At 8 years old, Richard Sandrak was considered the strongest human in the world, pound for pound. Weighing just 80 pounds, he could benchpress more than twice his weight. Now, at 12, Richard is already a grizzled veteran of the bodybuilding circuit.

A US tycoon has offered $1 million to the husband of a badly brain-damaged woman to stop him from removing her feeding-tube next week. Let the games begin.