London - Champions Manchester United stormed clear at the top of the English Premier League on Tuesday after they crushed 10-man West Bromwich Albion 5-0 at the Hawthorns.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as United moved three points ahead of Liverpool, who play on Wednesday, and also set a new record for minutes without conceding a goal.

United now have 50 points, three better than Liverpool and Aston Villa, who won 1-0 at Portsmouth on Tuesday.

London  - The British government was Tuesday ordered to release the minutes of crucial cabinet meetings in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

A tribunal set up to oversee the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act said the confidential documents should be released in the "public interest."

The cabinet meetings on March 13 and March 17, 2003, led by ex-prime minister Tony Blair, are known to have considered the highly-controversial issue of whether the invasion was allowed under international law.

London, Jan 27 : David and Victoria Beckham are at each other''s throats over the soccer ace's hopes of a permanent transfer to AC Milan.

Goldenballs Becks has told Posh he wants to stay with the Italian giants, where his loan spell has got off to a goalscoring start.

However, the ex-Spice girl doesn't want to uproot their sons from America to move to another non-English speaking country after an earlier spell in Spain.

London, Jan. 27 : England football ace David Beckham has followed in the footsteps of ex-gaffer Steve McClaren - by adopting a comedy foreign accent.

The former Three Lions captain spoke in broken English in his post-match interview after bagging his first AC Milan goal.

Becks' famous squeaky voice made way for bizarre pronunciations, reports The Sun.

He was speaking after the Italian giants beat Serie A rivals Bologna 4-1 on Sunday.

LOndon, Jan. 27 : A powerful committee of MPs has urged Queen Elizabeth to open Buckingham Palace more often to the public in return for an increase in taxpayers'' money for the upkeep of the Royal palaces.

According to The Telegraph, the decision of Michelle Obama, America''s new First Lady, to pledge to make the White House more accessible was held up as an example by the MPs to the Monarchy, which only opens Buckingham Palace in August and September for fee-paying tours when no member of the family is there: a total of 63 days a year.

Some MPs proposed it opened at weekends throughout the year when the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are elsewhere.

London, Jan. 27 : BBC television presenter and conservationist Sir David Attenborough has claimed that religious viewers send him hate mail for not crediting God for his nature's bountiful benefits, and he expects more such letters when his latest project, a documentary about Charles Darwin''s theory of evolution, is broadcast on Sunday.