Germany’s rising star Thomas Mueller was left needing stiches to a chin injury after falling off a mountain bike at his team’s World Cup training camp in northern Italy on Wednesday.

The United States fell 4-2 to the Czech Republic on Tuesday in their last friendly football match before coach Bob Bradley names the 23-man squad for the World Cup finals.

Bangladesh opening batsman Tamim Iqbal expects to play against England in the first Test at Lord’s starting here on Thursday despite struggling with a wrist injury that could yet require surgery.

Eoin Morgan has insisted he will have no problems adjusting to the tempo of Test cricket should he make his debut in the five-day format against Bangladesh at Lord’s on Thursday.
And he even joked Brian Lara’s world record score of 400 not out might be under threat, such was the Ireland-born left-hander’s new-found discipline.

Former champion Stefano Garzelli of the Acqua & Sapone team made up for a series of disastrous mountain displays on the Tour of Italy by winning the 16th stage mountain time trial Tuesday.
Held over 12.9km, with the last 5km on a rustic, unasphalted road, Garzelli picked up his first win on the Giro since 2007 as Ivan Basso and Cadel Evans continued their respective bids for overall victory.

South Africa withstood a late West Indies fight-back led by Darren Sammy to prevail by 17 runs in the second one-day international on Monday and take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.
The South Africans appeared to be coasting to victory, when West Indies chasing 301 slumped to 236/8 in the 45th over.

New technology developed by US researchers should shed light on whether dinosaurs were cold-blooded or warm-blooded animals, a study has said.

Islamic police in Indonesia’s Aceh province have been issued with 20,000 long skirts and ordered to cover up women deemed to have broken Muslim dress codes, an official said on Tuesday.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief assured MPs on Monday that the body would review fines and bans
imposed on seven top players after receiving a report from a one-man arbitration panel.

Aussie Michael Rogers won the Tour of California on Sunday, edging runner-up David Zabriskie and upstaging three-time defending champ Levi Leipheimer, who finished third.