French police on Tuesday broke up a fight between Polish fans in Marseille and detained two of them ahead of Poland's final Euro 2016 group stage match against Ukraine.
The Ferrari driver was fined $14,870 after stewards decided that his release from his second pitstop had been unsafe.
Successive wins at Silverstone and Hockenheim have left Lewis Hamilton feeling relaxed about his Hungarian Grand Prix chances, the Formula One championship leader said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters ahead of Friday's first two practice sessions at the Hungaroring, Hamilton said his victories in the British and German grands prix would help free his mind as he chased his first Formula One hat-trick.
Bhaker beat a two-time World Cup Finals winner and the host country's Alejandra Zavala, with a 10.8 in the last shot of the 24 shot final, to come out on top with a score of 237.5.
Images from Day 3 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Wednesday.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand survived some anxious moments in the blindfold game before registering a thumping victory in the rapid to register a clinical 1.5-0.5 victory over Gata Kamsky in the second round of Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Nice.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa put his Hungarian nightmare behind him on Saturday by beating title rival Lewis Hamilton to pole position at the European Grand Prix in Valencia. The 27-year-old Brazilian mastered Formula One's newest street circuit with a lap of 1:38.989 seconds to chalk up his fourth pole of the season and 13th of his career.
The fact is that some of the 999 championship races thus far have been questionable Grands Prix and several past race winners never even drove a Formula One car.
World championship leader Lewis Hamilton put himself on course for a third successive Grand Prix victory after grabbing an emphatic pole position for Sunday's Hungarian race. The Briton powered around the blisteringly hot Hungaroring track in one minute 20.899 seconds, with team mate Heikki Kovalainen posting the second best time of 1:21.140s.
Giancarlo Fisichella has made Germany's Adrian Sutil raise his game since they became Force India team mates this season, according to the Formula One team's principal Colin Kolles. Italian veteran Fisichella, a race winner with former team Renault, was comfortably quicker in the early races of the season but the highly-rated Sutil, 25, has had the better results of late.
Two Serie A players were banned for three months and 10 days and fined 10,000 euros each on Friday after entering plea bargains in a long-running match-fixing scandal.
A shaken Konta pulled out of last Friday's semi-final, raising doubts over her participation at Wimbledon, which starts on Monday.
The world champion played out a draw with Israeli Boris Gelfand to improve to joint third after the ninth round of the Corus International Chess tournament.
Alonso was given a five-place demotion for unnecessarily impeding his team mate and championship leader Lewis Hamilton in the pitlane in the final seconds of qualifying
Sania Mirza pulled off her second upset in as many days when she beat No 5 seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenko of Russia 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-2 to advance to the quarter-finals in the AEGON Classic in Birmingham on Thursday.
Despite splitting the point the Indian ace shares the lead with the Czech Grandmaster.
The Indian ace drew his second round match against Peter Leko at the Dortmund Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
S Suresh Singh lost in the opening round of the bantam weight category at the World Boxing Championships in Chicago.
The defeat saw the Indian Grandmaster slip to fifth place in the Blindfold World Cup chess tournament.
The 'Tiger from Madras', as he is fondly called, also became the first undisputed World Chess Champion since 1993 as this world championship was the culmination of the reunification of the chess world.
Viswanathan Anand replaced Vladimir Kramnik of Russia as champion, when he won the World Chess Championship in Mexico City on Saturday night.
Viswanathan Anand split points with the Hungarian to remain in lead after the sixth round of the World Chess Championship.
Ron Dennis's revelation will only fuel speculation that the world champion will move on at the end of the season, with a return to Renault the most likely.
Thousands of children's shoes have been kept on display outside the US Capitol as a temporary memorial to children killed by gun violence.
The Indian played an easy draw with home challenge GM Csaba Balogh in the final round of the 5th Marx Gyrogy memorial chess tournament.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored the 750th goal of his remarkable career in a 3-0 win over Dynamo Kyiv on Wednesday
The draw left the top seeded Indian at the bottom of the table after the second round in the Marx Gyorgy Memorial International Chess tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out two draws with Loek Van Wely of the Netherlands to finish overall tied sixth after the 11th and final round in Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament in Nice. Levon Aronian of Armenia won the tournament after two easy draws with Hungarian Peter Leko. He ended up with an impressive 14.5 points from 22 games played in this unique event that featured one blindfold and one rapid game in each round.
The German driver joined Mercedes from Williams in 2010 and has won 19 Grands Prix for the team, including five this year. He has helped Mercedes to the manufacturers' title for the last two seasons.
He said during the talks, he explained to the Hungarian Foreign Minister that Pakistan, a declared nuclear state, has a transparent system to ensure strict check on proliferation.
Hungarian teenager Agnes Szavay battled it out for over two hours to overcome Russian Elena Dementieva 6-3 1-6 7-5 and reach the Paris Open final on Saturday.
Parimarjan Negi beat Dennis Rujigrok of Holland to jump to joint second place in the 'C' group at the Corus International chess tournaments.
The English, Japanese, Italian and Polish versions, which were launched over the past 18 months, have totaled over 4.5 million downloads to date, making Food Force a major success story in the educational gaming sector.
Meanwhile, Leander Paes, with partner Agnes Szavay, advanced to the second round of mixed doubles at the Australian Open.
Formula One is set to bring back refuelling in 2017 as part of a rules revamp that will also make the cars faster, louder and more aggressive looking.
IMAGES from Day 7 of the French Open, at Roland Garros, on Saturday.
P Harikrishna split points with Ferenc Berkes in the third round at the Marx Gyorgy Memorial chess.
Fernando Alonso seized pole position from McLaren team mate Lewis Hamilton at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Aseem Chhabra lists the films that won his heart at the recent Toronto International Film Festival.
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