Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi and the team captain Joseph Yobo have both quit the team after failing to qualify to the quarter-final stage of the 2014 World Cup, Vanguard reports.
Players of the Greece national football team have turned down their World Cup bonuses, and have asked their Prime Minister Antonis Samarasto use the money to build a team training centre instead.
Three quarters of a million people are at risk of poverty, or are living in poverty, in Ireland, with 16% of them falling into the category of the "working poor".
Dressed in a suit and sitting on a mat (left), a man doused himself in gasoline and set himself ablaze on the metal framework of Tokyo's Shinjuku railway station (top right).
The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius heard a panel of mental health experts have concluded the athlete was not suffering from a mental illness when he shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
At the height of her career, Melbourne's Gwyneth Montenegro, 36, was paid $500 to $1000 an hour as a elite escort. She worked all over Australia and was flown to exotic destinations to do her job. Dailym
An Australian girl who was kidnapped, beaten and married off to her older cousin by her father’s family in Syria at the age of 13 has spoken out about her horrific five-year ordeal for the first time.