AP - Opposition legislators jeered President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday as he opened Zimbabwe's parliament, singing and chanting and sometimes drowning out his voice.

AP - The 27-year-old woman and her husband already had three children — all girls. They badly wanted a boy, and she had not conceived in five years, so doctors gave her hormones.

AP - Russia formally recognized the breakaway Georgian territories at the heart of its war with Georgia on Tuesday, drawing immediate condemnation from the West as the United States dispatched a military ship bearing aid to a port city still patrolled by Russian troops.

AFP - National Foods, a unit of Japanese brewing giant Kirin, has acquired Australia's Dairy Farmers co-operative for 910 million Australian dollars (782 million US), the companies confirmed Tuesday.

AFP - North Korea said Tuesday that it has stopped disabling its nuclear plants and will consider restoring the Yongbyon complex as it accused the United States of violating a six-nation disarmament deal.

AP - The old shore road to Totope is now under the sea, and when developers began carving out another one, it was washed away so often they abandoned it. Now the road to this village is just a track across the sand.

AP - Forecasters say tropical storm Julio has weakened to a tropical depression after drenching the central section of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.

AP - A police official says a bomb planted in a parked car has killed four people and wounded six — including three policemen — in the city of Tikrit north of Baghdad.

AFP - Former James Bond star Sean Connery has attributed the success in his life to being Scottish at the launch of his new book in Edinburgh.

AP - Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carrying the top U.S. diplomat in the main city in Pakistan's volatile northwest Tuesday morning, but no one was killed or wounded, officials said.

AP - Gustav became a hurricane early Tuesday as it approached Haiti's southern coast.

AP - Amid allegations that large numbers of civilians have died in recent raids and airstrikes by foreign forces, President Hamid Karzai's government has demanded a review of the presence of U.S. and NATO troops in the country.

AP - With hopes fading for brokering an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by year's end, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered few signs of progress Tuesday, saying only that talks are "serious" and again chiding Israel for continuing settlement construction.

AFP - Pakistan's ruling coalition split Monday after former premier Nawaz Sharif withdrew over differences on the restoration of judges sacked by ex-president Pervez Musharraf.