BERLIN - Six German states have told retailers to stop selling Red Bull Cola energy drinks after a test found a trace amount of cocaine.

The bans started on Friday after a sample test conducted by authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia state found 0.4 micrograms per liter in the drink.

CHICAGO - A 13-YEAR-OLD boy who spent a week on the run with his mother to avoid cancer treatment that went against his religious beliefs was returned to Minnesota on Monday, officials said.

'It is a good day as Daniel and Colleen Hauser have been safely returned to Minnesota,' a spokesman for the Brown County Sheriff's Office in New Ulm, Minnesota told reporters.

VERACRUZ (Mexico) - A MEXICAN sculptor is putting the finishing touches on a bronze statue of a 5-year-old boy who became Mexico's earliest confirmed case of H1N1 flu.

Veracruz state spokesman Jorge Brandy says the statue of Edgar Hernandez will be erected in the central park of La Gloria, a pig-farming village in the mountains where scientists trying to learn where the epidemic began are taking blood samples from residents and pigs.