Factbox on Ricky Ponting, following his resignation as captain of Australia's Test and one-day teams
Factbox on the third Test between Australia and South Africa, which begins on Friday.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will decide on the venue for the Games in July 2005.
Factbox on the third Test match between Australia and India, which starts on Friday.
Factbox on Argentina and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi who won the Ballon d'Or for world player of the year for an unprecedented fourth successive time on Monday.
Factbox on American Serena Williams, who won her 15th Grand Slam singles title at the US Open on Sunday with a 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 win over Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.
Following is a factbox detailing a selection of key moments in Lionel Messi's Barcelona career.
Factbox on the second Test between Australia and South Africa, which begins on Thursday.
Factbox on Australia captain Michael Clarke who announced on Saturday he was retiring from international cricket after the final Ashes Test.
Serena Williams is third on the list of female Grand Slam title winners. She is one of only five women, after Maureen Connolly, Margaret Court, Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf, to hold all four Grand Slam titles at same time.
Factbox on Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka, who beat China's Zheng Qinwen in the Australian Open final on Saturday
Factbox on Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli, who announced her retirement from tennis at 28 after a second round loss at the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati on Wednesday.
Jannik Sinner won his maiden Grand Slam title at the Australian Open on Sunday.
A factbox on new Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal.
Factbox on New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum, who on Tuesday announced his decision to retire from all forms of international cricket in February.
Coco Gauff became the first American to win a US Open singles title since Sloane Stephens in 2017.
World No 1 India may feel they have never had a better chance of winning their first ever Test series in South Africa.
List of trophies won by Liverpool since they were founded in 1892:
Factbox on Carlos Alcaraz, who beat seven-time champion Novak Djokovic
List of Wimbledon women's singles champions:
List of US Open men's singles champions since the Open Era began in 1968:
Factbox on 2008 Australian Open champion Maria Sharapova.
Following is a list of the fastest centuries in test cricket after Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq reached the mark in 56 balls against Australia in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
Simona Halep became the first Romanian in 40 years to lift the French Open trophy at Roland Garros on Saturday.
Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the NBA's all-time leading scorer on Tuesday.
Suspicions have swirled for years that many of Sahara's millions of investors are fictitious names
West Indies (2012, 2016) have won the title twice, while India (2007), Pakistan (2009), England (2010) and Sri Lanka (2014) are the other teams to have won it once.
Bayern Munich set several Bundesliga records en route to Saturday's title success. Here are some of the records broken and some they can still improve in the remaining six games.
Six football officials were arrested in Zurich early upon request from US authorities, suspected of receiving bribes worth millions of dollars, Swiss authorities said.
List of US Open men's singles champions since the open era began in 1968:
Here is a list of US Open women's singles champions since the open era began in 1968:
American Sam Querry became the latest Wimbledon giant slayer on Saturday as he beat defending champion Novak Djokovic 7-6(6) 6-1 3-6 7-6(5) in the third round. The defeat ended Djokovic's run of winning 30 consecutive grand slam matches. The world number one had arrived at the All England Club as the reigning champion at all four grand slam tournaments.
Here is some background on the candidates seen as potential successors to Rajan at the RBI
In the US, VW faced penalties of up to $18 billion.
Grand Slam titles won by the men's 'Big Three' of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic
Reorganisation of Microsoft represents the most sweeping re-structuring since 2008.
Here is a look at the life and career of Jose Mourinho, the charismatic Portuguese manager, who will leave Real Madrid at the end of the season after reaching an agreement with the club on Monday to leave three years before the end of his contract:
McLaren handed a suspended three race ban for lying to race stewards at the season-opening 2009 Australian Grand Prix. The team were told the ban would be enforced if further facts emerged or there was another breach in the next year.
Spain retained the Euro title by convincingly beating Italy 4-0 on Sunday in Kiev. Following are interesting facts about Spain's Euro win.
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