AFP - Zimbabwean crisis talks due to start in South Africa struggled to get off the ground on Tuesday as chief negotiators had yet to leave Harare, sources from the opposition and ruling party said.

AFP - Captured war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted men, was arrested on genocide charges while practising medicine under a fake name in Belgrade, officials said Tuesday.

Reuters - A Palestinian rammed a bulldozer into vehicles on a Jerusalem street on Tuesday before a visit by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who condemned the attack and pledged to push for a peace deal.

Reuters - Tropical Storm Dolly intensified over the western Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday as it bore down on southern Texas, but forecasters don't expect it to pack too much of a punch when it comes ashore near the Mexican border as a hurricane on Wednesday.

Reuters - The United States sought to kickstart efforts to rescue a global trade deal on Tuesday by offering to cut a ceiling on its contested farm subsidies, but leading developing countries said it was not enough.

Reuters - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Tuesday he was committed to a 16-month timetable for a U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq, after a trip in which he met Iraqi leaders and U.S. officials.

Reuters - Bosnian Serb wartime president Radovan Karadzic, indicted for genocide in the Bosnia war, was captured in disguise near Belgrade after 11 years on the run and had been working as a doctor, Serbian officials said on Tuesday.

AP - Mets closer Billy Wagner has tightness around his left shoulder, which an MRI exam Tuesday showed was a muscle spasm around his pitching arm.

AP - Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 84.

AP - Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago.

AP - Wall Street traded mostly higher Tuesday as investors were encouraged by another sharp drop in oil prices and snapped up shares of undervalued financial companies.