Patient gets drunk on sanitizer in Aussie hospital

SYDNEY (AP) — A man who drank six bottles of alcohol-based hand sanitizer while being treated in an Australian hospital for alcoholism has sparked calls for the anti-bacterial gels to be better secured.

Doctors said in a letter published Sunday in the Medical Journal of Australia that they were stunned to discover the man had downed six 375-milliliter (12.7-ounce) bottles of hand sanitizer, giving him a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.271 percent. That's more than five times higher than the 0.05 percent legal limit for driving in Australia.

Dr. Michael Oldmeadow, an internist at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne city, said that although the incident was not the first of its …

English Football Summaries

Summaries of Saturday's English Premier League football games (home teams listed first):

Bolton 0, Fulham 0

Attendance: 22,289.

Burnley 2, West Ham 1

Burnley: David Nugent (14), Danny Fox (55).

West Ham: Ilan (81).

Attendance: 21,001.

Hull 2, Manchester City 1

Hull: Jozy Altidore (31), George Boateng (54).

Manchester City: Emmanuel Adebayor (59) .

Attendance: 24,959.

Liverpool 1, Everton 0

Liverpool: Dirk Kuyt (55).

Attendance: 44,316.

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Bartok the bat flies solo in new movie

HOLLYWOOD Audiences went batty over the impish Bartok in Fox's1997 animated musical "Anastasia."

In fact, the white, wisecracking, diminutive bat was such afavorite of children and adults that he is now starring in his ownmovie, "Bartok the Magnificent," currently on video and DVD (Fox, $20for video; $30 for DVD).

"Once we thought about a lot of ideas, our favorite idea was theone you see," says Chris Meledandri, president of 20th Century FoxAnimation. "We watched so many audiences watch the movie, it wasclear that there was this great affinity for Bartok."

Hank Azaria reprises his role as the voice of Bartok, who is senton a quest to save the young Prince …

Latest developments in Arab world's unrest

A look at the latest developments in political unrest across the Middle East on Tuesday:

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LIBYA

A rebel military leader complains that NATO is not doing enough to batter Moammar Gadhafi's forces and break the siege of Misrata, the last rebel outpost near Tripoli. NATO says nearly a third of Gadhafi's heavy weapons have been destroyed in airstrikes, but Gadhafi's army drives rebels out of the vital oil port of Brega again. In a new tactic, Gadhafi forces move heavy weapons into the city in an attempt to protect them from NATO airstrikes.

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YEMEN

An exchange of fire develops as leaders of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's tribe meet with a senior army …

Japan posts first trade surplus in 5 months

Japan posted its first trade surplus in five months in February, though the total plunged from a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.

The country's trade surplus for the month was 82.4 billion yen ($841 million), down 91.2 percent from last year. But it broke a run of four straight months in the red, and was an improvement from January's trade deficit of 952.6 billion yen _ the biggest negative trade balance since the government began compiling such data in 1979.

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Reality television champ admits guilt in tax, drug case

BOSTON - The winner of the CBS reality show "Big Brother 9"pleaded guilty Monday to a drug charge and for failing to file a taxreturn for the year he won the show's $500,000 prize.

Adam Jasinski, of Delray Beach, Fla., was arrested outside Bostonlast October and charged with attempting to sell 2,000 pills ofoxycodone, the main active ingredient in OxyContin and otherpainkillers.

He had originally pleaded not guilty to possession with attemptto distribute oxycodone but changed his plea to guilty during ahearing Monday in U.S. District Court in Boston. He also pleadedguilty to the tax charge, which was added Monday by prosecutors.

Sentencing is not …

Criticism Mounts Over Tiger's New Event

PALM HARBOR, Fla. - Saying he was "insulted" by the prospect of Tiger Woods' new tournament being treated like an invitational, Rich Beem said he would rally players against the PGA Tour to make sure the event had a full field.

"It's the most totally wrong thing I've heard of in a long time that's sticking it to the players," Beem said Thursday.

PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem has said that the AT&T National, to be played July 5-8 in Washington with Woods as the host, likely would be considered along the lines of tournaments run by Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer that have limited fields.

The Memorial Tournament has a minimum of 105 players, while the …