Taylor Swift New Song (watch video)

The clip is directed by Mark Romanek, who's responsible for such famous videos as Madonna's "Bedtime Story," Michael & Janet Jackson's "Scream," Fiona Apple's "Criminal" and Johnny Cash's "Hurt." It combines the complimentary art forms of ballet and twerking, which means we can count Natalie Portman and Miley Cyrus among Swift's recent influences.

As predicted, the singer also announced a new album, titled "1989" (the year Swift was born) and inspired by listening to "a lot of late-'80s pop." It's due out Oct. 27.

Where Eagles Dare Short Movie Review (spyingbirds.blogspot.com review)

As the second world war thriller became bogged down during the mid-60s in plodding epics like Operation Crossbow and The Heroes of Telemark, someone was needed to reintroduce a little sang-froid, some post-Le Carré espionage, and for heaven's sake, some proper macho thrills into the genre. Alistair Maclean stepped up, writing the screenplay and the novel of Where Eagles Dare simultaneously, and Brian G Hutton summoned up a better than usual cast headed by Richard Burton (Major Jonathan Smith), a still fresh-faced Clint Eastwood (Lieutenant Morris Schaffer), and the late Mary Ure (Mary Elison).

Parachuted into the German Alps, they have one day to rescue an American general held in an apparently impregnable mountaintop fortress. As it turns out, there are about 40 more twists before the story resolves itself, adding some clever spy mechanics to a story that is otherwise an ecstatic, guilt-free orgy of Kraut-killing (Schaffer just loves mowing them down in their dozens). Every chase and gun battle is a classic, and the climactic fight on top of the cable cars remains etched in the memory of a generation. And yes, that is Burton, having the time of his life for a change. John Patterson

Real Madrid vs. Borussia Dortmund

If Real Madrid are to progress to the final of the Champions League they'll have to overturn a 4-1 deficit from the first leg, though will have the home crowd behind them at the Santiago Bernabéu. After being shocked by a brilliant Borussia Dortmund last week, it'll be a tough ask.

Robert Lewandowski netted all four goals in an astonishingly good performance, which has given Dortmund a great chance of reaching their first Champions League final since 1997, when they saw off Juventus 3-1 to lift the trophy. Cristiano Ronaldo's away goal has given the Spaniards some slight hope of getting back into the tie, but their chances are hanging by a thread.

Real Madrid come into this on the back of a confidence-boosting derby win against Atlético Madrid, with that victory almost certainly securing second place in La Liga forLos Merengues. Dortmund's recent domestic form has been more impressive; they've won six games consecutively in the Bundesliga.

Real Madrid injuries and suspensions

Out: Marcelo (hamstring) In doubt: None

Dortmund injuries and suspensions

Out: None In doubt: Łukasz Piszczek (groin)

Dortmund only have one injury doubt for this game, with Łukasz Piszczek restricted to jogging due to a groin strain. Oliver Kirch started at right-back in their recent Bundesliga win over Fortuna Düsseldorf, and Jürgen Klopp said this game may come too early for Piszczek.

As for Real Madrid, they only have full-back Marcelo unavailable due to injury, with no new injury doubts from the first leg. Álvaro Arbeloa is available again after missing the game in Dortmund due to suspension.

The game is available on TV and streaming live online legally in the United States, as well as the countries the two teams hail from. The information on where you can watch the game in those countries can be found below.

Match Date/Time: Tuesday, 2:45 p.m. ET (7:45 p.m. UK, 8:45 p.m. local)

Venue: Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid, Spain

TV: Fox Soccer Channel (U.S. English), FOX Deportes (U.S. Spanish), ITV 1 (U.K.), Sportsnet HD\Regional (Canada), Sky Sport 1 (Germany), TVE La Primera (Spain)

Online: FOX Soccer 2Go (U.S.), Sky Go (Germany), Canal+ Yomvi (Spain)

PSY's new single

In the genteel suburb of Gangnam, it is next to impossible to escape the chubby grinning face of Korea's most famous son.

