Reinhard Grindel has admitted he should have done more to protect the midfielder against discriminatory abuse
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/ 26 January 2012
Davos has called for global action against cybercrime, saying countries should have clear laws against it.
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/ 18 December 2011
The WTO has wrapped up a ministerial meeting on the Doha Round of negotiations for a global free trade pact with some minister calling for a new path.
Emerging giants are pressuring EU countries at the G20 to solve their debt crisis, with Beijing dangling $100-billion in rescue funds.
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/ 17 September 2011
Pressure is mounting on bosses of Swiss bank giant UBS to quit for failing to prevent a $2-billion trading loss.
Navi Pillay, the United Nations human rights chief, remembers a time when only white men could be judges in South Africa.
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday passed an historic resolution that seeks equal rights for everyone regardless of their sexual orientation.
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/ 24 September 2010
Three groups of armed militia raped at least 303 civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over four days, said a UN report.
The US expressed disappointment at Switzerland’s refusal to extradite Roman Polanski and vowed to pursue the three decade hunt for the director.
Six world powers on Thursday started crunch talks with Iran seeking to pressure Tehran to prove that its nuclear programme is peaceful.
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/ 28 January 2009
Worsening economic turmoil dominated talks and thoughts as world leaders and financial chiefs gathered on Wednesday for the annual Davos forum.
Time waits for no man, or woman — even a queen, as Marie Antoinette found to her cost amid the tumult of the French Revolution in the late 18th century. France’s last queen was to have received the "most complicated and most sophisticated" watch possible back in 1783 at the behest of an admirer.