ABUJA, Nigeria — Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who vanished in Nigeria after authorities reluctantly agreed to transfer him to a war-crimes tribunal, was arrested trying to cross the border into Cameroon, Nigerian police said today.

Taylor was captured Tuesday night by security forces in the far northeastern border town of Gamboru, in Borno State, nearly 600 miles from the villa in southern Calabar from which he reportedly disappeared Monday night.

A Nigerian police officer said later that Taylor had left Nigeria and was being flown back to Liberia.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Gunmen lined up 14 employees working at an electronics trading company in Baghdad this morning and shot them all, killing eight and wounding six, police said.The motive of the attack at the al-Ibtikar trading company in the upscale Mansour neighborhood was not immediately clear. According to survivors' accounts to police, the assailants first asked for the company's manager, who was not there, before firing on the employees.The survivors said the assailants, some of whom were wearing police uniforms, identified themselves as intelligence agents from the Iraqi Interior Ministry.Hundreds of Iraqis have been killed in sectarian violence and by death squads operating inside the Shiite-dominated Interior Ministry since the Feb. 22 bombing of an important Shiite shrine in Samarra set off a wave of revenge attacks. Usually, the victims are killed secretively, their bodies discovered hours or days later.

LONDON — The U.S. ambassador to Britain has refused to pay London's $14 daily toll on cars in the city center, prompting London's outspoken mayor to say on Monday he was behaving "like some chiseling little crook."The embassy stopped paying the fee last July, shortly before Ambassador Robert Tuttle took up his post. It argues that the daily toll on those driving in central London during business hours is a tax that diplomats should not have to pay.Mayor Ken Livingstone's office says the fee, known as the "congestion charge" and aimed at cutting traffic, is a payment for a service, not a tax."When British troops are putting their lives on the line for American foreign policy it would be quite nice if they paid the congestion charge," Livingstone said.The embassy had decided not to pay the toll for its official vehicles on July 1, before Tuttle even arrived in Britain, and that the ambassador had not been involved in the decision, said Rick Roberts, a U.S. Embassy spokesman."It is a tax, it is clearly a tax, therefore ... it is not applicable to diplomats," he said. "We don't tax British diplomats (in America), we don't expect to be taxed here."

KABUL, Afghanistan —Afghanistan's parliament demanded today that the government prevent a man who faced the death penalty for abandoning Islam for Christianity from being able to flee the country.Abdul Rahman was released from prison Monday after a court dropped charges of apostasy against him because of a lack of evidence and suspicions he may be mentally ill.His whereabouts is unknown but he likely is still in the country. The Italian government granted asylum to Rahman after Muslim clerics called for his death.Afghan lawmakers debated the issue today and said Rahman should not be allowed to leave the country. However, they did not take a formal vote on the issue.