Prosecutors in Venezuela said they were investigating a newspaper’s publication of a photograph on its front page depicting dead bodies in a Caracas mortuary.

FORMER boxing champion Edwin Valero took his own life in his jail cell in Venezuela just hours after he was arrested over his wife’s killing, police said yesterday.

Interpol has issued a notice seeking the arrest of a leading opponent of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who has requested political asylum in Peru, a Venezuelan police chief said.