Melissa Stockwell is among 4,000 athletes competing in the Paralympic Games which open Saturday, and taking a medal there would offer a different kind of affirmation.

The widower of slain former leader Benazir Bhutto will succeed Pervez Musharraf as the president of Pakistan.

Ike is still far out in the Atlantic, but it's getting a close look from those who weathered 1992's Andrew, the devastating Category 5 storm against which all other Florida hurricanes are measured.