"Gunmen Take Haiti Ex-Prime Minister from Prison"

Gunmen Take Haiti Ex-Prime Minister from Prison
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed Haiti's main prison on Saturday and drove away with jailed former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune and other inmates linked to ousted ex-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, witnesses said.

Neptune and former Interior Minister Jocelerme Privert appeared to have been taken out at gunpoint by the attackers, who sent poorly armed prison guards fleeing the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince, they said.

US-funded TV ads seek tips to find bin Laden
A television and radio campaign offering a $25 million reward for information leading to the capture of Osama bin Laden hit the airwaves in Pakistan this week in a US-government funded drive to get fresh leads about the Al Qaeda leader.

British say foods tainted
by cancer-linked additive exported to Canada, U.S.
Britain's Food Standards Agency triggered an international alert Friday involving hundreds of products contaminated with a dye linked to cancer that were shipped to Canada and the United States, as well as most of Europe and the Caribbean.

Castro Blasts U.S.-Led War in Iraq
President Fidel Castro called the U.S.-led war in Iraq a "brutal bombing spectacle," and criticized the Bush administration for its spending on the war.

U.S. Watches As China Woos Caribbean
China is waging an aggressive campaign of seduction in the Caribbean, wooing countries away from relationships with rival Taiwan, opening markets for its expanding economy, promising to send tourists, and shipping police to Haiti in the first communist deployment in the Western Hemisphere.

Iraqi marshes revive
Wetlands that once sheltered communities and a host of wildlife in southern Iraq are being partly restored and could offer a haven once again, experts have said.

Mysterious under-ice Antarctic lake
to unveil prehistoric ocean world
Russian scientists promise to make a sensational discovery in the evolution of the natural world. Having drilled a superdeep well in Antarctica, they will uncover a lake, which was formed not less than 500 million years ago. When the goal is accomplished, humans will be able to see ancient inhabitants of Antarctic waters.

House arrest in one month
The government intends to get the home secretary's controversial new powers to order the house arrest of terror suspects on the statute book within the next four weeks, the Guardian has learned.

Cervantes: Freemasonry
THERE is a growing number of people around us getting a little more flamboyant about their being members of Freemasonry. I have seen not a few of them driving cars with specialized plates marked either "masonry" or "mason" and it is not surprising to meet someone who'd admit he's a member of the movement and glow with delight with such disclosure.

Fears for children in Afghan cold
The number of Afghans, particularly children, killed in severe winter weather could be much higher than official estimates, an aid agency says

Passenger detained, suitcase blown up after bomb comment
SAN DIEGO - A woman was detained in Arizona -- and her suitcase blown up at Lindbergh Field -- after she made a testy comment about a bomb while boarding an American West flight Thursday.