Fifa 2010

• Octopus Paul is now an 'honorary friend' of Spanish town

  The psychic octopus Paul is still basking in the glory of his perfect World Cup predictions and is now heading off to a new job as a fundraiser for sea turtles.

• Spain goes wild, erupts in biggest fiesta in living memory

  Spain erupted with its biggest fiesta in memory when its football team returned to a jubilant nation after winning the World Cup, giving elated Spaniards a break from months of economic gloom and political squabbling.Hundreds of thousands of people -- if not more -- jammed Madrid's historic avenues Monday as an open air bus ferried the national tea...

• Johan Cruyff slams 'dirty' Dutch

  Former Dutch superstar Johan Cruyff on Monday slammed the style of play of his compatriots during Sunday's World Cup final against Spain as "dirty" and "ugly".

• World Cup Champions head back to Spain

  Spain's victorious football team left South Africa late on Sunday, just hours after winning the 2010 FIFA World Cup in extra time against the Netherlands.

• Dutch point finger of blame at referee Webb

  Dutch stars Arjen Robben and Nigel de Jong launched a bitter attack on English referee Howard Webb after Holland had succumbed to Andres Iniesta's injury-time winner in the World Cup final.

• Octopus Paul gets it right 100%

  The biggest star to have come out of the 2010 FIFA World Cup is definitely the Octopus oracle Paul. With Spain becoming the World champions, the German oracle has now got all 7 of his predictions right.

• Forlan gets Golden Ball, Mueller wins Golden Boot

  Uruguay striker Diego Forlan was awarded the Golden Ball as the World Cup's best player on Sunday, and Germany forward Thomas Mueller won the Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer with five goals.Forlan was voted the most outstanding player of the tournament by accredited media after leading his team to the semifinals. Forlan narrowly beat Net...

• Dutch fail to win ugly, but play ugly in 1-0 loss to Spain

  The Dutch were bent on showing that they could win ugly and win their first World Cup, but they only got the ugly part right.With eight yellow cards, one red and endless arguing that even spilled over beyond the final whistle, the Netherlands lost much more than 1-0 to Spain in the final -- it lost a lot of its credibility as creative masters as we...

• Spain's victory a bright spot of a charming cup

  So many World Cup finals are dark affairs, with one shadow or another looming over them. This final had no taunting or head-butting like the last one; no team played with an undetected Hand of God in its very recent past.And in the long run, the very long run, this final did not end with the gloomy coup de grâce of penalty kicks. Instead, it had t...

• Fatwa issued against vuvuzela

  The vuvuzela, the plastic trumpet made famous by the football World Cup in South Africa, is in trouble in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the authorities here have issued a fatwa against it.

• Jabulani, South Africa's own psychic octopus

  Jabulani, an octopus at an aquarium in Cape Town, is South Africa's own version of the psychic German octopus Paul, which has been successfully predicting winners in all of Germany's games in the World Cup.