Manchester United beat Arsenal 2-0 at Old Trafford on Sunday to bring to an end the Gunners record-breaking run of 49 unbeaten English top-flight games. Ruud van Nistelrooy, with a 73rd minute penalty, scored the first goal of the game after Wayne Rooney had been brought down by Sol Campbell.

Juan Pablo Montoya won in his final race for Williams-BMW on Sunday, beating future McLaren teammate Kimi Raikkonen to capture the Brazilian Grand Prix. In the final race of the season, native son Rubens Barrichello started from the pole for the second straight year and led early, but finished third in his best performance in 12 attempts at Interlagos.

The Supersport cricket match between the Dolphins and the Lions at Kingsmead on Sunday ended in a draw when both captains accepted that there was no chance of a result at the start of the last hour’s play. Beginning the day with their score on 239 for three wickets after 86 overs, the Dolphins batted cautiously.

There was no magic for Western Province-Boland (WP-Boland) as they suffered their third successive Supersport Series cricket defeat on Sunday, and that on their home ground. The Eagles were always in control, with Boeta Dippenaar again instrumental in seeing them through.

It took the Titans less than two hours on Sunday to move to a well-deserved, eight-wicket victory over the East Cape Warriors on the fourth morning of their Supersport Series cricket match. Set only 86 to win late on Saturday, openers AB de Villiers and Alviro Petersen had taken the Titans to 17 without loss overnight.

It is a view that astronomers would die for: a shimmering, blue, alien world with oceans and continents and vegetation changing colour with seasons. A vision like this, across the galactic void, would be unambiguous proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life.

British security officials hunting for Margaret Hassan are trying to contact the intermediary who acted as the conduit with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s group during the kidnapping of Kenneth Bigley. They want to ascertain whether it is Zarqawi’s, or another group, that is holding the Iraqi-United Kingdom aid worker Margaret Hassan (59) and whether they can negotiate her release.