Fleetwood manager Steven Pressley has accused the Football Association of "washing their hands" of their complaint against referee Carl Boyeson.

The club were angered by comments they claim Boyeson made after keeper Chris Maxwell was hit by an "object" during Saturday's game with Sheffield United.
The Professional Game Match Officials Board are now in charge of the case.
"I believe if it was from a higher profile club, the FA would have been hands on," said Pressley.
"Unfortunately they have washed their hands of it and pushed it on to the committee.
"The FA have to treat every club the same and I think in this instance this is something they should have had a serious look into."
BBC Sport understands the FA considered the complaint, but were satisfied that it was not a disciplinary issue for them.
The PGMOL has also been contacted by BBC Sport but are yet to reply.
Pressley alleged after the match that the referee said the incident was Maxwell's own fault, and striker Shola Ameobi confirmed he was the "witness" to the alleged comments.
"It is sad to see when things are thrown at players," the former Newcastle striker, 34, told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"It is something that I do not condone and it is something that I feel the referee could have dealt with better.
"The comments that I heard him say weren't what you want from a referee to a player.
"It's a tough situation that the referee found himself in and the goalkeeper is there to stop goals going in not stop things bouncing off his head."


James Forrest's outstanding strike from a tight angle saw off a dogged Rosenborg side to secure Celtic's place in the Champions League play-off round.

The visitors created the better opportunities in a goalless first half but had to survive a spell of Rosenborg pressure after the interval.
Celtic's patience was rewarded when Forrest lashed the ball in from the right of the area after 69 minutes.
Rosenborg pushed forward in the final stages but could not break Celtic down.
The Scottish champions will face Astana, Qarabag, Rijeka, Hapoel Beer Sheva or Slavia Prague in the play-off round, with Kazakh side Astana and Israel's Hapoel having lost to Celtic in last year's competition.
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers had opted for an element of caution, leaving the fit-again Leigh Griffiths on the bench and starting winger Forrest as a makeshift central striker.
Erik Sviatchenko returned to the starting line-up, but lasted only 24 minutes before injury forced him off. Celtic endured the setback, though, and eventually prevailed, with Forrest spurning a one-on-one with the goalkeeper late on to increase the lead.
The Scottish champions created few chances in the home leg, but Rodgers was confident his side would benefit from an extra week's training as they try to rediscover the devastating attacking fluency of so much of last season's play.
Kieran Tierney was certainly prominent early on as a threat down the left, surging forward from his full-back role, and one drilled cross presented an opportunity to Forrest, whose effort was tipped over by Rosenborg goalkeeper Andre Hansen.
Celtic's best other effort came from a set piece, with Jonny Hayes slinging over a cross that Sviatchenko headed on target only for his Danish compatriot Nicklas Bendtner to block the ball on its way to the goal-line.
Rosenborg tried to prompt and probe in the final third when they could make ground forward, but all that Celtic goalkeeper Craig Gordon had to cope with was a weak long-range effort by Milan Jevtovic.
The home side were more assertive after the interval, though, noticeably closing the Celtic players down more urgently. The change in approach was effective, since they enjoyed a spell of pressure.
Celtic mostly stood firm, but Bendtner was a threat and showing a deft touch with his chest, he steered a high ball cleverly into the path of Yann-Erik de Lanlay, who pulled his shot beyond the far post.
Needing to alter the dynamic of the game, Rodgers replaced Hayes with Griffiths, hoping that the centre forward and proven scorer would provide a cutting edge to his side.
Bendtner continued to show more willingness to be involved, and another intervention led to Mike Jensen's shot just brushing the outside of the post.
Rosenborg's menace would have been a concern for Celtic, but the visitors played with maturity and continued to rely on their self-belief; it was eventually rewarded.
Sinclair burst through the middle to the edge of the area then moved the ball out to Forrest on the right, who skipped past his marker then lashed the ball high past Hansen from a tight angle, the ball crashing in off the underside of the bar.
It was the breakthrough that Celtic craved, and enough to secure a deserved place in Friday's play-off round draw.
Match ends, Rosenborg 0, Celtic 1.
Second Half ends, Rosenborg 0, Celtic 1.
Pål Helland (Rosenborg) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Rosenborg. Matthías Vilhjálmsson replaces Yann-Erik de Lanlay.
Substitution, Rosenborg. Pål Helland replaces Milan Jevtovic.
Substitution, Celtic. Tomas Rogic replaces Stuart Armstrong.
Goal!  Rosenborg 0, Celtic 1. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Scott Sinclair.
Substitution, Celtic. Leigh Griffiths replaces Jonny Hayes.
Second Half begins Rosenborg 0, Celtic 0.
First Half ends, Rosenborg 0, Celtic 0.
Milan Jevtovic (Rosenborg) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Celtic. Nir Bitton replaces Erik Sviatchenko because of an injury.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


Bristol's mayor and the leaders of three neighbouring councils are to review how they work together, in a bid to get more powers from the government.

They hope to capitalise on Chancellor George Osborne's offer to devolve more political and spending powers.
In Greater Manchester, a deal was dependent on the city agreeing to have an elected "metro mayor".
But local Labour and Conservative politicians have expressed doubts about the idea of a mayor for the region.
Mr Osborne said last year that "no model of local power will be the same".
Bristol's independent mayor George Ferguson met the leaders of Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire councils last week to discuss how they could bid for more powers.
In a joint statement, they said: "We agree today to undertake a review of governance on how we strengthen our joint working as four unitary authorities, with a view to obtaining devolved powers from the government for the benefit of all our residents."
The review is expected to take up to 18 months.
The focus on the "northern powerhouse" idea has prompted some debate locally about how a "western powerhouse" might take shape.
Somerset County Council leader John Osman, a Conservative, is convening a meeting of all south west council leaders on 5 August to discuss the issue.
Labour councillors on four councils have already said they will fight any plans for a "metro mayor" while Tim Warren, the Conservative leader of Bath and North East Somerset, has said he was not keen on the idea either.


Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have proclaimed the partnership between their two countries as they signed defence, energy and other deals.

President Putin announced that Russia would build a series of nuclear plants in India over the next two decades.
He said work on the first two reactors was now in preparation.
About $7bn (Â£4.7bn) worth of deals have been signed during Mr Modi's Russia trip, many of them defence related.
However, there has been no progress on an expected purchase by India of Russian S-400 missiles, Moscow's most sophisticated aircraft defence system.
"I see in Russia a prominent partner in India's economic transformation," Mr Modi said after he and Mr Putin agreed to reduce visa requirements between the two countries.
Mr Modi is eager for Russia to participate in various infrastructure projects as his government strives to revamp India's railway network and build nuclear energy plants to meet growing electricity needs.
They agreed on the location of a new Russian nuclear energy plant in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Russia is already constructing a nuclear plant in the nearby state of Tamil Nadu. Mr Modi said Russia had agreed to build a total of 12 over an unspecified timeframe.
Deals signed between the two countries included:
President Putin told a joint briefing that Russia supported India's "strengthening role in resolving global and regional problems".
He said India was "among the most honourable candidates" for permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council.
Russia and India were close allies during the Cold War, but recently the relationship has become more complex.
Talks have been held annually since 2000 and hosted alternately by Moscow and Delhi.
Bilateral trade stands at $10bn (Â£6.74bn) - and Russia is India's second largest defence supplier.
But earlier this year, India was reported to be displeased with Russia for selling attack helicopters to Pakistan.
Russia was unhappy with India for choosing French Rafale fighters and American Apache attack helicopters over Moscow's defence products.


New South Africa coach Stuart Baxter has vowed to give Nigeria "a game" when the two teams clash early next month.

"I hope we will be very competitive with Nigeria. We will give them a game," Baxter told a press conference after his unveiling in Johannesburg on Monday.
The Englishman was appointed earlier this month as a replacement for Ephraim 'Shakes' Mashaba who was given the boot in December last year.
He will start his second spell as Bafana Bafana head coach with a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against the Super Eagles in Uyo on 10 June.
Baxter, who signed a five-year contract, said he will name his technical team and squad for the Nigeria game on 25 May.
"We need to be competitive and players will do it the South African way; that should reflect the play in the country," said Baxter, who previously coached the 1996 African champions from May 2004 to November 2005.
The 63-year-old, who will continue to coach Premier Soccer League side SuperSport United until the end of the season, said there was no shortage of talent in South Africa.
"I believe the nation has enough players to succeed and I also believe in my abilities; I'm very optimistic," said the former Kaizer Chiefs boss.
He added: "I'm really looking forward to this latest challenge. If I wasn't ready, I would not have accepted the challenge.
"I'm very optimistic if we can pull together, but don't be too negative because it will affect everyone. I'm asking for buy-in from every South African.
"I will be going abroad to watch players who ply their trade there. I will watch every South African. They will get a fair chance.
"I want Bafana Bafana to unite South Africa in the long term. If we do that we will become a powerhouse of football," said Baxter.


Its artificial intelligence division, DeepMind, has cut Google's data centres' energy consumption by 15%, using a machine-learning algorithm.

Data centres run the equipment that processes the data consumed by internet users, and it takes a lot of energy to keep their servers cool.
Some of the newer ones are now being built in colder climates.
But some estimates suggest they are now responsible for 2% of global greenhouse-gas emissions.
"Being able to put a dent in that benefits the world in general," said DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman.
Fed vast swathes of historical data collected by sensors measuring temperature and power, DeepMind's general purpose algorithm - similar to the one trained to play Atari games - had come up with a real-time, adaptive system that had cut the cost of cooling by 40% and the overall energy consumption by 15%, Mr Suleyman said.
"This will have a significant environmental impact," he said.
The system will be rolled out across all of Google's data centres by the end of the year.
And, in six weeks, DeepMind will share the details of the system in a White Paper.
"We are already talking to non-Google partners about using the same algorithm," Mr Suleyman said, adding it could work equally well in large manufacturing facilities and even national energy grids.
In its 2015 green energy report, campaign group Greenpeace praised Apple, Google and Facebook for their commitments to the use of 100% renewable energy in their data centres.


