AP - Blood was washed off the road. Debris was cleared away. And authorities said peace had been restored Tuesday in China's restive Muslim region where 16 police were killed in an attack that may have been timed to overshadow Olympic celebrations.

AP - Iran responded to incentives aimed at defusing a dispute over the country's nuclear program on Tuesday, the State Department and an EU diplomat said, adding that the response will now be studied by the six nations that devised the package.

AP - President Bush was greeted in Asia with dueling demonstrations by prayerful, flag-waving supporters and raucous protesters doused by police water cannons Tuesday, reflecting sharp political divisions at the outset of his three-nation trip.

AFP - A frostbitten Italian climber limped into K2 base camp Tuesday after an ice fall that killed 11 others, but swirling cloud prevented helicopters plucking him from the world's second highest peak.

Reuters - Zimbabwe's ruling party and the opposition are close to a power-sharing deal that would turn Robert Mugabe into a ceremonial president, a South African newspaper reported on Tuesday.

AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet Wednesday in Jerusalem, officials with the two leaders said Tuesday.

AFP - Brazilian authorities have discovered the head and arms of a British teenager murdered and dismembered over a week ago, allegedly by her drug-addict ex-boyfriend.

AP - A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad on Monday, the first deadly attack against American troops in the capital in nearly a month.

AP - The Olympic torch's final parade in homage to victims of China's earthquake was run Tuesday after the route was changed amid worries about security in a region where Tibetan protests erupted earlier this year.

AP - A Pentagon jury was weighing a verdict for Osama bin Laden's former driver and alleged bodyguard as the U.S. neared completion Tuesday of its first war crimes trial since World War II.

AP - Helicopter pilots were waiting for thick clouds to clear Tuesday before attempting to rescue an Italian mountaineer who continued his descent of K2 after he survived an avalanche and exposure that left 11 other climbers presumed dead.

AP - Police tightened security in China's western Xinjiang region Tuesday and Olympic organizers sought to reassure residents and visitors after a deadly attack on police heightened jitters just days ahead of the games' opening ceremony.

AFP - Australia's biggest ports and rail operator Asciano Group on Monday rejected a 2.9 billion Australian (2.7 billion US) dollar takeover bid, saying it undervalued the company.

AP - A massive new U.S. Embassy, the second-largest in the world after the heavily fortified compound in Baghdad, formally opens in the Chinese capital this week, a testament to the depth and breadth of the ties binding the trading partners and sometimes rivals.