Burma's opposition leader may be freed

Speculation mounted in Burma today that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi may be released from house arrest as a UN envoy spoke of an imminent breakthrough in his efforts to end the country’s political deadlock.

Burma’s military junta has kept Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi confined to her house since September 2000 after she defied the authorities by trying to travel outside Rangoon for a political meeting.