Brazil striker Ronaldo says that continued speculation about his weight is sparked by lack of knowledge and the media having nothing better to talk about.
If the play gets boring at the World Cup, watch out for the secret signals between the match officials running the game.
Up to one billion pounds ($1.89 billion) is expected to be placed through British bookmakers on the June 9 to July 9 World Cup in Germany.
Some Brazilian soccer fans are unhappy because they can't get to see the players at training camp.
Berlin's police chief insisted on Monday there was no need to tighten World Cup security plans after a drunken youth stabbed more than 30 people at a street party in the German capital last week.
Wayne Rooney's broken foot, never far from the headlines, was back at the top of England's World Cup agenda again on Monday after Manchester United agreed to bring forward the striker's next scan by a week to June 7.
A Bangladesh university has postponed exams until after the World Cup finals after hundreds of students lay siege to the vice-chancellor's office.
Real Madrid icon Raul is already playing catch-up in Spain's pre-World Cup goalscoring and popularity charts with his cross-city rival at Atletico, Fernando Torres.
Student protesters demanding that their studies should not interfere with their enjoyment of World Cup soccer games managed Sunday to sway authorities at a top Bangladeshi university to suspend classes and examinations during the monthlong event.
The city split by the Cold War was reunited in 1989 after the euphoric collapse of the Berlin Wall but divisions between the formerly Communist East and West Berlin's enclave of capitalism still linger.
Several France players, starting with Thierry Henry, criticised the Paris crowd for booing their team in Saturday's 1-0 win over Mexico in a World Cup warm-up.
As the cows graze peacefully on a grassy hillock overlooking their practice ground in the idyllic village of Weggis, all appears to be bliss and harmony in Brazil's World Cup training camp.
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