Images from Europa and Champions League matches played on Wednesday.
Sania Mirza is one win away from making the main draw of the women's singles of WTA AEGON International tournament as she reached the final round of the qualifiers with a hard-fought win over Georgia's Anna Tatishvili, in Eastbourne.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa was in intensive care Saturday after being hit on the head by bouncing debris and crashing heavily in Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying. Massa suffered a cut forehead, skull damage and concussion in the accident caused by a fist-sized spring weighing around 800 grams falling off compatriot Rubens Barrichello's Brawn seconds earlier.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa will have a brain scan after fracturing his skull in a freak accident at the Hungarian Grand Prix, the Brazilian's Formula One team said on Sunday. Last year's overall championship runner-up was in intensive care after being hit on the head by bouncing debris from compatriot Rubens Barrichello's Brawn during Saturday's qualifying.
Fernando Alonso shrugged off criticism of his Ferrari team tactics and made clear it was business as usual at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Thursday.
Britain's Lewis Hamilton seized his first win for Mercedes in a sweltering Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday while Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel moved 38 points clear in the Formula One championship despite finishing third.
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Sebastian Vettel thought he had the Hungarian Grand Prix in the bag on Sunday but ended up disappointed and disgruntled while Red Bull team mate Mark Webber grabbed another win.
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Ferrari's Felipe Massa will leave intensive care on Wednesday after taking his first steps since he fractured his skull in a crash at last weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, the Formula One team said. The champions said on their website that the Brazilian's condition is improving steadily in Budapest's AEK military hospital.
Seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher, who retired in 2006, still has to be Ferrari's first choice to stand in for injured Brazilian Felipe Massa, former champion Niki Lauda said. Schumacher, 40, Formula One's most successful driver with 91 wins, hung up his helmet at the end of 2006 and the German has shown no signs of wanting to come back despite the occasional bike race.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa and former team mate Michael Schumacher completed a one-two finish in a kart race on Sunday in the Brazilian's first competitive event since his life-threatening accident in July.
Spanish teenager Jaime Alguersuari is set to become Formula One's youngest ever driver after Toro Rosso ran out of patience with France's Sebastien Bourdais on Thursday. The Ferrari-powered team, winners of their home Italian Grand Prix last year with Germany's Sebastian Vettel, said four-times Champ Car champion Bourdais had made his last appearance for them. His replacement will be announced shortly before next week's Hungarian Grand Prix.
Second seed Angelique Kerber advanced to the fourth round of the Miami Open when Dutch qualifier Kiki Bertens was forced to retire in the third set on Sunday.
Kimi Raikkonen is not assured of racing for Ferrari in Formula One next season, team president Luca di Montezemolo said on Wednesday. Rumours have swirled for months that Raikkonen will be replaced by Renault's Fernando Alonso for next year despite the Finn's contract with Ferrari running until the end of 2010.
Chasing an elusive win after four successive draws, world champion Viswanathan Anand will take on Hungarian Peter Leko in the fifth round of the Corus Chess tournament on Friday.
Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin were forced to draw on their vast experience to avoid being eliminated from the Brisbane International on Thursday. The two Belgians, both back on the professional circuit after retiring from the sport, scraped through their quarter-finals to remain on course for a possible showdown in Saturday's final.
The Renault Formula One team and Spain's Fernando Alonso were given the green light to compete in Valencia this weekend after getting a one-race suspension overturned on Monday. The governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) said in a statement that its court of appeal has decided to reduce the sanction imposed on the French team to a reprimand and $50,000 fine.
The 39-year-old appeared at Italy's Sanremo festival in March, where he sang a duet with Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic and said he would like to try acting.
Sunil Chhetri did not play in Kansas City Wizards' second Major League Soccer match against Colorado Rapids but the Indian striker is expected to take the field in his side's qualification game for Lamar Hunt US Open Cup against the same opponents on Tuesday.
Masaan received a five-minute standing ovation following its screening at the French Film Festival.
Injured Ferrari driver Felipe Massa left the hospital in Sao Paulo on Tuesday after a series of medical tests ruled out the need for further surgery, his personal physician said.
Ferrari vented their frustration at rivals Williams and Red Bull Tuesday after the teams said they are opposed to Michael Schumacher testing injured Brazilian Felipe Massa's F60 car. Seven-times world champion Schumacher, who retired in 2006, is set to fill in for Ferrari while Massa recovers.
England soccer player David Beckham won substantial libel damages at London's high court on Tuesday over a newspaper claim that he 'made a play' for Hungarian model Mariann Fogarasy. The 34-year-old football star was awarded the undisclosed settlement in his case against Express Group Newspapers over an article which appeared in The Daily Star in April, the Press Association reported.
Viswanathan Anand's quest for an elusive win continued unabated as the Indian split points with Hungarian Peter Leko for his fifth draw on the trot in the ongoing Corus Chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands.
PSV Eindhoven, unbeaten in all competitions this season, cruised to a 3-1 win at Heerenveen in the Dutch Cup fourth round on Saturday.
Holders Barcelona booked a Champions League last 16 berth with a 2-1 win at Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday and were joined by Group F rivals Inter Milan, who sealed their passage with a 2-0 home defeat of Rubin Kazan.
Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said on Thursday it would be an "honour and a privilege" to race against Michael Schumacher following the German's shock return to the sport. Schumacher, now 40, retired from Formula One at the end of 2006 but is expected to make his comeback for Ferrari in Valencia, Spain next month in place of Felipe Massa.
Curtains were drawn on the women challenge at the Chess World Cup with the defeat of Judit Polgar at the hands of top seeded Grandmaster Boris Gelfand of Israel.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa will be kept under sedation for 48 hours after fracturing his skull in a freak accident at the Hungarian Grand Prix, a hospital doctor attending the Formula One driver said on Sunday. Peter Bazso said the 28-year-old Brazilian is in a stable condition after surgery at Budapest's AEK military hospital on Saturday. A brain scan on Sunday has produced reassuring results.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa will miss Sunday's Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix after being hit on the helmet by debris in qualifying and being taken to hospital for surgery to a head wound, a team spokesman said.
Renault's Fernando Alonso took his first pole position in nearly two years on Saturday after a Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying session overshadowed by Ferrari's Felipe Massa suffering a heavy crash.
Australian Mark Webber has been rewarded with a year's extension to his Red Bull contract after celebrating the first victory of his Formula One career this month.
Ferrari's Brazilian driver Felipe Massa said he felt like his old self when he got back behind the wheel of a Formula One car on Monday for the first time since his life-threatening accident at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Ferrari has ruled out a competitive return this year for Felipe Massa.
Felipe Massa is fit to get back in a Formula One car after two days of neurological tests in Paris had a positive outcome, his Ferrari team said in a statement on Saturday. Tests on Friday showed the Brazilian's vision had recovered fully after he fractured his skull at July's Hungarian Grand Prix.
Felipe Massa will return to a Formula One car for the first time since his serious accident when he tests a 2007 model at Ferrari's Fiorano track on Monday, his team said in a statement on Friday.
Recovering Brazilian Felipe Massa could be back behind the wheel of a Formula One car in Italy next week despite a ban on testing during the season, Ferrari said on Tuesday.
Brazilian Felipe Massa climbed into a racing car for the first time since sustaining a life-threatening head injury at the Hungarian Grand Prix when he drove seven laps in a kart on Monday.
