After 64 matches, 17 red cards, 161 goals and 266 yellow cards in South Korea and Japan, this U.S.-based spectator, for one, can return to getting some sleep in the black-coffee hours of the morning.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The convoy made a rest stop and the drivers hugged old friends in the dingy hallway and chucked back black tea and coffee like shots.

FORBES: Remembering the Road to Baghdad

It was all reflected in the smooth surface of the water, coloured a coffee-black by tannins released from decaying plant life below.

BBC: Taming the heart of the Peruvian Amazon

In Thailand, devotees are burning black joss sticks and presenting eight black offerings, including black-feathered chickens and coffee, to appease the dark angel in the run-up to the eclipse.

CNN: HE GODS WERE DRINKING

She would fry eggs by the platterful and pour black coffee, and be glad they were not in a smoking hulk wrapped around a tree, or at the mercy of the police.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Prince of Frogtown'

While the original family-run roasters still prosper, and most of Australia remains content with a simple latte or short black (perfectly made, of course), the cities are now in the grip of coffee's third wave: single origin beans, premium small batch roasts, terroir and alternative brewing methods such as the Clover syphon, filter and cold drip.

BBC: Caffeination: Australia's coffee culture

The results were a shameful farce - the inspectors seem to have agreed to speak only to the guards and commanders and not the malnourished inmates who were ordered to sit around in fake cafes drinking water dyed black so that it resembled coffee.

BBC: Cabaret and football: Life before death in the Holocaust