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. ...

By Alexander Dziadosz and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was back in court on Saturday for a retrial on charges of complicity in the murder of protesters, reopening a case that has shown the difficulty of transitional justice in post-revolutionary Egypt. Mubarak and his former interior minister, Habib el-Adli, were convicted and sentenced to life in prison last June for failing to stop the killing during the 2011 uprising that swept him from power. But a court ordered a retrial in January after accepting appeals from both the prosecution and the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Financial data and news company Bloomberg LP said Friday that it had corrected a "mistake" in its newsgathering policies and cut off its journalists' special access to client log-in data on the company's ubiquitous trading information terminals after Goldman Sachs complained about the matter last month.

By Mary Wisniewski (Reuters) - The mother of Ariel Castro's children repeatedly went to authorities with accusations he was beating, abusing and threatening her. But her complaints never reached the point where Castro was imprisoned or triggered additional police investigations. The late Grimilda Figueroa's accusations against Castro began in 1989 and the last came in 2005, three years after he allegedly kidnapped the first of three women and held them in a run-down house in Cleveland. In the first case, he was not sentenced to prison and in the other two Figueroa chose to drop proceedings. ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's election commission said on Saturday it failed to hold free and fair elections in the country's commercial center and biggest city, Karachi. "We have been unable to carry out free and fair elections in Karachi," it said in a statement. It is unclear whether the commission's conclusion means national elections will have to be held again. (Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Nick Macfie)

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Even amid the euphoria over finding a woman alive in the rubble of a garment factory that collapsed more than two weeks ago, rescuers on Saturday returned to the grim task of dismantling the wreckage and retrieving decomposing bodies, knowing there was little chance of finding any more survivors.

PARIS (AP) — France's health minister says tests on three suspected cases of a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS are negative — but a fourth needs complementary tests and a fifth suspected case has been discovered.

ROME (AP) — Police say an immigrant from Ghana went on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan, killing a passerby and wounding five others in an apparently random attack.

MADRID (AP) — Top-ranked Serena Williams will have a chance to win her 50th career title after beating Sara Errani of Italy 7-5, 6-2 Saturday to reach the final of the Madrid Open.