Selected and fresh photos from around the web.
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.
CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
Former NBA player Patrick Ewing holds his 11-month-old daughter, Alexis, at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., Friday Sept. 5, 2008. Ewing is being inducted into the Hall.
CEDARBURG, WI - SEPTEMBER 5: Republican U.S vice-presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks while Republican U.S presidential nominee U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and his wife Cindy (R) look on during a campaign stop at a meet and greet downtown on September 5, 2008 Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Palin and Republican U.S presidential nominee U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) are making their first post-convention campaign stops after McCain accepted the GOP nomination for U.S. President yesterday at the Republican National Convention.
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Italy's Claudia Pettazzoni (L) and Peru's Fidel Rios kiss each other to win the IKE, the International underwater kissing event in Riccione on July 20, 2008. The couple won the world's longest underwater kiss title with a time of 1 minutes and 51 seconds.
A model presents a creation by Belarussian designer Dmitry Prigozhaev during the International Festival of Vanguard Art, Mammoth, in Minsk November 17, 2007.
Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) arrives to accept the nomination. at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 4, 2008.
ST. PAUL, MN - SEPTEMBER 04: Republican U.S presidential nominee U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) pauses while speaking during day four of the Republican National Convention (RNC) at the Xcel Energy Center on September 4, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota. U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) will accept the GOP nomination for U.S. President Thursday night.
We will miss Paul as an administrator, but patients who get the benefit of his now meeting-free schedule will be ecstatic to have more time with their doctor, who National Cancer Institute Director John Niederhuber calls 'one of our nation's heroes in the struggle to overcome cancer.' 
The more we learn about the molecular basis of glioblastoma multiforme, the more swiftly we can develop better ways of helping patients with this terrible disease. Clearly, we should move ahead and apply the power of large-scale, genomic research to many other types of cancer.
These impressive results from TCGA provide the most comprehensive view to date of the complicated genomic landscape of this deadly cancer
These data show that this approach, of looking at large numbers of tumors and a large number of genetic factors, can be done and the results are really valuable ... We have made significant novel findings, and the reproducibility of the data is high.
