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MERIDA — Authorities began retrieving the bodies of 46 people who died in a plane crash in the Venezuelan Andes as relatives of the victims mourned the loss of their loved ones during a Mass on Sunday.

Forensic experts brought six body bags containing victims' remains down from the crash site on a steep slope at an altitude of 13,500 feet, said Gen. Ramon Vinas, director of Venezuela's civil aviation authority.

The twin-engine ATR42-300 crashed and burst into flames in the Sierra La Culata National Park shortly after taking off from the Andean city of Merido on a flight to Caracas. It was carrying 43 passengers and three crew members..

CARACAS — A small bomb exploded outside the headquarters of Venezuela's leading business chamber on Sunday, killing one person, police said.

The blast occurred near the entrance of the Fedecamaras business chamber's main office in the Chacao district and shattered windows, Federal Police Chief Marcos Chavez said.

Chacao's municipal police force reported that an ID card found on the victim indicated he was 44-year-old Hector Amado Serrano Abreu — a member of the federally controlled Metropolitan Police.

Chacao Police Director Carlos Arreaza said the victim was missing his right hand, leading Chacao police to presume the dead man accidentally detonated the bomb.

The explosion could have been meant to scare business leaders who have been critical of President Hugo Chavez, said Fedecamaras President Jose Manuel Gonzalez.

LONDON — A British newspaper has published what it calls the first known photograph of a boy Anne Frank fell in love with and wrote about in her famous diary.

Anne Frank, the Jewish schoolgirl who wrote her diary while hiding from the Nazis in the Netherlands during World War II, was captivated by Peter Schiff.

She met him at school in 1940, his family also having fled from Germany to Amsterdam the previous year. At age 11, Anne fell in love with Schiff and later, while in hiding in Amsterdam herself, wrote about how much she missed him.

Her last mention of Schiff was in 1944, the year her family's safe house was raided by the German security police. She later died in a Nazi prison camp.

Sunday's The Observer newspaper reported that Ernst Michaelis, 81, of London, found a photo of Schiff in a family collection after realizing that Anne Frank was writing about a boy he had known as a fellow student in Berlin.

Schiff also is believed to have died in a Nazi prison camp.

JAKARTA — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 rattled Indonesia's Sumatra island Sunday night, the U.S. Geological Survey said, sending frightened residents running from their homes.

The quake struck at 9:46 p.m. local time just off the coast of Bengkulu province, about 370 miles west of the capital, Jakarta, the USGS said. It had a depth of around 21.7 miles.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, said Gian Ginanjar, an official at the Indonesian Meteorological and Geophysics Agency.

The jolt, in the same area shaken by an 8.4 quake in September that killed 25 people, did not trigger a tsunami, national authorities said.

Many people, however, fled their homes.

YEREVAN — Thousands of opposition supporters protested in Armenia's capital Sunday, demanding a rerun of the disputed presidential vote and denouncing the detention of several allies in their confrontation with the government.

More than 20,000 people protested for a fifth day in a central square where the opposition has maintained a round-the-clock vigil, and hundreds broke away to march through the streets in the early evening. A tough warning from the outgoing president raised concerns that police could seek to disperse the demonstrators.

Supporters of opposition candidate Levon Ter-Petrosian claim Tuesday's election was rigged and are demanding a new vote. The government says Prime Minister Serge Sarkisian won the presidency fairly and urged the protesters to disperse.

NICOSIA — Communist leader Dimitris Christofias won Cyprus' crucial presidential runoff Sunday, pledging to restart moribund talks to reunify the island, and immediately agreed to meet the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots.

Jubilant supporters flooded the streets of Nicosia, Europe's last divided capital, waving Cypriot and Che Guevara flags, honking car horns and lighting flares.

"We have a common vision . . . to reunite our people, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots," Christofias said in his victory speech.

"I extend a hand of friendship to the Turkish Cypriot people and their leadership," he said, thanking Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat for telephoning to congratulate him and saying he looked forward to "substantial cooperation for the benefit of both communities."

An official at Talat's office told The Associated Press that the two men said they wanted to meet "soon" but did not immediately set a date or venue.

Christofias' win makes strategically important Cyprus a rarity among its European Union partners — a country led by a president with firmly communist roots.

The 61-year-old Soviet-educated history professor won comfortably with 53.37 percent of the vote, compared with 46.63 percent for former Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides.

Both had campaigned on promises to reunify the island, split since 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup aimed at uniting Cyprus with Greece.