IN BRIEF

From wire reports

Malvo defense looks for details on DNA evidence near school where boy was shot
 FAIRFAX, Va. — Lawyers for sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo want prosecutors to provide additional details about DNA evidence found near the Bowie, Md., school where a 13-year-old boy was shot during last year’s sniper spree.
The defense team argued in a court motion made public Tuesday that it needs more information about DNA evidence found on five cigarette butts, the barrel of a ball point pen and a Price Club card found at Tasker Middle School, where Iran Brown was seriously wounded Oct. 7.
The motion does not state if Malvo’s or fellow suspect John Allen Muhammad’s DNA was found on those items. The lawyers want more details on who recovered the information and exactly where it was found at the crime scene.

Dalai Lama says good can come from tragedy of terrorist attacks
 NEW YORK — The Dalai Lama, on the final leg of a five-city U.S. tour, said Tuesday he felt ‘‘extremely sad’’ when his plane landed in New York and he saw where the towers of the World Trade Center once stood.
But in his first visit to the city since the Sept. 11 attacks two years ago, the Tibetan Buddhist leader urged all New Yorkers — and especially relatives of those killed — to turn the tragedy into something positive. He said he already saw signs of that transformation in the city’s relatively peaceful response to the blackout last month.
‘‘The people as a whole, generally, (have) more a sense of community and helping each other,’’ he said at a news conference opening his weeklong visit to the New York area. The latest crisis brought the people of New York together ‘‘to have a greater sense of affinity.’’

Man charged with murder in shooting of man who threw tomatoes at car
 HOLMESVILLE, Ohio — A man was charged with murder Tuesday in the shooting of a man who was throwing tomatoes at passing vehicles from a cornfield, a traditional prank in the Amish community.
Marion D. Weaver, 58, drove his car past the field several times, deputies said. After the vehicle was hit, he fired three to five rounds from a shotgun into the cornstalks, Sheriff Timothy Zimmerly said.
The death of Steven L. Keim, 23, shocked the Amish community of Mount Hope, about 60 miles south of Cleveland. He was hiding in the cornfield with about 10 others, ages 15 to 23, who told authorities they were throwing tomatoes and firing paintball guns.

Son of man who killed himself by driving into a tractor trailer dies
ORLANDO, Fla. — The 8-year-old son of a man who killed himself by swerving into the path of a tractor trailer died Tuesday of injuries from the crash, hospital officials said.
The boy, Brian Randall II, was brought to the hospital in critical condition Monday after the crash that killed his father, Bryan Randall. Another son, Julian, 6, was injured. Randall also was suspected of killing his daughter two days earlier.
Police said Randall wanted to kill his children because an impending divorce would strip him of custody.
On Sunday, police say Randall dumped his 2-year-old daughter, Yana, and another son, Regal, 4, in a lake in suburban Orlando. The girl drowned, but the boy was rescued later in the morning and hospitalized.
In a suicide note left in his vehicle, Randall said, ‘‘I had to take them with me.’’

Police arrest suspect in  foreign minister slaying
 STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Swedish police arrested a suspect Tuesday night in the killing of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, a spokesman told The Associated Press.
The suspect was captured in a restaurant near a soccer stadium in Solna, a suburb of the capital Stockholm, police spokeswoman Stina Wessling said. The man was not identified.
The arrest came after police put out a nationwide alert in a bid to track down the suspect. Earlier, police said they had completed a profile of the murderer and said that the search was in an ‘‘intensive stage.’’

Iraq to attend OPEC meeting
 LONDON — An Iraqi delegation will attend next week’s meeting of OPEC members for the first time since U.S.-led forces deposed Saddam Hussein — a significant boost for a new government hungry for global recognition.
Reintegration into OPEC is one of Iraq’s biggest steps so far on its path toward normalized international relations, given the importance of oil exports to its economy and to the success of its interim government.
Already, representatives of the U.S.-picked Iraqi Governing Council have been welcomed this month at an Arab League meeting in Cairo and a Conference on Disarmament session in Geneva. They also plan to attend annual meetings next week of the World Bank and its sister organization, the International Monetary Fund.

EU giving $13.5M in aid to Liberia
 BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Union said Tuesday it would give another $13.5 million in emergency aid to support African peacekeepers in Liberia.
The European Commission said $9 million would be used to cover support costs for peacekeepers from Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Mali and other peace-building efforts in the West African nation.
The 3,000-member force was deployed to help end fighting between forces loyal to then-President Charles Taylor and rebels battling since 1999 to oust him. The Nigerian-led peacekeepers arrived last month, bringing calm to the capital after 21¼2 months of fighting that killed more than 1,000 civilians.