The world number one beat Conchita Martinez 2-6, 7-5, 6-3 in the third round of the Amelia Island championship in Florida.
The defeat saw the Indian ace surrender the joint lead in the Amber Chess tournament.
The company has had a great 2006-07 but the competition could creep up on it this year
More than 64 people -- 31 Iraqis, 12 Filipinos, 10 Poles, 10 Hungarians and an American -- were injured when two trucks tried to ram into Camp Charlie in south Baghdad.
Seven-times world motorcycling champion Valentino Rossi got back to winning ways with a record 10th victory of the season at the Qatar Grand Prix.
England captain David Beckham was sent off today for the first time since joining Real Madrid and put the incident down to harsher refereeing in Spain.
The Indian ace was held to a draw by Peter Leko of Hungary in the 13th round of the Morelia-Linares chess tournament.
He played out a fighting draw with Peter Svidler to remain in joint lead along with Magnus Carlsen.
American-born Milorad Cavic hurtled to a world short-course record in the men's 100 metres butterfly final at the European championships on Friday.
The PSPB Grandmaster beat team mate R B Ramesh in the 12th round of the National 'A' chess championship to sit pretty at the top.
Will Davison and Will Power will be fitted with an individually moulded Minardi seat in the team's garage during the March 4-7 Australian Grand Prix.
The England captain assured himself of a place in the Real Madrid record books on Wednesday by scoring the club's 600th goal in the European Cup.
Manchester United beat Hungarian champions Debrecen 3-0 in the first leg of their third qualifying round tie on Tuesday.
Chinese film Warriors Of Heaven And Earth, will begin the sixth International Film Festival of Mumbai (IFFM), from November 20-November 27.
Michael Schumacher was third with sole title rival Kimi Raikkonen fifth quickest.
Maria Sharapova won the women's crown for her first WTA Tour title.
The Russian made it to her first WTA Tour final with a 6-3, 7-5 win over Zheng Jie of China.
The 74-year-old chess legend proved too good for former world junior champion Peter Acs of Hungary in the Marx Gyorgy Memorial Grandmasters' tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out two draws with Loek Van Wely of the Netherlands to finish overall tied sixth after the 11th and final round in Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament in Nice. Levon Aronian of Armenia won the tournament after two easy draws with Hungarian Peter Leko. He ended up with an impressive 14.5 points from 22 games played in this unique event that featured one blindfold and one rapid game in each round.
The Brazilian lapped 0.151s quicker than team mate Michael Schumacher in free testing at the Italian Grand Prix.
Ferrari chief Jean Todt has defended the decision to report their Formula One rivals for using what they believe are illegal tyres and said they were just doing what any team would have done in the circumstances.
Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn said they contacted FIA after receiving photographic evidence at the Hungarian Grand Prix.\n\n\n\n
Ralf's car went off the track at the first Lesmo corner about two minutes before the close of the session.
Ralf's Williams caught fire in the Monza pitlane on Tuesday after teams resumed testing after a six-week ban.
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