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BEIJING (Reuters) - Police in central China detained a former Communist Party official on suspicion of raping underage girls, state media said on Sunday, following an online uproar about the latest case of abuse of power.

RICHMOND, California (Reuters) - The battleship USS Iowa, which served the United States through victory and tragedy during six decades at sea, set off on its final voyage on Saturday, a trip to Los Angeles to become a museum.

May 27 - 'Euphoria' sung by Swedish entry Loreen wins the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. Paul Chapman reports.

BAKU (Reuters) - Sweden's Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan on Sunday before an international TV audience of 100 million, days after angering Azeri authorities by meeting rights activists critical of the host country's human rights record.

May 27 - The Iguazu Falls in Argentina is officially named one of the world's new seven natural wonders in a ceremony at the site. Rough cut (no reporter narration).

HELSINKI (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire from a rooftop in a Finnish town centre in the early hours of Saturday, killing two people and wounding several others, police said.

Santa Fe, New Mexico (Reuters) - A wildfire burned out of control for a fourth day in the steep mountains of southwestern New Mexico on Saturday, one of several blazes that have consumed more than 200 square miles (520 square km) of rugged land in six U.S. states.

May 26 - The bodies of 66 Bosnian Muslims, murdered and dumped in the Drina river 20 years ago, are buried in Visegrad in eastern Bosnia. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

BAKU (Reuters) - Sweden's Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan on Sunday before an international TV audience of 100 million, days after angering Azeri authorities by meeting rights activists critical of the host country's human rights record.

(Reuters) - A 21-year-old woman who was shot after she wandered drunk into a Colorado couple's home in the middle of the night will face charges of felony trespassing, her lawyer said on Saturday.

CANNES, France (Reuters) - The 2012 Cannes film festival ends on Sunday evening with the award of the Palme d'Or for best picture at a red carpet gala ceremony, the climax of a 12-day blur of screenings, photo shoots, parties and deal making.

May 26 - The leader of Greece's conservative New Democracy party says a vote for his party is a vote for Greece staying in the euro zone. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

May 26 - Jewish settlers scuffle with the Palestinians in West Bank setting their fields on fire and firing live ammunition. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most of the cadets who graduated on Saturday from West Point were in elementary school when hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and enrolled in the U.S. military academy with wars raging in Iraq and Afghanistan.

May 26 - Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq says he will not turn back the clock to the Mubarak era if he wins power. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

May 26 - A Syrian opposition group says the death toll from Syrian shelling on the town of Houla has risen to more than 90. Simon Hanna reports.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station opened the hatch and floated inside a Space Exploration Technologies' Dragon capsule on Saturday, the first privately owned spaceship to reach the orbital outpost, NASA said.

May 26 - North Korea's state TV shows Kim Jong-un touring construction sites as concerns continue over the possibly state conducting nuclear test. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. May 26 (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station opened the hatch and floated inside a Space Exploration Technologies' Dragon capsule on Saturday, the first privately owned spaceship to reach the orbital outpost, NASA said.

(Reuters) - Central banks and companies risk making a grave error if they do not brace for a possible Greek exit from the euro zone, Belgium's foreign minister said on Friday, rattling markets already alarmed by Spain's deteriorating finances.

May 26 - Students in Canada file a court case against new anti-protest law amid demonstrations on tuition increases. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)

May 26 - Journalists protest in Honduras in a show of solidarity following the grisly murder of scores of journalists in the violence-wracked Central American country. Andrew Raven reports.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States and Japan need to tackle their tax issues and China must relax restrictions on the yuan as they share responsibility with Europe for restoring global economic health, EU leaders said ahead of a June summit of the G20 economies.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has significantly stepped up its output of low-enriched uranium and total production in the last five years would be enough for at least five nuclear weapons if refined much further, a U.S. security institute said.

May 26 - A brand new cruise ship comes off worst in a too-close encounter with a bridge in China. Paul Chapman reports.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The brother of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has gone missing, a lawyer said on Saturday, days after he fled his village in northeastern China to seek help for his son who has been detained in a case that has become a rallying point among rights activists.

May 26 - A man who has allegedly confessed to the 1979 killing of six-year-old Etan Patz in New York is charged with second degree murder. Paul Chapman reports.

VALPARAISO, Indiana (Reuters) - A gunman took hostages in an Indiana real estate office on Friday, then released them after an eight-hour standoff and fatally shot himself in the head, authorities said.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Subtropical Storm Beryl formed off the South Carolina coast on Friday and forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning for parts of the Southeastern U.S. coast.

BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Lebanon said on Friday that a group of Lebanese Shi'ites kidnapped in Syria had been freed and were safe in Turkey, but produced no sign of the hostages at the centre of a kidnap drama heightening tensions over the conflict in neighboring Syria.