The 2018 World Cup has concluded, and France is the champion. The tournament is now being called one of the best ever, and Russia was a gorgeous background for some amazing sports photography.

The soccer World Cup, which began Thursday in Russia, could be perceived as a celebration of the world’s love for the beautiful game. It could also, as Boris Johnson, the U.K. foreign secretary ...

The memory of Russia hosting the World Cup in 2018 now seems unreal, as does the quality of Russia’s soccer back then. (The national team made it to the quarterfinals and made fans genuinely proud.) ...

Russia's much-maligned national team had a packed crowd in Moscow in disbelief and earned a post-game call from Vladimir Putin on a day when it changed the narrative surrounding the World Cup host.

After eight years of planning and billions of dollars in spending, the 2018 World Cup kicks off Thursday, and more than the competing teams have a lot riding on the outcome.

The World Cup opens in Moscow a month from today, an 11-city, four-week chanting, flag-waving showcase for the world’s most popular sport and, this time around, for Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

The Kremlin may be locked in confrontation with the West, but the rest of the world is coming to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia is hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and Putin is scoring ...

FIFA requires that World Cup stadiums have at least a capacity of 35,000, so Russia decided to compromise. Yes, this is totally fine indeed, as the tweet above by Michael Katz says.

Cybersecurity concerns at 2018 World Cup in Russia 06:26. MOSCOW --Russian women and visiting World Cup soccer fans: be fruitful and multiply.After a lawmaker caused a backlash on social media by ...

World Cup 2018: Russia's loss to Croatia ended it's Cinderella run, but Putin — and dictators everywhere — are still big winners at mega-sports events.