A powerful Paraguay side beat toothless Slovakia 2-0 in Bloemfontein on Sunday to leave the South Americans on the brink of qualification for the World Cup knockout phase.

Cameroon became the first team to be knocked out of the World Cup after a 2-1 defeat to Denmark on Saturday, a result which also ensured Group E leaders Holland became the first country to reach the l

Austrian archaeologists have located an underground Egyptian city which they believe to be Avaris, the capital used by the Hyksos who ruled 3,600 years ago, the culture ministry said on Sunday.

France Telecom is set to buy a stake in Le Monde, the chief executive said in an interview on Sunday, raising the prospect that the state will have indirect ownership in France’s newspaper of record.

Almost half of Russians in a recent poll blamed dictator Joseph Stalin’s “blunders” for the Soviet Union’s huge losses of life in World War II, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday.

The chairman, chief executive officer and top executives of an Australian mining firm were aboard a chartered plane that went missing after it took off in Cameroon, Australian mining officials said on

The White House on Sunday slammed BP chief Tony Hayward’s attendance at a yachting race as an ill-timed “big mistake,” with the livelihoods of Gulf of Mexico residents still threatened by a massive oi

A senior leader of Sri Lanka’s defeated Tamil Tiger rebels has agreed to help the government in its post-war reconstruction efforts, a state-run newspaper reported Sunday.

Rough weather was apparently to blame for the crash of a helicopter in which 11 soldiers sent to take part in the war on drug traffickers were killed in northern Mexico, the government said on Saturda

Israel will allow all “civilian” goods into the Gaza Strip while still preventing weapons from entering the Hamas-run territory, a senior Israeli official said on Sunday.