What began as a backlash against bus price rises has ignited thanks to the cost of staging next year’s event

Italy won their opening match

Nation's global dominance looks assured for years to come

Marlou van Rhijn became the fastest female leg amputee at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Berlin. The Dutchwoman, already the 100 metres world record holder for double leg amputees, posted a time of 12.96sec, 0.02sec faster than the T44 mark for single leg amputees set by April Holmes of the US in 2006.

Second day of trouble mars Italy's 2-1 win over Mexico as demonstrators attack cost of World Cup

Move over, Thomas the Tank Engine – rival children's TV show Chuggington has not given up on its journey to conquer the world and become "the premier evergreen pre-school global train property".

1 Bring harmony from discord

Many City players were deeply dispirited at the end of a difficult few years under Roberto Mancini, finding it hard to tolerate the way the Italian criticised them publicly. City hope that an older man, with better interpersonal skills, will quickly begin recreating a team ethic. At the heart of chief executive Ferran Soriano’s philosophy is the notion of a core of players steeped in the City philosophy who will teach it to newcomers. It will be for Pellegrini to help introduce that.

Supermodel posed naked in a series of photographs for fake tan company

The world champions won narrowly in New York

The deal for the 27-year-old could rise to as much as £18m

The World Cup hosts are warming up for the Confederations Cup

Phil Neville has called for the brightest young men he has seen while observing the England Under-21s in Israel this week to be given more of a chance in the Premier League next season. He believes they are being held back by foreign managers and not receiving the sort of exposure he and his Manchester United contemporaries had 20 years ago – and that England are suffering.

The Brazil international becomes City's first official signing

Bolt unfazed after shock defeat to Gatlin in Rome