• Only small crowds greet Obama during Ghana visit
  The lucky ones saw him waving from behind the bulletproof glass of his passing vehicle for a few fleeting seconds. The others, like the rest of the world, just watched President Barack Obama's visit on TV.

• Big Ben celebrates 150 years of bongs
  Britain's Big Ben is marking its 150th birthday with a celebration in London on Saturday.

• Foreign fighter may be among 16 killed in Somalia
  A foreign fighter and a top government security official are among 16 people killed in Saturday's fighting between U.N.-backed government forces and Islamist insurgents in the north of the capital, a Somali official said.

• Mass funeral for Srebrenica massacre victims
  Tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims prayed for the dead in Srebrenica on Saturday, the 14th anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since World War II, and buried hundreds of victims recently recovered from mass graves.

• Pakistan: Mumbai attacks trial to start next week
  The trial of five men accused in the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people is likely to start next week, Pakistan's interior minister said Saturday.

• Religious Jews stabbed in Jerusalem fight
  Two religious Jews were stabbed and another was beaten in a fight with secular Jews in Jerusalem on Saturday, a police spokesman said - an incident that could worsen tense relations between the city's observant and non-observant Jewish residents.

• US military: soldier shot, killed driver in Iraq
  An American soldier in Iraq shot and killed a truck driver who did not respond to warnings to stop on a highway north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Saturday.

• Report: NKorean army suspected over cyberattacks
  A North Korean army lab of hackers was ordered to "destroy" South Korean communications networks - evidence the isolated regime was behind cyberattacks that paralyzed South Korean and American Web sites - news reports said Saturday, citing an intelligence briefing.

• Thousands camp in tents after 6.0 quake in China
  Thousands camped in tents in southwestern China on Saturday after a magnitude-6.0 earthquake destroyed thousands of homes, killed one person and injured 320, state media reported.

• 5 hurt in latest Pamplona bull run
  A packed running of the bulls swollen by weekend crowds at Spain's San Fermin festival left five people with minor injuries Saturday, but there were no gorings the day after the first fatality for 14 years.

• Scholar: NKorea interested in freeing US reporters
  North Korea appears "seriously interested" in releasing two convicted American journalists but first wants the United States to acknowledge what Pyongyang sees as their "hostile acts," a U.S.-based scholar who visited Pyongyang said Saturday.

• Wanted: Late Colombian drug lord's escaped hippos
  One fugitive hippo down, two to go.

• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,323
  As of Friday, July 10, 2009, at least 4,323 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

• Australian shot dead at Freeport mine in Indonesia
  An Australian working for U.S. mining giant Freeport in Indonesia's restive Papua province was shot and killed Saturday, possibly by a sniper, police and company officials said.

• No easy end in sight for Honduras coup crisis
  Delegates representing the ousted and interim governments of Honduras failed to forge an agreement during a second day of talks and no fixed date was set for future negotiations.

• Mexico to arm Mormon community anti-crime force
  Authorities in northern Mexico will give arms and training to members of an anti-crime group in a Mormon community after two local residents were killed by hitmen with ties to organized crime, residents said Friday.

• Woman China blames for violence wants dialogue
  The woman Chinese authorities blame for violent unrest in western China's Xinjiang (shihn-jahng) region is asking for outside intervention to create a dialogue between her ethnic Uighurs (WEE-gers) and Chinese authorities.

• Obama plans no public appearances in Africa, will stress self-reliance in speech
  President Barack Obama isn't descended from slaves; his father was from Kenya, his mother from Kansas.

• China raises death toll from ethnic riots to 184
  The Chinese government on Saturday raised the death toll from the communal rioting in western Xinjiang to 184 and issued the first ethnic breakdown of the dead, showing that most of those killed were from China's Han majority.

• In Africa, Obama to stress self-reliance as key to prosperity
  President Barack Obama isn't descended from slaves; his father was from Kenya, his mother from Kansas.

• UK: 5 more soldiers killed in Afghanistan
  British officials say five soldiers have been killed on patrol in Afghanistan.

• Schools, businesses close in Argentina for flu
  Millions of Argentines stayed home from work, churches in Bolivia canceled Mass and Ecuador announced its first fatalities from swine flu on Friday, as the virus continues its spread during the South American winter season.

• Canadian tornado kills 2 US men
  Two Oklahoma men were killed and one remains missing after a tornado ripped through a tourist resort in northwestern Ontario, a meteorologist said Friday.

• Nigeria militants claim to destroy pipeline
  Nigeria's main militant group says its has destroyed a recently repaired Chevron oil pipeline.

• British tabloid denies it hacked celebrities
  The publisher of a British tabloid owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch denied on Friday a report that it had accessed the voice mail of celebrities and politicians and tried to suppress evidence of the hacking.