, following the decision, as his family embraced.
It is believed he left the court, without making a comment, through a side entrance.
Mrs Dewani's family, who had said it would it be a "nightmare" if the trial did not continue, immediately left the court room.
They bowed their heads amid shouting from the public gallery.
Speaking outside the Western Cape high Court, Mrs Dewani's sister Ami Denborg said: "Today we feel as a family that the justice system has failed us and we are deeply disappointed.
"We came here looking for answers and we came here looking for the truth and all we got was more questions.
"We waited patiently for four years to hear what really happened to Anni and to hear the full story of what happened to our dearest little sister.
"All we wanted was to hear all the events and the hope of actually finding that out has kept us, as a family, going.
"Unfortunately we believe that this right has now been taken away from us."
Her uncle, Ashok Hindocha said the family would be going through the case with their lawyers to confirm whether they can file a lawsuit against Mr Dewani in the UK.
"We would have preferred to have known about his sexuality before he married our precious Anni," he said.
"She gave herself to him, mind, body and soul and she hoped to have been cherished and loved. But she would not have married him if she had known about his secret sex life with male prostitutes and the activities he engaged in."
The judge ruled it was not necessary for Mr Dewani to give evidence, saying a defendant was entitled to be discharged if there was no possibility of conviction unless he entered the witness box and incriminated himself.
The judge said the evidence from the three criminals already convicted over Mrs Dewani's murder was "so improbable, with so many mistakes, lies and inconsistencies you cannot see where the lies ended and the truth begins".
Dewani, 34, has always denied plotting with others to murder his bride, who was found shot dead in the back of their taxi after the couple were hijacked during a late-night tour of a township.
Prosecutors said bisexual Mr Dewani had long planned to get out of the relationship to Swedish-raised Anni, and arranged the attack in which he would escape unharmed and Anni would be killed.
Judge Traverso said it was crucial for the state's case to prove that Mr Dewani entered into an agreement with others to have Anni killed.
Tongo was the only accomplice witness, she said, adding that such evidence should be treated with "caution".
Tongo's version needed to be corroborated specifically where it implicated the accused, she said.
Details such as where he picked up and dropped off Mr Dewani and his wife did not provide corroboration, the judge said.
It is what was said during these events which is at issue and for that there is only the version of Tongo, she added.
She said the same applied to phone calls between Tongo and Mr Dewani.
"This telephone communication does not in itself corroborate what was said during those calls, it merely confirms that communication took place."
The prosecution had alleged the men carried out the killing for Mr Dewani for 15,000 rand (about Â£830).
The judge said Tongo and accomplices Mziwamadoda Qwabe and Xolile Mngeni were "intelligent men" and dismissed the prosecution claim that they would have carried out a contract killing for Mr Dewani for "a few thousand rand".
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Speaking outside court, South African National Prosecuting Authority spokesman Nathi Ncube said they were disappointed with the outcome but would respect the decision of the judge and not appeal.
"It is unfortunate that Mr Dewani has been acquitted because we believe that he was involved," Mr Ncube said.
"The court did not find that he was innocent, the court said it could not rely on the evidence given by three witnesses who themselves had been convicted of the crime."
Mr Ncube also denied that the case had collapsed because of a "shoddy police investigation".
He said: "The judgment centres around evidence that was given by three people. Nothing has been said about the police, nothing was said about how the prosecution could have done better.
"The fact of the matter is that we were relying on people who were themselves involved and implicated in the case."
Tongo is serving an 18-year jail term for his role in the murder and Qwabe is part-way through a 25-year jail sentence for his role.
Mngeni was serving life for firing the shot that killed Mrs Dewani, but died in prison from a brain tumour.
The judge confirmed Monde Mbolombo, a self-confessed "link man", would no longer be granted immunity for his part in the plot.
The hotel receptionist admitted telling lies to the court to protect himself when the investigation first took hold. He had initially been granted immunity by prosecutors in return for being a state witness.
But the judge said: "As his evidence progressed, it became more and more clear of his involvement."
It will now be up to prosecutors to decide whether Mbolombo should face criminal proceedings.


