Month: August 2011

PRIME Minister David Cameron has asked former New York police commissioner Bill Bratton to act as a consultant to British police on how to curb street violence, Downing Street said. Mr Bratton has agreed to […] […]

AN American man was kidnapped from his home in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported, citing details published by local media. Police Senior Superintendent, Abdul Razaq Cheema, said a group […] […]

LONDON—Residents of a London housing estate laughed at a televised plea by police for parents to call their children and help rein in the youths who looted and burnt swathes of the city. Not only […] […]

A BLISTERING summer heatwave in Japan has claimed four lives and seen 900 people hospitalised this week, amid an energy saving campaign due to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The mercury has risen above 35 degrees […] […]

KARACHI, Pakistan—A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced to death a soldier who shot and killed an unarmed youth as he was begging for mercy—an incident that was caught on videotape and repeatedly broadcast on TV, […] […]

TOLUCA, Mexico—Mexican police arrested the suspected leader of a brutal drug gang called “The Hand with Eyes” and he has confessed to helping carry out or ordering more than 600 murders, authorities said Thursday. Oscar […] […]

PARIS—To many in France, the fiery scenes of rioting youth and overwhelmed police around British cities are painfully familiar, mirroring the flames of anger in French suburbs in 2005. Some reasons for the unrest are […] […]