Manchester United move for Ander Herrera and 'bid for Daniele De Rossi'

• Athletic Bilbao rejects the offer of ? 25m for Herrera

• United have bid ? 10m for De Rossi

Athletic Bilbao have rejected € 30 million (? 25m) offer from Manchester United for their midfielder 24 years, Ander Herrera.

Meanwhile, the Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported that United has offered € 12 million (? 10 million) for Daniele De Rossi Roma midfifelder a target of Manchester City under Roberto Mancini.

Club Bilbao president Josu Urrutia, said in a press conference on Friday that was reported on Twitter from Bilbao. "We've had an offer for Ander Herrera Our club is different, which is based on trust. Our goal is not to make money.

"We received the offer last night and have communicated that we will not negotiate for our players. For a player to follow, the player must first express their desire to leave the club and pay the clause. "

• midfielder Basque origin began his career with Real Zaragoza before joining the club of his hometown, Newcastle in 2011, where his performances attracted the attention of States, which does not move in the charge of the summer Cesc Fabregas and Thiago Alcantara.
United manager David Moyes is frustrated in their attempts to sign Marouane Fellaini of his former club Everton alongside Leighton Baines, and had a joint bid of ? 36 million for the some rejected Thursday. Moyes may feel Herrera is a more realistic goal.

Contract
Herrera

Bilbao expires in 2016, but it contains a buyout clause of € 36 million (€ 31 million), that states must meet if they want to reward the player Spanish club.

Moyes
not shoot their transfer objectives Friday. "I do not think there is anything more to add," he said during his press conference ahead of Sunday's game at Liverpool.


"I can not reveal the names, I only clubs who care and we will try to do it in a professional manner," Moyes said when asked specifically about Herrera.

he added. "I do not know how it will be busy, but football is a busy market could be held in the coming days and I hope to do some business, but could not guarantee it."

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Ecuador goalkeeper's slap hospitalises opponent

• Maximum Banguera admits to being "bad loser"

• Midfielder suffered seizures after stroke

The Ecuadorian side Barcelona goalkeeper has publicly apologized for slapping an opponent in the face, leaving her victim needing hospital treatment after a fiery derby weekend.

> Television showed that immediately after Sunday's game in Guayaquil, Banguera maximum slapped Captain Emelec of Ecuador and international partner Pedro Quinonez violently face.

Emelec officials said the midfielder was pulled to the ground by the force of the impact, suffered convulsions and almost lost consciousness. He spent the night at the hospital complaining of dizziness and was released Monday.

"I sincerely apologize to Pedro Quinonez, family, fans, everyone," said Banguera. "I was a bad loser. M aware of whether there is a penalty, I'll have to face. "

Both players were also involved in an angry exchange during the shipyard Derby, Emelec won 2-0.

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Police back change in law to treat 17-year-olds in custody as juveniles

support of senior officers is the highest court must make judgments about standards under 18 in custody

police chiefs support a change in the law so that 17 years are treated as juveniles in detention and their parents are informed if they are caught.

Support

of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) the participation of parents in the Superior Court issues a key judgment on Thursday whether all persons under 18 years should be treated as children - in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Ann Thornber, Ed, whose son committed suicide in 2011 after being arrested by the police, will be in court to hear the judgment. He filed a petition to Downing Street calling for a change in the law - with parents Joe Lawton, who is 17 years old, committed suicide after being arrested and alcohol

Thornber, of Manchester, told the Guardian that his son was on holiday in Cornwall with friends in the summer of 2011, when he was arrested for possession of cannabis worth 50p.

"He was told he would receive a formal warning," he said. "Because we lived in Manchester, to be issued by Greater Manchester Police. Do we not say that he had been arrested.

"The September 13, 2011, was [falsely] served with a subpoena. When my husband and I arrived home from work, Ed tells us nothing.

"The next day he went to a nearby forest and hanged himself. He did not know the summons had been issued by mistake. Did not know that.

"We have seen a transcript of police questioning [Cornwall]. Ed asked if he wanted a lawyer. He did not know what it was. Bee If the law was different we would have found what had happened and was able to support it.

