Damascus car bomb kills three, wounds five: state TV
Damascus. A car bomb exploded in a northern district of the Syrian capital on Saturday killing at least three people and wounding five others, state television reported as quoted by AFP.

Over 500 artworks stolen from Hungary apartment: police
Budapest. More than 500 valuable paintings and works of art have been stolen from a Budapest apartment belonging to a deceased collector, Hungarian police said Saturday, in series of robberies that apparently went undetected for years, AFP reported.

Iraq violence kills eight, police kidnapped
Baghdad. Violence in Iraq on Saturday killed eight people including a police officer, his wife and two children, and gunmen also kidnapped five police officers, officials said, AFP reported.