Film and theatre director Stephen Daldry will mastermind the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony. So how will he juggle competing with Beijing on a tight budget and adopting a child?... more
Chinese artist who collaborated on the Bird’s Nest stadium for the Beijing Olympics is to be the next to create a work for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall... more
The first purpose-built eco-theatre is being planned in London by Arcola Theatre and could be the benchmark for environmentally sustainable arts venues... more
Britain’s Olympic medallist is using his profile to send out a warning to youths as sibling serves sentence for his part in the horrific murder of a student... more
Motor sport: Formula One appears to be closing in on an agreement in the budget cap row ahead of the crucial announcement of the entrants for 2010... more
Boris Johnson is planning a spectacular free New Year’s Eve party for 80,000 Londoners in the Olympic stadium seven months before the Games begin... more
Motor Sport: The Race of Champions, which saw Wembley transformed into a racetrack, is leaving Europe for the first time in its 22-year history... more
Athletics: South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius is recovering well at a Johannesburg hospital after undergoing surgery on head and facial injuries sustained in a boating accident... more
Who do the experts consider to be the actor, dancer, playwright or conductor at the very top of their game? We asked our critics to give their highly subjective views.... more
Paralympics: World champion wheelchair racer David Weir was feeling low again after his second disappointment in 24 hours at the Paralympics in Beijing... more
Veronica Campbell-Brown followed the Usain Bolt path to glory in the Bird's Nest Stadium as she continued Jamaica's glorious track Games by successfully defending her Olympic 200m crown... more
British athletes began their push for a weekend Olympic gold rush - with heptathlete Kelly Sotherton leading the way in Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium... more
With the vast majority of British Olympic medal hopes falling around the same time, the success or otherwise of Team GB's campaign is likely to rest on just one extraordinarily hectic weekend... more
An eight-year-old Anglo-Chinese girl has been lined up to appear with David Beckham when London receives the Olympic flag from Beijing next month... more
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