Mumbai terrorist trial abruptly adjourned
India (AP):The first trial in the Mumbai terrorist attacks was abruptly adjourned yesterday, only an hour after police pulled a large cloth off the head of the defendant to reveal the scruffy-bearded Pakistani who police say is the lone surviving...

Chávez wants CIA operative extradited
Venezuela (AP):President Hugo Chávez's government plans to reactivate its demand this week for the United States to extradite a former CIA operative accused of plotting the 1976 bombing of a Cuban plane, a lawyer for the Venezuelan government said...

Drug lord captured in jungle raid
BOGOTA (AP) Colombia's most-wanted drug lord was cowering like a dog under a palm tree when he was captured yesterday in a jungle raid involving hundreds of police officers, the defence minister said.Daniel Rendon Herrera, alias 'Don Mario', was taken...

US experts asked to leave N Korea's nuclear plant
WASHINGTON (AP):The United States (US) said yesterday that American experts working at North Korea's main nuclear plant have been asked to leave the country, further heightening tension following the North's firing of a rocket earlier this month over US...

Death penalty to be abolished in New Mexico
ROME (AP)The governor of the American state of New Mexico said yesterday that the world is moving towards abolishing the death penalty and urged the United States to follow.Governor Bill Richardson was in Rome to take part in a ceremony...