Reuters - Tropical Storm Fay swept into southwestFlorida from the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, dumping heavy rainbut causing little damage after failing to strengthen into ahurricane as forecasters had predicted.

AP - Insurgents ambushed a group of elite French soldiers as they climbed a mountain pass, killing 10 troops in a militant stronghold outside the capital. In a separate coordinated attack, a team of suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a U.S. base near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

AP - Insurgents ambushed a group of elite French soldiers as they climbed a mountain pass, killing 10 troops in a militant stronghold outside the capital. In a separate coordinated attack, a team of suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a U.S. base near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Reuters - A column of Russian tanks andarmored vehicles left the strategic Georgian town of Gori onTuesday, but NATO said it was freezing contacts with Moscowuntil all Russian forces were out of the Black Sea state.

Reuters - A column of Russian tanks andarmored vehicles left the strategic Georgian town of Gori onTuesday, but NATO said it was freezing contacts with Moscowuntil all Russian forces were out of the Black Sea state.