FIFA president Sepp Blatter has asked for talks with Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff next week as concerns grow about the collapse in the relationship between the organisation and the 2014 World Cup hosts.

Brazilians are going to the polls today in national elections that could see front-running candidate Dilma Rousseff become the country’s first female president, succeeding her popular ally and mentor.

Iran will not send a woman who had faced death by stoning on an adultery conviction to Brazil, which has offered her asylum, the president said.

THE English Beef and Lamb Executive (EBLEX) has agreed with the country’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), that the zebu gene must no longer appear in any beef or beef products that carries the Quality Standard Mark.