About 20,000 runners took part in Jerusalem's third annual marathon on Friday, with 1,000 police deployed to provide security along the route, police said.

The Palestine Liberation Organisation had called for a boycott of the marathon, part of which went through annexed, mainly Arab east Jerusalem.

Ryan Giggs, who is set to make his 1,000th appearance in senior football this weekend, has signed a new one-year contract at Manchester United, the club announced on Friday.

The English Premier League leaders said the deal keeps the 39-year-old Wales winger at Old Trafford until June 2014 and sees him complete a 23rd season as a first-team player.

Five days after its biggest win at Camp Nou in more than a decade, Real Madrid hosts Barcelona again Saturday in the Spanish league with its decisive Champions League match at Manchester United looming.

Madrid's defense did a masterful job of neutralizing Barcelona forward Lionel Messi on Tuesday, and its counterattack speared by Cristiano Ronaldo did the rest as the Portugal forward scored twice in the 3-1 win to put Madrid into the Copa del Rey final.

A match-fixing investigation in Lebanon produced no evidence that a national team defender helped Qatar win a 2014 World Cup qualifier, the Asian Football Confederation said Thursday.

Attempting to control widespread speculation on the match, the Asian governing body said it studied a summary report from an investigation into match-fixing and bribery ordered by the Lebanon Football Association.

The New York Knicks overcame Golden State guard Stephen Curry's NBA season-high 54 points to beat the Warriors 109-105 on Wednesday.

Carmelo Anthony scored 35 points and J.R. Smith hit the tiebreaking shot with 1:10 left to help give the Knicks the win.

Rafael Nadal's return from injury gathered pace Wednesday as the former world No. 1 downed Argentina's Martin Alund 6-0, 6-4 to reach the Mexican Open quarterfinals.

The second-seeded Nadal made short work of the first set before fending off a more determined Alund in the second to finish the match in just over 85 minutes Alund at the clay court tournament.

Atletico Madrid lined up a Copa del Rey final against city rivals Real Madrid after drawing 2-2 with a Sevilla side that finished with nine men on Wednesday.

First-half goals by Diego Costa and Radamel Falcao in the semifinal, second leg match secured a 4-3 victory on aggregate, following a 2-1 home win last month.

UEFA banned Zlatan Ibrahimovic for two European matches on Wednesday, ruling the influential forward out of the Champions League quarterfinals, first leg if Paris Saint-Germain advances.

UEFA said its disciplinary panel extended an automatic one-match sanction for Ibrahimovic's challenge on Valencia midfielder Andres Guardado in stoppage-time of a last-16, first-leg match this month.

Worn down by constant criticism by fans, Rafael Benitez announced Wednesday he would leave Chelsea at the end of the season during an extraordinary post-match outburst in which he also took aim at the Premier League club's hierarchy.

The Spanish coach snapped during the news conference after an FA Cup fifth-round win at Middlesbrough, saying his position had been untenable ever since he was handed the title "interim manager" until the end of the 2012-13 campaign.

Dennis Bergkamp will become the fourth Arsenal great to be immortalized by the Premier League club with a statue outside Emirates Stadium, honoring his contribution to the club.

Arsenal said the statue of the former Netherlands forward "is still in its early construction phase" and will be unveiled before the start of next season.