Police: Body found could be missing Yale student

(CNN) — Investigators found the remains of a woman they assume is missing Yale graduate student Annie Le, a senior police official said Sunday.

The remains were found inside a wall at 10 Amistad Street, said Peter Reichard, New Haven, Connecticut, assistant police chief.

“She hasn’t been positively identified, however, we are assuming that it is her at this time so we are treating it as a homicide investigation,” Reichard said.

Le was last seen on a Yale security camera entering the Amistad medical research building at about 10 a.m. on Tuesday. Authorities have not found images of her leaving the building. Investigators said they had spoken with students and others in the building who confirmed she was there.

Police discovered the body in the basement Sunday afternoon, said Yale University President Richard Levin in a statement to the campus community.
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Bermuda Triangle plane mystery ‘solved’

Two of the so-called Bermuda Triangle’s most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved.

Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without trace over the decades in a vast triangular area of ocean with imaginary apexes in Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico.

But a new examination for a BBC series provides plausible explanations for the disappearance of two British commercial planes in the area, with the loss of 51 passengers and crew.
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Parents ‘dumped body in concrete’

The parents of a French eight-year-old girl whose body was found encased in concrete have been held on suspicion of manslaughter, official sources say.

The girl, Marina Sabatier, was discovered at her father’s workplace in Le Mans, south-west of Paris.

On Wednesday the parents told police the girl had been kidnapped.

Prosecutors say they believe Marina died after being beaten last month, and that the body was kept in a freezer before being covered in concrete.
Prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation against both parents on suspicion of manslaughter, violence against a minor, and wasting police time.
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Chavez announces $2bn arms deal

Russia has agreed to lend Venezuela over $2bn (£1.2bn) to buy weapons, President Hugo Chavez has said.

The credit will be used to purchase nearly 100 tanks and a series of anti-aircraft rocket systems from Russia.

In his weekly TV address, Mr Chavez said the weapons were intended to boost Venezuela’s defensive capacity.

The deal comes as tensions grow between Venezuela and Colombia over its neighbour’s plans to allow the US access to several military bases there.
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