Reggina have launched official complaints to the Italian Football Federation and UEFA after claiming their 15-year-old defender Vincenzo Camilleri has passed up a chance to sign a professional contract with the club to join Chelsea instead.

Reggina will start next with a 15-point deduction in Serie A for their role in the match-fixing scandal.

A doctor and two nurses were arrested overnight in connection with the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital in the days following Hurricane Katrina, officials said today.

The husband-and-wife owners of a nursing home near New Orleans were charged yesterday with negligent homicide in the deaths of 34 people during the flooding unleashed by Hurricane Katrina.