AP - A coordinated series of explosions struck a park and crowded shopping areas across the Indian capital Saturday evening, killing at least 18 people and injuring at least 61, officials said. A Muslim militant group claimed responsibility.

AP - Pakistan's government eased its rhetoric Saturday against unilateral U.S. attacks on militant havens near the Afghan border, saying it hopes quiet diplomacy will persuade Washington that the raids only inflame sentiment against leaders of both countries.

AFP - Remote Australia, which covers 85 percent of the vast continent, has become a failed state due to a "perfect storm" of social and economic neglect, experts said in data published Saturday.

AFP - Indian security forces and stone-throwing protesters demanding an end to Indian rule over Muslim-majority Kashmir clashed for a second straight day on Saturday.

AP - The U.S. military says a pretrial hearing has started for one of two U.S. soldiers charged with killing an Iraqi detainee and lying about it earlier this year.

AP - Eurostar passenger trains are running again through the tunnel under the English Channel two days after an undersea fire suspended service.

AP - A dairy that sold milk powder linked to kidney stones in infants and one death knew in August it was tainted with a banned chemical, weeks before it ordered a recall, the Health Ministry said Saturday.

AP - More than 200,000 people turned out for Pope Benedict XVI's outdoor Mass on Saturday — an outpouring of faith for a traditionally Roman Catholic country that has witnessed a sharp decline in churchgoing among Catholics.

AP - A Georgian official says Russia has fulfilled its commitment to withdraw forces from several positions in western Georgia.

AP - Pakistan's military said Saturday it killed at least 72 militants in three days of fighting near the Afghan border, where Taliban and al-Qaida militants are believed to be hiding.

AP - A remote control bomb that witnesses said was set off by two men on a nearby hilltop ripped through an Afghan provincial governor's vehicle on Saturday, killing the governor and three others, officials said.

AFP - Australia's foreign Minister Stephen Smith on Friday shot down claims that China is pressing Canberra not to supply Beijing's rival India with uranium for nuclear fuel.