India v Pakistan: Hardik Pandya leads India to dramatic Asia Cup win
Hardik Pandya led India to a dramatic final-over win over Pakistan in the sides' opening match of the Asia Cup, BBC reported.
With India chasing 148 from 20 overs, Hardik hit the fourth ball of the final over for six to seal a five-wicket win.
The all-rounder struck three fours in the 19th over to reduce the equation from 21 runs from 12 balls to seven from six, before Ravindra Jadeja was bowled at the start of the last over.
Hardik finished 33 not out from 17 in reply to Pakistan's 147 all out.
Virat Kohli also made 35 from 34 balls before he was caught off left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz, who took 3-33 and bowled the final over in Dubai.
After Jadeja fell for 35, new batter Dinesh Karthik took a single and Nawaz bowled a dot ball but, with six needed from three, Hardik cleared the long-on boundary, according to BBC.
Mohammad Rizwan top-scored with 43 from 42 balls for Pakistan, while India seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 4-26 as Babar Azam's side were dismissed in 19.5 overs.
It was the great rivals' first meeting since the T20 World Cup last autumn, an encounter Pakistan won by 10 wickets.
The win puts India top of Group A in the Asia Cup - which is being played in the Twenty20 format in this edition - above Pakistan and Hong Kong. Afghanistan thrashed Sri Lanka in the Group B opener on Saturday - a group which also includes Bangladesh, BBC reported.
The top two teams in each group go into the Super Four phase, which is then played in a round-robin format before the top two meet in the final on 11 September.
US Open: Serena Williams and Venus Williams to play doubles together
Serena Williams will play alongside older sister Venus in the US Open doubles in what will be the final tournament of her career, BBC reported.
The Williams sisters have won 14 major doubles titles and three Olympic gold medals together.
Serena Williams, 40, says she will retire after the US Open, which starts in New York on Monday.
As well as playing in the singles, she has been given a wildcard to play with her 42-year-old sister in the doubles.
The pair have not played doubles together since the 2018 French Open, when they lost in the third round.
Their first Grand Slam title together came at the 1999 French Open, and they won their 14th at Wimbledon in 2016.
Serena Williams announced last month she is "evolving away" from the sport and will play her final tournament at Flushing Meadows, according to BBC.
Now ranked 608th in the world, the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion will play Montenegro's Danka Kovinic in the first round, and the match headlines the night session on Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday (19:00 local time, 00:00 BST on Tuesday).
Venus Williams, who has won seven major singles titles and is ranked 1,445th in the world, is also playing in the singles.
After being given a wildcard, she will face Belgium's Alison van Uytvanck in her opener on Tuesday.
Kobe Bryant's widow awarded $16m leaked crash photos payout
Kobe Bryant's widow has been awarded $16m (£13.6m) in damages over leaked graphic photos of the helicopter crash that killed the US basketball star and his daughter in 2020, BBC reported.
Vanessa Bryant, 40, said she had panic attacks after learning images taken by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and firefighters had been shared.
A federal jury now said the county must pay Mrs Bryant for emotional distress.
Co-plaintiff Christopher Chester will be paid $15m.
Mrs Bryant's husband Kobe Bryant, 41, daughter Gianna, 13, and six family friends died when their helicopter crashed in California in January 2020. Mr Chester lost his wife Sarah and daughter Payton in the crash. A report by the Los Angeles Times claiming county employees took photos at the crash site and shared them with others has enraged the victims' families.
Last November, the county agreed to pay $2.5m (£2.1m) over the emotional distress caused to two families who lost relatives in the crash - but Mrs Bryant refused to settle.
Her federal lawsuit was made alongside Chris Chester, who lost his wife Sarah and daughter Payton in the crash.
Sobbing on the witness stand last week, Mrs Bryant recalled being at home with her other children when she read the LA Times story.
"I bolted out of the house and I ran to the side of the house so the girls couldn't see me. I wanted to run… down the block and just scream," she said.
Mrs Bryant said she had felt "blindsided, devastated, hurt and betrayed" by news of the leak and "[lives] in fear every day of... having these images pop up" on social media, according to BBC.
"I don't ever want to see these photographs," she said. "I want to remember my husband and my daughter the way they were."
Jurors at the trial heard how sheriff's deputies and firefighters took gruesome cell phone photos at the accident site and showed them to others, including at a bar and a gala event.
These employees "poured salt in an open wound and rubbed it in" with their actions, Mrs Bryant's lawyer Luis Li said during opening statements last week.
A lawyer for the county unsuccessfully argued that "site photography is essential" and that the photos had not been posted anywhere publicly.
Bryant, a five-time NBA champion, played for the LA Lakers throughout his career and is considered one of the greatest players in the game's history, BBC reported.
Newcastle and Man City draw six-goal thriller
English champions Manchester City produced a brilliant fightback as they came from 3-1 down to draw at Newcastle in a pulsating match featuring six goals and an overturned red card, BBC reported.
Newcastle were two goals ahead after 54 minutes but Erling Haaland and Bernardo Silva scored within four minutes of each other to preserve City's unbeaten start to their Premier League title defence.
The England goalkeeper made a number of saves before the hosts equalised with Miguel Almiron sliding in to meet Allan Saint-Maximin's cross, with the goal given after a video assistant review overruled an original offside decision.
The excellent Saint-Maximin ran at the City defence before finding Callum Wilson, who took a touch to create space and shot Newcastle into the lead, according to BBC.
The visitors had a chance to equalise but Pope pushed Haaland's effort on to the post and Kieran Trippier, sold by City in 2012 after coming through their academy, grabbed a brilliant third with a stunning 25-yard free-kick.
Haaland pulled one back, finishing from inside the six-yard box after Rodri's pass, before Silva equalised following Kevin de Bruyne's superb through ball.
Newcastle thought they had gone down to 10 men with Trippier shown a red card for a knee-high trip on De Bruyne. But referee Jarred Gillett downgraded it to a yellow after watching the incident again on a pitchside monitor - and both teams finished with a point, BBC reported.
