Thorpe makes royal wedding cut

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Olympic champion swimmer Ian Thorpe are among the names on the guest list for next week's wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in London.
The royal family has unveiled the confirmed guest list and seating plan for wedding, with celebrities, sports stars and foreign monarchs set to attend.

Musician Elton John, footballer David Beckham and his fashion designer wife Victoria and actor Rowan Atkinson are among the glittering line-up for the service in London's Westminster Abbey next Friday.
St James's Palace says Thorpe was invited after meeting Prince William last year.
Also invited are members of 46 foreign royal families, including the crown prince of Bahrain and the king of Swaziland, whose presence will be diplomatically sensitive because of the suppression by both states of anti-government protests.

In a nod to Prince William's military background and status as second-in-line to the throne, a British veteran of the war in Afghanistan will attend along with the families of soldiers killed in that country and in Iraq
Lance Corporal Martyn Compton, who served with Prince William, was so badly burned in an insurgent attack in Afghanistan in 2006 that he lost his ears and nose.

A number of Prince William's colleagues from his job as a search and rescue helicopter pilot for the Royal Air Force will also be attending, along with members of charities he supports.

Most of the guests are family or private friends of Prince William and Kate, with her guests reportedly including the butcher, the postman and the greengrocer from the rural English village of Bucklebury where she grew up.
The seating plan shows William's grandmother Queen Elizabeth II and other senior royals will be the front row, together with Kate's family on the other side of the aisle.
Kate's mother Carole will sit directly opposite the queen.
The Spencer family of William's mother Princess Diana, who died in a car crash in Paris in 1997, will sit behind the Middletons.
But as expected there is a snub for Sarah Ferguson, William's aunt and ex-wife of uncle Prince Andrew, following a series of tabloid scandals.
All the crowned heads of state of countries with which Britain has diplomatic relations were invited to send representatives to the wedding.
Only Cambodia has declined do so.
But much as the British Foreign Office might have hoped that the Bahraini royal family would also have been busy with other things on Friday, it seems that their crown prince will be heading to London.
That is despite the fact that British foreign secretary William Hague has spoken of his concern at the way in which the Bahraini authorities have been dealing with the pro-democracy protests.
Since the wedding is not a formal state occasion, world leaders such as US president Barack Obama and French president Nicolas Sarkozy have not been invited.

The wedding is expected to be watched by a worldwide television audience of around two billion.