West Ham' s play visibly relaxed as news filtered around Vicarage Road that Wigan had scored twice against Reading early in the first half.

BBC: 1st leg: 14 May (1215 BST)

Wigan moved out of the relegation zone with a 3-0 victory at second-bottom reading, as Ivory coast striker Arouna Kone netted twice.

CNN: Beckham 'excited' by possible 'Classique' debut for PSG

Although after reading the above piece, I may need to think twice about making such assumptions.

ECONOMIST: How to choose a judge

In what looks like the theatre of the absurd, prosecutors have for weeks been senselessly reading out pages from their multi-volume case, often confusing pages and repeating passages twice.

ECONOMIST: Russia's political leaders