The governing body of world football, Fifa, has banned four senior Caribbean officials for periods of up to 18 months for their part in an alleged conspiracy to buy and sell votes in Fifa's presidential election earlier this year. The four include one of the most senior women in world football - Franka Pickering of the British Virgin Islands - and a senior Jamaican official, Horace Burrell. In July, Fifa banned for life the former head of football in Asia, Mohamed Bin Hammam.
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The British Defence Secretary Liam Fox has resigned after days of controversy over his relationship with a personal adviser. Doctor Fox has been under pressure to explain why his friend Adam Werritty, who had no official role, attended some defence ministry meetings and frequently met him abroad. Doctor Fox said he had mistakenly allowed the distinction between his personal interests and his government activities to become blurred. Gary O'Donoghue reports.
经过几天因与私人顾问关系引发的争议,英国防部长利安姆·福克斯现已辞职。他那位无官方职位的朋友亚当·韦里蒂参加过若干国防部长会议,经常和自己在国外会面,福克斯博士因此面临压力,需要对此作出解释。福克斯解释说,他错误地混淆了私人利益和政府行为的界限。Gary O'Donoghue报道。
It was Liam Fox's decision to resign, but in truth he had no choice: eight solid days of negative headlines and no sign of the problem going away. Once he acknowledged the blurring of the distinctions between the public and the private sphere, he was always going to be on the back foot. What really did for the defence secretary was the emerging detail of how his unofficial adviser and friend Adam Werritty was funded to fly around the world, attending conferences and private holidays without any of the backing being declared.