AP - Thirty-two college students from across the United States have been selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2006, the scholarship trust announced Sunday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Irked by a reporter who told him he seemed to be 'off his game' at a Beijing public appearance, President George W. Bush sought to make a hasty exit from a news conference but was thwarted by locked doors.

AP - Kara Borden sat with her four siblings in the chapel of Lancaster Bible College for her parents' funeral on Saturday. On the Bordens' street, white ribbons were affixed to mailboxes to honor their memory.

AP - The U.S. is unprepared for the next flu pandemic, lacking the manufacturing capacity to provide 300 million doses of a vaccine for three to five more years, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said Sunday.

AP - An old oak tree blown down by Hurricane Katrina destroyed the home of Jessie and Sherry Krummel. Looters took everything else.

AP - Tropical Storm Gamma weakened Sunday into a tropical depression after it deluged the Central American coast, killing 12 people — nine in Honduras and three in Belize when a small plane belonging to a lodge owned by filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola crashed.

AP - No other Wal-Mart in the country looks like the one that reopened here more than two months after Hurricane Katrina nearly wiped the town off the map.

AP - The largest branch of North American Judaism voted on Sunday to oppose Samuel Alito's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

AP - Three-quarters of Alabama residents back the governor's call for a travel boycott of Aruba to protest the island's handling of the disappearance of teenager Natalee Holloway.

AP - In testimony before a U.S. military tribunal, Saifullah Paracha said he met Osama bin Laden on a charity mission to Afghanistan in 1999.

AP - New Englanders remain among the most tightfisted in the country when it comes to charitable giving while Bible Belt residents are among the most generous, according to an annual index.

AP - The Muhammad Ali Center was dedicated Sunday in a ceremony celebrating the values of the boxing great and his ties to his hometown.

AP - Tropical Storm Gamma weakened into a tropical depression Sunday and drifted off Honduras after torrential downpours lashed the Central American coast, killing 12 people — including a young family of four.

AP - The White House and senators are discussing the implications of a Senate-passed ban on the torture of suspected terrorists in U.S. custody and what part, if any, of the proposal the administration might find acceptable, the Pentagon chief said Sunday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It will be three to five years before the United States can produce enough bird flu vaccine to inoculate its population against a potentially deadly outbreak in humans, a top administration official said on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire on Sunday at a shopping mall in Tacoma, Washington, wounding at least six people and taking three people hostage before being captured by police, according to media reports.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) - U.S. military helicopters began flying aid to survivors in central America on Sunday as Gamma, the 24th major storm in a record-breaking hurricane season, weakened after killing 14 people.

AP - A nearly 4,000-acre wildfire burning in rough terrain above this oceanfront city was 90 percent contained Sunday night, despite the return of hot, gusty Santa Ana winds.

AP - The Rev. Jerry Zawada has already served a federal prison term for trespassing on government property to protest a Fort Benning school he blames for human rights abuses in Latin America.