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Two underage teens risked their lives for a beautiful photo in Astana.

• 25 июля 2014, 12:59

A Greek police officer was among nine people arrested for the suspected smuggling of ancient artefacts, including a statue valued at about one million euros, police said.

• 25 июля 2014, 12:32

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton led hundreds of mourners in demands for justice at the funeral for a black father of six who died after being choked by New York police.

• 24 июля 2014, 10:12

South Korea's police force was pilloried as doltish and incompetent Wednesday after announcing that a body found six weeks ago was that of a fugitive tycoon at the heart of a months-long manhunt.

• 23 июля 2014, 22:46

Turkish authorities arrested 55 senior police officers in a criminal probe over alleged corruption and abuse of office, the latest apparent crackdown on opponents of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of presidential polls.

• 22 июля 2014, 14:53

South Korean police said Tuesday they had found the body of the fugitive business tycoon who headed the family operating the Sewol ferry which sank in April with the loss of around 300 lives.

• 22 июля 2014, 11:23

A four-year-old boy trapped by his seatbelt was dragged to his death behind a hijacked car in South Africa, leaving his traumatised mother screaming at the side of the road, police and media said.

• 22 июля 2014, 08:46

As the old saying goes “man’s best friend”, a toddler was saved by a mongrel dog in a forest.

• 21 июля 2014, 22:07

At least nine people were killed and dozens hurt, police said, as a coach carrying Polish holidaymakers collided with another coach near the eastern German city of Dresden.

• 19 июля 2014, 14:56

Mexican authorities found nearly 600 people, most of them children, living in squalid conditions amid rats and insects in a residential facility.

• 16 июля 2014, 12:30

Cambodian police Tuesday fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators demanding authorities reopen the country's main protest venue, as clashes left at least 30 people injured, rights groups said.

• 15 июля 2014, 13:51

One person died and dozens were injured after a train derailed in the Moscow metro on Tuesday, the Interfax news agency reported citing medics.

• 15 июля 2014, 13:22

Cuban authorities arrested an unusually large group of about 100 dissident marchers, breaking up a march by the Ladies in White opposition activists.

• 14 июля 2014, 13:02

A prominent Kenyan businessman was shot dead in Kenya's port city of Mombasa late Friday, police and eyewitnesses said.

• 12 июля 2014, 21:05

Police in eastern India have made two arrests over the rape of an 11-year-old girl which was allegedly ordered by a village leader to punish her brother, an officer said.

• 11 июля 2014, 21:16

A lone gunman killed at least six people, most of them children, during a domestic dispute in Texas that triggered a tense ongoing standoff with armed police.

• 10 июля 2014, 10:48

Australian police have charged a woman for racially abusing passengers on a train after a video recording her tirade was posted online and went viral, sparking a social media backlash.

• 04 июля 2014, 13:43

The son-in-law of a Monaco heiress gunned down in a Mafia-style contract killing has retracted his confession to ordering the shooting, saying he did not fully understand police.

• 03 июля 2014, 14:50

A minister in India's resort state of Goa has drawn ridicule by saying women in bikinis should be banned from beaches and girls in short dresses should not visit pubs.

• 03 июля 2014, 01:02

Hong Kong police arrested more than 500 protesters at a sit-in early Wednesday following a huge pro-democracy rally that organisers said mobilised half a million people demanding the right to choose their next leader.

• 02 июля 2014, 10:38