Thailand’s military government sent thousands of troops and police into central Bangkok yesterday, stifling any mass dissent against the army’s coup on May 22 and limiting protesters to small gatherings held mostly around shopping malls.

Four staff at a Detroit tax office have been wounded in a shooting after a dispute over a refund cheque.

An autopsy will be carried out today on the body of Cory Monteith, the handsome young actor who shot to fame in the hit TV series Glee.

Canadian actor Cory Monteith, star of the hit TV show 'Glee', has been found dead in a Vancouver hotel.

Two American soldiers are among 15 people killed in a car bomb attack in Kabul, officials say.

Two Nato troops and four civilian contractors were killed when a suicide car bomber struck a convoy belonging to the military alliance in the Afghan capital.

A car bomber attacked a Nato convoy in the Afghan capital today, killing at least six people and wounding more than 30, officials said.

A US man has appeared in court on charges of rape and kidnapping days after three women missing for about a decade were found alive at his home.

A man has been charged with rape and kidnapping after three women missing for a decade were found alive at his Ohio home.

A helicopter owned by an Afghan company made an emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled area of eastern Afghanistan and the insurgents took all nine people on board hostage, officials said today.

A suicide bomber has blown himself up near Nato headquarters in Kabul, killing at least six people, according to Afghan authorities.

The carnage in Afghanistan continued unabated on a major Muslim holiday today, as attackers killed two pairs of brothers with links to the government and three Nato service members.

Suicide attacks involving as many as 14 bombers struck an Afghan city today, and a motorcycle bomb exploded in a busy market in blasts that killed at least 46 people altogether- the year’s deadliest day for civilians in Afghanistan.

Packages delivered to two Canadian schools contained a human foot and hand which which may belong a Chinese student whose alleged killer was captured during a worldwide manhunt this week.

Firefights broke out between Nato forces and Afghan police in two parts of Afghanistan overnight, with four Afghan officers killed in one of the incidents, officials said today.

As the FBI chased leads on two continents, mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger spent nearly all of his 16 years as a fugitive in a quiet California seaside city, passing himself off as just another OAP, albeit one who kept a .357 Magnum and more than 100 rounds of ammunition in his modest apartment.

A gun in a US student’s backpack went off when he dropped the bag, wounding two students at his high school, police said.

A 15-year-old girl was fighting for her life today after she and a fellow pupil were shot when a gun in a dropped backpack went off.

A suicide bomber targeting a Nato convoy in northern Afghanistan hit a passing bus full of wedding party guests today, killing a child and injuring 28 others, police said.

Taliban militants determined to scuttle Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections showered rockets on cities today as men and women voted in a key test of the government’s ability to fight insurgents and entrenched corruption.

Afghan and international forces have killed about 40 Taliban fighters east of the Afghan capital Kabul as part of operations to provide security ahead of parliamentary elections next month, Nato said today.

ANGRY survivors demanded answers from organisers after 19 people were killed in a stampede at Germany’s Love Parade and prosecutors launched an inquiry into how the tragedy unfolded.

A string of militant attacks in Afghanistan have killed 12 police officers while six civilians died in bombings, authorities said today.

Jamaican security forces kicked down doors and arrested dozens of people in a bullet-strewn slum and said the death toll from four days of fighting sparked by the search for a reputed drug lord had risen to 73.

The Afghan government said at least 12 people were killed in a suicide car bombing in the capital today.

Police were tonight preparing to tear apart the home of a convicted rapist where the bodies of 10 women have so far been found.

Two people were killed today in what US police believe was a murder-suicide at a community college in Michigan.

A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and "lying in wait" killed three officers responding to a domestic disturbance call, turning a quiet street into a battlefield.

THE policeman in charge of the Jersey child abuse inquiry claimed yesterday that criticism of his investigation was a bid to protect the “bucket and spade image” of the island.

The policeman in charge of the Jersey child abuse inquiry claimed today that criticism of his investigation was a bid to protect the “bucket and spade image” of the island.

Police say they have arrested three teenagers in the shooting death of another US teenager near a Detroit high school.

BLOODSTAINED items have been found in two underground chambers at a former children’s home in Jersey being investigated over abuse claims.

A number of bloodstained items have been found in two secret underground chambers at a former children’s home in Jersey being investigated over abuse claims, police said today.

A former worker at the Jersey care home at the centre of a child abuse scandal told how she saw children “frozen with fear”.

Excavation work at a former Jersey care home at the centre of a child abuse scandal will stop today to relieve forensic teams who have been working up to 13 hours a day searching for human remains.

Police today issued a warning after investigating allegations that a former worker at the Jersey care home where where a child’s skull was found approached a victim and told them to keep quiet.

The discovery of two underground rooms at a former children’s home in Jersey has echoed the accounts of abuse from former residents.

A pregnant woman who had just returned from her grandfather's funeral was killed when another woman deliberately rammed her car into a crowd during a street brawl, US authorities said.

A CAVAN man living in the United States hanged himself with electrical cord on Thursday after apparently killing his two daughters.

An enormous bomb ripped through a police academy bus in a crowded area of Kabul today, killing more than 35 people and wounding 35 others in the deadliest insurgent attack in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion in 2001.

Taliban militants have seized control of a district in Afghanistan’s volatile south after an hours-long clash that killed five people, including the local police chief and the political leader.

The death toll in the New Year's Eve bombing in the Thai capital Bangkok rose to three today.

One person died and 13 others were injured when a driver intentionally steered his car onto a pavement on the crowded Las Vegas Strip and then accelerated in a deadly scene resembling “humans being mowed down like a lawnmower”, police said today.

Filthy water was slowly pumped out of New Orleans today after engineers fixed the ruptured levee that flooded 80% of the city.