Telegraph UK: Researchers working in the Black Sea have found currents of water 350 times greater than the River Thames flowing along the sea bed, carving out channels much like a river on the land.

The undersea river, which is up to 115ft deep in places, even has rapids and waterfalls much like its terrestrial equivalents. If found on land, scientists estimate it would be the world’s sixth largest river in terms of the amount of water flowing through it. READ MORE

EURONEWS: British supermodel Naomi Campbell told the Sierra Leone war crimes court on Thursday she had been a given pouch containing a few small diamonds while in South Africa. “I saw a few stones, they were from.

Scientists have discovered that sunworshippers boasting of an all-over tan are probably faking it.

Their research shows that because your bottom is more resistant to the sun than your back, a perfect all-over tan is physically ’unattainable’.

The new medical study at Edinburgh University suggests that a consistent all-over tan was unattainable because some body areas are much more resistant to tanning than others.

The £180,000 three-year study found buttocks are much more resistant to soaking up the rays than other body parts, and even when it goes red, does not tan as well as other areas such as the back or shoulders.

Researchers say that the tanning ability is driven by evolution.

The co-creator of US hit TV show Glee thought he was being "punked" when a fan note arrived from Sir Paul McCartney.

But a shocked Ryan Murphy discovered that the ex-Beatle really was an admirer of the Fox show - and wanted his music to be part of it.

Sir Paul enclosed a mix of some of his tunes, including Michelle, and asked Ryan to consider using them on the series about high school misfits in a glee club.

"I was gobsmacked. I grew up with that guy. So, of course, we are going to do something," he told the Television Critics Association’s summer meeting in Beverly Hills, California.

And Sir Paul won’t be the only British name associated with Glee when it returns next season.

Ryan said Britain’s Got Talent discovery Susan Boyle was in talks to be part of the Christmas episode.

Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will race for the former team of this year’s main rival Andy Schleck for the next two seasons.

The Spanish cyclist agreed a two-year contract with Riis Cycling on Tuesday as it was announced that Saxo Bank would remain as a sponsor in a joint deal with U.S.-based technology service company SunGard.

Tour runner-up Schleck announced at the end of last month that he and brother Frank would be leaving Saxo Bank at the end of this year, soon after Contador revealed that he would not be renewing his contract with Kazakh team Astana.

Flooding in the northwest of Pakistan and across the border in Afghanistan has caused at least 430 deaths, and more than a million people have been affected.

Heavy monsoon in Pakistan rains have wrecked havoc over the last three days causing river banks to burst landslides. Buildings have collapsed and roads and bridges are severely damaged as entire villages have been inundated with flood waters.

President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered the expulsion of illegal Roma and itinerant immigrants and the dismantlement of their camps. The Élysée Palace said legislation would be introduced before the end of the year to facilitate the process “for reasons of public order.”

Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said Thursday on RTL radio that over the next three months he would use decrees to dismantle about 300 illegal camps, of which 200 belong to Roma. These camps are the source of “illicit trafficking, children exploited for begging, prostitution or delinquency,” he said.