Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert won his cabinet's approval on Sunday for a prisoner swap with Hezbollah under which two soldiers held by the Lebanese guerrilla group, and believed to be dead, would be recovered.

Reuters - The U.S. military faced Iraqi anger on Sunday over a raid near the holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala in which a distant relative of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was killed.

Reuters - Israel reopened three of its border crossings with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday following a halt to Palestinian cross-border shelling attacks that had strained an Egyptian-brokered truce, officials said.

Reuters - U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush's funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday.

Reuters - Levees on the cresting Mississippi River held on Sunday as the worst U.S. Midwest flooding in 15 years began to ebb, but multibillion-dollar crop losses may boost world food prices for years.

Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was sworn in on Sunday after being declared overwhelming winner of an election which observers said was scarred by violence and intimidation.

AP - The Detroit Tigers placed right fielder Magglio Ordonez on the 15-day disabled list with a pulled muscle in his right side on Sunday.

AP - A lonely little robot made millions of friends during the weekend — and even outgunned Angelina Jolie.

AP - Making cannoli is serious business in New York. It's a dessert so tempting that even a hit man in the "Godfather" couldn't leave a box behind.

AP - Revelers at San Francisco's gay pride parade are celebrating their newfound freedom to marry as the city's 38th annual march got under way with a matrimonial touch.

AP - John McCain met Sunday with evangelist Billy Graham and his son, Franklin, at the family's mountaintop retreat.

AP - Iran and North Korea may be two points on President Bush's old "axis of evil," but the authoritarian governments are polar opposites when it comes to defusing their nuclear programs.