AP - President Pervez Musharraf swore in a loyalist of slain ex-leader Benazir Bhutto as prime minister Tuesday, while two top U.S. envoys held talks with Pakistan's old and new leaders in what some viewed as an ill-timed visit.
AP - Iraqi forces clashed with Shiite militias in the southern oil port of Basra on Tuesday as a security plan to clamp down on violence between rival militia factions in the region began.
AP - After a week and a half of complex orbital construction work, Endeavour's seven astronauts undocked from the international space station and began their journey home.
Iraqi security forces were battling Shiite militia members in the southern city of Basra Tuesday -- and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is personally overseeing the operation, officials said.
A government laptop computer stolen last month held unencrypted medical records of 2,500 participants in a government study, Susan Shirin, deputy director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) told CNN Monday.