'Stolen bones' used in Welsh ops
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Three Cardiff hospitals bought potentially contaminated body parts allegedly stolen in the US, it is revealed.
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Police were on Tuesday night hunting a gang that stole an estimated Â£20m in one of the UK&#39;s biggest robberies. The money was taken from the headquarters of Northern Bank, close to Belfast City Hall, on Monday evening.
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A hospital manager is jailed for 10 months for stealing human bones and selling them to private clinics.
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New analysis of bones from an infamous dinosaur long believed to have eaten its own young show that the animal may have been given an undeserved reputation.
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Police have raided properties in two Irish Republican Army strongholds of Belfast in search of the Â£22 million ($42.5m) stolen this week from a bank&#39;s underground vault.
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A Harris hawk is stolen by thieves during a break-in at a building site in Stirling, police say.
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Some patterns and locations of bruising are suggestive of abuse and warrant further investigation, researchers in Wales report.
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NEW YORK  - Some patterns and locations of  bruising are suggestive of abuse and warrant further  investigation, researchers in Wales report.
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Part of a doping sample taken from the horse that won Ireland&#39;s only gold medal at the Athens Olympics was stolen, the International Equestrian Federation said Monday.
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The Ministry of Defence may have acted unlawfully when it made hundreds of staff redundant in south Wales, BBC Wales learns.
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Documents relating to the alleged doping of the Olympic horse Waterford Crystal were reportedly stolen during yesterday morning&#39;s break-in at the Equestrian Federation of Ireland&#39;s offices.
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Text of report by Indonesian Koran Tempo website on 20 September  Cirebon: Detachment-88 personnel attached to the West Java police have joined in an investigation into the seizure of seven tons of explosive materials. The materials were seized by Cirebon police.
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Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding two separate body finds in south Belfast.
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There's a new kind of theft growing in popularity -- be careful!
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MARBELLA, Spain  - A tip-off hotline set up by a former British policeman on the Costa del Sol has nabbed three British criminals on the run in Spain and impressed local police looking for new ways to tackle organized crime.
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Crimestoppers offers a Â£5,000 reward for information following the theft of a woman's body from a grave in Staffordshire.
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This object reflects the barbaric trafficking in body parts, the belief that another race was inferior to ours - Rouen deputy mayor Catherine Morin-Desailly PARIS (New York Times) - Since 1875, the mummified, tattooed head of a Maori warrior has been part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Natural History at Rouen in Normandy. But when Rouen's mayor arranged recently to return it to New Zealand as an act of "atonement" for colonial-era trafficking in human remains, the national Ministry of Culture stepped in to block him. The ministry contends that the head is a work of art that belongs to France and that its return could set an unfortunate precedent for a huge swath of national museum collections - from Egyptian mummies in the Louvre to Asian treasures in the MusÃ©e Guimet and African and Oceanic artifacts in the MusÃ©e du Quai Branly. "The mayor of Rouen made his decision without any consultation, and his decision is against the law," Olivier Henrard, the legal adviser for the Ministry of Culture, said.  "There are other Maori heads, there are mummies, there are religious relics in France," he said. "If we don't respect the law today, tomorrow other museums or elected officials might decide to send them back, too." Rouen officials insist that the Maori head is a body part, not artwork, and that due to France's bioethics law it must be returned to its place of origin. "This object reflects the barbaric trafficking in body parts, the belief that another race was inferior to ours," said Catherine Morin-Desailly, Rouen's deputy mayor, who proposed the return. "It belongs to the heritage of humanity, not in storage somewhere in a museum."  The Maoris traditionally preserved the tattooed heads of warriors killed in battle to keep their memory alive. Trade in body parts flourished in the 19th century, as contact with outsiders increased. Europeans collected Maori remains. Some Maori slaves were forcibly tattooed, then decapitated.  Morin-Desailly cites French precedent concerning the return of human remains: Those of Saartjie Baartman - the "Hottentot Venus" as she was labeled in her day. A farmer's slave born in 1789, she was sold to a British Marine surgeon and presented in public in London and later in Paris as a freak because of her oversized buttocks and genitalia.