Robert Kubica will become the first Pole to start a Formula One race when he replaces Canadian Jacques Villeneuve in Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.
The ace shooter shot an aggregate of 698.7 in the men's Air Rifle event at the Munich Air Gun Shooting Championships.
Viswanathan Anand crushed Judit Polgar in the opening round of the World Chess Championships
Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by GM Peter Heine Nielsen in the blindfold game of the 9th round at Amber
Leander Paes and Martina Hingis thrashed Austrian-Hungarian fifth seeds Alexander Peya and Timea Babos 6-1, 6-1 to win the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon.
He possessed an IQ of 180, higher than Albert Einstein's, but his life and career took unexpectedly bizarre routes. Dhruv Munjal salutes the strange genius of Bobby Fischer.
Thousands of children's shoes have been kept on display outside the US Capitol as a temporary memorial to children killed by gun violence.
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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.
The survey, carried out across 30 nations, found that only those living in Australia, the United States and Egypt are more upbeat.
Manchester United beat Hungarian champions Debrecen 3-0 in the first leg of their third qualifying round tie on Tuesday.
Hungarian Zsolt Baumgartner handed the struggling Formula One team their first point in 41 races.
Five of the seven Michelin-contracted Formula One teams have approached rivals Bridgestone about a possible switch in 2006.
The World Cup champion drew with Alexander Grischuk and Alexei Shirov in his first two matches in the in World Rapid Chess Championship.
Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn said they contacted FIA after receiving photographic evidence at the Hungarian Grand Prix.\n\n\n\n
The defeat saw the Indian ace surrender the joint lead in the Amber Chess tournament.
The Brazilian said he would never forget the team's support for him after his near-fatal head injury at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix.
Hungary's Katinka Hosszu underlined her status as the leading all-round swimmer with a world record in the women's 200 metres individual medley at the world championships on Monday.
He drew his 14th round game against Peter Svidler of Russia.
The Indian ace was held to a draw by Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the second round of the World Chess Championship.
Hungarian Olympic discus champion Robert Fazekas will lose his gold medal and be expelled from the Games after breaking doping rules.
The Indo-Japanese pair was beaten by the Hungarian-Ukrainian combination of Melinda Czink and Yulian Fedak at the Sunfeast Open.
New signing Michael Owen will prove to be a valuable addition to Real Madrid's squad, defender Roberto Carlos claimed on Sunday.
A weekend that began at the top of the timesheets for Max Verstappen ended with the Dutchman out of the points and in a war of words with Ferrari rivals after a nightmare Belgian Formula One Grand Prix.
Glimpses from the Rubik's Cube World Championship that saw contenders speedily work their fingers, racing against the clock.
The German, who was sidelined after crashing at the U.S. Grand Prix, is now targeting the Belgian Grand Prix for his return.
The world rapid champion beat Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the second round of the Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
GM Veselin Topalov defeated Michael Adams of England in the first round of the Linares Super Grandmasters tournament.
After nine rounds in the Corus chess tournament, the Indian ace is in third place.
The Indian ace beat former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov in the sixth round in the Corus chess tournament.
Williams driver Felipe Massa has revealed that he considered quitting Formula One after Marussia driver Jules Bianchi's 160 miles-per-hour horror accident during the Japanese Grand Prix.
The Indian driver said his team aimed to keep up with their rivals who have shown improvement in performance