Want to hear what your favorite pop star or politician sounds like accompanied by the most memorable sound of the soccer World Cup in South Africa -- the droning vuvuzela trumpet? By Marius Bosch, Jon ...

For the past week I have woken up to the loud sound of a lone "vuvuzela," or long horn, in the Company's Garden area of Cape Town, South Africa, where I am staying for the World Cup. I was startled, ...

And not because of unruly fans or errant flying objects, though both could certainly be issues. As it turns out, World Cup fans – certainly those in the stands in South Africa – could be placing their ...

Love ’em or loathe ’em, the blaring plastic trumpets have become the hallmark of matches at the 2010 World Cup. We asked Trevor Cox, president of the UK Institute of Acoustics and an acoustic engineer ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The astounding predictions of an octopus, the perils of "chexting" and the pain of getting around on planes were the laughing matters of 2010. News that a Sicilian man had ...

If you’ve never heard a “vuvuzela,” you haven’t been watching the World Cup. The plastic (sort-of) horns are blown incessantly throughout the games. Every game, not only when South Africa plays. And ...

John Leicester is an international sports columnist for The Associated Press The constant drone of cheap and tuneless plastic horns is killing the atmosphere at the World Cup. Where are the loud ...

If only defender Neil Van Schalkwyk had not scored an equalizer for the Santos Cape Town youth team against Battswood 15 years ago, the whole blaring brouhaha over the vuvuzela might never have come ...

Love 'em or loathe 'em, the blaring plastic trumpets known as vuvuzelas have become a hallmark of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Generations of South African children grew up hearing the ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Want to hear what your favourite pop star or politician sounds like accompanied by the most memorable sound of the soccer World Cup in South Africa -- the droning vuvuzela ...

Mick Jagger was left unimpressed after actor Leonardo DiCaprio began blowing a Vuvuzela at the World Cup in South Africa. The pair were watching the quarter final between Germany and Argentina from a ...