Italian Valentino Rossi extended his contract with Yamaha to the end of 2008.
Australia beat New Zealand by eight runs a high-scoring tri-series ODI.
Italian Loris Capirossi won the MotoGP Czech Grand Prix after leading from start to finish.
Tendulkar's ranking may have slipped but he will show why he is recognised as the world's best batsman in the remaining three Tests, Indian teammate VVS Laxman said on Tuesday.
Set a target of 243, Australia chased down the total with 4.4 overs to spare in the tri-series opener that also involves New Zealand.
Australia beat England by 10 wickets to win the fifth Test and complete their first Ashes series whitewash in 86 years.
The Italian kept alive the defence of his MotoGP title with a battling victory in the German Grand Prix.
The Italian Yamaha rider fought from 11th position at the start for his second straight win at the twisting Sachsenring circuit.
"I would like to emulate kaka and become a master-blaster like him," said Rohan Tendulkar, nephew of Sachin Tendulkar.
All-rounder Andrew Symonds retained his place along with seamer Mitchell Johnson, who was the 12th man in Perth.
Sehwag, however, could not improve on his seventh position.
Australia beat England by six wickets with 19 balls to spare on an extraordinary final day to win the second Test and take a 2-0 lead in the Ashes series.
England picked up the crucial wicket of Langer to reduce Australia to 28 for one after posting a daunting total of 551-6.
Australia beat Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in their last Super Eights game to enter the last four of the Twenty20 World Championship.
Australia named an unchanged squad on Monday for the second and final Test against New Zealand in Adelaide which starts on Friday.
Australia's cricketers have scoffed at suggestions their ageing team is too old to win back the Ashes from England.
Statistical highlights of the fourth day's play of the first cricket Test between India and England in Rajkot on Saturday.
French Football Federation (FFF) president Noel Le Graet told the country's top clubs on Wednesday to make the quality of their pitches an absolute priority, describing one ground at Euro 2016 as "a failure".
Australian captain Michael Clarke believes the Ashes series against England starting next month will be played in the correct spirit, even if some players come close to crossing a line.
Australia, chasing 307 to win, were 212 for four at the close of the fourth day of the first Test against Bangladesh
World XI captain Graeme Smith said he supports the use of television replays after the video umpire gave out three Australian batsmen on the opening day of the ICC Super Test.
Katich opened the batting with Gilchrist after Australian selectors dropped Hayden from the one-day side.
It may be all-vegetarian dishes and non-alcoholic drinks when United States President Barack Obama hosts a private dinner at the White House tonight for Prime Minister Narendra Modi who himself will take only lime water.
Rahul Dravid said his country's World Cup demolition by Australia was a thing of the past.
England's captain said Saturday's final will be about who handles the pressure better on the day.
Fighter aircraft and a Black Hawk helicopter forced the Cessna, which had taken off from a Pensylvannia airport, to land at an airport in Frederick, Maryland, about 40 miles from Washington.
When then ISI director Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha visited Washington, DC for a meeting with CIA Director Michael Hayden, he admitted that the planners of the Mumbai attacks included some 'retired Pakistani officers' and that the attackers had 'ISI links, but this had not been an authorised ISI operation.'
Liverpool beat West Ham United 2-1 to keep alive their chance of finishing second in the English Premier League
Stuart Clark took five wickets for 55 on his debut to snatch the advantage for Australia on the first day of the first Test against South Africa.
Australia, chasing England's first-innings total of 373, closed a truncated second day of the fifth Ashes Test on 112 without loss
The Australian captain has been ordered to rest because of a slight thigh strain for the fourth ODI against New Zealand.
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