Presumptive Republican presidential candidate US Sen. John McCain, Saddelback Church pastor Rick Warren and presumptive Democratic presidential candidate US Sen. Barack Obama have their make-up applied during a Civil Forum at the church in Lake Forest, Calif. on August 16, 2008 in Lake Forest, California. It was the first joint...

Despite a full-body suit she wears to comply with her Muslim faith and that almost certainly cost her a few fractions of a second in her sprint, Bahrain's Roqaya Al-Gassra won her 200m heat and, should she make it into the final, will be the first Arab woman to make...

Americans driven from their cars by high gas prices have started to return to the railroads, as Amtrak reported a whopping 14 percent increase in ridership from July 2007, through July 2008. Amtrak posted an all time single-month record this July, carrying 2,750,278 passengers, according to the National Association of...