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| Iran starts poll tally to determine post-sanctions power balance |
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 By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran began counting votes on Saturday after elections that could see reformists accelerate Tehran's opening to the world or long-dominant hardliners reaffirm the Islamic Republic's traditional anti-Western stance. The twinned elections for parliament and a leadership body called the Assembly of Experts are seen by some analysts as a potential generational turning point for Iran, where nearly 60 percent of the 80 million population is under 30. Iran's Financial Tribune newspaper said three million first-time voters were among the 55 million people aged 18 and over who are eligible to cast ballots in the country of 80 million.
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| Iran signals lawyer yet to be appointed for detained Iranian-American |
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 Iran's judiciary signalled on Saturday that Iranian-American businessman Siamak Namazi, detained since October in a case being watched internationally, had not been given access to a lawyer. The businessman was on a list published last month by the official Islamic Republic News Agency and the Tabnak website of four prisoners to be freed in a prisoner exchange with the United States. Five Iranian-American groups have written to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urging him to work to release Namazi, who they said was "left behind" after the prisoner swap.
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| Suge Knight to face August 1 trial on hit-and-run murder charge - report |
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 Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight will stand trial on August 1 for murder charges stemming from a fatal hit-and-run in Los Angeles, a judge ordered on Friday, according to a local media report. Knight told the judge he would be ready for the start of the trial, California wire agency City News Service (CNS) reported. Knight's attorney, Thaddeus J. Culpepper, told reporters outside the court that Knight intended to "assemble a trial team a la O.J. Simpson," referring to the former football star who was acquitted of murder following a high-profile trial, CNS reported.
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| Europe's Infantino chosen to lead FIFA into new era |
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| By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - Gianni Infantino vowed on Friday to lead FIFA out of years of corruption and scandal after the former UEFA general secretary was elected to succeed his Swiss compatriot Sepp Blatter as president of football's world governing body. "We will restore the image of FIFA and the respect of FIFA, and everyone in the world will be proud of us," the 45-year-old law graduate, who for the last seven years has been the leading administrator for Europe's governing body, told an extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich. "I feel a lot of emotion and have not realised yet what has happened today." After a first round of voting in which he narrowly beat Asian Football Confederation President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain, Infantino appeared to gather up almost all the votes that had been cast for the two trailing candidates, Prince Ali and Jerome Champagne. |
| Infantino promises 'to bring FIFA back to football' |
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| Selected quotes from Swiss Gianni Infantino's first news conference after the former UEFA general secretary was elected president of scandal-hit world soccer's governing body FIFA on Friday: "I will work tirelessly to bring football back to FIFA and FIFA back to football, this is what we have to do. "I would like to see a big development of football all over the world. "I want to see football growing all over the world and people looking at FIFA as the organisation that helps each country in the world to develop football. |
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