Rahul Dravid admitted that his side's sixth loss in eight games of the Indian Premier League had made things difficult.

World number one Roger Federer beat Croatia's Ivo Karlovic 7-6, 6-3 in the Rome Masters on Thursday to book a quarter-final against Czech Radek Stepanek.

Real Madrid confirmed their supremacy in Spain late Wednesday with an emphatic 4-1 thrashing of arch rivals Barcelona.

The struggling Super Aguri team withdrew from the Formula One world championship on Tuesday.

The Great Khali, an Indian professional wrestler who is the current rage on the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), lives up to his name.