Roma midfielder Daniele De Rossi will be sidelined for two weeks with a thigh injury but could be back for the match at Serie A champion Juventus.

De Rossi injured his right thigh toward the end of Italy's draw against Bulgaria in World Cup qualifying on Friday. He returned to his club and has already begun treatment.

After successfully overseeing the London Games, Sebastian Coe wants to take charge of Britain's quest to produce Olympic champions of the future.

The two-time Olympic middle-distance champion announced Monday that he will be a candidate to replace Colin Moynihan as chairman of the British Olympic Association.

Three doctors are being investigated for alleged manslaughter following the death of Italian footballer Piermario Morosini last season.

Morosini, who was on loan from Serie A side Udinese, collapsed and died during Livorno's Serie B match at Pescara on April 14 after a heart attack. Forensic tests later revealed he suffered from an inherited heart disease.

Qatar Holding, a major shareholder of mining group Xstrata, said Tuesday it has made no decision yet on whether to accept Glencore International's latest offer to salvage a multibillion-dollar merger bid for the Anglo-Swiss company.

The brief comments suggest Qatar Holding is at least considering Glencore's latest offer. The government-run investment firm is Xstrata's second-largest shareholder. It had pushed for better terms for Xstrata, and its opposition to the original bid threatened to scuttle the entire deal.

The U.N. refugee agency's special envoy, actress Angelina Jolie, is touring a refugee camp in Jordan for Syrians who fled the civil war in their country.

The Hollywood star arrived on Tuesday morning in the Zaatari camp, which hosts about 27,000 Syrians displaced by the 18-month conflict. She met with Syrian refugee women separately and toured the sprawling tent city.

Acupuncture gets a thumbs-up for helping relieve pain from chronic headaches, backaches and arthritis in a review of more than two dozen studies — the latest analysis of an often-studied therapy that has as many fans as critics.

Some believe its only powers are a psychological, placebo effect. But some doctors believe even if that's the explanation for acupuncture's effectiveness, there's no reason not to offer it if it makes people feel better.

India's national space organization has marked its 100th mission by launching French and Japanese satellites.

The Indian Space Research Organization said Sunday's launch of a French observation satellite and a Japanese microsatellite was a success.

Serena Williams wrapped up her remarkable summer with the latest rendition of a scene that has become familiar the past few months.

Williams jumping up and down on the tennis court with a wide smile across her face.

An outbreak of the Ebola virus has killed 15 people in northeastern Congo and the local communities are quickly learning how frighteningly deadly the disease is, and how to prevent its spread.

"Ebola entered my house and I did not know what it was," said Gabriel Libina Alandato, who survived the hemorrhagic fever. "My three daughters and their mother died in August, but it is only when I was taken to the quarantine center that I learned about the disease."

Egypt's most popular team Al-Ahly has played a match amid intense protests from fans angry at the failure so far to bring to justice perpetrators of a February stadium riot that killed 74 people.

Thousands of riot police and soldiers guarded the stadium in Alexandria on Sunday as Al-Ahly beat ENPPI 2-1 in The First Cup, which pits two top teams in a friendly match.