(CBS/AP) COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The shooting that took the lives of three people began Monday afternoon when a county law enforcement official arrived at the home of Thomas Alton Caffall to serve an eviction notice. PICTURES: 3 killed in shooting … Home Depot sees rosier year ahead as profit climbs - Houston Chronicle
ATLANTA (AP) -- The Home Depot Inc. is feeling more optimistic about the recovery of the housing market after customers spent more on remodeling and repair projects in the second quarter. The country's biggest home-improvement retailer said Tuesday that … Republican ticket faces growing pains, Dems attack - The Associated Press
By By STEVE PEOPLES and KASIE HUNT - 1 minute ago DENVER (AP) -- The newly shaped Republican presidential ticket is fighting growing pains amid charges from President Barack Obama's re-election team that challenger Mitt Romney favors his new running … Riyad Hijab, former Syrian PM, says Assad government is 'collapsing' - Washington Post
Ryan's Record Shows Flexibility on Policy - Wall Street Journal
Chris Christie in, Sarah Palin out as Republican National Convention strategy ... - Washington Post
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is out. But New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is in. Texas Rep. Ron Paul will not appear. But his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, will take the stage. The full slate of convention speakers for the Republican National … Riot engulfs troubled French district in north - The Associated Press
Home Depot's Profit Rises Despite Sales Pressure - Wall Street Journal
Home Depot Inc.'s fiscal second-quarter earnings rose 12% despite pressure on sales growth, as its laser focus on productivity continued to bolster margin and whittle down overhead costs. The company, the biggest home-improvement retailer in the … Afghan attacks with some 14 suicide bomber kill 27
A police official says as many as 14 suicide bombers were involved in attacks Tuesday that killed at least 27 people in relatively peaceful southwestern Afghanistan.
Travel trusts can fund trips for beneficiaries: Where there's a will, there's 'away'
Lee Liebman and her family took a $6,000 vacation this year that didn’t cost them a dime, thanks to a relative’s last wishes.
Bahrain police disperse Shiite protests
Bahraini security forces fired birdshot and tear gas to disperse protesters in Shiite villages around the capital, witnesses said on Tuesday, as police announced the arrest of 11 "saboteurs". Syrian PM who defected says Assad regime on verge of collapse, urges others to join rebels
AMMAN, Jordan – Syria’s prime minister who defected to the opposition said Tuesday that Bashar Assad’s regime was near collapse and urged other political and military leaders to tip the scales and join the rebel side.
Ex-Barclays trader Merchant, under Libor scrutiny, exits UBS
(Reuters) – Jay V. Merchant, who has come under federal scrutiny in the Libor manipulation scandal related to his tenure at Barclays Plc, left his position as head of swap trading at UBS on Monday, a UBS spokeswoman confirmed. Merchant, who worked for Barclays in New York from 2006 to 2009, is being looked at by U.S. authorities over his activities while working at Barclays' swaps desk in New York. Merchant's lawyer, John Kenney, was not immediately available for comment. … Eight Ugandans survive army helicopter crash, two dead
Eight Ugandan servicemen walked away from their helicopter after it crashed in Kenya en route to war-torn Somalia while two soldiers were confirmed dead in another crash, officials said Tuesday. Russia to send navy vessels to disputed Pacific islands
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will send two navy vessels to the disputed Kuril islands in the Pacific, the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday, in a move likely to anger Japan which lays claim to them. The dispute has strained relations between the two countries since World War Two, when Soviet forces occupied the four islands at the southern end of the Kuril chain. Japan says the islands are part of its territory and wants Moscow to hand them over. …
Defected premier: Syrian regime near collapse, joining the rebel side - Fox News
Syria's prime minister who defected to the opposition said Tuesday that Bashar Assad's regime was near collapse and urged other political and military leaders to tip the scales and join the rebel side. The comments by Riad Hijab were his first public … Tunisia constitution 'not ready before February'
Tunisia's new constitution will not be adopted before February 2013, the head of the drafting committee said on Tuesday, after earlier announcing that it would be delayed until April. Afghan suicide bombers kill 28 people, wound more than 70
KABUL (Reuters) – Three suicide bombers killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 70 when they blew themselves up in a busy market in southwestern Afghanistan in one of the worst such attacks this year, provincial officials said on Tuesday. Eighteen civilians including several children and at least three members of the Afghan security forces were among the dead in the town of Zaranj, the provincial capital of Nimroz province next to the border with Iran. The toll is expected to rise, provincial governor Abdul Karim Barahawi told Reuters. …
Seven dead as heavy rain fells walls in Senegal
Seven people including a baby died early Tuesday as heavy rains pounded the Senegalese capital Dakar, causing partial home collapses, the national fire brigade said. Ukraine court orders extradition of Putin murder plot suspect
KIEV (Reuters) – A Ukrainian court on Tuesday ordered the extradition of the suspected leader of a foiled plot to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin, Interfax news agency reported. Days before Russia's March 4 presidential election, the country's state media carried news of a plot by Islamist rebels to kill Putin, who then served as prime minister and won the vote to become president for a third term. … Terror trial against Iraqi vice president resumes
A neighbor of Iraq’s fugitive vice president has claimed he transported bombs at the request of the official’s son during testimony in a politically charged terrorism trial against the politician.
