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| Woman in Gurgaon accuses Uber driver of sexual harassment |
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 By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A woman has accused a driver contracted with online taxi company Uber Technologies of trying to sexually harass her after she hailed his cab, prompting the U.S.-based firm to suspend the driver and launch an internal investigation. Uber was banned in New Delhi in December after a woman passenger accused one of its drivers of rape. The latest accusation surfaced on social media on Sunday when the woman's brother, Ankush Pathania, posted a picture of Uber's response to the complaint and urged the company to take swift action.
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| Child abuse costs E Asia, Pacific $209 billion a year - U.N. report |
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| By Alex Whiting LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Child abuse and neglect are costing countries in East Asia and the Pacific an estimated $209 billion a year, equivalent to 2 percent of the region's GDP, researchers said on Tuesday in the region's first study of the economic impact of abuse. A separate study carried out in Cambodia recently found that over 50 percent of children experience at least one form of violence before the age of 18. |
| Ex-South American soccer chief in FIFA scandal under house arrest |
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| The former head of South America's soccer federation was under house arrest on Monday evening, a senior police official said, five days after he was accused by the United States of involvement in a corruption scandal that has rocked world soccer. Earlier in the day a judge ordered the detention of 86-year-old Nicolas Leoz, who had been receiving medical treatment in a private clinic he owned in the Paraguayan capital, Asuncion. Leoz is among nine soccer officials and five sports media and promotions executives hit with U.S. charges involving more than $150 million in bribes. |
| FIFA scandal deepens as Blatter aide linked to payments |
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 By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors believe FIFA President Sepp Blatter's top lieutenant made $10 million in bank transactions that are central to the bribery investigation of the world soccer body, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday. Jerome Valcke, FIFA's secretary general, is described in an indictment filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, as an unidentified "high-ranking FIFA official" who in 2008 transferred the sum to another FIFA official, Jack Warner. Valcke is not named as a defendant and has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
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