Over 500 Tibetan detained in Nepal

Nepali police detained 562 Tibetan women, including school children, at an anti-China rally in Kathmandu on Sunday in the first all-women protest against Chinese rule in their homeland. Shouting slogans like "We want free Tibet" and wearing black armbands they were dragged along the road to police vans and trucks and driven to detention centres. Police said the protesters would be freed later.