LONDON – Sportswear giant Adidas has signed a £750m deal to make Manchester United’s kit for 10 years from next season. It comes after US rivals Nike decided to end their association at the end of the coming 2014-15 season. Nike have been paying United £23.5m a year, and the new deal is worth a…
PRAGUE – Thousands of pictures including “naked selfies” have been extracted from factory-wiped phones by a Czech Republic-based security firm. The firm, called Avast, used publicly available forensic security tools to extract the images from second-hand phones bought on eBay. Other data extracted included emails, text messages and Google searches. Experts have warned that the…
GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging all sexually active gay men to take antiretroviral drugs to reduce the spread of HIV. The organisation says the move may help prevent a million new HIV infections over 10 years. Officials warn rates of HIV in this group remain high across the globe. But activists…
MONTEVIDEO – Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has said the start of legal cannabis sales will be delayed until next year due to “practical difficulties”. Sales in state-owned pharmacies were due to begin as early as November. But in an interview with the AFP news agency, Mr Mujica said government-produced marijuana could end up in the…
MOSCOW – US whistleblower Edward Snowden has officially asked to extend his stay in Russia after his visa expires, his lawyer has told the BBC. Anatoly Kucherena confirmed that paperwork has been submitted to Russia’s Federal Migration Service. The current document granting him temporary asylum expires on 31 July. Mr Snowden fled the US in…
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian police have arrested the chief executive of a Fifa partner company as part of investigations into the illegal sale of World Cup tickets. Ray Whelan from Match Hospitality was held at the Rio de Janeiro hotel where officials from the world’s football governing body were also staying. He was freed…
EL SALVADOR – A 6.9-magnitude earthquake has struck southern Mexico and Guatemala. Guatemalan firefighters said they had received reports of two people being killed in the region of San Marcos, on the border with Mexico. Dozens of homes are also said to have been damaged in San Marcos. The quake’s epicentre was near the city…
BELO HORIZONTE – A flyover has collapsed on to vehicles in the Brazilian World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte, killing two people. The concrete and steel bridge, which was under construction, fell on to traffic on a busy highway. A commuter bus was crushed, killing the driver, along with two unoccupied trucks. A body…
TEGUCIGALPA – Rescue workers are trying to free 11 Hondurans who are trapped in a small artisanal gold mine 110km (70 miles) south of the capital, Tegucigalpa. The miners were cut off on Wednesday after a landslide blocked their tunnel near the town of El Corpus. Firefighters said they had made contact with three of…
HONG KONG – Tens of thousands of protesters are taking part in what organisers say could be Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy rally in more than a decade. The annual rally, marking the day Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, is to demand full electoral freedom. It comes after an unofficial referendum on how…
