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| Candidate Champagne says FIFA must iron out inequalities | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Alarmed at the financial gulf between soccer's haves and have-nots, FIFA presidential candidate Jerome Champagne says a more even distribution of riches will be a priority if he wins election in February. Highlighting the divisions, the former French diplomat pointed out that the top European clubs spend millions on players while Papua New Guinea's football federation struggles to pay air fares for its team. "The national team of Papua New Guinea plays only two matches a year because they cannot afford the plane tickets.
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| One killed, two hurt in shooting at Tennessee college campus - authorities | | | (Reuters) - One person was killed and two others were wounded by gunfire on the campus of Tennessee State University in Nashville late on Thursday, police said. The shootings, which occurred just before 11 p.m. local time, appeared to have stemmed from a dispute over a dice game in an outdoor courtyard, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said. The three individuals were transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said Tanya Stone, operations supervisor for the Metro Nashville emergency communication center. |
| South Africa's ANC risks young voter anger in education fee row | |  By Stella Mapenzauswa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - As thousands of South African university students protested against tuition fee hikes this week, one banner stood out for its raw summary of post-apartheid disappointment: "Our parents were sold dreams in 1994. "This protest may appear to be about tuition fees but what lies beneath is poverty, unemployment, tardy and uncaring service delivery, broken promises and the denial of opportunity," said Gary van Staden, an analyst at NKC African Economics.
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| Police says Swedish school killer was driven by "racist motives" - radio | |  A masked man who killed one teacher and a boy and wounded two others in a Swedish school was driven by racist motives, police said on Friday. Sweden was shocked by Thursday's attack in which the assailant walked through a school stabbing students and staff in Trollhattan, an industrial town of about 50,000 inhabitants in western Sweden that has a large proportion of immigrants. Police shot the suspect, a local man in his early 20s, who died of his injuries at a hospital.
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| China graft-buster says must learn from ancients to tackle corruption | |  China's ruling Communist Party must learn from the traditional virtues which have defined Chinese culture since ancient time as it tackles corruption, a problem that still hangs "acutely" in front of them, the top graft-buster wrote on Friday. President Xi Jinping has launched a sweeping campaign against graft since assuming the party leadership in 2012 and presidency in 2013, warning, like others before him, that the issue is so severe it could affect the party's grip on power. Writing in the party's official People's Daily, Wang Qishan, who is in charge of battling corruption, said that the source of the party's rules on tackling this problem were the morals and virtues passed down through history.
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| Papua New Guinea to begin resettling asylum seekers from Australian camp | | | By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia welcomed on Friday a pledge by Papua New Guinea to begin resettling refugees from an Australian immigration detention centre, despite questions about how their safety would be guaranteed in one of the region's most dangerous countries. Asylum seekers are a hot political issue in Australia and successive governments have vowed to stop them reaching the mainland, sending those intercepted on unsafe boats to camps on Manus island in Papua New Guinea and Nauru in the South Pacific. A deal struck with Cambodia last year to relocate them there has struggled to get off the ground and many settled in Nauru have reported assaults. |
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