Woman detained after oil plaform alert
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Police arrange for a woman to be flown from a North Sea oil platform which was at the centre of a security alert.
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ABUJA : Nigerian secret police detained the country&#39;s top trade union leader, dramatically raising tensions two days ahead of a threatened nationwide general strike against rising fuel prices.
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Plainclothes police detained a prominent Nigerian labor leader Saturday, bundling him into a car at an airport in an apparent effort to stop a threatened nationwide
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A woman who gave what she said were flu shots to more than two dozen people, then fled when asked for information about her credentials, was arrested Friday, police said.
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FBI holds passenger over mystery verbals The FBI yesterday detained an unnamed passenger who provoked a two-hour closure of a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport by making a "suspicious comment".â¦
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Kidnappers seized a woman from the Philippines on Wednesday in Nigeria's oil-producing region, police said, marking the first female captive known taken in an upsurge of violence roiling Africa's oil giant.
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Mischa Barton was arrested Thursday morning for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol and possessing marijuana after sheriff's deputies saw her car straddling two lanes of traffic.
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French police have detained an executive of Total for questioning as part of an investigation into suspected bribes paid to foreign officials by the oil giant, judicial officials said Thursday.
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A MAN charged with threatening US Vice President Dick Cheney during a campaign stop was arrested in a van containing a propane tank and container of petrol, a legal source said today.
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Six people, all white, including a mother and son and a mother and daughter, have been arrested in connection with the alleged abduction of the 23-year-old black woman
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Factory managers detained over toxic river spill in central China county    CHANGSHA, Sept.
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A 24-year-old mother, who was charged in connection with an alleged plot to blow up US-bound airliners, was remanded in custody for two weeks.
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Authorities intensified the pressure on the OAO Yukos oil giant Thursday, arresting a manager at a key subsidiary and issuing an international arrest warrant for the company&#39;s chief lawyer.
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A man is arrested after a woman is pulled into a car and threatened at gunpoint in south Belfast.
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An employee of Fimat, a futures brokerage affiliated with SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale, was taken into custody for questioning in the Kerviel case, the Paris prosecutorâs office said.
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Â· Man had to be stopped, says commander Â· Agitation displayed by victim added to suspicion
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The factional leader of a powerful Nigerian rebel group in the oil-producing Niger Delta is being detained in Angola on arms trafficking charges, his wife told Reuters on Saturday.