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The most popular thing in London right now -- besides the 2012 Olympic Games, of course -- is British Olympic diver Tom Daley, who just turned 18. Girls, mostly, have taken to Twitter to show their appreciation for the diver's skill set, as well as his physical assets.

Danny Boyle was in charge of the much anticipated opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics. The acclaimed director describes himself as a "just a story teller" on his Twitter page, but he had quite the story planned for the opening ceremony.

A profile of the flag bearer for Team USA, fencer Mariel Zagunis.

Legendary film composer Hans Zimmer ("The Dark Knight," "Inception") has released a haunting piece of music entitled "Aurora" as a tribute for the victims of the shooting in Colorado, available for download here.

With just hours remaining until the highly anticipated Olympic opening ceremony in London, no one knows who will light the cauldron at the finale of the ceremony - not even IOC President Jacques Rogge.

According to CNN.com, the first world record of the London Olympics has been set by South Korean archer Im Dong Hyun, 26, who delivered a stunning 699, edging out his compatriots on the team. The team, as a whole, delivered a groundbreaking score of 2,087, which places the team far ahead of the field. Hyun, legally blind, struggles to read a newspaper and has only ten percent vision in his left eye and twenty percent in his right.

The Lakers have been involved in a lot of trade rumors this offseason.

Even if you can't get to a television, you can still keep up with the 2012 Olympics.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 will be available in a limited edition Olympic version to celebrate the worldwide London-based sporting event. The special rendition of the Samsung’s flagship smartphone for 2012 will be available exclusively through Carphone Warehouse on August 1.

Mitt Romney, on his first foreign outing as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, managed to do something games organizers, David Cameron and £9 billion in public money has so far failed to achieve: unite Britain.

Every four years, the Olympic Games' organizing committees continually outdo themselves by creating the weirdest, most obscure mascots for their Summer Olympic and Paralympic games. Wenlock and Mandeville, who will ensure that this year's Olympics won't be any less weird, were unveiled as the official London 2012 Olympic mascots back in 2010. The London 2012 Olympics organizers shared the symbolism and significance of its two mascots.

Liberty Ross, Robert Pattinson and this "Twilight" fan aren't the only people upset with Kristen Stewart and married "Snow White and the Huntsman" director Rupert Sanders affair. Fellow "Snow White" actress Charlize Theron is reportedly "fuming" over the scandalous rendezvous.

Romney's blunders at the 2012 London Olympics threaten to jeopardize one of his campaign's biggest arguments -- his successful leadership of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics in Utah.

Ever since the Good Friday agreements of 1998 (which basically legitimized Republicans in Ulster politics and commenced a new era in Northern Irish affairs), dissidents had become marginalized.

The 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony will draw the world's audience to London on Friday night, but signal an Olympics that will be more glitz than substance for the host city.

While the London Olympics 2012 is just hours away from kicking off, the one question on everybody's mind is who will light this year's Olympic flame.

Here is a schedule of start times to every competition of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The 2012 London Games are here and billions around the world are anticipating three weeks of exciting action from their country's finest. Over 10,000 athletes will participate and represent 204 nations in 302 events. Before the medals are handed out however, the world will be focused on a spectacle that will unite a concert, theater production, film, art, politics, and sports: the opening ceremony.

Rationing was so severe, that British athletes were forced to consume whale meat for sustenance.

Google, Twitter and Facebook celebrate Olympics 2012 with special initiatives that has fans hooked to the Internet for more than the usual number of hours.

The Olympic torch took the final lap of its 8,000 mile relay around London Thursday, a day before the official start of the 2012 Olympics games, amid much festivity and fervor. More than 10 million people reportedly hit the streets to see the flame pass through the country's landmarks.