The European Union proposed an import ban Wednesday on products derived from seals that are killed in a cruel way, a move that could hurt the annual seal hunt in Canada _ the largest in the world.

The world’s top Nazi-hunter says he’s made progress in finding 94-year-old “Doctor Death,” a former concentration camp physician accused of torturing Jewish prisoners as they died and who may have been living for decades in Argentina or Chile.

The U.S. military says it flew thousands of spy flights over Colombian jungles trying to find and free three Pentagon contractors since their kidnapping in 2003.

Sixty years after becoming the first black to study law at a public university in the South, the late Silas Hunt got his degree Sunday from the University of Arkansas.

XTO Energy Inc. said Tuesday it is acquiring privately held Hunt Petroleum Corp. for $4.19 billion in cash and stock in a deal made more attractive by high oil and gas prices.

A city official says an expert is searching for a crocodile spotted in a river in central Germany. Hildesheim city spokesman Horst Richter said two municipal employees got a five-minute glimpse of the reptile Monday on a backwater of the Innerste river.

Dozens of students from the University of Chicago returned Sunday from a four-day multistate trek dubbed the world’s largest scavenger hunt after trying to find Barack Obama’s haircut and a car horn that plays “La Cucaracha,” among other things.

Animal rights groups called Friday for the European Union to ban imports of seal products, saying the latest videos of animals being hunted off Canada’s Atlantic coast show it’s inhumane.

Canadian officials boarded and seized the ship of a conservation group documenting the annual seal hunt Saturday, accusing its activists of interfering with the hunt.