AP - Luxury home builder Toll Brothers Inc. said Tuesday its fiscal third-quarter profit fell 19 percent as a downturn in the housing market resulted in a dip in revenue and caused the company to reduce the number of lots it controls.

AP - AP Correspondent Robert H. Reid covers Iraq events from Baghdad. AP Correspondent Rebecca Santana is embedded with the First Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division. Antonio Castaneda is embedded with the U.S. Marines, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Regiment.

AP - Willy the tortoise made a break for freedom — well, break may be too strong a word. It was more like a slow crawl. But after a month on the lam, the 40-pound tortoise with a 2-foot-wide, gold-colored shell is back in the wading pool at his owner's home.

AP - Critics of Sen. Joe Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot.

AP - Police raided the official residence of Israeli President Moshe Katsav as part of a sexual harassment investigation, seizing computers and documents, officials said Tuesday.

AP - A suicide car bomber hit a Canadian military convoy in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, witnesses and a police officer said. There was no immediate word on casualties.

Reuters - The European Union rushed more peacekeepers to Congo on Tuesday as the U.N. and foreign leaders struggled to end fighting between soldiers loyal to President Joseph Kabila and supporters of his election rival.

Reuters - A suicide bomber rammed a car into a convoy of NATO troops in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Tuesday, but there was no immediate report of casualties, witnesses said.

AP - Even though he's not running for re-election this year, President Bush knows just what he would focus on if he were: the economy and taxes.

AFP - More than 427,000 people from the eight EU member states in eastern Europe have come to work in the UK since the bloc's enlargement in May 2004, according to government figures.

AP - Police acting on a tip discovered and defused a powerful bomb planted in a box of vegetables on a bicycle in a busy shopping district in the Sri Lankan capital Tuesday, an official said.

Reuters - EU authorities plan to act this week to ensure that an unauthorized biotech rice detected in the United States does not enter the bloc's food chain, an official at the European Commission said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Closely held YouTube Inc., a video Web site, is expanding the type of advertisements it sells to include videos on its home page and on special advertiser-created pages, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing company executives.

AFP - Iran is set to respond to a deal aimed at ending a nuclear standoff but has already signalled it was likely to defy the international community and refuse to freeze sensitive atomic work.

AFP - London-listed energy group JKX Oil and Gas has said that its Ukrainian unit had signed a deal to supply gas to Anglo-Dutch giant Royal Dutch Shell.

AFP - Shoppers and commuters in Zimbabwe have been left out of pocket as a severe lack of low denomination banknotes blighted the first day of a new currency.

Reuters - Two stand-up comics accused of making light of the Holocaust at the Edinburgh Fringe festival hit back at their critics on Tuesday, igniting a debate about where, if anywhere, to draw the line in comedy.

Reuters - The quality of Martin Short's musical revue is well encapsulated by what has become his trademark pose. Hands on hips, staring off into the distance, he embraces the adulation of his audience while at the same time slyly mocking his need for it.

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Reuters - Attention Elvis impersonators: you may soon have a new way to make a living.