AP - Rich Harden needed to be nearly perfect to give his Cubs a chance to beat Randy Johnson. He was, and it still wasn't good enough.

AP - As giant oil companies like Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips get set to report what will probably be another round of eye-popping quarterly profits, just where is all that money going?

AP - Conan O'Brien will take over the "Tonight" show next June — and what happens to deposed host Jay Leno after that is anybody's guess.

AP - The two men nominated to replace the ousted Air Force leadership say they'll work to restore trust and confidence in the beleaguered service, under fire for poor handling of its nuclear duties and other missteps.

AP - India's government faces a too-close-to-call confidence vote Tuesday that could scuttle a landmark nuclear energy accord with the United States and lead to early elections.

AP - The judge in the first American war crimes trial since World War II barred evidence that interrogators obtained from Osama bin Laden's driver, ruling he was subjected to "highly coercive" conditions in Afghanistan.

AP - Government inspectors finally have a big clue in the nationwide salmonella outbreak: They found the same bacteria strain on a single Mexican-grown jalapeno pepper handled in Texas — and issued a stronger warning for consumers to avoid fresh jalapenos.

AP - Democrats and Republicans queasy about a federal rescue of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are coalescing around the idea of letting the government slap limits on the multimillion-dollar pay packages of their executives.

AP - Troops were at the ready and residents along the Gulf Coast near the Texas-Mexico border were preparing as Tropical Storm Dolly — expected by forecasters to strengthen into a hurricane this week — headed their way.

AP - A judge finished interrogating former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic early Tuesday, the first step in a procedure to hand over the accused mastermind of Europe's worst massacre since World War II to a U.N. war crimes tribunal.

AFP - Osama bin Laden's former driver, SalimHamdan, pleaded not guilty on Monday at the opening of the first trial before a special military tribunal at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said.

AFP - President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pledged Monday to draw a line under Zimbabwe's months-long political crisis as they agreed to sit down and resolve their differences.

Reuters - Tropical Storm Dolly was over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Monday and could become a hurricane by Tuesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest report.

Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran on Monday that it faced more sanctions if it defied a two-week deadline to agree to curb its nuclear program.