Jose Mourinho said he was "happy" Arsenal fans could finally celebrate beating one of his sides as the Gunners kept alive their top-four hopes with a 2-0 victory over Manchester United.

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The win was Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's first in 16 competitive meetings with United boss Mourinho.
"I left Highbury and they were crying, I left Emirates and they were crying," Mourinho said of past games at Arsenal.
"Finally today they sing, they swing the scarves. It's nice for them."
He added: "It is the first time I leave and they are happy. Before they were walking the streets with their heads low.
"The Arsenal fans are happy and I am happy for them."
Wenger's only previous win over Mourinho came in the 2015 Community Shield, when the Portuguese was in his second spell at Chelsea.
The managers first met in December 2004 - when the Gunners were still playing at their former ground Highbury - in a 2-2 draw.
"To have that record of winning so many matches is not normal. Normal is win, lose, draw," Mourinho said.
"Do you think I enjoy the fact a big club like Arsenal is not winning trophies? I am not enjoying that. It's a big club.
"Wenger is not a small manager. He is a big manager. So it's not normal and I really don't care about it."
Sunday's defeat leaves United four points behind rivals Manchester City in fourth place, and five points from Liverpool in third, albeit with a game in hand over the Anfield club.
However, with a spot on offer to the winners of the Europa League, United could finish outside the top four and still qualify for the Champions League.
United conclude their Europa League semi-final against Celta Viga at Old Trafford on Thursday, having beaten the Spanish side 1-0 in the first leg on Thursday.
"We want to try to win the Europa League - it's more important than finishing fourth. I think it will be almost impossible to qualify through the Premier League," Mourinho said.
"Trophies make history. Not league positions. We go with everything to get into that final.
"Thursday is the match of the season. I hope Old Trafford feels the same, because we need Old Trafford."
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Wenger - who needs teams above Arsenal to slip up if he is to secure a 21st consecutive season of Champions League football for the club - played down the significance of a first competitive win over Mourinho.
"It's between the two teams. At the end of the day, that's what I make of it," he said.
"Overall, you play Manchester United and it's another big game. We could not afford to lose today.
"It was important because we lost at Tottenham - that didn't happen many times."


Plans for a Hollywood version of Doctor Who are part of the latest revelations from the Sony Pictures' computer hack.

The BBC said there was "tremendous interest" in the idea during a meeting with Sony last year, although no plans were finalised.
The meeting was disclosed in a hacked email, made public on Wikileaks, six months after a cyber-attack on Sony.
Wikileaks has made the information stolen from Sony available in a searchable format for the first time.
Sony said it "strongly condemns" the release, which amounts to more than 170,000 emails and 30,000 documents.
The new documents reveal more about the internal wranglings at Sony's film division but, so far, nothing is as embarrassing as the previously-released material.
Last year, Sony's co-chairman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin came under fire for a series of racially-insensitive emails about Barack Obama's taste in films, which were among the first to be leaked.
Rudin was also exposed for calling Angelina Jolie "minimally talented" and a "spoiled brat".
Pascal eventually stood down from the company, while Rudin apologised for his remarks.
The entertainment company was hacked shortly before the release of comedy film The Interview, which lampooned the North Korean regime.
North Korea denied involvement in the attack but praised it as a "righteous deed".
Here are some of the initial discoveries from the WikiLeaks information dump.
There is "tremendous interest" in a Doctor Who film, said the BBC's director of television, Danny Cohen, in a conversation reported by Sony's international chief Andrea Wong.
The pair discussed the big-screen adaptation in January 2014, but Cohen warned that the programme's show runners, including Steven Moffat, "don't want to do one at this moment".
"That said, over the course of the coming months, the show running team is coming up with an 8 year timeline for the brand - laying out all that will happen with it," Ms Wong explained in an email to Michael Lynton, Sony Entertainment CEO.
"So the answer is that a film won't happen in the next year to 18 months, but it is expected that it will happen after that within the 8 year horizon."
Mr Lynton replied: "Sounds like we need to meet with the show runners", but Ms Wong warned him off, saying that too much pressure "actually might hurt our cause".
"The creative team on the show have been having the movie conversation with BBC Worldwide in recent weeks and are very hot-under-the-collar that their position on it is not being listened to or accepted," she added.
It previously emerged that George Clooney was deeply hurt by bad reviews for his World War 2 film Monuments Men.
"I fear I've let you all down. Not my intention. I apologise. I've just lost touch… Who knew? Sorry. I won't do it again," he wrote, in an anguished email.
But the vital detail missing from previous reports was Clooney's email handle: Batmansenior.
George Clooney famously fell out with director David O Russell on the set of Iraq war drama Three Kings, after the star stepped in to stop Russell's apparent mistreatment of various crew members.
Even five years later, the usually sedate Clooney told Premiere magazine that he would "sock Russell in the mouth" if he ran into him.
The director's behaviour was said to have improved since then - but Michael Lynton's brother-in-law, TV producer Jonathan Alter, wrote an email last September, alerting Lynton to reports of misbehaviour on the set of American Hustle.
Citing a crew member who had worked on the film, Alter said: "The new stories of his abuse and lunatic behaviour are extreme even by Hollywood standards.
"Apparently he behaved on The Fighter, but acted so crazy on Hustle that it's another Clooney situation where a lot of people won't work with him again. He grabbed one guy by the collar, cursed out people repeatedly in front of others and so abused Amy Adams that Christian Bale got in his face and told him to stop acting like an asshole."
The allegations have not been proven.
Movie star Jennifer Lawrence's standout turn as a scheming, desperate housewife in American Hustle resulted in a flurry of award nominations last year.
The trouble for Sony was that the award ceremonies all clashed with her filming schedule for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay in Georgia, Atlanta.
So, on three occasions, the company spent up to $51,000 (£34,000) chartering private jets to and from the set.
But that was small change compared to the penalty fee they nearly incurred when Lawrence was delayed by bad weather, after the New York premiere of American Hustle in December 2013.
A panicked email exchange suggests Sony would have forfeited $500,000 (£333,000) if she'd failed to make her 6am call time.
Veteran Hollywood press officer Peggy Siegal emailed Amy Pascal in October 2013 to assess 12 Years A Slave's chances at the Oscars - where it was up against Sony's own American Hustle.
"The Academy consists of approximately 6,000 white 60-year-old men who are educated, experienced filmmakers who take their voting power seriously," she wrote.
"They are all fiercely patriotic and very aware of our day by day international standing, politically and culturally.
"'12 Years' is truly a brilliant film with a compelling story [but] this film is made by a Brit that exposes the darkest 'hidden history' of America, exposing a cruel and brutal segment of our white society.
"The Academy's experience of watching this film is not pleasant. Some will not see it... yet, because of the violence.
"I think the voters are patiently waiting for an excuse to vote for another film. In their hearts, they are uncomfortable sending a global message from a Brit that we are, or were, terrible people."
Sony's English-language adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was a global hit, but it has been less than forthcoming on whether the next two books in Steig Larsson's series will be filmed.
That may be due to the studio's strained relationship with director David Fincher (who, according to one email, "refused to put the girl with the dragon tattoo in the ads for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo").
But Rooney Mara, who played the title role, decided to seek clarification from Pascal.
"Logic tells me they are not ever happening - as it's been almost three years since it came out," she wrote last October.
"But I had still been holding out a little bit of hope. I know there had been talks to do some sort of TV version without me. People still ask me about it ALL the time. And I never know quite what to say. So I guess I just wanted to ask you, so I could know for myself and so that I can let it go for good if that's the case.
"It's obviously a character and an experience I hold very close."
Pascal's response was simply: "I would love to chat with you."
Sony's electronics division were keen to have one of their phones - the forthcoming Sony Xperia Z4 - featured in the new Bond film, SPECTRE.
The sticking point was that the film's executive producer, Barbra Broccoli, was demanding a placement fee. So Sony's marketing chief George Lyon came up with a plan.
Noting that $5m (£3.3m) had already been earmarked to pay Daniel Craig for pictures of him using the phone, he suggested: "What if we take the Daniel Craig fee and convince Sony just to pay Barbara directly $4m for a placement fee?
"No Daniel this time. We walk from him. The remaining $1m (or LESS!) of this budget can be used to hire 'Q' instead?"
The documents do not disclose how this tactic played out.
Rudin's attacks on Angelina Jolie were due to the tortuous process of bringing Cleopatra back to the big screen.
Tension arose after Jolie's preferred director, David Fincher, became unavailable and Rudin's attempts to suggest alternatives - including Martin Scorsese and Ridley Scott - were not immediately embraced.
When Jolie wrote: "I'm studying a few more films to be sure"; Rudin emailed Pascal to say: "Beyond belief. She's studying films. Kill me please. Immediately."
Pascal replied: "What films is she studying?" to which Rudin pinged back: "I assume the ones she's been in."
Rudin apologised for his comments after the initial leak, saying: "I made a series of remarks that were meant only to be funny, but in the cold light of day, they are in fact thoughtless and insensitive - and not funny at all."
Following a meeting about comedy cop movie 22 Jump Street, Sony's president of production fired off an email to his senior colleagues.
"As soon as I came got back to my office, [producer] Brian Bell called to tell me that Jonah is refusing to drive the Lamborghini! He doesn't feel safe! They're OK, they're suiting up his double."
Ryan Gosling made his name playing shadowy, disturbed characters in films like Drive and The Place Beyond The Pines.
So it's something of a surprise to find out that the Canadian actor was desperate to make a film from the video game BioShock - a first-person shooter set in an post-apocalyptic underwater city.
"Ryan asked me to as[k] you if you are really doing a Bio Shock movie," his agent emailed Pascal, apparently mystified.
"Not sure exactly which one he is referring to, but I told him I would ask."


