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This week's quiz

1. Where did the Afghan children take the unexploded rocket?
2. What name did Juan Ortiz use in Louisiana?
3. Why did talks break off between the two Koreas?
4. What reason does Pakistan give for its soldiers firing at the NATO helicopter?
5. What reason does NATO give for shooting the Pakistani soldiers?

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Children Find Rocket

A group of children in Farah Province, Afghanistan, found an unexploded rocket on Tuesday. They took it to Forward Operating Base Leimbach. A bomb disposal team destroyed it.

Colonel Franco Federici, of the Italian Army, says the International Security Assistance Force was happy to get the rocket -- but the children should not have picked it up. It could have been dangerous. Instead, anyone who finds something like this should tell an ISAF soldier.

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Afghan children watch U.S. soldiers on patrol. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Joshua Grenier.

Murder Suspect Caught After 10 Years

A man wanted for a murder in Texas in 2000 has been arrested in Louisiana.

Juan Reza Ortiz left Austin, Texas, over 10 years ago. He is accused of beating a woman there with a piece of wood. She later died.

U.S. Marshals and other investigators found that a woman who might  be Ortiz's wife was living in Louisiana. She owned two cars. A man called "Jaime Dominguez" had been arrested for traffic offenses while driving these cars.

Police had no fingerprints from Ortiz. But they had a thumbprint from his Texas driver's license from 1998. It matched the thumbprint the Louisiana police had taken from "Dominguez".

Ortiz was arrested on Wednesday. He will go back to Texas for trial.

U.S. Marshal Kevin Harrison says, "Mr. Ortiz found out today we keep playing until we prevail."

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Links to September 30th's Top News Stories

Pakistan says three of its soldiers were killed by a NATO helicopter crew. It says the soldiers fired at the helicopter to show it was crossing the Pakistani border, but NATO says the crew thought the soldiers were terrorists. Read more.

North and South Korea held military talks today. But they ended when North Korea refused to apologize for sinking the ship Cheonan. Read more.

Trapped miners in Chile are digging their way out as rescuers try to reach them. They have been trapped for about two months. Read and watch.

A strange light was seen coming from an Earth-like planet in another galaxy. Read more.

Troops Find Enemy, Explosives, and Drugs

Afghan and international soldiers stopped two enemy cars in Helmand Province on Tuesday. Tips from local people helped them find the cars.

When they were stopped, the drivers and passengers got out, fired at the soldiers, and tried to run away. The soldiers captured them.

Opium and bomb-making materials were found in the cars and on the men. The soldiers destroyed these.

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Man Changes His Mind About Opening Account, Robs Bank Instead

Police in the small town of Tomball, Texas, are looking for a man who robbed a bank there on Tuesday.

The man first went to the bank just before noon and said he wanted to open an account. But then he said he had forgotten his ID, and left.

He came back that afternoon, wearing a different shirt. This time, he held up a note demanding cash. No one saw if he had a weapon. But a bank worker gave him some cash. No one was hurt.The robber was later seen walking downtown.

You can see a picture and description of the man here.

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Links to September 29th's Top News Stories

Al-Qaeda has been planning to make attacks in Britain, France, and Germany, officials from Western countries say. They would have been like the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in 2008. Read more.

Union members in Europe are protesting government spending cuts. Read more.

The landslide in Mexico yesterday was less harmful than people first thought. No one is known to have died. Read more.

A British man has died after drinking a pint (500 ml) of vodka in four seconds. Read more.

Police Corruption in Laredo

A police officer in Laredo, Texas, has been found guilty of planning to move cocaine and use a gun to do it.

Orlando Jesus Hale went on trial after another policeman, Pedro Martinez, pleaded guilty to the same crimes. Martinez testified against Hale.

The evidence at the trial showed: Hale and Martinez met with an undercover FBI agent posing as a drug dealer. They said they could lead cars full of cocaine across the city. They would use their police radios to keep track of police cars and stay away from them.

The two policemen did this on November 13th, 2008. Each car they took had 20 kilos of fake cocaine. They were given $1,000 each for this.

Later, Martinez said, Hale asked him if he knew anyone who wanted their car "stolen". The idea was to take the car to Mexico and sell it. The owner would get money from their insurance company, and no longer have to make payments on the car. Hale and Martinez would get paid. They are said to have done this twice.

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