The football World Cup, which kicks off on Friday, will be insured to the tune of an estimated $9 billion, according to the Lloyd’s of London insurance market.
Just one of the world’s leading players, at the height of their career and playing in a top league such as England’s Premier League or Italy’s Serie A, could be insured for $73 million, Lloyd’s said in a statement.

Force India driver Vitantonio Liuzzi will start Sunday’s Canadian Formula One Grand Prix with a different chassis after struggling to score points in recent races.
“The last few races have been pretty tough as we’ve been struggling with a general lack of grip that makes it hard for me to give the maximum,” the Italian said in a team preview on Tuesday.

Richard Gasquet won his first match on grass in nearly two years on Monday to reach the second round of the Queen’s Club tournament.
The No. 11-seeded Frenchman defeated Kei Nishikori of Japan 6-3, 6-3 after missing the entire 2009 grass-court season because of a drug suspension. His last match on the surface was against Andy Murray in the 2008 Wimbledon fourth round.

Renewed worries about European sovereign debt, this time Britain’s, knocked equities back on Tuesday and ate into early euro gains against the dollar. Europe’s FTSEurofirst 300 was down 0.9 per cent, giving up an early rise.

The last of a group of airmen who were involved in the greatest ever escape bid from a German prison in World War II — immortalised in the Hollywood film Great Escape — is no more.

British bosses are dreading the upcoming football World Cup as it will cost the businesses up to £1 billion in lost working hours.

A Liberal Democrat member of Parliament in UK has moved an early day motion in Parliament to get support for reversal of new rules for students visas imposed by the Labour government.

English is finally emulating other Romance languages and will get a specialist organisation to define the rules and stop the decline of the language.

Three Britons, including a teenager, have been sentenced to a total of 50 years in jail for murdering an Indian-origin lab technician, Anthony Fernandes, in the latter’s London home in a cannabis-fuel

Around 100 members of the British armed forces are pagans, while another 30 are witches, says a media report.