TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran put more people on trial on Sunday for their involvement in the unrest that erupted after the country's disputed June presidential election, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

AP - A British soldier wounded in an explosion in Afghanistan died Saturday, the defense ministry said, bringing the country's military death toll there to 200.

AP - Kuwaiti authorities are running DNA tests to identify the 41 women and children killed in a wedding tent fire.

Reuters - Iran put more people on trial on Sunday for their involvement in the unrest that erupted after the country's disputed June presidential election, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

AFP - A US citizen jailed for swimming to the house of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi was set to fly out of the army-ruled nation Sunday with a visiting American senator who secured his release.

AFP - More than 140,000 troops battled Sunday to reach survivors stranded a week after Typhoon Morakot struck as the United States and China offered helicopters to help in the rescue effort.

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi remained under house arrest on Sunday but American John Yettaw, whose swim to her home in May led to her detention, was due to head home after a U.S. senator secured his freedom.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran began its third mass trial on Sunday of people accused of fomenting the unrest that erupted after the disputed June presidential election, Iranian media reported.

AP - The U.S. Embassy says an American man imprisoned for sneaking into the home of Myanmar's democracy leader has been flown out of the country.

AP - Britain's military says a soldier has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, bringing the country's military death toll there to 201.

AP - Kuwaiti authorities are running DNA tests to identify the 41 women and children killed in a wedding tent fire.

Reuters - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi remained under house arrest on Sunday but American John Yettaw, whose swim to her home in May led to her detention, was due to head home after a U.S. senator secured his freedom.

Reuters - Iran began its third mass trial on Sunday of people accused of fomenting the unrest that erupted after the disputed June presidential election, Iranian media reported.

AFP - A US man sentenced to seven years' hard labour for swimming to the home of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi flew out of army-ruled Myanmar Sunday with an American senator who secured his release.

AFP - The Taliban on Sunday for the first time threatened to attack polling stations directly, stepping up warnings for Afghans to boycott landmark elections this week.

YANGON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator met Myanmar's top general and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, while arranging the release of an American prisoner on a weekend mission that offered a rare opening for better ties with the isolated nation.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The West must be held to account for stoking Iran's post-election unrest, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday, as the third mass trial got underway of demonstrators accused of trying to overthrow clerical rule.

AP - An American man imprisoned for sneaking into the home of detained Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi flew out of the country Sunday after a visiting U.S. senator won his release.

AP - Iran's president says three women will join his Cabinet, the first female ministers in the country since the 1970s.

AP - A tropical storm warning was issued Sunday for parts of Florida as a newly formed depression swirled about 90 miles off the coast.

AP - The fire at a wedding tent in Kuwait that killed 41 women and children consumed the structure in a blazing inferno lasting just three minutes, the fire department chief said Sunday.

AP - India reacted with outrage Sunday after Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan said he was detained for questioning at a U.S. airport, though immigration officials denied he was formally held.

Reuters - A U.S. senator met Myanmar's top general and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, while arranging the release of an American prisoner on a weekend mission that offered a rare opening for better ties with the isolated nation.

Reuters - The West must be held to account for stoking Iran's post-election unrest, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday, as the third mass trial got underway of demonstrators accused of trying to overthrow clerical rule.

AFP - The Taliban on Sunday threatened for the first time to attack Afghan polling stations, escalating their bid to derail key elections this week after striking NATO in the heart of Kabul.

YANGON (Reuters) - U.S. senator Jim Webb said on Sunday he had asked Myanmar to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and let her take part in politics during talks that secured the release of an American jailed for visiting her.

TALOQAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Supporters of Afghanistan's main presidential candidates came out in their thousands on Sunday in a last burst of campaign excitement with days to go before the ballot.

KUWAIT (Reuters) - A Kuwaiti wedding tent, where 41 women and children died in a fire Saturday, had only one exit, an official said, causing a stampede that compounded the death toll.

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A series of huge bombings in northern Iraq have triggered fiery accusations of blame between Arabs and Kurds, escalating a dispute over land and oil that has played into the hands of a resurgent al Qaeda.

