Reuters - Swiss biotech firm Serono confirmed on Sunday that it was facing class action in a U.S. court after pleading guilty late last year to illegally promoting its AIDS drug Serostim.

Reuters - Most Spaniards favor talks with the Basque separatist group ETA now that it has declared a permanent cease-fire -- but only to discuss disarmament, not self-determination, an opinion poll indicated on Sunday.

AP - Suspected rebel tribesmen attacked a mountaintop military post Sunday on a route in southwestern Pakistan being used by hundreds of refugees returning home, triggering a gunbattle that left two attackers and a soldier dead, officials said.

AFP - British Prime Minister Tony Blair will make a major foreign policy address Monday in a rare appearance before a joint sitting of Australia's parliament, as he faces political controversy at home and lingering doubts about his future.

Reuters - An Afghan man who faces a possible death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity has told an Italian newspaper he is ready to die for his new faith.

AP - Detectives used profiles posted on the MySpace social networking Web site to identify six suspects in a rape and robbery that began when a party turned violent, leaving blood "in almost every room of the house," officials said.

AP - Former Erie Mayor Rick Filippi and two of his business associates were acquitted Saturday on charges that they used inside information to benefit from real estate deals.

AP - Unlike Davis Love III, Adam Scott has a chance to redeem himself at The Players Championship.

AP - Seventeen human skulls were found Saturday in a trash-strewn wooded lot outside Haiti's capital — including at least some discovered inside a container that had been tossed from a passing car, police and witnesses said.

AP - Stephen Ames took on Sawgrass at full strength and finished a grueling afternoon with a rare smile, surviving with a 2-under 70 to take a one-shot lead Saturday in The Players Championship.

AP - Joakim Noah, Al Horford, Taurean Green and Corey Brewer all arrived on Florida's campus in the summer of 2004.

AP - Barry Bonds has been called a lot of things over the years. Feared slugger, future Hall of Famer, steroid abuser and pompous jerk are among those that most immediately come to mind.

AP - Before she was in high school, Courtney Paris used to watch Brooke Smith with wide-eyed admiration. Now Paris' Oklahoma teammates understand why.

AP - Detectives used profiles posted on the MySpace social networking Web site to identify six suspects in a rape and robbery that began when a party turned violent, leaving blood "in almost every room of the house," officials said.

AP - Rep. Richard Pombo has never gotten over being outfoxed by the endangered San Joaquin kit fox. The rancher and chairman of the House Resources Committee is closer than ever to his goal of rewriting the Endangered Species Act to expand property rights — his mission ever since the obscure fox species blocked development of a neighboring town 25 years ago.

Responding to questions from Congress, the Justice Department says confidential calls between doctors and patients or attorneys and clients are not off limits to NSA warrentless surveillance -- and such material can be used in court. It's all legal says DOJ.

Reuters - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will visit Dublin within weeks to see what he can learn from the Irish peace process after the Basque separatist group ETA's ceasefire declaration.

The wife of a slain minister has confessed to killing him, police in Selmer, Tennessee, said today. Police said the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, which is taking part in questioning Mary Winkler, informed them of the confession. Winkler, 32, faces a charge of first-degree murder for the death of her husband, Matthew Winkler, 31. Church member Pam Killingsworth described Mary Winkler as always seeming like "the perfect mother, the perfect wife," with very loving children.

AP - A U.S.-owned hotel that expelled Cuban guests under pressure from the Treasury Department must pay $112,000 in fines for violating Mexican commerce law, the Mexican government said Friday.