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DENVER (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver will pay $5.5 million to settle 16 lawsuits filed by victims of sexual abuse by priests, both sides said on Tuesday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The latest U.S. natural disaster is triggering fresh rounds of concern and debate about how to repair America's aging infrastructure.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will visit South Korea August 5-6 before he goes to China for the Olympics, the White House said on Tuesday.

ZANESVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama promised a more active approach to faith-based social programs on Tuesday in a bid to bolster his support among evangelical and religious voters.

JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday that a period of slow growth in the U.S. economy was making it a difficult time for the auto industry.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The man suspected of killing Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya in 2006 is hiding in Western Europe, Russia's chief criminal investigator was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Congress are gearing up to pass a second election-year economic stimulus package, but unlike the $152 billion measure that passed in February, they are not counting on getting the support of President George W. Bush.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chances of a Democratic "dream team" with U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama picking former rival Hillary Clinton as his running mate are increasingly unlikely, traders on the prediction markets are betting.

BEIJING (Reuters) - More than 60 children fell ill after drinking water that may have been deliberately poisoned at a primary school in southern China, state media reported on Tuesday.

AMMAN (Reuters) - A Jordanian prosecutor on Tuesday charged Dutch politician Geert Wilders with blasphemy and contempt of Muslims for making an anti-Koran film and ordered him to stand trial in the kingdom, judicial sources said.

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama's Supreme Court has overturned a 2004 presidential pardon of anti-Castro activist Luis Posada Carriles and three other Cubans accused of plotting to kill Fidel Castro in 2000, a court spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands introduced a tobacco smoking ban in bars and restaurants on Tuesday but weed lovers carried on lighting up pure cannabis joints, pipes and vaporizers in the country's coffee shops.

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - More than 35 migrants drowned when their boat was wrecked off Gabon's capital Libreville, police and morgue officials said on Tuesday after the bodies washed up on the city's seafront.

LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese police have sent their final report on the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann to public prosecutors, who will decide whether to take any further steps, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S., Iranian and Western diplomats played down worries about a looming Israeli military attack on Iran's nuclear facilities on Tuesday after reports of heightened tensions rattled nerves and helped drive oil prices near record highs.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian student lost in the Amazon rain forest for more than 40 days was found by his father, only to die in his arms shortly after, rescue officials said on Tuesday.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel shut its border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in what it called a response to a rocket attack a day earlier that further strained a ceasefire.

LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese police have sent their final report on the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann to public prosecutors, who will decide whether to take any further steps, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish authorities detained at least 24 ultra-nationalists, including two prominent retired generals, on Tuesday in a widening police investigation into a suspected coup plot against the government.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India placed several top Kashmiri separatist leaders under house arrest on Tuesday as they prepared to protest against a decision to transfer forest land to a Hindu shrine trust, a move that has sparked violence.