A suicide truck bombing on a security post in the centre of Iraq's restive northern city of Mosul killed at least seven people, four of them police, a police officer said.

Black-clad Pakistani commandos overpowered a group of militants who had seized a police academy, took cadets hostage and killed at least six of them Monday in a dramatic challenge to the civilian government that faces U.S. pressure to defeat Islamic extremists.

Fighting between the Somali police and Islamist gunmen killed eight people on Monday in the capital, Mogadishu, witnesses said.

Survivors of a stampede that killed 19 people at a soccer stadium blamed the police for the deaths saying security forces provoked panic.

A spectacular commando-style assault on a Pakistani police training school and a wave of suicide attacks have exposed a cash-strapped force woefully incapable of fighting insurgents, experts say.

Black-clad Pakistani commandos overpowered a group of militants who had seized a police academy, took cadets hostage and killed at least six of them Monday in a dramatic challenge to the civilian government that faces U.S. pressure to defeat Islamic extremists.

A woman sued a police dog that she blamed for injuries after it bit her in the buttocks. To a suburban Detroit judge, the bottom line was that the lawsuit was frivolous. So Warren District Judge David Viviano slapped 55-year-old Inez Starks with a $500 fine.

Eight cadets and staff members were killed in Pakistan during an an eight-hour standoff Monday with gunmen who stormed a police training center in Lahore, said Gen. Athar Abbas, a military spokesman.

LAHORE, Pakistan — Heavily armed militants stormed a police training center in the heart of Pakistan's most heavily populated and richest province Monday, adding to growing fears that the Islamic insurgency has spread to the country's heartland from its northwest frontier with Afghanistan and threatens key institutions of the nuclear-armed U.S. ally.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Fans who survived a deadly stadium stampede in the Ivory Coast blamed police Monday for the tragedy, saying security forces provoked the panic by tear gassing people who had nowhere to run.