Berlin - Germany faces an increased risk of Islamist terror attacks ahead of national elections in September, security chiefs warned Saturday.

The head of the domestic intelligence agency, Heinz Fromm, said the probability of a terror attack is especially high, in an interview with the daily Hamburger Abendblatt.

In Germany's general election set for September 27, the country's troop presence in Afghanistan, opposed by the majority of German citizens, is likely to be high on the agenda.

Hamburg - Bayern Munich's dream of a grand start out of the German football winter break lasted only 72 hours as SV Hamburg exposed that they are only human after all.

Munich appeared superhuman in a 5-1 cup rout on Tuesday at VfB Stuttgart, but all their ambitions froze on a cold Friday when they were beaten 1-0 by Hamburg in the Bundesliga restart.

Mladen Petric's winner shortly before halftime made sure that Hamburg and not Munich moved to the top of the standings (at least until later Saturday) to the delight of the 57,000-strong crowd.

Instead of starting a planned winning streak to take the league by storm Munich's inconsistency prevailed in their third season defeat.

Hamburg  - Bayern Munich were caught out cold on Friday night as they lost 1-0 at SV Hamburg in the Bundesliga restart which lifted the hosts to the top of the table.

Croatia forward Mladen Petric headed the winner seconds before halftime for a courageous Hamburg team which has lost just one of the last eight meetings with the defending champions Munich.

Hamburg were denied twice by the post against Munich, who were far from the form of Tuesday's emphatic 5-1 cup win at VfB Stuttgart but had several chances to equalize in the second half.

Hamburg  - SV Hamburg announced Friday that they have agreed a deal with Venezuela's Deportivo Tachira to take Tomas Rincon on loan until the end of 2009.

The Bundesliga club will pay between 200,000 and 300,000 euros (260,00 to 390,000 dollars) for the services of the 21-year-old midfielder and also have an option to sign Rincon until 2013.

Rincon is seen as a replacement for Dutch international Nigel de Jong, who moved to English Premier League club Manchester City for a fee of 16 million pounds (22 million dollars) last week.

Budapest - The German engineering giant Bosch confirmed on Friday that it is to close down a unit in central Hungary where it manufactures car stereos.

Peter Dallos, the financial director of the Bosch-owned Digital Disc Drives plant in the Hungarian town of Kecskemet, told the local news agency MTI that orders were down by over half in the past few months as the crisis in the automotive industry deepens.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany - Lindsey Vonn of the United States ended Maria Riesch's World Cup slalom winning streak Friday, beating her German friend into second place on a day Austria met disaster.

The World Cup leader Vonn won from third place after the first run in a combined total of 1 minute 47.17 seconds for her fourth season victory and 17th overall.

Riesch, who had won the previous four slaloms but then failed to finish in three of the last four races overall, fought from sixth to second place in 1:48.07 in front of a delighted home crowd.