When it comes to the World Cup, Israelis and Palestinians are in full agreement: The price to watch the games on TV is too high.
Never ones to miss an excuse for a beery booze-up among friends, Germans and their guests will take to the streets during the soccer World Cup to watch matches at thousands of open-air venues.
China has told its citizens to stay safe and steer clear of football hooligans at the World Cup finals in Germany, a Chinese newspaper said on Wednesday.
While the nation is mourning the form of Bafana Bafana, the 2010 World Cup local organising committee (LOC) is gearing up to host the next world soccer showpiece and will send 150 officials to Germany to learn the ropes of organising a World Cup finals.
A Portuguese parliamentary debate about military reform on June 21 will be brought forward by five hours so deputies can watch a World Cup match against Mexico.
Strikers and midfielders love it. Goalkeepers hate it. The ball that will be used at the World Cup in Germany probably will be praised as much as it is disparaged.
The sale of fake World Cup merchandise could cost legitimate businesss millions of dollars, according to officials at a special seminar on fighting pirated goods.
Mention Angola, and images of war, hunger, disease and corruption immediately spring to mind, even though the devastating 27-year conflict ended in April 2002.
If the play gets boring at the World Cup, watch out for the secret signals between the match officials running the game.
A voodoo doll with five pins and the national emblems of all your enemy teams. Toilet paper with World Cup trivia. Pork slices emblazoned with a soccer player dribbling down the field.
Berlin's police chief insisted on Monday there was no need to tighten World Cup security plans after a drunken youth stabbed more than 30 people at a street party in the German capital last week.
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