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WASHINGTON -- Three or four FBI laptop computers are lost or stolen each month and the agency is unable to say in many instances whether information on the machines is sensitive or classified, the Justice Department's inspector general said Monday. The IG said the FBI is reducing the number of thefts and disappearances of weapons and laptop computers, but the bureau acknowledged in a statement that "more needs to be done." The Boston field office reported a stolen laptop containing software for creating identification badges. The laboratory division at Quantico, Va., said that a stolen laptop contained names, addresses and...

The graves of 10 British soldiers killed during World War I were vandalised last weekend in a military cemetery near this northern French town, police said. Their tombstones were broken or pulled out of the ground and some were stolen, police said. The site, the Hibers Trench cemetery, is managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and holds the remains of 133 British and three Canadians soldiers, most of them killed during a German offensive in the area in April 1917. Police said they had taken shoe prints from near the desecrated graves and were looking for the perpertrators.