AP - Financial markets resumed their pullback Tuesday as investors worried that lawmakers were losing the sense of urgency seen last week, when the government proposed a massive bailout for financial institutions as a way to revive ailing credit markets.

AP - A masked gunman whose violent YouTube postings prompted police to question him just a day earlier opened fire Tuesday at his trade school in western Finland, killing 10 people and burning some of their bodies before shooting himself in the head.

AP - Iran's president blamed U.S. military interventions around the world in part for the collapse of global financial markets ahead of his speech Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly.

AP - President Bush, who once warned that the United Nations was endanger of becoming irrelevant, said Tuesday that multinational organizations are now "needed more urgently than ever" to combat terrorists and extremists who are threatening world order.

AP - Leading senators of both parties are expressing strong reservations about the administration's financial bailout plan despite pleas from the treasury secretary and Federal Reserve chairman for quick passage.

AFP - The Chinese company whose tainted baby milk triggered a food safety scare that has drawn in 53,000 sick children failed to report complaints about the product for months, state media said Tuesday.

AFP - US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was to testify in Congress Tuesday as lawmakers pressed on with tough negotiations on a 700-billion-dollar bailout for the US economy and world markets tumbled.

Reuters - Saturn's rings may be more massive and older than previously thought, researchers said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Masked kidnappers have taken 19 people hostage, including Western tourists on safari in a remote desert border area of Egypt, and whisked them over the frontier into Sudan, Egyptian officials said on Monday.

Reuters - The U.S. regulator of futures markets said it was reviewing the historic jump in crude oil prices on Monday to assure the trading was valid.

Reuters - Christmas came earlier this year for Regina Benjamin, a family physician in a poor fishing community along the storm-battered U.S. Gulf Coast.

Reuters - The top U.S. military officer pleaded on Monday for continued cooperation with Russia despite Moscow's widely condemned military action in Georgia.

Reuters - Barack Obama proposed reforms on Monday to rein in practices that led to the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Depression, while White House rival John McCain touted his own remedies and accused Obama of failing to provide leadership.