August 31, 2008 (20 images)

Ed Rappaport Deputy Director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, provides the latest forecast for Hurricane Gustav on August 31, 2008. Gustav a category 3 hurricane is expected to make landfall in Louisiana , on September 1, 2008. (UPI Photo/Michael Bush)

A Palestinian walks by Ramadan decorations on the way to the Temple Mount compound, the Haram al-Sharif, in the Old City of Jerusalem, August 31, 2008. Muslims are preparing for the holy month of Ramadan, which begins Monday. Muslims fast for the month by refraining from eating, drinking, sexual relations and smoking from dawn until sunset. (UPI Photo/Debbie Hill)

Switzerland's Roger Federer, second seed, returns the ball to Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic in third-round action at the U.S. Open tennis championship at the U.S. National Tennis Center on August 31, 2008 in Flushing Meadows, New York. Federer won 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. (UPI Photo/Monika Graff)

Serbian theater actor Zdenko Kozik performs in Painted In Frost drama directed by Miroslav Benka at Tehran's City Theater Complex, Iran on August 31, 2008. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah) .