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The FIFA appeals panel has mostly upheld the sanctions against outgoing Fifa president Sepp Blatter and suspended UEFA boss Michel Platini - both men remain banned from football.  But the panel reduced their bans from eight to six years because their "service to football", possibly undermining FIFA'scall for members to embrace reform.  Blatter and Platini are not satisfied and plan to take their appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.  The bans, handed down in December, were for a AU$2.75 Million "disloyal payment" to Platini.

French Special Forces are reportedly in Libya and working against Islamic State, based out of Benghazi airport.  LeMonde reports the troops have been in Libya for several months, and coordinated with the US in a November airstrike that took out several important Is leaders.  The Pentagon last month confirmed that US forces were deployed in Libya; UK officials say the RAF is flying missions over the country in preparation for possible attacks on IS;  And Italy gave permission to the US for US drones to strike Libyan targets from bases in Sicily.

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi now says "terrorism" was the cause of the downing of a Russian passenger plane in Sinai last year.  That's a reversal from his earlier dismissal of Islamic State's claims of responsibility as "propaganda".  Russian investigators already determined that a bomb tore the Metrojet Airbus 321, causing it to break up over the desert and kill all 224 people on board.

Authorities found the wreckage of that Nepalese plane that went missing in the western Himalayas.  All 23 people on board were killed.  Although conditions were foggy during the search, the weather was said to have been favorable at the time of the Tara airlines crash.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is admitting that it delayed announcing there was a meltdown at its Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.  This admission comes a month before the five year anniversary of the 3/11 disaster, in which an earthquake and tsunami severely damaged the plant and took out the cooling systems, causing three reactors cores to melt through the floor of the plant.  To this day, officials do not know the precise location of those cores.  TEPCO's own internal regulations state that a meltdown should be declared once damage reaches 5 percent of the core, and some experts say that likely occurred hours after being hit by the tsunami.  TEPCO didn't admit a meltdown for months.

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Baby Hippo at Prague Zoo is cute.

A group of climate change protesters in the UK avoided jail time and got suspended sentences and court-ordered community service.  The "Heathrow 13" cut through a fence at the UK's main airport and chained themselves together on a runway, causing more than two dozen flight cancellations and buttache to thousands of travelers. 

A US jury ordered Johnson and Johnson to pay almost AU$100 Million to the family of an Alabama woman who died of cancer after years of using talcum Baby Powder.  The family said the company knew of the product's dangers, but J&J says it is considering appealing the verdict.  This is the case case involving talc, which in its natural form contains asbestos but has been available without asbestos since the 1970s.

A Canadian federal court says medical marijuana patients have a right to grow their own, striking down a ban from the previous conservative government.  A group of British Columbia patients took the government to court, complaining that mail order federal weed was too expensive.  New Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government has promised to legalize recreational marijuana use, and it's not clear how he will react to the court ruling.