A study made by University of Massachusetts researchers showed that about 85 percent Canadian currency contain trace amounts of cocaine. Canada and the U.S. topped the list of nations with high levels of cocaine traces.

University of Massachusetts chemistry professor Yuegang Zuo, who led the research team, presented their findings Sunday at the 238th national meeting of the American Chemical Society.

A typographical error in a jury's verdict form convicting an Akron man of cocaine possession in 2005 has cut short the time he is serving in prison from 10 years to four years.

The Ohio Court of Appeals ruled last week that the error muddled the wording in the Summit County Common Pleas Court's decision convicting Calvin Eugene Wells, 36, and apparently changed the graver felony offense into a lesser one with a corresponding prison-term of only one year.

The Mexican Navy has detected and seized more than one ton of cocaine hidden in bellies of frozen sharks on board a container ship coming from Costa Rica.

X-ray machines and sniffer dogs helped detect the hidden drugs on the Marshall Islands-flagged Dover Strait after it docked at the Gulf coast port of Progreso in Yucatan state, Mexican Navy Commander Eduardo Villa said Wednesday.

After stores in London pulled Red Bull from its shelves and Taiwanese authorities confiscated close to 18,000 cases of the popular energy drink, Hong Kong officials say they found traces of cocaine in samples of "Red Bull Cola," "Red Bull Sugar-free" and "Red Bull Energy Drink."

Officials at the Center for Food Safety said a laboratory analysis found tiny amounts, between 0.1 and 0.3 micrograms of the illegal drug per liter, and as a result the drink has now been taken off the shelves of major supermarkets.

The popular energy drink Red Bull is facing a nationwide ban in Germany after traces of cocaine were found in the beverage.

Authorities in Hesse and North-Rhine Westphalia have ordered retailers to stop selling the energy soft drink after traces of de-cocainized extract of coca leaf were found.