Russia secured their place at next summer’s World Cup finals by the narrowest of margins after conceding a last-minute equaliser in their qualifier against Azerbaijan.

YOU can have too much of a good thing. All those debates, all those ordinary citizens actively participating in the democratic process: who couldn’t have be energised by the hard fought US Presidential battle? I’m fast becoming disillusioned.

The European Union’s envoy to the Kosovo talks threatened to withdraw the possibility of bloc membership from Serbia and Kosovo if they failed to reach a compromise solution on the province’s future.