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Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party suffers a severe defeat in parliamentary elections, losing control of the upper house of parliament. But Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he will stay in office.

Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman is dead at 89. His many films included Scenes from a Marriage and Wild Strawberries. Fellow director Woody Allen once called Bergman "probably the greatest film artist ... since the invention of the motion picture camera."

Following overnight negotiations, the board of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. met Tuesday afternoon and approved Murdoch's bid to purchase Dow Jones & Co., which owns The Wall Street Journal. The deal is valued at $5 billion.

The 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people in the Chicago area triggered a nationwide panic and led to an overhaul in the safety of over-the-counter medication packaging.

President Bush said Monday that, with the right intelligence, the U.S. and Pakistani governments could take out al-Qaida leaders in Pakistan. Bush is at Camp David, where he is meeting with Afghan president Hamid Karzai.

Chinese and Olympic officials are set to mark a year-long countdown to the Beijing Olympic Games, which begins on 08/08/08. China wants to spotlight its international prominence, but concerns remain about its pollution, traffic, and food safety.

There has not been any contact with the six trapped coal miners in southern Utah. The effort to free them is in its second day. There's no shortage of hope or determination among the hundreds of rescuers who have converged near the town of Huntington.

Jose Pomales has a solid job and has lived in his Boston home for 8 years. He refinanced a couple of years ago and now could be part of what economists predict will be the biggest wave of foreclosures yet.

San Francisco celebrates Barry Bonds Day in the wake of the slugger's Tuesday night home run, which broke the career home-run record set by Hank Aaron in 1974.

As NASA prepares to for Wednesday's shuttle launch, many people are remembering the Challenger disaster which killed seven people, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. Barbara Morgan trained as McAuliffe's backup, and Wednesday she'll be on board the space shuttle.