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Tokyo - Nissan Motor Co on Tuesday announced a plan to reduce its auto output due to declining demand in the US.

Athens - All flights to and from Greece will be suspended for several hours on Tuesday during the latest nationwide strike which will also shut down banks, schools, public transport and enforce a news blackout to protest drastic economic policies.

Washington - Insurance giant American International Group Inc, bailed out of a cash-flow crisis last month by a loan that temporarily made the US government its majority shareholder, said Monday that it would stop lobbying in Washington.

Rome - There’s a decidedly Italian flavour to this year’s International Rome Film Festival - the third time the event is being held, but the first under the city’s new, centre-right mayor.

San Francisco - Yahoo Inc was to announce at least 1,000 job cuts, possibly as early as Tuesday when it releases its quarterly earnings report, two newspapers reported.

Washington - Bad enough that people were being kicked out of their homes in the mortgage crisis.

Washington - Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama has decided to drop campaigning for two days later this week for a previously unplanned visit to his ailing grandmother in Hawaii, campaign officials announced late Monday.

Grasse, France - Perfume’s first city of Grasse in southern France has reopened the doors of its fragrance museum, four years after they were shuttered for renovations.

Los Angeles - As if there wasn’t enough drama in the run-up to the US elections, political junkies now have a controversial movie about the sitting president to nurse their election fever.

Amsterdam - Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, who was convicted for the so-called Lockerbie disaster, is terminally ill with cancer and expected to die within “weeks or months,” a Dutch documentary filmmaker told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa early Tuesday.