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ROME (Reuters) - Some 10,000 dancing and singing homosexuals and gay-rights supporters marched through Rome on Saturday, many of them chanting slogans against the Vatican and Italy's conservative new government.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's High Court overturned a police ban on opposition rallies on Saturday, a lawyer for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said.

BERLIN (Reuters) - The leader of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) and the centre-left party's putative chancellor candidate broke with German political custom on Saturday and said he hoped the United States elects Barack Obama in November.

DAKAR (Reuters) - Hamas and Fatah delegates have met Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade in a first round of mediation aimed at finding a common position for an eventual deal with Israel, Senegalese state media reported on Saturday.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament speaker suggested curtailing the powers of the Constitutional Court on Saturday after it annulled a law which removed a ban on headscarves at universities.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday he had no immediate plan to resign or go into exile, in a bid to quash rising speculation he will quit office soon.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police arrested another opposition lawmaker on Saturday, a day after Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai was detained for the second time this week ahead of a June 27 presidential vote.

MOGADSIHU (Reuters) - Eight more people died in Somalia's capital on Saturday, residents said, bringing the death toll in Mogadishu from two days of violence to 16.

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev blamed "aggressive" United States policies on Saturday for the global financial crisis and said Moscow's growing economic muscle could be part of the solution.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi troops sweeping through the Baghdad stronghold of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have found large quantities of weapons, including helicopter missiles and an anti-aircraft gun, the U.S military said on Saturday.

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Ugandan rebels have killed 23 people including 14 south Sudanese soldiers and "started war", a south Sudanese minister said on Saturday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak discussed solving a dispute over importing American beef amid widespread fears there about food safety, the White House said on Saturday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak discussed solving a dispute over importing American beef amid widespread fears there about food safety, the White House said on Saturday.

PRISTINA (Reuters) - Security guards exchanged fire with a man trying to enter the house of Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci late on Friday, in what the government said was an attack on the home.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Lebanese leaders on Saturday to seal reconciliation through dialogue and commitment to an agreement that has pulled the country back from the brink of civil war.

ANKARA (Reuters) - A decision by Turkey's top court to annul a government reform which lifted a ban on Muslim headscarves at universities is a blow to freedom of religion and other fundamental rights, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Seven Western governments have expressed "deep concern" over violent attacks on exiled Bhutanese seeking resettlement and aid workers assisting them, urging Nepal to stop the attackers.

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic's ruling coalition may collapse by the end of the year unless it can overcome infighting and push ahead with reforms, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said in a newspaper interview on Saturday.

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia will up the fight against corruption with a special electronic property database allowing officials to see more easily what people own, Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov told Reuters on Saturday.

LIMA (Reuters) - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's daughter said on Friday that a lesion removed from her father's tongue was "cancerous," though a family doctor said the growth had not spread.