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."

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.

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 - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Japanese unit Seiyu Ltd. (8268.T) said on Tuesday its first-half operating loss nearly halved on stronger same-store sales and lower costs, and it kept its full-year forecast for a sharp profit recovery that outstrips market expectations.

The ECB denies England coach Duncan Fletcher complained about the ball in the fourth Test against Pakistan.

Reuters - An Iraqi Kurd told Saddam Hussein's genocide trial on Tuesday how jets dropped poison gas smelling of rotten apples on his mountain village and aides to the ousted leader defended his campaign against Kurdish rebels.

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.

AP - Bureaucracy and a lack of money are slowing the rebuilding of New Orleans nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina hit, Mayor Ray Nagin said Monday.

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.

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 - 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 - 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.