AP - Democrats' stance against offshore drilling has shifted more, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaling on Saturday her willingness to consider opening up more coastal areas to oil and gas exploration.

AP - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain agreed to appear on the same stage Saturday night, if only to share a handshake, as a televised discussion of faith ends a mid-August lull in the presidential campaign.

AP - The eyes didn't have it. Lucky for Michael Phelps technology did.

AP - President Bush sent a stern warning to Russia on Saturday that it cannot lay claim to two regions in U.S.-backed Georgia even though their sympathies lie with Moscow. "There is no room for debate on this matter," the president said.

AP - Russian forces pulled back Saturday from the center of a town not far from Georgia's capital after Russia's president signed a cease-fire deal, but other troops stayed put despite U.S. pressure for Moscow to honor the agreement.

AFP - Zimbabwe's main political rivals were in South Africa on Saturday for a regional summit with negotiators expected to aim for a resolution to the country's political crisis.

AFP - Georgia signed a ceasefire agreement seeking to end its conflict with Russia, whose forces still occupied parts of Georgian territory, as the United States demanded their immediate departure.

Reuters - Pakistan's ruling coalition has prepared impeachment charges against President Pervez Musharraf focusing on violation of the constitution and misconduct, a coalition official said on Saturday.

Reuters - A man who passed himself off as a member of New York's Rockefeller oil dynasty is really a German who conned his way into U.S. high society, federal investigators said on Friday.

Reuters - A top Russian general on Friday said Poland's deal with the United States to set up parts of a missile defense shield on Polish territory lays it open to a possible military strike, a Russian news agency reported.

Reuters - Bigfoot remains as elusive as ever.

Reuters - A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States.

Reuters - A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an anti-Castro Cuban exile and former CIA operative accused in Cuba of a 1976 plane bombing that killed 73 people should stand trial for an immigration violation, court records showed on Friday.

Reuters - The United States demanded that Russia pull its troops out of Georgia immediately, but there was no immediate response from Moscow.

Reuters - Michael Phelps equaled fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven golds in one Olympics on Saturday after coming from behind for a fingertip victory.