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

England captain Rio Ferdinand was ruled out of the World Cup on Friday after injuring his knee in the team’s first full training session in South Africa. The 31-year-old center back sustained ligament damage to his left knee while defending against striker Emile Heskey at England’s training ground near Rustenburg a week before England’s opener against the United States in this northern South African city on June 12.

Helped by two penalties by Bastian Schweinsteiger, Germany came from behind to beat Bosnia-Herzegovina 3-1 while Mexico beat Italy 2-1 and Spain needed an 85th minute winner to edge South Korea 1-0 in warm-up games on Thursday, eight days before the World Cup kicks off in South Africa.

Didier Drogba told teammate Kolo Toure that he will miss the World Cup after breaking his right arm on Friday in a warm-up match.
“For him, he said, the World Cup is finished,” Toure said.

Kaka isn’t concerned with his fitness ahead of the World Cup, and said on Friday he is ready to take on the responsibility of being Brazil’s leader at the tournament.
Kaka enters the tournament as Brazil’s biggest star, but he also arrives heavily affected by injuries that have put in doubt his performance in South Africa.
The Real Madrid playmaker, however, is confident he will be in good physical condition when the World Cup begins.
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Japan’s Parliament installed Naoto Kan as the new Prime Minister on Friday, handing the outspoken populist the job of rallying his party and reclaiming its mandate for change ahead of elections next m

Survivors wept on Friday over lost loved ones, including 15 members of a wedding party, as the death toll from the Bangladeshi capital’s worst fire in recent history rose to 117.

The Iranian President on Friday slammed Israel for a deadly raid this week on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla and warned the country’s Opposition agai-nst straying from the path of the founder of the Islami

BP PLC chief executive, Mr Tony Hayward, says the cleanup and containment costs for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will be “severe,” but has declined to put a figure on the cost of the total bill.

A cap collected some of the oil spewing out of the blown-out Gulf well, but black crude was still leaking into the sea, and officials said they won’t know until later on Friday how the device is working.