London  - The story of alleged British complicity in the torture of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner took an extraordinary twist Thursday when police were asked to investigate the role of the country's own intelligence services.

After several months of investigations, Britain's Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, said she had asked Scotland Yard to probe whether any criminal offences had been committed in the case of Binyam Mohamed, a detainee released from the notorious prison camp a month ago.

London  - Scotland Yard will investigate claims by a former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay that British intelligence services were complicit in torture during his seven-year detention.

Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian national who was released from the notorious US camp last month, has alleged that information provided by Britain's MI5 intelligence service "directly led" to his torture.

Moscow  - At least 14 people were killed in a col

The State Information Commission (SIC) on Wednesday fined two government officials for violating the Right to Information (RTI) Act.

Mexico City  - Mexican police have arrested Hector Huerta Rios, believed to be among the top 37 drug traffickers on the country's most-wanted list, the public prosecutor's office said Wednesday.

Huerta Rios, who was arrested on Tuesday, was considered the most influential person in the Beltra-Leyva drug family in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey.

His arrest was announced on the day US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Mexico on her first visit, with the fight against drugs at the top of her agenda.

Mexico City  - Mexican federal authorities used bulldozers to bring down more than 30 chapels devoted to "Saint Death" - a figure that is worshipped by drug traffickers - in the northern city of Nuevo Laredo, the daily Reforma reported Wednesday.