International Headlines

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:02:04 -0400
>TOP STORIES as of 0800 HKT -- 31 March, 2010

> COLOMBIAN SOLDIER HELD 12 YEARS IS FREED BY REBELS
A Colombian soldier, held by Colombian FARC rebels as a hostage
for more than 12 years, has been released and handed over to the
Red Cross, the Red Cross has said.

> MOSCOW BOMB SUSPECTS' PHOTOS SHOWN
Russian police release images of two women suspected of being
the suicide bombers who killed at least 39 people on the Moscow
metro on Monday.

> SREBRENICA WOMEN 'CANNOT SUE U.N.'
The Court of Appeal at The Hague rules that a group of women
cannot sue the U.N. for failing to prevent the 1995 massacre of
7,000 men and boys in Srebrenica, Bosnia.

> DIVER KILLED IN S. KOREAN SHIP SEARCH
An experienced diver and master sergeant in the South Korean
navy died Tuesday while conducting rescue efforts for 46 seamen
who were aboard a patrol ship when it sank, a military official
said.

> GIANT ATOM SMASHER IN BREAKTHROUGH
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider manage to collide two
proton beams at high energy, marking "new territory" for physics
in their hunt for the so-called "God particle."

> MISSING SHEIKH FOUND DEAD AFTER CRASH
The body of the managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment
Fund has been found four days after a plane crash in Morocco,
the official United Arab Emirates news agency reported Tuesday.

> HOSPITAL RAPPED OVER DISCARDED FETUSES
Staffers at an eastern Chinese hospital have been disciplined
after the bodies of 21 fetuses and infants were found improperly
discarded near a river, according to officials and media
reports.

> FRENCH BANK ROBBED THROUGH BASEMENT
Robbers broke into the basement of a French bank over the
weekend and made off with an unknown amount of money from the vault, a
spokesman for the bank said Tuesday.

BUSINESS
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> BAILED-OUT RBS FINED $43M
The Royal Bank of Scotland has agreed to pay a fine of £28.6
million ($43 million) after admitting breaches of competition
law, Britain's Office of Fair Trading announced Tuesday.

> SPONSORS FLOCK TO SPAIN'S SOCCER TEAM
Spain is a perennial underachiever at the World Cup. It's been
in the competition 12 times before yet never finished higher
than fourth place, and that was in 1950.

> IRELAND TO LAUNCH 'BAD LOAN' BANK
Ireland will on Tuesday begin operating a new "bad bank" to
house €81 billion ($109 billion) in bad property loans left
over from the financial crisis and set out new capital
requirements that are expected to see the further
nationalization of its banking sector.