Cape Town Hosts Homeless World Cup
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By CLARE NULLIS CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Nearly 500 drug addicts, alcoholics, orphans and vagrants kicked off the Homeless World Cup soccer tournament Sunday, opening a weeklong event aimed at helping society's most marginalized make a new start in life.
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South Africa, burdened with one of  the world's major HIV/AIDS epidemics, unveiled plans on  Thursday for its biggest AIDS vaccine trial.
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A dozen yards in front of every soccer goal sits the intersection of crime and punishment. It&#039;s called the penalty spot, and it&#039;s where World Cup dreams often go to die.
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Siphiwe Sibeko, 35, is mostly a self taught photographer who was born and grew up in Soweto township, South Africa. After working for some leading South African newspapers as a senior photographer, he joined Reuters in 2005. Julien Pretot, 31, is a Paris-based sports reporter since 2001. Both paired up for the African Nations Cup in Ghana. In the following story, Julien describes the women construction workers he and Siphiew befriended as they passed them on their way to the Essipon stadium in S
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including South Africa - had submitted proposals to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup. South Africa, will face stiff opposition
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Final preparations are taking place for the inaugural Twenty20 world championships which will see South Africa play the West Indies in the opening match on Tuesday.
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Sabina Park is given the all-clear to host the opening match of the World Cup in Kingston on Tuesday.
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South Africa, burdened with one of the world's major HIV/AIDS epidemics, unveiled plans on Thursday for its biggest AIDS vaccine trial.
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The ball at the World Championships of Soccer for the Blind clatters like a rattlesnake's tail. Fans are barred from cheering too loudly and clear plastic walls keep the players in-bounds. Every four years, players compete for Cup glory in an eight-nation tournament drawing hundreds, not millions, of fans to a game without the noisy hype of media and merchandising. Save for the goalkeepers, all the athletes are legally blind.
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German legend Franz Beckenbauer says South Africa's World Cup organisers are facing serious problems.
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Organisers admit a Cricket World Cup venue in Trinidad will not be ready on time and a different ground will now be used.
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There's not enough snow in Europe and not enough dough in America. In a surprise announcement Wednesday night, Guenther Hujara, director of the men's World Cup, said there wasn't enough sponsorship dollars for Colorado resorts to hold some of the ski races that have been scrapped by warm weather and a lack of snow in Europe.
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Africa's top watchdog has rapped South Africa for failing to tackle one of the world's highest crime rates, an emotive issue for a country hosting the 2010 football World Cup.
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SOWETO, South Africa  - Seeing buses full of tourists looking for a glimpse of South African poverty, squatter camp resident Lawrence Rolomana decided to try to earn a share of the cash they were spending.
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands  - Twenty-five years after a disaster now acknowledged as the world's worst soccer tragedy, players from Spartak Moscow and Dutch side Haarlem will meet for a memorial match at the ground where some 340 people are believed to have died.
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SEVILLE, Spain -- South Africa will underline their strength in depth if Trevor Immelman and Rory Sabbatini can retain their title at the WGC-World Cup of Golf at Seville&#39;s Real Golf Club.
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People around the world pitched in on Wednesday to help the millions left homeless and destitute by the Indian Ocean tsunamis, donating money, clothes, blood and even air miles to ferry doctors to the disaster ...