You may have heard that voters in the UK are going to the polls on 8 June to choose the entire national parliament - all 650 seats.

But for those who don't know what a Tory is and can't pronounce Plaid Cymru, here's a crash course in the UK's general election.
It's been a busy year in politics here.
Yes, there was an election in May 2015, where the Conservative Party defied expectations to edge a tiny majority in parliament - after having been in a coalition government with another smaller party.
Part of their election strategy was promising a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union - even though the party officially wanted to stay in.
The British exit (or Brexit) referendum happened in June 2016, and the result was a surprise to many. Voters chose to leave the EU.
But the prime minister at the time, David Cameron, had campaigned to stay - so after his defeat, he decided it was time to surrender the top job.
Theresa May became the prime minister (more on that later), and repeatedly said the government would serve its five-year term.
Then, in April, she suddenly called a new election for just seven weeks' time.
Why? She said she needed a bigger majority to guarantee political stability in the Brexit negotiations with the EU.
Opponents, though, believe she was tempted by poor polling numbers for the main opposition party, Labour - and saw a political opportunity.
Britain traditionally has two major parties: the Conservatives (who are nicknamed the Tories), and Labour (just Labour).
The Conservatives traditionally lean to the political right; Labour has its origins in the trade union movement, and leans left.
Those two titans are joined by the centrist Liberal Democrats, a once-strong party almost wiped out in the last election; the environmentally-aware Greens; and the pro-Brexit right-wing UK Independence Party (UKIP).
England accounts for 533 of the seats - it's got the biggest population in the UK by far.
In Scotland, the Scottish National Party (SNP) holds 56 of 59 seats - a dominant position it won in 2015 at Labour's expense. The nationalists want to hold on to that. Internationally, they're best known for campaigning for Scottish independence.
In Wales, Plaid Cymru - a Welsh term meaning the Party of Wales, and pronounced "PLIGHD KUM-ri"- has just three seats out of 40. And Northern Ireland accounts for another 18 seats.
The UK voting system for general elections is simple - whoever gets the most votes in their constituency wins the seat. No transfers, and no proportional representation.
That system tends to favour the big established parties over the smaller ones, and tactical voting is a big part of the process.
All of which means there's a sharp focus on not just the local candidates, but the party leaders who could be the prime minister.
Those leaders are Theresa May (Conservatives) and Jeremy Corbyn (Labour).
But both are unusual.
The Conservative leadership campaign was a political soap opera all by itself, with a dramatic drop-out on live TV, labelled by our political correspondent as "Richard III meets Scarface, with a bit of Godfather thrown in."
In the end, Theresa May was the only candidate left - and became Britain's new prime minister by default, without a vote.
On the other side, there's Mr Corbyn - a life-long socialist, whose election in 2015 as leader, aged 66, was one of the biggest upsets in British political history.
He reluctantly put his name down for the top job because none of his friends on Labour's socialist left wing wanted to do it. Bookies gave him odds of 200-1.
His election victory- fuelled by a grassroots movement of ordinary Labour members - split the party in two, and the party's MPs almost immediately attempted to depose him.
But his popular support has kept the bicycle-riding, left-leaning Labour leader in power - while his political opponents seek to capitalise on the party's perceived crisis.
In a nutshell, the Conservatives are looking for a big majority in parliament for the Brexit negotiations, keeping things "strong and stable", as they put it. And put it again, and again.
When Theresa May called the election, polls showed she was likely to win a landslide - and cement her political power. But things move quickly in politics.
Since then, almost three million people applied to vote - more than a million of whom are aged under 25. It's not clear how that might affect the outcome.
And opinion polls, for what they're worth, seem to suggest Labour is closing the gap.
The attack in Manchester on 22 May does not appear to have made much difference to the trend. The Conservatives are still widely seen as the most likely to win this election.
But if they end up losing seats in Parliament, it's possible - if unlikely - that someone with completely different plans could be sitting at the negotiating table in Europe.
Then again, Labour says it will still push ahead with Brexit - so it's a question of how rather than if.
There's another possibility - one recent poll, splashed on the front page of the Times newspaper suggested the Tories could lose seats, resulting in a "hung Parliament".
That's just a British term for no single party having an outright majority. That might be common in many nations that usually have coalition governments, but it's a little rarer in the UK.
Almost certainly. Immigration is a big issue on the campaign trail.
The current Conservative government wants to reduce net migration - the difference between people entering the UK and people leaving - to "tens of thousands" a year (it's currently about +248,000 a year).
The Conservatives' manifesto says they want to double the Immigration Skills Charge - a levy of up to Â£1,000 ($1,300) they introduced in April, charging companies for every foreign worker they sponsor.
They've promised to increase the minimum income someone has to earn to come on a family visa, and "toughen" visa requirements for students.
And the party says it will triple the Immigration Health Surcharge - a levy foreigners have to pay to let them use the National Health Service (NHS) - from Â£200 to Â£600.
Labour acknowledges that Brexit means the free movement of people from Europe will end - but promises it won't "scapegoat migrants".
Instead of raising income thresholds for migrants, Labour plans to end them - but oblige people coming here to survive without falling back on public money. Its manifesto contains a pledge to "protect those already working here, whatever their ethnicity" and says it won't count international students in the main immigration numbers.
But at the same time, it says it will recruit an extra 500 border guards.
Both the Liberal Democrats and the Green party support free movement between the UK and the EU. The Lib Dems say they would allow "high-skilled immigration", and, like Labour and Plaid Cymru, take students out of the immigration statistics.
The Greens also say their immigration and asylum system would be "humane". And Plaid Cymru says it will introduce a new, Wales-specific visa.
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Plans for a new 33ft (10m) tall sculpture to be erected next to Hull's ancient defence walls have been submitted by the city council.

