Chinese authorities deported on Sunday and Monday six Canadian activists and even used the credit card of one of the deportees to buy his plane ticket. Steve Andersen, 28, and a member of Students for a Free Tibet, arrived in Edmonton Monday evening. Undercover agents arrested, questioned, and deported him and a German-Tibetan woman on Sunday for unfurling a Tibetan flag near Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

FBI agents arrested a Houston woman Thursday who refused to return five children victims of Hurricane Katrina to their mother and recovered the kids she allegedly kidnapped. Rhonda Tavey, 44, was at her mother's home in northwest Houston when authorities arrested her, her attorney, Dick DeGuerin, told Chron. com. She is now detained at the Harris County Jail without bail and will appear in court Friday to face charges of kidnapping.

A convicted murderer is on the loose after a corrections officer helped her escape prison Monday. Sara Pender, 29, was serving a 110-year sentence for the 2000 murders of two roommates. But she befriended correction officer Scott A. Spitler, 41, and according to Indiana's Wish TV 8, Spitler has admitted to conspiring with Pender on her escape, having sexual relations with her, and hiding her in a prison vehicle and smuggling her out of the medium-security prison.

Forensic examination of the bones contained in an athletic shoe found Friday on a beach near here indicate it is from a human foot. Police in Clallam County announced the finding by the King County Medical Examiner on Monday. However, forensic experts are not sure if the foot belongs to a man or a woman.

An elderly woman and her dog were set ablaze after being doused with gasoline last Friday allegedly by her son. According to reports on Sunday, the 78-year-old woman survived the ordeal but suffered second and third degree burns covering half of her body. She is in critical condition.