In brief: Violence follows N. Ireland parade

LONDON – Northern Ireland police came under attack Saturday from Irish Catholic rioters in the British territory’s second-largest city of Londonderry but reported no serious injuries.

Several hours of violence followed a peaceful parade through the medieval walled center of Londonderry by about 12,000 members of the Apprentice Boys of Derry, a British Protestant brotherhood. Their annual march commemorates a 17th-century military victory over Irish Catholic forces, when the city’s Protestant inhabitants survived a 105-day siege. The parade traditionally stirs Irish republican extremists in the predominantly Catholic city to riot.

Hours before the march, Irish republicans hurled dozens of Molotov cocktails at the Apprentice Boys’ headquarters, causing light damage to the building, which overlooks the Catholic Bogside district.

Twenty rescued from gondola

BERLIN – Emergency helicopters rescued 20 people on Saturday who had been trapped for 17 hours overnight on an Alpine cable car.

Helicopter crews lifted the cable car operator and 19 tourists to safety early Saturday from a gondola suspended 330 feet above the ground on Tegelberg mountain in southern Germany, emergency services spokesman Roland Ampenberger said.

The cable car that climbs the mountain was halted Friday after a paraglider tandem flight crashed into its cables, but strong winds hindered a swift rescue, police said.