Fifa chiefs had knowledge that senior officials including former president Joao Havelange had been paid bribes by the organisation’s former marketing company ISL, a court document published yesterday revealed.

Alliance Boots, owner of Europe’s biggest pharmacy chain, is looking to expand through partnership deals in Asia and Latin America, financed by its own cash flows, it said yesterday.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter believes members of the organisation’s executive committee may find their positions untenable if they are found to have received payments from a now-defunct marketing company in the 1990s.

FIFA’s clean-up drive could see three senior football officials named as having received kickbacks from a company that sold World Cup TV rights.

FIFA’s clean-up drive could see three senior football officials named as having received kickbacks from a company that sold World Cup TV rights.

FIFA aim to take the first steps towards “restoring its reputation throughout the world” today when their executive committee meet to discuss reforms to the governing body.

Michel Platini has called a summit meeting of the eight European FIFA members immediately before tomorrow’s executive committee in a bid to ensure that significant reforms of the world governing body are pushed through.

FIFA is blocking the release of a document that would reveal the identity of two officials who have been forced to repay bribes, according to a BBC investigation.

A TOP US economist has told firms that they are “stupid” if they are not in Ireland.

Swiss voters today overwhelmingly approved a move to make permanent the country’s pioneering program to give addicts government-authorised heroin.

A gunman opened fire in the offices of a bank in Zurich, seriously injuring two people before turning the gun on himself, police said.

Swiss citizens today rejected a proposal to scrap the country’s armed forces, cherished by many as vital protection for the small, long-neutral Alpine country in the heart of Europe.

Swiss police have identified a man who killed 14 people before turning the gun on himself in an attack on a government building.

A gunman who disguised himself as a policeman before shooting 14 people in a Swiss Government building is dead.

A gunman disguised as a police officer has gone on the rampage in a local parliament building in Switzerland.