AP - Iran on Sunday put on trial 25 more activists and opposition supporters, including a Jewish teenager, for their alleged involvement in the turmoil following the recent presidential election.

AP - President Barack Obama says he's confident his drive to overhaul health care will succeed.

AP - An American man imprisoned in Myanmar for sneaking into the home of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi flew out of the country Sunday after a visiting U.S. senator won his release.

AP - A tropical storm warning was issued Sunday for the Florida Panhandle as a newly formed depression swirled off the coast and threatened to bring rain and possible flooding to the area.

Reuters - U.S. senator Jim Webb said on Sunday he had asked Myanmar to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and let her take part in politics during talks that secured the release of an American jailed for visiting her.

Reuters - Supporters of Afghanistan's main presidential candidates came out in their thousands on Sunday in a last burst of campaign excitement with days to go before the ballot.

Reuters - A Kuwaiti wedding tent, where 41 women and children died in a fire Saturday, had only one exit, an official said, causing a stampede that compounded the death toll.

Reuters - A series of huge bombings in northern Iraq have triggered fiery accusations of blame between Arabs and Kurds, escalating a dispute over land and oil that has played into the hands of a resurgent al Qaeda.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday he would propose at least three female ministers in his cabinet following the disputed election, an unprecedented move in the conservative Islamic state.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical storms Ana and Bill raced across the Atlantic Ocean toward the Caribbean islands on Sunday while a new cyclone sprouted in the Gulf of Mexico east of the heaviest concentration of U.S. energy rigs.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The deal initialed last week between the United States and Switzerland over UBS will involve the disclosure of around 5,000 holders of secret Swiss accounts, weekly newspaper NZZ am Sonntag said on Sunday.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Communist North Korea denounced impending joint military exercises by South Korea and the United States, and said it would 'wipe them out' with nuclear weapons if they threatened it, its KCNA news agency said on Sunday.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militants loyal to Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader believed to have been killed in a U.S. missile attack, have killed 17 fighters from a rival faction in an ambush, Taliban and intelligence officials said on Sunday.

AP - President Barack Obama's health secretary is suggesting the White House is ready to accept nonprofit insurance cooperatives instead of a government-run public option in a health overhaul plan. A Republican senator says that is worth looking at.

AP - Iran expanded its mass trial of opposition supporters Sunday, adding 25 more defendants including a Jewish teenager who are accused of involvement in unrest over the disputed presidential election.

AP - The first shipments of foreign aid arrived Sunday as Taiwan struggled to reach more than 1,000 people still stranded a week after its deadliest typhoon in half a century.

AP - The fire at a wedding tent in Kuwait that killed 41 women and children consumed the structure in a blazing inferno lasting just three minutes, the fire department chief said Sunday.

AP - The U.S. Olympic Committee postponed plans for its own television network after objections from international Olympic officials.

Reuters - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday he would propose at least three female ministers in his cabinet following the disputed election, an unprecedented move in the conservative Islamic state.

Reuters - Tropical storms Ana and Bill raced across the Atlantic Ocean toward the Caribbean islands on Sunday while a new cyclone sprouted in the Gulf of Mexico east of the heaviest concentration of U.S. energy rigs.

Reuters - The deal initialed last week between the United States and Switzerland over UBS will involve the disclosure of around 5,000 holders of secret Swiss accounts, weekly newspaper NZZ am Sonntag said on Sunday.

Reuters - Communist North Korea denounced impending joint military exercises by South Korea and the United States, and said it would 'wipe them out' with nuclear weapons if they threatened it, its KCNA news agency said on Sunday.

Reuters - U.S. and Pakistani officials meeting on Sunday said they were heartened by signs of a rift between Pakistani Taliban factions after the apparent death of militant leader Baitullah Mehsud.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government-run health insurance option favored by President Barack Obama is not essential to a healthcare overhaul as long as the final measure boosts competition, a top U.S. health official said on Sunday.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The deal initialed last week between the United States and Switzerland over UBS will involve the disclosure of around 5,000 holders of secret Swiss accounts, weekly newspaper NZZ am Sonntag said on Sunday.

BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has delayed plans to launch a cable television network devoted to the Olympics after angering the IOC, it said Sunday.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. and Pakistani officials meeting on Sunday said they were heartened by signs of a rift between Pakistani Taliban factions after the apparent death of militant leader Baitullah Mehsud.

AP - President Barack Obama's administration signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run health insurance as part of his ambitious health care proposal.

AP - Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was in the hospital on Sunday after he was attacked by a person using a metal pipe as the mayor and his family left the Wisconsin State Fair.

AP - After getting off to a slow start, the Atlantic hurricane season got busy Sunday as a tropical depression formed off the northern Gulf Coast of Florida, threatening to bring heavy rain and possible flooding to the area.

AP - A fire that tore through a wedding tent outside Kuwait's capital killed 41 women and children in just three minutes, leaving behind shoes melted to the ground and bodies so blackened they were unrecognizable, the fire chief said Sunday.

AP - The acclaimed sci-fi thriller 'District 9' has given Hollywood a late-summer box office boost.

Reuters - The government-run health insurance option favored by President Barack Obama is not essential to a healthcare overhaul as long as the final measure boosts competition, a top U.S. health official said on Sunday.

Reuters - The deal initialed last week between the United States and Switzerland over UBS will involve the disclosure of around 5,000 holders of secret Swiss accounts, weekly newspaper NZZ am Sonntag said on Sunday.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Claudette, the third of the Atlantic hurricane season, formed on Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico east of the heaviest concentration of U.S. energy platforms, as two other storms, Ana and Bill, raced across the Atlantic.

KABUL (Reuters) - Exiled Uzbek leader General Abdul Rashid Dostum, whose supporters could swing this week's presidential election, returned to Afghanistan Sunday after being given a government all-clear.

AP - Forecasters say Tropical Storm Claudette is strengthening off the northern Gulf Coast of Florida with winds of about 50 mph.

AP - A 1,224-pound triple vanilla cupcake with pink frosting has set a record as the world's largest.

Reuters - Tropical Storm Claudette, the third of the Atlantic hurricane season, formed on Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico east of the heaviest concentration of U.S. energy platforms, as two other storms, Ana and Bill, raced across the Atlantic.

Reuters - Exiled Uzbek leader General Abdul Rashid Dostum, whose supporters could swing this week's presidential election, returned to Afghanistan Sunday after being given a government all-clear.

PARIS (Reuters) - Iran has freed on bail a French teaching assistant charged with spying, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said in a statement on Sunday.

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea, whose relations with South Korea have turned increasingly bitter, said on Monday it had agreed to reopen its border to its neighbor and allow tourism and family reunions to resume.

AP - Brewing in the Gulf of Mexico, Tropical Storm Claudette threatened to bring heavy rain to the Florida Panhandle later Sunday, likely becoming the first tropical storm to strike the U.S. mainland this year.

AP - Iran expanded a mass trial of opposition supporters on Sunday with the addition of 25 defendants — including a Jewish teenager — in defiance of international condemnation, as France said Iran agreed to release a French woman held on spying charges from prison.

AP - Hot, dry winds and high temperatures continued to fan wildfires across California Sunday, pushing firefighters into rugged terrain to contain the flames even as they watch for new blazes.

AP - Mexico has replaced all 700 of its customs inspectors with agents newly trained to fight drug smuggling.

AP - The first shipments of foreign aid arrived Sunday as Taiwan struggled to reach more than 1,000 people still stranded a week after its deadliest typhoon in half a century.

AP - President Barack Obama is hardly the consummate Western outdoorsman.

AP - Now it gets interesting. Tiger Woods' two-stroke lead at the PGA Championship was gone by the time he left the fourth green Sunday, and Y.E. Yang sure doesn't look like a guy who's going to wilt in the glare of playing with the world's No. 1.

Reuters - Iran has freed on bail a French teaching assistant charged with spying, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said in a statement on Sunday.

Reuters - North Korea, whose relations with South Korea have turned increasingly bitter, said on Monday it had agreed to reopen its border to its neighbor and allow tourism and family reunions to resume.