The Beverley Gate was where King Charles I was refused entry to Hull in 1642, sparking the English Civil War.
Last year, the authority wanted to cover up the site for its City of Culture 2017 plans but ruled it out after a campaign against the idea.
It said the stainless steel statue would be "an engaging piece of art".
Entitled Shadow Gate, the artwork would be positioned to the south west of Beverley Gate, between Whitefriargate and King Edward Street.
Architects Tonkin Liu said: "Shadow Gate invokes the imagery of the trading ships masts and sails in the urban realm at Beverley Gate.
"Careful consideration has been made to position the sculpture to minimise any harmful impact to surrounding historical buildings."
The council said it was "unable to supply costs" of the project as it was part of the City of Culture 2017 public realm works.
Last month the authority approved revised plans to revamp Beverley Gate, after people voted for the site to be left open and redeveloped with amphitheatre-style seating and glass fencing to replace the existing rails.
The remains were granted protection by the government in January because of the "national importance of Hull's 14th Century town walls".
Final decision for approving the revamp scheme will be given by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.


England's world number two Laura Massaro beat Raneem El Welily of Egypt to win the Dubai World Series final.

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The 32-year-old came from behind to claim a gripping 9-11 11-6 5-11 12-10 11-5 victory.
The match was in the balance with a tie-break in the fourth game, but Massaro held her nerve to take it to the fifth.
World champion in 2013 and runner-up this year, Massaro was comfortable in the deciding game to take the title.
"At the beginning of the fifth game I told myself that it's one more game, and then it's the end of the season, with a big prize at the end of it, so just go for it," she said.
"It was the right approach because I was as relaxed as I have ever been for that game, and I think I hit my targets and made the right choices."
France's world champion Gregory Gaultier beat Australia's Cameron Pilley 11-4 11-5 8-11 11-6  to regain the men's title after a seven-year interval.


Protests have been held around France as unions and young people joined forces to show their opposition to proposed labour reforms.

