Afghanistan: Afghan soldiers discover bin Laden videotape

Afghan soldiers have discovered a videotape related to Osama bin Laden in a village south of Kabul, officials said Sunday.

The tape was discovered in the village of Kulangar in Logar province, officials from the Ministry of Information and Culture said, speaking on condition of anonymity. They had no details on the content of the tape but said it related to bin Laden. They did not say when the tape was found.

The tape is in the custody of officials in Logar province and is expected to be delivered shortly to the Intelligence Ministry in Kabul, the capital, for analysis, the officials said.

Peru: 38 killed in bus accidents

A bus plunged off a road in Peru’s central Andes mountains and into a ravine, killing 15 people and injuring 27 others, authorities said.

Saturday’s accident happened a day after 23 people died and 31 were injured when a speeding bus rolled over twice and wrecked on a high plain in the southern Andes.

Saturday’s crash occurred near the town of Quillohuacho in the central mountain region, 175 miles north of Lima, provincial fire chief Antonio Salgado said.

The bus was heading from the provincial capital of Huaraz to the coastal town of Casma, Salgado said.

The other deadly accident took place Friday near the town of Mazocruz, 585 miles southeast of Lima.

Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe throws out Swedish EU election leader

Zimbabwe’s government forced Europe’s top election observer to leave the country Saturday, deepening a dispute with the European Union that threatens to further isolate the southern African country.

Zimbabwe had refused to recognize Pierre Schori, Sweden’s ambassador to the United Nations, as head of the 150-member European observer mission for March 9-10 presidential elections in which President Robert Mugabe faces the biggest challenge yet to his 22-year hold on power.

Zimbabwean officials only granted Schori a two-week tourist visa when he entered the country on Feb. 10. But Schori said immigration officials canceled his visa as of midnight Saturday after “the government had decided that I must leave today.”

Boston: Obesity becoming a problem in the world’s remote areas

Obesity is joining and even surpassing malnutrition as a dietary concern in some of the farthest reaches of the planet, experts warned Saturday.

Weight problems have long been recognized as a health hazard in the United States, Europe and other industrialized places, but in recent years the same worries have begun to emerge in many less well-off places.

At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, biological anthropologists documented this trend, both in people who migrate to wealthy countries and in those who stay put.

A recent Vatican conference concluded that about 800 million people worldwide are underfed, while the International Obesity Taskforce estimates that 300 million are obese.