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Sepp Blatter resigns as FIFA president
Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday in the face of a U.S.-led corruption investigation that has plunged world soccer\'s governing ...South Africa admits paying $10M but denies FIFA bribe
South Africa denied that a $10 million payment it made in 2008 was in any way a bribe to FIFA for the ...Bad weather casts doubt on solar Pacific flight
Solar Impulse 2 was in a holding pattern near Japan on Monday as organisers warned that bad weather in the days ahead ...US Patriot Act spy provisions expire as Senate deal fails
Key provisions of the US Patriot Act expired early Monday after the Senate failed to prevent their lapse, plunging US national security ...Islamic State suicide attack kills 38 Iraqi policemen
Islamic State militants drove a tank rigged with explosives into a base south of the Iraqi city of Samarra on Monday, killing ...Deadly violence hits Nigeria as new President Buhari takes office
A suicide bombing killed 26 people inside a mosque in northeast Nigeria\'s city of Maiduguri on Saturday, hours after Boko Haram launched ...Stopping the violence in Burundi
The conflict started April 26 after Burundi’s Constitutional Court ruled in support of President\'s Nkurunziza’s decision to ...FC Barcelona wins 27th Copa del Rey
A Lionel Messi-inspired Barcelona sealed a league and Cup double as they swept aside Athletic Bilbao 3-1 to win the Copa del ...Nepal schools reopen after devastating earthquakes
Thousands of children, many still traumatised from losing homes and loved ones, returned to class Sunday as Nepal\'s schools formally reopened following ...Five killed in eastern Ukraine fighting
Three Ukrainian soldiers and two civilians have been killed over the past 24 hours in fighting in the separatist east, a Ukrainian ...