BERLIN — Television viewership for this year's World Cup could hit 30 billion worldwide, making it the most-watched sports event in history.
Police in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City have, since the start of World Cup 2006, discovered three Internet-based soccer betting dens, branches of international gambling rings, local newspaper Young People reported Thursday.
A Beijing soccer fan refused to let the small matter of his house burning down disturb his enjoyment of Tuesday's World Cup match between France and Spain
Americans traveling to the World Cup soccer matches in Germany should be aware that nearly 1,200 cases of measles have been reported in a region that includes 3 of the 12 host cities, according to an advisory issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Hong Kong police have arrested 85 people in 46 operations since the World Cup started, seizing 56 million HK dollars (US$7.2 million) in soccer betting chips, Secretary for Home Affairs Patrick Ho said on Wednesday
England's Swedish coach Sven-Goran Eriksson may be scratching his head as to how he can end his quarter-final jinx at major tournaments when up against Portugal's coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, but there are plenty of precedents to give him heart.
Spanish police said on Wednesday that soccer fans vandalized the streets of the capital, Madrid, after France eliminated Spain from the World Cup with a 3-1 victory on Tuesday.
This World Cup has been anything but peaceful at times on the field. UNICEF and others, however, remain confident that the soccer tournament can still deliver a powerful message for good around the world.
Brazil's media on Wednesday cheered the 3-0 Brazil victory over Ghana, which also gave the team the World Cup goalscoring record, but said that the victory was misleading because Brazil did not display its best performance against the Africans.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter praised Germany's World Cup as the best ever in a newspaper interview to appear on Thursday
Seven English fans and three Germans face jail sentences after throwing bottles and chairs that injured nine people ahead of England's 1-0 World Cup win against Ecuador, the top bailiff of Stuttgart's court said Wednesday.
Lebanese Acting Interior Minister Ahmed Fatfat has banned setting off fireworks during the World Cup in an attempt to safeguard people's safety and comfort.
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