So much in fact that the Frankfurter Allegemeine estimates that 60,000 German fans will travel to Wembley to witness the first all-Bundesliga final in the history of the UEFA Champions League.

But Saturday's game is more than a battle to be the best in Europe. It's a clash...

Like other cancer fighting programs stuggling to stay strong in today's economy, National Colon Cancer Awareness Month has kicked off without much fanfare.

So far, the key takeway from "awareness month" is the message that getting checked out for one the world's biggest silent killers isn't a reminder from your...

Are you ready for Malware Moscow against Disruption Shanghai? FIFA isn't.

After half a century of controvery over goals and no-goals based on muffed calls by referees the International Federation of Association Football has agreed to use goal line technology at the FIFA 2014 Brazil World Cup, when it's needed.

Running the good cop-bad cop on the fractious Brazilian sports press technical director Carlos Parreira amped up the positive, offering the textured spin that his Samba Boys were "evolving" after slipping and sliding their way to a 2-1 loss against a stronger England team.

Hedging his bets, manager "Big Phil"...

Another transfer deadline has passed and another wave of stories predicting that waning superstar Ricardo 'Kaka' Izecson will be moved from Real Madrid to another club washed ashore like the frothy gossip that it was.

What's a fact is that Kaka has lost two thirds (49 million euros) of his...

Former Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe "Big Phil" Scolari has unveiled his new edition Samba Boys, capping just five men who play in Brazil with the other eightteen contracted to big money clubs in England and Europe.

Unless last minute injuries cause changes forwards Neymar (Santos), Ronaldinho (Atletico Mineiro) and...

After grossing a million dollars in Britain including a boffo weekend at the Curzon Soho last October, the long awaited American debut of author Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation bible On The Road has grossed just $69,885 in limited release since 21 December, half of the total box office...

Defeating Chelsea in the FIFA Club World Cup should have added prestige to Brazil's football fortunes. After all, Corinthians are former president Lula's favorite team and they brought the title back to South America after a five year drought.

But while Corinthians played tougher than Chelsea in a match...

Former Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari will have an old score to settle when his Samba Boys play England in the chilly confines of Wembley on 6 February.

Scolari still carries a quiet grudge against Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, the Siberian Superboss who likes to play musical chairs with...

Ever since the National Football League approved the sale of the Jacksonville Jaguars franchise to Pakistani-born American billionaire Shahid Khan last December there has been much speculation that he would move the team. After all with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and powerful team owner

When Hilary Mantel won her second Booker Prize it was big news. When diplomat-author Romain Gary won his second Prix Goncourt it was big trouble.

By winning the 1975 Prix Goncourt under a pseudonym, Gary threw a pie in the face of the Paris literary establishment and became the...

With fan discontent heating up the feud between president Dilma Rousseff's sports minister Aldo Rebelo and the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) the CBF has put leadership of the national team in play by renewing the contract of coach Mano Manezes into calendar year 2014 but not to coach...

According to a new study, president Dilma Rousseff 's $2.3 billion program to combat crack use has failed to stop Brazil from overtaking the United States as the world's largest market for the cheap, highly addictive street drug.

In the past, critical studies of Brazil's...

Lackluster, inconsistent play in a recent 1-0 friendly win over South Africa and an 8-0 romp over a hapless Chinese squad reminded fans why Brazil's bi-polar national team has fallen out of the FIFA-Coca-Cola top ten rankings holding the #12 spot below Greece and Croatia.

The only...

On The Road, the Kerouac movie property that languished under the control of Hollywood legend Francis Ford Coppola for three decades finally broke out of development hell and laid an egg along with the other American movies that came up prizeless in Cannes. This exercise in cultural and historical

Dilma doing a cameo in a Spike Lee joint, and spotlighting human rights violations. Lula rolls out a new Facebook page and gets tagged at an arts crawl with Dilma. It's all part of the cultural public diplomacy designed to...

With Argentina and Bolivia expropriating big energy firms and Brazil nationalizing strike and scandal plagued World Cup projects, Latin America's often convoluted take on socialism has created a money-hungry cookie monster that's desperate for dollars to cover social costs and palliate restless workers. Boasting the world's...

After Foxconn owner Terry Gou called workers animals at a company meeting, unionized assemblers of Apple IPods at Foxconn's Jundai fab near Sao Paulo are complaining about a lack of food and water and cage-space working conditions and have threatend to go on strike ...

After the confrontational expropriation of oil dinosaur Repsol YPF president Cristina Kirchner of Argentina has published a glowing profile of Dilma Rousseff in Time magazine, praising the Brazilian leader for sharing her commitment to "social equality."

But as politicians and business leaders struggle with the role...

Brazil's reluctance to help Washington topple Syria and their support for Iran's nuclear program have drawn the ire of a White House eager to turn foreign policy into political currency during a presidential election year.

Flexing its muscles, the Pentagon abruptly cancelled a deal with defense giant Embraer and the...