The case went to trial with lightning speed, and last week a court in Almaty convicted Mr Abilov of slander, giving him an 18-month suspended sentence.

ECONOMIST: A setback for the opposition

He went on to emulate Oreiller's golden hat-trick, at the Grenoble Winter Olympics in 1968, and his pursuit of speed and glory once saw him complete a trial race on one leg, legend has it, having broken the other one en route to the finish line.

CNN: Val d'Isere: The hidden home of skiing's 'madmen'

To quickly bring you up to speed: Raj Rajaratnam is awaiting sentencing in his trial for insider trading while he led the Galleon Group.

FORBES: Jurors in the Galleon Trial are Asked to Question the Definition of Public Information

Valuable data could be collected with an NEO trial run, particularly testing Orion's high-speed heat shields.

CNN: Space's threat to civilization

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A system using fingerprint scanning and face recognition systems, designed to speed up passenger transit times and increase security, is beginning a trial at Heathrow airport's Terminal 3.

CNN: Heathrow tests biometrics

In that trial, about 2, 800 elderly participants showed improved memory, reasoning and visual processing speed after playing an earlier version of the Double Decision game, said Dr. Wolinsky, who also worked on that earlier research.

WSJ: When Computer Games May Keep the Brain Nimble

The 1Gb trial in Kesgrave, Suffolk, will begin early next year and is intended to demonstrate the speed capabilities of BT's fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) technology.

BBC: BT to trial one gigabit broadband