Russian sixth seed Dinara Safina, the sister of 2000 U.S. Open men's champion Marat Safin, reached her first semifinal at Flushing Meadows, overpowering Italian Flavia Pennetta 6-2 6-3.

Jimmy White, the 46-year-old former world number two, kept up his promising start to the season with a 5-3 defeat of Andrew Higginson at Pontin's today, to earn a meeting with former World Champion Ken Doherty tomorrow, with a place on the flight to China

The best punter who earned the most profit units in the monthly punters' classification will win the money prize £55 in cash. The big prize in Dec 2008 is £555

Tottenham Hotspur announced they had reached an agreement to sign Russian striker Roman Pavlyuchenko from Spartak Moscow, considered to be one of the most promising players in Europe.

In League One and League Two football there was just a game where a team lost at half and won after the half.

28 august 2008 groups , best of Europe

In first round on Premier League 2008-2009 season were 32 goals scored. Most goals were scored in Aston Villa vs Man City 4-2, 5 goals in Everton vs Blackburn 2-3.

The Castle was built to defend the city of Milan from attacators. The original construction on the site began in the 14th century. A great military architect made it bigger, but it was destroyed. A few years later, the Castle was rebuilt and enlarged.

Mongolia is a huge land three times the size of France located in northeast Asia bordering with China in the south and with Russia in the north.

At Hungaroring, the british driver Lewis Hamilton got the pole position number 10 in his F1 career.