Gun battle and rocket attacks have killed two people and injured 16 others, including six civilians, in the northern Baghlan province on Monday, police said.
A routine traffic stop test for alcohol use led to the uncovering of an international fraud syndicate involving a global banking giant.
At least eight people were arrested and placed into custody on Thursday in France on charges of presumed violent acts during angry taxi drivers' protests against U.S. online ride sharing service, UberPOP, local media reported.
Singapore Police Force on Sunday night have classified a shooting at a hospital on Saturday as unlawful discharge of firearms, which carries the death penalty.
An Egyptian court sentenced on Thursday a policeman to 15 years in prison over the death of a female protester during a leftist march earlier this year, official MENA news agency reported.
Egyptian police foiled a suicide attack Wednesday near Karnak Temple in the Upper Egypt city of Luxor, security sources told Xinhua.
A grand jury on Monday indicted a white former police officer on a murder charge for fatally shooting a black man earlier April in North Charleston, South Carolina.
Police in the east U.S. coastal city of Boston are searching for a third man in conjunction with a terror case, after police had shot and killed the first suspect Usaama Rahim on Tuesday, U.S. media reported on Thursday.
The Zurich cantonal police of Switzerland reported on Tuesday that hundreds of litres of formaldehyde, a toxic liquid, leaked from a lorry carrying hazardous merchandise in the Uetliberg motorway tunnel, south of Zurich on A3.
An oil tanker truck exploded Monday in a bus station in the southern Nigerian state of Anambra, killing at least 69 and wounding dozens of others, Nigerian Red Cross said.
U.S. law enforcement officials have shot and killed at least 385 people so far this year, a rate of more than two per day, The Washington Post has reported.
Kenya's Muslim cleric arrested with explosive in the coastal city of Mombasa was on Tuesday charged with three terrorism related offense.
Public indignation and outcry for justice have rocked U.S. society once again after a white police officer in Ohio was acquitted in the killing of two unarmed blacks.
One demonstrator was killed and several others injured when police fired live bullets to disperse the crowd on Monday in Mugamba, a region of Burundi's Bururi province, the national radio said, as protests against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term entered their fifth week.
An Egyptian court on Thursday acquitted a police officer of torturing a young Islamist man to death when investigating a church blast case in 2011, a few days before the turmoil that toppled former leader Hosni Mubarak, state-run Ahram news website reported.
Over 120 people were arrested by Sri Lankan police on Wednesday after violent clashes erupted between protestors and the police outside a northern court over the alleged gang rape and murder of a school girl.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday banned the country's police department from using certain military-style equipment in a move to improve the troubled relations between the police force and protesters over deaths of unarmed black men in police arrest.