AP - Paris Hilton is no stranger to self-promotion. But when she asked DJs to play songs from her upcoming debut album, "Paris," last spring, she wasn't so confident.

AP - The New York Yankees finished off their domination of the Boston Red Sox and took their biggest lead in the AL East this season.

Reuters - Iran, set to reply on Tuesday to an offer by world powers aimed at defusing a nuclear standoff, has insisted it would not stop enriching uranium as they demand by an August 31 deadline to avoid possible sanctions.

Reuters - Italy said on Tuesday it would contribute 2,000 to 3,000 troops, about one third of the European contribution, to a U.N. force for Lebanon provided Israel did not violate the truce.

Reuters - North Korea said it had the right to launch a pre-emptive attack to counter a U.S.-South Korean joint military training drill, its official media reported on Tuesday.

Reuters - Israel should prepare for the possibility of a missile attack from Iran, a cabinet minister said on Tuesday.

Reuters - The schoolteacher who says he was with six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey when she died met with his lawyer in a Los Angeles jail on Monday as he awaited a hearing on whether he will be sent to Colorado, where he could be charged with killing the child beauty queen.

Reuters - Skeletal remains of a homonoid nicknamed "hobbit" and found in a cave on a remote Indonesian island are from an ancestor of human pygmies still living there today, scientists say.

Reuters - Thailand plans to draw up new rules for hiring foreign teachers after the arrest of an American teacher who could be charged with murdering a child beauty queen raised questions about recruiting procedures, officials said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Three Mexicans who survived an epic voyage across the Pacific Ocean in a small fishing boat have arrived in the Marshall Islands, setting foot on land for the first time in more than nine months.

AFP - Eleven people were due to appear in a London court charged in connection with an alleged plot by Islamist fanatics to use suicide bombers to blow US-bound airliners out of the sky.

AFP - Italy has offered to lead a peacekeeping force for Lebanon to shore up a tenuous UN-brokered truce, which was rattled further with the killing of two Hezbollah guerrillas by Israeli troops.

AP - Eleven people charged in the alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners were taken from a secure police station Tuesday to make their first appearance before their judge.

AP - President Bush said Monday the Iraq war is "straining the psyche of our country" but leaving now would be a disaster.

AP - The No. 2 State Department official met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the same time the reporter has testified that an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame.

AP - John Mark Karr, arrested in Thailand in connection with the decade-old slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, could soon be bound for Colorado — though his legal fate could linger if he decides to fight extradition.

AP - Actress Suzanne Pleshette was undergoing chemotherapy for lung cancer that was caught at an early stage, her agent said Friday.

The partner of Steven Gerrard is arrested over an alleged assault at a restaurant in Liverpool.

Home favourite Susanna Kallur wins 100m hurdle at the European Championships in Gothenburg.

Former Miss Wales Imogen Thomas is the latest contestant to be voted out of the Big Brother house.