Blatter Gives Himself a Red Card

Reports in the American media say the head of Fifa, Sepp Blatter, is being investigated by the FBI as part of a corruption inquiry into world football's governing body. The news emerged hours after Mr Blatter made the shock announcement that he was stepping down as Fifa president, days after being re-elected. The US authorities have made no public comment. But a BBC correspondent in New York says a number of media organisations have been told privately that he is a focus of the investigation. Mr Blatter has always denied any wrongdoing.

A Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canada slams a former policy of aboriginal integration as cultural genocide. Canada's so-called dark secret required aboriginal children to attend residential Christian schools. Justice Murray Sinclair said the policy involved more than 100 years of mistreatment for indigenous children until a decision was taken to close the schools in 1969.

The largest physics experiment in history, the Large Hadron Collider, is being switched on again to fire particles at one another at high speed.