Click here for Chris Wheeler's match report from the Stadium of Light Manuel Pellegrini has fired a warning to league leaders Chelsea by declaring that his champions are back to their title-winning best. Manchester City were impressive 4-1 winners at Sunderland on Wednesday night with Sergio Aguero (2), Steven Jovetic and father-to-be Pablo Zabaleta on target. They fell behind to Connor Wickham’s 19th-minute effort on the ground where they have been beaten 1-0 on their last four visits. VIDEO Scroll down for Manuel Pellegrini: We are returning to our form from last season Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero equalises with a ferocious strike against Sunderland


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Chelsea could only draw 0-0 at Sunderland at the weekend but remain odds-on favourites for the title.


Christmas was ruined for tens of thousands of passengers caught up in train chaos when botched engineering work over-ran, a damning report said today. More than 115,000  people faced 'widespread confusion, frustration, disruption, discomfort and anxiety' in the Christmas rail engineering overruns, the rail regulator said. Network Rail came under fire for late-finishing work over the festive period which hit services into King's Cross, Paddington and Finsbury Park stations in London. Passengers were left in tears in some cases with hundreds of journeys ruined by the overrunning works. The disruption caused chaos at King's Cross, Paddington and at Finsbury Park where there was overcrowding

The report said: 'Passengers who travel between
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Christmas and the new year include families with young children, the elderly and vulnerable often travelling with lots of luggage in an unfamiliar environment.


Istanbul (CNN) -- A central square and park in Istanbul erupted Tuesday and into Wednesday in an unsettling, chaotic chorus, with tear gas canisters and water cannons from police met by fireworks, metal banging and defiant chanting from protesters. The drama followed an ebb and flow of demonstrators all day from the Turkish city's Taksim Square and the abutting Gezi Park, where they've camped out for days, in response to the actions of riot police. It is all a continuation of demonstrations that first focused on the environment -- opposition to a plan to build a mall at the park -- but has evolved into a crusade against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's allegedly authoritarian ways.

On Tuesday, just before planned talks between
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan and protest organizers, there was no obvious resolution in sight.