Some Volkswagen billboards have come down after complaints that a word used in an ad was offensive to Hispanics. The ad for the new GTI 2006 had a photo of the sports car accompanied by the words "Turbo-Cojones. "Cojones, which means testicles in Spanish, has become a casually used term for boldness or guts in English, but hasn't lost its more vulgar connotations in its native language. There were complaints about a billboard in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood. There were no complaints about billboards in New York and Los Angeles, but the company says it decided to pull the ads in all three cities.

The key to saving the lives of more than 20,000 endangered loggerhead sea turtles may be as simple as baiting fishing hooks with mackerel and fish at slightly deeper depths. Scientists Ricardo Sagarminaga van Buiten (Spanish Cetacean Society) and Ana Ca

Police say a mother in western Arkansas may have used ant poison to kill her three young children. They found four cups near the poison and a letter in Spanish saying the mother could not live without their father.

Dutch troops aiding earthquake survivors in Pakistan have been complaining that while they are not allowed to consume alcohol, Spanish and British soldiers (who are allowed) have been ridiculing and taunting them while at campfires. A soldier says, "We were told before we arrived that alcohol was banned in this country or else very difficult to get hold of and we accepted this. "

Monarch Airlines got rid of an unruly passenger by leaving him on a tiny island off the African coast. The plane was heading to the Spanish island of Tenerife from northern England when the man began swearing at the crew for refusing to give him more alcohol, reports the Daily Mail and Reuters.