Southern Africa
CAIRO - Trading in mobile phone service provider Orascom Telecom's shares was halted on the Egyptian stock exchange Monday as the bourse sought clarification about reports of a possible deal with Russia's VimpelCom Ltd.
PARIS - In 514 matches for club and country, German wunder-forward Oliver Bierhoff scored 226 times.
LAGOS, Nigeria - For a decade, West Africa's main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet.
JOHANNESBURG - Spain showed touches of the class that won the 2008 European Championship and Paraguay went the limit, needing a shootout to dispose of Japan at the World Cup.
JOHANNESBURG - FIFA president Sepp Blatter's apparent U-turn on the possible introduction of technology to help referees should be taken with a pinch of salt.
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- To get away from soccer, players play more soccer
- World Cup coverage expands on the Web, cell phones
- Reliance Communications approves stake sale
- Hahnemann thinks World Cup ball is bad invention
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- Eq. Guinea vote to reinstall leader denying graft
