A man who was convicted in his absence of involvement in a 2003 bomb attack against the HSBC bank in Istanbul and of membership of al Qaida has been arrested, according to Turkish media reports.

British police are asking people in this country to be on the lookout for a fugitive Irish man who was once described as Britain’s most prolific burglar.

A Palestinian militant wanted for a 1986 killing in Israel plunged to his death from the Palestinian embassy in Bulgaria, where he had been holed up for two months to avoid extradition, officials said.

Fugitive Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro communicates with henchmen using written messages buried in soil or hidden under rocks on sheep farms, investigators said.

The second of two convicted killers who staged an elaborate escape from a maximum-security upstate New York prison three weeks ago has been shot and taken into custody.