European Championship qualifiers take centre stage this weekend, with 14 months to go to next year's finals in Austria and Switzerland.
India is the world's leading offshore services location according to the Global Services Location Index, the latest annual survey by global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney.
Italy defender Fabio Grosso has been ruled out of Saturday's European Championship qualifier against Ukraine due to a thigh strain.
Italy coach Roberto Donadoni has announced his 25-man squad for Euro 2008 qualifiers against Ukraine and Georgia.
FIFA discriminated against Italy when it decided to punish defender Marco Materazzi, Italy's sports minister said.
Clubs from Lithuania, Georgia, Moldova and Macedonia on Tuesday became the first four to progress from 11 Champions League first qualifying round ties.
In the US, recession started in December 2007, and will last at least until December 2009 - the longest and deepest US recession since World War II, with the cumulative fall in GDP possibly exceeding 5 per cent. The recession in other advanced economies (the euro zone, United Kingdom, European Union, Canada, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand) started in the second quarter of 2008, before the financial turmoil in September and October further aggravated the credit crunch.
Swati Ghate helped the Indian eves salvage a draw against third seed Georgia at the Women's chess Olympiad
Poland coach Pawel Janas warned his team that they would have to improve or face a first-round exit from the World Cup.
Most Indian IT firms, including TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Mindtree, Infotech and Sasken, which started their operations in the region with a small base, have expanded their base fast.
Italy drew 0-0 with France in a passionate and tough-tackling Euro 2008 qualifier on Saturday, which dropped the world champions to third in Group B.
The men's team beat Austria to move to joint-seventh place, while the women lost to Hungary and slumped to 14th place after the fifth round in the 32nd Chess Olympiad, in Dresden, Germany.
Injury-hit England host Israel knowing anything less than three points would leave them precariously off the pace in Group E.
She was the only remaining Indian woman in the World chess championships in Russia
Ethiopia's Meseret Defar smashed her own 5,000 metres world record by nearly eight seconds and Jamaica's Asafa Powell cruised to a sub-10-second victory in the men's 100 at a Golden League meeting on Friday.
Som Bahadur Pun, Akhil Kumar, Vijender Kumar and Suranjay Singh advanced in the 13th Senior World Boxing Championships.
Kin of 'missing' Indian seamen demand CBI, Interpol probe
Delhi-based businessman and director of Lord Krishna Bank Ashwini K Puri was murdered in Angolan capital Luanda on Wednesday.
The projected pay hike in India is expected to be 11.3 percent, which after adjusted against an inflation of 4 percent, translates into a real salary hike of 7.3 percent.
Morientes was one of four Liverpool players named in the 22-man squad for a friendly against Uruguay.
The 22-year-old managed a best of 62.04, but failed to qualify for the discus throw final at the 10th world championships.
The European champions are likely to play CSKA Sofia in the Champions League third qualifying round.
European champions Liverpool will start their title defence against Total Network Solutions of Wales in the Champions League's first qualifying round next month.
Last season's Champions League flops, Manchester United and Celtic will seek a flying start when they meet in the Group F tie at Old Trafford.
Olympique Lyon winger Sidney Govou hit a double as France stunned arch-rivals Italy 3-1 in a Euro 2008 qualifier in Paris.
Triple jumper Olsson was almost half a metre better than second-placed Nathan Douglas of Britain with a leap of 17.67, the best in Europe this year, at the European Athletics championships.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly and P Harikrishna scored victories to help India post a resounding 3-1 victory over Germany.
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