■ United States
Toddler fatally shoots man
Police were searching for the owner of a .38 caliber handgun a California toddler used to fatally shoot a 22-year-old man. The 3-year-old boy apparently found the revolver in a bedroom closet while his mother fed his 1-year-old sister, and two aunts and a grandmother played cards, police Lieutenant David Boersma said on Tuesday. When the boy walked into the living room playing with the gun, the adults tried to get him to put it down. But the pistol fired and struck Luis Fernando Zepeda-Silva in the chest. Silva was later pronounced dead at Highland Hospital in Oakland. California law allows prosecutors to file criminal charges against adults when children find guns and shoot and harm somebody.
■ United States
US jet turns up in Ireland
A tail section from a US Navy fighter jet from Virginia that crashed three-and-a-half years ago off Key West, Florida, has turned up 7,884km away on a beach in Ireland. A retired commercial airline captain, identified by the Irish Examiner as Charlie Coughlan, discovered the piece on Friday, the newspaper said. Initially it was feared the tail fin had fallen from a plane in flight, but the Navy confirmed on Tuesday that markings on the section, including squadron insignia and a serial number, pointed to the downed F-14 Tomcat. Speculation is that currents from the Gulf of Mexico near the tip of Florida carried the nearly 3m long triangular piece of vertical stabilizer to the beach in West Cork.
■ Peru
US offers Humala new visa
The US has offered presidential hopeful Ollanta Humala a new visa after revoking the document last year following his brother's armed takeover of a police station that ended with four officers killed. Humala, a populist former army officer, trails former president Alan Garcia, a more moderate leftist, in the polls ahead of a June 4 runoff vote. A US embassy spokesman in Lima confirmed on Tuesday that Humala's visa was revoked in January last year "based on information that indicated possible ineligibility for admission to the United States."
■ Mexico
Christ image draws faithful
An image that resembles Jesus Christ on a rock is drawing hundreds of believers to the mountains of southern Chiapas state. Gregorio Gomez, a 57-year-old Tzotzil Indian, said a voice told him in a dream last month that he would find an image of Christ on a rock. Last week, he stumbled across the image as he was walking near his village of Santa Anita, on Huitepec mountain, rising 2,270m above sea level. "I saw it and there was Christ," said Gomez, standing in front of the rock marked with what appeared to be part of a face and body. Bishop Felipe Arismendi Esquivel of the San Cristobal Dioceses said that the church must investigate before determining its authenticity.
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