Uruguay v South Korea – live!
21 min: Fucile and Alvaro Pereira diddle down the left. Cha Du-ri really has his hands full here. This time the latter runs the ball out of play, but he so nearly got behind his man. It’s easy to forget South Korea were about six inches away from going a goal up in this game, so terrible have they been at the back since. 19 min: Uruguay are just passing it around a lot, with a view to irritating …
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Greek riot police have fired tear gas at youths protesting in Athens as a trade union march passed in front of the finance ministry. There were reports of similar scenes in the northern city of Thessaloniki as youths attacked business premises. Thousands of Greeks are taking part in May Day rallies called by trade unions and left-wing parties in protest against government austerity measures. The planned cuts are in exchange for a huge international financial bail-out. There is huge public resistance to the wage cuts, tax rises and pension reductions that are expected to be implemented. The measures are being demanded by the European Union in return for a rescue package, which is expected to total between 100-120bn euros (£87-100bn; 3-160bn) over three years. The full details of the bail-out are expected to be revealed this weekend if theEurozone leaders finally sign off the deal, which is designed to prevent Greece from defaulting on its enormous debt obligations. ‘Unpopular measures mikeydrog in Athens says the mood has become serious as thousands of demonstrators march through the city towards parliament. The unions hope that the rally will demonstrate to the government, the Eurozone, the IMF and the international markets, that they can mobilise enough “troops” to defeat the new austerity programme, our correspondent says. The value of the euro dropped on Friday after publication of a new poll suggested more than 50% of Greeks would take to the streets to try to stop …
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