Italian police arrest 2 linked to Mumbai attacks
ROME (AP) -- Italian police on Saturday arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping fund and providing logistical support for last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authorities said....

Quick restart of Big Bang machine stuns scientists
GENEVA (AP) -- Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world's largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs....

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....

China says 42 dead, 66 trapped in mine explosion
BEIJING (AP) -- A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily to save them....

Iraqi lawmakers seek to end election crisis
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's parliament is discussing ways to end a dispute over an election law after a vice president vetoed the bill, throwing national polls slated for January into question....

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

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....

3 men blow themselves up in Pakistani Kashmir
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Police say three suspected militants blew themselves up as they were being pursued by authorities in the Pakistan-controlled portion of disputed Kashmir....

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....

Buddhists from 2 Koreas hold joint ceremony
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Buddhist monks from South and North Korea held a joint ceremony at a temple in the communist country Saturday in a continuation of civic exchanges between the nations despite a bloody naval skirmish earlier this month....