Reuters - Russian troops took the capital of the separatist Georgian region of South Ossetia on Sunday after a three-day battle as Georgian forces retreated and the Tbilisi government offered a ceasefire and talks.

AP - Michael Phelps left Ryan Lochte in his wake.

AP - President Bush sought to contain the explosive conflict in Georgia on Sunday as the White House warned Russia that relations with the U.S. were in jeopardy.

AP - One of the largest and most photographed arches in Arches National Park has collapsed.

AP - Iraq and China are set to revive a $1.2 billion oil deal that was canceled after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Iraq's oil ministry said Sunday.

AP - A reef of gold buried beneath this vast, parched grassland arcs across some of the world's poorest countries. Where the ore is rich, industrial mines carve it out. Where it's not, the poor sift the earth.

AP - Iraq's foreign minister insisted Sunday that any security deal with the United States must contain a "very clear timeline" for the departure of U.S. troops. A suicide bomber struck north of Baghdad, killing at least five people including an American soldier.

AP - Russian news agencies say the Defense Ministry is claiming to have sunk a Georgian missile boat that was trying to attack Russian navy ships in the Black Sea.

AFP - The death toll from a bombing and the aftermath in China's northwestern Xinjiang province on Sunday rose to eight, with four injured, state media said.

AFP - Georgia withdrew from the separatist region of South Ossetia on Sunday after new clashes with Russian forces as Moscow amassed its military firepower to overwhelm its neighbour.

Reuters - Suspected Muslim separatists armed with homemade grenades drove a taxi into a government office complex in farwest China on Sunday and police killed five in renewed violence two days into the Olympics.

Reuters - Comedian and actor Bernie Mac, who starred in one of U.S. TV's few black sitcoms and appeared in the "Ocean's 11" movies, died in Chicago on Saturday after a bout with pneumonia. He was 50.