LONDON (AP) - British police say a zookeeper who was injured in a tiger attack at an animal park has died.
VATICAN CITY (AFP) - Pope Francis on Saturday said the Catholic Church should not be closed off to sinners like a "pastoral customs house", giving as an example baptisms for the children of unmarried mothers.
BEIRUT (AP) - Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad shelled a strategic western town on Saturday in their heaviest barrage of a week-long battle to dislodge rebels from there, activists said.
PALERMO, Italy (AFP) - Tens of thousands of Catholic faithful attended a mass on Saturday putting on the path to sainthood a priest shot dead by the mafia 20 years ago, the first victim of organised crime to be declared a martyr.
LONDON (AP, AFP) - Counter-terrorism police are questioning a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two men suspected of the savage killing of a British soldier.
