German authorities should set up telephone hotlines, safe houses and legal aid to help the many women expected to be forced into working as prostitutes during the upcoming World Cup in football.

One month after his conviction for fraud, the IOC Executive Committee has finally decided to provisionally deprive Yong-sung Park from South Korea of all rights as an IOC member. The provision stays in place until the IOC Ethics Committee has completed its inquiry into the case and until the judicial authorities in South Korea have rendered a final judgement.

In November last year, the German football referee Robert Hoyzer was sentenced to 29 months in jail for taking bribes to fix the outcome of a number of matches in the German football league. But now Hoyzer may avoid going to prison altogether.

In a surprising about-turn FIFA has now agreed to lift all planned restrictions on digital publication of photographs from the upcoming World Cup in Germany. Now newspapers can publish all the photos they want on their websites and they can do it while the match is still being played.

It is very difficult for autonomous regions to become independent members of the IOC. Nevertheless, the two Danish autonomous regions, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, have now been given an unusual opportunity to present their arguments for independent membership directly to the IOC.

After his acquittal of charges of forgery, ex-secretary general Jean-Pierre Seppey announced his intentions of taking over the presidency of the International Volleyball Federation from the Mexican Ruben Acosta.

Nobody sees it, nobody knows and Ruben Acosta takes the money. So are the accusations of Mario Goijman. The defence demands an end to this "game of vindictiveness."

President Ruben Acosta and former secretary general Jean-Pierre Seppey deny any responsibility for the manipulation of the 2000 annual report for the International Volleyball Federation.