Sahara tourists face theft charge
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Five Germans thought to be missing in the Sahara are safe but face charges for the alleged theft of artefacts.
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Thieves stole two diamonds worth almost Â£8 million yesterday from a dealers&#39; show at the Louvre museum complex in Paris. Police blamed lax security after the thieves broke into a display case on a stand operated
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ADDIS ABABA - Two groups of tourists, including at least seven French nationals and five Britons, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where ...Comment
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Letter: Reporter was basically receiving stolen property.
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Briton extradited from Morocco to face questioning in connection with UK's biggest cash robbery
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The United Nations has pledged to investigate vandalism blamed on its peacekeepers in the disputed Western Sahara where cultural treasures including prehistoric rock engravings have been disfigured by graffiti.
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Hotel deals abound as foreign governments issue travel warnings to would-be visitors.
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Chadian authorities will charge  nine French nationals with abducting children and fraud, a  prosecutor said on Monday, after they tried to fly 103 African  children out of the country to live with European families.
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LONDON -- Missing marmosets, abducted alligators, purloined penguins: Thieves are targeting Europe's zoos and safari parks to supply animal collectors who want to own ever more exotic species.
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Two diamonds worth nearly A$20 million have been stolen in a daylight robbery from a high-end antique and jewelry dealers&#39; show at a showroom below the famous Paris Louvre museum.
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Japanese police are scratching their heads over how a gold bathtub worth 120 million yen ($988,100) and weighing some 80 kg was stolen from a hotel near Tokyo.
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Association seeks monetary damages from alleged film pirates.
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Eritrea dismissed as "baseless  fabrication" on Sunday accusations by an Ethiopian official  that Eritrean forces kidnapped a group of tourists, including  Britons and Ethiopians, in a remote part of Ethiopia.
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A U.S. tourist who told airport inspectors that dynamite in his bags was a souvenir from South America has been charged with breaking two security laws and could face up to 10 years in prison and steep fines.
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Thieves stole two diamonds worth more than &#36;14.2 million from a display case at a Paris antique show near the Louvre on Monday, police said.
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Ex-US football OJ Simpson faces charges, including kidnapping, over an alleged armed robbery in Las Vegas.
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Ethiopian officials on Saturday accused forces from archrival Eritrea of kidnapping five British citizens and 13 Ethiopians who were touring a remote region near the African countries' long-disputed border, then taking the group to a military camp in Eritrea.