Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter and France soccer great Michel Platini were both cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss court yesterday, two-and-a-half years after they were first acquitted of the offences.

Ukraine is cagey about the size of its navy. Which isn&t surprising. In conventional terms it hasn&t really got one. But Kyiv rules the waves in the Black Sea with its near invisible fleet.

The head of Turkey&s main opposition party visited imprisoned Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu yesterday after six nights of massive protests calling for his release.

The Trump administration sought yesterday to contain the fallout after a magazine journalist disclosed he had been inadvertently included in a secret group discussion of highly sensitive war plans, while Democrats called on top officials to resign over the security incident.