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The 21-year-old white gunman suspected of killing nine people at a black church in the southeastern US city of Charleston was arrested Thursday.

• 19 июня 2015, 11:17

A member of punk protest group Pussy Riot and a fellow activist were arrested at a demonstration in Moscow demanding better conditions for women held in Russian prisons.

• 13 июня 2015, 11:39

There is no reason Brazil's hosting of last year's World Cup should be probed as part of the FIFA scandal, President Dilma Rousseff insisted in an interview.

• 09 июня 2015, 11:58

He is a key figure caught up in the middle of football's biggest corruption scandal. But indicted former FIFA vice president Jack Warner is still a wildly popular.

• 07 июня 2015, 13:52

Pop star Justin Bieber pleaded guilty to assault and careless driving, but will not go to jail over a collision with paparazzi in the Canadian countryside last year.

• 05 июня 2015, 11:40

A young man was caught at the Unified National Testing in Kazakhstan dressed up as his girlfriend.

• 05 июня 2015, 00:49

The US investigation into world football governing body FIFA is modeled after an operation against an organized crime gang.

• 04 июня 2015, 15:50

FIFA admitted that it had processed a $10 million payment from South Africa to a disgraced football official but denied that the world body's secretary general Jerome Valcke was involved.

• 02 июня 2015, 14:53

South Africa denied that a $10 million payment it made in 2008 was in any way a bribe to FIFA for the 2010 World Cup.

• 01 июня 2015, 11:56

Several members of FIFA's executive committee have already been questioned by the Swiss justice, and president Sepp Blatter could also be quizzed "in the future if needed".

• 01 июня 2015, 10:03

A new election triumph in the midst of a corruption scandal established FIFA president Sepp Blatter as the politician who can come through any storm.

• 30 мая 2015, 11:39

FIFA leader Sepp Blatter defended his actions battling corruption ahead of a vote to decide on whether he remains as president of football's beleaguered world body.

• 29 мая 2015, 16:37

South Africa's former president Thabo Mbeki joined government officials in denying allegations that the country paid bribes to secure the right to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

• 29 мая 2015, 13:48

The United Nations is taking a close look at its partnerships with FIFA following allegations of widespread corruption at football's world governing body.

• 29 мая 2015, 12:35

Black Toyota Land Cruiser has crashed into a kindergarten playground killing a five-year-old child in Almaty’s Taugul 1 Mikroraion.

• 29 мая 2015, 12:11

US diplomats avoided a clash of words with Moscow on the corruption scandal shaking FIFA after Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Washington of trying to block the re-election of football boss Sepp Blatter.

• 29 мая 2015, 11:44

Ask the average American sports fan what the words Sepp Blatter mean and they might reach for a medical dictionary.

• 29 мая 2015, 10:52

South African officials paid more than $10 million in bribes to host the 2010 World Cup and handed over a briefcase stuffed with $10,000 stacks of banknotes in Paris.

• 28 мая 2015, 14:40

Key World Cup sponsors including McDonald's, Adidas and Budweiser expressed strong concerns after global football body FIFA was enveloped by a new corruption scandal.

• 28 мая 2015, 13:28

Swiss police on Wednesday raided the headquarters of FIFA, seizing documents in a probe linked to fraud in the awarding of the 2018 and 2020 World Cups.

• 27 мая 2015, 15:52