Mexico official police arrest child of fire

MEXICO City - Federal police arrested a former official Tuesday on homicide and abuse of authority charges related to a day care centre fire that killed babies and toddlers 49 nearly two years in the North of the Mexico.

Arturo Leyva Lizarraga, former delegate of State of Sonora to the Mexican Social Security Institute, was arrested in Guadalajara and piloted in Hermosillo, where the fire happened. The town is 175 kilometres south of Nogales, Arizona.

Leaders of the social security donor of child the ABC private day care centre which burned when a fire spread from a warehouse of neighbour.

Although the Agency officers added that the Centre has passed inspection security, Director of security social Daniel Karam requested Leyva resign after June 5, 2009, fire.

Prosecutors did not specify the basis for charging Leyva, but investigators have said that officials have ignored fire risks while leaving the day to operate.

The Centre has caught fire after air conditioning overheating adjacent to a warehouse used by the Government of the State of Sonora. The blaze spread on the roof of the day care Centre, melting sheeting pieces which fell on children.

In addition to deaths, 70 children were injured

At least 18 killed in combat in Baghdad prison: official

Baghdad  - at least 18 people were killed in fighting between security officers and prisoners in a prison in the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior complex in Baghdad on Sunday, a security officer, said.

The dead included an al Qaeda leader known as the "Emir of Baghdad" which planned an attack on a Catholic Church last October in which more than 50 people died, said Major General Qassim al-Moussawi, spokesman for the security of Baghdad.

The skirmish to a central unit to fight against terrorism in the Karrada district of Baghdad began when a prisoner grabbed a gun from a guard, killed several guards and officers of the Ministry of the Interior and has given a weapon to other inmatessaid Moussawi.

"The guards and security forces responded to the prison of the Department of the fight against terrorism and killed 11 terrorist prisoners... including Huthaifa al-Batawi, the Emir of Baghdad, which was responsible for the planning of the Church attack," said Moussawi.

Moussawi said seven security officers were killed in the skirmish and another was wounded.

Batawi was arrested with 11 other late November for the assault on October 31 on the Church of our Lady of salvation during the Sunday mass. Dozens of hostages and police died when Iraqi forces attempted to free the Catholic hostage more than 100.

The attack was the bloodiest against the Christian minority in the Iraq since the invasion led by the United States in 2003.

Moussawi, said the situation in the prison was under control and some prisoners had escaped.

Since on Iraqi security forces high alert for revenge attacks by al-Qaida U.S. commandos killed the leader of the Group of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan Monday.

DNA "very confident game" to bin Laden: official (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - initial DNA results showed a "very confident game" to al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, a U.S. official said Monday.

The test shows "high confirmation" that it was Osama bin Laden killed in the raid in Pakistan, the official said.