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La Paz  - Rufina Morales, a first cousin of Bolivian President Evo Morales, was murdered and mutilated in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba, police said Wednesday.

The woman, 73, who had gone missing last week, was found dead by locals Tuesday in a ravine.

Police were working on the hypothesis that she had been attacked by robbers who then threw her body in the ravine, then dismembered by stray dogs. Only her head and her pelvis were found intact, while her heart and other internal organs were missing

New York  - Newly reorganized Chrysler Group LLC plans to begin production in the next two weeks at seven North American factories, the company announced Wednesday.

After emerging last week from a 42-day bankruptcy under the management of Italy's Fiat SpA, Chrysler will reopen plants assembling cars, pickup trucks, minivans and sport-utility vehicles in the states of Michigan, Missouri and Ohio and in Canada and Mexico, a spokeswoman told the Bloomberg financial news agency.

London  - On the eve of a EU summit expected to tackle the question of EU-wide financial oversight, Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Wednesday emphasized his clear preference for national regulation.

"We have to ensure strong, effective regulators at a national level - and retain the vital link between home regulators and national governments," he said.

He made the remarks in his annual Mansion House speech to the city, and warned banks that they needed a "change of culture" in the wake of the financial crisis.

Athens  - To design a museum that is accessible and welcoming is a daunting task for any architect. To create one to stand at the foot of the Acropolis, revered as one of the great achievements of man, could be considered a nightmare.

In accepting the challenge, Swiss-born architect Bernard Tschumi pulled off an impressive accomplishment - a building that is majestic, while complementing the architectural grandeur of the Parthenon.

Mexico City  - The Mexican Navy found cocaine hidden in frozen shark meat aboard a ship during a weekend raid that dealt a hefty blow to the drug cartels.

The Mexican daily El Universal reported Wednesday that the load amounted to 893 kilogrammes of cocaine in 800 packets.

The same newspaper had earlier quoted the Mexican Navy as saying that they had found some five tonnes of cocaine hidden in 400 shark bodies.

Caracas/Madrid  - A cruise ship was put in quarantine Wednesday off the coast of the Venezuelan Caribbean island of Margarita after three members of its crew were found to have symptoms of the new type of influenza A(H1N1), Venezuelan authorities confirmed.

The Ocean Dream, operated by the Spanish company Pullmantur and carrying about 760 passengers, was touring the Caribbean. A further 11 people among its crew of about 400 were also suspected to have the disease, said the health minister of Venezuela's islands region, Jorge Alchaer.