Police say someone tried to blow up a gang task force building in Southern California by piping in natural gas.

Santa Monica police say a 19-year-old British woman missing since Dec. 18 has been found safe.

Police said Thursday they do not believe the boyfriend of a missing 19-year-old British woman had anything to do with her disappearance during their Southern California vacation.

Moscow police have detained a number of anti-government opposition demonstrators following an unsanctioned protest in a downtown square just hours before the New Year.

Police detained dozens of people at an anti-Kremlin protest on Thursday, including 82-year-old Lyudmila Alexeyeva, one of Russia's most respected rights activists.

A gunman clad in black went on a shooting rampage Thursday, killing his ex-girlfriend then slaying four workers at a suburban shopping mall near Helsinki before turning his gun on himself, police said.

Two men on death row for masterminding an Al-Qaeda truck bombing that killed 88 people on June 20 were recruited in a US-run prison camp, a senior Iraqi police commander said on Thursday.

A Somali man tried to board a plane at Mogadishu airport with suspicious liquid, powder and a syringe last month in a similar incident to the failed attack on a US airliner on Christmas Day, Somalia's police chief said Thursday.

Israeli police were questioning a relative of the late Jewish extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane in its probe of a Palestinian mosque firebombing in the West Bank earlier this month.

Police detained dozens of people at an anti-Kremlin protest on Thursday, including 82-year-old Lyudmila Alexeyeva, one of Russia's most respected rights activists.