By Alejandra Cancino
The FBI is asking dive shop owners to be on the lookout for suspicious behavior or criminal activity by their customers. The bureau recently issued a national advisory.
Judy Orihuela, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Miami office, said the routine advisories are sent out occasionally "just to give heads-up in things to look out for." 
Examples of what dive shops are asked to look out for include:
• Requests for special training that include diving in murky water or sewer pipes.
• Requests to learn advanced skills such as the use of re-breathers.
• Purchasing or renting Swimmer Delivery Vehicles and Diver Propulsion Vehicles.
• Paying in cash or refusing to provide personal information.
Re-breathers are normally used by the military because they make few or no bubbles and can allow people to stay in the water from three to eight hours; other systems allow people to stay in the water from 30 minutes to two hours. The time depends on the depth of the water.
People also use re-breathers when they want to photograph marine animals.
Alan Crooks, manager of Force E Scuba Centers in Riviera Beach, said regular customers don't dive in sewer pipes. South ...   more »

MOSCOW (AFP) - A senior Russian government minister accused the United States on Sunday of building a "new Berlin wall" with its plans for a missile defence system in Central Europe that have infuriated Moscow.
"They are trying to push us into knocking heads with Europe... in order to create a new dividing line, a new Berlin Wall," first deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov said in an interview on state-run Rossiya television. "It is obvious that continuing with the plans and carrying them out by placing rockets in Poland and radar in the Czech Republic will, of course, present an obvious threat to Russia."
Washington's plans for the missile shield, which it claims is meant to protect against possible attacks from Iran or North Korea, have rocked already unsteady relations between Russia and the United States in recent months.
Russia has proposed creating a joint missile defense system with U.S. and NATO participation as an alternative to Washington's current plan, but U.S. officials have treated the proposal cautiously.
"We are proposing creating a unified missile defense system by 2020 for all participants, with equal access to the system's controls," Ivanov said.
He also said that Russia and the United States ...   more »