Soccer fans can be passionate, particularly across Latin America. Unfortunately, that passion sometimes escalates to violence and death. In 2003, Brazil outlawed the sales of alcoholic beverages in soccer stadiums. For FIFA, the alcohol sales ban hindered one of the organization's major sponsors: Budweiser.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko proposed a cease-fire Wednesday in an effort to end the violent clashes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia militants that has been ongoing for more than two months.
It's no secret that Russia and South Korea have never really had the best relationship. These two countries will take to the field in their first game in Brazil in their quest for a World Cup Championship. Both teams feature head coaches with much World Cup experience.
As the 2014 World Cup looms on the horizon, Groups E and F have already been mentioned as Groups of Opportunity. Group H is yet another big group of opportunity as it features four wild cards in the tournament. Here is a look at how the teams stack up against one another.
President Barack Obama will head to New York this week for the third time in May to deliver the commencement address at West Point, where he is expected to defend his foreign policy approach.
This week in social media, Facebook added a Shazam-like feature that can automatically tag music, TV or movies in status updates, just by listening in to your life. Speaking of listening in, Facebook also changed some of its privacy settings for the better with a reminder for users what privacy level their status updates are set to. Also, Twitter's having a bad week on Wall Street (again) while both it and rival Instagram are meeting resistance abroad.
