Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono watched the Word Cup final on Sunday with two special guests, French Ambassador Renaud Vignal and Italian Envoy Francesco Feniel, whose countries featured in the match in Berlin, Germany.
Sixteen Vietnamese bookmakers and bettors have been detained in the biggest soccer betting ring detected in Vietnam during the World Cup 2006, local newspaper Saigon Liberation reported Monday.
The countdown to the first World Cup to be staged in Africa has begun.
Portugal's World Cup soccer team was greeted by cheers from thousands of flag-waving fans on their return to Lisbon airport on Sunday.
The colors this World Cup will be remembered for were red and yellow
Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi paid tribute to the Azzurri as politicians from all parties united to celebrate their team's penalty shootout win over France in the World Cup final on Sunday.
Thousands of Italian Uruguayans celebrated Italy's winnning the World Cup on Sunday in the most heated party ever seen for a foreign team, local media reported
Egyptian football experts and fans are divided over who will win Sunday's World Cup final between Italy and France, which will be the second game to be aired live nationwide in Egypt.
Insecurity and economic hurdles would not deter Iraqis from watching the final match of World Cup 2006 as the magic game occupies their hearts and minds in the war-torn country.
Weather forecasters in Germany are predicting mostly fine conditions for Sunday's World Cup final at Olympic Stadium.
A 39-year-old Volkswagen Beetle that once belonged to Germany coach Juergen Klinsmann is on sale in a frenzied auction and has surpassed the price of another Volkswagen once owned by Pope Benedict sold a year ago.
When Italy takes the field in Sunday's World Cup final, it will have some unusual support - some 300 monks at one of Tibetan Buddhism's holiest monasteries will be praying and cheering for the Azzurri.
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