TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian news agency said on Tuesday that a U.S. military aircraft had unintentionally violated Iranian airspace and been forced to land in Iran, but later allowed to leave. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/CvdU70Ygbazu83mHrIVhjJZLz7g/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/CvdU70Ygbazu83mHrIVhjJZLz7g/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=hcw6V83a"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=JybE1CU8"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=JybE1CU8" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=3D32C8Fs"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=3D32C8Fs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/AE_nDJvyq9g" height="1" width="1"/

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday announced it would create a special-purpose facility, with the Treasury Department's blessing, to begin buying commercial paper in yet another emergency move aimed at calming chaotic financial markets. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/vy9Bm86pPqmDaJKMA4p2U8owEXM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/vy9Bm86pPqmDaJKMA4p2U8owEXM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=PpsBLQO2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=4XFFmok1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=4XFFmok1" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=FufCfLui"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=FufCfLui" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/VeLCLtVJM1E" height="1" width="1"/

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian news agency said on Tuesday that a U.S. military aircraft had unintentionally violated Iranian airspace and been forced to land in Iran, but later allowed to leave. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Fu3vDOe7ZhuYhH06RvTxqUW88XI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Fu3vDOe7ZhuYhH06RvTxqUW88XI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=u0FbmFsP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=1Vfq8Htn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=1Vfq8Htn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=kJnYIz36"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=kJnYIz36" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/cKYL5DAIIcY" height="1" width="1"/

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Average household heating fuel costs this winter will be 15 percent higher than last year, with heating oil and natural gas users taking the biggest hit due to more expensive crude oil and colder weather than last winter, the government's top energy forecasting agency said Tuesday. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/KB-DjM2QTLL8TsjcmEDDMqTDLls/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/KB-DjM2QTLL8TsjcmEDDMqTDLls/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=sn0Rdc0G"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=7i2rzo4K"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=7i2rzo4K" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=EFZY2YnN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=EFZY2YnN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/-DcwBsWYSi0" height="1" width="1"/

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan immigration authorities have arrested and plan to deport the U.S. author of a critical book about presidential candidate Barack Obama before a launch in Nairobi, witnesses and local media said Tuesday. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/cqdkMdatSJFegtfYAIIBhihM5Z8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/cqdkMdatSJFegtfYAIIBhihM5Z8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=QWr47HEw"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=drp91ddN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=drp91ddN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=ZUT1L8ry"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=ZUT1L8ry" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/G-pUDZe4ExU" height="1" width="1"/

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's foreign minister played down on Tuesday the notion that North Korea delivered an ultimatum when it held talks last week with a visiting U.S. envoy who was trying to save a floundering nuclear disarmament deal. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/lcco2xvu5BjTa25Oq7NSaErBVqI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/lcco2xvu5BjTa25Oq7NSaErBVqI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=olhtxNop"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=v0zapiFy"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=v0zapiFy" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=9XcP9ZAH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=9XcP9ZAH" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/sGauOhjkcw4" height="1" width="1"/

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for their work in sub-atomic physics, the prize committee said on Tuesday. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/cHtkXfJ2hDPxOFtsWCBvlXkUUX8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/cHtkXfJ2hDPxOFtsWCBvlXkUUX8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=cq7KCpcR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=Thaxd1RW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=Thaxd1RW" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=LcUFH2Y2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=LcUFH2Y2" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/FAfEqm8Gb00" height="1" width="1"/

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp, citing "recessionary conditions," on Monday halved its dividend and said it would sell at least $10 billion in new common stock to bolster its capital to offset rising loan losses. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/OslWOixwiJei9KPCIcYAL6CSf0U/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/OslWOixwiJei9KPCIcYAL6CSf0U/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=NbgDKL4O"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=WA2TzdSF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=WA2TzdSF" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=HpiApy03"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=HpiApy03" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/sn-fc2k3NWk" height="1" width="1"/

SYDNEY/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Australia stunned markets with its steepest interest cut in 16 years on Tuesday and investors expected that other central banks would follow suit in a coordinated move to combat the global credit crisis. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Ls5V8WTR7Lzd-wOWpM3fROVSABc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Ls5V8WTR7Lzd-wOWpM3fROVSABc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=I3HeuZUL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=5bayINje"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=5bayINje" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=Tw8Y6o5J"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=Tw8Y6o5J" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/9pEm6iSOcv0" height="1" width="1"/

LONDON (Reuters) - The British government held talks with major banks on Monday evening at which the possibility of an injection of public money was discussed, according to a source familiar with the talks. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/C-D4go5V5BobYcU4Qs0UWTF9JFU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/C-D4go5V5BobYcU4Qs0UWTF9JFU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=5PKuNTZA"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=PhsQBz7w"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=PhsQBz7w" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=bzLEhzQd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=bzLEhzQd" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/wtQ_mSiWmJ0" height="1" width="1"/

