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Great Britain celebrated their first gold medal of the London 2012 Olympics as Helen Glover and Heather Stanning cruised to victory in the women's pair and the rest of Team GB was quick to show their support.

Far-right Golden Dawn party gives out free food in Athens' Syntagma Square - but only to Greeks with IDs proving their nationality.

The so-called 'Twitter Games' has highlighted the power of the upstart micro-blogging site as Facebook sinks into silence.

Journalist Guy Adams has had his Twitter account reinstated as NBC withdraws its complaint.

Microsoft has launched Outlook.com, an all-new email client to be used as an alternative to Hotmail, with Facebook and Skype integration.

Due to problems with NBC coverage of the Olympic games, thousands of US customers are turning to proxy servers to watch the BBC's coverage.

From 6 ft 10 in Anthony Davis to 4 ft 9 in Rebecca 'Twiglet' Tunny, the 2012 Games is being lit up by young gems striking gold.

The £250 LG Optimus L7 has a 4.3in screen, slim design and Android 4.0 but is the 1GHz processor going to let it down?

Teenager arrested in Weymouth after sending death threats and abuse regarding dead fatherof Diver Tom Daley.

Twitter has suspended journalist Guy Adams for tweeting the email address of NBC's Gary Zenkel.

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.

Switzerland footballer Michel Morganella has been expelled from the London Olympics for posting a racist message on Twitter.

A report by cyber-security firm ThreatMatrix claims Personal Computers, mobile phones and tablets are likely to face increased numbers of malware attacks from hackers during the Olympics

British rapper provokes fury with description of bulimia as an 'intelligent disorder'.

The IOC warns Londoners that excessive tweeting during the cycling road races caused communication problems for riders and commentators.

The 26 year old singer has posted a decidedly raunchy image of herself on her official Web site, LittleMonsters.com

How unfortunate it is that Greek athlete Voula Papachristou has been barred from the Olympics after making an allegedly racist joke on Twitter and apparently posting material by a member of the controversial (to put it mildly) Golden Dawn Party.

Olympics minister Jeremy Hunt's ears burning after overzealous attempt to ring in Games sends brass bell flying into leg of spectator.

Twitter messages saying “It’s you on photo?” contain links which attempt to infect your Windows PC with the Blackhole exploit kit.

Pop star joins Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen and Sofia Vergara in cast for Robert Rodriguez grindhouse sequel.

High court judges back claim by frustrated air passenger Paul Chambers that Twitter threat to blow Doncaster airport sky high was a joke.

Legendary Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan enjoyed the privilege of carrying the Olympic Torch, during a relay leg between the City of London and the borough of Southwark

Stats on the Down Right Now website show that the current Twitter outage may have started an hour earlier.

Rapper Nick Minaj left shaken after a fan stormed onto the stage and grabbed her during Miami gig.

The Twitter micro-blogging website is currently down and unavailable to users in America and Europe.

Black cab drivers and chauffeurs among casualties of London 2012's Olympic Route Network, IBTimes reveals.

Baby becomes latest celebrity child to be given unusual name

A 'one-off human error' has caused two million Nationwide bank accounts to be debited twice, the company confirms.

Critics in India turn on the actress over her decision to pose naked for the adult magazine

The messy financial and inheritance dispute that is tearing apart the family of the late Michael Jackson shows no signs of abating