A football fanatic trying to dribble a ball 16,000km from America to Brazil in time for the 2014 World Cup died after being hit by a pickup truck.

Golfer Tiger Woods is the latest celebrity and athlete to get his own unauthorised biography in a comic book.

A BIBLE camp counsellor and a boy scout leader were among 125 people arrested across the US in an internet child pornography case in which subscribers purchased photos and videos of children engaged in sex acts with adults, federal authorities have announced.

Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC) announced today that its subsidiaries have completed the purchase of a state-of-the-art 12,200 kilometre fibre optic submarine cable system connecting North America with Europe.