Chennai, Oct 17 (IANS) Top seed and FIDE Master V.R. Aravindh Chithambaram shared the lead with his Tamil Nadu statemate N.R. Visakh with 6.5 points in the Open section after the seventh round of the RAMCO 26th National Under-13 Open and Girls chess championship here Wednesday. Both the leaders won their games against Ritviz Parab [...]

Rome, (IANS/RIA Novosti) A fair play award was presented to Germany international Miroslav Klose by the German Football Association after the Lazio striker admitted he had scored a goal with his hand. In Lazio’s game against Napoli in Serie A last month, Klose opened the scoring from a corner in the fourth minute using his [...]

Moscow, (IANS/RIA Novosti) Katusha cyclist Denis Menchov has vowed to ride through 2013 as if it’s his last season in cycling. The Russian, 34, won the 2009 Giro D’Italia and is a two-time Vuelta de Espana champion. “I want to go through the next season as if it’s the last,” said Menchov. “But I haven’t [...]

Moscow, (IANS/RIA Novosti) Katusha cyclist Denis Menchov has vowed to ride through 2013 as if it’s his last season in cycling. The Russian, 34, won the 2009 Giro D’Italia and is a two-time Vuelta de Espana champion. “I want to go through the next season as if it’s the last,” said Menchov. “But I haven’t [...]

New Delhi, (IANS) Accompanied by members of her country’s Indigenous Cricket Development Squad, Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard Tuesday attended a cricket clinic for the disadvantaged children run in Indian capital by Cricket Australia (CA) and a local NGO. Gillard said: “Australia and India share a love of sport and cricket in particular and I [...]

New Delhi, (IANS) Four Australian hockey co-captains along with current skipper Jamie Dwyer have made themselves available for the Hockey India League (HIL) starting Jan 5 next year. Mark Knowles, Fergus Kavanagh, Liam de Young and Edward Ockenden will be part of the HIL players auction to be held next month. Hockey India (HI) secretary [...]

New Delhi, (IANS) Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Tuesday announced that Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar would be conferred with a membership of the Order of Australia for his contribution to the sport. Gillard, who made the announcement during a visit to a cricket clinic here organised by an NGO Magic Bus, said that the “special [...]

Moscow, (IANS/RIA Novosti) Eighth seed Lucie Safarova had to dig deep to reach the second round of the Kremlin Cup Monday in the face of a strong challenge from a Russian youngster. Wildcard entrant Margarita Gasparyan, ranked 225th in the world, took the two-hour match to a decider but faded late on as her Czech [...]

Moscow, (IANS/RIA Novosti) Caroline Wozniacki’s decline from world No.1 to outside the top ten was in part caused by a gruelling schedule of promotional work, the Dane suggested Monday. Wozniacki finished 2010 and last year as No.1, earning her a bevy of lucrative sponsorship deals, but she is now No.11 after winning only the Korea [...]

To be true, no team would like to give up easily and would do everything to win the game. But Spaniards are a better team on any given day and they have proved it time and again. On the other hand France look considerably weakened and their defenses seem to be in tatters. The team [...]

Madrid, (IANS) Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has been left with a selection headache after Brazilian Marcelo joined fellow left-back Fabio Coentrao on the club’s injury list. Marcelo faces three months on the sidelines after fracturing the fifth metatarsal in his right foot while training with the Brazilian national squad in the Polish city of [...]