TOKYO (Reuters) - Three sumo wrestlers pleaded guilty to beating up a 17-year-old trainee who later died, Japanese media reported on Tuesday, the latest blow to the national sport hit by scandals from drugs to match-fixing. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/ErX5ZkcHfA3TFGjXmnV69csgE_k/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/ErX5ZkcHfA3TFGjXmnV69csgE_k/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=5Yo3Eptj"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=EP91x5Je"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=EP91x5Je" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=NrkrYo3V"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=NrkrYo3V" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/UtsDAXDJ4gg" height="1" width="1"/

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has a narrow 3-point lead in the U.S. presidential race on Republican John McCain less than a month before the election, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/4zup8WfwKQulWtzLOre8qCnUPqs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/4zup8WfwKQulWtzLOre8qCnUPqs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=s0aoFalS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=7GIdY3G3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=7GIdY3G3" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=EsHH2D8S"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=EsHH2D8S" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/1IguM_-PNqk" height="1" width="1"/

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The director of the White House war on drugs said on Monday that Internet videos that show people getting high pose a dangerous threat to teenagers by encouraging them to use drugs and alcohol. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/8zw0nvTcU4kNTucFjpHsWg58x5Y/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/8zw0nvTcU4kNTucFjpHsWg58x5Y/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=Ya1L35rq"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=obE3bVBr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=obE3bVBr" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=HHXv7n9i"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=HHXv7n9i" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/9ivI9tRIq9A" height="1" width="1"/

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Panic about how the U.S. and European governments have not yet found a solution to the plague sweeping through the global financial system hit Asian stocks again on Tuesday and lifted gold prices. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/LdA8oArRyCY29eOqVHicO-VHFiI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/LdA8oArRyCY29eOqVHicO-VHFiI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=rcN4dI7Z"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=MVUVSFYu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=MVUVSFYu" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=FSaChfpT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=FSaChfpT" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/jbLxdXbTj0c" height="1" width="1"/

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama warmed up on Monday for a potentially crucial debate by unleashing another volley of personal attacks on each other's character in an increasingly ugly White House race. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/SDx_CkDWwzzzyezCbt-EMAUKRrg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/SDx_CkDWwzzzyezCbt-EMAUKRrg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=R7R1RtpW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=OIvKrxM9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=OIvKrxM9" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=XXoTs289"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=XXoTs289" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/ijeOYpfrFRI" height="1" width="1"/

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Governments around the world scrambled for new measures to contain the fast-spreading credit crisis as stock, bond and commodity markets bet on deepening uncertainty and a sharp downturn. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Kxr1NjhYTyvhv8RI-E3kBUytMHw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Kxr1NjhYTyvhv8RI-E3kBUytMHw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=mYVkuK5s"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=jrL6AwhC"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=jrL6AwhC" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=DHyrpq8T"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=DHyrpq8T" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/KnG-Kf4Mrag" height="1" width="1"/

KABUL (Reuters) - Britain's military commander and ambassador in Afghanistan are being "defeatist" by thinking the war cannot be won, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, as Washington seeks more troops for the conflict that started exactly seven years ago. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/5fY4f8TGJneP87e7dbBqXxkhTaw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/5fY4f8TGJneP87e7dbBqXxkhTaw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=E5CqGhEd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=T6k2E7B2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=T6k2E7B2" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=in2mnvsZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=in2mnvsZ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/Y1Sn7A9FP5Y" height="1" width="1"/

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wells Fargo amp; Co and Citigroup Inc agreed on Monday to a 44-hour truce in their fight over regional bank Wachovia Corp after a weekend of legal wrangling. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/4H8F_e7wp4OSq-sLaa18GxLmfBk/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/4H8F_e7wp4OSq-sLaa18GxLmfBk/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=P5J4iVoU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=3mwlr8sR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=3mwlr8sR" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=82SIMDiN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=82SIMDiN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/QtYUxBQ1Syc" height="1" width="1"/

CLEARWATER, Florida (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin told Florida's voters on Monday to expect "rough" campaigning as she seeks to halt a slide in opinion polls in a state that could make or break Sen. John McCain's White House bid. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Wp4HJxaqvICh0oiLqpRzZqw-5cs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Wp4HJxaqvICh0oiLqpRzZqw-5cs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=qFiyuV6p"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=YB2jKRcu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=YB2jKRcu" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=LMrcU5ed"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=LMrcU5ed" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/hqOPketNL0c" height="1" width="1"/

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. Army officials on Monday said a $160 billion (92 billion pound) Future Combat Systems modernization program managed by Boeing Co and SAIC Inc was "on budget, on track," but could see changes over time.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp, the largest U.S. bank, reported weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings on Monday, slashed its dividend and said it would seek to raise $10 billion in additional capital.