Britain's three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has apologised for the way Team Sky has handled questions over its record on doping.

But Team Sky's leading rider stressed the importance to the outfit of under-fire boss Sir Dave Brailsford.
UK Anti-Doping is investigating a 'mystery package' sent for Team Sky's former rider Sir Bradley Wiggins at a race in 2011.
Brailsford last week said he would not resign over the package.
"Without Dave B, there is no Team Sky," said Froome, who added it would "take time for faith to be restored".
Brailsford has said he was told the package contained a legal decongestant - Fluimucil - but the team has been unable to provide records to back up the claim.
Team Sky has since accepted "mistakes were made" over how medical records relating to the package were kept but denied breaking anti-doping rules.
Froome added: "I would like to apologise for this on behalf of myself and the other riders of Team Sky who feel passionately about our sport and winning clean."
A parliamentary select committee into anti-doping has been hearing evidence about the package, with committee chairman Damian Collins MP saying that Team Sky's reputation had been "left in tatters".
Dr Richard Freeman, who received the package for Wiggins at the Criterium du Dauphine, did not attend the last hearing because of ill health.
The committee has also heard evidence about Wiggins' use of therapeutic use exemptions, or TUEs, which allow athletes to take otherwise-banned substances when there is a clear medical need.
Wiggins was granted a TUE to take anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.
Wiggins' TUEs were approved by British authorities and cycling's world governing body the UCI, and there is no suggestion either he or Team Sky have broken any rules.
Last week several Team Sky riders - including Britain's Geraint Thomas - tweeted their support for Brailsford, but Froome did not comment publicly at the time.
Thomas also said last week there were "still questions to be answered" and expressed his annoyance that "Freeman and Brad don't seem to have the flak".
"It disappoints me hugely to see the way in which Team Sky has been portrayed by the media recently.  It does not reflect the support crew and the riders that I see around me.
"At the same time, I completely understand why people feel let down by the way in which the situation has been handled, and going forward we need to do better.
"I would like to apologise for this on behalf of myself and the other riders of Team Sky who feel passionately about our sport and winning clean.  I believe in the people around me, and what we are doing.
"With respect to Dave Brailsford, he has created one of the best sports teams in the world. Without Dave B, there is no Team Sky.
"He has supported me throughout the last seven years of my career and I couldn't be more grateful for the opportunities and the experiences I've had.  By his own admission, mistakes have been made, but protocols have been put in place to ensure that those same mistakes will not be made again.
"I know it will take time for faith to be restored, but I will do my utmost to ensure that happens, along with everyone else at Team Sky."
BBC sports editor Dan Roan
This may appear to be Chris Froome belatedly backing his under-fire boss Sir Dave Brailsford, but read the careful wording closely and it is clear that his support is very, very qualified. This is different from the "100% backing" messages that several of Froome's  team-mates gave to the Team Sky principal last week.
Instead, Froome seems to be taking a more pragmatic stand, making the point that unless Brailsford stays, Sky's sponsorship may cease, and the team could fold. This is how high the stakes have now become for one of the most successful professional teams in sport.


Yeovil Town have signed Southampton's Bevis Mugabi and agreed six-month loan deals for Bournemouth's Matt Butcher and West Brom's Tahvon Campbell.

Central defender Mugabi, 21, who can also play at right-back, has signed a one-year contract with the Glovers.
Campbell, 19, spent part of last season on loan at Huish Park, making 18 appearances for the League Two club.
Butcher, 19, had loan spells at Gosport Borough and Woking in 2015-16 and has played in two senior Bournemouth games.
Yeovil, who finished 19th in League Two last season, open their 2016-17 campaign at Notts County on Saturday.
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A US man charged with sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users has turned himself in.

Sanford Wallace, who is known as the "Spam King", surrendered to FBI agents in California.
Prosecutors allege he developed a program that breached Facebook spam filters and lured users to submit their account details.
Mr Wallace denies the charges, which carry prison sentences of up to 10 years.
He has been released on $100,000 (Â£61,000) bail.
Prosecutors say Mr Wallace's program posted messages on Facebook users walls - purportedly from friends - urging users to visit a website where their account details were then harvested.
They were then redirected to an affiliate website that earned Wallace "substantial revenue", the charges say.
The program also retrieved lists of Facebook users' friends and posted spam messages on their walls, the indictment adds.
About 500,000 Facebook accounts were compromised between November 2008 and March 2009, leading to more than 27 million spam messages being sent, prosecutors said.
Mr Wallace, who is from Las Vegas, is charged with six counts of electronic mail fraud, three counts of intentional damage to a protected computer and two counts of criminal contempt.
Facebook sued Mr Wallace in 2009 and a federal judge ordered him not to access Facebook's computer network. However, prosecutors say he repeatedly violated that order earlier this year.
Mr Wallace also lost a civil case brought against him by MySpace in 2008 over junk messages sent to members of the social networking site.


Audi, BMW and Mercedes Benz cars fitted with on-board sensors are to share information in real time about on-street parking spaces and roadworks via a digital map service.

They will also gather data on traffic conditions, hazards and road signs.
The service by mapping firm Here, owned by a group of German car makers, will roll out next year.
The platform will record vehicle speed, location and direction, as well as sharp braking and fog light activation.
Video footage of road hazards will also be captured by a forward-facing camera on the cars.
Other brands will join the service at a later date, the firm said.
Owners of cars which incorporate Here's Open Location Platform will not have to do anything to transmit or receive data.
Community mapping service Waze, owned by Google, already crowdsources travel data but users must be logged in via their smartphones.
The parking information service will also provide parking availability predictions for each street as well as details about payment options.
"Here believes that industry collaboration is essential to address the major challenges faced by road users everywhere.
"What we are seeing today is the technology and automotive industries coming together to create services that will elevate the driving experience for billions," said CEO Edzard Overbeek.
Here was sold by Nokia to the car group last year for 2.8bn euros (£2bn).


Luke Berry scored twice to inspire Cambridge United to victory over League Two strugglers Cheltenham Town.

Uche Ikpeazu gave the Us the perfect start, netting in the seventh minute with a deflected shot that wrong-footed goalkeeper Russell Griffiths.
The forward was central again after 18 minutes, stealing the ball from Aaron Downes and running through before teeing up Berry, whose shot was blocked superbly by Danny Parslow.
Berry did find the net 11 minutes after the interval, planting an unchallenged header past Griffiths after Greg Taylor's cross from the left side of the box.
He then doubled his tally 16 minutes from time with an angled drive following Max Clark's incisive pass.
Only a Griffiths save prevented Ikpeazu from making it 4-0 at the end of a rapid break, before Cheltenham struck a consolation goal five minutes from time when Billy Waters scrambled the ball home from close range after good work by Easah Suliman.
Report supplied by Press Association
Match ends, Cambridge United 3, Cheltenham Town 1.
Second Half ends, Cambridge United 3, Cheltenham Town 1.
Foul by Amari Morgan-Smith (Cheltenham Town).
Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town).
Greg Taylor (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Sean Long replaces Luke Berry.
Attempt missed. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Harrison Dunk replaces Piero Mingoia.
Foul by Kyle Storer (Cheltenham Town).
Max Clark (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal!  Cambridge United 3, Cheltenham Town 1. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Easah Suliman.
Attempt missed. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt saved. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner,  Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Mark Roberts.
Corner,  Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Leon Legge.
Attempt missed. Kyle Storer (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Foul by Ben Williamson (Cambridge United).
Aaron Downes (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Robert Dickie (Cheltenham Town).
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Max Clark (Cambridge United).
Goal!  Cambridge United 3, Cheltenham Town 0. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Max Clark.
Amari Morgan-Smith (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Greg Taylor (Cambridge United).
Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by Easah Suliman.
Attempt saved. Max Clark (Cambridge United) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by Billy Waters.
Corner,  Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Mark Roberts.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Amari Morgan-Smith replaces Danny Parslow.
James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card.
(Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
James Dayton (Cheltenham Town).
Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town).


Derek Lyle scored twice as Queen of the South battered Championship new boys Brechin City.

The veteran striker drilled home from Jordan Marshall's corner and pounced on a rebound to make it 2-0 at the break.
John Rankin added to the lead with a tap in before Chris O'Neil pulled one back in the 75th minute.
Lyndon Dykes restored the hosts' three-goal cushion almost immediately, chipping goalkeeper Graeme Smith to put the game beyond doubt.
Match ends, Queen of the South 4, Brechin City 1.
Second Half ends, Queen of the South 4, Brechin City 1.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Jesse Akubuine replaces Kyle Jacobs.
Jack Leighfield (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul McLean (Brechin City).
Foul by Shaun Rooney (Queen of the South).
Kalvin Orsi (Brechin City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Brechin City. Elliot Ford replaces Chris O'Neil.
Goal!  Queen of the South 4, Brechin City 1. Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left to the high centre of the goal.
Corner,  Queen of the South. Conceded by Sean Crighton.
Goal!  Queen of the South 3, Brechin City 1. Chris O'Neil (Brechin City) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ally Love.
Foul by Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South).
Finn Graham (Brechin City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Andy Stirling (Queen of the South) wins a free kick on the right wing.
John Rankin (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Chris O'Neil (Brechin City).
Foul by Finn Graham (Brechin City).
Attempt missed. Shaun Rooney (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Brechin City. Jordan Sinclair replaces Gary Fusco.
Substitution, Brechin City. Kalvin Orsi replaces Isaac Layne.
Corner,  Queen of the South. Conceded by Willie Dyer.
Attempt saved. Derek Lyle (Queen of the South) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Chris O'Neil (Brechin City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Andy Stirling (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris O'Neil (Brechin City).
Attempt saved. John Rankin (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by John Rankin (Queen of the South).
Andrew Jackson (Brechin City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South).
Andrew Jackson (Brechin City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Andy Stirling replaces Daniel Carmichael.
Goal!  Queen of the South 3, Brechin City 0. John Rankin (Queen of the South) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Willie Dyer (Brechin City) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Shaun Rooney (Queen of the South).
Ally Love (Brechin City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Andrew Jackson (Brechin City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.
Foul by Shaun Rooney (Queen of the South).
Finn Graham (Brechin City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Queen of the South. Conceded by Sean Crighton.


