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Mexico agents arrest border police chief 17 Apr 08, 22:17 ET AP - A Mexican federal official says the police chief of the border city of Reynosa has been arrested for allegedly protecting members of the Gulf drug cartel. more Group of Gibraltar's Barbary apes to be killed 17 Apr 08, 20:45 ET AP - A renegade group of Gibraltar's Barbary apes has annoyed residents so much that authorities announced plans Thursday to kill them. more Spain cleanup jolts property owners 17 Apr 08, 20:38 ET AP - It's been the dream of millions - a home by the sea in sunny Spain. People from all over Europe have invested hard-earned savings in coastal villas and apartments. more Canada wanted detainee kept out of Gitmo 17 Apr 08, 20:37 ET AP - Canada asked the United States not to send former child soldier Omar Khadr to Guantanamo after he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002, according to a letter released on Thursday. more Cancer patients try untested drugs in Britain 17 Apr 08, 18:35 ET AP - When Jill Bracey Cowley was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer eight years ago, doctors told her she had two years to live. So she decided to take a gamble and try new drugs that hadn't yet been approved. more AP Interview: Tsvangirai can't predict end to crisis 17 Apr 08, 15:18 ET AP - Protests are fizzling at home, and his efforts to rally the world to the cause of democracy in Zimbabwe are being stymied by fellow Africans. more Woman made famous by John Betjeman love poem dies 17 Apr 08, 14:52 ET AP - She was an innocent beauty working in the catering department of a wartime ministry. He was making government films by day and writing poems at night. more Six found guilty in Britain in terrorism trial 17 Apr 08, 14:28 ET Reuters - Six British Muslim men were found guilty on Thursday of collecting money for the purposes of terrorism or inciting people to fight British and U.S. forces in Iraq. more Crackdown on cell phones on public transit ignites debate 17 Apr 08, 12:52 ET AP - The world has never been more connected, but in some corners, it's developing a real hang-up over the ubiquitous cell phone. more Researchers find rare turtle in Vietnam 17 Apr 08, 12:36 ET AFP - US researchers have found a rare giant turtle in northern Vietnam after a three-year hunt -- a find sure to thrill both scientists and locals, who consider the animal a mythical creature. more On Poland trip, Israel's Peres evokes grandfather lost in Holocaust 17 Apr 08, 11:45 ET AFP - Israel's Polish-born President Shimon Peres on Thursday evoked the memory of his grandfather who was burned alive by the occupying Nazi Germans during World War II, in an emotional speech in what was once Europe's Jewish heartland. more 500 Tibetan protesters detained in Nepal 17 Apr 08, 10:53 ET AP - Police in Nepal say they have detained more than 500 Tibetan exiles who were protesting near the Chinese Embassy in the capital. more Number of displaced people highest in a decade: report 17 Apr 08, 10:32 ET AFP - Armed conflicts and violence displaced more than 26 million people within their own countries in 2007, the highest number in over a decade, an international monitoring body said Thursday. more China rejects Japanese pressure on Tibet 17 Apr 08, 10:08 ET AFP - Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Thursday rejected Japanese pressure over the Tibet situation, reiterating that it was a domestic issue in which foreign countries should not interfere. more Palestinians mark Prisoner's Day across the West Bank 17 Apr 08, 09:52 ET AFP - Palestinians held demonstrations across the occupied West Bank on Thursday in honour of Prisoner's Day and more than 11,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails. more Gazans mourn slain Reuters photographer 17 Apr 08, 09:46 ET AFP - Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral on Thursday for a Palestinian cameraman from the Reuters news service who was killed by an Israeli tank shell in the Gaza Strip. more Court says Japan's Iraq operation unconstitutional 17 Apr 08, 08:40 ET Reuters - A court said in a non-binding ruling on Thursday that Japan's dispatch of air force troops to Iraq was unconstitutional, but the government said it would press on with the military activity anyway. more Torch greeted with protests in India 17 Apr 08, 08:34 ET Reuters - The Olympic torch arrived in New Delhi on Thursday to be met immediately with protests from members of the world's largest community of exiled Tibetans, who vowed to disrupt its passage through the Indian capital. more Brazil: Biofuels are not at the root of hunger crisis 17 Apr 08, 07:10 ET AP - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made an impassioned defense of biofuels, denying that their production contributes to food scarcity and rising global prices. more Study: Elephants thought extinct may have survived 17 Apr 08, 05:22 ET AP - Borneo's pygmy elephants may be descendants of an extinct Javan elephant race, saved by chance by an 18th century ruler, according to a new study released Thursday. more Australian state to ban plastic bags 17 Apr 08, 04:23 ET AFP - South Australia state said Thursday it would ban plastic bags from next year after a meeting of environment ministers failed to agree on a national programme to address the issue. more ETA bomb blast hits Socialist party offices in Bilbao 17 Apr 08, 02:27 ET AFP - A bomb blast outside the office of Spain's ruling Socialist party in Bilbao on Thursday, blamed on Basque separatist group ETA, caused serious damage to the building but no casualties, police said. more Palestinians: 2 dead in clashes with Israelis in West Bank 17 Apr 08, 01:29 ET AP - Palestinian security officials say Israeli troops have killed two Palestinian militants in a West Bank raid. more New Zealand teen tells of surviving river tragedy 17 Apr 08, 01:20 ET AP - A teenage survivor of a river tragedy that claimed seven lives said in a printed account that he heard his schoolmates cheer as he jumped into a raging river to swim to safety. Most of those cheering were not so lucky. more Colombian president calls students accomplices of rebels 17 Apr 08, 01:17 ET AP - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Wednesday that he does not regret ordering a cross-border raid on a rebel camp in Ecuador, despite the deaths of four Mexican students there. more

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