Rome  - David Beckham appears to have promptly recovered from a muscular injury suffered at the weekend and AC Milan included him in the lineup for a first-leg UEFA Cup game set for Wednesday at Werder Bremen.

The 33-year-old English midfielder left the pitch limping during the city derby that the Devils lost 2-1 to Inter Milan late Sunday.

Beckham in late December joined Milan from Los Angeles Galaxy on a loan deal that will end on March 8. Coach Carlo Ancelotti has made him a mainstay in Milan's midfield, which convinced England coach Fabio Capello to call him up for an international friendly last week.

Rome  - Juventus' Brazilian Amauri levelled the opener from Sampdoria's Giampaolo Pazzini for a 1-1 draw that pushed Juve to within six points of leaders Inter Milan, who play a late city derby with AC Milan.

Ten-man Genoa drew 3-3 against Fiorentina, who rallied from three goals down and retained the fourth available Champions League berth, which became harder to reach for Roma after a harsh 3-0 beating away to in-form Atalanta.

Rome  - Serie A top striker Marco Di Vaio levelled the score for Bologna late Saturday as the struggling guests held Napoli to a 1-1 draw.

The 32-year-old forward scored his 16th goal this season after Christian Maggio was on target for Napoli's short-lived lead in the first half.

The Naples side were the first to threaten with a close-range overhead volley from Ezequiel Lavezzi that goalkeeper Francesco Antonioli managed to block.

Rome - Struggling Serie A side Torino took home one point from Lazio Saturday, holding the Rome side to a 1-1 draw after taking a first-half lead.

Ignazio Abate, an international defender with Italy's youth team, livened up a dull first half at 36 minutes, drilling a smashing drive into the lower-left corner after seizing a short clearance from Ousmane Dabo.

The Rome hosts saw a first chance go begging at 44 minutes as defender Sebastiano Siviglia had his close-range shot blocked by goalkeeper Matteo Sereni with the tip of his boot.

Valditrento, Italy - Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland on Saturday won the last women's cross-country World Cup race before the world championships.

Kowalczyk won the 10-kilometres classic style race in 29 minutes 37.4 seconds, her second straight win in the discipline, third overall in the season and fifth in her career.

Marianna Longa of Italy trailed by 12.4 seconds in second place and Slovenian sprint queen Petra Majdic was third, 30.3 seconds off the pace.

Aino Kaisa Saarinen of Finland came seventh to retain the World Cup lead with 1,276 points from Majdic (1,250) and Kowalczyk (1,167).

Rome  - Demonstrations and strikes organized by Italy's largest labour union confederation on Friday attracted tens of thousands of workers and jobless people protesting the conservative government's handling of the economic crisis.

Three separate marches staged in Rome snarled traffic in the capital city's centre, where security measures for a meeting of representatives of the Group of Seven industrialized nations had already restricted mobility.

Some 700,000 people took part, organizers said.