A plan by Olympic cyclist Geraint Thomas to convert his Monmouthshire home into a wedding venue has drawn dozens of complaints.

The gold medallist wants to convert part of Grade II-listed St Tewdric's House near Chepstow into reception and accommodation facilities.
But residents have said increased traffic on a minor road and late-night noise could cause problems.
The council will decide on the application next Tuesday.
Thomas married his wife Sara at the house last October and the couple have proposed adapting the stable courtyard to house new reception facilities and converting a lodge into guest accommodation.
The house would form part of the wedding venue, as well as offering further accommodation.
In a report, officers noted Mathern Community Council, which covers Thomas's home, and 33 residents had sent formal objections to the scheme.
One said: "A recently held wedding at the property was noisy with unexpected fireworks that frightened farm stock and domestic pets."
Monmouth MP David Davies also wrote and asked the council to "consider carefully" residents' concerns over a perceived negative impact on the area.
However, officers have recommended the application for approval, subject to conditions including a curfew of 1am, with music to be played inside only and to finish at midnight.


The cheque-processing company iPSL is set to close seven centres, according to the Unite union.

Officials said they had been warned of the plan to end operations at Scottish sites in Edinburgh and Clydebank.
Other centres under threat are reported to be Bootle, Bradford, Copley, Chelmsford and Camberley.
The company has confirmed it is looking at the "potential consolidation" of sites, but did not identify which were at risk.
It said the changes were result of a plan to introduce a "quicker and easier way of clearing cheques in the UK", which will start in October 2017.
Unite said it believed work would be consolidated at Northampton and Milton Keynes.
The closures would take place in 2018. A total of 600 jobs are thought to be at risk.
Unite official Dominic Hook said the announcement was "tragic news" for the workforce.
He said: "This consolidation strategy is deeply disappointing and the impact will be felt widely.
"This proposal will leave a workforce of just over 700 at iPSL which handles around 80% of cheques issued in the UK each year."
Cheques have become a less important part of the banking system as electronic transactions increase in popularity.
Although figures for 2015 showed 500 million cheques were written in the UK, this represented a year-on-year decline of 13%.
Mr Hook added: "The tide of digitalisation across the financial services brings with it huge challenges as organisations have to adapt the way they work.
"The changing face of cheque processing, with new digital imaging, has brought considerable difficulties for this industry. Unite wants to see iPSL make the necessary investment through new technology to secure as many jobs as is possible.
"This news will be a bitter blow for iPSL colleagues and Unite has pressed the company to provide the workforce with support and guidance with two training programmes and outplacement support to be offered to staff."
In a statement, iPSL said: "Following Government legislation in April 2015, the Cheque and Credit Clearing Company (C&CCC) is managing a programme to introduce a quicker and easier way of clearing cheques in the UK.
"The Image Clearing System (ICS), will enable images of cheques to be exchanged between banks and building societies, instead of moving paper around the country.
"This will enable money from cheques being available for withdrawal much sooner than is currently the case."
The company said its recognised unions - Unite and CWU - were "fully engaged and aware of these proposals".
It added: "The introduction of ICS will have a huge impact on the current cheque clearing process and for the last 12 months iPSL has been sharing developments and potential implications with our employees and bank customers.
"Its introduction will remove the requirement for remote data capture and processing, therefore reducing site requirements and a subsequent reduction in staffing numbers."


A US woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for making her five-year-old son sick and eventually killing him to gain attention online.

Lacey Spears, 27, of New York, administered salt into her son Garnett's feeding tube from infancy while writing a blog about his illness.
Prosecutors described her actions as evil, inhuman and despicable.
The judge said she was suffering from a rare mental disorder and so was spared the maximum 25-year sentence available.
Garnett died in 2014 at Westchester Medical Centre after he was treated for gastrointestinal symptoms that Spears had induced.
His feeding tube had been in place since infancy when Spears told doctors he could not keep food down.
When she took him to hospital saying he was having seizures, doctors found his sodium levels to be extremely high.
The prosecution said that having administered him salt at their home in suburban New York, she twice took Garnett into a bathroom at the hospital to do the same.
They said she posted pictures of him dying on her Facebook account.
Acting state supreme court justice Robert Neary called Spears' crime "unfathomable in its cruelty'', bringing Garnett "five years of torment and pain".
Assistant district attorney Doreen Lloyd said: "She continued to portray him as a sick child for her own bizarre need for attention.
"She used that feeding tube as a weapon to kill him."
Spears had told investigators that her son, whose father was killed in a car accident, suffered from a number of medical problems from Crohn's disease and Celiac diseases to ear abnormalities.
The judge described her as mentally ill and identified her condition as Munchausen by proxy syndrome, in which a person, usually a parent, sickens a child to gain attention from the child's plight.
Her defence lawyers had refused to raise the disorder as a defence and said she had not been diagnosed with any mental illness.
They had asked for the minimum sentence of 15 years. They have filed an appeal against her conviction.


A 33-year-old Castle Huntly inmate who failed to return to the open prison following a period of home leave has been traced.

Police Scotland said Thomas Proctor was traced in Coatbridge in the early hours of Friday.
Officers had advised the public not to approach Proctor.
The inmate was reported missing at about 15:00 on Wednesday after he failed to return to the open prison, near Dundee.


Police have appealed to the mother of a baby girl found dead on a footpath to tell them the child's name ahead of her funeral.

The infant, still with her umbilical cord attached, was found in a black bag by a member of the public in Marston, Oxford, on 29 February.
The baby was discovered with no signs of injury and a coroner recorded that she was stillborn.
Police said they wanted to find out if her family had any religious beliefs.
Det Con Sarah Danzelman, from Thames Valley Police, issued a direct appeal to the baby's mother to get in contact with her.
She said: "Shortly we will be arranging for a funeral for your little girl and we want to make sure she is laid to rest in an appropriate way in line with any beliefs you have.
"We are very keen to give your baby a name - a name that means something to you. Please let us know what her name is."
She added that the funeral service, which has not been given a date yet, would be open to anyone who wished to pay their respects.


A Nigerian man has received 20 lashes after an Islamic court in the northern city of Bauchi convicted him of homosexual offences.

Under Islamic law, courts can punish homosexual acts by stoning to death.
But the judge said he took into account that the Muslim man, Mubarak Ibrahim, 20, carried out the acts seven years ago, and had stopped the practice.
In Nigeria, homosexual acts are illegal under both Islamic and secular law and restrictions have been tightened.
Earlier this month, President Goodluck Jonathan signed into law a bill which bans same-sex marriages, gay groups and shows of same-sex public affection.
The new legislation applies throughout Nigeria.
Most states in the predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria have adopted Islamic law, known as Sharia, since the end of military rule in 1999.
Along with Mr Ibrahim, 11 other Muslims and a Christian man were arrested last month accused by the authorities of being homosexuals.
He was also ordered to pay a fine of about $30 (Â£18).
Mr Ibrahim told the BBC he was relieved that Judge Nuhu Muhammad had been lenient on him and had not sentenced him to death.
The BBC's Ishaq Khalid was in court when Mr Ibrahim was lashed with a whip, made of animal skin smeared with oil.
Mr Ibrahim, who had pleaded guilty to the charge, was ordered to lie on a bench, and an official whipped his back in front of a packed courtroom, our correspondent says.
Mr Ibrahim screamed in pain while being lashed, but was able to walk afterwards, he adds.
The trial of two other men was adjourned to 23 January.
The fate of the nine other men arrested on the same charge is unclear but on Wednesday the Sharia Commission in  Bauchi said the Christian would be tried by a "conventional court", not an Islamic court.
Nigeria is a deeply conservative country, with an influential Christian evangelical movement in the south and strong support for Islamic law among many Muslims in the north.
Hostility towards gay people has escalated since parliament debated the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act last year, Dorothy Aken'Ova, a rights activist with the Nigeria-based International Centre for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights, told the BBC.
She said that she was aware of 38 people being arrested in Bauchi state last month, and was trying to confirm reports of more arrests in both the north and south of Nigeria since the new law was approved.
"What this act is saying is that they [gay people] do not deserve to exist," she told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme on Wednesday.


Mae elusen wedi galw am sefydlu cofrestr er mwyn cofnodi enwau pobl sydd wedi cyflawni troseddau yn erbyn anifeiliaid, yn dilyn beirniadaeth nad oes ffordd glir o orfodi gwaharddiad ar y troseddwyr.

