Reports that seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will return to cycling have been met with bemusement by the team with which he is said to be making his comeback.

Sacha Baron Cohen's alter-ego Borat Sagdiyev's website has been closed down by Kazakhstan officials after he used it to jokingly respond to legal threats.

Sacha Baron Cohen's TV alter ego Borat Sagdiyev has jokingly responded to a legal threat from the Kazakhstan government accusing him of portraying the nation as a country of drunken Stalinists.

British comic Sacha Baron Cohen's bumbling TV alter ego Borat Sagdiyev is embroiled in a legal row with his native Kazakhstan for allegedly portraying the central Asian nation as a country of drunken fools and Stalinists.