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| Pope secretly met Kentucky clerk in gay marriage row |
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 A Kentucky county clerk who had been jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples secretly met Pope Francis during his visit to the United States last week, a meeting she called greatly encouraging. The Vatican confirmed the pope's meeting in a brief statement on Wednesday. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis and her husband met the pope during the Washington leg of his U.S. visit, she and her lawyer told American media.
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| Russia begins Syria air strikes as war enters volatile new phase |
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 By Andrew Osborn and Phil Stewart MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia launched air strikes in Syria on Wednesday in the Kremlin's biggest Middle East intervention in decades, but Moscow's assertion that it had hit Islamic State was immediately disputed by the United States and rebels on the ground. The air strikes plunged the four-year-old civil war in Syria into a volatile new phase as President Vladimir Putin moved forcefully to assert Russian influence in the unstable region.
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| Troubled FIFA and UEFA cancel annual staff match |
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| Troubled international football bodies FIFA and UEFA, both with leaders involved with a Swiss criminal investigation, have cancelled their annual staff match. The friendly game had been scheduled to take place in Nyon, home to European governing body UEFA and its president Michel Platini. "In a joint decision it was agreed to postpone the UEFA-FIFA challenge 2015, which had been scheduled for Friday, 2 October, until further notice," a FIFA spokesperson said on Wednesday. |
| VW braces for hit to business from emissions scandal |
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 By Andreas Cremer BERLIN (Reuters) - Volkswagen has imposed a hiring freeze at its financing business and cut a shift at a German engine factory as it braces for a hit to business from cheating in diesel emissions tests. Senior officials at the German carmaker will examine on Wednesday evening the initial findings of an internal investigation into the biggest business crisis in the company's 78-year history, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Meeting at group headquarters in Wolfsburg, the supervisory board's executive committee will also prepare for an external investigation by a U.S. law firm Jones Day, with an official from that firm to join part of the meeting, the source added.
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| U.S. appeals court upholds most of antitrust ruling against NCAA |
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| NCAA compensation rules for college athletes violate antitrust law, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday in a case brought by athletes seeking a slice of the billions of dollars universities reap from football and basketball. A California federal judge last year had ruled against the NCAA, and said it should allow schools to pay athletes up to $5,000 per year in compensation. Critics say the NCAA's scholarship policy short-changes athletes who risk injury and devote many hours to practice sessions, travel and competition. |
| Series of bombs in southwest China kills at least seven |
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 A series of package bombs exploded on Wednesday in the southwest China city of Liuzhou, killing at least seven people and injuring 51, state media said. The official Xinhua news agency said police had determined the blasts were a "criminal" act and identified the suspect as a 33-year-old local man surnamed Wei, but added the investigation was continuing. Media images showed a collapsed building, smoke and streets strewn with rubble in Liuzhou in Guangxi region.
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