Reuters - WASHINGTON/TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian nuclear scientist missing for more than a year turned up in Washington on Tuesday, claiming to have been kidnapped but U.S. officials denied that they held him against his will or mistreated him.

Reuters - HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc prepared on Tuesday to test a new cap on its runaway well in an effort to arrest the flow of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the last 12 weeks.

Kitty Kelley has optioned the rights to her unauthorized biography of Oprah Winfrey to be made into a movie or mini-series.

Three floors of Ottawa's Chateau Laurier were evacuated after a fire in an executive boardroom sent smoke into the hotel's mezzanine level.

A rogue Afghan soldier fired a rocket-propelled grenade on NATO troops, killing three British soldiers and wounding four others, an Afghan official says.

A man ejected from a pub in Australia broke into a zoo and climbed onto the back of a crocodile named Fatso, which bit him on the leg but then let him go.

A leading Chinese internet regulator has vowed to reduce anonymity online, calling for rules requiring people to use their real names when buying a cellphone or going online, a human rights group says.

Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI's investigation into a Russian spy ring that operated in the United States has resulted in another Russian being detained, and he soon will be deported, a U.S. law enforcement official said on Tuesday.

Reuters - HAVANA (Reuters) - The first six of 52 political prisoners to be freed in a deal with the Catholic Church left Cuba on Monday, bound for a new life as Cuban exiles in Spain.

Reuters - TEHRAN (Reuters) - A missing Iranian nuclear scientist dramatically turned up at the Iranian interests section of Pakistan's embassy in Washington, and was quoted as saying he was kidnapped by U.S. agents in a "disgraceful act."

A couple from Courtenay, B.C., says Telus put a black mark on their credit rating over an old bill they knew nothing about. "It's a bill that I didn't know I had," said Travis Krisher, a pilot with Air Canada Jazz.

The Senate has voted to pass the omnibus budget implementation bill, avoiding an election showdown over the issue.

Global crude oil use will increase next year despite reduced demand in the developed world, the IEA says.

In this year of the pitcher, the National League brings a loaded set of hurlers to Angels Stadium on Tuesday night, looking to snap the American League's 13-year unbeaten streak in the all-star game.

City crews are still replacing many of the street furniture items removed from the city centre in advance of the G20 summit.

Investigators find an unexploded suicide vest in a disco hall in Uganda's capital, suggesting that al-Shabaab militants planned to carry out more attacks, a government official says.