Tropical Storm Fay stays on Florida's coast (AP)

This NOAA satellite image taken Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 12:15 a.m. EDT shows Tropical Storm Fay over central Florida. Farther west, a broad area of low pressure covering much of the Southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley, which is generating showers and thunderstorms throughout the region. A weak front extends across the Mid-Atlantic. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - Tropical Storm Fay continued its erratic path Wednesday, moving north along the Florida coast but not going out over the Atlantic Ocean, where many had feared it could strengthen and curve back toward the state as a hurricane.



US, Poland sign missile defense deal (AP)

AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski have signed a deal that will put an American missile defense base in Poland.
Bush defends terror war in speech to veterans (AP)

In this Sept. 22, 2006, file photo, President Bush walks with Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to the East Room at the White House to hold a press conference. Running for president, Bush couldn't name the new leader of Pakistan. But after the Sept. 11 attacks, Musharraf became a crucial but ultimately frustrating ally in the war against Islamic extremists. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - President Bush is defending his line-in-the-sand approach to the fight against Islamic terrorism, following presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama in a speech to a major veterans group.



Food aid sent in to suffering Georgian area (AP)

Russian soldiers in armored vehicles, are seen in the outskirts of Gori, northwest of the capital Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. A small column of Russian tanks and armored vehicles left the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Tuesday, the first sign of a Russian pullback of troops from Georgia after a cease-fire intended to end fighting that reignited Cold War tensions. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)AP - A convoy of badly needed food aid for beleaguered Georgians rumbled through a Russian checkpoint Wednesday, waved through by soldiers who themselves showed no signs of fulfilling their president's promise of a pullback within two days.



Sarkozy visits Kabul after French soldiers killed (AP)

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, shakes hand with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at president palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. Sarkozy visited a military chapel in Kabul on Wednesday where the bodies of 10 French soldiers killed in battle lay before they were to be flown home.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited a military chapel in Kabul on Wednesday where the bodies of 10 French soldiers killed in battle lay before they were to be flown home.





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