Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes stormed to pole position with a scorching lap in qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix as title rival Sebastian Vettel was left stranded in the garage and will start dead last.
Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton won his home British Grand Prix for a record sixth time on Sunday to stretch his lead over Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas to 39 points.
World championship leader Nico Rosberg ended the opening day of practice for the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix in a strong position after setting the pace in both sessions on Friday.
The win also set a record, one that Hamilton had previously shared with seven times champion Michael Schumacher, of 41 wins from pole position.
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Ferrari made a strong start to the first day of Formula One testing, on Monday, with four-times world champion Sebastian Vettel top of the timesheets at lunchtime with 72 laps completed.
The Indo-Belarussian pair rallied to beat Slovakia's Karol Kucera and Australia's Todd Perry in the second round at the French Open.
Ferrari title rival Sebastian Vettel qualified only ninth.
Formula One is braced for the next episode of the Max Verstappen show as Red Bull's teen sensation heads for Ferrari's home circuit only days after making the Italian team's drivers see red. While triple world champion Lewis Hamilton is aiming for his 50th grand prix win on Sunday, to become the first since Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio in the 1950s to win three years in a row at Monza, Verstappen will be the talk of the town.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
Over the years, Mr Singh has got in and out of innumerable businesses, cutting across sectors. He is one businessman who I have always found to be in a start-up mode, says Bhupesh Bhandari.
Cost of the diagnostic test for Covid-19 has been fixed at Rs 4,500 per test by the government. Hospitals, however, do not think this is feasible.
It may have taken 54 years to set foot in north India, but south India's Manipal Health Systems has finally dived into the thick of action and announced two hospitals in Delhi with the promise of many more spread across the region. However, the big challenge facing the company that operates 17 hospitals in the south will be competition from existing, well-established hospital chains such as Fortis, Max or even Apollo that entered north a while ago.
Former world number one Maria Sharapova has been invited to play at the Madrid Open in May, which takes place less than two weeks after her 15-month doping ban expires, tournament organisers said on Wednesday.
The Indo-Czech duo was beaten 3-6, 4-6 their final round-robin match at the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai.
Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton set the pace in an incident-filled opening Monaco Grand Prix practice on Thursday, with debris and a loose drain cover bringing an early end to the session.
Red Bull's Dutch 20-year-old Max Verstappen took the chequered flag in second place with Kimi Raikkonen completing the podium for Ferrari and Australian Daniel Ricciardo finishing fourth for Red Bull.
The Aussie pair, which beat Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Miryni in the semis, did not drop a set at the $2.45 million event. \n\n
There is likely to be a windfall for the Indian domestic cricketers as the BCCI has decided to give them a ten-fold hike and pay upto Rs 52,000 for each match.
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc held off Lewis Hamilton to win his first Formula One race on Sunday in the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix.
The IOC will hold discussions that will include an option of putting back the July 24 start date or even moving the Games by a year or more due to the global coronavirus outbreak, but said cancelling the Games would not solve problems or help anybody. They have raised several issues in the past week with the IOC, including athletes' inability to prepare due to restrictions caused by the virus and their overall safety.
The top seeds won 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 to set up a second round clash with Jiri Novak and Radek Stepanek.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel qualified third, ahead of 21-year-old Monegasque team mate Charles Leclerc who was unable to repeat his Bahrain Grand Prix pole of two weeks ago.
The Indo-Czech pair, who hasn't lost a set so far, beat eight seeded Israeli pair of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram 6-4, 7-5 in the Gold Group at the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai on Tuesday.
Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd is preparing to apply for permission to set up a nation-wide broadband telecom network for internal (non-commercial) use.
The apex court had on December 4 last year, reserved the verdict after hearing counsel for corporate honchos and the Central Bureau of Investigation.
'He always seemed one of us, part of the great aspiring middle class -- his values, his simplicity, even the intellectual snobbery which he could barely hide,' observes Mousumi Sengupta.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Radek Stepanek advanced to the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters with a straight-sets victory over Frenchmen Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra.
The Finn lapped the six-km Baku street circuit in one minute, 40.495 seconds, just 0.059 seconds faster than team mate and championship leader Lewis Hamilton.
'Of the people here in Europe who have watched The Story of Film: A New Generation, the most talked-about clip is the one from Ram Leela.'
Brothers Mike and Bob Bryan retained their Australian Open men's doubles title on Saturday after a 7-5, 7-5 victory over Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi.
The next time the four-time world champion will get behind the wheel will be for first Friday practice at Melbourne's Albert Park on March 23.
Mahesh Bhupathi Radek Stepanek advanced to the semi-finals of the men's doubles at the French Open beating second seeds Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi.
Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix will be the 1,000th race of the Formula One world championship since the first at Silverstone in 1950.
England fans are dreaming of World Cup glory after their team banished a decades-long curse of flunking penalty shootouts thanks to a nail-biting win over Colombia.
Australia looked on course for a total in the range of 250 in the 40th over before India's spinners took charge. The Jason Sangha-led side lost its last six wickets for 33 runs and was dismissed in 47.2 overs.
The second seeded pair suffered a straight set loss against Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi of Belarus.
Swede Jonas Bjorkman and his Belarussian partner Max Mirnyi won the Masters Cup doubles title with a 6-2 6-4 victory over on Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor on Sunday.
They were beaten by Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi in the semi-finals of the Masters Cup.
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