AFP - North Korea's best-known player Jong Tae-Se said Tuesday he hopes the team can change the image of the isolated nation and believes they could topple mighty Brazil.
AFP - Six Pakistani soldiers were killed Tuesday when Taliban militants stormed a checkpoint in the northwest, prompting a retaliatory strike by the army that left 30 insurgents dead, officials said.
AFP - Japan's new prime minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday the government needs to repair its tattered finances and slash the world's biggest debt pile if the economy is to prosper.