Late goals gave Liverpool a 2-0 home win over 10-man Inter Milan while Roma came from behind to beat Real Madrid 2-1 as the Champions League resumed after its nine-week winter break on Tuesday.
Embattled Chinese women's coach Loisel still has plenty to prove in the ongoing East Asian Championship as the team faces Japan and Asia's No 1 DPRK.
David Beckham believes this week's inaugural Pan-Pacific Championship in Hawaii can provide the catalyst for a successful second season with the Los Angeles Galaxy.
South Africa is on track to host a successful 2010 World Cup, local organisers said on Monday, dismissing concerns that their efforts had been undermined by infighting, cost overruns and a power crisis.
Luca Toni scored a second-half hat-trick to give Bayern Munich a 3-0 win away to Hanover 96 on Sunday, restoring their three-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga.
Reading chairman John Madejski said on Sunday proposals to play extra Premier League matches abroad had "already been consigned to the trash bin".
Real Madrid great Alfredo Di Stefano was honoured by world football's governing bodies, his former club and fellow players in an emotive celebration of his life in Madrid on Sunday.
Soccer star David Beckham and his Los Angeles Galaxy teammates will tour South Korea and China next month.
Former Brazil striker Romario overturned a 120-day ban on Thursday when an appeal tribunal accepted his case that he failed a dope test because of a hair loss treatment.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter says he won't let the English Premier League play games abroad and believes the proposal will harm England's bid for the 2018 World Cup.
A knee operation undertaken on AC Milan and Brazil striker Ronaldo went smoothly on Thursday, according to his medical specialist in Paris.