Munich - Franck Ribery is not for sale but a move involving Lukas Podolski will hopefully be finalized within the next weeks, according to the chairman of Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.

Rummenigge told Friday's edition of the Bild daily that Munich will not release their French star Ribery from his contract until 2011 and instead want to keep him even longer.

"I can promise that 100 per cent to all Bayern fans and all friends of attractive football. No offer, no sum will stop us," Rummenigge said.

Munich - Bayern Munich goalkeeper Michael Rensing has dismissed criticism of his performances from club president Franz Beckenbauer as nonsense amid speculation that the Bundesliga champions may be looking to sign a new man between the posts.

"His criticism is nonsense," Rensing told Thursday's edition of the Bild daily.

Earlier this week, Beckenbauer had named Rensing's performance in Saturday's league match at VfB Stuttgart "amateurish" and blamed him for Stuttgart's late 2-2 equalizer.

Munich - German prosecutors searched the offices Wednesday of troubled mortgage lender Hypo Real Estate, which has emerged as one of the nation's most prominent victims of the US subprime housing crisis.

Munich prosecutors said they searched Hypo Real Estate's premises as well as property linked to the lender's former board members.

The investigations relate to suspicions of market manipulation.

Munich - An Italian restaurant operator won a lawsuit Tuesday against a German book author who claimed he was a mid-level boss in the 'Ndrangheta organized-crime network in Calabria.

Journalist Petra Reski said she was told by a senior Rome policeman that the Italian, who used to run a pizza bar in the central German city of Erfurt, was under suspicion as a mobster.

But the court in Munich said this could not be proved.

Munich - Germany midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger has renewed his contract at Bayern Munich until 2012, the Bundesliga champions announced on Monday.

Bayern said on their website that Schweinsteiger, 24, signed a new three-year deal on the weekend. His current contract expires after the season amid reported interest from European top clubs including Real Madrid and Juventus Turin.

Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said the club was "very happy" to have settled this important issue.

Munich  - Officially named Core i7, Intel's latest quadcore processor, developed under the codename Nehalem, has arrived and already met with lots of praise.

This is Intel's first quadcore with four individual processor cores - the Core 2 Quads, which have been available since 2006, work with a pair of dual core chips and Computer Bild magazine has already tested the new chip.

The report hailed the top-of-the-line Core i7-965, with a speed of 3.2 gigahertz (GHz), "the fastest processor, by far" of all the processors it has ever tested.