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MINNEAPOLIS — Federal investigators on Sunday interviewed the pilot and co-pilot of the Northwest Airlines flight that overshot the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Keith Holloway did not provide additional details, but did say the NTSB would not comment on the discussions until today at the earliest. Northwest Airlines is doing its own internal investigation, said Chris Kelly, a spokesman for Northwest Airlines’ parent company, Delta Air Lines Inc

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A cell phone video that shows police officers repeatedly hitting an unarmed university student with batons and a Taser gun has prompted a criminal investigation into the officers’ conduct, a San Jose police spokesman said. The video, posted by the San Jose Mercury News on its Web site late Saturday, shows one officer hitting 20-year-old Vietnamese student Phuong Ho with a metal baton more than 10 times, including once on the head. Another officer is seen using his Taser gun on the San Jose State math major.

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Palm Beach police said Sunday that Jeffry Picower, a Florida philanthropist and a friend of Bernard Madoff for decades, has died. He was 67. Picower was the former New York lawyer and accountant alleged to have extracted billions of dollars from the Madoff investment scheme.

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TEHRAN, Iran — U.N. inspectors entered a once-secret uranium enrichment facility with bunker-like construction and heavy military protection that raised Western suspicions about the extent and intent of Iran’s nuclear program. The visit Sunday by the four-member International Atomic Energy Agency team, reported by state media, was the first independent look inside the planned nuclear fuel lab publicly disclosed last month. The inspectors are expected to study blueprints, interview workers and take soil samples before wrapping up the three-day mission.

LONDON — The Lockerbie bombing case is being reviewed by detectives trying to determine if anyone helped the only person convicted of the attack that killed 270 people on a Pam Am flight over Scotland, police and prosecutors said Sunday. The police statement came after a newspaper reported that British relatives of the victims on Pan Am Flight 103 were told in officers were considering several potential lines of inquiry.

ROME — The longtime chief bodyguard of the late Pope John Paul II, who accompanied him in trips abroad and was nearby during the 1981 attempted assassination of the pontiff, died Sunday in Rome at 83. In 2006, Camillo Cibin retired as head of the papal bodyguards after a 58-year globe-trotting career in the Vatican’s security services.

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