Armstrong, UK Times Settle Libel Suit

(Newser) – Britain's Sunday Times and Lance Armstrong have settled an almost decade-long legal battle over the disgraced cyclist's doping, the Times reports via a headline that proclaims Armstrong a "drug cheat." Terms of the deal are confidential, but the paper calls it a "mutually acceptable final resolution." The Times had paid Armstrong $470,000 in a 2006 libel settlement over 2004 articles it ran detailing his alleged doping; it sued to the tune of $1.6 million to recoup that settlement and damages after Armstrong admitted to Oprah in January that he had in fact used in all seven Tour de France wins. (Read more Lance Armstrong stories.)