Liverpool suffered another blow to their Premier League title hopes as a scrappy 1-1 home draw with Manchester City on Sunday left leaders Manchester United seven points clear.

Ryan Giggs scored a sublime goal to seal a 1-0 win for Manchester United at West Ham United on Sunday that sent them back to the top of the Premier League.

Britain's undefeated world super-middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe announced his retirement from boxing on Thursday, saying he has nothing left to prove in the ring. During his 16-year professional career, the 36-year-old Welshman held the WBO, WBA, WBC and IBF super-middleweight belts. He unified the division in November 2007 with a unanimous points win over Denmark's Mikkel Kessler.

The Indian Independent Filmmakers Worldwide organised a masterclass, a fascinating Q&A session with director Sudhir Mishra and Boyle, discussing all of Boyle's films and his process, before opening up the floor to an eager set of filmmakers and writers.

Dimitar Berbatov scored what proved to be the winning goal against his former club as Manchester United beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 in a pulsating FA Cup fourth round tie at Old Trafford on Saturday. Berbatov, who left Spurs for United in August, beat the offside trap to put the home side ahead two minutes after a deflected long range shot from Paul Scholes had cancelled out Roman Pavlyuchenko's fifth minute opener for Tottenham.

Swansea City scored the day's biggest upset when they knocked holders Portsmouth out of the FA Cup with a deserved 2-0 fourth-round win at Fratton Park on Saturday.

It seems British director Danny Boyle has fallen in love with Mumbai while shooting for his award-winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire'. Boyle wants to get back to the city once more to make to make another film.

Drug maker agrees to cooperate with Scottish investigation.

Scotland and Wales have held "tentative talks" about the possibility of hosting the European soccer championship in 2016, the Scottish FA said on Wednesday.

The Stamford Bridge clash (2130 IST) is one half of a heavyweight Sunday double bill as Manchester United also visit Manchester City (1900 IST).

The world needs more regulation today, not a return to autarky

Goals from strikers Roman Pavlyuchenko and Pavel Pogrebnyak gave Russia a 2-1 win over Wales in their World Cup Group Four qualifier on Wednesday.

Sagar Pathak joins the Indian Air Force and the United States Air Force during their practice sessions together.

A Sikh schoolgirl who was forbidden from attending classes after she refused to remove her Kara told a British Court that she should not have been asked to take it off because it was a symbol of faith and not a piece of jewellery.

Fit-again Arjen Robben and Wesley Sneijder scored either side of the break on Sunday to earn the Netherlands a 2-0 home win over Wales in their final friendly before the Euro 2008 finals.

Portsmouth beat Cardiff City 1-0 to win their first FA Cup since 1939.

So far, most restaurants are resisting passing on the rising price of rice, lentils and energy to customers

Cardiff City beat Barnsley 1-0 in Sunday's FA Cup semi-final at Wembley Stadium.

Anthrax, a potentially fatal human disease is caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. A very serious and rapidly progressing form of the disease occurs when bacterial spores are inhaled making anthrax a potent threat when used as a biological warfare agent. The new study, conducted by an international team of researchers from Cardiff University and University of Maryland, has revealed how the humble cup of tea could well be an antidote to Anthrax.

With nine days remaining before the transfer window closes for the season, around 93 million pounds has been spent by English clubs on new signings.

Sarika Singh, 14, the only Sikh girl at Aberdare Girls School in South Wales, has been suspended for the second time for refusing to take off her 'kara'.

Director Anurag Kashyap gets real about his new film, No Smoking.

Indian Nikita Lalwani's first novel Gifted and Indra Sinha's Animal's People are among the 13-title longlist for the 50,000 pounds (about Rs 41 lakhs) prize.

"Shambo was been put down by lethal injection on Thursday night," a spokesman of the Wales Assembly government said.

The English Premier League champions demolished the Chinese Super League team in the third game of their Asian tour.

Killing the bull that lives at the Hindu Skanda Vale Community would be a serious infringement of the community's rights, Judge Gary Hickinbottom said.

India's turn now to question Indianness, and there's no shortage of writers doing it.

The tough terms and conditions for the civilian nuclear engagement with India as laid out in the Henry Hyde Act passed by US Congress in December 2006 and intent of the July 18, 2005 statement are at complete divergence with each other and so it is

Liverpool forward Craig Bellamy is determined to silence his critics by helping Liverpool to Champions League glory over AC Milan on Wednesday.

According to the Hindu Forum of Britain, the authorities, who were planning to slaughter the bull next week, have now delayed this action.

If you are working in a BPO and have to deal with clients in the UK, knowing something about their culture will help break the ice faster.

Liverpool cruised past Watford 3-0 away to claim their seventh win in their last eight league games.

Chelsea had seemed on course for a 1-0 win after a 36th-minute Wayne Bridge goal but were stunned 13 minutes from time when Jermaine Easter trickled a shot past Hilario.

Manchester United posted a 2-1 win at Middlesbrough while Liverpool scored their first away victory of the season.

Scotland shocked World Cup finalists France 1-0 while England were held to a goalless draw by Macedonia.

The Indian pair beat Malaysia's Yohan Hadikusumo Wiratama and Albertus Susanto in a second round match at the World Badminton Championships.

Brazil new coach said he was happy with the way his team performed against Argentina and Wales, two quite different sides.

The easy victory enabled the South Americans complete a successful London tour.