London, Feb. 16: England midfielder David Beckham has insisted that last night's Milan derby defeat will not wreck his hopes of staying on in Italy.

AC Milan went down 2-1 to Inter and Becks said: "This result should not make one bit of difference. I'm aware they want me for the rest of the season."

Wellington  - The New Zealand government is likely to order the national cricket team not to go to Zimbabwe for a scheduled tour in July, Prime Minister John Key indicated on Monday.

The cabinet had not yet considered the issue, he said at his weekly news conference, "but I'd be deeply sceptical about whether they would be going."

Los Angeles  - Phoenix Suns head Terry Porter is expected to join the ranks of the unemployed this week.

Porter could receive his pink slip as early as Monday, and likely be replaced by Suns' lead assistant Alvin Gentry on an interim basis, according to reports on the Arizona Republic's website.

However, no decision on a replacement has been made yet.

In his first season behind the Suns' bench, Porter has guided the club to a respectable 28-23 record, but they are in ninth place in an eight-team playoff race in the highly-competitive Western Conference.

Pyeongchang, South Korea  - Ole Einar Bjoerndalen on Sunday made history as he won the men's pursuit at the biathlon world championship in Pyeongchang - equalling the world record of 86 World Cup wins in the process.

There was, however, some doubt whether the results would stand as the race directors launched an investigation after Bjoerndalen and several others left the track for a while at the beginning of the race.

In the women's pursuit race, Sweden's Helena Jonsson stunned the favoured Germans taking the gold from Kati Wilhelm after a brilliant shooting display.

Pyeongchang, South Korea  - The world biathlon federation (IBU) announced on Sunday that Russian relay world champion Dmitry Yaroshenko failed a doping test in Oberhof in early January.

The IBU said that he has waived a B sample analysis and they now considered it to be a positive doping case.

"This case will be handed over to the IBU Doping Hearing as soon as IBU has received the complete documentation package from the laboratory," the IBU said.

This case will then be decided by the IBU Doping Hearing Panel.

Yaroshenko, who has now failed three doping tests this season, is one of three Russian biathletes who left the world championships before the start of the competition after testing positive.

Pyeongchang, South Korea  - Helena Jonsson on Sunday claimed the biathlon world championship gold in the women's pursuit after a near-flawless display on the shooting range in Pyeongchang.

The Swede stunned the favoured Germans in windy conditions missing just twice on the first shooting, but then hitting all the remaining targets, to move past Germany's Kati Wilhelm and win in a time of 34 minutes 12.3 seconds.

Wilhelm was 18.3 seconds behind.