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A rep for Paris tells TMZ … Paris was detained and questioned by police, after someone in her entourage allegedly was caught smoking marijuana at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, where the World Cup is being held. (more)

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — No trash talking needed. Germany was just too good for Argentina. (more)

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa — Soccer’s perennial World Cup underachievers from the Netherlands knocked off mighty Brazil on Friday, stamping the Dutch as a strong contender to finally win that elusive title. (more)

As World Cup action heated up in South Africa, Pele was making his own piece of football history in Singapore. (more)

It was interesting being in Kenya this past week while the World Cup football (soccer) matches were being played near-by in South Africa. When Kenyan’s interrupted their viewing of a match to converse with me and learned that I was an American they inevitably wanted to know how I thought President Obama was doing. I hated telling them. The current World Cup in South Africa, however, made viewing Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus” on the plane on the way home even more moving than it would have been anyway. The movie dramatizes South Africa’s first post apartheid president, Nelson Mandela’s, decision to save and embrace South Africa’s national soccer team, “Springboks,” so loved by white South African’s and thus hated by black South Africans, as an element of his program of national reconciliation. (more)

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The last thing Paraguay wanted was to wind up in a shootout with Japan. After all, the South Americans almost never practice penalty kicks — or have any success when they do. (more)

CHICAGO — He’s been keeping such a low profile since nearly derailing Barack Obama’s campaign for president in 2008 — is it possible that the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright has mellowed? (more)

IRENE, South Africa (AP) — Landon Donovan is telling SI.com he will take responsibility if a woman’s claim that he made her pregnant proves true. (more)

Amerian John Isner’s win over Frenchman Nicolas Mahut wasn’t easy, and that’s putting it lightly. Three days after the match started, Isner finally beat Mahut in the longest tennis match in history. 167 games without either player breaking serve and over 200 collective aces later, the fifth set ended 70-68 in the American’s favor. Needless to say, both players deserve a drink. This Wimbledon Cocktail might just do the trick. (more)

The Big 10 has banned them. Wimbledon officials cringe at the thought. Vuvuzelas. Like it or not, they’re here to stay. (more)

For the moment, Landon Donovan and the U.S. soccer team have helped America forget its troubles. (more)

Despite Fabio Capello’s no-WAG rule this World Cup, the England boys definitely needed some moral support yesterday. (more)

A couple of Tennis players are getting plenty of, er, Love. The seemingly endless tennis match between America’s Jon Isner and France’s Nicolas Mahut has already gone nearly 10 hours, with the final set itself outlasting any other match in recorded history. (more)

PRETORIA, South Africa — Landon Donovan scored in the first minute of stoppage time off a rebound, advancing the United States to the second round at the World Cup with a 1-0 win over Algeria. (more)

PRETORIA, South Africa — Four years of careful planning, during which U.S. coach Bob Bradley used 92 players and guided his team through 18 qualifying matches in nine countries (along with several other tournaments and dozens of friendlies) will come down to 90 minutes on Wednesday afternoon in the South African city of Pretoria. (more)

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JOHANNESBURG — Ryan Appell stood on an isolated stretch of highway on the outskirts of an old South African mining town dressed like Betsy Ross’ worst nightmare. (more)

If you need another reminder of China’s manufacturing omnipresence, just turn on your TV for any World Cup match. (more)

KNYSNA, South Africa (AP) — A draw, a loss, a tantrum and now chaos for Les Bleus. (more)

Welcome to the Daily Caller’s daily roundup of the most interesting stories from across the globe. Today’s stories involve American hikers detained in Iran, scientists’ fears of a Swine Flu resurgence, Nelson Mandela’s great-granddaughter’s funeral, the cost of the international rescue effort for an American sailing prodigy, and three British dogs who inherited millions at their human sibling’s expense. (more)