Michel Platini, the former head of European football association Uefa, was detained for questioning by French police yesterday over the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
The pilot of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may have been clinically depressed, leading him to starve the passengers of oxygen and then crash into the sea in a murder-suicide, according to a new account.
Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's ousted president, was buried yesterday morning at a small family ceremony in Cairo after authorities refused permission for a burial in his home province of Sharqiya.
A millionaire stock trader in the US has been jailed over the death of a builder hired to dig tunnels for a secret nuclear bunker under his house in Maryland.
Boris Johnson took a step closer to becoming the UK's next prime minister yesterday, winning 40pc of votes in the second round of the Tory leadership battle.
Donald Trump undercut his more hawkish security advisers yesterday when the US president downplayed alleged Iranian attacks on oil tankers as "very minor", even as the United States ordered 1,000 more troops to the Middle East.
