POLICE have arrested a man after bomb squads uncovered a "suspicious package" in a flat in Edinburgh. Locals were evacuated from their homes in the Niddrie district of the city after the package was found. A police spokesman said the device was not lethal nor did it pose a threat to the public. He said: "Police...
Police seized a dozen rifles and six handguns from the home of a suburban Detroit man after a witness reported the man said he wanted to kill police officers, authorities said Saturday. The man made the threat during a mental health discussion and has been committed to a mental health facility, Warren Police Commissioner Jere...
DETECTIVES have arrested the first of 10 people wanted in connection with a £20 million cashpoint fraud. Romanian citizen Marius Anton, 31, was held in Kent as he attempted to leave the UK on Wednesday, City of London Police have revealed. Anton is wanted by Cheshire police for allegedly committing multiple ATM fraud...
A man who is suspected of throwing a suspicious package into an NYPD van in Times Square has been taken into custody, police said this morning. The man had been sitting in a parked SUV, prompting the closure of New York's Columbus Circle and surrounding streets earlier today. The suspect was initially reported to be wearing...
Police in Brussels have surrounded a man who was behaving suspiciously and wearing "a long coat with protruding wires", Belgian media report. A large police operation is underway near Place de la Monnaie in the centre of the Belgian capital. The bomb squad is present. Shops nearby have been evacuated and several...
SHOCKED travellers were left stunned after a fellow passenger urinated on them. The disgusting incident happened on a flight from Copenhagen to Edinburgh after a passenger tried to get off the plane shortly after it had landed. The 26-year-old man was told to sit down by flight attends — to which his response was to...
Some 41 years after 19-year-old Mark Duane Woodard disappeared, Florida authorities have finally identified his remains. Diann Wells tells the Ledger ( http://bit.ly/29PzfsP ) that Polk County Sheriff's deputies told her last week that remains found in the north Florida woods in 1977 were recently matched to her brother....
Video footage of a 19-year old man killed Saturday night during a confrontation with a Fresno, California, police officer June 25, has surfaced. The video, obtained by Fresno ABC affiliate KFSN shows the fatal encounter between Dylan Noble and police at a Chevron gas station. According to KFSN, Noble was killed after police...
Protests have taken place in the US state of Louisiana after a video emerged appearing to show two white police officers holding down and shooting dead a black man. The incident took place in the state capital, Baton Rouge, on Tuesday after reports of a man threatening people with a gun outside a shop. A post mortem examination...
A Chicago man was shot dead while live-streaming a video of himself on Facebook, police said on Friday. Antonio Perkins, 28, was shot in the head and neck on the city's west side. The video is still available on Facebook and has been watched nearly 700,000 times. It is the second time in less than three months in Chicago...
Adding another unanticipated sidebar to this topsy-turvy election, Kenneth Starr has lavished praise on Bill Clinton, citing his "genuine empathy for human beings", calling him "the most gifted politician of the baby boomer generation" and commending his post-presidential philanthropy, which he noted was...
The Japanese government said on Monday it was doing all it could to secure the release of a Japanese journalist being held hostage by an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, after an apparent photograph of the man was posted on the internet. The photograph, apparently uploaded to the Internet late on Sunday, showed a bearded man...