AP - Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like "Act Naturally" and brought the genre to TV on the long-running "Hee Haw," died Saturday, a spokesman said. He was 76.

AFP - Authorities in Myanmar have slaughtered more than 76,200 chickens and quail after the country's first outbreak of bird flu swept through poultry markets earlier this month, state media has reported.

AFP - Myanmar's military rulers have lifted a news blackout on the country's first outbreak of bird flu and vowed global cooperation in their efforts to contain the spread of the lethal virus.

Reuters - Azerbaijan's Health Ministry said on Monday three people who died earlier this month had been infected with bird flu in the country's first case in humans.

AFP - Myanmar has reported its first outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry around the central city of Mandalay, according to a senior official with the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.