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By Patrick Johnston
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Paul di Resta, the cousin of IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti, will test for Force India in Spain next week along with young American J.R. Hildebrand, the Formula One team said Tuesday.
DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - General Motors will present labour leaders at European arm Opel a reorganisation plan on Wednesday that envisions cutting nearly a fifth of the workforce, GM's acting European head said.
By Ossian Shine
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By Nick Mulvenney
* Asian soccer gets billion dollar injection
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Herschelle Gibbs has been recalled to the South Africa squad for the remainder of the one-day series against England.
LONDON (Reuters) - Wigan Athletic's players have agreed to refund the club's travelling fans after Sunday's humiliating 9-1 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League.
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German Athletics Federation (DLV) recognised on Monday a women's high jump record dating back to 1936 after the Nazi party had refused to accept it because the athlete, Gretel Bergmann, was a Jew.
LONDON (Reuters) - Portsmouth's England goalkeeper David James has played down the latest injury he suffered in the warm-up for Sunday's Premier League game at Stoke City.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rebel clubs from the second tier soccer championship in the United States and Canada will compete in a new North American Soccer League (NASL) from April next year, officials said on Monday.
KANPUR, India (Reuters) - India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat against Sri Lanka in the second test Tuesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - David Beckham has suffered from a mild form of asthma since childhood, the England midfielder's spokesman was quoted as saying in British newspapers on Tuesday.
By Martyn Herman
By Brian Homewood
BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe's biggest football match-fixing scandal has nothing to do with Germany's 2005 illegal betting affair, according to the country's soccer chief.
By Alan Baldwin