FIFA has signed off all 10 venues for this summer’s World Cup even though the venue for the final will not be officially handed over for another month.

The opening of the stadium that will host this year’s World Cup Final in South Africa has been delayed.

The troubled Cape Town preparations for the 2010 football World Cup face further problems as an environmental group opposes the construction of a stadium in Cape Town and threatens the city with legal action.

A floating Olympic Stadium is not only a technical possibility but also a necessity if the world wants to live up to the ethos embodied in the Olympic Charter, argues a team of researchers from Technion at Israel Institute of Technology.