Youth organisations and unions were demonstrating on the same day as a rail strike over a wage dispute.
The proposed law would remove some of the protection workers enjoy against being laid off, in a bid to encourage businesses to hire more people.
But many on the left see it as a betrayal of their values.
In pushing the reform, Prime Minister Manuel Valls has united a formidable array of leftist forces against him, says the BBC's Hugh Schofield.
That includes not just the unions but much of his own Socialist party - plus the students, who were leading Wednesday's protests.
Teenagers and students were among thousands marching in Paris chanting slogans such as "El Khomri, you're beat, the youth are in the street", in reference to Labour Minister Myriam el Khomri.
Dozens of schools around the country were barricaded by students.
Maryanne Gicquel, a spokesperson for the FIDL student union, described young people's experience of the job market as "a succession of internships and poorly-paid jobs".
"Now we're being told that it will be easier for companies to lay off workers," she told AP news agency.
This reform has crystallised all those forces on the left who, while feeling increasingly unhappy about the government's drift, until now had no clear-cut issue around which to rally, our correspondent reports.
It was - to be only a little bit unfair - all the usual suspects at the Paris demo. Trotskyite students chanting against the patriarchy; anarchists; grizzled veterans of '68; plenty of pensioners; theatre-workers. In other words the regular left-wing alphabetti-spaghetti.
One is tempted to ask who these people actually represent. The proportion of lycee and university students who turned out for the protest must have been absolutely minuscule. The vast majority didn't care enough and stayed away.
But the thing about French demos is that - more often than not - it is only the regular protesters who turn out. That is par for the course.
What counts is not what the protesters think - that we know - but what the rest of the country thinks about the protesters. If ordinary people disown the movement, then it is doomed.
But ordinary people in France are always reluctant to disown movements which deploy effectively the slogans of workers' rights and social progress. And this movement is definitely one of them.
In Paris, the rail strike caused early disruption, with only one in three trains running and long queues of traffic, said reports.
Sit-ins and street marches were planned across the country - though some reports suggested a lower than expected turnout, with some protesters possibly deterred by heavy rain.
President Francois Hollande's four years in office have been marked by poor economic growth and spiralling unemployment - now reaching 10% and 24% among youth.
The government of Mr Hollande, who faces presidential elections next year, is aiming to address those issues - with reforms to France's labour code, which is famously longer than the bible.
The reforms would:
The most visible proponents of the bill - Mr Valls and Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron - have urged backing for the proposals, pointing out that they would bring France into line with practice in the rest of Europe.
"The terrible thing would be the status quo," Mr Valls has said.
But labour protections and the 35-hour week are sacred totems on the French left, and polls show strong opposition to the reforms.
An online petition against the law has been signed by more than a million people.


Head coach Alan Stubbs says it will "be an uphill challenge" for Hibernian to win the Championship but insists they can claw back their deficit.

Wednesday's 3-0 home defeat by Morton left Hibs eight points behind leaders Rangers with 11 games remaining.
"It certainly doesn't make it any easier but we have been eight behind before and we managed to claw it back," Stubbs told BBC Scotland.
"We'll keep going, as we have done all season."
Hibs had not lost at home in all competitions since July and they travel to face Dumbarton on Saturday before visiting Queen of the South on Tuesday.
Stubbs' men then have a Scottish Cup quarter-final with Inverness followed by the League Cup final against Ross County.
Only the Championship's winners will gain automatic promotion to the Premiership, with the sides finishing second, third and fourth going into the play-offs.
"Tonight is a blow, it's a blip," said Stubbs.
"It's going to be an uphill challenge but we'll obviously give it our best shot until the end of the season.
"We've been fantastic for the majority of the season and it's disappointing when you lose a game of football.
"I've got to say I've not been in this position a lot of times this season and that's where the players deserve a lot of credit.
"They've not performed as well as what they have done and they're as disappointed as anybody but the good thing is we go again on Saturday and we've got a lot to play for.
"They know they've dropped below their levels tonight. We've had chances and unfortunately we haven't taken them. When Morton had chances they've taken them and all credit to them.
"I don't want to take anything away from them. It's a great result for them, it's a poor result for us."
The hosts had opportunities, most notably Jason Cummings with a close-range header, before Thomas O'Ware, Denny Johnstone and Ross Forbes netted for Jim Duffy's visitors.
"We started the game okay then we had a period when we had a couple of half-chances," Stubbs explained.
"Jason's one in the middle of the goal, he should score but that probably summed the night up, really.
"We just lacked a little bit of urgency. I thought we made too many wrong decisions."
Morton boss Duffy lauded his side's display after they moved to within a point of the promotion play-off places.
"It was an outstanding performance from the team," he said.
"Overall, I didn't think we had a failure. I think everybody deserves the credit.
"To win in the manner we did, we're absolutely thrilled."


