AP - A large fire tore through a back lot at Universal Studios early Sunday, destroying a set from "Back to the Future," the King Kong exhibit and a video vault containing more than 40,000 videos and reels.
AFP - Israel freed a Lebanese-born man who had been jailed for more than six years on charges of spying for Shiite militant group Hezbollah and were to deport him later on Sunday, police said.
AFP - More people will perish in Myanmar's cyclone disaster zone unless the regime lifts restrictions on foreign aid, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates warned Sunday, accusing it of "criminal neglect."
Reuters - Venezuelan troops killed a Colombian
"subversive" in a border gun battle, Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez said on Saturday, an incident that could fuel new
tensions between the two countries.
Reuters - Voting in Macedonia's parliamentary
election was halted for security reasons in an ethnic Albanian
area in the north of the country, the electoral commission said
on Sunday.
Reuters - Iran should open its nuclear
installations to international scrutiny to clear suspicions
about its nuclear ambitions, French Defense Minister Herve
Morin said on Sunday.
Reuters - Myanmar's military junta, widely
condemned for its slow response to Cyclone Nargis, said on
Sunday it had reacted swiftly to the disaster and remained open
to foreign aid with "no strings attached."
Reuters - Engineers have completed work
to drain a lake formed by last month's earthquake that had
threatened to inundate towns downstream and add to the toll of
China's deadliest natural disaster in more than 30 years.
Reuters - Democratic presidential
front-runner Barack Obama said on Saturday he quit his Chicago
church in the aftermath of inflammatory sermons that could
become a lightning rod in the November election.
Reuters - Front-runner Barack Obama turned to
wrapping up the Democratic presidential nomination after a
party committee dealt rival Hillary Clinton a blow by seating
the disputed Michigan and Florida convention delegations at
half-strength.
AP - The Detroit Red Wings wrecked the Pittsburgh Penguins' home-ice advantage and gave themselves a shot to hoist the Stanley Cup in Hockeytown. Jiri Hudler snapped a third-period tie for the Red Wings, who rallied from an early deficit to beat the Penguins 2-1 Saturday night and grab a 3-1 lead in the finals.
AP - Brangelina must be cocooning. The paparazzi swarming France's Cote d'Azur can't find Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Locals mutter or giggle about the invasion of Hollywood glam. A flyover of their new home in a luxurious villa turned up no clues about a report they've added a set of twins — which Pitt's manager says is "not true."
AP - A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that the cancer would return, results that left doctors excited about a possible new way to fight the disease.
AP - A military helicopter carrying 10 people injured in China's devastating earthquake and four crew members crashed in fog and turbulence, and authorities were searching for survivors, state media reported Sunday.
