On Oct. 2, 2009, the entire country of Brazil threw a party. After a bidding process that lasted more than two years, the International Olympic Committee announced that Rio de Janeiro had won the ...

It’s fair to say no one expected Taoufik Makhloufi to come away with 1500m gold at the London 2012 Olympics. That is because just 24 hours earlier, the Algerian had been kicked out of the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The government more than doubled the estimated cost of staging the 2012 London Olympics to 9.3 billion pounds on Thursday, drawing charges of "massive financial incompetence" from ...

Sadiq Khan wants London to bid for the 2040 Olympics and insists the capital can host the Games ‘brilliantly’ and ‘very cheaply’. London 2012 proved to be a monumental success and Khan, Mayor of ...

London wants to be the first city to host an Olympics four times. The United Kingdom capital is poised to bid again after hosting the Summer Games in 1908, 1948 and, most recently, in 2012. Now London ...

— -- LONDON— For the second day in a row, Mitt Romney's visit to London was marred by controversy, as the British media seized on comments the GOP candidate made suggesting he found London's ...

Now to London where an exodus is underway. Today, thousands of Olympic athletes headed home carrying memories. And some of them, medals. NPR's Philip Reeves has this story about the day of departure.

Londoners had braced for the worst this Olympic year. The capital, usually heaving with tourists over the summer months, is not especially forgiving to those looking for a spontaneous evening out, ...

You’d think that with people piling into London for the 2012 Olympics, restaurants would be packed and everyone would be making it rain dolla dolla billz pound sterlings everywhere. Ha ha ha, no. “The ...

TIJUANA Ensenada native Daniel Corral, who won two gold medals in last year's Pan American Games, clinched passage Tuesday to the Olympics this summer in London. Corral, 22, earned that spot by ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games The 3DS version of Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games has some key differences from the Wii ...