The family of a victim of the Glasgow bin lorry crash are to sue the council for compensation.

The action by Jacqueline Morton's sons could pave the way for payouts to the relatives of the six people killed.
Glasgow City Council, which employed lorry driver Harry Clarke, has said it does not intend to contest the action, which will be settled by insurers.
A fatal accident inquiry found Mr Clarke lost consciousness at the wheel before the crash in December 2014.
Those who died in the city centre crash were Jacqueline Morton, 51, and Stephenie Tait, 29, both from Glasgow, Erin McQuade, 18, her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and his 69-year-old wife Lorraine, from Dumbarton,  and Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh.
Their families were told in December last year that they could not launch private prosecutions against Clarke.
Ms Morton's sons and four other members of their family are named in legal proceedings at the Court of Session in Edinburgh where they are seeking compensation.
There is already an agreement between the council's insurers and the family that the action will not be defended.
Last month, Harry Clarke admitted culpably and recklessly driving a car in September 2015, despite his licence having been revoked. He is awaiting sentence at Glasgow Sheriff Court.


(Closed): Wall Street stocks rose on Friday, despite concerns about corporate earnings, boosted by a surge in the price of crude oil.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 35 points, or 0.2%, to 17576.96.
The S&P 500 was up 5.69 points to 2,047.60, while the Nasdaq added 2.32 points to 4850.69.
Crude prices rose 6% on Friday, sending the stocks of petroleum producers up. Brent crude reached $41.75 a barrel, while US crude stood at $39.53.
Shares of Exxon Mobile were up 1% and Chevron climbed 1.6%.
Pfizer shares fell 0.79%. The drug maker announced on Wednesday, it was abandoning its plan to buy Botox-maker Allergan after the US Treasury Department released plans for regulations that would make the deal less valuable.
Shares of retailers were mostly lower as investors worried about coming earnings announcements. Shares of Michael Kors fell 4.8%, while Coach lost 3.3%.
Department store Nordstrom fell 2.5%.


A cargo ship believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants is heading for Italy after a passenger sparked an alert near the Greek island of Corfu.

The distress call to Greek emergency services prompted the navy to send a helicopter and a warship to the scene.
But later the coastguard said the captain of the Blue Sky M had been contacted and no-one was in danger.
The incident came two days after a fire broke out on a ferry not far away, leaving at least 10 people dead.
Resources were diverted to the cargo ship from the ongoing search near the wreck of the ferry, Norman Atlantic.
Greek coast guard special missions officers were also seen leaving Corfu for the area, just to the south-west of the small island of Othonoi.
The Moldovan-flagged Blue Sky M was reportedly heading for the port of Rijeka in Croatia.
But according to tracking website MarineTraffic, the ship abruptly changed direction south of Othonoi on Tuesday morning, heading west towards Italy.
The passenger on board the Blue Sky M had reportedly phoned the Greek 112 emergency line, complaining "we are without water, food and blankets".
Unconfirmed reports also referred to armed men being on board, however the ship's captain later said no assistance was being sought.
Weather conditions in the Ionian sea have been poor for several days, hampering the rescue of those on board the Norman Atlantic.


Glasgow Warriors assistant coach Mike Blair believes it is vital the Pro12 club sign up more of their squad on new contracts.

