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BANGKOK — A grenade attack on anti-government protesters occupying the prime minister's office killed one person and wounded at least 23 early today, an army official and protesters said.

There have been several bomb attacks against the anti-government movement but today's blast was the first deadly attack at the Government House compound, which the protesters have occupied for three months.

The explosion occurred shortly after 3 a.m. while a band performed onstage on the front lawn of the prime minister's office, said Amorn Amornratamanon, one of the protest leaders.

Army Gen. Prathomphong Kesornsuk, who was at the scene, said the device was an M-79 grenade.

The protesters, calling themselves the People's Alliance for Democracy, have occupied the grounds of Government House since late August.

MEXICO CITY — Interpol is sending a special investigative team to Mexico to determine whether sensitive information from its database on criminals and terrorists was leaked to drug cartels, the agency said Wednesday.

Interpol launched the probe after Mexican federal police official Ricardo Gutierrez Vargas was placed under house arrest as part of an investigation of law enforcement officers who allegedly shared police information with traffickers.

Gutierrez Vargas directed the international police agency's National Central Bureau in Mexico, where he had access to Interpol's database of information on suspected terrorists, wanted persons, fingerprints and DNA profiles, among other data, the Lyon, France-based agency said.

Interpol's Web site says officers of the National Central Bureaus are connected to its police communications network so they can share crucial information on criminals and criminal activities daily.

DUBLIN — An Air Canada co-pilot having a mental breakdown had to be forcibly removed from the cockpit, restrained and sedated, and a stewardess with flying experience helped the pilot safely make an emergency landing, an Irish investigation concluded Wednesday.

The report by the Irish Air Accident Investigation Unit into an incident in January applauded the decision-making of the pilot and the cockpit skills of the flight attendant, who stepped into the co-pilot's seat for the emergency diversion to Shannon Airport in western Ireland.

The report said the co-pilot was a licensed veteran with more than 6,500 hours' flying time, about half on board Boeing 767s, and had recently passed a medical examination.

LONDON — Winona Ryder's publicist says the actress was briefly hospitalized after falling ill on a flight to London's Heathrow Airport.

Publicist Mara Buxbaum says Ryder, 37, was taken to a London hospital as a precaution Wednesday but has been released and is fine. Buxbaum refused to go into details of Ryder's illness.

STOCKHOLM — Swedish health officials say they will remove transvestism, fetishism and sadomasochism from the country's official list of diseases and mental disorders.

The National Board of Welfare says labeling those aspects of sexual behavior and gender identity as disorders can add to prejudices in society.

The board's director, Lars-Erik Holm, says he will raise the issue internationally when the World Health Organization starts the process of renewing its classifications.