French police probe nurse beheading
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PAU: French police have released four drifters and a former psychiatric patient after questioning them about the gruesome killing of two hospital nurses, one beheaded and one stabbed to death, officials say.
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Police said they were linking the murder of French student Amelie Delagrange, found beaten to death in a London park last month, with other killings attributed to a serial killer.
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Two French police officers are under formal investigation  over two deaths which prompted rioting in 2005.
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French prosecutors are investigating a cryptic e-mail sent to an Islamic Web site urging attacks on the capital's mayor and its tourist sites, judicial officials said Wednesday.
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LECCO, Italy  - A nurse has killed six patients in  a provincial hospital in northern Italy because she wanted to  "feel more important," prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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PAU, France -- The bodies of two female hospital workers, one decapitated and the other with her throat slit, were found Saturday at a psychiatric hospital in southwest France, a local prosecutor said.
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Saudi officials say police have arrested a number of suspects over last week's killing of four French citizens.
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Police are investigating possible links to animal rights protesters after a woman's grave is desecrated.
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Authorities are investigating whether a suspect in the kidnapping of three U.N. workers was tortured before he died in police custody, an official said Sunday.
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Self-confessed serial killer Michel Fourniret is put under investigation for the death of a second French girl.
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Police pursued their hunt for clues into the murder of a 22-year-old French woman, a week after she was bludgeoned to death in a west London park.
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PAU, France  - A nurse was decapitated and another  stabbed to death overnight in the psychiatric hospital where  they worked in this southwestern French town, a medical source  said Saturday.
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A woman in police custody being questioned after a woman was found killed and a fetus cut from her womb, officials said Friday.
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A nurse has killed six patients in a provincial hospital in northern Italy because she wanted to "feel more important," prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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A nun shot four times at the Somali hospital where she worked forgave her killers as she lay dying, colleagues said Monday in the wake of her slaying, which has focused attention on Islamic radicalism in the Horn of Africa.
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Police in Burkina Faso arrest 14 people for carrying out female genital mutilation on young girls.
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Suspected Islamic militants in north-west Pakistan behead two women they accused of being prostitutes, police say.