Blatter, Valcke and Kattner awarded themselves £55m, say Fifa lawyers
By Luke Harding and agencies From The Guardian UK Lawyers retained by Fifa say contracted payments to the three former officials appear to break Swiss law The spectacular scale of greed at the top of Fifa was revealed on Friday…
41 percent of Internet users in Jamaica watch at least half of all video online
42% of Internet users in Jamaica are netizens (early adopters) or networkers (early followers) compared to 48% globally Internet has fundamentally changed the way consumers search for product information and locate a place – and now many other activities are…
Japan to go to the moon
Japan is planning an unmanned moon mission for 2019 By Christopher Klimovski From engadget Japan’s space program announced last December that it wants to become the fourth country to successfully land an unmanned vessel on the moon. The scheduled launch…
Why isn’t the killing of 1.5 million Armenians officially called ‘genocide’?
By Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith From The Independent UK The Big Question: The killings have been described as the ‘first mass atrocity of the 20th Century’ by President Obama Why are we talking about this now? Around 15,000 demonstrators in the Armenian…
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The View from Europe: Another blow for Venezuela
By David Jessop From Caribbean News Now Last week in Doha, many of the world’s major producers of crude oil tried, but failed to agree to freeze production, in order to stabilise and eventually increase prices. It was an outcome…
SmartLabs comes to Latin America and the Caribbean
Press release from: SmartLabs PR Agency: SoftPressRelease SmartLabs, one of the leading developers of solutions and set-top boxes for interactive TV operators, is delighted to announce an engagement with Poikilon Ltda to provide business development, marketing and sales support across…
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FIFA: A World Cup of FRAUD
From Sportsmanagementdegreehub.com A look at FIFA’s ongoing corruption problem Everything FIFA sized is big [#estimated global fans per sport][7] Soccer — 3.5 billion Cricket — 2.5 billion Field Hockey — 2 billion Tennis — 1 billion Volleyball — 900 million Table…
A grim anniversary
5 years of war in Syria, in photos BY CHRISTOPHER MILLER From Mashable It began with pro-democracy protests on March 15, 2011, eventually becoming a revolution. Since, the Syrian uprising has devolved into a brutal and complex war that spawned…
Cravath admits breach as law firm hacks go public
By Nell Gluckman and Christine Simmons, From The Am Law Daily While it’s no secret that law firms are often targeted by cyber criminals seeking sensitive client information, it’s rare for breaches to become public. But not this week. The…
U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear case of Yale’s controversial van Gogh painting
By MEGAN SPICER, From The Connecticut Law Tribune A Vincent van Gogh painting will continue to hang on the walls of the Yale University Art Gallery after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to not hear an appeal from a man…