Adam Ashe, Stuart Hogg and Henry Pyrgos have all committed to Warriors until 2019.
However, fellow Scotland internationals Mark Bennett, Alex Dunbar, Tommy Seymour and Josh Strauss are out of contract this summer.
"It's really important," said Blair of the need to arrange new deals.
"It's difficult with the rugby contracts, you don't often get contracts longer than two years so it seems that every year there's half the squad who are pretty much out of contract. We'll be working hard to keep the guys here.
"There's a lot of money being thrown around in England and France but the product that Glasgow can give - the coaching team, the crowd that we've got, the fact that we beat Racing home and away, we're playing against the best teams in Europe and doing well - hopefully that's a big pull for the guys as well."
Dave Rennie will replace Gregor Townsend as Glasgow head coach this summer when the latter becomes Scotland head coach.
"Dave Rennie's going to have a say in what's happening here," said former Scotland and Edinburgh scrum-half Blair.
"He's watched a lot of the games from the last two or three seasons to get a handle on what players we've got here and what he likes and what he could potentially bring in."
American lock Greg Peterson, like Ashe, Hogg and Pyrgos, has signed a new deal at Scotstoun and is nearing a return to the first team following long-term injury, along with Tjiuee Uanivi, Scott Cummings and Richie Vernon.
"We're expecting to see them back in the next two or three weeks," explained Blair.
"They're taking part in all the non-contact stuff so they're progressing well.
"Pete Horne's showing good progress. He's another couple of weeks before he can step up and we'll see how he reacts to that.
"It's good timing for us. We've got some good quality players coming back. They'll be in a good place when they come back in.
"We've got some big games coming up and some big games during the Six Nations as well once the guys are away on [Scotland duty]."
Glasgow host Cardiff Blues in the Pro12 on Saturday with the Warriors, who are fifth, nine points ahead of the Welsh province.
European Champions Cup encounters with Munster and Leicester Tigers follow, with Townsend's men currently top of Pool 1.
"We're really pleased with how things have gone recently," said Blair. "We've done well to be where we are, despite having the home losses [earlier this season].
"We're in a reasonable position. We're in a better position than we were this time last year."
Meanwhile, Glasgow say Ryan Grant remains their player after Brive announced he was joining the French Top 14 side on loan.
And Blair said: "Ryan's said that's not the situation at the moment. He's training with us today, training well."


A senior legal adviser at the European Court of Justice has said the UK's position on pollution levels at a south Wales power station is "untenable".

The court is considering its verdict in an infringement hearing about emissions from coal-fired Aberthaw.
It is alleged the site has been pumping out more than double the legal amount of toxic nitrogen oxides for seven years.
The UK Government argues the power station is not in breach of the rules.
It further claims that the Vale of Glamorgan plant has made major investments to try to improve its performance.
In a document summarising his opinion of the case, advocate general of the European Court of Justice, Michal Bobek, says he finds the arguments put by the UK to be "untenable".
He proposes that the court find the UK to be in breach of its obligations under EU rules to limit pollution levels.
Director of Friends of the Earth Cymru, Gareth Clubb, said: "Since at least 2001, Aberthaw power station has had no legal justification for emitting horrific amounts of toxic pollution into the atmosphere.
"The judgement spells disaster for Aberthaw. It's very difficult to see how it can avoid permanent closure once the Court of Justice reaches its final verdict."
In April, BBC Wales revealed that Aberthaw's operator, RWE, is set to downgrade the plant so that it only generates electricity at times of peak demand.
The UK government has said it wants all coal-fired power stations to close by 2025.
RWE said it was "disappointed" with the advocate general's opinion but would await the final EU court judgement.
The UK government had claimed that an exemption in the law around air pollution for plants burning low volatile coal was aimed at sites such as Aberthaw, given that the anthracite coal it uses is sourced locally, harder to burn and important to the local economy.
"Aberthaw Power Station was specifically designed to burn Welsh, regional, low volatile coal and historically, 60% of its fuel diet is Welsh," a RWE spokesperson said, adding that "the station has always been compliant with its operational permit."
"Following a successful installation of new technology to one unit  at the plant the nitrogen oxide emissions have been substantially reduced. RWE has committed to further reduce emissions and increase fuel diversity, despite very difficult market conditions."


The Iraqi army says it has begun an operation to storm Falluja, a bastion of so-called Islamic State (IS).

