BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian President Bashar Assad says he won't step down before elections are held in his war-ravaged country.
MOSCOW (AP) - Part of an airliner carrying more than 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of its wings and shooting down an evacuation slide.
PARIS (REUTERS) - More than 8,000 French households'tax bills topped 100 per cent of their income last year, the business newspaper Les Echos reported on Saturday, citing Finance Ministry data.
FAIRFIELD, Connecticut (AP) - Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor in the United States.
LAGOS (REUTERS) - Nigeria's military said on Saturday it had killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of its remote northeast from an Islamist group seen as the main security threat to Africa's top oil producer.
