Vuvuzelas

A ban on bagpipes at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand has knocked the wind out of the Scotland team.

The vuvuzelas that became the droning soundtrack to the Soccer World Cup in SA are to make a comeback at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

The vuvuzela may have made it into the <i>Oxford Dictionary</i>, but you may find little use for it beyond the football stadium.

Loved and loathed in equal measure, the drone of the vuvuzela will resonate in India for the first time at the Commonwealth Games in October.

The vuvuzela, which became the sound of the Soccer World Cup, has won an entry in the latest edition of the <i>Oxford Dictionary of English</i>.

English Premier League clubs Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham have banned controversial vuvuzela horns from their stadiums this season.

Johannesburg street sellers were raking it in at the start of the World Cup, but now that Bafana has crashed out, business has slumped.

Czech public television network CT is putting a sock into vuvuzelas at Soccer World Cup games in South Africa.

Tournament teeters between triumph and disaster, not quite living up to expectations of the evangelists, but not fulfilling dire prophecies either.

A Cape Town woman who injured her throat at a vuvuzela blowing competition said on Friday that she was on the mend.

The vuvuzelas providing the ear-splitting soundtrack for the Soccer World Cup in South Africa are proving a gold mine for manufacturers in China.

British supermarket chain Sainsbury said on Wednesday that its World Cup goods — and vuvuzelas — are selling very well.

The BBC is examining whether it could transmit a "vuvuzela free" version of its Soccer World Cup coverage after a flood of complaints from viewers.

Makers of the vuvuzela plastic horns that have become a talking point at the Soccer World Cup have come up with a toned-down version.

To coaches and players they could be a curse, to South Africans they might be a weapon that helps them overcome one of the lowest ratings for a host.