AP - Two Japanese scientists and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for theoretical advances that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of matter.

AP - Thai protesters demanding the government resign set fire to cars and threw bottles and metal barricades at police, who used tear gas to break through their blockade around Parliament Tuesday. At least one person was killed and more 350 were injured.

AP - Individual European governments issued a flurry of deposit guarantees to shore up their banks but fell short of any coordinated action Monday to deal with the crisis sweeping financial markets, even as stock markets crashed and the euro sank to its lowest level for over a year.

AFP - The Australian Navy has detained 17 suspected asylum seekers at sea just a week after a boatload of Afghans, Iranians and Indonesians was intercepted off the country's coast, officials said Tuesday.

AP - A Somali pirate on a hijacked cargo ship laden with tanks and heavy weaponry says the ransom demand has been reduced from $20 million to $8 million.

AP - Iraqi police say that two blasts in front of the Foreign Ministry have wounded at least five people. The attacks have occurred as a top U.S. official is visiting Baghdad.

AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that a key by-election in Scotland would be held on November 6.

AP - Police are pursuing DNA tests to identify the suicide bomber who wounded a lawmaker and killed 16 people in eastern Pakistan, an official said Tuesday.

AP - The United States and North Korea are being flexible in their effort to reach a compromise to resolve the dispute in the North's nuclear disarmament process, South Korea's foreign minister said Tuesday.

AP - Riot police using tear gas clashed Tuesday with several thousand protesters who barricaded Parliament while trying to block Thailand's new prime minister from delivering his first policy speech to lawmakers. Scores of protesters were injured.

AP - The Associated Press has learned that China is canceling some military contacts as a result of America's recent announcement of a planned arms sale to Taiwan.