Only two goals were scored in three matches as the football friendlies ahead of the World Cup entered the penultimate round. Paraguay won 2-0 against fellow World Cup qualifiers Greece while Honduras warmed up for their opener against Chile with a 0-0 draw against Azerbaijan in Austria.

A job advertisement open only to black and minority ethnic graduates has created furore in Britain.

Many parents may not buy this story, but a new study in Britain says that the order in which children are born can determine their later career paths.

British voters seem to be overwhelmingly keen to abandon the first-past-the-post system of voting and are keen to switch to proportional representation.

The British police on Wednesday afternoon found the body of a gunman who went on a shooting rampage and killed at least five people and injured 25 people in the tourist region of Cumbria in England.

Britain, which is facing an acute shortage of junior doctors, is keen to recruit doctors from India, a traditional supplier of doctors for the National Health Service.

Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria and his Essex teammate fast bowler Mervyn Westfield are likely to remain suspended from their county team until the police in-vestigates their alleged inv-olvement in match fixing.

England’s six-feet-eight inch tall bowling sensation Steven Finn, who got the man-of-the-match award during his home Test debut at Lord’s, played basketball for Hertfordshire youth, but could not pursue the sport as he was unable to understand the rules.

Portugal beat 10-man Cameroon 3-1 and the Netherlands outplayed Ghana 4-1 in World Cup warmups on Tuesday, but Switzerland slumped 0-1 at home to non-qualifiers Costa Rica.

Anti-poverty campaigners Bono and Bob Geldof have unveiled an online game targeting Silvio Berlusconi — a hammer thrower in the game hurls the Italian Premier’s cartoon character into the air.