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Blatter chairs emergency FIFA meeting as scandal grows
FIFA President Sepp Blatter chaired an emergency meeting with continental soccer bodies Thursday while staying out of public view himself.Pakistan hangs three separatists for 1998 plane hijacking
Pakistan on Thursday executed three Baluch separatists convicted of hijacking a plane in 1998, which they attempted to fly to India to ...Putin declares all Russian military deaths state secrets
President Vladimir Putin ordered on Thursday that deaths of Russian soldiers during special operations in peacetime should be classified as a state ...Blatter defies calls to quit as FIFA scandal widens
The corruption charges engulfing soccer\'s governing body have heaped shame and humiliation on the game, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said on Thursday, ...FIFA officials arrested over corruption charges, face US extradition
Six soccer officials, including some high-ranking members of world governing-body FIFA, were arrested by Swiss police on Wednesday and detained pending extradition ...Saudi-led airstrikes on police headquarters kill 45 in Yemen
Saudi-led coalition warplanes killed 45 soldiers on Wednesday when they targeted a rebel troop headquarters in the Yemeni capital as the United ...FARC peace negotiator killed in Colombia strike
The Colombian armed forces\' aerial bombing campaign against leftist guerrillas killed a member of the rebel negotiating team who had participated in ...Former British PM Blair quits as Middle East envoy
Tony Blair resigned Wednesday as the Quartet diplomatic group\'s envoy, his office said, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict he worked to end as ...World soccer rocked by U.S., Swiss arrests of officials for graft
A major corruption storm that engulfed FIFA sent shock waves around world football Wednesday and led to calls to suspend a vote ...Children cannot travel without Parent or Guardian in Nepal
Nepal has banned children from travelling without parents or approved guardians to deter human traffickers who authorities fear are targeting vulnerable families ...




