Canada's 'Dark Secret' Exposed

A Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canada has described as cultural genocide a former policy requiring aboriginal children to attend residential Christian schools. Justice Murray Sinclair said the policy involved more than one hundred years of mistreatment for indigenous children until a decision was taken to close the schools in 1969. The Chief of the Assembly of First Nations called the policy Canada's dark secret. Perry Bellegarde said the residential school system broke down individual identity, the family unit, the community and the nation and the effects continued through many generations

The most powerful man in football, Sepp Blatter, is to resign as President of FIFA - after days of mounting pressure over a financial scandal. 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.

The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is returning to full operations after a two-year upgrade. Scientists at the underground CERN complex, on the border between France and Switzerland, will smash sub-atomic particles into each other at unprecedented speeds. They hope to gain new insights into the dark matter which makes up much of the universe. They believe their findings could lead to the biggest revolution in physics since Einstein's theories of relativity. Three years ago, the collider uncovered evidence of the Higgs Boson particle, hailed as one of the most significant discoveries in science.

(Photo: Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Credit: AP)