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MEXICO CITY - Traffic is picking up again, cafes are reopening and cleanup crews are getting universities ready to resume classes. Mexico City has some of its customary bustle back, and the president promises life is returning to normal after a five-day shutdown to contain the spread of swine flu.
BILGE, Turkey - Eight men suspected of gunning down 44 people during an engagement ceremony were arrested Tuesday, accused of killing the betrothed couple whose wedding they opposed along with relatives and friends in a 15-minute rampage.
NEW YORK - Investors are taking pause Tuesday, a day after stocks logged big gains, as caution returns to Wall Street ahead of results of the government's stress tests of banks.
NEW YORK - Online retailers are shifting their marketing from traditional advertising to less expensive tools like Facebook.com and Twitter and e-mail as they seek market share or just work to retain customers, according to an industry study being released Tuesday.
NEW YORK - Rihanna is back on the red carpet, at least. The pop singer arrived Monday at the annual Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum gala in New York. It was her first such appearance since then-boyfriend Chris Brown allegedly beat her in February.
BOSTON - Stan Van Gundy isn't going to fret over the 28-point lead his team nearly blew in the opener of the Eastern Conference semifinals. The only score the Orlando Magic coach cares about is 1-0. Dwight Howard returned from his one-game suspension with 16 points and 22 rebounds and Orlando held off the late-charging Boston Celtics 95-90 in Game 1 on Monday night.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 10 of the 19 largest U.S. banks being stress tested will be instructed by regulators to raise more capital, according to a source familiar with official talks.
SHANGHAI/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico was flying home dozens of its citizens on Tuesday quarantined in China over fears of a new flu virus and announced plans to revive its economy hit by the deadly epidemic, which showed signs of easing.
MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of people fled from the main town in Pakistan's Swat valley on Tuesday after a government official urged residents in some neighborhoods to seek safety as fresh fighting with Taliban militants could erupt.
BILGE, Turkey (Reuters) - Masked men armed with assault rifles and grenades killed 44 people at a wedding party in southeast Turkey in a blood feud between families over who should marry the bride, authorities and residents said.
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia sent tanks to put down a rebellion at a military base near the capital Tbilisi on Tuesday and the government accused Russia of financing a coup, a charge Moscow denied.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israel's prime minister said on Monday he was ready to begin Israeli-Palestinian peace talks immediately but he made no reference to a Palestinian state, an omission that has dismayed Arab, European and U.S. officials.
KABUL (Reuters) - Bibles in Afghan languages sent to a U.S. soldier at a base in Afghanistan were confiscated and destroyed to ensure that troops did not breach regulations which forbid proselytizing, a military spokeswoman said.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. recession will likely end this year and policymakers must be ready to act quickly to ensure inflation does not take hold when the economy recovers, two top Federal Reserve officials said on Monday.
TBILISI (AFP) - Georgian troops mutinied on Tuesday on the eve of NATO exercises in the ex-Soviet republic, prompting the government to accuse Russia of backing an attempted coup, including a plan to kill the president.
BILGE, Turkey (AFP) - Masked gunmen stormed a wedding party in Turkey's Kurdish region firing machine guns in an attack which left 44 people dead -- most of them women and children, officials said on Tuesday.
MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Mexico was on Tuesday eagerly awaiting the resumption of normal business at the end of a five-day nationwide shutdown over swine flu and launched an operation to fly home its nationals quarantined in China.
HARARE (AFP) - Eighteen leading activists, including human rights campaigner Jestina Mukoko, were detained Tuesday on charges of plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe, their lawyer said.
STRASBOURG (AFP) - The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to endorse an EU ban on products derived from seals in protest at hunting methods despite threats from Canada to complain to the World Trade Organisation.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Young children with autism appear more likely to have enlarged amygdala -- the part of the brain associated with registering faces and with expressing key emotions, according to a study.
ZURICH (AFP) - Switzerland's biggest bank UBS warned Tuesday it could be hit by more non-performing corporate loans amid the slowing Swiss economy after reporting quarterly losses of more than a billion euros.
PARIS (Reuters) - True to their reputation as leisure-loving gourmets, the French spend more time sleeping and eating than anyone else among the world's wealthy nations, according to a study published Monday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Some baby foods contain as much sugar and saturated fats as chocolate biscuits or cheeseburgers, a British food pressure group said on Monday.
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Holidaymakers, be warned: London has the worst food, Paris is the most overrated and Brussels is the most boring, according to a survey of what travelers think about European cities.
BOSTON - Dwight Howard returned from his one-game suspension to get 16 points and 22 rebounds Monday night and help the Orlando Magic hold off the late-charging Boston Celtics 95-90 in the opener of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
NEW YORK - CVS Caremark Corp. said Tuesday that charges and higher costs outweighed a a boost in the drugstore operator's pharmacy sales, pushing first-quarter profit down slightly.