Leicester City 3 Derby 1: Leicester provided some much-needed joy for boss Claudio Ranieri with a 3-1 win against east Midlands rivals Derby in the FA Cup.

Leicester provided some much-needed joy for boss Claudio Ranieri with a 3-1 win against east Midlands rivals Derby in the FA Cup.

Leicester 0 Chelsea 3: As Chelsea maintain their grip at the top of the Premier League it appears as though even the millions of Chinese football cannot stop them marching towards the title.

A quickfire brace from substitute Ahmed Musa saw Leicester come from behind to win 2-1 at Everton and book their place in the FA Cup fourth round.

Porto 5 Leicester 0: Woeful Leicester lost their unbeaten Champions League record as a second string side suffered a humiliating 5-0 thumping in Porto.

Club Brugge 0 Leicester 3: Rampant Leicester marked their Champions League debut in stunning style as they thrashed Club Brugge 3-0. Boss Claudio Ranieri had warned against expecting another fairytale but it was a dream night in Belgium after Leicester scored twice inside the first half an hour.

Worries for Roy Keane, Rashford makes case, Cesc freeze - our writers chew on the weekend's talking points.

Managerless Hull handed champions Leicester a taste of their own medicine on the opening afternoon of the Premier League season, emerging from their chaotic summer to take all three points at the KCOM Stadium.

Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri has urged referees to protect Jamie Vardy as he is now a marked man. The England forward will lead the line for the defending Premier League champions when they start at Hull on Saturday after rejecting a move to Arsenal and signing a new Foxes deal in the summer.

CSKA Moscow 1 Manchester United 1: No-one would call it exciting or convincing but a 1-1 draw against CSKA has left Manchester United well placed in their Champions League qualifying group and in a good place ahead of Sunday’s crucial Manchester derby.

Fernandinho and Yaya Toure were sent off as Manchester City crashed to a damaging 2-1 loss to CSKA in the Champions League.

Yaya Toure has vowed not to let the racists wear him down after becoming the target of online abuse this week.

Champions League Group E

CSKA Moscow 2 Mancester City 2

Champions League Group E

Nigeria 2 Argentina 3

Nigeria 2 Argentina 3

A toddler who survived an 11-storey fall from a tower block in the US has been dubbed "the miracle baby".

A young American boy who survived an 11-storey fall from a tower block has been dubbed “the miracle baby” and is recovering in hospital.

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight girls from a village near one of their strongholds in northeastern Nigeria overnight, police and residents said yesterday.

A Pakistani court has thrown out charges of attempted murder against a nine-month-old baby, in a case that highlighted endemic flaws in the country’s legal system and provoked widespread ridicule.

Relatives of a nine-month-old baby charged with attempted murder in Pakistan have taken him into hiding, one said, in a case that has thrown a spotlight on Pakistan’s dysfunctional criminal justice system.

Manchester City 5 CSKA Moscow 2

CSKA Moscow 1 Manchester City 2

Mali 1 Nigeria 4

Gunmen suspected of being members of a radical Islamist sect have killed at least four people – including a six-year-old girl – in recent attacks in Nigeria’s volatile north-east, authorities said today.

Real Madrid secured their passage to the Champions League quarter-finals with a comfortable win over CSKA Moscow last night.

Jose Mourinho was unhappy his side failed to take full control of their Champions League clash with CSKA Moscow as they conceded an injury-time goal to hand the Russians a lifeline.

A Palestinian prisoner has agreed to end his 66-day hunger strike in protest over his imprisonment without charge after reaching a deal with Israel that will free him in April.

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has told his players the rigours of the Russian winter and the artificial pitch will not be accepted as excuses for defeat in the last-16 Champions League tie against CSKA Moscow.

Muammar Gaddafi today said the UN resolution authorising international military intervention in Libya was “invalid”.

A British ex-pat has been kidnapped in Nigeria, according to reports today.

A CORNER of Kerry is this week remembering one of its own who died after an eventful life in Pakistan which saw her become a tribal elder, member of the national assembly and friend to the powerful.

Afghan and international forces have retaken a southern Afghan town held by Taliban militants since February, the Kabul defence ministry said today.

The doomed plan to sneak Diana, Princess of Wales, out the back door of the Ritz Hotel away from the paparazzi on the night of her death was devised by her lover Dodi Fayed himself, the couple's inquest heard today.

BRITAIN’S first convicted war criminal was sentenced yesterday to a year in jail for mistreating Iraqi prisoners.

The US military has filed murder charges against Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was a teenager when he was captured in Afghanistan and sent to the Guantanamo Bay prison in 2002.

Israel pressed ahead with its incursion into the southern Gaza Strip today as airstrikes killed five Palestinians, including a mother and her two children, and tanks rolled to the edge of Rafah, officials said.

Muslims are to protest outside the Danish embassy in London today over the publication of cartoons of the prophet Mohammed which have caused deep offence.

A DECISION to prosecute British soldiers for war crimes in Iraq could “blunt” the appeal of Islamic extremism, it was claimed.