BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Mercedes will start the Spanish Grand Prix from the front row after Nico Rosberg had the fastest qualifying time ahead of teammate Lewis Hamilton on Saturday.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan appear to be well in the lead in Pakistan's election, according to partial counts of votes cast on Saturday. Television channels showed that Khan was ahead in more than 50 of the total 272 seats in the general poll. The partial count also showed that while Sharif was in the lead, his party may lose 15 of its seats in the key province of Punjab to Khan. (Reporting by Mehreen Zahra-Malik)

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Police say the death toll from the collapse of a garment factory building in Bangladesh has soared past 1,100 as recovery operations continue.

Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday in a historic vote despite a series of violent attacks that has killed over 130 people in recent weeks.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Defying threats of violence, Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday for a historic vote pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister and an unpopular incumbent. But militant attacks that killed 20 people underlined the risks many people took just casting their ballots.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says Congress must give more homeowners the chance to refinance their mortgages to save money.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reporters and photographers were evacuated briefly from the West Wing of the White House early Saturday because of smoke from an overheated transformer in a mechanical room.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said around 20 people were killed in explosions in the southern town of Reyhanli near the border with Syria on Saturday and that the death toll may rise, with many seriously wounded. "We have around 20 dead and 46 people were injured, but we have to note that many of the injuries are severe, which means the death toll could unfortunately rise," Erdogan said in comments broadcast on Turkish television. (Reporting by Ece Toksabay; Writing by Nick Tattersall/Mark Heinrich)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House offices were evacuated briefly on Saturday when an electrical transformer near the West Wing malfunctioned and set off a smoke alarm, a White House official said. A Secret Service official said President Barack Obama had not been in the area at the time. "The transformer problem was quickly resolved. Electricity and personnel access to the West Wing has returned to normal. The First Family was unaffected," the White House official said in an emailed statement. Firefighters responded and staff were evacuated briefly, the Secret Service official said. ...

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — A woman found alive in the rubble of a garment factory that collapsed more than two weeks ago is recovering in a hospital, but has trouble sleeping and sometimes grips the nurses' hands in panic, doctors said Saturday.

BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — The Gambian government says that it has released a Muslim cleric who had been in detention for five months.

ROME (AP) — An immigrant from Ghana went on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan at dawn Saturday, killing a passerby and wounding four others in an apparently random attack, police said.

By David Milliken AYLESBURY, England (Reuters) - Major central banks did not face calls to do more to boost the world economy when Group of Seven finance officials met on Saturday, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said. Before the meeting Britain's finance minister, George Osborne, said ministers would "consider what more monetary activism can do to support the recovery" - something that he is keen for the Bank of England to do. But Draghi said the ECB, which cut interest rates to a record low last week, did not come under pressure to take further steps. ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Two car bombs exploded in a Turkish town near the border with Syria on Saturday, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 22 others, officials and media reports said.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Eighteen people were killed and more than 20 injured in car bomb attacks in the Turkish town of Reyhanli near the Syrian border on Saturday, Turkey's interior minister was quoted as saying by domestic media. Interior Minister Muammer Guler had earlier said four people were killed in the blasts. (Writing by Ece Toksabay; Editing by Nick Tattersall/Mark Heinrich)

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's Interior Minister Muammer Guler says the death toll in two car bomb explosions in a town near the border with Syria has risen to 13.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Senior American and Afghan officials held talks Saturday to try to iron out the details of a key pact signed a year ago that defines the future of the United States' commitment to Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reporters and photographers were evacuated early Saturday from the White House press room because of smoke.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Two car bombs exploded in a Turkish town near the border with Syria on Saturday, killing at least four people and injuring 22 others, officials and media reports said.

By Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Twin car bombs killed at least four people and wounded 18 in the southern Turkish town of Reyhanli near the border with Syria on Saturday, Turkey's interior minister said, heightening fears that Syria's civil war is spreading to its neighbors. Television footage showed shattered windows and smoke rising after the explosions. The Dogan news agency said there had been four blasts, but an official in Reyhanli told Reuters he had heard two explosions. ...