A 23-year-old man has been killed and three others hurt after a masked gunman opened fire at a … More »Man Murdered As Gunman Opens Fire In Pub
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood and a military man identified with the police … More »Islamist and ex-PM vie for mantle of …
Dissident republicans opposed to the peace process are the enemies of Ireland and are … More »McGuinness in attack on dissidents
Dissident republicans opposed to the peace process are the enemies of Ireland and are engaged in pointless violence, Martin McGuinness has said. More »McGuinness in attack on dissidents
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti faced protests and catcalls on Saturday as he defended tax authorities against attacks fuelled by his government's unpopular austerity measures. Monti's speech to a passing-out parade of new officers … More »Italy PM Monti defends tax authorities as protests mount
TUNIS (Reuters) - Hundreds of Salafi Islamists attacked bars and shops and clashed with security forces in a Tunisian town on Saturday in the latest incident to raise religious tensions in the home of the Arab Spring uprisings. Police and witnesses in … More »Tunisian Salafi Islamists riot, clash with police
HELSINKI (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire from a rooftop in a Finnish town centre in the early hours of Saturday, killing two people and wounding several others, police said. An 18-year-old man wearing camouflage clothing was arrested after the shooting … More »Rooftop gunman kills two in Finland
A 15-year-old boy has died after getting into difficulties after jumping from a bridge into a river. More »Teenage boy dies after bridge jump
Attempts to explore the sex life of murdered honeymooner Michaela McAreavey and her husband provoked fierce clashes at the trial of two men accused of the crime. More »Lawyers clash at McAreavey trial
Police in Finland arrested an 18-year-old man on Saturday suspected of killing two people and wounding seven others in a overnight shooting in the south of the country. More »Two dead, 7 injured in Finland gunman shooting
Libya's former head of intelligence holds the key to solving the murder of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, the Libyan prime minister has claimed. More »Ex-intelligence chief 'holds key'
A New Jersey man has been charged with the murder of American schoolboy Etan Patz, who went missing 33 years ago. More »Man Charged With Schoolboy's Murder In 1979
(Reuters) - A former Mexican police officer accused of organizing a hit squad for the once-powerful Tijuana drug cartel pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court on Friday to racketeering and drug trafficking, prosecutors said. Carlos Cosme, 36, was an officer … More »Ex-Mexico cop pleads guilty in U.S. to organizing cartel hit squad
The confessed killer of six-year-old Etan Patz, whose disappearance exactly 33 years ago sparked New York's biggest modern crime mystery, was charged Friday with murder -- but his lawyer questioned whether he is mentally capable to face prosecution. More »Confessed killer of New York boy charged with murder
OSLO (Reuters) - Convicted sex offenders and violent criminals were let loose from a Norway prison this week when guards went on strike, forcing authorities to free 52 inmates, officials said. "Some of these are prisoners convicted for violence, drugs, … More »Guards strike, inmates set free at Norway prison
PRISTINA (Reuters) - A suspect in a human organ trafficking scandal that came to light in Kosovo in 2008 has been arrested in Israel, the European Union's police and justice mission in the Balkan country said on Friday. Moshe Harel was arrested along … More »Suspect in Kosovo organ trafficking arrested
Vatican police arrested Friday a man -- reportedly the pope's butler -- on allegations of having leaked confidential documents and letters from the pontiff's private study to newspapers. More »Pope's butler arrested in Vatican leaks scandal
Millionaire's daughter Laura Johnson has been jailed for two years for driving looters on a late-night crime spree during last summer's riots. More »Millionaire's Daughter Jailed For Riots Role
A woman who works for Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm was released on bail Friday after she was arrested as part of an investigation into the bribery of public officials, Scotland Yard said. More »Female Murdoch employee bailed in UK bribery probe
Police raided a glitzy Cannes party thrown by Mexico's Palme d'Or contender Carlos Reygadas, seizing a shipment of the traditional alcoholic drink mezcal, one of his producers said Friday. More »Mezcal seized at Mexican Cannes party
A long-awaited Amber Alert system for abducted children has been rolled out across Ireland more than three years after being given the go-ahead. More »Abducted child alert system begins
