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Manchester City’s Mario Balotelli has been charged with violent conduct by the Football Association following an incident against Tottenham on Sunday.

The 21-year-old’s injury-time penalty gave City a 3-2 win, but earlier he appeared to stamp on Scott Parker.

Following a dismissal earlier this season Balotelli faces a four-match ban, but any unsuccessful appeal could result in a longer suspension.

Joleon Lescott will not be punished after a clash with Younes Kaboul.

Lescott caught Kaboul in the face with his forearm in a separate incident at the Etihad Stadium.

Balotelli, who has until 1800 GMT on Wednesday to respond to the charge, came on as a 65th-minute substitute against Spurs.

He was booked for a foul on Benoit Assou-Ekotto, but after escaping punishment from referee Howard Webb following his clash with Parker, the striker was fouled by Ledley King in the final minute of added time and converted the resulting penalty.

If he accepts his charge, Balotelli will miss Wednesday’s Carling Cup semi-final second leg against Liverpool at Anfield.

However, should the Italian international decide to appeal he will be available for that tie, with a hearing likely to take place later this week.

The normal punishment for violent conduct is a three-match suspension but Balotelli was sent-off in the league match at Liverpool in November and would incur an additional one-game ban.

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Eyewitnesses in the northern Nigerian city of Kano say they have counted more than 20 bodies after co-ordinated bomb attacks on Friday.

A 24-hour curfew is in place in the city. Police have confirmed seven deaths in various locations.

Police stations and the state police HQ were among the targets, and gunfire was heard across the second biggest city.

The militant Islamist group Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is forbidden”, said it was responsible.

The group has been behind a recent campaign of violence in the mainly Muslim north.

Meanwhile, organisers of a controversial civil activists’ mass rally set for Saturday in the commercial capital Lagos called off the event in light of the attacks.

Organisers of the demonstration against government corruption and the military’s presence in Lagos say they fear their protest could be infiltrated by militants sent to cause mayhem and cost more lives.

Nervous crowds

SKY NEWS

Police have arrested six footballers following an investigation into an alleged sex attack.

The unnamed men have been held on suspicion of the alleged sexual assault of a woman in Brighton last July, Sussex Police said.

Five of the men – aged 18, 19, two aged 20 and one aged 24 – are from Brighton. The sixth, aged 20, is from Dorset.

The alleged attack was reported to police at the time but the suspects were only identified on January 13.

Four men were held in Brighton at 4.20am on Thursday morning and a fifth was arrested in the city at about 7.20am.

The sixth man was held in Dorset at 10.30am.

Sky News crime correspondent Martin Brunt said: “Five of them, it is believed, are from Brighton and Hove Albion. It is believed the sixth, arrested in Dorset, plays for Bournemouth.”

A Sussex Police spokesman said: “All have been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and taken to different custody centres in Sussex where they will be questioned in relation to an alleged sexual assault on a woman in July last year.

“This was reported at the time and the suspects were identified on Friday last week, leading to these arrests.”

A statement from Brighton and Hove Albion said: “Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club can confirm that five men associated with the club are assisting police into the investigation of an alleged offence in July last year.

“The club will make no further comment at this stage.”

A spokesman for AFC Bournemouth also confirmed that one of their players had been arrested.

SKY NEWS

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a large and efficient crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.

Late in life and after his death Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive actions became public. His critics have accused him of exceeding the jurisdiction of the FBI.[1] He used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders,[2] and to collect evidence using illegal methods.[3] FBI directors are now limited to one 10-year term,[4] subject to extension by the United States Senate,[5] because of his long and controversial tenure

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Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other websites are facing prosecution in Indian courts for refusing to censor themselves and remove contents considered insulting to Indian leaders and major religious figures.

 Government officials are upset about web pages that are insulting to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, ruling Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi and major religious figures. Some illustrations have shown Mr Singh and Ms Gandhi in compromising positions and pigs running through Mecca, Islam’s holiest city.

 The federal government said there was sufficient material to proceed against 21 social networking sites for offences of “promoting enmity between classes and causing prejudice to national integration”. according to the Press Trust of India news agency

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REPORTING FROM ROME -– Rescue workers raced against time Sunday afternoon in attempts to reach possible survivors of a shipwrecked luxury cruise vessel lying half-submerged off the coast of Tuscany.

An injured Italian member of the crew of the Costa Concordia was saved in a complicated operation Sunday afternoon, while a young South Korean couple on honeymoon was pulled to safety from their stateroom late Saturday night.

 The crew member is being identified in news reports as Marrico Giampetroni, who is credited with helping many people safely off the damaged vessel. He was taken via  helicopter directly to the hospital in Grosseto for injuries to his leg. “I kept up hope that I would be rescued,” news reports quoted him as saying.

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Oxford Street murder victim Seydou Diarrassouba was due to stand trial accused of robbing a 16-year-old boy of his BlackBerry mobile phone, it emerged today.

The 18-year-old appeared at Inner London Crown Court just a week before he was stabbed to death during the Boxing Day sales.

Victim: Teenager Seydou Diarrassouba makes a gun salute while posing for the camera

It was alleged he robbed and assaulted Nile Downes in Clapham, South London, and assaulted Nile’s brother Yafeu on September 29, the CPS has confirmed.

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