Selected and fresh photos from around the web.
Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign rally in the rain at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 27, 2008.
A puppy stands on a truck carrying people to be evacuated from the area in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, on the southern coast of Cuba, August 30, 2008. Powerful Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 125 mph (205 kph) winds on its way to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.
BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30: A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.
Andy Roddick of the U.S. serves, on his way to beating Tommy Robredo of Spain 6-3, 6-4 during a tennis match at the Madrid Masters in Madrid Wednesday Oct. 15, 2008.
U.S. actress Susan Sarandon arrives for the Cinema Verite ceremony during the Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) in Abu Dhabi October 15, 2008. The festival will run until October 19.
HEMPSTEAD, NY - OCTOBER 15: U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) greets debate-goers before the third presidential debate in the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex at Hofstra University October 15, 2008 in Hempstead, New York. This is the final debate before voters will go to the polls in the 2008 general election on November 4.
Jury President Sean Penn (R) and actor Robert de Niro (2nd L) pose with Special Prize recipient Catherine Deneuve and Best Actor Benicio Del Toro during the award ceremony at the 61st Cannes Film Festival May 25, 2008.
BANGKOK, THAILAND - SEPTEMBER 26: Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme and actress Claudia Bassol arrive for the red carpet and gala screening of 'Queeen of Langkasuka' during day four of the Bangkok International Film Festival 2008 at SF World Cinema, Centralworld on September 26, 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand.
TV weather forecaster Louis Bourgougoin, right, and Belgian actor Jean Claude Van Damme, joke during the Cesars film award ceremony in Paris Friday, Feb. 22, 2008.
Reality TV show star Lauren Conrad from "The Hills" poses backstage at the 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles September 21, 2008.
At the birth of English Romanticism, chemistry and other sciences, notably astronomy and the physics of electricity, were exciting components of the new mood. For so long assumed to be polar opposites, Romanticism and Science are justly reunited in Richard Holmes's new book [The Age of Wonder]. 
During Season 1, I included interviews and commentaries from top executives, including Colleen Barrett (President of Southwest Airlines), David Sifry (Founder and CEO of Technorati), and Jonathan Tisch (Chairman and CEO of Loew's Hotels), and PR leaders such as Ray Kotcher, Richard Edelman, Helen Ostrowski, Paul Taaffe, among others ... We featured book reviews, client service spoofs, special coverage of the annual client service surveys conducted by The Holmes Report and PRWeek, and of course our Halloween contest, where contestants shared their scariest client service stories to win their favorite horror film. You'll find all this and more during Season 2.
not simply by seeing, but by actively observing, he showed his true scientific character
Nothing, in fact, actually dies: everything goes on existing, always… In some unknown region of space, Paris continues to abduct Helen of Troy. Cleopatra’s galley swells its silken sails on the azure blue of an ideal Cydnus.
very commonplace ... I would not utter a single false word. I would rather cut my throat.
