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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday he was investigating whether US drug enforcement agents were involved in a huge cocaine drug bust as part of a plot to brand Venezuela a "narco state."

• 04 октября 2013, 10:03

Nine people are being held in France and Venezuela in connection with the seizure of 1.3 tonnes of cocaine stashed in suitcases on an Air France flight.

• 25 сентября 2013, 10:20

Police in eastern China were investigating the mysterious deaths of two young sisters found in a bloody washing machine over the weekend.

• 24 сентября 2013, 13:10

Kazakhstan authorities promise to deal with the cases of Kazakhstan orphans being traded abroad.

• 12 сентября 2013, 15:12

The New York Police Department on Tuesday offered a $12,000 reward to witnesses who could help them find the person who shot dead a 16-month old boy in Brooklyn.

• 05 сентября 2013, 10:01

Pope Francis has ordered an investigation into a Polish ban on the ritual kosher slaughter of animals.

• 03 сентября 2013, 18:34

China's anti-corruption campaign is ensnaring ever more senior figures, with speculation now swirling about the powerful former security tsar.

• 03 сентября 2013, 14:26

A Greek coroner involved in terrorism investigations escaped injury on Sunday after a letter bomb he received went off.

• 02 сентября 2013, 12:40

Washington warned Syria it would face action over the "moral obscenity" of a gruesome chemical weapons attack, as UN inspectors braved sniper fire to gather evidence about the incident.

• 27 августа 2013, 16:05

UN experts are to start investigating a suspected Syrian chemical attack Monday as a sceptical Washington weighing military action and coordinating with allies said Syria's acceptance of the probe came too late.

• 26 августа 2013, 15:32

A cunningly disguised stolen work by Dutch contemporary artist Jan Schoonhoven managed to fool experts at the world's largest art broker Sotheby's.

• 24 августа 2013, 15:50

The United States is investigating JPMorgan over its hiring practices in China.

• 19 августа 2013, 14:46

Scottish police on Monday confirmed they were investigating claims of physical and sexual abuse at one of Scotland's best known Catholic boarding schools.

• 30 июля 2013, 18:36

The driver of a train that hurtled off the rails in Spain was charged Sunday with 79 counts of reckless homicide and released on bail after being questioned by a judge.

• 29 июля 2013, 12:37

Senegal's top police chief and former drug buster is suspected of drug trafficking and was dismissed from his job Thursday as police launched an investigation.

• 27 июля 2013, 10:01

Halliburton Energy Services has admitted destroying evidence relating to the devastating 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

• 26 июля 2013, 13:38

Spanish police were waiting Friday to question one of the drivers of a train that derailed, killing at least 80 passengers, amid media reports it was travelling at twice the speed limit.

• 26 июля 2013, 11:38

The accident was very serious; investigation of such accidents normally takes a year or more: Kazakhstan official.

• 23 июля 2013, 14:44

British authorities have recommended that distress beacons onboard all Boeing Dreamliners be disabled, after identifying the devices as the likely cause of a fire on a 787 at London's Heathrow airport.

• 19 июля 2013, 15:05

Australian police on Wednesday said they were investigating after the remains of two pigs, including their heads and entrails, were dumped at the Muslim section of a cemetery.

• 17 июля 2013, 17:19