Joachim Low has warned Germany they must not underestimate Algeria, who will be looking to settle a 32-year-old score tonight.

Algeria 1 Russia 1

The editorial in ‘Lance’, Brazil’s most important daily sports newspaper, was crystal clear.

WORLD CUP GROUP B:

Australia 2 Holland 3

Robin van Persie admits Holland face a challenge of expectation as they prepare to take on Australia.

GROUP A

France 3 Honduras 0

France 3 Honduras 0

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Brazil has approved temporary stands at the stadium hosting the World Cup opening match in Sao Paulo.

It’s 50 days to the World Cup and here are 50 of the biggest talking points.

The mayor of Porto Alegre in Brazil has revealed his city may be forced to pull out of hosting matches at this year’s World Cup over a lack of temporary structures at its stadium.

Roy Hodgson is still putting his £10 on England to win the World Cup, but Football Association chairman Greg Dyke clearly thinks the team have no chance of getting out of their “group of death”.

Brazil awoke today to city centres still smouldering after a night that shocked the nation: one million protesters took to the streets in scores of cities, with clusters clashing violently with police during anti-government demonstrations.

Police and protesters fought in the streets into the early hours today as an estimated one million Brazilians swarmed through more than 80 towns and cities in the biggest demonstrations yet against a government viewed as corrupt at all levels and unresponsive to its people.

Colombian side Millonarios came back from a goal down to beat Brazil’s Gremio 3-1 and reach the semi-finals of the Copa Sudamericana with a 3-2 aggregate win.

A MOTORIST sped through a pack of more than 100 cycling activists in southern Brazil, sending bikes and screaming riders flying through the air and landing on the asphalt in a scene captured on amateur video and posted online.

A former Marxist guerrilla who was tortured and imprisoned during Brazil’s long dictatorship was elected president of Latin America’s biggest nation.

A FORMER Marxist guerrilla chosen by Brazil’s most popular leader in history to succeed him was the front-runner in yesterday’s presidential election and hoped to pull off what even her predecessor couldn’t: a first-round win with no need for a runoff.

STUNNED rescuers wrenched a survivor from the rubble after 12 days entombed in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital, where desperate crowds clamoured yesterday for more and quicker relief.

IRELAND’s World Cup group rivals Georgia will be permitted to stage two Group qualifiers next month in the nation’s capital Tbilisi.

Manchester United midfielder Anderson has been cleared of any wrongdoing after a notorious drug dealer was arrested at his home in Brazil.

A disconnected thrust reverser on the airliner which overshot a runway in Brazil emerged today as a possible factor in the crash in which 190 people were killed.

A TAM jet pulled out of an attempted landing today at Sao Paulo’s Congonhas airport, and federal prosecutors sought a court order to shut the entire airport - Brazil’s busiest – until the investigation into this week’s crash that killed at least 189 people is completed.

The pilot of an airliner that burst into flames after trying to land on a short, rain-slicked runway apparently tried to take off again, barely clearing rush-hour traffic on a major highway. The death toll rose today to 189 and could climb higher.

Rescue crews today pulled dozens of bodies from a plane that crashed and burst into flames at a Sao Paulo airport, as the number of people feared dead rose to 195 in what would be Brazil’s worst air disaster.

The president of Brazil declared a state of mourning after more than 200 people were feared dead in what is believed to be the country’s deadliest air disaster.

A Brazilian passenger plane with at least 150 people on board crashed and burst into flames after landing at Sao Paulo's airport last night, Brazil's airport authority said.

Strike-paralysed Venezuela – which has been partly blamed for rising oil prices – is now managing to produce 1.32 million barrels of oil per day, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said today.