Iraq car bombs cause Baghdad carnage
Several car bombs have exploded around the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing at least 38 people, officials say.
The bombs were placed in parked cars and detonated over a 30-minute period in busy streets, mainly in Shia areas.
Separately, a bomber blew himself up in the northern city of Mosul near troops queuing at a bank, killing 12 people.
Countrywide violence, often fuelled by sectarian divisions between Shia and Sunni Muslims, has reached its highest level since 2008.
Almost 1,000 people were killed and more than 2,000 wounded in September alone, according to the UN.
Hundreds more have been killed in October.
Sunni militants, including the local offshoot of al-Qaeda, are often blamed for the attacks, which usually target Shia areas.
The Shia-led government has been accused of failing to address grievances among the Sunni Arab minority, including allegations of abuses by security forces.
The wave of attacks in and around Baghdad on Sunday targeted areas including markets and bus stations.
As well as those killed, at least 100 people were injured in the attacks.
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US bugged Merkel's phone from 2002 until 2013, report claims
The US has been spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone since 2002, according to a report in Der Spiegel magazine.
The German publication claims to have seen secret documents from the National Security Agency which show Mrs Merkel's number on a list dating from 2002 - before she became chancellor.
Another report says Mr Obama was told in 2010 about the surveillance.
Meanwhile Washington has seen a protest against the NSA's spying programme.
Several thousand protesters marched to the US Capitol to demand a limit to the surveillance. Some of them held banners in support of the fugitive former contractor Edward Snowden, who revealed the extent of the NSA's activities.
'No-spy deal'
The nature of the monitoring of Mrs Merkel's mobile phone is not clear from the files, Der Spiegel says.
For example, it is possible that the chancellor's conversations were recorded, or that her contacts were simply assessed.
Germany is sending its top intelligence chiefs to Washington in the coming week to "push forward" an investigation into the spying allegations, which have caused outrage in Germany.
In Washington demonstrators marched against the NSA's surveillance
Mrs Merkel phoned the US president when she first heard of the spying allegations on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama apologised to the German chancellor and promised Mrs Merkel he knew nothing of the alleged phone monitoring and would have stopped it if he had, Der Spiegel reports.
But on Sunday Bild newspaper quoted US intelligence sources as saying NSA head Keith Alexander personally briefed the president about the covert operation targeting Mrs Merkel in 2010.
"Obama did not halt the operation but rather let it continue," the newspaper quoted a senior NSA official as saying.
Her number was still on a surveillance list in 2013.
On Friday, Germany and France said they wanted the US to sign a no-spy deal by the end of the year.
As well as the bugging of Mrs Merkel's phone, there are claims the NSA has monitored millions of telephone calls made by German and French citizens.
Some Saudi women defy driving ban in day of protest
A handful of Saudi women have taken to the streets in their cars on a day of collective protest against the ban on female drivers.
Several videos of women driving have been posted online despite official warnings that women who took part risked sanctions.
Some women received warning phone calls from men purporting to be from the interior ministry.
But one woman who took part said she had faced no reprisals.
"I went to the grocery shop near the house... there was a reporter with me," Mai al-Sawyan told the BBC from Riyadh.
"Personally I know three other women" who also drove, she said.
"No-one approached me," she said, adding she was hopeful that the ban would be lifted soon.
But one leading activist - the university lecturer Aziza al-Yousef - said she had decided not to take part in the protest drive after being called by the authorities.
Saturday's protest is the third of its kind since 1990, after which a number of women were arrested or lost their jobs.
Police guidance
About 17,000 people signed a petition calling either for women to be allowed to drive or for an explanation of why the prohibition should remain in force.
An interior ministry spokesman, Mansour al-Turki, considerably toughened the Saudi government line on the women drivers' campaign on Thursday.
Mr Turki explicitly restated that women were prohibited from driving, with violators - and their supporters - likely to face unspecified measures.
Tens of thousands flee southeast India floods
Days of torrential rains in southeast India have unleashed floods that have blocked roads, halted trains and forced the evacuation of nearly 70,000 people from hundreds of low-lying villages.
The Press Trust of India on Saturday cited Andhra Pradesh state officials as saying that 39 people had died in flood-related incidents since the rains began Monday.
Villages were inundated and crops were being ruined in the so-called Rice Bowl of India. Many drowned when swept away by surging waters or were killed when weakened walls collapsed onto them.
Railway services have also been suspended along routes where tracks were damaged.
The local Disaster Management Department said evacuated residents were sheltering in 178 camps, while relief workers in boats and helicopters were working to help or rescue hundreds of thousands stranded by floods that have swamped both coastal and inland regions along rivers.
