Myanmar scraps proposed 5 percent tax on mobile phone top-up cards after lawmakers voted against the levy, the state-owned Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said on Thursday.

Fifa executives accepted bribes to help secure the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the US Attorney General Loretta Lynch has said.

Qatar has made little progress improving migrant workers' rights, despite promises to do so, the rights group Amnesty International has said.

The 2022 World Cup in Qatar will take place in November and December, Fifa taskforce has recommended.