Superstar Maria Sharapova and former tennis great Evgeny Kafelnikov have put Russia at the top of the world with a 2-1 win over Team Europe at an exhibition tournament in Hong Kong.

Despite the players

Readers of one Polish website dedicated to police affairs have drawn up a list of the most ridiculous felonies of 2009, RIA Novosti reports.

Ex-Liverpool striker Andrey Voronin, who has just signed a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow, says his team will fight for the Russian Premier League title next season.

The Official Commission of the KHL has awarded both Vytaz Chekhov and Avangard Omsk, whose Saturday game descended into a massive brawl after only five minutes of play, with 0-5 defeats.

Russia

A wave of anti-Olympic sentiment and protests in Canada are threatening the international symbol of the Games as it makes its way across the vast Far North.

Truck driver Vladimir Chagin from Kamaz-Master team has won the seventh stage of the Dakar-2010 rally, which is currently taking place in Argentina and Chile.

The two-week feast between Orthodox Christmas on January 7 and Epiphany on January 19 is named

Second-placed Salavat Yulaev are right behind KHL leaders Metallurg Magnitogorsk after taking a 3-1 win over CSKA Moscow.