"But we knew nothing. Had they changed this rule, it would still be alive today."

• The Chief of Police Cleveland Police Jacqui Cheer, this week, admitted in a letter to the medical examiner who conducted the investigation into the death of Thornber, that the law was incompatible. Joy, who is primarily responsible for ACPO on issues related to children and youth, it was in response to a request under Article 43 of the Judicial Standards -. A mechanism used to highlight safety issues of general interest
• She wrote: "The position of 17 years as adults under Pace [Police and Criminal Evidence] is not compatible with the way they are treated by other regulations such children that the law of 1989 and the conviction of the Legal Aid and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 not to mention the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

"It seems incongruous and would support a change in legislation for Pace in line with the rest of the law and 17 years to be treated like children, while in custody .

"However, this would require a change in legislation, so it is strictly a matter of government .... We do not think it would be appropriate for the police to act deliberately in violation of the law. "

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This Is What Boston Heroism Looks Like

Redknapp: my toughest ever result

• Rangers seven points from safety with six games to play

• "We did not deserve that we deserved to win,"

A shot Harry Redknapp said he endured the most difficult result of his career after watching Queens Park Rangers concede the tie in extra time to a 1-1 draw at Wigan Athletic when his team looked set to win with 10 men.

QPR, with ten men after 21 minutes of withdrawal of Bobby Zamora could feel a road away from relegation on Loic Remy gave them the lead with a cross on the right foot in 85 minutes, but four minutes into stoppage time, Shaun Maloney scored a free kick that won the past Julio Cesar and into the top corner.

The result leaves QPR, who are winless in three games, in 19th place, seven points from safety with only six games in the Premier League to play.

• "[This is the last result] in my football career, regardless of the season," said Redknapp. "We do not deserve it, deserved to win. 'Ve played with 10 men for most games. Was a fantastic performance of each player and for them to lose is criminal. What they [Wigan] is ? They kept the ball is past us, but how many of our stores have had to guard? Little. My players are very low, and I

"If we come out with three points with 10 men who gave us a boost, a huge lift, and I think we could still win four games. But now it will be very difficult [to be]. "

Redknapp did not disagree with the decision of the referee Phil Dowd, for rejecting Zamora, the attacker has planted poles in the head late Jordi Gomez as an attempt to stop the Spanish collection Maloney band. "It was a reckless challenge," said the official, with his counterpart Roberto Martinez, who described the incident as "shocking" and saying Gomez was lucky not to have been beaten in the eye.

The draw left Wigan in the relegation zone before his meeting Saturday with Millwall FA Cup semi-final, but they are behind Sunderland in 17th only on goal difference with a game in hand on side of Paolo Di Canio.

Martinez admitted that his team was lucky to escape a certain point. "Overall, I am very disappointed with our performance. Having only two options open against 10 men is not good enough," he said. "However, to obtain a positive result when everything is against us makes me very proud."
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Di Canio tries to ignore row and focus on Sunderland survival

new Director • reduce the spread of political views

• "Mad Italian says he can save the club from relegation

Paolo Di Canio difficult to separate politics from football on Tuesday when he refused to confirm or deny that it was fascist, but his contempt for the idea that he is a racist.

New manager

Sunderland became visibly annoyed by the persistent questions on the subject and a wheel 8am to present the media has ended abruptly. "I do not have to answer any questions," said Di Canio. "My life speaks for me, so no need to talk more about this, because it is ridiculous and pathetic."

In an interview with the Italian news agency in 2005, the former Lazio and West Ham striker has admitted to being "a fascist but not racist", and its apparent political trends led to the resignation Club vice-president, David Miliband, the incumbent Labour in South Shields and a former foreign minister.

Instead of explaining how it intends to keep Sunderland in the Premier League, former director Swindon Town struggled in vain to avoid questions about his sympathies received by the extreme right in Italy.

"I can every two weeks, every two months, every 10 months to answer the same questions that are not really in my area," said the 44-year-old, who has somehow breath new life in his new team. "We are a football club and not the House of Parliament. 'm Not a politician, I only talk about the football. "

In an attempt to appease the fury growing Sunderland issued a statement Monday that he intends to clarify things, but it just seemed to muddy the waters. Di Canio He suggested that his comments were taken out of context and spun up.