It comes a week after the government launched a concerted effort to retake the city, which has been held by the jihadists since 2014.
An estimated 50,000 civilians are trapped inside, with only a few hundred families escaping so far.
Meanwhile IS militants launched a wave of bombings in and around the capital, Baghdad, killing at least 20 people.
State forces including members of an elite counter-terrorism unit are moving into Falluja on several fronts, an official statement said.
IS fighters are reportedly putting up resistance with suicide and car bombings.
But while the military said it was advancing towards its goals, so far the fighting seems to be centred on IS defences outside Falluja's city limits, the BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad says.
Militia leaders taking part have said there is likely to be a pause before the assault on the city centre begins to allow more civilians to escape.
There is alarm over conditions faced by civilians, with reports of people starving to death and of being killed for refusing to fight for IS.
The Iraqi military has urged those remaining to either leave the city or stay indoors, though IS is preventing civilians from fleeing.
Falluja fell to IS in January 2014, a key moment in its rise that saw it declare a caliphate across swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Along with Mosul, it is one of two major cities held by IS in Iraq.
Meanwhile three districts of Baghdad have been targeted in attacks.
All three bombings have been claimed by IS in an online statement.
The group frequently targets Shia Muslims, whom the extremist Sunni militant group regards as apostates.
The attacks may also be an attempt to deflect attention from the operation in Falluja.


The New York clinic where Joan Rivers suffered a cardiac arrest during a medical procedure failed to follow standard protocols while treating her, state health investigators have said.

The comedian died on 4 September, aged 81, a week after she stopped breathing at the Yorkville Endoscopy centre.
A report released by the Department of Health cited multiple errors, including failing to detect Rivers' deteriorating vital signs during the procedure.
Negligence has not been alleged.
The New York medical examiner's office ruled Rivers died of brain damage due to lack of oxygen during the procedure examining the back of her throat and vocal cords
The death was classified as a "therapeutic complication", meaning it was a known risk.
The comic had been sedated with the anaesthetic propofol, however the report said there there were inconsistencies recorded in its dosage.
It added there was no record staff at the clinic weighed Rivers before administering the drug.
'Misconduct and mismanagement'
Hypoxia - brain damage caused by lack of oxygen - and cardiac arrest are extremely rare, but potential side effects associated with high doses of propofol.
Patients usually sign a waiver before surgery to confirm they understand the risks, but the report said there were no records of medical consent for all the procedures performed.
Investigators said the clinic "failed to identify deteriorating vital signs and provide timely intervention" in Rivers' case.
They also noted a staff member took pictures of the comic without her consent while she was under anaesthesia, in violation of the clinic's mobile phone policy.
Rivers daughter Melissa said she was "outraged by the misconduct and mismanagement" that occurred and wanted to ensure it does not happen again with any other patient.
Her lawyers are investigating the circumstances surrounding her mother's death.
As a result of the state investigation, the Department of Health and Human Services has given Yorkville Endoscopy until 7 January to correct deficiencies to avoid losing accreditation to the government's Medicare programme covering the elderly.
The clinic told NBC it had submitted a plan to officials addressing all the issues raised. It added the physicians referenced in the report no longer provided services there.


Hibernian have recruited Andy Holden to assist head coach Alan Stubbs.

The 51-year-old Welshman was a member of the backroom staff at Everton for 19 years, leaving Goodison Park in 2013.
"Everybody in the football department will be able to tap into his immense knowledge, which was gained working with excellent managers such as David Moyes and Walter Smith." said Stubbs.
"Going forward, Andy is going to play a big part in what we're trying to achieve here at Hibs."
Stubbs knows Holden well from their time together at Everton, where the former defender played and coached before moving into his first management role with Hibs, replacing Terry Butcher on 24 June.
Former Kilmarnock goalkeeper Alan Combe, 40, joins as a player-coach, having served in the same role at Hearts last season.
John Porteous arrives as physiotherapist following almost 23 years of service at Motherwell and Paul Green, formerly with Falkirk, is the new strength and conditioning coach at Easter Road.
Earlier this month, John Doolan left his position as Under-18 coach at Wigan to become first-team coach under Stubbs.


