Reporting from Mexico City - Drug traffickers fighting to control northern Mexico have turned their guns and grenades on the Mexican army, authorities said, in an apparent escalation of warfare that played out across multiple cities in two border states.

In coordinated attacks, gunmen in armored cars and equipped with grenade launchers fought army troops this week and attempted to trap some of them in two military bases by cutting off access and blocking highways, a new tactic by Mexico's organized criminals.

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A Thai police force has begun taking a monkey dressed in officer's uniform on patrol each day to help improve relations with Muslim separatists.

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Es waren die Jahre der Spaßgesellschaft. In bauchfreien Tops und Plateauschuhen feierten Millionen Techno-Jünger auf der Love Parade - jeden Sommer wieder, fast ein Jahrzehnt lang. SPIEGEL TV dokumentiert die Neunziger: Deutschland war Weltmeister - und plötzlich wiedervereinigt.

Am Samstag, 3.4. von 20.15 bis 0 Uhr auf VOX

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Market Analysis:

Kush crushed the competition and once again finished as the month’s most submitted strain. After losing the top pot spot in December 2009, Kush submissions have been pouring in, and the strain has yet to be dethroned in 2010. The top-five performers have been fairly consistent thus far; however, Trainwreck made the cut for the first time this year, dislodging Strawberry Cough.

The top five submitted strains (with average price) were Kush ($400), Diesel ($408), Purps ($359), Blueberry ($387) and Trainwreck ($351).

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Mendocino County's economic future may rest with a marijuana-fueled version of Wine Country, complete with tasting rooms, bud boutiques and pot-garden tourism.

"It's the only thing we have that brings money into the county," said Mendocino County Supervisor John Pinches, who believes that marijuana accounts for at least half of the county economy.

Estimates of the value of the county's pot crop range from $1.2 billion to $4.4 billion. In comparison, the county's total taxable retail sales were $1.3 billion in 2007, according to the Center for Economic Development at CSU Chico.

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A Los Angeles County sheriff’s narcotics team on Thursday discovered what it says was $6.2 million worth of marijuana plants growing in Placerita Canyon State Park in Newhall.

Narcotics detectives with the marijuana eradication team were hiking in a fairly remote part of the canyon Thursday morning when they found several thousand plants being guarded by two men, sheriff’s officials said.

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