Party girl Paris Hilton was briefly held by police on the French island of Corsica after being caught with cannabis in her handbag, according to police sources cited Saturday by AFP.

Police found less than a gram of cannabis in her handbag and quickly released her without charge.

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Paris Hilton, die Muztter aller Starlets, ist auf der französischen Insel Korsika mit Marihuana erwischt und kurzzeitig verhört worden. Die 29-Jährige war mit einem Privatjet aus Paris kommend auf der Insel eingetroffen.

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Federal authorities arrested a fugitive alleged drug kingpin Saturday after a decade-long chase through the Caribbean marked by his narrow escapes and public taunting that he paid off police to remain free.

Known as the Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean, Jose Figueroa Agosto was caught wearing a wig while driving through a working-class Dominican neighborhood of San Juan. When he realized he was being followed, he tried to run on foot as he had last September in the Dominican Republic after a pursuing vice squad shot out a tire on his Jeep.

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Es war die größte Menge Kokain, die je in Deutschland gefunden wurde: 1,3 Tonnen stellten Hamburger Ermittler im April im Hamburger Hafen sicher. SPIEGEL ONLINE rekonstruiert, wie die Polizei der Schmugglerbande auf die Spur kam.

Hamburg - Am Anfang war ein Gerücht. Es gebe auffallend viel Kokain in Hamburg, hieß es im Herbst des vergangenen Jahres. Die Preise purzelten, die Händler auf der Straße sprachen darüber und viele Polizisten spitzten die Ohren. "Irgendetwas ist im Gange", sagten sie sich.

Doch wer brachte die Massen an Schnee in die Stadt? Und wie?

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Europe is grappling with a flood of powerful and sometimes lethal new narcotics that are often legal when they first appear because authorities have never seen or banned them before, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

With catchy nicknames like Meow Meow, Spice and NRG-1, the drugs are often sold online as "legal highs." They typically come in powder form and can be snorted, licked or packed into tablets and create highs that mimic drugs ranging from cocaine to ecstasy.

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