This time, the World Cup trophy will be traveling in style.
French fashion and handbags house Louis Vuitton, with help from supermodel Naomi Campbell, has unveiled an elegant leather-bound case that it produced to carry the trophy to South Africa on Tuesday.

Theo Walcott was omitted from England’s final 23-man World Cup squad on Tuesday, one of seven players dropped by coach Fabio Capello following a training camp.
Capello preferred the more experienced Joe Cole and Shaun Wright-Phillips to the Arsenal winger, who was at the 2006 World Cup at age 17 but never played.
Capello also left Darren Bent, Tom Huddlestone, Adam Johnson, Scott Parker, Michael Dawson and Leighton Baines out.
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Al Qaeda announced on Monday that its No 3 official, Mustafa al-Yazid, had been killed along with members of his family — perhaps one of the most severe blows to the terror movement since the US campa

Iraq’s Supreme Court on Tuesday took the first major step toward resolving the nation’s election crisis, ratifying the results and declaring a secular alliance the biggest winner in the March 7 parlia

A man firing a small automatic weapon burst into a court office in central China on Tuesday, fatally shooting three judges and wounding three other people before killing himself, an official said.

US helicopters flew Afghan troops into a remote district overrun by the Taliban and recaptured the main town on Tuesday without firing a shot, military officials said.

The UN Security Council called for an impartial investigation of Israel’s deadly raid, condemning the “acts” that resulted in the loss of life.

A Malaysian minister defended an Indian company’s plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying on Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans.

Pakistan lifted a ban on Facebook on Monday after officials from the social networking site apologised for a page deemed offensive to Muslims and removed its contents, a top information technology off

Fabio Capello knows his final England World Cup squad but won’t divulge it until Tuesday’s deadline.