Brasilia - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva demanded Thursday that industrialized countries take responsibility in the efforts to overcome the current global financial crisis, which he said was created by "white people with blue eyes."

In a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Brasilia, Lula again stressed that it is necessary to regulate the international financial system.

London  - A British artist whose inflatable sculpture killed two women when it broke free from its moorings was Thursday fined 10,000 pounds (14,457 dollars) by a court in Newcastle, north- east Britain.

Maurice Agis, 77, from London, was convicted for the breach of Health and Safety procedures after a jury failed to reach a verdict on the original charge of manslaughter.

London  - The story of alleged British complicity in the torture of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner took an extraordinary twist Thursday when police were asked to investigate the role of the country's own intelligence services.

After several months of investigations, Britain's Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, said she had asked Scotland Yard to probe whether any criminal offences had been committed in the case of Binyam Mohamed, a detainee released from the notorious prison camp a month ago.

Brasilia  - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva demanded Thursday that industrialized countries take responsibility in the efforts to overcome the current global financial crisis, which he said was created by "white people with blue eyes."

In a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Brasilia, Lula again stressed that it is necessary to regulate the international financial system.

London  - A 21-year-old man charged in connection with the murder of a police officer in Northern Ireland earlier this month appeared in court Thursday.

The accused was charged late Wednesday with failing to provide police with facts relating to the shooting on March 9 of Stephen Carroll, a 48-year-old police officer in the town of Craigavon.

He was remanded in custody by the Magistrate's Court in Lisburn, south of Belfast, and will have to appear again on April 17.

London  - Scotland Yard will investigate claims by a former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay that British intelligence services were complicit in torture during his seven-year detention.

Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian national who was released from the notorious US camp last month, has alleged that information provided by Britain's MI5 intelligence service "directly led" to his torture.