Canada's Cannabis Decision

Canada's senators in the upper house are expected to ratify a bill to legalise cannabis for recreational use.This would make it the first G20 nation to legalise the drug.
Also today: More than a-hundred African football officials have been secretly filmed accepting cash, in apparent violation of the rules of the sport, and
human rights campaigners in Britain have lost a legal challenge over Northern Ireland's strict abortion law on a technical issue.

(Photo: A man wearing a Canadian maple leaf flag with marijuana leaf during the annual 4/20 rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Credit: Lars Hagberg/AFP/Getty Images)