Four years after his dream World Cup debut, France’s Franck Ribery travels to South Africa hoping a stellar display will help eclipse a nightmare season filled with injury and scandal.

Jose Mourinho said he hoped to sprinkle some of his magic over Real Madrid when he was unveiled as the Spanish giants’ new coach on Monday.

Hashim Amla continued in his rich vein of form, and struck his third one-day international hundred to help South Africa shake off the ‘dead-rubber syndrome’, and win the fourth ODI against the West In

Samantha Stosur of Australia stunned four-times former winner Justine Henin at the French Open on Monday to wreck hopes of a dream quarter-final between the Belgian and top seed Serena Williams.

Portugal will arrive at the World Cup with the weighty expectations of demanding coach Carlos Queiroz on their shoulders.

Top seed and defending champion Roger Federer showed no mercy for best friend Stanislas Wawrinka on Sunday when he handed his Olympic gold medal-winning teammate a 6-3, 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 French Open thumping.

Britain’s new coalition government, just 18 days into office, was dealing Sunday with its first blow after David Laws, a high-profile treasury minister, resigned over expenses revelations that also exposed his homosexuality.

An NGO in Malaysia has opened the country’s first “baby hatch” for rescuing unwanted newborns, reports said on Sunday, as authorities battle increasing cases of abandoned babies.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Sunday the country appeared to be back to “normal” after the lifting of a curfew imposed in the wake of deadly anti-government protests.

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is probably “the biggest environmental disaster” that the United States has ever experienced, senior White House official Carol Browner said on Sunday.