• TAM: Jet forced to return to JFK
  TAM Airlines says one of its jets took off from New York's JFK airport but was forced to return 20 minutes into the flight because of a mechanical problem.

• Ida spurs tropical-storm warnings in Caribbean
  Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun.

• Peres calls on Palestinian leader not to quit
  Israel's president on Saturday called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to stand down, invoking the memory of Yitzhak Rabin at a public commemoration for the assassinated Israeli premier.

• Bruni-Sarkozy tells of 8 years in psychoanalysis
  During her years as a top model, French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave psychoanalysis nary a thought.

• US tourist dies 'car surfing' in Puerto Rico
  Police say a U.S. tourist who was pretending to be surfing on the hood of a friend's moving car was killed when he fell and broke his neck in a popular Puerto Rican beach town.

• To defang Taliban, some look to private schools
  The schoolhouse is so tiny that dozens of pupils have to sit outdoors. They're lucky if their teachers have more than a basic education. And the chanting of math equations and Quranic verses gets so loud that the children have a hard time hearing themselves.

• Guyana: US 'mastermind' behind arson attacks
  Recent arson attacks and shootings in this violence-wracked South American nation are the work of a mastermind living in the United States, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo alleged.

• Air France crash memorial in Rio amid criticism
  Scores of relatives of the 228 people killed in the June 1 Air France jet crash dedicated a memorial in an upscale beach neighborhood Saturday amid strong criticism that the airline has failed to provide them with the answers or compensation they were promised.

• West Africa's last giraffes make surprise comeback
  A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.

• Fighting the odds to keep Indian tongues alive
  In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class.

• UK foreign secretary: Obama critics miss the point
  British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Saturday accused critics of U.S. President Barack Obama of foolishly expecting him to fix the world's woes single-handedly.

• Afghan gov't says UN representative out of line
  Pushing back against international criticism, Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the top U.N. official in the country overstepped his authority by giving instructions on how to rid the government of corruption and warlords.

• Giant dominoes form tribute to Berlin Wall's fall
  Massive colorful dominoes painted by German students were placed Saturday along the former path of the Berlin Wall to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the barrier that divided the city for nearly three decades.

• Saudi won't bar hajj pilgrims over swine flu fears
  The Saudi health minister said Saturday that the kingdom will not bar anyone considered high-risk for swine flu from performing the hajj pilgrimage this year, though he urged countries where pilgrims set out from to take precautions.

• Lock and roll: Presley's hair for sale at auction
  A British auction house says it's selling a strand of Elvis Presley's hair preserved for decades by a fan.

• Iran releases 3 journalists jailed during rallies
  Iranian authorities have released three journalists who were among more than 100 people arrested during pro-government and opposition street demonstrations this week, the country's official news agency reported.

• Medvedev: Arms control deal with US can be reached
  Russia and the United States have a good chance of reaching a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year's end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday.

• UN: About 200 staff to be pulled from Afghanistan
  The U.N. says hundreds of its staffers will be temporarily pulled out of Afghanistan in the wake of an Oct. 28 attack that killed five of its workers, but it's still determining exactly how many.

• Rival Lebanon factions agree on unity government
  Lebanon's Syrian-backed factions finally agreed on a unity government proposed by their pro-Western rivals on Saturday, ending a four-month deadlock in the deeply divided country.

• Uncle: Fort Hood suspect loved US
  The Palestinian uncle of Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan says his nephew loved America and wanted to serve his country.

• Russia's Medvedev: Sanctions against Iran possible
  Russia could back sanctions against Iran if it fails to take a constructive stance in international talks over its nuclear program, President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday.

• Afghan ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan forces
  U.S. and Afghan authorities investigated Saturday whether a botched NATO airstrike was to blame for the death of Afghan soldiers and police during a search for two American paratroopers missing in a Taliban-infested area of the country's west.

• Madagascar political rivals reach government deal
  Madagascar's political rivals have agreed on posts within a transitional government that will hold power until next year's elections following a power struggle that brought months of volatility to the country, an African Union statement said.

• 2 tickets win UK's largest lottery payout
  European lottery officials say two British ticketholders have shared a jackpot of 90 million pounds ($150 million) - the largest lottery prizes ever paid out in the United Kingdom.

• Iran lawmakers: No shipment of uranium abroad
  Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the U.N.-backed plan altogether.