AP - Russia is showing signs of returning to its authoritarian past and its invasion of Georgia will require the U.S. to re-evaluate the strategic relationship between the superpowers, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.

AP - Russia's president said troops would begin pulling out of Georgia on Monday, but made no mention of leaving the separatist province at the heart of the conflict between the countries.

AP - A light stream of traffic headed out of Key West Sunday as officials urged visitors to leave the string of low-lying islands ahead of Tropical Storm Fay, which forecasters said could strengthen to a hurricane.

AFP - Michael Phelps cemented his place in Olympics history Sunday, capping a sensational week by becoming the first athlete ever to win eight gold medals in one Games.

AFP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a peace deal with Georgia but his troops again underlined their grip by keeping hold of positions close to the capital Tbilisi.

Reuters - Muslim separatists killed at least seven Philippine soldiers and wounded a dozen more in an ambush on Sunday on the troubled southern island of Mindanao, the military said.

Reuters - Gusty winds and blowing rain buffeted eastern Cuba on Saturday as Tropical Storm Fay neared the island after killing at least five people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Reuters - U.S. prosecutors have sent letters to six Blackwater Worldwide security guards, possibly as a prelude to indictments for a shooting incident that killed 17 Iraqi civilians in September, The Washington Post reported in its Sunday editions.

Reuters - Speculation swirled in Pakistan on Sunday that a deal would be reached shortly enabling President Pervez Musharraf to resign without fear of prosecution, avoiding a divisive impeachment process.

Reuters - Barack Obama cited his youthful experimentation with drugs and John McCain noted his failed first marriage as their greatest moral failings on Saturday at a forum on faith that both U.S. presidential candidates used to appeal to religious voters.

Reuters - Russian troops have begun regrouping around central Georgian cities, Georgia said on Sunday, ahead of what the West hopes will be a quick withdrawal from the Black Sea state.

Reuters - Michael Phelps went on Sunday where no man has been before to win a record eighth gold at one Olympics and better Mark Spitz's landmark 1972 feat.

AP - Brett Favre proved he's a quick study. The New York Jets' new quarterback also showed he has plenty of zip remaining in that rocket right arm.

AP - Back in the days of "Commies" and "pinkos," of Red scares, black lists, suspicion and smear, Kim Soo-im stood out as a one-woman axis of evil, a villainess without peer.