Bondi massacre hero Ahmed al-Ahmed was greeted like a rock star in Sydney's CBD as he visited investment advisers and swapped some of his GoFundMe millions for gold bullion.
Her fiancé might be a man best known for YouTube pranks and bad boxing, but the serious sporting talents of Jutta Leerdam were highlighted magnificently with a long-track speedskating gold.
It's almost 13 years since the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, when it was summarised as the NHS, the Spice Girls, London taxis and even Victorian infrastructure.
A remote chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean may soon become the world's next nation-triggering a fresh geopolitical tug-of-war between global superpowers.
Financial markets, so the saying goes, are driven by fear and greed - fear when times are tough, greed when times are good. Today, fear is in the ascendant - and so is gold.