FIFA’s ethics committee have opened investigation proceedings against Mohamed bin Hammam.

An American college at the centre of a child sex abuse scandal has been fined $60m (just under €50m).

An American college at the centre of a child sex abuse scandal has been fined $60m (€49.35m).

FIFA’s ethics committee today handed out their fourth ban connected with the bribery scandal by suspending leading Caribbean official Colin Klass for 26 months.

FIFA have announced 16 officials from Caribbean associations have been charged with breaching rules on ethics in the wake of the bribery scandal that saw Mohamed Bin Hammam banned for life.

FIFA have given all 25 Caribbean associations 48 hours to provide statements about the events at the meeting in Trinidad which led to Mohamed Bin Hammam being banned for life for bribery.

Mohamed bin Hammam will fight for his future in football today when the FIFA ethics committee hearing into bribery allegations begins.

FIFA member Mohamed Bin Hammam intends to fight allegations of bribery all the way to the bitter end.

FIFA member Mohamed Bin Hammam intends to fight allegations of bribery all the way to the bitter end.

Investigators probing claims of bribery by senior FIFA members will carry out interviews of the remaining witnesses in the Bahamas.

Suspended FIFA vice-president Jack Warner says he has no plans to meet investigators probing bribery allegations.

Chuck Blazer, the man who blew the whistle on an alleged bribery scandal, has dismissed claims of a FIFA/USA conspiracy, insisting: “The only things that were American in all this were the $100 bills.”

Investigators will begin interviewing the heads of the 25 Caribbean associations at the centre of the FIFA bribery scandal today.

Draft portions of the September 11 commission’s final report offer a stinging rebuke of the FBI and intelligence agencies, but refrain from assigning blame to individuals in government to avoid the appearance of partisanship, several commissioners say.

Gaetano Badalamenti, once described by US authorities as the “boss of all bosses” of the Sicilian Mafia, has died, a Justice Department spokesman said.

THE FBI failed miserably over several years to reorganise and respond to a steadily growing threat of terrorism, the commission investigating the September 11 attacks said yesterday.

The FBI's director has admitted the agency made a "serious error" in the Timothy McVeigh case.