Nairobi/Khartoum - They distribute food and medicine, nurse starving children back to health, help traumatized children and raped women to cope with their experiences.

In the eyes of Sudan's government, however, many of the relief agencies that have been working in the embattled western Sudanese province of Darfur are a fifth column - informers for Western governments and the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which on Wednesday issued a warrant for the arrest of Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of war crimes in Darfur.

New York  - The Chinese immigrant who brutally stabbed, beheaded and then ate the flesh of his seatmate on a Greyhound Canada bus last July, was found not criminally responsible for the crime on Thursday.

Vincent Li, 40, had pled not guilty in the gruesome killing of carnival worker Tim McLean, 22.

Vienna  - A 10-year-old Yemeni girl was not able to receive a Woman's World Award on Thursday for fighting her forced marriage, as Yemeni authorities prevented her from travelling to Austria, according to the awards organizer.

Nojoud Muhammad Nasser was scheduled to accept the honour in the world hope category in a ceremony in Vienna, along with fellow honorees such as Italian actress Monica Bellucci and US pop singers Anastacia and Kelly Clarkson.

Mexico City - Nineteen inmates died and three others were injured Wednesday in a prison riot in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state police confirmed.

The trouble first started with rival gangs of inmates fighting for control of the prison. Anti-riot police were brought in as the situation spiralled out of control.

There was additional monitoring support from military helicopters that circled the jail, which is about 30 kilometres south of Ciudad Juarez.

Gaza City  - Israeli fighter jets fired a missile on a car driving in the northern Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians and wounding five others, health officials and witnesses said.

The armed wing of the radical Islamic Jihad (Holy War) movement identified the dead as two of its militants.

The airstrike near the refugee camp of Jabalia came after ongoing rockets attacks from Gaza at southern Israel, despite a ferocious and deadly 22-day Israeli offensive which ended in mid-January and aimed to curb such attacks.