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Fire officials say they have more than a third of the fire contained on Catalina Island, and they hope to have it under control by early next week.

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is likely to find out Tuesday if he will keep his job. He meets with the bank's board of directors on the heels of a blistering report by a bank investigating committee, which found that Wolfowitz broke bank rules in arranging a pay raise for his girlfriend.

The man who traveled to Europe while infected with a drug-resistant strain of TB says health officials gave him the OK to travel. In a television interview, he also apologized to fellow air passengers who he might have exposed to the disease.

Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner has overseen one of the fastest-growing economies in Latin America. The turnaround followed three years of economic collapse in Argentina that left more than half the nation in poverty.

Thousands of Palestinians leave a refugee camp in northern Lebanon that has been the scene of three days of fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamic militants. The camp is one of a dozen created in Lebanon after Israel was created in 1948.

Military prosecutors open their case against Marine Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, who is accused of failing to report the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in November 2005. The Iraqis allegedly were killed by members of a Marine squad near the town of Haditha in the wake of an IED attack on a Marine convoy.

The U.S. military is reporting that it has in its custody the body of an American soldier, believed to be one of the three missing since May 12. The soldier has not yet been identified. The search for the other missing U.S. soldiers continues, Maj. Gen. William Caldwell tells NPR's Robert Siegel.

Cyclist Floyd Landis faces hard questions about his personal character during cross examination at his doping hearing in Malibu, Calif. The Tour de France winner is defending himself against charges of using illegal synthetic steroids.

Iran has charged a detained Iranian-American academic with seeking to topple the ruling Islamic establishment. Haleh Esfandiari, 67, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has been held since early May.

The man British authorities charged with poisoning former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko has responded with his own accusations. Andrei Lugovoi, another former KGB officer, says Litvinenko was a British agent trying to get compromising materials about Russian President Vladimir Putin.