Reuters - The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee are putting the finishing touches on a bill aimed at addressing trade irritants with China and plan to unveil it next week, a spokeswoman for one of the senators said on Tuesday.

AP - The finance section Google Inc. unveiled Tuesday continues a philosophical shift that's turning its once-pure Internet search engine into an all-purpose Web site that seems increasingly interested in getting people to stick around instead of sending them elsewhere.

AP - Exasperated, besieged by global pressure, Saddam Hussein and top aides searched for ways in the 1990s to prove to the world they'd given up banned weapons. "We don't have anything hidden!" the frustrated Iraqi president interjected at one meeting, transcripts show.

AP - The human death toll from the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu reached 103 after five people died from the disease in Azerbaijan, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

At a White House news conference today, President Bush said he was encouraged that Iraqi lawmakers were forming a council that gives each of the country's religious and ethnic groups a voice in making policy. "It's an indicator that Iraq's leaders understand the importance of a government of national unity," he said.