Messi was brilliant, but James Rodriguez should have won the Golden Ball

On Sunday Argentina’s Lionel Messi won the World Cup Golden Ball, the award for the tournament’s most outstanding player, just after his team lost to Germany in the World Cup final. It was a bittersweet moment for Messi.

Germany Defeats Argentina in FIFA World Cup Final 2014 Brazil

Mario Götze of Germany scored the game-winning goal in the second period of extra time.

RIO DE JANEIRO — For years, Brazilians had a phrase they would inevitably utter when things went wrong. “Imagina na Copa,” they told one another after an endless traffic jam or a construction accident or an ugly rash of violence dominated the news — imagine if this happened during the World Cup. It was a foreboding warning, a pre-emptive sigh of the presumed disasters that lay ahead.

Gaza crisis: Death toll from Israeli strikes 'hits 100'

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The death toll from Israeli air strikes on Gaza has risen to 100, Palestinian sources say. 

The latest deaths were of two people in a car in the Bureij area on Friday, they said. 

Brazil vs Germany World Cup 2014: Was the 7-1 semi-final defeat the worst of all-time?

The defeat could go down as the very worst ever to happen in football

Embarrassed, humbled, crushed, thumped, battered, destroyed... however you want to put it, Brazil were thoroughly humiliated by Germany in Belo Horizonte. 

The magnitude of the defeat in a World Cup semi-final will forever be remembered. The manager, Luiz Felipe Scolari, described it as the "worst day of my life" and the "worst loss" in Brazil's history.

Hurricane Arthur makes landfall near Cape Lookout, N.C.

Hurricane Arthur made landfall late Thursday on the southern end of North Carolina's barrier islands, battering the shore with sustained winds of up to 100 mph. 

The National Hurricane Center in Miami reported that the eye of the storm came ashore at about 11:15 p.m. ET over the Shackleford Banks between Cape Lookout and Beaufort. An automated weather station on Cape Lookout reported sustained winds of 77 mph, with a gust of 101 mph.