Pakistani politician shot dead: BBC
Islamabad. A senior female Pakistani politician has been shot dead in the southern port city of Karachi, BBC reports.
Zahra Shahid Hussain was the senior vice-president of Pakistan's Movement for Justice party (PTI), led by former international cricketer Imran Khan.
Her murder comes on the eve of a highly-contested partial re-run of the vote in the area following last Saturday's general election.

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.