The region was hit earlier this month by a powerful cyclone that prompted authorities to evacuate nearly a million people in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa states.
India's Meteorological Department on Saturday forecast the rains to continue for at least another day.
UEFA order inquiry into referee actions
UEFA President Michel Platini has ordered an internal inquiry to find out why Romanian referee Ovidiu Hategan and his assistants did not follow UEFA guidelines following alleged racist behaviour during CSKA Moscow's match against Manchester City on Wednesday.
City's captain Yaya Toure pointed out to the referee what he claimed was racist chanting from CSKA Moscow fans during the Champions League game, but the referee did not follow UEFA's protocol following such an allegation.
UEFA have already opened disciplinary proceedings against the Russian club for the alleged racist incident.
"UEFA president Michel Platini has requested that the UEFA administration immediately conduct an internal investigation to understand why the three-step protocol established to deal with incidents of a racist nature was not implemented," UEFA said in a statement on Friday.
UEFA order inquiry into referee actions
UEFA President Michel Platini has ordered an internal inquiry to find out why Romanian referee Ovidiu Hategan and his assistants did not follow UEFA guidelines following alleged racist behaviour during CSKA Moscow's match against Manchester City on Wednesday.
City's captain Yaya Toure pointed out to the referee what he claimed was racist chanting from CSKA Moscow fans during the Champions League game, but the referee did not follow UEFA's protocol following such an allegation.
UEFA have already opened disciplinary proceedings against the Russian club for the alleged racist incident.
"UEFA president Michel Platini has requested that the UEFA administration immediately conduct an internal investigation to understand why the three-step protocol established to deal with incidents of a racist nature was not implemented," UEFA said in a statement on Friday.
Iran hangs 16 rebels 'in reprisal for border deaths'
Sixteen rebels have been hanged in Iran in retaliation for the deaths of at least 14 border guards in an ambush, say Iranian news agencies.
The rebels were "linked to groups hostile to the regime", the attorney general of Sistan-Baluchistan province was quoted as saying.
They were hanged in prison in Zahedan, north-east of Saravan, where the border deaths took place overnight.
It is not clear what link, if any, those hanged had to the border attack.
One report suggests they may already have been tried and convicted, but their executions brought forward following the ambush.
Friday night's attack in a mountainous region outside Saravan, on the south-eastern border with Pakistan, was blamed by Saravan's member of parliament, Hedayatollah Mirmoradzehi, on "anti-revolution guerrillas".
But reports that a rebel group called Jeish Al-Adl had claimed responsibility for the ambush were "not confirmed", Mr Mirmoradzehi told local Tasnim news agency.
A parliamentary committee on national security will look into the attack on Sunday, meeting relevant officials, a committee member was quoted as saying.
An armed Sunni group, called Jundallah, has carried out a number of attacks against the state in recent years.
The Sunni Muslim population in Sistan-Baluchistan complains of discrimination by Iran's Shia establishment.
She lived in seclusion in the Belgrade suburb of Dedinje and rarely gave interviews.
However, in 2009 she spoke to the Politika daily about the period after her husband's death.
"They chased me out... in my nightgown, without anything, not allowing me even to take a photo of the two of us, or a letter, a book," she said.
"I was in isolation and treated like a criminal... I could not leave the house without armed guards."
Serbia's Prime Minister Ivica Dacic led the tributes at the funeral ceremony, calling Mrs Broz "our pride... against whom we committed sins".
Mrs Broz had been admitted to hospital in August in a serious condition, suffering from heart problems.
Serbia state funeral for Tito widow
The widow of former Yugoslav leader Marshal Tito has been honoured in a state funeral in the Serbian capital.
Jovanka Broz, who died of heart failure at the age of 88 last weekend, was buried next to her husband in the elaborate House of Flowers mausoleum.
She received full military honours in line with her status as a decorated member of the anti-Nazi partisans who fought in World War II, officials said.
Mrs Broz lived as a recluse in Belgrade after the death of her husband in 1980.
She was accused of plotting a coup, was placed under house arrest for a time, and had her identity papers taken away.
She lived in seclusion in the Belgrade suburb of Dedinje and rarely gave interviews.
However, in 2009 she spoke to the Politika daily about the period after her husband's death.
"They chased me out... in my nightgown, without anything, not allowing me even to take a photo of the two of us, or a letter, a book," she said.
"I was in isolation and treated like a criminal... I could not leave the house without armed guards."
Serbia's Prime Minister Ivica Dacic led the tributes at the funeral ceremony, calling Mrs Broz "our pride... against whom we committed sins".
Mrs Broz had been admitted to hospital in August in a serious condition, suffering from heart problems.
