Bogota  - After releasing six hostages last week, leftist Colombian rebels insisted on an exchange of prisoners with the Colombian government, according to messages made public Monday.

In the message, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) said it considered the 22 politically-relevant hostages it is still holding as well as FARC prisoners in Colombian jails to be "prisoners of war."

Wuppertal, Germany  - Three Kurdish men were remanded in custody in Germany Monday on attempted murder charges, accused of throwing a petrol bomb at Turkish club-rooms the previous day.

Police in the western city of Wuppertal said they were checking if the trio, aged 19, 23 and 27, were behind similar arson attacks on ethnic Turkish clubs and offices in the nearby cities of Dusseldorf and Dortmund.

Los Angeles  - The mother of the woman who gave birth to octuplets has slammed her daughter's actions as "unconscionable" and said that the single mother has no way to support the babies and her six other children.

Angela Suleman made the comments to the website radaronline. com as her daughter Nadya Suleman showed the babies for the first time in an interview with NBC Monday morning.

Bogota - Six soldiers were killed and four were injured Monday in south-western Colombia in an attack that was allegedly perpetrated by leftist rebels, according to media reports in Bogota.

The network Caracol said the incident happened near the town of Morales, in the province of Cauca, when the military officers were on patrol.

Reports did not give details as to whether the soldiers entered a minefield or were ambushed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

New York  - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg presented Monday the keys to the city to the five-member crew of US Airways Flight 1549 that crashed in the Hudson River last month without endangering the lives of the 150 passengers.

Bloomberg presented the keys at a City Hall ceremony, calling the crew "five real American heroes."

"That day could have been one of our most tragic, but became one of our most triumphant," Bloomberg said.

Nuremberg - Safety inspectors said Monday they found faults in 400 toys, or about a quarter of the products they checked against European Union guidelines, during the annual Nuremberg Toy Fair in Germany.

Christine Haderthauer, minister of family affairs in the German state of Bavaria, attacked the EU guidelines as too lax, saying they permitted small amounts of dangerous substances. She called for the substances to be banned outright.

Safety is a key issue at the six-day fair which ends this Tuesday. The toy trade is dominated by Chinese manufacturers.