A round-up off all transpired on and off the football pitch
Aliens, serial killers, time loops, disasters, Sukanya Verma gives you your OTT fix of the week.
Novak Djokovic secured a semi-final place at the ATP Finals with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Russian Andrey Rublev on Wednesday, his 50th match win of the year, while Stefanos Tsitsipas withdrew from the tournament due to an elbow injury.
The top moments from the Beijing Winter Olympics on Sunday.
The Swiss star underwent arthroscopic right knee surgeries in February 2020 and May 2020. Federer has played five tournaments since having those surgeries, all of which came this season.
'FIDE had tweeted: "Who better to be a commentator for the upcoming World Championship in Dubai than a person who has fought Carlsen in two matches himself?"'
Manchester City took a major step towards retaining their Premier League title with a 1-0 win over second-placed Chelsea on Saturday, opening up a 13-point lead at the top of the table for Pep Guardiola's side.
All the top action from Day 13 of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing on Thursday.
A summary of Saturday's action in the Bundesliga and La Liga.
English Premier League champions Manchester City cruised to a 2-0 win over struggling Manchester United in their derby at Old Trafford on Saturday.
Speed skating - Swings wins mass start, brings first Belgian Winter gold in 74 years.
Cross-country skier Johaug to call time on Olympic career after Sunday's 30km.
Napoli kept alive their hopes of advancing from Group C after Lorenzo Insigne, Victor Osimhen and Matteo Politano secured a 3-0 home win over Legia Warsaw.
Valieva dominates the ice despite doping scandal
External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday discussed issues relating to Afghanistan and the Indo-Pacific during his bilateral meetings with global counterparts on the sidelines of the annual high-level UN General Assembly session.
Snow blankets Games, delays Gu's return to competition
Yang responded to the pressure by firing 9.8 to snatch the gold with an Olympic record of 251.8.
Iivo Niskanen put on a brilliant display of cross-country skiing to win gold for Finland at the Beijing Games
Norway's Birk Ruud claimed the first men's freeski Big Air Olympic gold
Home favourite Su Yiming of China made his Olympic debut on Sunday and received a standing ovation in return.
Norway nabbed the first gold medal of the Winter Games on Saturday
Liverpool forward Sadio Mane scored his 100th goal for the club to help secure a 3-0 victory over lively Crystal Palace in the Premier League at Anfield on Saturday.
Norway's Karsten Warholm broke Kevin Young's 29-year-old 400m hurdles world record when he completed the race in 46.70 seconds in front of his home fans at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo on Thursday.
Images from Sunday's action in the Premier League.
Janne-Mette Johansson, a Norwegian national on a tourist visa, came under the scanner of Bureau of Immigration authorities over her suspected participation in an anti- Citizenship Amendment Act protest in the Kochi three days ago.
Ayew strikes as Palace hold Southampton to 2-2 draw
However, one goal proved enough for City who picked up their sixth successive league win to move four points clear of Liverpool, who host Aston Villa later on Saturday, at the top of the standings.
The only thing that may salvage Narendra Modi's trip to the US is his meetings with CEOs, such as those of Blackstone, First Solar, Qualcomm, Adobe, and General Atomics, asserts Rajeev Srinivasan.
'I could see the silhouettes of three men on the sixth floor.' 'I pointed them out to the NSG personnel standing beside me and suggested they take them out.' 'They did not have the clearance to fire.'
Then, in the 10m air pistol mixed team competitions, India's top pair comprising Manu Bhaker and Chaudhary too came overall second among 43 pairs, shooting a combined score of 580 out of a possible 600.
Periault and Duffy were running shoulder to shoulder but the Frenchwoman pulled away from the Bermudan on the third lap of the run.
Ruthless Ruud topples Shapovalov to win Geneva Open.
This dessert features a meringue base, lemon sorbet and mango curd.
Since 2012, 44 Indians have been anointed as grandmasters -- the highest achievement in chess, points out Arvind Subramanian, economist and former chief economic adviser to the government.
Images from soccer matches played across Europe on Saturday.
Goalkeeper Alisson Becker scored a stunning header in the fifth minute of stoppage-time as Liverpool snatched a 2-1 victory at the death against relegated West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on Sunday.
Chelsea struggled to deal with Barca's punishing press and they went 2-0 behind in the 14th minute
Roma teenager Afena-Gyan plays down apparent racist remark.
A summary of Saturday's Track and Field action at the Tokyo Olympics.
Ruud, who did not take kindly to Kyrgios's tweet then about how he had celebrated the victory, said the hot-headed 24-year-old was "completely crazy" and had behaved like an "idiot" on the court.
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