"I expressed an opinion in an interview several years ago," said a man who while playing in London formed strong friendships with two black teammates. "Some parts have been taken to facilitate the media took my expression is a very, very bad -., But it was a long conversation and a long interview was not fair

.. .

"Sometimes I would put a big headlines and history when I was in England [as a player] my best friends were Trevor Sinclair and Chris Powell, manager of Charlton - all what I can say about my character. Talk about racism? This is absolutely stupid, silly and ridiculous. Paolo Di Canio is not, so I'm not worried. "
• Successor
Martin O'Neill has recognized, however, that his nickname is "Italian" seemed angry and donate to disclose information that would "swam Sunderland" to start work on the Stadium of Light. Di Canio said he had a "second" to accept the job offer from Ellis Short, the club's owner and president.

If Italian is considered appointment of high maintenance is also considered a gamble with high stakes on the short side, but opposed Di Canio. . "It is obvious that in the past people were skeptical because it was my first job as a manager in Swindon They said: 'The Mad Italian, his players will fight," but in the end I won the League [two]. now, people say the same thing. I have no experience in the Premier League, but I'm young and I'm not worried. "

swashbuckling last season promoting a team strapped Swindon in February that left a challenge to lift the championship converted many to the cause of Di Canio -. With a short-circuit between apparently impressed

Shortly after the 1-0 defeat by Sunderland at home against Manchester United on Saturday - their eighth Premier League winless - Short O'Neill fired. American financier then grabbed his phone.
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England need to make light of Montenegro wind-ups and not lump it | Daniel Taylor

Team

Roy Hodgson has sufficient incentive to win without using Branko Brnovi? is "mind games" as a source of motivation

It was perhaps a deliberate tactic Branko Brnovi? get into the skin of players Roy Hodgson. If this is the case, it was one of the most original attempts looking down on the opposition or even accuracy especially after a little research had been done. Montenegro, are found to be partial ball on top occasional themselves. Official statistics indicate that the long ball in 12.6%. England - unrefined lump-it-up England - are 9.55%. Only Spain, Germany and Belgium have reached less back-to-front passes in the program of World Cup qualifying.

"Mind Games" Hodgson called. That should be enough for all eyes. We know what to expect if England wins also: iron to provide an absolute guarantee that a player stuck reveal all the clippings about being "scared" and "arrogant", all courtesy of Brnovi?, on the wall of the lodge as a source of motivation.

The truth is that it does not really work that way and probably England should have sufficient incentive without over-analyze some comments, see-through head of the opposition. There are, after all, the chance to go five points behind Montenegro if England loses. This could become eight when traveling to Ukraine in June of Podgorica in a group where only winners are automatically eligible. Currently, Portugal, Sweden, Croatia, and most terrible of all, Spain is a possible rival in November playoffs. This should sharpen the mind.

This is, of course, is the worst, when England turn can take a position of real strength in Group H. "If we win, we go to the top three of the last four games at Wembley," said Hodgson. "We will also have players returning from the team that, unfortunately, lost this time." It is refreshing to hear someone see beyond the ordinary English contemplate the bad news first.

Montenegro, however, can not be taken lightly in all respects. It is true that the entire population of the Balkan countries is lower than that of Leeds and the National Stadium is a classic old fourth division. It is also a fact that this team has not lost in his own country for 16 months and was unbeaten until 2012.

This will be the toughest test since he left England for Euro 2012 against Italy and they will take care of the ball much better.

• As peripheral issues, there were some nonsense during the last days. The idea, for example, a series of the best English players of Liverpool, Chelsea and the two Manchester clubs might somehow be intimidated by a stadium that has 12,000 people. Hodgson was recalled Monday that the seat had been thrown into the Polish goalkeeper. A local journalist told how England was "warmly received" when Fabio Capello led by hand, in October 2011, to the extent that local fans cheered God Save The Queen. However, it is noisy inside the city stadium, there is nothing like the atmosphere when playing Wayne Rooney against Anfield. Ashley Cole, Steven Gerrard, James Milner
• et al
are strong characters.

