end up
receiving this kind of warrant for reasons I still don’t know has mortified and humiliated me.”
Italian prosecutors announced on Tuesday that they suspected Mr Tedeschi and another top official of having broken money laundering laws. They’ve also seized more than $30 million of funds from the Vatican Bank. The Vatican said it was
astonished
and offered its support to Mr Tedeschi.
The International Red Cross says more than a billion people across the developing world are
vulnerable
to disasters, because they live in slum areas without access to emergency services. It said many governments in Africa, Asia and Latin America have failed to
adapt to
the problems posed by rapid unregulated urbanisation.
A leading Indian sports official, Lalit Bhanot, has defended his country’s preparations for the Commonwealth Games after international officials described the facilities for athletes as “filthy and uninhabitable”. The Games open in Delhi in 2 weeks. The Games have proved controversial amid concerns of corruption, delays, and also security. Our Delhi reporter, Mark Dummett, explains.
What they’re trying to do here
mirror
s a bit the Beijing Olympics. They’ve been extremely ambitious. This isn’t just a question of building a new stadium. They’re building a new airport terminal, they’re building new metro lines, new roads, they're trying to