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Reports suggest that Spanish champions Real Madrid and Tottenham Hotspur have agreed on a valuation for Croatian midfielder Luka Modric's services

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Germany's Robert Harting won gold, Iran's Ehsan Hadadi won silver and Estonia's Gerd Kanter won bronze in the men's discus throw on Tuesday.

Tim Brabants is in with a chance of retaining his Olympic title after qualifying for Wednesday's 'A' final after finishing fourth in his semi-final of the K1 kayak 1000m at Dorney Lake this morning.

Great Britain will be looking to win more medals as London 2012 enters Super Saturday, one of the biggest days of the Olympics, with around 25 titles to be won.

Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins led throughout in the final of the women's double sculls to claim a sixth gold medal for Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics.

Mitt Romney in Poland as part of three-nation tour to project himself as world leader and alternative to Barack Obama.

Team GB pair Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins broke a 20 year old Olympic record in reaching the women's sculls final on Friday.

IBTimes UK presents our daily round-up and previews to all the action from the 2012 London Olympics

The Republican presidential nominee is taking an aggressive line against Iran because he sees an existential threat to Israel.

Romney, who doubted London's readiness to host the Olympics a day earlier, now says he expects the Games to be highly successful.

Italian striker Fabio Borini, who has just recently signed by Liverpool, says that he wants to a main player for the Reds and help them score more goals in the upcoming season.

Michael Carrick has admitted that he would consider a return to the England line-up, despite the Manchester United midfielder turning down the opportunity to head to Euro 2012 on the subs list for the squad.

Robert Lewandowski has revealed that he would like to move to the Premier League, with the Manchester United target aiming for greater heights than the Bundesliga.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain believes he learnt a great deal from his experiences with England during the Euros, and the Arsenal youngster has admitted that he couldn't wait to make a return to the Emirates and get back into pre-season training.

Freak 200km/h storm devastates homes and forest in northern Poland.

Palestinian footballer Mahmoud Sarsak talks of his harsh conditions in detention by Israeli authorities.

Liverpool have contacted Borussia Dortmund to enquire about the availability of midfielder Jakub Blaszczykowski.

After three months on hunger strike and three years in prison, Sarsak gets hero's welcome in Gaza on release.

Brazil midfielder Oscar has revealed that Tottenham have spoken to his agent regarding a summer move but has also insisted that he is completely focused on Internacional.

Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski and Fiorentina forward Stevan Jovetic top Arsenal's list of replacements for Robin van Persie

The hugely controversial ACTA treaty has been rejected by the European Parliament in a landslide vote.

Despite bidding for Dutch firm KPN and Telekom Austria recently, the world's richest man reveals that he is not planning to make any other telecommunications purchases in Europe for now, according to Reuters.

Juan Mata and David de Gea have both been included in Spain's preliminary Olympic Games squad for the London 2012 football competition.

Euro 2012 showed us some players, both young and old, at their very best. Here's IBTimes UK's top five players of the championship.

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Organisers claim event is celebration of life while critics brand it 'totally macabre'.

Pippa Middleton, younger sister of Kate Middleton, stepped out in style for her debut appearance at 2012 courtside season to a tennis match at Wimbledon tennis championships in London on Tuesday.

Alan Shearer has argued that England are not moving forward in their football, with the side having been ousted from yet another tournament before the semi-final.