Clinton in good spirits as he awaits surgery

NEW YORK -- Former President Bill Clinton was in good spirits Saturday, walking around his hospital room in street clothes and buoyed by thousands of get-well messages as he awaited heart bypass surgery, probably Tuesday. He was to undergo triple or quadruple bypass surgery, according to a person close to Clinton who requested anonymity. Clinton's wife and daughter visited him in the hospital Saturday, and he had received 15,000 get-well messages relayed from the Web site of his foundation, a spokeswoman said.

Uranium enrichment tests conducted in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea -- A prominent South Korean scientist acknowledged Saturday that an unauthorized experiment to enrich uranium was conducted in three or four tests in early 2000, but said the amount in question was "so small it's almost invisible." South Korea scrambled to deny it has ambitions for a nuclear program after the country admitted its scientists conducted an unauthorized experiment in 2000 to enrich a small amount of uranium. The revelation threatened to complicate an international standoff over communist North Korea's nuclear weapons development.

Flames threaten homes, wineries in N. California

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A 14,000-acre wildfire burned out of control Saturday in Sonoma County's wine country, as another fire in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada destroyed 11 homes. The Sonoma County fire, the largest burning in California, raced to within a few miles of vineyards by Saturday afternoon, and threatened as many as 200 homes. The fire started Friday near The Geysers, the world's largest geothermal power facility. The cause was not yet known.

-- From wire reports