The 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil kicks off on Thursday with a match between Brazil and Croatia, but there are plenty of story lines to cover before the first game.
Spain's King Juan Carlos says he is abdicating to make way for his son to become the nation's next monarch so a "new generation" can take over.
Eyewitness accounts suggest that the train that derailed in Spain last night was going too fast as it went around a turn underneath a road bridge.
And those accounts are backed by security-camera footage of the derailment. The video shows the train carriages starting to buckle soon into the turn, with the first and second passenger cars leaving the tracks first...
Spanish investigators are trying to determine what caused a passenger train to jump the tracks just before arriving in the northwestern shrine city of Santiago de Compostela yesterday.