LYON/LONDON (Reuters) – A single semi-automatic weapon was used to shoot dead four people in the Alps last week, including the parents and grandmother of two British girls who survived the attack, French state prosecutor Eric Maillaud said on Monday.

Police searching the family’s home in Surrey, to the south of London, briefly widened a security cordon around the site and called in bomb disposal experts but found nothing hazardous.

LONDON (Reuters) – Police searching the home of a British family found shot dead in the French Alps last week evacuated neighbouring properties on Monday after saying they had discovered unspecified items that had caused them concern.

Television footage showed a bomb disposal vehicle outside the home of Saad al-Hilli, the Iraqi-born British engineer who was shot twice in the head along with his wife, her mother, and a passing French cyclist.

LONDON (Reuters) – Police searching the home of a British family found shot dead in the French Alps last week evacuated neighboring properties on Monday after saying they had discovered unspecified items that had caused them concern.

Television footage showed a bomb disposal vehicle outside the home of Saad al-Hilli, the Iraqi-born British engineer who was shot twice in the head along with his wife, her mother, and a passing French cyclist.

LONDON (Reuters) – As the United States’ flag rose in the London ExCel Centre, the country’s first judo gold medalist Kayla Harrison broke down in tears as the enormity of her achievement in overcoming child sex abuse to become an Olympic champion sank in.

“I was kind of reflecting back on my life and everything that it’s taken to get here and everything I’ve gone through and everything that everyone in my family has sacrificed,” she said.

LONDON, Aug 2 (Reuters) – As the United States’ flag rose in
the London ExCel Centre, the country’s first judo gold medallist
Kayla Harrison broke down in tears as the enormity of her
achievement in overcoming child sex abuse to become an Olympic
champion sank in.

“I was kind of reflecting back on my life and everything
that it’s taken to get here and everything I’ve gone through and
everything that everyone in my family has sacrificed,” she said.

LONDON (Reuters) – Tagir Khaibulaev won Russia’s third judo gold medal in London in the men’s -100kg on Thursday, thrilling Russia’s black belt president, Vladimir Putin, w h o leapt from his seat with his arms raised in celebration.

The world champion, 28, who has not lost an international match since August last year, defeated the champion of four years ago, Mongolia’s Tuvshinbayar Naidan, who left the arena at London’s ExCel Centre on a stretcher, with an automatic winning ippon throw.

LONDON (Reuters) – Kayla Harrison, who contemplated suicide after being sexually abused by her childhood coach, won the first Olympic judo gold for the United States on Thursday.

Harrison, 22, the world number two who had been aggressive and dominant throughout the competition, took the title beating Britain’s rank outsider Gemma Gibbons in the women’s -78kg category in a close final with two scoring throws.

LONDON, Aug 2 (Reuters) – Kayla Harrison, who contemplated
suicide after being sexually abused by her childhood coach, won
the first Olympic judo gold for the United States on Thursday.

Harrison, 22, the world number two who had been aggressive
and dominant throughout the competition, took the title beating
Britain’s rank outsider Gemma Gibbons in the women’s -78kg
category in a close final with two scoring throws.

LONDON (Reuters) – Tagir Khaibulaev won Russia’s third judo gold medal in London in the men’s -100kg on Thursday, thrilling Russia’s black belt president, Vladimir Putin, who leapt from his seat with his arms raised in celebration.

The world champion, 28, who has not lost an international match since August last year, defeated the champion of four years ago, Mongolia’s Tuvshinbayar Naidan, who left the arena at London’s ExCel Centre on a stretcher, with an automatic winning ippon throw.

LONDON, Aug 2 (Reuters) – Tagir Khaibulaev won Russia’s
third judo gold medal in London in the men’s -100kg on Thursday,
th rilling Russia’s black belt p r e sident, V ladimir Putin, w h o
leapt from his seat with his arms raised in celebration.

The world champion, 28, who has not lost an international
match since August last year, defeated the champion of four
years ago, Mongolia’s Tuvshinbayar Naidan, who left the arena at
London’s ExCel Centre on a stretcher, with an automatic winning
ippon throw.