The Iraqi premier called for a regional meeting Tuesday. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said his government will send envoys to neighboring countries to pave the way for a regional conference on ending Iraq's rampant violence.
Fiji's military overthrew the government Tuesday after weeks of threats, locking down the capital and putting the prime minister under house arrest in the fourth coup in the South Pacific country in 19 years.
NASA will establish an international base camp on the moon, permanently staffing it by 2024, four years after astronauts land there, the agency announced Tuesday.
The New York City Board of Health voted to ban trans fats at restaurants, making it the nation's first city to do so. Restaurants will have to eliminate the artificial trans fats from all of their foods by July 2008.
The USS Intrepid was finally freed from the Hudson River anchorage Tuesday, a month after a failed attempt to move it. The historic aircraft carrier had been stuck in the river for nearly a quarter of a century as a museum.
House Republicans postponed action on an offshore drilling bill that would open a large area of the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling. Republicans gave no reason for the decision not to vote on the Senate plan.
Russia will not allow the extradition of possible suspects in the poisoning of a former KGB agent in Britain, the chief prosecutor said Tuesday, also dismissing as "nonsense" allegations by another ex-security officer of a death squad for Kremlin critics.
Pakistan's president said he is willing to give up Kashmir if India agrees that the disputed Himalayan region should become self-governing and largely autonomous. The president's office later sought to clarify the president's remarks, saying his offer was not unilateral but contingent on India doing the same.
A dress worn by Audrey Hepburn fetched $807,000 at an auction Tuesday. Proceeds from the sale of the black Givenchy gown, worn by the actress in the film in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," will go to the charity City of Joy Aid, which helps India's poor.
Six world powers gathered to decide how to punish Iran's defiance of U.N. demands to halt its nuclear program and facing a new threat from Tehran of retaliation if they opt for sanctions.
Troops loyal to a renegade Congo general attacked army forces Tuesday in eastern Congo, re-igniting fighting after a week of relative calm in the restive region, officials said.
Searchers scoured a narrow canyon in Oregon's Coast Range on Tuesday for a man who has been missing for more than a week in the snowy, rugged area while his wife and two young children, rescued just the day before, recovered in a hospital.
