Australian Simon Gerrans (Credit Agricole/Fra) jubilates on the podium, on July 20, 2008, at the end of the 183 km fifteenth stage of the 2008 Tour de France cycling race run between Embrun and Prato Nevoso (Italy). Australian Simon Gerrans (Credit Agricole/Fra) won ahead of Spanish Egoi Martinez (Euskatel/Spa) and US Danny Pate (Garmin-Chipotle/US).
Morris Talansky, 75-years-old, speaks to the press in Jerusalem on July 20 2008. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's lawyers today tore through the testimony of US millionaire Talansky at the heart of a graft probe of the embattled premier in an effort to discredit him. Their third day of cross-examination of Talansky -- a Jewish-American financier who in May testified he had given Olmert vast sums of cash to finance election campaigns before he became premier in 2006 -- was especially harsh. The investigation is one of six pending corruption probes against Olmert and has provoked widespread calls for him to resign.