German police save thieves from sticky escape route
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Two thieves on the run in Germany made light work for their pursuers when they tried to flee across a drained pond and got stuck so fast in mud they had to be helped out by police.
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Burglars in Vienna opted for a speedy getaway after they found eight severed human heads when breaking into the basement of a block of flats, Austrian police said on Friday.
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Oslo -- Police fielded a flood of tips but still had no motive yesterday for the daring theft of The Scream and another Edvard Munch masterpiece by armed robbers.
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German police carried out a series of raids Wednesday on individuals suspected of providing financial and other support to Islamic extremist activities outside the country.
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Seven police cars chased a go-cart at  high speed for five km (three miles) through the winding  streets of the western German town of Moenchengladbach but were  not able to keep up with the teenage speedster.
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WARSAW, Poland - Polish police have busted a gang of thieves who stole cars and then advertised them on the Internet and in local newspapers at discount prices, authorities said Monday.    Authorities arrested four men, detained a fifth for questioning and retrieved 80 stolen cars, the Polish news agency PAP reported...
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Policemen from the special task force walk past the Geschwister-Scholl school in Emsdetten, western Germany.Comment
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The soccer referee at the center of Germany's game-fixing scandal was ordered to remain in custody Monday to prevent him from trying to escape.
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Two British policemen on horseback managed to outrun and catch a pair of car thieves after a 20-minute chase in northeast England.
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Would-be robbers took eight people hostage in a bank south of Paris on Tuesday, but all were released unharmed during several hours of negotiations with authorities, and the gunmen were arrested, police said.
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German security services foiled a plan  by Islamist militants to carry out &quot;massive bomb attacks&quot;  against U.S. installations in Germany and arrested the three  men behind it, officials said on Wednesday.
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FIVE German tourists who went missing in Algeria&#39;s Sahara desert have been found safe and well in the southern Djanet region of the north African country, local police said today.
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Police checked a flood of tips on Tuesday in the hunt for armed thieves who stole Edvard Munch's "The Scream," and new details showed the robbers were more professional than first thought.
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A 19-year-old woman appears to have escaped from a juvenile detention centre in northwest Germany by hiding in the suitcase of a fellow inmate who was released, police said on Monday.
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A German thief got nabbed after he tore off his finger during a bungled break-in then went back to retrieve it, police said on Wednesday.
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Masked men escape with a considerable amount of cash after robbing a cash delivery guard.
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A teen-ager speeding through a German  town in a go-kart with seven squad cars in hot pursuit managed  to give the frustrated officers the slip, police said on  Friday.