Rooney has been a hotly debated topic in particular received a red card for kicking the 2-2 draw. What was not mentioned is that he had only seven yellow cards in 73 games since. In all cases, it should be more worrying as it tends to play within himself when the control is in your temperament. Rooney made stupid decisions in their time. But it is Mario Balotelli.

"The important thing is to make sure that players are confident and able to work," said Hodgson. "That we do things that we are proud to do so. One will be our lawyer. Will work hard to get behind the ball when you lose, people working hard to close, tighten the game and not give technical actors the opportunity to showcase their skills.

"But when we get the ball forward quickly switch to start passing the ball in areas that hurt them. We want our way of problems for the opposition. and I have players who can do it. "
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Sam Mills' top 10 fictional sex changes

Of Virginia Woolf androgyny breast in anguish Philip Roth, author of a fictional tribute to Will Self chooses books that play double game with sex

seemed logical that my novel, a tribute to Will Self, novelist our most alive, must contain genders transfiguration. Once I said it often felt like a nervous animal, women in the body of a man big and strong. His novel plays with Cock & Bull on changes in genital type (see below), and is particularly adept at creating female characters, which could in time Audrey Shortage umbrella. Thus, the essence of Will Self also plays with sex.

The novel begins with a girl named Sylvie who has a sex change and undergoes plastic surgery to look like yourself, she gargles with salt on a daily basis to mimic the tone his guttural voice. The last section is narrated by Sam Mills, a male novelist, has developed a fetish for making love to a woman with a mask of his own will. I got my first publishing contract Faber round in 2005, pretending to be a man, androgynous ambiguity advantage of my name, my book was intended for male readers. Symmetrical with Will, I suffer from gender dysmorphia, I used to feel like an angry young man trapped in a woman's body ...

1. Virginia Woolf's Orlando

Orlando, Woolf biography fantastic saves the life of 400 years of Mr. Orlando. It starts as a noble in the court of Elizabeth I, and 30 falls in a dream and wakes up as a woman. Woolf believed that the creative mind is androgynous. As a woman, Orlando does not feel different - but certainly society treats them differently. The female Orlando realizes he can not inherit his beautiful home, their securities are delivered and pending properties from the Chancery. All disguise, can not escape society has imposed restrictions on this.

2. Ovid's Metamorphoses

dazzling epic Ovid includes sex change in abundance. Hyenas sex change. Iphis development of a child in a man by Io. Teacher becomes a man and vice versa several times Neptune. Ashes Orion girl changing two young. Tiresias became a wife and a new man. Sithon becomes male and female, and the female becomes Caenis Caeneus.

3. Cock & Bull by Will Self

Cock and Bull

are a pair of thematically related novels, each containing a remarkable metamorphosis. In the first, a bored housewife discovers she is growing a penis in the second Bull, John, a rugby player is critical cabaret, wakes up one morning to find a vagina more in addition to the back of the knee. Self explores the fluidity and mutability of gender and satire successfully "a world in which the social and sexual lives already launched and dressed like a salad."

. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Eugenides Pulitzer Prize-winning epic is narrated by Cal Stephanides (initially called "Callie"), a hermaphrodite born with a "little saffron" a penis. Initially, he / she looks like a child, but in adolescence, their sexual ambiguity is revealed by a medical examination. A sex therapist tells her parents that gender identity is determined by the development of sex assignment and rearing, not biology, and recommends that Calliope should be "castrated" and continue to live as a woman . Instead, Cal flees, resigns from her feminine identity and lives his life as a man. However, remarked: "I never felt out of place being a girl, not yet at ease among men."

5. By Gore Vidal Myra Brekinridge

• Myra was denounced as pornographic and obscene when it was published in 1968. However, it has come to be regarded by some as a classic American satire. At the beginning of the novel, Myra boasts about big tits and nice, although there was a suspicion that he might be an unreliable narrator with the whole "I am free of the pain that is persistent dull my glory particular the price paid with so much joy to Myra Breckinridge? "She takes a job in a theater school and takes one of his students" tacos "that his first victim, pulling him to the infirmary, where he was tied up and violated a strap-on dildo. When injured in a car accident, however, reveals that Myra is really Myron. His injuries prevented him from taking hormone treatment and force her to have her breast implants removed. At the end of the novel, she comes back to life as a man and enjoys the happiness heterosexual with a lover, Mary Ann.

