In Brief

* DETAINED – British forces have detained the leader of the Shi’ite Mehdi Army in southern Basra province in the latest operation against rogue militia leaders blamed for worsening sectarian violence in the country.

* STRIKE – At least 250 Zimbabwean medical interns have gone on strike at the financially troubled country’s state hospitals, demanding a more than 700 per cent pay increase, a spokesman said. * RAIDED – Indian police officers scoured Mumbai’s slums and largely Muslim ghettos looking for suspects in last week’s railway network bombings and pursuing several leads.* PAEDOPHILES – A Dutch court said a political party formed by paedophiles could not be banned as it had the same right to exist as any other party, the ANP news agency said.* APOLOGY – A Chinese court ordered compensation and an apology for a girl orphaned by AIDS after a newspaper reported her story without permission, stirring a dispute over the boundary between media rights and privacy.* SHUTTLE – NASA woke up the Discovery shuttle crew with pop music ahead of their scheduled return to Earth on a mission that marks a critical step for the US space programme recovery from the 2003 Columbia disaster.* UNREST – The US-led coalition said it killed four suspected al Qaeda fighters and detained three others in a raid in southern Afghanistan, as a bomb blast ripped through a provincial justice headquarters, killing two.* ACCIDENT – Sixty-four people were killed and 25 were missing in accidents at three Chinese coal mines over the weekend, in the latest in a series of disasters to hit the industry, state media report.* PROBE – Britain and Brazil were in suspense as British prosecutors prepared to announce whether they would issue charges against London police for killing a Brazilian man they mistook for a suicide bomber last year.- Nampa-AFP -Reuters* RAIDED – Indian police officers scoured Mumbai’s slums and largely Muslim ghettos looking for suspects in last week’s railway network bombings and pursuing several leads.* PAEDOPHILES – A Dutch court said a political party formed by paedophiles could not be banned as it had the same right to exist as any other party, the ANP news agency said.* APOLOGY – A Chinese court ordered compensation and an apology for a girl orphaned by AIDS after a newspaper reported her story without permission, stirring a dispute over the boundary between media rights and privacy.* SHUTTLE – NASA woke up the Discovery shuttle crew with pop music ahead of their scheduled return to Earth on a mission that marks a critical step for the US space programme recovery from the 2003 Columbia disaster.* UNREST – The US-led coalition said it killed four suspected al Qaeda fighters and detained three others in a raid in southern Afghanistan, as a bomb blast ripped through a provincial justice headquarters, killing two.* ACCIDENT – Sixty-four people were killed and 25 were missing in accidents at three Chinese coal mines over the weekend, in the latest in a series of disasters to hit the industry, state media report.* PROBE – Britain and Brazil were in suspense as British prosecutors prepared to announce whether they would issue charges against London police for killing a Brazilian man they mistook for a suicide bomber last year.- Nampa-AFP -Reuters