Spain’s Rafael Nadal poses with his fifth French Open trophy after defeating Sweden’s Robin Soderling 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 in the men’s final at the Roland Garros in Paris on Sunday.

Australia announced a police investigation into Google on Sunday amid accusations the Internet giant breached privacy laws, becoming at least the second country to investigate the company’s “Street View” mapping services.

The Vatican said Sunday that the international community is ignoring the plight of Christians in the West Asia, and that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Iraq and political instability in Lebanon have forced thousands to flee the region.

Afghanistan’s intelligence chief and interior minister resigned on Sunday to take responsibility for allowing militants to elude a massive security operation and launch an attack on last week’s national “peace jirga”. President Hamid Karzai’s office said that he had accepted the resignations of interior minister Hanif Atmar and National Directorate of Security chief Amrullah Saleh because the explanation they gave for last Wednesday’s attack was “not satisfactory”.

Dani Pedrosa won the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday in 42 minutes, 28.066 seconds to move second in the overall standings.
The Spaniard started on pole and squeezed home ahead of his compatriot Jorge Lorenzo by four seconds. Italian Andrea Dovizioso was third, a further two seconds back.

Despite losing Rio Ferdinand to a tournament-ending injury in training, England coach Fabio Capello has no plans to rest key players for the team’s final World Cup training match.

Not many people expected Grafite to be at the World Cup — not even the Brazil striker himself.
He had no idea it would happen when he played in an amateur league in exchange for diapers and food for his newborn baby girl. He had no idea it would happen when he hopped from door to door on the streets of a small Brazilian city selling trash bags as a 21-year-old.

Israeli forces on Saturday boarded the Rachel Corrie after it ignored orders not to head for Gaza, but there was no repetition of the bloody violence when commandos stormed an aid boat earlier this week.

Texas authorities say Gossip Girl heartthrob Chace Crawford faces a marijuana possession charge after being arrested in the Dallas suburb of Plano.
Police spokesman Rick McDonald says Crawford was arrested in a parked vehicle early Friday morning. He was booked and later released on a misdemeanour charge

A multimillionaire’s test rocket blasted off on its maiden voyage and successfully reached orbit in a dry run for Nasa’s push to go commercial.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket achieved earth orbit nine minutes into the flight as planned, drawing praise from Nasa, the White House and others eager for the company to s