Billions of dollars are streaming into the Swiss-based organisation from broadcasting rights, advertising revenue, and ticket and hospitality sales, but have the fans been left high and dry?
[caption id="attachment_55248547" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian newlyweds Aisha and Mohammed join celebrations at Cairo's Tahrir Square after President Hosni Mubarak stepped down on…
[caption id="attachment_55248001" align="alignnone" width="620"]Workers at the Iran Khodro car manufacturing plant make Iranian car models, as well as vehicles under license of the French company…
[caption id="attachment_55247339" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Libyan security officer walks by an oil drill on March 23, 2013 at the Al-Ghani oil field, belonging to Libya's Harouge Oil…
[caption id="attachment_55247025" align="alignnone" width="620"] Employees prepare Arabic-style ice cream by beating it vigorously with enormous wooden mallets to crush any ice and remove any air at…
[caption id="attachment_55245923" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iranians shop at the main old bazaar in Tehran on June 1, 2013. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption]Iran’s 1979 revolution still…
[caption id="attachment_55245553" align="alignnone" width="620"] A banker carries a load of money as he walks past an image of the Syrian president, Bashar Al-Assad, at a bank in the capital,…
[caption id="attachment_55245665" align="alignnone" width="620"] A female worker prepares parts of Kalashnikov machine guns at the Kalashnikov manufacturing plant on September 18, 2013 in Izhevsk,…
[caption id="attachment_55244690" align="alignnone" width="620"] Gazprom security men stand guard in front of a drilling platform at an oilfield near the Iraqi city of Badra, south of Baghdad, on…
[caption id="attachment_55244622" align="alignnone" width="594"] Apartment blocks line the edge of a field in the fertile Egyptian Delta region of Al-Menofeya. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)[…
[caption id="attachment_55244083" align="alignnone" width="620"] View of Qatar Petroleum (QP), a state-owned corporation established in 1974 and responsible for all phases of the oil and gas industry…
From Hitler and Mussolini to South American dictators, world leaders have long seen in football's biggest tournament an opportunity to further an agenda
From 3D players to data-transmitting balls, the sport's biggest tournament is awash with technology to help with everything from offside decisions to viewer angles, but does this come at a cost?
Netanyahu continues to defy calls from Washington to pump the brakes on Israel's offensive in Lebanon, something Iran has linked to a future peace deal
While it could be tied to military calculations related to the current US-Iran war, it also reflects a deeper struggle between two opposing regional visions