Germany and Uruguay will be fighting for US $20M

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Except the honor that will be achieved by the third place in the World Cup 2010, Germany and Uruguay will be fighting for the additional US $2 million winning prize money.

It was known that US $20 million will be won by the third place while US $18 million for the fourth place.

The fight between Germany and Uruguay for the third place will be in the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth.

Before this, the team of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Ghana had already gone home with US $14 million each.

US $9 million to each of the eight (8) teams that were eliminated in round sixteen (16) which are; Portugal, Japan, Chile, Slovakia, Mexico, England, United States and South Korea.

While US $8 million to each team that didn’t enter in the group of sixteen (16) which are; Honduras, Switzerland, North Korea, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Denmark, New Zealand, France, Italy, Australia, Serbia, Algeria, Slovenia, Greece, Nigeria and the host team South Africa.

Except this, FIFA had already given a million dollar to all teams before the games started for the preparation costs.

FIFA had also paid US $40 million to all local football clubs wherein a player had been playing.

This is a payment for all the injured players of a football club while playing in the international tournaments carrying the name of their country.

This was based on the agreement between FIFA and the European football clubs during 2008.

For an overall total of US $420 million which was budgeted for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

This is sixty (60) percent increase compared to 2006 World Cup budget.

Oil leak in the Gulf, will be contained on Monday

NEW ORLEANS – There’s already a possibility to seize the oil spill on Monday from the exploded oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

British Petroleum (BP), the owner of the exploded oil rig, announced that if the new cap will be placed in the oil well, there’s already a possibility to stop the oil spill.

Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen announced that this is a good news after two and a half (2 1/2) months of oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

If the said project would be successful, no additional oil will be spilled in the ocean, instead all of it will go directly to the tankers which siphons the oil.

But this is not a permanent solution. The only way to say that there’s no oil spill is to dig two (2) oil wells near the exploded oil rig.

The said cap will be placed this weekend through robot submarines wherein BP had taken advantage of the good weather.

But if the first cap that was already in place will be supplanted, the oil spill in the ocean will not stop for (48) hours before it will be controlled again using the new cap.

Except the new cap, the British Petroleum had already attached another containment ship that has a capability to siphon one (1) million gallons of oil everyday and now it is fully operational.

65 died, 112 wounded in the explosion in Pakistan

(Update) YAKAGHUND, Pakistan – It had reached sixty-five (65) dead persons while one hundred twelve (112) wounded in the twin explosion of the tribal region of Pakistan.

According to the police, the Yakaghund public market had been blown up in Mohmand district.

A suicide attacker and a car bomb had exploded in the said region.

It was known that Mohmand is one of which that aggregates the tribal region of Pakistan, that is according to America, Al Qaeda headquarters and the most dangerous places of the world.

The damage of the explosion included the office of the government, prison and many shops.

Because of the explosion, a building collapsed wherein residents have been trapped.

Because of this, it was feared that the death toll of the said attack will rise.

According to the local administration official Rasool Khan, it wasn’t clear if what was target of the suspect but it might be the local government and the members of the peace committee.

Due to the explosion, twenty-eight (28) prisoners have escaped when the prison’s wall had collapsed.

Together with sympathy given to the victims, America condemns the new violence in Pakistan.

US State Department spokesman Mark Toner announced that the event was a “terrible tragedy.”

Although nobody admits the responsibility of the said attack, it was said that this was done by the Islamist group in Pakistan.