AP - Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday in an unusually strongly worded report.

AP - Soldiers used large, earth-moving equipment Tuesday to dig a channel and try to prevent a swelling lake formed by China's huge earthquake earlier this month from bursting.

AP - Police in Myanmar have detained more than a dozen members of Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party.

AFP - Soldiers raced Monday to blast clear a river dammed by landslides after China's deadly earthquake two weeks ago, amid fears that more than one million people could be at risk from flooding.

AFP - Southern Africa's main regional bloc will send extra election monitors for Zimbabwe's key presidential run-off which may seal Robert Mugabe's political future, Angola's foreign minister said Monday.

AP - The U.N. nuclear watchdog suggests Iran may be withholding information the agency needs to establish whether Tehran tried to make nuclear arms.

AP - European stock markets edged higher Monday and key Asian markets fell amid worries about high oil prices and the U.S. economy on a day when U.S. markets were closed for the Memorial Day holiday.

AP - Military bands and an honor guard salute greeted President Michel Suleiman on Monday as he entered Lebanon's presidential palace to begin the monumental task of uniting a wounded nation and reconciling its rival political factions.

AP - China grappled with backed-up rivers and reservoirs in danger of collapse, along with looming storms that threatened Monday to compound damage from the country's worst earthquake in three decades.

AP - A Russian fighter jet shot down an unmanned Georgian spy plane over the separatist Abkhazia region last month, U.N. observers said Monday in a report likely to bolster U.S.-allied Georgia's claim the Kremlin is undermining its territorial integrity.

AP - Myint Hlaing's family bathes and cooks with water from an irrigation ditch fouled by human waste and a rotting cow carcass.

AP - Rows of body bags were laid out along streets for all to see. Sobbing parents furious about shoddily built schools that collapsed and killed thousands of children were able to speak freely. Military helicopters carried reporters to tour the disaster zone.

AFP - Australia's arts community reacted with anger and amazement Monday to the closure of a photo exhibition of naked children and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's condemnation of the images as "revolting".

AFP - A NATO soldier and three Afghan security personnel were killed in a string of explosions and ambushes linked to a Taliban-led insurgency, security officials said Monday.