AP - Students entering college this fall have lived their whole lives in a digital world — where GPS has always been available, phones have always had caller ID and tax returns could always be filed online.

AP - Malaysia on Tuesday canceled a concert by Canadian rock singer Avril Lavigne, saying it may taint the Muslim-majority country's independence day celebrations after the Islamic opposition slammed her show as being "too sexy."

AP - Christina Applegate is taking the long view of her battle with breast cancer — the really long view.

AP - Insurgents ambushed a group of elite French soldiers as they climbed a mountain pass, killing 10 troops in a militant stronghold outside the capital. In a separate coordinated attack, a team of suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a U.S. base near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

AP - A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-rigged car into a police academy as recruits lined up to register for classes, killing at least 43 people. It was the deadliest attack in the North African country since the 1990s.

AP - Shawn Johnson finally got her Olympic gold medal in the last event of the women's competition Tuesday night, the balance beam.

AP - Wholesale inflation surged in July, leaving prices for the past year rising at the fastest pace in 27 years, according to government data released Tuesday.

AP - Russian soldiers took about 20 Georgians in military uniform prisoner at a key Black Sea port in western Georgia on Tuesday, blindfolding them and holding them at gunpoint, and commandeered American Humvees awaiting shipment back to the United States.

AP - Tropical Storm Fay moved inland Tuesday after making landfall in southwest Florida, never growing into the hurricane that forecasters had cautioned it could become.

AFP - Georgia and Russia exchanged prisoners Tuesday but Moscow warned not to expect a rapid troop withdrawal as the West's main military alliance met to discuss the conflict.

AFP - Pervez Musharraf faced an uncertain fate on Tuesday after his resignation as president of Pakistan, as the country's fractious ruling coalition prepared to pick a replacement for the key US ally.

Reuters - U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is considering options, such as selling all or part of its asset management unit, with an aim of reaching a deal by the time it releases third quarter earnings, sources said.

Reuters - Embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick won a legal victory on Monday when a judge blocked the city council from holding hearings intended to oust him.

Reuters - Leaders of Pakistan's coalition government on Tuesday set about seeking a replacement for President Pervez Musharraf and tackling pressing economic and security problems.