Ecuador's World Cup squad were awarded medals by the country's government on Monday for their performance in Germany where the team reached the second round of the tournament for the first time.
World soccer's governing body FIFA has denied having a contingency plan to move the 2010 Soccer World Cup to Australia if South Africa is unable to host the event.
Thailand's caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra confirmed that he would attend the World Cup final in Berlin later this week
The football may not always be flowing at the World Cup but the tears are very much on show
The basis for the strategy that has won Luiz Felipe Scolari 12 straight games as a coach at the World Cup isn't some New Age philosophy - it's more than 2,400 years old.
Some spectators listened on radio headphones. Half of the crowd on one side of Centre Court turned their heads away from the action. Others waited for text messages on their mobile phones. Cheers broke out at the most inappropriate of times
As the eyes of the world turn to the quarter-finals of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, FIFA have taken advantage of the occasion to continue the fight against discrimination in all its forms. These special events, known as FIFA Anti-Discrimination Days, are taking place on 30 June and 1 July with the full involvement of those teams still remaining in the competition.
On the night before Germany was to play Argentina in the quarterfinals of the World Cup, the prostitutes who work at the Artemis Sauna Club here were putting on their game faces.
A stunned silence pervades the air in this Kerala district as devastated Brazil fans choke back their tears following the soccer giant's defeat in the World Cup.
NSW's police riot squad has dispersed hundreds of soccer fans in Sydney, after Portugal made it through to the World Cup semi-finals.
On the field and on the sidelines, the World Cup is dominated by men. But in the sweltering factory here where the official World Cup soccer balls are cut, stitched and glued, it is a woman's world.
Major British newspapers looked for a silver lining following the collapse of England's World Cup dreams, and easily found it in the fact that manager Sven Goren Eriksson is on his way out.
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