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Daniele Prade insists the north London club has not made an approach for the 23-year-old Montenegro striker, before dismissing a possible move to Serie A rivals Juventus

A marine research expedition has led to the discovery of perhaps the world's largest methane cold seep. The seep lies deep in the western North Atlantic Ocean, far from the life-sustaining energy of the sun. Mussels blanketing the the seep rely on bacteria that use the methane to make energy. The process, known as chemosynthesis, forms the basis for life in the harsh environment...

John Kerry seeks support for British-led move as means of pressuring Bashar al-Assad to enter into peace negotiationsThe United States is lobbying European governments to back a British-led call to amend the EU arms embargo on Syria to put pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to enter into talks with the opposition.John Kerry, the US secretary of state, has been urging...

LONDON, May 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid agencies helping millions of people in North Korea could be forced to pull out after a Chinese bank cut ties with main foreign exchange bank, a humanitarian group said on Wednesday.

Nick Frost as Andy, Eddie Marsan as Peter, Simon Pegg as Gary, Paddy Considine as Steven and Martin Freeman as Oliver in Edgar Wright’s movie “The World’s End.” (Laurie Sparham / Focus Features) The apocalypse has never seemed so funny. The new trailer for “The World’s End,” the latest film from director Edgar Wright,  has arrived, and judging from the clip,...

With years of digital exhaust now behind us – over 240 billion photos on Facebook, 8 billion on Flickr, and not to mention the 72 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every month – we’re now transitioning to a time when we’re in need of smarter tools for organizing and accessing our personal data archives. Only a few companies, so far, have dared to step into this...

The nuclear question and Iran's role in Syria could remain unresolved and unclear even after the polls next monthThe field of 700 candidates has been winnowed down to eight men acceptable to the guardians of the revolution in Tehran, and those men must now compete for an office that was stripped years ago of the power to make strategic foreign policy decisions.Yet the...

BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- A 15-year-old girl found dead in woods north of Bangor knew the man charged with killing her, her best friend said, contrary to early reports that before her disappearance she'd headed outside her Glenburn home to see someone she recently met on Facebook....

The F-150 has been the top-selling vehicle in North America for most of the past 25 years

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dispatched a high-profile official and close confidant to China on Wednesday as Beijing faces pressure to rein in its belligerent neighbor....

North Castle Justice Elyse Lazansky refused to dismiss a case against Kerry Kennedy, siding with prospectors who claimed that doing so would feed the perception that the rich and famous are treated differently.

The probe into leaks to Fox News's James Rosen about North Korean nuclear test plans stretched into the White House, according to court records reported on Tuesday by the New Yorker. The document listing two White House numbers was provided to lawyers for the State Department contractor indicted in 2010 for leaking to Rosen. The full numbers were in the letter, but only...

The ministry of defence (MoD) is not expecting any further objections from the finance ministry over the ambitious proposal to raise a dedicated offensive capability in the north-east border with China.    

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea sent one of its top military officials to Beijing on Wednesday as a "special envoy" of its leader Kim Jong-un, state news agency KCNA reported.

The former firearms officer - identified only as Miss M for security reasons - raised a catalogue of complaints against fellow officers at North Yorkshire Police including the reference to the gun.

Headline Title:  Saudi Arabia: Five beheaded and ‘crucified’ 21 May 2013 Saudi Arabia must halt a “disturbing” rise in death penalty usage that has resulted in at least 47 state killings in the country already this year, Amnesty International...

List of eight candidates allowed to run in race to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad excludes two leading figuresAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the leading opposition-backed candidate in Iran's presidential election, was disqualified on Tuesday from standing in a blow to those hoping for significant change when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leaves office.Iranian state-run television broadcast...

LAGOS, Nigeria, May 21 - Nigeria said on Tuesday it would free a number of detained Islamists, including all female ones, in what a senior security source called a move to build popular support for its offensive against Boko Haram militants entrenched in the north.

Since I was a young boy studying global political economy armed with little but an Economist subscription and a smile, I've noticed that, at some point, every country and their neighbor tries to do something to create their own Silicon Valley.  Whether it's Great Britain, China, France, Brazil, or even North Korea, it seems as though every country in the world...

Eric Lafforgue's images of the North Korean People's Army.    

Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation. "I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months but I'm not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I've been patient...

Matthew Royer, 21, was last seen about 2 a.m. Friday leaving a gas station near Allentown, Pennsylvania, just North of his family's home. He hasn't been seen or heard from since.

MavenSay, a social recommendation app, just got a surge of unplanned downloads coming from Indonesia, and its founders are moving quickly to include Southeast Asia in its expansion plans, as a result. The company’s Toronto-based co-founder, Jesse Dallal, said the two-month old app got 100,000 downloads over the past fortnight. It has a total of 130,000 downloads so far,...

Tensions rising between nations over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme    

24-year-old Tiara Drake wanted some of a relative's cheese on Friday, but the woman refused to share - so she poisoned her