The head of football in Asia, Mohamed Bin Hammam, has been banned from the sport for life by the international federation Fifa after being found guilty of bribery. Mr Bin Hammam, who's from Qatar, had been accused of trying to buy votes in the Fifa presidential election, where he was challenging its leader Sepp Blatter. Gordon Farquhar reports from Fifa headquarters.
Petrus Damaseb, a Namibian judge and chairman of the ethics committee that investigated the bribery claims, announced Mr Bin Hammam had been found guilty of all charges and said the life ban from involvement in the game was in
keeping with
Fifa's zero tolerance policy. Lawyers for the Qatari, now former head of Asian football, said the ethics committee had reached its conclusions
relying on
circumstantial
evidence, which was "bogus" and "based on lies". They indicated Mr Bin Hammam intends to fight the decision through every legal channel at his disposal.
A train crash in eastern China has killed at least 32 people and injured about 90. Chinese media said an express train between Hangzhou and Wenzhou lost power and was struck from behind by a second train. Two of its carriages fell off a bridge.
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