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The 4, 300 mile route takes competitors through a number of diverse weather systems, including the trade winds off the Canaries and Cape Verde islands, and the doldrums over the equator.
BBC: Transat Jacques Vabre
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The Bears harassed erstwhile Heisman Trophy candidate Collin Klein into three interceptions while large men named Glasco and Lache ran over the Wildcats for nearly 300 yards en route to a 52-24 victory.
WSJ: Baylor Tops Kansas State, Stanford Tops Oregon: Enjoy College Football Upsets While You Can
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Ships carrying 2, 300 marines are near or en route for Liberia, but it is not clear what they will do when they arrive.
ECONOMIST: America should ensure that Liberia's leader stands trial
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It said bookings for the route, on which the firm used Boeing 737-300 aircraft, would stop on 30 June.
BBC: Jet2 to end daily Leeds Bradford flights to Belfast
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Since then they have put in more than 2, 500 days of voluntary work, moving an estimated 300, 000 tonnes of mud from the route of the canal and its locks.
BBC: Barge on a canal
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If the task of halving child poverty by 2010 en route to ending it by 2020 is to be achieved, 300, 000 children must be moved out of poverty in each of the four years to 2010-11, a near-impossible task.
ECONOMIST: Defining poverty is hard. Eliminating it is harder
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They included 35, 000 cruise ship visitors, and more than 300, 000 people travelling on the regular Amsterdam ferry route.
BBC: Record number of cruise ships to dock at Port of Tyne
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Thirty-three miners have been trapped 2, 300 feet underground since a rockslide cut off their exit route on August 5.
CNN: New drill arrives in Chile with great fanfare
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Meanwhile, in the UK, some 300 lorry drivers demanding a fuel tax rebate blocked a major route into the capital during the morning rush hour in protest.
BBC: Nicolas Sarkozy
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TfL said the special steam train to commemorate the first Tube journey will carry up to 300 people and run between Olympia and Moorgate, a slightly longer journey than the original route.
BBC: Steam train to return to London Underground
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About 300 soldiers and officers took part in the march, and many people from the town lined the route.
BBC: 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment in homecoming march