Italy 0 Uruguay 1

Sao Paulo is some 5,885 miles from Wembley, but as a crestfallen England team contemplated the likely end of another World Cup dream it was clear they had brought the same old failings and the same old issues with them to Brazil.

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Uruguay’s Senate has approved the world’s first national marketplace for legal marijuana – an audacious and risky experiment that puts the government in charge of growing, selling and using a drug that is illegal almost everywhere else.

Uruguay's Senate voted to legalise first-trimester abortions for all women in a measure that came with so many strings attached it left neither side in the bitter debate completely satisfied.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has urged striker Luis Suarez to put the much-publicised controversies of last season behind him and move on.

Uruguay's national government has said it plans to send a bill to Congress that would allow it to sell marijuana, making it the first country in the world to do so.

The president of Uruguay, Jose Mujica, has waded into the Luis Suarez controversy and offered his full backing to the Liverpool forward for refusing to shake Patrice Evra’s hand before last week’s Premier League defeat at Manchester United.

Several hundred Haitians demonstrated in support of an 18-year-old man who said he was sexually assaulted by peacekeepers from Uruguay on a UN base along the southern coast of Haiti.

A COURT yesterday sentenced a former army general to life in prison and three ex-state agents to 20 or 25 years for crimes against humanity committed in a notorious torture centre during Argentina’s military dictatorship.

James McCarthy has set his sights on forcing his way into the next Republic of Ireland squad after announcing his arrival on the international stage.

Shane Long has admitted that he has benefited from being a regular in the Reading starting line-up this season.

Giovanni Trapattoni admitted he would take a good look at Shane Long if he were a club manager after seeing the striker excel against Uruguay tonight.

Former rugby players who survived more than two months after a plane crash in the Andes today met relatives of 33 trapped Chilean miners and urged them to stay strong.

Oscar Tabarez is determined to keep the people of Uruguay partying by extending their country's stay at the World Cup finals.

CONTROVERSIAL French coach Raymond Domenech remains unrepentant about his side’s controversial qualification for the World Cup as they prepare for tonight’s opener against Uruguay.

A mudslide on the famed Inca trail to Machu Picchu killed an Argentinian tourist and a Peruvian guide, as authorities evacuated hundreds of tourists by helicopter from a flood zone where more than 1,500 others were still stranded.

Uruguay’s last dictator, Gregorio Alvarez, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for 37 homicides during the nation’s 1973-1985 military regime, when dissidents disappeared in a region-wide crackdown on leftists called Operation Condor.

England 2 Urugauy 1

England skipper David Beckham is confident he will be fit for Wednesday’s friendly international with Uruguay – as he tipped his country to win the World Cup if they perform to their best.

Uruguay took the first step to repeating the same story as four years ago by reaching the World Cup at the expense of Australia in the South America-Oceania play-off.

Former Manchester United striker Diego Forlan has quit the Uruguay national team.

Mexico 2 Uruguay 2

Samoa 48 Uruguay 13 - latest score

Uruguay believe they can learn the lessons of their World Cup mauling by South Africa and turn it into a positive performance against Samoa at Subiaco Oval later today.

France 0