AP - California importer Frank Lettieri is being sued for not warning his customers that his balsamic vinegar contains lead. True enough, he says. But you would have to drink more than a pint of the vinegar every day to reach the government limit for safe exposure to lead. Most people just sprinkle a few drops onto salads or bread.

Reuters - News, comment, cricket scores -- and contraception.

AFP - Vietnam's poor northern highlands face the threat of "twin epidemics" of intravenous drug use and HIV/AIDS infection, national leaders and UN officials have warned.

AP - Kevin Federline's TV debut as a rapper is getting derided as a not-ready-for-prime-­time disaster by critics in cyberspace and the hip-hop community.

E! Online - Brooke Burke is ready to be a model wife and mother. Again.

AP - "Snakes on a Plane" was the weekend's top-grossing film, but its $15.2 million box-office bite was a disappointment for a film that has been buzzed about on the Internet for months.

Fashion Wire Daily - She left "E.R.," her career-making television show, back in 1994, turning her back on a $25 million contract. Now, 12 years later, actress Julianna Margulies has not one second of regret as she - and the world - anticipate her latest project, the screamfest known as "Snakes on a Plane."

AP - Brooke Burke, host of the CBS reality series "Rock Star: Supernova," and actor David Charvet are getting married and expecting a child together, her representative, Nancy Iannios, told The Associated Press on Monday.

Reuters - More than 8,000 "American Idol" hopefuls auditioned for the hit talent show in Birmingham, Ala., on Monday, hoping to follow in the footsteps of two previous winners who hail from the southern city.

AP - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was among a few dozen banks, insurance companies, mutual funds and other entities that loaned $350 million to MediaNews Group Inc. for its purchase of four newspapers from publisher McClatchy Co.

Reuters - Oil held steady at $72.50 barrel on Tuesday, underpinned by Iran's determination to continue enriching uranium and run a risk of international sanctions.

Reuters - AOL chief technology officer Maureen Govern, who oversaw the division responsible for accidentally releasing search data for more than a half a millions Internet users, has resigned from the company, according to an internal company memorandum.

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.

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.

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 - Oil prices showed little movement Tuesday ahead of Iran's formal response to a U.N. plan meant to encourage the country to suspend uranium enrichment, although Tehran has already indicated it will not do so.

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.

AP - Iran said it intends to meet a self-imposed deadline later Tuesday to formally respond to a Western incentives package aimed at persuading it to suspend its uranium enrichment program, state television reported.

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.