MIDEAST RUNNING THE SAHARA
Three athletes, from right, U.S. runner Charlie Engle, 44, Canada's Ray Zahab, 38 and Kevin Lin, 30, of Taiwan, are running during day 109 of their 111 days Sahara desert journey, northwest of Cairo, Egypt Saturday. Their goal is to run an equivalent of two marathons a day to be the first modern runners to cross the Sahara Desert's grueling 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers). (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

