A U.S. guided-missile destroyer collided on Sunday with a Japanese-owned bulk oil tanker near the entrance to the Arab Gulf, but no one was hurt and the ship is able to operate, the U.S. Fifth Fleet said.

"No one was hurt Sunday morning when a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer and a large Japanese-owned merchant vessel collided near the Strait of Hormuz," the Bahrain-based fleet said in a statement on its website.

Afghan and NATO forces foiled a series of suicide attacks on Kabul planned for Sunday when they captured five insurgents allegedly linked to militants in Pakistan, officials said.

The group was "finalizing plans for an attack in the capital" and a large cache of explosives, suicide vest parts, weapons and ammunition were seized in the overnight operation, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.

Gabon's main opposition leader Andre Mba Obame arrived in Libreville Saturday after 14 months in France, saying the International Criminal Court would look into a 2009 "massacre" at Port-Gentil.

Obame, leader of the now outlawed National Union (U.N.) party who claimed to have won the last presidential election, was greeted by up to 3,000 supporters on his return after his long absence for "health reasons".

More than 120 Bangladeshi sportsmen including top internationals were jailed Sunday for their role in a bloody 2009 mutiny, a prosecutor said, part of the largest trial in the country's history.

Fifty-seven senior army officers were killed during an uprising that began when soldiers at the Bangladeshi Rifles (BDR) headquarters in the capital Dhaka went on a killing spree, later dumping bodies in sewers and shallow graves.

Scores of villagers spent the night in hotels and student halls after fleeing wildfires that continued raging out of control Sunday on the Spanish Canary Islands.

The fires on the Atlantic islands of La Gomera and Tenerife have forced the evacuation of more than 4,700 people in the past two days, the regional government said.

Emergency relief officials and doctors deployed to flood devastated communities in the Philippines Sunday to prevent outbreaks of disease as the death toll jumped to 85.

The flooding that submerged 80 percent of Manila early in the week has largely subsided but more than 150 towns and cities around the capital remain under water, affecting more than three million people.

Mitt Romney and newly minted running mate Paul Ryan hit the road on a bus tour across must-win U.S. states Saturday, selling themselves to voters as the duo who can win the White House and "save the American dream."

Fresh from a surprise early morning rollout of Romney's vice presidential pick in Norfolk, Virginia, the Republican pair struck out across the state pushing a policy of fiscal responsibility and savaging President Barack Obama as a job-killer bent on changing the country for the worse.

Nigerian troops recovered weapons in raids on suspected Boko Haram bases in two northern cities, officials said Saturday.

A raid in Tudun Bayero, some 10 kilometers from Kano, northern Nigeria's largest city, was carried out early Saturday after a tip-off, Kano State director of State Security Service (SSS) Basil Etang told Agence France Presse.

Iran has suspended until at least the end of the month visa-free entry for nationals of Turkey and eight other countries, citing its hosting of a Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit, the Mehr news agency reported Saturday.

Turkish media have highlighted the suspension, which came amid heightened tensions between Iran and Turkey over opposing stances on the conflict in Syria.

Eleven Afghan policemen were killed Saturday when one of their colleagues, believed to be a Taliban infiltrator, opened fire on them, officials said.

The incident in Delaram district of western Nimroz province was the latest in a series of shootings in which members of the Afghan security forces have targeted local and foreign colleagues.