Research has exposed corrupt practices within FIFA going back to the 1990s, but it took interest from the US, where football is still only emerging as a popular sport, for arrests to be made.
A Ukip councillor has been expelled from the party for comments she made in an interview that brought the party into disrepute.
Andy Coulson has been found guilty of phone hacking and his former boss, Prime Minister David Cameron, has been quick to apologise for “giving him a second chance” by employing the former News of the World editor after two of his employees were jailed for phone hacking in 2006.
Erdogan has claimed that the voice recordings of his son are a fabricated montage. In a speech in Denizli Erdogan argued that Gülen and the Hizmet movement is responsible for leaks which are part of a conspiracy against his leadership.
Sally Bercow has found herself embroiled in another scandal after The Sun published photographs of her wearing a brunette wig and kissing a “mystery man” that was not her husband, Speaker of the House John Bercow, on a night out in London.