Manchester United veteran Paul Scholes marked his 700th appearance for the club with a goal in a 4-0 Premier League win over Wigan on Saturday as champions Manchester City were held to a 1-1 draw by Stoke.

Elsewhere, Arsenal thrashed bottom of the table Southampton 6-1 to leave the newly promoted Saints still searching for their first points of the season.

Arsenal taught Southampton a harsh lesson about the realities of life in the Premier League by hammering them 6-1 at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday.

Ivory Coast international Gervinho led the rout with two goals while Lukas Podolski's effort, a late Theo Walcott strike and two own goals continued an unbeaten start to the season for Arsene Wenger's side.

With German Chancellor Angela Merkel watching in the stands, defending champions Borussia Dortmund enjoyed a convincing 3-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday to go third in the Bundesliga.

Bayern Munich stay top of the league after their 3-1 home win over Mainz, but Dortmund moved up the table from sixth after they saw off Leverkusen at Borussia's sold-out Signal Iduna Park.

Paris Saint Germain warmed up for the opening of their Champions League campaign with a 2-0 win over Toulouse on Friday, the big-spending team's first home victory of the season.

Argentine star Javier Pastore and Swedish international stiker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, with his fifth of the season, were on target for PSG who moved into third place in Ligue 1 with nine points.

Japan's precocious 18-year-old set a new world record in the men's 200-metre breaststroke on Saturday, then vowed to be the next Kosuke Kitajima.

The high-school student clocked two minutes 07.01 seconds, breaking the previous world mark of 2:07.28 set by Daniel Gyurta of Hungary on August 1 at the London Olympics.

Real Madrid said it posted record revenue of more than a half a billion euros (dollars) in the 2011-12 season, an increase of seven percent.

The world's richest club says it earned €514 million ($673 million) — up from a record €480 million — for a profit of €34 million in the season it won the Spanish league.

Juventus coach Antonio Conte had his 10-month suspension for match-fixing violations extended by FIFA on Friday to include all matches worldwide, barring him from working at a Champions League game against Chelsea next week.

Conte's ban "covers all types of matches, including domestic, international, friendly and official fixtures," FIFA said in a statement.

Germany coach Joachim Loew has admitted his team are misfiring and struggling to finish their chances despite winning both their opening 2014 World Cup qualifiers.

Loew's team opened their Brazil 2014 campaign with a 3-0 win over minnows Faroe Islands in Hanover a week ago followed by Tuesday's 2-1 win over Austria in Vienna.

Brazil's 2002 World Cup-winning coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has been sacked by Palmeiras, ending a second spell at the Brazilian side, the club said overnight Thursday.

Scolari, who during a first spell with the club led them to the 1999 Copa Libertadores, the South American equivalent of the Champions League, was axed after a poor run of form.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has given the club a glimpse of the future by saying he could leave the club when his contract expires in two years' time.

The Frenchman has been in charge of the Gunners since September 1996 but is currently overseeing a seven-year trophy drought.