Five-time world champion Mary Kom, returning to the ring after recovering from some niggles that kept her out of the Asian Games, prevailed 5-0 against Kazakhstan's Aigerim Kassanayeva to pick up India's lone senior category gold at the event on Saturday.
The FIDE list shows Veselin Topalov still on the top without including the points earned at the Morelia-Linares tournament.
Two clinical finishes from Bulgaria striker Dimitar Berbatov took twice winners Tottenham Hotspur through to the UEFA Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday.
Bulgaria's CSKA Sofia were given a record fine and ordered to host their next two premier league matches behind closed doors because of fan violence during their league match at Litex Lovech on Saturday.
Six Bulgarian medics returned home free, amidst tears and hugs, after eight years imprisonment in Libya.
Debutant boxer Amit Panghal (49kg) continued his sensational run to make the final with a hard-fought win but an injured Vikas Krishan (75kg) had to settle for bronze after being declared medically unfit for his semifinal at the 18th Asian Games, in Jakarta, on Friday.
The Indian ace beat International Master Safarli Eltaz of Azerbaijan in the eight round of the World Youth Stars chess tournament to move to second place.
The Indian Grandmaster split the point with the Romanian GM to maintain a half point lead after the penultimate round in the third Mtel Masters.
Ruud van Nistelrooy struck from close range in injury time to earn the Netherlands a hard-fought 1-0 win over Albania in their Euro 2008 qualifier on Wednesday.
Indian shuttlers Ajay Jayaram and B Sai Praneeth advanced to the semi-finals of the $55,000 Canada Open Grand Prix badminton tournament after notching up contrasting victories in the men's singles competition in Calgary, Canada.
The match between Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria and Russian Vladimir Kramnik was thrown in jeopardy after the frequent toilet breaks taken by the latter.
Magnus Carlsen of Norway stole day one honours in the Morelia-Linares chess tournament after putting it across Alexander Morozevich of Russia to emerge early sole leader
The 55 teams have been divided into 10 groups of five or six, and the top two teams in each qualify directly.
The Russian shocked sixth seed Todor Enev of Bulgaria in the final.
Levon Aronian, Veselin Topalov and Teimour Radjabov jointly won the Category-19 Corus Chess tournament.
The victory enabled the Indian ace narrow the gap between him and tournament leader Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the Corus chess tournament.
Nine Indians punched their way into the finals of their respective categories in the Golden Glove of Vojvodina, an international boxing tournament in Kikinda, Serbia.
India's Karan Rastogi beat Todor Enev of Bulgaria 6-3, 6-2 in the semi-final of the ITF Futures in New Delhi.
Viswanathan Anand will start his campaign against the world's youngest-ever Grandmaster, in the Corus Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
A pep talk from dad Richard and a timely downpour over Roland Garros rescued Serena Williams from an embarrassing first-round exit at the French Open on Sunday.
Despite the defeat, the Indian Grandmaster maintains sole lead in the Mtel chess tournament.
He delivered a vital blow to English GM Michael Adams in the sixth round of the Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
Defending champion Djokovic fired his 15th ace on match point to defeat Querrey but his serve had been an issue earlier in their second-round encounter.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Sunday
The Indian ace, who is second in the table, took his tally to 3 points after the fourth round of the Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
Let's all join in and congratulate the new king of the 64 squares board.
A livid Mary Kom asked her vanquished opponent Nikhat Zareen to prove herself in the ring instead of making irritating comments.
Viswanathan Anand remained in joint lead in the Morelia-Linares chess tournament after drawing with top seed Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria.
Venugopal talk about his life as a matte painter and compositor and his work on Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning film.
Karan Rastogi went down to Todor Enev 6-4, 7-6 (3) in the semifinals of the ITF Futures.
Olympic medal-winning wrestler Sakshi Malik does not endorse the Indian Olympic Association's call for a boycott of the 2022 Commonwealth Games but at the same time feels that dropping shooting from the event's roster is "wrong on the athletes."
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
Top seed Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria lost to Russian Peter Svidler to liven things up in the 'A' group of the Corus International Chess tournament.
Three-times Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka returned to the big stage in style on Monday, ousting sixth seed Grigor Dimitrov 1-6, 7-6(3), 7-6(5), 6-4 on Centre Court at Wimbledon.
The Indian Grandmaster was relegated to third after a three-way for first place.
'The difficult part is that there is no script and you have to be impromptu. So by the end of the day, I am very tired.'
The Indian ace beat Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine in just 37 moves at the Corus Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
Iconic Indian woman boxer M C Mary Kom added another honour to her list of accolades as she was named one of the eight ambassadors for the upcoming World Championships by the International Boxing Association (AIBA).
P Harikrishna started his campaign with a draw against Jan Timman of Holland in the first round of the Ciudad de Pamplona International chess tournament.
