Tokyo - Ivan Basso returned from a doping ban by coming third in the Japan Cup race which saw an Italian podium sweep led by Damiano Cunego.

Moscow - At least four people were reported killed when a helicopter on a test flight after repairs crashed near Kazan Sunday in the Russian republic of Tatarstan.

Madrid - Flooding triggered by heavy rainstorms has put parts of the Spanish exclave of Melilla in northern Africa under water and cut the city off from the outside, reports said Sunday.