BEIJING - A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China today, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily to save them.

ROME - Italian police today arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping fund and providing logistical support for last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authorities said.

A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.