taken off
a cruise ship last month has died in hospital in England. Janet Richardson, who was 73, fell ill on a Scandinavian cruise and was being transferred to another boat when the Norwegian Coastguard let her stretcher drop into the sea by a mistake. She spent eight minutes in the freezing waters of the Arctic Ocean before being rescued.
Italian police say they've arrested a mafia boss in the Puglia region of southern Italy. Police accuse 38-year-old Francesco Campana of heading the United Sacred Crown crime organisation. Duncan Kennedy sent this report from Rome.
Campana, who's 38, had already been sentenced to nine years in jail for his mob activities. He was found in hiding in the town of Oria, near Brindisi. His gang is smaller than other mafias like the Cosa Nostra or the 'Ndrangheta, and it's thought to
specialise in
smuggling operations from the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Italy's Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said the capture of Campana was a big blow against his organisation.
Officials in Nepal say there's been a healthy increase in the population of the
endanger
ed one-horned rhinoceros. The results of a new census suggest that there are now more than 530 rhinos, many of them young. That's an increase of almost 100 compared with the last census three years ago.
Conservationist
s welcome the news, saying it reflected better protection measures. The one-horned rhino now found only in India and Nepal is endangered as its survival threatened by shrinking habitats and poaching.