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BAGHDAD - The monthly toll of U.S. service members who have died in Iraq is on track to being the lowest in nearly two years, with at least 34 troop deaths recorded as of Tuesday, but the military cautioned it's too early to declare a long-term trend.
TRENTON, N.J. - Use of cholesterol and blood pressure medicines by young adults appears to be rising rapidly at a faster pace than among senior citizens, according to an industry report being released Tuesday.
HOUSTON - Spacewalking astronauts bolted a solar power tower to the international space station on Tuesday, completing an ambitious three-day moving process and setting the stage for the unfurling of the beam's giant solar panels.
NEW YORK - U.S. stock futures fell Tuesday, indicating a lower start to the regular session, as the Federal Reserve prepares to start a two-day meeting on interest rates.
NEW YORK - If "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno is having second thoughts about surrendering his job as planned, NBC doesn't share them at least not publicly.
DENVER - On the first play following the kickoff in overtime, Brett Favre connected on an 82-yard touchdown pass with Greg Jennings and the Green Bay Packers defeated the Denver Broncos 19-13 on Monday night.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. State Department investigators looking into the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad last month offered immunity deals to Blackwater security guards, The New York Times reported on Monday.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will not back down in a nuclear dispute with the West and is not interested in talks with the United States, its president said on Tuesday ahead of a previously unannounced visit by Russia's foreign minister.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc is expected to announce advanced software and services enabling handset makers to bring Google-powered phones to market by mid-2008, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The editor of a Baghdad weekly newspaper was murdered at the weekend, Iraq's Journalistic Freedoms Observatory said on Tuesday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea is on track to disable its nuclear program by the end of this year as its differences with the United States have mostly been resolved, a U.S. envoy said on Tuesday.
RAWALPINDI (Reuters) - A suicide attack killed at least seven people, including the bomber, less than a kilometer from Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's army residence in Rawalpindi on Tuesday, police said.
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Astronauts made a tricky job look easy on Tuesday when they used a robot arm to latch a 17.5 tonne solar power girder to its new home at the end of the International Space Station.
PANMUNJOM, South Korea (Reuters) - Regional powers agreed on Tuesday to give half the aid they promised North Korea for disabling its ageing nuclear plant to help refurbish the communist state's dilapidated infrastructure.
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AFP) - A suicide bomber blew himself up close to where Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was holding talks at army headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Tuesday, killing seven people, officials said.
ABECHE, Chad (AFP) - Sixteen Europeans and two Chadians have been charged in Chad over an alleged operation by a French charity to abduct 103 children to France, which has been severely embarrassed by the case.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - State Department investigators offered immunity deals to the security guards working for the firm Blackwater USA involved in a deadly September 16 incident in Baghdad, two top US newspapers reported Tuesday.
SYDNEY (AFP) - Sleeping pills advertised for children, dangerous toys and bottled water taken from local reservoirs are among the world's worst products, a global consumer group said Monday.
PARIS (AFP) - Fifty years ago Saturday, a perky-eared mutt named Laika, scooped up from the streets of Moscow, became the first earthling to breach our planet's atmosphere and enter space.
ZURICH (AFP) - UBS, Switzerland's largest bank, recorded third quarter losses of 830 million Swiss francs (495 million euros, 713 million dollars) Tuesday, blaming a lack of liquidity following a crisis in the US home loans market.
SHANGHAI (AFP) - PetroChina, Asia's biggest oil and gas producer, said Tuesday it raised 66.8 billion yuan (8.9 billion dollars) in the nation's largest ever initial public offering (IPO).
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The AIDS virus invaded the United States in about 1969 from Haiti, carried most likely by a single infected immigrant who set the stage for it to sweep the world in a tragic epidemic, scientists said on Monday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - This may be Johari Reeves' last chance to catch up on her mortgage payments. The credit cards, she'll worry about later.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pharmacists must be allowed to refuse to supply drugs that cause abortion or euthanasia, Pope Benedict said on Monday, calling on health professionals to be "conscientious objectors" against such practices.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American Bar Association said on Monday it was renewing its call for a nationwide moratorium on executions, based on a three-year study of death penalty systems in eight states that found unfairness and other flaws.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dead men do tell tales: The late President Gerald Ford believed a successor, Bill Clinton, had a sex addiction and felt Hillary Clinton had "unlimited ambition" but the country was not ready for a woman president.
DENVER - On the first play following the kickoff in overtime, Brett Favre connected on an 82-yard touchdown pass with Greg Jennings and the Green Bay Packers defeated the Denver Broncos 19-13 on Monday night.
VIENNA, Austria - Oil prices dropped Tuesday from a record high in the previous session on the view that the disruption of a fifth of the oil production by Mexico's state oil company is only temporary.
10. While traveling the country, I can shower with any team I choose
9. Can now advertise my garage sales as "Hall of Fame garage sales"
8. George Steinbrenner just offered me $20 million to play again
7. On Bobblehead Day, guess who gets two bobbleheads?
6. At any moment, there's a good chance Bob Costas is boring someone with stories about me
5. It's nice to be mentioned in the same breath as Arky Vaughan, Burleigh Grimes, and Gabby Hartnett
4. Free chalupa from Taco Bell if I mention them in my induction speech
3. Made all those years playing in southern California's lousy climate worth it
2. I can now admit I broke my streak in 1998 because I had tickets to "Les Mis"
1. Get to be on national television-- even if it is this show