Reuters and Agence France-Presse announced yesterday that they were ending their suspension of cover of the World Cup following last-ditch talks with tournament organisers.

Agreement was reached on the use of photographs on Web sites less than two hours before the opening match between France and Argentina in Paris. The Associated Press, Getty and the European Pressphoto Agency had also suspended coverage.

The agencies, joined in their protest by French sports daily L'Equipe, and a 40-strong world news media coalition, had suspended all text, photographic and TV cover from Thursday.