Thứ Sáu, 4 tháng 12, 2015
Former AFL player agent Ricky Nixon has been arrested and then released "pending further investigation" after posting a photo of a small child with the caption "next fuck" on his Facebook, The Guardian reports.
Victoria Police confirmed a 52-year-old man was arrested in relation to alleged telecommunications offences.
It is believed Nixon posted the comment while arguing with a woman on Facebook about his tell-all book, My Side, which chronicles his fall from grace.
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A woman was teasing NIxon for blocking her son when he responded by posting a picture of her granddaughter he had gotten from her Facebook with the comment "next fuck."
In 2010 and 2011 Nixon had a relationship with then 17-year-old school girl Kim Duthie and recently went to court against Duthie to defend the inclusion of the relationship in his book.
Following the court case, Nixon has been on social media attempting to promote his book.
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Thứ Năm, 3 tháng 12, 2015
Alfredo Hawit and Juan Angel Napout — two high-ranking Latin American officials — were detained in dawn raids in Zurich Thursday.
The FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, Oct. 20.
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Two top FIFA officials have been arrested in dawn raids in Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday morning on suspicion of taking "millions of dollars" in bribes related to marketing rights for Latin American soccer tournaments, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice said in a statement.
Later Thursday, the department revealed in another statement that the two officials were Alfredo Hawit — the Honduran president of Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) and a FIFA vice-president; and Juan Angel Napout — the Paraguayan president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), who is also a FIFA official.
Juan Angel Napout, left; Alfredo Hawit, right.
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They were arrested at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, who are carrying out an investigation into corruption at world soccer's governing body.
The statement said:
The two FIFA officials were arrested by the Zurich cantonal police today in Zurich. The detention orders issued by the FOJ are based on arrest requests submitted by the United States Department of Justice on 29 November 2015. In the light of further investigations conducted by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, these individuals are now also suspected of having received bribes. The high-ranking FIFA officials are alleged to have taken the money in return for selling marketing rights in connection with football tournaments in Latin America, as well as World Cup qualifying matches. According to the arrest requests, some of the offences were agreed and prepared in the USA. Payments were also processed via U.S. banks.
The arrests took place at the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, where other FIFA officials were arrested in May, the New York Times reported. FIFA officials had gathered in the city to vote on reforms to the scandal-hit organization.
In response to the arrests, FIFA released a statement saying it would "cooperate fully" with the investigation.
FIFA became aware of the actions taken today by the U.S. Department of Justice.
FIFA will continue to co-operate fully with the U.S. investigation as permitted by Swiss law, as well as with the investigation being led by the Swiss Office of the Attorney General.
FIFA will have no further comment on today's developments.
At a press conference after the FIFA meeting where the reforms were discussed, the organization's reform committee chairman Francois Carrard said the arrests were "an important step," the BBC reported.
"Fifa is going through a major crisis - a crisis is a unique opportunity for change, for renewal," he said.
Carrard also announced a raft of reforms for FIFA, and a comprehensive reorganization of the body's structure.
He said that, in future, FIFA would increase the number of women involved in decision making to at least one per continental federation. He also announced term limits for senior officials, whose salaries would be made public.
FIFA has posted the full slate of reforms in detail here.
The reforms will be ratified by 209 member associations Friday. However, a proposal to increase the number of teams competing at the World Cup from 32 to 40 has been deferred to a future date, pending further study.
The South African state won its appeal against the initial culpable homicide sentence handed to the athlete for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Oscar Pistorius listens to his original judgment in Pretoria, Oct. 21.
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Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius had his sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013 upgraded to murder in South Africa's Supreme Court in Bloemfontein Thursday morning.
Appeal Judge Lorimer Eric Leach said the verdict by the case's original judge, Thokozile Masipa — which led to Pistorius being found guilty of culpable homicide, or manslaughter — in October 2014, was "fundamentally flawed."
"He ought to have been convicted not of culpable homicide, but murder," Leach said.
Judge Eric Leach delivers his judgement in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein, Dec. 3
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In his opening remarks, Judge Leach said the case was a "human tragedy of Shakespearean proportions."
"A young man overcomes huge physical disabilities to reach Olympian heights as an athlete. In doing so he becomes an international celebrity, he meets a young woman of great natural beauty and a successful model, romance blossoms, and then, ironically on Valentine's Day, all is destroyed when he takes her life," he said, according to NBC News.
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While speaking to Harsha Bhogle at the fourth test between India and South Africa, former opener Virender Sehwag said that if his sons break his 319-run record, he will gift them a Ferrari.
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Sehwag's record, which he made in April, 2008 against South Africa, is the highest score by an Indian batsman in Test cricket.
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Tyson Fury said homosexuality would lead to the apocalypse – but has denied that he is homophobic.
A Change.org petition to remove heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury from the BBC Sports Personality of the Year shortlist has reached 30,000 signatures in two days.
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Fury beat Ukrainian fighter Wladimir Klitschko to become the world heavyweight champion on Saturday, and it was announced that he was on the Sports Personality shortlist on Monday.
Tyson Fury (right) in the ring with Christian Hammer.
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But LGBT rights campaigners have called for him to be excluded from the list due to his recent comments on homosexuality.
The Manchester-born boxer told the Mail on Sunday in November, in the build-up to his fight against Klitschko, that there are three things that need to happen "before the devil comes home".
"One of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other is paedophilia," he said. "Who would have thought in the 50s and 60s that those first two would be legalised?"
Human rights and LGBT campaigner Peter Tatchell responded by labelling Fury "deranged".
"Tyson is a brilliant boxer but a very bigoted and confused Christian," he told the Daily Mail.
"To equate same-sex love with abortion and paedophilia is deranged and offensive."
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