Madrid - John Fahey, chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) reminded cycling legend Lance Armstrong that he can still dispel rumours of past doping offences by accepting the re- testing of his 1999 Tour de France samples.

"If there is a question mark hanging over him there is one way in which he could resolve that. The samples that were taken and that were the subject of many rumours can still be analyzed," Fahey told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in a telephone interview from his native Australia.

"But that requires his permission, and he refuses to give that permission," the WADA boss added.

Madrid - Andres Iniesta will be out of action for at least two weeks, Spanish leaders Barcelona announced Wednesday.

The Euro 2008 hero pulled a muscle in his left thigh in training on Tuesday, and underwent medical tests on Wednesday morning.

Iniesta, 24, will therefore miss the upcoming Liga matches against Espanyol and Atletico Madrid, the King's Cup semi-final second leg against Mallorca - as well as the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 away to Olympique Lyon.

He will struggle to be fit for the second leg against Lyon on March 11.

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Today an announcement related to the latest handsets was made by HTC at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, which also included the Touch Diamond 2 and the Touch Pro 2. It would be nice to know that both the sets run Windows Mobile and will be upgradable to Windows Mobile 6.5.

The unique TouchFLO 3D interface by HTC is used as an overlay on both handsets to Windows Mobile 6.1.

Madrid - Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf is rapidly disintegrating, Spanish scientists reported on Tuesday, with potentially ominous implications for climate change.

An ice sheet of 14,000 square kilometres has broken off from the Wilkins Shelf, and has itself broken into several large icebergs, according to a statement from Spain's National Research Council (CSIC).

CSIC scientists aboard the Hesperides maritime research vessel spotted the disintegration, about 1,600 kilometres south of the southern tip of South America.

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