■ CANADA
C$1 million coin minted
Got change for a million? Canada does: the world's biggest pure gold coin at 100k. Already, three buyers have shelled out for one of the C$1 million (US$ 900,000) coins introduced last week. The Royal Canadian mint made the coins -- 50cm in diameter and 3cm thick -- mostly to seize the bragging rights from Austria, which had the record with a 31.75kg, 38cm wide 100,000 euro coin (US$135,000). Listed as 99.999 percent pure gold bullion, the new coin features Queen Elizabeth II on one side and Canada's national symbol -- the maple leaf -- on the other.
■ COLOMBIA
Quake rattles Bogota
An earthquake deep below the Andean ridge shook central Colombia just before midnight on Saturday. Buildings in Bogota rattled for several seconds but no damage or injuries were reported. The temblor measured magnitude 5.5 and was centered some 250km northeast of Bogota and approximately 176km deep, said Dale Grant of the US Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado. "It's deep so there shouldn't be any major damage but it should be widely felt," he said. Colombia's disaster prevention agency director, Luz Amalda Pulida, placed the magnitude at 6.0, adding in a radio interview that the quake was centered below the town of Betulia.
■ COSTA RICA
Crocodile attacks boy
A crocodile attacked and made off with a 13-year-old boy on Friday as he bathed with his brother in a lagoon. Breydi Escorcia was bathing in San Francisco de Tortuguero, on the Atlantic coast, when a crocodile attacked him and dragged him into deeper water, police said. Witnesses said the boy screamed that the crocodile had bitten his leg before the reptile dragged him underwater. The teenager emerged once more, just long enough to yell goodbye to his older brother, police official Victor Cervantes said, citing witnesses. "He shouted, `Adios, Pablito,' before he was dragged under a second time and he hasn't been seen since," Cervantes said.
■ UNITED STATES
Boy accused of murder
A 13-year-old is accused of killing a five-year-old in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the home where they both lived, a death the teen said happened while he was practicing wrestling moves on the boy. The teenager told investigators he was practicing wrestling moves on Tyeir Bruce on Thursday when the boy became unresponsive, police said. He initially said Bruce had fallen down stairs, authorities said. The boy died at a hospital, and a medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. A man who was baby-sitting the boys was in a different part of the house, the police said. The teenager, whose name was not released because of his age, has been charged with criminal homicide.
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