Sochi Winter Games

• With the olympics, Sochi becomes a selfie hotspot

  Taking a self-portrait with a cellphone camera has become wildly popular, and the opportunity do it with one of the most iconic Olympic symbols in the background is proving to be one of the biggest attractions at the Sochi Games

• Sochi Olympics: US athlete Johnny Quinn breaks down door after getting locked in toilet

  Locked in a bathroom inside the athlete's village, U.S. Olympic bobsledder Johnny Quinn knew only one way to get out.

• 'This course can kill you': A treacherous downhill slope

  One skier bloodied his face. Another blew out his knee in a nasty fall. All told, 10 of 55 starters failed to make it all the way down the slope.

• American sweaters at Sochi Olympics go viral on internet

  The Ugly Americans are out in force at these Winter Games, and it has nothing to do with their behaviour.

• No talk of gay rights, please, we're Olympians

  Plenty of athletes made clear before traveling to Sochi how unhappy they were about gay rights being curtailed in Russia, particularly with its law banning gay "propaganda."

• Hijack attempt on Ukraine to Turkey airliner: report

  A Ukrainian man attempted Friday to hijack an airliner en route from Ukraine to Turkey and divert it to Sochi where the Winter Olympics are taking place, Turkish media reports said.

• Latest Google Doodle on Sochi Olympics upholds gay rights

  Google marked the Winter Games in Sochi by flying the gay flag on Thursday in a search page Doodle that linked to a call for equality in the Olympic Charter.

• UN chief calls for equality, non-discrimination at Sochi Games

  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the participants of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, to advocate equality and non-discrimination during the games next month.

• Olympic torch blasts into space ahead of Winter Games

  A rocket carrying the Olympic flame has successfully blasted off from earth ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.