Fifa president Sepp Blatter is to be invited to a reception with the Queen at Buckingham Palace as part of an Olympics delegation before next summer's Games... more
London teenager who had to be put on a life-support machine after contracting swine flu while on holiday in Greece has died 15 months later in a car crash in America... more
Didier Defago ended 22 years of Swiss downhill heartache by scoring a surprise victory in the delayed blue riband event of the Winter Games at Whistler... more
After quitting skiing through injury, the 36-year-old is now hoping to win a place on Scotland's sprint cycling team at the Commonwealth Games ... more
London 2012 have appointed Doug Arnot, one of the key figures in Salt Lake City's staging of the 2002 Winter Olympics, as their director of games operations... more
Stock picture businesses used to be run by amateur enthusiasts who rarely made money. Mark Getty just sold his for $2.4bn and is staying on to take it to a new level ... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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