Showing during Sunday night’s Super Bowl football game, the ad with Clint Eastwood was seen by some as an endorsement of Barack Obama’s re-election

An end to military rule will speed the end of the post-revolution cycle of death and protest, typified by the Port Said football tragedy

The willingness of fans to take offence risks destroying the freedom to engage in no-holds-barred terrace banter.

Via qwghlm's twitter feed, here's a rough but serviceable translation of an eyewitness account of yesterday's disaster at the football in Port Said, from an Ahly fan: The moment the referee whistled to declare the ending of the game, the...

Smokeless cars, football terraces and other pet projects

While there is justified enthusiasm at Ukraine's co-hosting of the 2012 European Football Championship, the event's organisation also highlights the government's inability to maintain infrastructure and manage public finance, says Yuriy Plyas. More »

The rise of Qatar has been one of the most remarkable developments in the recent history of the Middle East. How this small, oil-rich Gulf state built Al Jazeera and parleyed the TV station's influence into a diplomatic role across the region is an insufficiently explored issue. The list of the monarchy's achievements is impressive, even putting aside how they secured the football World ...

Sir Mick Jagger has backed out of an event to promote Britain at the Davos summit after complaining of being used as a ''political football''.

Sir Mick Jagger declines an invitation to a British tea party event in Davos after complaining he feared he would be used as a "political football".

Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football reviews two instant accounts of 2011’s Year of Protest There’s not much doubt that for the foreseeable future 2011 will be remembered as the ‘Year of Protest’. When a mainstream magazine like Time selects ‘The Protester’ as their cover-story 2011 Person of the Year then something of significance is clearly