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London, Feb 19 - Australia cricket team coach Darren Lehmann has confirmed that skipper Michael Clarke will be returning for Saturday's World Cup group stage game against Bangladesh in Brisbane.

Following his recovery from hamstring injury, Clarke made a solid return by smacking 64 runs against United Arab Emirates in a warm-up game last week.

Reflecting on Clarke's chances, Lehmann said that yes, he is playing.

Commenting on his fitness, Clarke said that they had a good conversation (with selectors) last week and thought it was in the team's best interests to not play against England and give him another week, Sport24 reported.

The returning skipper, who is likely to replace stand-in skipper George Bailey, was satisfied with his progress after a good practice session.

Ithaca - A physicist whose career was highlighted by research that helped capture moving images of the first moon walk has died. Ernest Sternglass was 91. Cornell University says Sternglass died Thursday of heart failure in Ithaca, New York.

Sternglass corresponded early in his career with Albert Einstein, who encouraged him to pursue applied physics over theoretical research. Cornell says Sternglass' research helped lead to a sensitive television camera tube that captured low-light lunar action during the 1969 moon landing. He also performed pioneering work in digital X-rays.

He worked on medical imaging for many years at the Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) is likely to take up Thursday a proposal to extend export subsidy to 1.4 million tonnes of raw sugar in the ongoing 2014-15 marketing year.

"The CCEA meeting is scheduled for Thursday. The sugar subsidy issue is on the agenda of the meeting," sources said.

As per the proposal, the Food Ministry has favoured extending export subsidy to 1.4 million tonnes of raw sugar with some conditions. It has proposed a subsidy of about Rs 4,000 a tonne, sources said.

The Ministry said that the country would be left with an exportable surplus of 1.4 million tonnes after meeting the domestic demand of 24.8 million tonnes.

New Delhi: Retirement fund body EPFO is likely to appoint fund managers Thursday for a three year term from April 1 and raise age limit for vesting of pension by two years to 60.

Both the proposals will be taken up for discussion and approval by the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation's apex decision making body - Central Board of Trustees (CBT) - as per the agenda listed for the meet.

Asset management firms ICICI Securities Primary Dealership, Reliance Capital AMC and HSBC AMC have emerged as top bidders for managing huge corpus of the EPFO.

Washington, Feb 18 : Formula One giants Ferrari has the fans drooling over the newly released image of its radical concept car ahead of the first race of the season next month in Australia.

London, Feb 18 : Apple reportedly had some sensors removed from its new smartwatch after discovering that arm hair was obstructing its functioning.