Riot police detained more than 150 England soccer supporters on Saturday after they clashed with German fans, throwing bottles and chairs and trading punches. [Reuters]
Still reeling from economic collapse in 2001/02, few Argentines can afford to even even dream of flying to follow Carlos Tevez and Lionel Messi's World Cup football campaign in Germany
South Korean soccer fans flooded the streets of Seoul with tears early on Saturday after their team were eliminated from the World Cup.
The head of Germany's organising committee, who has used a helicopter to attend up to three matches a day, exchanged vows in a private ceremony in a small Austrian village near Kitzbuehel, Bild newspaper reported on Saturday.
The hordes of beer-swilling men who have descended on Germany for the World Cup are proving a disappointment for the host nation's sex workers, preferring to party in public rather than spend time with prostitutes
Women are everywhere at this World Cup.
Franz Beckenbauer, who won the soccer World Cup both as player and team coach and is referred to in Germany as the ``Kaiser,'' is the highest-grossing marketing personality at the 2006 tournament.
The new soccer ball that will be used for the first time in the World Cup's opening game on Friday (9 June) is likely to bamboozle goalkeepers at some stage of the tournament, a leading scientist has warned.
People always say the World Cup is a nightmare for women, but a carnival for men. However, a recent medical study rejects this idea completely.
Fierce battles for the world cup are being waged half a world away from china. Prim Shanghai people do not want to miss the quadrennial carnival.
Chances are if you're watching highlights from the FIFA World Cup matches on television, you are seeing Apple technology hard at work. Highlights from the world's most popular sport are being prepared using multiple Apple products and technologies.