Protestors take over Mexico crossingsTIJUANA, Mexico — Protesters took control of vehicle lanes at one of the busiest crossings on the U.S. border Sunday to oppose Mexican gasoline price hikes, waving through motorists into Mexico after Mexican authorities abandoned their posts.Motorists headed to Mexico saw about 50 demonstrators at the Otay Mesa port of entry connecting San Diego and Tijuana, many of them honking to show support. The demonstrators waved signs to protest gas hikes and air other grievances against the government of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.Other protests closed southbound traffic for hours at the San Diego-Tijuana San Ysidro port of entry, the busiest crossing along the 2,000-mile border, and halted southbound traffic at one of two crossings in Nogales, Ariz.

Australian music video actor killedSYDNEY — An actor was killed today while filming a scene for Australian band Bliss n Eso’s music video at a bar in Brisbane in Queensland, police said.During the scene, several actors fired their guns and the actor, who police did not name, somehow received chest wounds, Queensland Police Detective Inspector Tom Armitt said.It was not immediately clear whether the guns were loaded with live ammunition or blanks, Armitt said. Blank cartridges can still cause injuries if fired at close range. “I can’t tell you whether they are live or real firearms,” Armitt told reporters. “I can’t tell you the type of ammunition that were being used. That will be a subject of the investigation.”

Fruitless search for plane endsSYDNEY — The ship involved in the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 returned to port in western Australia today.Transport officials from Australia, Malaysia and China met in the Western Australia state capital of Perth to thank the crew of Fugro Equator, that returned after the countries suspended the nearly three-year search for the plane in the Indian Ocean.The $160 million deep-sea sonar search off Australia’s west coast failed to find any trace of the plane, which vanished March 8, 2014, on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.