Mae'r RSPCA yn dweud bod 11 o bobl wedi eu herlyn am beidio cadw at eu gwaharddiad yn y tair blynedd ddiwethaf.
Ond maen nhw'n pryderu y gallai'r ffigwr fod yn llawer uwch.
Yn ôl yr elusen gallai cofrestr ganiatáu i berchnogion siopau anifeiliaid a chanolfannau ail gartrefu anifeiliaid weld beth yw cefndir person sydd eisiau prynu anifail.
Mae Llywodraeth San Steffan yn dweud bod yna system gofnodi yn bodoli yn barod gan yr heddlu, ac y gall unigolyn ofyn i swyddog i wirio os ydyn nhw'n pryderu.
Maen nhw hefyd yn pryderu y gallai cofrestr agored "annog pobl i gymryd y gyfraith i'w dwylo eu hunain".
Mae'r RSPCA yn dweud bod 228 o bobl wedi eu herlyn yng Nghymru am droseddau yn erbyn anifeiliaid ers 2013.
Ond mae'n rhaid i'r cyhoedd fod yn ymwybodol bod y troseddwr wedi eu gwahardd rhag cadw anifeiliaid yn y lle cyntaf, ac yna rhoi gwybod i'r elusen am y mater.
Byddai cofrestr yn ffordd effeithiol o wneud i bobl feddwl ddwywaith cyn troseddu ac yn atal dioddefaint anifeiliaid, meddai'r mudiad.
Ym mis Ionawr cafodd Frank Lewis, 18 oed o Groeserw ger Port Talbot ei ddedfrydu am ddwyn cathod o warchodfa er mwyn i'w gŵn allu eu hela a'u lladd.
Roedd wedi dwyn yr anifeiliaid o warchodfa Tŷ Nant.
San Steffan
Yn ôl yr Aelod Seneddol lleol Stephen Kinnock, mae angen gwneud yn siŵr nad yw pobl fel Frank Lewis yn troseddu yn erbyn anifeiliaid eto.
Mae wedi gofyn cwestiwn ysgrifenedig i'r adran berthnasol o fewn llywodraeth y Deyrnas Unedig am y mater.
"Mae angen i ni wneud yn siŵr ein bod ni'n gallu atal rhywbeth fel hyn rhag digwydd eto. Mae'n rhaid bod 'na ffordd o wneud hyn, bod gyda chi gofrestr ond eich bod chi ddim yn torri'r gyfraith diogelu data."
Mae'r RSPCA yn dweud bod yna dystiolaeth o'r UDA sydd yn awgrymu bod cysylltiad rhwng troseddwyr sydd yn cam-drin anifeiliaid ac yna yn troseddu yn erbyn pobl, mater sydd hefyd yn pryderu Mr Kinnock.
"Oherwydd hynny fe fyddai'n beth da o safbwynt atal trosedd i gadw cofrestr fel eich bod chi'n gallu bod yn llym ynglŷn â chosbi pobl sydd yn troseddu yn erbyn anifeiliaid, a hefyd cadw golwg arnyn nhw rhag ofn eu bod nhw'n troseddu yn erbyn pobl," meddai.
Mae galwadau hefyd wedi bod i gael cofrestr yng Nghymru gan yr AC Plaid Cymru, Bethan Jenkins.
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran adran amgylchedd, bwyd a materion gwledig Llywodraeth y DU bod yr heddlu yn cadw cofnod o droseddwyr trwy system gyfrifiadurol genedlaethol, ond bod angen gwneud "gwell defnydd o'r gronfa ddata" a rhannu gwybodaeth yn well.
Mae'r llefarydd hefyd yn dweud bod modd i berson ofyn i'r heddlu os oes ydynt yn poeni, a bod yr heddlu yn gallu edrych ar y system i weld os yw'r unigolyn wedi cyflawni troseddau yn erbyn anifeiliaid.


The robot rover that Europe is building to send to Mars is likely to be targeted at an equatorial region known as Oxia Planum.

It is an area rich in clays and other minerals that have resulted from prolonged rock interactions with water.
The European Space Agency's ExoMars vehicle will carry a suite of instruments to look for signs at Oxia of past or even present life.
The launch of the mission from Earth is currently scheduled for 2018.
However, if the hardware cannot be prepared in time - and there is some doubt that it can be - then the departure will occur in 2020.
If that is the case then scientists and engineers will also consider two other locations - Mawrth Vallis and Aram Dorsum.
The rating of the competing destinations follows two days of debate inside the  ExoMars Landing Site Selection Working Group (LSSWG).
Oxia Planum, which is said to enjoy strong support across the group, is now regarded as the "primary candidate".
The location will be subjected to further strenuous analysis, not just to better understand its scientific credentials but also to determine its engineering suitability.
Mission managers have to be sure that the rover can get down safely using its system of parachutes and rockets.
To win final approval, Oxia will need to have an area of terrain roughly 100km by 15km (the ellipse of error expected with the landing system) that is largely free from fissures, excessive slopes and large boulders.
The US space agency (Nasa) will help determine whether this is so by imaging Oxia with the high-resolution camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Commenting on the selection, ExoMars project scientist Dr Jorge Vago said: "Oxia Planum has the lowest elevation of the sites, which from an engineering point of view gives you an extra level of confidence (because it affords more time for the parachutes to slow the descent).
"And in terms of rockiness and slopes - what we have seen so far appears to be all right.
"Nasa have been great. They've been giving us plenty of MRO images, and for the 2018 launch opportunity we have already pretty good coverage; in some cases up to 40-50% of the ellipse."
For a 2018 launch, confirmation of ExoMars' target destination should come in late 2017.
A fourth candidate - Hypanis Vallis - was dropped by the LSSWG from consideration for both the 2018 and 2020 scenarios.
The Martian contenders
Dr Peter Grindrod is a Mars specialist with the UK Space Agency and Birkbeck, University of London.
After the LSSWG meeting, he told BBC News: "One of the most exciting things we've heard about all of the final sites is that, although they each have slightly different geological features and histories, it seems that they might all be linked in a broader sense.
"The sites all have access to some of the oldest rocks that show evidence of water being present, which could have formed early in the history of Mars when conditions were possibly more favourable for life.
"With all sites being relatively close together on the planet, it's reassuring that ExoMars in Oxia Planum will tell us about the bigger picture of the history of the area, in addition of course to addressing the question of life."
The ExoMars project has been a long-drawn-out affair, subjected to various programmatic changes and delays.
It came very close to collapse in 2012 when Nasa scaled back its involvement, and was only saved when Russia agreed to pick up key elements of the mission.
These include the provision of a rocket to send the rover on its way and the design for a landing system.
Currently, space agency officials are in negotiation with industry for the contract to fabricate the flight hardware - what is known as a Phase C/D contract.
This is taking longer than expected, in part because of uncertainty over the build and integration schedule.
The various components of the mission - including the rover (UK), its instruments (Italy), the landing system (Russia) and the cruise ship that takes everything to Mars - must all fit into a complex sequence of assembly and testing.
If this sequence can be agreed and made to work, the mission will be sitting atop its Proton rocket at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in May 2018, for a launch that would lead to a landing at the chosen site eight months later.
If industry cannot meet the schedule, the whole venture will slip by two years to an August 2020 launch (landing in April 2021).
The two-year bounce is a consequence of Mars' and Earth's alignment: they are only in optimal positions in their orbits to support a flight opportunity once every 26 months.
An industry "tiger team" is presently trying to figure out solutions to the scheduling problems, to maintain the 2018 option.
ExoMars rover and satellite relay
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos


Belfast students have been warned of an increased police presence on the streets ahead of the St Patrick's Day festivities.

Queen's University issued an email saying officers would be wearing personal cameras to collect evidence.
It follows street disturbances and anti-social behaviour in the Holyland area of south Belfast in recent years.
Duncan Morrow from Ulster University said: "The message has to be 'Stay away from the Holyland'.
"Anti-social behaviour will be severely disciplined if we get any evidence of it".
The area, lying to the rear of Queen's University, is dominated by Victorian housing divided into student accommodation.
Dr Morrow said sanctions "up to and including dismissal" could be applied.
Five off-licences in  Holyland area are to close "voluntarily" for a number of hours on St Patrick's Day.
The university insists that the majority of those who have traditionally travelled to the mainly-student area of the city on St Patrick's Day are post-primary pupils or non-students.
One student interviewed for BBC Radio Ulster said people's behaviour was affected by alcohol.
"Obviously when the drink's in, the wit's out, but I would say that 99% of students obviously behave themselves," he said.
The two universities are giving students the day off on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday as "reading days".
Queen's representatives have visited more than 200 student houses in the area where they know QUB students live, and have made preventative presentations in post-primary schools.
The two universities have investigated 350 cases of complaints against students since the beginning of term, and all those students have been given at least a warning about their conduct.
The police have said that University Avenue, Carmel Street and Agincourt Avenue are to be kept clear from Thursday afternoon to allow for emergency access.


Ryan Giggs has consented to being named as the footballer behind a legal order preventing the publication of details of an alleged extra-marital affair.

