For two weeks in 1992, a US team of NBA superstars spearheaded by Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson destroyed all before them at an Olympic Games notable for the fact that it was the first since the collapse of the Berlin War.

A Lithuanian military plane has crashed after colliding in mid-air with a French Nato jet, officials said.

Two members of the RAF were attacked and robbed outside their hotel in northern Lithuania where they are with a Nato mission to patrol Baltic airspace.