■ BRAZIL
Girl thrown from window
A five-year-old girl was apparently thrown to her death from a sixth-floor window in Sao Paulo, police said. The body of Isabella de Oliveira Nardoni was found early on Sunday outside her father's apartment building, the Agencia Estado news service reported, quoting inspector Calixto Calil Filho. Police found blood inside the girl's room and a large hole in the window's security netting and were investigating her death as a homicide rather than an accident, Calil Filho said.
■ UNITED STATES
Freeway shootings kill one
Rescue crews responding to a wreck on a San Fernando freeway found a driver fatally shot in the head, while another driver was shot and wounded in a separate attack about 48km away in Long Beach, authorities said. The incidents were the latest in a string of Southern California freeway shootings stretching back several weeks. The San Fernando Valley victim is thought to have crashed his car after being shot on the 101 Freeway early on Sunday morning, Los Angeles police officer Norma Eisenman said. The man shot in the Long Beach shooting was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. He characterized the shooting as a road-rage incident, an officer said.
■ UNITED KINGDOM
Meat increases cancer risk
Eating just one sausage a day, or the equivalent of any processed meat, may increase the risk of developing bowel cancer by a fifth, a leading scientist said. Martin Wiseman, medical adviser for the World Cancer Research Fund, said people eating 50g of processed meat a day -- about one sausage or a few strips of bacon -- were putting their health at risk. Processed meat includes food treated with preservatives, or which is preserved by smoking, curing or salting. Ham, bacon, pastrami, salami, hot dogs and processed sausages fall into the category, as do hamburgers and minced meat if preserved with salt or chemical additives. Bowel cancer is the third most common type of cancer in the UK.
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