From Mogadishu to Kabul to Baghdad, watching the World Cup is proving to be bad for your health.
Despite soaring temperatures across Germany, the roofs of some World Cup stadiums could be closed to help eradicate distracting shadows being cast on the pitch.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said on Monday that he will be watching Australia's first match in World Cup and wished the team well.
The advent of FIFA World Cup 2006 has pushed the sales of television in the domestic market in Nepal.
Monthly sales of beer showed their first increase for the year in May in South Korea, partly boosted by the 2006 FIFA World Cup football finals currently underway in Germany, industry sources said Monday.
Large cities across Iran are bracing for gridlock as the football-mad Islamic republic prepared to open its World Cup campaign against Mexico in Germany.
Inspired by the 2006 World Cup, Shanghai kicked off a "mini world cup" for local high school and college students on Saturday.
Pubs planned to stay open well past their regular closing times Monday and millions of people were expected to tune in at home on a forecast cold winter's night as Australia began its World Cup-induced dose of insomnia.
With much national pride and a bit of homesickness, about 300 soldiers in the British-dominated headquarters of the NATO force in Afghanistan were glued to a live feed of England's opening World Cup win against Paraguay.
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