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Wolfsburg, Germany  - German champion VfL Wolfsburg insisted Wednesday their highly-sought striker Edin Dzeko would not be sold.

Chief executive Juergen Marbach said the club would be resisting any move to prise the 23-year-old Bosnian away.

"I am confident we can convince him about a contract extension," he said.

AC Milan are leading the chase for Dzeko, who is reportedly also attracting the interest of several Premier League clubs.

Sri Lanka will take on West Indies in the second semifinal of the ICC T20 World Cup at the Oval on Friday.

Sri Lanka had won all the five matches in this tournament and the main reason for their success is the spinning pair of M Muralitharan and mystery bowler Ajantha Mendis.

Mendis has taken 11 wickets in the five matches he played in the tournament which is just one less than the 12 wickets of Umar Gul who is leading wicket-taker of the ICC T20 World Cup.

Indian squad for the tour of West Indies will be announced today by BCCI's Cricket Selection Committee in Mumbai, which will start from June 26.

Chief selectors of the Cricket Selection Committee K Srikant and Venkat Raja will join the meeting for selecting players for West Indies tour through teleconferencing as they are in London.

BCCI officials said that the two members of the selection committee are in London and they will participate in selection procedure in Mumbai through teleconferencing.

Islamabad  - Pakistani security forces and an anti-Taliban tribal militia killed at least 28 militants during the last 24 hours in the country's north-western region, officials said Wednesday.

A military statement said 20 "terrorists" were killed during a search operation in Galgut area of Dir distict, where government forces launched an operation to expel Taliban in late April.

Sixteen more militants were apprehended, while a cache of arms and ammunition were also recovered.

Prague  - The Czech parliament's upper house Wednesday agreed to keep up to 1,085 troops in NATO missions in Afghanistan and Kosovo in 2010.

The Senate voted 64-2 to deploy up to 535 soldiers in NATO's International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan next year, up from the 2009 limit of 480 troops.

The chamber also allowed at most 550 Czech troops to stay in Kosovo under NATO's KFOR mission, in line with this year's mandate.

Goettingen, Germany - A substance from the root of a flower growing in many gardens may cure prostate cancer, Germany's cancer-science council said Wednesday.

The lily-like flowers of Belamcanda chinensis are grown in temperate-region gardens as a perennial. In China it grows wild. The plant is used in Korean and Chinese medicine.