WORLD BRIEFS

HONDURAS: 13 dead in prison uprising

At least 13 people died during an uprising by armed prison inmates Thursday, one of them decapitated, the others killed by a fire started by the rioters, authorities said. The unrest came six weeks after a fire at another prison in Honduras killed 361 inmates.

SPAIN: Rioting in national strike

Bank and store windows were smashed and a cafe set afire Thursday as economic protests in Barcelona turned violent. The rioting broke out during a nationwide general strike that closed factories, slowed transportation systems and crippled hospitals. Tens of thousands marched in Madrid and other cities protesting an economic plan of spending cuts and tax hikes. Authorities arrested 176 protesters and said 104 people were injured, including 58 police officers.

FRANCE: Mass killer is buried

Mohamed Merah, 23, the gunman who claimed responsibility for France's worst terror attacks in years was buried Thursday in Toulouse, ending a tortured debate over what to do with the body of a man President Nicolas Sarkozy called a "monster." France is reeling from the killings of three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers. Burial was in the Muslim section of a Toulouse cemetery. About 20 men attended the ceremony, hiding their faces from reporters. Abdallah Zekri of the French Muslim Councilled the negotiations with Merah's family and Algerian and Toulouse authorities over where to bury him.