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LONDON (Reuters) - The government announced plans on Sunday to control grey squirrels to stop them damaging woodland and threatening the survival of the rarer red squirrel. "Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the red squirrel and dormouse," said Biodiversity Minister Jim Knight. "It is not realisti ...

LONDON (Reuters) - England manager Sven Goran Eriksson has told the News of the World that three English Premier League clubs have been involved in illegal payments. The allegations by Eriksson and his agent Athole Still relate to payments made in transfer deals. They are said to have been made at a meeting in Dubai with the Sunday paper's undercover reporter known as the 'fake sheikh' who posed as a wealthy Arab businessman. Britain's biggest-selling paper does not name the clubs for legal r ...

By Jacque O'Bryant CHARLESTON, West Virginia (Reuters) - Two miners trapped in a West Virginia coal mine that had caught fire were found dead on Saturday, and officials, angered also by 12 other mine deaths this month, vowed to make the industry safer. "We found the two miners that we were looking for for the past 40-some hours. ... Unfortunately, we don't have a positive outcome," said Doug Conaway, West Virginia's mine safety chief. "We did find the two miners near the fire area that was on ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian Islamist militant and most wanted man in Iraq, is alive, well and seeking new alliances among Sunni opponents of U.S.-led forces in Iraq, the Sunday Times reported. Citing the leader of a Sunni resistance group who said he recently spent time with Zarqawi, the newspaper said the insurgent leader wore a suicide belt at all times -- even when a ...