AP - With Russell and Havlicek sitting courtside, and Red surely lighting up a victory cigar somewhere, these Boston Celtics returned to glory like the great teams before them.

AFP - Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement have agreed to begin a Gaza truce in two days, Egyptian mediators said on Tuesday after months of negotiations to try to halt bloodshed in and around the impoverished territory.

AFP - A car bomb at a bus stop in north Baghdad killed at least 51 people and wounded 75 others on Tuesday, security officials told AFP.

Reuters - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday set aside a former Bush administration official's conviction for lying and obstructing justice over his links to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and ordered a new trial.

Reuters - A military judge on Tuesday dismissed the charges against a U.S. Marine officer accused of failing to investigate the death of two dozen civilians at Haditha, lawyers in the case said.

Reuters - U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain will call on Tuesday for energy conservation and the lifting of a ban on U.S. oil and natural gas exploration to help address the nation's "dangerous" dependence on foreign oil.

Reuters - Hundreds of volunteers on the surging Mississippi River piled sandbags atop strained levees on Tuesday as the worst Midwest flooding in 15 years delivered a blow to the U.S. economy and world food prices.

Reuters - A powerful car bomb exploded in a crowded market area of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 51 people and wounding 75, in the biggest attack in the Iraqi capital in months.

Reuters - A ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip will begin on Thursday, Egypt said after mediating a deal that could ease a crippling Israeli blockade of the Hamas-controlled territory.

AP - After weeks of speculation that his job was in jeopardy, Willie Randolph finally got fired by the New York Mets while most fans were sleeping.

AP - Billy Ray Cyrus says he wasn't around when Annie Leibovitz photographed his 15-year-old daughter, Miley, wrapped in a sheet with her back exposed, for the June issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

AP - Republican Sen. John McCain criticized Sen. Barack Obama's call for a windfall profits tax on the oil industry on Tuesday, despite leaving the door open to the same idea last month.