Manchester United have scored 14 goals and earned maximum points from their four matches under interim boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
The Football Association has rejected appeals by Chelsea left back Ashley Cole and Aston Villa defender Zat Knight for wrongful dismissal in the 4-4 draw between the teams in the Premier League on Wednesday.
An early Peter Crouch goal gave Stoke City a 1-0 home win against Newcastle United in the Premier League on Monday to pile more pressure onto beleaguered Toon boss Alan Pardew.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
A bemused, if almost ambivalent reaction, has come from South Africa in contrast to the angry backlash in Australia to their cricket team's admission of cheating in a Test match between the sides at Newlands on Saturday.
IMAGES from Day 3 of the 3rd Test played between South Africa and Australia in Cape Town on Saturday
All-rounder Mitchell Marsh leads a 14-man squad packed with international experience, a group featuring Alex Carey, Ashton Agar, Peter Handscomb, Head, Jon Holland, Usman Khawaja, Joel Paris, Matthew Renshaw and Chris Tremain.
Ian Bell is ready to support England captain Kevin Pietersen by taking on added responsibility as one of the more senior players in the team, the batsman said. Bell, a veteran of 43 Tests, told Reuters that after the exit of experienced players such as Marcus Trescothick, Ashley Giles and Matthew Hoggard it was time for him to be recognised as an elder statesman.
Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Haq-Qureshi crashed out of the $ 508,000 Legg Mason Tennis Classic tournament after suffering a sets first round defeat in Washington.
"We have not been able to determine any trigger event that would lead to this or the murder of his wife," Captain William Hayes of the Los Angels Police Department said.
Chelsea rounded off their pre-season tour of Asia with a 2-0 win over a Malaysia select X1 thanks to goals by Nicolas Anelka and Ashley Cole on Tuesday. The Champions League finalists secured the third win of their three-leg tour in hot and humid conditions in front of a crowd of 80,000 at the Shah Alam stadium in Kuala Lumpur.
The allegations against the 80-year-old Oscar winning actor range from inappropriate touching to suggestive comments and were brought by entertainment reporters -- including a CNN reporter who co-wrote the story -- as well as people in the entertainment industry.
A large proportion of passive funds has beaten actively managed large-cap funds with average one-year category returns for large-cap at 10.2 per cent
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi rallied from a set down to topple fourth seeded Russian duo of Dmitry Tursunov and Igor Kunitsyn in the first round in Indianapolis.
Some mango components act on the same pathways that diabetes and cholesterol drugs target.
Australia won the toss and elected to bat first in their tri-series one-day international against Sri Lanka.
Manchester United's footballers and their wives and girlfriends have a blast at this year's Christmas party.
Unbeaten Liverpool have 45 points from 17 games with champions Manchester City, who beat Everton 3-1 on Saturday, a point behind.
Ashley Noffke and Adam Voges have been added to the Australian squad for Sunday's ODI against India.
While a little more than 140 penny stocks have doubled in value, 555 have given negative returns in the past year. Of these, 84 shed more than half their value.
England appointed Geoff Miller to the newly-created post of national selector and sidelined former chairman of selectors David Graveney. Miller will head up a four-man selection panel which will include head coach Peter Moores, and former Test players Ashley Giles and James Whitaker.
They made a fast start to their innings with Chris Gayle, dropped by Joe Root in the first over, thumping three huge sixes as the visitors reached 45 without loss after five overs.
Second seed Vera Zvonareva overpowered Ashley Harkleroad 6-2, 6-1 to set up a final with Greece's Eleni Daniilidou at the Hobart International on Thursday.
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England paceman Steven Finn will miss the remainder of the limited overs series in Australia and return home to work on the technical aspect of his game, his country's cricket board said on Wednesday.
The prize, comprising Rs one lakh, a plaque and an invitation to lecture in Delhi, will be awarded at a function to be held in April.
Aston Villa thrashed local rivals Birmingham City 5-1 to take their goal tally to 15 in their last three EPL games.
Reader Ashwani Dhiman sends us this photo of Aishwarya.
'... Whether an incumbent is voted back or a coalition forms a new government except for a temporary disruption for a few weeks.'
The International Cricket Council asked an internal panel to suggest harsher punishment for ball-tampering and other misbehaviour by players in its bid to establish a "culture of respect".
England have named a provisional 30-man squad for the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies.
Ten-man Arsenal suffered a 3-0 Premier League defeat at Leicester City on Sunday in another blow to their hopes of finishing in the top four and qualifying for the Champions League.
The actress injures herself in Ajay Devgan's U, Me Aur Hum.
A summary of Thursday's matches in the English Premier League.
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Ashley Harkleroad sealed victory for the United States over Germany in their world group first-round tie with a 6-4, 7-5 defeat of teenager Sabine Lisicki.
Kevin Keegan said on Thursday he was returning to Newcastle United as manager, 11 years after leaving, because he still had "unfinished business" at the club.
Bengaluru FC were crowned as I-League football champions for the second time in three years as they blanked Salgaocar 2-0 in their penultimate league match, in Bengaluru, on Sunday.
The quake occurred in the early evening after sunset and was the second powerful temblor on Lombok in a week.
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