WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will revel on Tuesday in the passage of landmark healthcare legislation, a hard-fought win that will help shape his legacy and the Democrats' chances of holding power in the U.S. Congress.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc shut its mainland Chinese-language portal and began rerouting searches to an uncensored Hong Kong-based site, unleashing a blast of ire from Beijing and prompting concerns over its future business in China.

Reuters - President Barack Obama will revel on Tuesday in the passage of landmark healthcare legislation, a hard-fought win that will help shape his legacy and the Democrats' chances of holding power in the U.S. Congress.

Reuters - Google Inc shut its mainland Chinese-language portal and began rerouting searches to an uncensored Hong Kong-based site, unleashing a blast of ire from Beijing and prompting concerns over its future business in China.

AFP - Israel and the United States showed scant sign that they had narrowed their gap over Jewish settlement activity, but they glossed over the major US-Israeli rift it has caused.

AP - President Barack Obama's yearlong health care overhaul drama featured dozens of speeches, contentious debate and a televised summit with lawmakers before a divided Congress passed the bill. An elaborate White House signing ceremony kicks off the next act: selling the sweeping changes to a skeptical public.

AP - Federal prosecutors are considering filing weapons charges against former top officials of the Blackwater Worldwide private security company over allegations they illegally stockpiled automatic rifles at the company's North Carolina headquarters, The Associated Press has learned.

AP - Almost a year after President Barack Obama promised to be a 'full partner' with Mexico in its battle against drug cartels, a team of U.S. Cabinet secretaries and other top advisers will look for ways to help Mexico strengthen its law enforcement and judicial systems in meetings Tuesday.

AP - Mehmet Okur scored all of his 14 points in the second half and pulled down 15 rebounds, Deron Williams added 22 points and 11 assists, and the Utah Jazz ended the Boston Celtics' four-game winning streak with a 110-97 victory Monday night.

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban are not involved in peace talks between an insurgent faction and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and will not agree to talks until Western troops are withdrawn from the country, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

AP - While the Roman Catholic church in Europe reels from a widening sex abuse crisis, the scandal that has plagued the U.S. church for nearly a decade is tapering off, a report released Tuesday says.

AP - At least 35 people have died in an avalanche in a remote mountainous area of northeastern Afghanistan.

Reuters - The Taliban are not involved in peace talks between an insurgent faction and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and will not agree to talks until Western troops are withdrawn from the country, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

AFP - The 'Great Firewall of China' appeared intact on Tuesday as the government lashed out at Google for refusing to bow to strict censorship in the world's biggest Internet market.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will expel an Israeli diplomat over the use of forged British passports in an assassination in Dubai, Sky News television reported on Tuesday, without disclosing its sources.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's powerful army is likely to dominate key security issues for the country as senior government and military officials meet their American counterparts for important talks in Washington this week.

TOKYO (Reuters) - The kingpin of Japan's floundering ruling party, Ichiro Ozawa, tried to soften his autocratic image on Tuesday ahead of a key election by urging an outspoken critic to stay on in a senior party position.

AP - Britain's government will expel an Israeli diplomat from London on Tuesday over the use of forged British passports in the suspected Mossad assassination of a Hamas operative.

AP - A German court on Tuesday convicted an 88-year-old of murdering three Dutch civilians as part of a Nazi hit squad during World War II, capping six decades of efforts to bring the former Waffen SS man to justice.

AP - Google Inc.'s partial withdrawal from the China market brought swift condemnation from the government Tuesday while leaving Chinese Web surfers to wonder whether they would be able to access a new offshore search engine site or be blocked by censors.

AP - The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism: the world's hottest chili.

AP - Jerry Springer is reinventing himself again, this time as host of a dating game series.

AP - Rashard Lewis scored 24 points, Dwight Howard added 23 points and 15 rebounds, and the Orlando Magic notched their third straight 50-win season with a 109-93 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night.

Reuters - Britain will expel an Israeli diplomat over the use of forged British passports in an assassination in Dubai, Sky News television reported on Tuesday, without disclosing its sources.

Reuters - Pakistan's powerful army is likely to dominate key security issues for the country as senior government and military officials meet their American counterparts for important talks in Washington this week.

AFP - Britain is to expel an Israeli diplomat in response to the use of fake British passports in the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai, the BBC and Sky News television reported on Tuesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain was expected on Tuesday to expel an Israeli diplomat over the use of forged British passports by suspected killers of a Hamas commander in Dubai.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The liberal U.S. grass-roots group ACORN will formally disband on April 1 due to falling revenues, as its state chapters reorganize, the group said on Monday.

BERLIN (Reuters) - The Regensburg diocese in Pope Benedict's native Bavaria confirmed new allegations of child sexual abuse against four priests and two nuns on Monday, in the latest cases damaging the Catholic Church's image in Germany.

PATNA, India (Reuters) - Seven coaches of one of India's most prestigious passenger trains derailed Tuesday after Maoists rebels bombed the railway line, police said.

Reuters - President Barack Obama will sign into law on Tuesday landmark healthcare legislation, a hard-fought victory that will help shape his legacy and the Democrats' chances of holding power in the Congress.

