U.S. boy band creator in detention in Guam
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Louis Pearlman, the creator of  boy bands like Backstreet Boys and &#39;N Sync, was remanded on  Monday to custody in Guam pending his transfer to Florida where  he faces charges of fraud.
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An American civilian employee of the U.S.  military in Japan was arrested on Friday on suspicion of raping  a Japanese woman on the island of Okinawa, home to the largest  U.S. military presence in Japan, a police spokesman said.
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Iran confirmed on Sunday it had detained a fourth Iranian-American, who an Iranian news agency earlier said was being probed over security-related issues.
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The Associated Press says one of its own has been detained for five months by the U.S. military without a hearing or charges being filed. The Iraqi AP photographer -- one of the 14,000 suspects in limbo in U.S. military prisons -- is part of a team that won a Pulitzer last year for breaking news photos.
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An American man working for the U.S.  military was handed to Japanese prosecutors for questioning on  Saturday following his arrest on suspicion of raping a woman on  the island of Okinawa, a police spokesman said.
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When singer Boy George allegedly violated the terms of his probation on a drug charge, he incurred the wrath of a Manhattan judge who demanded that he show up in court or face arrest. That court date is Monday.
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U.S. troops detained a bodyguard for the leader of Iraq's biggest Sunni Arab political group on suspicion the guard was preparing suicide bombings, and fearful officials on Saturday enforced a total ban on movement in this city of about seven million people.
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Former World Boxing Council welterweight and light middleweight champion Ricardo Mayorga was arrested yesterday in Nicaragua on suspicion of rape, and says he is uncertain about the status of his Oct. 2 middleweight bout in New York against Felix Trinidad . Mayorga was arrested at the airport in Managua after a complaint was filed by a 20-year-old woman who said ...
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"He is being held on a European arrest warrant alleging terrorist related offences that was issued on behalf of the Spanish authorities"  A British resident freed from the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists was arrested in connection with a Spanish extradition request on Thursday hours after returning to Britain, police said. via Free Republic
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KUT, Iraq  - U.S. troops detained the eldest son of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite leaders, at an Iraqi checkpoint on the Iranian border on Friday, Iraqi officials said.
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A Costa Rican judge on Saturday put the former head of the Organization of American States under house arrest for six months, while he is investigated for bribery claims, judicial officials said.
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Iran has detained a fourth Iranian American, California businessman Ali Shakeri, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday, calling his arrest part of a "disturbing pattern" of harassment of dual citizens.
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TV reality star Duane "Dog" Chapman and two co-stars on his show were arrested Thursday in Hawaii on charges of illegal detention and conspiracy in an alleged kidnapping three years ago.
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Boy-band guru Lou Pearlman was arrested in Indonesia last month and taken back to the U.S. this past Tuesday. He was escorted by authorities from Los Angeles to Orlando, where he will be facing charges of defrauding a bank out of $20 million dollars. I...
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Azerbaijan detained a group of militant Islamists armed with grenade launchers who were preparing an attack near the U.S. embassy, the former Soviet state's security ministry said on Monday.
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States, which may pave the way for him to leave Japan after almost half a year in detention. He has been held in Japan since July when he was stopped with a passport that US officials said was invalid.
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A blogger who was apparently picked up in an Internet crackdown by the Myanmar military government has been seen in detention at a government office, an opposition party spokesman said Monday.