WHEN God invented the beautiful game he’d had one of his better days. Seen one fjord, seen them all, but football changes forever.

Three Polish border guards have been killed in a helicopter crash in Belarus.

RUSSIA has halted plans to deploy missiles near the Polish border, a Russian news agency quoted the military as saying yesterday, in the clearest sign yet Moscow is seeking better ties with the new US administration.

A court has dropped the murder charge against the mother of nine babies found dead in eastern Germany last year and will try her instead for manslaughter.

A WOMAN suspected of killing nine of her newborn children told German investigators she gave birth to them in secret, but cannot remember how they died because she was always drunk during labour, officials said yesterday.