Reuters - Britain was expected on Tuesday to expel an Israeli diplomat over the use of forged British passports by suspected killers of a Hamas commander in Dubai.

Reuters - The liberal U.S. grass-roots group ACORN will formally disband on April 1 due to falling revenues, as its state chapters reorganize, the group said on Monday.

Reuters - The Regensburg diocese in Pope Benedict's native Bavaria confirmed new allegations of child sexual abuse against four priests and two nuns on Monday, in the latest cases damaging the Catholic Church's image in Germany.

Reuters - Seven coaches of one of India's most prestigious passenger trains derailed Tuesday after Maoists rebels bombed the railway line, police said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sealed a hard-fought victory on Tuesday by signing into law a landmark healthcare reform measure that will help shape his legacy and the Democrats' chances of holding power in the Congress.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Tuesday it was expelling an Israeli diplomat over the use of forged British passports by suspected killers of a Hamas commander in Dubai.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A dovish Israeli expert who predicted Israel's settlement campaign would perpetuate its control of the occupied West Bank said pursuing a two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a 'waste of time.'

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The head of a major Muslim body said on Tuesday any hasty Western troop withdrawal from Afghanistan could have dire consequences.

AP - A beaming President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a historic $938 billion health care overhaul that guarantees coverage for 32 million uninsured Americans and will touch nearly every citizen's life, presiding over the biggest shift in U.S. domestic policy since the 1960s and capping a divisive, yearlong debate that could define the November elections.

AP - Attorneys general from 13 states are suing the federal government to stop the massive health care overhaul, claiming it's unconstitutional.

AP - Toyota has told dealers it will provide replacement accelerator pedals to owners who are unsatisfied with their repairs under the massive recall following dozens of complaints about the fix.

AP - A professor accused of gunning down six colleagues, three fatally, used a gun purchased in 1989 for her husband and denied killing anyone after the rampage at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a police investigator testified Tuesday.

AP - Rosie O'Donnell says she's looking to come back to daytime TV with a show that will be about 'laughter and love in the afternoon.'

Reuters - President Barack Obama sealed a hard-fought victory on Tuesday by signing into law a landmark healthcare reform measure that will help shape his legacy and the Democrats' chances of holding power in the Congress.

Reuters - A dovish Israeli expert who predicted Israel's settlement campaign would perpetuate its control of the occupied West Bank said pursuing a two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a 'waste of time.'

Reuters - The head of a major Muslim body said on Tuesday any hasty Western troop withdrawal from Afghanistan could have dire consequences.

AFP - Britain has ordered the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat over the use of fake British passports in the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sealed a hard-fought victory on Tuesday by signing into law a landmark healthcare reform measure that will help shape his legacy and the Democrats' chances of holding power in the Congress.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Attorneys general from 13 states, led by Florida, on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging an overhaul of America's $2.5 trillion healthcare system minutes after President Barack Obama signed the landmark reform legislation.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led a top-level U.S. delegation to Mexico on Tuesday for talks on a drug war which is failing to curb the deadly power of traffickers on the joint border.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Tuesday it was expelling an Israeli diplomat from London after concluding that Israel had forged British passports used by the suspected killers of a Hamas commander in Dubai.

AP - A beaming President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a historic $938 billion health care overhaul that guarantees coverage for 32 million uninsured Americans and will touch nearly every citizen's life, presiding over the biggest shift in U.S. domestic policy since the 1960s and capping a divisive, yearlong debate that could define the November elections.

AP - The administration's pay czar tells reporters the top 25 earners at five companies still receiving extraordinary aid from the government's bailout fund will be paid an average 15 percent less in 2010 than in 2009 under his restrictions.

Reuters - President Barack Obama sealed a hard-fought victory on Tuesday by signing into law a landmark healthcare reform measure that will help shape his legacy and the Democrats' chances of holding power in the Congress.

Reuters - Attorneys general from 13 states, led by Florida, on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging an overhaul of America's $2.5 trillion healthcare system minutes after President Barack Obama signed the landmark reform legislation.

Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led a top-level U.S. delegation to Mexico on Tuesday for talks on a drug war which is failing to curb the deadly power of traffickers on the joint border.

Reuters - Britain said on Tuesday it was expelling an Israeli diplomat from London after concluding that Israel had forged British passports used by the suspected killers of a Hamas commander in Dubai.

AFP - Making history with several pen strokes, US President Barack Obama Tuesday signed into law sweeping reforms that will for the first time ensure health care coverage for almost every American.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Attorneys general from 14 states across America on Tuesday filed lawsuits challenging an overhaul of America's $2.5 trillion healthcare system, minutes after President Barack Obama signed the landmark legislation.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he feared Middle East peace talks could be delayed for another year unless Palestinians drop their demand for a full freeze on housing settlements.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba were sent to the country of Georgia, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.

AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a warmer public reception from Congress than from the Obama administration, with a top Democrat and Republican joining Tuesday to welcome a leader who has refused to back down in a disagreement with the White House over Israeli housing expansion in a disputed part of Jerusalem.

AP - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Mississippi school district violated a lesbian student's rights by refusing to allow her to bring her girlfriend to the prom, but he said he would not force the school to hold the event.

