Der Spiegel reported that documents it obtained from Snowden show the NSA secretly monitored the UN's internal video conferencing system.

A three-stage rocket, the Epsilon is 24.4 meters (80 feet) high, about half the size of Japan's workhorse H2A rocket.

That put the singer above Steven Spielberg, who took second place with $100 million, and "X Factor" honcho Simon Cowell.

Taylor will direct from a script by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth ("Fair Game"), who revised the originally draft by Steven Baigelman.

He quit after a Bolivian opposition politician holed up in the Brazilian embassy in La Paz for more than a year fled the country in a diplomatic car.

The Islamist insurgency, once confined largely to the republic of Chechnya, has spread across the North Caucasus in recent years.

The move came after Israeli authorities in Jerusalem decided to allocate more than £11m for the expansion of a settlement in East Jerusalem.

Military chiefs from the United States and its European and Middle Eastern allies met in Jordan for what could be a council of war.