NASA Administrator Michael Griffin on Tuesday approved sending a space shuttle to repair the 16-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, reversing his predecessor's contentious decision to nix the mission. more
North Korea agreed Tuesday to rejoin six-nation nuclear disarmament talks in a surprise diplomatic breakthrough three weeks after the communist regime conducted its first known atomic test. A U.S. envoy said the talks could resume as early as November. more
A witness testified at Saddam Hussein's genocide trial Tuesday that he survived a massacre by feigning death when Iraqi soldiers shot at Kurdish detainees lying at their feet. more
Sony said Tuesday the U.S. Department of Justice is probing its electronics unit as part of an industrywide investigation into sales of a particular type of memory chip. The news could spell more trouble for a company already stung by sinking profits, a global battery recall and product delays. more
Oil prices sagged Tuesday after tumbling more than $2 a barrel a day earlier as traders looked to U.S. supply data due out this week that is expected to show rising inventories of crude. more
Agricultural processing company Archer Daniels Midland Co. said Tuesday its first-quarter profit more than doubled, boosted by better oilseed and corn processing results. more
United Airlines parent UAL Corp. reported third-quarter earnings Tuesday of $190 million, marking the first time it has posted back-to-back profits in more than six years. more
Consumer products company Procter & Gamble Co. said Tuesday that its first-quarter profit climbed 33 percent, boosted by sales from Gillette and improved margins. more
Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James wowed the crowd _ and Jon Stewart _ Monday during a taping of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" at Ohio State University. more
An unpublished sonnet that Sylvia Plath wrote in college while pondering themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby" will appear Wednesday in a Virginia online literary journal. more
An associate of Angelina Jolie has said a lawsuit may be filed on behalf of the Hollywood actress against the head of a Cambodian aid group she alleges misappropriated her donations. more
When some KFC restaurants secretly switched to frying oil free of trans fats, customers didn't notice. Attempts to rid the chain's popular biscuits of a shortening filled with the artery-clogging substance did not go as smoothly. more
KFC's announcement that it will eliminate trans fats from its cooking oil puts more pressure for alternatives on companies that make and distribute the oil. more
A deadly drug-resistant new strain of tuberculosis on the rise this year has forced scientists to confront a new problem: old drugs and a more than century-old TB test that takes weeks to get laboratory confirmation. more
One in five adults has a little hole in the heart. Most will never know it. But the defect may play a role in certain strokes and severe migraines, leading thousands to get devices implanted to seal it shut. more
Officials from more than 30 countries debated ways to regulate the global Internet gaming industry on Tuesday, just weeks after the United States effectively banned online gambling. more
The world's leading electronics makers have teamed up to develop a wireless technology to carry high-definition video and eliminate some of the cable spaghetti that links televisions with set-top boxes and other equipment. more
Microsoft Corp. said Monday it has filed more than 50 lawsuits and other legal actions worldwide against people it says sold pirated copies of its software using online auction sites such as eBay. more
MySpace.com will use "audio fingerprinting" technology to block users from uploading copyright music to the social networking site, the company said Monday. more
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