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| Militants kill nine Afghan aid workers in night time attack |
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| By Bashir Ansari MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Unidentified militants shot and killed nine Afghan employees of a Czech-backed aid group, People in Need, in an attack early on Tuesday in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province, government officials said. Aid workers have faced increasing attacks in Afghanistan as foreign troops have withdrawn and security has deteriorated, making the country one of the most dangerous for aid groups. Government officials blamed the Taliban for the attack, about 50 miles (80 km) south of the provincial capital. |
| Egypt arrests two Brotherhood leaders ahead of Mursi ruling - sources |
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| Egyptian security services arrested two Muslim Brotherhood leaders late on Monday, security sources said, a day before a court is expected to give a final ruling on a death sentence recommendation against Mohamed Mursi, Egypt's former Islamist president. The arrests of Mahmoud Ghozlan and Abdul Rahman al-Barr followed the government's announcement on Monday that security forces had disrupted a Brotherhood cell which authorities said was gathering intelligence about state institutions and sending it abroad to foreign parties. Ghozlan was a Brotherhood spokesman and a member of the group's highest office, the Guidance Bureau, while Barr, also a member of the Guidance Bureau, was seen as the Brotherhood's top religious authority, the sources said. |
| FIFA say Valcke 'not involved' in $10 million payment |
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 FIFA issued a statement on Tuesday denying the secretary general Jerome Valcke or any of its senior management made a $10 million payment that is central to the bribery investigation of the world soccer's governing body. "The payments totalling USD 10m were authorised by the then chairman of the Finance Committee and executed in accordance with the Organisation Regulations of FIFA," FIFA said in the statement.
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| Tiananmen Mothers urge China to bear responsibility for crimes |
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| A group of families demanding justice for victims of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown declared that the government must bear responsibility for historical crimes in the same way it has called on Japan to do so for its wartime past. The Tiananmen Mothers activist group has long urged the leadership to open a dialogue and reassess the 1989 pro-democracy movement, violently suppressed on June 4 that year by the government which labelled it "counter-revolutionary". In an open letter released on Monday through New York-based Human Rights in China, the group cited Premier Li Keqiang's remarks on Japan's failure to reflect on its past. |
| WADA to appeal in Australia Rules supplements case |
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 The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is to appeal the decision by the Australian Football League (AFL) to acquit sports scientist Stephen Dank of doping charges. Dank, who ran the supplements programme at Australian Rules club Essendon in 2012, was found guilty of 10 breaches of the AFL's anti-doping code in April but cleared of 21 others. "WADA has appealed the AFL Anti-Doping Appeals Tribunal decision to clear Mr Stephen Dank... of 21 charges of the league's drug code," WADA director-general David Howman said in a statement.
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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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