Multiple suicide bombings kill 27 people in southwest Afghanistan
KABUL – A health official says the death toll in multiple suicide bombings in southwestern Afghanistan has risen to 27.
Strike, protest in birthplace of Tunisia uprising
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated against Tunisia's ruling Islamist party during a general strike Tuesday in Sidi Bouzid, hub of the 2011 uprising, an AFP journalist reported. Multiple suicide attacks kill 27 in Afghanistan
A health official says the death toll in multiple suicide bombings in southwestern Afghanistan has risen to 27.
Egypt's president awards medals to sacked generals
Egypt's president has given awards to the nation's two top military commanders, two days after he ordered their retirement. Egyptian forces clash with gunmen in Sinai
Egypt's security forces exchanged fire on Tuesday with militants in the Sinai peninsula, sources said, as the military continued its campaign against Islamists in the lawless region. 
WASHINGTON -- Chris Christie, the sometimes abrasive but always entertaining governor of New Jersey, is set to be announced Tuesday as the keynote speaker for the Republicans' national convention later this month. Christie, who considered a 2012 … 
This post originally appeared on Slate. Bob White, Mitt Romney's partner at Bain Capital and close campaign confidante, gave Paul Ryan the ultimate compliment. "We would have hired him at Bain," he told a campaign colleague. The buoyant 42-year-old … 
Talk about legacy: London Olympics fans keen to own a part of the Games are snapping up souvenirs ranging from competition equipment to Mary Poppins outfits worn in the opening ceremony. 
A group of suicide bombers killed up to 20 people in the capital of Afghanistan's southwestern Nimroz province on the border with Iran, officials said Tuesday. 
South Africa's Jacques Kallis believes Kevin Pietersen will bounce back after his dramatic omission from the England Test side for this week's series finale against the Proteas at Lord's. 
Former Syrian PM Riad Hijab, who defected to Jordan last week, has said the Syrian government is collapsing "morally, financially and militarily". Speaking in the Jordanian capital, Amman, he said the regime controlled no more than 30% of Syrian … 
By Pascal Rossignol AMIENS, France Aug 14 (Reuters) – Youths fired buckshot at police in clashes in the French city of Amiens overnight on Tuesday, torching cars and a nursery school in a resurgence of urban unrest that President Francois Hollande said … 
A British couple who scooped a record 190 million euros in the EuroMillions lottery said Tuesday that they would carry on running their music shop and try to give their children a normal upbringing. 
Environmental activists warned Tuesday that drilling for oil in the Russian Arctic could have disastrous consequences because of the lack of technology and infrastructure to deal with a possible spill. 
AMMAN/ALEPPO (Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad controls less than a third of Syria and his power is crumbling, his former prime minister said on Tuesday, in his first public appearance since he defected to the opposition this month. Riyad Hijab told a news conference in Jordan that the morale of Syrian authorities was low after grappling for 17 months to crush a popular uprising and an armed insurgency against Assad. "The regime is collapsing, spiritually and financially, as it escalates militarily," he said. "It no longer controls more than 30 percent of Syrian territory. … 
England winger Theo Walcott was ruled out Tuesday of the friendly international away to Italy in Switzerland on Wednesday. 
