Hamburg - Both Arsenal and Real Madrid needed 1-0 wins to book their places in the last 16 of the Champions League Tuesday while a draw was sufficient for Manchester United to ensure their berth in the knockout stages.

Arsenal put a torrid week which saw William Gallas stripped of the captaincy and Arsene Wenger's side crash 3-0 at Manchester City behind them, registering a solid performance to beat Dynamo Kiev 1-0 thanks to a late Nicklas Bendner score.

Kiev finished the game with 10 men after Olexandr Aliyev received a straight red card for trying to move the referee away from the ball as he wanted to take a free-kick quickly.

Leverkusen, Germany - Bayer has agreed to settle US charges by paying 97.5 million dollars without an admission of guilt, the German chemicals and pharmaceuticals group said Tuesday.

The US Department of Justice had brought proceedings against the company over its incentives for mail-order sales from 1998 to 2003 of glucose meters, which are used by diabetics to test themselves several times a day.

Hamburg  - The German Bundesliga is making more money from jersey sponsorship than another other football league in Europe, the European Jersey Report
2008/09 survey carried by the market research group Sport und Markt and released Tuesday has revealed.

The 18 clubs in Germany's top flight reaped a total of 102.9 million euros (130.5 million dollars) for the current season from jersey sponsorship, the first time the Bundesliga has broken through the 100-million-euro barrier.

Boppard, Germany  - A party of sick British pensioners were isolated Tuesday aboard a river cruise boat, the Lady Anne, after German authorities put them under quarantine on the Rhine River.

Wuerzburg, Germany  - Conductor Jin Wang, 48, has been sacked from his post in Germany, municipal authorities said Tuesday after an allegation that he sexually harassed a young woman musician.

Chinese-born Wang, who was director of music at the Mainfranken Theatre and conducted the Wuerzburg Philharmonic Orchestra, had resisted pressure to resign after the city of Wuerzburg suspended him on full pay.

A municipal spokesman said he was sacked last Friday after fruitless efforts for a negotiated solution.

The city said that regardless of whether the harassment claim was true or not, it had an obligation as employer to act in the interests of the other 240 staff of the theatre.

Berlin - Two Italians were among eight foreigners who shared a prestigious German science prize on Tuesday.

Daniele Oriti and Cinzia Casiraghi were honoured with the Sofja Kovalesvskaja Prize for their research in physics.

The award, worth up to 1.65 million euros (2.09 million dollars), is funded by the Ministry of Research and Development with the aim of attracting young researchers to Germany.

Oriti, who has studied in Rome and Cambridge, is currently conducting research at the MPI Institute for Gravitational Physics at Potsdam, near Berlin.