North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said the United States should be aware that his country's nuclear forces are now a reality, not a threat.

Individual athletes who can prove they have not cheated could compete under the Olympic flag.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said Britain stands "shoulder to shoulder" with Japan in efforts to put an end to North Korea's nuclear and missile tests.

“I make no apologies for it — I’m the guy who wants to bring the Olympics to Dublin.”

FAI chief John Delaney is considering standing down as a senior Olympics official after a Brazilian judge withdrew a warrant issued for his passport.

More confusing than boxing judges decisions, more complex than the rules of synchronised swimming, and more bizarre than BMXers competing at the Olympics, one could be forgiven for struggling to follow Ireland’s Rio Games ticket touting scandal.

The afterparty has begun. The XV Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro opened with a feat to defy expectations in a carnival atmosphere at the Maracana Stadium.

It's pretty likely that you're just fine with the HD TV you have at home, or you might just be getting around to the idea of possibly upgrading to a 4K set in the not too distant future.

The Government has launched a three-month non-statutory inquiry to uncover the full scale of Ireland’s Olympic ticket touting scandal — despite concerns that any investigation will be hamstrung by ongoing Brazilian legal cases.

He came through the doors pushing his own luggage trolly, looking like any other holiday maker returning home from holidays.

Athletes have been let down by the IOC, writes John McHenry.

A multi-millionaire British football club owner who is known to keep a deliberately low profile is this morning at the centre of Ireland’s Olympics ticket touting controversy alongside four other directors of one of his lucrative firms.

Golf hasn’t been part of the Olympic programme since 1904 so you would have expected that the commencement of the men’s golf tournament today would be a time for celebration.

Drugs, bugs, refuseniks, and a troubled host city: it really hasn’t been the smoothest of rides so far for Rio 2016, writes Brendan O’Brien

APART, perhaps, from in the Kremlin in Moscow, few tears will be shed at the decision of the world athletics governing body to maintain its doping ban on all Russian athletes competing anywhere, including at the Rio Olympics.

The Irish Special Olympics team departed for Los Angeles yesterday on a quest for glory at the World Summer Games, which get under way on Saturday.

The International Olympic Committee has been urged by a coalition of human and gay rights groups not to award future Games to nations which have discriminatory laws.

The Olympics must have a smiley face on them at all times, according to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which means there can be no mourning for lost comrades on the playing fields.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree banning demonstrations and rallies in Sochi for two and a half months around the Winter Olympics.

House prices in the UK edged 0.7% lower month-on-month in October as the weak economy continued to dampen demand, Halifax said today.

Britain rebounded strongly from recession in the third quarter, posting its strongest quarterly GDP growth in five years, boosted at least in part by Olympics spending, official data showed yesterday.

The Olympics is thought to have helped drive a further fall in UK unemployment after another leap in the number of people in work, official figures showed today.

Winning gold was a family affair for Team Ireland runner Michael McKillop when his mother presented him with his medal in a historic moment at the Paralympics.

The heroic athletic efforts we witnessed on our screens has inspired many to start exercising. Be it walking, running, or another activity, for winning results it’s best to begin slowly, says Áilín Quinlan.

The firm behind the Olympics security fiasco admitted today that its loss on the bungled contract will be in the region of £50m (€65m).

The parliamentary grilling received by the chief executive of G4S after its Olympics security shambles was in danger of discouraging businesses to come to the UK, it was claimed today.

Department store chain John Lewis saw sports sales take the gold last week as customers continued to be inspired by the London 2012 Olympics.

The Olympics continues today with plenty of Irish involvement and the potential for another medal in the boxing ring.

THE London 2012 Olympics carries a lot of positive messages for girls and women.

If the Olympics itself is the ultimate reality TV show, Ireland’s Olympic handball administrators have devised a pretty ingenious spin-off contest this week.

The reaction was as eclectic as the extravaganza director Danny Boyle laid on to open the London Olympics.

The Olympic Games were formally opened in London yesterday.

A senior London 2012 figure has admitted that serious problems in the distribution of tickets ahead of the football matches at Newcastle’s St James’ Park yesterday were “appalling” and “unacceptable”.

A strike action planned by Aer Arann pilots has been called off.

A drop in quarterly revenues at mobile phone giant Vodafone unnerved investors during a weak session for the London market today.

Boris Johnson has called on those worrying about the Olympics to “put a sock in it”, stop complaining and get behind Team GB for the Games.

More than 20,000 G4S guards have been accredited to provide security for the Olympics but the firm is unable to get them to turn up at venues, it has emerged.

Security firm G4S said today it will meet the full cost of deploying thousands of extra troops to the London Olympics after it failed to supply sufficient numbers of security guards.

Every Olympics has a new emblem, and every emblem causes outrage, none more so than 2012’s jagged shards, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Brtain's Home Secretary Theresa May denied that Olympics security was a shambles today after the British military was called in to plug a gap left by the failure of private provider G4S.