Here he is on a television set in a restaurant, wearing a red dinner jacket, cuddling a packet of Shin Ramen "Black Cup" spicy beef noodles to his face.

On the next poster, he has switched to a green dinner jacket for his £2 million annual contract to advertise South Korea's favourite tipple, Jinro Soju.

Ever since Gangnam Style went viral, with more than 1.5 billion views on YouTube alone, PSY has been tirelessly riding his celebrity.

Today came the next step in his quest for world domination, a sell-out concert to 50,000 odd people in Seoul's World Cup Stadium, and the first performance of his new single, Gentleman.Released over the internet this week, the song, which revolves around the unfathomable chorus "Mother Father Gentleman!" went straight to the top of the charts in Seoul.

It also quickly overshadowed the tensions with North Korea on local news bulletins, although PSY did say he hoped his music would make everyone, even North Koreans, laugh.

To delirious screams, PSY emerged on stage just before 7pm, wearing a black leather matador's jacket with gold sequinned shoulders, and shouting "Go Crazy! Hit it! Bounce! Bounce!"

"It is an honour to have the whole country's attention for my new song," he said. "Lots of people love Gentleman, and honestly I don't care if it doesn't do well - I'm happy listening to the screams of this stadium now."

"You don't want to be in a seat at a PSY concert," said Seung Yeon Chung, a 25-year-old graduate student and Gangnam resident. "You want to feel the energy and dance!"

For months, a special team inside PSY's record label has been carefully crafting his follow up, trying to make a record that would be similar enough to please the hordes who loved Gangnam Style, but sufficiently different to feel fresh to his fan base.

The result has not quite satisfied either camp. "Whatever he did was going to be under huge public scrutiny," said Sung Yoon Park, the owner of the Square Garden Cafe in Seorae Village."But it is true that it sounds the same."

But in Gangnam, PSY's appeal has always rested not just in how his songs sound, but in what dance he would invent to go alongside them.

Tonight, it turned out that dance was a "Korean-style" bum shake that rivals the Macarena.

"On the first listen, it seemed not as cool as Gangnam Style, but with the same sort of repetitive beat. But then I listened to it three or more times, and I am getting a little bit addicted," said Miss Chung.

"The thing about PSY is that he is quite a visual artist. So the dance is important. I started buying his music because it was so different to all the other Korean pop.

"And then I started dancing it in the playground at school. And I am still dancing it now."

US, French tourists kidnapped raped in Rio De Janeiro Argentine

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A night out on the town turned into a nightmare after an American woman was gang raped and beaten aboard a public transport van while her French boyfriend was handcuffed, hit with a crowbar and forced to watch the attacks, police said.

The incidents raise new questions about security in Rio, which has won kudos for its crackdown on once-endemic drug violence in preparation for hosting next year's football World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympic games. The city also will be playing host to World Youth Day, a Roman Catholic pilgrimage that will be attended by Pope Francis and is expected to draw some 2 million people in late July.

Three men aged 20 to 22 have been taken into custody in connection to the crime, which took place over six hours starting shortly after midnight Saturday, police said. The suspects have been accused of at least one similar attack, with a young Brazilian woman having come forward to say that she too was raped by the same men in the van on March 23, police said.

"The victims described everything in great detail, mostly the sexual violence," police officer Rodrigo Brant told the Globo TV network. "Just how they described the facts was shocking — the violence and brutality. It surprised even us, who work in security and are used to hearing such things."

The attack drew comparisons with the fatal December beating and gang rape of a young woman on a New Delhi bus in which six men beset a 23-year-old university student and male friend after they boarded a private bus. That attack touched off a wave of protests across India demanding stronger protection for women. Officials there say tourism has dropped in the country following the attacks.

On Tuesday, Brazilian police were quick to emphasize to reporters the rarity of Saturday's attack.

