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BBC News with Ally Macue. A Russian merchant ship that vanished nearly three weeks ago in mysterious circumstances has been found in the Atlantic. The vessel, the Arctic Sea, was sailing from Finland to Algeria with a cargo of timber. Its crew said that it was boarded by armed men in the Baltic and the ship then disappeared in the English Channel. Adam Mynott reports. According to the Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, the ship was found last night near to the Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa. This is where the Russians denied locating the ship three days ago. Moscow dispatched a number of warships to find the vessel because it had a 15-man Russian crew on board. They are all said to be well, and have been transferred to another ship. They were not apparently being held against their will. So many questions remain about what’s been going on on board the Arctic Sea during the past 18 days. Prosecutors in the United States have charged a man with carrying out what they say is the largest ever case of hacking and identity theft. The suspect, Albert Gonzalez, is accused of stealing more than 130 million credit and debit card details by hacking into the payment systems of national retailers. Greg Wood reports from New York. The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a 28-year-old Florida man Albert Gonzalez with conspiracy and fraud. It says that beginning in October, 2006, he and two other unnamed Russian co-conspirators hacked into the computer systems of a card payment company, the convenience store chain 7-Eleven and a group of supermarkets. They are alleged to have found a way around the security firewalls of the companies computer networks, removing data relating to 130 million debit and credit cards. There are no details about how much money may have been stolen or who the victims were. The former president of Zambia, Frederick Chiluba, has been cleared of corruption charges after a 6-year trial. Mr. Chiluba was accused of stealing half a m