AP - President Robert Mugabe threatened Sunday to expel the U.S. ambassador for providing advice to the opposition opponent in the upcoming presidential runoff.

AP - Donor nations said they were ready to provide Myanmar with more than $100 million to help it recover from Cyclone Nargis, but warned the ruling junta Sunday they will not fully open their wallets until they are provided access to the hardest-hit areas.

AP - Michel Suleiman was sworn in as Lebanon's president Sunday after parliament elected him in long-delayed vote following an 18-month political stalemate that brought the country to the brink of another civil war.

AP - A powerful aftershock destroyed tens of thousands of homes in central China on Sunday, killing one person and straining recovery efforts from the country's worst earthquake in three decades. More than 400 others were injured.

AP - A British diver thought he and his American girlfriend would be eaten alive by sharks as they spent a night floating over Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a newspaper reported Sunday.

AFP - Afghanistan's parliament has started naming stay-away lawmakers, with a brother of President Hamid Karzai first on the list, in a bid to stop no-shows hobbling its work, an official said Sunday.

AFP - Zimbabwe's ruling party on Sunday scoffed at the return of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai after his more than six-week absence as a non-event.

AFP - Jean-Pierre Bemba, formerly vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was in custody in Belgium Sunday after being arrested on a war crimes warrant from the International Criminal Court.

AP - European and developing countries urged the United States and Japan on Sunday to commit to deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 — a step they say is needed to defuse a coming ecological disaster caused by global warming.

AP - The U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Saturday that al-Qaida's network in the country has never been closer to defeat, and he praised Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for his moves to rein in Shiite and Sunni militant groups.

AP - Colombia's Defense Ministry said Saturday it believes the legendary leader of Latin America's largest guerrilla army is dead and President Alvaro Uribe announced he is willing to offer rebels who free hostages "conditional liberty" and passage abroad.

AP - Forecasts of rain added to worries Sunday about relief efforts to house millions of people left homeless by China's massive earthquake nearly two weeks ago.

AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday he was hopeful "a turning point" had been reached in Myanmar's cyclone crisis as an international conference convened to pledge funds for some 2.4 million survivors.