AP - Rev up the treadmill: Sobering new research spells out just how much exercise women need to keep the flab off as they age — and it's a lot.

AP - Dale Earnhardt Jr. blamed his profanity-laced rant at Bristol Motor Speedway on frustration from a a speeding penalty.

Reuters - Attorneys general from 14 states across America on Tuesday filed lawsuits challenging an overhaul of America's $2.5 trillion healthcare system, minutes after President Barack Obama signed the landmark legislation.

Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he feared Middle East peace talks could be delayed for another year unless Palestinians drop their demand for a full freeze on housing settlements.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised on Tuesday to help Mexico broaden a drug war that has failed to curb traffickers' increasingly deadly power along the U.S.-Mexican border.

AP - Claiming a historic triumph that could define his presidency, a jubilant Barack Obama signed a massive, nearly $1 trillion health care overhaul on Tuesday that will for the first time cement insurance coverage as the right of every U.S. citizen and begin to reshape the way virtually all Americans receive and pay for treatment.

AP - The tumultuous health care debate that brought you death panels and socialism has spun off a catalog of popular myths that will keep growing as President Barack Obama and all sides battle toward the midterm elections this fall.

AP - Google's attempted detour around China's Internet censorship rules was met with countermeasures Tuesday by the communist government, which blocked people on the mainland from seeing search results dealing with such forbidden topics as the pro-democracy movement.

Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised on Tuesday to help Mexico broaden a drug war that has failed to curb traffickers' increasingly deadly power along the U.S.-Mexican border.

AFP - The United States said Tuesday that China needs to consider the 'implications' of Google's decision to effectively shut down its Chinese search engine because it was too hard to do business there.

AFP - President Barack Obama signed into law historic, sweeping reforms Tuesday that lay out health care coverage for almost every American and realize the dreams of generations of past US leaders.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised on Tuesday to help Mexico broaden a drug war that has failed to curb traffickers' increasingly deadly power along the U.S.-Mexican border.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon, ahead of any repeal of the U.S. military's ban on gays in its ranks, will likely announce steps this week that may soften the blow on homosexuals affected by the 'don't ask, don't tell' law.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors announced the indictment of a Southern California man on money laundering and conspiracy charges for a scheme to defraud delinquent homeowners hoping to modify their mortgages.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly 1.4 million babies born in the United States in 2007 were delivered by Caesarean section, a record U.S. high and a larger number than in most other industrialized nations, health officials said on Tuesday.

AP - The White House says it isn't worried that 13 state attorneys general are suing to overturn the massive health care overhaul, and many legal experts agree the effort is futile.

AP - Oprah Winfrey has settled a defamation lawsuit filed by a headmistress she had accused of performing poorly at her South African girls school, where some students claimed they were abused, lawyers said Tuesday.

AP - The prom's still off at a Mississippi high school that canceled it instead of letting a lesbian student bring her girlfriend, but a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the district's actions did violate the teen's constitutional rights.

Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised on Tuesday to help Mexico broaden a drug war that has failed to curb traffickers' increasingly deadly power along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Reuters - Three detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba were sent to the country of Georgia, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.

Reuters - The Pentagon, ahead of any repeal of the U.S. military's ban on gays in its ranks, will likely announce steps this week that may soften the blow on homosexuals affected by the 'don't ask, don't tell' law.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A jubilant President Barack Obama signed the most sweeping U.S. social policy legislation in decades into law on Tuesday, putting his name on a healthcare bill that will help shape his legacy and the Democrats' chances of holding on to power in Congress.

AP - President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Tuesday at the White House in the midst of a serious dispute that spoiled what might have been a celebration of a recent agreement for a new round of peace talks with the Palestinians.

AP - Oprah Winfrey has settled a defamation lawsuit filed by a headmistress she had accused of performing poorly at her South African girls school, where some students claimed they were abused, lawyers said Tuesday.

Reuters - A jubilant President Barack Obama signed the most sweeping U.S. social policy legislation in decades into law on Tuesday, putting his name on a healthcare bill that will help shape his legacy and the Democrats' chances of holding on to power in Congress.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese Communist Party newspaper accused Google on Wednesday of colluding with U.S. spies, and said the firm's retreat from China over censorship justified Beijing's efforts to promote homegrown technology.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With unemployment high and inflation low, the Federal Reserve is in no hurry to raise interest rates, two Federal Reserve officials suggested on Tuesday.

AP - The Obama administration is scrambling to fix a potential problem with a much-touted benefit of its new health care law, a gap in coverage improvements for children in poor health, officials said Tuesday.

Reuters - A Chinese Communist Party newspaper accused Google on Wednesday of colluding with U.S. spies, and said the firm's retreat from China over censorship justified Beijing's efforts to promote homegrown technology.

Reuters - With unemployment high and inflation low, the Federal Reserve is in no hurry to raise interest rates, two Federal Reserve officials suggested on Tuesday.

AFP - China's state media on Wednesday belittled Google's decision to effectively shut down its Chinese search engine, saying the Internet firm had made a huge mistake in the world's largest online market.