A bad week for ...

The Chelsea and ex-England captain received a four-match ban from the Football Association for racially abusing Queens Park Rangers' Anton Ferdinand during a match last October. Terry, 31, who can lodge an appeal, was also fined £220,000 (HK$2.75 million). He announced his retirement from international football last Sunday.

The BBC correspondent obliged his employer to issue an abject apology to Queen Elizabeth for his "shocking breach of etiquette" in declaring that the monarch had told him she was "pretty upset" about radical Islamist cleric Abu Hamza's presence in London. "The conversation should have remained private," the broadcaster said.