IT SOUNDS like an elaborate plotline from one of its many critically acclaimed films.

IT WAS filmed in Ireland, stars an Australian soap actress and is intended for the same audience as the supernatural hit Vampire Diaries.

TWO former Korean sex slaves demanded the resignation of an outspoken Japanese mayor yesterday, cancelling a clear-the-air meeting after the official defended
Japan’s wartime practice of forcing tens of thousands of Asian women into prostitution.

A NORTH Korean envoy visiting China said yesterday that North Korea is prepared to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks – an apparent victory in China’s effort to lower tensions in the Korean peninsula.

THE Syrian government has agreed to attend a conference proposed by Russia and the United States on ending the country’s civil war, the Russian foreign ministry said yesterday in what was the first sign that president Bashar al-Assad’s regime would be willing to take part in talks with the opposition.

A CIRCULAR structure lying at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee could contain the secrets of ­ancient life in the Middle East, researchers believe.

A TRUCK that crashed into a bridge in Washington state may have caused it to collapse, sending vehicles into the freezing river below, officials said.

German brewers have warned Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government that any law allowing the drilling technique known as fracking could damage the beer industry.

President Barack Obama has outlined plans to limit the use of US drone strikes against extremists abroad and taken steps aimed at breaking a deadlock on closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba.

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The European Commission has decided to tear up new rules on how restaurants should serve olive oil less than a week after unveiling them.

Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has been questioned in court over her role in the payment of €285 million (£244m) to a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy.

YUICHIRO Miura has become the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest at the age of 80.

Islamist suicide bombers struck an army barracks and a French-run uranium mine in Niger, killing 20 people and wounding dozens more.

QUEBEC’S separatist government would be swept from office if it called an election now, nine months after taking power last September.

FORD is to end car-making in Australia due to the strong ­Australian dollar, ending an ­association dating from 1925.

Seeking to nudge Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table, US Secretary of State John Kerry this week praised Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s “seriousness” about revitalising hopes for a peace deal and voiced optimism for ending years of stalemate.

Scottish actor Ewan McGregor is almost unrecognisable after a few hours spent in a hairdressing salon in Los Angeles yesterday.

THE cost of the massive Oklahoma tornado destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and could cost $2 billion (£1.3bn), according to early ­estimates.

Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has signed a new constitution into law, replacing a 33-year-old document forged in the dying days of British colonial rule and paving the way for an election later this year.

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