 AP - Firefighters ramped up their fight Tuesday against a 3,500-acre wildfire that has forced about 3,000 people to evacuate and destroyed dozens of homes near Boulder, including some that belonged to firefighters.
 AP - Hermine weakened Tuesday but continued dumping heavy rains on a northern crawl through Texas, barely holding on to tropical storm strength but leaving behind a path of widespread power outages and landslides in Mexico.
 AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he has asked the U.S. to settle a dispute with Israel over settlement expansion that is threatening to derail Mideast peace talks.
 AP - A Christian minister said Tuesday that he will go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Quran this weekend to protest the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks despite a warning from the top U.S. general in Afghanistan that doing so would endanger American troops.
AP - State-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos says an explosion has occurred at its Cadereyta refinery outside the northern city of Monterrey.
 AP - The flight attendant accused of onboard antics that captured the nation's attention when he told off a passenger and slid down the plane's emergency chute with a beer will undergo a mental health evaluation with the aim of avoiding jail time in a possible plea deal.
 AP - A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing 14 women and children and three officers, the latest in a string of attacks proving that Islamist militants remain a potent force in the country.
AP - Barbara Walters says that she's feeling fine after heart surgery in May and that she has practically no scar.
AP - Call it Zombies 101.
 AP - Now, the names opposite Roger Federer's in the bracket will start looking more familiar.
 Reuters - At least 16 people were killed and 50 wounded in a car bomb attack at a police residential complex in Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said, in another blow for a country grappling with devastating floods.
 Reuters - Afghan and NATO forces are planning an offensive to clear Taliban insurgents from areas around the city of Kandahar by late November, the NATO commander for southern Afghanistan said on Tuesday.
Reuters - Iran has raised its gasoline output to attain self-sufficiency in the strategic product and foil sanctions targeting its energy needs, the state television's website reported its oil minister as saying.
Reuters - French trade unions secured a show of strength on Tuesday with strikes and massive street protests against unpopular pension reforms that President Nicolas Sarkozy says he is determined to implement.
Reuters - An explosion ripped through a major Mexican refinery operated by state oil company Pemex on Tuesday, and rescue workers said at least five people were seriously injured.
 Reuters - Cuba will soon turn some small-scale manufacturing and retail services into cooperatives as the state retreats from minor businesses in an effort to boost the island's troubled economy, government and Communist Party sources said.
Reuters - The head of NATO on Tuesday condemned a small Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, saying it was disrespectful and could endanger Western troops.
 Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard secured a wafer thin parliamentary majority on Tuesday, ending a political impasse but hardly cheering investors worried about the fragility of her government and its plans to tax mining profits.
 AFP - Pakistan's devastating floods have left 10 million people without shelter, the United Nations said Tuesday, as authorities rushed to bolster river defences to save two towns from catastrophe.
 AFP - Rescuers quickened their efforts Tuesday to find victims from massive mud slides in southern Mexico and Guatemala, after the worst rainy season in 60 years claimed at least 48 lives, with many still unaccounted for.
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