AP - Cheering from the pool deck, Michael Phelps won his record eighth gold medal of the Beijing Games on Sunday to become the grandest of Olympic champions.
AP - Russian forces built ramparts around tanks and posted sentries on a hill in central Georgia on Saturday, digging in despite Western pressure for Moscow to withdraw its forces under a cease-fire deal signed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
AP - Presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain differed sharply on abortion Saturday, with McCain saying a baby's human rights begin "at conception," while Obama restated his support for legalized abortion.
Michael Phelps, with help from three teammates, won a record eighth Olympic gold medal, moving past Mark Spitz's performance at the 1972 Munich Games for most golds in one Olympics. Phelps set seven world records and one Olympic record, doing a personal best time in every event. "It's been nothing but an upwards roller-coaster and it's been nothing but fun," Phelps said.
Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain reflected on personal and national moral failures Saturday night in an interview with California megachurch pastor Rick Warren. Among those failures were drug and alcohol use, broken marriage, and a degree of national selfishness.