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AFP, Published on 15/07/2014
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Argentina's loss to Germany in the World Cup final may have represented the last opportunity for the country's storied '2005 generation' to claim the sport's biggest prize.
AFP, Published on 13/07/2014
» BRASíLIA - Ukraine's leader has accepted an invitation to attend Sunday's World Cup final, with Russian President Vladimir Putin also among the spectators, amid a crisis between their countries, Brazilian officials said.
AFP, Published on 12/07/2014
» BRASíLIA - Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari admitted that a traumatic last six weeks both on and off the field will mark him for the rest of his life.
AFP, Published on 12/07/2014
» NEW YORK - After leading the Miami Heat to two NBA titles, LeBron James is heading home to Ohio.
AFP, Published on 11/07/2014
» Barcelona struck a deal on Friday to buy Uruguayan star striker Luis Suarez from Liverpool, sealing the transfer despite an uproar over him biting a World Cup rival.
AFP, Published on 11/07/2014
» VATICAN CITY - Football-mad Pope Francis "might" watch the World Cup final on Sunday between his native Argentina and Germany but is unlikely to do so alongside his German predecessor Benedict XVI contrary to media speculation, the Vatican said.
AFP, Published on 10/07/2014
» JINDO (SOUTH KOREA) - When steel worker Huh Hong-Hwan heard his teenaged daughter might be trapped in a sinking ferry, he didn't hesitate.
AFP, Published on 10/07/2014
» BELO HORIZONTE (BRAZIL) - Brazil's humiliating exit from the World Cup is as close as it gets to a national trauma in a football-mad nation whose identity is closely associated with its team.
AFP, Published on 07/07/2014
» BOGOTA - Tens of thousands of people mobbed the streets of Bogota to grab a glimpse of their heroes as Colombia's World Cup squad arrived home Sunday after their historic run to the quarter-finals.
AFP, Published on 07/07/2014
» BOGOTA - Tens of thousands of people mobbed the streets of Bogota to grab a glimpse of their heroes as Colombia's World Cup squad arrived home Sunday after their historic run to the quarter-finals.