Munich  - The German state of Bavaria demanded Friday that a British publishing company stop reprinting Nazi-period newspapers.

The educational reprints of the hate press have become best sellers in a nation where most people under 80 have never seen Nazi propaganda in the raw and those over
80 do not want to talk about it.

Albertas Ltd hired German historians to annotate the facsimiles and underline the methods of Nazi propaganda. The new weekly series, using papers from the 1930s and
1940s, is aimed at the general public and schools.

New York  - Proud New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday handed out medals and certificates to those who worked to rescue 155 passengers and crew of the US Airways plane that crashed into the frigid waters of the Hudson River.

Bloomberg said the personnel and equipment deployed on Thursday to pull all 155 people to safety was a fraction of what the city has to prepare for any emergency.

He praised city agencies and private groups for what is now known as the "miracle on the Hudson."

Genoa, Italy  - An attempt by Italian atheists to emulate like-minded campaigners in Britain and Spain by placing ads on buses denying the existence of God, suffered a setback Friday when their proposal was rejected in the northern city of Genoa.

IGPDecaux, an agency which sells advertising space on behalf of Genoa's municipal transport company decided not to run the ads, the Union of Atheists, Rationalists and Agnostics (UAAR), said.

Hanoi  - Workers on a construction project in downtown Hanoi have uncovered a mass grave dating from the country's war for independence from France, a local historian said Thursday.

"As of noon Thursday, 200 remains have been found," said noted historian and National Assembly member Duong Trung Quoc.

Quoc believes the remains belong to Vietnamese independence fighters killed by French troops in 1946-47.

Cairo  - A Lebanese antiquities dealer was arrested in Bulgaria after being charged with smuggling stolen ancient Egyptian artifacts, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) said on Thursday.

"Ali Abu Taam was accused of smuggling more than 1,000 antiquities and helping Egyptian dealer Tareq al-Sweissi smuggle Egyptian pieces that belonged to different dynasties," said SCA chief Zahi Hawas.

Sana'a, Yemen  - Yemeni authorities are investigating the killing of a local fisherman during an anti-piracy operation by a Russian navy ship in the Gulf of Aden, the interior ministry said on Thursday.

The ministry said in a statement that a fisherman was killed and two others injured as a Russian frigate attacked suspected Somali pirates near the southern Yemeni port city of Aden Wednesday.