Chelsea have made a British record 32 million pounds ($56.28 million) bid for Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard.
The 41-year-old has made 640 appearances in Serie A, within striking distance of the 647-game record of AC Milan defender Paolo Maldini. Buffon began his career at Parma before moving to the Turin club in 2001.
Om Puri's friends remember him.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, who is on a long sabbatical, is likely to return on April 15 ahead of Congress' proposed Kisan rally in New Delhi on April 19 against the Land Acquisition Bill brought out by the Narendra Modi government.
They beat Fiji 26-0 in a World Cup qualifying match at Suva, Fiji on Thursday.
Records tumbled in the transfer window as Premier League spending totalled 1.165 billion pounds ($1.54 billion), financial analyst Deloitte's Sports Business Group said on Thursday. The outlay represents a 34 percent rise on the previous highest in all windows of 870 million pounds set 12 months ago and means the overall spend by clubs in 2016-17 already represents a record for a single Premier League season.
Samresh Jung won gold and Vivek Singh bagged the silver in 10 m air pistol individual event
The two will clash for the third time this year at the Indian Wells semi-final
This was India's 50 victory in ODIs against New Zealand, against whom they have played 100 matches.
Fernando Alonso put Renault on pole position for Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix.
India remains at the top with 8,401,253 passengers, a year on year growth of 14.3 per cent compared to 7,347,270 in 2012.
Referring to the "rumours" doing the rounds "for weeks", Newsweek claimed that among those eyeing Rumsfeld's post was recently retired Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.
The Indian golfing ace eclipsed Fred Couples and Craig Parry with an impressive four-under-par 68 on day 1 of the Johnnie Walker Classic.
The spectacular Milky Way over the picturesque Bavarian mountain, Herzogstand, the remarkable Horsehead Nebula and the Flame Nebula, a vast cloud of gas and dust where new stars are being born; the Royal Observatory's Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 has once more received thousands of outstanding images. The competition, which is run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, sponsored by Insight Investment and in association with BBC Sky at Night Magazine, is now in its eleventh year and has broken the record number of entries once more, receiving over 4,600 entries from enthusiastic amateurs and professional photographers, taken from 90 countries across the globe. The winners will be announced on September 12, and an exhibition of the winning images from the past years of the contest will be on show at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich from September 13.
Will Sachin's record 35 Test centuries be eclipsed? Readers respond.
Will Sachin's record 35 Test centuries be eclipsed? Readers respond.
Will Sachin's record be eclipsed? Readers respond.
Liverpool did not reveal the transfer fee but Southampton announced it was "a new world-record for a defender" with English media reporting that it was a 75 million pounds ($100.49 million) deal.
Chelsea have made a bid for Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard but the European champions say they will turn it down.
Brazil's women's football team was greeted by hundreds of adoring fans in Manaus on Monday, as their performances and fame all of a sudden eclipsed that of their struggling male counterparts.
'For the time being, the party to put on hold induction of TMC leaders and focus on strengthening its grassroot level organisation.'
South Korea's Kim Woo-jin made the most of perfect shooting conditions to set a 72-arrow world record in the Olympic archery at the Rio de Janeiro Games on Friday and fire an ominous warning at challengers to his gold medal claims.
The West Indies ace scored a brilliant 226 in the third Test against Australia to lift his career tally to 11,187 runs from 121 Tests, eclipsing the record of 11,174 held by Allan Border.
Check out the statistical highlights of the Cuttack T20I.
Rafael Nadal is adamant that he will not be discouraged by the memory of recent Wimbledon woes as he prepares to follow up his landmark 10th French Open triumph with a third success on the sport's most storied lawns.
The final three races will decide whether Ferrari's Michael Schumacher, Williams' Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya or Raikkonen takes the F1 title.
It is the third time Genzebe Dibaba, 25, has broken a world record in Stockholm, having previously set new marks for the 3,000 and 5,000 metres at the Ericsson Globe Arena in the Swedish capital
After several years of travelling, Guru Nanak settled down at Kartarpur as a farmer. His followers were the first Sikhs of an order that was to prevail for many years to come. A fascinating excerpt from Sikh Heritage: A History of Valour and Devotion.
Sanju Samson registered the first century of IPL-12 but ended up on the losing side as Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Rajasthan Royals by five wickets, in Hyderabad, on Friday.
New Zealand fell two runs short of eclipsing Sri Lanka's highest score in One-Day Internationals on Wenesday.
The 29-year-old Brazilian ace said eclipsing Gerd Mueller's mark of 14 goals was never a particular target for him.
Statistical highlights of a Group B ODI match of the ICC Champions Trophy between Pakistan and South Africa in Birmingham on Monday night.
