Italian police arrest 2 linked to Mumbai attacks
ROME (AP) -- Italian police on Saturday arrested two Pakistani men accused of providing logistical support for last year's terror attacks in Mumbai, officials said....

Sri Lanka to release 136,000 Tamil war refugees
MANIK FARM, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they've been detained since the country's civil war ended six months ago, a top official said Saturday....

Blast near aid office wounds 1 in NW Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- An explosion struck the office of an aid organization in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Saturday, wounding a security guard, police said....

Sentence request for US woman in Italy murder case
PERUGIA, Italy (AP) -- Prosecutors are expected to request life in prison for an American student and her former boyfriend accused of killing a young British woman in Italy....

Afghan police are weak link in security force
KABUL (AP) -- Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home....

Resort island reels after deadly attack by gunman
d SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) -- The gunman who carried out Saipan's most violent attack in recent memory ended his life on the same rocky cliffs where numerous Japanese leapt to their deaths to avoid capture by U.S. troops during World War II....

China says 37 dead, 71 trapped in mine explosion
BEIJING (AP) -- A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 37 people and trapping 71 others nearly a third of a mile under ground....

Buddhists from 2 Koreas to hold joint ceremony
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean Buddhist monks headed to North Korea on Saturday for a joint ceremony with monks there, showing the countries continue civil exchange despite a bloody naval skirmish earlier this month....

Bangladeshi mom want twins to stay in Australia
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- The mother who gave up conjoined Bangladeshi newborn twins for adoption said Saturday she is overjoyed the toddlers have been successfully separated and wants them to grow up in Australia....