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik first requested a band aid for a cut finger when police arrested him, then posed like a bodybuilder after he was stripped and police took his picture, witnesses told a court on Friday. Breivik … More »Norway's Breivik posed like bodybuilder after arrest
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Two former Bosnian Serb police chiefs were jailed for 35 and 30 years on Friday for the killing of 1,000 Muslim men at a warehouse near the town of Srebrenica in July 1995, part of the worst massacre in Europe since World War Two. … More »Bosnian Serbs jailed for Srebrenica warehouse killings
A man has told New York police that he suffocated a six-year-old boy who disappeared 33 years ago. More »US: Man Held Over Missing 'Milk Carton' Boy
A suicide bomb squad killed a policeman and wounded more than a dozen people in central Turkey on Friday after driving into a police station and opening fire, Turkish officials said. More »Suicide bombing kills one policeman in Turkey
A former detective specialising in rape and sex assault cases is to be prosecuted for faking police records. More »Ex-detective on misconduct charges
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Two militants set off a bomb inside their car by a police headquarters in the central Turkish province of Kayseri on Friday, killing themselves and one policeman and wounding 18 others, Turkey's interior minister said. Kurdish separatists, … More »Car bomb in central Turkey kills 3, wounds 18
Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib has laid a wreath at the spot where policewoman Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead outside the country's London embassy in 1984. More »Libyan PM Lays Wreath For WPC Yvonne Fletcher
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Two militants set off a bomb inside their car by a police headquarters in the central Turkish province of Kayseri on Friday, killing themselves and wounding at least 10 others, Turkey's interior minister said. Kurdish separatists, … More »Car bomb in central Turkey wounds 10, kills militants
Police in southwest China have detained a man suspected of murdering more than a dozen boys and young men, chopping up their bodies and selling the flesh to unsuspecting consumers, reports said Friday. More »Chinese 'cannibal' detained in Yunnan province
An Austrian father shot and severely injured his seven-year-old son at the boy's school Friday before killing himself, police said. More »Austrian father shoots son at school, kills himself
Police arrested a woman who works for Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm News International on Friday as part of an investigation into the bribery of public officials, the company said. More »Female Murdoch employee held in bribery probe
LONDON (Reuters) - The former head of digital banking fraud and security at state-backed Lloyds Banking Group has been charged with defrauding her employer by submitting close to 2.5 million pounds ($3.9 million) worth of false expense claims. In a statement … More »Ex-Lloyds anti-fraud boss on false expenses charge
Libyan prime minister Abdurrahim El-Keib has made a historic visit to the spot where policewoman Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead outside the country's London embassy in 1984. More »Libyan PM visits Fletcher site
A former security chief of Britain's Lloyds Banking Group was charged on Friday with a £2.5 million ($3.9 million, 3.1 million euro) fraud. More »Lloyds ex-security chief charged with £2.5 mn fraud
A teenager thought to weigh more than 50st had to be cut free from her home by emergency services because she was too big to leave the house. More »'50st teenager' cut free from home
Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib laid a wreath of white roses and carnations on Friday at the spot where a British policewoman was shot dead in 1984 outside the Libyan embassy in London. More »Libyan PM lays wreath for slain policewoman
How the emergency services responded during the massacre on Utoya island on July 22 last year. More »Norway: Timeline Of Utoya Massacre
A contingent of border guards has been sent in to help maintain law and order in Tel Aviv neighbourhoods rocked by race riots, a police spokesman said on Friday. More »Guards deployed in Tel Aviv after race riots
A woman has been killed by a lorry while crossing the road with her 20-month-old son in his pushchair. More »Mother killed in pushchair accident
Eurovision hopeful Engelbert Humperdinck had to hitch a ride from police to the contest venue - after his bus broke down. More »Hump hitches ride to rehearsals
A police officer received minor injuries after he was attacked with bricks, stones and petrol bombs while attending a security alert in Newry. More »Officer attacked in security alert
British detectives probing the 1984 murder of a policewoman outside the Libyan embassy in London have been granted visas to pursue the investigation in Libya, police said. More »Police get Libya visas for 1984 cop murder probe