AP - Gunmen attacked a minibus carrying Shiites northeast of Baghdad, killing six men and wounding a woman, an official said Saturday. U.S. and Iraqi troops killed three suspected insurgents, and six people were gunned down in the Iraqi capital.

AP - Smiling broadly, journalist Jill Carroll arrived Saturday under U.S. military protection in Germany, the first stop on her return to the United States after 82 days in captivity in Iraq.

AP - A suicide attack on a coalition convoy in southern Afghanistan Saturday killed the bomber but hurt no one else. A lawmaker was shot dead the country's north, officials said.