FIFA and the President of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2011™ Local Organising Committee Germany (LOC) Steffi Jones are to head a welcome tour of the 15 countries participating in next summer’s FIFA Women’s World Cup 2011™ from 26 June to 17 July. The six legs of the tour, which starts in December, will each [...]

Tuesday’s resolution, sponsored by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative party, had been widely expected to win approval in the National Assembly with rival Socialists backing it despite concerns about the wording of an eventual law. Lawmakers in the 577-seat house who opposed the resolution abstained.