AP - Barack Obama has accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a text of his address prepared for delivery.

AP - David Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction. In a statement released Thursday by his lawyer, Stanton Stein, the actor said he did so voluntarily, adding: "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."

AP - Air safety investigators say a pressurized oxygen cylinder set off a blast that blew a large hole in the side of a Qantas jet last month, forcing an emergency landing.

AP - Two boatloads of international activists who defied Israel's blockade of Gaza set sail for Cyprus on Thursday, carrying seven Gaza Palestinians who had been confined to the territory.

AFP - Barack Obama will Thursday warn that eight years of "broken" politics and "failed" Republican leadership is enough, and issue a call for sweeping change at a "defining" moment of US history.