for the sake of
millions of youths involved in football. Many people, whether football fans or not, were thrilled at his decision to withdraw from football and attack corruption amongst football bosses.
World News from the BBC.
The review of a report from the United Nations Climate Panel has found that claims of errors in its 2007 report were largely
unfounded
. Dutch parliamentarians were angered by claims that a rising sea level would flood more than half their country. However, their own environment agency found that the country was threatened, but by flooding rivers
rather than
the sea. The BBC's environment correspondent says this is the latest in a series of inquiries which have concluded that the mainstream view of man-made climate change is basically correct.
Iran has accused some European and Gulf states of refusing to supply fuel for its airliners on flights overseas. An Iranian aviation official said the action had greatly increased the cost of such flights. The BBC correspondent says Iran believes this is a result of new sanctions imposed by the United States last week.
The presidents of Venezuela and Ecuador have taken part in a ceremony in Caracas to reunite two 19th century independence heroes.
The symbolic remains of Manuela Saenz, who was buried in Peru in 1856, were laid to rest alongside those of her lover, the Liberator, Simon Bolivar. From Venezuela, here's Will Grand.