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"The planet's heading powers will gather in Johannesburg from the 12-fifteenth November to handle one of the most excellent tests confronting game today: doping."

"Merchants Quay Ireland (MQI), the largest needle exchange service in the state, has reported a "dramatic increase" in the count of people, mainly men, who are injecting anabolic steroids."

"According to an announcement by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, Gregory Flood of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Frank Petrucci, of Warwick, N.Y., athletes in the sport of rowing, have both tested positive for a prohibited substance and have accepted a public warning and a loss of results because of the presence of a prohibited substance in their urine samples."

"The Australian Football League (AFL) has fined the Footscray Football Club, currently known as the Western Bulldogs, for breaching the player movement rules of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority during its recent training camp in the United States."

"Two men have been arrested for allegedly sending death threats to United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) chief Travis Tygart last year."

"The 19-year-old student, and son of former Scotland and British & Irish Lions fly-half Craig Chalmers, is alleged to have tested positive in a random drugs test while involved with Scotland Under-20s towards the end of last season. The IRB, SRU and Melrose RFC all declined to comment on the case, other than to re-state their commitment to keeping rugby clean and disciplining players in line with the UK Sport and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) guidelines."

"Malta's Parliamentary Secretary for Research, Innovation, Youth and Sport, Stefan Buontempo, stated that sports organizations should sustain the National Anti-Doping Organization."

"For drug cheaters from countries like the United States and Britain, nations with well-funded and relatively efficient antidoping agencies, that means big trouble. Under the new World Anti-Doping Code, which would take effect in 2015, the ban for athletes who intentionally use performance-enhancing drugs will double, jumping to four years from two. That penalty ensures that any athlete whose deliberate doping leads to a positive test will miss an Olympic Games."

"Shawn Morelli, of Leavenworth (Kansas), an athlete in the sport of Paralympic cycling, has been cleared to return to competition after testing positive for a prohibited substance, according to an announcement by the United States Anti-Doping Agency."

"The Obama administration has remarked the United States is postponing negotiations for a landmark free trade deal with the European Union due to a partial shutdown of the U.S. government."

"In early Asian trade on Monday, the United States dollar was on the back foot against the yen and the Swiss franc with little progress made over the U.S. budget standoff, keeping the dollar stuck close to lows of eight months against a basket of major currencies due to US government shutdown."

"Some were cyclists who injected themselves with banned endurance boosters and popped testosterone pills. Some lay side by side with teammates while blood dripped from chilled IV bags and into their swelling veins. Others were doctors who helped cyclists dope or middlemen who ferried drugs for Lance Armstrong's United States Postal Service team."

"An athlete in the sport of wrestling, has tested positive for a prohibited substance and accepted an eight-month suspension for his doping offense, according to an announcement by the United States Anti-Doping Agency."

"Mary Akor of Gardena, an athlete in the sport of track & field, has accepted a ban of two years for a doping offense, according to an announcement by the United States Anti-Doping Agency."