Suspect Killed After Casino Hostage-Taking
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Police shot and killed a carjacking suspect who ran into a crowded casino early Friday and took two patrons hostage.
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Gunmen killed a Lebanese businessman in his home early Friday in oil-rich southern Nigeria, police said, while attackers tried to ambush a truck carrying several foreign workers in what appeared to be a kidnapping attempt later in the day.
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A man formerly held in the U.S. facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was killed Wednesday in a shootout with security agents in a restive North Caucasus republic, Russia's top security agency said.
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Margaret Hassan, the British aid worker kidnapped after decades of helping Iraqis, is believed to have been murdered by her captors, a British government official said Tuesday, based on a video that showed a hooded militant shooting a blindfolded woman in the head.
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Police identify a British oil worker killed during an attempt to free seven men seized by Nigerian militants.
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TORONTO: A police marksman shot and killed a man who had taken a woman hostage and put a gun to her head during a dramatic rush-hour standoff in the heart of Toronto yesterday.
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A man suspected of involvement in the abduction of three U.N. workers in Afghanistan died in custody last week and authorities are investigating whether he was tortured to death, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
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An Islamic militant wanted in the murder of American Journalist Daniel Pearl was killed Wednesday in a shootout with Pakistan police who were trying to arrest him, officials said.
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Saudi security officials said a foreigner was killed Wednesday near a Riyadh shopping center. A Saudi-owned TV station said the man was a Briton who was shot dead in a parking lot.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley kidnapped on Sept. 16 by militants in Iraq has been murdered by the captors, Bigley&#39;s brother confirmed Friday.
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BAGHDAD  - British officials said they believed Margaret Hassan, a British-Irish aid worker kidnapped in Iraq last month, had been killed by her captors after a video was issued apparently showing her murder.
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Saudi police killed one militant and injured another in a shootout in the capital Riyadh, security sources said on Tuesday.
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Two policemen and two suspected drug smugglers were killed in a gunbattle after a raid on the hideout of the most wanted man in Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi, police said.
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A team of gunmen shot and killed Lucky Dube in an apparent carjacking attempt late Thursday that underscored the continuing peril of violent crime here.
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An Islamic militant wanted in connection with the murder of American Journalist Daniel Pear was killed in a shootout with police, according to Pakistani authorities on Wednesday, who also announced the arrest of a suspect in the deadly bombing near the U.S. Consulate in Karachi two years ago.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE -- A popular Haitian radio host was found fatally shot yesterday after being kidnapped in the capital of the impoverished Caribbean nation.
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Police killed a suspected top al Qaida operative in a four-hour gun battle at a house in southern Pakistan that also led to the arrest of two other men.