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Michael Phelps' quest for eight gold medals remains alive and well after the U.S. men out-touched the French in a down-to-the-wire relay on August 11. It was the U.S.' shakiest event, given that the French squad boasts world record holder Alain Bernard, but Athens 2004 veteran Jason Lezak managed to beat Bernard to the wall in the last 100m by .08 of a second. The time set a new world record, dropping the previous one, set just the night before in the preliminary heat by the U.S., by nearly four seconds...
...confirmed that the Gaddafis had repeatedly struck them, causing visible bruises and other bodily injuries. Two days later, the Gaddafis were released on $500,000 bail and, pending further investigation by the Geneva prosecutors, returned to Libya. "They deny all the charges against them," the couple's Geneva attorney, Alain Berger, told TIME...
...Florence in May, a few days after bin Laden's most recent Internet postings. The officials told me they've found no evidence of al-Qaeda operations in their countries. If bin Laden has any role in the jihad, say the Europeans, it is merely as an icon. Alain Grignard, Belgium's top terrorism investigator, says bin Laden is now a "Robin Hood figure; 100 people are inspired by him, but very few respond to do what he wants...
...visitors' custom. At the ripe old age of 29, Tom Kitchin, www.thekitchin.com, became the youngest Scot to receive the ranking - just six months after he opened his restaurant in a renovated whisky warehouse in 2006. His cooking has a pronounced French influence, partly stemming from his training with Alain Ducasse, and includes inventive dishes such as braised calf-foot-and-shin "fingers," served with sautéed organic snails from Devon and a garlic and parsley risotto. Across the quayside, top toque Martin Wishart has opened a designer cookery school, www.cookschool.co.uk, and a namesake restaurant on the waterfront, www.martin-wishart.co.uk, which...
...French conservatives did score some significant victories in the initial round of voting: Former Prime Minister Alain Jupp?, for example, won the mayor's job in Bordeaux, just nine months after he suffered a stunning upset for the city's parliamentary seat - a loss that made him ineligible to serve in the national government. Fifteen of the 22 members of Fillon's cabinet of 33 who were on Sunday's municipal ballots either won first-round victories, or were in strong positions for the runoff. Still, the left appears to have done well by trading on the increasing unpopularity...