Gonzalo Higuain struck his 21st Serie A brace to move into a tie for top spot in the league scoring race in Sunday's 2-0 win at Cagliari, edging Juventus closer to a record sixth straight scudetto.
The just-finished seven-day holiday has been a boon for China's film industry. Out of the record 3.38 billion yuan ($491 million) in ticket sales, at least three tickets had a back story more dramatic than what was shown on the big screen.
The National Center for the Performing Arts premiered the opera Turandot, Giacomo Puccini's final piece, as its first major in-house production in 2008.
Light shows and heavy meals make Xi'an's Spring Festival special.
The 15 days of the Spring Festival celebrations end with the first full moon of the year. There will be plenty of fireworks, crackers and a final burst of festive feasting.
Fluff turns 100 this year, and the marshmallow concoction that has been smeared on a century's worth of schoolchildren's sandwiches has inspired a festival and other sticky remembrances.
There's a link between the revival of the Premier League's champion-elect, Chelsea, and the demise of its beleaguered title holder, Leicester.
It was more difficult than Juventus would have liked, but Massimiliano Allegri's side won 2-0 at relegation-threatened Crotone to restore its seven-point lead in Serie A on Wednesday.
China's high-spending Shanghai Greenland Shenhua FC, spearheaded by expensive new signing Carlos Tevez, has apologized to fans after being dumped out of Asia's top club competition by Australian side Brisbane Roar.
Erik Guay led the veteran Canadians over the favored Norwegians in the super-G on Wednesday and became the oldest gold medalist at the FIS World Ski Championships.
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