Adidas In 'Epic' Colombia Spelling Mistake

Social media users took to Twitter to mock the spelling of the South American country’s name as "Columbia".

Users posted images apparently taken from sports store promotional material in recent days.

The marketing images, made for the Copa America tournament by the German company, feature stars such as Real Madrid's James Rodriguez.

One Twitter user wrote: "Seriously, @adidasfootball – IT'S COLOMBIA, not Columbia! Colossal mistake for such a brand. Unacceptable"

Another said: "Someone please tell @Adidas that they misspelled Colombia in their entire campaign… #ItsColombiaNotColumbia."

The blunder was also described on Twitter as an "epic mistake".

A spokeswoman for Adidas said: "We value our partnership with the Colombian Football Federation and apologise for our mistake. We removed these graphics and are quickly installing new versions."

She said the mistake only happened in the US.

Colombia's football team appears to have taken the controversy in its stride. Colombia beat Paraguay 2-1 on Tuesday night to progress to the Copa America quarter finals.

Woman's inner ear home to live spider

A 42-year old woman from South Wales in the UK found a living spider had crawled into her ear canal.

Victoria Price asked her husband to investigated after she was suffering pain in the ear.

Ms Price's husband using a torch spotted a live creature moving in her ear, but he wasn't sure what it was prompting Ms Price to visit the local hospital.

Ms Price told the triage nurse 'There's something alive in there, apparently. I thought it was an infection, but my husband says he can see something alive'.

'She took the cotton wool out, shone in the light and said 'Okay' and then went off to find someone who would take it out.'

That, someone, was nurse practitioner Sarah Gaze, who says removing the spider from the Ms Price inner ear was a very straightforward task.

'It was alive and very wriggly ... it must have been twice as big as it first looked,' she said.

'Victoria was very brave, braver than me. I didn't find it a pleasant experience at all, but it was my job, so I had to overcome my fear.'