Marta Cooper

Over the past decade, Britain’s cycling team has become a powerhouse. The squad has gone from four medals at each of the 2000 and 2004 Olympics to leaving the last three Games at the top of the cycling medals table, with at least 12 in their bag. At the Rio Olympics this year, every member of the 14-strong track team won at least one medal.

Amid all the feats of incredible physical mastery and the gold medals, the Rio Olympics has also seen no shortage of devastating defeats and injuries. Some athletes have seen their hopes (and in some cases, bones) crushed during competition, while others have picked themselves up and gone on to complete their competitions—and sometimes even to win.

Britain excels at the sitting-down sports, the joke goes, even if those sports require immense skill, power, mental strength, and precision.

The Olympics is home to hundreds of super-humans—athletes whose masterful skill, power, and speed far surpass the believed limits of the human body. But there are also plenty of ordinary people competing in the Rio de Janeiro games this year.

An island nation in the South Pacific has made history. Fiji beat Great Britain 43-7 in the rugby sevens final in Rio on Thursday (Aug. 11). In so doing, it won its first ever Olympic medal: gold.

The mayor of the French Riviera resort of Cannes has banned women from wearing burkinis on the beach.

Put the kettle on—or not, if you’re a millennial.

Their nations have technically remained at war with each other since 1953, and tensions have been inflamed further by North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile testing this year. But two young Olympic athletes, North Korea’s Hong Un-jong and South Korea’s Lee Eun-ju, put national differences aside to take a selfie together during their gymnastics training session in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Sunday (Aug. 7).

Brexit may have spiralled the UK into economic uncertainty and caused the Bank of England to cut interest rates to an all-time low, but if you’re a burgeoning company looking to relocate your team to London, there is some good news.

From surveillance cameras to smartphones, today’s crimes are increasingly being captured on video. But could showing slow-motion replays of crimes in court be producing harsher verdicts?

This post has been updated.

The summer of 2012 holds a special place in the history of cycling in the UK. London that year hosted the Olympic and Paralympic games, where British cyclists amassed 12 and 22 medals respectively, more than any other country in the sport. Weeks before, Bradley Wiggins became the first British rider to win the mother of all bike races, the Tour de France.

Cracking crime just got a lot more innovative.

Pope Francis visited the former Auschwitz-Birkenau camp today (July 29), paying tribute to the 1.1 million people—mostly Jews—who were killed in that notorious Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

After a spate of violent attacks in France, several French media organizations have vowed to no longer publish the names or images of terrorists.

“There is a growing divide between a more prosperous older generation and a struggling younger generation.” This is British prime minister Theresa May’s assessment of the country she now leads. Narrowing the generational gap in incomes is one of the many challenges she now faces.

A research lab at Michigan State University, trying to show how easily our devices can be hacked into, has been using printed fingerprints to spoof mobile-phone sensors. Then the police got involved.

Austria: great for skiers, tough for ski instructors.

Last week, Belgium’s soccer team parted ways with manager Marc Wilmots after crashing out of Euro 2016 in the quarter-finals. The country’s soccer association is casting the net wide to find a replacement: it posted an ad for the job on its website.

Dramatic cellphone video footage broadcast by Miami TV station WSVN shows the moments unarmed caregiver Charles Kinsey was shot by police.

Milo Yiannopolous has been “permanently suspended“ from Twitter after claims he incited his followers to bombard Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones with racist and misogynistic tweets.

The driver of the truck that plowed through a crowd in Nice last night (July 14), killing at least 84 people and injuring 200 more, has been identified as 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, authorities confirmed today.

More than ten children were killed and at least 50 hospitalized after a truck plowed through a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice on Thursday night (July 14).

You’ve been leading a country for six years.