41-year-old Mom takes home silver medal at Olympics: We can barely find time to exercise, but Dara Torres has managed to find the time to train for the Olympics while being a mom. The oldest female swimmer in the history of the Olympics took home her third silver medal of the games last night in the 4x100 medley relay.

Michael Phelps breaks Olympic record: After a whirlwind week, swimmer Michael Phelps broke the record he had tied days earlier--with 1972 Olympian Mark Spitz--and won his 8th gold medal in the Beijing games. Of course his mom was cheering him on in the stands. Phelps swam the butterfly in the 4x100 medley relay and finished in 3 minutes, 29 seconds.

Ellen DeGeneres Ties the Knot: After announcing their engagement in May, talk show host Ellen DeGeneres married her longtime girlfriend, Portia de Rossi. The couple wed in a small, intimate ceremony at their Beverly Hills home with only 19 close friends and family members.

Sextuplets born in Iraq: An Iraqi woman gave birth to sextuplets in the southern part of the country this weekend--two of them died due to limited medical equipment at the hospital. Reports say this was the first set of sextuplets ever born in the country, but that cannot be verified. Two boys and two girls survived and weigh between 22 and 44 ounces each.

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