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In brief: Three NATO members killed

KABUL, Afghanistan – A man in an Afghan police uniform on Sunday shot and killed three foreign troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement.

It did not any other details, including the nationalities of the three.

Earlier, Afghan police said a roadside bomb killed five Afghan civilians in the province of Ghazni.

Deputy provincial police chief Maj. Mohammad Hussain said a bus full of people struck the explosives Sunday morning while driving near Ghazni city, capital of the province of the same name. He said another 11 people were wounded, and the dead included women and children.

Soyuz craft returns to Earth

ALMATY, Kazakhstan – A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man multinational crew touched down safely Sunday on the southern steppes of Kazakhstan, bringing an end to their 193-day mission to the International Space Station.

Around a dozen recovery helicopters zeroed into the vast uncultivated land mass, where NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, Russia’s Oleg Kononenko and Dutchman Andre Kuipers landed in the Russian-made capsule.

Apple settles iPad dispute

BEIJING – A Chinese court says Apple has agreed to pay a local company $60 million to settle a dispute over ownership of the iPad name.

The Guangdong High People’s Court said today that Apple and Proview Technology reached the settlement through mediation. The court said that ended the legal case.

Apple says it bought global rights to the iPad name from Proview in 2009, but Chinese authorities say ownership in China was never transferred.

The settlement ends a potential legal complication to selling the popular iPad in China, one of Apple’s most important markets.