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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.

Former Tour de France champ Greg LeMond says he received threatening phone calls aimed at preventing his testimony at a hearing on doping allegations against American cyclist Floyd Landis. Also, LeMond says that he urged Landis in August to be truthful if he did use a banned substance.

The United Nations Security Council is discussing a proposal to set the province of Kosovo clearly on the path to independence from Serbia.

The Cutty Sark, the historic British ship that once represented the peak of development of sailing cargo vessels, has been badly damaged by fire in London. Police are investigating reports that the fire might have been an act of arson.

Democrats in Congress are no longer pushing for troop withdrawal timelines as part of an Iraq war funding bill. The emergency war spending bill they intend to pass this week and send to the White House only asks the President to report on how benchmarks for progress in Iraq are being met.

High level Chinese officials are set to meet this week in Washington with their American counterparts. The two sides will try to seek solutions to major trade problems. The U.S. wants concessions from China while the Chinese are concerned about a bullying tone from the U.S.

Americans with pet birds have long used long-playing records to help train their birds to sing and talk. But now those dated collections from albums from the 1950s and 1960s can be taken from the Web site www.petsinamerica.org.

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.

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.