Berlin - Football's ruling body FIFA and streetfootballworld presented a joint project "20 Centres for 2010" Wednesday in Berlin, which will involve the building of 20 football centres in Africa.
The project will take place around the 2010 World Cup in South Africa with each centre having a football pitch and rooms for education and dissemination of health information.
Damascus - Syria's foreign minister said uranium traces found at an alleged nulcear facility by the United Nations nuclear watchdog may have been left by Israeli warplanes that attacked the site.
"No one has ever asked himself what kind of Israeli bombs had hit the site, and what they contained," the Syrian minister said, stating that Israel had bombs containing depleted uranium, such as used by the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Walid al-Moallem described as politically motivated the news leaks about the traces found at the site which was bombed by Israel in September 2007.
Brussels - The European Commission on Wednesday imposed an unprecedented 1.38-billion-euro (1.76-billion-dollar) combined fine on four car glass manufacturers found guilty of forging a cartel designed to keep prices artificially high.
An investigation concluded that managers of Asahi of Japan, Britain's Pilkington, Saint-Gobain of France and Belgium's Soliver had taken part in a series of illegal talks in a number of European airports and hotels between 1998 and 2003. The meetings were used to fix prices and market share and to allocate customers to each other.
Vienna - Survivors and relatives of victims of the Kaprun cable car fire in 2000 want to restart legal proceedings and are seeking 2 million euros (2.5 million dollars) of compensation per victim, their lawyer Gerhard Podovsovnik confirmed Wednesday.
In 2005, an appeal court in Linz found 16 defendants not guilty of having caused the accident in November 2000, when a cable car at the Kitzsteinhorn glacier in the state of Salzburg caught fire in a tunnel, leading to the death of 155 skiers from eight countries.
Copenhagen - Denmark was to tighten laws that allow foreign nationals to remain in the country even if they pose a security risk, legislators said Wednesday.
The amendments concerning "tolerated stay" were expected to pass this week. The deal was hammered out between the minority government and its parliamentary backer, the populist Danish People's Party.
Currently 18 people are in Denmark on so-called "tolerated stay," incuding a 37-year-old Tunisian national who is suspected of planning to murder a Danish newspaper cartoonist.