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As Russia renews its offensive on southern and eastern Ukraine, the city of Mykolaiv, near the Black Sea, are preparing for a siege.

The Bacardi company will soon start selling a new version of Havana Club Rum, competing with a rum made in Cuba under the same name. The fight over which is the genuine Havana Club foreshadows battles likely to come in Cuba in the post-Castro era.

Five U.S. Navy ships head to Lebanon to evacuate Americans, while more than 100,000 Lebanese have already fled to Syria. In Israel, Hezbollah rocket attacks have shut down the country's largest port, and at the United Nations, calls mount for a larger peacekeeping force in the region.

A Philadelphia newsroom filled with professional skeptics is trying to give new owners the benefit of the doubt. The big-business partnership that is buying the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News include the area's most influential entrepreneurs. Almost any article could generate a conflict of interest, as reporters dig up dirt on their new owners -- or their competitors.

President Bush will speak Monday night on immigration, a topic for debate that returns to the Senate next week. But other issues swirl around the White House, including a report that the National Security Agency has been tracking the phone calls of tens of millions of Americans.

The alleged Buffalo gunman isn't the first mass shooter to talk about an "invasion" of non-whites. Republicans have denounced the shooting — but not the language he used about immigration.

The new book by The Kitchen Sisters charts their ongoing series of reports exploring the world of street-corner cooking, colorful kitchen rituals and visionaries, legendary meals and eating traditions.

Geologists and other scientists warn that unless the wetlands that buffer New Orleans are rebuilt soon, the new New Orleans will get flooded again. At the same time, confusion surrounds exactly what should be done or how long it will take or cost.

NASA releases plans for a new spacecraft that would replace the space shuttle. The vehicle is part of a system that will be capable of putting astronauts on the moon by 2018, laying the groundwork for space travel to Mars. NASA says the new system is designed to be 10 times safer than the space shuttle.

"We are following developments concerning Sweden and Finland, but we are not of a favorable opinion," Erdogan told reporters.