6. Mother of Philip Roth
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Why Wigan beating Everton in FA Cup would mean so much to Dave Whelan

After suffering an injury in the game to end his career in the Cup final in 1960, the chairman of Wigan are looking for more good memories of Wembley

Dave Whelan is recalling the 1960 FA Cup final and the day he suffered a broken leg that ended his career playing top flight at the age of 23 years. It is a sunny afternoon and a dark story that has been revised several times in the past 53 years, but this time, as he repeats in the memory stress the continuing importance of the FA Cup, employers frank opinions dissolves hardened view. Face more and more red, the voice becomes weak and begins to cry.

"Sorry. Sorry," said the chairman of Wigan Athletic he is quiet and accelerates the Press Club back with a glass of water and a cloth. Talking Wembley caused unexpected turn in the interview, which reduces the 76-year-old in tears and a panel of journalists to silence in the apartments of the President at the DW Stadium. Wigan can recover overcoming Whelan Everton on Saturday in the quarter final. He returned several times since he was injured while playing for Blackburn Rovers against Wolverhampton Wanderers to play-offs, international former England and his role as owner of the club Wigan Warriors rugby league. This would mean a lot more.

"To say that it would be interesting would be to underestimate everything," says Whelan. "It would be extraordinary. Whether someone has not played at Wembley for the final of the FA Cup and then came here as club president and led the team. "

History

septuagenarian FA Cup is not rosy. Whelan was in his fourth year as an advocate for Rovers on 42 minutes when the end of 1960, is committed to a challenge that would change the course of his life. "There was a ball placed between Norman Deeley and me," he recalls. "We both have the ball. Gave me the ball and I had, but I did not say it was deliberate, because accidents happen when the two fight like hell for the ball. It came on top, no doubt about it. always asparagus I have two marks on the leg., but I do not think it was deliberate.

"After that, I was taken on a stretcher. There was no injections so calming. Fortunately, Wembley hospital doctor, who was Polish, had watched the game and I knew I broke my leg. leads directly to the hospital because she knew I was coming in. I was in severe pain, he really was. When they took me out of the ambulance waiting outside with a shot that hit him directly in the leg and killed the pain in a minute. put his leg and when I arrived, it was about five years and I was pushed in a hospital corridor I woke up .... and I cry now ... how we went in? said he lost three to zero. And I started to cry. always sorry. "

tears at this point. "It's horrible when you have an accident like this," said Whelan through them. Deeley, although also injured in the collision, Wolves scored twice won the Cup Whelan joined the victims of "The Wembley Hoodoo", named after a succession of late in the 1950s were marked by the serious injury - Roy Dwight broken leg in 1959, a fractured cheekbone and brief unconsciousness Wood Ray in 1957, Bert Trautmann broke his neck in 1956 and a broken leg in 1955 by Jimmy Meadows. Surprising by Nat Lofthouse on Harry Gregg in 1958 was considered tame in comparison.

Whelan theorizes. "At this stage of the season, we used to play on courts that were used, the wet grass and they had two when you went to Wembley, touch, bounce, grass, everything was totally different from the earth had played. No wonder you have injuries because players are not used to playing on grass as rich as this. What changed after I broke my leg because we had three finals absolutely ruined by playing 10 men 11 to more than half of the game. FA introduced a replacement. "

Wigan has not come so far in the FA Cup since Whelan bought the club in 1995. Recent prospects have not been helped by the young Roberto Martinez blooding in the competition and is committed to making changes to Goodison Park in search of a winning formula for the Premier League. Wigan manager priorities, and values ??of its President, it seems impossible to reconcile.

