The world governing body was forced to act when the West African country ignored several deadlines to reinstate the national football association executive committee which was fired in January 2001.

BBC: Guinea make their return

Our report coincides with Japan's Golden Week national holiday, when much of the country shuts down for several days.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

It's just one of the thousands McNutt and his curatorial team of Rich Clarkson, Adam Harris and Kate Brainerd considered from the National Geographic archives when putting together a landmark exhibition that's currently on display at select museums around the country (see below).

CNN: Greatest photos of the American West

When the threat arises that a particular picture might leave the country, national self-esteem demands that it should be saved.

ECONOMIST: Saving pictures

At a time when the share of national income flowing to the top 1 percent of people in this country has climbed to levels last seen in the 1920s, those same folks are paying taxes at one of the lowest rates in 50 years.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks at the Associated Press Luncheon

National coach Powell, a midfielder in the England team when Smith made her debut, paid tribute to arguably the country's greatest female player.

BBC: England striker Kelly Smith seeks victory on 100th cap

The fall-out from the controversy continued apace on Tuesday when former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif resigned as a coach of his country's national cricket academy.

BBC: Pakistan's Butt, Amir and Asif to contest ICC charges

Under the scheme, investors from any ASEAN country will be accorded "national treatment, " or the same privileges local investors receive, when they put funds into another ASEAN economy.

CNN: A 'BOLD' BAND OF BROTHERS

This plays well with a population that has fond memories of the first half of the century, when the country's cattle and sheep almost made Uruguay an economy to be reckoned with and the national football team twice won the World Cup.

ECONOMIST: Uruguay