Niger's police have arrested Marou Amadou, one of the strongest foes of President Mamadou Tandja's bid to stay in power after his mandate expires, an associate said Tuesday.

Tayside's police chief is set to retire after less than a year in the job to help take care of a sick family member.

Spanish police have arrested a man whom they suspect hired a contract killer to murder his boss in a desperate bid to avoid being laid off, newspaper El Pais reported on Tuesday.

Police are treating as "unexplained" the death of a four-week-old baby boy at a flat in Dundee.

Police in Fort Worth, Texas deny that antigay motives prompted a raid of a local gay bar that left one patron severely injured on Sunday, the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Police investigators are to return to the scene of a shooting in Edinburgh one week after the incident.

A bomb killed at least four people and wounded five others Tuesday near a hotel in Pakistan's restive province of Baluchistan bordering Afghanistan and Iran, police said.

A bomb killed at least four people and wounded five others Tuesday near a hotel in Pakistan's restive province of Baluchistan bordering Afghanistan and Iran, police said.

Drugs with an estimated street value of about £150,000 are seized in a police crackdown in Moray, it is revealed.

Police say a car bomb has killed four people outside a restaurant in southwest Pakistan.