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By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered a fast-moving deep ocean current with the volume of 40 Amazon Rivers near Antarctica that will help researchers monitor the impacts of climate change on the world's oceans.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senators negotiating financial regulatory reform legislation said on Sunday they were close to a bipartisan agreement, as the White House said fraud charges against Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs highlighted the need for reform.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates refused to back down in the face of Iranian anger and repeated Sunday his call for Tehran to end its "occupation" of three islands in the Gulf.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards test-fired five missiles during war games in a waterway crucial for global oil supplies on Sunday, and a commander warned the Islamic Republic's enemies they would regret any attack.

MIAMI (Reuters) - A military judge presiding over the first Guantanamo tribunal of the Obama era will seek to determine this week whether U.S. forces tortured a confession from a Canadian accused of murdering an American soldier in Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in Congress plan to unveil tough proposals this week to counter a Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts on elections.

GAZA (Reuters) - Wielding art instead of arms, Hamas issued an animated video on Sunday aimed at pressuring Israel into trading hundreds of jailed Palestinians for Gilad Shalit, a soldier held captive in Gaza for almost four years.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Greece's finance minister said on Sunday that aid will arrive in time to avert the euro zone's first sovereign debt default as signs grew that a 45 billion-euro ($60.49 billion) rescue would have to be bigger.

MINSK (Reuters) - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko on Sunday berated ally Russia for not paying for its military bases deployed in his country and warned that he could snub the summit of a Moscow-dominated security pact next month.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister and the U.N. atomic watchdog chief made no headway on Sunday when they met to discuss a stalled nuclear fuel offer designed to ease tensions with the West, diplomats said.

ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will stress the need for greater mine safety at a memorial service on Sunday for 29 coal miners killed this month in the worst U.S. mining disaster since 1970.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A U.S. Middle East envoy ended a three-day peace mission on Sunday with no sign of any breakthrough in efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, but he said he would return next week.

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - A small amount of lava is now flowing from the Icelandic volcano that disrupted air traffic across Europe last week, and the ash production that caused the problems has diminished.

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Scores of Afghan schoolgirls were knocked unconscious or made ill over the weekend by suspected poison gas attacks on their schools and authorities are blaming insurgents who oppose educating girls.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan will seek the extradition from India of the suspected lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks to further its own investigation into the case, officials said on Sunday.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A row over charges government agencies secretly tapped telephones of senior politicians is likely to paralyze India's parliament on Monday, possibly spelling fresh delay for the budget and other key bills.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters encamped for weeks in central Bangkok promised more aggressive measures after the government rejected their proposals to end increasingly violent protests in return for early polls.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - A tornado nearly a mile wide ripped through central Mississippi on Saturday, killing 10 people, including three children, and injuring dozens of others, state authorities said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of President Barack Obama's top priorities -- tackling global warming -- suffered a severe setback on Saturday when a fight over immigration derailed plans to unveil a compromise climate change bill.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Finance leaders scrambled to secure aid for debt-stricken Greece on Saturday and Canada cautioned that some European countries feared the 45 billion euros ($60 billion) under consideration was not enough.