Jordan

Slain diplomat’s body sent home

The body of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley was flown Wednesday to the United States after bagpipes played mournfully at a grim airport ceremony, but Jordanian investigators reported no progress in tracking down his killer.

Foley, 60, was shot by a lone gunman at close range Monday in front of his home in Amman. The gunman escaped. Police rounded up dozens of Islamic militants for questioning in the shooting, the first such deadly attack on an American diplomat in decades.

Jordanian officials have said the slaying was aimed at destabilizing Jordan and harming its close relations with the United States.

The plane departed from Amman for Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, with a refueling stop in Germany.

England

Wooly rhino find gives insight into Ice Age

The remains of four woolly rhinos found in a quarry in central England will provide important clues about the Ice Age, scientists said Wednesday.

The remains of the extinct mammals, which were found at Whitemoor Haye in Staffordshire, are among the most complete ever found in Britain.

One had plant material in its teeth, providing clues to its diet, said Simon Buteux, director of the field archaeology unit at the University of Birmingham.

“We’ll be able to piece together the whole Ice Age environment in that area,” Buteux told the British Broadcasting Corp.

Researchers at the central England site also found a range of well-preserved ancient plants and insects as well as the remains of bones from a mammoth, reindeer, wild horse, bison and a wolf.

Scientists said that the finds, completed Tuesday, should enable archaeologists to build a detailed picture of what life was like in central England 30,000-50,000 years ago.

Canada

Foreign-born citizens warned of U.S. travel

The Canadian government has issued a travel advisory with a twist: It suggests citizens born in Iraq, Syria and other countries targeted by U.S. anti-terrorism policies consider avoiding travel to the United States.

The advisory focuses on a U.S. regulation adopted a year after the Sept. 11 attacks that permits American authorities to closely monitor travelers born in certain countries suspected of terrorism links.

A man holding joint Canadian-Syrian citizenship was detained Sept. 26 while changing planes at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and deported to Syria. Canada protested the deportation of Maher Arar, 32, saying he should have been sent to Canada due to his Canadian citizenship and residence.

Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya and Sudan are the countries listed in the U.S. National Security Entry Exit Registration System introduced on the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The system authorizes the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to photograph, fingerprint and monitor the arrival and departure of visitors born in or citizens of those nations.

France

Teenager killed by WWI mortar shell

A French teenager was killed and two children were injured Wednesday by a World War I mortar shell, firefighters said.

The children were playing with the shell in a courtyard in Wettolsheim, eastern France, when it exploded, the firefighters said.

A 14-year-old was killed. His younger brother was wounded in the leg, and another child was injured.

Residents in the region occasionally find buried shells from the war, which ended 84 years ago.