SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — A limousine traveling on a major bridge in the San Francisco area burst into flames, killing five female passengers who were trapped inside and injuring four others who escaped, authorities said.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Five people were killed Sunday morning when a suicide bomber attempted to ram a car laden with explosives into a military convoy escorting a four-member Qatari delegation, an official said.

By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Tetsushi Kajimoto GREATER NOIDA, India (Reuters) - Emerging Asian neighbors are bracing for a surge in capital flows after Japan's unprecedented bid to pump up its long-moribund economy but most believe the upside of cheap cash and a stronger Japanese economy outweighs the risks. The Bank of Japan stunned global markets last month with its plan to release some $1.4 trillion to end nearly two decades of stagnation and deflation, adding to the wave of quantitative easing stimulus already unleashed by central banks including the U.S. ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli overnight strike in Syria targeted Iranian-supplied missiles to Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah, a Western intelligence source said on Sunday. "In last night's attack, as in the previous one, what was attacked were stores of Fateh-110 missiles that were in transit from Iran to Hezbollah," the source said. Syrian state television said Israeli rockets had struck a military facility just north of the capital early on Sunday. Israel declined to comment on the attack. (Editing by Eric Walsh)

GAO, Mali (Reuters) - Two Malian soldiers and at least two Islamist militants were killed on Saturday in a suicide attack on an army unit in the north of the country, a senior Malian officer told Reuters. The attack comes as France, which launched an offensive to drive al Qaeda-linked Islamists from Mali, is looking to withdraw thousands of troops from its former colony and hand over security duties to a United Nations peacekeeping mission. ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of a shoddily built garment-factory building in Bangladesh continued its horrifying climb, reaching 580 on Sunday with little sign of what the final number will be.

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — A flow of damp air from the Pacific Ocean helped firefighters in their battle against a huge wildfire burning through coastal mountains in Southern California.

BEIRUT (AP) — Israel's military has deployed a rocket defense system to the north of the country following reported Israeli airstrikes in neighboring Syria targeting weapons believed to be destined for Lebanon's Hezbollah militants.

BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for a man charged with lying to investigators after the Boston Marathon bombings are asking a federal judge to release him from jail, saying he had nothing to do with the deadly bombings and isn't a flight risk.

By Hereward Holland JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's police have detained a newspaper editor without charge and refused him access to a lawyer for three days, he told a Reuters reporter who visited him in a crowded police cell on Saturday. Rights groups frequently accuse security forces of harassing and illegally detaining journalists in South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan almost two years ago after more than two decades of civil war. ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Clashes between rival ethnic groups have killed at least 39 people in eastern Nigeria's Taraba state since they erupted on Friday, police said. Members of the Jukun were marching through the small commercial town of Wukari to a funeral when an argument broke out with local Hausa and Fulani youths, which quickly degenerated into pitched battles with guns and machetes. Attackers set fire to around 40 houses, police said. "At the end of the clash, 39 people were counted killed," said the police spokesman for Taraba state, Joseph Kwaji. ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman is condemning an Israeli airstrike in Syria on a shipment of Iranian-made missiles, but gives no other hints of a possible stronger response from Tehran or its allies.

By Isaac Abrak MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, May 5 - In this relic of a medieval African empire, streets that were once lively markets for silk and perfumes now trade gunfire between Islamist insurgents and the Nigerian military. Army checkpoints at intervals of 300 metres choke the roads through parts of Maiduguri, capital of northeast Nigeria's Borno state and epicentre of Boko Haram's fight for Islamic rule. ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded at a busy road junction in the centre of the Somali capital on Sunday, apparently targeting a convoy of vehicles carrying officials, witnesses said. A Reuters photographer said he could see three people lying motionless near the wreckage of four burning cars. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the attack bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda-linked insurgents who have kept up a campaign of guerrilla-style bombings and killings since they were pushed out of the capital under military pressure. ...

By Paul Taylor and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - It's harvest time in Egypt but the secular opposition is reaping scant benefit from the Muslim Brotherhood's difficulties in government, two years after an Arab Spring uprising swept away President Hosni Mubarak. Many Egyptians are looking to the army, or to more radical Salafi Muslim groups, rather than to liberal or leftist parties as Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and his cabinet struggle to revive a sick economy, restore security and build institutions. ...