STORMS CAUSE FLOODING, TORNADO IN PARTS OF TEXAS

Storms cause flooding,tornado in parts of Texas
A strong line of storms moved through portions of Texas on Sunday, causing flash flooding and at least one tornado. There were no immediate reports of serious injuries. Volunteer firefighters, above, in Hewitt, a small town just south of Waco, pulled a young man to safety after he became trapped while trying to help the driver of a vehicle in a drainage ditch. A tornado west of Florence in Williamson County damaged a house and tore off a barn roof, said Detective John Foster with the Williamson County Sheriff's Office. Hail the size of ping-pong balls smashed windows in Kerrville. Storms also pounded Houston, dropping as much as one inch in 15 minutes, said Kent Prochazka, a weather service meteorologist in Houston.
Teen dies from injuries
JERUSALEM -- A Florida teenager wounded in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv last month died Sunday from his injuries, a hospital spokeswoman said. Daniel Wultz, 16, of Weston, Fla., will be flown home for burial today, said Yael Tzuberi, a spokeswoman for the Tel Aviv Medical Center where he was hospitalized. Wultz came to Israel with his parents to visit relatives on Passover. He and his father, Tuly, were having lunch at a Tel Aviv restaurant April 17 when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated about 10 pounds of explosives in the entrance. His death brought the number of those killed in the attack to 11, in addition to the suicide bomber. Dozens were wounded, including Wultz's father, who survived.
Iranian nuclear crisis
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's president said Sunday it was pointless for Europe to devise an incentive package if it required Tehran to stop enriching uranium -- effectively thwarting the latest international diplomatic effort before it even began. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke on state television after returning from Indonesia, where he was warmly welcomed and won developing nations' support for the peaceful production of nuclear energy. The hard-line leader said proposals for a political and economic package being shaped by the European Union were "invalid" if "they want to offer us things they call incentives in return for renouncing our rights."
Second term in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Rene Preval, the only elected president in Haiti's history to finish his term, was sworn in Sunday to again lead the impoverished nation in its latest attempt at democracy after decades of armed uprisings, lawlessness and foreign intervention. Preval took the oath of office in a sweltering, packed Parliament chamber, and the Senate leader placed on him the presidential sash of Haiti's national colors -- blue and red. Afterward, he stood and waved as about 300 legislators and foreign dignitaries, including Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Canadian Governor General Michaelle Jean and the actor Danny Glover, gave him a standing ovation.
Doctors' strike spreads
NEW DELHI -- A doctors' strike that began in the capital to protest an affirmative action program at medical colleges spread Sunday, threatening to cripple services at major government health-care facilities. Medical students demonstrated across the country, angered by police violence Saturday against doctors protesting at government hospitals in the capital, New Delhi, and Bombay. The protests were sparked by the government's decision to increase the percentage of low-caste Indians at state-run medical colleges to 49.5 percent of the student body. Currently, 22.5 percent of admissions entries are set aside for low-caste Hindus.
Legislature to reconvene
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Northern Ireland's legislature, dormant for 31/2 years, reconvenes Monday so its members can try to form a Catholic-Protestant administration, the elusive goal of the Good Friday peace accord forged amid high hopes eight years ago. But even as the 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly take their seats and reprise well-honed arguments across the Stormont Parliamentary Building floor, their work is overshadowed by the slaying of a Catholic teenager, the latest of more than 3,600 deaths in the four-decade conflict over this British territory.
Associated Press