■ Haiti

Chile expands patrols

Chilean troops will deploy to central Haiti next week, extending the multinational peacekeeping force's presence in the region where as many as 400 rebels still hold sway, a military spokesman said Monday. Haiti's interim leaders, meanwhile, met with former members of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's government to form a council that will organize 2005 elections. Some 3,600 peacekeepers from the US, France, Canada and Chile have been deployed to help Haiti's meager police force, after hundreds of officers fled amid a three-week popular rebellion that ousted Aristide on Feb. 29.

■ United States

Hate statistics released

Online games that allow children to "shoot" illegal immigrants, Jews and blacks are among the thousands of extremist Web sites described in a report by an international human rights organization. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which has been tracking hate Web sites for nine years, describes in the report released Monday more than 200 of about 4,000 online hate sites it monitors. The group said it has seen a surge this year in the number of sites that promote terrorist recruitment, urging young people to join "holy wars" and become suicide bombers. The report includes sites that deny the Holocaust, theorize Sept. 11 conspiracies and glorify al-Qaeda. The more common hate sites features racism, anti-Semitism and gay bashing.

■ United Kingdom

DNA registry saves the day

A man was jailed for six years Monday in a manslaughter case that saw police track him down through a national DNA database that included one of his relatives. Standing on a bridge, Craig Harman, 20, had thrown a brick onto a highway, where it smashed through the windshield of a truck and hit the driver Michael Little in the chest. Little had a heart attack and just managed to stop his vehicle before dying at the wheel. Harman, who had fled the scene, left a trace of his blood on the brick. Eventually the search was narrowed down to two counties in England, and produced 25 names of people who had been tested by police. The name on the top of the list was a relative of Harman's. The gamble paid off when six months after Little's death, detectives knocked on Craig Harman's door and asked for swab. It was a perfect match, and Harman, a sports clothes salesman in Frimley, Surrey, confessed to "his dark secret."

■ United States

Environmental prizes given

Seven environmental activists were awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize on Monday in San Francisco, California. The award, considered the equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize for the environment, carries a monetary compensation of US$125,000.