FIVE police officers were killed and one was wounded today when a roadside bomb exploded in a volatile northeastern area of Iraq that is claimed by Arabs and Kurds, police said.
It has been nicknamed the flying saucepan and looks an unlikely weapon in the war against crime.
KABUL (Reuters) – An Afghan police commander has been arrested as part of a ring that planted roadside bombs, NATO-led forces said on Sunday, a sign of the difficulty Western troops face in setting up Afghan security forces they can trust.
Children’s TV hosts Anna Williamson and Jamie Rickers said today they were quizzed by police under anti-terrorism powers — while carrying glittery hairdriers.
LONDON (Reuters) – A 30-year-old man was arrested by counter-terrorism police in the West Midlands on Tuesday.
Thousands of professional and amateur photographers have lit up London’s Trafalgar Square with their flash bulbs in a protest against the police’s “malicious” use of stop and search powers.
Three Scotland Yard counter-terrorism detectives who investigated the July 7 bombings have been accused of running a sophisticated rent scam.
BELFAST (Reuters) – Police in Northern Ireland arrested a man Tuesday in connection with their hunt for the dissident republican killers of two soldiers shot dead at the gates of an army base last March.
KABUL – Afghan police say a blast has killed a child and wounded at least a dozen other civilians at a wedding in a province east of Kabul.
One of the country’s leading architectural photographers was apprehended by City of London police under terrorism laws today while photographing the 300-year old spire of Sir Christopher Wren’s Christ Church for a personal project.