"These type of crimes committed against foreign tourists are very uncommon," said Alexandre Braga, the police officer leading the investigation.

Officials from the local Olympic and World Cup organizing committees didn't immediately respond to requests for comment about how the attack might affect their security precautions.

Braga said the two foreigners, who were in Brazil as students, took a public transport van similar to those often used as a faster alternative to the city's bus fleet. The pair were heading from Rio's Copacabana beach neighborhood to the nightlife hot spot of Lapa in downtown Rio.

A few minutes into the ride, the suspects forced the other passengers to get out of the van and then raped the female tourist inside the moving vehicle, Braga said. The woman was also beaten across the face, and the man was handcuffed and beaten, at one point with a metal crowbar.

The three suspects took turns behind the wheel, driving the van to Rio's sister city of Niteroi where they went on a spending spree with the foreigners' credit cards.

Once they hit the limit on both cards, spending around $500 at gas stations and convenience stores, the suspects drove the pair back to Rio, where the foreigners were staying, and forced the woman to fetch another credit card, Braga said.

Although she was alone, she didn't call the police or alert anyone, Braga said, "because the young man was still under the suspects' control and she feared something even worse might happen to him."

The two were ultimately dumped by the side of a highway near the city of Itaborai, some 50 kilometers from Rio. After they managed to make it to an unidentified country's consulate, officials took the two to the special police delegation that specializes in crimes against foreigners. The young woman has returned to the U.S., while the man remains in Rio to help with the investigations, Braga said.

"The victims recognized the three without a shadow of a doubt," Braga said.

The Brazilian woman who said she had also been raped by the suspects last month recognized media images of the alleged attackers and contacted police. Another foreigner has said she'd been robbed by one of the three suspects, police said.

Investigators are reviewing police databases to determine whether the three might have been involved in other crimes.

Two of the suspects have confessed to Saturday's attack, while the third denies any responsibility, Braga said.

"They do not show any repentance," he said. "They are quite indifferent, cold."

The suspects rented the van, which seats about a dozen people and has dark tinted windows, from the vehicle's owner, who police say is not suspected of any involvement in the crime. Though they apparently had authorization to transport passengers in Niteroi and neighboring Sao Goncalo, the suspects were not allowed to operate the van in Rio, Braga said.

"It appears they worked in transportation and sometimes engaged in crimes," said Braga.

Many in Rio know of such van services for their precarious safety conditions and reckless driving, as well as their links to organized crime. Some vans are linked to militias largely composed of former police and firemen that control large swaths of the city's slums and run clandestine transportation and other services. In general, tourists avoid the vans and opt for regular buses or taxis.

Foreigners are more often the targets of muggings and petty crime in Rio, with assaults a particular problem on public transit. Last year, a woman was raped on a moving bus in broad daylight in a widely publicized case, and the Rio subway has special women-only cars to help prevent such attacks.

More than 5,300 cases of sexual assault were reported in Brazil between January and June 2012, according to the country's Health Ministry.

North Korea: US signals strength, but speaks softly

As North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has issued increasingly belligerent statements toward South Korea and the United States in recent weeks, many North Asia analysts have concluded that the young Mr. Kim is acting to establish his tough-guy credentials with key audiences: the North Korean public, but also the military and other North Korean elites.

But in response, the Obama administration – while actually saying little – has also been acting to reassure the American public and key allies like South Korea and Japan, even as it tries to figure out what Kim Jong-un is really up to and the best way to deal with him, some regional experts say.

“The early superficial take-away on [Kim] is that he’s not afraid to be out front, not afraid to take risks.... He speaks more directly to the public than his father did, and after he’s established his military credentials he can then turn his focus to the economy,” says Jim Walsh, an expert in international security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program.

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“But the US is also sending its own messages” by responding to Kim’s rhetoric – which has included a vow to attack the US – with the inclusion of nuclear-capable B-52s in US-South Korea military exercises and a reinforcing of missile defense batteries in Alaska, he says.

