 AP - A priceless gold wreath has been unearthed in an ancient city in northern Greece, buried with human bones in a large copper vase that workers initially took for a land mine.
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 AP - Barbara Warren, one of the world's elite endurance athletes in her age group and one-half of a well-known pair of triathlete twins, has died after breaking her neck in a bike crash at the Santa Barbara Triathlon. She was 65.
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 AP - Barack Obama's audience for his acceptance speech likely topped 40 million people, and the Democratic gathering that nominated him was a more popular television event than any other political convention in history.
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AP - A 6-year-old girl playing hide-and-seek with her grandmother found a newborn baby girl abandoned in a vacant lot next to her home.
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 Reuters - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on
Friday handed the country's only Olympic medalist in Beijing a
$100,000 cash reward for her performance at the games.
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AP - Federal authorities say two airliners were a minute away from colliding when they turned away from each other over the Caribbean this week.
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 AP - In two short years, Sarah Palin moved from small-town mayor with a taste for mooseburgers to the governor's office and now making history to John McCain's side as the first female running mate on a Republican presidential ticket.
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 AP - A Cuban punk rocker known for his raunchy lyrics criticizing Fidel Castro was convicted of public disorder Friday, but freed after a court dismissed a more serious "social dangerousness" charge that could have sent him to prison for four years.
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AP - Air Canada's regional carrier Jazz is removing life vests from all its planes to save weight and fuel.
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 AP - In a return to the public stage, John Edwards has confirmed plans to talk politics a month after admitting to an extramarital affair. But his wife won't be at his side.
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 Politico - John McCain on Friday announced a running mate whom he met only six months ago and with whom he spoke just once on the phone about the position before offering it in person earlier this week.
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RealClearPolitics.com - There was a fair bit of talk about Bill Clinton's speech Wednesday night to the Democratic convention, and Peggy Noonan even went so far as to declare that "The Master Has Arrived." But she is wrong.
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AP - DNA evidence has linked an air conditioning repairman to the stabbing deaths of three women, including a former girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher, police said Friday.
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AP - It was an unusually honest ad for a live-in nanny, a 1,000-word tome beginning, "My kids are a pain." But it worked, attracting a brave soul who's never been a nanny before.
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 AP - Hurricane Gustav plowed through the Cayman Islands toward Cuba, gathering strength on a journey that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina.
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 Bloomberg - Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain's decision to pass up
conventional candidates and pick little-known, first-term Alaska
Governor Sarah Palin for the Republican ticket may appeal to
undecided voters McCain needs to win. It also may blunt McCain's
charges that Democrat Barack Obama isn't experienced enough for
the White House.
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 Reuters - General Motors Corp is recalling
857,735 vehicles equipped with a heated windshield wiper fluid
system for a potential short-circuit problem, according to
federal safety regulators.
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AP - A series of fast-moving thunderstorms packing winds of up to 100 mph plowed through the Phoenix area, leaving tens of thousands without power, damaging several airliners and collapsing a brand-new college football facility.
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Reuters - A vast region of the Amazon forest
in Brazil was home to a complex of ancient towns in which about
50,000 people lived, according to scientists assisted by
satellite images of the region.
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 AP - He does comedy, writes books, and mixes it up with the hottest stars in music and Hollywood. With all this, who needs swimming?
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