It’s safe to say that Maurice Meyer would do just about anything to get a ticket to the World Cup final, and it’s also safe to say that what he did isn’t at all safe.
Meyer, a 32-year-old South African businessman from Nelspruit, swam 60 meters across the Crocodile River as part of contest to win a ticket to Sunday’s World Cup final at Soccer City.

An Argentine legislator has proposed building a monument to honour Diego Maradona, whose future as Argentina coach has been uncertain since the team were eliminated by Germany in the World Cup quarterfinals.

Giovanni van Bronckhorst has only one better way to say goodbye for good. That is to score in his last competitive game as well, and finally give The Netherlands the World Cup.

An experimental solar-powered plane whose makers hope to one day circle the globe using only energy collected from the sun took off for its first 24-hour test flight on Wednesday.

Nato mistakenly killed five of its Afghan Army allies in an airstrike on Wednesday while the Afghans were attacking insurgents in the country’s east, officials said.

Aamir Khan is okay with censor board’s “A” certificate to his upcoming production Peepli Live, which hits theatres on August 13.

Three decades of wars, massacres and sectarian killings have left Iraq with as many as a million widows, by Iraqi government count.
Hameeda Ayed is one of them.

A Pakistani man approached CIA officers in Islamabad in 2009, offering to give up secrets of his country’s closely guarded nuclear programme.

The British government is set to formally announce an inquiry into whether its spy agencies colluded in the torture of terrorism suspects overseas, a probe that could complicate intelligence-sharing w

The Dalai Lama listens to the prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, Samdhong Rinpoche, during a function organised to mark the Dalai Lama’s 75th birthday in Dharamsala on Tuesday.