(CNN) - Kansas physician George Tiller, whose clinic has long been the target of anti-abortion protests, was shot and killed at his church Sunday morning, his attorneys said.

Laura Shaneyfelt, an attorney with the firm of Monnat and Spurrier, confirmed Tiller's death to CNN. The 67-year-old doctor was one of the few U.S. physicians who still performed late-term abortions, and survived a 1993 shooting outside his clinic.

Wichita police said they were searching for a powder-blue Ford Taurus in connection with the killing, which took place outside Reformation Lutheran Church shortly after 10 a.m. (11 a.m. ET). Police spokesman Gordon Bassham said witnesses provided a license number of the car the killer used to speed away from the church.

From Mohammed Tawfeeq
CNN

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) - A car bomb in a northern Iraqi city on Sunday wounded two reporters, Iraq's Interior Ministry said.

A sticky bomb attached to a car they were driving exploded in eastern Mosul.

Alaa Abdul Wahab, who works for al-Rashid Radio and al-Baghdadia TV, was in critical condition. Sultan al-Jurjees who works for Mosul TV, is in stable condition.

Both are sports reporters.

Also, the U.S. military said two American soldiers died of non-combat-related injuries in Iraq.

From Ed Henry
CNN Senior White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON (CNN) - President Barack Obama will hold an 11:30 a.m. Monday event discussing the bankruptcy filing of General Motors, according to two officials close to the talks.

The officials said that GM is expected to officially file the paperwork on the bankruptcy earlier in the day. Obama will then explain the rationale for the filing and his hopes that this is the best route for a turnaround.

The president made a similar announcement after Chrysler, another of the Big Three automakers, filed for bankruptcy protection on April 30.

But the officials cautioned that the situation remains "very fluid," so it's still possible that GM will technically file the paperwork after Obama speaks.

The expected bankruptcy filing comes despite an agreement reached last Thursday with the Treasury Department and a committee of major bondholders.

The beleaguered Detroit-based automaker has been struggling to survive under the weight of the recession and high fuel prices, which have drastically reduced sales.

GM's stock price plunged below $1 a share Friday, reaching its lowest level since the Great Depression, as investors anticipated the bankruptcy filing.

The company's stock peaked on April 28, 2000, when it closed at $93.63.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - Leading Senate Republicans indicated Sunday that a filibuster of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is unlikely, though they also promised not to shy away from what they characterized as a troubling judicial record.

Reflecting the delicate political balancing act of opposing the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee, they also pushed back against those conservative commentators who were quick to paint Sotomayor as a racist.

"I don't think that the need for filibuster will be there unless we have not had a chance to look at the record fully," Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, told CNN's John King on "State of The Union."

"I have voted (against filibustering) sometimes even when I voted against the nominee if I felt that I knew enough about the nominee. I think it will be determined in that way."

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, told King he had "no earthly idea whether (a filibuster) would be appropriate," but noted that he had consistently voted against filibustering judicial nominees during the last Democratic administration.

"I personally felt that filibustering judges was inappropriate. I always voted (to cut off debate) on every incident - in every instance," McConnell said.

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, struck a similar tone, arguing that "filibusters should not be used readily and ought to be (only) for extraordinary circumstances."

A filibuster would be "unlikely, but we'll have to see how this hearing plays out," Sessions said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

(CNN) - An American human rights group documenting widespread sexual violence against Darfuri women in Sudan and Chad has called for "vigorous prosecution of rape as a war crime."

Physicians for Human Rights, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, issued a report Sunday "documenting the scope and long-term impact of rape and other sexual violence" experienced by women who fled the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur and now live as refugees in neighboring Chad.

The report - titled "Nowhere To Turn: Failure To Protect, Support and Assure Justice for Darfuri Women" - interviewed 88 female refugees living in Chad's Farchana refugee camp. The study was done with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

"Many Darfuri women refugees live in a nightmare of memories of past trauma compounded by the constant threat of sexual violence around the camps now," said Susannah Sirkin, the physician group's deputy director.

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) - Ten militants were killed on Sunday in
fighting between coalition and Afghan troops and insurgents in western
Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.

The fighting took place in the Khaki Safed region of Farah province when
militants ambushed "a combat reconnaissance patrol."

The fighting left 10 militants dead. Afghan soldiers and coalition forces confiscated the militants' weaponry and equipment.

JERUSALEM (CNN) - Ephraim Katzir, Israel's fourth president and one of the county's pioneers, has died, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday.

He was 93 years old.

"He was an historic figure who contributed to the development, security and establishment of the State of Israel," Netanyahu said at the weekly Cabinet meeting.

Katzir served in the ceremonial post from 1973 to 1978 during a pivotal period in Israel - the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the visit of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem in 1977.

Emigrating to British-ruled Palestine from Kiev at the age of 6, Katzir was a member of the Haganah, the Jewish militia group that fought for Israel's independence.

A prominent biochemist and physicist, Katzir was one of the founding scientists of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

"He was a rare combination of personal ability and public mission," Netanyahu said.

"He divided his life between science and security, between voluntarism
and education, between achievements and modesty."

London, ENGLAND (CNN) - She may have finished second in the finale of the television show "Britain's Got Talent," but Susan Boyle continued to make newspaper headlines in the United Kingdom Sunday.

"Boyle Backlash" said the headline in the tabloid News of the World, suggesting that the Scottish 48-year-old's alleged "four-letter tantrum" earlier this week had influenced millions of viewers to switch their votes to dance act Diversity.

The build-up to Saturday night's live show had been dominated by reports that Boyle lost her temper in a London hotel and had even considered pulling out of the talent show finale.