Increasing numbers of UK schoolchildren are choosing to read in their spare time, with six in 10 having a favourite work of fiction, research suggests.

The National Literacy Trust questioned some 32,000 pupils aged eight to 18.
Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid was the most mentioned favourite work of fiction, followed by The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
Children's laureate Malorie Blackman said she was "delighted" more children were enjoying the pleasures of reading.
Enjoyment and frequency of reading are both at their highest levels for nine years, the survey suggests.
There was also an increase in the proportion who said they read daily outside class, from 32.2% in 2013 to 41.1% in 2014.
The charity attributes this sharp rise to initiatives such as Bookstart, the Summer Reading Challenge, its own Young Readers Programme and the work of a series of children's authors who have campaigned as children's laureates.
Most mentioned favourite fiction
Source: National Literacy Trust
Children are not only reading more fiction but also a wide variety of other materials, including:
However, the research also suggests a persistent gender gap between girls and boys, with 46.5% of girls saying they read daily outside class, compared with 35.8% of boys.
Girls were also more likely to say they enjoyed reading very much or quite a lot: 61.6%, compared with 47.1% of boys.
Overall, more than half (55.2%) of children said they preferred watching television to reading, and almost a quarter (24.3%) believed their parents did not care if they spent time reading, rising to 31.5% among children on free school meals.
Trust director Jonathan Douglas described the survey as "encouraging" but said it was a "real concern that almost a third of the most disadvantaged children think their parents do not care whether they read".
Ms Blackman called for work to continue "to ensure all our children develop the reading-for-pleasure habit to improve their life chances" and said it was vital children had access to libraries "to fulfil their true potential".
War Horse author Michael Morpurgo said: "How good it is to have some heartening news about young readers.
"But much is still to be done. Too many boys still seem disinterested in reading, and far, far too many children simply never become readers at all.
"So we writers and illustrators and storytellers, and parents and teachers, and publishers and booksellers, must continue to play our part.
"And government too should remember that literacy must first and foremost be enjoyed if we are to engage our most reluctant readers."


World number one Dustin Johnson will begin the defence of his US Open title alongside the 2015 champion Jordan Spieth and 2014 winner Martin Kaymer.

American pair Johnson and Spieth and Kaymer of Germany start their rounds from the 10th on Thursday at 14:35 BST.
Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy, winner in 2011, 2013 champion Justin Rose of England and Australia's Jason Day who was runner-up to both, begin at 19:09.
Masters champions Sergio Garcia, Bubba Watson and Adam Scott tee off at 19:36.
English duo Lee Westwood and Ross Fisher and Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell go off at 14:02 while Scottish pair Russell Knox and Martin Laird are in the next grouping, which tees off 11 minutes later.
Full tee times.


An empty gallery has been unveiled as the latest work by an artist who "cancelled" her exhibition at one of Glasgow's leading venues.

Marlie Mul asked for no exhibition to be held in the Gallery of Modern Art.
All that will be visible in the gallery are billboards advertising that the exhibition has been cancelled.
People are being invited to "visit and interact with the space" - and suggest alternative uses for the gallery during the five months set aside for the show.
Gallery 1 at Goma will lie empty from Friday until the end of October.
Visitors will instead be greeted by 21 billboards advertising the cancellation of the exhibition by the Dutch artist.
Goma said Mul's "conceptual gesture" was to act as an "implicit critique of what is displayed within museums and galleries".
It said that by removing traditional content and opening the space for public use, Mul was "augmenting the institution to question the relevance of an art exhibition in 2017".
Goma curator Will Cooper said the cancellation was an "amazing opportunity".
He said: "By removing what would traditionally be considered an art object we are instead presenting the gallery as an empty space, giving us a moment to question the value in turning over exhibition after exhibition after exhibition."
He added: "We're excited by the different types of activities that might be on offer during this cancelled show.
"So far, it's looking like we'll have some life drawing classes, yoga sessions, artist film screenings and I even think my daughter's got Bounce and Rhyme scheduled in.
"We might even get a carpet bowls session on the go."