Some 25,000 Bayern Munich fans are expected for Pep Guardiola's first training session in charge of the team on Wednesday.

Such is the interest in seeing the Spanish coach in action, that Bayern has taken the unusual step of holding open training sessions at its 69,000-seat stadium on Wednesday and Thursday.

FIFA has extended provisional bans for two Lebanese football officials facing charges related to match-fixing in the Asian Football Confederation so that they apply worldwide.

Assistant referees Ali Eid and Abdallah Taleb were provisionally suspended from all football-related activities by the AFC while the governing body reaches a decision on whether they attempted to manipulate a match on April 3.

Jordan has appointed Egypt great Hossam Hassan to coach the national team through the Asian qualifying playoffs for the World Cup.

Hassan replaces Iraqi Adnan Hamad, who resigned this month after Jordan reached the playoffs with a 1-0 win over Oman. But by then, Hamad was under increasing fire from Jordan fans and media for the team's stuttering campaign.

Fenerbahce was expelled from the Champions League for the second time in three seasons and Besiktas was banned from the Europa League after the Turkish clubs were punished by UEFA on Tuesday over separate charges of match-fixing.

Fenerbahce was banned from the next three UEFA club competitions for which it would have qualified, starting with next season's Champions League, in relation to a long-running fixing case that dates back to the Istanbul club's league-winning run in 2011. UEFA said the sanction for the third competition is deferred "for a probationary period of five years."

On the eve of their Confederations Cup semifinal meeting, Uruguay captain Diego Lugano on Tuesday accused Brazil star Neymar of fooling referees during the Confederations Cup by pretending to be fouled.

In three group-stage matches, Neymar won 18 free kicks and committed 13 fouls as Brazil advanced with three victories.

A reporter wanted to know whether Serena Williams contemplates adding more variety to her power-based game.

She did not take kindly to the question's premise.

Liverpool has signed Belgium goalkeeper Simon Mignolet from fellow Premier League side Sunderland for a reported fee of 9 million pounds ($13.9 million).

Liverpool said the 25-year-old Mignolet has "penned a long-term contract" after a brilliant year last season in which he was one of the Premier League's top goalkeepers.

A bomb targeting a senior judge in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi wounded him and killed seven security personnel on Wednesday, a senior government official said.

The dead included six policemen and a paramilitary Ranger, said Sharjeel Memon, the information minister for southern Sindh province, where Karachi is the capital. The explosion also wounded 15 people, including policemen and Rangers as well as the judge, he said.

A senior British official defended the country's intelligence-sharing ties with the United States on Tuesday, as governments in both countries face criticism about snooping on citizens.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague, speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, called intelligence-sharing between Britain and the U.S. "unique and indispensable" at a time of unrest around the globe.

Outgoing U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said Tuesday the U.N. Security Council's failure to take action to stop the conflict in Syria is "a moral and strategic disgrace that history will judge harshly."

She told reporters at her final news conference Tuesday before starting her new job as U.S. national security adviser on July 1 that the paralysis of the U.N.'s most important body is "a stain" on the council that she will regret forever — even though she maintained that the U.S. and its allies were not responsible.