Mr Giggs was granted the injunction in April 2011 after a 14 April article in the Sun on an unnamed player's alleged affair with model Imogen Thomas.
Despite the order, Mr Giggs was widely identified. The High Court heard that he had now consented to being named.
It is considering whether he can sue the Sun for alleged breach of privacy.
Mr Giggs had been granted an injunction on the basis that TV presenter Ms Thomas appeared to have been trying to blackmail him.
However, the 2003 Miss Wales and former Big Brother contestant took legal action against him and, in December 2011, Mr Giggs accepted that she had not been blackmailing him.
In court on Tuesday, Mr Giggs's lawyer - Hugh Tomlinson QC - said the injunction that had been supposed to stop his client being identified as the subject of the Sun's story had been breached by thousands of people on the internet.
Mr Tomlinson said there had been "large scale and continued breaches of the order by a number of malign individuals" who had put his client's name in the public domain.
Mr Giggs, a former Welsh international who has played for Manchester United for 20 years, was widely identified on social networking sites and in a Scottish newspaper.
In May, Lib Dem MP John Hemming also named Mr Giggs during an urgent Commons question on privacy orders.
Using parliamentary privilege to break the court order, he said it would not be practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter users who had named the player.
Mr Tomlinson said his client was claiming damages from the Sun for the subsequent re-publication of information in other newspapers and on the internet.
"He has suffered damage and distress by the chain of events that has been set off by the publication of the article in the Sun," he said.
"We say the printing of information on the front page of a national newspaper can give rise to an action for misuse of private information."
Mr Tomlinson said the Sun article had "generated a large media storm" and that the damages claim was about "providing effective protection" for Mr Giggs's right to privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights.
For News Group Newspapers - which publishes the Sun - Richard Spearman QC said the newspaper had behaved "entirely properly".
He said the original account of the affair published in the Sun was an "extremely generalized and anodyne" account.
"We didn't identify him. We didn't intend to identify him," he said. "On the damages for publication, it is dead in the water, this case."
Mr Spearman said the Sun had informed Mr Giggs about the article before it was published, giving him an opportunity to seek an injunction.
He said legal action had been "spun along for a long, long time", but Mr Tomlinson said that allegation was "wholly without foundation".
After hearing legal arguments at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Mr Justice Tugendhat reserved his decision on whether the case should go to trial.


Munster ran riot with eight tries against the Dragons to set up a home Pro12 semi-final against the Ospreys.

Conor Murray scored two of his three tries in the first half with Andrew Smith, CJ Stander and Paul O'Connell putting Munster 33-10 ahead the break.
Ashton Hewitt had Dragons only first-half try with Tyler Morgan, Rhys Buckley and Jack Dixon also crossing.
Keith Earls and Ronan O'Mahony added second-half tries as Munster secured a vital home semi-final at Thomond Park.
Munster started the final round of games in third place but secured a top-two position with a flurry of early tries.
They had the bonus point wrapped up after 23 minutes when Conor Murray scored from close-range for his second, and Munster's fourth, try.
Jason Tovey nailed a second-minute penalty for the visitors, and Munster responded immediately with Australian centre Andrew Smith running in untouched for the first of the game's 12 tries after three minutes.
The scores continued to flow with Ashton Hewitt putting the Dragons in front with a try after four minutes, which Tovey converted as the visitors led 10-7.
Munster back-rower CJ Stander scored the game's third try after just eight minutes and from that point, Munster took complete control.
Ireland scrum-half Conor Murray scored two tries in a seven-minute spell, his first coming after a pick and go from a Munster ruck close to the line.
Dragons' lost Hugh Gustafon to a sin-binning after 19 minutes and Munster capitalised with Murray crossing for the second time in the 23rd minute. Ian Keatley added the extras for his fourth conversion of the half.
Irish rugby legend received the biggest cheer of the day in Musgrave when he landed the province's fifth try in first-half stoppage time to lead Munster leading 33-10 at half time.
Ireland wing Keith Earls and Dargons' Tyler Morgan scored after the interval and despite losing Paddy Butler to the sin-bin, Munster scored again with Murray grabbing his hat-trick try after 64 minutes.
Rhys Buckley and Jack Dixon added late tries for the Dragons, who started and ended the day in ninth place.
TEAMS
Munster: F Jones; K Earls, A Smith, D Hurley (capt), R O'Mahony; I Keatley, C Murray; J Ryan, E Guinazu, BJ Botha; B Holland, P O'Connell; D Ryan, P Butler, CJ Stander.
Replacements: D Kilcoyne for J Ryan (51), N Scannell for Guinazu (51), JJ Hanrahan for Keatley (54), A Conway for Earls (65), S Archer for Botha (65), D Williams for Murray (67), S Dougall for O'Connell (68), J O'Donoghue for Stander (68).
Newport Gwent Dragons: J Tovey; T Prydie, T Morgan, A Hewitt, H Amos; D Jones, J Evans; B Stankovich, H Gustafson, B Harris; C Hill, R Landman (capt); N Crosswell, N Cudd, T Faletau.
Replacements: R Rees for Evans (51), M Screech for Hill (54), R Buckley for Gustafon (63), B Nightingale for Morgan (63), J Benjamin for Crosswell (67), G Rhys Jones for Tovey (70).
Not used: P Price, L Fairbrother.
Referee: Ben Whitehouse (WRU)


Leicester striker Jamie Vardy has been chosen as the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year.

The England forward got 36% of the vote from 290 journalists, ahead of team-mates Riyad Mahrez and N'Golo Kante.
Vardy, 29, has scored 22 Premier League goals this season, including netting in a league record 11 games in a row.
The Foxes need two more points to guarantee their first top-flight title and will win it on Monday if Tottenham fail to beat Chelsea.
Leicester forward Mahrez won the the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year award last month.
The last time two different players from the same club won both awards was 2004-05 when Chelsea's John Terry (PFA) and Frank Lampard (FWA) were the winners.
Vardy will return from a two-game ban against Everton on Saturday 7 May, having been sent off for diving against West Ham and accepting a charge of improper conduct for verbally abusing referee Jon Moss.
Team-mate Danny Drinkwater is suspended for the Everton game following his sending off in Leicester's 1-1 draw at Old Trafford on Sunday.
However, the Football Association will not be taking any further action against Drinkwater. It had been suggested in some reports that he appeared to swear at referee Michael Oliver before leaving the field in the 87th minute and could face further sanction.


Age UK has been criticised by the Charity Commission, after it recommended an energy tariff that was not the cheapest available.

Earlier this year the charity was accused of making £6m in profit from a special deal it had negotiated with the energy supplier E.On.
In its report the Charity Commission said Age UK had "insufficient" oversight mechanisms.
Age UK said it would now be making changes, to show greater transparency.
However the energy regulator, Ofgem, said an inquiry of its own was not needed.
"Participation in the energy market poses significant risks, and Age UK should consider whether continued involvement is in the charity's best interests," said David Holdsworth, chief operating officer at the Charity Commission.
"Although the charity had oversight mechanisms, the commission found these were insufficient and needed to be kept under more regular review. Any fee or commission that the charity receives through these arrangements must be clear and transparent."
The Commission also said that Age UK's endorsement of the tariff would have "set an expectation amongst some" that it would have been the cheapest tariff available.
Age UK suspended the tariff "temporarily" back in February.
Under the offer, customers were likely to pay an average of £1,049 a year, under a two-year fixed deal. However, that was £176 more expensive than the cheapest deal offered by E.On under a one-year tariff.
At the time, Age UK said it was unfair to compare the two directly.
However, the charity said it would be making some changes as a result of the Charity Commission's report.
"We accept we can never be too transparent and our trading arm needs a sharper demarcation from the Age UK charity," a spokesperson said.
"We want every customer of our trading arm to know who they have bought from, that any surplus is then gifted to our charity, and how this then benefits older people in need."
A spokesperson for the regulator said: "Ofgem has looked into E.On's marketing of its tariffs with Age UK and concluded that there is no case to open an investigation."


Dozens of people have been killed or wounded as fighting escalates along the front line in eastern Ukraine and the battle for Donetsk airport continues.

Artillery fire was reported in several areas of the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions and a hospital in Donetsk city was hit, reports said.
Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels both said they controlled the airport.
As Russia warned Ukraine not to make a strategic mistake, Kiev said more Russian troops had crossed the border.
Russia has repeatedly denied claims that its regular forces are in eastern Ukraine, but has admitted that a number of "volunteers" are fighting alongside the rebels.
The surge of violence began last week as the fight for control of the airport intensified. Government forces fought back after rebels said they had finally seized the new terminal building having besieged government forces for months.
The rebel military command said its forces had halted a government offensive at the strategically important Putylivskiy bridge between the airport and the city. The bridge was destroyed in the fighting.
Buildings in the centre of Donetsk have been badly damaged and there are reports that a hospital has been hit. Eight civilians have been killed and many more wounded in recent days, local authorities say.
Meanwhile the rebels accuse government forces of shelling civilians in rebel-held Horlivka, a town north of the airport. Nine civilians were killed there and 44 wounded by a bomb dropped by a Ukrainian plane, said Eduard Basurin at the rebel "defence ministry".
A boy and his father were killed and 10 other civilians were wounded when shells hit the government-held town of Debaltseve, north-east of Donetsk, Ukrainian TV reported.
The escalating fighting prompted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gregory Karasin to warn Ukraine that relying on a military solution was "the biggest, even strategic mistake" that could "lead to irreversible consequences for Ukraine's statehood".
Ukraine said two large groups of Russian forces had crossed the border into Ukraine on Monday, but there was no independent confirmation.
Donetsk airport has symbolic and strategic value to both sides. It has been the scene of heavy fighting for months.
Ukrainian media view it as a symbol of "Ukrainian fighting spirit". The troops defending the airport have been called "cyborgs" for their toughness in repulsing constant attacks, and for many they symbolise a new Ukrainian army. Social media users say the destruction of the airport looks like Stalingrad during World War Two.
Separatists have tried hard to undermine the "cyborg myth". They view the airport as part of their capital and, while it remains in government hands, a bridgehead for a potential Ukrainian offensive.
Despite the airport's infrastructure being almost completely destroyed, some experts have pointed out that its runway could still be used for flying in supplies, which is proving difficult for the rebels.
Donetsk airport lay in ruins on Monday after days of fierce fighting.
Military officials said on Sunday they had "succeeded in almost completely cleansing the territory of the airport" but rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko denied the claims on Monday.
Both sides admitted sustaining losses.  A senior rebel officer in Donetsk said eight rebel soldiers had died and 33 were wounded while Ukrainian defence officials said three soldiers had been killed and dozens more were hurt.
A presidential adviser in Kiev said many soldiers in the airport terminal were wounded when a ceiling collapsed after it was blown up by separatists.
Russian officials say the Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, did not respond to a proposal from President Vladimir Putin for the warring sides to pull back their heavy weapons and stop fighting.
However, Ukraine insists that it wants the September ceasefire - agreed in Minsk - to be implemented. The foreign ministry urged Russia again to withdraw troops and heavy weapons from the conflict zone.
Ukraine says some 8,500 Russian regular troops are helping the rebels, a claim denied by Moscow.
More than 4,800 people have been killed since the rebels took control of a parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Ukraine last April. Many more civilians have been displaced.
The fighting began a month after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula.


