AP - Fashion followers got a wet welcome to Milan as chilly temperatures and persistent rainfall marked the opening day of the weeklong preview showings for spring-summer 2007.

Reuters - German politicians condemned on Tuesday a decision by a Berlin opera house to cancel performances of Mozart's "Idomeneo" over concerns they could enrage Muslims and pose a security risk.

AP - A rare copy of Danish philosopher Soeren Kierkegaard's famed book, "Either/Or," will be sold at auction later this year, a Copenhagen auction house said Tuesday.