BREAKING NEWS: FIFA Bans Uruguay's Luis Suarez For Four Months [FIFA Statement]

Luis Suarez has been banned for nine international matches and suspended for four months from any football activity by FIFA. The Liverpool striker is also set to miss a large chunk of the English Premier season and is "banned from any football related activity."
The ban is the most severe ever handed out at a World Cup but the striker does have the right to appeal.

FIFA said Wednesday that it has begun proceedings after the striker was accused of biting another player during his team's World Cup victory over Italy a day earlier
The decision was announced by FIFA at a news conference Thursday.

"The first match of this suspension is to be served in the upcoming FIFA World Cup fixture between Colombia and Uruguay on 28 June 2014," said a FIFA statement.
"The remaining match suspensions shall be served in Uruguay's next FIFA World Cup match(es), as long as the team qualifies, and/or in the representative team's subsequent official matches."
FIFA also confirmed that Suarez is "prohibited from entering the confines of any stadium" during his ban and must pay a fine of 100,000 Swiss Francs -- $111,000.
"Such behavior cannot be tolerated on any football pitch, and in particular not at a FIFA World Cup when the eyes of millions of people are on the stars on the field," said Claudio Sulser, chairman of the FIFA disciplinary committee in a statement.
He added: "The Disciplinary Committee took into account all the factors of the case and the degree of Mr Suarez's guilt in accordance with the relevant provisions of the code. The decision comes into force as soon it is communicated."
According to FIFA's disciplinary code, the forward could have faced a maximum ban of 24 matches or two years.