Frenchman 'admits to' Brussels shooting in videoA Frenchman who spent over a year in Syria has claimed responsibility for last week's deadly shooting at a Jewish Museum in Brussels in a video recording, prosecutors said Sunday.
China police seize 1.8 tonnes of bomb material in Xinjiang: govtPolice in China's restive Xinjiang seized 1.8 tonnes of bombmaking material and detained five people, authorities said Tuesday, following a string of deadly attacks blamed on militants from the Muslim Uighur homeland.
27 May 2014
Reward for S. Korea ferry owner upped to $500,000Under-pressure South Korean prosecutors on Monday upped to $500,000 a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of a fugitive businessman in connection with last month's ferry disaster.
26 May 2014
Drugs case against Tunisia blogger dismissedA prominent Tunisian blogger who accused police of fabricating drugs charges against him walked free from court on Friday after a judge threw out the case.
25 May 2014
Iran hangs man convicted of $2.6 bn bank scamAn Iranian businessman convicted of masterminding a $2.6 billion banking scam, the biggest fraud case in the country's history, was hanged on Saturday, state media reported.
24 May 2014
Mexico arrests suspected mastermind of mass kidnappingMexican authorities have arrested the man suspected of ordering the murder of 13 young people who were kidnapped in a brazen daytime abduction in the capital last year.
23 May 2014
US kidnap, sex abuse victim found alive after 10 yearsCalifornia police have arrested a 41-year-old man accused of kidnapping a teenager and sexually abusing her for a decade, after the alleged victim got in touch via Facebook.
22 May 2014
US man jailed for 25 years for Obama ricin plotA Mississippi man who concocted and then sent potentially lethal ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other senior US officials was jailed Monday for 25 years.
20 May 2014
Man charged with arson amid raging California firesA 57 year-old man was charged Friday with starting one of the several fires tearing across southern California that has killed at least one person, local police said.
17 May 2014
Venezuelan police arrest 105 in clashesVenezuelan police arrested 105 people and fired tear gas at anti-government student protesters who hurled stones and fireworks Wednesday at a ministry building in the capital, officials said.
15 May 2014
Mother, daughter held after Spain politician shot deadSpanish police arrested a mother and daughter suspected of shooting dead a ruling party politician in broad daylight Monday in apparent revenge after the younger woman lost her job.
13 May 2014
More than 200 held in China terror video crackdownPolice in China's Xinjiang region, home to mainly Muslim Uighurs, have arrested more than 200 people over six weeks for "dissemination of violent or terrorist videos", state media said Monday, amid a wave of train station attacks.
12 May 2014
US judge jails Chris Brown for violating probationTroubled singer Chris Brown admitted Friday to violating his probation and was jailed for a year in Los Angeles, though he was given credit for about eight months already served.
Algeria seizes 8 tonnes of cannabis smuggled from MoroccoAlgerian security forces have seized more than eight tonnes of cannabis in the port city of Oran, smuggled from neighbouring Morocco, and arrested six traffickers, the police said.
President says ferry crew's actions 'tantamount to murder'The captain and crew of a South Korean ferry that capsized last week with hundreds of children on board acted in a way "tantamount to murder," President Park Guen-Hye said Monday, as four more crew members were arrested.