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ZURICH (Reuters) - The United States has written to Switzerland to demand it hands over detailed information this week on its citizens using Swiss accounts to dodge tax or see Credit Suisse and nine other banks face charges, newspapers reported on Sunday.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Lee barreled into southern Louisiana's coast on Sunday, as New Orleans prepared for one of the biggest tests of its flood defenses since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005.

PARIS (Reuters) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, his presidential hopes shattered by a sex assault scandal that rocked his homeland, returned on Sunday to France facing a frosty public reception and unease among his political allies.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Southern Louisiana was coping fairly well with heavy rains from Tropical Storm Lee on Saturday but New Orleans officials warned residents against rising winds and complacency amid the storm's slow onslaught.

San Francisco police have assisted Apple in the search for a prototype of the latest iPhone that went astray in a bar in a repeat of an embarrassing loss that took place last year.

Former Republican vice presidential hopeful and television commentator Sarah Palin on Saturday slammed the state of the US economy on the watch of President Barack Obama.

TRIPOLI, Libya - The CIA and other Western intelligence agencies worked closely with the ousted regime of Moammar Gadhafi, sharing tips and co-operating in handing over terror suspects for interrogation to a regime known to use torture, according to a trove of security documents discovered after the fall of Tripoli.

TRIPOLI/MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's interim government said it was closing in on bastions of support for Muammar Gaddafi Saturday, although there were mixed signals of how quickly their forces were moving.

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands marched Saturday for lower living costs in the largest such rally in Israel's history, bolstering a social change movement and mounting pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take on economic reform.

CAMAGUEY, Cuba - Yeti the dog already had a litter of pups to care for when the piglets adopted her as a second mom.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.

From Hong Kong to Chicago and across to London, the world descends into chaos when a lethal virus sweeps the planet in Steven Soderbergh's thriller "Contagion", screening at the Venice Film Festival.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean rescuers and fishermen found four bodies and aircraft wreckage on Saturday after an air force plane with 21 people aboard lost contact off the remote Juan Fernandez islands, officials said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was in mourning Saturday after the death of her father, cancelling a planned campaign rally appearance on the eve of a key regional election, her office said.

Hungary's Sandor Kepiro, until recently the world's most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect, died Saturday in Budapest aged 97, said his family, cited by the Hungarian news agency MTI.

A nurse who spent more than six weeks in custody accused of contaminating saline said she had been "living in hell".

OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - San Francisco police said on Friday they had helped Apple Inc security search for a "lost item," following a week of reports that a prototype of the newest iPhone had gone missing in July.

URBANDALE, Iowa (Reuters) - Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said on Friday there was room for more candidates in the presidential race, but stopped short of announcing whether she would launch her own bid for the White House.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - One of the top leaders of Mexico's brutal Gulf cartel was found dead, gunned down on a highway near the U.S. border, the Mexican government said on Friday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Green Day rocker Billie Joe Armstrong has complained that he was booted from a Southwest Airlines flight in Oakland, California, because of the way he wore his pants.