Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan is back in the race to be elected Fifa president having declared his candidacy on Wednesday, four months after losing May’s vote to Sepp Blatter.
Japan wasted a second half penalty as they blew the chance to become the first team to qualify for the next year World Cup finals when they were humbled 2-1 by Jordan in a pulsating clash in Amman on Tuesday.
A Syrian government air strike on a rebel-held village near Damascus killed 10 children on Sunday as they played outdoors, opposition activists said, and video footage showed residents collecting young bodies torn by shrapnel.
Thousands of protesters chanted the Arab Spring slogan “the people want the downfall of the regime” in Jordan’s capital on Friday, as demonstrations against rising prices gather force.