Whelan admits: "Sometimes I think .." It does not take the FA Cup seriously enough here, "but we are in a struggle to stay in the Premier League is not new, but Roberto Roberto FA Cup is considered very high, which he himself played, and who knows what it means to the English game. I do not know what the team will play Everton, do not ask me and I never pressed. But sometimes it's disappointing when the teams complete a second team and get out. Then you must ask yourself if the football club manager or realize how special the FA Cup. "

SaturSaturday the quarterfinals is a rarity in the rules of the Premier League - a competition between two teams belonging to local boys done good. For a traditionalist like Whelan, an evening with your loved one FA Cup and Wigan with Bill Kenwright is necessary to end a four-week stay in Barbados.

"It's disappointing when you go to a club like Liverpool last season, and there is not a soul in the boardroom," said the chairman of Wigan.
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Championship roundup: Hull concede three in eight minutes to Bolton

• Steve Bruce says "abnormal" will not happen again

• Barnsley Bristol rate of eight goals suspense Bolton Wanderers 4-1 Hull City

Steve Bruce start said his team against the nightmare Bolton - conceding three goals in the first eight minutes - was "just one of those things abnormal This ... is something you see at school. How do you explain that? I've never been involved in anything like that and I think it will not happen again for a long time. " Dougie Freedman

, whose Bolton side are unbeaten in four games, said he was delighted with the performance. "This shows that we are capable of - a result like this was coming, I know how these players can be and are determined to win every game.".

Barnsley 5-3 Bristol City

Two goals from Jon Stead helped the city of Bristol is a dramatic increase morale in a resounding victory over Barnsley. Victory, the fourth straight at home, took three points from safety while Barnsley slipped to 21.

Sean O'Driscoll City said his team was "good for an hour ... We have five goals on set pieces and it is all about the organization and enter But positions. probably missed the best two chances in open play. "Barnsley manager David Flitcroft said. "It threw me and I was surprised, it's back to camp now it was just a capitulation to pieces." Charlton Athletic 0-2 Nottingham Forest Billy Davies praised the determination of his side of the forest, as he continued his good form since his return. "Confidence is growing. We have 12 games left and we'll do our best. Ago a great spirit in the team, and his work rate was superb today." Forestry task was made easier when Charlton striker Yann Kermorgant lost a straight red card eight minutes before the break by hitting Greg Halford. His manager Chris Powell said that the card was good. "It was the red mist by Yann. It makes a lot of punches and is not protected forever, but there is no excuse. "

• And other
• Blackburn
• and
• Leeds
• goalless draw at Elland Road.
• ? Brighton
• rhythm
• Burnley
1-0 at home thanks to a goal in the first half of David Lopez.

? Huddersfield
Game against

Ipswich
ended 0-0.
? Millwall
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'Iran ready for nuclear talks with US'

president admits impact of sanctions and said that the West should "get the gun from the surface of the Iranian nation"

President

of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that he is ready to negotiate with the United States if the West continues to support their country.

His words were the latest in a series of tips for leaders in Washington and Tehran over the possibility of direct bilateral negotiations on the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic.

However, Washington is unlikely to relax the sanctions against Iran and Tehran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in important government decisions, says that his country not negotiate under threat. It is therefore difficult to see how the negotiations could take place.

Ahmadinejad in his last months in office and his disciples are weakened by a fight with the clerical system of the Islamic Republic. Your last statement, which means it is a full-fledged actor with Khamenei on foreign policy issues, perhaps simply an attempt to appear as if it is still politically relevant.

"You shoot the gun out of the face of the Iranian nation, and I will begin discussions with you," Ahmadinejad said at a ceremony to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the 1979 revolution that overthrew a monarch supported the West and the Islamic Republic was inaugurated.

He said that the West has recently adopted a "better" tone towards Iran at a glance the statements made by Vice President Joe Biden last week, which said that the United United were willing to talk directly with Iran. But the Iranian president said that it was not enough. The West says the nuclear activities of Iran aimed at developing weapons. Iran denies seeking atomic weapons, saying its nuclear fuel producing reactors only for energy and medical applications, and insists that its operations continue.

• "The Iranian nation will not yield one iota of their rights," Ahmadinejad said. "Their efforts aim to prevent us from becoming nuclear, but we did."
• However
• Ahmadinejad admitted that the sanctions took a bite. "Today, because of the pressure by the nefarious enemies, people are under pressure. The Government is concerned about the uncomfortable situation of a large part of the country. "

Ahmadinejad also said that Iran will soon send a satellite in geostationary orbit.

