A porn actor is being hunted over the gruesome case of a dismembered body whose parts were mailed to different places including the headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Police in Guyana have detained a 14-year-old girl for allegedly lacing a family meal with pesticide after her parents forbade her from dating a 19-year-old neighbour.

POLICE in riot gear and biohazard suits removed anti-Wall Street activists from an encampment outside the Los Angeles City Hall, arresting an estimated 200 people.

Police in Guyana said today they are investigating the death of a 14-year-old girl who they believe was taken to church for an exorcism after she fell ill and was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

At least 33 people are dead and 23 injured after a bus ran off a remote, rain-slicked mountain road, according to police in Peru.

Afghan police today blamed al-Qaida for twin suicide bombings against Nato peacekeepers in the Afghan capital as the death toll rose to eight with more bodies found in a ditch.

MASKED gunmen seized dozens of children at an international school in north-western Cambodia yesterday, killing a Canadian toddler.

Iraqi officials suspect that 50 US trained Iraqi soldiers murdered by insurgents – many of them execution-style – may have been set up by rebel infiltrators in their ranks.

More than 20 people were treated for eye irritations today after pepper spray was released into the shopping area Washington office building.

Bad weather today forced in police in Australia to suspend their hunt for a saltwater crocodile and the body of a man it snatched and killed, officials said.

A MOTHER has been charged with murder and attempted murder for allegedly throwing her twin sons into the Mississippi River on July 4.

The “road map” to Mideast peace was handed to Israeli premier Ariel Sharon this afternoon and was also being presented to Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas who was sworn in today.

A PALESTINIAN suicide bomber killed a woman and wounded 12 other people by blowing himself up near a bus in Israel yesterday after the driver and passengers stopped him boarding.

Australian Police took DNA swabs from the father and brother of a missing English tourist today in a bid to identify blood found at the outback site where he is believed to have been shot by a gunman.