Phelps gets a call from ObamaMichael Phelps has been delighting in the accolade of becoming the greatest Olympian ever. The highest honour of all was a personal call he received. Over to Phelps: "I answered the phone and they were, like, 'Michael?' And I said, 'Yes.' And they said, 'Please hold for the President of the United States.' And I was, like, 'OK'." Phelps added that Obama "finished by saying, 'Make sure you tell your mom I said hi'."North Korea takes shot at the WestNorth Korean athletes have already won four golds, and the Korean Central News Agency has rolled out its purple prose for >>>

In yet another display of solidarity and gusto during the Olympic Games in London, members of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen staged a protest in London near Tower Bridge. The four women walked along the Thames topless with words such as “Shame” painted across their backs, arms and chests. They shouted “Kill the generations!” over and over again as police tried to catch them. One Femen protester looked straight at the camera filming her and said, “I fight for women around the world. They are not free. We are not free.” The protest lasted for minutes on end after many attempts by >>>

Protest by topless women Updated 3 minutes ago Two topless women painted with the slogans "Olympic shame" and "No Sharia" protested in front of City Hall in London on Thursday to draw attention to "bloody Islamist regimes" taking part in the Olympics. They were members of Femen, a Ukrainian women's rights group, which also protested at the Euro 2012 football tournament in Poland and Ukraine. Smeared with fake blood and wearing floral wreaths on their heads, the two women ran around the entrance of City Hall for around 10 minutes chased by a third protester, before being covered up and led away >>>