Along the banks of the Waterworks River in east London sit several pristine parks, a state-of-the-art ballet theater, a fashion school and a Zaha Hadid-designed aquatics center, once used in the 2012 ...

The gold medal won by Katie Ledecky in the 800-meter freestyle at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was the race that started ...

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– The last piece of turf was laid Tuesday at the Olympic Stadium, symbolising the completion of building work on the 80,000-seat flagship venue for the 2012 London Games. Former Olympic sprinter ...

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 ...

Well aware it would be a tough slog to match Beijing in terms of glitz and sheer spectacle, filmmaker Danny Boyle has decided to keep it real during the London Olympic opening ceremony. Boyle, the ...

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 ...

— -- 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 ...