Chelsea took a five-point lead at the top of the English Premier League after beating champions Manchester United 1-0 in Sunday's show piece match. In Spain, Barcelona retained their one-point lead over Real Madrid.
Zenit St Petersburg and Middlesbrough dented the UEFA Cup hopes of Olympique Marseille and tournament favourites AS Roma.
Forget sack races and Slip 'n Slide. These days select companies are adding luxe touches to their annual employee outings.
The title race in Europe's top leagues remained tense at the weekend with Inter Milan losing at Napoli and Liverpool keeping the pressure on Manchester United. VfL Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich both lost in Germany and Barcelona were held at Valencia but Olympique Marseille went five points clear.
2004 Champions League finalists Monaco were eliminated 2-1 on aggregate by Swiss side Basel.
Chelsea, Valencia and Lazio shook things up in England, Spain and Italy by climbing to the top of their respective leagues.
A round-up of weekend action in the main European leagues.
An interview with Indrani Sarkar, one of the scientists who engineered an enzyme which attacks the DNA of the HIV virus and cuts it out of the infected cell.
David Nalbandian and Gaston Gaudio must oust Russians Marat Safin and Igor Andreev in the fourth round for Argentina to have four men in the quarter-finals.
Both in action in the French Open second round on Wednesday, could be considered the tournament's favourites.
World number one Roger Federer faces a potential third-round showdown with three-times winner Gustavo Kuerten in a tough opening week at the French Open.
Germany has not produced a Grand Slam winner in the men's singles since Boris Becker won the Australian Open in 1996.
The Australian appears to have rediscovered the self-confidence and enjoyment of the game that drove him to the top of the world rankings in 2001 aged just 20
Kolkata has become the country's first city to have a floating hotel and in turn joined cities like Moscow, St. Petersberg, Vienna, Hamburg, Amsterdum, Phnompen, Hongkong where "Floatels" are the major tourist and business attractions.
Greece together with France, Germany and Romania all moved closer to a place in next year's European Championship finals.
The world number one registered an easy 6-4, 6-3 victory in the quarter-final of the Hamburg Masters.
Factbox on the 20 Premier League clubs after the transfer window closed.
Innovation happen when two worlds, previously unconnected, collide. And innovators are really people who see the connections between these worlds.
Racing Strasbourg, bottom of Ligue 1 and without a league win this season, secured their place in the last 32 of the UEFA Cup on Thursday with a 1-1 draw at AS Roma.
a factbox on Roger Federer, who claimed his first Australian Open singles title on Sunday.
The champions of Italy, England, France and Germany continued to dictate the pace in the major European leagues at the weekend.
Dinamo Bucharest sent Everton crashing with a 5-1 defeat in the first leg of their UEFA Cup first round tie.
Three-times champion Rafael Nadal pummelled fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco into a 6-1, 6-0, 6-2 submission to reach the quarter-finals of the French Open on Sunday.
Novak Djokovic will take over as world number two if he beats Rafael Nadal in the semi-final of the Hamburg Masters.
The German goalkeeper is famous for his loud complaints and intimidation of opposing strikers.
As an Indian American actor in Hollywood, Kal Penn has played very diverse roles from coping with the angst of being a brown-skinned kid who has to deal with the burden of his name and heritage in Mira Nair's The Namesake, to a slacker sitting on a toilet with a case of bad stomach in his latest Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.
Defending champion David Nalbandian beat top seed Andy Roddick 7-5 7-5 in the Swiss Indoors semi-finals.
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