AP - An American businessman who police suspect gave illegal funds to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is in a Jerusalem court to testify about his part in the case.

AFP - The price of shares in Swiss banking giant UBS plunged by nearly eight percent on Tuesday as the company launched a second capital increase to raise more than 15 billion Swiss francs (nine billion euros).

AP - Lebanon's new president got a red carpet welcome Monday, but was quickly thrust into the political thicket as Hezbollah's leader warned against any efforts to disarm his Iranian-backed guerrilla group.

AP - Canada's embattled foreign minister resigned after leaving classified documents at a private residence, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday, calling it "a serious error."

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.