Australian star Shane Warne has pulled out of the Cricket World Cup after apparently taking a banned substance inadvertently while recovering from a shoulder injury.

The Acotel Group has launched its World Cup Text Alert Service. The pan regional service is in line with the group's goals of delivering value added services to operator customers and key pan regional FMCG partners.

Ireland 7 Georgia 0

A VOODOO doll (pictured above) with five pins and the national emblems of all your enemy teams.

As the World Cup kicks off, the Brazilian government and FIFA will be hoping that the world’s attention turns to the soccer field, and away from the strikes and complaints about the organisers’ ineffectiveness.

FIFA have welcomed the news that the United States have pulled out of the race to stage the 2018 World Cup.

The Australian Rugby Union have taken the first tentative steps towards hosting another Rugby World Cup after lodging an official expression of interest with the International Rugby Board.

Brian Lima’s record-breaking World Cup career is officially over.

Athens, host of last year’s Olympic Games, has been awarded one of track and field’s most prestigious meetings for next year.

Matthew Holland has put Ireland two goals up in the World Cup Qualifier clash against Estonia.

In 2003, Australia recorded the largest margin of victory in a World Cup match, notching up 22 tries without reply to defeat Namibia 142-0 at the Adelaide Oval. Here are the 10 games that produced the tournament’s largest winning margins.

Romania lead Namibia 7-0 in the World Cup Pool A today.

Spain and South Africa have kicked off their World Cup Group B qualifier.

39 minute: Santa Cruz has opened the scoring for Paraguay in Group B of the World Cup. Latest Paraguay 1, South Africa 1.

Mansiz scored his second of the day - and third of the World Cup - with a cool finish to extend Turkey's lead.

World champions England enjoyed further success in Australia today following their World Cup final win over the Wallabies.

The Italian Rugby Federation is planning a bid to host either the 2015 or 2019 World Cup.

New Zealand's Damian McKenzie is the latest high-profile player to be ruled out of the 2019 World Cup in Japan.

UEFA president Michel Platini said today that he is willing to move European club competitions in order to allow the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to be played in the winter.