The sun was setting over this southern Moroccan village and in his room above the local mosque, Abderrahim Oulgoum’s thoughts turned to a subject far removed from his Quranic law studies: football.

“It’s the World Cup final today,” said Mr Oulgoum, 34. “The whole village is going to be watching down in the café.”

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Kareena Kapoor has been speaking about her love for Morocco.

The actress, who is currently filming Agent Vinod with boyfriend Saif Ali Khan in the Moroccan city of Tangiers, revealed that she is enjoying working in the country because of its cultural similarities to India and its love of Bollywood. More >

There was heartbreak in Morocco in 2004 when FIFA announced that South Africa had won the bid to host Africa’s first ever World Cup in 2010. Now the country plans to launch a bid to host the African Cup of Nations in 2016.

A German national arrested on the Afghan-Pakistani border was Thursday sentenced to 10 years in jail for terrorism offences by a court in Morocco, a judicial source said.

“His name is Mohamed Hajib, and he was arrested in September 2009 on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. He was extradited to Germany, and then on the same day to Morocco,” said the source.

The following are redacted remarks made by Rev. Rob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council (NCC), at a news conference held today, June 17, 2010, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Rev. Schenck was joined by fellow NCC executive committee members, the Reverend Dr. Kenneth Barney and the Reverend Dr. Harry Thomas.

”Marruecos Siglo XXI” has hit the news-stands today, a weekly general news magazine, and the first Spanish-Moroccan language magazine written in Spanish, edited by Said Ida Hassan. The initiative is aimed at native Spanish speakers living in Morocco, businessmen, investors, institutions that collaborate with the North African country, tourists visiting the area, but also Moroccans living in Spain.

A court in Morocco has sentenced a cage fighter with British and Moroccan nationality to 10 years in jail for Britain’s biggest cash robbery carried out in 2006, a source said Wednesday.

Ibrahim Lee Murray, 32, was sentenced on Tuesday in the city of Sale on various charges including membership of a criminal gang, theft with an armed weapon, wearing an illegal uniform and kidnapping, the source said.

Medical experts were joined Friday by jurists, religious leaders and politicians in a first major bid to discuss what to do about clandestine abortions and unwanted pregnancies in Morocco.

“Medical experts, religious figures, jurists and politicians of all sorts are participating,” said Chakif Chraibi, a professor of obstetric gynaecology and president of the Moroccan Association to Combat Clandestine Abortion (AMLAC), said on the sidelines of the two-day congress.

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker says she’s glad that the shooting of ‘Sex And The City’ sequel tool place in Morocco – as none of the locals recognized the cast.