News Headlines - 31 July 2012

▽Silver for Team GB eventing - ITV News

Zara Phillips has become the first royal medal winner at the Olympics, saying it was "amazing" to be presented with silver by her mother.

▽Phelps breaks all-time Olympic medal record - Yahoo! Eurosport UK

Michael Phelps became the most successful medallist in Olympic history after claiming silver in the 200m butterfly and gold in the 4x200 freestyle relay to bring his career tally to 19.

▽TV should switch to internet, peers suggest | The Guardian

The switch to digital television may be only the beginning, as a Lords committee says that all TV should be broadcast via the internet, leaving the airwaves free for mobile phones

▽Syrian Forces and Rebels Claim Gains in Aleppo Fight - NYTimes.com

The Syrian Army has descended on Aleppo, with troops, tanks, helicopters and warplanes, hoping to rout hundreds and perhaps thousands of armed opposition fighters who have grabbed a tenuous foothold here.

▽BBC News - 'Earliest' evidence of modern human culture found

The finds provide early evidence for the origin of modern human behaviour 44,000 years ago, over 20,000 years before other findings. The artefacts are near identical to modern-day tools of the indigenous African San bush people.