The Mail newspaper on Sunday said Boyle had been been "comforted by psychiatrists" ahead of Saturday's show.

"They have a whole army of doctors, psychiatrists and experts all available to any contestant at any time. They have all been taking great care of Susan," the paper quoted the show's judge Piers Morgan as saying.

In Scotland, where crowds had gathered in Boyle's hometown of Blackburn in anticipation of victory, celebration parties were stopped in their tracks as the result was announced.

"Nation shocked as dance act Diversity topple Scotland's Susan Boyle," said the headline in the Sunday Mail.

"The cheers were caught in the collective gullet... Dance troupe Diversity gatecrashed this most expectant of parties. Jaws were left agape. Tears were shed. And then the supportive chanting of 'SuBo' began again," the Sunday Herald reported.

But Boyle could still be the real winner from the series which became a global hit after clips of her audition of "I Dreamed a Dream" racked up millions of hits on the video-sharing Website, YouTube.

"£6M superstar" said the Sunday Mirror, claiming that "Britain's Got Talent" impresario Simon Cowell plans to take Boyle across the Atlantic to "conquer the U.S."

The News of the World upped Boyle's likely earnings on the back of the show to £8 million ($13 million).

On top of a multi-million dollar record deal and share of album sales, Boyle is also set to earn from a Hollywood movie of her rags-to-riches life, a book deal and millions more from image rights, endorsements and television appearances, the paper said.

In an interview with the News of the World, Cowell said Boyle
could be the biggest star he had ever discovered.

"They don't care in America whether she wins a British TV show. They care about the woman they saw singing on YouTube," a Cowell insider also told the paper. "If anything, £8 million in her first year might be an underestimate."

Meanwhile competition winners Diversity are also set to cash in on their success with a film deal and a possible slot supporting singer Michael Jackson when the superstar plays a series of shows in London next month, the Sunday Mirror said.

"We feel electric. Words can't describe it. I'm genuinely shocked. We thought Susan was unstoppable – she's an unbelievable talent," the paper quoted the group's choreographer, Ashley Banjo, as saying.

YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) - The trial of Aung San Suu Kyi has been postponed until Friday while the country's military junta once again justified - albeit indirectly - its detention of the opposition leader.

Without mentioning Suu Kyi by name, a full-page article in the New Light of Myanmar newspaper on Saturday laid out the penalty for someone running afoul of the state's subversion laws - under which the pro-democracy advocate is being tried.

"The restrictions can be extended up to a total of five years with the prior approval of the government in accordance with the law," the article said.

Suu Kyi's movement is already restricted: she is under house arrest. The explanation implies that if convicted, she could be confined for five more years.

The junta says Suu Kyi violated her house arrest when she offered temporary shelter to an American man, John William Yettaw, who swam to her lakeside home.

Her supporters say the move is meant to keep her confined so she cannot participate in the general elections that the junta has scheduled for next year.

In recent days, international calls for Suu Kyi's release has grown increasingly louder as Suu Kyi's trial continues at the Insean Prison compound near Yangon.

In response, the junta has been trying to make the case that it was within its rights to detain Suu Kyi.

Last week, Police Brigadier General Myint Thein told reporters that the government considered releasing the Nobel laureate at the end of the current period of detention.

"As Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Gen. Aung San, the leader of our country, we were deeply thinking whether to extend her detention or not," Myint Thein said. "Unfortunately, a U.S. citizen entered her house for two days. She allowed and made conversation with him, gave him food."

"These kind of actions broke the law," he added. "This is why we have no way but to open a case. And we are very sad about this case."

The newspaper piece on Saturday was an indirect reiteration of the same claim.

The piece, entitled "Laws enacted for state stability and community peace," begins by saying every country - including the United States and the United Kingdom - has put in place laws that "if necessary to prioritize with national security interest, civil liberties of a citizen may be restricted."

"Every citizen is to understand the fact that the government's promulgating the laws and taking action against offenders in accordance with the law are not associated with any forms of discrimination against or in favor of particular persons, nut just in the interests of the nation and the people," the article said.

The trial adjourned for the weekend on Friday after the court heard from the lone defense witness in the case.

The judge had asked both the prosecution and the defense to submit their summarized arguments by Monday.

Over the weekend, Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party was informed the trial will resume Friday.

JERUSALEM (CNN) - Israel started its biggest emergency drill in the nation's history Sunday to prepare civilians, soldiers and rescue crews for the possibility of war, the defense force said in a statement.

The five-day drill, nicknamed Turning Point 3, comes amid the nation's rising tensions with Iran.

It will be conducted in public facilities, including schools, military bases and government offices. Students, soldiers and other civilians will practice how to gather at protected places during an emergency.

Officials said the drill will include simulated rockets, air raids and other attacks on infrastructure and essential facilities, and use of weapons on civilians.

Everyone is expected to go to a protected place at the sound of sirens, the defense force said, adding that more instructions will be broadcast on a public channel.

"It is of great importance that every civilian, institute and workplace will seriously practice in order to improve our preparedness and national resilience," Maj. Gen. Yair Golan of the Home Front Command said in a news statement.

The move comes amid tension between Israel and Tehran.

The Israeli government considers Iran's nuclear program as the dominant threat facing the country. Israel is publicly supportive of President Barack Obama administration's outreach to the Islamic state.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Israeli Army Radio last week that he believes "that the chance the dialogue has of stopping Iran's nuclear efforts is very low."

Barak's views are keeping with the majority of his countrymen.

An Israeli poll released this month found that 74 percent believe that the U.S. policy of engagement with Iran will fail and 81 percent think Iran will develop a nuclear weapon capability.

Israel has conducted emergency drills the past two years, but officials said this is the biggest so far.