Pescara's Serie A match against Atalanta was suspended for two minutes in the first half after tremors were felt following an earthquake.

A strong earthquake hit central Italy, with people in Pescara and neighbouring towns rushing out of their homes in panic as the ground shook.
Buildings also shook in the capital Rome but there were no reports of any deaths across Italy.
Atalanta eventually went on to win 1-0 with Mattia Caldara scoring the goal.
Match ends, Pescara 0, Atalanta 1.
Second Half ends, Pescara 0, Atalanta 1.
Andrea Masiello (Atalanta) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rey Manaj (Pescara).
Foul by Roberto Gagliardini (Atalanta).
Alexandru Mitrita (Pescara) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alberto Paloschi (Atalanta).
Hugo Campagnaro (Pescara) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Pescara. Alberto Aquilani tries a through ball, but Rey Manaj is caught offside.
Roberto Gagliardini (Atalanta) is shown the yellow card.
Hand ball by Roberto Gagliardini (Atalanta).
Substitution, Atalanta. Roberto Gagliardini replaces Franck Kessié.
Foul by Mattia Caldara (Atalanta).
Gianluca Caprari (Pescara) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Remo Freuler (Atalanta) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simone Pepe (Pescara).
Corner,  Pescara. Conceded by Mattia Caldara.
Attempt blocked. Rey Manaj (Pescara) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Hugo Campagnaro.
Corner,  Atalanta. Conceded by Rey Manaj.
Marco D'Alessandro (Atalanta) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Alessandro Crescenzi (Pescara).
Substitution, Pescara. Alexandru Mitrita replaces Cristiano Biraghi.
Substitution, Atalanta. Andrea Masiello replaces Andrea Conti.
Attempt missed. Franck Kessié (Atalanta) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Remo Freuler with a cross.
Cristiano Biraghi (Pescara) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Marco D'Alessandro (Atalanta) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Cristiano Biraghi (Pescara).
Corner,  Pescara. Conceded by Abdoulay Konko.
Attempt missed. Marco D'Alessandro (Atalanta) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Abdoulay Konko.
Foul by Boukary Dramé (Atalanta).
Francesco Zampano (Pescara) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Alberto Paloschi (Atalanta) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Remo Freuler.
Hugo Campagnaro (Pescara) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Marco D'Alessandro (Atalanta) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Hugo Campagnaro (Pescara).
Attempt missed. Jasmin Kurtic (Atalanta) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Alberto Paloschi.
Corner,  Atalanta. Conceded by Cristiano Biraghi.
Substitution, Pescara. Simone Pepe replaces Gastón Brugman.
Jasmin Kurtic (Atalanta) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Hugo Campagnaro (Pescara).


Copenhagen awoke to the news that the Little Mermaid - the Danish capital's most famous statue - had been covered in blue and white paint.

It is an ignominious look for the elegant statue, which has gazed wistfully across the water for more than a century.
But it is also not the worst thing that has happened to the mermaid in its history. In fact, it's not even the first time she has been vandalised in the last month.
The Little Mermaid has been decapitated (twice), had her arm sawn off and been blown up.
And, to add insult to injury, she has even found herself banned from Facebook for breaching its nudity guidelines.
So how did one of the world's most iconic statues become a focus for vandalism and protest?
Sculptor Edvard Eriksen could not have imagined what would befall his statue, inspired by the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale, when it was commissioned in 1909.
Four years later, the 175kg (385lb) bronze statue was presented to the city of Copenhagen, and it was decided she would be place at Langelinje Pier, watching over the harbour and its ships.
And, for the next half century, she was fine.
But then, in April 1964, the Little Mermaid was attacked for the first time: beheaded with a hacksaw.
Her head, and the perpetrator of this vicious attack, disappeared into the night, never to be seen again.
More than three decades later, the artist Jorgen Nash said he was behind the decapitation. It was, he claimed in 1997, carried out in a fit of rage after the love of his life left him.
However, he was certainly not the only person to confess to the crime. The Little Mermaid is Denmark's most famous sculpture - its very own Statue of Liberty - and there were lots of people willing to take the blame for the "murder", apparently in return for their own moment in the limelight.
But while they may have been willing to take the blame, it was another 20 years before someone had the audacity to attack the statue once more.
This time, her arm was sawn off. But this was no political protest. Instead, it appears to have been the act of two drunken young men who shamefacedly returned the appendage two days later.
Just six years after this, another attempt was made to remove the Little Mermaid's replaced head. It was unsuccessful, but left her with a deep "wound" in her neck.
Then, in 1998, a third attempt to decapitate the statue was made. As in 1964, the culprits successfully made off with the head.
Her beheading was not taken lightly: murder squad detectives were drafted in to attempt solve the mystery.
It looked like they might have found their culprits with relative ease: within days, the previously unheard of Radical Feminist Fraction said they had done it to "create a symbol of sexually fixated and misogynist male dream of women as bodies without heads".
But Danish police weren't convinced, and as in previous decapitations, the identity of the vandal remains a mystery.
However, the head was returned, left outside a Danish television centre anonymously - and so was in place when someone blew her off her rock five years later.
In September 2003, and the grand old age of 90, she was found floating face down in the harbour.
This time the attack was rumoured to have been the work of anti-war protesters, angry at Danish involvement in Iraq.
But again, despite the murder squad's best efforts to discover the identity of the culprits, exactly who they were - and what their motives were - remain a mystery.
For the last 14 years, the statue has managed to keep herself in one piece. She has, however, worn a burqa, held a sex toy and been covered in paint - twice this year alone.
At least the motives for the vandalism have become clearer in recent years: for example, the burqa was a statement against Turkey joining the EU, and the red paint of two weeks ago was in protest at whaling in the Faroe Islands.
This latest act of vandalism was accompanied by the words "Befri (sic) Abdulle", or "Free Abdulle".
It is not entirely clear, but appears to reference the case of 36-year-old Abdulle Ahmed, a Somali citizen who has spent more than decade at a Danish psychiatric hospital, allegedly forced to take medication over reported violence against caregivers.
Will it be the last? It seems unlikely as making a political statement is all the more effective if made on one of the city's top tourist attractions.
But Copenhagen's mayor for culture, Carl Christian Ebbesen, has a simple suggestion for how it could be prevented in the future: CCTV.
"I believe that video surveillance can help to have a preventive effect and gather evidence, if it should happen again," he told Danish news site DR.dk [in Danish].


The last of 11 people accused of maltreating five patients at a private hospital has pleaded guilty.

6 August 2012 Last updated at 18:01 BST
Michael Onyema Ezenagu, 28, of White City, London, was due on trial at Bristol Crown Court but admitted two charges of ill-treating a patient.
He and the 10 other defendants were originally detained after secret filming by the BBC's Panorama at Winterbourne View, near Bristol.
The other defendants pleaded guilty at previous hearings.
Judge Neil Ford said they would all be sentenced at the same time, but this would not take place for at least three weeks.


A Manchester shop worker has been jailed after fraudulently trying to claim the £1m lottery winnings of an elderly woman.

Farrakh Nizzar, 30, of Woodlands Road, Crumpsall, Greater Manchester, told Maureen Holt, 78, she had won nothing when he scanned her ticket.
He later tried to claim the EuroMillions jackpot himself.
Nizzar, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced at Manchester Minshull Street Court to 30 months in prison.
Passing sentence, Recorder Philip Cattan told Nizzar: "This goes to the heart of public confidence in the National Lottery.
"The courts must demonstrate to you and to others that this type of fraud will be met by significant custody."
Mrs Holt and her husband Fred, 80, who knew Nizzar by his nickname Lucky, told him to bin the worthless ticket.
After they left the shop, Nizzar called the lottery hotline and tried to claim the jackpot for himself, saying he had bought the ticket at the Best One store in Watersheddings Street, Oldham, where he worked.
The scam was unravelled when checks were made by lottery operator Camelot which showed the winning ticket was not bought at the store.
It was bought at Tesco Extra in Oldham where Mr Holt had used his Clubcard while paying for the couple's weekly groceries and Mrs Holt was seen on CCTV footage.
Mr and Mrs Holt had been on holiday when the draw which matched their numbers was made on 22 June.
They were presented with their cheque from Camelot on 2 August.
The couple said in a statement: "We are glad justice has been done and that this matter is now behind us. We can now look forward to enjoying our lottery win and spending some time with our family and friends.
"We understand the defendant has written a letter to us and we look forward to reading this."
Camelot said in a statement the company has "stringent operations in place to detect fraud and to monitor suspicious activity".
"The success of The National Lottery is built on player trust - and the sentence handed down to Mr Nizzar provides clear evidence Camelot will not allow that trust to be undermined in any way."
Det Con Kate Carnally said: "Nizzar's actions were at best foolish, and at worst, extremely cruel.
"He knew this woman had a winning ticket and chose to lie to her, deliberately duping her out of a life-changing sum of money that would have meant financial security for her and her husband in their retirement.
"To cheat an elderly woman and try and claim the money for himself was both callous and underhand, but thankfully he did not get away with his scam."
She added: "Because of that, Nizzar has been brought to justice and just as importantly, the genuine owner of the ticket has been paid out what was always rightfully hers."


