She was the only remaining Indian woman in the World chess championships in Russia
Bubba Watson conjured a miraculous par from pine straw to become only the third left-hander to win the Masters with an emotional playoff victory over Louis Oosthuizen at Augusta National on Sunday.
Manchester City are in danger of an early exit from Europe after a shock 1-0 home defeat by Danish side Midtjylland in their UEFA Cup second qualifying round first-leg match on Thursday.
P Harikrishna slipped to the second spot after settling for a draw with Dutch GM Sergei Tiviakov
D Harika drew with Gu Xiaobing of China in the 11th round of the World Junior Chess Championship
Second seed Hewitt survived an enterprising challenge from Czech Lukas Dlouhy while Haas edged past 147th-ranked Irakli Labadze at the Thailand Open.
P Harikrishna scored a thumping victory over wonder-kid Magnus Carlsen in the first game of the Lausanne Young Masters
Britain's Lee Westwood maintained ice-cool composure while fending off an electrifying back-nine charge by Phil Mickelson to take a one-shot lead after Saturday's third round of the US Masters. While Tiger Woods clawed his way back into contention after losing his cool early on, Westwood fired a four-under-par 68 in glorious spring sunshine at Augusta National to post a 12-under total of 204.
P Harikrishna outplayed Spanish hope Miguel Cordoba in the fifth round to climb two places at Dos Hermanas International Chess
P Harikrishna suffered an unexpected defeat against Ruben Felgaer and slipped from his overnight joint second spot
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania and World champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan lead the field in the category-16 Super Grandmasters Pune chess festival.
Three times in the past 15 years weightlifting officials have wiped out all existing records tainted by drug-taking.
World junior chess champion GM Shakhriyaz Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan clinched the Dubai Cup.
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy got back into the reckoning after defeating International Master Sergey Kayumov of Uzbekistan in the sixth round of the Dubai International Chess championship in Dubai on Saturday.
UEFA Cup holders Sevilla, rescued by a last-gasp goal in normal time from goalkeeper Andres Palop, kept their defence alive by overcoming Shakhtar Donetsk to reach the quarter-finals on Thursday.
The striker created the goals that secured Arsenal's place in the last 16 of the Champions League.
Leverkusen finally subdued Besiktas with two goals in the last 13 minutes to secure the 2-1 win they needed to overhaul their Turkish opponents for third place in Group B.
The Indian GM needs just a draw in the final round to at least tie for first place in the British chess championship.
The Russian president has expressed admiration for Israel's President Moshe Katsav, who faces sexual harassment charges.
The Indian GM beat Levan Pantsulaia of Georgia to move to joint fourth place in the World junior chess championship.
Azerbaijan Kadir Guseinov leads the boys' section in the World Juniors chess championship.
Countries with secessionist movements within them should shudder to think of these recent examples of forced independence with the connivance of the big powers. We cannot dismiss them as part of the shaping of a new Europe where Russia, backed by its newly found economic strength, is flexing its muscles to survive against the machinations of NATO. We know that NATO is not confined to Europe any more
P Harikrishna started his campaign with a draw against Jan Timman of Holland in the first round of the Ciudad de Pamplona International chess tournament.
He was beaten by Andrei Volokitin in the first game of the two-game semi-final on Saturday.
The 15-year old held Grandmaster Pavel Kotsur of Kazakhstan in the seventh round of the Dubai International chess championship.
Gunning for the silver medal are Russia and United States who have 25.5 points each.
Koneru Humpy lost in the semi-final tiebreaker against Ekaterina Kovalevskaya of Russia in the Women's World Chess Championship.
The Indian GM beat Woman Grandmaster Xu Yuhua of China in the second game of the quarter-finals of the Women's World Chess championship.
Koneru Humpy crashed through the defence of Xu Yuhua to win the first game of the quarter-finals in the Women's World Chess championship 2004.
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