New York City police say they are holding a suspect in connection with the disappearance of local six-year-old boy Etan Patz in 1979.

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Suspect ‘detained in Patz death’

A Canadian hang-gliding instructor who police say swallowed a memory card possibly containing video of a fatal accident was granted bail Friday, a court spokesman said.

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Evidence ‘retrieved’ in hang glider’s fall

A six-year-old child dies and many are injured, including two seriously, when the first floor of a Protestant house of worship north of Paris collapsed, police say

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Paris church collapse kills child

Authorities in the US city of Tulsa launch a manhunt after a series of shootings which police say may have been racially motivated.

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US city shootings spark manhunt

Brazilian police say they are hunting a gang of blonde young women blamed for a string of kidnaps and robberies.

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Brazil police hunt ‘blonde gang’

In Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, police say the Taliban are generating funds through bank robberies, protection rackets and kidnappings.

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VIDEO: Rise of Taliban kidnappings in Karachi

A housekeeper was tied up and sexually assaulted and a mother and teenage son were tied up during a home invasion in Bethesda early Wednesday morning that Montgomery County police say involves the same suspect as in a home invasion Tuesday in Wheaton. Read full article > >

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Police link home invasions in Wheaton and Bethesda

Italian police say they have discovered the notorious chief of a Naples mafia clan, Michele Zagaria, who has been on the run for 16 years.

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Italy mafia boss found in bunker

Los Angeles police say they are reopening an inquiry into the death of film star Natalie Wood, who died in mysterious circumstances in 1981.

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US reopens actress death inquiry

Brazilian police say they have taken control of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest slum, Rocinha, in a crackdown on drug gangs ahead of the 2014 World Cup.

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VIDEO: Brazil police seize Rio slum

Venezuelan police say he’s “safe and sound.”

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Kidnapped Nationals Catcher Rescued

More than 100 people are killed in a petrol pipeline blast and fire in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, police say, as flames tear through a nearby shanty town.

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Kenya pipeline fire ‘kills 100′

Nigerian police say they shot dead a man who tried to drive an explosives-laden car into their headquarters in the restive north-east city of Maiduguri.

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Nigeria police kill ‘car bomber’

Colombian police say they have dealt Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel a heavy blow by arresting a woman who allegedly laundered money for them.

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Cartel ‘money launderer’ arrested

Spanish police say they have arrested three senior members of the prolific online hacker collective Anonymous. According to officials, they found a computer server in one of the suspects’ homes that was responsible for helping launch the attack against…

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Spain Arrests Three in Sony Hack