Prime Minister Gordon Brown affirmed Britain’s commitment to Afghanistan on a weekend in which roadside bombs killed five more soldiers, pushing the U.K. death toll past 200.

At least six people were killed when two bombs exploded at a popular restaurant in a predominantly Shi’ite Muslim neighborhood of eastern Baghdad on Sunday, Iraqi police said.

A top official in Honduras’ ousted government charges that the U.S. was involved in the coup of deposed Manuel Zelaya, saying the plane that flew him into exile stopped at base with U.S. troops.

Two Russian air force jets rehearsing aerobatic maneuvers collided Sunday near Moscow, killing one stunt pilot, a military official said.

North Korea followed recent conciliatory gestures toward the U.S. and South Korea with a return to threats Sunday, warning them of “merciless retaliation” over sanctions imposed on its government, and nuclear attacks in response to any atomic provocation.

U.S. and Pakistani officials meeting on Sunday said they were heartened by signs of a rift between Pakistani Taliban factions after the apparent death of militant leader Baitullah Mehsud.

Because of the Taliban, women won’t be deployed at all in the neighborhoods in the south and the north of Kandahar during the presidential election.

A fire at a wedding tent Saturday has killed at least 41 women and children guests and injured 76 others, authorities said.

Turkey marked 25 years Saturday since the first Kurdish rebel attacks, with political leaders calling for reconciliation, though the government has yet to offer a new plan for ending the conflict.

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was detained for two hours for questioning at a U.S. airport before being released by immigration authorities, a news agency report said Saturday.