| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | U.S. beach volleyball duo bids farewell | | Minutes after winning their third consecutive Olympic gold medal in women's beach volleyball, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings announced an end to what may be one of the winningest partnerships of the Games. |
| Sex in the Village | | For many the competition is over -- now the partying can begin. The pressures built up over years of training and self-denial are released as athletes in the Olympic Village get to know each other better. |
| Five things to watch | | Usain Bolt bids to become the first man to win the Olympic sprint double twice while World Cup champ Japan seeks to win a second major soccer title. |
| Sensational China murder trial begins | | The murder trial of Gu Kailai, the wife of a recently deposed top official in the Chinese Communist Party, began Thursday under tight security in the eastern city of Hefei, local officials said. |
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