Annapolis police raided the wrong apartment Wednesday night, using flash grenades and kicking a resident in the groin before they realized their mistake, police and the family said.

Police spokesman Hal Dalton said something must have gone amiss in the briefing beforehand. "We don't know how the mistake was made," Dalton said.

Silvia Bernal, 30, told The (Annapolis) Capital that about 15 officers burst through the front door of her apartment while she was cooking dinner about 8:20 p.m. She said the officers kicked her husband in the groin while she fled into a bedroom and barred the door with her body.

Then she said both of them were taken to the ground and handcuffed. The Capital said a police officer went outside and realized they had raided the wrong residence.

Dalton said they were supposed to have raided a different apartment and said the incident was regrettable.

Spa Cove apartment manager Latisha Marshall says there is a large dent in the front door. And she said there are two large black stains from the flash-bang grenades police deployed after entering the apartment.

When officers and the city's tactical squad went to the right unit, they said it was empty.

Fake pilot pulls off 'DiCaprio' trick in China

A 23-year-old unemployed man from southwest China managed to board a plane disguised as a pilot, state media said Thursday, pulling off a feat carried out by Leonardo DiCaprio on screen.

Shu Shi turned up at Beijing Capital International Airport in April, fully dressed and equipped like a pilot of the airline company whose flight he wanted to board, the Beijing News reported, which did not identify the carrier.

The young would-be captain, who had bought the uniform online and downloaded various identification documents, succeeded in getting on the plane which was headed for his home province, Guizhou.

He came unstuck only after the plane's pilot noticed his fake colleague's knowledge of aviation matters was somewhat at odds with reality, prompting him to put him under supervision after take-off and hand him over to police upon arrival.

Shu was detained for 10 days and fined 500 yuan (65 dollars), the Beijing News said.

In the 2002 Steven Spielberg movie "Catch Me If You Can," DiCaprio performs similar acts of deception before he, too, gets discovered.

If it's not tennis elbow, it may be "Wiiitis"

When Dr. Julio Bonis awoke one Sunday morning with a sore shoulder, he could not figure out what he had done. It felt like a sports injury, but he had been a bit of a couch potato lately.

Then he remembered his new Wii.

Bonis, 29, had spent hours playing Nintendo Co.'s new video game in which players simulate real movements. Bonis had been playing simulated tennis.

It was not quite tennis elbow, he decided.

"The variant in this patient can be labeled more specifically as 'Wiiitis,'" Bonis, a family practice physician, wrote in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.

"The treatment consisted of ibuprofen for one week, as well as complete abstinence from playing Wii video games. The patient recovered fully."

Wiiitis -- pronounced "wee-eye-tis" -- is the latest ailment to develop from the video game era, beginning with Space Invaders' wrist in 1981, which was caused by the repeated button mashing required by the popular arcade game.

Nintendo's Wii game can captivate for hours and "unlike in the real sport, physical strength and endurance are not limiting factors," Bonis of the Research Group in Biomedical Informatics in Barcelona, Spain, wrote.

"What convinced me to send the case report was that a friend of mine, after playing 'Wii Sports' suffered from a similar complaint," Bonis told Reuters in an e-mail. "I have not found other cases in my clinical practice, but it is probably an underdiagnosed condition."

It is not the first time Nintendo has received attention in the medical field.

In 1990, a Wisconsin doctor characterized the thumb soreness brought on by pushing the buttons on a controller as "Nintendinitis" after it affected a 35-year-old woman who played a Nintendo game without interruption for five hours.

With virtual golf, boxing, baseball and bowling already on the market, "future games could involve different and unexpected groups of muscles," Bonis said. "Physicians should be aware that there may be multiple, possibly puzzling presentations of Wiiitis."

Bonis said he still plays the games, "but I try to use it with moderation. Sometimes it's hard to do!"

Stolen keys delay start of military mission

Poland's 1,200 troops assigned to NATO forces in Afghanistan will not achieve full combat readiness for up to several weeks due to stolen vehicle keys, the defense ministry said Thursday.

