The United Nations demanded to know Friday why it took an hour for Afghan police and NATO troops to respond to a Taliban attack on a guest house filled with U.N. staff in Kabul.

The police have released new information about the suspect in an attempted robbery of a Hudson City Savings Bank on Oct. 24.

ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The Greek government will no longer place guards outside police stations following an attack this week on a station in suburban Athens, an official says.

A U.N.-run radio station says 47 police officers have been killed amid fighting in northern Congo.

Police in a Phoenix suburb say an Iraqi immigrant has been arrested in Georgia for allegedly running down his daughter because she was becoming "too Westernized."

TORONTO, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Marijuana growers in Canada are using increasingly deadly means to protect their outdoor crops, the Ontario Provincial Police reported.

Lawyers defending an Edinburgh doctor and his wife on charges of breach of the peace accuse police of being heavy-handed.

Police on Friday pressed forward with their hunt for a gunman, a day after he wounded two men in the parking garage of a Los Angeles synagogue.

A four-stone tortoise snatched from his enclosure is back with his owners after police find him in a house raid.

Police and youth workers will be patrolling in Leicestershire to try to prevent crime and antisocial behaviour over Halloween weekend.