Dortmund, Germany  - Borussia Dortmund have extended the contract of South Korean left-back Lee Young-Pyo for another season with an option to keep him for a further year, the German Bundesliga clu

Los Angeles  - The glittery glove famously worn by former pop idol Michael Jackson in his 1983 video for the hit song Billie Jean is up for sale.

The glove will be auctioned off in April, together with more than 2,000 items from Neverland Ranch, Jackson's home for over 15 years, until he abandoned in the aftermath of his 2005 acquittal on charges that he molested a young male visitor there.

Washington  - Democratic legislators and the White House have agreed on the outlines of a deal to keep the US car industry out of bankruptcy, offering a
15-billion-dollar loan in exchange for heavy government oversight.

But the language of the deal was not finalized and it remained unclear if enough Republican legislators had signed on for the agreement to pass Congress.

US politicians have been haggling for weeks on the details of a car industry bail-out. A vote in the House of Representatives was considered possible later Wednesday, but leaders in the upper Senate said they may only vote over the weekend.

Hanoi - Accidental injury is a leading cause of death among children in underdeveloped countries, killing some 2,000 children every day, according to a UN report released Wednesday.

But the report says efforts to reduce injuries among children are underfunded and have been too often ignored.

The report, released by the World Health Organization and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) at a press conference in Hanoi, uses Vietnam as an example of how efforts to prevent injuries in children can be unexpectedly complex.

Washington  - The Hubble telescope has detected carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet in another solar system, in what NASA called a key step that could one day help researchers find life on another planet.

The planet HD 189733b is located about 63 light-years away and is about the size of Jupiter, but is too hot for life, NASA researchers said Tuesday.

Cairo - Egypt deported on Wednesday five Germans accused of religious extremism, airport sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur, dpa.

The five Germans, two men and three women, were deported to Frankfurt. Previous media reports stated that Egypt accused the family of Islamic extremism and imprisoned them. The family had torn up its German identification papers, fearing the documents would connect them to an "infidel state," local media reported.

Earlier media reports said the family did not want to return to Germany.