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Novartis AG is slashing 2,000 jobs in Switzerland and the United States to keep costs under control in the face of growing price pressures and the strong Swiss franc, the Swiss drugmaker said on Tuesday.

Chemical maker DuPont posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday due to a double-digit price hike and raised its 2011 earnings forecast, pushing its shares up more than 1 percent.

Herman Cain leads Mitt Romney in the latest CBS News-New York Times poll, the latest of numerous surveys to show him on top of the Republican field -- but four out of five voters say their allegiance could still change.

Julian Assange is now announcing a temporary suspension of the website's publishing efforts. By the end of the year, WikiLeaks could face shut down due to financial blockades from several major banks and credit card companies, some of which include Visa, Western Union, MasterCard, and PayPal.

Windows Phone could make a big splash this week at Nokia World, when they unveil three new smartphones.

Alexis Stewart co-wrote Whateverland: Learning to Live Here.”

An international drive against offshore tax havens has reaped nearly 14 billion euros from would-be tax evaders, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Tuesday.

Swiss bank UBS AG overcame a 1.8 billion Swiss franc ($2 billion) rogue trading loss to post a smaller than forecast fall in third quarter net profit on Tuesday as its core wealth management business performed well.

Hyundai Motor Co <005380.KS> and affiliate Kia Motors Corp <000270.KS> aim to sell about 7 million vehicles globally next year, versus more than 6.5 million this year, the president of Hyundai Motor said on Tuesday.

In America, people spend thousands of dollars to have straight teeth through orthodontics. In Japan, however, a trend has been underway for a couple of years in which crooked teeth through purposeful dental cosmetic surgery have become the rage. In Japan, the crooked teeth trend is called yaeba, or double tooth.

The N9 is the one and only MeeGo based smartphone from Nokia

Swiss bank UBS AG overcame a 1.8 billion Swiss franc ($2 billion) rogue trading loss to post a smaller than forecast fall in third quarter net profit on Tuesday, salvaged by a one-off accounting gain.

Stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.2 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.03 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.1 percent at 0925 GMT (5:25 a.m. EDT).

Deutsche Bank's third-quarter pretax profit beat forecasts as retail banking and asset management offset a drop in investment banking which it warned was facing the toughest conditions since 2008 that could lead to more job cuts.

Canon Inc on Tuesday became the first major Japanese firm to cut its annual outlook due to Thai flooding and the strong yen, two problems that are clouding the outlook for many of its rivals ahead of the lucrative year-end shopping season.

A new study has attacked fizzy drinks as being inappropriate for teenagers. According to the study, teens who are addicted to carbonated soft drinks are more likely to be aggressive, say researchers at the University of Vermont. The research stated that teenagers consuming more than five cans of non-diet, fizzy soft drinks per week were significantly more likely to behave aggressively.

The biography of Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson does deliver some key information that will perhaps disappoint even those who have followed Jobs closely during his career. One such episode is regarding Lisa Brennan-Jobs.

Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) reported a loss of 800,000 subscribers as a result of a price hike in July, as well as its September attempt to split and re-brand its DVD-by-mail service as. This has led to a fourth quarter guidance that was substantially below Wall Street's expectations.

BP has turned a corner after the Gulf of Mexico disaster, its chief executive said on Tuesday, predicting the British oil firm would now return to output and cashflow growth and rejecting calls for a fundamental restructuring of the group.

Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to 360, a drama starring Rachel Weisz, Anthony Hopkins and Jude Law, the company announced Monday.

London-based BP reported lower underlying third quarter profits on Tuesday as falling production, after the oil major sold fields to pay for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, outweighed the benefits of higher crude prices.