All you must know about soccer's return to action after coronavirus
Registering his sixth straight victory, Harikrishna emerged as the sole leader with six points in the Gibtelecom Masters International Open Chess tournament.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly failed to finish among the prizes by a whisker, going down to Vladimir Akopian in the final round of Gibtele.com Masters chess tournament.
World junior champion Kiril Georgiev of Bulgaria beat second seed Vladimir Akopian of Armenia to remain in the Gibtele.com Masters chess tournament.
Former Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers believes lack of European football will be an advantage for the club in the Premier League and same will be the case for Chelsea.
The Indian Grandmaster beat veteran GM Pia Cramling of Sweden in the seventh round of the master's section of Gibtele.com chess festival in Gibraltar.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly finished second in the Gibeltelecom Masters International Open Chess tournament.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly joined GM Nigel Short of England at the top of the table after the penultimate round in the Gibetelecom Masters International Open chess tournament.
The Indian Grandmaster beat Simon Williams in the penultimate round of the Gibtele.com chess tournament.
The defeat saw the joint-leader slip to joint 10th after the sixth round in the Gibtele.Com chess festival in Gibraltar.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran move into joint fifth spot after the fourth round of the Master's section of the Gibtele.com chess festival.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
The Manchester United manager settled his dispute with Irish racing tycoon John Magnier over stud rights to record-breaking racehorse Rock of Gibraltar.
The two Indian Grandmasters played out a fighting draw amongst themselves to remain in joint lead after the third round of Gibraltar Chess Congress.
A summary of the Euro 2020 qualification matches played on Friday.
The Indian GM lost to GM Nigel Short of England in the 8th round of the Gibtelecom Masters International Open Chess Congress.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Sandipan Chanda maintained their lead after the fifth round of the Gibtelecom Masters International Open chess tournament.
Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo struck his fifth international hat-trick, including a spectacular volleyed opener, to lead the European champions to a 5-1 win over the Faroe Islands in their World Cup qualifier on Thursday.
Professional soccer leagues around Europe are gearing up for a return to action following the novel coronavirus stoppage, but some are more advanced than others.
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand shrugged off his first round draw to score a resounding victory over Matthias Bach of Germany in the second round of the Masters section of Tradewise Gibraltar Chess festival, in Gibraltar, on Thursday.
"After receiving the report from the expert, The FA is satisfied that the words used do not constitute discriminatory language under FA Rules," the FA said in a statement.
Continuing his dream run, Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta held higher-ranked compatriot Pentala Harikrishna to a draw, while Viswanathan Anand kept himself in contention with an easy victory, in the sixth round of the masters section of the Tradewise Gibraltar International Chess Festival in Gibraltar, on Monday.
Qualifiers Spain and the United States suffered blows in friendlies, the world champions beaten 1-0 by eliminated South Africa on the SoccerCity pitch where they clinched their 2010 crown and the Americans losing 1-0 away to lowly Austria.
FIFA World Cup set pulses racing and ended with a young, exciting France team clinching the title.
Belgium became the first European team to qualify for next year's World Cup when a Romelu Lukaku header gave them a 2-1 win away to Greece on Sunday with the goals coming in a five-minute second-half spell.
The television czarina celebrates her 43rd birthday.
May now faces the final and biggest hurdle of getting the deal approved by the UK Parliament where many MPs from her own party remain vehemently opposed to it.
Schuerrle hits treble for the world champs; Lewandowski helps Poland thrash Georgia
A round-up of Saturday's Euro 2020 qualification matches.
Polling stations across the United Kingdom opened on Thursday morning to decide the historic referendum on whether the country should remain a member of the European Union or leave the politico-economic union of 28 member states.
The United States beat World Cup winners Germany 2-1 thanks to an 88th-minute goal from Bobby Wood in an entertaining international friendly in Cologne, on Wednesday.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
In a major development in the fight against black money, multilateral grouping OECD today unveiled a 'single global standard' for automatic exchange of financial account information by various countries including India and Switzerland.
Viswanathan Anand made another strong comeback, defeating Hikaru Nakamura of the United States in the fourth round of the Zurich Chess Classic on Wednesday.
FIFA named an African woman with no experience in football administration as its second most powerful official on Friday, part of changes made by the sport's ruling body to move on from a major corruption scandal.
What the ceasefire does is to show the supporters of violence in the Kashmir valley an alternative to militancy, argues Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
At 12 years, seven months and 17 days, Dommaraju Gukesh is the second youngest Grandmaster of all time.
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