Viswanathan Anand beat Alexander Grischuk in the seventh round to shoot back into sole lead at the World Chess Championship.
Feliciano Lopez beat an ailing Juan Martin del Potro after David Nalbandian's straight sets win over David Ferrer in the opening rubber of the Davis Cup final.
Chelsea beat Portsmouth 1-0 while to go on top of the EPL table as Manchester City went down 0-1 at Arsenal.
Lionel Messi scored twice as King's Cup holders Barcelona moved comfortably into the quarter-finals by thrashing Celta Vigo 5-0 at the Nou Camp in their last 16 second leg game on Thursday.
The defending champions were beaten 1-0 by Manchester City while Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea drew.
Newcomers Franck Ribery and Luca Toni were on target to help Bayern Munich to a brilliant 4-0 win at Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga on Saturday.
A stunning 87th-minute free kick by captain Steven Gerrard gave Liverpool a 2-1 victory at Aston Villa as the new Premier League season opened on Saturday.
Brief reports of Premier League matches on Saturday.
New Zealand sprung a fantastic turnaround to defeat India by three wickets
Gaurav Nandrajog whipped Angad Marwah of Maharashtra in a second round match of the HSBC-Bombay Gymkhana Maharashtra State Open Squash championships.
The Indian ace upset eighth seed Petya Nedeltcheva of Bulgaria in the Swiss Open badminton tournament.
Last season's top scorer Robert Lewandowski found the net with a 31st-minute penalty to become the first player to score in 10 successive appearances against the same Bundesliga opponents.
Nursing a knee injury for more than a month, Sania Mirza dropped two places to 48th in the latest WTA rankings issued on Monday.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi held on to their 12th and 21st position respectively.
'That is how our machinery operates and sees every prisoner.'
Mahindra United fought back from two goals down to hold East Bengal in an eighth round match.
Advani has said that 31 years after the Emergency, the Congress retains that mindset.
Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova stands on the threshold of finally delivering the title long predicted
Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat on Saturday asked the gem and jewellery exporters to create brand India image by improving product quality with the use of latest manufacturing technology.
In a major relief for Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed the criminal proceedings against him in his case of allegedly 'denigrating' a Hindu god by posing as Lord Vishnu on the cover page of a magazine. Dhoni has also sought the transfer of the case against him from Anantapur to Bengaluru and the apex court has issued a notice on the same. The interim relief comes after a court in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh had issued a non-bailable warrant against the cricketer. In September last year, the Supreme Court had stayed the criminal proceedings against Dhoni and also issued notice to social activist Jayakumar Hiremath, who had filed the case against the cricketer.
East Bengal beat Mahindra United 1-0 to win the Nike Manchester United Premier Cup.
Barcelona wasted a chance to go top of the Spanish Primera Liga by slumping to a 3-1 defeat at city rivals Espanyol.
The world No 1 announced on his 31st birthday that his wife Elin will give birth to their first child next year.
Barcelona's attacking trio of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar were all on target as the champions roared back into life in La Liga with a dominant 5-1 victory at promoted Leganes on Saturday. Messi sidefooted in a simple cross from Suarez to strike the opening goal after 15 minutes and returned the favour for the Uruguayan to nudge in the second in the 31st.
Sporting Clube de Goa demolished Army XI 4-0 to enter the quarterfinals of the Federation Cup.
Gaurav Nandrajog and Mandy Kennedy of England scored contrasting victories to win the men's and women's titles respectively in the HSBC-Bombay Gymkhana Maharashtra State Open Squash Championships.
Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure is '90 per cent certain' to leave the Premier League club.
Mahindra United moved to the third place in the National Football League with a 3-1 victory over Sporting Clube de Goa.
Mohun Bagan on Thursday defeated Churchill Brothers 2-1 in their 14th round tie of the I-league in Kolkata.
Switzerland made sure of a place in the last 16 of the World Cup, but had to survive some anxious moments in Wednesday's 2-2 draw with Costa Rica before finishing second behind Brazil in Group E.
Olympic champions Australia turned on the heat and romped to a 4-0 victory over Argentina for their first win in two Pool A matches.
Dressed in military overalls, the general waved to the crowd from a glass-panelled enclosure when the 31st over was being bowled in the day-night clash.
Harmanpreet Kaur's parents will remain in Australia to watch India play in the Final at the MCG, which will take place on her 31st birthday.
Munish Kaushik, a Delhi resident has started this initiative with his family members, where they go out and provide midnight snacks and a 'jaadu ki jhappi' to Delhi police's night patrolmen.
The coronavirus outbreak has brought a large part of the world's second-largest economy China to a standstill and its impact has been felt across industries.
