Chris Froome has reported an apparent hit-and-run incident to police after saying he was deliberately knocked off his bike while training in southern France yesterday.

Waterford rally driver Craig Breen has been involved in a high-speed crash during a rally in Italy, in which his navigator and Welsh rally driver Gareth Roberts was killed.

Wind-whipped fires that have been ravaging parts of Sicily, reached a hotel near the port city of Messina today, killing three people and leaving another two missing, authorities said.