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Excitement in the air. And its no surprise that young boys the world over dream of becoming football stars. This made us wonder, what does it take to become one of these celebrated players with the multimillion euro contracts . Our reporter went to france, a country which recruits many of its star athletes from its former colonies in africa. As we found out, not everyones dream of making it on the pitch comes true, and for some it can be a nightmare. Tieucara coulibaly from ivory coast is working hard to make tieucara coulibaly from ivory coast is working hard to make his dream come true to be...

Is that this vote will be very tight and very tense. So our question today on quadriga, should the u. K. Stay or go . I am joined by three seasoned observers and analysts, beginning with derek scally, who is from the irish times, and says brexit is merely a symptom for a long deepseated eu illness. Also with us is alan posener, a regular commentator for berlin who believes that brexit would be a catastrophe that would lead to the dissolution of the European Union. And welcome to ulrike herrmann, a Business Editor and writer at the tageszeitung, who says a brexit would not be as bad as it seems...

In 2007, The Heritage Foundation became the first and only organization tracking thwarted terrorist attacks against the United States. That year, Heritage reported that at least 19 publicly known terrorist attacks against the United States had been foiled since 9/11. Today, that number stands at 40. The fact that the United States has not suffered a large-scale attack since 9/11 truly speaks to the country’s counterterrorism successes. However, simply applauding the achievement and taking only a forward-looking approach is not nearly enough to prevent the next attack. Reviewing the terrorist...

In 2009 alone, U.S. authorities foiled at least six terrorist plots against the United States. Since September 11, 2001, at least 30 planned terrorist attacks have been foiled, all but two of them prevented by law enforcement. The two notable exceptions are the passengers and flight attendants who subdued the "shoe bomber" in 2001 and the "underwear bomber" on Christmas Day in 2009. Bottom line: The system has generally worked well. But many tools necessary for ferreting out conspiracies and catching terrorists are under attack. Chief among them are key provisions of the PA...

At 2:50 p.m. on April 15, 2013, two explosions went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The brazen terrorist attack killed three people, injured and maimed hundreds more, and shocked the nation. Despite being long recognized as a potential threat by law enforcement and intelligence, few Americans had considered the use of an improvised explosive device (IED) on American soil. And, due to only a few, and relatively small, attacks since 9/11, the public was not in a state of awareness.