Football
Brazilian ace Leonardo back with AC Milan
The 33-year-old joins a strong Brazilian contingent in the side, which includes Rivaldo, goalkeeper Dida, winger Serginho and defender Roque Junior.
Romario breaks goal-drought in Fluminense win
The veteran Brazilian striker scored twice to help struggling Fluminense beat Parana 3-2 on Tuesday.
Scolari makes good impression in Mexico interview
Mexican soccer officials, searching for a national team coach to replace Javier Aguirre, interviewed Brazil's Luiz Felipe Scolari.
Tennis
Safin and Kuerten struggle in Lyon
Top seeded Safin struggled to beat 16-year-old Richard Gasquet in the first round of the $800,000 Lyon Grand Prix tournament.
Clijsters clambers past Myskina
Cheered by boyfriend Lleyton Hewitt, Clijsters claimed her first victory over Russia's Anastasia Myskina in the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.
Chess
Vladimir Kramnik trounces Deep Fritz computer
The World champion outwitted the world's most powerful chess computer to win the third game, in a match dubbed the 'Brains in Bahrain' contest.
Stage set for World Cup chess
Former World champion Vishwanathan Anand, who is fancied to win the title, said as the field is tough he'll take one match at a time.
Formula One
Formula one chiefs call for change
Max Mosley and Bernie Ecclestone have drawn up a radical action plan, including potentially handicapping Michael Schumacher and Ferrari, to ensure the sport's survival.
Asian Games
Third defeat for women's hockey team
They lost 2-3 to Japan in the concluding league match but will still play-off for the bronze medal.
Two Indian pairs in tennis doubles semis
Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes won their quarter-final match easily but Vishal Uppal and Mustafa Ghouse rallied splendidly to narrowly make the grade.
Kuwait win first ever Asiad track gold
Fawzi Al-Shammari came from behind to edge Saudi Arabia's Hamdan O Al-Bishi and equal the men's 400 metres record.
India finish with 1 silver, 2 bronze medals in sailing
Nitin Mongia won the silver in the OK Dinghy class while the pair of Ashim Mongia and R Mahesh took the bronze in the Enterprise class. Rajesh Chaudhury took bronze in the Laser Radial Open class.
Indian pugilists go down tamely
There were four of them on view in the quarter-finals on Wednesday, and all got a thrashing.
Jobs better than medals for some Asiad athletes
Sixteen athletes have gone into hiding since the Asian Games opened in Busan 10 days ago.
South Korea, Iran set for semis showdown
Iran, who are aiming for a fourth Asian Games football title, will be a different proposition, even without experienced striker Ali Daei, who flew home following the death of his father.
South Korea advance to Asiad soccer semis
A first-half penalty from captain Lee Dong-gook gave the hosts a 1-0 win over Bahrain on Tuesday.
Big day for India
A summary of the action on day 9 in the Asian Games.
Al-Saffar, Jayasinghe are fastest
They respectively won the men's and women's 100 metres at the Asian Games on Tuesday.
Geet Sethi wins bronze
The Indian ace beat Aung San Oo of Myanmar in the billiards singles third place play-off.
Beenamol, Bahadur lead India's resurgence
They bagged a gold medal each as India won six medals from athletics at the Asian Games on Tuesday.
Uppal-Ghouse score refreshing victory
The duo joined Paes-Bhupathi in the quarter-finals of the men's doubles tennis competition.
Ali Qamar crashes out in quarters
The Commonwealth Games gold medallist went down tamely to Harry Tanamor of The Philippines in the light flyweight boxing.
Nitin Mongia assured of OK Dinghy silver
The ace Indian sailor, however, has alleged that rules in the sailing event are being twisted to ensure that the Koreans win in all classes.
Indian paddlers fall by the wayside
The two-man team of Soumyadeep Roy and Subhajeet Saha lost in the individual events without much of a fight.
Indian shooters sign off on disastrous note
They failed to qualify for the final round in the last two events - the 25 metres Standard Pistol and Skeet.
AFC dismisses India's objections
Indian football team manager Santo Mitra had complained that the rules of qualification for the quarter-finals were changed before India's last league match against China.
India finish fifth in equestrian
The strong Korean team claimed the gold medal, tallying 3493 points. India could only muster 2849 points.
Pakistan, India to clash in hockey semis
Pakistan routed Malaysia 6-1 to finish on top of Pool B in the Asian Games men's hockey tournament.
Hockey results
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