AP - Italy's ANSA news agency reports that police in the northern city of Brescia have arrested two Pakistanis accused of logistical support for last year's terror attacks in Mumbai.

AP - Sri Lanka will release 136,000 ethnic-minority Tamil war refugees Dec. 1, allowing the civilians to leave squalid and overcrowded government camps after a half-year detainment, a top official said Saturday.

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.

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.

AP - A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery.

AP - Egyptian soccer fans burned Algerian flags and rioted outside the Algerian Embassy in Cairo, smashing cars and shop windows, in an escalating row between the two countries over a bitter World Cup rivalry.

AFP - A Japanese engineer kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen has been seized by Al-Qaeda gunmen, a tribal source who has been seeking to negotiate his release said on Saturday.

AFP - Two executives at a banknote-making firm part-owned by Australia's central bank have been suspended over a police probe into alleged bribery and kickbacks, officials said.