Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
The only Indian remaining in the World Cup Chess was beaten in the Round 3 tie-break.
The former world junior champion settled for an easy draw in the first game of the third round in the World Chess Cup.
P Harikrishna settled for a draw against top seed Alexey Dreev of Russia but managed to grab the second spot
The sixth seeded Indian ace was beaten by Alexey Kedriouk of Kazakhstan in the pre-quarter-finals of the Asian Tennis Championships.
Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna won the doubles match 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 to help India to a 1-0 lead against Kazakhstan.
The Indian shocked top-seed Alexey Kedriouk of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-3 in the first round of the ITF Satellite event
GM Valerij Filippov maintained his half point lead after the eighth and penultimate round of the Aeroflot International Open Chess tournament.
They remained in joint lead on 3.5 points each after the conclusion of the fourth round of Gibtelecom Masters International Open chess tournament.
Snow blankets Games, delays Gu's return to competition
He defeated fellow-GM and Frenchman Etinne Bacrot on Tuesday.
The Israeli GM drew first blood in the fight for 5-8 places, beating the Belgian GM in the first game of the two-game mini-match in the World Chess Cup.
From cardboard cut-outs of real fans to an app allowing supporters to influence the volume of noise piped into stadiums, people are developing ideas for how to put some matchday atmosphere back into the stadiums -- though whether their ideas are accepted is a different matter.
P Harikrishna drew with Russian Alexander Rustemov in the seventh round at Dos Hermanas.
Aisam Qureshi beat Rohan Bopanna 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the final of the US$ 15,000 ITF Futures.
Tim Cahill would love nothing better than to join the select company of Pele, Uwe Seeler and Miroslav Klose by finding the net in a fourth World Cup over the next few weeks but first the Australian actually needs to get on the pitch.
Karan Rastogi registered a straight set 7-6 (5), 6-3 victory over Vishal Uppal at the ITF Men's Satellite Masters
Vishal Uppal set up a title clash with third seed Karan Rastogi in the ITF Men's Satellite Masters tennis tournament
The defeat saw the joint-leader slip to joint 10th after the sixth round in the Gibtele.Com chess festival in Gibraltar.
The top seeded Indo-Kazakh pair lost to Denis Istomin and Murad Inoyatov of Uzbekistan in the men's doubles final at the Asian Tennis Championships.
The two Indian Grandmasters played out a fighting draw amongst themselves to remain in joint lead after the third round of Gibraltar Chess Congress.
Viswanathan Anand continued to share the lead with three other players after six rounds in the 66th Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.
The Indian duo went down to top seeds Murad Inoyatov and Alexey Kedriouk 6-4, 6-2
The second seeded GM beat Lenier Dominiguez of Cuba in his fifth round match in the 18th North Sea Cup.
Aeroflot will resume services from Moscow to Mumbai five times a week with effect from January 24 with TU 214 aircraft.
The Indian GM scored a tactical victory over GM Bruzon Lazaro of Cuba in the fourth round of the 18th North Sea Cup.
In the doubles, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya of India and Anton Kokurin of Uzbekistan lost to top seeds Alexey Kedriouk of Kazakhstan and Aisam Quereshi of Pakistan.
Chess prodigy Krishnan Sasikiran on his triumphs in the North Sea Cup and Politikin Open in Denmark.
The Indian GM drew with GM Michal Krasenkow of Poland in the third round of the North Sea Cup.
The victory gave the Indian GM the joint lead in the North Sea Cup chess tournament.
A photo symbolising "love and compassion" of an 85-year-old Brazilian woman getting her first embrace in five months from a nurse through a transparent "hug curtain" has been named the World Press Photo of the Year. This year, according to organisers, 74,470 images were submitted for judging, made by 4,315 photographers from 130 different countries. World Press Photo has been kind enough to allow to share some of this year's winning photos here with you.
Jamshedpur piled up the pressure as the first-half progressed but their final delivery into the box lacked clarity. Mario Arques struck a dangerous free-kick at Gurpreet Singh's goal but it sailed inches over the bar.
The US is not going to be able to mount a concerted 'Western strategy' against China or Russia in the present international milieu, predicts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Russia asks World Athletics to postpone decision on possible expulsion.
Zenit St Petersburg's Brazilian striker Hulk has pulled out of Saturday's World Cup qualifying draw, only days after complaining of "gross and ugly" racism in Russian football.
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last month, in 12 images.
France head into their World Cup opener against Australia in Kazan on Saturday sweating on the fitness of fullback Djibril Sidibe and under pressure to deliver an emphatic win to erase doubts about the cohesion of a team of brilliant individuals.
The ties between the two countries has reached its worst levels since the Cold War.
A round-up of our favourite photographs from the week gone by.
Indian challenge ended at the Hong Kong Open World Tour Super 500 tournament after Kidambi Srikanth and Sameer Verma lost their respective men's singles quarterfinal matches on Friday.
