The Supreme Court in Myanmar has agreed to a request from the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to hear an appeal against her latest detention. The 64-year-old democracy icon was ordered to spend another 18 months in detention in August after being convicted over an incident in which a US man swam to her house. A lower court rejected an initial appeal in October. Ms Suu Kyi, who is detained at her lakeside mansion in Yangon, did not attend today's hearing while journalists were also barred. But her lawyers told reporters that their request for an appeal hearing had been granted, although no date has yet been set.