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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen have attacked a terminal at Karachi's international airport. A doctor at a hospital in Pakistan's largest city says five bodies had been brought there, as well as one wounded person. A spokesman for the Airport Security Force says police are battling the attackers and the military has been called in. Pakistani television stations have been airing live footage of what appears to be a major fire at the airport.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis says: "Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare." Francis waded into Mideast peace-making today, welcoming Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the Vatican for an evening of peace prayers. The pope says too many children have been killed in war, and their deaths should give negotiators the courage, strength and patience to work for peaceful dialogue and coexistence.
PARIS (AP) — The Pentagon says it won't comment on Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's conversations with those caring for him at an American military medical facility in Germany. But a senior U.S. official says he has told them that he was tortured, beaten and held in a cage by his Taliban captors in Afghanistan after he tried to escape. The New York Times reports Bergdahl still has not spoken with his family, a week after his release from five years in captivity.
DUBLIN (AP) — A senior Catholic Church figure says Ireland's government should establish a fact-finding probe into the church's mistreatment and burial of babies that died in nun-operated homes for unmarried mothers. Dublin's archbishop made his appeal following revelations that hundreds of children who died inside a former church residence for children born out of wedlock were buried in unmarked graves at the site. A researcher found records showing that nearly 800 children, mostly infants, died at the home in County Galway from its 1925 opening to its 1962 closure.
NEW YORK (AP) —"The Fault in Our Stars" has outdrawn the Tom Cruise action film "Edge of Tomorrow" at the box office this weekend. The teenage romance starring Shailene Woodley has earned more than $48 million in its domestic debut, according to studio estimates. "Maleficent" is second, followed "Edge of Tomorrow," the latest X-Men movie and "A Million Ways to Die in the West."
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