Yesterday British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a speech to members of his party promising a new settlement for new times”.But the Prime Mini...
While many of the headlines this week have been about the turmoil in the financial markets, one British artist has been bucking the trend by turning a...
You might have never heard of the CERN laboratory, but this is all about to change.On 10th September 2008 the most powerful scientific experiment ever...
The British actress Keira Knightley has rejected claims that her latest film The Duchess, a historical drama set in the 18th Century, parallels the li...
Members of the British Team received a heroes’ welcome in London after their best Olympic performance for over a century.Team GB achieved a phen...
Beijing unveiled the slogan for the 2008 Olympics as far back as 2005. "One World, One Dream" was finally selected from more than 210,000 en...
In China he's known as 'the Flying Fish'; in America they call him 'the Baltimore Bullet'.Whatever you call him, American swimmer ...
‘It’s not whether you win or lose but how you play the game’, or at least that is how the old English adage goes, but for some sport...
The 2008 Beijing Olympics began officially on Friday 8th August 2008 at 8pm in front of a crowd of 90,000 eager spectators in the Bird's Nest stad...
For most athletes winning is everything.Phrases like ‘nice guys come last’ and ‘there are no prizes for second place’ underlin...