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Liam Neeson considers return to stage

Oscar nominated actor said he would like to see in the Lyric Theatre in Belfast where he began his career

Liam Neeson has hinted at a comeback, perhaps in the theater where he began his career.

Irish actor Oscar nomination last appearance on stage in 2008 at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York in a production of Samuel Beckett's Eh Joe at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. Neeson plays Joe, replacing Michael Gambon, who played the role two years ago in Dublin.

Since then, viewers were able to see on stage Neeson only as a hologram. He recorded the narrator in the musical version of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, which toured the UK last year.

• "I love the stage again at some point," Neeson told the Belfast Telegraph on a trip to Northern Ireland to receive the freedom of his home town of Ballymena. "It is four and a half years since I was on stage, then it is time to lift weights again, "he said.

"I love the Lyric [Belfast]. We are actively trying to find something, you know. Am a single mother so it is difficult to try to get out of the moment, "he said.

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Laos under international spotlight in search for land rights activist

Sombath Somphone missing for a month after stopping at a police roadblock, however, officials denied knowledge of his whereabouts

Although rarely achieved international headlines, Laos has been in the spotlight during the past month. One of the most respected activists disappeared after stopping at a police roadblock. His death led the Lao government to suggest that it was "kidnapped", but human rights groups to suspect they were removed after campaigning against land grabbing.

Sombath Somphone, 60, disappeared on the night of December 15 in the capital, Vientiane, and was last seen by his wife, Ng Shui Meng, who passed him as the couple returned to house separate cars. CCTV footage shows the activist to stop at a police station, leaving his car and jeep driven by another person. Later, a truck arrives with its lights flashing Sombath between him and two other men go.

Sombath Although he has not seen or heard from him since the checkpoint arrest, the government insists that it has nothing to do with her disappearance.

In an official statement carried by the state news Sombath agency KPL disappeared shortly after, a government spokesman said it was "hijacked perhaps due a personal conflict or conflict in the business, "and is concerned that the van was driven by two men" can not be identified. "Your vehicle, the statement said," went to a unknown location. "

Family

Sombath and friends say he had no such conflict and no ransom has been requested.

As founding director and former training center Laos Participatory Development, an NGO that works with civil society and government in the community development and poverty reduction, Sombath campaigned for human subsistence farmers land at a time when land grabbing is becoming more common. According to the Lao Movement for Human Rights, extensive concessions were granted to foreign and domestic companies. Much is mining, and activists warn that concessions lead to increasing levels of poverty and environmental degradation.

Sombath

disappeared a week before, another rights activist Anne-Sophie earth Gindroz, the former national director of the charity Helvetas Swiss agricultural development, was expelled from the country. After the Forum of civil society organizations in Asia and Europe in October with citizens Sombath, Gindroz wrote a personal letter to international donors in which he criticized the government of Laos to the "little room for meaningful democratic debate" and " consequences [which] continues "when the discussion continues. government considers its actions a" campaign against harmful government of Laos "and gave him 48 hours to leave the country.

Laos

neighbors and the EU, the UN and the United States put pressure on the communist government party to investigate the fate of Sombath.

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Stuttgart ponder move for Manchester United's Federico Macheda

• 21 years old striker yet to settle at Old Trafford

• "We looked for a while," said Stuttgart

Stuttgart are considering a move for Manchester United striker Federico Macheda as sporting director Fredi Bobic.

The Italian could not be established in the first team after failing States loaned to Sampdoria and QPR and Stuttgart are in the market for a striker.

• 21 years fits the bill, as long as the conditions are perfect for a transfer to the Bundesliga club.

"We looked for a while," said Bobic Stuttgart Nachrichten newspaper. "This is one of the players we have on our list."

Stuttgart 2-0 defeat at Wolfsburg at the weekend highlighted the need for a striker with top scorer Vedad Ibisevic and replacing suspended Shinji Okazaki fail to impress.

"Vedo know very important for us, but do not count on it," said Bobic.
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