The Obama administration “is sending a message of reassurance to South Korea and the American public in particular,” Dr. Walsh says, “but [it is] also telling a leader who is really breaking new ground with direct and specific threats, ‘If you keep talking like that, this is what you have to look forward to.’ ”

But besides such messaging, the US has had very little to say in response to Kim’s actions – which have included tearing up the Korean War armistice, severing a security communications line with Seoul, and publicly reviewing military planning for attacks on a number of US sites including Hawaii and Austin, Texas.

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Secretary of State John Kerry will certainly have more to say when he visits Japan, South Korea, and China in mid-April, but in the meantime the administration is speaking softly as it brandishes its big sticks. A White House spokesman said that the North is further isolating itself with its “bellicose rhetoric” (last Friday) and Secretary Kerry has called on North Korea to “engage in legitimate dialogue” instead of issuing threats (early last month).

The US has also been working to impose new sanctions and to reinforce international implementation of existing measures against North Korea since the United Nations Security Council approved a new round of sanctions last month in response to the North’s February nuclear test.

Some security analysts accuse the US of needlessly provoking Kim with a string of military measures at a delicate moment in the new leader’s consolidation of power. (At 29 or 30 years of age, Kim is the world’s youngest head of state, having assumed power at the death of his father in December 2011.)

But many other experts say the US has acted prudently as the unknown quantity in charge inPyongyang – who has already overseen a worrisome nuclear test and long-range missile launch – has recently issued increasingly incendiary threats.

The US is simply covering its security bases, the latter reasoning goes, while it tries to figure out who Kim is and how best to approach him.

No one can even be certain that Kim is the guy in charge in North Korea, some analysts say. “You can conclude that as a leader he seems to be quite risk-acceptant, but there’s also reason to be cautious and ask questions like, ‘Is he really in charge, or is it a family clique or council?’ ” says Walsh. “Certainly the US government is still asking, ‘What are his relations with the military?’ ”

Given the deep uncertainties about North Korea, the US public seems to be broadly supportive of the Obama administration’s approach – taking precautions militarily even as it imposes new sanctions to try to influence the North’s behavior – according to a new Monitor/TIPP poll.

But the poll also suggests that the public may be out in front of the administration by strongly favoring the kind of “dialogue” the White House is pursuing with Iran over its nuclear program but has not yet proposed with North Korea.

More than two-thirds of Americans – 68 percent – say they favor opening direct talks with the North Korean regime, according to the poll conducted March 25-30. Only 24 percent disagree with the idea of dialogue.

Even more popular is the imposition of economic sanctions. Nearly three-quarters of Americans – 74 percent – support exerting economic pressure and even increasing it with additional measures.

Much less popular among a war-weary populace is the idea of military intervention to “remove” North Korea’s nuclear installations. Still, a sizable minority of 40 percent would support such action, while 53 percent oppose.

And among self-identified Republicans, military action against the North has the support of a small majority – 51 percent.

MIT’s Walsh says he sees very little chance of US military action against the North, because he says no one involved in the current ratcheting-up of tensions wants a military confrontation – neither the US nor the North, nor South Korea.

The danger, he says, is that someone makes a mistake that gets the military ball rolling.

And more long term, Walsh worries there will be repercussions from the precautionary actions the US has taken that the Obama administration may not wish to see. President Obama could see his nonproliferation and disarmament goals set back by the US “brandishing” of its nuclear-ready aircraft, and not all of North Korea’s neighbors will interpret the US measures as a reassuring display of the US nuclear umbrella.

“Clearly one of [the US] goals is to reassure states like South Korea and Japan, ‘You don’t have to go nuclear because we can protect you,’ ” he says. “But on the other hand, my guess is that the Russians and the Chinese aren’t too happy about the US flying nuclear-capable [aircraft] near their borders.”