Arsenal Ladies beat Reading Women for the second time in four league games to go third in Women's Super League One.

The Gunners, who had lost back-to-back league games to rivals Manchester City and Chelsea, went ahead through Jordan Nobbs' fine long-range strike.
Midfielder Dominique Janssen's header doubled Arsenal's lead after the break.
Emma Follis curled in to give newly promoted Reading hope in the closing stages, but the Royals missed chances and remain winless in the top flight.
Spain's Natalia had put the ball in the net for Arsenal with the score at 1-0, but was deemed to have been offside.
Reading - who lost their opening game of the season 3-1 at Arsenal in March - rallied in the latter stages and Follis almost equalised in stoppage time but saw her volley go wide.
Chelsea Ladies maintain 100% winning start
Birmingham Ladies earn first points of the season
Arsenal defender Casey Stoney: "If we had gone away with a draw we would've had to seriously look at ourselves.
"Three points tonight was massive for us to just get a little bit of confidence back and a bit of rhythm back - and also some points, most importantly.
"It should have been more comfortable, given the first half, but also in the second half we had a couple of one-on-ones with the goalkeeper and we haven't taken them.
"But credit to Reading, they never give up, they always fight. They're doing really well considering they're a newly promoted team. They're very difficult to play against."
Reading forward Lauren Bruton: "In the last 20 minutes we actually did really well and it's a shame that we didn't start that way.
"It was a tough game and it's just a shame that we had all the pressure in the last 20 minutes, but it wasn't meant to be.
"We were hoping to go in 0-0 at half-time and unfortunately they scored. But we were happy with 1-0 at half-time and we knew we could push them in the second half. It was just a shame that we let in that second goal but we finished so well."


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Britain's Elinor Barker was pipped to gold at the Track Cycling World Championships as Italy's Rachele Barbieri won the women's scratch race.

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Jolien D'Hoore took bronze for Belgium in the 10km race on the opening day of the championships in Hong Kong.
"I went ever so slightly too soon and that probably cost me the win," Wales' Barker, 22, told BBC Sport.
"I was just not fast enough. Congratulations to her but I'm really disappointed."
Barker won team pursuit Olympic gold alongside Katie Archibald, Laura Kenny and Joanna Rowsell Shand in Rio last summer.
But she just missed out on Wednesday as the medals were decided in a bunch sprint and Barbieri edged home.
Elsewhere, there was disappointment for Britain in the men's team sprint.
Jack Carlin, 19, Ryan Owens, 21, and Joseph Truman, 20, were third-fastest in qualifying but failed in their first-round match-up with the Netherlands.
The trio had taken two gold medals from two World Cup meetings in November - their first at senior level - but defeat meant they will miss out on a medal race.
"We've had a dream run up to now and we were close to our best time ever, it's really disappointing," Owens said.
"We came here in the form of our lives, and if a few technical things had gone differently it would have been a different story."
New Zealand retained their title with victory over Netherlands, while France won bronze from Poland.
In the men's team pursuit, Andy Tennant, Mark Stewart, Ollie Wood and Chris Latham qualified for Thursday's bronze-medal race against Italy. Australia and New Zealand will contest the gold medal.
Russia won gold in the women's team sprint, beating Australia, while Germany won bronze from China. Great Britain did not have a team competing in the race.
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BBC cycling commentator Simon Brotherton
What a fantastic ride that was from Elinor Barker. First she had us on the edge of our seats, then she had us out of our seats, but in the end it wasn't quite her day.
Double Olympic gold medallist Joanna Rowsell Shand
With one lap to go, Elinor had got around the Dutch favourite and she probably thought she'd nailed it. The Italian just won it, but El looks so strong and I think we have got a lot more to see from her this week. Starting with a silver will only make her hungrier.
Six-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy
New Zealand were immense in the men's team sprint.  It was tough on the British team, but this will inspire them to work harder.
They shouldn't be disappointed though. It's frustrating, but these are the first steps towards the Tokyo Olympic Games and they should be proud of what they have achieved so far. It's been a fantastic breakthrough on the elite international level from them this year.
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When David Abney got a part-time job for United Parcel Service (UPS) so he could afford to take his childhood sweetheart out on dates, little did he know that he would go on to become the giant company's boss.

It was in 1974 when a then 19-year-old Mr Abney first started working for the world's largest parcel delivery firm.
A business student at Delta State University in Mississippi, at night he would work at the local UPS depot, loading packages onto vans. By day he would sleep between lectures on a sofa in the student lounge.
He was tired, but he had money to take his girlfriend out for a meal.
After graduating in 1976, while many of his friends applied for more typical graduate jobs, Mr Abney decided to go full-time with his low level UPS job.
He says he had become fascinated with how the US business worked, how through teamwork it could deliver parcels on time across the States and around the world.
Soon promoted to a UPS driver, and then a supervisor, over the next 40 years he continued to move up through the business, until, in 2014, he was appointed chief executive.
Mr Abney, a born and bred Mississippian, puts his success down to his deep Southern roots, willingness to work hard, and pride in the company. Others also cite his desire to learn about every single part of the business.
Another key factor behind Mr Abney's success was having a good mentor, someone to guide, advise and inspire him.
This was a small town UPS manager, who to this day remains a close confidant.
"He saw something in me that I could not see in myself, and he took a lot of time, and gave me a lot of attention," Mr Abney says.
"We still talk," he adds, describing not unconditional support, but a mentor who was always there to give advice that he "needed to hear".
The advice helped carry him to UPS's headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, where he would go on to oversee the group's aviation division, and its fleet of 500 planes.
He then headed the firm's entire international division, which in the early 2000s saw him lead UPS's expansion into China. Mr Abney would take 10 trips a year to the country, meeting local businesses and government officials to learn how things worked, and where the company would need to adapt.
In 2007 he was appointed chief operating officer, and then chief executive seven years later.
When Mr Abney's predecessor Scott Davis got the top job in 2008, there was some media speculation that Mr Abney and other senior managers who missed out would leave UPS.
But as Jeffrey Rosensweig, a business professor at Emory University in Atlanta, points out, the culture of jumping from company to company to secure promotions doesn't fit with either UPS or Mr Abney.
Instead people are loyal to the business, and the successful move around a lot internally.
"It's a culture [at UPS] that has more in common with Japanese culture, or military culture, where, if you are doing well, they move you so that you learn more of the business," says Prof Rosensweig.
"David had to be flexible, he had to learn. I think people [at the company] see him as talented, but still one of their own.
"They know whatever they are doing that is hard, he has done it too."
Going forward, one of UPS and Mr Abney's biggest challenges is to deal with increased competition from the likes of Amazon, which is greatly increasing its own in-house delivery business.
Like Amazon, UPS is researching delivery by drones. But Mr Abney thinks that such flying deliveries would be more useful in the developing world.
"In places like Rwanda, where 70% of the roads can be washed out by floods, I think drones can be a big help, but I don't expect that we'll see 10,000 drones flying over Atlanta," he says.
In the meantime, UPS - which has a workforce of 440,000 people - had net profits of $4.9bn (Â£3.7bn) last year, up 11% from $4.4bn in 2014.
Mr Abney says that UPS hasn't been "a job or a career, it's a way of life".
And he hopes that, in the future, another person who started at the very bottom of UPS can lead the company.
"We focus on promotion from within and giving people opportunities and it's amazing to see people grow and develop over the years," he says.
"So I know it's still possible for someone to move up to CEO the way I did."
Growing up in the tiny city of Greenwood, Mississippi (population just 16,000), Mr Abney was the son of an insurance salesman father and homemaker mother.
He says he was determined to work hard in life and make something of himself. "I'm a big believer that you have to take the hand you're dealt," he adds.
He is proud of his Mississippi heritage, and gives to charities in the state.
He also regularly returns to Delta State University, where he is a member of the board of directors for the university's foundation, and sponsors an annual business conference at the college.
But what happened to the childhood sweetheart, who was called Sherry? They became Mr and Mrs Abney, and remain happily married four decades later.
And with Mr Abney earning more than $10m last year, paying for dinner isn't a problem any more.


Bath number eight Paul Grant has extended his contract.

The 29-year-old joined the Rec side from New Zealand provincial side Otaga in September and made 16 appearances in 2016-17.
He said: "I'm really excited to have extended my stay with Bath Rugby. I have no doubt that as a club we can build on the strong foundations that have already been put in place."
No details about the length of Grant's deal have been announced.


Stargazers in parts of Africa have been treated to a spectacular "ring of fire" in the sky as the sun was almost - but not completely - eclipsed.

An annular eclipse happens when the moon is farther away from the Earth than during a total eclipse.
The result is a bright circle of sunshine surrounding a dark, shadowy core.
The best views were seen in Tanzania, where the event lasted about three minutes.
The eclipse could also be viewed in parts of Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, and the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion.
The moon does not move in a perfect circle around the earth - instead, its orbit is slightly elliptical. That means the distance of the moon varies between around 225,000-252,000 miles (362,000-405,555 km).
When the moon is farther away from the earth, it appears smaller - and does not totally cover the sun's disc during a total eclipse. The result is also known as a "ring of fire" eclipse.
The next eclipse is due to take place in February 2017, and can be seen from parts of South America and Africa.