as a whole
. It's estimated that there are some 11 million illegal immigrants in the US. President Obama said fixing the system would reduce the number of people entering the country illegally to look for work and allow border agents to focus on threats from drug traffickers and terrorists.
Microsoft has agreed to buy the Internet telephone service Skype for $8.5bn, the biggest deal in the software maker's 36-year history. Owning Skype, which allows users to make voice and video calls over the Internet, will give Microsoft access to its 170 million monthly users.
Football's world governing body Fifa has promised to investigate bribery accusations made against senior members of its organising committee. The allegations made to a British parliamentary committee came from Lord Triesman, the head of England's unsuccessful bid for the 2018 World Cup. He said four Fifa members had behaved unethically during the bid process, one asking for a knighthood, and another asking for a payment of several million dollars. Lord Triesman told the committee how he and England's Fifa representative Sir Dave Richards had reacted.
"As he described it, Sir Dave nodded to me. I understood exactly what the nod meant. It meant this is what we probably came in the room expecting to hear. And I said immediately that in my view [the]
proposition
was
out of the question
."
The UN says four of its peacekeepers in Sudan have been wounded in a tense border region between the north and the south of the country. The attack, which the UN has called unprovoked, took place in the Abyei region, which is being