Sgt. LeRoy Watkins embraces his family at the National Guard Armory in Enid, Okla. on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008 before departing to Fort Hood, Texas before deploying to Iraq. (AP Photo/Enid News and Eagle, Candice Budgick)
Despite a ceasefire, the Russians remain in Georgia. Getty Images.
Russian emergency workers help an elderly Georgian resident leave her village of Kekhvi, north of Tskhinvali, capital of the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia. (AP)
Russian soldiers sit atop a tank, with a portrait of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at left in the background, in Tskhinvali, the main city of the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia. Russian forces on Wednesday dug foxholes and built a sentry post in a swath of central Georgia far outside the security zone they are authorized to remain in. (AP)
People watch a televised speech of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to the nation in Lahore on Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. Musharraf announced his resignation in the face of an impending impeachment motion by the ruling coalition government.
University of Florida students slide down a sheet of plastic covered in detergent Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008, in Gainesville, Fla. One student had purchased a 50-foot roll against the advice of his friends who had told him to get 100 feet of plastic, which would have led the length of the slope. Fay's rain, combined with the soap, made a fast slide that culminated in a mass of friends at the bottom. (AP Photo/The Gainesville Sun, Brian W. Kratzer)
Rebecca Breyer / Honolulu Advertiser via AP Hawaii National Guardsmen and their friends, family and supporters hug each other in the Group Hug at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii on Aug. 16. More than 6,000 friends, family and supporters gathered at Aloha Stadium to say farewell to 1,700 Hawaii National Guard soldiers due to leave this month for a yearlong deployment to the Middle East. It was announced that they broke the Guinness World Record for the largest group hug.
Aloha. Social workers say many of the homeless people forced out of other parks on Oahu have now converged on Kapi'olani Park, which has no set closing time. BRUCE ASATO | The Honolulu Advertiser
Albanian painter Saimir Strati is attempting to break the Guinness world record for the largest cork mosaic ever made, with his work called The Guitarist which uses some 300,000 corks. (BBC)
A man rides a horse in the sea at the end of a hot day in the Bulgarian seaside village of Sinemorets, east of the capital Sofia, Thursday, Aug. 21. 2008. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)
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Seal pup Eddy peeks out of a basket, at the Norddeich port, northern Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, before being transported to the sands of the island of Juist. Eddy was raised in a station for abandoned seals in Norddeich and will be released into the North Sea.
Desperado! Heidi Dalibor, who was arrested for ignoring a municipal violation for overdue library books, said she’ll likely use her library card again – but probably not at the Grafton library.She was led away from her home in handcuffs and later fingerprinted and photographed.
You're telling me she's 16? China's gymnast He Kexin performs on the uneven bars. Kexin won the gold medal.
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American Lolo Jones was leading the 100-meter hurdles with just two left to clear, but when her foot hit the ninth hurdle, it threw off her stride and allowed six other women in the race to power past her.Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times
U.S. swimmer and all-time Olympian Michael Phelps poses exclusively for the August 25, 2008 edition of Sports Illustrated in this photograph taken in Beijing, China on August, 17, 2008. (Simon Bruty/Sports Illustrated - SI.com/Handout/Reuters)
Yep. Summer is over. Adam Luepke (41) runs downfield while practicing with the Oshkosh West High football varsity team. Photo by Jeannette Merten/for The Oshkosh Northwestern.
