2009-06-03 07:32:04 -

TOP STORIES
BRAZIL-PLANE
FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil _ An airplane seat, a fuel slick and pieces of white debris scattered over three miles (4.8 kilometers) of open ocean mark the site in the mid-Atlantic where Air France Flight 447 with 228 people on board plunged to its doom, Brazil's defense minister says. Moved. By Federico Escher and Bradley Brooks. AP Photos. AP Graphic.
WITH: BRAZIL-PLANE-PASSENGERS.
US-MIDEAST-OBAMA
WASHINGTON _ President Barack Obama is beginning his latest bid to open a dialogue with the Muslim world by paying a call on Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, guardian of Islam's sacred sites in Mecca and Medina. By Mark S. Smith.
US-SUPREME COURT-SOTOMAYOR
WASHINGTON _ Judge Sonia Sotomayor counters Republican charges that she would let her background dictate her rulings as Americans signal a favorable first impression of President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee. By Julie Hirschfeld Davis.
US-ABORTION SHOOTING-SUSPECT
WICHITA, Kansas _ An activist abortion opponent is charged with first-degree murder in the death of a late-term abortion provider, and the prosecutor says the evidence in the case ruled out the death penalty. By Roxana Hegeman. AP Photo.
WITH: US-THE NEXT TILLER.
US-OBAMA-ISLAM-ANALYSIS
WASHINGTON _ President Barack Obama has gotten tough with Israel and chosen Cairo, where President Hosni Mubarak rules with a firm hand, for his much-awaited overture to the Islamic world in what appears to be a clear break from decades of U.S. policy. By Steven R. Hurst. AP Photo.
US-ISRAEL
WASHINGTON _ President Barack Obama tells Israel's defense minister that Jerusalem must stop allowing West Bank settlements to grow, reiterating his stance in the hours before leaving for the Middle East on a trip to improve relations with Muslims. By Philip Elliott. AP Photo.
US-CLINTON-AMERICAS
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras _ U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says a rancorous Organization of American States conference in Honduras failed to reach a consensus on moves to allow Cuba to rejoin. By Matthew Lee. AP Photos.
WITH: US-IRAN-JULY 4.
GUANTANAMO-DETAINEE DEATH
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico _ A Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay has died of an apparent suicide, U.S. military officials said Tuesday. His is the fifth apparent suicide at the offshore U.S. prison, which President Barack Obama hopes to close by January. By David McFadden and Danica Coto.
OBAMA'S GUANTANAMO
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba _ In President Barack Obama's less than five months in office, the U.S. military has opened communal spaces in the prison, and some cell blocks now have satellite television, DVDs and wireless headphones. But nearly half the detainees are still locked up alone for most of the day, and one of every eight prisoners is on hunger strike. By Mike Melia.
PRIEST PHOTOS
MIAMI _ It has the makings of a telenovela: A handsome Cuban-American priest and TV personality caught cavorting with his girlfriend on a Florida beach. After much soul-searching, he decides to leave the Catholic Church for his love. By Laura Wides-Munoz. AP Photos.
US-GEORGIA
WASHINGTON _ Georgia's defense minister is warning about Russia's military buildup as he meets with Obama administration officials in Washington this week. By Desmond Butler.
US-AFGHANISTAN
WASHINGTON _ The Army general chosen to take over as top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan tells senators he believes the war can be won if a proper counterinsurgency campaign is undertaken. By National Security Writer Robert Burns. AP Photo.
BRAZIL-US-CUSTODY BATTLE
SAO PAULO _ A Brazilian supreme court justice suspends a court order granting custody of a 9-year-old boy to his U.S. father, extending a multiyear battle that has reached the highest levels of both the Brazilian and U.S. governments. By Alan Clendenning. AP Photos.
US-TOO-TALL CORPSE
COLUMBIA, South Carolina _ Authorities in South Carolina revokes the licenses of a funeral home and its director after he admitted one of his employees cut the legs of a 6-foot-7 (2-meter) man without the family's permission so the corpse would fit in a casket. By Jeffrey Collins. AP Photos.

TETRIS TURNS 25
NEW YORK _ «Tetris,» one of the great original computer time-wasters, turns 25. Looking back, the game that asked players to organize cascading shapes into neat blocks now seems like a forerunner of the multitasking, Twitter-updating, BlackBerry-thumbing world to come. By Technology Writer Barbara Ortutay. AP Photos.
BUSINESS & FINANCE
US-AUTOMAKERS
DETROIT _ General Motors Corp. takes a key step toward its downsizing, striking a tentative deal to sell its Hummer brand to a Chinese manufacturer, while also revealing that it has potential buyers for its Saturn and Saab brands. Moved. By Auto Writers Tom Krisher and Bree Fowler. AP Photos.
WITH: US-CHRYSLER-BANKRUPTCY; US-AUTO SALES.
US-ECONOMY
WASHINGTON _ The number of U.S. homebuyers who agreed to buy a previously occupied home took the largest monthly jump in nearly eight years in April, but there are still plenty of danger signs for the U.S. housing market. Moved. By Real Estate Writer Alan Zibel. AP Photos.
CANADA-MAGNA-OPEL
OTTAWA _ Magna International Inc. chairman Frank Stronach says he expects the newly acquired Opel unit in Germany will break even in three years and turn a profit in four years.
FEATURES
FEA-TONY PREDICTIONS
NEW YORK _ The big question seems to be: How many Tonys will «Billy Elliot» take home? If the Broadway theater gods are appeased Sunday, June 7, at Radio City Music Hall, «Billy Elliot» could win as many as 13 Tonys, which would be a record, besting the dozen collected by «The Producers» in 2001. The British musical received 15 nominations, although in the featured-acting categories it has performers competing against each other. By Drama Critic Michael Kuchwara. AP Photos.
YOUR QUERIES: Contact your local AP bureau, the North America Desk in New York City at +01 212-621-1650 or the Latin America Desk in Mexico City at +5255 3300 7603.