THE Special One eyeing the exit? Say it ain’t so, Jose.

Bolton have signed Iran midfielder Andranik Teimourian on a two-year contract.

ON THE train the other day, I bumped into a casual acquaintance who revealed he was a Chelsea fan.

US PRESIDENT George W Bush stepped up his attack on election rival John Kerry yesterday, suggesting the Democratic Senator could not keep the US safe from terrorists.

American troops have arrested a senior commander of the US-trained Iraqi National Guard for alleged ties to insurgents.

A terrorist bombing on the scale of the Madrid attacks was averted in the Philippines with the arrests of four Abu Sayyaf members and the confiscation of 380 pounds of TNT, the president said in Manila.

In what is purported to be his last known wartime speech – a video never before televised – Saddam Hussein appears exhausted, at times confused and seemingly resigned to defeat, but he tells Iraqis that God, somehow, will help them expel the American-British occupiers.

Philippine police have arrested several alleged members of the Muslim guerrilla group Abu Sayyaf, suspected of bombings in the southern port city of Zamboanga.

A Muslim separatist group in the Philippines today said it believed an American hostage was alive despite claims of another rebel group that they beheaded him.

A Philippines Muslim rebel leader has offered to kill an ailing US hostage if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein asks him to.

Four suspected Muslim gunmen have kidnapped a six-year-old British girl in the southern Philippines after her mother could not meet their demand for cash.