Three Ways of Watching the World Cup Final

On Friday, July 11 the final of the 2014 Quidditch World Cup took place. Pottermore users had the opportunity to follow Ginny Potter and Rita Skeeter's live updates from the Patagonian Desert, both here on the Insider and in 

Messi runs around in delirium, Mascherano is in floods of tears, Sabella doesn't appear to believe he's led a team to a World Cup final (stop it, be nice), Kuyt, Robben and Sneijder look pensive, and Van Gaal goes around 

Get ready for the centerpiece of the 2014 World Cup with our in-depth preview of the final between Argentina and Germany.

prayed together and embraced each other as brothers, but Pope Francis and his predecessor, Benedict XVI, now pope emeritus, find themselves confronting an odd sort of schism: their two countries are competing in the finals of the World Cup on Sunday.

After four years and hundreds of qualification matches—plus 63 games of some import here in Brazil—it will come to this: Germany vs. Argentina, the best of Europe against the best of South America, playing the World Cup final in a continent where a