Two female officers were injured after being attacked by a machete-wielding man near the police station in the Belgian city of Charleroi, the authorities said. The perpetrator, who could be heard shouting “Allahu Akbar," was shot by a third officer on site, the RTL radio station claims, citing local police. The attacker was taken to hospital in a critical condition, but later died of his injuries, RTBF reported.

Rio police say a man was shot dead near Maracana Stadium after Friday's opening ceremony.

It's been just over a year since amateur aviation sleuths first revealed the FBI's secret aerial surveillance of the civil unrest in Baltimore, Maryland. Now, in response to a FOIA request from the ACLU, the Bureau has released more than 18 hours of aerial footage from the Baltimore protests captured by their once-secret spy planes, which regularly fly in circles above major cities and are commonly registered to fake companies.

Four policemen cooked pasta for an elderly couple after their loneliness and television news caused them such distress they were overheard crying. Eighty-four-year-old Jole and 94-year-old Michele told police that no one had visited them in months and they were desperately saddened by the state of the world. Yet in a rare break from fighting crime in one of Italy's best-known tourist - and mafia - hotspots, four policemen called to their door stopped to comfort them by cooking them up some of the country's most famous exports: pasta and parmesan.

The man fatally shot by a deputy in Compton last month was not connected to a carjacking suspect who had opened fire on deputies, sheriff's officials said. During the July 28 incident, a carjacking suspect crashed a stolen car, fired at deputies and fled into a neighborhood. A search ensued, and that suspect was taken into custody. Around the same time, a resident in the neighborhood noticed 27-year-old Donnell Thompson lying in his yard and called 911. Sheriff's officials said deputies were concerned that Thompson may be armed and possibly connected to the carjacking suspect.

Gov. Scott Walker activated the National Guard on Sunday to assist the Milwaukee Police Department upon request in the aftermath of violence in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood after a fatal police shooting. Walker said he activated the guard after a request from Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. and conferring with Mayor Tom Barett and Major Gen. Donald Dunbar. The development came as a sense of calm and order returned to the neighborhood Sunday morning after a night when businesses were torched, cars overturned and...

A generously funded “online hate crime hub” has been set up to tackle online vitriol by identifying suspects and encouraging citizens to report them to police, but critics fear the newly-established unit might endanger freedom of speech. The project was published by the London Mayor’s Office and is being partially funded by the Home Office, which will contribute £450,000 ($581,000) to the £1.7-million ($2.2-million) project, which is expected to run for at least two years.

Liliane Cyr has spent close to four decades hoping someone would contact her with news of her daughter Yohanna, who disappeared from her St-Laurent apartment when she was only 18 months old. But she has also watched as promising leads turned to bitter disappointments through the years and, in the hardest moments, wondered if it was best to give up and stop thinking about what happened. So when she received a private message two weeks ago through a Facebook page set up to keep Yohanna’s case alive, Cyr, 59, took a deep breath and...

Khalid Jabara was worried. Last year, his mother had been jogging through the family’s quiet Tulsa neighborhood when she was nearly killed in a vicious hit-and-run. Police quickly arrested Vernon Majors, who, according to a police report, confessed to the crime and even offered a motive, calling the Jabaras “filthy Lebanese.” On May 25 of this year, however, Majors bonded out of jail. That’s when he returned home — right next to the Jabaras.

A predator was stalking London. He would board a crowded bus at rush hour, carrying a Metro newspaper, and sit next to a young woman. Opening the newspaper to form a curtain, he would reach over and grope her. The man first struck one summer afternoon in 2014, on the No. 253 bus in North London, grabbing the crotch of a fifteen-year-old girl. She fled the bus and called the police, but by that time he had disappeared. A few months later, in October, he assaulted a twenty-one-year-old woman...

Police said the latest batch of heroin discovered in Lebanon seems to be highly powerful. A 32-year-old Enfield man almost died Friday night at a home on Perley Avenue in Lebanon. Emergency personnel revived him, and police recovered several packets of a drug labeled “Game of Thrones.” “They recovered some packets of heroin at the scene. They also were able to make two arrests,” Lebanon Police Chief Richard Mello said.

The motive for the attack on Tuesday night "seems to be purely racial," Laura Wohl, an Olympia police spokeswoman, said in a telephone interview. Daniel Rowe, 32, was held in jail in lieu of bail of $500,000 after he was arrested for assault in connection with the attack, Wohl said.

Brazilian police have recommended that charges of falsely reporting a crime be brought against U.S. Olympic swimmers Ryan Lochte and James Feigen.

A man ordered to give police 24 hours' notice before having sex with a new partner has lost his legal fight to have restrictions on his private life lifted. North Yorkshire Police argued John O’Neill, 45, remained a risk to the public and should stay subject to the Sexual Risk Order (SRO), he was placed on in 2015, after being cleared of rape in a retrial. Despite being acquitted, the judge said at the time he believed Mr O'Neill to be a "very dangerous individual", leading to the SRO.

Three Olympic Council of Ireland officials, including one from Northern Ireland, have had their passports, phones and laptops seized by Brazilian police. It is part of the investigation into alleged illegal ticket sales. RTÉ and the Irish Times say the officials include OCI chief executive Stephen Martin from Bangor. The OCI has appointed a crisis management committee to lead its response to Brazil.

A man killed by a state trooper in northeast Charlotte after a traffic stop escalated into a chase is deaf, according to neighbors. Investigators say Trooper Jermaine Saunders attempted to pull over a Volvo on 485 for speeding. However, they say the driver, Daniel Kevin Harris, did not stop. The chase continued off 485, to Rocky River Road exit, eventually ending at Seven Oaks Drive with both vehicles damaged. "I was here in my driveway and I saw the highway patrol car come through and it was smoking really bad," said Mark Barringer. "About 10 seconds later, I heard one gunshot."

Good Cop, Bad War is the story of an undercover police officer, Neil Woods, who spent over a decade infiltrating Britain's biggest drug gangs. The book, released last week, provides a unique insight into a world of mind games and violence, where the drug trade acts as a production line for the creation of ruthless gangsters. Ultimately, his experiences led Woods to reject the way drugs are policed in the UK. "The logic of the drugs war only leads one way: the police get smarter, so the criminals get nastier; things can only ever go from bad to worse, from savagery to savagery," says Woods.

A French politician is threatening legal action against social media users for sharing photos of police enforcing a ban on the burkini.

Egyption police are using gay dating apps like Grindr to track down LGBT people, it has been alleged. Authorities in the country have reportedly been using gay dating apps to find and detain members of the LGBT community, The Jerusalem Post reported. According to lifestyle and entertainment magazine CairoScene, a source close to the city's LGBT community claimed apps such as Grindr are “jeopardising the safety” of many of their members.

His murder conviction was thrown out and he was released from prison in the last year thanks in large part to DNA testing that was not available when William Virgil was found guilty in the 1987 slaying of Retha Welch, a Veterans Administration nurse in Newport. Now, as he prepares for a retrial, Virgil's attorneys are on the attack, claiming prosecutors and police "fabricated" evidence in the case to "successfully frame Mr. Virgil for murder."