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Nigeria’s Super Eagles will open their 2014 Fifa World Cup campaign on Monday against Iran’s team Melli. This will be the second meeting between these nations and the stakes couldn't be higher. On Sunday, head coach of the Nigeria national team...

Lionel Messi scored a superb goal as Argentina began their World Cup campaign with a win over World Cup debutants Bosnia-Hercegovina. Argentina went ahead when Messi's free-kick was put into his own net by defender Sead Kolasinac. Messi then played a...

England boss Roy Hodgson says Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has the ability to be considered among the world's best but must prove it at the World Cup. Uruguay's Suarez, 27, is set to recover from a knee injury in time...

Substitute Haris Seferovic scored in the third minute of stoppage time to earn Switzerland a dramatic win over Ecuador in their opening Group E match. Seferovic turned in Ricardo Rodriguez's low cross as Ottmar Hitzfeld's side came back from behind...

Israeli armed forces swept through half a dozen Palestinian towns on Monday and arrested more Hamas officials, expanding a search for three teenagers into a crackdown on the Islamist group accused of abducting them. In al-Jalazoun refugee camp, near the...

At least 48 people were killed when gunmen in two minibuses sped into a town on Kenya's coast, shooting soccer fans gathered to watch a World Cup match in a television hall and targeting hotels and a bank, police...

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) new policy stance on fraudulent practices in the banking industry, occasioned by loan and related offences, among others, may have put the credit bureaus under scrutiny, BusinessDay investigations have shown. While the CBN’s promise...

Ukraine says Russia has cut off all gas supplies to Kiev, in a major escalation of a dispute between the two nations. "Gas supplies to Ukraine have been reduced to zero," Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuri Prodan said. Russia's state-owned gas giant...

U.S. banks looking to get in on a booming market for financing new-car sales have run into a formidable competitor: the auto manufacturers themselves. Financing arms of car companies, including Toyota Motor Corp, Honda Motor Co and Ford Motor Co,...

Investors tensions over fighting in Iraq and Ukraine saw a global shift into traditional safe-haven currencies, precious metals and bonds on Monday, and oil hovered near a nine-month high. The mood also spread to share markets. The Nikkei in Tokyo...