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Retaining players will be as important as buying new talent at the Toon this summer, with Cabaye and Ben Arfa on numerous clubs' radars.

Actor makes emotional promise during trip to cemetery of Beslan school massacre victims.

Markit's Purchasing Managers Index at highest level since 2012.

IGas shares soar by 15% on estimates that it alone could garner 170 trillion cubic feet in the unconventional gas

Scores of rockets from Syria hit Lebanon targeting Hezbollah sites.

Challenge to ingrained culture in nation where four in ten are smokers.

Valencia defender Adil Rami hints he could leave the Spanish club this summer, with Arsenal a potential destination.

Assad regime in talks with MiG for fighter jets in a direct challenge to EU which lifted arms embargo on rebels recently.

Russian Winter Games will be world's most expensive and most corrupt Olympics, claims ex-deputy PM Boris Nemtsov.

Israeli international Yossi Benayoun claims anti-Semitic chants were directed at him during a Premier League game against Liverpool

Tension in Golan Heights rising as Assad vows to hit back at Israel if it attacks Syria.

UK government is only one of 26 nations which say existing laws on autonomous 'killer robots' are sufficient, a stance branded as "meaningless" by campaigners.

Anthony Ellis did not see the UFO on his photograph until he downloaded the digital image to a computer

Zenit St Petersburg striker Hulk could move to the Premier League, with both Chelsea and Tottenham known admirers

Liverpool look to have missed out on landing Kurt Zouma, with the defender in talks with Anzhi Makhachkala over a summer move

Delivery of first batch of S-300 missiles in wake of EU ending embargo raises fears of further tension with Israel.

Blood and muscle tissue found in prime example of extinct species by university team in Siberia.

Valery Rozov flies from face of world's highest mountain almost 60 years after Hillary ascent.

Arsene Wenger wants Liverpool's unhappy Slovakian international, Martin Skrtel

The founder Liberty Reserve, Arthur Budovsky, has been charged with money laundering and the service shut down.

IBTimesUK looks at the transfers that backfired in the 2012/13 season, with Didier Drogba, Hulk and Chris Samba hardly lasting a year at their respective clubs, while Luka Modric was voted worst signing in La Liga.

Jailed punk feminist band member started hunger protest after being barred from her own parole hearing.

Andrey Arshavin could be set for a permanent move back to Zenit St Petersburg, as the midfielder's contract comes to an end at Arsenal.

Syrian president's 'move' comes hours after EU lifts arms embargo on rebels.

HTC Desire 600 hits markets on pre-order pricing £340 approx.

Arrests include leading campaigner Nikolai Alexeyev, after campaigners defy ban on march

Commission on Theft of American Intellectual Property claims China behind 50-80% of thefts.

Presidential probe to follow Eurovision 2013 'stolen points' drama.

In the superb 1927 silent film "Napoleon", by French director Abel Gance, there is a curious moment when the Corsican hero of the film, portrayed by Albert Dieudonné, muses prophetically that one day Europe will be united by neither cannon nor cavalry charge but by treaties and pieces of paper.

'Large and sophisticated cyber-attack infrastructure' hits security interests and private companies.