Members of a Muslim sect in Russia's Tatarstan region are charged with cruelty to children after allegedly keeping them in catacombs for years at a time.
The Curiosity Mars rover uses its navigation cameras for the first time, capturing images of its shadow on the ground and views of the horizon.
Medal table | Total | |||||
1 | CHN | 35 | 21 | 19 | 75 | |
2 | USA | 30 | 19 | 23 | 72 | |
3 | GBR | 22 | 13 | 13 | 48 | |
4 | KOR | 12 | 6 | 6 | 24 | |
5 | RUS | 10 | 18 | 20 | 48 |
Full medal table | Schedule & Results
Medal table updated Wed, 8 August 2012 18:52 GMT
Australia complete victory in the men's 49er class ahead of New Zealand and Denmark, as Great Britain finish fifth.
China mourns the Olympic exit of Liu Xiang from the men's 110m hurdles heats, with media and netizens rallying behind the athlete.
Great Britain's Nicola Adams secures at least a silver medal by reaching the final of the women's flyweight competition.
London 2012 officials refuse to confirm announcements from Muse and George Michael that they will take part in Sunday's Olympic closing ceremony,
A website offering parents advice on vaccines has been ordered to remove information about the MMR jab after claiming it could be linked to autism.
A judge orders Oracle and Google to reveal which commentators they have paid following a patent trial.
Fossils from Northern Kenya show that a new species of human lived two million years ago, researchers say.
Isolated in the coldest, remotest spot on Earth
Why our sleeping habits are not so simple
Ni la economía, ni la violencia endémica: la polémica electoral gira en torno a la gorra de beisbol con la bandera que usa el candidato opositor Henrique Capriles y la interpretación legal sobre el uso de símbolos patrios.
海协会长陈云林抵达台湾进行与海基会长江丙坤的第八次会谈,这次会谈预定将签署两岸投资保障促进协议以及两岸海关合作协议。
الرئيس المصري محمد مرسي يقيل مدير جهاز المخابرات وقائد الحرس الجمهوري ومحافظ شمال سيناء ، بعد أيام من مقتل 16 ضابطا وجنديا مصريا في منطقة الحدود مع إسرائيل.
وزیر خارجه ایران ضمن درخواست از برخی "مسئولان" برای رعایت ملاحظاتی در اظهار نظر پیرامون کشورهای همسایه، اقدامات دولت برای آزادی ربوده شدگان در ترکیه را تشریح کرده و گفته است برخی از آنان ارتشیان و سپاهیان بازنشسته بوده اند.
Fire has been raging for 50 years beneath Centralia in Pennsylvania, but decades after the town was abandoned, some residents are still fighting to stay.
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