The battle for the world chess crown heads into a four-game tiebreaker on Wednesday, after 12 regular rounds failed to separate reigning champion Magnus Carlsen and his Russian challenger Sergei Karyakin.
After a win apiece and nine draws, the pair head into the chess equivalent of extra time in soccer, beginning a series of four quickfire games in New York at 2pm (1900 GMT).
Full StoryEmotional tributes were paid Wednesday to the Brazilian football team Chapecoense Real that was virtually wiped out in a plane crash in the Colombian mountains that killed 71 people.
The charter plane, a British Aerospace 146, reported electrical problems just before the crash as it arrived in Medellin where Chapecoense were to play in the Copa Sudamericana final.
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Gareth Southgate was appointed England's new full-time manager on Wednesday and will lead the national team's challenge for the 2018 World Cup and 2020 European Championship.
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Newly-crowned Formula One world champion Nico Rosberg said Wednesday his relationship with rival and Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton would "always be difficult" after a fierce title battle.
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Pakistan said Wednesday it has received the green light to host its first Davis Cup tennis tie at home for 12 years, after being forced to play at neutral venues due to security fears.
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Swiss police raided homes last week as part of a broadening probe into corruption allegations over the awarding of the 2006 World Cup to Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Saturday's blockbuster La Liga clash between Barcelona and Real Madrid will be preceded by a minute's silence for the 71 people killed in a plane crash that decimated the Brazilian football team Chapecoense.
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The former football coach Barry Bennell who is at the center of the scandal rocking English football was on Tuesday formally charged with eight counts of child abuse, prosecutors said.
Full StoryTraveling on the doomed airliner that crashed in Colombia overnight were the players and staff of a Brazilian football club about to complete a fairytale journey from unknowns to would-be South American champions.
The LAMIA charter plane went down near Medellin late Monday with 81 people aboard and so far only six are reported to have survived. At least two were said by officials to be football players.
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Newly-crowned Formula One world champion Nico Rosberg on Tuesday downplayed Mercedes teammate and archrival Lewis Hamilton's tactics to foil his chances at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, saying the issue doesn't warrant much discussion.
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