• Report: NKorean leader visits Pyongyang zoo 12/1/2008, 11:24 p.m. ET
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il went to the Pyongyang zoo and visited the tigers, bears and aquarium, state-run media said Tuesday, in the latest in a spate of reports depicting Kim as fit three months after his reported stroke.

• Official: India received intel on Mumbai attacks 12/1/2008, 11:18 p.m. ET
MUMBAI, India (AP) — An official says Indian intelligence had picked up information as recently as September that Pakistan-based terrorists were plotting attacks against Mumbai targets.

• Official: Bomb blast kills 2, wounds 30 in India 12/1/2008, 11:15 p.m. ET
GAUHATI, India (AP) — A bomb exploded in a train coach in India's insurgency-hit northeast on Tuesday, killing at least two people and injuring another 30, a state government official said.

• Earthquake strikes Taiwan 12/1/2008, 11:12 p.m. ET
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck southeastern Taiwan on Tuesday, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

• Car plows into parade crowd in Texas; several hurt 12/1/2008, 10:59 p.m. ET
OVERTON, Texas (AP) — An elderly driver hurtled through barricades into a crowd lined up for a Christmas parade Monday and injured several people, some of them members of a Cub Scout troop, a city official and witnesses said.

• Obama's cabinet picks shake up NY, AZ politics 12/1/2008, 10:49 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet picks Monday are sweet political gifts for the Republican who'll become governor of Arizona and the yet-to-be-named Democrat who'll assume Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate seat.

• AS APNewsAlert 12/1/2008, 10:45 p.m. ET
GAUHATI, India (AP) — Indian official says bomb blast in train kills two people, wounds 30 in country's northeast region.

• Indictments against Cheney, Gonzales dismissed 12/1/2008, 10:44 p.m. ET
RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (AP) — A judge dismissed indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday and told the south Texas prosecutor who brought the case to exercise caution as his term in office ends.

• Sen. Kennedy awarded honorary degree from Harvard 12/1/2008, 10:39 p.m. ET
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Saying he has "lived a blessed time," Sen. Edward Kennedy smiled broadly and flashed a thumbs up as he accepted an honorary degree Monday from his alma mater during a rare special convocation at Harvard University.

• Empire State stuntman tells jury he feared guards 12/1/2008, 10:09 p.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who tried to parachute off the Empire State Building says he was afraid guards would cause his death when they grabbed him at the top.

• Obituaries in the news 12/1/2008, 10:06 p.m. ET
(AP) — Hubert "Pit" Martin

• Web hoax juror: Majority wanted felony conviction 12/1/2008, 9:59 p.m. ET
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The jury leader in the trial of a Missouri woman accused of an Internet hoax that ended in a teenage neighbor's suicide said most panelists favored convicting the defendant of felony conspiracy.

• Tijuana police chief fired after weekend violence 12/1/2008, 9:55 p.m. ET
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Tijuana's police chief was fired Monday following three days of violence that left 37 people dead in this border city plagued by warring drug gangs, including nine men found decapitated and four children caught in shootouts.

• China: 6 babies may have died from tainted milk 12/1/2008, 9:53 p.m. ET
BEIJING (AP) — China's Health Ministry said six babies may have died after consuming tainted milk powder, up from a previous official toll of three, and announced a six-fold increase in its tally of infants sickened in the scandal — to nearly 300,000.

• 191 endure 9 frustrating hours stuck on LA tarmac 12/1/2008, 9:47 p.m. ET
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly 200 passengers on a flight from El Salvador landed Monday in Los Angeles after spending nine hours aboard a grounded plane at a smaller airport as the airline and customs officials tried to work through apparent confusion.

• Alabama mayor arrested on bribery, fraud charges 12/1/2008, 9:37 p.m. ET
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The mayor of Alabama's largest city was arrested Monday on charges of steering millions of dollars of bond work to a friend in exchange for more than $230,000 in bribes to pay for an expensive wardrobe and flashy jewelry.

• Bill Clinton kicks off conference in Hong Kong 12/1/2008, 9:35 p.m. ET
HONG KONG (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton kicked off his first charitable conference abroad in Hong Kong on Tuesday after his wife, U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton, was named secretary of state by President-elect Barack Obama.

• Van hits group of students in Calif.; teen killed 12/1/2008, 9:34 p.m. ET
SOUTH GATE, Calif. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy is dead after a van jumped a curb and crashed into several students at a bus stop in Southern California.

• Police: Man swallows stolen earrings at Fla. mall 12/1/2008, 9:11 p.m. ET
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — An X-ray marked the spot for southwest Florida police who say a teenager swallowed a $16 pair of earrings after taking them from a JCPenney store at a mall.

• Bush sorry economic crisis has cut jobs, 401 (k)s 12/1/2008, 9:09 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — President George W. Bush expressed remorse that the global financial crisis has cost jobs and harmed retirement accounts and said he'll back more government intervention if needed to ease the recession.

• Panel warns biological attack likely by 2013 12/1/2008, 9:07 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study being briefed Tuesday to Vice President-elect Joe Biden. It suggests the Obama administration bolster efforts to counter and prepare for germ warfare by terrorists.

• Parents: Slain anchorwoman was sexually assaulted 12/1/2008, 9:06 p.m. ET
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A television anchorwoman killed in her home had been sexually assaulted and beaten so badly in a suspected burglary that her jaw shattered and she broke a hand while trying to fend off her attacker's blows, her parents said Monday.

• 4 found fatally shot in Sacramento-area house 12/1/2008, 8:56 p.m. ET
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say four apparent family members were found shot to death in a house near Sacramento, Calif.

• Mumbai attack puts focus on Pakistan militant link 12/1/2008, 8:40 p.m. ET
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — The militant group blamed for the Mumbai attacks has roots in the disputed Kashmir region where Pakistan's military has faced off against India for decades.

• Bush uses final 50 days in office to tout legacy 12/1/2008, 8:36 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — President George W. Bush says history will judge him, but he is getting his own crack first. Bush is using his final 50 days in office to tout his legacy, hoping to leave a lasting impression of overshadowed progress. On Monday, World AIDS Day, Bush was heralded for his leadership in fighting the disease, a point that even his Democratic critics readily concede.