The Portuguese netted two penalties as his team swept Athletic Bilbao aside to move to the summit of the rankings, with Lionel Messi hot on his heels

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi look destined to slug it out for the ESM Golden Shoe once more this season after the former caught up with JK Trans Narva striker Aleksandrs Čekulajevs.

Cristiano Ronaldo's match-winning hat-trick in Real Madrid's 4-2 victory over Levante saw the Portuguese pull away in the European Golden Shoe table from arch-rival Lionel Messi, Arsenal star Robin van Persie, who both failed to score, and Tran Narva's Aleksandrs Cekulajevs, whose domestic season has finished.

FC Porto's 55-game unbeaten league run ended at the weekend and as they look to start another, UEFA.com salutes the sides who have matched or beaten that stunning sequence.

The Portuguese scored a hat trick in a weekend where his adversaries failed to score. Elsewhere, Wayne Rooney moved into the reckoning thanks to his double against Liverpool

Cristiano Ronaldo's failure to score in Real Madrid's 1-0 victory over Getafe, coupled with Lionel Messi's strike to seal Barcelona's win over Real Sociedad, saw the Argentine move to just two points behind the Portuguese superstar, level with Trans Narva's Aleksandrs Cekulajevs.

Cristiano Ronaldo's strike five minutes into the second half of Real Madrid's win over Zaragoza was enough for the Portuguese to overtake Trans Narva's goal-hero Aleksandrs Cekulajevs in the race for the golden boot.

The FA's swift and decisive action over Mario Balotelli's alleged stamp puts the Spanish authorities in the shade.

January 27 commemorates the day that the Soviet troops entered and liberated the concentration camp of Auschwitz in 1945. The UNO uses this day as a benchmark but let us use every day as a benchmark against intolerance, exclusion, racism and xenophobia.

A new series of free tools and resources will help community groups increase awareness about steps to prevent kidney disease or improve management. The online resource is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health's National Kidney Disease Education Program (NKDEP).