Afghanistan
KABUL — Insurgents fired six rockets toward a U.S. base near the border with Pakistan on Saturday, but no casualties or damage were reported, the military said. U.S. forces responded with gunfire to the attack in Shkin in Paktia province.
Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO — Eighty-four inmates from a maximum security prison in northeastern Brazil escaped through a tunnel Saturday, authorities said. The inmates escaped from the Silvio Porto prison in Joao Pessoa, the capital of Paraiba state.
Britain
LONDON — A circus performer who did aerial stunts on ropes and wires suspended from the ceiling has died after falling from rigging at the start of her act at the Hippodrome Circus in Great Yarmouth, eastern England.
Burundi
BUJUMBURA — Rebels, who for the last few years have limited their fighting to the rugged rural areas of this central African country, have made bold incursions into the heart of the refined, insulated capital. The recent attack was the most serious signal yet of how harried the government has become from the continuing challenge presented by rebel factions that have refused to sign peace deals.
Canada
TORONTO — Canada's decision to extend marriage rights to gays and lesbians has given birth to a resistance movement led by the country's Roman Catholic bishops. The dispute is unlikely to derail the effort to legalize same-sex marriage across Canada, but the controversy is emerging as the sleeper issue in next year's elections.
China
BEIJING — Toxic gas that leaked from canisters left behind from World War II sickened 36 people in northeast China, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday. Xinhua said unspecified experts had concluded that the canisters were chemical weapons left by the Japanese army.
France
PARIS — A French rock star accused of beating his actress girlfriend to death while in Lithuania must remain in police custody there at least until October on suspicion of manslaughter, a Lithuanian judge ruled. Rock singer Bertrand Cantat was ordered detained at least until Oct. 14 to give authorities more time to investigate the death of his girlfriend, Marie Trintignant, last week, the judge said Friday.
Iran
TEHRAN — An Iranian government minister has said that foreigners suspected of being al-Qaida operatives whose home countries refuse to take them back will be put on trial in Iran, the daily Entekhab reported on Saturday. Ali Yunessi, Iran's minister of intelligence, said such people "will be tried in Iran and the trial will follow its legal procedure," Entekhab said.
Israel
JERUSALEM — Clamoring for revenge, thousands of Hamas supporters Saturday buried two militants killed in an Israeli raid, and a senior Palestinian official urged the United States to intervene to prevent the unraveling of a six-week-old truce. The militants and an Israeli soldier were killed Friday when troops raided a bomb lab in a West Bank refugee camp, sparking a gunbattle. A Palestinian stone-thrower also was killed by troops.
Italy
ROME — With a heat wave scorching Europe, emergency aircraft swooped over wildfires to disgorge water onto smoldering countryside Saturday. Wildfires fanned by hot winds have eaten up territory in Italy, France, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, and the Netherlands. Some 40 deaths have been blamed on the sizzling temperatures in Europe.
Japan
TOKYO — Eleven people were missing Sunday after tropical storm Etau pummeled northern Japan. Eleven people were missing after the storm hit Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido early in the day and gradually lost steam.
Pakistan
KARACHI — Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a van in the southern port city of Karachi early Sunday, killing five people, police said. All three gunmen escaped.
LAHORE — Political activists chanted peace slogans and tossed rose petals Saturday as a delegation of lawmakers from India arrived for a two-day conference aimed at easing long-standing tensions between the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors.