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.
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.
The cream began to rise to the top of the Euro 2012 qualifying groups with world and European champions Spain, Germany, Netherlands and Portugal all winning their matches in style on Friday.
Spain, Germany and England all chalked up victories in their qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup on Saturday.
She was the only remaining Indian woman in the World chess championships in Russia
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
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.
While new business schools come up, industry experts said the quality issue was crucial for them to survive.
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.
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.
Injury-hit England host Israel knowing anything less than three points would leave them precariously off the pace in Group E.
Yao Ming netting 27 points as his team beat Serbia and Montenegro 67-66 to knock the world champions out of the tournament.
The Americans remain in the competition but the setback -- only their third loss in 112 Olympic matches spanning 72 years -- is a huge embarrassment.
The draw for the third qualifying round of the Champions League was made on Friday.
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.
Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari was finally able to assemble his entire Euro 2004 squad for a training session on Monday.
But fancied players Alexandra Kosteniuk and Alisa Galliamova were knocked out on a disastrous day for seasoned campaigners at the World Women's Chess Championship.\n\n
European Union is not contemplating signing free trade agreement with India in the near future and will focus on completion of contentious World Trade Organisation negotiations including agriculture and Singapore issues
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.
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