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The battle for control of Manchester United has taken another twist following confirmation that a leading global investment bank has agreed to advise on a possible acquisition of the Old Trafford outfit by the Red Knights group.

The England hotel was infiltrated by two of Britain's most notorious pranksters last week, Sportsmail can reveal, leading to concerns about the FA's security arrangements.

Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves has been forced to put his comeback on hold after pulling out of what would have been his first game for 19 months.

Roma have stepped up their bid to sign William Gallas by sending dealmaker Daniele Prade to London. The France defender is out of contract in the summer.

Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez has admitted a blame culture has crept into his side's play and vowed to eradicate it before it further effects confidence within the Anfield outfit.

The sad human cost of Portsmouth entering administration was felt at Fratton Park on Wednesday as 85 out of the club's 166 full-time workers were made redundant.

There were protests and there were prizes. A gold star for Rooney; a green and gold scarf for Beckham. And yet another appearance in the Champions League quarter-finals.

On the night Manchester United cruised into the quarter-finals without Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid, who broke the bank to buy him in the summer, crashed out.

After his fast start in the San Siro, with a goal after three minutes, this was a slow start here that never got any quicker. Ronaldinho barely touched the ball.

David Nugent salvaged a point for struggling Burnley at Turf Moor with his sixth goal for the club. He headed home in the 52nd minute after Martin Paterson delivered a superb cross.

The energy group is set to make its first move into the deep waters off the South American country with a $7bn deal to buy oil and gas assets put up for sale by Devon Energy of the US

HSBC Holdings reveals theft of data by ex-employee has affected 15,000 Swiss client accounts – rather than the ‘less than 10 clients’ it had said previously

Pressure on Beijing to begin raising interest rates and to allow the renminbi to appreciate against the US dollar is set to rise as inflation jumped 2.7 per cent last month from a year before

Global Markets Overview: Equities mark time as inflation data from China reawaken fears over monetary tightening

Germany and France have called on the European Union to consider banning speculative trading in credit default swaps and set up a compulsory register of derivatives trading

Prime minister flies home from Washington bearing an unexpected gift from President Barack Obama – a long-awaited visa waiver for the country’s citizens visiting the US

Viewers will be able to watch a range of programmes, including those from the BBC like Hustle and Hotel Babylon, on the MSN video player.

Google is extending its Street View service to peer at 95 per cent of homes in the UK, despite criticism that it amounts to an invasion of privacy.

Samsung has unveiled the first sets that will capture the excitement generated by 3D films such as Avatar and Alice in Wonderland.

Nearly 500 species of plant and animal native to England have been wiped out in the past 2,000 years - with most vanishing in the previous two centuries alone.

The Large Hadron Collider, which scientists hope will recreate the conditions from just after the Big Bang, is to shut down for a whole year.

The unfortunate hound was on board Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose when the ill-fated warship sank to the bottom of the Solent on July 19, 1545.

Appearing to blow a raspberry at the camera, this dung fly is one of a bizarre identity parade of insect mugshots as you've never seen them before.

The plant lived through the Battle of Trafalgar, survived the reign of Victoria and escaped unharmed from a Blitz bomb.

Restoration experts have used ultra violet rays to shed new light on masterpieces by one of the Western World's greatest painters.

Inevitably dubbed the iKey, a radical modification would mean that Apple iPhone owners could abandon the traditional bunch of metal house keys.

A 'catastrophic event' 10 billion years ago halted the birth of new stars in an infant galaxy, scientists revealed today. This may explain why early giant galaxies similar to our own Milky Way didn't just keep on expanding after they had formed.

AP - A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.

AP - Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."