"We had been told a 10 percent theft rate was likely in convoys brought in from Pakistan, but we had not expected the spare car keys to go missing," defense ministry spokesman Jaroslaw Rybak told news channel TVN24.

"We shall have to send away for spares, so it may take from several days to several weeks for our contingent to become combat ready."

According to media reports, Polish troops taking part in NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan have been assigned to patrol the mountainous border area with Pakistan to search for Taliban guerrilla activity.

The military vehicles used by Polish forces include Poland's Land Rover-like Honkers and U.S.-built Humvees.

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China newspaper editors sacked over Tiananmen ad

A newspaper in southwest China has sacked three of its editors over an advertisement saluting mothers of protesters killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, a source with knowledge of the gaffe said on Thursday.

Public discussion of the massacre is still taboo in China and the government has rejected calls to overturn the verdict that the student-led protests were subversive.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed when the army crushed the democracy movement on June 4, 1989.

Li Zhaojun, deputy editor-in-chief of the Chengdu Evening News in Sichuan's provincial capital Chengdu, and two other members of the tabloid's editorial office had been dismissed, the source told Reuters requesting anonymity.

The newspaper and the Chengdu city government declined to comment. Li could not be reached.

On the 18th anniversary of the crackdown Monday, the lower right corner of page 14 of the Chengdu Evening News ran a tiny ad reading: "Paying tribute to the strong(-willed) mothers of June 4 victims."

Authorities interrogated newspaper staff to find out how the advertisement slipped past censors. Newspaper ads need to be vetted in China.

Hong Kong's South China Morning Post said Wednesday a young female clerk allowed the tribute to be published because she had never heard of the crackdown.

She phoned back the person who placed the ad to ask what June 4 meant and he told her it was the date of a mining disaster, the Post said.

It was unclear if the man who placed the advertisement had been arrested.

The man also tried to place the same advertisement with two other Chengdu newspapers, the source said.

"Staff at the other two newspapers also did not know what June 4 was, but they phoned and asked their superiors and he walked away," the source told Reuters.

The Communist Party has banned references to the crackdown in state media, the Internet and books as part of a whitewash campaign, meaning most young Chinese are ignorant of the events.

The 32-page Chengdu Evening News, which boasts a circulation of 200,000, has not suspended publication.

Drug thugs

When professor John Buse of the University of North Carolina's medical school reported in 1999 that the popular diabetes drug Avandia was associated with an elevated risk of chest pain and heart attacks, he was doing what researchers do: engaging in scientific inquiry and presenting his findings.

Such unfettered research is one reason America is the world's scientific and technological leader. But, as Buse found out, some drugmakers put profit concerns above academic freedom, not to mention public safety.

Buse told a House panel Wednesday that when he expressed doubts about Avandia, he received calls from the drug's maker, the company now known as GlaxoSmithKline, that characterized him as "a liar" and threatened to hold him liable for a possible multi-billion dollar drop in the company's stock market value. This episode echoes Merck's efforts in 2000 to silence a Stanford University doctor, by shutting him out of important conferences, when he began to question the safety of the painkiller Vioxx.

The chilling of independent research is just the latest evidence of questionable conduct in the drug industry. Both Glaxo and Merck hid data showing elevated health risks. (The Food and Drug Administration wants the toughest "black box" safety warning on Avandia; Vioxx was pulled from the market.) And drugmakers routinely reward doctors who write lots of prescriptions for their products and lavish grants on researchers who come to their preferred conclusions.

What can be done to better protect researchers and patients? New laws, perhaps even criminal sanctions, might be needed in some cases. But a better approach is transparency.

A bill sponsored by Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, would open the vast data collected by Medicare, which processes 500 million health claims a year, to outside researchers who could use the privacy-protected information to examine the safety and effectiveness of various treatments. Another approach would be to insist that the FDA do a better job monitoring and publicizing studies conducted by the companies themselves.

More transparency would make it harder for drug companies to distort results. It would help protect academic freedom at America's research institutions. And it would make patients more likely to receive the safest and most appropriate treatments.