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The Deleware delegation, including Abby Betts, of Feltom, Del., celebrate as they cast their votes in the roll call during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Barack Obama swept to the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday night, a transforming triumph that made him the first black American to lead a major party into the fall campaign for the White House. Thousands of national convention delegates stood and cheered as they made history.



Contractor Lawson 'Sonny' Brannan discusses his plans for the approaching storm Gustav in New Orleans, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. The third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is on Aug. 29. Area residents are keeping a close eye on Gustav in the Caribbean, which forecasters are predicting could make landfall somewhere along the Gulf Coast as early as Monday, and officials are making plans early to evacuate people, pets and hospitals in an attempt to avoid a Katrina-style chaos. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - On the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary, a nervous New Orleans watched Wednesday as another storm threatened to test everything the city has rebuilt, and officials made preliminary plans to evacuate people, pets and hospitals in an attempt to avoid a Katrina-style chaos.



The U.S. Coast Guard cutter, Dallas at Georgia's Black Sea port of Batumi, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. The U.S. military ship on Wednesday docked at the Georgian port carrying humanitarian aid.  The Dallas, had originally been slated to dock at the Black Sea port of Poti, which is still controlled by Russian forces. But instead it arrived in Batumi, a port well south of the zone of fighting in this month's war between Russia and Georgia. ( AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Western leaders warned Russia on Wednesday to "change course," hoping to keep a conflict that already threatens a key nuclear pact and could even raise U.S. chicken prices from blossoming into a new Cold War.



Iraqi police officers, at left, and U.S. soldiers attend the scene of a parked car bomb which targeted a police patrol but missed, killing 3 civilians and wounding 8 others, in the al-Jadidah area, eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Conditions in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, where a brutal insurgency once ruled, have improved so dramatically that the United States is handing over responsibility for security in the Sunni stronghold to Iraq within days. Troops freed up in Iraq could shift to Afghanistan.



Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin shows a photo of himself participating in an immigration rally in his office in Providence, R.I., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. Bishop Tobin has called on U.S. immigration authorities, in a letter, to stop arresting illegal immigrants in mass sweeps in Rhode Island. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi have long grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and that the immigrants were starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions.



Graphic explains how scientists were able to change a pancreas cell into an insulin-producing cell;AP - Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases.



In this June 24, 2003 file photo, rap producer Marion 'Suge' Knight watches the 3rd annual BET Awards in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, file)AP - Marion "Suge" Knight was jailed Wednesday on assault and drug charges after he was accused of beating his girlfriend while brandishing a knife near the Las Vegas Strip, police said.



Executive vice president of baseball operations Jimmie Lee Solomon explains some aspects of the new instant replay capabilities to the media at MLB.com in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008.  Umpires will be allowed to check video on home run calls starting Thursday, Aug. 28, after Major League Baseball, guardian of America's most traditional sport, reversed its decades-long opposition to instant replay.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Baseball's replay central is an 18-by-24 foot room on the fifth floor of a former baking factory in Manhattan's Meatpacking District that's crammed with so many computers and television screens that it looks like NASA's Mission Control.



Aviation Maintenance Tech 2 John Ferrari looks out of the back of a Coast Guard C-130 as he surveys the ice off of the coast of Barrow, Alaska, during a surveillance flight to the Arctic on Thursday Aug. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level in about 30 years.



A visual search screen from Windows Internet Explorer 8 is seen in this handout photo. (Microsoft/Handout/Reuters)AP - The next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Web browser makes it easier for people to surf the Internet without leaving a trace.



Former Democratic presidential candidate U.S.Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton stands with New York Governor David Paterson (L) and Senator Charles Schumer, center, as she moved that Senator Barack Obama be nominated by acclamation by the Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 27, 2008. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)Reuters - To shouts of "Yes we can," Democrats nominated Barack Obama on Wednesday as their presidential candidate in a historic first for a black American, sending him into battle against Republican John McCain.



A vehicle moves through a flooded street in Havana August 26, 2008. (Claudia Daut/Reuters)Reuters - Tropical Storm Gustav pulled away from Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Wednesday after killing 23 people and threatened to become a major hurricane aimed at New Orleans and Gulf of Mexico oil fields.



Marine Corps Commandant James Conway smiles while speaking at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington, July 20, 2007. (Larry Downing/Reuters)Reuters - The top U.S. Marine officer said on Wednesday he could reduce his 25,000-strong force in the former al Qaeda stronghold of Iraq's Anbar province to reinforce military operations against a growing Taliban threat in Afghanistan.



Georgian sailors wait for the start of a ceremony upon the arrival of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dallas at the Georgia's Black Sea port of Batumi August 27, 2008. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. military planners have begun pondering the thorny question of how Georgia's shattered armed forces might be rebuilt without provoking a Russian backlash that could risk direct confrontation with Moscow.



Reuters - A panel of federal appeals court judges pushed a U.S. government lawyer on Wednesday to answer why FBI letters sent out to Internet service providers seeking information should remain secret.

Buildings in downtown Houston reflect the light of a setting sun October 15, 2004. (Mike Blake/Reuters)Reuters - Corporate America is having the hardest time getting its customers to pay their bills since the last U.S. recession in 2001, according to a study released on Wednesday.



Octogenarians Del Martin (L) and Phyllis Lyon (R) participate in the first legal same-sex marriage ceremony at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, California in this June 16, 2008 file photograph. Martin, a Lesbian activist died on August 27, 2008 at the UCSF hospice in San Francisco with her spouse Lyon at her side according to the National Center for Lesbian Rights. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/Pool/Files/Reuters)Reuters - Lesbian activist Del Martin died on Wednesday, just two months after marrying her partner of 55 years in one of the first legally recognized California same-sex weddings.



Marine Corps Commandant James Conway smiles while speaking at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington, July 20, 2007. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - Three U.S. soldiers killed four handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots on the bank of a Baghdad canal last year, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.



US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama speaks during a townhall meeting at Riverfront Park in Billings, Montana. Democrats on Wednesday made history by nominating Obama as the first black presidential nominee of a major US party.(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - Democrat Barack Obama Wednesday made history as Democrats formally nominated him by acclamation as the first black presidential nominee of a major political party.



South Ossetians celebrate the recognition of their independence by Russia in Tskhinvali. Russia warned NATO on Wednesday over its naval presence in the Black Sea as Western powers lined up to condemn Moscow's decision to recognise the independence of two Georgian rebel regions.(AFP/Viktor Drachev)AFP - Russia accused the West on Wednesday of ratcheting up tensions in the Black Sea with an increased NATO naval presence and warned against isolating Moscow over the conflict in Georgia.



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