GERMANY SHOCKED BY COLOGNE NEW YEAR GANG ASSAULTS ON WOMEN

Cologne's mayor calls crisis talks with police after about 80 women reported sexual assaults and mugging by men on New Year's Eve... READ MORE›

REPORTS OF CHILD ABUSE RISING SHARPLY, NSPCC SAYS

The number of recorded sexual offences against children in England and Wales has increased by a third, the NSPCC says... READ MORE›

DECADES IN JAIL FOR ANOTHER MANS CRIME

Robert Jones was accused of being behind a crime spree of rape, robbery and then the murder of holidaymaker Julie Stott in New Orleans in 1992... READ MORE›

THAI POLICE ARREST MAN OVER ERAWAN BLAST

Bomb-making materials were found at the apartment along with 10 passports said the spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri... READ MORE›

POLICE SEARCH FOR MAN WHO TRIED TO HAVE SEX WITH A DOG IN SYDNEY'S WEST

He stopped to talk to the women on Canal Walkway and assaulted one of the dogs in an indecent manner a police spokesman said... READ MORE›

NEW YORK PRISON WORKER CHARGED WITH HELPING FUGITIVES

A New York state prison worker who police say provided tool parts to help two convicted murderers escape has been arrested... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 50 POLICE OFFICERS CURRENTLY SUSPENDED WITH PAY IN ONTARIO

Toronto Police Services says 14 officers are currently suspended with pay. The OPP says 29 of its officers are suspended with pay... READ MORE›

IGUALA MAYOR JOSE LUIS ABARCA HELD

International business times uk mexico's 43 missing students iguala mayor jose luis abarca arrested in mexico city 1 hr ago... READ MORE›

'COVER-UP' OVER COLOGNE SEX ASSAULTS BLAMED ON MIGRATION SENSITIVITIES

Even Thomas de Maiziere, the German interior minister, spoke out in rare public criticism of the police... READ MORE›

PURSE-SNATCH VICTIM, 86, PRAISES 'INCREDIBLE' POLICE WHO FINISHED DOING HER SHOPPING AND THEN PAID FOR IT

The new door lock the police officers bought Mr and Mrs Brecht They were just absolutely incredible, Mrs Brecht added... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN TEENAGERS ATTACK ON POLICE WORKER CALLED ACT OF TERRORISM

The police in Australia have been on high alert since a lone gunman took hostages in a cafe in central Sydney in December last year... READ MORE›

ARIZONA COP UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR 'ILLEGALLY' ENTERING WOMANS HOME AND HANDCUFFING HER WHILE SHE WAS NAKED

Former police officer Doug Rose is under investigation by the Chandler Police Department after the incident was caught on camera... READ MORE›

GARDA RESPONDING TO 999 CALL MURDERED BY TERROR SUSPECT

Garda Golden was attached to Omeath station had more than 10 years' service and lived with his family in Blackrock near Dundalk... READ MORE›

THAI WOMAN WEARING ISLAMIC HEAD-SCARF NAMED AS SUSPECT IN BANGKOK BOMB BLAST

Thai police recover bomb-making material from second bangkok apartment and name two new suspects amid growing indications that more blasts planned across the city... READ MORE›

WATCH THE MOMENT FRENCH TRAIN ATTACK HERO SPENCER STONE IS 'REPEATEDLY STABBED'

Video has now emerged of the confrontation in which Mr Stone sustained injuries which police at first considered life-threatening... READ MORE›

UBER TAXI DRIVER 'RAPES WOMAN IN INDIA'

The woman took a photograph of the car's number plate and then reported the crime to police, an officer told the Press Trust of India news agency... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA COURT SENTENCES 8 EX-POLICEMEN IN IMMIGRANTS MURDER

Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, a sociologist who studies migrants in South Africa, said the government has tended to overestimate the number of migrants... READ MORE›

GUNMAN KILLS SIX-MONTH-OLD CHILD 'IN COLD BLOOD' AND THREE OTHERS AT TRAVELLER CAMP IN FRANCE

Police and fireman are at the scene and a military helicopter is hovering overhead... READ MORE›

MALDIVES VICE-PRESIDENT CHARGED OVER ALLEGED PLOT TO KILL PRESIDENT

Ahmed Adeeb is charged with high treason in connection with last months blast on boat carrying President Abdulla Yameen... READ MORE›

THUGS ATTEMPT TO SET BOX OF FOUR KITTENS ON FIRE IN NORTH DUBLIN

Quick thinking young witnesses rescued the frightened little brother and sisters when they spotted what was happening in the Coultry area and brought them to safety... READ MORE›

SHOTS FIRED AS FERGUSON MARKS ONE YEAR SINCE THE POLICE KILLING OF MICHAEL BROWN

Louis County Police Department was involved in an officer-involved shooting after officers came under heavy gunfire, county police spokesman Shawn McGuire said in a statement... READ MORE›

DANGEROUS DRIVING ARREST AFTER CYCLIST DIES IN HARROW CRASH

A man is arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after a cyclist dies in a crash in north-west London... READ MORE›

MEXICAN MAYOR AND HIS WIFE ARRESTED OVER DISAPPEARANCE OF 43 STUDENTS

Police picked up the other 43 students and took them to the nearby town of Cocula, Murillo Karam said... READ MORE›

NYC COPS ON ALERT AFTER DEATH THREAT WARNING FROM NOTORIOUS GANG

Police representatives said the New York Police Department had been told about a threat by ten members of the Black Guerilla Family to try and murder one or more officers... READ MORE›

SUSPECT KILLED AFTER ATTACK ON DALLAS POLICE HEADQUARTERS

Dallas police say shooting suspect has been shot... READ MORE›

BALTIMORE COP UNDER FIRE FOR PULLING HIS GUN ON CROWD AT CITY PARK

Noah Scialom, a local photographer, caught a Baltimore police officer waving his gun at onlookers during a confrontation on Sunday night... READ MORE›

Fatal crash car was chased after crime spree... READ MORE›

30 MEN TAKE PART IN MASS BRAWL AFTER PUB ROW SPILLS INTO HOUSING ESTATE

Weapons including knives were produced during the melee which kicked off shortly after 3am on Sunday in the Moatview Court area of Priorswood... READ MORE›

WRONGLY-JAILED US MAN SPEAKS OUT AFTER RELEASE

But it emerged another man had already been convicted for the murder and was overwhelmingly linked to all the other crimes Mr Jones was accused of carrying out... READ MORE›

HARRY ROBERTS: THE MAN BEHIND THE 1966 POLICE MURDERS

Harry Roberts the man behind the 1966 police murders... READ MORE›