Australia captain Michael Clarke made 187, his highest Test score against England, as the tourists maintained their grip on the third Ashes match at Manchester's Old Trafford ground on Friday.

Chelsea passed their toughest test since Jose Mourinho returned as manager, posting a 2-0 friendly win Thursday over Inter Milan, the team Mourinho guided to the 2010 Champions League crown.

John Isner, fresh off a seventh ATP title, fired 19 aces Wednesday to beat Alex Kuznetsov 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/4) at the ATP and WTA Washington Open.

Manchester City outclassed AC Milan to set up a showdown with Bayern Munich in the final of the pre-season Audi Cup tournament following a 5-3 victory at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday.

English Premier League club Everton beat two-time reigning Italian champions Juventus on 6-5 on penalties on Wednesday after playing to a 1-1 draw in the International Champ-ions Cup friendly tournament.

Iran held massive anti-Israeli rallies on Friday, with President-elect Hassan Rowhani calling the arch-foe Jewish state a “wound” on the Muslim world a day before he takes office.

Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden on Thursday left Moscow airport, where he was marooned five weeks, after Russia granted him a year’s asylum in a move that risks infuriating Washington.

India made light work of their fourth one-day international against Zimbabwe on Thursday, as they beat the hosts by nine wickets to take a 4-0 lead in the series.

Violence killed around 1,000 people in July, government and United Nations figures show, making it Iraq’s deadliest month since 2008 when the country was emerging from a bloody sectarian conflict.

Zimbabwe election observers said Thursday that the country’s crunch vote was “seriously compromised,” citing a slew of problems that questioned a claim of victory by President Robert Mugabe’s allies.