o A daily summary of global reports on security issues. Israeli media speculation that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to launch a preemptive attack against Iran kicked into high gear over the weekend. But the frenzy seems to lack any basis in … 
By Pascal Rossignol | AMIENS, France (Reuters) – Youths fired buckshot at police in clashes in the French city of Amiens overnight on Tuesday, torching cars and a nursery school in a resurgence of urban unrest that President Francois Hollande said he … 
Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., accompanied by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, left, speaks at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. Conrad Schmidt / AP Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., … 
By Terrence Dopp and Julie Hirschfeld Davis on August 14, 2012 Chris Christie, the New Jersey governor who last year spurned pleas from fellow Republicans to make a bid for the White House, will be the keynote speaker at the Republican National … 
PATERSON, NJ - A gang thug is being held by police after a drug search in his apartment uncovered a shocking discovery. A 44-year old woman was found in the apartment, and police say, she was kept padlocked in a bedroom by her boyfriend for long … 
The Republican team of Mitt Romney and Paul D. Ryan is less about the future than it is about nostalgia for a past that many Americans imagine was better — a time when businessmen were free of government meddling and all citizens, even the poor, … 
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Syria's former prime minister, who fled the country last week, said Tuesday in his first public appearance since his defection that the government of President Bashar al-Assad was crumbling internally under the pressure of constant … 
(CNN) — A top UN official arrived in Damascus on Tuesday in an attempt to "draw attention to the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Syria," the United Nations said. Valerie Amos, the UN's under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and … 
More searing heat and a slight chance of rainfall are expected in the Houston region during the next several days, but a better chance of showers and thunderstorms may be possible by the weekend. The heat index for the next few days is likely to climb … 
Syria's prime minister who defected to the opposition said Tuesday that Bashar Assad's regime was near collapse and urged other political and military leaders to tip the scales and join the rebel side. 
(Reuters) – Canada's main stock index looked set to open higher after economic data from the euro zone strengthened expectations for more action from major central banks. TOP STORIES The euro zone's debt-ravaged economy shrank in the second quarter, having flatlined in the first, despite continued German growth which economists said could soon be snuffed out. Germany's Constitutional Court sees no reason to delay a ruling scheduled for September 12 on the legality of the euro zone's permanent bailout fund and a separate pact on budget discipline. … 
England off-spinner Graeme Swann has insisted the side will not be weaker for the absence of Kevin Pietersen for this week's third Test against South Africa at Lord's. 
China may have slipped to second place in the Olympic medals table, but when it came to online enthusiasm about the Games its microbloggers were second to none. 
More than 23,000 people have been killed in violence in Syria since the outbreak of a revolt in March last year, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. 
By Edmund Blair and Yasmine Saleh | CAIRO (Reuters) – A blunder by the Egyptian army that left 16 border guards dead at the hands of Islamist militants gave President Mohamed Mursi an unexpectedly early chance to claw back powers from a military whose … 
China's ruling Communists are sticking to their trademark secrecy by keeping mum on the dates of a major party congress this fall that will promote new leaders. 
CAIRO (Reuters) – A blunder by the Egyptian army that left 16 border guards dead at the hands of Islamist militants gave President Mohamed Mursi an unexpectedly early chance to claw back powers from a military whose political influence he had always wanted to restrict. A week after the raid on Egypt's Sinai border that outraged ordinary Egyptians and some soldiers, angry at what they saw as a failure in military leadership, Mursi on Sunday dismissed the country's two top generals and tore up an army decree that had curbed his powers. … 
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is facing pressure to resign after a report scolded public authorities for failing to prevent or interrupt bomb and gun attacks that killed 77 people last year. 
DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Co is recalling 10,315 Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana vans from model years 2003-2004 in 20 cold-weather U.S. states and in Canada because road salt may have corroded a fueling pipe, GM said. There are 9,389 vans recalled in the United States and 926 in Canada. The affected vans have "60/40" swing-out driver side doors. U.S. safety regulators said there is a higher risk of fire if the pipe that carries gasoline is corroded. No injuries or fires have been reported as a result of this issue, GM said. … 
Recession-hit English commuters face rail fare increases of an average 6.2 percent from the start of 2013 following an unexpected jump in inflation. 
Yemeni troops from the elite Republican Guard force, led by the son of ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh, attacked on Tuesday the headquarters of the defence ministry, witnesses said.