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

Not long before police say Brittany Norwood stabbed and bludgeoned Jayna Murray to death last month inside the Lululemon Athletica store in downtown Bethesda’s high-end shopping district, the two were the perfect sales team.

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Nothing in Lululemon suspect’s past suggests she could have done what police allege

A third man is arrested in connection with the murder of Ronan Kerr, as police say dissident republicans are continuing to target officers.

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Third man arrested over NI murder

Japanese police say 15,000 people may have died in one prefecture alone, as efforts to tackle the Fukushima nuclear crisis go on.

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Japan warns on quake deaths rise

State police say a gunman fatally shot two sheriff’s deputies before being killed in a shootout along a rural southwestern Virginia road.

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2 Virginia Officers and Suspect Killed

Swiss police say the father of missing twin girls posted a letter saying he had killed his daughters before he killed himself.

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Father ‘admits he killed’ twins

A quarter of shoplifters arrested in Japan in 2010 were over 65, police say, as the number of pensioners committing the crime hits a record high.

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More elderly Japanese shoplifting