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Authorities have said that a former Cancun mayor running for higher office has been arrested on money-laundering charges and linked to drug runners.

McClatchy Newspapers have reported that the Mexican Attorney General's Office alleged Wednesday George Sanchez Martinez, a candidate for governor of Quintana Roo, the Caribbean state where Cancun is located, has ties to the Beltran Leyva and Los Zetas drug cartels. Sanchez was arrested at the resort city's airport on Tuesday, the office said.

Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu is dubbing for her next flick "Lamhaa" and is trying best to drop her anglicized accent and pronunciation to sound like a Kashmiri Muslim girl that she plays in the film.

This, certainly, is simpler said than done.

Even when the actress worked in a Bengali flick "Sob Charitro Kalponik", Bips had been forbidden by director Rituparno Ghosh from dubbing her own lines even though Bengali is her maternal language.

Indian stock markets are projected to open on a flat note today (May 27, 2010).

Asian stocks declined following reports that China may review its investments in European administration bonds, and the euro diminished amid fears the European debt crisis will get worse.

Japanese benchmark index Nikkei 225 declined 20.20 points to trade at 9,502.46.

US equities also declined, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ending below the mark of 10,000 for the first time since Feb 2010. The Dow declined 69.30 points to 9,974.45.

What it calls the global justice gap is flourishing, blaming governments that value power over people, Amnesty International has said.

Officials have said that a teacher at a second school in Georgia has been found to have allowed students to wear Ku Klux Klan robes as part of a re-enactment.

An investigation was being conducted into two incidents at Sweetwater Middle School in Lawrenceville involving eighth-grade social studies teacher Stephanie Hunte, a Gwinnett County schools spokeswoman told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.