Heavy rain caused by tropical storm Agatha has killed almost 100 people in Central America, where tens of thousands of people had to be evacuated over the weekend because of flooding.

Joachim Loew did not need long to find the man he believes will fill the void left by the injured Michael Ballack.

The only major star in Brazil’s current national team, Kaka wants to have “his” World Cup in South Africa.

When you walk through the streets of Lisbon, there is very little to remind you that football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo was born in Portugal.
The Fifa Footballer of the Year 2008 is no prophet in his own land. Many love him, of course, but many others ignore him, and quite a few hate the glamorous winger.

When Wayne Rooney turned his ankle playing for Manchester United against Bayern Munich in the Champions League earlier this year, the whole of England flinched.
A broken metatarsal suffered against Portugal in the quarterfinal ruined his Euro 2004. A broken metatarsal suffered in the build-up hampered him at the 2006 World Cup.

From a very young age it was clear that Lionel Messi had a gift for football, and his early skills are engraved in public memory at La Bajada, a humble neighbourhood in the Argentine city of Rosario where his family still lives.

Social networking giant Facebook admitted on Monday that it had made mistakes in its privacy policies and promised to roll out new tools that would make it easier for its 400 million users to control

A Hong Kong student jumped to his death in front of 600 of his fellow pupils, teachers and his younger brother at a school assembly, the police said on Tuesday.

British actress Charlotte Lewis on Friday said she was sexually abused by film-maker Roman Polanski, the second such charges against the famed director in recent decades. Lewis, now aged 42, made it known on