Los Angeles  - Rapper Coolio has been charged with battery and possession of cocaine, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office announced Tuesday.

The charges stem from an incident on Friday in which Coolio, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after police searched his luggage and allegedly found cocaine.

According to police, the 45-year-old rapper allegedly grabbed a luggage screener's arm to prevent the search.

Oslo  - A 39-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in central Norway on suspicion of war crimes in Kosovo, reports said. A custody hearing was due Wednesday in an Oslo district court.

London, Mar 10: As video piracy continues to plague the film industry, scientists have now developed a new audio trick that can allow authorities to keep a check on video pirates that make illegal camcorder copies in cinema halls.

Digital watermarks built into movies now make it possible to identify the seat a video pirate was sitting in when they made an illegal camcorder copy.

The audio watermarks can identify how far the pirate is from the cinema''s speakers, and can even locate the seat on which he or she is sitting.

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Zamboanga City, Philippines  - Police recovered six homemade bombs placed in different areas in a southern Philippine city, a police official said Tuesday.

The improvised explosive devices were defused after they were recovered Monday in Zamboanga City, 875 kilometres south of Manila, according to city police chief Senior Superintendent Mario Yanga.

Yanga said two bombs were recovered outside the residence of Congressman Mujiv Hataman while four more bombs were recovered near his office.

Tegucigalpa, Honduras  - Narcotics officers in Honduras seized a ship loaded with 2 tons of cocaine on the Central American country's largest lagoon.

Seven men were arrested Monday when a navy speed boat stopped the vessel on the Caratasca Lagoon in north-eastern Honduras, 500 kilometres north-east of the capital, Tegucigalpa, the Honduran Navy said.

Honduran authorities estimated that drug traffickers transport about 60 tons of cocaine every year by sea and plane through the remote jungles on the border with Nicaragua.