Gold

The quintet of William Fox-Pitt, Nicola Wilson, Zara Phillips, Mary King and Kristina Cook kept hold of their silver medal position at Greenwich Park.

World Championship silver medallist Ellen Gandy's failure to qualify for the 200m butterfly final continued Team GB's struggles in swimming competition at the Aquatics Centre on Tuesday.

Tom Daley, Zara Philips and the men's gymnastic teams among athletes who have performed on the world's biggest stage.

Kate Middleton's fashion style for the summer revolves around the twin ideals of subtle colours and celebrating the London Olympics 2012

An extremely rare racing motorcycle from the 1920s that lapped the famous Brooklands race circuit at over 100mph is expected to generate intense competition among bidders at the Bonhams Autumn Stafford Sale on October 21, 2012.

Action from the 2012 London Olympics to come from Wimbledon, where all the big guns - Andy Murray, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Maria Sharapova and the Williams sisters will be out on court... and there are four medal races in swimming events to be completed

Liam Tancock and Gemma Spofforth both finished in fifth place in their respective 100m backstroke finals as Team GB's swimmers failed to follow up on the momentum that had been handed to them by the men's gymnastics team.

Team GB's male gymnasts claimed the country's first Olympic team medal in 100 years after winning bronze at the end of a final drenched in controversy at the North Greenwich Arena at London 2012.

Team GB's Zoe Smith marked her Olympic debut by breaking the eight year clean and jerk British record to finish 12th in the women's 58kg weightlifting final.

Djibo Issaka is latest in line of underdogs who achieve worldwide fame at Olympics for wrong reasons.

Romanian shooter George Alin Moldoveanu claimed gold in the men's 19m Air Rifle event, at the 2012 London Olympics, with Italian Niccolo Campriani and Indian Gagan Narang in silver and bronze finishes

Paula Radcliffe will be replaced by Freya Murray in the women's marathon after the world record holder withdrew from the event with a foot injury on Sunday.

Despite the deepening UK recession, Bank of England rate-setters are unlikely to loosen their monetary policy further by slashing the base rate at their upcoming meeting.

British fencer Corinna Lawrence beat Chilean Caterin Aranguiz Bravo to enter the Round of 32 in the women's individual epee event at the 2012 London Olympics, while compatriot Paul Drinkhall was beaten by German Dimitrij Ovtcharov in his single's table tennis third round match

Team GB pair Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins broke a 20 year old Olympic record in reaching the women's sculls final on Friday.

Hannah Miley and Caitlin McClatchey both qualified for the semi-finals of their respective events after a morning in the pool that saw Ye Shiwen of China grab the headlines with a dominating performance in the 200m medley.

Rebecca Adlington was unable to defend her 400m freestyle title from Beijing 2008 but the 23-year-old did enough to secure third place and become the first British female swimmer to win an individual medal in successive Olympic Games.

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The new doodle, which follows the archery and diving doodles, commemorates Hungary's first gold at the 2012 London Olympics.

Lizzie Armitstead claimed Team GB's first medal of the London 2012 Olympic Games after winning silver in the women's road race following a thrilling sprint with victor Marianne Vos.

Rebecca Adlington has squeaked into the final of the women's 400m freestyle event, while sailor Ben Ainslie started the fleet of 10 races for the men's Finn sailing event by finishing a strong second.

Zara Phillips, granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, makes her Olympic equestrian debut with her family cheering her on.

Barcelona vice-president Josep Maria Bartomeu has stated that the club would like Brazil forward Neymar to move to Camp Nou after the Olympics.

Saturday saw the first flush of Olympic golds and China leads the provisional table with six medals (four gold) and with the Italians and Americans in hot pursuit. The hosts, Great Britain, have yet to open their medal count for the Games but can be confident of doing so on Sunday, with Rebecca Adlington competing in the women's 400m freestyle and three time gold medallist Ben Ainslie opening the sailing event

Ryan Lochte delivered the most convincing claim to the heir of Michael Phelps' throne with a dominant display to strike gold in the 400m individual medley.

British pair Andy and Jamie Murray were knocked out of the men's doubles in three sets by Jurgen Melzer and Alexander Peya in the Olympic tennis competition at Wimbledon.

Chinese shooter Yi Siling became the first gold medal winner of London 2012 after triumphing in the women's 10m air rifle.

Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic on returning to Wimbledon and going for gold at London 2012.

Reports claim West has commissioned an engagement ring studded with jewels from his late mother's collection.

The South Korean Sailing Federation has apologised on behalf of coach Lee Jae-Cheol, who has been sent home from the Games after being fined for drunk driving