An armed group storms a police station in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, taking hostages and calling for the release of "political prisoners".

The Baton Rouge Police Department was sued in federal court for violating the First Amendment rights of dozens of protesters, as captured in online video.

Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch, who recently stirred controversy by posting pictures of herself with a prominent Muslim cleric, was strangled to death by her brother, police said Saturday. Her parents told police one of her six brothers strangled her to death as she slept in the family's home in Multan, police spokeswoman Nabila Ghazanfar told The Associated Press. Multan police chief Akram Azhar said police were searching for the brother, identified by the family as Waseem Azeem, who runs a local cellular phone shop.

Maher said some cops are on the force to make up for a past lack of authority.

Footage vanished on command, not by a tech gremlin

A body believed to be that of five-year-old Taliyah Leigh Marsman, the subject of an Alberta-wide Amber Alert, has been located, Calgary police said Thursday night.

Belgium-born Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was killed five days after the Paris terror attacks, is believed to have just been a middle-man and not the main schemer-in-chief, the head of French external intelligence agency told a parliamentary inquiry. Bernard Bajolet, head of the French secret service, remained coy on the true identity of the evil mastermind but said the force were doing their best to bring the perpetuator to justice.

Following the shooting of Alton Sterling by Baton Rouge police officers, Muflahi's store was raided by law enforcement officers who took the hard drive containing the store's surveillance camera footage of the altercation. So far, everyone involved has refused to discuss the illegal seizure of Muflahi's recording equipment,

A classmate of 43 college students who disappeared in 2014 had been tortured before his body was found the day after the others went missing, Mexico's National Human Rights Commission said Monday. A new autopsy determined 22-year-old Julio Cesar Mondragon suffered 64 fractures in 40 bones, mostly in his skull, face and spine, said Jose Trinidad Larrieta, who has led the commission's investigation in the case. But Larrieta added that Mondragon's face was not skinned by his captors as some people had alleged, saying animals were responsible. The student died prior to that of brain injuries, he said.

Saturating the nation with firearms primes the country for deadly violence.

This is the folly of calculating criminal justice data by raw numbers: it's not the full context.

EDP24 reports that she was asked if she thought she was targeted following the Brexit vote. ‘Yes, what can we expect,’ she said. ‘Everyone thinks it is to do with the vote.’

"We are not anti police. We are anti-our-people-being-murdered-in-the-streets."

In the aftermath of two highly publicized police shootings and the deaths of five Dallas police officers, scenes of protest and prayer have unfolded around the country. Here is a glimpse.

Speaking in Poland on Saturday, Obama addressed the recent events in Dallas, as well as the killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. "This has been a tough week. First and foremost for the families [of] who'd been killed. But also for the entire American family," he said. But "as painful as this week has been, I firmly believe that America is not as divided as some have suggested," he added.

Cellphone video showing Fresno police officers shooting an unarmed 19-year-old man lying on the ground at a gas station has sparked protests and prompted the FBI to launch an investigation.

When police found Andrew Sadek selling $80 worth of pot, they pressured him into being a confidential informant and told him to go after ‘harder drugs.’ Then he turned up dead. On Andrew Sadek’s 20th birthday, North Dakota police made him an offer: moonlight as a confidential informant and avoid rotting in prison. It was November 2013, and Sadek had never been in trouble before. Months earlier, he’d sold a small amount of pot—$20 and $60 worth—to a narc at his school, the North Dakota State College of Science.

A crowd of Buddhists has set fire to a mosque in the north of Myanmar, furious that a Muslim place of worship was built near a Buddhist pagoda in the predominantly Buddhist country. The attack happened on Friday, 1 July, in the village of Hpakhant in Kachin state. The attackers, who were "wielding sticks, knives and other weapons", overwhelmed security forces before burning the temple down, according to state-owned Global New Light of Myanmar.

Baltimore City police have confirmed the death of 23-year-old Tyrice "Lor Scoota" Watson, of Clifton Avenue following what police call a "targeted" shooting after the he was shot while driving Saturday evening. Sources say Lor Scoota one of Baltimore's fastest up and coming rappers was leaving the "Touch The People Pray For Peace in these Streets Charity Basketball Game," when he was shot and subsequently killed.

What determines whether someone feels sympathy or scorn for the victim of a crime? Is it a function of political affiliation? Of gender? Of the nature of the crime? In a recent series of studies, we found that the critical factor lies in a particular set of moral values. Our findings, published on Thursday in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, show that the more strongly you privilege loyalty, obedience and purity — as opposed to values such as care and fairness — the more likely you are to blame the victim.