AFP - Iranian authorities released a young French academic who was accused of spying on bail on Sunday, the French presidency announced, after she spent six weeks in Tehran's notorious Evin jail.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Claudette churned toward the Florida coast well clear of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil patch on Sunday while two other cyclones, Ana and Bill, raced through the Atlantic Ocean toward the Caribbean islands.

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea, whose relations with South Korea have turned increasingly bitter, said on Monday it had agreed to reopen its border with its neighbor and allow tourism and family reunions to resume.

AP - Mexico has replaced all 700 of its customs inspectors with agents newly trained to detect contraband, from guns and drugs to TVs and other big-ticket appliances smuggled to avoid import duties.

AP - Hawaii turns 50 years old as the 50th state Friday, but there will be no grand parades, no dazzling fireworks, no lavish displays of native culture.

AP - Now it's Tiger's turn to chase.

Reuters - Tropical Storm Claudette churned toward the Florida coast well clear of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil patch on Sunday while two other cyclones, Ana and Bill, raced through the Atlantic Ocean toward the Caribbean islands.

Reuters - North Korea, whose relations with South Korea have turned increasingly bitter, said on Monday it had agreed to reopen its border with its neighbor and allow tourism and family reunions to resume.

AP - In a year of spoilers at the majors, Y.E. Yang was the biggest of all. He toppled the mighty Tiger Woods.

Reuters - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 hit near islands in southern Japan off the eastern coast of Taiwan on Monday, a Japanese government agency said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A strong earthquake rattled Taiwan and southern Japanese islands on Monday but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

AP - Hundreds of residents returned home when an evacuation order was lifted in a Santa Cruz mountain town Sunday, even as hot and dry winds fanned nearly a dozen wildifres across the state.

AP - Tears filled the eyes of some Vietnam veterans who were warmly greeted with cheers from their family and friends Sunday in an re-enactment of their original return from the war, when they were often met with angry demonstrators and harsh headlines.

AP - Officials say a tentative agreement was reached in a labor dispute that threatened a crippling commuter train strike in San Francisco.

Reuters - A strong earthquake rattled Taiwan and southern Japanese islands on Monday but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Claudette drenched the Florida panhandle but spared the U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil patch on Sunday while two other cyclones, Ana and Bill, raced through the Atlantic Ocean toward the Caribbean islands.

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said Monday it would reopen its border with the South, ending a self-imposed blockade on a vital source of income for Pyongyang's leaders as their ravaged economy is squeezed by tightening U.N. sanctions.

MARTHA'S VINEYARD, MASSACHUSETTS, Aug 16 - Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration's pay czar, said on Sunday he has broad and 'binding' authority over executive compensation, including the ability to 'claw back' money already paid, and he is weighing how and whether to use that power.

AP - Y.E. Yang shook his fists and shouted with joy over a victory felt around the world. Equally stunning was the sight of Tiger Woods, standing over the final putt of the PGA Championship with nothing at stake.

AP - A potentially crippling commuter rail strike in the San Francisco Bay Area was averted Sunday as management and unionists reached an agreement hours before a strike deadline, officials said.

AP - Wal-Mart is being embraced with a Kiss.

Reuters - Tropical Storm Claudette drenched the Florida panhandle but spared the U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil patch on Sunday while two other cyclones, Ana and Bill, raced through the Atlantic Ocean toward the Caribbean islands.

Reuters - North Korea said Monday it would reopen its border with the South, ending a self-imposed blockade on a vital source of income for Pyongyang's leaders as their ravaged economy is squeezed by tightening U.N. sanctions.

Reuters - Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration's pay czar, said on Sunday he has broad and 'binding' authority over executive compensation, including the ability to 'claw back' money already paid, and he is weighing how and whether to use that power.

AFP - North Korea Monday ordered its army and people on special alert as US and South Korean troops began a joint exercise, and vowed to respond to any military provocation with a nuclear attack.

AFP - Soldiers searched typhoon-devastated areas for survivors and bodies Monday as more than 1,600 people waited to be airlifted to safety nine days after Typhoon Morakot struck Taiwan.