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Several European countries said Tuesday their supply of natural gas from Russia had been cut or reduced amid a dispute over payments between Russia and Ukraine.

There was $29 billion for Bear Stearns, $345 billion for Citigroup. The Federal Reserve put up $600 billion to guarantee money market deposits. All told, the price tag so far: $7.2 trillion. Now comes President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan. The bill is getting awfully close to $8 trillion.

China's health ministry has confirmed that a 19-year-old woman died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.

A word here about financial advisers. The question is, "Are they worth it?" The answer, not surprisingly, is, "It depends."

To most Democrats and many Americans, the Bush/Cheney nightmare is over!

Japan said Tuesday it plans to ask Australia and possibly New Zealand and Chile to ban an anti-whaling protest ship from using their ports to refuel.

Two gunmen shot a Muslim cleric to death inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan, the second such incident in the area in less than two weeks, an official said Tuesday.

Russia’s gas price dispute with Ukraine escalated, disrupting deliveries to the European Union in the midst of a bitter cold spell.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India accused unspecified official agencies in Pakistan on Tuesday of supporting the gunmen who struck in Mumbai in late November.

Israeli troops were reported to be moving toward the south of Gaza on Tuesday, while France sought to enlist Syria in maneuvers toward a cease-fire.

Lawyers for exiled film director Roman Polanski are asking that a judge outside of Los Angeles be assigned to decide its motion to dismiss a 30-year-old sex offense case against him, claiming prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.

The Israeli military stepped up its offensive in Gaza Tuesday, surrounding densely populated Gaza City with its ground forces after more than 40 airstrikes pounded the region overnight. The United Nations said one Israeli missile struck an elementary school in Gaza City where hundreds of Palestinians had taken shelter, killing three men.

The city’s 311 information line was flooded with callers reporting the smell of maple syrup, or something like it, wafting across several neighborhoods.

When Apple vice president Philip Schiller takes the stage here Tuesday morning for the keynote address at the Macworld Conference & Expo, he'll face a good-news, bad-news scenario.

A series of market reports on the fourth quarter of 2008 showed an abrupt decline in transactions, tottering prices and buyers who are still looking but unwilling to sign a contract.

The trip this week effectively represents the incoming administration’s first foray into foreign policy since the election.

Though never charged with a crime, Muhammad Saad Iqbal spent six years in American custody, during which he says he was secretly taken to Egypt and tortured.

The announcement by the Russian gas monopoly, which said it is trying to make up for gas stolen by Ukraine, was essentially a partial fuel embargo of Europe.

When a judge recently ruled that a public school must remove the crucifixes from classroom walls, it was the latest blow to the Catholic Church’s once mighty grip on Spain.