Reigning champions VakifBank Istanbul of Turkey kicked off their title defense at the FIVB Women's Volleyball Club World Championship with a comfortable 3-0 win over host team Zhejiang.
The International Motorcycling Federation concluded the year's action with a star-studded awards ceremony in Andorra.
Video assistant referees will be used in the Champions League knockout stages this season.
Midfielder Luka Modric playing for Real Madrid opened a new chapter in the Ballon d'Or (Golden Ball) history as he became the first Croatian to claim the best player award on Monday.
Arjen Robben says he will leave Bayern Munich at the end of the season after 10 years with the German champions.
Former captain of the Chinese women's national football team Zhang Ouying passed away on Sunday after losing her battle against lung cancer. She was 43.
Grand Slam champion-turned coach Liu Guoliang has been elected as the new president of the Chinese Table Tennis Association (CTTA) in Beijing on Saturday.
Two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan will miss the Grand Prix Final due to an ankle injury.
The delayed second leg of the Copa Libertadores final between River Plate and Boca Juniors is reportedly to be played at Real Madrid's home stadium on December 9th.
It's a fourth world chess championship title for Magnus Carlsen but he says winning this one against Fabiano Caruana was 'hard', and he described him as 'clearly the toughest opponent' he's come up against.
The AFC Annual Awards 2018 has come to a conclusion with China's Wang Shuang bagging the Women's Player of the Year Award.
The postponed Copa Libertadores final second leg between River Plate and Boca Juniors will be played outside of Argentina.
A man who bombed the Borussia Dortmund football team bus last year has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Divided for about seven decades, North and South Korea together won their first international recognition of Korean traditional wrestling as one of the world's cultural treasures on Monday.
Formula 3 driver Sophia Floersch spoke publicly for the first time since a crash more than a week ago at the Macau Grand Prix, which left her with a spinal fracture.
The world chess championship tilt between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will be decided in a quickfire tie-breaker after Game 12 ended in a 31-move draw.
The Golden State Warriors said star Stephen Curry wasn't injured after two drivers hit his car on a rain-slicked freeway on Friday.
With four months until Britain withdraws from the European Union and no consensus over the terms of the split from the bloc, there is also uncertainty about the players Premier League clubs will be able to recruit.
Christian Pulisic has become the youngest captain for the United States' soccer team at the age of 20 years, 63 days.
Cristiano Ronaldo has reportedly asked his girlfriend, Georgina Rodriquez to marry him according to reports in his native Portugal.