Police on Sunday arrested two white men who they believe are responsible for a shooting spree that claimed three lives and injured two people in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

A police department official told Agence France Presse that the suspects taken into custody in a neighborhood just north of Tulsa were identified as Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32.

The United States and its European allies plan to demand the immediate closing by Iran and ultimate dismantling of a recently completed underground nuclear facility near the city of Qum, The New York Times reported late Saturday.

Citing unnamed U.S. and European diplomats, the newspaper said the allies will also call at the upcoming negotiations for a halt in the production of uranium fuel that is considered just a few steps from bomb grade, and the shipment of existing stockpiles of that fuel out of the country.

The foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea met Sunday in the Chinese city of Ningbo for talks on regional security and cooperation days ahead of a planned North Korean rocket launch.

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Japan's Koichiro Gemba, and South Korea's Kim Sung-Hwan posed for photographers before starting talks in the eastern city near Shanghai.

Japan has deployed missile batteries in Tokyo and dispatched destroyers carrying interceptor missiles as it boosts its defenses against a planned North Korean rocket launch this month.

Pyongyang says it will launch a satellite for peaceful scientific research between April 12 and 16 to mark the 100th anniversary on April 15 of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-Sung.

The trial opened in Saudi Arabia on Saturday of 50 al-Qaida suspects accused of carrying out and plotting attacks in the kingdom, including U.S. and British interests, state news agency SPA reported.

It said 47 Saudis, a Syrian and a Yemeni national went on trial in the specialized criminal court in Riyadh.

Chinese dissident Fang Lizhi, a key figure in the pro-democracy movement behind the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, has died in the United States, fellow activist Wang Dan said Saturday. He was 76.

Fang, an internationally renowned professor of astrophysics, was granted refuge at the U.S. embassy in Beijing for one year after publicly supporting the protests and he was forced into exile in 1990.

U.S. baseball frenzy inspired a Southern California newspaper to field scores of reporters as part of a "news mob" to cover the Los Angeles Angels opening season game on Friday.

Sports fervor among fans of the local team is so high that the Orange County Register decided to blitz the first home game with more than 100 reporters, editors, photographers, fans, and members of every department at the newspaper.

A U.S. Navy F-18 jet crashed into a low-rise apartment building in Virginia on Friday triggering an inferno, military officials said, with emergency responders rushing to the scene.

The two crew members successfully ejected from the jet which plowed into a populated area in the eastern coastal tourist resort of Virginia Beach, the Navy confirmed on Twitter but there was little word on civilians in the area.

Moscow on Friday condemned the U.S. sentencing of Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout as baseless and politically-motivated, pledging to do all it can to ensure his return home.

Bout was handed a 25-year prison sentence on Thursday after being found guilty of conspiring to sell arms to anti-U.S. guerrillas in Colombia and to kill American service personnel.

A former CIA officer was indicted Thursday on charges of leaking secrets to journalists, including the name of a covert agent and the role of another CIA employee in classified operations.

John Kiriakou, who had previously revealed the CIA's use of waterboarding of al-Qaida suspects, was charged in January with leaking secrets. The indictment allows the case to proceed to trial without an evidentiary hearing.